by Chen Ran
When Su Ling woke up and sat up, Taelice was the first to notice.
Naturally, Moni was happy that Zero managed to stand up straight. But then she began to cry, and Zero knew she was crying with joy at being alive. He patted Moni's head to comfort him.
Everything turned dark as Taelice walked over. black girl's face still had a faint sadness, but her eyes were far clearer than ever.
"You must be the one who brought this disaster upon us!" Taelice said directly.
Zero smiled bitterly and nodded his head. He lowered his voice and said, "I don't know what to say. In short … I'm very sorry. "
Before he could finish his words, a trace of ice-cold killing intent suddenly attacked him. In a flash, Taelice's ferocious wheel saw had already arrived in front of Zero's chest.
"You can't pacify the souls of those who died just by saying sorry!" Taelice said coldly.
Zero pushed Moni away, who had a face full of protest, and struggled to stand up: "What do you want?"
black girl used a determined tone and said: "I want you to help me find him. That person, has become my prey from now on!"
Zero fell silent.
Taelice's face changed, and said: What, you're not willing?
"Taelice, it's very easy to find him. As long as you follow me, you will meet him. " Zero sighed and said seriously, "But staying by my side is very dangerous. You are already the only bloodline in the Shinzhe, Taelice. I want you to stay and rebuild this pure land. I think Gunter hopes that you can do the same. "
Taelice's body trembled lightly, but after a moment, she stood even straighter: "What you said may be true, but if I do not do so, I'm afraid I will hear the wails of my kin every night. They would blame me for not taking revenge for everyone! "
Su Yun knew that Taelice would not change her mind, so the look in the girl's eyes explained everything. Suddenly, Zero saw himself in Taelice's figure. When Lea committed suicide, how could Zero shake the thought of taking revenge for her? Even if his hands were covered in blood, even if the end of this road was a bottomless abyss, he had never regretted it.
Just as Taelice had said, if she did not do anything for the dead. It didn't matter if it was zero or Taelice, none of them could pass that trial.
"Okay, but you have to listen to me on the way, including a detailed plan for revenge. "Believe me, that guy is no ordinary character. He's the most cunning fox." Zero said.
Taelice put away her wheel saw, pointed to herself and said: "But I am the best hunter!"
"Self-confidence is a good thing, but if you overdo it, you become arrogant." Zero shook his head.
Taelice looked at him strangely and said, "Your words are very similar to a prophet."
But when she mentioned Gunter, the girl's eyes reddened again. But this time, she didn't cry. Not even a single tear flowed down her face.
"Well, let's see how we can kill this fox. First of all, we have to fill our stomachs before we have the strength to take revenge. Second, we have to rest for the night, and I'm afraid my wound will have to wait until tomorrow to be able to perform its most basic activities without worsening the injury. " Zero had already found out about his injuries from Moni just now. Although the dead muscles had been removed, the poison Su still remained in his body.
He would only start moving tomorrow morning. It was already zero trying to overestimate his body's recovery ability. Taelice was also clear of this point, so he did not object.
It was night. Zero was sitting on the ground, leaning against a large tree that wasn't affected by the fire. He had just eaten a portion of rations, and Taelice had taken out the rations from the village that was almost burnt to ruins. Originally, these things were used by the clansmen for winter, but now that the village was gone, there was no point in preserving these foods.
The meat of some metamorph couldn't even be considered delicious. But the fiber and heat in the meat can quickly turn into nourishment, to help the recovery of zero as soon as possible. The snacks are very careful, almost dividing the meat into pieces and eating them with shredded meat, helping the food to be absorbed into the stomach.
A map was spread out in front of Zero's eyes. The torches burning with pine oil provided an unlit illumination, but that did not prevent Zero from seeing every important part of the map. His index finger pointed to the location of the Shinzhe's village. From here to the north, if one did not go to the Death Canyon, they would only have one winding river path to walk on. On the river, there was the words "pull Masson".
Moni slept by her side while the girl wore the tactical suit s that had been taken off her body. She was sleeping soundly, and everything around her was quiet. However, at this moment, light footsteps could be heard. Su Yun immediately touched the Colt at the side, but after seeing that it was Taelice, he then removed her finger from the sniper rifle.
Taelice's entire body was covered with fine beads of sweat, her body was releasing a faint heat, clearly indicating that she had just returned from a period of intense movement. Taelice naturally did not go to exercise, but to track the tracks of the Parkland's killer.
Zero looked at her, and the latter walked over and pointed to a certain location on the map.
That location was located upstream of the Lamassen River!
Chapter 134 - Death Canyon
Su Yun raised her head and looked at Taelice.
Taelice sat down beside Su Ling, and panted a few times before saying: "He left from the upper reaches of the Lassen River."
"Are you sure?" Zero asked. Because his injuries required time to heal, Zero could not do the reconnaissance by himself. Taelice volunteered himself and accepted the mission. After more than two hours, the girl finally returned to the village.
