At that time, when Xiaoyao was brought by these people to the foot of a mountain, he had also thought about escaping. However, there were too many people then, and they all had considerable strength, at least much stronger than him, a little Scholar Level servant. Forcing a breakthrough would definitely not benefit him, so he could only wait for an opportunity.
Because of this, Xiaoyao followed them to the foot of that mountain, only to discover that things might not be quite what he had imagined.
Because he saw that others had the same fate as him, and more importantly, there were some women. This could negate Xiaoyao's previous guesses about those people.
So what did they capture him for?
Soon, Xiaoyao discovered a clue. He found that among this group of captured people, whether men, women, old or young, all had some strength. The lowest seemed to be himself, while others even included General Level, of course just one or two. Most of the others were Scholar Level.
Why capture such people? Why did their strength seem not very high, at least a bit lower than these people's strength?
Xiaoyao thought of one word: abuse.
This group should want to abuse martial artists with lower strength like themselves. As for the specific method, Xiaoyao didn't know. It might just be sparring, or there might be other tricks.
Soon, Xiaoyao knew his thoughts weren't wrong. These people wanted to abuse others, and it wasn't a simple method, it was very twisted.
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"Now, you have half an hour to escape. After half an hour, we'll catch up to you and then hunt you down. If you want to live, work hard."
Damn, these people were twisted enough to play a hunter game, real hunters.
When these words were finished, those people began changing color. Those who didn't understand before now understood what was happening, looking at these young perverts with fear in their eyes.
Soon, people began panicking and running toward the mountains behind. They wished they had two more legs to run faster. Running faster naturally increased survival chances. Most importantly, slower people would block considerable time for them. Therefore, at this moment, almost everyone ran. Not one person stayed behind, and they all ran separately without any intention of cooperation.
In such circumstances, they were all strangers, how could they cooperate? These young people had already thought of this point and had rich experience, not allowing such situations to appear.
They themselves wouldn't pursue, but would have subordinates drive them while ensuring these people stayed within their controlled range. These subordinates were also a bit stronger than people like Xiaoyao, plus they were all in small team formations, so basically no one could resist.
The number of these subordinates was also considerable. Combining the manpower of several sects, plus the status of these young people, either young masters or elders' sons, all important second-generation figures. The future of several sects might be in their hands.
Xiaoyao wasn't very clear about these matters. He only knew the one who brought him was the Azure Dragon Society's young master, who seemed to be called Feng Hai. His strength was at early King Level, which was very good for his age. Using popular terms, he was a genius.
However, among the people Xiaoyao knew, this genius's aura was too weak, so weak you could barely see any glow.
But the current Xiaoyao didn't have this kind of glow to make these geniuses' light disappear. These people's strength posed great danger to him, this little servant.
At this moment, Xiaoyao was just sighing. He had still thought too simply, thinking that as long as he didn't cause trouble, roaming the martial world would be quite safe, because he was just an ordinary little servant. Those high-level people wouldn't attack him.
He just hadn't expected that in this world, some people you don't provoke will come provoke you. And this kind of person and situation was so coincidentally encountered by him. He really didn't know whether to say his luck was good or that this world was too dark.
"Why aren't you running?"
When everyone had run away and Feng Hai was smiling, he suddenly discovered someone was still standing in the middle without moving. This person happened to be Xiaoyao.
"Don't we have half an hour? I still have some things I haven't figured out. I want to ask." Xiaoyao said unconcernedly.
"Your courage is good, but you're a bit stupid. No matter what questions you ask, you're just wasting time." Feng Hai looked at Xiaoyao with a trace of mockery.
"Then it's my time being wasted. I just hope you can answer my questions." Xiaoyao said.
Feng Hai laughed and said contemptuously, "If you want to ask, I'll answer everything. I'm very tolerant toward those about to die."
"First, I want to ask, under what conditions can we people survive?" Xiaoyao asked directly.
"As long as you can escape our control, you can survive. But this is undoubtedly harder than ascending to heaven." Feng Hai said, not hiding their intentions at all.
