Chapter XXVIII
Like Nan Qifeng and Kong Sui's plan, Su Hao was silent in the face of the full page of A+, A, B+, and B tasks. I don't know if I don't see it, but when I look at it, I know that there are so many dangers in the deep mountains and old forests. B-level people have a clear goal or take the life of a demon slayer, and A-level is the main owner who used to be the party to blame, and now he is hiding, and he doesn't know where to look.
And the D-class mission of the crimping line, no. In addition to these, there is only one C-level mission on the entire board.
"The slightly safer C-level is gone, and the C-level is really the most sought-after. Su Hao's hand rested on the only yellow paper with a C grade written on it.
"Commissioned to find out the anomaly of the disappearance of people in Luo Yao Mountain, L City"
Luo Yao Mountain in L City is a mountain on the outskirts of the city, there are three or four small villages under the mountain, and Luo Yao Mountain, which is surrounded by mountains and rivers, is also a feng shui treasure place for villagers to bury their ancestors. However, since three years ago, there has been a strange phenomenon in Luo Yao Mountain. Initially, more than 20 teachers and students from a local school went missing during a spring outing, and the police conducted a large-scale search but found nothing.
Later, it was the Qingming Festival, and the people who went up the mountain to worship were innocently missing. After a few more disappearances, we concluded that all those who remained on the mountain trail on rainy days, no matter how large or small, did not return. Now that this is a pending case from the police, we wouldn't have reported the matter to the Demon Eradication Association if it hadn't been for the return of the first survivor who experienced the mountain rain 10 days ago.
10 days ago, when a local Yang was about to go down the mountain and encountered rain, he was superstitious and afraid of legends, so he did not force himself down the mountain road, but climbed to the top of the mountain. As a result, he saw the shadow of an inhuman creature in the woods in the rain. According to Yang, it was a flashing green shadow, which could not be seen clearly in the mist under the rainstorm. Creatures are very short and make terrifying screams. On the way up the mountain, he spotted sharp, thin claw marks on tree trunks and small footprints on the muddy ground. The torrential rain lasted for a day and a night, and there was no way to contact the outside world, so he waited on the mountain for a day and a night. It wasn't until the next day that he made it safe to descend the mountain, and he became the only survivor of the rain.
However, according to his account, he returned the same way as he descended the mountain, but he did not see a single claw mark or footprint.
That's how it happened, and we finally figured out that it was a monster. If it can be resolved, the reward will be jointly funded by the township government and the victim's family, 200,000 yuan.
Contact: Zhang
Phone number: 139XXXXXXXX
Survivor: Yang
PS: Yang did not disclose the phone number and was indirectly contacted by the contact
"It's inexplicably terrifying. After reading it, Su Hao pinched his chin and sighed.
Earlier, Nan Qifeng had reminded him that demon slayer was a profession that could expose corpses to the wilderness, and every time he went out on a mission, he might never come back. But if this is not the case, how can it be worthy of such a high remuneration, and how can it be accepted and needed by society?
"Okay, it's you!" Su Hao heroically tore off the yellow paper and unveiled the list to eliminate demons, which is exactly what a hot-blooded man should do!
As for the contradictions such as that he is a demon himself, he has long been left behind.
......
The next day, I took a leave of absence and took a bullet train to L City. The cross-city journey is just two hours of sleep in the train.
"Hey, hello, are you the contact person for the mission of Luo Yao Mountain? Is it convenient for you now? Well, okay, let's make an appointment to meet. I'd like to know the details, and it's best to bring that Mr. Yang with me. ”
At sixteen o'clock in the afternoon, Su Hao walked out of the café. He walked on the noisy streets, thinking as he walked in the direction of Luo Yao Mountain.
In his hand he held notes from survivors and contacts, sketching them in pencil.
Sure enough, it was necessary to know more. Closing the notebook with his left hand, Su Hao closed his eyes and recalled for a long time more than ten pages of intelligence information. After feeling the information freely shuttling and intertwining in his brain, and finally connecting into a detailed picture, Su Hao opened his confident eyes.
Seventeen o'clock in the afternoon. At this time, the sky should have been very bright, but because of the spring rains, the sky was covered with dark clouds, although there was no rumbling, but God's rain was already obvious.
Not much off from the weather forecast, the timing of the rain was just right.
Luo Yao Mountain is very different from Hao Mountain. From the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, there are at least seven or eight populated areas where the restaurant industry gathers, and in addition to the three main roads, there are many forest roads that are popular with climbers. The degree of completion of industrial development is quite high.
