Dark King

Linda rapidly rushed over as she saw the red smoke signal fired onto sky.

She felt bad as the red smoke meant for to be used as a signal only in an emergency situation. She saw the dark skinned girl squatted down staring across a broken tall building while rapidly preparing traps. Gale's body was lying in front of her.

Linda's heart sank as she saw the arrows stuck on Gale's face, throat and chest. Dark skinned girl heard the movement and turned to see Linda coming. She was relieved but she spoke in hurry: "The enemy is in the small building. I don't know if he had run away from the back of the small building. Gale, Gale..."

Linda bent over to see Gale's eyes open wide without any movement. She was silent for a moment before speaking in low tone: "Weren't you both together? How did he do it?"

Dark skinned girl told previous incident minute by minute.

A strong killing intent flash by Linda's eyes as she listened dark skinned girl talk about the details. Because of anger she clenched her fists while her cheek muscles tightened. Anger in her heart had overcome the pain coming from her check but she relaxed the muscles on her face to avoid the delay in healing the wound.

"Captain, do you know him?" Dark skinned girl couldn't help but ask as she saw Linda's actions.

"He is the new kid," Linda answered.

"Him?" Dark skinned girl was shocked. Although she had heard Dudian's name but have never seen him before. It was difficult to believe that this cunning and insidious boy was the lucky scavenger who got his hands on magic marks by chance.

"How come he is outside the giant wall? Moreover, Gale clearly sensed his smell floating out from under the rock. Is someone else helping him out?" Dark skinned girl couldn't help but ask.

Linda coldly looked at her: "You don't understand. He pretended that he used the pre-captured 'bone rats' to escape but his actual purpose was to lure you into the ambush. Fortunately you weren't stupid and didn't separate to pursue him. Or else he would have long caught you guys one by one..."

Dark skinned girl as if shocked by Linda's words said again: "But, Gale's sense of smell couldn't be wrong!"

"He had used Gale! "Coldness flashed past Linda's eyes: "Gale's reason to trace him to here was most probably devised by the enemy in advance. He had injured most of the 'bone rats' in advance. Most of them wouldn't run too fast or too far. Glee had locked on to the fastest running 'bone rat'...It was all a trap!"

"Moreover the smell that Gale had felt floating form the hole should belong to the real 'bone rate'. He didn't cover his smell but covered the 'bone rats' and waited until he got here. Later on he should have wounded it and let it go inside the hole between the rocks. He had lurked into the pond to cover his own smell and that way had attacked you from behind!"

Although Linda haven't personally seen anything but dark skinned girl could justify her analysis. Even so, the little devil's mind was working extremely well!

She remembered the way Dudian leaped out of the pond, pulled the string of the bow and made the shot. Although they were calling him a 'kid' and referring him as an immature but that moment gave her different feelings.

"Captain, what do we do now? Continue to go after him?" Dark skinned girl said in hesitation.

Linda stared at the high-rise and whispered: "No, he will come back. We just need to sit back and wait." Then she looked at Gale's body and said: "We have to burn his body. The arrows were infected. At most in an half hour later he would turn into an undead..."

Dark skinned girl bit her lips as she whispered: "I know."

Linda made a gesture and turned away to leave.

Dark skinned girl began to drag Gale's body and followed after her.

They found a small building and settled inside. The reason for electing such a small building was that they were worried a high-rise could collapse after excessive rainfall. But also they were beware that Dudian may use high-rise terrain to attack them.

Dark clouds had gathered in the sky for a long time. Thunders echoed while the rainfall brewed.

Linda and dark skinned girl swept out an open space, found some combustible materials and incinerated Gale's body.

The rain was pouring heavily outside. The weather was cold. Dark skinned girl looked at Gale's burnt dark eyes and felt a bit of chill. There was a trace of sadness in her eyes.

After dispersing Gale's ashes dark skinned girl looked back at Linda. She was surprised to see her standing front of the window gazing at the rain. She didn't know what to think.

"Captain ... ..." dark skinned whispered: "Will he really come back?"

"He will." Linda answered without looking back.

"Previously, we took the initiative to go after him so he used the traps and ambushes. But now we are not going after him, so he shouldn't look for us, right?" Dark skinned girl quietly spoke out what was going in her mind.

"He has to come." Linda turned around and looked at her.: "He is smarter than we thought. Although I am not aware how he came out but the point is he didn't escape after he met us. Instead he went for a kill. It shows, he had expected that we will be trying to kill him and we were only waiting for his training period to end. This is his only opportunity to kill us. If he can't kill us, he knows that, it will be his death!"

Dark skinned girl was startled. : "But he is just a rookie. Although he was a scavenger but he had never been to a hunt. How come he such a big courage? Even without you, we are a team and number with outdone him. How he dares to go for a kill?"

"He proved that he is capable of doing so." Linda looked at her: "Although he is few years younger than you, but his heart is decisive. He may have never been to a monster hunt, but... Perhaps this is where his talents lay..."

Her words caused dark skinned girl to shudder: "Fortunately, we are not going to give him opportunity to grow up or else he would be a big threat to us in the future."

Linda looked out the window and observed the heavy rain: "He should be very anxious right now. The plans that he had laid out weren't successful till the end. Now, the initiative is in our hands. He should be afraid of us going back alive. If he misses this opportunity then we will kill him after the training. So if you were him, what would you do now to kill us?"

Dark skinned girl was confused as she couldn't come up with answers.

Heavy rain as if a screen shrouded the sky.