"He actually planned his escape route long ago!" The dark-skinned girl was a bit astonished. "How could this be possible for a newbie? Could it be that he deliberately exposed his scent to you and led us to the place where he set up the ambush?"
Geli's face was gloomy, and he didn't answer.
"Chasing separately is too dangerous, isn't it?" Seeing that he didn't speak, the dark-skinned girl hesitated and said, "The other party is the one who injured the captain. Even if we catch up with him, we may not be able to deal with him, and we might be defeated one by one instead!"
Geli thought for a moment and said, "Well, I've thought of a way to distinguish. Even if he mixes his scent with that of the Bone-Eating Rats and makes it impossible for us to track him, the running trajectories of these Bone-Eating Rats are different from those of humans. Some of them even get lazy and stop running after a few steps! Of course, the lazy Bone-Eating Rat might also be his disguise. Anyway, I'll distinguish it first."
He breathed rapidly, allowing the scents to waft onto the olfactory cells in the nasal mucosa on the upper side of his nostrils to the greatest extent. In an instant, all the scents around him became clear, including the smell of rain, the smell of moss, the foul smell of the decaying corpses scattered on the ground, the faint rotten smell on the stones, and so on. All these scents formed a sensory map in his mind.
In less than five seconds, he quickly opened his eyes and said, "Follow me." Then he took off at a rapid pace in one direction.
The dark-skinned girl said in surprise, "Did you find him?"
"I'm not sure."
The two of them chased after him one after another. Soon, they came to an open square. There was a large amount of standing water on the ground, with the skeletons of some monsters, the decaying limbs of zombies, as well as moss and broken branches of black and withered trees scattered around.
Geli raised his hand and pointed in one direction. There was a pile of collapsed rocks. But if one looked carefully, it could be found that there was less moss on several of the rocks in the pile.
"He's actually hiding there!" The dark-skinned girl's eyes lit up. The fact that there was less moss indicated that someone had deliberately touched them, and it was very likely that this was the hiding place reserved by that person in advance! However, she didn't dare to be careless. If that person was really hiding in there, it meant that there must be traps there!
She approached cautiously, carefully surveying the surrounding terrain and the arrangement of the rocks, in case there were any traps.
Geli followed behind her. At this moment, there was very little he could do. He could only count on the dark-skinned girl to find the traps.
"There should be a cave inside. The scent is going deeper and deeper inside." Geli said in a low voice, frowning at the same time, and his muscles all over his body tensed up.
The dark-skinned girl held a short blade and examined it carefully. Hearing Geli's words, she immediately examined it carefully bit by bit. From the arrow on Bailin's face, the two of them had already preliminarily determined that the enemy was a Hunter. Since that was the case, she was confident that in close combat, a thief was definitely better than a Hunter. Only warriors and knights were beyond her reach. Of course, this referred to an open and fair frontal battle.
So, she just had to be careful that the enemy wouldn't find an angle to sneak attack her from the pile of rocks.
The two of them approached the pile of rocks one after another.
In the gloomy sky, the dark clouds were swirling above their heads, and it seemed that a heavy rain was about to come!
"He's forty meters inside." Geli reported the movement of the scent in an extremely low voice.
The farther the scent went, the closer the two of them got to the pile of rocks.
"There are no traps." The dark-skinned girl frowned. She was nervous. The fact that there were no traps made her feel even more terrified.
When the two of them were more than ten meters away from the pile of rocks—
Suddenly, the sound of water splashing rang out. However, it didn't come from above their heads but from behind them!
The muscles all over their bodies, which were already tense, almost instinctively and in horror turned their heads to look back.
Whoosh!
A sharp arrow, like a ray of silver light, pierced through Geli's throat, who was standing behind!
It penetrated instantly!
Geli's eyes widened. He covered his throat and made a painful "gurgling" sound before falling down.
The dark-skinned girl's pupils shrank. She saw that in the center of the square behind them was a dirty pool. All kinds of decaying things were floating in it, including the bloated corpses of Bone-Eating Rats soaked in the water. However, at this moment, a figure suddenly leaped out of the pool. It was Dudian!
He was actually hiding in the pool?!
The dark-skinned girl's heart trembled. Seeing Dudian jump to the edge of the pool and stand firm, and then continue to nock an arrow and shoot, she was so scared that she quickly grabbed Geli's body and held it in front of her. Instead of running away, she advanced towards Dudian.
She knew that if she distanced herself from a Hunter, the other party would have a hundred ways to kill her!
The only chance was close combat!
She believed that the other party should not be an intermediate Hunter. Otherwise, there would be no need to use tricks. In a direct frontal battle, he could easily kill her and Geli. Therefore, she still had a hope of winning!
Whoosh!
The second arrow followed and shot into Geli's face. His life, which was already fading, came to an end immediately.
Dudian's face changed slightly when he saw the figure of the other party approaching rapidly. He quickly turned around and ran away. At the same time, he nocked an arrow at a rapid speed. Once the other party discarded the body and chased after him, he would shoot an arrow for cover.
His heart was also pounding wildly at the moment. Jumping out of the pool suddenly and shooting required extremely high precision. Fortunately, during this period, he had been practicing basic archery hard, and his precision was more than twice that of other Hunters of the same period.
Whoosh!
Dudian ran towards a tall building behind him.
The dark-skinned girl was both angry and scared when she saw the other party running away. She was just about to let go of Geli's body and chase after him when she saw an arrow shooting towards her. She was so scared that she quickly raised Geli's body to block it. The arrow shot into his chest.
She peeked through the armpit of Geli and saw Dudian running into a tall building behind him without looking back. She suddenly hesitated.
Whether it was Bailin's injury before or Geli's death during the current pursuit, she had witnessed the terrifying tricks of the other party. She wasn't sure if there were more ambushes waiting for her in that tall building behind. After all, it took her time to detect the traps. She couldn't spot the traps set by others at a glance. And during this time, there was a Hunter hiding in the dark of the building. Just thinking about it was terrifying!
What should she do?
She hesitated. Finally, she gritted her teeth, dragged Geli's body, turned around, and left the square. She squatted down at the edge of the square, took out the Demon Smoke Bomb from her bag, and released it. A light red smoke wafted out, with a fragrance, which was the plant powder of the red smoke.
Dudian ran to the top of the tall building. Seeing that the other party didn't chase after him, he felt both relieved and a bit regretful. He had set a trap under the tall building, but he wasn't sure if he could kill a junior Hunter with that trap. After all, he wasn't good at making traps. He was just relying on his own mind and hadn't systematically learned how to make them.
"Thank goodness." Dudian leaned against the wall, breathing slightly. Looking at the red smoke floating outside the square, he knew that the other party was sending a signal. This was within his expectations, and he wasn't worried. It was a mistake for the other party to send only three people to chase after him. Moreover, the only person in the team with the tracking ability had been killed by him. Now they were like blind people, while he could rely on his sense of smell to track and hide in the dark to launch attacks.
"She saw my face. Although she's angry, judging from her character, she's cautious and selfish. Before she has absolute certainty, she shouldn't continue to chase. After all, even if she wants to chase, she can't. It's a pity that her Marks of the Demon ability is the 'Bloody One' Marks of the Demon, which allows her to control the blood in her body. The blood of the zombie smeared on the arrow can't infect her." Dudian's eyes flickered as he calculated rapidly.