Chapter 782: Seeking Skin with the Tiger
In the early morning, the morning sun sprinkled all over the land, the sky was as blue as a wash, and a gust of wind blew across the Woff plain, bringing up a slightly reddish dust. Some people say that the soil of the Woff Plain is dyed red by the blood of the border soldiers and monsters, which is impossible to verify, but one thing is certain, the Woff Plain is indeed a piece of red soil, and there are few plants in the whole plain, but the strange thing is that this huge plain is not desertified.
The west gate of the Cologne Fortress close to the Warcraft Mountain Range is open for four hours every morning, this is to facilitate the demon hunters of the Holy Spirit Empire to enter the battle zone, although the number of demon hunters cannot be compared with the regular army, but the energy that bursts out of it is definitely not negligible, to put it mildly, it is much stronger than those soldiers who can only rely on the strength of the city.
At this moment, it was eight o'clock in the morning, the huge drawbridge of the Cologne Fortress was slowly lowered, and the moat that had been filled by the corpses of demonic beasts a few days ago was sparkling, and the river water was crystal clear. After the drawbridge was lowered and the gate opened, a group of soldiers wearing heavy armor and carrying snow bright spears walked out slowly with neat steps, every day after the city gate was opened, there would be such a group of soldiers responsible for guarding and maintaining order, of course, the main purpose was to deter those demon hunters.
On this continent, the demon hunter is a very special profession, in which dragons and snakes are mixed, there are both the strong in the world, and there are some ruffians and hooligans who are mixed with the market, so in the wild, there are often things where demon hunters fight each other, to put it bluntly, it is just the word profit.
At this moment, a group of six young men and girls wearing well-fitting suits appeared on the suspension bridge, their appearance did not attract the attention of others, for the students of the various academies who have been shuttling here in the past few days, these demon hunters are not surprised. Although these seemingly small children are much younger than them, the strength of the education from the academy system is not comparable to their wild paths.
In the beginning, there would be some demon hunters who tried to take advantage of the young girls among the students, and after being repaired a few times, these originally very active guys became honest. Those who can get along in this industry still have a little eyesight, and there are not many people who know that they can't get burned.
The six of them slowly walked across the suspension bridge, and as soon as they crossed the suspension bridge, the demon hunters scattered in groups of three or five, each going to find their own mission goal, and this process was destined not to be peaceful, so those veteran demon hunters glanced around from time to time, observing everything around them, and anything suspicious happened would make them extremely alert.
"Boss, where should we start with this mission?" As soon as he left the city, Anton couldn't hold back his restless heart and immediately asked.
Jingchen casually unfolded the map purchased from the commercial street, and looked carefully, this map was quite exquisitely made, many places not only drew special geographical locations, but also briefly marked some content next to them, which saved Jingchen a lot of effort to find the location of the mission target.
Half an hour later, just as Anton was about to speak again, Jing Chen pointed to a col near the Demon Beast Mountain Range and said, "According to the range of activities of the Red Fierce Wolf King provided by the guild, this should be the most likely hiding place for the Wolf King. Saying that, Jingchen spread the map on the ground, and Yue Yanran and the others came over together to look at the direction Jingchen pointed.
"Why is it here, is this place a little too biased according to the range given by the guild?" Ling Su couldn't help but wonder as he looked at the place Jing Chen was pointing to.
Jingchen shook his head and explained, "Before I came, I went to the bar of the Free Demon Hunter Guild, according to some experienced demon hunters, this Red Wolf King does not like the wind, and on this Wolf Plain, there are not many places that can shelter from the wind, according to the range of activities provided by the Guild, the last possible one is this mountain col." ”
Ferding on the side spoke, "I agree with Boss Jing's analysis, when I was in the academy, I once saw the information of this red demon wolf, as mentioned above, this kind of wolf likes to rest in leeward cols, caves and other places, and in this range, there is only this hill, it should be hidden here." ”
Ling Su also nodded, after Jingchen and Fuding said this, there was indeed no more suitable area for the Red Flame Wolf King to hide than that mountain pass.
