Chapter 460 You Chase Me and I Run Away

Jiao Yu shook his head, and General Ling leaned over to sniff it and lick it: "It seems to be a mineral."

He Lingchuan took one look at it and saw that this guy was really not afraid of being poisoned.

General Ling seemed to notice his doubts and replied: "The toxicity of rocks, soil, metals and herbs are not very effective against us."

Good guy, the wind drill beast has a great talent. He Lingchuan used the tip of the knife to dig at it and picked out a lot of powder.

Red...stone powder? The color is like pig liver red.

Seem to have seen it somewhere?

He called Zhao Dazui over and asked, "What is this?"

Zhao Dazui also looked confused.

Isn't it normal for some miscellaneous minerals to grow in this kind of nest hole?

He Lingchuan then took out a small bottle from his arms, poured out a little mixture of mud and red powder, and said to Jiao Yu, "Smell this powder."

Fortunately, Jiao Yu didn't know where these things came from, so he came over to smell them carefully and nodded: "It's the same kind as the ones you scraped off the stone. Where did you get them?"

"As soon as we entered the Chiyan Kingdom, Fu Shanyue and I killed a sheep thief. He had this kind of powder on him."

Jiao Yu understood: "Has he been around here?"

"It's very possible." He Lingchuan scraped more powder from the stone and collected it: "First find out what this is when we go back."

He felt at ease.

After so many days, I finally got some usable clues.

At this moment, the cry of the blue sheep came down along the cracks in the ground.

After spending a long time with this spirit knight, He Lingchuan could distinguish its emotions, and now he noticed that its screams were full of panic.

"No, there's something going on above!"

The soul-capturing mirror automatically translated for him: "Come up quickly! There is something down there, right behind you!"

He Lingchuan suddenly felt the hairs on his back stand up.

The murderer actually knew they were here?

Of course Zhao Dazui couldn't hear what the soul-capturing mirror said, but he was also surprised: "I, let's go back quickly!" He turned around and left.

Jiao Yu and General Ling were about to follow, but He Lingchuan shook his head: "Why sacrifice the near for the far?"

Even the skylight can shine down from above, and there is only a crack in the ground between them.

It's just that this crack in the ground is very narrow, and most of it was crushed by boulders.

He Lingchuan prepared a sledgehammer for today's trip. He took it out from the storage ring and tried to hit it twice. A pile of rocks fell from the top, almost knocking him out.

Zhao Dazui couldn't help but said: "Sir, you can't get out from here."

It's not that he was gloating about his misfortune, this gentleman really has no common sense. Above are large and small rocks that have collapsed from high places. They were digging underneath and were easily crushed to death.

These pampered masters are not as discerning as a digger!

But the space above it has become larger.

As he spoke, He Lingchuan threw a palm-sized doll toward the rock pile.

There was a soft "bang" sound, and the doll turned into a ten-foot-tall giant.

The bronze man in golden armor appears.

Of course, it can only hunched over here, and its posture is exactly the same as when He Lingchuan first entered the nest.

Under the command of its owner, it started a desperate digging mode, regardless of the rocks falling from above.

If it is only slightly injured on the outside, it will heal itself quickly.

Midway, He Lingchuan also controlled it to avoid two boulders in the face.

There was a loud banging sound, and the falling stones and dust almost dyed it gray-white, but the skylight shining into the nest hole suddenly became brighter.

Digging through!

"Go up." He Lingchuan took off, put his toes on the shoulders of the bronze man in gold armor, and then passed through a big hole and went straight to the ground.

The tiger and the wind beast follow the same pattern.

Zhao Dazui was dumbfounded and had to climb up carefully.

He Lingchuan didn't stop even after landing and quickly ran towards the blue sheep.

However, I saw this spiritual beast finding a crack in the ground and pulling quickly with its hooves, as if trying to dig out a hole.

But the gap was too small and it couldn't get in, so it bleated anxiously.

"what's the situation?"

Translation of the soul-capturing mirror: "There is something underneath, which is probably the source of the fishy smell."

Yes, when the blue sheep were attacked last time, they probably smelled the murderer.

He Lingchuan took a closer look at the crack in the ground and found that there was indeed something squirming inside, and there was even a little dark brown reflection.

Well, it's actually here!

He Lingchuan pulled out the sledgehammer and punched it hard into both arms, hitting it hard three times!

Facing the storm-like attack, the rock shell burst.

He first threw a bunch of fluorescent grass down to explore the environment before jumping in.

Something slipped into another nest hole.

He Lingchuan rushed over in one stride.

However, the thing had sunk down into the stone ground, leaving only the tip of its tail still outside.

General Ling rushed past him, as fast as a gust of wind.

It also saw the tip of its tail, and without hesitation, it lowered its head and picked it up!

The wind-drilling beast's head swing is extremely powerful, even a giant rhinoceros can easily pick it up and throw it out. The thing under the ground was indeed picked out for a long length, but the whole thing did not appear.

"Click", the long tail landed on the ground, twisting on its own, but not connected to the body.

It actually has the ability to survive by cutting off its tail like a gecko!

He Lingchuan glanced at General Ling subconsciously.

