Chapter 403: Fleeing to the Poplar Forest
The assassination operation kicked off, and Xiao Yuanchao began to flee for his life, fleeing from the city to the wilderness. Avoid crowds, avoid buildings, and choose the Gobi Desert, mountains and forests that are inaccessible.
These Assassins were able to assassinate him in any terrain, and were particularly adept at blending in with crowds to deliver one-hit kills to their targets. In this case, staying away from the city is definitely the best option.
At night, the weather is slightly cool, and half of the moon hangs in the sky, emitting a cold and faint light. The cold wind blew slowly, encountering the barrier of the trees, making a soft rustling sound.
This is a poplar forest, typical of the woodland of the northwest. Xiao Yuanchao clutched his chest and sat under a poplar tree exhausted.
His collapsing body was completely unable to withstand such a desperate attack, and he could guarantee that at least three assassins who were good at assassination in the wild would follow him.
"Whew...... Whoop......"
Xiao Yuanchao gasped for breath, his heart became more and more painful, and the adrenaline was intermittent, which increased the pressure burden on the heart. It can be said that because of the adrenaline problem, Xiao Yuanchao already suffered from heart disease.
This type of heart disease may seem like nothing wrong on the surface, but it is always a chronic myocardial infarction. If you experience the impact of nervousness, fear, happiness, etc., there is a great chance that it will become an acute myocardial infarction.
Chronic myocardial infarction is not very dangerous, but acute myocardial infarction has no chance of curing at all. It only takes a few minutes for a living life to die with an acute heart muscle.
"Whoosh!"
A crossbow arrow broke through the air and went straight to Xiao Yuanchao's body.
Catching the danger, Xiao Yuanchao immediately rolled forward to avoid the crossbow arrow.
"Khooth!"
The crossbow bolt was stuck in the poplar trunk, and the whole arrow did not enter, and the tail of the arrow was still trembling violently.
"Poof!"
Xiao Yuanchao, who rolled over and avoided, spurted out a mouthful of blood, did not dare to hesitate at all, endured the strong pain in his heart, and continued to run towards the other side of the poplar forest.
Poplar forests are not as good as other woodlands, which is determined by the climatic characteristics of the northwest.
Normally, any woodland elsewhere is very dense with trees and grass, and once you go inside, it is an excellent point to defend. You can hide, you can hide, you can attack.
But the poplar forests in the northwest are not that lush at all, and they are preserved mainly to catch the soil, which is highly susceptible to desertification. This requires a very large gap between trees, which loses the privacy of a normal woodland.
On top of that, there aren't many weeds here. The absence of many weeds means that the maximum dΓΉ loses its concealment.
So Xiao Yuanchao had to run, he wanted to run out of this poplar forest, rush to the sand outside the poplar forest in one go, and use the sand to play hide and seek with the assassins behind him!
Spit out a mouthful of blood, Xiao Yuanchao rushed into the deepest part of the poplar forest as fast as he could, took a breath, and continued to rush towards the outside of the poplar forest.
The heart hurt more and more, and then the whole body hurt, Xiao Yuanchao achieved the ultimate with a regional collapsed body.
In this case, he had no idea where the assassin was in his pursuit, only that he had to flee and escape to the sand to have a chance of survival.
"Poof! Burst! β
Xiao Yuanchao spurted out the blood tumbling out of his chest with all his might, relieving the pain in his chest.
Finally ran out of the poplar forest, and what was reflected in front of Xiao Yuanchao was a semi-desert beach. The sandy beach is undulating like a hill, mixed with the Gobi Desert, large and small, and there is no end in sight.
Especially in the faint light of the moonlight, it presents a silent and different kind of dullness, which makes people feel uncomfortable when they see it.
"Rustling ......"
Xiao Yuanchao quickly ran forward for hundreds of meters, then stared at him with round eyes and swung his fist and slammed his chest.
"Bang!"
"Poof!"
Another mouthful of blood spurted out, and the pain in his chest diminished again. He used bloodletting to relieve the pressure on his heart, which was not the best, but it was definitely an effective method.
The blood spurted out in the direction of the footprints, falling dots on the sand, showing small black spots in the moonlight.
At the same time, Xiao Yuanchao wiped his mouth fiercely and jumped into a small piece of Gobi Desert next to him to dig quickly.
Dozens of seconds later, he dug a shallow pit for himself on the edge of the beach and the Gobi Desert, and then quickly lay down in the shallow pit to complete his camouflage.
The lower half of his body was in the sand pit, and the upper half of his body was in the pile of rubble, Xiao Yuanchao hid himself deeply.
After hiding for a short time, a figure rushed out of the poplar forest like a ghost, and ran forward for hundreds of meters along the footprints left by Xiao Yuanchao, until the end of the footprints extended, and then stopped.
He slowly squatted down, stretched out his fingers to touch the blood on the ground, rubbed it, and judged the temperature and viscosity of the blood.
At this moment, Xiao Yuanchao was lying quietly in the pile of rubbles next to him, his eyes open, breathing calmly and silently, while staring at the sky that was gradually showing a haze.
Xiao Yuanchao, who had his eyes open, was like a dead corpse, blending in with the nature around him. It's like playing hide and seek when I was a child, trying to make sure that I don't get discovered.
It's his talent, but it's his instinct. When Xiao Yuanchao started playing hide and seek with you, you were a blind man.
He can hide, he can hide, and now he knows how to hide his breath and how to induce the other party.
The assassin was puzzled, and he stayed where he was very cautiously, staring at the Gobi Desert where Xiao Yuanchao was.
The footprints vanished, leaving behind a mouthful of blood, the temperature and viscosity of which proved that the target had not run far at all, and was nearby. And nearby...... Gobi!
"Huh!"
The Assassin drew a knife and slammed it into the sand beside him.
He was cautious, so cautious that he focused not only on the Gobi Desert, but also on the sand under his feet.
The target used to be a professional soldier, and he knew all kinds of stealth techniques, so it was definitely not a big problem to hide himself silently in the sand.
"Giggle......"
A stone in the Gobi Desert gently rolled down with a crisp crashing sound.
Hearing this, the assassin held a knife in his right hand and slowly walked towards the Gobi Desert, trying to search for Xiao Yuanchao's location.
"Huhuhu......"
The winds peculiar to the northwest blew and rustled the poplar forests in the north, rolling up the fine sand on the sand and throwing it into the air, making the whole sky even more hazy.
In a short period of time, the visibility became low, from the original clarity to the blur.
Listening to the sound of the wind in his ears and looking at the sky filled with yellow sand, Xiao Yuanchao's eyes narrowed slightly, and the corners of his mouth rose into a shallow smile.
A sandstorm is coming!
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