"Captain, what's going on? Why did you go around in such a big circle? In the cave, Luo Bai and Zhang Hao asked together.

"Good news, bad news, which one do you listen to first?" Toby Cook asked with a smile after taking a sip of water.

Luo Bai: "(╯#-_-)╯"

I was nervous in vain before the relationship?

Isn't that posture in big trouble?

"Cut, still play this set, good news, listen to the good news first."

Zhang Hao gave Toby Cook a big roll of his eyes and made a choice, and Luo Bai nodded speechlessly.

Toby Cook smiled and said, "The good news is that we picked up two Flame Tigers for nothing this afternoon. ”

"Oh? It's equivalent to picking up nearly four million for nothing? Not bad. Zhang Hao was very clear about the price of the dark beast crystal nucleus and materials, and casually quoted it.

"And what about the bad news?" Luo Bai frowned and asked.

"The bad news is that those two flame tigers are the ones we met half a month ago."

Toby Cook's face was a little solemn, and he paused slightly: "Judging from the traces left at the scene, their opponent is only one person, and he is also an archer. ”

"Those two stupid tigers were killed by flying kites?" Zhang Hao frowned and asked.

Indeed, they discovered the two flame tigers half a month ago, but with the strength of the team, it was very difficult to gnaw and not cost-effective, so they bypassed it from a distance and forged some traces to mislead possible trackers and dig holes for each other.

This is a common trick used by hunters to deal with those who fall behind them with bad intentions.

Now it seems that there may be people with bad intentions, but this 'pit' is not deep enough to bury the other party.

"They were killed at close range," Toby Cook said, shaking his head and grimacing, "Although there were remnants of arrows at the scene, it was obvious that the bow was fired at a very close distance.

One of them was poured into the brain by an arrow from the eye socket, and the other was cut off by a short weapon such as a dagger and drained the blood. ”

"An archer can easily kill two eighth-level flame tigers in this way, his strength is at least level nine, and he is not an ordinary mediocre hand." Annabelle made an assessment of the other party's strength with a solemn face.

At this time, the analysis emperor Wu Yinghao spoke, his voice was always cold, calm, objective, and he couldn't even hear a trace of solemnity, just a simple analysis: "The lone archer, the nine-star, killed the Flame Tiger but didn't take anything, not even the crystal nucleus, which shows that the other party's goal is probably not to hunt the dark beast at all, but something else."

Combined with our situation and our arrangement near the Flame Tiger's lair, I am more than sixty percent sure that the other party is coming for us! ”

The words landed, and everyone in the cave fell silent.

With the strength of the squad, in the wilderness, being targeted by the ninth-level archers of the sergeant rank is equivalent to the Grim Reaper standing behind everyone all the time, holding a scythe, just waiting for them to nap.

Although Wu Yinghao said that he was only sixty percent sure, Luo Bai had an intuition that this mysterious archer was coming for them.

They killed Song Moteng's son, and the other party sent a killer to take revenge, and the logic was smooth.

As for why it took more than half a month to find them, I am afraid that it was due to the heavy snowfall when they left the city, and all the traces left by the journey were covered by the wind and snow.

"Nine-star archer, ......"

To be honest, Luo Bai was a little drumming in his heart.

Even if you put aside the long-range sneak attack or kite flying, the opponent can fight the two flame tigers in close combat, this kind of strength, the team will not be able to please if they encounter a hard face head-on.

Flame Tiger, that was only a little weaker than the Gray Rock Giant Bear, a level 8 dark beast.

Luo Bai was thinking about it, and Toby Cook looked at Zhang Hao: "How are you recovering?" ”

"It's okay to do it on a day-to-day basis, but I'm afraid it won't work if you want to do it." At this time, Zhang Hao also has one thing to say, without the slightest hypocrisy.

Hearing this, Toby Cook's brow furrowed.

After being silent for a few seconds, he finally spoke: "I mean to leave here in the dark, even if the other party is not coming for us, we should try to avoid robbing the hunting ground with a ninth-level martial artist, the risk is too great." ”

In the wilderness, there is no morality, there is no law, and you can't expect every strong person to have noble moral sentiments and help the weak.

In particular, the lone strong generally dislike the presence of other people in their hunting grounds, which is a truth that every mature hunter understands.

This is the rule of the wilderness, the strong are respected, and the weak retreat, Luo Bai has often seen this scene in the animal world, but now, he himself is in this rule.

As for losing face?

Hurt your self-esteem?

Please, the weak must have the appearance of the weak, and fearing the strong is the mainstream rule of this world!

"What do you think?"

"Nope." Everyone shook their heads together.

"Okay, then it's decided, pack your things, fix it, and set off in half an hour." Toby Cook gave the order, and everyone was busy.

While packing up his things, Luo Bai was glad in his heart, he was glad that when he first became a martial artist, he met a cautious captain like Toby Cook, who taught him what it means to be in awe of a strong man!

The last time he went out of the city, because of the wilderness robbers, Toby Cook decided to return to the city immediately, and everyone was cautious along the way, but fortunately nothing happened in the end;

This time the situation was even worse, and Toby Cook's retreat order was more decisive, leaving no time to rest for the night.

went out of the city twice, but in the end, he was cowardly and fled to the city like a desperate person, but Luo Bai was glad in his heart.

He didn't know what would have happened if Toby Cook had continued to choose to stay in the wilderness these two times, maybe nothing, maybe they would have died in the wilderness, but Toby Cook's actions really made him realize something.

In this world, if you want to survive, you can't only have strength, you have to have a force/number, that is, the awe of the strong and the sense of crisis!

Only when strength, wisdom, awe, etc. are gathered together, can we live well and comfortably.

......

After packing up the things, several people took the spoils of these days, left the cave, and ran up the water into the woods.

The woods are somewhat sparse in winter, but there are also some evergreen species, and this terrain will limit the range of the archers' attacks to the greatest extent, increase their chances of survival, or counterattack.

If they run to the great plains, I am afraid they will be a living target.

The tactical backpacks on Luo Bai's people were full, this time they rushed directly into the No. 018214 area, there were basically no dark beasts below level seven, the number was much less, but the value was much higher, and it was convenient to carry.

Zhang Hao was carried by Wu Yinghao, in order to take advantage of the night to travel more.

Overnight, Luo Bai and the others rushed nearly 500 kilometers of road, but because they had been running along the forest area, the straight-line distance was not so far.

At dawn, Toby Cook finally ordered the trimmings.

"Whew!"

Luo Bai stopped, exhaled a long breath, and drank two tubes of nutrient solution to replenish his strength.

The rest of the people are also not in good shape, Toby Cook is fine, but Wu Yinghao and Annabelle have lower cultivation and better physical exertion.

"I said, why did you kid break through again?"

Annabelle gasped slightly, looking Luo Bai up and down, last night, concentrating on the road, everyone didn't say a few words.

"The talent is good, no way!"

Luo Bai said with a smile, but the next moment his complexion changed suddenly, and while shouting and warning, the war knife in his hand was instantly unsheathed and slashed down.

Clang~

The war knife accurately slashed at an arrow, Luo Bai's arm was numb, and the war knife was slightly raised backwards by the power attached to this arrow, but he finally blocked this arrow.

However, at the same time, two other screams rang out, especially loud in the pre-dawn night.