I Become a Landlady in the Game World-Chapter 335 - 199: Huge Loss! A Really Huge Loss!

"Have you noticed that there’s something off about the number of Demon Beasts around us today?" Lucas asked sharply.

"No! Isn’t it good that there are fewer Demon Beasts?" O’Neill replied carelessly, thinking that with fewer Demon Beasts, they could move faster, and that should be a good thing, right?

"With so many of us gathered here, logic dictates that more Demon Beasts should be drawn to us, even high level ones, just like yesterday. But today, the Demon Beasts have vanished. There can only be two possibilities: one is that we might have scared them off, and the other is the presence of other people nearby who have dealt with the Demon Beasts before us. If it’s the former then there’s no problem, but if it’s the latter, that means we could very well have unknown enemies close by." Lucas knew O’Neill wasn’t the brightest, so he explained it more thoroughly.

O’Neill, upon hearing this, suddenly became alert.

Because if Lucas was right, it meant they were being watched.

Looking around, O’Neill then lowered his voice and asked, "Who do you think it could be? Mercenaries? Or robbers? What’s their motive?"

There were over five hundred Beastmen in their group; who would dare to target them?

Anyone bold enough to target them would have to be quite audacious.

Lucas thought the same, so he had another suspicion, "I suspect it has something to do with Delisha City. As a large territory, they definitely have some people with special skills. Perhaps they’ve been trailing us since yesterday without our knowledge, simply because we were too busy traveling to notice."

"Delisha City?" O’Neill’s expression changed slightly.

Although they had achieved victory yesterday, it didn’t mean they were stronger than the other party.

Take Captain Sol for example, if he hadn’t just aimed to entangle the enemy and had other Beastmen to help, he surely wouldn’t have been able to beat the opponent head-on.

That was true of individual strength, and even more so for the overall strength.

Moreover, with Delisha City behind them, even though Hope Village’s prospects were very promising, when compared to Delisha City, theirs was mere dust.

These people sneaking behind them, who knew if their goal was to reach Hope Village through them.

By that time, they would be the "sinners" of Hope Village.

O’Neill could think of that, and Lucas had thought of it even more so. His mind was quickly figuring out how to confirm this and what they should do about it if it turned out to be true.

As for O’Neill, he suppressed his desire to look around and waited for Lucas’s orders.

It was then that Turner came to ask about the situation.

"Master Lucas, everyone has finished their breakfast; it’s time to depart," Turner asked directly.

During the previous monitoring of the Mercenary Team, he had made significant contributions, so Lucas promoted him to be his assistant.

He wanted all the Beastmen to understand a principle: as long as you’re capable, you have a future.

Hearing Turner’s words, Lucas paused for a moment, then said, "Let’s set off!"

After all, they still had a long way to go before returning to Hope Village.

They could think about a solution on the road.

Turner, not thinking too much about it, immediately carried the order forward.

In a moment, the entire group began to mobilize and continued on their journey.

However, there were still many Beastmen in the group who were very sensitive and had already sensed that something was amiss.

These Beastmen were none other than the Fox Beastmen led by Glen.

At this moment, a few of them were in the middle of the group, keeping some distance from the Sheep-headed Men, and started discussing.

"Glen, do you think someone from Delisha City has followed us?" Thomas, a Fox Beastman, asked Glen.

The Fox Beastmen were clever, but Glen was the cleverest of them all.

In such a situation, they naturally turned to Glen first for his opinion. freeweɓnovel~cѳm

"Yes, if I’m not mistaken, it must be that a few Mercenary Teams have sought out High-level Summoners and High-level Beast Masters from Delisha City. They’ve sent Demon Beasts to track our steps. I smelled something similar earlier, likely belonging to the same owner as those that appeared in our territory before..." Glen stated outright, mentioning that they knew more about Delisha City, which made sense since they were caught this time for being discovered while scouting for information.