Returning from the abyss

Chapter 123 Pure Blood Hunter
The hustle and bustle of the village gradually returned to calm.

It is not unheard of for "clean blood" to escape, and the villagers are very skilled in dealing with it.The whole village will help each other to make sure that no one escapes - even if it dies outside the mountain, it is a waste for the villagers.

However, this time the situation is slightly different.

Compared with ordinary people, the sudden escape of the "crows" is more like a long-planned collective escape, and the hidden skills experienced in various life and death also make it more difficult to capture them.

A man who looked only in his 30s, but was obviously the leader of several teams, knocked on the door of the wooden house on the side of the mountain.

"Patriarch Wu, it's so late, what's the matter?"

The door was opened, and a smiling man with a short beard and an officer's uniform appeared in front of the door.

"Something needs your help."

Patriarch Wu's face clearly showed a hint of disgust, but he had to admit that the other party was more professional in the hunt.

"Then, according to the old rules, every person caught gets a piece of blood." The man in the officer's uniform held up a finger, "and it must be their blood."

"Understand, understand! Many of them just performed a ceremony! But this time so many people have escaped, I'm afraid it's not comparable to those frightened people before!"

"It's nothing to worry about. The vitality of the blood of a person who can escape is far better than that of ordinary blood bags." The officer man raised a smile, turned his head and shouted into the room, "Brothers and sisters! Get up and work." !"

After getting the man's assurance, Patriarch Wu quickly left with his men.

"Patriarch, there are quite a few people who escaped this time, can they...can do it?"

asked a real young man.

"They're hunters, nothing like us. Even though their greed and filth level makes us all sick—"

Patriarch Wu glanced back at the wooden house that was no longer lit.

"But they are the most professional."

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Lu Ning and Ning Yeyi crossed a ridge.

After some discussion, the four of them finally decided to act separately for the time being. They didn't have enough time, and the tension in this opening chase was completely different from the previous test field. The team action not only had too big a goal, but also couldn't accomplish much.

So Cheng Wuling and Zhao Chenshuang sneaked back to the mountain village to find records related to the ceremony, while Lu Ning and Ning Yeyi were responsible for climbing over the mountain to find the so-called mountaintop castle and Moon Lake.If there is any unexpected situation, then try to find a way to meet again at the same time tomorrow.

But they had already climbed over a mountain, but they still couldn't see any signs of the castle.

"The castle... shouldn't be small, right?"

Lu Ning looked at the surrounding mountains, the moonlight was bright, at least the area around the top of the mountain could be seen clearly, but there were no traces of buildings.

"I think we can't see it now." Ning Yeyi climbed up an old tree, and looked at the surrounding mountains from the highest point, but he didn't find it either.

"Can't see?"

"Did the word "reasonable" be mentioned in the mission? That gave me a bad feeling." Ning Yeyi swung from the branch, landed on the lawn, and clapped his hands.

"You don't mean..."

"Let's take it as an early warning, Lu Ning, at least I can confirm that I am normal now, so I want to tell you something."

Ning Yeyi looked very serious, as if he was confessing something.

"My most important person is my aunt, and my most important memory is the journey with my family to the north to see the snow on the top of the mountain. I respect people's self-will and don't have any beliefs. If I could go back, I think I would choose to be a Police or forensic. I love nature, and if I had one wish, it would be to find a beautiful place to spend the rest of my life after retirement.”

Lu Ning nodded slightly.

"If everything about me is distorted to an irreversible point later, kill me. Similarly, if I find that you have similar problems, I will kill you too."

"it is good."

After Lu Ning finished speaking, Ning Yeyi's expression relaxed slightly.

"But being sensible is only for the dream ceremony, we must first find a way to understand the function and corresponding relationship of the ceremony." Lu Ning returned to the topic of analysis, "Also, assuming that the castle on the top of the mountain cannot be found, the place Moon Lake should be Where is it? It must be difficult to find a place where mountains and lakes coexist, right?"

"Even if there is water in the dune area, it is difficult to have the scale of a lake, and more streams and rivers will be formed."

Ning Yeyi pondered for a while, and suddenly thought of a possibility.

"But underground lakes are possible."

Before he finished speaking, a throwing knife shot out from the bushes, aiming at Ning Yeyi's shoulder!

"Found you!"

Lu Ning backed away quickly, took out a stone from her pocket and threw it back.And Ning Yeyi turned slightly sideways, pinching the flying knife in mid-air.

A short but stalwart man jumped out from the bushes. He was wearing a bamboo hat and was shorter than the two girls, but what he held in his hand was a real thick-backed broadsword instead of a Those farm tools in the hands of the villagers!

"Don't run! Leave your blood behind!"

The man's tone was full of fanaticism and longing, and his movements towards Ning Yeyi were extremely fast, even leaving a black mark in the air.

Not suitable for fighting.

This is what Cheng Wuling specifically told the four of them before they parted.

Ning Yeyi kicked up the stone on the ground, while he lowered his head and rolled over to avoid the man's sweeping knife, and then threw a handful of dirt at his face.

