Chapter 49: Sunny Moon Mountain Journey - Prey, thank your great aunt for me...
Only after the three people finally walked away did Lin Xi sit back on the stone chair and breathe a sigh of relief.
Chianti excitedly said to Cohen, "Did you hear what they said, Cohen? Treasure hunters, several of them, are in the mountains now. Haha, the time has finally come to show our skills! Let's go find those treasure hunters, rob them, and let them lead us to the destination!"
Cohen: "Treasure, yeah."
Lin Xi: ...
Oh my god!
Although she also wants to go on adventures...
But I always feel that if you want to go treasure hunting, you can’t avoid these people!
Besides, aren't we members of a mysterious organization?
Don't show yourself in front of the police!
She weakly picked up the cat and said, "Let's eat first..."
Now that things have come to this, let’s eat first.
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"This way, this way."
After dinner, Lin Xi took the two of them for a walk in the mountains.
Chianti asked suspiciously, "How did you know to go this way?"
Lin Xi: "I observe the celestial phenomena at night..."
Chianti: "? It's daytime now."
Lin Xi: "Oh, so last night I was observing the celestial phenomena, and my great-aunt, who had passed away many years ago, appeared in my dream. She told me that this was the right way to go."
Chianti:?
She turned to Cohen. "Are we just going to follow Punch? Shouldn't we question it?"
Cohen: "Punch, luckier than you."
Punch is luckier than you, so it's better to follow her than you.
Chianti: ...seems to make some sense - bullshit!
Does treasure hunting rely on luck?
Although Punch is indeed very lucky...
But what she said just now was obviously nonsense!
Lin Xi led them through a wood and around to a path.
She wasn't walking blindly—she was following a map, trying to avoid the detectives while moving in the direction of the treasure hunters. She also had to pay attention to the terrain at all times to avoid getting stuck on a cliff or in a ditch...
The air gradually became moist, and the sound of flowing water came from not far away. They continued walking forward and found that the source of the flowing water was a waterfall.
"Huh? There's a waterfall here," Chianti said in surprise. "Has it always been there?"
Cohen: "Newspapers, no."
The newspaper didn't say that.
Lin Xi: "Ahem, I'm observing the celestial phenomena at night..."
Chianti interrupted the spellcasting: "Get to the point!"
Lin Xi: "...There is a secret passage behind the waterfall."
Chianti:?
"Is it your great aunt who told you this in a dream?"
Lin Xi: "No, she's my third aunt."
Chianti:.
Why, is there a change of person this time?
Your dream is quite lively, with relatives coming to visit you every day.
They stood in front of the waterfall. Chianti looked left and right but could not see any pedestrian passage. He looked at Lin Xi suspiciously again and saw Lin Xi take out a big umbrella.
It was a big black umbrella that could easily cover the three of them.
Chianti: "Where did you get this stuff from..."
Lin Xi: "Another-dimensional pocket."
Chianti: "Hey, stop talking nonsense so seriously!"
Lin Xi: "I'd be lying to you if I were a puppy!"
How come the system backpack isn't considered a different-dimensional pocket?
Lin Xi handed the umbrella to the taller Cohen, and the three of them rushed over together. Coconut curled up in their arms and hid his tail under his body to prevent his cat fur from getting wet.
The waterfall was falling with such force that the umbrella was deformed.
But they finally got through.
The three of them took a breath and looked around.
As Lin Xi had said, there really was a secret passage here. This secret passage was originally hidden among the waterfall and vegetation. Even if tourists saw the waterfall, it was unlikely that they could see the passage through the water and vegetation.
There is a different world behind the waterfall.
The original rock face bore traces of artificial excavation, and what should have been a dark environment was illuminated by the short candles hanging from the rock face. The dampness and vapor caused by the splashing waterfall at the cave entrance disappeared as we went deeper, leaving the air dry and windy.
"Well, now I believe you really were visited in a dream," Chianti murmured.
Cohen silently folded the umbrella and handed it to Lin Xi.
