Whoosh!
Byne fell straight down along the side of the building. As he fell, he saw the "Fear-Infected" standing in the position where he had been before. Its front paw pushed over the already corroded broken wall, and stones rolled down. However, the "Fear-Infected" didn't jump down after him. After growling a few times, it turned its head and its body disappeared beside the wall again. Most likely, it was going downstairs to collect his body.
He let out a sigh of relief and quickly grabbed the bow on his back with his backhand. He took out an arrow that was separately inserted in the groove of the quiver. This arrow was twice as thick as the other arrows, and there was an extremely thin rope attached to the tail end. He twisted his head, aimed at another four-story building on the side, bent the bow fully, and the arrow flew through the air!
With a whoosh, the arrow landed in a solar water heater on the top of that building. The force was extremely strong, piercing through the solar water heater covered with moss and sticking straight into the floor under the bracket. The rope was more than ten meters long. As his body fell, it immediately tightened.
The rope bent at the edge of that building, and the heavy force carved a deep groove in the already corroded concrete corner. Byne, holding the rope, was like a swinging swing and crashed into the window of the second floor below with a bang. The glass shattered instantly. The moment he crashed in, he cut the rope with his dagger. After two consecutive rolls to relieve the force, he quickly got up and ran forward without looking back.
Not long after, the "Fear-Infected" rushed out from the previous building. By then, Byne had already run out of sight. It raised its nose, sniffed gently, looked around for a moment, and finally locked onto the direction and chased after the position where Byne had left.
About four or five minutes after the "Fear-Infected" left, four figures quietly emerged from beside a pillar at the bottom of the building. They were covered in blood and dirt. It was Dudian and the other three.
"It should have gone far, right?" Sham said in a low voice.
Dudian looked in the direction where the huge beast had left. His eyes flickered slightly, and he said in a low voice, "Let's chase after it and take a look. We must find that hunter!"
Hearing this, Mekin, Zach, and Sham were greatly surprised. Mekin whispered, "Are you crazy? We're still going to chase after it? It could find that bastard on the rooftop in an instant, which shows that its sense of smell is extremely terrifying. If we accidentally get close to it and it smells us, we're done for."
"With this layer of blood plasma covering us, it can't smell us for the time being." Dudian looked at the stinky blood on his body and said. This blood was from the walking corpses in the corridor. When he climbed to the second floor, he happened to see the walking corpses lying in the corridor, and he suddenly came up with this idea, which was to smear the blood from the walking corpses on their bodies to cover their smell and pretend to be walking corpses!
The deep blue spheres in the heads of these walking corpses had all been taken out, and their body temperature had returned to normal. They had started to rot, and the blood was mixed with the rotting flesh and blood, giving off a very strong smell.
Dudian noticed that this monster ignored the bodies of the walking corpses on the roadside, so he took the risk.
To disguise themselves completely, he asked Mekin and the other two to each carry a walking corpse and smear the rotting blood mud on their black armors, including their faces. However, considering the toxicity of the blood plasma, Dudian didn't directly smear it on his face. Instead, he held it on a piece of cloth and then covered his face with the cloth. Although some of it would seep onto his face, saving his life was the most important thing.
Moreover, to divert the monster's attention and reduce the weight on their bodies, the four of them threw all their backpacks on the first floor. The backpacks were stained with their sweat smell, and it was too dangerous to keep them around.
It was the last attempt in despair, but unexpectedly, it succeeded.
The few of them had escaped death, but before they could celebrate, Mekin and the other two heard Dudian's bold words and immediately shook their heads.
"We were lucky before. If we chase after it again, we'll be courting death if something goes wrong." Sham also tried to persuade him.
Dudian looked at the three of them and said, "If you don't want to, just wait for me here, or go find the main group. That hunter must be killed, or we won't have peace when we go back."
This monster had confirmed his speculation and also made Dudian understand more deeply the cruelty of the hunter. He didn't think that such a cold-blooded and cruel person would easily let them, who had disrupted his plan, go. If they fell into the other person's hands, death might be a mercy. They might even be tortured to death!
