Ji Xinghuo returned to the first-level city, but did not leave the city immediately.

The Golau Rakak of the Northfall Division was able to fly briefly, had a strong sense of hearing and sight, and was good at reconnaissance, and the Dagon also formed flying patrols, so the day was not conducive to concealment, and the bounty hunters almost always went out at night and returned to the fortress before dawn.

He followed a few bounty hunters to a large inn, one of the largest bounty hunter hangouts in the Midpoint Fortress.

The lobby is large and divided into a restaurant and bar.

Bounty hunters sit at the table in twos and threes, or drink at the bar, exchanging information with each other, which is quite lively.

When Ji Xinghuo came in, he attracted a few glances.

However, most people looked at him twice and turned their heads, and someone whispered, "A novice is here." ”

"Looks like I'm a bit capable."

"Who dares to be a bounty hunter?" The person next to him replied, and suddenly smiled: "Shall we make a bet that he can live for a few days?" ”

"Three days."

"Ten days."

"I'll bet 50,000 Asian dollars on him to survive until next month."

They didn't deliberately lower their voices, Ji Xinghuo, who was still at the door, heard it clearly, but he didn't mind being bet on, so he walked indifferently to the bar, and the waiter asked, "Do you want to stay in the hotel, eat, or have a drink?" ”

"Bring me a cold beer first." Ji Xinghuo took out the banknote and handed it over.

The bartender quickly pushed a full glass of wine in front of him, Ji Xinghuo picked it up and took a sip, listening to the discussion in the lobby.

The topic of bounty hunters is inseparable from three elements, bonuses, points and prey.

Ji Xinghuo summoned the waiter, "You guys have a defense map for sale here, right?" ”

"Of course." The waiter was not surprised, "But there is only a map of the defense line on the side of the Beiluo Division, which is updated every ten days, and the information is not necessarily accurate, and the price is two thousand Asian yuan, do you want it?" ”

"Bring me one."

Ji Xinghuo paid, and the waiter immediately brought a beautiful map.

He spread it out and looked closely.

The map includes about fifty kilometers of military defense around the Midpoint Fortress, with only open military buildings on this side of the planet.

However, the defense line of the Beiluo Division Gate on the opposite side is very detailed, with the locations of various fortresses, guard towers, and pillbox barracks, the defense facilities, the number of people stationed, the surrounding terrain, the route and alternation time of the patrol, the underground tunnels, etc., which are extremely detailed.

Ji Xinghuo looked at it very seriously, and almost memorized the contents on the map for more than an hour.

Then he left the inn.

Seeing that it was still early, he took two turns around the Midpoint Fortress and purchased a batch of arrows, mainly titanium and aluminum alloy arrows, and some capacitive arrows and flame blast arrows were also replenished.

The Armed Shops in Midpoint Fortress sell things that are biased towards stealth and survival.

Ji Xinghuo also saw a sneaking ring, which was exactly the same as the ring on his hand, priced at 13 million!

However, the effect of the Stealth Ring is fully worth its price.

"That's so expensive."

There are quite a few bounty hunters who linger in front of the Stealth Ring and are very covetous of this Super Ring.

"Silent arrows?"

Ji Xinghuo saw a special arrow that he had never seen before in an archery shop, and immediately became interested and immediately went in to ask.

A moment later, he walked out of the shop with fifty more silent arrows in his quiver behind his back.

These arrows are made of a sound-absorbing material, and when fired, they absorb the sound waves generated by friction with the air, forming silent arrows, which are very useful for long-range assassination. And after hitting the target, the sound absorption effect will also act on the target, and it will not make a sound, and it will fall to the ground silently.

However, the material of silent arrows is somewhat worse than that of alloys, and the hardness and toughness are slightly inferior, so the lethality is lower than that of alloy arrows.

In addition, if the target is hard, the arrow will be damaged, and it is basically impossible to recover it.

This makes the silent arrow a disposable arrow.

Each one costs fifteen thousand Asian dollars, which is more expensive than capacitive arrows, and can only be used once, so not many people buy it.

Ji Xinghuo is not short of money at present, so he will buy fifty for trial first.

If the silent arrows work well, he doesn't mind buying more in the future as his regular means.

After purchasing arrows and other useful materials and tools, Ji Xinghuo found a random hotel, opened a room to sleep, and when he woke up, it was getting dark, and the starry night was about to fall. He left the inn and walked towards the gates of the first-tier city, where there were already thousands of bounty hunters waiting.

Despite the crowd, it was quiet under the high city.

All of them were heavily armed, their expressions were serious and silent, and they were not in the mood to talk to others.

Every time you go out to hunt an enemy, you gamble with your own life, and no one knows if you will be able to come back, and perhaps, this is the last hunt.

Ji Xinghuo saw a few familiar figures, and they saw them at the hotel at noon.

He also saw Alex "The Red Devil".

"Open the door!"

When the last rays of golden light disappeared in the sky, and a few stars appeared in the sky, the reflection of the Milky Way gradually emerged, and the city gate guards shouted loudly, and the steam boiler worked to pull the chains, pulling up the alloy city gates that were more than two meters thick.

The bounty hunters streamed out and scattered in different directions.

One by one, the figures disappeared from view.

After Ji Xinghuo separated from the crowd, he also activated the stealth ring, covering his figure, and headed towards the northeast.

