Chapter 054: A Trick

In fact, five minutes can pass very quickly.

Just like the system said, just bear with it for a while, Sang Mo has gotten used to it, and can even stay awake and count the time silently in his mind.

When the convulsions stopped, Sang Mo's whole body went limp and he was sweating profusely. Perhaps the loss of his vocal cords was a consolation, because no matter how much pain he was in, he couldn't make any sound.

The body cannot move and needs time to recover, but Sang Mo is not a person who takes care of his body.

I'm begging for death, why should I cherish the yarn?

He sat up reluctantly, raised his uncontrollably shaking hand with some difficulty, and wiped the sweat from his forehead with trembling hands.

Then he took out a Luoyang shovel, stuck it on the ground, and used his strength to stand up.

[Host, do you want to take a break? Isn't there a saying that goes "twice the effort for half the result"? This is the situation you are in now. 】

[Aren’t you worried that those two will catch up with us? Then wouldn’t it be a waste of my energy to knock them out and get rid of them? 】

[But didn’t the host make preparations for induction? They should only chase in the direction where the host left footprints. 】

[Nothing is absolute.] 】

Sang Mo did leave footprints on purpose, and he made them look extremely realistic, which should be enough to fool Zhang Qiling and Hei Xiazi.

...

On the other side, Nan Xia and Bei Ya came out from underground.

Looking around, I realized that this was a relatively secluded hillside, facing west and back to the east. There was a high mountain in front that blocked the sunlight, and the towering trees around it were also doing their best to provide shade.

It's no wonder that the temperature here is relatively low. There is a brutal cemetery here. Moreover, the feng shui outside is also a place with heavy yin and humidity, making it an excellent natural place to keep corpses.

The two carefully examined the ground and soon found a series of natural footprints. Hei Xiazi compared them and said, "It's Sang Mo."

"He left in the southwest direction. The southwest direction here leads to...Tianchi?"

Zhang Qiling said: "The tiankeng."

There is a tiankeng deep in Shennongjia. Many expedition teams have lost contact with the tiankeng after entering it, and the bodies of those people have not been found to this day.

Hei Xiazi stood up and said, "It seems that the forbidden area should be near the tiankeng."

Zhang Qiling: "Let's go."

The two followed the direction of the footprints, but the footprints soon disappeared in the weeds. However, since they knew Sang Mo left from this direction, the two did not stop.

Just keep following the road in the direction of the tiankeng.

An hour later, Hei Xiazi realized something was wrong. "Mute, look around the soil for footprints."

Zhang Qiling had already begun to push aside the weeds to explore. Even if there were weeds blocking the footprints along the way, if Sang Mozhen was walking in this direction, he should be able to leave traces.

But there was no trace!

The blind man laughed and said, "There is something here. If I am not mistaken, we have been fooled."

Zhang Qiling, "......"

Although he didn't want to admit it, this seemed to be the fact. He put on his hood silently, turned around and returned the same way.

Hei Xiazi followed closely behind, "We all made a stupid mistake, Dumb. After all, he has lived six lives and his acting skills are pretty good. There's no reason why he doesn't know even the simplest tracking in the wild."

"We only remembered his decadent look of wanting to die, and subconsciously ignored the fact that such a person would not hide or cover up any traces of anti-tracking."

"But if he really wanted to get rid of us, he would do something like this to lure us and paralyze us."

"It was very successful. The blind man must give us some praise, but this won't do. He wants to exclude us and try his best to distance himself from us..."

"It seems that the identity of the Zhang family's descendant is no longer useful."

Zhang Qiling's eyes moved slightly, which meant that he had already taken action, but he was still lacking a strong medicine.

Before this powerful measure could be used, Sang Mo had already started to escape.

"Mute, why do you think the blind man shot a bullet into his forehead that time?"

Zhang Qiling pursed his lips and shook his head.

He himself didn't know how Sang Mo died when the mission exceeded the time limit, so how could he know why the blind man killed Sang Mo with his own hands that time?

After a long silence, he said, "I guessed that Wu Xie was the second time."

“But maybe it’s wrong.”

"On the fishing boat at the Undersea Tomb, Aning's subordinate Dahui flirted with him and was killed by the evil spirit and his body was thrown into the sea. He said in his heart that he was flirted with by Dahui the second time as well."

Hei Xiazi raised his eyebrows slightly, "He has a deep memory of the underwater tomb. Combined with his conversation with the system, he should have only been to the underwater tomb once."

"So the second time he came to the underwater tomb, he chose Fatty Wang instead of Wu Xie?"

Zhang Qiling thought for a moment, then said, "Not sure, you heard the voices outside the Qixing Lu Palace."

Hei Xia Zi recalled the voice he heard when he first met Sang Mo. At that time, Sang Mo wanted to fly to Hangzhou overnight to assassinate the two Wu brothers because Wu Sanxing hired someone to tease him the second time...

Hei Xia Zi came to an outrageous conclusion, "Is Da Hui Wu Sanxing's man?"

Although the two were communicating, their speed was not slow. They were undoubtedly racing against time. If they were late by even a minute, they might miss Sang Mo.

"Dumb, no matter what, we can't leave him."

Once he leaves Sang Mo, this person might commit suicide in the blink of an eye, and if no one saves him, he can only wait for death.

We can’t let Sang Mo die, at least not now.

Hei Xia Zi knew that this might be cruel to Sang Mo, but human beings are inherently selfish. He just wanted to understand more and didn't want to regret it.

It took a little less time to return by the original route. The two returned to the exit halfway up the mountain. The downward direction was obviously a dead end. Sang Mo would not leave from here, and there would definitely be more traces left on the downhill road.

Even if Sang Mo erased all traces, he couldn't do it so naturally. The exit of the tomb is at the back. Since the southwest direction is a deliberate diversion route, the only remaining direction is the northeast.

The two of them hurried along in this direction, and after walking about twenty meters, they found footprints on the ground.

This guy is really good. Not only can he disguise his footprints, but even the footprints in this direction are not visible until more than 20 meters away!

Hei Xiazi said, "The direction is right, let's chase after it quickly."

The two accelerated again, of course still paying attention to footprints along the way. Fortunately, no one usually comes into this primeval forest. Even if the footprints are blocked by weeds in some places, new footprints can be found after a while.

However, the tracking was completely interrupted when it reached a mountain stream, and there were no footprints around!

For a moment they lost all traces of the chase. Hei Xia Zi looked at the stream, which was neither too big nor too small, and said, "He wouldn't have gone along this stream. Should we chase him upstream or downstream?"

"Search separately and meet up in 30 minutes."

After Zhang Qiling finished speaking, he chased upstream, and Hei Xia Zi could only follow him downstream along the stream.

Half an hour later, the two returned to the original place and saw the result from each other's expressions. They had completely lost any trace of Sang Mo.