One arrow severing the pincer, successfully rescuing Zhao Yuyang, also broke the giant crab's frenzy.

The hunting party combined forces to kill the giant crab in its dying flare, and pulled Zhao Yuyang back — with his armor's protection, plus Shen Cong's decisive shot, he hadn't been gravely wounded.

The danger had barely erupted before it was forcefully cut short.

Bao Wenhui, Zhao Yuyang, and the others wanted to thank Shen Cong, but Shen Cong had already returned to the Core-Totem Great Vajra, with no intention whatsoever of waiting around for thanks.

To him, this really was a trivial little thing.

Getting the shot off and saving him was luck — not every time could he respond to a sudden crisis in time; failing to save him would be luck too, and Shen Cong couldn't be bothered to care whether the man lived or died.

The hunt finished, the hunting party boarded their vehicles and pressed on ahead, searching for jin beasts to hunt. Bao Wenhui, on Zhao Yuyang's behalf, sent Shen Cong a radio request, thanking him for his help.

Shen Cong replied simply. "Super-grade jin beasts often erupt at the critical moment. Don't slacken when hunting — best not to leave a jin beast too much time to react."

"Yes, Commander. Understood." Bao Wenhui answered sincerely.

He'd watched with his own eyes as Shen Cong leapt, as if in a single bound, from a man with mental problems to the Eastern Theater Command's nominal top man, its guardian deity. Like most people in the Command, he held Shen Cong in deep reverence. Though the new world's human survivors still maintained a surface equality among all people, the strong were respected wherever they went.

At Shen Cong's intervention in that critical moment, he wasn't surprised at all — a strong one who killed super-grade jin beasts like chickens, saving a man was nothing.

Like Bao Wenhui, the Eastern Theater Command's evolved people were all thoroughly convinced by Shen Cong, and likewise unsurprised.

The thirty iron people from the Liaoning, however, weren't so composed.

Zhao Yuyang naturally thanked him a…