Lin Xi took the umbrella, flipped his hand, and the umbrella disappeared.
She said, "There's wind. This waterfall isn't the only entrance...or exit to this cave. What do you say, friends? Let's go inside?"
Cohen: "Let's go."
Chianti: "Let's go... What do your great aunt and third aunt say?"
Lin Xi: "They told us to go inside. The treasure hunter you are looking for is not far ahead."
Chianti: "Thank your great aunt and third aunt for me..."
They walked deeper into the cave.
93.
Deep in the cave.
Several men carrying bags stopped in front of a stone gate.
"Boss, look here, there's the same symbol as before!"
"Hmm? Where?"
"Here, on this slab, it's engraved on the slab!"
There was indeed a stone slab beside the stone door. Treasure Hunter A bent down and observed the symbols on the slab.
"Hmm, it does look very similar to the symbol above. Bring that guy over here and let him solve it!"
Treasure Hunter B responded, grabbed a child by the collar, lifted him up and placed him in front of the stone slab.
The child's black hair was disheveled, his hands were tied behind his back with a hemp rope, and there were clear shoe prints on his light blue clothes.
He remained silent, staring at the slate quietly, without any expression, nor saying whether he understood it or not.
This child was none other than Hiroki Kashimura, whom Lin Xi had met in the Nagaki Building a few days ago.
"Hey, kid, do you want to get beaten again?"
B yelled fiercely beside Hiroki Kashimura.
"Hey, hey, come on, this is a genius who can crack codes, be polite to him!" said C. He was playing with a gun in his hand, spinning it in his hand, seemingly to rescue the boy, but in fact it was a more sinister threat.
The slate was very large and the characters were very small, so the boy could only kneel beside it, with liquid that looked like water or sweat sliding down his face and onto his neck.
Treasure Hunter A looked at him and couldn't help but sigh that people are different after all.
They spent a week or so cracking the codes. The four of them tried countless different methods, but they couldn't crack any of them.
When they were at a loss, a child passing by stared at the cipher manuscript they left there and cracked it in less than five minutes.
People's physical constitutions cannot be generalized, and the same seems to be true for their intelligence.
So A decisively gave the order and abducted the child.
Look, this kid is looking at the code here. It can't be considered cracking it, but reading it—reading it from top to bottom. Although his speed is not very fast, compared with the others who have been busy for so long and have found nothing, it is already a genius-level performance.
This guy just refused to tell them how to crack the code... No matter how they threatened, bribed, or beat him, he kept his mouth shut.
What a trouble... A's eyes flashed with viciousness.
When they get the treasure from Qingyue Mountain, they will kill this guy...
At this moment, footsteps suddenly came from far away in the cave.
A was stunned for a moment and winked at treasure hunters C and D.
The two men cautiously stuck close to the rock wall and walked towards the source of the sound.
As the footsteps approached, a voice began to speak:
"Oh my god, there's water on top of this rock, it's dripping on my face!"
"Hahaha Chianti, you just trembled on the spot a little bit, so cute."
"Hey, hey, shut up, Punch! Don't make fun of me! If I had a gun in my hand just now, it would have gone off accidentally!"
"It's damp here compared to the cave entrance."
The sounds were getting closer and closer. If the word "gun" had not been mentioned in their previous conversation, it would have sounded like a conversation between a few ordinary tourists who had strayed into this place.
Hiroki Kashimura, who also heard the voice, was stunned.
Hey, this voice sounds familiar...
While no one was noticing him, he moved his body and quietly turned his head, trying hard to see who was coming.
The first to appear was a red-haired girl, wearing mountaineering clothes, holding a cat, her eyes narrowed with a smile; behind her were a tall man and woman, both wearing black jackets.
The white cat in the girl's arms seemed to sense his gaze. It raised its head and meowed at him, then jumped out of the girl's arms and ran towards him.
For some reason, after seeing the girl, Hiroki Kashimura felt at peace.
