Chapter 45: The Hunt

Caleb sat cross-legged in the tent, his face depressed, he frowned and stared at the panel in front of him, but his hands were not idle, and he stroked Ena's ears.

Ena lay on Caleb's lap, quietly enjoying the intimacy between the two, and snoring comfortably.

Whew-

Caleb let out a sigh of relief, his furrowed brows finally loosened, and after sorting out the information on the panel and the hints, he also had a little conclusion about the change.

Overall, there are pros and cons to this change. ’

The few skills that disappeared by themselves, the skill points invested in advance are gone, and the skill of "Heart of the Swarm" requires 10 skill points to upgrade at a time, and the disappearance of the magic attribute makes the A-level adventurer title full attribute bonus less than 32 attributes.

The good news is that the level of "Spirit Network" and "Mind Power" will increase with the level of "Heart of the Swarm", if you can unlock more derivative skills in the future, then it is not a loss to invest in "Heart of the Swarm", after the merger of magic and spirit, your strength is also stronger, and the follow-up points are simpler.

There are also subtle changes in other skills, such as the Zerg contract technique has no limit, and he can contract more bugs, but Caleb doesn't want to contract too much, and the more bugs that contract the more bugs, the more experience to upgrade will need more, and if you want experience, you will inevitably set off a massacre, anyway, to be able to reproduce, Caleb decided to take the route of elite soldiers, except for the bugs that look at the eyes, he will not contract too much.

Caleb used his telekinesis skill as he stared at a pebble in the distance and slowly lifted it up.

Caleb's mind moved, and the stone instantly flew forward, with a fast speed, leaving a circle of ripples in the air.

"It's okay, it's as powerful as a bullet."

Caleb found another stone with a big head, which he could easily lift, and as the stones of different sizes floated up, Caleb gradually felt struggling, until the last one fell down in the process of ascending, and the stone floating in the air also fell.

"Whew-I have a strength of about 10 tons, if I run at full strength, I can hold on for half an hour with my mental strength."

The sound of falling stones woke Ena, who rubbed her eyes and looked at Caleb in confusion.

"What a voice, brother?"

Caleb rubbed Ena's head and said:

"Ah, it's okay, you go back to sleep, I'll go out for a while."

"Oh...."

After reassuring Ena to sleep, Caleb stepped out of the tent and followed the spiritual web to the woods beside the tent.

A worm nest appeared in front of Caleb's eyes, which were all Caleb's contract worm descendants, and after learning the heart of the insect swarm, the descendants had the ability to multiply independently, and Caleb let this group of descendants build a nest nearby.

"This is an automatic cultivation hanging for me, the nest built yesterday, today it turned over a quarter, although there are many bugs that run out of magic and die, but there are more new bugs, and I am generally satisfied."

Caleb patted the hive beside him and decided to leave it here to reproduce on its own.

The reason for this decision was Caleb's new skill "Spirit Networking", which is far from being as simple as the system describes.

In the final analysis, the essence of the spiritual network is still formed by Caleb's spiritual power, that is to say, the spiritual network is actually a part of Caleb's body, so with the system, Caleb can play a lot of sassy operations.

He can directly take the worm back to the system space through the spiritual network, and then directly teleport it to Caleb through the system, so that Caleb is equivalent to having a steady stream of worms in the outside world.

Of course, the big head is still in the Caleb space, and once the bugs under Caleb have stronger strength and are updated, these bugs will be useless, but they are still very good to replenish the inventory.

With the new skills in mind, there's only one last feature left in this update.

Caleb clicked on the trial template on the system interface and found that the point was not moving, and the entire button was gray.

"System, why doesn't it move?"

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"The Trials template requires special triggers, so please be patient."

"What special conditions?"

"The details cannot be told, please be patient."

"Well..."

Caleb had no choice but to give up.

The next day, Caleb woke up early, the two had been here for 5 days, and Ena had fully recovered, so Caleb decided to leave today.

Ena had been forced by Caleb to lie down for a day, and now she couldn't lie down, so she jumped energetically and asked Caleb, who was packing up his tent:

"Brother, where are we going next?"

"Rosimia is a medium-sized city, about the size of Alec, and near it is a large forest called the 'Forest of Tranquility'."

