Chapter 55: The Lone Wanderer
Ji Xinghuo sat on the train, and the scenery outside flew by under the starry night.
Despite the starry night, there were still many passengers in the carriage, most of them ready to go hunting like themselves, but they all had a team, and few were solo travelers.
The destination of the train is the city of freedom.
Where should I go to hunt this time, Ji Xinghuo thought about it for a long time.
The area around Olympia City is naturally the safest, and most of the dangers have been cleared by Inhumans, making it suitable for oneself to hunt alone for the first time.
But while it's safe, it's certainly the least rewarding.
You can also go to the surrounding areas of other cities.
For example, Wyvern City.
Wyvern City is also a city belonging to the Asia-Pacific Community and is located more than 100 kilometers east of Olympia. The trail of the Feathered Serpent that Qi Zhaofeng said was in the Razor Rift south of Flying Dragon City.
Ji Xinghuo wanted to go to the Razor Rift to try his luck, but after inquiring, he found that the news had spread widely.
It is possible for a feathered serpent to give birth to a "flying" xeno, and the attraction is too great.
There must have been a lot of teams flocking to it.
Ji Xinghuo checked the map information, the razor rift is only more than 20 kilometers long, and a hunting team can dig three feet into the ground in the entire rift, and clean up all the monsters inside by the way.
What he needs is spiritual energy, and xenomorphs are secondary.
It's best to go to a place where there are a lot of monsters, there are no hunting teams to fight for, and it's relatively safe.
Ji Xinghuo immediately thought of the Peak Valley!
There are a lot of stone sickles in the Peaks Valley, in the millions, but their xenomorph value is not very high, so no hunting party will hunt them.
Although the peak valley is very large, with 50,000 or 60,000 square kilometers, it is not easy for ordinary people to find the stone sickle group.
But it's not that difficult for me.
Moreover, the last time I went around in the Peak Valley with Sister Ren and the others for ten days, I was familiar with the geography and climate of the Peak Valley, and I was more sure than going to a completely unfamiliar place.
As for the Hong-level stone sickle giant ray, just avoid it.
The Valley of the Peaks is a perfect place to obtain spiritual energy, and there is no more suitable hunting place than it in the sphere of influence of the humans on Earth.
The only downside is that it's a little farther away.
It's approaching night.
The train arrived in Freedom City, Ji Xinghuo found a hotel near the train station to live in, got up at dawn to eat, and left the city.
Many hunting parties also set off at this time.
This makes the most of the daylight and allows you to walk long distances on the first day and improve your travel efficiency.
Ji Xinghuo walked on the road alone with his bags on his back, and met several teams, and the strangers all looked at him when they saw him.
At first, most of the teams encountered had no ill intentions, but after a few hours of walking, their gaze changed a little as they got farther and farther away from Liberty City.
The City of Liberty is the city of the Western League, and most of the Inhumans here are from the Western League.
Because of the geographical relationship, there is no direct conflict between APAC and the Western Union, but historically, the relationship between the two sides has never been good, and they have been on the opposite side many times.
Today's earth is a pattern of two superpowers and two powers.
The relationship between the four great powers is intricate, but it can be roughly divided into two camps.
On one side is the Eastern Bloc, led by the Asia-Pacific Community, followed by the New Roman Empire, and composed of dozens of countries, and on the other side is the Western bloc dominated by the Federation of Americas and attached to the Western Democratic Alliance. The New Roman Empire and the Western Alliance were adjacent to each other, and the two sides were hostile to each other, and the border wars were continuous, and the hatred was as deep as the sea.
The vast majority of conflicts and wars on the earth, no matter which continent or country they take place, will evolve into a confrontation between two camps in the future.
The struggle between the two superpowers is the main theme of the 23rd century!
Many historians, politicians, and international relations scholars have come to a consensus over the years, that is: the earth must be unified!
And the time for global unification is not too far off.
It will come as early as this century, and no later than three hundred years.
But who will be the final victor is not conclusive.
More than 95% of the earthlings believe that the winner will inevitably be born between the Asian Communist Party and the United States, and the chances of other countries are very slim.
