Wu Xia silently shook her head in response to Yi Xiao Du Zang's questioning.
It wasn't just Yi Xiao Du Zang who was surprised — she herself had been equally puzzled upon receiving the statistics, her mind filled with questions.
She had even suspected that the numbers might have been wrong.
But while such statistics could potentially get the kill counts wrong, how could they fail to account for their own casualties? In other words, the Zero Wing Guild had indeed killed 3,237 members of their Heavenly Burial Guild in less than half an hour — and nearly a third of them were guild experts...
"And still no leads?" Yi Xiao Du Zang raised an eyebrow slightly and asked in a low voice.
They had barely over eight thousand experts in total, and more than a tenth had died in just half an hour. Such devastating losses with no explanation to show for it — if word got out, they would become a laughingstock among all the major powers.
Guild experts were nothing like guild elites. They were members the guild had painstakingly cultivated by pouring all of its resources into them — not something that could be compared to ordinary elites. Every expert lost was worth more than ten elites.
If any other first-rate guild had lost nearly a thousand experts, they would probably want to die.
Elite members might be the backbone of a guild, but its experts were the primary fighting force for securing rare equipment and competing for resources — as well as the true measure of a guild's depth.
"We still don't have any leads, but I've already sent people to investigate with full force," Wu Xia replied helplessly.
Just as Yi Xiao Du Zang was about to say something more, a communication request suddenly came through. It was from Duan Liu Shui, the squad leader currently hunting Zero Wing's forces.
"Did something happen over there?" Yi Xiao Du Zang looked at the screen with puzzlement, where Duan Liu Shui appeared visibly tense and anxious. When he caught sight of Duan Liu Shui's level, a jolt of surprise ran through him. "How did you drop a level?"
Duan Liu Shui, whose level had originally been as high as 50, was now only level 49.
It had to be noted that Duan Liu Shui was one of the top Berserkers in their Heavenly Burial Guild, and with a full set of level 45 Dark Gold equipment, he could even hold his own against the top experts of super guilds. Losing a level suddenly — how could that not be surprising?
"I... was killed..." Duan Liu Shui hesitated, but eventually said it, his face grim.
"Killed?" Yi Xiao Du Zang was even more astonished. "Did you run into Black Flame and those other experts?"
No one knew the details of Zero Wing's experts better than he did. He had planted over thirty informants within Zero Wing, scattered across various locations. While they couldn't access core secrets, they had a very clear picture of the guild's top combatants.
In the entire Zero Wing Guild, only a handful of people were capable of killing someone at Duan Liu Shui's level.
"No..." Duan Liu Shui's face darkened even further.
"Then who killed you?" Yi Xiao Du Zang asked in disbelief. "Was it some outside helper Zero Wing brought in? That doesn't make sense — I haven't received any news of other factions helping Zero Wing."
Zero Wing had always been entangled with Feng Qianyu of the Dragon Phoenix Pavilion and Yuan Tiexin of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion. Both the Dragon Phoenix Pavilion and the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion were colossal powers in the Divine Realm — true overlords in their own right. If either of them genuinely decided to aid Zero Wing, there really wouldn't be much he could do. The gap in foundation was simply too vast, and to make matters worse, they lacked the terrain advantage — on the contrary, it was Zero Wing who held that.
That was precisely why he had been keeping a close watch on whether any super power might lend Zero Wing a hand.
But so far, not a single super power had extended any aid to Zero Wing. This was exactly why he had dared to launch such a large-scale hunt against Zero Wing's members.