Cave Refuge

Seeing a group of people standing outside the gate, Master Ye first went over to politely open the gate, then he and Mr. Thompson walked out to chat with those people.

Because of the explosion earlier, Dong Tianyu did not retract the Divine Sense that he had spread across the entire villa area. Instead, he repeatedly used Divine Sense to scan every area of the villa in great detail, aiming to confirm whether there were any other monsters in the villa area.

Perhaps due to the solidarity among those monsters, all the monsters in the villa area went to the villa where Mason Hart was, upon receiving the distress signal from the one caught by Dong Tianyu, and were eventually eradicated by the explosives detonated by Mason Hart.

Fortunately, although the explosion was quite loud, the outcome was indeed excellent, as it wiped out all the monsters that had been living in the villa area.

As the people who were chatting with Mr. Thompson and Master Ye outside the gate prepared to leave for home, Dong Tianyu noticed that Madeline, who had gone out with a group, had rushed back, and seeing the anxious expression on Madeline's face, Dong Tianyu guessed that he might have heard the sound of the explosion.

Frantically rushing back, Madeline, seeing a group of people standing at his home's gate, felt an even more intense sense of urgency, as if it were palpable.

Madeline, somewhat crazed, thinking something had happened at home, pushed through the crowd in front of him, with an anxious face wanting to know what exactly had happened ahead.

But when he finally made his way through the crowd and saw Master Ye and Mr. Thompson standing at his home's gate chatting and laughing with others, his tense expression instantly relaxed, and he slowly took a deep breath as if calming his nerves.

Initially, Master Ye, seeing Madeline burst out of the crowd with an anxious face, thought something unexpected had occurred, but before he could speak, upon seeing him, Madeline's tense expression instantly relaxed, and Master Ye immediately understood the reason.

"Sorry everyone, my son has just come back and he looks quite exhausted. I'll take my son inside to rest now. Let's call it a day and continue some other time when we are available."

Hearing Master Ye speak, everyone did not linger any longer, and they dispersed to their respective homes.

Inside the courtyard, everyone showed happy smiles upon seeing Madeline return; they entered the living room, and then Master Ye asked about Madeline's experiences during his time outside.

Although the three members of the Thompson family were also present, Madeline had no intention of concealing anything from them, and directly spoke about the reason for his outing.

In fact, while expanding the camp to accommodate those new survivors, Madeline gradually noticed something abnormal about the situation in the camp. Although he had not faced the monsters directly as Dong Tianyu did, the initial survivors who settled in the camp were all old members who had joined his fleet during the flood.

Perhaps Madeline was not very familiar with those old members, but as the fleet's controller, Madeline at least had some understanding of all the members.

And those survivors who were able to settle in this villa area were some of the middle and upper managers of the original fleet, so Madeline knew about their characters and temperaments, not perfectly but certainly very well.

Because of this, even though Madeline had not detected the monsters capable of using Illusion Techniques and Hypnosis during the first few days, it only took a few days before Dong Tianyu discovered some of the survivors living in the villa area began to change in personality, and soon, the family members of those whose personalities had drastically changed all stayed inside their homes and did not go out.

Moreover, this phenomenon seemed contagious, as the situation gradually began to spread within the camp. Upon realizing this, Madeline became extremely restless, knowing that those living in the villa area were middle and upper level members of his original fleet, and any issues among them could significantly impact his management of the camp.

Madeline initially thought it was because the flood had just ended, and those people had not yet adjusted to life after leaving the fleet, so perhaps their emotions were somewhat out of control.

But after all, Madeline had once been a shrewd businessman. His contact list naturally did not comprise just a dozen people like Dong Tianyu, but nearly a hundred.

In fact, the number of chat groups in Madeline's contact list might even exceed the number of friends in Dong Tianyu's contact list.

Although Madeline did not inquire about the anomaly he felt in the group chat, with more people, there are bound to be other camp managers who encountered the same issue as Madeline, and something Madeline saw as not too important might be questioned by others in the group.

Naturally, Dong Tianyu was not the only person in China who had encountered such monsters. Upon seeing someone ask a similar question in the group, survivors who had directly encountered the monsters like Dong Tianyu came forward to share their experiences.

Once this issue was posted in the group, the entire group exploded like a pot boiling over, even those who often lurked without speaking in the group were now actively discussing together.