Chapter 398 Answer Me, Reptile! (4000)

"One Dark Gold Hunter was seriously injured, and three Obsidian Hunters died. Tsk, the first round of the Shadow Hunter qualification competition this time is not easy. It is much more difficult than my time..." Jem said with a smack.

"Of course, your time was twenty years ago. In the past ten years, the activity of dark creatures in the entire empire has increased significantly, and the emergence of dangerous individuals is almost 1.5 to 2 times more than before. As the head of the branch, you should know it very well. You won't really retire and become a hands-off boss after you go to the branch."

Kames, who is quite familiar with Jem, teased.

"Hey, can't I enjoy myself after retirement? Besides, the Ford County branch I am in charge of is really relatively peaceful. In recent years, the activity and danger of dark creatures are at most one or two levels more than before..."

Jem defended himself.

Seeing that the topic was about to go off track, Kroger pointed to the mission file and said.

"The Hunter Association failed in its last operation. The strength of this dark creature similar to a ghoul cannot be underestimated. It is even quite dangerous for a dark gold-level hunter. Of course, Bai Kui, you don't have to consider this problem. The difficulty of the mission is only how to find the dark creature hiding in Florence. If it doesn't show up for ten days, it will be troublesome..."

Kaxiu nodded slightly. This is indeed worth noting.

However, he actually has a solution. In the past half a month, Kaxiu and the Ghost Iron Knight have frequently contacted in the disaster world. He has a better understanding of the peak period of Black Rain Villa. For example, there is a kind of black bait wood inside the Black Rain Villa that can emit a strange fragrance.

Only a thumb-sized section is needed to attract dark creatures. Of course, the range of the fragrance is not very wide and has limitations.

He plans to first understand the specific situation and address of the serial murder case, and roughly infer which area the ghoul is in.

Then use the black bait wood to fish.

"I'm leaving." Kaxiu put on a set of hunter clothes and left Heb's house. After asking the Hunter Association for details, he got detailed information about the entire process of the mission. There were seven murders in total, all in the fourth district of Florence, where all the Joy Streets were. So two of the victims were prostitutes on Joy Street.

Because the mission was rated as dangerous "A". So the crime scene was still preserved and guarded by soldiers from the security department. Kaxiu decided to take a look first and contact the ghost through special channels.

After leaving the Hunter Association, he got on a black carriage.

Twenty minutes later, the fourth district of Florence.

No. 114, Simpney Street, a meat processing plant.

This was the first serial murder case, which occurred fifteen days ago.

In front of the light blue rectangular warehouse, four guards wearing alternating blue and black clothes were guarding the door. Seeing Kaxiu coming, he hurriedly greeted him.

Showing the hunter badge and the investigation documents issued by the Hunter Association.

He walked straight into the warehouse.

It was almost nine o'clock in the morning and the sun was shining. But the interior of the warehouse was unusually dark and gloomy, with black spots on the white walls, and there seemed to be solid dirt and green moss in the corners. The surface of the rows of shelves was covered with a layer of greasy grease, showing a dark yellow color. Next to the shelves were metal hooks hanging from the upper railings, used to hang up the meat.

Kaxiu saw that there was a fenced area at the darkest end of the warehouse. Obviously, all the traces were there. He strode over and gradually smelled a disgusting strong stench. It was like the smell of insects being crushed to death and the smell of rotten meat.

Kaxiu walked over without changing his expression. Suddenly, he stopped and looked down. This was a footprint, a footprint deeply sunk into the ground. It was twice as big as a normal human foot, and there were four claw-like toes in front that were digging into the concrete floor, and the depression was very obvious.

He walked around the footprint and looked up. A half-abandoned wooden workbench, as if it had been hit by something huge. There was also a bent iron frame next to the workbench, with scratches on it. It seemed to be caused by some kind of metal tool, or by sharp scales. Kaxiu looked at all the traces, and finally shifted his gaze to the wall.

There was a large pool of blood, with splashes on the edges. The color had turned dark brown, and it looked like a large spot on the surface of the wall.

Kaxiu stepped forward, his eyes slightly narrowed.

