Shen Cong needed explosives, a submersible, and other equipment for exploring the crack at Huangqian Reservoir.

"We'll have it ready as soon as possible." Han Shoucheng nodded in agreement, then said, "Commander, there's some news you may need. Recently, several suspected peerless jin beasts have appeared near Mushroom City, including this White-Eye Bug…"

The news was not good news.

The convoy that had gone to Jinan to collect people had spotted a super-sized fat duck — a fat duck whose body might be even larger than the Snail Traveler's. The fat duck had merely passed them by; it either hadn't seen the convoy, or had noticed and paid it no mind.

From Feicheng's direction, the news that came back was brutal.

Two enormous pythons, over a hundred meters long, ten or twenty meters thick, their scales impervious even to Mushroom Cannon fire, had suddenly attacked the Yiyang Town settlement in Feicheng, causing a great many survivor deaths.

"Now that the fat duck has entered the Mount Tai region, there's no way to track it. And the two pythons, after rampaging through Yiyang Town, left toward Tai'an. Add in this White-Eye Bug, also heading north, and we suspect there may be something around Mount Tai drawing these behemoths in."

"I understand."

Shen Cong neither confirmed nor denied it, and said no more after that — driving off, heading for the Diamond Park.

Once he was on the Tai-Xin Expressway, his brow furrowed deeply at once.

The news Han Shoucheng had given him worried him just as much, in truth.

The White-Eye Bug he'd hunted today had already brought him an unusual signal, one that matched an earlier conjecture of his: since the dragon-claw pagoda tree and the Snail Traveler had been drawn over, there was no guarantee other behemoths wouldn't be drawn over too.

The moment White-Eye Bug had appeared —

Shen Cong had roughly guessed the creature was drawn by the mysterious object.

So, from the bottom of his heart, Shen Cong hadn't laid the entire blame for the White-Eye Bug incident squarely on Chen Xiuni and the others. That,…