After weighing the pros and cons, Ford sighed and said to the exhausted six people, "Prepare to return the same way."
The other five people agreed, only Xie Lin frowned.
"Brother Ford, are you giving up? If we go back now, we'll just be laughed at by that little girl. Are you willing to accept that?"
Ford gritted his teeth angrily: "Of course I'm unwilling, but what can I do?"
"Maybe the Black Doctor isn't on this road at all. Maybe Shen Xingwan and the others have already found him. More importantly, we're running low on supplies. If we don't return, we might die of starvation or thirst here."
Xie Lin threw his backpack to the ground. "I still have four days' worth of supplies in this bag. If we share it, it should last us another day, right?"
Ford looked at Xie Lin in surprise: "If you give us the supplies, what are you going to eat and drink next?"
"This is not easy." Xie Lin pointed to the mountains ahead.
"When I'm hungry, I go hunting in the mountains. When I'm thirsty, I drink from mountain streams. If I can't even survive in the mountains, what kind of hunter am I?"
This undoubtedly stimulated Ford.
He was already looked down upon by Shen Xingwan, so did Xie Lin also look down upon him? Did he think he was unfit to be a hunter?
Before Ford's face became more and more ugly, Xie Lin stepped forward and whispered.
"Brother Ford, I don't mean anything else. I just don't want to see you being outshined by that little girl Shen Xingwan again!"
These words touched Ford's heart, and his expression softened a little.
"Do you remember what we said in the armored vehicle? I will definitely help you, I hope you can believe me!" Xie Lin looked at Ford earnestly.
With such a look, anyone would feel that they have gained a loyal younger brother, and Ford is no exception.
"So, what should we do next?"
"Keep going, I have a feeling the Black Doctor is just ahead!"
Ford looked in the direction of Xie Lin's finger and saw smoke rising not far away. His pupils suddenly dilated and then he clenched his fists excitedly.
"I saw it! I finally saw it!"
After many days of sleeping in the open air, the hunters were a little depressed. When they heard Ford's words, they were absent-minded.
"Brother Ford, what did you see? Are you hallucinating from exhaustion?"
"It's not an illusion, it's smoke from cooking, it must be smoke from cooking! There are people living there, the black doctor must be there!" Ford was so excited that his speech speed was much faster than usual.
"That's great! Brother Ford, I knew God would bless you!" Xie Lin was also very excited.
Ford patted Xie Lin on the shoulder and said, "God has blessed not only me but you as well, my dear brother. If you hadn't dissuaded me just now, we would have missed it!"
With the goal within sight, everyone's mood was much higher.
Especially when Xie Lin told them that as long as they completed the task alone, each person's remuneration would be twice as much as before, all their fatigue was swept away.
Half an hour later, they finally arrived at the foot of the mountain range.
And where the smoke is rising is a peculiar building consisting of three tree houses connected together.
Animals cannot build such complex structures, so there is no doubt that humans live here.
"Everyone be careful. Find out the situation inside first before making other plans. Do you understand?" Ford whispered to the other hunters around him.
Everyone nodded and raised the particle guns in their hands.
When Han Ling saw this scene, beads of sweat began to drip from her forehead.
Should she transmit now?
But what if the person inside is not a black doctor? Wouldn't that mean he is lying about military intelligence?
While thinking, Han Ling unknowingly fell to the back of the group.
"Still wondering whether to report the news? I advise you not to waste your energy."
When Han Ling looked up, she saw Xie Lin coming to her at some point, shaking something small in his hand, which reflected a dazzling light under the sunlight.
She hurriedly reached into the pocket of her armor bag, and sure enough, it was gone!
How come she had no idea when the communicator given to her by Shen Xingwan fell into Xie Lin's hands!
"No!" Han Ling screamed.
Xie Lin stepped hard on the small communicator and crushed it hard, making a sound of crystal shattering.
"I still haven't figured out who to recognize as my master. What a poor guy I am!" Xie Lin said with a smile as he walked towards the main force.
Han Ling threw herself to the ground and tried to save the situation, but it was too late.
What to do, she messed up again...
Ford led everyone to sneak into the tree house.
The door of the outermost tree house was not locked, but was ajar.
Ford nudged the door lightly with his gun, and it creaked open.
He waved his hand, and two hunters came in from both sides of the door. They raised their particle guns and scanned the surroundings. After confirming that there were no dangerous people, they made a "safe" gesture.
Ford, Xie Lin, and the other hunters then followed in.
"Do you smell anything?" Ford tilted his head slightly and asked Xie Lin in a low voice.
Xie Lin narrowed his eyes: "It seems to smell like blood."
As soon as the voice fell, a woman's shrill scream came from inside the house: "Ah!"
The hunters' hair stood on end as they raised their particle guns and aimed at the second door in the tree house.
There were a few muffled "puff" sounds, like the sounds of collision.
The word "retreat" was about to pop out of Ford's mouth several times, but when he thought that the people inside were his token of loyalty to become the leader of the base, he swallowed the word.
The hurried footsteps were getting closer and closer, and everyone held their breath.
Finally, the footsteps were getting closer.
With a "bang", the door was opened from the inside.
Under high tension, an A-level hunter subconsciously pulled the trigger, and a bullet shot out from the barrel of the gun in his hand.
"Don't kill me!" The man sat down on the ground with a thud, and happened to avoid the shooting.
Seeing that it was a human and not a beast, Ford immediately calmed down a lot.
In the mountains and forests, humans are obviously much easier to deal with than groups of wild beasts. Moreover, he is a specially trained SS-level hunter, and ordinary people are no match for him.
He glanced at the man.
The man had black hair and black eyes, a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his nose, a long black trench coat, and a pair of white gloves on his hands.
But both the white gloves and the man's face were stained red with blood.
However, this did not prevent him from completely overlapping with the target person in the mission book, the "black doctor".
Ford pressed the wrist of the hunter whose particle gun had just gone off. "Calm down and put the gun away. He's not an enemy, he's our target!"
The A-rank hunter finally recovered and gasped, "Sorry."
Just at this moment, a shrill woman's scream was heard again from behind the black doctor.
The black doctor rolled and crawled towards Ford: "Someone wants to kill me, please, save me!"
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