Half a month later, after tens of thousands of kilometers of bumpy vehicles and ships, the seven groups of members who participated in the election finally came to the territory of the Feathered Serpent Clan deep in the dense forests of South America.

This is an abandoned Inca city, with intricately carved crumbling stone walls stretching through the jungle, and a tall quadrangular pyramid in the middle of the tribe that has turned green and is covered with dense shrubs, and the Quetzalcoatl people take advantage of this natural terrain to settle in.

The Quetzalcoatl didn't show much enthusiasm for everyone's arrival. In fact, they had been exhausted by months of anomalous events, and as a large clan, they felt quite humiliated by the fact that they had to rely on this group of outsiders to solve the affairs of their territory.

One of the elders of the Quetzalcoatl gave a symbolic welcome ceremony, giving a brief account of what was happening in the jungle, and nothing else.

When asked by one candidate for any advice on how to proceed with the investigation, the elder grimly replied, "As soon as you go into the jungle, they will come after you." ”

The people of the Quetzalcoatl clan did not have a good face, and their eyes were always cold, as if they were not here to help, but a group of intruders.

"Hey, what do you guys think?" After Elder Feathered Serpent left, Zhang Lie asked the two people in the same group.

The member of the Gu Ghost Clan is named Barry, and Gang Luo is indeed very discerning, he is one of the few warriors in the Gu Clan who can skillfully use the eggs of special magical beasts, but this also means that his physical load is also very large, in fact, Zhang Lie is very skeptical that if he is attacked, he will be killed in the first blow.

The warrior of the Gangkui clan is named Nick, and like most Gangkui people, he has a very strong body, and the surface of his skin glows with a metallic sheen that has reached an extremely high stage of cultivation, which is just the opposite extreme of Barry. Nick's weapon was a runic rifle that had only been invented for a long time, and two thick cartridge belts hung cross-legged from side to side on his body, which had a rough taste.

Barry heard this, "What do you think? If it's true as the feathered serpent said, as soon as we enter the jungle, we will definitely be attacked, and then we will naturally find clues. ”

Barry coughed lightly twice, shook his head, and said, "No, it's too dangerous to enter rashly like this, I think we should collect clues in the Quetzalcoatl Clan first, and then act when we are completely sure." ”

One was too reckless, the other was too cautious, and soon, Zhang Lie had already made an evaluation of the two.

He smiled, "You have also seen the attitude of the Quetzalcoatl people towards us, and I can't get further news if I want to stay." But Barry is right, if you rush into the jungle, you will probably suffer a big loss. ”

Coincidentally, Nick and Barry both showed disdainful expressions, because Zhang Lie's words meant that he didn't say anything. Nick said sarcastically, "So smart Mr. China, do you have any good proposals?" ”

Zhang Lie couldn't hear what Nick said, he said quietly: "How about thinking about letting someone else open the way for us?" ”

"What? Who? Nick didn't react for a moment.

Barry already understood, "You mean sneaking behind the other group?" ”

"No, I wouldn't do that!" Before Barry could finish speaking, Nick shouted.

Instead, Barry agreed with Zhang Lie's opinion: "It's a very good idea, I can use the 'Mirror Hidden Gu' to cover our tracks, as long as we are separated from a certain distance, we will not be discovered." ”

"What! Don't you have a little bit of self-esteem as a warrior? Combat is meant to be a duel, and I would never be involved in such a sneaky one. Nick firmly refused.

It seems that there is no way out, if he insists on doing this, Nick will definitely quit, and then the whole group will collapse before the official action, which naturally makes no sense.

"It's a tough guy to serve, and it would be much easier if I were doing it alone." Zhang Lie thought helplessly.

He could only compromise: "Then let's go straight into the jungle, everyone be careful, if you encounter an attack, catch a mouth, you will always get some clues." ”

"Haha, it's long overdue!" Nick happily pulled out his rifle and pushed the bolt on.

At this time, the rest of the group also began to move, and they entered the jungle from different directions, and soon disappeared without a trace. However, Blatter's second group was still moving around the Feathered Serpent Clan, and it seemed that they wanted to inquire about something.

