Chapter 461: Second Night
The next day, the sun was still shining, and Su Ze and the three of them, led by Heishui, followed the shortest route to find the blood-stained ruin boundary monument.
Seeing the miserable corpses in that place, Li Shasha immediately covered Qiuqiu's eyes and turned her back, Fan Qian also held the big tree on the spot and vomited, only Su Ze walked to the fire with an expressionless face, carefully observed everything left at the scene, and said to herself: "This kind of narrow and long footprints are by no means left by fierce beasts such as lions and tigers, probably monkeys." Judging by the size and depth of the footprints, they are not large, and the number is about six to seven. The lacerations on the corpse were obvious, and the fracture showed that the monkey had a strong arm strength that did not match its size. The tooth marks are very different from those of humans, but they are similar to those of leopards, suggesting that they are pure carnivores with protruding jaws. ”
Hearing this, Li Shasha, who had her back to Su Ze, said, "Isn't there the ruin boundary monument next to it? If it is really a kind of monkey that eats meat, isn't it the five-clawed baboon of the relict beast?"
"Impossible!" Fan Qian wiped his mouth and said with an ugly face: "The relic beast is entrenched in the center of the ruins all year round, and even if it occasionally leaves the lair, it is impossible to go too far. Unless the stele is fake, why did the five-clawed baboon come to the edge of the ruins...... No, these three died outside the ruins, and I've never heard of the ruins leaving the range of the ruins!"
Su Ze looked at the corpse of the girl who had the most tragic death on the ground, shook his head and said, "Xiao Fan, among the three of us, you read the most, but what you learned in the book may not be right. ”
With Su Ze supporting herself, Li Shasha immediately interjected with confidence: "That's it, this is definitely done by a five-clawed baboon!" In order not to have a territorial dispute with the ruin beast, there are few demonic beasts on the periphery of the ruins, and what else can it be other than the five-clawed baboon that can kill the three of them in seconds?"
Seeing that Fan Qian was silent, Su Ze pointed to the corpse of the girl at his feet and said, "I'm not talking to Sasha, if your stomach can still hold on, you might as well come and have a look." It was obvious that her eyes had been pierced by her fingers, but because of the strength of the hand, it had left three finger marks on her head. The longest finger mark on her forehead is supposed to be her middle finger, which suggests that her eyes should have been pierced by the index and ring fingers of one hand. ”
Although Fan Qian didn't dare to step forward to confirm the condition of the corpse, when he heard Su Ze say this, he reflexively raised his right hand, gestured at the action of digging out his eyes with his index finger and ring finger, and then asked, "So what?"
Su Ze looked at the corpse's head and said thoughtfully, "If her eyes were pierced by her index finger and ring finger, then the finger marks remaining on the sides of her cheeks should be her thumb and little finger." Under normal circumstances, whether it is a human hand or a foot, or an animal's paws, there is a difference between the left and right, which leads to a huge difference in the shape of our thumb and little finger. But the finger marks on both sides of her cheeks, both in length and thickness, are so similar that they are difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, suggesting that the hand that grabbed her eye socket and dragged her here was neither left nor right, but an almost symmetrical 'middle hand'. Or rather, the fifth hand of the five-clawed baboon. ”
Fan Qian firmly believed that the ruin beast would not run out of the ruins, because if the first relic beast could leave the ruins, then he was afraid that the entire Sameen Continent would be destroyed! However, the evidence given by Su Ze made him have to be convinced, and he could only nod unwillingly: "If the five-clawed baboons can run out of the ruins, it means that they will never stay in the center of the ruins honestly." If they were scattered throughout the ruins, it would be beneficial for us to get twenty tails each. ”
Su Ze nodded, turned around and said, "We don't care, I'm afraid that the others don't know the range of the five-clawed baboon's activities, and they still have the luck mentality that only the center of the ruins is dangerous." If that's the case, then these eighty-four people...... Well, it's already eighty-one people, and I don't know how many will be left in the end. ”
Su Ze and the three of them were the latest to set off, but they were the first to enter the vanguard. However, after entering the ruins, they did not see the sight they expected that the mountains were full of monkeys. After walking for half an hour, not only did they not see a single monkey, but they did not even hear an ape cry except for the sound of the wind and their own footsteps, which also made this seemingly lush forest even more eerie.
In order to fulfill his promise, Su Ze did not directly lead the team to kill the center of the ruins, but carefully circled along the periphery of the ruins. Even if it was just to make up for Li Shasha's regret last night, he felt that he had an obligation to warn those who came after him. So every two hundred meters, the three of them would carve sentences such as "The five-clawed baboon will haunt the periphery of the ruins" on a conspicuous tree, hoping that no one would die like the three corpses.
In this way, the day gradually passed, and when the shadows of the trees that were pulled longer and longer by the setting sun were like big black hands crawling all over the earth, Su Ze finally stopped. They lit the fire, barbecued the bacon they had made last night, and watched the sunset and laugh as if it were no different from yesterday. But after dinner, Su Ze did not fall asleep like yesterday, but summoned the rock elves and built a small stone house with no doors and windows and only an observation port in the fastest time.
The observation of the stone house is facing the bonfire, and above the bonfire hangs a piece of grilled meat with fragrant oil. That's right, Su Ze just wanted to attract those elusive five-clawed baboons through the light of fire and the smell of meat, even if he had no fear of these relic beasts, in order to ensure Li Shasha's safety, he had to be 100% aware of himself and his opponent.
Slowly, the night was getting late. I don't know when, Li Shasha and Fan Qian had fallen asleep peacefully, but Su Ze was still standing in front of the observation port like a tree stump, staring motionlessly at the jumping flame......
At that moment, a dozen half-human-tall figures finally appeared in the firelight, and they circled around the campfire, staring at the roasted meat hanging above the flames.
With the monkeys' IQ, Su Ze did not doubt that they had the ability to take the meat away, but to his surprise, there were more than a dozen five-clawed baboons walking around the fire, and even stepped on a few dry firewood that he deliberately placed next to the fire, but why didn't he hear the slightest sound?
Soon, the Soul Hedron gave the answer.
Five-clawed baboon, no rank, no growth state. Strength: 3 stars, Magic: 1 star, Dexterity: 5 stars, Defense: 3 stars. Good at magic: Don't listen.
Don't listen? Can this kind of magic make people unable to hear the outside world? Su Ze didn't talk to himself, he saw those five-clawed baboons communicating with roars, but he couldn't hear anything, so he guessed that the so-called "not listening" had no effect on this group of five-clawed baboons. If he talks to himself at this time, I am afraid that before he hears his own voice, the five-clawed baboon will be alarmed.
In fact, after eating the barbecue, the five-clawed baboons are also full of interest in the stone house next to the fire. They jumped up and down, and even one of them slapped into the observation port to try to peek in. However, they seemed to know that destroying the stone house would inevitably alarm the people inside, so after making sure that the stone house had no door to enter, they left in a huff.
And at this time, Su Ze finally understood why this group of monkeys didn't haunt during the day - with such a strange non-listening magic, they were simply natural assassins! And the night was the exclusive stage for assassins!
One assassin is easy to guard, but five hundred and twelve assassins are really unguardable! At this time, Su Ze had already deeply realized that the sentences he carved on the tree were useless, and he hoped that the other seventy-eight people had not yet approached the ruins, but he did not hear those heart-rending screams......
On the second night, twenty-one candidates died, and the remaining number: sixty.