Mysterious Hunting Ground

Chapter 280 270. Training, extra points

Twilight fell, and darkness enveloped the entire sky.

Dean and his friends reunited in the hotel room.

"The middleman has been contacted and will come to Juarez to trade with us in the next two days." Ricky said calmly while chewing a hamburger. "This batch of bearer bonds is more popular than we expected. Let's negotiate the price." At 750%, you can get $[-] million in cash as expected."

"Well done, let's convert these into cash," Dean handed another bag of gold, jewelry, and antiques collected in the club to the Goco brothers.

"No problem." Seth opened the bag and took out a Rubik's Cube-like box inlaid with complex golden patterns and looked at it.

"We also bought supplies." Aiden opened the fresh compartment of the refrigerator next to the TV, revealing a box full of dark red blood bags. "There are often gun battles on the streets of Juarez, and many people are injured and need blood transfusions, so there are many clinics We’ve all stocked up on blood, and it didn’t cost much to get these supplies.”

"But to be honest, the sanitary conditions in those clinics are worrying." Gonzalez took over and looked at Dean and the Queen questioningly, "We can't be sure whether there are dirty things like hepatitis virus mixed in the blood bags, snake demon Will you get sick if you drink unclean blood?”

"I read a piece of news a few months ago." Katie took a sip from a cup of coffee and increased her worries. "This year, a new incurable disease was discovered in 1981 called AIDS. The virus may be mixed in the blood. If the snake demon drinks it, will it also be infected?"

Faced with the question, the Queen of the Night just smiled calmly, "I have lived for hundreds of years, and I have drank much more blood than all of you drink. Blood donors have suffered from cancer and pneumonia, but never Any basilisk gets sick from drinking blood. We are immune to disease."

The snake demons all breathed a long sigh of relief. The Queen of the Night took out five more bags of blood from the refrigerator, "Come on, you must be hungry after not eating for so long. Don't wait any longer. After the blood leaves the body, the energy is lost quickly. The taste will get bad quickly."

Lena had been hibernating for more than a year without eating, and she couldn't bear it anymore. She took the blood bag and turned away from Dean's sight, and started to bite carefully.
Then Scott bit open a bag...Gurgling, he narrowed his eyes, curved his mouth slightly, and said with an intoxicated look, "Well...I didn't pay attention to it when I drank it in the temple, but now I realize that the taste is very strange...it's actually It’s chocolate flavored.”

"What I drink tastes like orange, but it's just a little bit spoiled orange..." Seth put down the shriveled blood bag with a look of disgust and said,

"Mine tastes like plum." Gonzalez frowned and sighed, "It's so sour."

Professor Aiden immediately wrote it down with a pen.

"Each donor has a different life experience and personality, which will bring a different taste to the blood. You can smell it with just your nose." The queen tied her red hair into a bundle with her hands and put it behind her head, scanning the people present. personal class,
"Professor Aiden is dragon fruit, um, different. Katie is cherry-flavored, sweet and hot. Ricky is pomegranate, witty and weird. Dean, um... orange with ice cubes, is extremely powerful inside. Your blood is the most delicious and has the most energy. One sip is worth the whole body of blood of an ordinary person, and it can also help us evolve."

Dean raised his eyebrows. The snake monster's nose was no worse than that of the nocturnal species, and he had really become a great tonic for the aliens?

"Forget about the smell of blood. Everyone, after dinner, it's time to move on to the next project. Take the prey in the car to the countryside for training." Dean stood up and walked out, followed by a group of people.

The station wagon full of guests headed south away from Ciudad Juárez and entered a dry and desolate sandy land.

There is no light pollution or cloud obstruction here. The white moon and countless stars twinkle in the deep sky, illuminating the entire vast sandy land. The scenery is peaceful and gentle.

Ten unconscious club bouncers were kidnapped from the car and thrown among the cacti.

Dean turned to look at everyone, "I will wake up a target immediately, and he will run away immediately. Who will try to hunt first?"

The snake demons looked at me and I looked at you, and retreated.

"Dean, is this really okay?" Scott clenched his fingers nervously, staring at the sleeping bodyguard on the ground. "Hunting humans is like a primitive animal that eats hair and drinks blood. I can't accept it."

Lena ran her hands through her hair nervously. She had never hunted by herself in more than two years at the temple.

"I'd rather put them in jail." Gonzalez's rough face was a bit at a loss.

"I didn't hear what Dean said. These bastards helped kidnap hundreds of innocent girls from strip clubs, forced them to dance to please men, then transported them to the temple and threw them into the horrible metal juicer," Seth Si said, "Not only do they deserve to die, but they also have to die in pain. You are a policeman. You used to use guns and handcuffs to catch criminals, but now you use claws and teeth...Is there a big difference?"

"That's easy for you to say. Can you give me an example?"