When he climbed over a low mountain beam, he saw a bare surface, the terrain was undulating, the forests had been cut down, and the vegetation had been destroyed, exposing rocks and soil, until at the end of the view, there was not a trace of green in sight.

There is a five-kilometer buffer zone between the Earth and the defense line of the North Fall Division.

There have been countless battles in the buffer zone, and on the surface it seems to be peaceful, but there are countless trenches, traps, and tunnels underground, intricately criss-crossed, like a vast labyrinth, long enough to circle the earth several times.

Both sides will lay in ambush in it.

Just crossing the buffer zone is very dangerous.

Ji Xinghuo saw a light from a distance, it was the "Victory Fort" of the Beiluo Division, facing the midpoint fortress here.

At this moment, many killers and assassins of the Beiluo Sect have also left the fortress, preparing to cross the defense line and infiltrate the territory of the humans.

Ji Xinghuo did not step into the buffer zone, but continued to walk northeast along the defensive line.

It wasn't until more than twenty kilometers away that he entered an underground tunnel.

The entrance to this secret passage is very hidden, and it is marked on the map where I bought it at the bar, and when Ji Xinghuo arrived, he saw several bounty hunters.

He deliberately distanced himself from the others, and only after they entered did he follow.

The dark road is winding, and there are many forks along the way.

If it is a first-time visitor, it is easy to get lost, and you may not be able to get out of the dark passage for a night, and you may even run into enemies.

However, Ji Xinghuo's magnetic field induction swept away and easily found the right way.

Coming out of the other end of the tunnel, it has passed through the buffer zone.

The bounty hunters were separated, some walked alone, and some were in teams of two or three, Ji Xinghuo did not alarm them, and moved forward in the direction he chose.

Under the starry night, a transparent figure moved rapidly, but it didn't make a sound.

Stealth consumes star power.

Ji Xinghuo is on almost all the time, and the aether affinity gives him an extremely fast star power recovery speed, which can just cancel out the consumption of the stealth ring.

Soon after.

He saw a watchtower at the North Gate.

Two or three kilometers apart, Ji Xinghuo's Vientiane Star Pupil Observation Tower seemed to be close at hand.

The Beiluoshi clan is completely ruled by the Dagon people, and their architectural style is also completely dominated by the Dagon, with three layers of circular high walls on the ground inside and outside, and a cylindrical tower in the middle, more than 20 meters high, and the superstructure expands outward, like a big mushroom.

At the foot of the watchtower was the barracks, and judging by the size, the number should be between a hundred and two hundred.

And the commander must be a fourth-order master.

Ji Xinghuo didn't want to make a move on this guard tower, he couldn't beat it if he wanted to, so he bypassed it far away and continued to go deep behind the defense line of the North Division.

He continued to advance more than 20 kilometers, and along the way, the magnetic field induction detected one guard tower after another, as well as secret posts, pillboxes, and military camps, the scale was large and small, and the layout was very dense, occupying favorable terrain to form a tight defense system.

This kind of military structure is not something that can be captured by one person.

Ji Xinghuo didn't list them as his target for the time being, his target was the patrol.

It had been more than three hours since entering the starry night, and Ji Xinghuo had finally arrived at the predetermined area, but he did not rush to do it, but spent more than two hours touching the terrain, armament and roads in this mountainous area to correct the errors on the map.

Then, he began to wait patiently.

Like a professional hunter, waiting for his prey to appear.

Half an hour later.

A patrol came into view, and Ji Xinghuo, who was standing in the tree, was in good spirits, and the route was marked on the defense map, and a patrol would pass by every three hours.

They set out from the barracks, five kilometers away, passing several guard towers along the way and then detouring back from another road.

Still, few bounty hunters will do anything to them.

Because the number of this kind of patrol team is usually twenty people, all of them are from the four clans of the Beiluo Division, the profession is reasonable, well-equipped, and the battle is tacit, and the third-order Dagon is the captain.

Even two or three super Inhumans teamed up to fight the patrol.

Moreover, the patrol has a means of instant contact with the barracks, and in the event of an attack, stronger clansmen will soon arrive on the scene.

Ji Xinghuo observed from a high place.

Sure enough, just like in the message, there were twenty enemies.

Half of them were stone lizards, who scattered on foot in the front and rear of the group, tall bodies wearing metal armor, holding shields and weapons, and carrying javelins, acting as meat shields and melee combat roles in the group.

The five Golau Rakaks took turns taking off to scout the surroundings.

Three of them rode armored horses, and one of them mounted a plant cheetah, which was a vine spirit.

Obviously, the Dagon man riding the vine spirit is the patrol leader.

A few minutes later, the patrol came into range of the magnetic field, and Ji Xinghuo identified the professions of the four Dagons.

Not all of the Dagon are Water Divisions or Ice Blades, only about half of these two classes are used, and the other half of the Dagons have chosen many other class templates like humans.

However, the genetic talents of the Dagon are more specialized, so the number of career templates is not as good as that of humans.

Many professions have similar abilities, but they are also different from humans.

Ji Xinghuo quickly set up a tactic.

Soon, the patrol entered its own range, Ji Xinghuo raised the Dragon Falcon Eagle Bow, the pupil of his right eye lit up with a faint circle of light, aimed at a Dagon man with a hunting bow on his back, and shot an arrow out.

(End of chapter)