Chapter Twenty-Four: The Wolves Bite in the Dark

"Uncle Wu, this year's qualification selection is going to trouble you to be a witness." Li Ge, the executor of the park, sat in Wu Gang's stall, his body straightened, and he held a cup of hot water.

Wu Gang was still grinding tofu next to him, he only had one hand and one foot, and it was a little laborious to push up and grind, he sighed and said, "Xiaoge, Uncle Wu watched you grow up, so there are many words here." Others don't know, I know, what you think in your heart and the incident back then, don't get into the nitty-gritty. ”

Li Ge gently put down the cup, walked over and rolled up his sleeves to help Wu Gang push a few times, and said tightly with a tense face: "Uncle Wu, I know, you don't have to remind me all the time, I know what I'm doing." After speaking, he returned the grinding rod to Wu Gang, rolled down his sleeves and patted his clothes, and strode out of the tofu stall.

Wu Gang looked at his departing back, thoughtfully, shook his head and continued to grind tofu.

It was a wonderful sunny day, with the seabirds still asleep in the morning light, the dense forests sifting through the gentle sunlight, and everything looked like they had just woken up.

In a forest with a steep terrain and isolated canyon in the eastern part of the park, 30 18-year-olds from the park gathered, marching in a neat line, each carrying their best and best weapons, and wearing an oval badge with their names engraved on their chests. Li Yun stood in the middle, his eyes flashing with bloodthirsty light.

This is the hunting ground of Paradise, and it is the place where Paradise selects qualifications for baptism. They will fight each other, like a gray wolf and a hare, and the one who becomes the prey is doomed to die.

Li Ge stood in front of everyone, his eyes were solemn, his expression was solemn, and he said loudly: "30 wastes died in the early temptation, and everyone who can stand here has some ability. But unfortunately, there are a lot of adults this year, and there are 130 second-generation players who have officially participated in the hunting grounds. As a result, the rules have changed this year. The first 30 people to return with two badges will be eligible to touch the slate, and those who lose their own badge will need four badges. ”

"There is only one discipline, and those who have not obtained the qualification are not allowed to step out of the hunting ground until the quota of 30 people is full."

"Now, when I count to seven, disperse. 1,2,3,4", as Lige counted, the teenagers clenched their weapons, adjusted their postures, and prepared like leopards, "5, 6, 7! ”

As soon as Li Ge's words fell, three young people were cut throats on the spot, and the three teenagers, including Li Yun, tacitly chose the person closest to them to attack first. More people rushed into the forest in a frenzy to try to seize the advantageous terrain. Before the man fell to the ground, Li Ge picked up his badge with the tip of his bloodstained knife, pinched it in his hand and threw it, laughing out of his tiger teeth, but his voice was cold: "It's too simple, these people are really wasteful!" ”

The three teenagers glanced at each other with their weapons, then quickly dispersed, running in three directions through the forest. Obviously, they knew that each other was not easy to mess with, and they reached a tacit understanding not to interfere with each other.

Li Yun ran into the forest and slowed down, his steps seemed leisurely but very light, his eyes searched like an eagle, and the hand he put in his pocket always grasped the dagger. He caught a glimpse of a girl with a bow and arrow on the tree 10 meters in front of him, she was pulling out her bow and aiming at others, not noticing Li Yun's approach. He pursed his lips and said secretly: As weak as Lin Yuan, forget it, let her go with mercy.

He turned a corner to the right and walked in the direction of the stream. There was blood strewn around the river, and a bloody machete ran aground on the bank. Li Yun followed the bloodstains for a while, and the bloodstains branched into three directions next to a large stone, the longest of which spread into the cave in front of him.

Li Yun touched the blade thoughtfully for a while, and then got into a bush and lay on his stomach, with a cliff behind him. It seems that he plans to hunt the man in the cave and kill him as soon as he comes out.

Today's weather is good, and the good light makes many lurkers have nowhere to hide, and there are fights going on everywhere in the forest. Those hiding in the river were exposed to the sun, and the archers in the trees shot them mercilessly; Out of the dark river of the cave jumped out of the machete-wielding man and mercilessly slashed the intruder; In the narrow canyon corridor, the man with the sledgehammer and the man with the spear fight head-on.

On the top of a distant mountain outside the hunting ground, Wu Gang sat cross-legged on a big rock, with a notebook on his knees, his body exuding strong energy fluctuations, and one trouser leg flying in the wind empty. He looked in the direction of the forest, held a pen in his left hand and wrote quickly in his notebook, and said to himself: "Well, Li Yun is a good seedling, his ability is identified as speed, he is good at assassination, tracking, and evaluation level S, and he is worthy of being Li Ge's younger brother." Liu Neng of the Liu family is also good, and his ability is identified as an enhancement class, and he is good at head-on confrontation and hand-to-hand combat, and he is evaluated at a level A. ”

Li Yun lay quietly in the bushes, his eyes slightly closed, as if he was asleep. On the cliff behind him, a petite girl in a black leotard quietly climbed up from the grotto, it was still 9 o'clock in the morning, the sun was in the east and the shadow was in the west, and her figure was projected right behind her. She held her breath and tiptoed close to Li Yun, holding a dagger aimed at Li Yun's heart and stabbing it hard.

