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Chapter 1262: Chapter 1262 Unique
The creature didn’t even slow down.
It was as if they were attacking a moving fortress.
“Impossible!”
“Our weapons aren’t working!”
“Retreat!”
Fear spread through the ranks.
For the first time, they realized why the older survivors had repeatedly warned them never to travel too far beyond the city limits.
The cities were not humanity’s prison.
They were humanity’s shelter.
Beyond them existed a world ruled by monsters.
And the beast standing before them was only the first creature they had encountered.
Far away inside the city, Ross watched through a remote viewing ability and chuckled.
“They’ve finally learned.”
His gaze drifted toward the distant wilderness.
What the expedition was facing now was merely the beginning.
Compared to the true horrors hidden beyond humanity’s borders, that lion-like beast was little more than a welcome party.
An hour later, the expedition finally returned.
Or rather, what remained of it.
Out of the more than one thousand men who had confidently ventured beyond the safe zone near the city, fewer than fifty managed to make it back alive.
The sight shocked everyone.
Many of the survivors collapsed the moment they reached the city gates.
Some gasped desperately for air.
Others trembled uncontrollably.
Several broke down in tears.
A few even fell to their knees and kissed the ground, grateful simply to be alive.
The confidence and excitement they had possessed when leaving the city were completely gone.
In their place remained only fear.
Pure fear.
The expressions on their faces looked as though they had just escaped from hell itself.
Word spread throughout the city at astonishing speed.
People gathered around the survivors, desperately asking questions.
“What happened?”
“Where’s my husband?”
“Where’s my brother?”
“Where are the others?”
The survivors struggled to answer.
Many of them were still trying to process the nightmare they had experienced.
“The monsters…”
One man spoke with a pale face.
“There were monsters everywhere.”
“They came from the forests, the mountains, even underground.”
“We couldn’t stop them.”
Another survivor started shaking as he recalled the scene.
“Thousands died.”
“They were slaughtered.”
“It wasn’t a battle.”
“It was a massacre.”
The crowd grew increasingly alarmed.
Soon, grief began turning into anger.
Whenever a tragedy occurred, people naturally searched for someone to blame.
And before long, rumors began spreading.
“Something strange happened out there.”
A survivor suddenly spoke up.
The surrounding crowd immediately listened.
“What do you mean?”
The man pointed toward Ross’s territory.
“We were all being attacked.”
“The monsters were killing everyone.”
“But Ross Oakley’s men just stood there.”
The crowd erupted instantly.
“What?”
“They didn’t help?”
“Is that true?”
Another survivor immediately shook his head.
“No, that’s not entirely true.”
Everyone turned toward him.
“I saw one of those lion beasts attack Ross’s men.”
The survivor swallowed nervously.
“The creature charged straight at them.”
“And then?”
The man’s eyes widened as he remembered what he had witnessed.
“One of Ross’s subordinates casually slapped it.”
“Slapped it?”
The crowd stared at him in disbelief.
The survivor nodded vigorously.
“Yes.”
“The beast was sent flying hundreds of meters away.”
“It crashed through several trees.”
“And after that…”
His voice became quieter.
“It never attacked them again.”
The crowd fell silent.
Many found the story unbelievable.
That giant monster had wiped out hundreds of elite evolvers.
Yet one of Ross’s men had casually swatted it away?
It sounded absurd.
But multiple survivors quickly confirmed the story.
“I saw it too.”
“So did I.”
“Those monsters completely ignored Ross’s people afterward.”
The atmosphere became increasingly tense.
Some people looked shocked.
Others looked suspicious.
Then someone finally voiced what many were beginning to think.
“If they were that strong…”
“Why didn’t they help everyone else?”
The question hung heavily in the air.
No one answered.
“They clearly had the power to kill those beasts!”
“My son died out there!”
“My husband died too!”
“My entire squad was wiped out!”
The grief-stricken families became emotional.
Reason slowly gave way to anger.
“They could have saved people!”
“They watched us die!”
“They are traitors to humanity!”
The accusations spread rapidly through the crowd.
More and more people joined in.
Many had lost friends.
Others had lost family.
Some had lost everything.
They needed somewhere to direct their pain.
And Ross’s group had become a convenient target.
Not everyone agreed, however.
A few survivors immediately objected.
“That’s ridiculous!”
“They never agreed to protect us!”
“The expedition wasn’t even their idea!”
“Besides, they warned everyone that the outside world was dangerous.”
“Nobody listened.”
Arguments erupted across the city.
One side blamed Ross’s people for not intervening.
The other side argued that every participant had willingly joined the expedition and accepted the risks.
The city soon became divided.
Meanwhile, inside his residence, Ross calmly listened to the reports.
His expression remained unchanged.
The accusations, the rumors, the anger of the crowd…
None of it mattered to him.
Humans were predictable.
When things went well, they praised heroes.
When things went badly, they searched for villains.
Ross understood this better than anyone.
He simply smiled and continued drinking his tea.
The people who blamed him failed to understand a simple truth.
His men had not gone there to babysit the United Earth Alliance.
They had gone there to observe.
The alliance had chosen to ignore the warnings.
The alliance had chosen to venture beyond the safe zone.
And the alliance had paid the price for its arrogance.
Ross took another sip of tea and gazed toward the distant wilderness beyond the city walls.
The monsters that slaughtered nearly a thousand men were merely creatures living near the edge of humanity’s territory.
Compared to the true horrors hidden deeper within the world, they were insignificant.
If humanity became this divided after facing only the outermost dangers, Ross wondered how they would react when they discovered what was truly waiting for them in the darkness.
Ross’s camp was then targeted by the masses. It was then that Ross had to act also.
He walked to the front and looked sad.
“This is a tragedy and no one wanted this to happen.”
“There’s no point in shoving blame when it’s time for us all to be united.” Ross said.
“Lies!”
“Traitor!”