Xiao Yun entered the cave a few minutes later than the Imperials, while Xue Qiong and Minette were a little later. This is also thanks to Xiao Yun's powerful reconnaissance ability after turning into a bat, otherwise the two would soon lose their targets in the intricate cave.

Xue Qiong took the black dagger out of the storage space, put it on its scabbard, hung it on his belt, and handed Minette an ordinary steel dagger that had been ripped off the dead ghost of the purple mist to Minette.

At this time, Xue Qiong had already changed into the outfit he was most accustomed to: shirt, long trench coat, casual suit pants, black soft-soled sneakers... Fortunately, this way of wearing is quite acceptable in this world. While he relied on his night vision, he walked leisurely in the dark cave, and said in a low voice:

"Listen up, Minette. If you want to make your walking sound smaller, first of all, you should pay attention to the foothold, and it is best not to have anything that will make a sound, such as gravel, fallen leaves, etc., and secondly... Such. ”

Xue Qiong's walking posture did not change, but the sound of footsteps disappeared almost all at once. The reason for this is that he changed the normal way of landing, but when the foot landed, he first gently dropped a point, then stepped on an edge along this point, and finally lowered the entire ball of his foot.

Xue Qiong continued: "And if you want to be faster, that's it. ”

After saying that, he changed his way of moving forward again. Bow down, hang your arms up, fixed in the air, and then every step is only on your toes, and your toes are facing back... Silently, quickly, he bounced like a ghost shadow and pulled away.

I have to say that although this walking posture is ugly to death, the effect is surprisingly good.

Xue Qiong stopped, turned around, and then gestured to Minette to follow.

As Xue Qiong expected, Minette learns quickly, should it be said that it is racial superiority, or is it some other inevitable factor... In short, except for the first few steps that Minette couldn't maintain his balance, he walked faster than Xue Qiong had just demonstrated.

Xue Qiong nodded and whispered with satisfaction, "Keep up." ”

After saying this, Xue Qiong pulled out a dagger and carved a smiling face on the cave wall. Although both he and Minette have some night vision and can navigate this dark cave without lighting, they still have to make markers to prevent them from getting lost.

"Senior!" Xiao Yun used the team communication to contact Xue Qiong, "The Imperial people have encountered a three-way intersection, there are ten people on the left and ten in the middle, and there are no people on the right... Which do I chase? ”

"Left." Xue Qiong replied without thinking, "If there is such a situation again, all of them will follow on the far left." By the way, what kind of marks do the Imperials make? ”

"Understood! The mark of the Imperials is... A very simple fork. ”

After following like this for about an hour, the Imperial people divided their men at every fork in the road, and soon there were only two people left in each share. Although they came in this time without fear, and did not make any preparations for someone to follow, all the purpose was only to complete the exploration of the largest area in the shortest possible time, but it was also an iron rule not to act alone, and the two-person team was the maximum they could accept.

In Xue Qiong's memory, none of the monsters that existed in the Screaming Cave appeared. However, instead of thinking about the plot changes, Xue Qiong prefers to believe it, but they don't go deep enough.

He was leaning against a hollow in a stone wall, the light of the torches reflecting off the stone wall opposite him, indicating that the Empire was almost close at hand.

Almost, for a person like Xue Qiong, whose frontal combat effectiveness is not much stronger than ordinary people, two well-trained soldiers is already the limit of what he can assassinate, and it must also be an enemy who uses cold weapons.

Xue Qiong made a downward gesture to Minette, who was also leaning against the stone wall and was a little nervous, meaning to let her wait here, and also took out a small dentist's mirror and looked at the two Imperial people with torches at the corner of the stone wall to confirm the situation.

Xue Qiong took a deep breath...

"Click!" The sound of a pebble falling on the ground.

"Who?!" The two Imperial Scouts alertly raised their torches and turned to look, but found nothing behind them, only a small bat flying over their heads.

And just when they thought they were just delusional, they turned around and took two steps forward...

"Hmm!!" An Imperial Scout who has been stabbed in the heart from the back and kills with one blow!

Another Imperialist sensed that something was wrong, and just put his hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist, only to find that the hilt had already been grabbed by the other hand first...

Before he could react again, a black dagger stabbed into the base of his thigh. And when he suddenly felt pain and his footing was unstable for a while, Xue Qiong stabbed the dagger in his thigh and cut it horizontally, cutting off the major artery in his leg.