Seeing that several people agreed with his opinion, Jingchen waved his hand, and several people rushed in that direction. There were three magicians in the team, but Yue Yanran was a wind magician, and in fact, only Ling Xue was relatively slow. As for Anton, that guy was even stronger than the magic swordsman of Fuding, and when he ran, his speed was only a little slower than Jingchen, and even Ling Su and Fuding could only look at him.
"Sister Ling Xue, shall I take you away?" Looking at Ling Xue's already somewhat struggling appearance, Jingchen had to say helplessly, at this time, he didn't care if Yue Yanran would have other thoughts.
Ling Xue didn't agree immediately, but peeked at Yue Yanran, groaned, and said, "It's still not necessary, I can do it myself." As he spoke, he bit his silver teeth, and his feet sped up slightly.
"Sister Xue, it's okay, don't hold on, just let Chen take you away for a while. Seeing Ling Xue's increasingly pale face, Yue Yanran opened her mouth to persuade.
Ling Xue smiled slightly, shook her head, and said to Yue Yanran, "I'm fine, you don't have to worry about me." ”
"Whoosh!"
The sound of a sharp weapon breaking through the air interrupted the words of several people, and Jingchen instantly discovered the sharp arrow that shot from the grass in front of him. At this moment, several men dressed in grass-green clothes and covered with grass-green juice appeared in front of several people, the first one was more than two meters tall, with an angular face, a pair of cold eyes were staring at Jingchen and several people, he was holding an alloy longbow in his hand, obviously the arrow shot at Jingchen was done by this person.
The man's lips were constantly humming, as if he was muttering a magic spell.
At the same time, several figures behind the man rushed towards Jingchen and the six people, and the distance of more than 100 meters was a few breaths, and the men had already fanned Jingchen in the middle. And the man who was holding an alloy longbow in the appearance of the leader, at this time the longbow had been pulled to the full moon state, and the three arrows with cold light had also been placed on the string, it seemed that if Jingchen and the others escaped, the three sharp arrows would attack in an instant.
At this moment, Jingchen and the others did not panic, although the strength of the men in front of them was good, but it was only good, and the average strength was only at the fourth level, and this strength was obviously not enough to enter the eyes of Anton and others.
"Put down the things of value, and spare you from dying. The leader seemed to feel the pressure from Jingchen and the others, stared at the few people vigilantly, and said slowly.
Jingchen smiled slightly and looked at the man playfully, "What if I don't?"
The man's eyes froze, his voice suddenly became cold, and he only spit out one word, "Die!" As soon as the words fell, the three cold rays shot directly at Jingchen's vital point, Jingchen's face did not have a trace of surprise, his right hand shook slightly, and before a few people could see clearly, the three sharp arrows had all appeared in Jingchen's hand.
"What?"
"How so!"
Jingchen's seemingly random pick startled several men on the opposite side, even the man who was the leader, his face changed, but his face was covered by the grass green paint, and others didn't see it.
Jing Chen smiled coldly, "Just this little trick and learn from others to rob?" As he spoke, his eyebrows stood up, and the hand holding the three sharp arrows shook, and the three cold rays crossed, and the three men who surrounded Jing Chen fell in response, and the three sharp arrows had already been inserted in their chests at this moment.
"Ah...... Ah......h
Blood stained the ground beneath them, and a pungent smell of blood filled the air.
At this moment, the position of the hunter and the prey had been completely reversed, and several men who were still alive did not even dare to look at those dead companions, for fear that once their eyes left Jingchen, they would never see the sun tomorrow again.
It's just that Jing Chen obviously didn't let them go, his body trembled slightly, and the next moment he had already appeared behind a man, and before the man had time to shout, he was smashed by Jing Chen's slap on his brain, and the red and white brains splashed on the ground, and it was not until this moment that the afterimage of Jing Chen standing in front of several people slowly disappeared.