However, Zhang Lie noticed that Blatter just followed behind the other two team members silently, looking like he didn't care about himself, and did not take the initiative to integrate into the action, as if the reason why he stayed was only because he wanted to act with the team members, and he had no interest in what to do at all.

"Tsk, if only there were guys like this in the same group." Zhang Lie thought with some envy.

"Hey, Chinese, when are you going to see it? It's time to go! Nick shouted from the sidelines.

As he spoke, he raised his shotgun and walked into the jungle first, followed by Barry ghostly, and soon Nick's exaggerated shout could be heard in the jungle: "Aha, Nick of the Gangkui clan is here!" Whatever is in the jungle, come out and die! ”

"Alas..."Sighing helplessly, Zhang Lie also followed into the jungle.

The selection of the Fourth Special Operations Group has finally officially begun.

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"******, what the hell is this place!" Nick cursed angrily.

It was the fifth day the trio had entered the jungle, and they had not encountered anything of value except for the daily torrential rain. The vast jungle is like an endless sea, completely swallowing up all who enter it. For five days, the three of them did not meet any of the other group members.

As usual, the downpour fell from the sky without warning, and the three of them had to stop and dodge. Zhang Lie used ghost claws to cut off a giant tree, and then hollowed out the bottom to make a simple shelter, but they were still drenched and embarrassed.

The Gangkui people naturally don't like water, and with nothing to be gained in the past few days, Nick's temper has become more and more irritable. He kept shaking the rain off his body while cursing, "Who said you would be attacked if you enter the jungle?" Why haven't we even touched a single hair these days, I'm fed up! ”

Barry was cowered in his soaked cloak, looking even more skinny. Looking at the jungle outside, which was completely covered by the rain curtain, he said in a deep voice: "It will be very bad if it continues like this, we must quickly think of a way." ”

"How can it be? Lao Tzu couldn't wait to burn this ghost forest. Nick said angrily.

Seeing that Zhang Lie didn't speak, he fed unceremoniously: "Chinese, do you have any ideas?" ”

Zhang Lie waved his hand and motioned for him not to speak: "Since yesterday, I feel as if something is following us. ”

"What? Where is it? Nick suddenly came to his senses and looked out with his gun in his hand.

However, the dense rain curtain seemed to cover the whole world, and everywhere was gray, and there was no sound except the sound of the rain, and nothing could be seen at all.

"I don't know, I just feel this way." Zhang Lie shook his head and said.

"Hmph, then please give me some meaningful advice." Nick snorted and retracted.

Zhang Lie didn't care about Nick's rudeness, and he said to Barry, "Do you have a way to make the tracker automatically appear after we leave?" ”

Barry thought for a moment and said, "It can be done, if anything really follows us..."

Zhang Lie said: "Then let's do it." ”

Barry hesitated: "My Gu eggs are limited, if you can't be sure, it's best not to waste them casually... And every time I use it, it consumes a lot of my demon power, and if I really encounter any situation, I'm afraid it will..."

"Trust me, there's got to be something after us!" Zhang Lie looked at his eyes seriously.

After a moment's hesitation, Barry finally agreed. He reached out and felt a dark gray Gu egg the size of a pigeon's egg under his cloak. Walking outside into the rain, Barry stuffed the Gu egg into the dirt, then pressed his hand to the ground and began to whisper a series of incantations.

His body suddenly shook violently, and at the same time, the surface of the thin palm exposed outside the cloak appeared. With a slight gurgling sound, something seemed to spread out from under his palm.

Taking a breath to stand up, Barry said, "I've laid a 'scorpion net', and after we leave, if anything with demonic aura steps within half a mile of it, it will automatically report to me." ”

"Very well, so let's move on." Zhang Lie nodded.

