Chapter 2340 2352 [Ambush]
On the shore, naive humans were unaware that a shameless and unfair competition was taking place underwater, and ordinary fishing activities continued peacefully.
When Jiang Xia and Hattori Heiji were fishing by the lake.
In the nearby woods, several high school girls were happily picking—of course, they were not helping Hattori Heiji find earthworms, but wanted to see if there were any mushrooms or wild game around. Accustomed to living in the city, for them, this kind of forest itself is a fascinating attraction.
At the beginning, several people were still worried about the "villa vandal" who might be hiding nearby, so they gathered together carefully and did not dare to disperse.
But as they walked, their vigilance inevitably decreased, and they were attracted by various things in the forest and dispersed a little.
It was in this situation that Mao Lilan encountered a trap attack from a dark figure and accidentally kicked a tree and broke it.
However, all this truth was only revealed in the eyes of the figure in black.
From Mao Lilan's perspective...
"Ran? What happened just now?" Toyama Kazuha and Suzuki Sonoko were startled by Mouri Ran's scream and trotted over from different directions.
The two of them quickly joined Mao Lilan and looked around nervously, looking for possible enemies: "We seemed to have heard your voice just now."
Mao Lilan's face flushed, and she said guiltily: "It's nothing, it's just... I just accidentally destroyed some flowers, plants and trees."
Suzuki Sonoko looked back in the direction she was running from, and saw a tree that had fallen in half, and some fresh stumps on the tree stump: "..."
She was stunned for a moment, then quickly activated the detective thinking she learned from Jiang Xia and felt something was wrong: "Why did you suddenly want to kick the tree? Could it be that the tree also..."
"No, no, there is no body on that tree." Mao Lilan quickly cleared the name of the tree that she had harmed.
She sighed, calmed herself down and explained, "I was so unlucky just now. I was so focused on the fruits on the branches that I didn't pay attention to my feet. I accidentally stepped on a branch that fell in the grass and almost sprained my ankle.
"Although I didn't sprain my ankle, I was still scared. At that moment, I felt a gust of wind behind me. I was nervous at the time and subconsciously thought someone was attacking me, so I kicked behind me, but accidentally kicked a tree... Now that I think about it, the gust of wind I felt at the time was probably just a passing bird. I was too nervous, so luckily I didn't kick it."
The dark figure hiding nearby: "..."
...accidentally stepped on a branch hidden in the grass?
What branch? That was clearly the trigger trap I carefully set up!
And there was no bird! The wind was clearly the sharp arrow shot out after the trap was triggered!
The dark figure: “…” Speaking of which, this high school girl actually dodged such a fast arrow.
And that tree... it was a healthy, solid, worm-free tree. Even if he had an axe, it would have taken him a while to chop it apart.
"What's wrong with this woman? She grew up eating the lumberjack champion?"
The dark figure realized belatedly that something was wrong. He touched his head that was almost smashed by the falling tree, and felt a little scared: "I was careless. But it's not a big problem. Since she thinks it's all an accident and other people don't care about it, I still have a chance to take action again - fortunately, I acted quickly and set up some other traps. As long as I can lure people over..."
The dark figure clenched his fists and began to wait for the next opportunity to attack.
However, he soon discovered that something was not right: after what had just happened, even though the three girls thought it was just an accident, they still became alert instinctively and moved much closer to each other, no longer as separated as before.
Under normal circumstances, the dark figure would have dared to deliberately make some noise to lure the three people closer to investigate, and then let them trigger the arrow trap and randomly injure an unlucky person.
But now...
"If I fail to attract them and get caught and beaten up, things will be troublesome." The dark figure did not dare to underestimate these three seemingly weak female high school students, and began to analyze carefully:
"In fact, if you think about it carefully, that girl named Toyama Kazuha seems to be quite strong. I remember that she just slapped that seemingly strong Osaka boy and made him spin like a top for several times. People are divided into groups. One woman like this can still make use of the terrain to get by, but two of them are really too scary..."
"Forget it, let's change the target!" The dark figure sighed, "It's not that this is difficult, but it's really boring to always bully girls."
He took one last deep look at the three girls, then withdrew his gaze somewhat unwillingly and walked to the other side - he had vaguely heard some movement over here just now, and if he went over here, he might be able to find an unlucky guy who was acting alone.
After walking for a while, the dark figure's ears moved slightly, and he indeed heard a series of footsteps.
He immediately dodged to the side and leaned against a thick tree, listening carefully to determine the opponent's position while thinking about how to lure the person into the trap.
"I don't know who is coming, but judging from the footsteps, there is only one person on the other side, which makes it easy to attack."
The dark figure recalled the location of the traps and quickly came up with a plan in his mind: "Two murders have just happened, and the victims died in such a miserable way. No matter how these people appear on the surface, they must be panicking inside, just like the high school girl just now. I don't need to do anything at all. I just need to make a little noise behind the person and between the two traps, and then the person will either flee in panic or turn around and chase me. And no matter which direction he goes, he will step on the trap and be stabbed by the sharp arrow."
Having made up his mind, the dark figure lowered his footsteps and prepared to go around to a suitable place to take action.
However, at this moment, he paused.
"Where are the people?" The dark figure's heart skipped a beat. "Why are there no footsteps all of a sudden?"
He stayed for a moment, took a deep breath, quietly took out a lens, adjusted the angle, and observed the direction where the footsteps came from from behind the tree.
But no matter how I adjusted it, there was always no one in my field of vision.
"How is this possible?!" The dark figure was stunned. "I clearly heard someone coming over here just now... It can't be that I was so nervous that I was hallucinating!"
…
A dozen meters away.
Behind a dense grove of bushes, "Doctor Xinchu" pushed up his glasses and glanced at the dark figure hiding behind the tree from afar.
Looking at the guy who had exposed his position long ago but didn't realize it, a sneer appeared on her lips. Her fingertips touched the place where the gun was hidden. She really wanted to draw the gun and shoot the sneaky guy.
(End of this chapter)
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