In confusion and disbelief, Aron quickly became alert and looked for an opportunity to escape. However, something unexpected happened again.
The two humanoid creatures suddenly bowed slightly towards him without a word and then turned to leave in the other direction.
"This..." Aron was stunned and did not know what was happening.
Seeing the two strange and terrifying creatures walk away as if afraid to cross paths with him, Aron felt a bit uncertain and shook his head.
"Forget it! I need to get out of here quickly!"
With that thought, Aron no longer intended to search for demon cores in the same way as before. With the goal of the inner part of the death zone, Aron would only take the demon cores he encountered along the way.
He did not want to linger in such a strange and unknown place. His current goal was to see something that piqued his curiosity while collecting demon cores along the way, and then quickly return to Cloud City.
Of course, during his journey, he encountered strange creatures again, and what happened next was still the same. Whenever these oddly shaped creatures saw Aron, they would immediately bow or greet him before moving away.
If it were just one or two encounters with such unknown things, it would be manageable, but having reached this point, Aron could no longer ignore it and even contemplated asking and talking to one of them.
However, as if they were afraid or held Aron in such high regard, they all hurriedly moved aside upon seeing him.
Even stranger was that these strange creatures, which could not speak human language, would attack other living beings when they encountered them, especially humans.
Several times, Aron had seen these creatures immediately fight and kill every time they encountered a human in the death zone, as if humans were their natural enemies. But Aron, who was also human, was treated differently.
Of course, Aron was not interested in helping these people. Besides not knowing them or understanding their true intentions, he was not at all confident that he could fight against these humanoid creatures with extraordinary physical strength.
Clearly, such confusing matters made Aron truly doubt himself.
He was also increasingly curious about the things that called to him in the deepest part of the death zone. But at the same time, Aron suddenly thought about being a fisherman in murky waters.
Think about it, with these humanoid creatures scouring every area and exterminating every human they encountered except for him, didn't that mean he could walk freely in the death zone?
As long as he didn't encounter any humans, couldn't he freely take anything he found, just like picking anything from his backyard?
Aron became excited at the thought and reconsidered his intention to delve deeper.
For the first time since Aron was alive, he felt very happy not to encounter any groups of humans. And for the first time as well, he felt very relieved to meet humanoid creatures that were not human.
Without human or ghostly interruptions during his search, Aron truly felt very satisfied with his harvest.
In just a few hours, he had collected more than thirty first-level monster cores, ten second and third-level monster cores, and even one fourth-level monster core, equivalent to a Bone Refining Martial Artist in humans.
Counting everything, the total had reached over 50,000 contribution points.
He could no longer hide the smile on his face and began to look at this completely dark death zone as if he were gazing at a gold mine.
"With this, it won't be long before I can get 75,000 points to exchange for the Evergreen Pill, right?"
Aron almost felt his face heat up and continued to explore the entire death zone with all the anticipation in his heart.
Unfortunately, good things did not last long.
Just after a while of moving from his previous location, he encountered someone he absolutely did not want to meet in his life.
Wu Jian and his bodyguard, Wu Chong. The two of them appeared right in front of Aron this time.
Just two people, and the other two subordinates of Wu Jian were nowhere to be seen, but seeing the two of them now, Aron immediately ran in the opposite direction.
"Bastard! It's you!?" Wu Jian was slightly surprised to see Aron, but upon seeing him run away again, he immediately chased after him.
"Wu Chong, don't let him escape! I want to see how he can run away from me this time!"
"Of course!" Wu Chong replied before his figure beside Wu Jian became blurred.
Not long after, Aron, who was about fifty meters away from the two, felt a chill on his back and hurriedly turned around. Moments later, a palm with a sound that pierced the air appeared in front of him.
"Damn!"
Trying to block it with both hands, the pain filled with force, like trying to stop a cart with bare hands, made his face change.
Then with a "bang," his figure flew backward several meters before stopping.
After stopping, Aron immediately felt his hands go numb, and even his internal organs began to churn.
"Humh." A cold voice from Wu Chong came next, "To be able to withstand my palm attack with bare hands and not immediately lose both arms, it seems you indeed have something unusual."
Aron did not speak; he only looked at Wu Chong, who was standing at a distance with both hands placed behind his back, cold and vigilant.
"Your Excellency, it seems I have no grudge against you."
"You may not have a grudge against him, but you have what I want." Another voice came, and Wu Jian, who had caught up and stood beside Wu Chong, began to stare at him coldly.
Aron took a deep breath, trying to calm the anxiety and anger in his heart, and spoke to Wu Jian, "I truly do not have what you want. I also have no grudge against you, so why did you attack me the first time we met?"
"Why should I explain anything I do to you?" Wu Jian's response left Aron speechless and very angry. But that was nothing compared to Wu Jian's next words.
"Wu Chong, break both his legs and arms, but don't kill him. Just let him die in this cursed place!"
"I understand!" Wu Chong immediately nodded and grinned as he looked at Aron.
Aron, on the other hand, was already very angry and without further ado, immediately fled for his life.
"Hehe... Do you think you can escape from me?"