As an ally of the Federation of the Americas for many years, the Western League naturally hopes that the American Union will win.
As a result, PAC is generally unfriendly and even hostile to APRICOM.
The dispute on Earth extends to the astral plane.
In human cities, citizens of all countries are ostensibly safe and can maintain order. But when you go out of the city, if you encounter teams from other countries, especially the aliens of hostile countries, as long as you have the opportunity, you will basically not miss it.
Most of the teams that came out of the Free City were from the Western League.
When they saw Ji Xinghuo, an Oriental, going out alone, and an eagle bow that was obviously worth a lot of money behind his back, it was hard not to be tempted.
"It's really sinister!"
Ji Xinghuo felt malice a few times, if it weren't for the fact that there were other teams on the road, it is estimated that someone would have done it a long time ago.
He deliberately distanced himself, but there were still teams approaching.
"Forget it."
Ji Xinghuo didn't want to have a conflict as soon as he left the city, so as not to affect his hunting plan.
He touched the stealth ring on his index finger with his thumb, the light around him was deflected, and the whole person was hidden in a transparent outline, which was difficult to see from three meters away.
The rotating magnetic field was excited, and Ji Xinghuo ran quickly.
"Mute" absorbs the vibrational sound waves, allowing him to run without making a sound.
The aliens of that team found that Ji Xinghuo had disappeared, and immediately felt like a great enemy, so they hurriedly stayed in place and put on a defensive posture, trying their best to search for Ji Xinghuo's figure, but after waiting for a long time and not being attacked, they knew that Ji Xinghuo had already left.
Ji Xinghuo ran a few kilometers and released the stealth state.
The Stealth Ring continuously consumes star power, and 185 star power can only last for a maximum of one hour.
And with a heavy bag on his back, he has to run fast, his physical strength and star power are both consumed, and he will be exhausted in less than half an hour.
After that, Ji Xinghuo used magnetic field sensing to spot other hunting teams in advance, and then activated the stealth finger to circle around them.
As long as it doesn't consume star power, the powerful recovery ability of the second-level rotating magnetic field allows him to run non-stop.
Throughout the day, Ji Xinghuo traveled more than 300 kilometers.
He walked more than a hundred kilometers in the starry night, more than one hunting team after another.
It wasn't until the dark of night that Ji Xinghuo set up camp in the forest. The place he had chosen carefully, the camp was between two boulders, covered with branches, and if a monster came in from the front, he could get out of it at any time.
Ji Xinghuo didn't make a fire, and the Vientiane Star Pupil allowed him to see in the dark.
Ate dry food and water, and fill your stomach at will.
Ji Xinghuo sat alone in the tent, listening to the insects and birds outside, the forest was dark and deep, and the occasional call came from afar.
The magnetic field induction scanned the surrounding area for 800 meters, and before setting up the tent, he walked around to confirm that there was no danger.
Still, he was a little hairy in his heart.
It's not to the point of being afraid, but it's the first time I'm alone in the wilderness, and it's inevitable that I'll be cranky.
"No wonder everyone likes to team up."
"There's no vigil, there's no sense of security."
Ji Xinghuo muttered in his mouth, and suddenly missed Ren Mian a little.
The last time I hunted, I always took turns keeping vigil with Ren Mian, and every time I woke up in the tent, as long as I opened my eyes, I could see her standing there, full of security. Moreover, there is no plant protection outside the tent, and the simple trap set up by yourself can only make a little noise at most, which is better than nothing.
"Sleep!"
Ji Xinghuo got into his sleeping bag, closed his eyes, and his breathing quickly became smooth.
But he didn't sleep completely, and remained in a state of false sleep, waking up at the slightest movement outside the tent.
The night passed.
Ji Xinghuo didn't sleep well, and yawned a few times in his mouth.
He had woken up many times last night, and it had been wild beasts or small animals approaching the tent, and although there was no threat, it had woken him up.
This kind of intermittent sleep is naturally not of good quality. It used to take only five or six hours of sleep to fully recover mental strength, but now it takes more than ten hours.
