The group scoured the house but found no trace of anyone else.
"Ning Xiaoyun, where are the others?"
Ning Xiaoyun's face turned pale, and she trembled, "I already told you they are dead, why do you still need to look for their bodies?"
Guan Weiyun walked directly towards the steaming pot of meat, picking up a piece to examine carefully.
It was indeed unusual.
The man's expression shifted slightly, and he asked coldly, "Ning Xiaoyun, you didn't eat them all, did you?"
Ning Yun's team consisted of 5 people, two women and three men, with no spatial ability users.
After a week, many teams came to handle matters daily, and they finally issued a Level 5 mission for rescue.
They were afraid they wouldn't be able to stay put.
Ning Xiaoyun lowered her head and said nothing.
Guan Weiyun was very concerned about their safety, his expression involuntarily becoming agitated.
He had stayed with Ning Yun's team for a while and got along well with his teammates.
Later, as his abilities grew stronger, he joined the army, and would chat with them during his leisure time. He never expected them to encounter such a situation.
Suddenly, the man in black, who was searching the house, appeared beside Guan Weiyun.
"Leader, we found them, on the balcony."
The group walked to the balcony and was stunned, or rather, terrified, by the scene before them.
Three men and one woman were discarded outside the balcony, their bodies covered by dead leaves, their conditions vaguely visible.
The woman's body was relatively intact, while the others were all more or less dismembered, missing legs or arms.
Guan Weiyun was so angry his face turned white, and he said coldly, "Ning Xiaoyun, you will pay for what you have done today."
Suddenly, Ning Xiaoyun lifted her small face and let out a hollow laugh.
The woman's face was deathly pale, and she seemed dazed.
"We went out on a mission for Hope Base, who would have thought we'd encounter something like this?
As soon as we entered the residential area, they surrounded us, and we couldn't get out.
We only brought a day's worth of food, and those men were starving and set their sights on us!"
She paused, her eyes were red.
"Since they wanted to kill us, we could only fight back. We absolutely could not just wait for death."
Guan Weiyun narrowed his eyes and asked coldly, "Then why is she still dead?"
The one woman who was perfectly intact.
Ning Xiaoyun's body stiffened, unable to utter a word.
Guan Weiyun glanced at the shriveled corpse and could more or less guess the reason.
"You can eat human flesh, but she can't?"
Ning Xiaoyun closed her eyes, concealing the redness within them.
Yes, she was starved to death. She couldn't stomach human flesh, nor could she go against her conscience to eat it.
Xu Qian sighed quietly from behind the group. There was no right or wrong in such a situation.
Although she disliked people who ate human flesh, she could understand them.
When one is starving to the extreme, one can even eat oneself, let alone others.
Moreover, they had the initial intent to kill, so it was no wonder they fought back.
Guan Weiyun waved his hand and said sternly, "Take them back to Hope Base, bring their bodies back."
Ning Xiaoyun's red eyes bulged, and she yelled, "Why bring back the bodies of those beasts?
They should be left here forever! Never to be reincarnated!"
Guan Weiyun frowned and said coldly, "Take them away."
The group obediently moved the living and the dead out. Guan Weiyun sat on the sofa, propping his forehead with one hand, his expression grim.
His former friends were all dead, and no one would take it well.
But here, he was the leader, not Guan Weiyun.