Chapter 61 Team Competition
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What, who's there you say? ?
A big question mark appeared above their heads, and Yun Paopao and Fu Ling looked back with confused expressions.
He met Ye Yunhe who was waving and saying hi.
The man was holding onto the tree trunk, looking up and down, and apart from his clothes being a little messy, everything seemed normal, and he was not even injured.
Most importantly, the two red ropes on his wrists were also safe and sound.
Yun Paopao smiled and was about to say hello when his hands suddenly became empty. She was startled and looked down subconsciously, only to find that the girl who had been beside her had disappeared in an instant.
“Xiao Ye——!”
Fu Ling rushed over almost in tears and held Ye Yunhe's hand affectionately. Her movements were as fast as lightning.
"I'm so worried. I can't even imagine what I would become without you!"
As she spoke, she quickly took off her red string and put it back on her wrist. The combo was so smooth that it took people a while to react.
“…”
Ye Yunhe looked at the person in front of him with empty eyes, speechlessly, and complained silently.
"Are you saying this just to me, or to other bracelets as well?"
"Of course -" Fu Ling made a "yeah" gesture, "both."
Qin You casually swung the metal umbrella in his hand, hung it firmly on his arm, and strode over.
She smiled and looked at Ye Yunhe, then stretched out her hand and shook it briefly: "Very good, I have finally met my partner after searching for him. Miss Ye, nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you. By the way, did you see the mark we left behind?"
Ye Yunhe patted the tree trunk.
"Yes, Bubble and I found out. Calint and Linfeng went in another direction. After so much time, they must have run very far."
Qin You nodded, and she tilted her head slightly, pointing to the headset firmly pinned to her ear, "We found a communication prop, and we have just notified the two of them. As for when they will arrive... it's hard to say."
"There's no rush for that."
Ye Yunhe nodded his chin, lowered his eyelashes and thought for a moment, then asked the three people in front of him.
"Mind telling me what happened there first?"
Fu Ling volunteered.
Saving herself a lot of mental activities, she explained the matter quickly and concisely without missing any details.
When talking about the hidden ones, Yunpaopao also joined in, quietly explaining his own thoughts and plans.
"Um……"
Ye Yunhe listened attentively, looking thoughtful.
"It's a little strange indeed." Yun Paopao recalled the journey of searching for people during this period of time. "I don't know if it's a coincidence or something, but the closer I get to here, the more people I meet."
"Although they are scattered, most people are heading in this direction. If it weren't for the huge size of the illusion, we could have run into them after walking a few steps."
"Yeah, this journey is just like earning gold coins." Qin You agreed. After thinking for a while, she shook her head again, "That can't be said. After all, it depends on luck whether you can meet someone of such strength."
"Paopao and I took a detour on purpose so as not to waste too much energy on this journey. Fortunately, we were caught by Lingyun's team. Those three were so angry that they have finally calmed down now."
After hearing these words, Ye Yunhe pondered for a moment and expressed his understanding.
Fu Ling at the side poked her, glanced at the deep forest behind her and hinted: "Xiao Ye, what happened here just now?"
"I also encountered a hider, but the difference is that I know who it is."
Ye Yunhe straightened his slightly messy clothes, and his expression looked a little strange when he thought about what happened not long ago.
As someone who hates fighting, I have absolutely no fondness for someone who draws his sword and starts chopping without saying a word.
——
About five minutes after Fu Ling left.
Ye Yunhe held the red rope and waited quietly. According to their preparation, if the other party did not come back in ten minutes, he must have encountered trouble and needed their support.
With her eyes drooping and counting the seconds listlessly, she listened to the intermittent sounds not far away and felt that the noise seemed to be a little closer than before.
When I was bored, my ears suddenly moved, as if I caught a faint unknown sound.
Is it an illusion?
Ye Yunhe frowned and turned off the light in his hand while looking around.
The trees in this area were more luxuriant, with tall, ostentatious branches colliding and entwining, densely packed and blocking out the remaining bright moonlight.
Now that the lights are gone, darkness has completely engulfed the forest, and only the fight in the distance is the clearest. There was no sound of dead leaves breaking when walking, only an inexplicable intuition emerged in the body.
Ye Yunhe stood still, hanging the lamp casually on the dense bushes beside him, leaning against the tree trunk and holding the dagger tightly.
There was a sudden chill on my neck, as if a worm was crawling on it, causing tingling and numbness. At the same time, a sticky and nauseating feeling surged into my heart.
Not an illusion!
He quickly raised his hand to touch his neck, where he suddenly felt an intense pain. The poison rushed into his body along with the bite, quickly making it stiff. If this were a game, Ye Yunhe would already have a "poisoned" debuff on his head.
Nice sneak attack.
"Unfortunately, I found the wrong person."
The blue light leaped, abundant energy washed over the body, the invisible clock ticked back, and the time belonging to Ye Yunhe began to flow backwards.
Caton resumed her movements, she fiercely pinched the long centipede that was crawling ignorantly on her neck, pulled it forcefully into the air, and quickly identified it from the flashing energy light.
In a flash, before the centipede could react, she mercilessly tightened her fingertips and crushed the controlled worm.
“Hmm!”
At the same time, a muffled groan of pain was heard from above. A man fell heavily from a branch and just happened to hit the lush bushes, so he was not knocked down by the impact.
The distance was not far or near, Ye Yunhe picked up the lamp and rushed over, pulling out the dagger and holding it in his palm.
Before the man could recover from the pain, he was frightened half to death by the sound of footsteps approaching at a very fast speed. He struggled to climb out of the bushes, but the backpack on his shoulder was caught on the branches, preventing its owner from moving.
