"They've already been controlled. I haven't noticed anything unusual. Either they were controlled before we encountered them, or the thing controlling them is far more powerful than me, so I couldn't detect it at all,"
Old Xue said with a serious face.
"No matter which situation it is, we have to run. This is really messed up. I found a spatial backpack on the way in this morning, and I even thought I'd have some good luck recently."
Little Zhao complained with a cold face, while also releasing his pet beast, a Shadow Demon that had just broken through to the Elite level.
"I heard that Professor Yong Xuehai of the Imperial Academy has a unique skill of group spatial teleportation with his Shadow Demon. Why can't you do that?"
Old Xue said, trying to find some humor in the situation, as he crushed the approaching alien merchants with his invisible mental power.
"Stop talking nonsense. If I knew a quasi-King secret technique, would I still be chatting with you here? Or do you think you can match up to the high achievers of the Imperial Academy?"
Little Zhao rolled her eyes at him, while also having her pet beast prepare to fight a bloody path out.
But just as they were about to act, the endless stream of alien merchants all stopped in their tracks. In the despairing eyes of the group, a crane covered in black and white feathers, with a bright red crown and tender yellow claws, descended from the sky. The aura it emitted caused the surrounding ground to sink slightly.
"Guardian-level Void Sky Crane..."
Captain Chen, who hadn't spoken all along, had a grim expression. He immediately picked up the communicator, wanting to transmit the situation here.
The Void Sky Crane's territory is far from here. Even the enclave of the Old Heaven Canopy Bull Territory is quite a distance away.
Under these circumstances, it's impossible for the Void Sky Crane to appear here.
This is definitely not normal.
But as soon as he took action, he suddenly discovered that he couldn't connect. Everything around him had been shielded.
"They came prepared."
Putting down the communicator, Old Chen sighed and said.
The Void Sky Crane can control the weather, and naturally, it can also disrupt currents. Electrical communication won't work here, but as for pet beast communication... that's a Guardian-level Void Sky Crane. Old Chen doesn't have the confidence to cause trouble in front of such an existence.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please come with me."
The Void Sky Crane looked at the three people standing there, not planning to resist, and a smile appeared on its face. The translator hanging around its neck translated its voice into human language.
"What should we do? Should we hit it hard when it's not expecting it?"
Little Zhao immediately looked at Old Chen.
"No, let's follow it first and see what's going on."
As a scout, Old Chen instinctively wanted to know more information.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please rest assured, we have no malice towards humans. We just want to ask you to convey a message."
The Void Sky Crane's beak tilted slightly. Its beak was very peculiar, not a hard beak like ordinary birds, but soft, like rubber. But if anyone underestimated their beak because of this, they would definitely pay a heavy price.
Old Chen's heart stirred when he heard this. He followed along without saying a word. The alien merchants who were still alive parted like a tide, leaving only a pile of corpses.
Little Zhao looked at those corpses reluctantly, turning her head back with every step. In the end, Old Xue couldn't stand it anymore and pulled her over, and only then did she follow.
The Void Sky Crane walked in front. Its two slender crane legs didn't look funny like other birds when it walked. Instead, it had a kind of indescribable elegance.
The Guardian-level Void Sky Crane led the way. Before long, the group saw an island occupying tens of kilometers, suspended in the air.
The moment the three of them saw the floating island, their faces turned extremely ugly.
The Void Sky Crane species believes that they are born noble and cannot live on the ground like other races. Therefore, the Void Sky Crane began to build nests, creating a continent floating in the sky to prove their uniqueness.
This is also their territory. Every Void Sky Crane throughout history, after reaching the Elite level, would add bricks and tiles to that continent and provide blessings. After so many years, that aerial continent, in addition to being the territory of the Void Sky Crane, is also the Void Sky Crane's war fortress.
Because it has countless Void Sky Crane blessings, the land of the floating continent has a natural amplification effect for the Void Sky Crane race.
When a real war descends, the Void Sky Crane will split the land of the floating continent to drive this floating island into battle.
Last time, when targeting humans, the Void Sky Crane slacked off the entire time and didn't deploy the floating island at all.
But later, when exterminating the Heaven Canopy Bull, those guys saw that there was profit to be made, and each one of them worked very hard, deploying the largest known floating island.
And now, a floating island is placed in front of the three of them, making them feel cold all over.
A Guardian-level Void Sky Crane driving a floating island is not very important. Any quasi-King-level Beastmaster can crush it to death, but its appearance is a symbol, meaning the Void Sky Crane's determination.
"What exactly do you want to do?!"
Old Chen asked with an ugly face.
"What to do? We want this land!"
The Guardian-level Void Sky Crane jumped onto the floating island and said in a solemn tone.
But after hearing it, the three of them all had strange expressions.
What is all this about? Such a desolate place has attracted the prying eyes of two victor races? What a joke!
"Go back and tell your king that this is the territory that the Void Sky Crane race has set its sights on. If you insist on taking it, then let's have a fight!"
The Void Sky Crane said in a low voice, not putting the three of them in its eyes at all, as if it was already a foregone conclusion that this place would become the Void Sky Crane's territory.
"But before that, you have to stay here for a month."
After saying that, the corners of the Void Sky Crane's mouth twitched, and it waved its black and white intertwined wings, and the three of them immediately lost consciousness.
"Three more days are needed. That thing will only mature in three days. After three days, we'll run. I don't know if this deliberately mystifying method can hide it for three days."
Seeing that the three of them had completely lost consciousness, the Void Sky Crane finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Don't look at how tough it acted just now, but in fact, it had no confidence in its heart. Where is this? This is the gap between the human territory and the Stele Market, separated by at least two human True King-level Beastmasters. If they react to it, how will it survive?
Therefore, it can only pull the tiger skin of the clan and try to bluff the human side. When it was speaking just now, it deliberately manipulated the current to transmit those words.
As for concealment, it can't be concealed, after all, the human side has already sent scouts. If the scouts don't go back for a long time, they will definitely become suspicious, and then send more people over. If something is really discovered at that time, then it will be completely over.
Patting its chest, feeling the heart that was still beating violently inside, the Void Sky Crane hurriedly moved the three of them onto the floating island.
