# Chapter 449: What a Sin
Ma Dalong was crying!
Although his dream had always been to be ruthlessly whipped by money one day!
But not like this!
This gold brick is seriously hard!
"Spirit core! It's the Lingxu core! Core fragments, don't you want them? Stop hitting me!"
Jiangnan was shocked!
He never expected to learn about core fragments from Ma Dalong!
The Thousand Island Lake spiritual storm was directly related to the core!
Finding the core fragments was also one of Jiangnan's tasks this time!
"Oh? You know quite a bit. Keep talking, I won't hit your mouth!"
[From Ma Dalong's Resentment Value +1000!]
Mom!
I want to go home! This person is so mean!
He's a devil!
"We originally came to train during this spiritual storm! But we found an island with incredible spiritual energy concentration!"
"Many spirit beasts gathered on the island, along with folk spirit warriors like us! All attracted by the spiritual energy!"
"We thought we'd find the most concentrated spot to train, and that's when we discovered the core fragment!"
The jacket-wearing youth quickly nodded, it was too terrifying: "Right, right! That place... was too weird! There was a group of silverback gorillas over there!"
"They charged over, grabbed my second brother, and carried him away! If we hadn't run fast..."
The messy-haired girl was crying: "Those silverback gorillas were lining up at the cave entrance to take turns beating my second brother, it was too scary!"
"We could hear second brother's screams! He's probably... Wuwu..."
Jiangnan was stunned. A group of silverback gorillas?
Carrying people into a cave? Lining up at the entrance to take turns going in to beat them?
This scene felt strangely familiar!
"Bang!"
Jiangnan's gold brick smashed down, knocking Ma Dalong unconscious!
The messy-haired girl and the jacket-wearing youth's faces turned pale with fear!
He threw Ma Dalong into the carriage!
The students looked at Ma Dalong's face, now so battered by the gold brick it could have been pixelated, and their faces turned pale!
A few even threw up immediately!
Jiangnan: "Mark the coordinates on the map for me. Get on the vehicle yourself. Crouch down and put your hands on your head!"
The two were terrified and quickly did as Jiangnan instructed!
Jiangnan jumped onto the truck!
Zhong Yingxue swallowed hard: "Those silverback gorillas... could they be the same ones from when we dealt with Luo Tianxiang..."
Jiangnan smiled bitterly: "Probably!"
Back then, his group had found a bunch of gorillas to beat up Luo Tianxiang!
They beat him in turns!
After each beating, they got to drink strength potion!
Who knew this would become a tradition?
Had this custom persisted until now?
"We'll deal with this later. Let's get the students to the evacuation point first!"
Driving the truck, Jiangnan brought Liu Guang and the others to the temporary shelter.
Then he rode a motorcycle to search for more students. The only difference was that he now had Zhou Yuqing with him!
With this human little radar, plus map positioning, the search progress sped up considerably!
It only took half a day to gather all the students at the temporary shelter!
Then he notified Huang Wei to send people to pick them up!
At this moment, Huang Wei stared at the electronic map, watching all the student locations converge into one point. His scalp tingled!
Full of disbelief, what terrifying efficiency!
One Jiangnan was worth the entire search team!
All the students were taken back to the base camp!
The first thing everyone did when getting off the plane was kneel and throw up!
"Ugh! What's that smell!"
"Is this island where spirit beasts come to take a dump?"
"Eww! It stinks to death!"
"Did the rescue team set up camp inside a spirit beast toilet?"
The lingering fragrance kept assaulting the students' nerves!
Seeing the students safely returned, Huang Wei breathed a huge sigh of relief!
"Nan Shen! You're awesome!"
Seeing Jiangnan walk off the plane, many staff members gave him approving thumbs up!
Jiangnan shyly scratched the back of his head, feeling a bit embarrassed!
Just then, two mournful cries rang out!
The jacket-wearing youth knelt on the ground: "Second Brother! Is that you, Second Brother! Wake up! Say something!"
The messy-haired girl frowned slightly, looking disgusted!
"Hmm~ Second Brother, how did you get beaten like this? Is this really Second Brother?"
He was practically unrecognizable!
They were kneeling beside a stretcher!
On it lay a young man swollen three sizes, beaten beyond recognition!
He clutched a stone slab to his chest, his hollow eyes seemingly having lost his soul!
"Don't! Don't come close! All of you stay away!"
"Don't hit me! Don't any of you come near! I'm not crazy, not crazy! Hahaha! Wuwuwu! Mom!"
Second Brother was like a man possessed, full of sorrow, struggling nonstop on the stretcher!
Jiangnan swallowed: "Brother Wei, what happened to that guy?"
Huang Wei: "Ah~ my people found him on Yali Island! He was in this state when discovered in the woods!"
"He's pretty badly injured, but physical wounds are manageable. He seems to have suffered some mental trauma though. When asked what happened, he won't say!"
Jiangnan covered his face. He'd been beaten into psychological trauma?
"Yali Island has too many Gold Rank spirit beasts. My people can't get in, so we don't know what's going on inside!"
Jiangnan: "There should be a core fragment in there. Don't worry, I'll take some people over!"
With that, he walked up to Second Brother: "Tell me what happened!"
"I'll go teach them a good lesson and make sure there aren't any more victims!"
Second Brother: (#)´༎ຶ灬༎ຶ(#)
"Let me tell you, brother! Those gorillas aren't apes anymore!"
"They knocked me out and carried me to a cave. I thought I was going to die, but they lined up to beat me!"
"One ape wasn't enough, they took turns!"
Jiangnan exclaimed: "Good heavens! So cruel? They're so wicked!"
Second Brother: "Exactly! So wicked! I don't know who taught them! How could they!"
Jiangnan's face was full of regret: "What a sin!"
I was the one who started it!
The messy-haired girl and jacket-wearing youth turned pale with fear. So cruel?
Good thing they ran fast back then, or the consequences would have been dire!
Second Brother grew more agitated: "Look what they did to me!"
"Oh right! They also stuffed a stone slab into my arms before letting me go!"
"When I left, I saw those gorillas carrying two other brothers into the cave! I don't know how those two are doing now!"
Jiangnan was stunned. A stone slab? What stone slab?
"Can I take a look?"
Second Brother handed Jiangnan the stone slab he'd been clutching!
Jiangnan looked closely and his body stiffened!
On the stone slab, two simple human figures were drawn in simple lines!
He could vaguely make out what was drawn!
One was a person sucking a pacifier, and the other had a bear face!
Carved on the slab was:
As shown: (⁎❝᷀ົڡ❝᷀ົ⁎)ෆ(ิ◉㉨◉ิ)
Jiangnan: !!!
Goosebumps shot up his spine straight to his skull!
His face was full of excitement!
He teleported instantly to Zhong Yingxue!
"Snowy, look! Is this me? That bear face must be Xiong Er, right!"
Zhong Yingxue looked at the drawing on the stone slab, her pretty face full of shock!
"It really is! That proud little expression is definitely no one else!"
Jiangnan was extremely excited!
Not only was he looking for Xiong Er, but Xiong Er was also looking for him?
It had only been a little over a year, and he could freaking draw!
Xiong Er was going to ascend to heaven!