"Shall we go and pick up a mission this time and leave?"

"No, I've decided to explore the forest this time, maybe there's something good, and your weapon is broken, so let's rebuild it there."

"Good!"

"Alright! Let's go! ”

"Hmm!"

Caleb repacked the tent and put it in the system's backpack, taking Ena's hand and setting off in the direction of Rosemia.

The two were not in a hurry now, they walked slowly for five days, and finally came across a small village.

"There's a village up ahead, let's spend the night here tonight."

Ena nodded.

Walking on the path opened up by the village, Caleb looked at the farmland on both sides, the wheat in the field was fully ripe, and many people were busy harvesting wheat in the field, looking at these farmers who were harvesting grain, Caleb's mood became very good for some reason.

"It's already autumn, so I should have found a cave to store food now."

The two walked to the entrance of the village and saw an old man sitting at the entrance of the village, holding a big cigarette in his hand, smoking comfortably, and the pu fan in his hand was fanning it again and again, looking very leisurely.

Caleb led Ena to the old man, and he looked up, revealing his face, and with a kind smile on his face, he asked the old man:

"Old man, we are adventurers and want to stay in the village for one night, I don't know if there is a place like a hotel."

The old man looked up at Caleb, and saw that he was smiling, not like a bad man or a criminal, but also with a kind smile, and said to Caleb:

"Adventurers are welcome, and if you want to spend the night, you can go to the Rhodes Tavern, where rooms are rented."

"Thank you, old man."

Caleb thanked the old man and led Ena into the village.

The old man continued to smoke comfortably, wisps of white smoke drifting into the sky, obscuring his young eyes.

"Caleb Licok, a bounty of 300,000 gold coins, the target has appeared."

The old man took out a small silver medal and tapped it a few times, and the silver medal flashed with a fluctuation of magical power.

In the midst of the ruins, a message was delivered, and the long-awaited thieves had a reddish glint in their eyes.

"The target has appeared, in a small village near the city of Rossimia."

"Let's get his head back."

One by one, the figures disappeared in their place, heading in the direction of Caleb.

At Rhodes' Tavern, Caleb took out two silver coins and handed them to Rhodes, the tavernkeeper, and took the key to a double room from him.

As soon as she entered the room, Ena threw herself on the soft bed, she rolled around on the bed, with a comfortable expression on her face, and after she had rolled enough, she buried herself in the thick quilt and asked sullenly:

"Brother, did you find out?"

Caleb, who was also resting on his bed, heard Ena's question, turned around and said:

"Found what? The old man? ”

"He's not an old man, he smells young."

"It's just a spy, it's just an ordinary person, there's nothing to care about, but what I didn't expect was that the Corpse Soul Sect would choose to issue a wanted warrant, 300,000 gold coins, so I want to tie myself up to receive the bounty."

The spiritual network spread out from Caleb, and a large spot of light had already occupied all parts of the village, and the spies at the entrance of the village had already been discovered by Caleb, and the matter of the wanted warrant had also been found by Caleb.

Ma Lan's step was really something Caleb didn't expect, his family's great cause would actually hunt him down by issuing a wanted warrant, there must be something bigger about it.

'What is it that can make Ma Lan unable to get people?' ’

After thinking about it for a long time, Caleb couldn't think of what it was, but it must be something very important.

"Ena, if you want to sleep well, go take a shower first."

"Good...."

Ena said yes, but her body remained motionless as if she was glued to the bed, and Caleb shook her head helplessly.

Knock knock

"Delivery!"

"Wait a minute...."

Caleb got out of bed and ran to the door, where Boss Rhodes pushed the restaurant at the door.

"The meal you ordered, just put it at the door after eating."

Caleb thanked with a smile on his face:

"Thanks, I see."

After sending the boss away, Caleb closed the door tightly, his eyes narrowing.

"Identification"

"A Dinner: The Ingredients Are ......"

Caleb carefully examined the food cart and the food on it a few times to make sure that it had not been poisoned, and Caleb had a look of doubt on his face.

"It's not poisonous, am I being too careful?"

Caleb drove a bug to follow Rhodes as he departed, and he walked to a room, looked left and right, and closed the door.

