Kraft hasn't been having a good time lately.

Today was the third day of his search, and he had previously investigated four strongholds according to Cretan drawings, but no trace of Linor had been found. And today's stronghold is actually in a wooded area on the northern outskirts of Cold Ice City.

Ice City is a vast area, and Kraft walked for a long time before passing through the north gate of Ice City and reaching the location shown on the map.

This is a pine forest, overgrown with weeds and loose soil, and if you are not careful, it is easy to get stuck in the soil or slip. Kraft stumbled through it for a while, but in the end he could not escape the fate of falling into the mud pit.

"What the hell, Crete is such a complete bastard!" Kraft irritably shook off the thick mud stuck to his arm and scolded, "This guy is obviously playing tricks on me, how can you find someone in such a place?"

Before he could finish speaking, Kraft's hand suddenly felt pain, as if it had hit some hard object.

He turned his head and saw a large rock on the ground beside him. The stone stood in the soft earth around it, hard and dull, and it was hard to spot in the shade of the woods.

"The damn stone......" Kraft cursed as he rubbed his aching arm. He glanced at the boulder with resentment and turned to get up, but suddenly felt as if something was wrong.

Compared to the environment here, the surface of this stone is very smooth, and there is not too much sludge on it, which is very special in this scene.

Kraft turned around again and leaned closer to the boulder to take a closer look. He found that not only was the surface of the stone clean, but the roots of the stone were also clearly connected to the ground, indicating that the stone had been placed here not long ago, otherwise the roots would have been deep in the soil in this rainy season.

He tried to remove the boulder, but he did not realize that although it was small, it was very dense and heavy, and Kraft had to use both hands to push it away with all his might.

And the next discovery made Kraft dumbfounded, there was actually a hole under the stone!

Now he was starting to get excited, it was unusual for a tunnel to appear in such a place, it must have been dug up for some secret business, and it was probably Lino's hiding place.

Without thinking too much, Kraft took out the fluorescent stone from his bosom and jumped into the tunnel.

This fluorescent stone was given to him by Elia. During this time, Kraft took Illya into the tavern, and as a token of gratitude, Illya provided Kraft with some magical objects in case of emergency, and this fluorescent stone was one of them.

"I have to say, Illya's gadgets are really practical. Thanks to the stone lighting in his hand, Kraft was able to make his way through this rugged and dark tunnel, and he couldn't help but admire.

The tunnel was not elaborately built, and it seems to have been built very recently, and the pavement and walls were very rough and polished. As Kraft went deeper and deeper, the road became more and more difficult to walk, and Kraft almost fell into a pit on the ground several times, and he couldn't help but curse and swear, which could be regarded as venting his frustration in the past few days.

At this moment, Karl suddenly felt as if something was moving in the darkness ahead. He immediately regained his vigilance and raised the fluorescent stone in his hand to see more clearly.

Before Kraft could take a closer look, a shiny dagger was already stabbing at his throat. Kraft was startled, and subconsciously hurriedly jumped backwards to dodge the fatal blow.

The reason why he was able to respond so quickly was also due to his previous discussions with Hidan. He and Xidan grew up together, and they were both born in warrior families, so naturally swordsmanship competitions were indispensable. In fact, in the past, the two of them had to fight for dozens of rounds almost every day, and they would never stop until they won or lost. Their swordsmanship grew through this practice, and they gradually became familiar with each other's tricks, so it was difficult to distinguish between them and the inferior in the end.

This trick of cutting his throat was one of the common starting methods used by Xidan back then, and Kraft had dodged countless times, and it came in handy in actual combat today.

Hidan usually follows this move with a backhand and then turns around...... Kraft recalls Hidan's moves.

However, he didn't expect that the other party would really turn around and stab him to the left side like Xi Dan back then. This was not difficult for Kraft, he raised the sword in his hand, stood firmly in front of him, and only heard the sound of the "bell", and the opponent's attack was blocked.

Although he successfully cracked the opponent's move, Kraft's hand was still shaken and painful, and the opponent's strength was very strong, if it weren't for the move that was very similar to the Xi Dan he was familiar with, Kraft would have died in the Yellow Spring.

Seeing that the other party also took two steps back, Kraft calmed down and calmed down his panic. He tried to look at the other person, but he still couldn't make out his face due to the lack of light, and he could only roughly tell that he was tall and seemed to be relatively strong.

"Are you Lino?" Kraft asked, though it didn't match the image of an old man with a withered face in his mind, but this was considered by Crete to be Lino's hideout. After all, his task is only to convince Lino to go back with him, there is no need to kill you to the death, if it can be solved with words, why use a knife and a gun?

