"Damn it, these bastards." Gao Zhanxiang gritted his teeth. "Our academy has never provoked anyone from 'Chiyou' before. These guys actually invaded our academy. Where are they now?"

Gao Zhanxiang directed his last sentence at the injured middle-aged man. The man shook his head and said, "I... I don't know, but I heard them mention something about a divine beast, something about 'Di Jiang'."

"Di Jiang?!" Hearing this name, everyone was stunned. The members of the special task force were all aware of the story of the divine beast Di Jiang. It was evident that the Chiyou organization's attack on the academy was to obtain Di Jiang.

"Everyone get in the car, they are after 'Di Jiang'." Gao Zhanxiang left some medication for the middle-aged man to self-treat and then gathered everyone back into the car.

"We're going to the Forbidden Forest, Di Jiang is hidden there," Lin Shiqi reminded Gao Zhanxiang.

"No, Di Jiang is not there," Gao Zhanxiang said. "To prevent anyone from having designs on Di Jiang, we have already moved Di Jiang to a safer and more secluded place. I know where Di Jiang is."

As Gao Zhanxiang spoke, he accelerated the car within the academy, and along the way, they saw many injured people lying on the ground. Some were from the Aberrant academy, while others had completely unfamiliar faces. The further they drove, the more wounded individuals they encountered.

"It's strange," Gao Zhanxiang looked at the injured people they passed and said in puzzlement, "Only a few people knew about the hiding place of Di Jiang. How did the Chiyou people know that we had hidden Di Jiang here?"

Soon, the car arrived near a stone mountain next to the forest. A group of fifty to sixty people dressed in white was gathered in front of the stone mountain, forming a semicircle around it.

"They've surrounded the entrance. Let's charge in, Shiqi and Xiaohui, cover me!" Gao Zhanxiang knew that this group of people in white was most likely from the invading Chiyou organization. He accelerated the car directly towards the group, while Lin Shiqi and Zhou Xiaohui wielded their wands, summoning lightning and flames to attack the group. The attackers were caught off guard and dispersed, fleeing in panic. The car drove through the crowd and arrived in front of a cave entrance on the mountain.

"Get out of the car and hurry into the cave," Gao Zhanxiang shouted loudly. Taking advantage of the attackers' confusion, the people in the car quickly got out and rushed into the cave, heading towards its depths.

Suddenly, a flash of red light emitted from the depths of the cave, and a massive, scorching red flame surged out towards Gao Zhanxiang and the others entering the cave. The group quickly dodged the flames by pressing against the cave walls.

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"Don't attack, it's us!" Gao Zhanxiang yelled while leaning against the cave wall. After a few moments, the flames stopped, and a woman's voice came from the depths of the cave, "Is that Captain Gao and his team?"

Lin Shiqi recognized the voice as Li Ruobing's and quickly responded, "Yes, it's me, Ruobing, we're back."

"Is that Shiqi? Come on in," the woman's voice from inside the cave said. The group immediately continued towards the depths of the cave. This time, they did not encounter any more attacks, and soon they arrived at an iron gate-like barrier, where about twenty people were gathered on the other side, one of whom was Li Ruobing.

Li Ruobing pressed a mechanism on the wall, and the iron gate slowly rose, allowing Gao Zhanxiang and his team to pass through.

"What's going on? What happened?" Gao Zhanxiang looked around, seeing that apart from Li Ruobing and a few others, most people were lying on the ground. They looked pained, their clothes tattered, and their bodies covered in wounds, indicating they had been seriously injured.

"The situation is very bad," Li Ruobing's face turned slightly pale. "Three hours ago, a group claiming to be from the 'Chiyou' organization launched an attack on our academy. There were over a hundred of them, all Aberrants. We couldn't resist and had to retreat to the cave. There are mechanisms in the cave, and they have attacked us several times, but we managed to repel them."

"Damn it, let's charge out and fight them!" Gao Zhanxiang said angrily.

"No," Li Ruobing shook her head. "Most of us are injured, and the difference in numbers is too great. We can't fight back. There are provisions and medication in the cave. If we only defend and don't attack, we should be able to hold out for several days."

"There's no other way, we have to do this," Gao Zhanxiang recalled that there were at least fifty to sixty people outside the cave, and with their current depleted forces, they indeed had no chance of fighting back.

As time passed by, the people in the cave remained focused, ready to defend against any attacks from outside. However, after several hours, there was no movement outside the cave, leaving the people inside puzzled about the intentions of the Chiyou organization.

Suddenly, a rough voice was heard from the direction of the cave entrance, "Listen up, people inside. All the others from your academy have been captured by us. You better surrender quickly and hand over the divine beast 'Di Jiang' to us. Otherwise, hehe..."

Following this voice, a young woman's scream of "Ah" came from the direction of the cave entrance. Gao Zhanxiang was shocked and quickly shouted loudly towards the outside, "What do you want?"

"Hehe," the rough voice from outside said, "Nothing much, just gave her a cut. You don't need to worry; she won't die now. But if you don't hand over 'Di Jiang,' we'll give her a cut every minute. Then you'll only be able to collect her body. Also, you have to anesthetize 'Di Jiang' before handing him over to us. If you try anything funny, we'll kill all the hostages!"

"You despicable scum!" Gao Zhanxiang cursed angrily and looked at Li Ruobing. "What should we do? They've taken people from our academy as hostages and are forcing us to hand over 'Di Jiang'."

Li Ruobing also heard the conversation outside the cave. She sighed helplessly and shook her head, looking at the others, "I don't know what to do. Does anyone have any ideas?"

Everyone remained silent, unable to think of any solutions. Dream Butterfly spoke up, "The situation is really bad. During the solar storm hitting the Earth, all communication has been completely cut off. We can't ask for help from the outside world. Even if they kill everyone in our academy, no one will know what happened today. The other side planned this meticulously and waited until today to act."

Dream Butterfly's words struck a chord, and everyone realized the severity of the situation. Their faces turned ashen, as if Doomsday had arrived.