Chapter 23: Convergence
"Whoa!" Donald and the female reincarnation emerge from under the water and lift Fanny and Stenson on their backs into the sampan.
"Damn, it's all my fault!" Donald patted the gunwales of the sampan with regret, the opponent's little trick was not complicated, but just happened to target their psychological blind spots, turning them from hunters into prey.
When Donald realized that something was wrong and looked back, he only found the bodies of his two other companions. When they found Fanny and Stearnham underwater, they didn't dare to stay any longer, and swam a little guard against the drowning section.
Qin Lun, who didn't know where to hide, didn't attack again, and let them go to the sampan.
"Boss, why didn't he kill Fanny and Stensen?" The female reincarnation asked with a pale face.
Fanny and Stannson, though unconscious, wore oxygen bags like pig urine bubbles on their faces, and were not drowning.
"My judgment is wrong!" Donald froze and said remorsefully, "Our main task is to protect Alan and others in the Grim Reaper game, and the branch is to help Wilson's team, so as to eliminate the backward Grim Reaper game at the level of world laws and give birth to a more hidden mysterious power."
The advantage of this is that it protects the magic laws of the world's gradual growth. As a relative task, the reincarnation team needs to destroy the plot line as much as possible and expose the Grim Reaper game to the public, so as to induce the collapse of the magic law and make the world move towards pure technology and civilization.
I would have thought that the opponent would kill the plot characters one by one, but this judgment is inaccurate. In fact, the main purpose of the opponent is not to kill the characters in the plot, but to expand the influence of the event by killing people, so that the public can realize the existence of mysterious forces.
Wilson and Luke died in the camp where the crowd gathered, and that was the purpose. And now that Fanny and Stendom are dying here, without any audience, naturally it doesn't meet his requirements......"
Since Donald didn't know the apostle's existence, he could only make this reluctant explanation, which explained Qin Lun's behavior in disguise.
Soon, Donald took the female reincarnation and two unconscious plot characters to join Alan and the others who were waiting outside the cave. Falsely claiming that the female reincarnation was also one of the hostages taken by the monsters, the monsters dropped the hostages halfway through, allowing him to rescue Fanny and Stantison.
As for Qin Lun, Donald lied to them that his whereabouts were unknown. Because Stenson was seriously injured and needed to be sent to the hospital as much as possible, Alan and the others had no choice but to wait for Qin Lun to come back, and chose to leave after making a few eye-catching signs nearby.
As Alan and the others tracked all the way, coupled with the battle between Donald and Qin Lun in the cave, time passed quietly, and before they knew it, it was already in the west, and it was the afternoon of the next day.
At this time, Hill and others, who hurried to Acadia National Park in the early morning but had to rest in the field camp due to fatigue, had also woken up to join the search team formed by the Acadia police and civilians.
The effects of last night's riots are still unfolding, and Maine police have deployed a large number of police forces to cooperate with the rangers of Acadia National Park to launch a search and rescue operation on the edge of the forest.
In addition to the travelers who died violently at the camp last night, they found several other bodies in the forest near the camp, including Carmen. It's just that the search and rescue operation has just begun, and there are at least more than 10 missing people from the list of passengers obtained by the police from travel agencies.
Of course, Acadia National Park is just too big, with not only the 460-metre-high Cadillac Mountains, but also the true oceanfjord, Samsød Soundfjord.
Mountains, glaciers, primeval forests, fjords, karst caves, underground rivers, the terrain of this island is so complex that even if tens of thousands of search and rescue manpower are invested, it is impossible to say that those missing people will be found.
Besides, who knows if they are already dead? If you are eaten by an animal in the forest, or if you stumble into the fjord, you will never be able to find a carcass.
However, because of the large number of deaths and disappearances this time, even FBI agents and National Geographic reporters were alarmed, so the police in Maine did not dare to give up prematurely, and had to cooperate with rangers and volunteers to search the surrounding forest.
Hill and the others are now volunteers joining a search and rescue team commanded by a ranger. Of course, they only need an excuse to stay here, to avoid the eyes and ears of those who want to do it, and to do what they need to do.
"Ciel, have you seen the wounds on that corpse?" Grant leaned over to the shepherd and asked.
The five members of the Killer Team are all skilled at killing, but Ciel and Qin Lun are more familiar with the structure of the human body, and they can often find more clues on corpses.
