Chapter 316: Hunting down the Masked Stranger
Death is an eternal topic in the wilderness.
The identities of hunter and prey are not so clear here. People kill people every day, and people are killed every day.
Many people are frantically plundering resources just to climb up little by little, to the top of this chaotic pyramid and become the only hunter.
Today, the climbing journey of more than a hundred mercenaries came to an end.
“Crack!”
Swords flashed, heads flew, and the last mercenary in the battle area died.
Compared with other mercenaries, he was lucky. He was beheaded with a sword and did not suffer too much pain.
But Su Xia did not stop, but went into the jungle on one side with the bloody sword in hand.
Five people are still alive.
Four of them were snipers. They were already far away from the battlefield and hid in the bushes on both sides when the battle broke out, giving them a greater chance of escape.
I have to say, the person who fell to his death before was very unlucky.
At this moment, the four men were fleeing the battlefield from different directions, using all their strength, and the farthest one had already escaped several thousand meters away.
The man was panting heavily, his heart beating wildly, pumping fresh blood to his body, and his pale face was covered with sweat, and he kept praying: "Go after someone else, go after someone else..."
He had faced such a life-and-death crisis before, and he escaped while others died.
With a glimmer of hope, he prayed to all the gods at home and abroad, hoping that maybe luck would come to him again.
Unfortunately, this time, the misfortune is equal.
"call--"
A bloody wind blew in.
Looking closely, it was not natural wind at all, but the air flow caused by Su Xia's rapid movement.
The man was horrified and begged for mercy: "Wait a minute, I..."
Before he could say anything, his entire face was cut in half, with a smooth cross-section, and the upper half slowly slid down.
Su Xia did not stop for a moment, holding a long sword, running in the other direction, chasing after him with a strong murderous intent.
…
At this moment, everything was quiet around the convoy.
The mercenaries who were chopped in half were wailing at first, but now they were dead. The only sound left in the entire area was the sound of dripping blood.
The members of the player team were stunned and motionless, as if they were petrified.
After a long while, someone moved, pointed forward, his face full of shock, and muttered to himself: "Flash...The Flash?"
"No, not as fast as the Flash. Didn't you see the movie?" Another person shook his head woodenly.
"But this is too horrible. In just a few minutes, more than a hundred robbers were killed."
"Have we encountered a fairy?"
“…”
A few minutes ago, they felt that it was unrealistic to fight one against a hundred, after all, they were in the wilderness and there was no place to hide.
They were even prepared to take action and earn some favors when Su Xia got into trouble.
But I didn't expect the situation to change so quickly.
"There's definitely no such boss in Seahorse City, and probably no boss in Coral City either."
"Could it be that he came from somewhere else, chasing after the masked weirdo?"
Even the players know that recently many high-level NPCs have come from all over the world just to hunt down the masked monster.
"broken!"
The captain suddenly yelled, slapped his legs and stood up, asking, "Did you guys record the video just now?"
The other team members also reacted, their expressions changed, and they looked at each other with questioning looks in their eyes.
"I was busy protecting a few drivers and didn't have time to start recording."
"Me too."
"Alas, this is a rare high-level NPC battle, and we actually forgot about it! If we post it on the forum, I wonder how much traffic it will bring to our team account!"
The battle just now was so shocking, with its speed and bloodshed, sword flashes and gunshots, that the entire team forgot to turn on the recording system.
This kind of scene is hard to come by. Once you miss it, you don’t know when you will see it again.
You know, this NPC has never appeared before.
If they run it well, it will definitely attract a lot of attention and increase the attention of their own team.
As the game has developed to this point, the most famous team is naturally the Bikini Bottom team. Even many old-established gaming guilds cannot compare to Bikini Bottom, let alone many small teams.
The ideal of these small teams is to become a top team like Bikini Bottom, stirring up a storm within the game and also being invited by game companies to record programs outside of the game.
"That immortal will be back soon."
Someone looked in the direction where Su Xia disappeared just now.
"We still have some distance to go before we reach Kaiba City at midnight. We can take advantage of this opportunity."
“I’m just afraid that the big guy won’t communicate with us.”
"It's okay. Man proposes, God disposes..."
The players made up their minds and prepared to shamelessly talk to Su Xia to get closer to each other.
If it doesn’t work the first time, try a few more times until Su Xia gets tired of it.
It is said that if the intimacy with these NPCs is high enough, there is a certain possibility of triggering the apprenticeship system.
Many people on the forum said that Lin Shan, who was ranked number one in the world, was able to learn so many advanced skills because he triggered the apprenticeship system and was accepted as a disciple by Commander Beifeng.
