Volume 18 Chapter 210 Fishing in Troubled Waters

Chapter 210: Fishing in troubled waters

"Do you think that bastard Joseph has been blinded by Ziri? How can he not get lost in a place like this without blueprints?" A Russian man who looked like a polar bear was swinging the tomahawk in his hand. The vines complained while cutting down the branches along the way.

A mage next to him was walking around holding a scroll and said without raising his head: "Joseph is not crazy, that guy is smart."

"Then why did he divide his troops? We only have a few people and only one map. If we separate two teams, how can the other team find the target without a map?"

"You are stupid and you still don't admit it." The mage put away the map and pointed to the side: "Don't go this way, we have deviated from the target, go over there."

The strong man asked while changing the direction of the road: "Then tell me what on earth he is thinking?"

"Isn't this simple? That guy Joseph actually just wants to take the credit. He is a commanding staff, and he will not get any experience from being a soldier with us. If he wants to gain something, he must become the leader of a certain team, but In terms of qualifications and strength, which one should he be the leader of?"

"So he wants to split up?"

"Of course. There are only a few masters who can lead the team in this alliance. The others have to stay and tie up the main force of the Chinese. Only the five of us can leave. You, me and Cook are In the Golden Triangle, everyone knows that we must be a team. Natasha has no idea of ​​becoming the team leader. Joseph knows that he can't compete with the three of us on his own. If he wants to join the team leader, he has to make the team from one to two. Otherwise, he won’t even be able to touch it.”

"But even if he is divided into teams, how can he ensure that his team can get the map? Without the map on the mission scroll, he will not be able to find the target at all. Will there be any benefits to be gained from a wasted trip?"

"Who told you that he was going to compete with us to complete the mission?" the mage said, "Joseph is very shrewd. He knew that he could not complete the mission by himself, and following us would definitely lead to nothing, so he wanted to divide his forces. At that time, all he has to do is lead the team and follow us. If we encounter trouble during the mission, he can come up to help. If the mission is completed, he will be able to take credit for assisting in completing the mission and share the benefits. Even if the mission cannot be completed, he will still have Rhetorically, we have the map anyway, and we are mainly responsible for failing to complete the mission. He has no fault at all. Besides, if there is a chance, he can snatch the mission results while we are completing the mission, and then all the credit will be his. Yes, we ended up working for nothing.”

"Then does that mean he is guaranteed to make a profit without losing anything?"

"Hey, he's just dreaming." The mage said proudly: "Do you know what Cook did?"

"Yeah, where did that guy Cook go?" The strong man seemed to realize just now that his important companion was missing.

The mage didn't directly answer the brawny man's question, he just smiled slightly. But the strong man below didn't know it, but I stood on the tree and knew it very well. Just now they walked all the way and happened to pass by the big tree where I was hiding. With the help of the cover of the tree trunks and my invisibility, they didn't notice that I was less than three meters above their heads. I heard their conversation clearly just now. It seems that the disappeared Russian elites should be divided into two teams. This is just one team below, and the guy named Joseph should be leading another team not far behind them. As for Cook, you don't need to think about it to know that he must have gone to cause trouble for the unit behind him. Although he can't directly attack the opponent's team, since he is a master who can lead a team, he should be very strong. Even if he doesn't directly participate in the battle, he will definitely have no problem in attracting a large group of monsters. As for whether the monsters can kill the second team, that's not what he needs to worry about. As long as the second team is stopped and he handles the traces of the team in front, even if those guys survive, they can't expect to find the whereabouts of the first team.

Watching this group of Russians pass below me, I carefully stayed close to the tree trunks and waited for them to pass completely. The faint vibrations from the trees behind clearly told me that a large group of creatures was passing nearby. It was Cook who led the group of monsters to attack the second echelon.

As the sound of the monster group got farther and farther away, I was about to start chasing the first echelon when I suddenly heard a noise from behind, so I quickly clung to the tree trunk and remained still. A few seconds later, a figure 'swung' from a distance like a monkey, and then landed lightly on the tree trunk where I was standing, less than one meter away from me. I could even smell the sweat emanating from his body. taste. But this guy was marching, and he had just led the monster to the second echelon. He must be very excited, so he didn't notice me so close, but just moved slightly on the tree trunk where I was standing. He jumped towards the tree trunk in front and disappeared after a few ups and downs.

"Rose Vine."

With a sound of sand, the rose vine quickly appeared on the edge of the tree trunk next to me, then fell from the tree to the ground and plunged into the soft soil. Seeing Rose successfully sneaking into the ground, I became more skillful, and Darts and Bailang also appeared next to me one after another.