"Run!" shouted the man at the head, turned and ran, not thinking about the life and death of his men.
Jingchen's eyes flashed, he didn't dare to keep this kind of ruthless role, and Jingchen didn't want to experience it for himself. Thinking of this, the figure trembled again, and the next moment it had already appeared beside the leader.
"Bang!" There was a muffled sound, and Jing Chen's killer palm actually slapped on an invisible light film, although the light film was also instantly shattered under Jing Chen's full blow. The man at the head obviously also had a back hand, and when he saw that Jingchen was shocked back by his defensive cover, he turned around in an instant, and a dagger that seemed to be able to swallow even the sunlight suddenly stabbed out, heading straight for Jingchen's chest.
A sneer hung on the corner of Jingchen's mouth, and the figure in the retreat suddenly determined, and the next moment suddenly appeared behind the man, with a wave of his right hand, there was a crisp sound of "pop", the man's head had been smashed by Jingchen, and the dead body fell to the ground in an instant.
Seeing Jing Chen's ruthless methods, even Anton, Ling Su and the others were chilled, not to mention those men, several people scattered and fled as if they were frightened, but unfortunately, Jing Chen's speed was too fast, and in a few breaths, those men had already displayed their corpses on the spot, following in the footsteps of their boss.
"Chen, ...... you" Yue Yanran and the others all looked at Jingchen with awe, as if they knew him for the first time, for Jingchen's such neat killing, it was indeed a big surprise to several people.
Seeing the eyes of several people, Jingchen smiled slightly, and said with a calm face, "When we leave the Cologne Fortress, we will encounter all kinds of bad intentions, and there can be no mercy and sympathy here, otherwise it will only be us who will die." Saying that, Jingchen came to the man who was the leader, took out a space ring that looked good from the man's finger, his eyes were slightly closed, and the next moment he saw a silver light flashing on the ground in front of him, and a large number of gold coins and magic cores appeared on the ground.
Jingchen bent down, as if rummaging for something, and after a while, several badges shining with golden light were thrown over, and Yue Yanran hurriedly reached out to catch them.
"How come!" Seeing the badge in her hand, Yue Yanran exclaimed, and her exclamation also attracted the sideways glances of Anton and the others on the side.
I saw that in Yue Yanran's hands, there were a few badges of senior students of Zeus Academy lying quietly, and there were still some blood stains hanging on the badges, obviously the owners of these badges may have encountered an accident, perhaps this leader did not want to give up this rare piece of Sergein, so he collected them.
Jingchen put away the treasures of the man in charge, got up and smiled at the others, "Students, this world is very cruel, so put away your kindness for the time being, that thing doesn't apply here." Then he shook his head, and walked first to the place where the col was.
The moment he turned his head, Jing Chen sighed slightly, thinking that he was not like Yue Yanran and others now, but he had seen the ugliness of human nature earlier than them.
Seeing Jingchen's back slowly moving away, Yue Yanran and the others no longer hesitated and hurriedly followed, but in the next journey, the atmosphere has been a little depressing, and for this huge impact, several people couldn't accept it for a while. Jingchen didn't say anything, some things are not what he said, others can understand, it's like reading a book, even if you see the method of casting a skill, but without actual operation, it is difficult to understand those casting skills.
At noon, a few people found a spacious and flat place, sat on the ground, Jingchen skillfully set up a barbecue grill, and a few people took out a hedgehog that was killed on the road and roasted it on the fire. The slightly depressing atmosphere along the way was also enlivened in this burst of attacking aroma, they were not children after all, although they were still a little unacceptable to Jingchen's methods, but they still agreed with what Jingchen said.
"Boss Jing, have you been in the backbone of the gods for most of the past half a year?" asked Ferding casually, holding a freshly baked rib in his hand, and while eating, he looked at Jingchen, oil stains smeared all over his lips, and he looked extremely happy eating.
"Yes......" Jingchen replied with some emotion, thinking back on the experience of most of the year, until now Jingchen still feels like he is in a dream.