He slowly stretched out his arm and pressed it on the wall.

With a buzzing sound...

Three or four quick and continuous force, a large piece of wall dust peeled off, along with dark brown blood. The thing under the filth was exposed, and it was a spiral pattern, like a conch shell.

The whole pattern was about the size of a wheel, deeply engraved into the wall.

"Disaster tunnel?"

Kaxiu's eyes became solemn. The pattern of the spiral in front of him was almost the same as that on the ancient tree next to the Knight's Castle.

The only difference was that this pattern was too small and too rough.

"Did the dark creatures enter the surface world from the deep disaster world to hunt and eat?" He frowned slightly and left the warehouse.

In the next few hours, until noon.

Kaxiu went to seven places and observed all the crime scenes.

There were some discoveries, but the spiral pattern was gone.

Maybe it was a one-way disaster tunnel. Some dark creatures ran out of the disaster world and then went on a hunt and slaughter.

According to the movement trajectory of the dark creature codenamed the ghoul, Kaxiu circled several areas on the map of the fourth district of Florence. These are the places where he thinks the dark creature is most likely to appear again, a total of three.

After the morning investigation, Kaxiu stood at the end of a happy street and decided to go to the sanatorium to ask the seriously injured dark gold hunter.

Perhaps some information about the ghoul can be obtained from the other party.

He moved away and just walked about a street. Kaxiu suddenly saw a building in front of him that was blocked off, and guards in blue and black uniforms stood around. Evacuate all the guests in the building.

Each passenger had a frightened expression on his face and his face was pale.

Obviously something horrific happened inside.

Kaxiu walked over, showed the hunter's mark to the guard, and asked what happened. The young guard called his superior.

This is a middle-aged man with a beard and a slightly fat physique.

"Dear Mr. Hunter, a murder occurred on the second floor, with two adult males dead. They looked miserable, with half of their bodies eaten. We have reported it to the Hunter Association for processing..."

"Which room on the second floor? I'll go check it out."

Kaxiu said expressionlessly.

"The last one in the corridor on the second floor." The captain of the guard answered truthfully.

Kaxiu nodded and walked towards the hotel without hesitation.

He felt that he might be lucky today, and maybe the target of the mission would come to him. Coincidentally, the location of this hotel is one of the three areas that Kaxiu had circled before. The place where the ghoul is most likely to hide and commit crimes again. In addition to the description of the guard just now.

There are traces of gnawing on the dead body, which looks like the work of the ghoul.

I'm afraid there is more than a 50% chance that it is the target that Kaxiu is looking for.

Now that his strength has recovered, he is not worried about how dangerous the target of the mission is. Let alone an A-level mission, even if it is an S-level mission, Kaxiu is not afraid. The only trouble is how to find the other party.

He walked forward, through the hotel lobby, and up the stairs.

On the second floor, there was a faint smell of blood in the air. At the corner of the stairs, several guards stood upright and guarded. They glanced at Kaxiu's hunter mark, then retracted their gaze without any movement.

Passing through the corridor, Kaxiu felt that the smell of blood in the air was getting stronger and stronger.

Stopped in front of an open door.

He saw a pool of sticky blood slowly flowing out from the ground.

Walking all the way in, a miserable scene came into view.

There were two corpses in total, one lying on the bed, and the other sitting upright on a chair. The lower half of the body lying on the bed was gone, and the cross-section had rough marks of brute force tearing, and the blood stained the sheets red. The head sitting on the chair was cut off by claws, and half of the upper body was gnawed clean.

The snow-white bones covered with tooth marks and the pile of internal organs inside were quite shocking, and ordinary people would probably vomit on the spot. Kaxiu still had no expression on his face.

He checked the wounds, all of which were killed with one blow.

Kaxiu narrowed his eyes, walked to the window, and slowly drew the curtains.

The light in the room was much dimmer, and the door was closed. This room was already a closed space, and the strong smell of blood filled it.

He looked at the pool of blood on the floor in the corner, slowly raised his head, and looked at the ceiling. There was no difference there from usual, but as he looked at it, a drop of blood fell out of thin air.

With a click, it hit the ground.

