Hearing this, everyone had no objection, but told Zhou Jing not to go too far, but no one worried about what would happen to Zhou Jing's actions alone.
Zhou Jing left the team, walked in the forest for a while, stopped in a seemingly uninhabited forest, glanced around, and said, "Come out."
As soon as the voice fell, a figure quietly turned out from behind the tree, it was Ross, walking without a sound.
Zhou Jing stepped up and held his shoulder, read the follower's experience log, and quickly received a lot of images.
In the past three months, Ross has finally practiced some combat skills, mastered the skills of several weapons such as daggers and short knives, and also learned the skills of blacksmithing.
Although they are all at the beginner level, with the strengthened physical fitness, they can come in handy.
However, Zhou Jing hasn't told others about Ross's enhancement of the alien blood. Usually, he doesn't show it. In the eyes of others, Ross is still the original little transparent.
Because Ross's strengthening direction is good at stealth and moves silently in the forest, Zhou Jing let Ross be in the surrounding activities of the crusade team, secretly searching for the target without telling everyone, and now there is a harvest.
According to the video of the attendant, Ross found the Earth Skeleton Marauder wandering in the forest, but the other party didn't notice him, so he quietly retreated and came back to report.
Zhou Jing looked at Ross speechlessly.
"You've already found their raiding team, why didn't you follow them to find the location of the nest? You can report back now. When we find it, their raiding team has left that location, okay?"
Ross: (o_O)
"... Well, blame me for not telling you clearly."
Zhou Jing supported his forehead.
Although he has some combat power, this follower is still stupid. If the order is a little more complicated, he will not be able to handle it, and he will not adapt to changes and highlight a rigidity.
Zhou Jing shook his head and gave new instructions:
"You are now squatting where you found the Earth Skeleton, try not to be seen, and wait for me to find it."
With the positioning in his mind, Ross is very suitable to be a marker eye position for wayfinding. It is because of this ability that he feels that Ross can be used as a scout or a guide, and he can take him to crusade the Earth Skeletons.
Hearing this, Ross didn't say a word, turned his head and left, quickly disappearing into the forest.
Zhou Jing turned around before returning to the team.
"What did you find?" Balon looked over.
"Not yet." Zhou Jing shook his head.
Everyone didn't care, and after checking the neighborhood for a while, they continued on the road.
Although Zhou Jing didn't say it outright, he led the way secretly, and repeatedly suggested that the team change the direction of advance and secretly move towards Ross's location.
Regarding Zhou Jing's proposal, everyone had no opinion. Anyway, there was no clue at the moment, and they went wherever they went.
It didn't take long for everyone to reach the vicinity of Ross's location, and finally found the traces left by the Earth Skeleton looting team in the forest, and they were all overjoyed.
In front of them is a mess of footprints, and it can be seen that there are a lot of people, extending into the deep forest.
Baron squatted down, twisted a handful of dirt on the footprints with his fingers, and said in surprise:
"The footprints are still relatively new. It seems that the Earth Skeleton Raiders passed through here not long ago."
Weiss was refreshed: "How do we say, are we following behind, or do we go up and grab a few live ones to lead the way?"
Baron pondered for a while, then turned to look at Zhou Jing: "What do you think?"
"Go straight up to catch someone."
Zhou Jing did not hesitate.
They are a lot of people, and they are not strengthened by Ross, and they are easy to be found when they are trailing behind.
And your time is limited, so save some if you can.
Hearing this, Baron had no objection, waved and led the team to chase after him.
…
Everyone ran all the way forward, and the footprints left by the skeleton people in front of them became more and more new.
Soon, the figure of the Earth Skeleton Man appeared vaguely in the forest in front of him, with about a dozen people.
At this time, the Earth Skeleton Marauder also heard the movement behind him, issued an urgent whistle, looked back, and when he saw the crusade team, he screamed and shot without saying a word.
A rain of arrows came flying!
"kill!"
The enemy was extremely jealous when they met, and Baron roared, raised his battle axe to block in front of him, and rushed out like a bull.
The arrow hit the face of the axe with a clanging clatter, and it smashed into all directions.
