"There's blood. ”

Lin Xi, who was silently walking in a cloud pine forest, frowned, stopped, and said to Bian Linghan in a low voice.

Bian Linghan took a few deep breaths hard, and immediately nodded at Lin Xi with a solemn expression.

The smell of blood is so faint that even in this extremely clean snow and ice air, it is difficult to detect it if you don't pay attention.

Lin Xi hesitated slightly, made a gesture to Bian Linghan, and the two of them immediately separated dozens of steps very tacitly, and tracked more carefully towards the direction where the smell of blood came from.

After a few stops, the two of them stopped at the same time, Bian Linghan stood still and looked around cautiously, while Lin Xi walked to a cloud pine and squatted down.

They found the source of the bloody gas.

The carcass and internal organs of the small half of the pheasant were just below the pine, and judging from the scattered feathers and tearing marks, the pheasant had been hunted and eaten alive.

Suddenly, Lin Xi leaned down again, lying flat on the snow, looking ahead.

Some strange heights were noticed by him, and after walking dozens of steps in a row, some shallow footprints appeared in his sight.

He immediately made a gesture to Bian Linghan, and then nodded at a high hillside next to him. Bian Linghan immediately moved silently towards the hillside, and he immediately followed.

At the top of the hillside, he and Bian Linghan saw the footprints spread all the way down the gentle slope of the lower ground in front of them, and then crossed the creek and entered a cloud pine forest on the opposite side.

"Eating so much raw meat of a snow pheasant at one time can easily cause discomfort, and if it is a student of Thunder Academy, there should not be a small half left, and it will definitely be dealt with and taken away. ”

"That should be a very good probability. ”

"Judging from the footprints, it should be less than an hour, and it is very likely that we can catch up now. ”

After exchanging views in a very low voice, Lin Xi and Bian Linghan immediately went downhill and followed the footprints quickly and silently.

There was only one person's footprint, and it seemed that the prisoners who had been thrown into this extremely vast area of Ten Finger Ridge were indeed scattered.

However, just as he was about to approach the stream formed by the melting snow, Lin Xi suddenly felt that something seemed wrong, but he couldn't say anything wrong.

Just as he looked at the stream in front of him and the footprints on the opposite bank, his brows furrowed slightly, and a trace of inexplicable rhythm suddenly appeared in the shallow snow under his feet.

Before he could react, a black spear tip had stabbed out of the snow under his feet!

As early as when he explained the so-called "wind marks" and "falling moon" of the Windrangers, Tong Wei said to him and Bian Linghan that the most difficult place for people to detect and react in time is the oblique back of the head.

Because people always look forward and find a sound, they always look in all directions or look up, and they don't immediately turn around and look backwards and upwards.

But Tong Wei is the archery skill that was taught... No arrow could shoot from under the ground, so he didn't say anything, in fact, what pierced from under the dirt behind him was also the most difficult to detect and react in time.

Because very few people notice the noise and turn around and immediately look down at the ground.

So in just one breath, the black tip of the spear that stabbed out of the ground directly pierced Lin Xi's left calf, and the tip of the spear protruded from the front of Lin Xi's calf with shocking blood, and the strong force on the gun made Lin Xi unable to stand and kneel on one knee.

Bian Linghan let out an unusually piercing exclamation in this quiet mountain wilderness, and the black spear tip dripping with blood was retracted domineeringly, and then a figure shook the snow with a more domineering posture, holding a black flower spear and a Bian Jun long knife hanging from his waist flew out of the ground.

Bian Linghan, whose face was unusually pale, held a short sword in his hand and blocked in front of Lin Xi, whose calf was completely pierced, but this domineering figure did not attack immediately, but took two steps back with a gun, as if he wanted to expel the chill on his body, he sighed violently, looked at Lin Xi with a leisurely demeanor, and said with a light smile: "Lin Xi, I didn't expect us to meet again so soon." ”

The man who was ambushed under the snow and jumped out of the snow with a domineering posture was the Wanyan Duye who was defeated by Lin Xi on the half-snow plains that day.

Bian Linghan's body was trembling slightly, and his mouth was bitter for a while.

She knew that the other party was a high-level soul warrior's cultivation, and his combat skills were very amazing, but now there was not much distance between her and Lin Xi and the other party, and the bow and arrow could not be used at all. Lin Xi's feet were bleeding non-stop... She and Lin Xi can't be each other's opponents, and she and Lin Xi are defeated... On the side of Qingluan Academy, there are two people missing.

"I didn't expect to meet you so soon. ”

Lin Xi looked at Yan Duye and smiled bitterly, thinking that although he was already careful, he had seen some people and things more accurately than ordinary people, but in terms of judging clues, he was still not as careful as Hua Lianyue.

He only now fully understood why he felt that something was wrong, it was because the footprints by the creek to the ambush place of Yan Duye were a little too deep.

In other words, Wanyan Duye discovered that there was a hollow drum under this snow field that was naturally suitable for ambush, so he deliberately passed here, walked through the stream, and retreated back along the footprints, and then ambushed here. As for how to get in, how it looks like there are no traces of excavation, Lin Xi has also learned in the wilderness survival course, as long as you carefully cut out the top layer of hard snow as a whole, the snow below is directly slapped into it, and then some thin branches are used to support it above the head, and embed that layer of snow shell back.

