Chapter 23: The Wisdom of Battle

Lumian's spirit was completely concentrated.

When it really happened, he was not as scared as he was just now, although his body was still a little trembling, but at least he didn't have the feeling that he was about to collapse.

"I should have died five years ago, thanks to Aurel, I'm alive now, I've been earning it for five years, what's there to be afraid of?" Lumian gritted his teeth and cheered himself up in his heart.

In the next second, he saw that the already dim light on the surface of the first trap was getting dimmer.

A figure approached its side, obscuring the light that shone through the fog in the sky.

The figure was a half-human, half-beast monster with a shotgun on its back, its scarlet eyes sweeping to the ground, its "knees" bent forward.

After a breath, it took off its shotgun in a dark jacket and muddy trousers, jumped up, and jumped directly over the trap and landed on solid, cracked ground.

Almost at the same time, it twisted its head over its greasy black hair and looked at the place where some slight movement was coming from.

Then, seeing a panicked face, it hurriedly got up and tried to hide behind the wall.

With a low roar, the monster once again jumped high and pounced on its target.

It locked on to the position where Lumian was originally located a little outside, lest the other party turn around and give a fatal blow while he was still on his feet.

Lumian sprang down and disappeared into the wall.

As soon as the monster hit the ground, the dirt under its feet fell like it couldn't bear the weight.

With no strength, it followed the dirt and rope nets and fell to the bottom of the pit that suddenly appeared.

Thump!

The sound of a heavy object falling to the ground echoed, mixed with the sound of a rat screaming.

When Lumien, who flashed behind the wall, saw this scene, his heart could not contain a strong feeling of joy.

The first step was successful!

Most of his remaining fear disappeared, and he picked up the steel fork he had placed next to him and ran to the trap.

He was strongly impressed by the tenacious vitality of the skinless monster before, and the current target was a shotgun, so he didn't let his body appear above the pit, but stopped at a distance and stabbed it with a steel fork.

Suddenly, the steel fork was heavy and stopped there.

Immediately afterward, a powerful force was transmitted to Lumian through the steel fork, forcibly pulling him into the trap.

Lumian was caught off guard and was pulled to slide a step forward.

He didn't bother to observe the scene at the bottom of the pit, so he threw away the steel fork, turned around, and threw himself towards the side of the wall that had not collapsed.

Bang!

He was struck on the back, as if he had been struck by a giant hammer.

Lumian's throat was sweet, and he felt a distinct smell of rust rush up.

With a thud, he landed unbalanced and rolled a few times in a row before regaining control of his body and getting up.

Almost at the same time, he saw the half-human, half-beastly monster leap out of the pit.

It held the single-barreled shotgun in its hand, and its jacket in the chest and abdomen was torn, revealing several hideous wounds that pierced its body, and dark red blood mixed with a pale yellow liquid was constantly flowing out, and various internal organs were faintly visible.

It was clear that the monster had been badly injured by Lumian's trap, but not to the point of being completely incapacitated.

In the process of falling to the bottom of the pit, it should have adjusted its body posture in time, avoided the head, chest and other critical positions, and did not let its legs and arms suffer serious injuries, otherwise it would probably not be able to jump out of the trap now.

As soon as Lumian saw the other party's appearance, he immediately ran into the ruins of the house beside him, without hesitation.

This was not his impromptu idea, but a plan in advance.

After all, he wasn't sure if the trap could trap the monster, and if it could, whether it could make it lose its ability to fight directly.

If not, the other party is only seriously injured, and Lumian is ready to play a game of "hide and seek" with it.

In other words, use the environment to maneuver with the target, delay as much time as possible, and drag it until it can no longer suppress the injury, and both strength and reaction will be significantly reduced.

When the time comes, the opportunity will come.

Bang!

Another gunshot rang out, and Lumian was standing with more lead, and a little dirt splattered.

Lumian didn't stop behind a half-collapsed wall, crawling from the gap in the rubble to the other side.

Before he could stand up, he heard the wind blowing in the air.

The monster jumped.

Lumian spun around and crawled back down the half-collapsed wall along the gap.

In this way, with the help of the special conditions of many collapsed buildings here, he sometimes hid and sometimes hid, sometimes circumnavigated, not directly confronting the monster, but only avoiding the corresponding attacks.

"Hide and seek" is Lumian's forte.

Many times before, after pranks, he relied on this ability to escape the fate of being beaten on the spot.

Chasing and fleeing, attacking and dodging, time passed quickly, and Lumian himself gradually became a little out of breath, and the monster was obviously weakened in terms of running speed, jump height, strength, and reaction.

"Wait, wait, I can't beat it now......" Lumian ducked back to his previous position, his back against the half-collapsed wall, forcibly controlling the urge to fight back immediately.

Table tennis! He had another pain in his back, and the whole person flew forward.