Zhou Jing stomped his legs and rushed out like a cheetah. He suddenly pulled out the double knives from his waist. His eyes moved quickly to lock on arrows that were threatening to him.
Today's physical fitness and swordsmanship are enough to match his fighting instinct and block all arrows.
dang dang-
The dancing knife light is like a barrier, and the arrows and rain can't get in.
He hurried forward, and the distance quickly drew closer, and the terrified expression of the Earth Skeleton was magnified in his sight.
Zhou Jing dragged his two knives and plunged into the pile of skeletons.
brush brush-
The light of the knife is scattered, like a tornado.
Instantly rolled up the stump and the broken arm!
Zhou Jing's movements were swift and he shuttled through the crowd like a phantom. The hasty attacks of the Earth Skeletons had no threat to him. In his eyes, it was as slow as a snail.
The two knives are precise and stern, almost without blocking, directly grabbing the shot in front of the Earth Skeleton, cutting the opponent's neck, arms or waist and abdomen when the opponent just made an attacking stance.
brush brush-
Where the knife light passed, the Earthgulls fell like mowing grass.
Occasionally, the weapons collided, and Zhou Jing's powerful double knives directly smashed the Earth Skeleton's weapons together.
Three months later, the hunter workshop finally finished making the equipment. The double knives that Zhou Jing used at this time were made of fused metal after special treatment of the claws of the split-claw bear. They were stronger and stronger than ordinary standard weapons. Not to mention the shoddy equipment of the skeletons.
The bearskin battle armor with a fur collar on the body inherits the characteristics of the split-claw bear, and it is difficult for ordinary slashes to penetrate, providing superior defensive performance.
Zhou Jing rolled up a storm in the pile of skeletons and killed it in a smooth manner, shattering the opponent's formation.
He cut off the throat of one of the Earth Skeletons with a knife, and at this moment, the panel suddenly flashed.
["Will Wood" (Apostle No. 001) the culprit of death has been executed]
[Complete the revenge]
[This time, the evaluation of the astral apostle career has been slightly improved]
[Can inherit a certain ability of "Will Wood" for free... Test results, no uninherited ability yet]
[Trigger achievement [Vengeance must be repaid]! ]
[Milestone [Avengers] Progress: 1/5]
"Huh?" Zhou Jing was slightly startled.
an eye for an eye? I can't find this item in the achievement list, it seems to be a hidden achievement, and it is the first time I trigger it.
That said, the Earth Bone Man who was killed just now was the direct murderer of "Will Wood".
It seems that there is a special reward for revenge for the last astral apostle...
call!
At this time, a bone spear stabbed in the face.
Zhou Jing quickly returned to his senses, and with a left knife, he cut off the enemy's arm holding the spear, and then stabbed his right knife forward, penetrating the enemy's eye socket and going straight through the back of his head.
He picked up the enemy's body, slammed it to the side, and smashed an Earth Skeleton man who came up next to him.
Zhou Jing calmed down, did not continue to be distracted to check the panel, and focused on solving the enemy in front of him, and Baron and others also came in at this time.
Only Zhou Jing alone could not stop the looting team of Earth Skeletons. At this time, Balong, Weiss and the others joined the battlefield, and instantly crushed the looting team of Earth Skeletons to the ground.
Ten soldiers from Baiyuan City formed a simple battle formation, and there was evidence to advance and retreat. Although they were not as crushed as the three alien beast hunters, they still fought steadily and killed all the approaching Earth Skeletons like a meat grinder.
After just a few minutes, the battle was over, and dozens of Earth Skeleton Marauders lay on the ground.
Only a few Earth Skeletons were left intact, tied together by the crowd, their faces full of horror, and they were screaming.
Balon looked at the corpses all over the ground, and felt a sigh of anger. He turned his head to Griff and said, "Go and interrogate these survivors, and let them take us to the lair."
Griff nodded and complied. Although they did not understand the language, they had dealt with the Earth Skeletons, and sign language was enough to communicate, and they spoke with a knife, so they didn't worry that the Earth Skeletons couldn't understand what they meant.
The hunters of Frostwood Village would not be merciful to the bones of the earth, so how could they be worthy of their dead companions.
Zhou Jing did not participate in the interrogation, but wiped the long knife aside and shook his head secretly.