As soon as the flying dart appeared, he quickly jumped onto the branch, and then disappeared into the dense forest in front of him like lightning. Bailang jumped from the tree trunk to the ground first, but his originally white body had turned into a ball of light after landing. phantom. In fact, the shadow I saw was just a projection of the spiritual connection between Bai Lang and me. The real Bai Lang had already become completely invisible, and no one else could see him except me.

After releasing three demon pets in a row, I flipped my palm again, and the space channel in front of me flashed again, and the huge body of the sickle suddenly shot out from the training space. However, although the sickle is large in size, it is a spider monster after all, and it is so light that it is almost inaudible when it lands. Moreover, he moved back and forth among the trees, disappearing after a few ups and downs, and his speed was not much slower than Bailang and the others.

After confirming that the magic pet was in place, I began to jump forward on the tree trunk and quickly caught up with the elite Russian team in front.

Although it is said to be a small team, the number of people in this team is actually quite large. The entire team, including players and NPCs, totals more than 700 people. It is impossible for many people to go parallel in the dense forest, so the team is very long, but judging from the way they move quietly, it can be confirmed This is indeed an elite force.

Although I really want to know what these Russians are doing here if they are not fighting us on the battlefield, it does not mean that I cannot launch an attack before they reach their destination. Although the attacking players will leave their names on the opponent's information prompt, NPCs do not have this function, and there are more than half of the NPCs in the team in front of them. It would also be a good idea to help them streamline their team before they arrive at the target location. idea.

In the Russian elite team, the strong man and the mage who opened the way were listening to Cook, who had just returned, talking about how he lured monsters to attack the second echelon. When he talked about the wonderful things, the three of them couldn't help laughing loudly. stand up. However, their laughter was interrupted by a sudden scream before it lasted long.

"What's going on?" Hearing the screams from behind, the three mages immediately ran back. "What happened? Who was shouting just now?"

A player said while carefully guarding the surrounding jungle: "It was an NPC next to me who was calling. Just as we were walking, a white thing suddenly flew out of the woods next to it. That thing It immediately hooked onto the NPC, and then instantly pulled him out of the team and into the dense forest. The cry was made when he was dragged away."

"A white thing?" The mage asked in confusion, "Do you know what it is?"

The player shook his head. "I didn't see it clearly. That thing was too fast. It stretched and retracted and dragged people away."

"Is it something like a frog's tongue?" Cook asked.

"No, that thing doesn't look like a biological structure, and I didn't see anything like a hook or a lasso. It feels like the thing is sticky and sticks to people as soon as it touches it. , and then it shrinks and pulls the person away.”

"Is it sticky?"

The three people were all confused by the player's words, because it would be easy to understand if they were snatched away by the body of some animal, or dragged away with a rope, but they were stuck by something sticky. Come on, this is a bit too strange. The three of them thought for a long time but couldn't imagine what it was.

The three of them were worrying there, when suddenly they saw a flash of white light in front of their eyes, and then they saw a person not far away screamed and was pulled flying up, and then disappeared into the dense forest nearby like lightning.

"Damn it." As soon as the strong Russian man saw another person being pulled away, he immediately raised his ax and rushed forward. However, he was stopped by Cook after he took only two steps.

"Don't chase him. The other party is obviously more adapted to the environment here. If you chase him, you will suffer a loss."

"What should we do?" the strong man asked a little depressed.

"The way now is to be careful, as long as you don't get touched by that thing." As Cook was talking, the white thing actually came again, and this time it was even more exaggerated. What was flying before was a white ball that could stick to one person, but now it flew out and stuck to five or six people at once, and then it was pulled into the dense forest with a whoosh.

"That's unreasonable!" Cook, who had just finished teaching the strong man a lesson, burst out and left when he saw that five or six people had been taken away this time. No matter whether he would suffer a loss or not, he jumped directly and chased after the person dragged only by the white line. However, just when he chased for more than ten meters and grabbed a vine and prepared to 'swing' to pursue the white line, the vine he grabbed suddenly moved, and he missed it and fell directly from the tree. Fell down.

Seeing Cook fall from the tree, the mage and the strong man behind thought he had been hit, so they rushed over, but after they had run a few steps, Cook stood up and yelled at them : "Don't move, everyone go back. There are plant monsters here."

At first, I was still wondering why the other party was so powerful in the dense forest. When I heard that it was a plant-type monster, both the mage and the strong man showed expressions of sudden realization. Are plant-based monsters not dominant in the forest environment, or are some monsters dominant?

While asking the people around him to retreat, Cook himself also retreated, but the attack he expected did not happen. It's not that I don't want to attack him, but I don't want to expose the fact that I have discovered them. Once my familiar attacks these players, they will immediately know that it is me. It would be nothing to meet an ordinary Chinese player in this kind of forest, but if they met me, even a fool would know that I was chasing them.