The speed at which this old sheep just rushed over was ridiculously fast, like a javelin being thrown towards the target, and it seemed to flash forward. Coupled with the pair of sharp horns, it was really a sneak attack weapon on the battlefield.

In fact, this is the talent of the wind drill beast, which is called "collision". Once it locks on a target within eight feet, it can reach it almost instantly - of course, provided there are no obstacles in the way.

If it was the first fight, He Lingchuan thought he might not be able to dodge it.

Monsters are not like humans. They don't need complicated skills. They just need to practice their talents to perfection. General Ling's "collision" talent has been practiced to the third level, which means he can collide three times in a row, and each time the speed and strength are progressively higher than the previous one.

By the third collision, it is really hard to tell with the naked eye.

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When the tiger Jiao Yu arrived, He Lingchuan and General Ling were both observing the long tail.

It was brown, hairless, all meat, and still twisting on the ground.

Jiao Yu stretched out his claws to scratch it, and then quickly retracted it: "There is mucus!"

"This is what I just cut off from that thing." He Lingchuan said, "It should be the tip of the tail."

There are two holes on the tip of the tail, which were pierced by General Ling's horns.

"Why is there no blood?"

"Yes, but it's mixed in the mucus." He Lingchuan thought, "Just like you cut an earthworm into several pieces."

"Is this thing an earthworm?"

He Lingchuan shook his head: "I saw the reflection from the cracks in the ground. The surface should be hard and smooth."

Jiao Yu looked back at the way he came: "There is mucus all the way on the ground."

"It leaves mucus all the way as it walks."

"There is mucus when it walks, the skin is hard, and the body is soft and hairless..." Jiao Yu thought about it and came to the conclusion without much effort, "Could it be a snail that has become a monster?"

"It looks like it." He Lingchuan put away the spoils, "But what is its relationship with the dead sheep thief?"

No one has the answer to this question.

He Lingchuan traced back along the mucus traces on the ground and found that the direction of the monster's movement was towards the pig monster's nest, which was - the direction where they were before.

"This thing is coming for us." He said coldly, "It wants to ambush us."

As a result, it was discovered by the mountain goat. The other party saw that the opportunity was lost and slipped away.

Jiao Yu hesitated: "Is it possible that we just met by chance?"

"From Wang Mazi's description, this thing's attack method is to ambush in the rainy night and wait for prey to come. It also rained heavily on the night when my mount was attacked." He Lingchuan pondered, "Today is a sunny day, and the ground is quite dry, which does not conform to its usual routine. Therefore, it is very likely to come to us on purpose."

General Ling sneered: "Let it come! I will teach it to come but never return!"

Jiao Yu said seriously: "No, it must have something to rely on if it dares to come here."

The man and the tiger jumped back to the ground, and the mountain goat came up and bowed its head to gently push He Lingchuan.

"Thank you very much." He Lingchuan stroked its curved horns and thanked him sincerely, "I'm afraid this monster has already ambushed underground and was waiting for us to return the same way, but you bumped into it."

Although Jiao Yu has Yuanli, He Lingchuan is not so arrogant as to think that his side will not be hit. This monster has committed crimes everywhere and succeeded repeatedly, so it must have something extraordinary. Apart from anything else, are these hundreds of hairy pig monsters so easy to deal with?

If He Lingchuan faced a hundred angry hairy pig monsters by himself, he would have no choice but to run away without using any tricks or having the advantage of numbers.

He chased the murderer by himself, but the murderer set up an ambush on the road he had to pass, waiting for them to fall into the trap in the way he was best at. It's scary to think about it.

Fortunately, they almost fell into the other party's calculation. This risk really came without any warning.

The mountain goat rubbed his hand, meaning that you're welcome.

The wind drill beasts originally looked down on it, thinking that the mountain goat was too weak and could only be used as a mount for humans, but at this time they also came up and bumped their heads with it to show their gratitude.

At this time, Zhao Dazui finally climbed up, panting and rushed over and said, "What happened?"

"The murderer is going to ambush us."

"Ah?!"

He Lingchuan ignored him and went to take back the golden bronze man: "Lead the way. Let's go back to Youtian Town."

...

The return journey was smooth without any twists and turns.

On the way, He Lingchuan, Jiao Yu and General Ling exchanged opinions.

The other party actually appeared in the pig nest, either that was its habitat, or it came here specifically to ambush the prince's envoy.

Considering that the pig nest is relatively dry, and that kind of creature should prefer a damp and rotten living environment, the man, the tiger and the sheep all thought that the latter was more likely.

Then the next question came.

How did the other party know that they would go to the pig nest today?

If they were not following them all the way, someone must have leaked the whereabouts of the prince's envoy.

The only people who knew He Lingchuan's itinerary today were the few people at the banquet last night.

Check them one by one, and there will always be gains.

The investigation finally made progress, and Jiao Yu was a little eager to try, and the whip-like tiger tail hit the carriage with a clatter.

Case investigation is actually a boring job. The clues are either not matched or interrupted on the spot, especially finding the cause of the disappearance of a bird is like looking for a needle in a haystack.