Luo Yao Mountain, on the other hand, is more about the homestay culture and the farmhouses near several winding mountain roads and the aborigines on the mountain, and there is no such thing as a playground. Therefore, Luoyao Mountain is the kind of mountain that is really suitable for long-distance mountain climbing and exercise, and there is an endless flow of vehicles and people during the Qingming Festival.
Su Hao, who was also "plagued" by the spring suburbs when he was a student, is now walking on the forest path in superhuman flesh, walking like flying.
From time to time, he approached the nearby trees and made markers out of the monster dander collected from the Nanqing Cave—these marks were as obvious as the street lamps under the night moon under the demonic aura of the dark green demon pupils, and even in battle, he could understand where he was in a moment.
Now he is about a third of the mountainside, and only two hundred meters to the east is the road. On the highway, you can see the high-rise buildings and rivers of L City at a glance.
The nearby terrain was perfectly memorized in his mind with the power of his divine sense, and there were marks to support him, even if it was a native youkai, he could not defeat him with his geographical advantages within this kilometer radius.
Boom - tick tock -
With a thunderclap in the sky, raindrops covered half of L City. On Luo Yao Mountain, Su Hao was baptized by the pouring rain on his back. Suddenly, his eyes burst into concentration, and with a stomp of his feet, a dark green demonic mist floated to the top of the tree.
This is a fog control technique, although it cannot be used for flying, but it is still possible to take off for a period of time or glide at high speed. Cultivation is progressing, thanks to Qin Mengyan's blood.
The height was unobstructed, and the rain had already stained every plant and tree in the entire forest with their doppelgangers, and everything was calm and unusual.
Note 1: For the missing subjects, regardless of gender, old and young, there is only one common condition, and that is the people who remain on the mountain on rainy days. If there is a demon, they should feel their own breath.
"Could it be that because I used the fog control technique, they didn't come?" Su Hao said badly. But he poured mana into his eyes, and there was not the slightest demonic aura as far as his eyes could see.
In other words, if they appear and peep at him, they will definitely leave traces. But there is still a doubt, that is, how could it not leave a trace for so long before?
"Isn't there a monster at all," Su Hao was a little dazed, "I can't rule out the possibility that the person was wrong, but ......"
Suddenly, he thought of the thirteen-stone illusion barrier enchantment in Haoshan, and as soon as he kicked it to a thirteenth, his sight was immediately full of demonic qi and blood qi.
"Could it be that there is an enchantment similar to Haoshan here?
Su Hao was a little excited, but if things turned out to be as he thought, then the enemy's wisdom would cross the estimation line.
I had to land first. The dark green mist swallowed and exhaled, narrowing the envelope and retracting back into the soles of Su Hao's feet. Practical and sturdy jet-black boots re-stepped on the muddy soil, splashing a dirty mud splash.
Su Hao turned his gaze to the direction of eight o'clock in his body, where there was the first light mark.
However, it was empty.
He subconsciously grinned, beads of sweat hanging from his temples mingling with the rain that meandered down. I should have realized that the mark I didn't see when driving in the fog was not blocked by the canopy, but disappeared!
The real enchantment in the void had quietly included him in his enclosure.
Turning around, turning again, there was no demonic aura, and every bush shook with the powerful downpour of raindrops, but the scenery was too general to discern which direction the enemy would emerge from.
"Unexpected circumstances, it's not good to be a teacher. He laughed at himself, and after saying that, he turned around sharply and sprinted at full speed to the east.
Two hundred meters, three hundred meters, there is no trace of the road anywhere.
"Damn!" Su Hao scolded angrily. The rapid heartbeat of the nervousness made him gasp, and he began to stare defenselessly in one direction for five seconds, while behind him, a sharp green horn slowly emerged from a dirt field with his boot prints.
"Gollum-" The green horns slowly floated out of the dirt, and the murmur of muddy bubbles was buried in the violent murmur of rain hitting the mud. Su Hao didn't notice it.
Boom! The miserable white electric snake pierced the sky, and the torrential rain seemed to be three points greater at this moment!
At this moment, the sharp horns were like spears piercing through the sky, stabbing out with a roar and thunder! Su Hao's back was infinitely enlarged in a pair of small eyes. And in the next second, the back covered by the black robe suddenly pulled away, and the man burst out with courage and a ruthless face reversed!
"Sonorous!" Quickly pulled out the sword at his waist! The back of the snow bright sword collided with the green hard horn, and there was a huge force from the tiger's mouth, Su Hao stomped desperately on his heels, barely pulling away the distance.