The rain stopped at some point, just as suddenly as it came. Barry was stunned: "Where are you going?" ”

"Who knows?" Zhang Lie glanced back at him: "But we have to go in a certain direction." ”

"This damn rainforest, this damn place..."Nick cursed viciously, and suddenly raised his head and let out a loud shout, "Bastard, get out of here, you shrunken turtles!" ”

"Save your strength, swearing won't kill the enemy." Zhang Lie left this sentence and walked into the rainforest before Nick transferred his anger to him.

"Whew...", with red eyes and two gasps, Nick suddenly raised his gun and fired wildly at the bushes beside him.

The sound of huge gunfire echoed through the jungle, stirring up countless flying birds. A few shots blasted a huge tree hugged by several people out of several large holes, and then in a creaking sound, the entire tree collapsed with a bang.

Ignoring Nick's vent, Barry dodges the muddy water from the giant tree and follows him into the jungle. Kicking the ground harder again, Nick reluctantly followed.

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Three hours later, the three of them crouched among the branches of a dense grove of trees, watching the movement outside.

"Are you sure nothing touches the scorpion net?" Zhang Lie said in a low voice.

"Yes, otherwise, even if there is only a slight demonic energy, it will not be able to escape the tracking of the scorpion net, and it seems that there is nothing following us at all." Barry said.

"No... I can't be wrong. Zhang Lie shook his head and said, "It seems that the things that follow us are not non-humans or demonic beasts, or that the other party can perfectly hide the demonic energy." ”

"Hmph, still refuse to admit it?" Nick said disdainfully, "We don't have anything behind us at all." ”

Zhang Lie was about to speak, when a faint scream suddenly came from far away on the right. His face changed, and Zhang Lie said, "It's someone from another group!" ”

Coincidentally, the three of them had run quickly towards the depths of the dense forest with a few flicks of the branches where they were sheltering.

Soon after the three of them left, several strange shadows screeched silently through the forest. sniffing where the three of them had just squatted, the shadows also chased in the direction they had left......

Dozens of minutes later, the three of them came to a dense forest. There were three corpses lying here, surrounded by a mess and blood splattered, apparently after a rather fierce fight.

The deceased was a member of the entire third group, but to their surprise, Anne from the sixth group was actually here, and alone.

Hearing the sound of the bushes breaking behind her, she turned her head vigilantly, and when she saw that it was Zhang Lie and the others, she put her attention back to the field.

Anne held a strange longbow with tangled tendons, and the protrusion in the middle of the bow was like a one-eye, which was extremely peculiar. At the sight of the bow, both Barry and Nick were shocked.

"That's the Sniper God Bow, this girl is the patriarch heir of the next generation of the Harpy Banshee Clan." Barry whispered in surprise.

Zhang Lie cared about the dead bodies on the ground, walked to the corpses and squatted down, he carefully examined them one by one, and found that these corpses were not attacked by any spells, but were forcibly torn open and killed by external forces. The wound was rough and deep, not the claws of an animal, but like... Human hands!

Even Zhang Lie himself was taken aback by this discovery, but the more he looked at the wound, the more he realized that it was possible. At the same time, he also wondered in his heart, could it be that the monster hunters of the hunter organization are also here? But how could they use such a primitive method of attack?

"Hey, what did you find?" At this point, Nick yelled at him.

Not wanting to reveal the discovery to the members of the other group, Zhang Lie stood up quietly: "No." ”

Barry asked Anne, "Do you see anything?" ”

Anne shook her head: "I also heard the voice coming, and I just arrived." ”

Zhang Liehu frowned: "What about the people in the same group as you?" ”

Nick and Barry are shocked to realize that Anne is single, and the two of them also look strange. After a moment of silence, Anne said, "They are all dead. ”

"What!?" Nick was taken aback: "Who killed them?" ”

Anne actually said, "I don't know." ”

Glancing at each other, Zhang Lie and the three of them suddenly scattered at the same time and surrounded Anne, all of them showing a look of vigilance. Barry muttered, "What the hell is going on? Let's be clear. ”

Anne didn't seem to have any intention of explaining, she sneered, she already held the bow in her hand, and put on three black arrows: "What, you think I killed someone?" ”

Zhang Lie said slowly: "We didn't say that, but I hope you can explain." ”

Nick said loudly: "What nonsense to talk about this girl, capture her!" ”

Anne smiled suddenly: "Yes, there is no need. "As he spoke, he made a lightning strike.