Rather than pinning their hopes on the other person's mercy, it was better to cut off the hidden danger with their own hands!
Mekin and the other three were a bit stunned. Seeing that Dudian was about to chase after it, Mekin quickly said, "I'll go with you. The four of us share life and death. If we die, we'll die together!" As he said this, a determined look appeared on his thick-browed and big-eyed face.
Dudian looked at him deeply and nodded slightly.
At this time, when Zach and Sham heard Mekin's words, they also stepped forward and were willing to follow Dudian.
Although they had been together for three years and had helped each other many times, seeing that they were still willing to follow at such a critical moment, Dudian felt a warmth in his heart. He nodded firmly and said, "Let's go!" He took the lead in walking out of the door and was just about to chase in the direction where the monster had left.
Suddenly—
"You little brats, you're actually still alive?" A cold and sinister voice sounded above their heads.
Dudian's pupils shrank slightly. He looked up and saw the figure of that hunter appearing at the broken window on the second floor before. He... actually hadn't left?!
Byne was even more surprised than Dudian. He didn't expect that they could avoid the perception of the "Fear-Infected". However, when he saw the bloody slurry on Dudian and the other three, he immediately understood. His eyes turned cold and he said, "Little bastards, you have quite a few tricks. Since I've run into you, it means that even the heavens want to take your lives. Die for me!"
He raised his bow and instantly pulled it.
Dudian's face changed. He quickly rolled over and got into the building.
Two arrows were fired in quick succession, and the sharp arrows shot at the position where he had been standing before.
"Run, split up and run!" After Dudian got into the building, he roared.
Mekin and the other three were so scared that they were a bit dazed. They had just been about to chase and kill the other person, but the other person actually appeared in front of them. Hearing Dudian's words, the three of them came to their senses and quickly ran towards the second floor.
Dudian saw that they were running in the same direction and quickly said, "Split up and run, or he'll catch up with all of us. He's only chasing me now!" From the fact that the two arrows had been shot at him before, he knew that this hunter hated him the most.
Mekin and the other three's faces changed. They said, "We still have a chance together. Let's fight him!"
"Listen to me!!" Dudian roared.
The three of them were taken aback, gritted their teeth, and separated, running in three different directions.
Dudian looked back at the hunter who had jumped down from the second floor and was chasing after him. His face was grim, and he quickly turned around and ran. He knew that if he was caught up by the other person, he would definitely die. Those terrifying walking corpses couldn't even defend themselves against the other person, let alone them, the scavengers?
"You cunning little bastard, it's all your fault for ruining my plan!" Byne had already seen that the actions of these four people were all arranged by this kid in front of him. For other scavengers, even adults, if he told them to stand somewhere, they would definitely stand there and not dare to move! Just thinking that the other person was the main culprit who had ruined his hunt for the "Fear-Infected", the hatred for Dudian in his heart made him unconsciously clench his fists tightly, as if he was crushing Dudian's head in his hands!
"You're still running. I'll skin you alive!!" Byne's face was filled with murderous intent. He quickly chased up the stairs. He had already left here. Considering that the bloody smell of Dudian and the other three's deaths would linger here for a while and could mix with his smell, he had made a detour and come back. But he didn't expect that the four people he hated so much were actually alive and well. While being surprised, a strong desire to torture and kill them also rose in his heart!
He wanted to make the other person suffer terribly!
Whoosh!
Soon, he caught up to the second floor. He heard the footsteps not far above his head, probably on the fourth floor. He sneered and quickly chased up.
After a while, he reached the fourth floor. The previous rapid footsteps had disappeared at this moment. He sneered and said, "Playing hide-and-seek? Hide slowly. I'll make you taste the taste of despair and let you hear what it feels like when the footsteps of death are approaching step by step..." Suddenly, he raised his hand and pulled the bow, shooting an arrow at the window covered with vines. The glass shattered with a crash, and there was a dull sound from inside.