In a small building on the street full of cracks.
Bailin sat in the dim corner inside, opened the first aid kit, and replaced the gauze on the claw wounds on her right arm and thigh. At the same time, she remained vigilant around her, preventing a possible sneak attack at any moment.
"I've disguised myself so realistically. I don't believe you won't fall for it!" Bailin thought to herself. In order to make the entrapment more realistic, she deliberately went to the place where the Sea-Foul Beast, which had a combat power similar to hers, liked to move. The purpose was to hope to get herself injured by the claws of the Sea-Foul Beast.
The hunting level of this Sea-Foul Beast was 17. It was an amphibious monster. Moreover, compared to the land, it preferred to move in the water. If it fought in the water, even a senior Hunter would be bitten and eaten by it. But on land, its combat power would be weakened a lot. With Bailin's hunting experience and strength, as long as she was careful, she could basically hunt it alone.
To make the performance more realistic, she always went all out. In fact, with the strength of this Sea-Foul Beast, even if she tried her best, it was extremely difficult for her to defeat it. So, she was confident that her disguise was absolutely flawless. Next, it was up to whether Dudian had the guts or not.
After replacing the new medical gauze, she felt that the wounds on her right arm and thigh were still a bit numb. She couldn't help but secretly hate it. The claws of the Sea-Foul Beast carried a paralyzing toxin, and it was an extremely troublesome monster. If she hadn't been able to control the blood and expel the toxin from the claw wounds to a great extent, I'm afraid her right arm and thigh would have already been too stiff to move.
"When I catch you, I'll inflict all this pain on you a hundred or a thousand times over!" The killing intent in her heart was intense. She transferred all her hatred to Dudian and wished she could skin and tendon him.
While being angry in her heart, she controlled the blood on her face to recede, making her face look paler, especially her lips, which almost had no blood color and looked extremely weak. She slowly leaned against the wall and breathed softly, but her palm tightly gripped her one-handed sword, remaining vigilant at all times. However, compared with her weak appearance, such a vigilant action seemed so futile.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, a cold arrow shot in rapidly from the window.
The angle was diagonally downward, directly aiming at her throat!
The originally "dying" Bailin's eyes suddenly shot out a fierce light. Her body suddenly rolled and stood up. With a swing of her sword, she blocked the arrow and instantly locked onto the place where the arrow had come from - the small building opposite!
Die!
She didn't hide her strong killing intent at all. She jumped out of the window and leaped towards the small building opposite like a cheetah.
However, just as she arrived in front of the small building, her eyelid suddenly twitched, and she felt a bit of a nervous feeling. This was the instinct from years of hunting. Her gut instinct sensed a trace of terror, and she immediately stopped her body.
Looking up, she stared at the window from which the arrow had been shot. Dudian's figure was no longer there, as if he had already run away.
She didn't rush to chase. Instead, she stared carefully. After a moment, she suddenly said, "Don't hide anymore. I know you're inside. There should be traps set up there, right?"
There was no movement at the window.
"You've endured for so long, which shows that you know that once you're exposed, I'll immediately catch up with you and kill you!" Bailin said coldly, "Although my disguise is realistic, with your character, you should have made some preparations before launching a sneak attack on me. After all, my wounds have just been inflicted, and it will take at least a day to recover. With your caution, you wouldn't be in such a hurry to launch a sneak attack."
As she spoke, she also calmed down in her heart. Her previous thoughts had been influenced by her subjective thinking. Now, thinking from the other party's perspective, she could see more clearly.
There was still no movement at the window.
Bailin frowned. Was she overthinking it? Had he really run away?
Thinking of this, she felt a bit uncomfortable. If she really let the other party run away, wouldn't the injuries on her body be in vain?
"Stop pretending. I know you're inside." Bailin didn't give up and continued, "Hiding inside to lure me in just shows that your traps are set up inside. But don't forget, even if I don't kill you this time, I'll still have a chance to kill you in the future. Once your training period is over, it will be your death!"
Seeing that there was still no response at the window, a surge of anger welled up in her heart, but she managed to hold it back. She sneered and said, "Then let's see who has more patience!" After saying that, she went back to her small building and sat down, thinking to herself, "I don't believe he's not in a hurry. He wants to kill me, and this is something I can take advantage of. The initiative is in my hands. As long as he wants to act, he will expose himself!"
Sitting down to rest, she stared at the small building opposite. Gradually, she became a bit irritated in her heart. Thinking that she, a dignified intermediate Hunter, needed to be so cautious and vigilant against a newbie, she was angry and resentful.
