Mushroom City threw itself into planning and construction — organizing manpower, assembling convoys, gathering up the survivors scattered across the various settlements to relocate them all here.

But right at this moment, a convoy that had gone out to Dawenkou Town to collect people made a sudden discovery through its airborne recon drone.

From the southwest, a giant upward-glaring white-browed tiger was strolling — casually, like a walk in the park — straight toward Mushroom City.

That build, that physique, that presence: even if it wasn't a peerless jin beast, the difference couldn't be much. Not counting the tail, its body ran at least fifty meters. Golden fur, black stripes, conspicuous as anything against the dense forest. Every so often it opened its jaws in a yawn and four silver-gleaming teeth flashed, like the fangs of a saber-toothed cat.

Proportionally a little short in the body. Better built for killing.

"Back to Mushroom City, now!" The convoy's field commander broke into a cold sweat and floored it homeward.

He carried the news of the tiger back with him.

"What? A giant tiger, suspected peerless jin beast, sighted in the distance by the Dawen River, walking toward Mushroom City?" Han Shoucheng's expression shifted, then shifted again.

The field commander uploaded the drone's aerial footage.

The tiger was confirmed. No doubt about it.

Yu Minxia watched the playback, clicking her tongue over and over. "What is going on? A minute ago we spotted Commander Hu's big snail coming from the Tai-Xin Expressway, and now here's a big tiger. What do these jin beasts even want? Why are they all headed for our Mushroom City?"

Almost on the heels of that report, the convoy dispatched to Jinan to collect survivors sent a runner with news of its own — they'd seen a peerless jin beast too.

"It's a super-sized fat duck, suspected peerless jin beast, crossing straight through the Jinan ruins and running toward Mount Tai. It may pass by Mushroom City — please, be careful."

Yet another suspected peerless jin beast. It left everyone reeling. Since when did peerless jin beasts start…