Yang Ping felt a chill run down his spine.
But Bai Li only glanced at him for a while and retracted her gaze uninterestedly.
“Go then.”
Bai Li could not care less. Because she had seen through him the moment they met.
Her natural instinct told her that Yang Ping had been channeling nothing but animosity toward them from the start. Other than Yang Ping’s speed boat, there was not a single boat parked at the dock where they arrived.
This meant that others would not have any means of leaving the island once Yang Ping left.
That, however, did not apply to Bai Li. She could even detect Fengli’s spatial waymark from another dimension, let alone being in the same dimension. At this distance, she would have no trouble activating the waymark three times in a day. That was why she had let Yang Ping loose.
Yang Ping was reassured after Bai Li said so. He reckoned that he must be over-sensitive earlier.
To him, Bai Li was just a young girl. There was no way she could have the insight to see through his plans.
He left hurriedly. After he was gone, the soldiers around immediately burst into a commotion. One of them shouted at Bai Li, “Missus, how could you let him go this easily? He might be lying to you!”
“Oh?” Bai Li looked at the soldier puzzlingly.
Seeing Bai Li’s baffled expression, the soldier thought that she knew nothing and advised her, “Shelter island is used to barricade E-tier beasts. Soldiers are never needed here in the first place. He has abandoned us here in this no man’s land to kill us off!”
Bai Li smiled lightly. She seemed more mature now, and her action resembled that of Qin Feng’s.
“You lot might be the loose end. That doesn’t include me, and my boyfriend over there.” Bai Li pointed toward Qin Feng.
“Missus, don’t underestimate the dangers of this place. This is only the beginning. Nobody would survive the real beast tide!”
Bai Li waved them away and said, “Leave at once if you are scared. Run as far as you can. Since the guy named Yang Ping has decided to abandon you all, he wouldn’t care whether you live or die. By the way, if you guys manage to survive, come join us at Fengli. We need manpower there.” She used the opportunity to promote their colony.
The soldiers became hopeful hearing what Bai Li had said.
“Missus, you mean we are allowed to leave?” The soldier who voiced out earlier was certainly moved.
“Yes! You are scared, no? We don’t need you here anyway.”
The soldier gritted his teeth and saluted Bai Li. “Thank you, missus. We will certainly submit to Fengli colony if we ever get out of this alive.”
After all, they would be labeled as deserters if they did escape from this. If no colony was willing to take them in, they would be forced to live in the wilderness. More so, they might end up joining the Dark Coalition.
The members of the battalion had made preparations as soon as they set foot on the island. They found everything they could use and built several small boats from the available materials. Of course, the crude boats were nothing like Yang Ping’s remodeled hover speed boat. They might also bump into dangerous sea beasts on their way back to the mainland.
However, steered by their internal force and conscious energy, they could still make it back to Sea City within three hours if they were lucky enough.
In the meantime, Yang Ping was staring at the highest lighthouse of the shelter island from afar. A sense of cruelty appeared in his eyes.
“Qin Feng, don’t blame me for this. You shouldn’t have played with fire in the first place. I am just following orders,” As he mumbled, he took out a switch and pressed the button.
Boom!
He could clearly see the lighthouse exploding into a mushroom cloud from ten kilometers away. Noticeably, clouds of white powder disseminated across the air following the explosion.
“Go!” Yang Ping ordered, and they left the island quickly.
At the same time, Qin Feng was startled by the abrupt explosion. He turned back to check out what had just happened.
Bai Li was perplexed too. She did not understand why the lighthouse had suddenly exploded. Luckily she was not standing there, while all the soldiers had long retreated from the fort.
The roof of the lighthouse was blasted off, and bulks of powder came pouring out of it.
The powder spread through the air rapidly and agitated the sea beasts that had just landed on the beach.
“Sea extract!”
Qin Feng’s expression could not be grimmer.
He ignored those beasts near the shore and dashed speedily back to the fort using Fiery Rampage. After a few hops, he landed back near Bai Li.
Bai Li sneezed a few times. The scent from the powder made her extremely uncomfortable.
“What’s this?” Bai Li complained.
“It’s a type of scent used to attract sea beasts. It is said that this triggers their estrus. In the wilderness, larger beasts often find it more difficult to meet mating partners. To reproduce, the female will release the extract to lure the male toward them.”
This hormone had been developed and made use by humans to lure away beasts that they were unable to cope with.
Qin Feng did not expect to see such a large amount being stored on this island.
“Are you alright? This thing seems to affect mutated beasts aside from sea beasts!” Qin Feng looked at Bai Li worriedly.
Bai Li shook her head and said, “I can hide my physical existence inside the void. Only my blood pressure has gone up slightly after inhaling some of it just now. I am fine otherwise”
Bai Li was, after all, a beast king. She would not fumble this easily to some powder trick.
Nonetheless, such a huge dose would be blown deep into the ocean zone carried by the strong wind. This would instantly turn Blackstone Fort into a giant beast bait.
Soon, the beasts would flood the shelter island.
This was when they heard an unidentified rumbling sound.
Bai Li was curious and looked up. She saw a giant wave appear at the edge of the horizon.
It was the tsunami!
The giant wave was about five-storey high. It was like a giant maw ready to crush the sky and the land.
Qin Feng was looking at it too. Though this was not his first time seeing a beast tide, he still felt that this might be the most impressive scenery he had ever witnessed.
Both of them were rooted on the ground.
The wave came crashing onto the island.
Instantaneously, the tsunami wave washed up ample beasts onto the beach.
The entire shelter island acted like a giant blockade. The wave raced past the beach and hit on the cliff, rocking the Blackstone Fort built on top of it.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Black reefs effectively intercepted the wave, but the whole island was quaking due to the impact.
Another tsunami wave promptly followed!
This time, it was accompanied by a giant storm. A rainstorm ravaged the shelter island like meteorites.
In front of this natural disaster, Qin Feng and Bai Li were insignificant.
Qin Feng released his internal force and formed an invisible shield with it. He held Bai Li close while barricading the seawater that was showering madly upon them.