The dagger that reflected the gray light of the sky was cracked open, and the gap was just right to see the full picture of the enemy.
It is about 1.4 meters long, with sharp horns on its head, but it is better to say that most of its head is a strange shape of an inverted triangular pyramid, and a pair of small eyes on its poor face compared to the whole horn head, and the size of a pinhole in the nose; as for the mouth, it is twice as large as a human, and it is full of sharp teeth, which is no different from that of a shark.
"He was short, with slender but mighty limbs, and three claws as large as a tailor's scissors. Su Hao quickly incorporated the enemy's information into his mind. The time of staring at each other was only two seconds, and the monster temporarily named "Horned Goblin" by Su Hao threw off his arms and rushed towards Su Hao with a piercing roar.
"Get out!" was ready. Su Hao used his mana, half of the crimson blood element was converted into physical strength, and half was injected into black scales, he made a gesture of drawing his knife and slashing, and turned around and slashed out a scale whip as black as ink. The black light slammed into the horned goblin, and the powerful force overturned it in one fell swoop.
And when Su Hao's face was happy, the horned goblin just flipped over in the air and landed steadily.
It used a huge pyramid-like horn as a shield to completely defend itself.
Su Hao was shocked, but he quickly reacted. Since the head is large and hard, the thin body is undoubtedly a threat. He drew an arc with one foot, and his waist spun rapidly, and he retracted the whip and attacked. The corner goblin was agile, easily dodging the attack and continuing to kill Su Hao, his small feet stepping on the muddy ground as fast as a fish in water.
"Intelligence is a hard wound. Su Hao secretly threw down a comment in his heart, and then struck another blow.
Feints are most effective against such an enemy.
The horned goblin crossed the line of fire formed by the black light, and rushed to Su Hao again, Su Hao threw out a whip that was in the gap period, and he could only abandon the whip to dodge, but the black light seemed to be a life-threatening hook and sickle from behind him, and the horned goblin had already jumped up, and there was no reason to take it back when the gun stabbed out. Whoever reveals a flaw dies!
It's the wind. The whip of the final tone was actually empty. The corner goblin on the front of it magically fell back to the ground in violation of the laws of physics, and the ground slumped into it like a swamp.
Disappear?
"This!" "Bang!" Almost at the same time as Su Hao's astonishment, his back was suddenly slashed by three sharp claws coming from behind, and the broken pieces of cloth were stained with steaming blood and flew away. The severe pain shook the brain and marrow, making Su Hao convulsed all over his body, and he almost fainted.
Fortunately, he had been through a near-death battle and had become patient with the pain. He cursed in his heart and spun his feet.
A whip kick into the air sent the attacking foe into the air, followed by a missing dagger coming out of his hand. This mortal blade infused with mana could not withstand it in the blink of an eye, and exploded in pieces.
The blade that could break bones was blocked unscathed by the shield of the horned goblin, and its body cut a perfect parabola through the air, and it was about to hit the ground.
"I'm sorry, you weren't so lucky this time!"
A mist appeared under Su Hao's feet, flashing behind the horned goblin like a ghost, and he reached out and firmly grabbed its neck. The snake in the other hand bit up, and the dark green nails that corroded the monster's steel skin were suddenly inserted into the fragile spine of the horned goblin, and the poison spread, and in an instant, the originally ferocious monster drooped its head.
Kill with one hit.
"Hmph!" In order to prevent possible sinking, Su Hao threw the monster's corpse to the treetops and leaned against the tree to help the injured waist. The back is still dripping blood, and if you look at it from behind, you can even faintly see the white bones of Sensen. If it was a few millimeters deeper, I'm afraid he would be paralyzed.
Su Hao gritted his teeth and took a bandage to tie the wound: "What a murderous enemy, I really can't help but say that you are mentally retarded before." "Then try to breathe as much as you can. Blood Element heals injuries, and his flesh is growing at a rate visible to the naked eye.
In the battle just now, he found that even if the youkai was standing in front of him, he couldn't feel a trace of demonic energy, and if this was really the effect of the enchantment, it would be too perverted. Also, the one that was cut just now.
"In less than a second, I escaped from the floating state with no power, and then jumped out from behind me to make a move. That's a lot of skill, isn't it? Su Hao gestured with his hand.
Unless......
As if to reflect his suspicions, the familiar roar rang out in his ears again.
One horn, two horns, three horns...... A total of six horns slowly emerged from the dirt in front of them. The triangular head, the sickle claw, are all horned goblins. And on the triangular head of a certain one, there is still a trace of blood element breath.