Chapter 72
The three of them walked around and didn't see anyone.
Lu Shiyu and Chen Yunliang were not clear about the situation, but Lina began to feel suspicious.
"Strange, where are the people..."
She clearly remembered that several people were chasing her. Although the main force was with other people, there shouldn't be no one here.
The surroundings were so quiet that it was a little abnormal.
After searching for a while without any results, Lu Shiyu and Chen Yunliang began to discuss whether to go find Tang Zeyu and the others to meet up or return to the cave to continue waiting. Suddenly, a figure jumped out from behind the bushes not far away.
“Ah ...
Lu Shiyu and Lina were both startled by the person who suddenly appeared. The person's head, face and body were covered with mud and leaves, and he looked like a savage.
As he was about to run past, Lu Shiyu stretched out his foot, and the "savage" was tripped and fell face down on the ground, and the shouting stopped.
For some reason, Lina felt that the scene before her was very familiar.
Lu Shiyu retracted his foot and scratched his head with an awkward laugh: "Haha, when I saw him running over, I couldn't help but..."
After the "savage" rushed out, noise was heard again from the direction of the bushes.
The three turned their heads and saw a neatly dressed man coming out from behind, holding a long sword in his hand. The style looked the same as the swords of the exploration team.
Although the man was not wearing a uniform, the long sword in his hand seemed to indicate his identity.
He is a member of the exploration team sent by the base!
Chen Yunliang couldn't help but frown. He had heard the noise in the distance before. If those people were sent by the base to help them, they would have subdued the entire mercenary team long ago. Tang Zeyu and the others would not have come to find them yet. Although the mercenary team was powerful, it was impossible for them to withstand the siege of so many people and their team. So the only possibility was that the exploration teams sent by the base were enemies, not friends!
Chen Yunliang pulled the trigger without hesitation, and the arrow flew through the air towards the person coming, successfully hitting the person before the other person could see them clearly.
The arrow pierced the man's right shoulder, which affected his normal attack without causing too much damage. If it was a mistake, he could also heal the other party.
But the next scene was beyond the three people's expectations. The man was stunned for just a moment, and then he actually pulled out the arrow!
Chen Yunliang's arrows had barbs on them, and anyone who wanted to pull them out directly would have to pay a heavy price. However, that person seemed to have no sense of pain and pulled them out without hesitation, leaving a bloody mess. The process did not pause at all, and only his frown proved that he could still feel the pain.
Although Chen Yunliang was surprised by the other party's behavior, he was not panicked. Since the other party did this, he could forget about raising his right hand. Whether he could raise it or not was a matter of time. Until the next moment, he was stunned when he saw the other party's next move.
The man used his other hand to hold onto a tree nearby. The next second, the bloody hole on his right shoulder disappeared without a trace as if swallowed by a black hole. At the same time, a crack appeared out of thin air on the tree he touched.
The hole looked like it had been pierced by something long and sharp. The force was so great that the wood around the hole cracked, and countless wood chips flew out.
Chen Yunliang's eyes widened.
Damage transfer!
"run!"
Realizing that the situation was not good, Chen Yunliang took the lead in giving way to Shi Yupao, and immediately loaded the next arrow himself, even though he knew it was futile.
As expected, he didn't even hit the target with his next arrow.
The man's figure was like a ghost. He dodged the arrows that came through the air with great ease and was already in front of Chen Yunliang before Chen Yunliang loaded the next one.
Just when Chen Yunliang felt that he was about to die, the man did not kill him. Instead, he hit Chen Yunliang's arm and abdomen with the handle of the knife.
Chen Yunliang suddenly felt his stomach churning and he was about to vomit out the braised pork rice he had just eaten. The crossbow in his hand also loosened due to conditioned reflex, and he fell to the ground with a thud.
"Chen Yunliang!"
While running, Lu Shiyu looked back and saw Chen Yunliang falling to the ground in pain. Then the man walked towards them again. Lu Shiyu suddenly felt angry.
I can't run away anyway, so I'll just fight him!
Lina, who was originally being pulled away by her, was thrown aside. Lu Shiyu pulled out the dagger given to her by Yan Hong and stabbed the man's neck without any concealment. At worst, both sides would die, which was better than waiting to be killed!
It's a pity that the wish is beautiful, but the reality is miserable. How could Lu Shiyu be a match for a professionally trained person? He is not even qualified to perish together with him.
Before the blade even got close to the man's neck, Lu Shiyu's hand was grabbed with such force that he felt as if the bones in his arm were about to break.
Just as the man was about to make his move, he suddenly stopped when he saw Lu Shiyu.
"You are not from the exploration team."
The man lifted Lu Shiyu up by her arm, looked her over and came to a conclusion.
"The people in the exploration team won't be that weak."
Lu Shiyu: “…”
Haha, thank you for telling me, otherwise I wouldn’t have known!!!
Lu Shiyu glared at the man with hostility, and the man continued to look at Lu Shiyu. Neither of them said a word and confronted each other silently.
“Hiss…it hurts…”
Lina struggled to get up from the ground, which was particularly difficult because her arms were tied. After she finally sat up and was about to accuse Lu Shiyu of his rough behavior, she saw two people looking at her.
"Look...what are you looking at!"
The man's eyes seemed to be filled with doubt: "You... are a mercenary."