Taelice raised her eyebrows and said: "From the age of five, I have been the best hunter in the village. Always! "
After emphasizing this point, she pointed to the map in front of them and said, "This guy is just as you said. He's very cunning! He had cleaned up almost all traces of his departure. There were no physical traces left, not even footprints, but he could not get rid of the smell. "I have to say, the smell of you foreigners is quite distinct. It's so obvious that it's like a torch in the dark night. I can smell it with a single breath."
"Following his scent, I came to the upper reaches of Lamassen River. There were traces of plants being cut down and mud marks of heavy objects being pushed into the water. I think he didn't have the stamina to clean up the traces when he arrived here, so after he cut down the raft, he quickly chose to go into the water and flee far away. " Taelice added.
Zero looked at the map. Lamassen River was a winding river, only levelling out after a kilometer downstream. They were mostly rapids and dangerous beaches, with no place to land. In other words, if the Parkland's assassins entered into the water, he would have to go into the water before he could come back down.
Zero pointed downstream and asked, "How long would it take to drift downstream?"
Taelice closed his eyes, obviously calculating something in her mind. After a moment, she opened her eyes and said, "Three days."
"Three days?"
"This is the most conservative estimate, which includes the fact that this guy didn't get swept into the water by the torrent, or the fact that he didn't get attacked by the Giant Tooth Fish or the Triangular Horned Crocodile in the Lamassen River." Taelice laughed coldly: "It's summer now, the metamorph in Lamassen River are still active. Even if they did not attack the outsider, the intense games in their water would cause all sorts of whirlpools and undercurrents, greatly increasing the time it would take to pass through the Lamassen River. Three days is already the shortest amount of time, it's impossible for it to be any shorter! "
He looked at the map, from the village of Shinzhe to the downstream area of the Lamassen River. Other than going through the water, the only thing he could do was to cross the Death Canyon. From the way the map looked, although the Death Canyon was not in a straight line as they passed
through the northern region, its slight slope was much faster than the twisting Lamassen River Road.
"If we were to go through the Death Canyon, how long would it take us to reach its downstream?" He asked again.
Taelice's eyes lit up. "We can reach there as early as tomorrow afternoon. The Death Canyon was filled with flower of death, and the fierce winds in the valley blew endlessly, causing the flower of death to dance all over the sky, and become an insurmountable barrier. But in the middle of the day, the wind will stop around 12: 00 to 3: 00 in the morning. We can go through the countless crisscrossing vines above the canyon without coming in contact with the flower of death. "But …"
Looking at Zero, black girl said with some regret, "Your injury can only be treated tomorrow at the very least, so the time of our arrival will be delayed by one more day."
"That would be too late." Zero stood up, took out the other Poison Cleansing Bandage and wrapped it around his body once before saying, "We will set off tonight. We must hurry to the downstream area tomorrow evening, then we can give him a surprise."
"Can you hold on? It will take at least two hours to cross the canyon. Taelice said with suspicion.
Zero laughed, "As long as we don't have to engage in a fierce battle, there should be no problem."
He was not exaggerating. The estimate of his injuries during the day was the data of his recovery from the previous serious injury. However, he discovered that his body's recovery rate seemed to have increased. He had only just recovered from his injuries after tomorrow morning, but now, he had reached the minimum standard for moving around. If this continued, Su Xin believed that his injuries, like Hans's, would heal in a blink of an eye, and it would even be possible for his body to regenerate.
Seeing that Ling Qi was insistent, Taelice did not object, so the two quickly packed up.
After waking Moni up, she realized that it was getting late, so she naturally could not move freely like how she had left for the Death Canyon during the day. However, the situation of zero allowed him to only act on her own, and she could not use more than the speed of a rank 4 Agility, or else her injuries would worsen. Therefore, this mission fell to Taelice. Fortunately, Taelice did not hate Moni, so black girl did not object.
Just like that, the three of them left the village and travelled through the mountains at a constant speed of 150 km per hour under the night sky. Although he was only at the third stage of agility, but looking at Taelice's seemingly skillful and adept appearance, he thought that the black girl's agility enhancement was not much lower than his own.
Agility enhancement was an auxiliary ability. Generally speaking, only the fighting faculty and most of the female students had this ability. Due to the fact that women's physical strength was inferior to that of men, they did not have the potential to increase their strength to a higher level. Because of this, they needed to have more agility and a faster speed to make up for their lack of strength.
Even if it was a high level Fighting Domain, they could at most choose a third stage or so to strengthen this ability. After all, to them, being nimble was not as efficient as being suppressed by absolute strength. Therefore, in the eyes of many people, they did not think highly of the ability of Agility, even though the lowest level ability would cause a qualitative change if it was developed to a higher level. However, Agility Enhancement was a skill used to escape in the eyes of many. Those who chose to invest in this skill usually represented the weak.
He was not proficient in the techniques of the Primordial Su Region, or perhaps the Fighting Domain s. Whether it was a sniper attack or a short distance gunfight, both needed to be kept at arm's length. Therefore, for him, Agility Enhancement was the most cost-effective at the moment. For a Gunner, distance was life!