Turning around like a whirlwind, the three arrows were already shooting towards the three of them in no particular order, startled, Zhang Lie twisted his wrist and grabbed it, and copied the black arrow in his hand. Somehow, the arrow in his palm suddenly broke into three black bundles, and rolled up along his arm like a poisonous snake.

There were also exclamations from Barry and Nick from behind, and it was clear that the two were also on the road. pinched the end of his arm, Zhang Lie shook his palms, and the black beam wrapped around his arm had been forcibly shaken open.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Lie was able to get rid of the black bundle entanglement, and Anne was also surprised. Leaned over and rushed in front of Zhang Lie, and before the other party could react, she swung her longbow and cut the bowstring towards Zhang Lie's waist.

Zhang Lie is an expert in hand-to-hand combat, using the advantage of arm length to pinch Annie's wrist, Zhang Lie lungeed and squatted back three steps to dissolve her momentum, and then fit up and grabbed Annie's forearm and flipped over, pulling her into the air and getting used to the ground.

With a snort, Anne's right hand turned on the ground, her body was reset in an instant, and at the same time, she pulled the string with one hand on the bow of her foot, and shot an arrow at Zhang Lie at close range. didn't want this woman to be so difficult to deal with, Zhang Lie bent his knees and slammed the black arrow into the air, and at the same time stepped on the other foot fiercely, and he had already crashed into her.

There was a snap, but it was Anne who pressed Zhang Lie's knee back, and at the same time twisted her hand and retreated. However, in the blink of an eye, the two of them have been close to each other, and the moves can be fatal, and the end is not allowed to be released, which is very thrilling.

Both sides were secretly surprised by the strength of their opponents, and neither dared to make a move lightly for a while. At this moment, only a dull gunshot was heard, and Anne instantly turned around and held the sniper bow at her side, and a bullet had bounced off.

She couldn't help but take a step back from the force of the bullet, and she heard a muffled snort from Barry on the right, and a thick black shadow had shot out from under his black robe, biting Anne.

At the moment when the black shadow reached her body, Anne jumped up with lightning, and at the same time, her arms stretched out to show her original form, and she flew lightly to the branches of a large tree. At this time, she heard a cracking sound of Gaba, but the trunk behind her foothold was bitten off in half by the black shadow, and then she saw that it was actually a pure black monster like a moray eel, with a large mouth and a piece of wood, and its tail was connected to Barry's right arm, which should be some kind of fighting monster of the Gu Demon Clan.

Barry and Nick, who had broken free from the black bundle, quickly surrounded Anne, after all, it was one against three, Anne hesitated, kicked her feet on the horizontal branches, and flew up to the sky and flew above the dense forest between her wings.

Nick shot her in the back, and Barry flicked his hand. I saw that the body of the demonic beast in his hand was suddenly elongated, and it was thrown diagonally into the sky like a steel wire, biting Anne's hind foot.

As soon as her body deviated, Anne broke free from the bite of the monster with her two feet, and quickly disappeared over the dense forest. Snorted unwillingly, Nick angrily asked Zhang Lie, who was standing still, "Why don't you do it?" ”

Zhang Lie shook his head: "I don't think she did it." ”

"Feeling, feeling again! When did your idiocy feel fulfilled? Nick said angrily.

Zhang Lie didn't speak, only glanced at Nick silently, and when he touched his gaze, Nick couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, and he couldn't scold the following words.

Barry then said, "It's okay, she's bitten by my 'Evil Limb Beast' and will soon be poisoned to death." ”

Nick felt a little better at this time, and he said, "This woman must have killed the same group, and then we bumped into her when she killed the third group, so she had nothing to say." dared to openly disobey the orders of the Elder Body, and the Alliance would definitely not let her go. ”

"No, I don't think she did it." Zhang Lie still shook his head.

