On the surface, the Nine-Star Magic Beast army on the South City Wall had the smallest numbers and weakest strength. If the Brainworm were hidden among them, it would seem easier for it to put itself in danger.
But in reality, that wasn’t the case.
Because, similarly, the Awakeneds defending the South City Wall were also the smallest in number and weakest in strength among the four directions of Obsidian Town.
On this section of the wall, the number of Black Iron Eight-Star Awakeneds was negligible.
And even the strongest, Master Fran, was still some distance from the peak of Black Iron Eight-Star, needing to rely on equipment to close the gap in strength with the leaders of other races.
For Obsidian Town, the task of the South City Wall was merely to hold the wall and prevent it from being breached, with no other requirements.
So, from another perspective, for the Brainworm, the South City Wall was undoubtedly the safest direction.
Once this thought arose, it lingered in Chen Bugu’s mind.
He quickly took out the thermal imaging drone he had obtained from Xu Lu from his storage ring.
“Chen Dage, do you suspect the Brainworm is on the South City Wall?”
As soon as Han Badou saw Chen Bugu take out the drone, he immediately understood his idea.
“Yes, I hope I’m overthinking it.”
Chen Bugu said, manipulating the drone to fly into the sky and head five miles outside the city wall.
“You suspect the Brainworm is on the South City Wall?”
“But even if you have a drone, if the Brainworm parasitizes a Magic Beast, you won’t be able to…”
Old Zhou heard their conversation and saw Chen Bugu take out the drone, instinctively wanting to refute him.
However, when he suddenly saw the controller and display screen in Chen Bugu’s hand, he was stunned.
“Thermal imaging!?”
“Where did you get this thing?”
If it was thermal imaging, perhaps it really could directly find the Brainworm’s location.
Because after parasitizing, the Brainworm would drain the host’s energy, causing the host to lose its life in a short period.
In other words, the host was a controlled corpse, and a corpse had no temperature.
Under the monitoring of the thermal imaging drone, the Brainworm was almost impossible to hide.
“A military professor gave it to us,” Chen Bugu replied casually. This reminded him to wonder if Xu Lu and her group had successfully left the Initial Forest.
This was not the time to think about that. Chen Bugu focused his mind, concentrating on manipulating the drone.
The drone slowly flew above the Magic Beast army, and the image was fed back to the display screen.
Different Magic Beasts stood together, suppressing their violent nature, arranged neatly like an army.
The drone flew over the beast tide, sweeping straight into the depths.
At the rear of the beast tide, three Black Iron Eight-Star Magic Beasts were surrounded by nearly ten Seven-Star Magic Beasts.
At this moment, this group of Magic Beasts all strangely looked back towards the rear of the army.
This scene looked a bit strange.
The drone’s camera rotated, zooming in, looking towards the rear.
This sight made the three of them turn pale.
At the very rear of the Magic Beast army, countless Magic Beasts were still gathering from all directions, circling around to the back.
The Magic Beasts had reinforcements?
Wait!
Chen Bugu’s pupils contracted.
A few miles to the rear-right of the Magic Beast army, he saw a Hellfire Salamander slowly walking towards the Magic Beast army.
Nine-Star Magic Beast!
He suddenly understood why the Magic Beast army had suddenly retreated.
They were regrouping their forces!
With the current lineup, the South City Wall simply couldn’t withstand the next wave of attacks.
Just then, at the rear of the beast tide, a Seven-Star Rock Armor Bear suddenly raised its head and looked at the drone flying above.
Chen Bugu and the others also noticed this Rock Armor Bear; it appeared somewhat unusual under the thermal imaging drone’s monitoring.
Its body had almost no temperature, with only a small red mass in its brain still emitting heat.
Brainworm!?
This thought flashed through all three of their minds simultaneously, but before they could rejoice, a black shadow flashed across the display screen.
Immediately after, the display screen went black, no image could be seen, and the drone completely lost control.
Chen Bugu took a deep breath, closed his eyes to sort out the current situation, then put down the controller and turned to look at Old Zhou.
“Old Zhou, you’ve seen the situation. It’s serious. We must immediately go see the highest commander of the South City Wall. I am but a humble person, so I’ll have to trouble you to come with us.”
Chen Bugu understood that this situation had already exceeded their control.
The highest leader of each city wall held a signal flare, which was a tool for emergency contact.
Signal flares came in three colors: green meant all was well, yellow meant support was needed, and red, the highest level, was often used in dire emergencies, at critical moments of wall collapse and mass casualties.
In his previous life, during the later beast tide of hundreds of thousands of Magic Beasts, the West City Wall had used a yellow signal flare. As for red, Chen Bugu had never seen it…
But at this moment, his goal was to make Master Fran Ignite the red signal flare.
The South City Wall did not have the power to deal with a Nine-Star Magic Beast; they had to seek support, and the sooner the better.
“I understand. We’ll go find Master Fran now.”
Old Zhou’s expression was grim; he also recognized the Hellfire Salamander. That was not a Magic Beast they could handle.
However, just as the three of them were about to go find Master Fran, they saw a person rapidly running towards them.
“Old Zhou! Old Zhou!”
The person ran all the way, clearly heading for Old Zhou.
When he ran closer, he stopped in front of Old Zhou, half-crouching, panting heavily.
“Weren’t you with the Hall Master in the east? Why did you run over here?”
Old Zhou recognized the newcomer. This person was A-Tai, a trusted subordinate of Hall Master Liu Chengfeng, a wind-element Awakened who often served as a scout due to his extreme speed.
“The Hall Master suspects the Brainworm isn’t in the east, so he sent me here to ask if there’s any situation,” A-Tai said quickly after catching his breath.
“Brother, quickly go back and tell your Hall Master that a Brainworm and a Nine-Star Magic Beast have appeared on the South City Wall. Tell him to rush here at full speed, immediately!” Chen Bugu said urgently when he saw the newcomer was from the East City Wall.
Even if Master Fran Ignited the red signal flare, it would take time for regular troops to arrive. But Liu Chengfeng was different; his speed far surpassed others.
No one knew when the Magic Beasts would attack again, so Chen Bugu had to prepare for multiple contingencies.
The person was stunned upon hearing Chen Bugu’s words, then turned to Old Zhou with a look of astonishment, already realizing the seriousness of the problem.
Old Zhou slowly nodded, then said,
“Go back at full speed and ask the Hall Master to come over first, and be quick!”
When the person heard Old Zhou say the same thing, his expression immediately changed. He didn’t bother to rest further, wind vortices swirling around his feet, and he turned and charged out at high speed.
Afterward, Chen Bugu and Han Badou followed Old Zhou to find Master Fran, explained everything to him, and requested that he release the red signal flare.
However, Master Fran didn’t even raise his head and immediately said,
“No!”