When system cheat becomes rampant!-Chapter 704 - 521: The Bone Nest

"That guy just won't leave me alone," Xiang Beifei muttered.

He had last seen Brain Deficient two days ago and had flown tens of thousands of kilometers since then, yet he had not expected to see Brain Deficient here again.

Wasn't Brain Deficient supposed to be joining forces with the so-called Moon God Race to deal with Shepherd City? What was he doing here?

Xiang Beifei reined in his aura, slowed his pace, and positioned himself half a beat behind Brain Deficient, ready to react promptly if Brain Deficient tried anything sneaky.

Just then, Xiaohei's voice echoed in Xiang Beifei's mind.

"Are you sure?" Xiang Beifei asked in surprise.

"Woof woof!" Xiaohei responded affirmatively.

Xiang Beifei's expression grew grave. Xiaohei and Erha had split up earlier to survey the surroundings and identify Si Hou's location. During his search, Xiaohei had uncovered many hidden Ghost Whiskers of Remnant Visage in the mountain range, with a count of at least one hundred!

With over a hundred Ghost Whiskers of Remnant Visage converging here, well-hidden yet diligently uncovered one by one by the alert Xiaohei.

Connecting this to the consultations between Ghost Whiskers and the Moon God Race about targeting Shepherd City, Xiang Beifei grew increasingly astonished. Could it be that this Si Hou was actually the so-called Shepherd City?

Brain Deficient was following this skeleton—could it be that they too were unable to locate Si Hou, and thus had to rely on this skeleton?

"Go find Erha and then head my way," Xiang Beifei instructed Xiaohei.

Xiaohei, who could sense Xiang Beifei's location, would not have any trouble navigating his way.

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The skeleton kept moving forward, occasionally stopping to search for bones. The area was littered with countless bones, most of which were from desolate beasts. Some were half-buried in the ground, while others were oddly hung from branches!

However, at that moment, a loud, echoing bird call suddenly filled the sky, causing the flames in the skeleton's eye sockets to flicker again. Xiang Beifei deduced that this creature's eye-socket flames seemed to flash continuously whenever it was happy.

Upon hearing the bird call, the skeleton headed towards the sound, scaling branches with agility. It peered around briefly and then swung from branch to branch like a monkey, moving at incredible speed.

This creature was clearly assembled from segments of bones, but its movements were astoundingly nimble. It darted swiftly through the towering trees and soon came to a stop in a mountain valley.

The mountains here were steep, several hundred meters high, but the gap between them was narrow, perhaps only about ten meters wide. The mountain sides were incredibly straight, as if a gigantic sword had cleaved the mountain in two.

Then, Xiang Beifei saw a very peculiar scene.

Above the valley, there was an enormous bird nest spanning over ten meters. It was enormous. If it were a giant bird, it wouldn't be too surprising, given the countless large desolate beasts Xiang Beifei had encountered since arriving from the Jiuzhou continent. Seeing a giant bird would not have been too shocking.

But the problem was, this massive bird nest was constructed entirely out of bones!

These bones, large ones being up to 10 meters long, small ones about one to two meters, countless dry bones intertwining haphazardly, yet tightly fused together, sprawled between the valleys, forming a giant, coarse, yet tightly constructed bird nest, with a length and width both spanning over ten meters, and a height even exceeding twenty meters.

This was truly a magnificent and eerie construction!

Xiang Beifei had no idea which type of desolate beast bird used bones to construct its nest, but he soon witnessed it, as a giant pale eagle, equally eerie, its wingspan over fifty meters long, descended from the sky towards the valley's bird nest, darkening the sky like a small mountain. The flapping of its wings stirred up whirlwinds, causing many rocks to shake.

He finally understood why the great pale eagle used bones to build its nest because if it had used branches, they would likely have been blown away by the gale forced by the bird's wingspread; only desolate beast bones, which were tough and relatively good at slotting together, could be used to construct the nest.

The pale eagle landed like a small mountain, still carrying a giant desolate beast in its beak, which seemed to be a double-winged tiger at the Meridian Opening stage. It settled in its nest and started to peel the skin off the double-winged tiger, consuming its flesh.

It ate very quickly, soon leaving only the bones. The long wing bones and the spine of the double-winged tiger were kept to reinforce the nest, whereas other limbs were thrown down into the valley below.

As soon as the double-winged tiger's corpse dropped, a thick fog seemed to rise in the valley, corroding the flesh and bones of the corpse until only the skeleton remained.

Beneath its nest was a vast collection of various desolate beast bones, like a giant bone graveyard, a sight to behold!

The skeleton, as if discovering the New World, quickly ran towards the pile of bones beneath the bird nest. The flesh-corroding fog fell on it but caused it no harm. It rummaged through the bones, found some new ones, and started replacing parts of its own body.

The great pale eagle seemed to notice this uninvited guest, but it only glanced at the skeleton and then ignored it, probably because there was no conflict of interest or threat, so it did not bother.

The skeleton scoured the valley, and as it continued, it suddenly discovered something and ran forward in surprise. A hundred meters from the pale eagle's nest lay countless human bones!

Xiang Beifei was also slightly startled!

There were no fewer than a hundred human skeletons here!

The skeletons had been completely corroded by the miasma in the valley, scattered about haphazardly, and it seemed they had only been thrown there recently because the skeletons were not disordered, with only some bones possibly displaced by the wind, but none missing.

Xiang Beifei confirmed repeatedly that they were indeed human bones.

"How could there be so many human skeletons here?" Xiang Beifei furrowed his brows.

This place was tens of thousands of leagues from the Jiuzhou continent, and hardly any humans dared venture so far, making it impossible for a large number of humans to appear here.

He turned his gaze toward Brain Deficient, hidden on one side, already understanding that only Ghost Mustache of Remnant Visage could manage to kill so many humans and dump their bones here.

Indeed, Brain Deficient was watching the skeleton with a cold smirk, looking utterly triumphant.

"Did this guy deliberately lure the skeleton here?"

Xiang Beifei realized, staring intently at Brain Deficient.

This guy had killed countless humans and dumped so many bones here, certainly not by chance, definitely scheming something.