Although the second target was not dead, Xue Qiong immediately withdrew the dagger, and then disappeared into the darkness again.

He went back to the corner where he had been hiding, blocked the small mirror that Minette had been staring at, and pulled her over.

"This man, at least a little longer, will struggle before he dies of blood loss." Xue Qiong pointed to the Imperial man who was holding his thigh and howling, and said expressionlessly, "You go and end his pain, and then the next two-person team will be solved by you." ”

Minette gripped the dagger tightly with trembling hands, the tip of the knife pointing downward, holding it in front of him, and walked step by step towards the desperate man.

"That's not right." Xue Qiong frowned, then grabbed Minette's hand and gently broke the fingers of her left hand one by one, "Always remember that the dagger is a one-handed weapon. You can only hold the other dagger with both hands or grasp the wrist of your right hand to increase the force, and it is very inefficient to hold the handle of the knife with both hands. ”

"Ming... Got it. Minette took a deep breath, then stopped trembling, and lowered his hands loosely in front of him, and walked steadily towards the unknown man lying on the ground, still howling.

Before he died, the other party drew his long sword, wanting to make a final counterattack, but Xiao Yun, who suddenly changed from a bat to a human, slashed his wrist with the swiftness of the painful moonlight.

Minette walked up to him, pressed his knee against his chest, and then swung his right hand gently around his neck, severing his trachea and carotid artery with the dagger he held in his backhand.

"Smack! Smack, smack. Xue Qiong smiled and clapped a few times.

"You're doing a good job." Xiao Yun hugged Minette from behind and pulled her up.

"Woo... "For some reason, Minette began to cry again.

But a few seconds later, before the tissue that Xiao Yun hastily took out touched her face, she raised her hand and wiped away her tears fiercely, and then said to Xue Qiong: "Brother Xue Qiong, let's find the next target." ”

"You're a genius," Xue Qiong sighed.

Xiao Yun turned into a bat form again, and flew away first. Xue Qiong and Minette walked quietly in the dark, and after a short time, they saw the light of the fire again at the corner of the cave in front of them.

Xue Qiong smiled in the darkness, made a very gentlemanly gesture of "please" forward, and then retreated behind Minette.

Minette followed Xue Qiong's example, first looked at it with a small mirror, and then threw out a stone as well...

(Hey, you can't copy it exactly...) Although Xue Qiong vomited in her heart, she still decided to do nothing and continue to see what kind of performance Minette would be.

"What people!" As a result, the other party's reaction was the same...

Minette waited for a few seconds before jumping silently around the corner.

But in fact, the situation this time is different from what Xue Qiong faced before... The place where Xue Qiong hid last time was relatively close to the target, and it was only a few steps away. But Minette was different this time, and by the time she threw the stones, the two Imperials had already walked more than twenty meters from this corner.

So almost inevitably, when Minette was still about five meters away from the target, one of them turned his head disciplinedly...

"Enemy..."

Before he could utter the second word, Minette accelerated and slashed his neck with a dagger. But at this time, the person who walked further in front also noticed Minette, and at the same time turned around, he drew his long sword and rushed directly towards Minette!

However, Minet did not run as soon as Xue Qiong was discovered, but was stunned for a moment when the first corpse fell, and then subconsciously dodged a little to the side... Missing this moment, the long sword of another Imperial soldier was already slashing straight at her neck!

"it!" When the first dead ghost shouted, Xue Qiong had already walked around the corner, but even if he saw such a situation, he could only stand in place and watch helplessly, because the distance was too far, and he had no way to go up to help in the first place.

And Xiao Yun, who was in charge of preventing her from getting away in this battle, had just changed back into a human form behind that person, and she didn't expect it to be too late, but when she swung half of the knife to save people...

"Bump!" "Uhh!!h

I saw that before Minette was cut off by the long sword, he quickly spun around and crouched down, dodging the attack, and at the same time touching the ground with one hand, one leg kicked backwards diagonally under the crotch of the Imperial soldier!

Xiao Yun and Xue Qiong were stunned for a moment, and then Minette caught up with the unlucky guy who was holding a sword in one hand and covering his crotch with the other, and even threw a torch to the ground, desperately retreating, kicked him to the ground again, and then pierced his heart with a dagger.

"Ahh Aha..."Xue Qiong looked over there in a daze, and then lit a cigarette for herself before saying, "Racial advantage, I understand..."

"It's just that in this case, I have to find you a teacher in individual arts."