"That boss, is he no less powerful than Commander Beifeng?"
"It's hard to say. Commander Bei Feng has too few battle videos. But if we only consider speed, the guy just now was definitely faster!"
On the Internet, the most viewed video of Commander Beifeng is still the one about the night of the Zerg War.
The battle was broadcast live across the entire network that night, and many players from the Oasis Camp participated in the battle.
With artillery fire, bullets raining down, and insect swarms everywhere, the battle scenes are so exciting that many players even recorded first-person battle videos.
Many videos were bought by the game officials for promotion, attracting a large number of novice players to join.
Moreover, since the server was launched, that was the only time that the Terran race faced the Zerg head-on in war.
"I really want to have another Zerg War." A player in the team sighed, "If we can become the protagonist of that battle, maybe we can become famous in one battle!"
“That’s right!”
Everyone knew that if they went into the insect tide that night, the most likely outcome would be that they would be overwhelmed by the insects and become one of countless cannon fodder.
But you must always have dreams, otherwise what’s the difference between you and salted fish?
Under the video of that night, many new players shouted that they wanted to be “insect-killing warriors”, working hard to level up, waiting for that day to come.
"call--"
At this moment, a bloody wind suddenly blew from the distant mountains and forests.
Everyone was shocked and looked towards that location.
I saw a black figure flash by, and in the blink of an eye, it disappeared into the distance, as if it was chasing another person.
The skeleton sword in Su Xia's hand had been completely stained red. The sword body looked like it had been washed in blood, and even the shadow it drew was dark red.
There are only two people left!
He never stopped, like a deadly bolt of lightning, cutting through the evening wilderness.
During this period, he drank several potions to replenish his psychic energy.
The Boots of Extreme Speed require too much psychic energy. A normal level 5 creature cannot sustain it for long and can only drink medicine to replenish it, but the effect obtained is worth it.
“Sizzle—”
The sword blade cut through a huge gray rock, a scream came from inside the stone, and blood continued to flow out from the cracks in the stone.
This mercenary has a special psychic talent that allows him to hide inside rocks. Unfortunately, no matter how well he hides, he cannot escape the life-sensing glasses.
Su Xia drew his sword and walked away, the blade spurting out a handful of warm blood.
There is one last person!
The mercenary leader was also the first to escape.
At this time, more than ten minutes had passed since the battle began.
According to the information fed back by the nanorobots, the mercenary leader had already escaped more than ten kilometers away, and his speed was also quite fast.
…
At this time, at the foot of a small hill, the mercenary leader stopped to rest for a while.
“Hoo…Hoo…”
He lay on the ground uncomfortably, his chest heaving, his face an unhealthy red, his body temperature was extremely high, and his heart was beating violently as if it was about to explode.
Along the way, he didn't care about anything else, and even took two pills of medicine to maintain his explosiveness, and finally escaped here.
"We're so far away now, that person... shouldn't be able to catch up, right?"
The mercenary leader coughed violently twice, his voice became hoarse, his lungs seemed to be bursting, and he even coughed up a few traces of blood.
The outburst just now was so violent that his internal organs could hardly bear it.
If he continued to run at that speed, he would probably die of exhaustion soon , without Su Xia having to do anything herself.
At a distance of more than ten kilometers, it should be impossible to catch up without special tracking methods.
The wilderness is vast, with wild grass and dead trees everywhere. It is easy to lose your sense of direction, and even the means of sensing life are not very useful.
Since he was the only one who escaped, the other party probably wouldn't be interested in chasing him anymore.
Unfortunately, he met Su Xia.
“Tick…”
A drop of blood flowed down the edge of the sword and dripped into a puddle not far away, like a ball of thick ink spreading out in strands, which was very beautiful.
Su Xia stood beside the puddle, looked around, and said, "This is a good place to clean my sword."
"you……"
The mercenary leader trembled all over, feeling despair, and struggled to get up from the ground.
He held tightly onto a dagger, which was his last hope. He had thrown away all other weapons when he escaped.
"I'm Boss Wang Teng's man." His voice was trembling. "I know you know Boss Wang. If you have anything to discuss, you can discuss it. There is no misunderstanding that cannot be resolved. Why bother to make a fuss?"
He still wanted to persuade Su Xia to let him go, but unfortunately Su Xia was too lazy to waste her breath.
Su Xia was already hungry in the real world. After killing someone, he had to eat and could not delay the meal.
“Crack!”
He moved as fast as the wind, slashed out with a fatal sword, and the blade splashed blood red.