Lu Shiyu was stunned, and suddenly realized that the man seemed to have seen through the identities of the three of them at a glance, and he couldn't help but become suspicious.
"Who are you? How do you know who we are?" Lu Shiyu looked at the man warily.
The man's gaze returned to Lu Shiyu, and without lingering for long, he put her back on the ground.
"You go."
After saying that, the man picked up Lina from the ground and turned to walk towards Chen Yunliang.
Although she didn't know why the man suddenly chose to let her go, this was not what she wanted!
Seeing the man gradually walking towards Chen Yunliang, who couldn't even stand up, Lu Shiyu gritted his teeth and rushed forward to grab the man.
"Wait! What on earth do you want to do?!"
Lu Shiyu tried his best to hold on to the man, but ended up being dragged away by the man.
"Actually, you're not part of the exploration team! Who are you?!"
The man sighed and pulled his arm back forcefully. Lu Shiyu lost his balance and fell backwards.
"I never said I was a member of the exploration team. If you get in the way again..."
The man looked back and his sight suddenly stopped when he saw something.
Lu Shiyu fell hard and his butt hurt so much that he felt like his bones were going to break.
"Hiss! It hurts, it hurts..."
The man dropped Lina, who was in his hand, and Lina fell to the ground again, cursing the bastard man in her heart, "Go to hell."
The man walked to the side of Yu when he reached the road, reached out and picked up something, a small colorful stone with someone's fingerprint on it.
The man said in a low voice: "Where did you get this?"
When Lu Shiyu saw the stones in the man's hand, he suddenly realized that the remaining half bag of colored stones he was carrying had accidentally fallen out in the collision just now, and the colored stones were scattered all over the ground.
Lu Shiyu's heart suddenly became alarmed, thinking that he wouldn't want to deal with Professor Chen!
Absolutely not! They were unlucky to have run into him this time, but leading them to Professor Chen was pure jerk!
"I won't tell you even if you ask! Don't even think about getting anything out of me!"
The man wanted to use threats and inducements again, but he saw Lu Shiyu holding his head with his hands and closing his eyes tightly, as if he had given up.
"I won't betray my friends even if you kill me!"
The man's words got stuck in his throat, thinking that Lu Shiyu was just an ordinary person, and he was afraid of killing him if he tried to use any means.
After hesitating for a moment, the man slowly spoke:
"I'm not from the exploration team. I'm Yan Ning, a student of Professor Chen in the Department of Aberrant Biological Research Engineering."
"Yan Ning?"
Chen Yunliang stood up from the ground, holding his stomach: "So you are Yan Ning..."
It would be better to be eaten by the deformed creatures and die outside...
Yan Ning didn't expect that there would be someone here who knew him. He was quite surprised, but he quickly thought of a possibility.
"Have you ever met Professor Chen?"
"Yes, he also asked us to help find you." Lu Shiyu slowly opened his eyes after hearing Yan Ning's introduction and said, "He said that you haven't returned for so long because you were taken away by a deformed creature. He asked us to see if you are still alive."
Yan Ning paused for two seconds.
"Did he really say that?"
"Absolutely true."
It's just a little more artistic processing.
Yan Ning had a worried look on his face: "It's over, I think the teacher is angry..."
Although the current situation was not very appropriate, Lu Shiyu still couldn't help but ask: "Then why don't you go back?"
“…because I got lost.”
Lu Shiyu: “…”
Chen Yunliang: “…”
It turned out that he really was lost, and why did he get lost to the other side of the mountain?
Chen Yunliang healed his injury skillfully, pushed Yan Ning aside without any hesitation, and checked Shi Yu's hand in the bottom lane. He was relieved only after making sure that he was not injured.
"What is your relationship with the teacher?" Yan Ning asked nervously.
Chen Yunliang said without blinking, "Professor Chen and I are from the same family, and she is a reader and fan of the books he published."
Yan Ning gasped: "Teacher's reader and fan..."
“His book actually sold?”
Chen Yunliang nodded: "Hmm..."
Lina, lying on the ground, felt like she had lost all hope in life.
Why is that the focus? And why did you suddenly start talking about this? Is anyone trying to figure out her situation? She's still on the ground!
"Anyway, that's probably what happened."
Chen Yunliang picked out the important parts of their trip and told them to Yan Ning so that Yan Ning could understand the current situation.
After listening to this, Yan Ning was thoughtful: "No wonder I suddenly met so many people from the exploration team today..."
Lu Shiyu was puzzled: "You met a lot today? Where are they?"
Yan Ning pointed in a direction and said, "I knocked them all out and tied them up, and then piled them up in one place."
It's described as hunting.
Lu Shiyu suddenly remembered that they had met a "savage" with a very unkempt appearance at the beginning.
Lu Shiyu looked around and found that the man was still lying on the ground motionless.
Could he be dead?
Lu Shiyu moved cautiously to the side of the man. The man was not wearing the exploration team's uniform, nor was he carrying any weapons. He was dressed like the common everyday clothes in the base.
What is this person's identity?
He is neither from the exploration team nor from the mercenary team, so why is he here?
Lu Shiyu turned him over with his face facing upwards. Chen Yunliang walked to Lu Shiyu's side and observed with her, but when he saw the man's appearance clearly, Chen Yunliang's face suddenly became ugly, even uglier than when he was beaten by Yan Ning just now.
Chen Yunliang closed his eyes and turned the man back.
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