It's hard to describe where this sense of security comes from. It's like when you encounter a difficult monster in a game, and just when you are fighting it, a high-level player passing by sees you and kills the monster with one blow. That's the sense of security you feel.
Man, vegetables, laolao.
Coconut ran over and licked his knees, as if to comfort him.
When the treasure hunter saw the three people, he first subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, then raised his gun and aimed at them.
These guys look like tourists! What they just said about guns and accidental discharges must have been a joke!
Humph, they actually got in here. I don’t know whether they are lucky or unlucky.
"Wow. There's a gun! How scary!" Lin Xi read it emotionlessly, then decisively stepped back and protected everyone in front of him: "Help me, Miss Chianti! Help me, Mr. Cohen!"
Chianti: ...
Shen Jin, didn't this guy already know they had guns?!
Cohen was very cooperative: "Leave, Punch."
Lin Xi: "Puff."
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Cohen is so adorable when he says this with such a deadpan expression!
As Lin Xi tried desperately to hold back her laughter, Cohen's face in front of her slowly turned red.
Chianti, who was standing next to them, rolled his eyes at the two of them speechlessly.
Your uncle dotes on her father.
They laughed and talked happily, and the treasure hunter on the opposite side was almost pissed off.
What, do you think the guns in their hands are fake?
Humph, that woman behind them performing surgery... She's actually laughing so happily, oblivious to the people around her. How abominable...
Treasure Hunter C raised his gun, pointed it at Lin Xi, and was about to shoot.
Then Chianti moved.
She glanced at C with contempt, raised her foot and gave him a flying kick, kicking the gun away. Then she turned around and used her other leg to kick his balls hard, breaking them.
C let out a scream like a pig being slaughtered.
D, who was standing next to him, was startled. Before he could react, his face twisted and he was knocked flying by Cohen's cat punch. He spun up into the air and fell to the ground again, and one of his front teeth fell out.
Treasure Hunter C, D Game over.
Lin Xi was amused. "We saw that Player C seemed to want to attack first! He picked up a gun! But his gun slipped out of his hand! Ah, he fell! It was our Chianti player who took action. With a lightning kick and a 100% weak point break, Player C's health bar dropped to the bottom! He lost his ability to fight! Player D wanted to support him, but it was too late because Player Cohen, who had been keeping an eye on him, used the Cat Face Breaking Fist on him!"
"Players C and D, who were armed with lethal weapons and could have played a vital role in the teamfight, were instantly killed! Oh my god, the battle situation has suddenly changed drastically! The prey has become the hunter! Faced with this situation where two players were killed instantly, how will players A and B respond?"
Treasure Hunter A was so shocked and angry that he raised his hand and fired without caring about Lin Xi who was giving a passionate commentary far away.
Coconut meowed, suddenly jumped up, jumped up, and bit A's wrist hard.
"I*!"
A screamed in pain.
Because of this bite, his bullet went astray and hit the rock above his head, making a metallic clang sound. Water trickled out from the cracks in the rock.
Treasure Hunter B is a clever young man. He knows that to catch a thief, one must first catch the leader... no, one must pick the softest persimmon to squeeze. He runs straight to Lin Xi with a dagger in his hand.
Lin Xi excitedly explained, "Oh! We saw that Player A and Player B were forced to change their tactics! Player A chose to use a deadly weapon against our main force! Oh my god, he delivered that blow! This blow pierced the starry sky—no, through the rock ceiling! It was Player Coconut who exerted the power! He bravely jumped up, he is our secret weapon! Yes, who would guard against a cat!"
"Player B is observing the situation! Oh, he saw a breakthrough! The poor, defenseless, and harmless little girl who has been staying at the back..."
"...I'm going to vomit," Chianti said weakly, "Cohen, can you please take care of her and make her shut up...?"
Cohen: "Coconut, hers."
Chianti:?
Just because the coconut is in her hand, you have to listen to her!
Do you have any principles, you Furui control freak?
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