The mercenary leader groaned and slowly knelt on the ground. Sticky blood slowly flowed out from under his body, staining a large area of the soil red.
Su Xia walked to the puddle with the sword in hand, pulled out a few leaves, and began to clean the blood off the sword with the freezing cold water.
Before long, the entire puddle turned dark red.
"stirrup!"
Su Xiaqu tapped the sword with his fingers, and the long sword made a clanging sound, without any damage to the sword edge.
It is worthy of being a creation of the starry sky and is trustworthy.
He put the Skeleton Sword into the storage space, then set off and returned to the convoy, as fast as a breeze.
"call--"
This feeling is quite special. The surrounding scenery is blurred, as if the whole world is collapsing, and only the road in front of you remains.
If it went any faster, Su Xia felt that her body might not be able to bear it.
He has calmed down a lot now, but the surface of his skin still feels like it's being cut by a knife and seems about to break.
At this time, over at the convoy, the person in charge Cheng Men and many players were picking up weapons and equipment on the ground.
These weapons were bought with money and are very valuable.
In this world, gold and bullets are both hard currencies and can save lives at critical moments.
"It's rich! This sniper rifle costs more than 100,000 yuan through regular channels." A player's eyes sparkled and he licked his lips. "If I can take it back, I can use it myself or sell it."
"Ahem...this undead warrior, these spoils should belong to that adult." Cheng Men reminded at the right time.
"Mr. Cheng, you don't need to remind me, I know it." The player glanced at him.
In fact, players have storage space and can quietly collect some loot, which cannot be seen from the outside anyway.
But everyone in the team was afraid of angering Su Xia, so they didn't even dare to take a single bullet.
When Su Xia came back, she happened to see this scene.
He jumped onto the roof of a large truck and said to the crowd, "Just leave half of the things here for me, and divide the rest among yourselves."
"What? Half?"
Hearing this, everyone was delighted, even the drivers rushed out of the cab and thanked Su Xia repeatedly.
This was an unexpected windfall, and everyone got busy searching the bloody corpse, not even leaving out a single coin.
Then, Su Xia added: "Pay attention to finding the key. There are more than ten cars and more than twenty off-road motorcycles hidden in the jungle on the right. The keys should all be on these people."
Hearing this, everyone was delighted again.
It’s exciting to think about so many supplies.
In the past, only these mercenaries robbed others, but today the situation has been reversed and these mercenaries have become the targets of robbery.
If this matter were to be told to others, it would simply be a fairy tale. How many people would believe it?
Not long after, a player made a joyful voice: "Found it! Found it! This mercenary has a bunch of keys on him!"
"Quick, go over and try it!"
"good!"
The player was very excited. Holding a bunch of blood-stained keys, he hurried to the jungle on the right and found the hidden off-road vehicles.
He pressed the car search button on his key, and one of the cars immediately started flashing and honking, as if responding to him.
"It's this one!" He pointed at it. "It can't be wrong."
"Another bunch of keys was found over there."
"Come over here and try it!"
“…”
In the following time, the keys to these off-road vehicles and motorcycles were found one by one, and the players excitedly drove out of the jungle and ran back and forth on the road.
Su Xia just kept shaking his head, these guys don’t know how to save gas money.
In the trunks of many off-road vehicles, there are spare supplies that the mercenaries have not used, which are also valuable when added together.
After more than an hour, the search was over.
Su Xia was lying on the top of the carriage, motionless, and even went offline to eat a meal.
When I went online again, the sky in the game had become dim and the evening breeze was blowing gently.
Several players stood under the carriage, and one of them whispered, "Why is this big guy not moving? Is he distracted?"
Another player retorted: "What do you mean by distraction? That's called daydreaming!"
"Damn, cultured people are just different."
“…”
Su Xia slowly stood up, stretched his body, and then jumped down.
Cheng Men had been waiting downstairs. He thought Su Xia was resting and didn't dare to disturb her. Now he dared to say, "Sir, everything is packed and we can leave at any time."
"Okay, let's go."
“Yes, yes.”
Cheng Men did not dare to delay and immediately ordered everyone to get on the car and set off again.
He chose an off-road vehicle, drove it for Su Xia himself, and asked Su Xia to sit in the comfortable seat in the back seat.
The convoy set off, the world outside the car window began to recede, and the smell of blood gradually faded away.
The atmosphere in the car was a bit depressing and no one spoke.
Cheng Men was a little nervous the whole time, and he looked at the rearview mirror from time to time. After a long while, he carefully found a topic: "Sir, did you come to Haima City this time to hunt down that masked stranger?"
