Time continued to pass, and this period could be quite smooth. The only twist and turn was the appearance of a few monsters. However, these scattered monsters did not pose a threat at all and were eliminated in a few strokes.
Soon night fell, the surrounding fog was not as thick as it was at the beginning, and in the darkness there was only the light of the strange torch in the old man's hand... There were also various sounds of insects all around...
As we continued to reach a certain place, the old man who was leading the way suddenly stopped: "Wait... we'll leave later!"
When the mysterious woman heard this, her cold voice came from under the mask: "Well, why is this?"
Ah Yi's mind moved, and with a hint of vigilance in his eyes, he looked around: "...There seems to be something weird here."
Lin Xiao looked at it and yawned. It was indeed strange, because all the sounds of insects around him suddenly disappeared... What does this mean?
The old man: "We probably won't be able to leave tonight... Dear guests, let's find a place to rest first... We'll leave tomorrow."
"We are in a hurry... Is there any reason?" The mysterious woman said.
"Guest, the front is the depths of the forest... If this happens at night, it is usually the overlords in this forest who come out to hunt... We'd better avoid them and don't attract them as we move forward.
Attention..." the old man.
Hajime rarely looked disapproving. What kind of king could compare to the sword in his hand? He said lightly: "It's okay, keep moving forward. Whether it's the Overlord or others, just kill him with one sword."
The old man shook his head and said with a horrified look on his face: "Guest, you don't know something. The most powerful in this forest are not the individual ferocious and huge monsters, but a group of God-Eating Ants!"
The woman also looked horrified when she heard this and said, "There are actually God-Eating Ants here?"
The old man's head suddenly turned pale... Lin Xiao was a little curious and asked: "God-Eating Ant? What is that?"
The old man explained it, and Lin Xiao finally understood that it turned out to be a group of army ants, but they were more powerful... and even bigger.
The numbers are denser. This kind of ants has strong mobility. The saliva they secrete is poisonous and can easily paralyze humans and destroy synapses and spinal cords. However, the venom is not fatal. They do not wait for the prey to die before they start to swallow the prey.
Within 2 minutes of being attacked, his flesh and blood became mutilated and he died of severe infection.
After understanding the situation, everyone, led by the old man, found a place and lit a bonfire.
Of course, this bonfire is not red, but blue... the effect is still the same...
Hajime arranged for a guard who was traveling with him to be on guard, and then stood next to the mysterious woman...
Er stood on the right, Ah Yi on the left, and the rest were sitting on the ground...
Then the old man said: "This forest is more dangerous than imagined. Today...if you take these things, some weird poisons in this forest will not come near you."
The old man took out a delicate transparent glass bottle, which seemed to contain some kind of liquid. Ha Yi glanced at it with his eyes on his emotionless face: "We don't need it anymore."
Very simple answer, but clearly very vigilant...
The old man was a little embarrassed, then he looked at Lin Xiao and Artorya: "Do you two need it?"
Lin Xiaogang wanted to refuse, but Artorya beside him said: "Okay, thank you."
Then he took the bottle. Lin Xiao didn't know much at the moment. He understood that Atoriya didn't want to refuse the old man's kindness.
So Lin Xiao also took a sip of this weird thing, and for some reason, his eyes felt clearer...
Time passed and the night gradually became deeper.
Lin Xiao and Atoriya each found a big tree and fell asleep.
I don’t know how long it took, but the night air became even colder. Ha Yi was on duty at night, and then he suddenly smelled the smell of blood...
Then he heard a sound, the sound of a wild beast! At that moment he understood that he was in danger! He immediately took a deep breath.
At this time, Erye woke up. No, he wasn't sleeping at all, and then he also jumped up...
"Two, wake everyone up... they are coming."
Er didn't say much, and immediately walked quickly towards the mysterious woman who was still sleeping...
At this moment, a roar of a wild beast came, and then I saw red eyes in the darkness... It was a group of magical beasts...
And it should be a variant of the wolf... There was no expression on his face. The others drew their swords and surrounded the mysterious girl. The old man who led the way was also crowded in a corner... The battle was about to begin.
Right now!
