Chapter Seventy-Three: The Mysterious White-Faced Man
When Ai Qing walked to the stele, it was already night, and the afterglow of the setting sun had long since dissipated, leaving behind a bright full moon.
There are not many electrical equipment in Kuafushan Village, there is no street lamp outside the village, it is pitch black, and then go further into the forest path, the breeze blows, the branches sway, making a "whoosh" sound, and the sound of insects comes from time to time in the depths of the forest.
Ai Qing turned on the night vision function of Eagle Eye as soon as possible, and the visual environment has improved a lot, and everything around her has become digital.
According to the route Tang Hainan said, Ai Qing detoured to the back of the stone monument, there is really a path, although it is a small road, in fact, it is a road that is often walked and stepped on, as he moves forward, the surrounding trees become more and more dense, covering the moonlight above his head, he has the assistance of Eagle Eye, so there is no need to use a flashlight.
The earth was already asleep, and the deserted path was silent except for the gentle breeze blowing, and the occasional barking of dogs in the village or two. On a dark and windy night, Ai Qing walked alone on the gloomy path, except for the silence around her, the night was dark and the wind was high and the night was murderous, the sky was bright, and the ground was dark, as if the cold had blocked the light.
Ai Qing's steps are very light, stepping on the muddy dirt road without making a sound, and not even leaving footprints, not because of how strong his body is, but because the shoes he wears on his feet have such an effect.
The moonlight appears and disappears from time to time, and the madman's house is really far away from the village, I don't know how remote he lives, and whether it is so troublesome to walk on the dirt road when he goes to the village every day.
The crunch sound of the branch being stepped on was transmitted to Ai Qing's headphones behind him, and since he left the village, he had always felt that someone was following him, at first he thought that it was the Dragon Maiden and others who followed him, but later denied it, because the ability of the Dragon Maiden and the others could not reach such a tracking technique.
Ai Qing relied on professional anti-reconnaissance technology and at most only judged by his sixth sense, and there was no actual basis that someone was following him, but this small voice was caught by him, and he stopped at his feet, standing in place, listening quietly to the surrounding movements, the sound of the wind, the screams of insects, and there was no other sound, and the strange atmosphere wrapped Ai Qing in the center.
Ai Qing's right ear moved slightly, as if he noticed something strange, his legs burst out, and he quickly ran towards the jungle, the direction it ran in was not the direction of Ji Madman's house, across the bushes, around the woods, Ai Qing was like a black lightning in the woods wantonly, startling some small animals that had already returned to the nest.
On the way to run, the eagle eye in his eyes located his location in real time, as well as the distance from Ji Maniac's house, his calves jumped with force, clasped the lines on a tree trunk with both hands, climbed to a big tree with dense branches, and observed the surrounding movements through the gaps in the branches.
After about five minutes, Ai Qing still did not let down his vigilance, quietly waiting for the arrival of his prey, he didn't think that the person who followed him here would give up easily.
As a result, it turned out that his vigilance was not wrong, on the route he had just run, a black figure appeared, this person was dressed in black, with his back to Ai Qing's direction, so he couldn't see his face, and the man in black looked left and right, as if he was looking for Ai Qing who had disappeared.
The distance between the two was too far for Hawkeye to make a detailed analysis of the figure, and could only roughly judge the size and gender through the outline.
The man in black stopped in place for half a minute, and did not find any trace of Ai Qing, he may have given up and did not go deeper into the jungle to look for it, but returned according to the same path, never giving Ai Qing a chance to see his face.
Seeing the man in black leaving, Ai Qing didn't continue to hurry, sat on the thick branch and continued to wait, according to his experience as an agent, since the other party is a master, then he shouldn't leave so easily, and it is very likely that he will also hide and observe.
Ai Qing didn't dare to move, and her whole body didn't move her head except for her eyes to look around.
The trees in his place were relatively dense, blocking the evening breeze from blowing, so it caused the woods to be unusually quiet, the moonlight appeared and disappeared through the slow-moving black clouds, and a strange figure stood between the two trees not far away......
Sure enough, as Ai Qing expected, the man did not leave, but kept guarding the route he had just run, waiting for the rabbit.
A sneer appeared at the corner of Ai Qing's mouth, although he didn't know who this person was, but it was not a good kind to follow him so persistently.
He took off his coat, and inside was a set of night tights that were also pure black, and with a slight flip of his right hand, a bright marble slipped into the palm of his hand, which was something similar to a bullet, but it didn't need to be fired with a device, it was not lethal, it was just an auxiliary tool.
He covered the marble on his right hand, and with a flick of his thumb, the mechanism inside the marble was activated, shooting out of Ai Qing's palm like a cannonball, and sending the coat into the air, like a figure shuttling through the woods.
The coat flies through the trees, and when it hits the trunk of the tree, it bounces back in the other direction and continues on its way, making a loud noise in the process.
With this sound, Ai Qing rushed to the bottom of the tree, bent down and sprinted in the direction of the man in black, and every step he took brought a burst of dirt flying under his feet.
The man in black was attracted by Ai Qing's coat, but after two seconds, he seemed to realize that he had been fooled, and glanced at Ai Qing's direction, a light blue light flashed in his eyes, and he pasted a disc on the trunk of the tree next to him with his backhand, which was still flashing red faint light, and he turned around and fled the same way.