However, the person in front of him did not respond to anything, hiding in the darkness and being extremely cold. Kraft saw that he slowly took a step forward to the left.

This seemingly ordinary step is often extremely dangerous in actual combat. For those who are skilled in swordsmanship, just a little advantage in position and pace is enough to kill their opponents in an instant. Kraft had experienced this in his practice with Hidan, who was an excellent user of the Tentative Step.

Kraft calmly turned to face his rival, which was the best he had summed up after a long period of practice. He could tell that there was obviously a very brief hesitation in the other party's movements, and it seemed that he did not expect such a simple and effective action.

"Hidan usually makes a feint after a tentative step and then stabs in the opposite direction......" Kraft replayed Hidan's habitual movements in his mind.

To Kraft's great surprise, the other party's actions were really the same as Hidan's!

Kraft had anticipated his attack and quickly countered with a sword.

"If it was Hidan, he would have blocked this sword in advance!" Kraft thought to himself.

In his heart, he already regarded his opponent as Hidan, although the probability was slim, but the extraordinary similarity of the match made Kraft have to convince himself that the person in front of him was the good brother Hidan he had been looking for!

"Hidan?" Kraft asked, trying his best to restrain his excitement and consternation.

A moment of silence ensued.

Neither of them spoke, nor did anyone make any movements, just stood silently in place.

After a few moments, Kraft determined that the opponent's aggressiveness had weakened significantly, indicating that the "Hidan" just now had indeed affected him, which meant that even if this person was not Hidan, he definitely had something to do with him.

Through the fight just now, Kraft knew that the other party was a master, no less than Xidan in his impression. And it is not common for people whose swordsmanship can reach the level of Hidan, and at the same time, it is very likely that he can be so similar to Hidan in terms of body shape and moves. However, what puzzled Kraft was that if the other party was really Hidan, why did he not say a word, and why did he kill himself?

Seeing that the opponent had no follow-up offensive posture, Kraft slowly took two steps forward and raised the fluorescent stone higher, trying to see the opponent's face clearly.

At this moment, Kraft suddenly felt a strong cool breeze behind him, and before he could turn around, there was a sudden sharp pain in the back of his neck.

The incomparable pain instantly ran along the nerves in his neck to his brain, and Kraft's eyes turned white, and then his vision gradually dimmed, and he slowly lost consciousness, as if he had fallen into infinite darkness......

In his coma, Kraft felt a sharp pain in his right leg, as if someone was slashing him with a sword. Kraft tried to open his eyes and resist, but found that he could not control his body, he could not open his eyes, nor could he move any part of his body, so he could only let the other party chop until the pain paralyzed his brain again and he lost consciousness.

This time, it seems like a long time has passed.

When Kraft woke up, he was already in bed, his mind still groggy. He glanced around with a vague vision that had not yet fully recovered, and the surrounding area was full of medical equipment, and the room was small, but the décor was exquisite, all of high-grade wood, and it seemed to be a high-class clinic.

His first reaction was to check his leg, but he felt like his waist was about to break, and he couldn't get up at all, so he could only look sideways and see that his right leg was bandaged.

"What the hell is going on...... "Kraft began to recall, "who attacked me...... How did I get back...... That man must be Hidan...... I'm going to find him!"

Thinking of Hidan, Kraft became anxious. Finally, by chance, he met the suspected person of Hidan, but was interrupted by an inexplicable attack, and Kraft now just wants to go back to Hidan immediately, but his leg is injured and he can't move, and he is very annoyed in his heart.

"Kraft, are you awake?" it was Elija, who walked in through the door with a basin of hot water and saw Kraft awake.

"Elia, where is this, why am I here?"

"Thank goodness you're finally awake! You've been in a coma all day. Seeing Kraft struggling to get up, Illya hurriedly put the basin on the ground and came over to support Kraft, "Brother Kraft, your leg is very badly injured, lie down and rest first." ”

"I'm not in the mood to lie down right now," Kraft said in an anxious tone, "tell me what's going on!"

"You didn't come back until the evening yesterday, and I thought it was unusual, so I called Luo Han to look for you together, and found you fainted in the woods in the northern suburbs, with blood streaming from your legs. We hurriedly sent you here, and Luo Han said that this is a clinic pre-arranged for you by His Royal Highness the Prince, and it is the best doctor in the city......"

"Wait a minute," Kraft interrupted Illya, "I went to the north of the city alone to investigate, how did you and Rohan find me?"

Before Illya could answer, a loud voice sounded at the door again: "Come, let me see how our broken leg brother is doing!"