"Ha ha!"

The soil was empty, and the man who was supposed to be there was just an afterimage, and the real body had turned to the direction where Ning Yeyi's back was facing at some point.

"They really do have superpowers."

Lu Ning threw two stones, reminding Ning Yeyi where the man was coming from.Seeing the afterimage of the man's use, she felt a lot more at ease.

If it's just this level of ability, it's pretty easy to deal with.

Ning Yeyi was reminded to avoid the man's attack again, and ran to the woods quickly, while Lu Ning also looked into another bush, and the two separated and ran away.This time the man was taken aback.

"None of you can run away!"

He roared angrily, still grabbing the direction Ning Yeyi left and quickly chased after him.

Lu Ning was running.

The other party's search efficiency is slightly higher than expected, but that's okay.

It doesn't matter that the superpower holders are intelligent humans.

Forced to act separately - as expected.

She slid across a patch of grass, turned from a slightly low-lying and muddy place, and heard the sound of flowing water.

In the mountains, if you find flowing water, whether you are going to the source or going down the river, you will always have a target direction, and there is no problem of getting lost.

But Lu Ning was still not feeling well.

Even if the body can still move normally, as a senior patient, Lu Ning is very clear about her physical condition. There are some things that are different from the original but still unbearable. strength.

She can suppress the physical vomiting caused by the psychological reaction, but she can't lie to herself-she is falling into fear.

[The upgrade test will inevitably come with soul damage. 】

[Soul damage will not be healed when returning, you need to go to the hospital for treatment. 】

What if it can't be cured?

What if such a reaction is a symptom of soul damage?
In case I want to go back with such a question...

Lu Ning slid down a hill, her heart beating faster and faster.

In front of you is the stream.

Just as she was about to walk along the water to the source, a person slowly walked out from behind a tree not far away.

It was a woman in a windbreaker, wearing a top hat, the collar was pulled up to hide her face, two belts were crossed around her waist, a gun holster was inserted on the left and right, and a gun was placed inside, and the pants were thick Breeches, cuffed tight, and a pair of boots with a little mud on them.

In her right hand she wears a fingerless glove and holds a short sword.

"Finally someone came and made me wait for a long time."

The woman let out a chuckle and walked towards Lu Ning slowly.

Lu Ning stood still.

"Scary people will scare people to death. Fortunately, my attention was not on this side just now."

"Oh? That's easier to die."

The woman in the windbreaker raised her left hand, and slowly pulled down the high collar of the windbreaker, revealing half of her face.

Shu Xingruo's smile was as gentle as ever.

"Huh...then...in order to confirm the identity..." Lu Ning did not rush forward, but asked questions according to the established procedure.

"What's the name of your favorite work?"

"Under the Steps of Time. Now it's time for me to ask you, the only drink you will accept while reading is..."

"Vanilla tea, but one-third mixed with milk."

Lu Ning smiled. If she didn't have the ability to read minds, the identity of the person in front of her should be confirmed.

"It's a pleasure to meet you here."

"So are we."

Shu Xingruo turned his head slightly, and three heads poked out from the bushes.

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The first thing I want to say is that due to the existence of Su Zhilan, people in Shu Xingruo's group woke up a little earlier, while Ye Tisi and Mo Lianren were in this group. The situation is still the same.

It's just that one of the other two cells is full of tourists, while the other group are real characters in the scene.Twelve people worked together to remove the wooden board blocking the exit, and ran away quietly without even disturbing the residents there.

But later, because they escaped elsewhere, they attracted the attention of the whole village, and these people also ran away.Unlike Lu Ning and the others who found the small hut in the mountain, Shu Xingruo's group found a hunter's hut on the other side, and got the equipment and a hunter's notebook on Shu Xingruo.

"They are the ones who hunt in the mountains to provide meat for the village, and they are also responsible for hunting down when someone escapes. Because what they hunt is 'clean blood', so they call themselves pure blood hunters."

Shu Xingruo quickly told Lu Ning the information he found.

"However, there are not many descriptions about myself. The notes are more about the escapees, and there are many descriptions of how to hunt in the mountains and forests. This note is probably recorded as a teaching material."

"Your weapons..."

"I'm bluffing, the two guns have no bullets. In fact, the only thing I can use with me is this dagger. There is a front-loading shotgun in Morian's possession. It also has no bullets, and only she can use it. Others can be used. The weapons are an ax and a fire stick." Shu Xingruo took off a holster and handed it to Lu Ning.

In the holster is a double-barreled short gun. Lu Ning knows that this weapon is actually quite powerful at close range, but as Shu Xingruo said, there are guns but no bullets.

"Anyway, it's great to meet up." Ye Tisi looked very happy, "If Shu Xing said that she would wait here, if it was an enemy, she would scare her away, and if she was a teammate, we would be afraid that it would be too risky."

"Those who don't know it will really think it's those hunters."

Lu Ning herself didn't recognize Shu Xingruo before she opened her mouth.

(End of this chapter)