Ai Qing found that her prey was about to escape, and the speed under her feet became faster and faster, not affected by the terrain at all, and she was generally moving forward in a hundred-meter sprint, faster than the marbles just now.
When he ran to the location of the two tree trunks where the man in black had just been, the small sound of "Di Di Di" came from the disc, even if he was not an agent, ordinary people could understand what this sound meant through various movies and television shows or video games, yes, it was the prelude to the bomb explosion.
"Oops!"
Ai Qing was so anxious to catch up with the target, so he didn't notice the action of the man in black planting the bomb, but he was reversed, and it must be too late to escape now, he covered his face with both hands, and threw himself on the slippery dirt in the opposite direction of the bomb, and his head was stuck in the mud with a dog eating.
"Bang!"
There was no imaginary big explosion, no violent shock wave, just a simple loud bang, but without any power, like a child setting off firecrackers, scaring people.
"Damn! ”
Ai Qing stared at the direction of the black-clothed man's escape, and hammered his right hand the trunk of the tree in front of him, and several branches fell in response and smashed on his head, the leaves stuck to the mud on his face, and his originally clean face became like a wild man.
Ai Qing's eagle eyes are locked on the back of the man in black, there is no need to chase it anymore, it will be more dangerous to catch up now, this thunder is a warning to him, but it seems that the man in black has no murderous intentions towards him, otherwise he would not release a dumb thunder.
Rotated his pupils and repositioned the location of Ji Maniac's house, and it was estimated that the man in black should not catch up after knowing that he had been discovered, because secondary tracking was basically listed as taboo, which was not only dangerous but also extremely difficult.
Ai Qing picked up his coat and put it on his body, and then continued to move towards Ji Maniac's house, after a burst of wild running, he was only less than five hundred meters away from the destination in a straight line, and he got out of the woods and returned to the path, in front of which was a curve that circled upward, as long as he reached that intersection, he should be able to see the wooden house that Tang Hainan said.
The night was thick and couldn't be dissolved, and there was no living creature to be seen in the long silent street, because he was nervous, so he vaguely felt that the footsteps behind him seemed to be there but no, but in fact it was just auditory hallucinations, and it was the most terrifying thing to scare himself.
Turning the corner, there was a dark wooden house on the edge of the path, without any lights in it, and it was so far from the village that there must be no wires.
There was a rare trace of fear in Ai Qing's eyes, and her right hand was on her belt, ready to draw her sword and fight at any time.
There was a person standing next to the wooden house, and through the comparison of his figures, he recognized this person at a glance as the man in black who had just followed him, and he really didn't expect that he would be waiting for him here.
The face of the man in black was a pure white mask, without any expression, but it gave Ai Qing a very mocking feeling, a familiar feeling arose spontaneously from Ai Qing's psychology, and he thought of the person who passed by him when he was talking to Master Hu just now, according to Tang Hainan's description, he was a mysterious person wearing a white mask.
Ai Qing gradually approached the white-faced man not far away, his expression was solemn, he didn't know what this person's purpose was, he knew where he was going, why did he follow him.
"Who are you?"
The white-faced man didn't speak, raised his right hand, pointed his index finger behind Ai Qing, and made a gesture to shoot.
Ai Qing was shocked, he was killed by a sneak attack in his previous life, resulting in a shadow, he drew a long sword in his right hand, and turned behind him in an instant, but there was only the evening breeze behind him except for the trees, how could there be the shadow of the enemy.
When he looked in the direction of the wooden house again, the white-faced man was also missing, like a ghost, leaving without any sound, and even the eagle eye with night vision could not detect his location.
Ai Qing didn't dare to be careless, and walked slowly towards the wooden house with a sword in his right hand, the surrounding trees were blown by the wind and made a sound of whisking, which stimulated his hearing and made his nerves tense.
This wooden house is a small enclosed space surrounded by wooden planks, covering an area of only ten square meters, and there is still a large gap between the wooden planks, if there is a strong wind in the mountains, this wooden house may be blown away.
He walked to the door of the wooden house, his eyes scanned around, and found nothing abnormal, inserted the tip of his sword into the crack of the door, and opened the lock of the door inside, and the wooden door "creaked" to open by itself, and it was dark inside, there was no light source at all, and there seemed to be a slight snoring accompanied by the sound of the wind in the innermost part of the door.
For some reason, Ai Qing's eagle eyes couldn't see the environment inside the house, as if there was another world inside the door, and the wooden door isolated him from the outside.
"Coming?" said an old, feeble voice.
Ai Qing is also a human being, and she will be afraid of such an unknown scene, and her eyelids will beat and she will not dare to enter the house.
"Come, come. Ai Qing replied in passing.
"You're late, come in. ”
Ai Qing's head was clouded, what does it mean that he is late? Could this Ji madman know that he is coming tonight? Could it be Tang Hainan or Master Hu who told him, but it's not right to think about it, Master Hu is extremely disgusted with Ji Maniac, and it is impossible to talk to him, and Tang Hainan has been busy cooking in the guest house just now, and has never left his sight, so he directly denied this idea.
"If you don't come in, the door will be closed! quack~"
The eerie laughter doubled the fear in Ai Qing's heart, but he still slowly walked into the wooden house, and the moment he stepped into the wooden door, his spirit was in a trance, and there was an illusion that the soul was separated from the body, this was not the first time he had this feeling, the last time was when he died.