After all, constantly being on guard against hidden arrows was something that took a lot of mental energy.
However, she still held back her impatience and thought about other plans in her heart.
As time passed, there was still no movement at all inside the small building opposite.
She thought, let's just wait and see who can outlast the other!
In the blink of an eye, it was night. Her spirit became even more vigilant. Night was the most suitable time for a sneak attack, and her field of vision was compressed too short. She had to be extremely careful.
In the second half of the night, she gradually felt a trace of sleepiness. When she felt mentally tired, she suddenly realized that if she continued to wait like this, although she was an intermediate Hunter, she wouldn't be able to hold up either. After all, the other party was in the dark and could stay relaxed, while she was constantly highly tense. She would be exhausted in a few days!
She suddenly understood Dudian's plan, which was to exhaust her to death!
If this were to be said out loud, I'm afraid no one would believe it. A newbie junior Hunter actually planned to exhaust an intermediate Hunter to death. It sounded incredible, but such a thing was happening right in front of her!
"No, I have to replenish my energy." Bailin went to the corridor downstairs in the small building, found a corner without any gaps, sat down, leaned against the wall. There was no angle from which an arrow could fly here, which made her tense spirit relax a bit. She closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Although she was asleep, having often been outside the Wall, she would wake up at the slightest sound. So, she wasn't worried about Dudian approaching for a sneak attack.
The night passed peacefully.
Bailin woke up and saw the morning light shining outside. She didn't expect that after a night had passed, Dudian hadn't launched another sneak attack. Was she really overthinking it in the afternoon? She became a bit annoyed and thought to herself that even if there were traps inside, how much lethality could the traps set by a newbie like him have?
She knew that the reason she was overthinking it was mainly that Dudian's previous consecutive performances had been too astonishing, forcing her to treat him cautiously. However, upon careful consideration, the other party was after all a child who had never gone hunting. Even if he had a lot of tricks, his mentality was still far from good. Maybe he really couldn't resist taking a shot when he saw her weak appearance?
She angrily slashed her sword at the wall beside her. She felt both self-reproach and anger in her heart. The carefully planned scheme had actually been missed by herself!
"I want to see what kind of traps you've set up, you damn brat!" She gritted her teeth and looked at the small building, holding her sword and walking over.
As soon as she entered the small building, a faint smell of dampness and decay rushed towards her. The light around was dim, but there was a little light shining in from the cracks in the wall and the windows. With the help of this little light, her vision wasn't affected too much. She looked around, checking for traps.
Although she wasn't a thief, she was after all an intermediate Hunter with rich experience. She had seen a great many traps, and since Lorna in the team often set traps, she had also learned some tricks from the side.
At this moment, on the third floor of the small building, a figure leaned against the inside of the wall. It was Dudian.
After the failure of the sneak attack with an arrow yesterday, he hadn't left the small building. After all, this was the place where he had laid the explosives in ambush. Once he left this place, it would be even more dangerous. When Bailin called downstairs, he had originally wanted to speak out to provoke her, but later he thought that with the other party's rich experience, she should already know how to control her emotions. Instead of using anger, it was better to use her curiosity.
Therefore, no matter how much Bailin called out, he didn't make a sound. The purpose was to be mysterious and, by the way, to anger the other party and affect her judgment.
However, to his disappointment, Bailin hadn't come in.
Just when he thought that this ambush plan had failed and he was already thinking about other new plans, unexpectedly, he heard the other party entering the building at this moment!
"She should still want to confirm whether I've left or not. It seems that no matter how excellent a Hunter is, even if she can suppress her anger, she still can't get rid of it completely." A trace of excitement flashed in Dudian's eyes, and he quickly went to the place he had prepared in advance.
Bailin followed the collapsed steps of the corridor and came to the second floor. She scanned around but still didn't see any traps. This made her even more angry, as if she had been played with.
Suddenly, she heard a faint "sizzling" sound, as if a dozen or so snakes were hissing.
"Using monsters again?" Bailin was slightly stunned. The next moment, her eyes lit up. "He's still here!"
She gripped her one-handed sword tightly and prepared to go to the third floor. Although she considered the ambush, her Marks of the Demon ability could just happen to restrain some monsters with toxins. Even if she really couldn't defeat them, she could still run away.
Just when she had run halfway, suddenly -
Boom!!
The sudden and violent explosion instantly engulfed the entire small building!
From the first floor to the third floor, it was all blown up!