Time flies, and five years have passed.

Dongdu Mountain is located south of the Heavenly Trench Abyss, at the border of the Dongxuan Continent and the Thousand Layer Demon Forest.

At this time, it was the spring equinox, and a spring thunder woke up all things, and also attracted a continuous spring rain, moistening the Dongdu mountain forest. The winter snow of the mountain stream melts, turns into a trickle of clear springs, clear and tactful, and the foot of the mountain on the side of the stream is also a grass warbler flying, thriving. A little hare jumped out of nowhere, startling the rain and dew on the tips of the tender grass buds, and this is a novel and fun for the little hare to welcome the first new year.

In the depths of the forest of Dongdu Mountain, it is a different scene, the mist is like clouds and smoke, and the birds are breathing and insects, and the dead air is silent. Only the remnants of winter and dead wood, which made a brief screeching sound after being trampled off, returned to silence after a moment.

Xing Hao, the captain of the border city guard, with several elites of the Demon Imperial Army, is looking for clues in the forest, these days, there are constantly hunters into the mountains to hunt, several days have not returned, and I don't know what is going on, so the city lord specially ordered Xing Hao to lead the team into the mountains to investigate, but this from the foot of the mountain into the depths of the mountain forest, half a day has passed, and some traces of suspicion have been found, but they have also been blurred by the drizzle for days.

Lin Zhujian sniffed the air, and with a hint of blood mixed in the spring breeze, he looked for the direction, as if he had a judgment. He quickly ran to the branch of a broken poplar tree in the distance, and then rummaged through the messy fern under the broken tree, and after observing it for a moment, he said, "Come and see, there are new traces here." ”

When everyone heard this, they gathered around.

Lin pointed to the broken mark of the tree trunk and said: "You see that this trunk is obviously directly broken by gravity, and the broken is wet, it must be caused by the recent spring rain, and then look at the fern under the tree, there are obvious traces of trampling, although this trace is sloppy and disorderly, but it can also be vaguely judged from the size and depth of human footprints." Apparently someone was attacked, broke the poplar tree, and then stood up leaning against the trunk. ”

Cao Li frowned and questioned, "When have we ever seen a beast with such brute strength, even the demon beast in the demon forest has never been like this. ”

Everyone nodded in agreement, and even the experienced old hunter Lin Zhujian was silent. The unknown but premonitable danger ahead made everyone seriously nervous, and they didn't dare to take it lightly for a moment. With the new clues, everyone also lifted their spirits, and no longer had to be like blind flies, bumping around.

Xing Hao coughed lightly and said: "We have been stationed in the border city all the year round, what kind of demon beast has not been seen, don't be too frightened, continue to maintain the formation, Lao Lin, we will continue to lead the way, Xiao Jiang, you and Xiao Yan will take care of the aftermath, and the others will pay attention to the surrounding movements in the middle." ”

As everyone paced forward, the fog in the forest became thicker, like the beginning of chaos, and the more and more pungent and unpleasant fishy smell was incompatible with the faint fragrance of flowers in early spring.

In a pile of messy bushes, Lin Zhujian made a new discovery, and said: "You see that this is the fragments of the quiver commonly used by hunters, and this coarse linen cloth was also torn off the hunter's body, and it was stained with a large amount of blood. ”

Xing Hao replied softly: "It seems that the direction is not wrong. From now on, you follow me. Don't get too far ahead. ”

As the crowd went deeper, the traces of the fight became more and more obvious, such as huge footprints, broken longbows, and even a human stump arm.

When a deep and huge cave entrance appeared in the team's field of vision, Xing Hao raised his hand to signal everyone to stop. Heaven and earth were silent, only the sound of snoring sounded rhythmically from the cave, and no one knew what kind of monster was sleeping in the cave.

Xing Hao skillfully used military sign language to direct everyone to set up traps, everyone was cautious, for fear that one would accidentally wake up the demon, and after completing the arrangement, they scattered behind the trees.

After about half an hour, the snoring stopped, the spring breeze abruptly stopped, and the damp mist in the forest stirred up the smell of blood. A dark shadow slowly emerged from the entrance of the cave. Everyone held their breath, trying to see the beast through the thick mist, but they didn't dare to do too much temptation, they could only see a pair of scarlet eyes, like two demon fires, as the black shadow continued to approach, and it became more vivid and scorching.

Every time the black shadow got closer, the surrounding aura became heavier, and at last about two zhang away, the outline and face of the beast could be discerned, it was actually a molestered black bear, the black bear walked on the ground, about half a zhang high, if it was upright, it would probably have to be a zhang high, the whole body was covered with black hair, mud and minced meat, dirty, and the crescent-shaped white spot on the chest also turned cinnabar color because of the mildness.