The sword and the wolf were fighting! The blood light lit up in the dark night. Er and Ah Yi were able to handle them with ease, but there were so many of them... Soon their power slowly decreased.
Then a tragic cry rang out. A guard had his throat bitten by a wolf. He was instantly dragged into the pack of wolves... and was eaten by the surrounding wolves.
Such a result shocked the old man. As for Lin Xiao and Atoliya, they were nowhere to be seen at the moment...
Then suddenly there was a whining sound among the wolves! In an instant, they retreated like the tide...
The old man was shocked when he saw this: "No, come with me quickly, those swarms of god-eating ants are coming..."
"Damn it!" Ha Yi said angrily, and he was also a little anxious. His strength was not bad. Originally, with him and Er, he had the confidence to annihilate all of these demon wolves...
But what about the God-Eating Ants... It's very scary, and even he has no confidence that he can be safe...
At that moment, everyone followed the old man and ran away desperately. As for Lin Xiao and Artoria, these people didn't care anymore...
The walking sound of the god-eating ants behind the desperate running finally became less and less obvious, and then just when everyone relaxed a little, two high-level monsters suddenly jumped out, one of which was a mantis-shaped one, tall enough to be 3 meters tall.
Mi, as soon as it came out, it struck a terrifying fatal blow through the heart of one of the guards, and then swallowed it in one gulp... The scene was extremely cruel and bloody.
The other end is a brown bear that is close to 3cm tall! Ah Yi's expression changed and he said: "Sister, leave this place to me and Er, you go quickly."
What's even worse is that the deafening roar of the brown bear when it came out once again alerted the God-Eating Ants. Hajime felt that those monsters were coming again!
After hearing the words, the mysterious woman was speechless and said calmly: "Don't die like this."
Then he and the old man who led the way left immediately. After walking for a long time, it was almost dawn...
The mysterious woman and the old man came to a clearing. There was a patch of weeds and an old, lonely tree with no branches or leaves.
The mysterious woman looked behind her: "Aren't they here yet?"
The old man replied: "... I hope they can be lucky."
The mysterious woman said: "Let's go rest under the tree over there and wait for them." The girl's words were full of confidence, and she believed that Hajime and the others would be able to come over.
The old man came to the tree, and as soon as they reached it, a familiar figure appeared. The guy who looked like an iron tower was Ha Yi.
His face looked ugly, and he immediately came to the side of the mysterious woman: "Sister, are you okay?" The latter asked.
Then the woman asked: "Where are you two?" The man lowered his head in shame: "In order to protect me, he stayed alone to deal with the God-Eating Ants..."
"I understand... let's keep walking... there are still many things waiting for us." The woman was neither happy nor sad.
"Are you on your way now..." The old man seemed a little tired. After finishing this, a long sword appeared in his hand as if by magic in an instant, and the aura that did not belong to his old and rickety body suddenly appeared.
Explosion, like an arrow from a string, instantly pierced the mysterious girl...
At this critical moment, Ha Yi roared, and then stood in front of the girl... and blood spattered.
The old man drew his sword with ease and said, "Since you plan to hit the road, naturally I don't want to hide it."
His voice when he spoke was not old at all but very young...
Ah Yi: "You old ghost!"
The old man: "Well, unfortunately you are the prey this time... you can call me No. 987..." The old man stood up straight, and soon the bones in his body made a strange sound, and then his body became rickety.
He was gone, straight and tall, his old skin and appearance had changed back into a young man's, and his white head had turned into jet black. Needless to say, this guy was completely a young man.
"The person from Killer No. 7?" Ah Yi.
"Of course, then you can die." Suddenly, Ha Yi knelt down, because a terrifying and powerful electric current came from his body.
Of course, this is 987's martial skill, Thunder Blade... The powerful electric shock caused Hajime to suffer severe pain all over his body and he almost fainted.
Like kicking a dead dog, No. 987 kicked Ah Yi away and sneered: "The most valuable thing this time is this mysterious sister."
"Oh, I finally found you!" The voice sounded familiar.... 987 looked behind him.
"You two? Why aren't you dead yet?" His jaw dropped.