"Come here, open your eyes and take a good look!" Seth walked towards a row of bodyguards, glanced around, and picked the thinnest among them, who had a Chicano-style dice and roulette wheel tattoo on his neck, "That's it. Guy."

The Queen of the Night folded her hands on her chest and pointed, "Remember, Seth, bite his neck vitals as simply and cleanly as possible, and protect your own vitals. When your teeth enter the flesh, don't inject venom, but suck it, otherwise you will It will transform into a snake demon."

"clear."

Seth took a deep breath;
Damn, Dean snapped his fingers.

Then, the man with the dice tattoo opened his eyes and woke up. He stood up and glanced around, only to see a row of eyes that were looking at prey, full of strange longing.

Hellish cold penetrated his chest.

He got agitated, yelled a few curse words in Spanish, turned around and rushed towards the cactus on the opposite side.

The next second, brush——

A black shadow flashed across the yellow sand under the night sky, skittering across the sand like a dragonfly, leaving almost no footprints.

The bodyguard who ran forward for less than a few dozen meters was thrown to the ground with a thud, as helpless as a ravaged rag doll.

Seth's fangs were buried in his neck to suck blood. The bodyguard wailed weakly, blood splashed into the sand, and his limbs twitched.

The eyes of everyone on the side showed unbearable expressions.

Aiden calmly began recording.

Katie covered her mouth in horror, the image of humans being preyed upon arousing her genetic instinctive fear.

"The strength and speed are around level three," Dean analyzed. "He can run more than 20 meters per second, and his normal strength is about 5 tons."

"Except for the vital parts, it is almost immune to ordinary bullets, and it can heal itself by sucking blood."

"A little stronger than the beta warriors of the coyote clan, it is a dimensionality-reducing blow to humans."

"That's enough, Seth, stop!" Dean shouted at his companion who was lying on the bodyguard's neck in the distance, but Seth didn't respond as if he was losing his mind, until he was forcefully separated by telekinesis.

Half a minute later, Seth breathed heavily and fell to the ground. He was palpitating and looked at the corpse behind him, "I'm sorry, everyone, I lost control. The feeling of absorbing the living blood is so wonderful, as if his life force passed through me." body, and the deepest secrets of his soul are also imprinted on my mind. This taste is much more delicious than a blood bag, and more addictive than an orgasm."

"Wait a minute," Dean keenly captured one of the points, "You mean the snake demon can read the target's memory by sucking blood?"

"This is one of our talents, no less than that of vampires." The Queen of the Night took the initiative to stand up and looked at Dean, "Am I to be the second experimental subject?"

Dean snapped his fingers, and the No. 2 bodyguard woke up and ran away.

But the Queen Rabbit pounced on him in the blink of an eye, and after sucking for less than five seconds, she easily withdrew her fangs from the victim's neck. She seemed to have no problem with blood addiction at all.

"It's so delicious that it's hard to resist." She stretched her limbs lazily like a cat, licked the blood from her lips, and scanned a group of junior snake monsters with her onyx-like black eyes, with an evil smile on her face, "Newcomers , this kind of hunger and thirst is instinct, just like humans must drink water, it cannot be cut off, it can only be guided. Don’t resist blindly, but embrace it, and then completely master it. Drink more, drink less, and whether you want to keep the target’s life is up to you. Decision! Scott, give it a try!"

The Asian boy stood up and attacked nervously, and then it was the turn of Officer Gonzalez and Lena... There were no surprises. Even for the newborn snake demon, the preying process was easy and without any suspense.

After the five bodyguards died in the first round.

In the second round, under the careful guidance of the Queen and Dean, the snake demons were able to barely control their desires and interrupt the sucking process on their own, making rapid progress.

When all ten bodyguards were dead, the young snake demon fell into silence, intoxicated by the delicious taste of fresh blood, confused and painful by his ruthless killing, and his expression struggled.

"Is this really the right thing to do?" Ying quietly approached Dean, who was contemplating, "Training a group of aliens to prey on humans?"

Although Ying has killed countless people, this is completely different from training monsters to kill people.

"We are leading a group of new snake demons to the right path. Besides, Lena needs blood to survive, so she must be trained. Now that she is accompanied by the same kind, her training will be more effective." Dean explained, looking at the moonlight Lena, who was feeling uneasy, walked over and gently hugged her arm, "When the training in Juarez is completed, I will take you back to Hawkins to meet Uncle Paqui."

"Well, Dean, am I being cruel? I lost two lives just after leaving the temple." Lena looked at the still warm body on the sand and wiped the corners of her mouth desperately.
"These scum have done much crueler things to other people than you." Dean turned to look at everyone and raised his voice, "Kill them and you will save more innocent girls who may be killed in the future, such as Gonza Reis’ daughter, Scott’s sister Katie, Seth’s ex-girlfriend…”

"You don't need to blame yourself."