As for Taelice who had grown up in the forest, she seemed to invest a lot of effort into the enhancement of her Agility. Other than the fact that she was a female, it was more or less related to Taelice's living environment. After all, in Death Ridge, if one was fast enough, the chances of survival were relatively higher.
Two hours later, the three of them reached the line they had seen in the early morning hours of the descent. From the moment he stepped onto the brownish-red gravel, he could feel that the radiation was much stronger than the area occupied by the mutated plants. Because of this, Moni had already put on his protective gear and activated his radiation protection kit to protect himself from the huge amount of radiation in the area.
However, this was not enough. With Moni's physique and equipment, she could at most move about in this region for around two to three hours. After this time period, Moni would be infected, which would lead to a series of genetic changes, and eventually cause the entire gene to crumble.
Therefore, Su Yun and Taelice did not stay. After taking a short break before entering the grassy plains with green vegetation, they moved at a speed that left afterimages as they headed towards the entrance of the Death Canyon.
Both of them understood that this was not only a race against the Parkland's killer, but also a battle against time. There was still time left for them to pass through the valley. With their skill, the 200 kilometers of canyon was just barely sufficient for them to pass through. They still had to ensure that nothing unexpected happened while they were on their way, and as long as they carelessly fell to the bottom of the valley, the flower of death that filled the mountains and plains would become their final resting place.
When he arrived at the entrance of the canyon, the wind had coincidentally stopped for around a minute or so. When the three of them arrived at the entrance of the valley, they were just in time to see the magnificent view of the dark blue demonic flowers descending from the sky. The scene was as beautiful as a fire from a dream. At the same time, it was also the most deadly type of firework.
Taelice didn't say anything. She simply carried her on her back and bound her to him with the tree bark rope made from Semitic. As a result, the black girl didn't need to be distracted by Moni, she focused all of her attention on choosing a spot to rest, carefully distancing herself from every possible place where she could step on the flower of death, and continuously moving towards the cliff wall of the canyon. Zero followed her, landing point as precise as the repetition of Artemisia's movements.
Under the night sky, the figures of the three of them were getting closer and closer to the walls of the canyon. When he got closer, Zero finally saw that the Death Canyon's mountain wall was charred black, but there were quite a few holes on the wall. Vines as thick as an arm protruded from each of these holes, intertwined in the air and connected to the other side of the canyon, forming a dark green barrier.
These vines were the only plants in the canyon, and they were slightly different from ordinary vines. On the roots of the vines, there were round, hard shells of varying sizes. They looked like mutated tissues that had been left behind for a long time. As for the flower of death on the surface of the canyon, they actually grew out from the mutated tissues of these plants. flower of death s were the result of the vines expelling the poison Su in their bodies. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to grow so densely in this region with such a terrifyingly strong radiation source.
Zero had no time to marvel at the wonders of nature as he watched Taelice suddenly increase his speed. She carried Moni on her back as she practically ran along the sloping mountain walls. When she reached the peak, she reached out her hands to scoop something up, and then hung it on a vine. Following that, Taelice's hands intertwined and moved quickly, borrowing the vines that could be seen everywhere to move deeper into the canyon.
After a deep breath, Zero suddenly raised his speed to the speed of a fourth step. All parts of his body immediately sent out signals of pain. Zero's face turned pale, but he suppressed the sound of resistance with his willpower. The huge amount of kinetic energy allowed him to run up the mountain like Taelice. When he was approaching the highest point, he suddenly grabbed onto a vine with both hands, and only then d
id he lose the ability to move at the fourth step of agility.
Fortunately, this "journey" of exerting force was not too far. Zero's body could still bear it. But looking at the faraway canyon, Zero could not help but smile bitterly. Right now, he could only hope that his body would be able to endure this not too far, and not too close at the same time. Otherwise, the faint blue light beneath his feet would become his most beautiful coffin!
Chapter 135 - Filthy phagosome
He reached out his hand and caught a thick vine. Then, he pulled on it with all his strength, allowing his body to naturally swing forward. He then took advantage of the momentum to grab another one and move swiftly through the canyon like the ape-man.
Taelice's body was much more nimble than his in this area. Even though she was still carrying Moni, black girl's moving body continued to move forward using the movements of the pendulum, increasing the distance between them by a hundred meters.
By using this method, the two of them had already moved forward by more than half the "distance" in the canyon. However, as time passed, Zero could clearly feel a slight cool breeze sweeping past the canyon. The wind caused the flower of death on the ground to sway slightly, making people's souls tremble. He knew that the time for the wind to pick up was getting closer and closer, and he was slightly anxious.
The deeper into the gorge, the fewer vines there were. When they had just entered the valley, these thick vines had intertwined with each other without even the slightest gap. However, when they reached the middle section, the gaps between the plants became wider and wider, and there were even gaps of about three meters in some areas. As a result, they were naturally unable to pass through easily. The only thing they could do was to grab some vines that were hanging down and float to the other side. The moment any one of these links was wrong, it would fall down to the bottom of the valley to be accompanied by flower of death.
Fortunately, this area was only about ten kilometers. After the two of them passed through, the vines at the top of the canyon started to gather once again. The two of them immediately sped up.