"Boss, tell us about your experience in the backbone of the gods? Several of us entered from the periphery, and before we could reach the core area, we were teleported out, and I heard that none of the people who entered from the periphery entered the core area this time, and they all said that your speed was too fast this time. Anton also came over, his oily lips open and closed, and there was still a little scrap of meat on his teeth.
Jing Chen groaned slightly, and then thought that several people would have the opportunity to participate in the God's Spine Competition next time, and the next time they participated, these people were likely to become members of the core team of Zeus Academy, so he nodded and said, "Okay, this core area is ......" Jing Chen told him how he met Suo Yalong and Leng Yanle after entering the core area, how he was calculated by Starfall and others, and how he encountered the beast tide and the Blood Wolf Emperor when he finally arrived at the ladder to the sky.
Hearing these thrilling experiences, several people looked at each other, they really couldn't imagine that they also participated in the God's Backbone Competition, their experience can only be said to be mediocre, but Jingchen's experience is really amazing. However, Jingchen didn't tell all the encounters, just like the autumn leisure period, Jingchen just passed by, but even so, those ups and downs were not as tasteless as Anton and others experienced.
After lunch, several people went on the road again, this time the atmosphere was much better than in the morning, and several people talked and laughed along the way. In the evening, everyone found a mound to settle in, although there was nothing to shelter here, but fortunately, the ground was higher, and after Anton tinkered with it for a while, a depression with a diameter of five meters appeared in front of several people.
"Alright, let's rest here for the night today. Saying that, Jingchen set up a fire, and everyone roasted the stinging pork that had not been eaten at noon again.
Twilight gradually fell on the vast Woff Plains, and the entire Woff Plains was quiet again, only the wandering wind and the roar in the direction of the Warcraft Mountains in the distance reminded all travelers on the plains that this place was not as safe as it seemed.
After dividing the time period for the night shift, Anton and Ling Su and the others fell asleep around the bonfire, and this first shift Jingchen was on duty.
Suddenly, Yue Yanran turned over and got out of the sleeping bag, and when she saw Yue Yanran get up, Jingchen was slightly stunned, and looked at Yue Yanran suspiciously, "Why did you get up and sleep uncomfortably?"
Yue Yanran shook her head, came to Jingchen's side, sat down obediently, hugged Jingchen's arm with both arms, and after a long time, said slowly, "Chen, you won't be angry with me at that time in the morning, right?" After speaking, she looked at Jingchen like a child who had done something wrong.
Jingchen was slightly stunned, and immediately understood what Yue Yanran was referring to, and said with a smile, "How come, I also came here like this at the beginning, your reaction is nothing, it's normal." He shook his head indifferently.
Seeing that Jingchen really didn't have a trace of anger, Yue Yanran seemed to be relieved, and said, "Chen, I really didn't want to doubt you at the time, but I suddenly saw that you killed so many people, and I felt a little uncomfortable, so I ...... Just ......"
Jingchen raised his other hand, covered Yue Yanran's cute pink lips, and said softly, "I'm really not angry, you don't have to explain to me, after all, we all grew up in the academy, and there are still many things that we can't accept and understand about this real society." But after all, we live in this society, and we have to learn to adapt to this society, otherwise, our results may be no different from those senior students who have suffered miserably. ”
Yue Yanran's body trembled, her right hand let go of Jingchen, spread out her palm, and saw a flash of silver light, and the badges of the senior students had already appeared in her snow-white jade-like hands, looking at these badges, Yue Yanran suddenly didn't know what to say. Even she could guess the fate of the owners of these badges, and immediately thought of her own people, if it weren't for Jingchen, I'm afraid that her own people would be no better than the owners of these badges.
At this moment, the blood stains on the badge had already turned dark red, but when they were reflected by the light of the bonfire, they were particularly dazzling......
The night of the Cologne Fortress was quiet and serene, and the war beast seemed to fall into a deep sleep, and the moonlight poured down from the sky, covering the whole city in a thin layer of silver. At this moment, everyone seemed to fall into a deep sleep like this war beast.
