"They've left and didn't chase after me. Could it be that they've backed down?" Dudian sensed from the scent that Bailin and the other girl had left, and a trace of doubt arose in his heart. Bailin had seen his face and shouldn't just let it go. Suddenly, he thought of a possibility, "The only Hunter in their team is dead. They know that blindly chasing after me will instead fall into my trap, so they simply decided to wait for me here?"
He pondered for a while and immediately understood Bailin's thoughts.
"She knows that I'm eager to kill her, so she's in no hurry now." Dudian's face darkened. "In a direct confrontation, I have no chance at all. If she holds her ground in one place and sets traps around, it will be almost impossible for me to attack them. If I let them go back alive this time, I'll be in danger. Once she uses her status as an intermediate Hunter to transfer me to her team in the future, I'll die as soon as I come outside the Wall. There's no possibility of escape at all!"
"They should be setting traps now. It's too dangerous to take the initiative. What should I do? Just wait?"
Dudian frowned tightly. Now the only chance was to wait, wait until the other side relaxed their vigilance and mistakenly thought that he had left, and then come out to launch a sneak attack! But after all, the other side was an intermediate Hunter and had already realized that he was a threat. Even if he waited, it would be difficult for them to fall into the trap. They might even call the other two team members over. If there were four of them together and they didn't split up, even if he could sneak attack and shoot one of them, he would be caught immediately by the other three.
After all, his shooting range was only a hundred meters, and his precision wasn't 100%. There was still a possibility of making mistakes!
Rumble~!
Thunder rumbled outside, illuminating the gray sky.
Dudian looked at the pouring rain, and his agitated mood gradually calmed down. The thunder kept echoing in his mind. He suddenly thought, what if he could make use of this thunder and lightning?
However, the equipment needed to control thunder and lightning was far beyond what he could make now, so he could only think about it.
"Wait!"
"Make use of thunder and lightning? Make use of it?"
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed through Dudian's mind. He couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and his eyes quickly lit up with excitement. "Yes, why was I so stupid? I can't kill them on my own, so why don't I know how to make use of external things? Only relying on my own strength to fight is no different from a pig butcher or a mindless soldier. I'm so stupid, really so stupid!" He patted his head, but he was extremely excited in his heart.
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The rain during the Disaster Rainy Season came quickly and stopped quickly.
The heavy rain gradually stopped, and the air was filled with a damp smell, as well as the fresh green smell of moss and vines.
The stench of corpses and the smell of decaying things all over the ruins, on the other hand, were washed away by the rain and became weaker.
Time passed. In the blink of an eye, the sun set in the west, and night fell.
In the small building, the doors and windows were all closed. The original window glass had been smashed. The dark-skinned girl found wooden boards and stones to block them up, and the gaps were stuffed with cloth and vines, making it very airtight. Then she lit a fire in the room.
In the room, besides the two girls, Nick and Reed, who had been left behind by the Red Lake before, were also summoned back by Bailin using the Demon Smoke Bomb.
The purpose of summoning them back was naturally not that Bailin was afraid of Dudian. Instead, she considered that with just these two people, even if they were to stake out for the Clawbeast, it would be difficult for them to hunt it down, and they would instead be treated as food by the Clawbeast. Secondly, she was worried that if Dudian failed to launch a sneak attack on them, he would turn around and take a detour to attack Nick and Reed. The two of them had no defenses, and they would suffer a great loss at that time. So she summoned them together, planning to deal with Dudian first and then complete the mission.
Anyway, she wasn't in a hurry.
If Dudian were an ordinary child, she would probably think that the other party would give up when he saw that the sneak attack had failed. But having witnessed all the previous means, she didn't dare to treat this newbie as an ordinary child and didn't dare to look down on him in the slightest.
"Geli... was actually killed by that little brat?" Nick looked at the mound of soil in a corner of the room and said in disbelief.
Reed also had an incredulous look on his face and said to the dark-skinned girl, "Are you telling the truth? This is just a child. He hasn't even reached the age of 13 to become an adult, has he? How could he know so much?"
Bailin gave him a cold glance and said, "Don't underestimate children. Some people are bad eggs from a young age!"
Reed looked at the gauze wrapped around her cheek, his lips trembled, but he didn't say anything. After all, the facts were already in front of him.
"Are we going to keep waiting like this?" Nick couldn't help but ask.
Bailin said indifferently, "What, don't you have more patience than a newbie?"
"No, I just think it's a waste of time." Nick's momentum weakened, and he said in a low voice.
Bailin snorted coldly and said, "If you think it's a waste of time, go and find him for me and kill him, then there won't be any more delay."
Nick was slightly stunned and stopped talking. His Marks of the Demon ability was auxiliary and had nothing to do with perception.
"Don't worry. This little brat doesn't have the 'Bright Constitution'. The longer he stays outside the Wall, the more uncomfortable he will be. Especially if he stays for too long at one time, his body will feel unwell. Even if his 'Fear of Contamination' ability can kill the zombie virus that invades his body, it will be difficult for him to resist the erosion of radiation!" The dark-skinned girl said confidently, "I've set traps around. The longer we delay, the more secure our surroundings will be. Then, even if we don't have to do anything, my trap mechanisms alone can kill him!"
Nick and Reed exchanged a glance and sighed. They felt a bit aggrieved in their hearts. With a whole team of people and an intermediate Hunter in charge, they were actually forced to retreat by a newbie. It was really embarrassing.
Bailin could tell what they were thinking from their expressions, but she didn't say anything. She just snorted coldly. Once she lured and captured Dudian, she had already thought about how to crush his body and suck his blood dry!
In the blink of an eye, two days passed.
These two days were peaceful. Dudian seemed to have disappeared and didn't appear in front of Bailin and the others.
This once made the dark-skinned girl, Nick, and Reed think that Dudian had already left. But Bailin firmly believed that Dudian was lurking nearby and just waiting for an opportunity.
After all, the dark-skinned girl and the other two were also Hunters. They knew that patience was extremely important during the hunting process. Now they and Dudian were each other's prey. Once one of them couldn't hold back and exposed themselves first, they would become the hunted party!
The few of them continued to wait. Another day passed.
Bailin finished eating the dry rations and touched the wound on her face. In just three days, the wound on her face had basically healed and formed a scar, and it no longer hurt. This was one of the functions of her "Bloody One" Marks of the Demon. By controlling the flow of blood, she could speed up the healing of her body's injuries. This was an extremely important ability for hunting outside the Wall and was of great help. Among the fallen Hunters, at least one-third of them often died because their old wounds didn't heal and new wounds kept appearing, so they were unable to resist and exhausted their strength in repeated battles with monsters.
Moreover, speeding up the healing of injuries also meant that Bailin was more daring when containing monsters. Even if she was injured, she could heal quickly. So the Hunters following Bailin's team basically didn't have to worry about the prey running away and could shoot with confidence.
"Three days have passed..." Bailin squinted her eyes and thought more highly of Dudian. Being able to endure not showing up for three days, this level of patience was qualified.
The dark-skinned girl and the others finished eating the dry rations and sat in the small building, resting in the most energy-saving way.
Dong dong dong!
Suddenly, the ground started to shake.