Yang Yuan suspiciously disassembled the feed inlet, took out a small knife, and found that there was not a single mark on it. He was a bit puzzled: "Jiayan, where did you get this small knife? It feels much harder than scales. My printer can print scales, but this knife, it didn't even remove a single bit of rust."

"No way?"

Zhao Jiayan stood up in shock: "I picked up this small knife from the ruins when I first came to this world."

"What ruins?" Yang Yuan raised an eyebrow and asked.

"The ruins where the Alliance unearthed the Drought Fiend... the Ancient Ruins." Zhao Jiayan answered.

"…!"

Yang Yuan grimaced: "Jiayan, what a stroke of luck! This thing might be an ancient treasure. The Ancient Ruins in this world have existed for countless years, yet this knife is only rusty and hasn't completely decayed."

He returned the small knife to Zhao Jiayan: "Keep it, anyway, it doesn't take up space in the Storage Bracelet. Although it's useless now, who knows what might happen in the future."

"Alright." Zhao Jiayan took back the small knife, checked it several times, and found it still rusted, like scrap metal in a junkyard. She was also a bit puzzled: "It doesn't look special at all."

She put away the rusty knife and said, "Let me help you fix it."

Yang Yuan glanced at the printer's experience level. Although it was sufficient for repair, he thought the printer's upgrade speed was too slow and nodded: "If the cost of repair is too high, then don't bother."

"It should be similar to last time, not too much effort." Zhao Jiayan extended her hand, sensed for a moment, and then began the repair.

Suddenly, Jiang Yiyi, who was squatting next to the corpse researching dissection techniques, stood up and said quickly: "Someone else is coming... those same people."

She pointed at the corpse on the ground.

Yang Yuan and Zhao Jiayan exchanged glances, both slightly frowning.

"There wouldn't be a lair of humanoid monsters nearby, would there?" Zhao Jiayan said: "Should we move to another location?"

"Let's switch places."

Yang Yuan said without hesitation, even though he was confident he could kill ten more of those humanoid monsters from before.

But without much benefit, he was unwilling to take risks, especially if there indeed was a lair nearby, and defeating the small ones might bring larger ones, which would be troublesome.

He hurriedly packed up the Safe House and the printer, and even took the two corpses along to prevent tracking by the humanoid monsters coming behind them.

"Gah..."

When the three climbed onto the crow's back, the Funeral Crow let out a loud cry and flapped its wings, soaring into the sky, disappearing into the darkness like a black line.

Not long after the three humans and the crow left, two humanoid monsters with scales arrived at the place where the two corpses had previously been, squatted, and studied.

There was no anger visible on their faces, and they seemed emotionless and vacant.

After studying the ground for a while, the two humanoid monsters stood up and quickly left.

In the high sky, the giant crow hovered, flapping its wings, and Yang Yuan and the others watched silently from above.

"Do you plan to follow them? Is there any problem?" Zhao Jiayan asked worriedly.

"I'll follow from a distance. I just feel something's not quite right."

Yang Yuan gave the Funeral Crow a lash, conveying his intention.

Immediately, the Funeral Crow flapped its wings, maintaining a high altitude of a thousand meters, and quickly followed the two figures on the ground.

On the ground, the two humanoid monsters with scales were sprinting at a speed of a hundred meters per second and soon reached the entrance to a pit, where they quickly drilled inside.

"There is indeed a lair here." Zhao Jiayan said: "What do you plan to do? I think we shouldn't take risks."

"I don't intend to attack, don't worry. Let's wait. I just feel something's not quite right." Yang Yuan patiently waited.

Sure enough, about ten minutes later, a large group of humanoid monsters emerged from the pit.

And what shocked the three was that the humanoid monsters were carrying a long corpse of a python.

The python corpse was at least two meters thick, with a length estimated to be nearly a hundred meters.

Zhao Jiayan and Jiang Yiyi instinctively covered their mouths, astonished at the scene below.

Once the humanoid monsters carrying the python corpse moved far away, Zhao Jiayan softly asked: "How did you know something was wrong? Why didn't I notice anything?"

"The two humanoid monsters before were the ones I killed, their bodies were clean, but the two afterward were covered in soil, as if they had just dug a hole."

Yang Yuan said: "I suspect that this underground pit wasn't made by those monsters, but by that python."

"Just that?" Zhao Jiayan was stunned.

"Of course not. I have a not-so-good suspicion that these humanoid monsters bear a slight resemblance in aura to the giant beast we encountered before..." Yang Yuan said.

Zhao Jiayan shivered, surprised: "No way? Similar aura? Are these monsters controlled by that giant beast? Or... are they its avatars?"

"We'll find out by checking."

Yang Yuan immediately controlled the Funeral Crow to maintain a thousand-meter altitude, following the group of humanoid monsters below.

After a short while, Zhao Jiayan began to suspect as well: "The direction they're headed seems to be where that giant beast is."

"Exactly in that direction." Yang Yuan affirmed confidently. Although he didn't have Jiang Yiyi's photographic memory ability, he hadn't forgotten the route recently taken.

The group of humanoid monsters below, even carrying such a large snake corpse, could still move quickly, demonstrating that each humanoid monster was quite powerful.

Time passed.

About half an hour later, the group approached the giant beast's location.

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