The midnight bell pierced the quiet night sky, and several bats hanging upside down in the heavy building were startled out. Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed, and he hurried through the fortress of Cologne, and if he didn't look closely, he would probably think it was a night cat jumping on the roof.
After a while, the dark shadow came to the southwest corner of Cologne, in front of a small courtyard, which was so remote that few people would come even during the day, let alone at night during the curfew. The dark shadow glanced around, flew over the courtyard wall, came to the only room in the courtyard with the light on, and knocked lightly on the door.
"Who?" said a slightly nervous voice from the room.
"It's me, Young Master Dark asked me to come. The dark shadow said in a deep voice.
The door "squeaked" and slowly opened a small gap, and the black shadow flashed into the room, and then, a middle-aged man with a fat head and big ears stretched out his head, looked around vigilantly, and after making sure that no one was coming, he retracted his head, and after closing the door, a pair of small eyes of the middle-aged man fell on the black shadow who had just entered.
"Are you sent by the dark young master?" The lights in the room were dim, and the mottled light flickered on the face of the middle-aged fat man, flashing with a burst of oil, and at this moment, his eyes were fixed on the person who was wearing a black power suit and masked his face.
"Hmm. The visitor nodded slightly, and a pair of cold eyes also fell on him, but there was a flash of fierceness in those eyes. Glancing around, the visitor said in a deep voice, "Where's the thing?"
The middle-aged fat man's eyes froze, his gaze wandered for a while, and after a while, he said slowly, "The things I want are also ready, right?"
"Don't you believe my young master?" said in a cold voice, as soon as the voice came out, the temperature of the entire room seemed to drop a lot, and even the light on the table flickered.
"I didn't ...... No, how dare I doubt the young master's character, I'll give it to you, I'll take it for you. As he spoke, the fat man turned and walked towards the back room.
Suddenly, the person who came frowned, and a step had already come behind the fat man, grabbed the fat man's shoulder with one hand, and said coldly, "You'd better not play any tricks, otherwise you'll ......" said His eyes changed suddenly, and a majestic murderous aura instantly hit from behind the fat man, and the fat man's fat suddenly tightened, and there was a little trace of water on his pants.
Seeing the fat man like this, the person who came snorted disdainfully, and returned to the hall in a flash, his eyes were still staring at the fat man's back, and his eyes seemed to be looking at a corpse.
For this person to treat himself like this, the fat man gritted his teeth and bited, and finally let go, judging from the series of actions just now, this man in black is much higher than his strength, if he is not obedient, it is not impossible for this man in black to kill him, so he is extra careful to guard against people.
The fat man walked to the back room, peeked in the direction of the hall again, came to the bed, held a vase on the small cabinet next to the bed with two fat hands, turned it hard, and there was a soft sound of "squeak", only to see that the wall above the cabinet had opened a small square. The moment the grid opened, colorful treasure lights suddenly shot out, and I saw that in this small square, there were a lot of magic cores that were sky-high in the black market, and a large number of gold coins.
"You really know how to hide, if you don't take the initiative to open it, I'm afraid it will cost me a lot of effort. A cold voice suddenly sounded from behind the fat man, the fat man trembled, and when he turned his head to look, he saw that the man in black who was supposed to be in the hall had come to his back at some point. The spar that he had just held in his hand quietly slipped out of his hand, and the fat man was stunned in place.
A red glow burst out, and a huge blood hole had appeared on the fat man's neck, and a large amount of blood gushed out of the wound, staining the entire floor red.
"Hmph!" The person who came snorted coldly, waved his right hand, and a soft stroke, the spar had appeared in the hand of the comer, he looked down at the spar, and saw that there were six small points of light gathered in one place, which were constantly flashing, and the face of the person who came was hidden under the black veil was happy, put the spar into his arms, and reached out to grab the treasure in the dark grid.
