Chapter 775: Help Me Take Good Care of Them

With several teeth-gritting, clanking sounds of metal friction, the heavy rear carriage doors of more than a dozen heavy military trucks were pulled open simultaneously by the Great Xia Military Department soldiers.

Sunlight poured into the originally dim carriage, and the figures huddled in the corners inside instinctively let out painful, low growls.

"Get down! Behave yourselves!"

Several fully armed soldiers let out a cold shout, pointing the muzzles of their magic-guided rifles directly inside the carriage.

Immediately afterward, heavy, dragging footsteps accompanied by the clatter of colliding iron chains came from inside the carriage.

Those Ancient Remnant Clan members who had given the entire upper echelons of the Great Xia Country relentless headaches and even triggered a nationwide red alert walked down from the trucks, supporting each other and walking with staggering steps.

After this period of all-out searching and capturing by the Great Xia Military Department, there were as many as over a hundred Ancient Remnant Clan members captured alive within the entire territory of Great Xia.

But now, how could they possibly still retain any trace of the high-and-mighty posture of divine descendants from ancient times?

On the wrists and ankles of every single person were locked magic-suppressing bracelets emitting a dark blue dim light; this special torture instrument forged by Great Xia's top blacksmiths completely sealed off the circulation of High-Dimensional Law within their bodies.

They were tattered in clothing and haggard to the extreme. Their eye sockets were deeply sunken, their complexions sallow, and their skin shriveled; they swayed as they walked, and a gust of wind could easily blow over these former top powerhouses.

This extremely weak appearance was naturally thanks to the Insect Emperor Caesar Clone of Zhou Huai.

During the time they were locked up in Underground Prison Zero, Caesar had planted extremely domineering Alien Parasites inside the bodies of all these Ancient Remnant Clan members.

Those invisible bugs continuously gnawed away at their Origin of life and high-dimensional magic power day and night, absorbing most of their strength and turning it into nourishment for the upgrade of Zhou Huai's Clone.

Even so, their miserable state was still much better than that batch of clansmen who had been parasitized back in Sakura Country.

At least they still retained a breath of life, and their limbs were relatively intact; they had not been completely sucked dry into mummies by the Parasites.

If not for considering that the vessels possessed by these Ancient Remnant Clan members were all the Physical Body of innocent Professionals of the Great Xia Country, and Zhou Huai intentionally suppressed the gnawing speed of Caesar's Parasites in order to preserve the bodies of his compatriots, these old monsters would have long since turned into piles of flying ash in the underground prison.

"Everyone is here."

Zhou Huai stood atop the colossal head of the demonic dragon with his arms crossed, looking down condescendingly at the kneeling Grand Elder of the Dawnbreaker Guild, and smiled. "Old fellow, take a count."

The Grand Elder's only remaining eye stared at those clansmen walking off the truck, tears mixed with blood stains and char on his face falling rustlingly down.

It really is them! They're all here!

They looked weak enough to breathe their last, but at least their lives were still here!

As long as he brought the people back to the guild alive, Mr. Duan's anger could be mostly appeased, and this old life of his would be considered saved!

"Thank you, My Lord! Thank you, My Lord, for keeping your promise!" Disregarding the pain on his body, the Grand Elder repeatedly knocked his head heavily against the Void Realm with loud thuds several times.

Zhou Huai slightly raised his chin and looked at him. "Alright, you can take the people away. However, I'll state the ugly truth beforehand—"

He paused, his golden hair fluttering in the fierce wind, lowering his voice by several octaves, "On the way, take good care of them for me."

"Ah?"

The Grand Elder's head-knocking motion froze. He lifted that dilapidated face of his, completely dumbfounded by what he heard.

Take good care of them?

Has this jinx taken the wrong medicine?!

The previous second he had still viewed them as mere grass, burning half of their experts to death with a breath of Dragon Breath, yet now he actually gave special instructions to take good care of these prisoners?

The Grand Elder's heart beat wildly and his spine grew cold. He even suspected whether Zhou Huai had installed some kind of explosive magic bomb on these clansmen, wanting to wipe them all out halfway.

But facing that Quasi-God Level demonic dragon that was panting directly at him and emitting death coercion, how dare the Grand Elder ask a single extra word!

"Y-Yes, yes! You can rest assured, My Lord!" The Grand Elder nodded like pounding garlic, patting his charred chest with absolute certainty to promise, "We will definitely bring them back safely! We will never let them suffer any mishaps!"

Even if they were a group of useless people, he still had to carry this group back to the lair like offerings!

"Scram." Zhou Huai waved his hand impatiently.

Granted a reprieve, the Grand Elder turned around and roared at the dozen or so surviving subordinates behind him, "What are you still standing there for?! Take the people, retreat! Retreat quickly!"

Within the team, the only remaining S-rank Earth-element Professional endured the pain of a broken arm, bit the tip of his tongue, and recklessly squeezed out the final magic power value within his body.

"Earth-element Profound Truth — Vein-Flowing Ark!"

Accompanied by his roar, the open space in the suburbs began to vibrate violently.

Immediately afterward, the earth rolled, and soil and rocks quickly converged beneath the feet of those weak Ancient Remnant Clan members, forming a hundred-meter-long rock flying boat in the blink of an eye.

Over a hundred haggard captives were gently lifted by the rock power and steadily fell into the ark.

"Let's go!"

The Grand Elder let out a sharp whistle. The Earth-element Professional lifted his hands upward, and the rock flying boat rose from the ground, turning into a dim yellow stream of light as it fled frantically in the direction away from the Great Xia Imperial Capital.

Until the flying boat completely disappeared into the clouds on the skyline, the heart hanging in the Grand Elder's throat finally dropped back into his stomach, and his entire body collapsed onto the deck of the flying boat like he was exhausted, panting heavily.

Seeing that those Dawnbreaker Guild monsters had completely left and the sky had returned to peace, Zhao Qingcang, who had been keeping his nerves tense all along, let out a long breath of relief.

A pair of wind wings condensed from magic power unfolded behind his back, and he quickly flew to Zhou Huai's side.

"Zhou Huai…" Zhao Qingcang looked at the receding yellow dot, frowned, and finally couldn't help asking, "Those Ancient Remnant Clan members that we spent so much manpower and material resources, and even sacrificed quite a few soldiers to capture, why did you let them take the people away so easily?"

"That is the fresh blood of the Dawnbreaker Guild! Once they return to Mr. Duan's side and recover their Origin Qi, they will definitely be formidable enemies of Great Xia in the future! This is simply letting a tiger return to the mountains!"

Zhou Huai slightly turned his head, looked at the anxious appearance of this Great Xia commander, and couldn't help chuckling softly.

"Letting a tiger return to the mountains?"

Zhou Huai extended a finger, gently tapping the hard scales of the demonic dragon. "You are wrong, Marshal. What I released back is a group of portable Advanced locators."

"Locators?" Zhao Qingcang was stunned.

"That's right." Zhou Huai looked at him. "The remnants of the Dawnbreaker Guild have too secretive whereabouts. Especially that so-called Transcendent Mr. Duan, who possesses the High-Dimensional Law of Space and has always been lurking in the dark. With the enemy in the dark and us in the light, this is the most fatal threat to us in Great Xia."