Chapter 178: Tracking
In the world of knife language, urban ruins are divided into four levels from high to low according to the degree of danger: S, A, B and C.
Among them, the S-level city ruins, almost all of which are gathered are insects and beasts above level eight, and the degree of danger is extremely high, even if it is a ninth-level swordsmith, there is a possibility of falling.
Therefore, it is very rare for a knife caster to run into the ruins of an S-class city, if Gao Mingliang really wants to choose a place to hide, I have to say that the ruins of an S-class city are a suitable choice.
However, the ruins of an S-class city are a dangerous forbidden area for ordinary swordsmiths, but not for Lin Ze, even if he is surrounded by a swarm of insects, he can escape with his flame wings, but Gao Mingliang, who may be hiding there, is the biggest threat to him.
After all, in his estimation, the strength of the 'Human Pillar' Knife Forger was already very close to the hero level, and it was not easy to deal with.
It didn't take long for Pan Zongchang to bring a map of the ruins of S2 City, which marked several locations where Gao Mingliang's traces were found.
After replenishing the food, Lin Ze immediately set off and hurried to the ruins of S2 City non-stop.
The ruins of the S2 city are more than 50 kilometers away from the Blackstone settlement, and it will take at least half a day to walk, but after Lin Ze left the settlement for some distance, he used his flame wings to hurry, and it took less than an hour to reach his destination.
Compared with the ABC-level urban ruins, the S-level urban ruins have more high-level insects and beasts, and the number of flying insects and beasts has also increased a lot, and they can be seen everywhere.
Along the way, Lin Ze killed at least more than two hundred flying insect beasts that were not long-eyed and wanted to attack him.
In order to avoid causing a big disturbance, Gao Mingliang noticed it in advance, so he had to disperse the flame wings and enter the ruins of S2 City from the ground instead, carefully avoiding the places where the insect swarm gathered.
Over the years, the buildings in the city have all collapsed and dilapidated, and the streets are covered with moss and lush vegetation, and dark shadows can be faintly seen in them, and long insect chirping can be heard from time to time in the distance.
Lin Ze slowed his steps and swept over the ruins silently and swiftly.
There are three places where Gao Mingliang's traces have been found, the first two have been searched by him, and nothing has been found, and the last place he is in is now.
There are many insects and beasts in the ruins of the city, and there are frequent activities, even if Gao Mingliang has left any traces, most of them have already been destroyed, and it is not easy to find the other party with this, so you can only find out where there has been a battle, and maybe you can find something.
It didn't take long for Lin Ze to find a corpse under a collapsed wall.
The corpse was a man of about forty years of age, wearing a specially crafted battle uniform with the Swordsmith Guild emblem, and no visible wounds on his body.
This strange appearance immediately attracted Lin Ze's attention, he stepped forward to take a closer look, and saw a large amount of fine and uniform white foam on the corpse's mouth and nose, and he was stunned.
"Drowned?"
Those who dare to come to the ruins of S-level cities to hunt insects and beasts are at least eighth-level swordsmiths, and a swordsmith of this strength will die of drowning, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Lin Ze would really have found it hard to believe.
For a moment, a figure flashed in his mind, paused, and continued to look over the corpse, and sure enough, he found the residual silver liquid in the corpse's ears and the bottom of the pocket of the combat uniform.
"Sure enough, it was Gao Mingliang who did it!" Lin Ze let out a long breath, and his spirits perked.
Gao Mingliang's soul knife ability is a 'god man', he can manipulate a liquid similar to mercury to condense into a huge humanoid creature, in addition to the huge and incomparable power, sucking enemies into his body, isolating the air and drowning them is also his usual attack method.
After taking over the task of killing Gao Mingliang, Lin Ze asked the Swordsmith Guild to provide detailed information on the former's strength, and he had already known about it, and when he saw it at this time, he immediately thought of this aspect.
In this way, Gao Mingliang is indeed hiding in the ruins of S2 City, and it is not far from here. ”
Lin Ze was slightly pleased, he didn't expect to be lucky, he found something when he first came here, but then he fell into distress again, although it was nearby, it was also a big area, and it was not easy to find a person who was deliberately hiding.
"It's a pity, if only I had the ability to seek enemies. ”
Lin Ze whispered to himself, and when the words fell, he suddenly had an idea and patted his head.
"I almost forgot, isn't there still spiritual magic?"
His mind immediately moved slightly, and he exited the Sword Language World, and then logged back into the Royal Court World.
Not long after he first entered the royal court world, Lin Ze once met two groups of traditional factions and reformists in the cultivation dojo, and he almost injured Chen Muzhen by mistake.
Later, in order to find out the person who made the attack, the students of the reform faction performed a high-level spiritual technique called 'Butterfly Hunting', and found the murderer through the residual spiritual breath.
Lin Ze was quite impressed by this, and at this time, as soon as he thought of the enemy-seeking skill, he immediately thought of this spiritual technique.