The half-collapsed wall he leaned against flew and fell completely.

This time, the monster no longer chose to go around and chase after it, but turned directly to its side and slammed into the obstacles that blocked it.

With all its might, the already crumbling half-collapsed walls naturally couldn't withstand it.

However, the monster also shed more blood because of this, and the ground was dark red.

Although Lumian did not expect to be "hit" like this, his injuries were not serious, and he reacted quickly enough to roll and hide behind the remains of a house made of stones.

Bang!

The shotgun bullet that followed was a step slower.

- After the monster knocked down the wall, it took a lot longer to adjust its posture than before.

It felt for the cloth bag hanging from its waist, and seeing that the bullets were gone, it simply dropped its shotgun and pounced on Lumien.

Lumien shifted his position early and continued to play hide-and-seek.

Of course, he didn't dare to play like this all the time, playing until the other party's injury attacked, and he fell, this is because he is worried that the monster will flee directly after the situation is serious to a certain extent, and the second is that he is afraid that the time will drag on too long, and other monsters will follow the sound.

After a few more circles, Lumian keenly noticed that the monster's movements seemed to be a little difficult.

"Chance!"

His heart moved, and he pretended to flee to the side of a collapsed building.

Then, standing there, he pulled out the other axe behind his back and adjusted his breathing.

In the blink of an eye, the monster turned around and appeared in front of Lumian.

Lumian made a decision, and before the other party could see the situation here, he did not hesitate to carry the axe and meet him.

He took a stride, turned sideways, and sank his shoulders, intending to knock back the monster using the "lean" method that his sister had taught, and then slash at its neck with an axe.

Bang!

Lumian stepped between the monster's arms and leaned heavily against its chest.

But this reaction was beyond Lumian's expectations, and the other party was like a thick wall, which couldn't be touched!

"This ......" Lumi tightened in peace of mind, rebounded from the momentum, and was about to pounce on the ground and forcibly get out of the opponent's attack range.

At that moment, the monster reached over with a hand as fast as lightning and pinched his neck directly.

It shows that it is difficult to act!

"Oops, cheated!" Lumian's neck hurt, and he was directly lifted up by the monster and hung in the air.

A creaking sound followed, and his head quickly became dizzy.

The hastily swung axe not only failed to hit the target, but was knocked aside.

Lumian finally realized that he had fallen for the monster.

The monster was indeed dying, but it still had the strength to fight, so he pretended to be weak, and induced himself to attack, no longer hiding, and he despised its fighting wisdom, and did not expect this at all, and fell into the current situation of dying and struggling.

The monster was really close to its limit, and it didn't even manage to pinch Lumian's neck directly, but this didn't affect the overall situation, it just took a little more time.

With his neck about to snap and his breath no longer able to catch his breath, Lumian's head began to grow wooden, almost blank.

Blank.

In the midst of his death, Lumian suddenly thought of the lady's words:

She allowed herself to take advantage of her own peculiarity in this dream.

What is special about it...... With his thoughts approaching a state of blankness and no distractions, Lumian quickly began to meditate.

The crimson sun instantly came to his mind.

Unlike the previous meditation to calm the mood and make the sun disappear as soon as it was fully formed, he tried his best to keep the sun alive.

Soon, the sound that seemed to come from infinity and seemed to ring in his ears pierced Lumian's head.

The intense pain ensued, accompanied by the terrifying feeling that his heart was about to jump out of his chest, which made Lumien forget that his neck was still pinched by the monster, that his bones were about to shatter, that his breath could no longer keep up, and that his brain began to starve of oxygen.

Plopped, and he fell to the ground.

The meditation was interrupted, and the strange and indescribable sound vanished.

But Lumien was still in pain, and he couldn't check his body and check what was going on around him.

It didn't take long for him to recover from that sense of near-death.

Lumian didn't bother to check his neck, propped his hands on the ground, raised his head, and looked ahead.

The half-human, half-beast monster crouched not far away, arms propped forward, head bowed.

At this time, several penetrating wounds on its chest and abdomen were still dripping with blood mixed with pale yellow liquid, and its body could not stop trembling violently.

What's wrong with it? Stupid by the "specialness" I showed? Lumian retrieved his thoughts as he picked up the axe that had fallen next to him and moved closer to it.

Not giving the monster a chance to recover, he grabbed the axe with both hands and slashed at the back of the other's neck.

With a pop, the axe sank deep into the muscles, blocked by the bones.

Lumian was ruthless, drew his sharp axe, and continued to slash.

Once, twice, three times, the monster's head fell to the ground with a splash of liquid, and Gollum rolled to the side.

Its body lasted another second before collapsing.

The whole time, it didn't put up any resistance, it trembled all the time.

In the next second, Lumian's body arched forward, his hands naturally drooping, and he let the blood on his axe continue to slide.

Whew, whew, he was finally relieved.