"Bang!" Suddenly, a loud bang pierced the quiet night sky, and in the southwest corner of Cologne, a huge cloud of smoke rose up, and the smoke billowed into the sky.
"What?!" In the distance, on top of a small two-story building, a white-faced young man in a gorgeous costume was looking here, and the loud explosion suddenly woke the young man from his deep contemplation, and his eyes looked solemnly in the direction of the firelight.
"Uncle Chen, let people go and see, is it ......" The young man did not continue, but his eyes were still staring at the direction of the firelight, the rising flames reflected the sky in the southwest, many people were also awakened by the huge explosion, the city guards who were on vigil hurried to the location of the incident, at this moment, the entire Cologne city moved.
"Yes!" An old voice came from downstairs where the young man was, and after answering it, a small footstep slowly passed away, and then, in the house where the young man lived, several black shadows suddenly shot out, and disappeared into the thick night in the blink of an eye.
Woff Plains, mounds.
At this moment, Jingchen and the others were standing back to back, and a group of wolf-shaped demonic beasts with red eyes and light red hair were surrounding several people. There were still a lot of corpses of this kind of demonic beast lying around a few people, obviously, the two sides had also had a large-scale fierce fight just now, but Jingchen's side didn't seem to be damaged.
"Boss, what should we do? This red demon wolf seems to be consumed with us, if we don't kill them all, I'm afraid they won't stop. Anton took the time to complain to Jingchen. Although it was said that he was consumed by the demonic beast, there was no trace of panic on Anton's face, but with a trace of bloodthirsty pleasure, just looking at his bloody hands, he really couldn't imagine that he would ask Jingchen what to do.
"These are low-level red demon wolves, if we want these unintelligent guys to retreat, I'm afraid it's our wishful thinking, and at present, there is no good way to make these little wolves retreat. Ling Su said with a smile, this girl didn't have the slightest consciousness as a girl, the giant axe in her hand was already covered with bloodstains, and at this moment, the blood stains were dripping down the blade of the axe, which looked very terrifying.
"Don't be careless, there seems to be a big guy in this pack. Jing Chen's eyes stared coldly at the wolves in front of him, and his extremely keen perception told him that there were several not weak breaths looming in this wolf pack.
"Big guy?" Anton turned his head to look at Jingchen and asked, "Boss, what kind of big guy? Is it the Red Wolf King? If so, it's just right, clean it up tonight, and you can go home tomorrow, maybe you can enter the city in the morning." He laughed out loud.
Suddenly, a strong wind rushed towards Anton, who was laughing.
"Be careful!" When the words fell, Jingchen's figure flickered, and he had already come to Anton's side.
"Damn, what the hell!" Anton only felt that it was dark in front of him, and a huge red demon wolf had already pounced in front of him, and Anton only had time to use the magic wand shining with metal light in his hand to fight out, only to hear a "bang", and Anton's whole person was knocked out several steps by the huge impact of the red demon wolf.
"Boom!"
A loud bang pierced the night sky, and as soon as the red demon wolf wanted to pursue Anton, he was slapped out by Jing Chen, who had already arrived, with a palm. This red demon wolf was really different, one rolled in mid-air, and when it landed, it was already standing there steadily, with a pair of cold beast eyes, staring at Jingchen.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Suddenly, several sounds of breaking the air sounded, and three red demon wolves of about the same size as the one that attacked Anton before jumped out, and seeing that there were four red wolf guards opposite, Jing Chen's brows slowly furrowed. Although he was not afraid of these Red Wolf Guards, these things were still very dangerous for Yue Yanran and Ling Xue, and at this moment, there were four of them at once, Jingchen hesitated, and still didn't dare to make a rash move.
"Boss, look at me!" Anton seemed to be also hit by the red wolf guard, and shouted loudly, and he didn't see him chanting the incantation, the earth shook suddenly, and a huge thorn suddenly drilled out, and the four red wolf guards gathered in one place, the one who attacked him just now couldn't dodge, and was actually pierced through the body by several ground thorns, and he saw that he had been cut off from life.