Hua Lingyue seems to have a unique talent for the judgment and analysis of some clues, if she is here, I am afraid that she can directly judge the abnormality, but Lin Xi and Bian Linghan do not have such talent, so let Wanyan Duye's sneak attack succeed.

"You stabbed me in the Half-Snow Plain, but now I'm stabbing you. Looking at Lin Xi, who still didn't have much panicked look, Wanyan Duye was a little surprised, but he naturally didn't think that Lin Xi still had any chance to turn the book, the wound he stabbed with this shot was very large, and it had already broken several big bloodlines of Lin Xi, let alone fighting him again, as long as Lin Xi couldn't stop the bleeding quickly with fire and other methods, he would directly die here due to excessive blood loss and cold.

So the corners of his mouth showed a smug look, and he looked at Lin Xi and said, "Although I have never understood why you were able to stab me at that time, you will never have a chance to stab me again in the future... Even if you have some unique talent, if you are gone, the talent and the reason that I can't understand will not be there, and I don't need to think about it. ”

Bian Linghan's body suddenly froze, she heard Wanyan Duye's killing intent, but at this moment, Lin Xi still didn't mean to be frightened at all, and didn't care about the wound on her leg, but instead looked at Wanyan Duye seriously and asked, "What are you going to do with us?"

Wan Yan Duye replied sneeringly: "There is no limit to casualties in the competition between the two academies this time, and for us, you are naturally our great enemy, so you can run away now, and if you can't escape, you don't have to complain if you die in my hands." ”

"Saying so much is nothing more than trying to kill us. Lin Xi looked at Yan Duye, and his brows furrowed deeply: "It seems that you didn't want to divide the winner from the prisoner from the beginning, you just wanted to kill us." ”

Wanyan Duye nodded and laughed, "Compared to finding those prisoners who don't know where to run, it's much easier to make some traces for you to chase." And if all five of us from the Thunder Academy go out well, and all five of you are either dead or disabled. Then it is even more obvious who wins and who loses in the competition between this academy, and how can it be compared with the victory or defeat of bringing one more prisoner out with one less?"

Lin Xi looked at Yan Duye like a student, and asked seriously, "What about Helan Yuexi? He wanted to kill me when he first saw me in the half-snowy plain, so why?"

"If you don't say it, I've forgotten. Wanyan Duye smiled, looked at Lin Xi with deep meaning, and said, "Senior Brother Helan has made a special explanation, if he sees you in the competition, he must not hesitate to use any method to kill you." As for the reason, I think it must be that you dare to go to such a harsh place above the snow line and practice as if you were dying, which made him feel threatened... His heart is higher than ours, and naturally he doesn't want to see anyone who poses a great threat to him in the future, whether in his cultivation or in his career. ”

Bian Linghan's mood at the moment was extremely complicated, her thin and purple lips were tightly pursed, the color was even more gloomy than the color of the mountains under the clouds in the mountains in the distance, according to her understanding of Lin Xi, Lin Xi must have some intention in letting the blood flow and saying so many things, but what could he do?

She slowly lowered her head and clenched the short sword hard, her body trembling even more, I don't know if it was because of fear or for some other reason.

"I admit I thought of you too kindly... It's just because I don't want to see others as good, so I started to kill... Now that I'm dying, can you tell me where the rest of you have gone, and what you want to do against us?" At this time, Lin Xi asked again.

Wanyan Duye looked at Lin Xi, whose face was getting more and more snow-white, and his voice was getting weaker and weaker, and then looked at Bian Linghan who lowered his head, but he keenly felt a trace of jade burning breath from Bian Linghan's body, he smiled slightly, but instead took two steps back, picked up the black flower spear diagonally in front of him, and said slowly: "It's okay to let you die clearly... One of us disguised himself as a prisoner, in a ridge between Peak 6 and Peak 3, and another was active near Peak 9, he was gifted with night pupils, and his night vision was much stronger than ordinary people, and it should be difficult for ordinary people to prevent assassination in the dark. There is another one like me, although he doesn't have any special schemes, but his cultivation is one order higher than me, and he is the cultivation of a beginner-level soul master. As for Senior Brother Helan, it is said that he himself grew up in the wilderness, and has lived with wild beasts since he was a child, and his sense of smell of blood is many times more sensitive than that of ordinary people, and he can detect the bloody qi between these half of the mountain peaks, he is not on our side now, otherwise he should be about to come over at this moment. ”

Bian Linghan saw that the snow under her feet had been completely stained red by Lin Xi's blood, and she felt that she couldn't wait any longer, but at this moment, she heard Lin Xi say to her in a voice that could only be heard between the two of them: "Don't do it, trust me." Just as her body trembled, she heard Lin Xi let out a sigh and said in a low voice: "Then you haven't said yet, where is Helan Yuexi now... Also, he and I claim to be the number one in your academy, what kind of cultivation is he?"

"Senior Brother Helan is indeed the first person among our students in this Thunder Realm. Wanyan Duye glanced at Lin Xi and said, "He traveled among all these peaks, and according to his footsteps, he should have arrived somewhere between Peak No. 6 and Peak No. 3 by now." His cultivation has indeed reached the middle level of soul master. ”