It's not easy to light a fire at night, but it's okay during the day.
Ji Xinghuo set up a small pot and prepared to cook himself a bowl of instant noodles, waiting for the noodles to cook while packing his tent and bags.
"Tweet ......"
There was a shrill cry from the sky.
Ji Xinghuo stopped his movements and turned his head to look at the source of the sound, there were not many trees around the camp, and the position was relatively high, and he could clearly see that there were several black shadows moving in the sky in the north, three to four kilometers away, and the flight altitude was about two hundred meters above the ground.
The Vientiane Star Pupil brought the black shadow closer in the field of vision, and saw it more clearly.
"Human-faced owl!"
Ji Xinghuo recognized this monster.
They are similar in appearance to owls, but they are several times larger, with a wingspan of more than three meters, and a pair of large black claws at the end of their wings, which resemble human hands. In addition to their heads, they have large eyes, eyebrow feathers, and well-defined facial contours, which resemble human faces, hence their name.
The habits of the human-faced owl are very vicious, and they like to hunt in groups, especially primates, and humans are one of them.
They have good eyesight.
When Ji Xinghuo saw the human-faced owls, they also found the humans on the ground.
A scream.
The six human-faced owls immediately accelerated and flew in height, they had already taken Ji Xinghuo as their prey.
"Just a meal."
Ji Xinghuo immediately picked up the Dragon Falcon Eagle Bow, grabbed a titanium aluminum alloy arrow in his right hand, jumped on the rock, raised the bow and aimed at the sky.
The human-faced owl flew at a high speed and entered the firing range in less than half a minute.
Ji Xinghuo did not shoot immediately.
It wasn't until the front man was less than 200 meters away and took the lead in swooping down on him that he shot his first arrow.
Shout!
The bow blade of the dragon falcon contracted and bounced back, and the bowstring released a huge kinetic energy, shooting the arrows on the bow and disappearing in an instant.
Almost in the blink of an eye.
The swoop let out a wail, its heart pierced, its wings lost power, and its body fell to the ground by inertia.
Ji Xinghuo shot quickly and continuously, and every time the Dragon Falcon Eagle Bow opened and closed, an arrow shot out instantly.
He shot a total of five arrows.
But all six human-faced owls were shot, and the third arrow was a double eagle.
Bang bang bang......
The corpses of the human-faced owls smashed off the branches of the trees and fell into the woods one by one, and the group of monsters was wiped out in the blink of an eye.
Ji Xinghuo rubbed the eagle bow in his hand, and was very satisfied with the first performance of this new weapon.
He jumped off the rock, removed the cooked noodles from the fire, and then walked towards the corpse of the man-faced owl. The location where the human face owl fell was not far away, only more than a hundred meters, and when Ji Xinghuo arrived, they were already dead, reaching out and touching the corpse, the information interface popped up in front of them.
[Monster: Human-Faced Owl]
[Level: Strange]
[Xeno: Rend]
This group of human-faced owls are ordinary bizarre monsters, with no elites, only a "torn" xenomorph, from their wingtip claws.
Tear is a basic ability and is more mediocre in power.
Humans don't have claws, and their nails aren't sharp enough, so they can only use shorter weapons such as daggers to have a tearing effect, which can inflict larger wounds on enemies.
However, very few people will fuse and tear, so it is not valuable.
Ji Xinghuo didn't bother to collect xenos, so he checked all six human-faced owls and found no other xenomorphs.
He cut off a piece of human leg meat, retrieved his titanium and aluminum arrows, and returned to the camp, roasted the bird meat over the fire, and ate it with noodles.
"It tastes good, the meat is very tender."
"If Caiyi were here, it should be able to bake a little more delicious."
Ji Xinghuo glanced at the Vientiane Star Pupil interface.
In addition to contributing bird meat, the biggest value of this group of human face owls is to give themselves 6 points of spiritual energy, which has now accumulated to 35 points.
After packing his tent luggage, Ji Xinghuo continued on the road and headed west.