Cave Refuge

Those skilled members of the Hunting Group who could quickly deal with matchmen, when they were attacked by two matchmen, did not pay much attention, as they had decided to step in to help their teammates kill the matchmen, leading to a chaotic battle instead of one-on-one.

According to their thinking, by killing an extra matchman, they could alleviate some of the combat pressure on others.

However, after they killed one matchman after another, they were surprised to find that the number of matchmen fighting them was increasing, but the situation of their other teammates didn't seem to lessen, instead, it remained the same as before.

After realizing this situation, they first killed the matchmen attacking them, and then, unlike before, they did not immediately interfere with their teammates' battles but stood silently observing the surrounding battlefield.

Through careful observation, he noticed that although most of the battles on the battlefield were one-on-one, there were still a few where a member of the Hunting Group was fighting two or more matchmen.

Upon seeing this scene, a thought instantly flashed through his mind, but it was fleeting and he didn't manage to grasp it, making him somewhat anxious.

Even so, he did not help again but continued to observe the scene on the battlefield, trying to recall the fleeting thought he had missed.

After a while, although he still couldn't recall the sudden thought he had, he saw firsthand a member of the Hunting Group burst the head of a matchman, killing it, and immediately helped the surrounding teammates.

But as he began to attack the matchmen, even though he had just started, two more matchmen emerged from the thick tree trunks surrounding them.

These two matchmen, after breaking free from the tree trunks, charged directly toward the Hunting Group member who had just intervened in helping his teammate.

The well-intentioned member, after being attacked by the two additional matchmen, had to abandon his original target and instead deal with the two matchmen that had just approached him.

Initially, he didn't pay special attention, thinking that the huge trees were continuously breeding matchmen, aiming to kill all of them there.

But when he saw a weaker teammate, who used a risky method of trading injury for a kill, struggling to kill a matchman and then sitting powerlessly on the ground unable to help other teammates around him,

He thought that the teammate would still be attacked by two matchmen and was preparing to go help when he suddenly found that no new matchmen were being bred from the tree trunks.

At that moment, he suddenly realized that when he had just killed the matchman he was fighting and then attacked other matchmen, he would soon be attacked by more matchmen.

But now that he had been standing to the side for a little while, he had not been attacked by any matchmen, as if he were merely a spectator, forgotten on the side.

As soon as this idea emerged, the fleeting thought that he had not managed to grasp instantaneously surfaced in his mind.

It turned out that once victorious in a battle with a matchman, as long as he did not interfere in someone else's fight, he would not be attacked by matchmen again, but if he actively attacked matchmen fighting others, he would be attacked by more matchmen.

The moment he confirmed this idea, he immediately shouted loudly to remind others: "Matchmen's weakness is their head, just shatter that wooden ball in their head and the matchman will immediately die.

After killing the matchman you are fighting, never interfere in other people's battles. If you actively attack the matchmen fighting others, you will be attacked by more matchmen.

Upon hearing his reminder, members of the Hunting Group who were attacked by multiple matchmen quickly killed those surrounding them and immediately gathered around him.

To be honest, those who could initially kill the matchmen quickly one-on-one, even if faced with an attack by three to five matchmen, didn't feel much pressure.

Since they could kill the matchmen quickly at the beginning, a few more matchmen wouldn't have much impact on them.

Of course, although a few more didn't pose much of a threat, if the number increased by dozens or hundreds of times, it would pose a strong threat to them.

After hearing the person's reminder, Robinson William waited for the right moment and smashed the head of the matchman, then headed straight to the area where the experts were observing the battle.

Just as the person had reminded him earlier, as long as he defeated the matchman he was facing, he wouldn't be attacked by new matchmen as long as he didn't interfere in others' battles.

As time passed, the number of members in the area where Robinson William was observing continuously increased, although there were a few who failed in combat, got controlled by the matchmen that approached them, and eventually were entangled by vines and merged into the giant tree.

However, considering the actual situation, not many actually died. After all, their Hunting Group was an Elite Hunting Group. The few who died initially were due to lack of information, but later, thanks to reminders from others, those who were not weak in combat or were extremely unlucky mostly survived.

As the last fight ended, most of the huge trees surrounding them retracted back into the ground, leaving only dozens of huge trees still standing on the ground.

Noticing the trees left on the ground, Robinson William suddenly realized something—that among the matchmen who emerged from the trees during the battle, several seemed to be the winners who took control of their comrades' bodies and merged into the trunk.

Then, Robinson William remembered that when he finished fighting, it wasn't early and not all his teammates fought to the last moment and failed. At the beginning of the battle, some probably died early due to a lack of information.

Though Robinson William couldn't directly determine how many people died in this battle, having been together so long, he clearly knew the number of people in their Hunting Group before the battle started.

So now, Robinson William just needed to recount the number of people around him to estimate the number of people who died in the battle, and then compare this number with the remaining trees to confirm his suspicion.

The result of the confirmation was just as Robinson William had guessed, the number of giant trees left on the ground equaled the number of their members lost to the matchmen in the battle.

When Robinson William shared this information, the previously jubilant mood of those who felt relieved after surviving the battle, instantly turned to silence.

At that moment, seeing those trees left on the ground and recalling the figures who failed in combat and ultimately merged into the trees, some impulsive and fervent members of the Hunting Group immediately set out to cut open the bark to see if they could retrieve the bodies of their comrades from the trunks.

No one was naive enough to believe that those merged into the trunks hadn't died, but they still harbored the sentiment of resting their friends' bodies in the ground, hence the effort to extract them from the trunks for a proper burial.

Honestly, if we disregard emotions or moral considerations and only focus on practicality, this act is purely superfluous, but, fueled by emotions, the majority still very much endorsed this proposal.