"Well, if you look at it from a distance, and although you can't touch the corpse, I don't think it was done by those creatures that people call the Fiordland Kraken." Ciel touched his chin and said, "Judging from the wound, it looks like it was made by humans." ”
"Don't you think humans and monsters have intervened?" Grant looked at him strangely and asked, "I admit that the wound on the corpse's neck was so flat that it looked like a knife blade decapitation, but that big hole in his chest must have been pulled by a large animal with its claws, right?" ”
"Hehe, the wound on the neck is actually nothing, people with a little common sense know that it was cut with a knife, but the focus is on the injury on the chest." Hill smiled confidently, "That wound is well camouflaged, unless it is examined with professional forensic instruments, most people think it was an animal, but it is not......"
"Oh?" Hearing Hill's words, several companions next to the two of them gathered around with interest, and even Qin Mei pricked up her ears.
"It's a cold weapon disguised as an animal's claws, iron claws on a man's hand." Hill said with a light smile, "Although the wound looks similar on the outside, you must know the width of the animal's claws, and the shape of the five fingers is always different from the human hand. ”
"You can even tell this with the naked eye!" The way everyone looked at Hill was a little strange.
"Ahem, I've used ...... before," Hill said calmly.
"No wonder!" Everyone suddenly realized that the old god stick was a priest before becoming an apostle, and it was impossible to fight with iron claws. The only place where Iron Claw can come in handy is when he is a human cook.
"So you and Qin Mei both agreed to follow this clue to find Qin Lun?" Rand asked thoughtfully.
"Yes, by the time we came here, the riots were over. From the mouths of ordinary people, we will definitely not be able to know the truth about last night's events, but it is the dead who can give us the most useful information. Hill nodded.
"The corpse may or may not be an important person, but at least one thing is certain, and that is that he was involved in a plot line. As long as we find the murderer who killed him, we will definitely be able to participate in the plot line of Arcadia and find the plot characters or reincarnators who have intersections with Qin Lun. ”
With a clear goal, Hill and the others made rapid progress. Gradually, they broke away from the search and rescue team and headed deeper into Acadia National Park, where their surroundings slowly turned into a silent primeval forest.
However, the direction they were heading in at this time was completely different from the direction in which the Fiordland Kraken had fled last night. Not only did he not approach Wanhu, but it was in the opposite direction, and it seemed impossible to meet Qin Lun.
"Sososo!" There was a suspicious movement in the bushes in front of them.
"Who? Come out? "Hill and the others scattered, and despite having weapons in their hands, they didn't shoot, and they didn't perceive any danger.
Unlike Qin Lun, although Hill and the others entered this world, they encountered a number of prehistoric beasts in the Colombian rainforest that could also be called mysterious powers. But the threat of prehistoric giant beasts to the apostles is different from the Grim Reaper game after all, and they don't have Qin Lun's sense of crisis.
"Sososo!" The sound from the bushes got closer and closer, and just as Hill and the others were raising their vigilance, the bushes in front of them suddenly parted, and a ragged and barefoot Western~ beauty fell out of it.
She didn't seem to notice the people in front of her at all, and after falling, she used all fours and crawled forward frantically. But she still twisted her head, her eyes fixed on her back, as if a beast was chasing her.
"One of the missing girls!" Everyone looked at each other, and those involved in the search and rescue had seen the sketches posted by the rangers and the police.
"You're not suitable......" Rand stretched out his hand to stop Grant, who wanted to step forward, and raised his chin towards Qin Mei next to him, motioning for her to comfort the girl.
"Damn!" Grant stepped back in amazement, but did not insist on stepping forward.
Although the apostles entered each mission world, the Law Body had to be reshaped. However, there are generally certain rules for this kind of molding, such as gender, physiognomy, etc., which often refer to the apostle itself.
After the apostles possessed the Law Body, most of the apostles would use numerical values to measure their combat effectiveness, just like Qin Lun's numerical attributes in the death list. In fact, each apostle summed up a different number of jù types, and some apostles also summarized physiognomy into a numerical value.
The number of physiognomy jù has a certain relationship with the apostle's bloodline, personality, gender, etc. From this aspect, Qin Lun obtained elven blood, coupled with the gentle character of disguise, and often reshaped the law body is relatively handsome.
And Grant's bloodline is a virus, a giant, and a distorted character with low self-esteem, the appearance created is always ugly. Let him appease the girl in front of him, he will definitely only get the opposite effect.
"You...... Who are you? Under Qin Mei's comfort, the girl's eyes slowly became focused, and she regained a little bit of reason.
"Don't worry, we're search and rescue personnel, you're safe!" Qin Mei gently encouraged the girl, but at this time, she couldn't see the bad character of the evil ghost at all, "What's your name, have you seen other missing people!" ”
"Wow~~~" The girl was stunned for a while, and suddenly hugged Qin Mei and cried, so that she had to roll her eyes and continue to comfort patiently.
If Qin Lun was here, he would immediately recognize that the girl was one of the important plot characters, Wilson's beautiful girlfriend - Karin.