"But the principle of finding butterflies is to find the owner of the breath through the residual spiritual breath, I don't know if it has any effect on the soul energy?"
"Maybe you can fuse it with soul energy and transform it into a skill that can search for soul energy breath!"
Coming out of the Shu family's mansion, Lin Ze immediately rushed to the Spiritual Art Mao Academy, and came to the bulletin board of the school palace to check, and found that the latest butterfly hunting course was also three days later.
He is not in a hurry, anyway, when he leaves the world of knife language, the time in the game is suspended, and Gao Mingliang will run away.
So he practiced quietly in the royal court world for three days before he went to take a course in the Butterfly Hunting Spiritual Technique.
After taking the psionic potion, Lin Ze's control of the aura has increased significantly, which is reflected in the cultivation of spiritual arts, that is, the cultivation speed has been greatly accelerated, not to mention the blessing of 50 cultivation buff, it only took less than five days for him to master the butterfly hunting spirit technique, and then he devoted himself to research, and spent three days transforming the soul energy version of the butterfly hunting spirit technique.
After everything was ready, Lin Ze returned to the world of knife language and reappeared next to the drowned corpse.
Glancing at the corpse, he spread out his palm, and a halo of aura immediately appeared in his palm, slowly condensing into a small and beautiful butterfly with a purple and black body.
Under his control, the butterfly slowly flew up to the corpse, lingered for a moment in the ears and pockets of the combat suit, and then flew high into the air, hovered for a moment, and flew towards the west.
Lin Ze was overjoyed and hurriedly followed.
To the west, a fairly intact building is located.
In a room on the third floor, Gao Mingliang casually threw aside the tube of nutritional paste that had been eaten, and leaned his back against the wall, making a muffled sound, and he didn't realize it, but his eyes looked out of the window in a little confusion.
It has been several months since he learned of Qi Shi's death and fled from the Blackstone Settlement in panic, and he has been hiding in the ruins of the city.
After months of living in the wilderness, he had turned into a sloppy-looking wanderer, with his messy hair sticky and unwashed for a long time, and his clothes were even dirtier and stained, and there was an unbearable stench all over his body, which was unimaginable for Gao Mingliang, who was extremely clean, and meticulously groomed his hair and fingernails whenever and wherever he was.
And all of this, in the final analysis, is because of that guy named Lin Ze!
He really couldn't understand how a guy who had just graduated from the training camp could quickly grow to the strength to kill the 'Human Pillar' Blade Forger, this kind of improvement speed was simply unheard of.
Gao Mingliang asked himself, even if he was against Master Qi, he was not very sure that he could kill the other party, but Lin Ze did it!
This made him puzzled!
It was because of Lin Ze's intervention that he and Qi Shi's foolproof plan went bankrupt, and in the end, Qi Shi died, and he had to flee the settlement like a bereaved dog, and was reduced to the point where he could only hide in the ruins of an S-level city, working with insects and beasts every day, and being careful not to be discovered by the rest of the knife forgers, and he was always frightened.
Thinking that this kind of life would continue in the future, Gao Mingliang felt as uncomfortable as being eaten by insects and ants, and his hatred for Lin Ze became more and more turbulent.
He slammed his fist into the wall beside him, causing large cracks and countless stone dust to fall.
"Damn Lin Ze!"
A deep voice echoed in the room, and the resentment in his tone almost overflowed.
After a while, Gao Mingliang languished like a deflated, reached out and took out a piece of nutritional paste from the tactical backpack on the side, and swallowed it in a big gulp.
The Tactical Backpack had been looted by him after killing a Rank 8 Swordsmith, and the nutritional paste that he had disdained in the Ghetto was now a rare delicacy to him.
Thinking of this, Gao Mingliang's expression became gloomy for a few points.
Suddenly, a hint of alarm surged in his heart, and he immediately activated the soul knife characteristics without hesitation, summoning a large amount of silver liquid to wrap his whole body.
The next moment after these actions, a loud roar was heard, and the entire building collapsed as if it had been bombarded by a volley of cannonballs, and countless stones fell with a bang, and the dust in the sky splashed in all directions.
With the collapsed building as the center, the shock wave spread out rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, an area of more than 100 meters was shrouded in thick smoke and dust.
The whistling sound of breaking through the air sounded suddenly, and a silver liquid ball with a diameter of about two meters suddenly broke through the dust, flew out rapidly, and stopped a hundred meters away.
The silver liquid quickly retracted, revealing Gao Mingliang's figure, his face full of shock and doubt, and his eyes looked at the building that had become ruins not far away.
"Found you!"
An indifferent voice suddenly sounded from not far away, Gao Mingliang immediately turned his head to look, and found that on the street dozens of meters away, there was a young man with a long body at some point, and there was a purple-black butterfly standing on his shoulder.
The moment he saw the young man's face clearly, Gao Mingliang's pupils couldn't help shrinking, and his cheeks twitched fiercely.
"Lin Ze!"