With the long whip just released, Pandit's arm hung down weakly, and the panic in his eyes had yet to dissipate. He lost his senses and fell backward onto the ground.
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At dawn, the Black Forest became lively for the first time in a long while.
Under the thin morning light, three teams of challengers were successively attacked by stones and led to the same location by Chen Zhou.
To deceive them, Chen Zhou chose a meeting point less than a kilometer away from the supply drop point. This ambiguous distance could give each team of challengers the illusion that they could control the situation.
But in reality, Chen Zhou would wait at the spot directly below the drop point once they all arrived at the same location.
After the supplies fell, Chen Zhou would be the first to make contact with them.
A kilometer, though close, still requires a few minutes to cover on foot, but for someone like Chen Zhou, even ten seconds is enough for him to sprint several hundred meters.
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