However, even though I let Cook go, I had no intention of stopping the attacks on those NPCs. Just as Cook carefully stepped back, there was a sudden sound in the surrounding trees, and then he saw that the bushes on the ground suddenly separated a crack, but nothing appeared there, but the next second one of the team members The npc suddenly covered his neck and screamed, and was knocked out, leaving a line of blood in the air. However, the NPC who was knocked away suddenly stopped screaming in mid-air, and his body suddenly fell to the ground. The bushes not far from the body were suddenly pressed into a hole by something, and then the thing appeared again. He quickly disappeared into the bushes.

"Damn it, there are not only plant monsters in this place, but also invisible monsters." The strong man cursed.

The mage shouted to the surroundings: "All mages activate anti-invisibility. Don't let that thing get closer."

"Yes. Ah..." As soon as a mage finished answering, he saw a flash of white light in the forest, and then the mage fell down holding his bloody neck, and the people around him didn't even see clearly what it was. Something attacks them. And just when the people around him were panicking because of the mage's situation, the white lines that had been dormant for a while appeared again, and there were more than a dozen of them, and they stuck to more than a dozen NPCs at once, and all of them were stunned. Into the jungle.

"We can't just stand there stupidly." Cook retreated to the mage and said, "It's not good for us to start a war here. Everyone, run away. It will be safe once we leave the forest."

After hearing Cook's words, the mage immediately shouted and led the team to run forward. However, the crowd behind was still swept away by rattan or white threads flying out of the dense forest from time to time. Waiting for the entire team to run out When this dense forest entered a relatively sparse forest area, the original team of more than 700 people had only more than 400 people left. The number of NPCs in the team has been reduced by almost half.

"Stop, stop." After finding that no one had been attacked for a while, the mage quickly stopped the team. "Count the number of people immediately. People on the periphery should be on guard. Tighten the team and don't stretch it too long."

With a series of orders, the people in the team quickly completed the team formation and alert work. After carefully counting the personnel, everyone in the team was still worried about the forest just now. Although they all believed that they might not be able to defeat those who attacked them in a head-on confrontation, they could not find the target in the forest and had no choice but to be beaten passively. This kind of battle would be scary to everyone. After all, this situation of being beaten unilaterally and not being able to fight back would have a serious impact on morale.

The strong man from before took his ax and carefully guarded the surroundings while saying: "It seems that those things are wild creatures. We probably entered their range of activities before, so we were attacked."

"At least it's safe now." Cook said looking around.

The forest area they are now in is obviously the edge of the virgin forest. The surrounding trees are generally less than ten meters tall, and the gaps between the trees are very large. Even some micro cars may be able to drive through. And the most important thing is that the ground here is relatively clean. In the former primeval forest, not only were the trees too tall and dense, resulting in poor lighting on the ground, but there were also waist-deep shrubs growing on the ground. Walking on the ground seemed like wading through water. Just can't see it. In addition, because the trees in the original forest are a mixture of new and old trees, some tree trunks will be much higher than the ground. In addition, some withered and fallen trunks will make the ground of the entire forest high and low, making it impossible for ordinary people to normalize. walk. In that complex environment, it would be considered good if an average person could exert one-third of their combat effectiveness, so that many players with more than 1,000 levels could not even defeat the 800-level indigenous monsters in the forest.

Although this woodland is also a forest now, because it is a new woodland, the ground is almost flat except for a layer of fallen leaves a few inches deep. Except for snake-like creatures that can pass under the leaves, slightly larger creatures only need to You will be noticed as soon as you appear.

"How far are we from our destination now?" Cook asked the mage next to him.

The mage took out the map and flipped through it, and then said: "We should have arrived a long time ago, but we seemed to have deviated from the direction when we just ran out. Now, if you walk about one kilometer over there, you should see a river. Follow the river out. The forest is almost there.”

"Then speed forward. President Frozen Banshee probably won't be able to delay for long, and the Chinese can't wait forever."

The mage nodded and said, "Then speed up and everyone summons their mounts."

Although the mounts in "Zero" have not yet become popular, since these people are the elite of the Russians, there is naturally no shortage of mounts. Soon they each showed their special skills and released their mounts from infantry to cavalry.

Riding a horse in such a forest must be much faster than walking, and I had to put away all the demon pets and put on Ye Ying to follow them quietly. It is much more troublesome to follow others without being discovered in this semi-open area than in a dense forest. Fortunately, the other party was not just a few or two people. The traces left by more than 400 people walking by were quite obvious, so it probably wouldn't be that easy to lose them.

After putting on their mounts and running for less than ten minutes, this group of Russian elites left the forest and entered a large barren mountain. Strange to say. There is obviously a river passing through this ghost place, and there is a dense forest around it, but only these few mountains are barren of grass, making them look like the Great Gobi Desert.

"Is that true?" Cook couldn't help but ask after seeing the barren mountains.