"That means in your hands, we have no chance of living. Good, then there's nothing else worth asking. But I'm very curious, who exactly are you people?" Xiaoyao said.
"Do you want to become a ghost to seek revenge?" Everyone laughed, very wild, unbridled laughter.
"No, I'm afraid of encountering your relatives and friends in the future who might cause me trouble. Better to prepare." Xiaoyao said lightly...
At this moment, almost everyone's heads filled with question marks. For a moment they couldn't understand what Xiaoyao was saying.
Soon someone figured it out and their face immediately darkened, even wanting to attack.
Xiaoyao having a future, plus their relatives and friends causing trouble, that meant they would have problems. Wasn't this slapping their faces directly?
"Everyone stay calm. Some things can be played with slowly." Feng Hai smiled, his smile becoming more and more evil, and there was a kind of strong confidence.
Whether this confidence would bring him disaster, no one could say.
"I can tell you, I'm from the Azure Dragon Society. They're from the Blood Kill Sect..." Feng Hai began reporting all their sects. "No matter which one, they're not something you can provoke. You'd better obediently play your prey role."
"Fine, I'll be prey. But whether prey gets caught by you depends on your abilities." Xiaoyao smiled, then slowly walked inside, not hurried at all.
"Do you think this kid is ignorant or stupid?" Someone began asking with ridicule. Obviously, no matter which answer to his question, the meaning was about the same.
"Whether ignorant or stupid, I believe the result is the same, death."
"Right, the difference is just how much time. Having such a person can add some fun for us."
"Mm..."
Xiaoyao made them somewhat impatient, very eager to start this hunt. Although they had hunted many times before, the bloody taste and perverted pleasure still made them excited and expectant. Xiaoyao's provocation made them even more expectant.
This also seemed to be what Xiaoyao wanted. Otherwise, why would he do such unnecessary things? Even if Xiaoyao didn't care, he couldn't possibly waste time.
That's right, Xiaoyao wanted to provoke those people, making them impatient. Then they would overlook some things and be more easily schemed against.
At this moment, Xiaoyao wouldn't think these people would let it go like this, nor would he think escaping was the best method. The safest method was to eliminate them. Sometimes prey could also become hunters.
While Xiaoyao entered the mountain area preparing for what came next, suddenly someone called out to him... For a moment Xiaoyao couldn't find the person, they might be hiding behind some tree. Judging by the voice, it should be a young girl.
Among that group just now, there were several such girls. Feng Hai and these people were twisted enough to not even spare such girls. As long as they were suitable, they would capture them. Such girls even gave them more feeling.
"I'm here. Be careful, someone is monitoring us here. They don't like us making contact and forming alliances." The voice continued. Obviously, similar things had happened before and they had been warned.
"Oh, then what do you want?" Xiaoyao asked.
"I want to know what you want to do. Why did you stay behind to talk with those people?" The voice asked.
"Nothing much, just some things I didn't understand. Asking clearly makes me feel more at ease. By the way, what about you? Why are you still here? Shouldn't you be running away?" Xiaoyao asked casually, not expecting this person to answer him.
"Running a bit more is the same. We always have people watching us. Better to stay and see the situation, maybe get useful intelligence." The voice continued. "Then I discovered you, very interesting."
"Now isn't the time to see if I'm interesting. What do you plan to do?" Xiaoyao asked.
"See if we can cooperate to escape." The voice said.
"Cooperate? Good. Later you appear to replace me running, drawing away all those people's eyes. I'll arrange some things here. Your future task is to attract their attention. Leave these people to me, I'll let them taste what it's like to be prey." Xiaoyao said lightly.
These people could treat people as prey. In Xiaoyao's heart they were already sentenced to death. Xiaoyao believed this definitely wasn't their first time doing this.
Since they had the behavior of hunting people, they should have the awareness of being hunted by others.
"You want to..." The voice asked somewhat surprisingly.
"You don't need to ask. You just need to run. When others stop chasing you, that means you can escape." Xiaoyao said. "You don't need to worry about me. Just these people wanting to kill me, that's impossible. Even if all the people from their sects mobilized, they couldn't kill me. At most I'd just run."
(End of Chapter)