The surveillance bug crept through the gap in the door, and the people in the room didn't notice the little bug in the slightest.

There were a total of 5 people in the room, they were Boss Rhodes, a middle-aged couple, an old man who met at the entrance of the village before, and a real old man sitting on a chair.

"Village chief, I have already sent him a dinner as you instructed."

After reporting the situation to the old man, Rhodes couldn't help but ask questions.

"Village Chief, I don't understand why we don't take the opportunity to poison the food, so that we can kill him without much effort, isn't the 300,000 gold coins ours?"

The old man smoked silently with a cigarette stick, and after a long time he raised his head and glared at Rod.

"Do you think the person who can be rewarded with 30 gold coins can be killed so easily just by poisoning? We're just a small point of information in the organization, don't get into trouble. ”

"The murder has nothing to do with us, don't do it, let's disperse."

The old man stood up, pushed open the door and walked out, leaving the four people inside to look at each other.

"Do you want to do it?"

Rod looked at the young man who was pretending to be an old man and said, Rod is the strongest person among the four people, and he has a certain right to speak.

"I don't dare to take this risk, I'll quit."

The young man raised his hands above his head, he just knew a little bit of disguise, not to mention his own combat strength.

The middle-aged couple summed it up, but in the end they couldn't resist the temptation and decided to participate.

"Let's go too, and the 300,000 gold coins will be divided equally when the time comes."

"Okay...."

Everything in the room was seen by Caleb, and his face was full of indifference.

"Looking for death..."

He waved his hand to recycle the food from the food truck and exchanged some food from the mall.

Even if he hadn't poisoned it, he wasn't going to eat it.

"Ena, get up and eat."

Caleb pulled Ena to her feet and shook her shoulders to sober her up.

"Well, brother, I still want to sleep...."

"Eat first, and we'll leave later."

As soon as she heard that she was leaving, Ena's eyes froze, she nodded silently, picked up a loaf of bread and ate it.

"Eat slowly, let me do it this time."

Caleb noticed that Ena's eyes were starting to turn red and reached out and touched her hair, which was gradually turning gray.

"Hmm...."

Ena's hair turned gray again, and the speed of eating slowed down, and if her brother wanted to take action himself, she didn't need to do it, and any enemy brother could defeat her.

That night, the three people who were still planning the assassination were stabbed through the heads by three silent bullets, and the long-awaited bugs swarmed them, and these three people completely turned into materials for Caleb's expansion of the inventory, leaving no trace.

When the village chief came to check, the room between the two was already empty, and the village chief sighed and said to the young man next to him:

"In the future, you will be in charge of the affairs of the hotel, so as not to let people see the flaws."

The young man nodded, and reached out to wipe it on his face, which had already turned into Rod's face when it was revealed.

"Village Chief, what about Caleb Liccock?"

"They can't escape, the organization has arrived, don't ask more about this."

In the middle of the forest, Caleb ran over the trees, leaving bugs behind along the way to prevent anyone from catching up.

"Ena, are you okay?"

Caleb looked at Ena beside him, he was already drowsy, and even his steps were a little messy, and he carried Ena on his back.

"Brother, I'm sleepy, someone...."

"Sleep, I've got it all in my hands."

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Ena, who was already very sleepy, completely fell asleep after being carried on her back.

Caleb stood on the branch, his gentle face instantly turning indifferent, and he looked at the silent woods around him.

"Finally caught up, come out."

A swarm of black arrows took advantage of the night and silently shot at Caleb.

Caleb's eyes widened, and the black arrow instantly fixed in front of him.

'35, at least 35 people. ’

From the surrounding bushes, 35 black-clad thieves walked out, holding a black crossbow and staring at Caleb on the branch.

The crossbows had a white round eye carved into them, and Caleb thought to himself:

'I've never seen an organization'

"Who are you? Why attack us? ”

The thieves were silent, they moved out of the way, and a thief with a mask came out from behind.

"Eyes of Darkness, Caleb Richcock, we'll take your head."

He didn't talk nonsense, and bluntly said that he would take Caleb's head.

Caleb smiled mockingly, his eyes glowing with color.

"If you can accept it, then take it, but be careful not to die."