"What do you mean by defending her again and again?" Nick looked at Zhang Lie's gaze with hostility.

"Idiot." Zhang Lie scolded secretly in his heart, and then said: "Use your brain to think about it, what reason does she have for doing this?" If killing the third group is to reduce the number of competitors, wouldn't it be stupid to kill the same group? I don't see her being as stupid as you. ”

"You—" Nick's face flushed with rage, and even the metallic sheen of his body brightened.

Barry also said at this time: "I think Zhang Lie is right, she really has no reason to do this. And judging from the battle just now, although her strength is strong, she is not strong enough to kill the entire third group unscathed. What's more, her weapon is a sniper bow, and none of them are injured by the weapon. ”

Unexpectedly, even Barry echoed Zhang Lie, and Nick couldn't help panting in anger. Finally, he exclaimed angrily, "If you're all so smart, who can tell me who killed these guys?" ”

"It's people." Zhang Lie said unexpectedly.

"People?" Barry was stunned: "The Hunter Organization also intervened?" ”

"Nope." Zhang Lie shook his head: "The third group was killed with their bare hands, and I guess it is likely to be the natives of the neighborhood. ”

"Hahahaha, look what this guy has to say." Nick couldn't help but laugh maniacally: "Native? How could those inferior creatures kill the third group with their bare hands? What could be more ridiculous than that? ”

Ignoring Nick, Barry asked, "Do you have any proof?" ”

Zhang Lie nodded and motioned for him to come and see the corpses: "You see, except for human fingers, nothing can cause such scars. If it had been done by the Hunter Organisation, there would have been at least traces of the remnants of the spell, but not at all here. And the only people in this jungle are the natives. ”

"But how could those natives be—" Barry apparently shared the same doubts.

Zhang Lie said to him, "Do you remember the information provided by the elder group before leaving? The strange events here include not only the disappearance of the Quetzalcoatl people and the monsters of unknown origin, but also the strange activities of the natives. I think something must have happened to the indigenous tribes around here, and it could be the key to it all. ”

"Hmm—" After thinking for a while, Barry finally nodded, "You have a point. ”

Zhang Lie smiled and got up: "So let's go to the nearby indigenous tribes to have a look, and we will definitely find something." ”

"Oh, do you know how to find those people?" Barry asked.

Pointing to his nose, Zhang Lie smiled: "A few days ago, I smelled the residual smell of human activities in this jungle. ”

"Alright, let's go." Barry agreed.

The two walked a few steps, only to find that Nick hadn't followed, and Barry couldn't help but look back: "What's wrong?" ”

Nick pointed unceremoniously at Zhang Lie: "I don't believe this guy, I think it's better to look for clues in the jungle." ”

Barry sighed, "Do you know how to proceed?" ”

Nick pointed to the corpse on the ground, "That old Quetzalcoatl guy is right, something will come to attack us, just like them." Just catch a few live mouths then. ”

"You also saw the end of the third group, passively waiting for the opponent to attack is tantamount to killing yourself, we should be more active." Zhang Lie turned to him and said.

"Hmph, that's the third set useless. If you run into me, you'll be able to kill those things easily. ”

Suddenly, Zhang Lie realized that he didn't have to wait for those mysterious attackers, and he wanted to kill this chattering idiot right away. But he then reminded himself to calm down and not to ruin the whole plan for the sake of an unknown guy. I need the identity of the special operations group more than a momentary pleasure.

Fighting back his anger, he said to Nick, "Do you think you can stop those things by yourself?" I don't think Barry will stay with you on the adventure. ”

Unexpectedly, Barry's cautious personality made him choose Zhang Lie's plan, and he also said when he heard this: "I think Zhang Lie is right, not to mention that we are the same group and should act together." ”

"Okay, okay, you've become the echo of this Chinese monster too. When you return in vain, you will know that my method is the best. Nick finally relented.

"If it really comes to that time, it's not too late for you to scold me again." Leaving this sentence, Zhang Lie took the lead.