……

After burying the ten dead people in the desert, Dean gave Elsa a look. The latter raised her chin and raised her hand towards the crowd.
"Everyone, drinking blood correctly and resisting temptation are just the first lesson. Next, you must adapt to and fully develop your inhuman strength and speed, and fighting is the best training."

"Transform and attack me with all your strength."

"Haha, are you kidding me?" Seth glanced at the queen's graceful figure, "I never hit women, but besieging Dean is about the same..."

"Bang -" After Seth finished speaking, his whole body suddenly flew ten meters away like a cannonball, and fell upside down into the sand.

The queen stood in front of him, with two wings on her back, and scales covering her vital parts as thick as horn, and her terrifying face was filled with coldness.

"Ricky, do you still like her now?" Aiden glanced at the livid-faced man with glasses next to him with a half-smile.

And Seth pulled his head out of the ground, spat out a mouth full of sand, popped out his fangs and claws, and cooperated with the other three snake monsters to start surrounding the queen and attack.

The afterimages were flying and jumping in the middle of the desert, throwing out streaks of cold light, but the gap was too big. The Queen's normal strength was at least ten tons and she had rich combat experience. Seth's four new snake monsters were defeated almost instantly.

"Get up, didn't you just have a full meal? Are you running out of energy now? Keep going!"

The queen kept uttering provocations, and everyone was knocked away and got up again.

……

Dean turned to look at Katie and Aiden, took out three M1911s from the space and threw them over.

"Don't just watch, practice shooting." Then came the sound of fists and kicks, and the sound of gunshots on the right. Dean looked at a group of companions who were training enthusiastically, and thought that he should make progress.

He walked to the station wagon, sat on the sand, and immersed himself in the system. He scanned the attribute list and added strength to the 0.5 free attributes he had saved previously.

Strength: 19.5→20
Your power breaks the boundaries

The originally static muscles on Dean's body came to life and beat freely. Countless muscle fibers expanded and contracted visibly to the naked eye, becoming tougher and tighter.

Dean's body shape shifted strangely between strong and slender, and prompts flashed before his eyes.

Your specialty, Mirror Shield Evolution: Will Breakthrough Level [-], your resistance to attacks directly targeting the soul, such as curses, mental shocks, etc., will be slightly enhanced, and such attacks may be rebounded, with the probability being proportional to the difference in Will.

(Newly added) Strength breakthrough to the second level, you put on armor for your body, master a special muscle rhythm method, and your resistance to physical strikes is slightly increased. If the force of a close attack against you is not higher than your physical strength and With the added power of life energy, this blow will be rebounded by your muscles and add a destructive life energy. (on off)

……

breathe…

Dean looked at his right forearm. The skin was as delicate as jade. From the appearance, it didn't change much. It was far less shocking than the muscular men in the gym.

But a thought struck me.

Dean's loose gray sportswear suddenly bulged up, revealing his swollen arms, neck, back, waist and abdomen. The rugged rock-like muscles swam away like stones floating on the water. Originally 1.8 The height of just over 1.9 meters was squeezed out by the explosive muscles, and the height reached [-] meters.

From a distance, he looked like a little giant wearing a layer of red armor.

In this state, every muscle in Dean's body became like an arm, and his control over physical strength improved to a higher level.

Moreover, after breaking through the second level of strength, without stimulating life energy, his pure physical strength increased from the previous 10 tons to 15 tons, an increase of half.

The expertise has also been greatly improved. It was originally just a defense against mental and will attacks, but now it has further increased physical defense and rebound.

Offensive and defensive.

……

Dean glanced at the snake demons opposite who were screamed by Aisha, thinking about practicing with them later and trying out the new version of the mirror shield.

But the improvement is far from over now, and the gains from killing the phantom snake have not yet been fully digested!

Dean turned his eyes to the divine points remaining in the system and screened through the 8 skills.

The levels of the Fantasy Abyss and Underworld Summoning skills are too low and will not take long to upgrade, so it is not cost-effective to use divinity points.

Fighting level 4 is not far from level 5, so I rule it out. Shooting level 5 has just been upgraded, and I haven't adapted to the characteristics of sensory suppression yet, so I rule it out.

Shadow was promoted once with divinity, so it was eliminated.

Red dragon meditation and fantasy space auxiliary abilities have limited impact on combat effectiveness and are temporarily excluded.

So only pseudo lv2 (40/300) is left

"I am now being targeted by the government's special operations department. I am involved in more and more mysterious incidents, and the difficulty is getting higher and higher. Merely changing the shape of my appearance and DNA can no longer guarantee the concealment and safety of my actions. "

"I need a higher level of disguise, from body to soul, to become a truly unrestrained Thousand-Faced Man who won't worry about being exposed!"

