Bai Ye quickly left the room and, upon reaching the outside, found many people gathered at the door.
With a casual shove, Bai Ye pushed through the crowd.
While not everyone targeting the Ice Pillar God Thunder Giez is necessarily from the Beast Taming world, and people from other worlds might be interested in such a powerful beast, at least sixty to seventy percent of those who came to the glacier are likely chosen ones from the Beast Taming world. After all, taming beasts is their specialty, and they would be more interested in the beast.
Therefore, without their beasts, the physical bodies of these beast tamers were no match for Bai Ye, who easily pushed them aside.
After parting the crowd, Bai Ye saw Jin Sha and asked, "What happened?"
Jin Sha replied, "Someone's dead."
Bai Ye looked up and saw a woman lying in the snow, a patch of crimson blooming on her back.
Jin Sha explained, "She probably came out for a smoke. Not long after she left, a scream rang out."
Bai Ye nodded, approached the body, and squatted down to examine it. He then frowned.
There was only a single fatal wound. Someone had pierced the woman's body from behind with an extremely sharp and keen blade. Beside her lay a pack of slim ladies' cigarettes. So, it was likely as Jin Sha said, she had come out for a smoke and was ambushed.
However, this didn't feel right!
This was a vast snowfield with no cover anywhere. It was impossible for someone to approach without being vigilant and foolishly allow themselves to be attacked from behind. Even with a significant difference in strength, they should at least have been facing their attacker, taking the blow to the chest, and falling backward. Instead, she had been stabbed from behind and fell forward.
Bai Ye's gaze slowly shifted sideways, and he saw footprints.
The footprints were similar to human ones, but strangely, at the tips of the toes, there were hook-like imprints, resembling beast claws, though a beast's claws shouldn't be so short.
However, Bai Ye already understood.
Following the direction of the footprints, which led around to the back of the monitoring station, Bai Ye immediately stood up. He walked back to the main entrance of the monitoring station, reached out to pull Jin Sha, and gestured with his eyes for her to follow him.
Jin Sha looked bewildered. After being dragged about ten meters by Bai Ye, she couldn't help but ask, "Hey, hey, Bai Ye, hold on a moment. What's going on?"
Bai Ye released Jin Sha, took out his cigarette case, and lit one.
Exhaling smoke, Bai Ye said, "I'm not one to meddle in other people's business, but for the sake of that hot cocoa, I'm willing to save your life."
Jin Sha looked confused. "Save my life?"
Bai Ye gestured with his chin towards the main entrance of the monitoring station. "All those people are going to die."
Jin Sha's expression also turned serious. "Can you explain clearly what happened?"
Bai Ye replied, "You can think of it as a monster appearing in the monitoring station. That monster will kill everyone here."
Jin Sha said, "In that case, we should inform others."
Bai Ye spread his hands. "I have no way to prove the creature's existence, so how can I make them believe me? Just because there's a corpse? When I was pulling you away, did you not hear what the people around were discussing? They're speculating that someone among them killed that woman. A group of people gathered together temporarily – do you expect them to trust each other? No, their first reaction will be suspicion towards those around them."
In reality, what Bai Ye most wanted to say was: what did the lives of others have to do with him?
Bai Ye wasn't someone who liked to meddle, but Jin Sha was very enthusiastic, and the information she provided had indeed helped Bai Ye. Therefore, Bai Ye intended to take Jin Sha away from here as a favor. However, the key word was "favor." If Jin Sha insisted on meddling, Bai Ye would definitely escape on his own. Someone with Jin Sha's disposition clearly hadn't experienced the harshness of world warfare.
In this godforsaken place, just taking care of oneself was enough!
And at that moment...
Jin Sha's gaze inadvertently swept across the snowy ground behind Bai Ye. She suddenly froze and then shouted, "There are footprints behind you!"
With almost no hesitation, Bai Ye lifted his clothes, drew his Zanpakuto, and swept it backward.
Clang!
A crisp metallic sound echoed.
A faint human-like silhouette appeared in front of Bai Ye.
"Cloaking device!" Bai Ye gritted his teeth and said forcefully, "It really is a Predator!"
In terms of strength, Bai Ye was on par with the Predator before him, even slightly stronger.
However, although the Predator's body was powerful and they were proficient in many combat techniques, they didn't rely solely on their physical bodies. They also relied on...
Technology!
Bang!
A dull thud sounded. Bai Ye felt a sharp pain in his side, causing him to lean slightly. He bared his teeth.
Bai Ye knew he had been hit in the ribs with a knee strike, but there was nothing he could do. The attacker was wearing a cloaking device, so Bai Ye couldn't see the knee strike.
"What's going on!"
At this moment, two men, seemingly hearing the commotion, approached Bai Ye and Jin Sha, asking loudly.
And just then...
Bai Ye suddenly felt the pressure on his Zanpakuto loosen. The Predator had withdrawn its weapon!
"Run, run..." Bai Ye shouted towards the two approaching men, "Get out of here quickly!"
The two men were bewildered, and then...
Squelch, squelch!
The sound of tearing flesh suddenly rang out. Cuts suddenly appeared on the throats of the two men, and large amounts of blood sprayed out, dyeing the white snow red.
The two men never even understood what had happened before they were dead.
Bai Ye spat on the ground, cursed, and then decisively grabbed Jin Sha and ran.
If the Predator dared to engage in a frontal fight, unless it was a particularly strong individual, Bai Ye was confident he could defeat it. But that was on the condition that they were willing to fight him head-on.
Predators were mostly assassin-type beings because they came with three standard equipment: wrist blades, shoulder cannons, and cloaking devices!
The function of the cloaking device was, as the name suggests, very easy to understand. And precisely because of the cloaking device, unless absolutely necessary and their invisibility was broken, Predators would choose to fight as assassins.
This was also the most troublesome aspect of dealing with Predators: how to counter their unpredictable attacks. As long as this point was resolved, most of their other technological weapons could be dealt with through sheer strength.
Bai Ye thought as he pulled Jin Sha to the rear of the monitoring station. He then suddenly stopped, his gaze falling on several snowmobiles.
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