In the blink of an eye, Li Yun's dagger was against her neck, a blood mark appeared immediately, he yawned, and said coldly: "I thought you didn't dare to come up, I was about to fall asleep." ”

The girl's heart was beating faster, her back was covered with cold sweat, and her whole body was like a string full of bows, she swallowed her saliva and asked in a panic, "How did you find mine?" ”

"Huh, your steps are too heavy, and the shape of the blood stains is too full, not like a natural drip from a wound. With such terrain, if it were me, I would also hide in the cliff, you are very smart, but unfortunately you met me. ”

The girl let go of her hand, and the dagger fell, she raised her hands and begged for mercy: "Spare me, my badge is for you." When I become infected, I will do three things for you unconditionally. ”

Li Yun shrugged, put away the dagger, and said indifferently: "Deal, I didn't plan to kill you originally, I hope you can come back alive." He took off the badge engraved with 'Kekeke' on the girl's chest, and took a few steps forward and jumped off the cliff.

Although this cliff is not high, it is also 300 meters, and if you fall down, you will definitely die. The girl lay on the cliff in panic and looked down, only to see Li Yun climbing the stone and falling down quickly, she said secretly: "Won't you kill me, Li Yun, who killed 15 people in the early stage, has become soft-hearted?" I don't believe it. With that, she hid in the grotto again, waiting for the arrival of the next prey, and after losing her badge, she had to get three more badges for herself.

Noon, dusk, and night will soon fall, and more people who are accustomed to being active in the dark will come out to fight. After a day, with few places left, they must seize their last chance.

At this time, Li Yun was already sitting in Lin Yuan's house, cheeky and wanted to eat, he said with a natural face: "I passed the test, I'm hungry, cook for me." ”

That night in the mermaid stone, the two talked a lot, Lin Yuan told him a lot about the human world, and after that, this person often came to eat. She felt that although this person was a little thirsty for killing, he was actually still a child who had not grown up psychologically, and he was eager to care.

Lin Yuan silently acquiesced, she walked to the kitchen, took out the braised pork ribs specially made at noon and put them in the steamer, she guessed that Li Yun would come in the evening, she shouted: "Come over and light the fire, cut a load of firewood for me tomorrow." Li Yun obediently walked over and sat by the stove, grabbed some hay and made a fire in the stove, leaned over and blew hard, and after a while a fire was lit, he picked up a piece of wood and threw it in.

Seeing that he was so skilled, Lin Yuan picked a piece of cabbage from the vegetable basket, quickly cut it into shreds, and then picked out a piece of tofu from the porcelain basin in the water tank and divided it into small pieces.

Dinner was quickly ready, braised pork ribs, stir-fried cabbage, shallots tossed with tofu, tomato and egg soup, and a hearty home-cooked dish. Lin Yuan was not very hungry, and put down his chopsticks after a few bites of hastily, so most of the dishes went into Li Yun's stomach.

"What are you doing in your selection, and I've heard how many people will die." Lin Yuan drank the soup and asked softly, she was a little concerned about the so-called qualification selection test, today all the 18-year-old youths on the island went to the hunting ground.

Li Yun finished the rice in the bowl, handed the bowl to Lin Yuan, and smiled two tiger teeth: "Another bowl." ”

Lin Yuan took the bowl and turned around and went to the kitchen, and filled him with another bowl, I don't know why, she was a little familiar with this feeling, so she unconsciously got used to Li Yun.

"I don't do anything, I just take someone else's badge. A maximum of 100 people will die, but in the end there will be more people alive than expected. After speaking, Li Yun picked up the ribs and ate happily, his head shook slightly, obviously a little happy.

The chopsticks in Lin Yuan's hand fell to the ground, this number was too appalling, her eyes widened and she asked, "Why does Paradise let you kill each other, people can do many other things while they are alive, do you have to become infected?" ”

"Becoming the strongest infected is our desire since childhood, and at all costs, entering the hunting ground is the first step. The older generation said that the infected from Paradise live longer, so this selection model is correct, and the strong are always born from killing. ”

"There are always parents among the dead, what about their parents."

"You think too much, 90 percent of the children in Paradise don't have parents. Moreover, dying in the hunting ground means being weak, and weakness is the original sin. Lin Yuan stared at Li Yun, he was eating happily, and everything he said was very normal. She thought: Isn't there a teenager in Paradise who wants to be an ordinary person?

"Hiccup-", Li Yun swept away the dishes on the table, giving Lin Yuan a lot of face, he stretched his waist, and said absentmindedly: "In paradise, there is only one relationship, the wolf and the rabbit, the hunter and the prey." You better get used to it earlier, I'm about to leave the paradise, Uncle Wu is also old, he can't control the big scene, if you continue like this, you will die soon. ”

Lin Yuan looked out the window, and the almost circular silver moon was reflected on the glass.