After Dean made his decision, his divinity point disappeared, and a prompt flashed before his eyes——

You spent 1 point of divinity.

能力栏位+1，8/8→8/9。

Mimic lv2→lv3 (20/400):
Obtain the target's blood, and according to the blood sample, convert its own appearance and DNA, and even the soul breath it emits, to deeply simulate the target from appearance, body to soul.

After transformation, you cannot have the target memory, and the attributes are biased towards the original attributes.

Blood copying time: half an hour → copy immediately
Maximum duration of mimicry: half a month → no limit
Simulation cooling time: 1 day → 1 hour.

This ability has been upgraded to a domain-level ability, breaking through limitations: mimicking objects are no longer limited to ordinary humans, and now supernatural humanoid creatures can also be simulated (the ones you have encountered include: Death Eater, Vampire Monica, Nocturnal Species, Coyote warrior, snake demon...but the size difference is too big to be imitated).

After mimicking, you will temporarily master all their superpowers, and your power will be increased by 3%, but the upper limit will not exceed the mimicry skill level (level [-])...your physical abilities will not be affected in any way.

You have 3 simulation slots, and you can simulate the samples in them at any time after the cooling time is over. Currently 0/3.

……

As the mimicry level increases, you gain 1 point → 1.5 physical strength.

Physique: 21.8→23.3
The moonlight illuminated Dean's red cheeks, and the blood vessels and veins on his temples and neck protruded abnormally, like snakes that were drilling wildly.

Cheers, encouragement...

The skin all over the body is red and hot, and the cells are spurting out a torrent of platinum that is transported to all parts of the body along with the blood vessels, strengthening the skin, muscles, muscles, bones, internal organs, including the eyes, lower body and other fragile areas.

Dean bulged his biceps, then wrapped himself in a mental shield, took out the M1911 and TAC-50 sniper rifles in the space, and aimed two rounds at his arms.
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45ACP hits the skin and is directly bounced away, leaving only a white mark.

As for the .50BMG ship-shaped warhead of the sniper rifle, as soon as it broke the skin the size of the fingernail of the little finger, it was jammed by the wriggling muscles and squeezed out, and the damaged skin healed itself instantly.

"Now I don't need any protection. Ordinary firearms can no longer break my skin. Ordinary sniper rifle bullets will be bounced off by the muscles, and the injuries are almost negligible."

At the same time, his physique and strength increased, his cell potential and physical foundation increased, and his life energy increased simultaneously. Once Dean's life shield was opened, guns could no longer cause any harm to him.

The damage of rocket launchers and artillery shells is also extremely limited.

……

breathe…

Dean wiped the sweat from his face, clenched his fists, felt the surging vitality in them, and studied the description of the simulation.

Simulate supernatural creatures from body to soul with virtually no cooldown and unlimited duration.

He finally no longer had to worry about being tracked.

In addition, being able to control superpowers without affecting his original abilities also means that he will have one or more new superpowers in his pseudomorphic state.

Domain-level "mimicry" has finally undergone a qualitative change.

……

The new Mirror Shield feats and shape-shifting abilities require test subjects.

Dean smiled and walked towards the fighting snake monsters, and raised his fingers at Seth.
"Seth, come over and spar with me."

"No way," Seth wiped his sweat and shook his head, "I'm not a masochist.

"Don't worry, I'll stand still and let you hit me."

"Anything like this?"

Seth jumped up, swooped down like a black bat and swung at Dean's arm.

tear-

The sharp claws tore through the thin sports coat and touched Dean's skin, but they seemed to have scratched a steel plate and failed to leave a white mark.

Seth was hit by a violent force before he could pursue him. He rebounded and fell to the ground at twice the speed of the attack.

boom!
The yellow sand revealed a human-shaped pit, which was dyed red by the splattered blood. Seth's right paw and a forearm disappeared from the pit, and were blown to pieces by the surging force, revealing the tragic arm bones and flesh. , the squirming granules at the wound quickly assembled new limbs, but they were consumed by the alien life energy that invaded the body and could not heal themselves. The pain made him hiss and gasp.

Dean nodded with satisfaction. It seemed that someone who was not as powerful as him would not be able to break through his defense just by attacking in close combat. Instead, he would be severely injured.

He walked closer to relieve Seth's life energy, and at the same time, he quietly collected a little bit of the pseudo-blood through contact with his palms.

Seth glanced at the white and tender new arm that had grown back with a pale face, "Fake, man, it's just a sparring match, there's no need to be so harsh!"

"Sorry, I rarely spar with others, so I don't strike lightly. I must be careful next time."

"There's another time?" Seth's face turned pale. "I won't accompany you anymore. You go find Gonzalez."

"I will admit defeat immediately." The patrolman raised his hand from a distance.

Dean looked at a group of awed and tired snake demons, "Okay, everyone, this is the end of training tonight, and we will continue tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)