"!"
The unidentified person was startled and immediately dropped his backpack, leaving him lying alone in the scattered bushes. He then escaped with difficulty but at a fast speed, supporting his lame right leg, while with shaking hands he took out the low-quality teleportation talisman hidden in his chest.
Seeing this, Ye Yunhe threw the dagger hard.
The man's limbs were underdeveloped, but his awareness was quite good. When he heard the sound of breaking air behind him, he dodged in panic, tripped over his left foot and fell heavily to the ground again, stirring up a cloud of fallen leaves. He looked very tragic.
Fortunately, the low-quality teleportation talisman did not malfunction, explode, or get stuck. It gave him the last bit of tenderness and led him to the other side where he didn't know whether it was good or bad.
The dagger fell to the ground.
Still one step behind.
Ye Yunhe slowed down his pace, sighed softly, picked up the weapon and put it back in place, then turned and walked towards the backpack left by the man.
She turned on the light and opened the backpack. It was completely empty except for two pitiful injections hidden in the deepest corner. Apart from that, there was nothing else.
"Or is it for detoxification?"
She held one in her hand and examined it carefully, and couldn't help but sigh.
Does this mean there must be an antidote within seven steps? The ancients did not deceive me.
After making sure she was fine, she injected the antidote into her body and leaned casually under a tree to wait for it to take effect.
It didn't even take long. There was still ten minutes left, enough for her to recover her original vitality.
——
"Afterwards, when I stood up and prepared to look for you, I heard the noise of the three of you talking."
Ye Yunhe spread his hands and summarized.
Her limbs were still a little numb, so she had to hold on to the tree trunk while talking to them to avoid falling face first.
He followed in the footsteps he had come from, and when his companions noticed someone coming, he even had the leisure to wave at them.
Qin You's expression changed slightly since he heard the word "centipede". He calmly lowered his eyes and glanced at the hand he and Ye Yunhe had shaken, and fell into deep thought.
Soon, she remembered that the other party would definitely not use the same hand that was used to crush a centipede to shake hands, and her fluctuating emotions slowly calmed down, as if nothing had happened, and she returned to her original bright smile.
"That person must be Wuma Tu from the Lingyao team. I can't imagine any other contestant looking like this."
Ye Yunhe decoded the identity of the unknown person effortlessly.
The other three thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.
"Indeed, I couldn't have thought of it." Qin You deeply agreed with this conclusion. As someone who had come into contact with Wuma Tu, she was very sure how unfamiliar that person was with the control of his limbs. When he ran, he felt as if his hands and feet were separated.
The death of the centipede he controlled caused his mind to be attacked, causing him to lose balance and fall from the thick tree trunk, which is very consistent with this person's style.
"Not only that, we also know the current situation of the Lingyao team. There must be only Wuma Tu left. Otherwise, they would not have released this person alone. Wouldn't that be sending him to his death?"
After hearing Qin You's introduction of this person, Yun Paopao looked up at the tall branches and couldn't help but say, "It's quite amazing that he can climb such a high tree."
"I don't think that's the truth..." Fu Ling showed a strange expression. She patted the solid and rough tree trunk. "Climbing a tree requires talent and skills. It's impossible for someone like Wu Ma Tu who can't distinguish his limbs to do it."
"The only reasonable explanation is - a low-quality teleportation talisman."
Hearing this, the four of them fell silent.
——
Important information still needs to be shared in a safe place.
The host leads the way and brings the belated partners back to the hiding place.
By the time they reached their destination, the trap set by Si and An had already been completed, and it was easy to step into it without knowing it. Ye Yunhe walked in front, carefully leading the three people to hide.
Two wooden stakes appeared in the safe nest at some point, lying on the ground as seats. Qi Heng had already returned and was sitting on them to warm himself by the fire. When he saw the two of them go out and the four of them come back, he was startled at first, then stood up and motioned for them to sit down.
Lin Muyu took out a bottle of mineral water and placed it in the open space between the wooden stakes for people to take at will.
Twenty-three hours before the end of the game, one and a half teams finally got together, sat down and began to exchange information and have their first discussion.
"I found a few resource boxes with a fairly diverse range of supplies inside." Qi Heng looked at the boxes and backpacks piled aside.
After going out to search, the boy also got an unexpected surprise.
“Now we don’t have to worry about not having enough headsets.”
"It seems that our supplies are of no use for the time being." Qin You sighed, "Well, let me tell you about the situation of my team."
"The place where our team landed was very interesting. It happened to be near the Lingyun team, so soon after the start, we were closely followed by the three cooperating teams."
"But we are not pushovers. The map is so big that we can split up and search for people. It can also reduce traces and save energy."
I didn't expect that the search would take half a day, and it can be said that I was chasing after the protagonists.
At this time, the Dawn Team can be said to be separated from each other.
Calint and Ji Linfeng are on their way, and the difficulty they face is comparable to that of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Here, I wish them to obtain reliable teleportation talismans to save them from the hardships and difficulties of the journey.
Lin Muyu tried to calculate the approximate time, but considering many unexpected factors, he finally gave up the calculation.
He organized the current intelligence into a network, extending it outward little by little, trying to find out whether there were any important clues hidden in it.
The current doubt is that most of the contestants chose to go in the same direction, but it is not certain whether this was a coincidence or intentional.
Are the players deliberately driven into the same area? What are the benefits of doing this, what are the motivations, and how many people are involved?
Given the existence of cults, we should be prepared for the worst.
"In short, let's conserve our energy first." Lin Muyu concluded the discussion, "No matter what, sufficient energy is essential."
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