No. 987 remembered that they had obviously taken their own special medicine. In order to better hide it, this medicine is not fatal, but it will make people fall into a deep sleep... Even if there is a loud noise outside, they will wake up.
Don't come!
And these two people should have been eaten by the wolves he attracted using special methods according to his plan!
You must know that No. 987 has been planned for a long time, even the God-Eating Ants have been arranged, and even the high-level monsters that suddenly jumped out in the middle were controlled by him with special magic weapons!
After getting everyone away, all they had to do was kill this woman... But now these two people were right in front of them.
Lin Xiao put down the two he was carrying on his shoulders: "I just took a nap, and when I woke up you all ran away... But it seems you were the one who caused the trouble, right?"
The second one seems to be in a coma. No. 987: "How did you escape the God-Eating Ants!" These two guys also saved the guard who stopped the God-Eating Ants...
However, 987 was no longer a novice. He said with a sinister expression: "No matter how you escaped, you will die here today."
"You seem to have strong self-confidence?" Lin Xiao looked at him with a half-smile.
"Hmph, I learned the art of assassination when I was 5 years old, and went on a mission when I was 10 years old. It has been 10 years now, and I have never failed in the past ten years. Will this time be an exception?" 987's eyes were cold, and his face kept sneering.
Then in the next moment, his expression froze, and his eyes stared at the mercenary he thought was a character in disbelief... with surprise, fear, and other complex emotions.
"You...who are you? Why do you have such strength?"
The reason why his expression changed drastically at this moment was naturally because Lin Xiao was holding the black sword of death in his hand like a ghost, pressing against his throat.
Lin Xiao smiled calmly: "You think too highly of yourself and don't take me seriously at all, but you don't know that what you do only makes me laugh. The difference in strength between you and me is just this sword, can you understand?"
Life and death were in the hands of others. Only then did No. 987 realize that this person's strength was probably not even close to being ranked among the top 100 in the organization... Faced with absolute strength, he had no chance to fight back.
But he was unwilling to do so. Faced with the current situation where he could not control his own life and death, he said angrily: "My skills are inferior to others, so if you want to kill, just kill him."
"I'll ask you a few questions. If you answer them well, I'll spare your life." Lin Xiao said lightly.
Killer 987's eyes moved slightly when he heard this, and then he said: "Ask me."
"I want to know, do you know her identity?" Lin Xiao's eyes moved slightly and pointed directly at the mysterious woman wearing a mask.
Killer 987 said coldly: "We only care about killing people, not other things."
"Okay, there are rules in the industry. The last question is, you disguised yourself as the old man who led the way, but what happened to that old man?" Lin Xiao.
"Humph, after knocking the old man unconscious, he threw the old man into a woodshed..." The killer 987 acted very naturally, but still had a very arrogant attitude.
Lin Xiao didn't get angry after hearing this, and then said: "Okay, I'll spare your life."
Then he put away his sword, and Killer 987 stared at him, speechless for a long time...then without saying a word, he immediately fled into the distance.
"Okay, we will reach the exit of the forest a little further ahead. Let's say goodbye to you, but we will meet again." After leaving these words, Lin Xiao glanced at the mysterious woman, who seemed not to be.
He moved, but remained silent without saying anything.
Then Lin Xiao and Atoriya left here. Er didn't know when he woke up. He got up and walked to the mysterious woman: "Sister, are you okay?"
The mysterious woman did not answer but said: "This time, Liuyue City may be in turmoil."
After finishing speaking, he looked towards the direction where Lin Xiao and Atolya were leaving, and remained silent for a long time... And Er Er also understood what her sister meant, and at that moment she also gave a numb and wry smile.
Just when he was poisoned and unconscious after being attacked by the god-eating ants, he saw the two mercenaries he never cared about...one of them was obviously a weaker woman. He just drew his sword and waved, and all he saw was a strong wind.
When he stood up, the tearing sound of the air instantly deafened Er's ears, and then the god-eating ants that climbed on him all fell and fled... After that, he fell into a coma... But this scene
But it's something he can't forget... Powerful mysterious mercenaries and killer organizations have all appeared one by one. The dispute surrounding the Lamp of the Underworld in Liuyue City will become more and more intense...