Although the sound was very light, it was still audible.

With a bang, something invisible seemed to move at the ceiling. Finally, it fell down, revealing its complete body.

This is a dark creature that looks half human and half lizard, with dark green skin like moss and a circle of keratin protrusions on the joints.

Its entire body is like an elongated version of a human, two meters tall.

The two arms are not thick, but slender. But the palm at the end is three inward-curved claws, with sharp tips hooked into the bloody flesh membrane.

The head of the dark creature is a magnified version of a lizard head, with wide eyes and huge eyes. There is an indescribable sense of horror.

"Cuckoo..."

The lizard man made a strange cry, with a human expression on his face.

"It's a pity to be discovered. How come there is only a small black copper-level snack? This is far from enough to fill the gaps between teeth!"

Its lizard-like mouth split open, revealing jagged teeth, and there are still meat strands between the teeth. The scarlet tongue probed into the air, and the surface was full of tumor-like bumps and bumps. Ugly, and it also exuded a foul smell.

Kaxiu looked at the other party quietly, and he could tell from what he just said.

This dark creature had done something that deliberately created a murder, and then sneak attacked the members of the Dark Hunting Organization at the scene of the crime, and it was extremely skilled.

"Cuckoo... Why aren't you afraid? Snacks..." The lizard man's eyes were full of bloodshot, with a sense of madness. He muttered to himself as if he had a mental problem: "You hunters are the most delicious food! Much more delicious than ordinary humans! Let me count..."

"I ate two Obsidian hunters and a dozen Black Bronze hunters. It's a pity that I haven't eaten Dark Gold hunters. I think they must be more delicious! Hehehe... Hehehe..." The lizard man laughed.

Then, he walked towards Kaxiu step by step. It didn't move, but picked up the corpse next to it and chewed it slowly.

Blood gushed out of its big mouth, as if it had swallowed a whole orange.

The lizardman looked at Kaxiu, who did not move his feet, in confusion, with a disappointed expression on his face: "Why are you not afraid at all? Show a desperate expression! A black bronze hunter is no different from an ordinary person in front of me, they are all food. What I like most is the smell of despair before death. Such food is the most delicious, the most delicious, and the sweetest..."

"So, are you the ghoul that has been wandering in the fourth district of Florence for half a month?" Kaxiu looked at the lizardman, and his breath did not change.

"Ghoul?" The lizardman was stunned for a moment. Today is the second time it has committed a crime in the past half month. The previous one was in a residential area. But if it can scare the hunter in front of him, the lizardman does not mind admitting it.

"Of course it's me, hehe... So are you scared?"

It asked this question persistently, extremely persistent and crazy.

"Since you are that ghoul, then tell me now, what is the vortex pattern on the wall of the Vic Meat Slaughterhouse. If you answer to my satisfaction, you may be able to live a little longer." Kaxiu gently pulled the curtain with his right hand, and it closed completely.

"Hehe! Interesting hunter..."

"I've decided to taste your brain!"

With a hiss.

The corpse in the lizardman's hand was torn into two pieces by brute force, and blood mist and internal organs exploded. The whole room was shaken, and a figure ran and leaped wildly.

Six hideous and deformed hooked claws suddenly cut through the air!

This time the speed was extremely fast, and it suddenly rushed towards Kaxiu's position.

With a loud bang, the entire wall on the second floor of the hotel shook violently.

The gravel powder exploded, and a hole the size of a person let in sunlight.

The lizardman appeared in the mist, but there was no trace of Kaxiu in front of him. It lowered its head with a surprised expression and looked at its left shoulder. The whole arm, along with part of the body, was torn off by a huge brute force.

A large pool of green blood accumulated on the ground into a puddle.

"You!!!"

The lizardman turned his head suddenly and looked at another corner of the room.

There was a tall figure standing at the edge of the sunlight, holding a bloody limb in his hand. The whole person was expressionless like a statue.

He slowly stretched out his right hand, and the lizard man's limb began to disintegrate. Small pieces of scarlet flesh fell like snowflakes.

"Answer my question, I don't want to say it for the third time, reptile..."

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