Suddenly, the black bear began to howl in a low voice, as if smelling a suspicious and dangerous smell in the air, and ran around restlessly. Everyone also knew that the black bear's sense of hearing and smell was extremely sensitive, and they did not dare to move, so they could only quietly pray that the piece of venison in the center of the trap was attractive enough. After a while, the black bear really quieted down, maybe smelled the umami of meat, and began to move towards the venison, but he didn't know that a huge net on the top of the tree had already been spread out and waited for a long time.

Xing Hao immediately made a decision, shouted: "Pull!", the rope that fixed the trap was loosened, and a demon net was overwhelmingly covered, Xing Hao called again: "Close!" The four warriors who were lying behind the four trees tacitly closed the net at the same time, just trapping the black bear in the center of the net.

The black bear found itself in an ambush, roared angrily, and tried several times to break free upright, but failed, and the elite team was ambushed in four corners, controlled by the horns, and retracted freely.

Seeing that the demon binding net was working, everyone also stabilized the situation, and then ordered: "Yan Han, you use ice magic to freeze the black bear, Lao Lin, you directly aim at the black bear's head." ”

Yan Han listened to the order, danced the staff in his hand, and gently recited the spell on his lips, only to see that the fog around the black bear began to condense into frost, and this frost began to spread, from the bear's paw to the beast's body, freezing the black bear so much that it could not move. On the other side, Lin Zhu's arrow steadied the lunge, stretched the Zhemu bow into a full moon, and with a "whoosh", the arrow came out of the string at high speed, and swooped towards the target accurately. The black bear heard the crisp sound of the arrow cutting through the air, and knew that it was a matter of life and death, and after raising his head and roaring, he burst out with the greatest brute force, and finally shattered the ice on his body, and then tried to move to the side, but was trapped by the demon net, and had no choice but to turn his head to the side.

This side was lucky not to be hit by the arrow in the head, but it was also shot in the eyeball, and the two scarlet demon fires were extinguished in an instant. The seriously injured black bear roared hysterically, the sound waves shook so that the new leaves of the poplar tree rustled, the anger of the trapped beast, the mighty mountains and forests, and the strong anger surged out of the mountains and seas, and the black bear at this time completely ignored the blood in the injured eyes. And try your best to pull the demon net.

The recruit Wang Shan lost his mind, and the head of the rope in his hand was shaken free by the black bear, and he saw that the head of the rope was about to be pulled under the bear's paw by the black bear.

Seeing that the situation was critical, Xing Hao shouted: "Cao Li, quickly work with Wang Shan to pull the rope back again." ”

Cao Li got the order, gathered momentum to explode, and stepped out of a few steps of meteors, and in an instant it was already approaching the rope head that was close to the black bear, everyone was overjoyed, thinking that Cao Li could quickly pull back the rope head and control the decline, but they didn't want him to stop walking, and ignored the rope head that was gliding away on the ground, but then stepped lightly on the ghost step, flashed to the back of the black bear like a ghost, and flashed a dagger, pointing directly at the heart.

The black bear dancing wildly felt a chill on his back, presumably because of the cold glow of the dagger. The black bear didn't dodge, only one right eye was left with a red light that suddenly rose brightly, and the thick red mang's aura wrapped the entire beast's body tightly.

Everyone was shocked, but they didn't expect the black bear to be able to complete the transformation in an instant, and the cold light of the dagger could no longer break through the transformation of the gas layer for half a minute, hanging in the air. Cao Li was shocked, his "ghost step detective" was already fast and unexpectedly changed direction, making the enemy unpredictable, but he didn't want the black bear to ignore it at all, so he directly turned his fur into iron and resisted the fatal blow.

Xing Hao saw that Cao Li's assassination had failed this time, but he was still surprised on the spot, and hurriedly shouted: "Cao Li, retreat quickly." ”

Cao Li woke up and wanted to quickly pull out the dagger, but he didn't want the dagger to be embedded in the abusive fur and couldn't pull it out. Seeing the bear's paw thrown horizontally, he had to give up the dagger at the moment, and with a move of "ghost wind retreat", he retreated several feet backwards again and again, not only the dagger was lost, but the leather armor on his chest was also scratched with five deep marks, which was very dangerous.

A wave just passed, a wave rose again, I don't know when to re-grasp Wang Shan, who was at the head of the rope, but he couldn't pull the black bear anymore, and was pulled back to the side by the black bear in reverse, Wang Shan stumbled, and happened to fall beside the black bear. How could the black bear let go of such a good hunting opportunity, and immediately raised its thick and fat bear paws and swept straight away.

Suddenly, Wang Shan's face turned pale with fright, and his body couldn't stop trembling, at this time he had lost the ability to escape, just waiting for the bear's paw to fall and be slapped into pulp.