Earth Skeletons, who used to be tricky before, are now easy to solve. Maybe they can do it alone. It's a complete crush.
Although the abuse of vegetables is quite hearty, it's just that Zhou Jing doesn't have any turbulence in his heart.
Although he is getting used to killing now, he doesn't have much interest in it himself. What he likes is the battles that come and go, and the intense and exciting killings with powerful enemies, which will make him excited.
"It doesn't make sense to abuse vegetables... It seems that I have some Berserker genes."
Zhou Jing smacked his lips, opened the panel and carefully pondered what was triggered just now.
After fumbling for a while, he confirmed that there is a "revenge mechanism" for the astral apostles.
When an astral apostle dies artificially, and you use the follow-up astral apostle to avenge it and kill the murderer, this mechanism will be triggered and special rewards will be obtained.
First, it can improve the career settlement evaluation of the current astral apostle, regardless of death settlement and customs clearance settlement.
The second is that you can get a new "free inheritance slot" like a death settlement, and get a certain ability of the death star apostle.
Because of the abilities of "Will Wood", the current "Jason Wood" has inherited it, so it did not take effect this time.
The third one is to trigger the special achievement, [Vengeance must be repaid] is a repetitive achievement, and it can be triggered once every time you complete revenge for a certain astral apostle.
The rewards are uncertain, and different amounts of rewards are given according to the strength of the Death Star Realm apostle and the strength of the murderer.
And the [Vengeance will be repaid] that was triggered this time only gave 500 astral points, which is not much. It is estimated that "Will Wood" is not extraordinary, and the enemy is just an ordinary Earth Skeleton.
In addition, every time you complete [Retribution], the progress of the [Avengers] milestone will be accumulated, and this milestone can be triggered if you complete it five times in total.
It was also the first time for Zhou Jing to trigger a milestone. This thing was a special kind of achievement. It took several completions of related behaviors to truly trigger it, and the rewards were generally richer than usual achievements.
"In this case, if every astral apostle dies, then this achievement can be triggered very quickly..."
"The Guard is Here"
Zhou Jing thought for a while, then shook his head and laughed.
After thinking about it, he had no intention of deliberately dying, and felt that the time cost was not worth it.
He is not humble either, he always feels that there are still plenty of opportunities for him to burp in the future.
"You don't need to force it, just accumulate it slowly."
Zhou Jing shook his head.
At this time, the interrogation of the Earth Skeletons was over, and two more survivors were killed. Finally, the remaining Earth Skeletons who were afraid of death learned to cooperate.
"Let's go." Baron greeted Zhou Jing.
Hearing this, Zhou Jing put away his long sword and followed.
…
Following the skeleton man who led the way, the group cautiously groped forward.
Everyone would not completely believe the enemy, so they kept an eye out for fear of being led into any trap.
Until the red clouds filled the sky, the crusade team finally arrived at the entrance of the Earth Skeleton's lair.
This is a hole in the ground hidden behind the vines, which is very confusing. If you don't look carefully, it is easy to ignore the past.
Everyone hid in the forest not far away, hiding their figures, and looking at the hole with their probes.
They have searched around the area, and quietly settled the several Earth Skeleton outposts near the entrance of the lair.
Baron shrank his head, stroked his beard and pondered: "I don't know how many people and traps there are in the den of the skeletons. If we rush in rashly, we may encounter danger."
"It makes sense." Weiss nodded: "Then you can take the lead."
Everyone turned to look at him silently.
"What are you looking at? I'm just here to help. Wouldn't you let me rush in first?"
On the other side, Griff thought for a while, and suggested, "How about we set fire to force the Earth Skeletons out?"
"That's fine." Baron nodded.
Everyone quickly prepared a large pile of dry wood and began to burn the hole.
Zhou Jing also has no opinion, and does not intend to give everyone the awareness of protecting the environment and preventing wildfires.
There was a fire in the cave, and there was a burst of commotion inside.
Soon, Wu Yangyang Earth Skeletons poured out. At a glance, there were no less than a hundred people, tall, short, fat and thin, all holding weapons.
The people hiding around were preparing to make a move.
"Roar!"
At this moment, a roar of a strange beast suddenly came from the cave.