Covering Carmen's body with twigs and dead leaves, Alan and others followed the traces to track the fjord monster again, but the morale of the team had fallen to the bottom.
The strange injury of Carmen's beheading made everyone very worried. Qin Lun personally judged that this was the second mysterious power in Arcadia, but Alan and others believed that it was caused by humans. In other words, among the tourists who entered the camp with them, there were serial murderers.
Both judgments have some truth. If the death game can lead them to Arcadia, it is not uncommon to attract a few serial murderers. However, Qin Lun is more inclined to the first one. The serial murderer's change of the plot situation is too weak, and it is not as powerful as the mysterious power at all.
As the sky gradually brightened, Allen and others gradually discovered that the environment around them became more and more strange. In the outer forest of Acadia National Park, where tourists often walk around, most of the forests leave naturally formed paths. These paths are covered with dead leaves, and the grass has been smoothed by the passing pedestrians.
But after several hours of tracking, Allen and others had gone deep into the forest, and passed several warning signs along the way. The trails stepped by tourists like this can no longer be seen around them. Most of the weeds on the forest floor grow to a height of more than a foot, making it almost impossible to see the soil below.
Natasha took out a few rubber bands she used to tie her hair, and asked everyone to tighten their trousers so that things like snakes and insects would not crawl in. This careful move of the girl immediately won the praise of everyone.
"Did you hear any sound?" Qin Lun tilted his head to listen uncertainly. His hearing is much worse than his eyesight. This is not a posturing.
In fact, when he entered this forest, he had successively tested several bloodline abilities on his body. Perhaps it was restricted by the laws of the world, or perhaps it was the interference of other mysterious forces. He couldn't use the elf story here, and the aura of gazing was also weakened a lot.
The gains obtained from the elf bloodline and the hunter profession have basically been offset by seven or eight. Higher-level magic skills are also greatly restricted. For example, A+ level tree world descending is useless at all. This is a low-magic world after all.
The only good news is that some low-level skills and physical attributes are not too restricted, such as: bow and arrow skills rapid fire, scattering, piercing arrows; firearms ballistic refraction, weak point sight, etc.
This also refreshed Qin Lun's cognition and made him feel the importance of comprehensiveness.
In fact, this also exposed his weakness of insufficient accumulation. With his current ability, if the skills are fully activated, he belongs to the upper class among the second-order apostles. But once he switches to some mission worlds with relatively large restrictions, he may be weaker than ordinary second-level apostles, because other people's accumulation of middle and low-level skills is stronger than him.
"I didn't hear anything."
"Me neither!" Alan's face was a little confused and nervous. Apart from having that precognitive hallucination, he was still just an ordinary person in other respects.
"Here, follow me, I really want to hear some weird voices." Qin Lun signaled everyone to be quiet, listened for a while, then pointed out a direction, beckoning everyone to follow him.
"What the hell is this?" Alan and the others grabbed the bushes and looked forward. Except for Qin Lun, everyone else couldn't help trembling all over, and the desire to urinate rose from the lower abdomen.
For ordinary people living in peaceful times, the scene in front of them was too shocking. The moment they saw it, their minds went blank, they lost the ability to think at all, and only the fear from life instinct remained.
Qin Lun didn't take them very far. After about two or three hundred meters, everyone heard the voice he said. This sound is obviously a mixed sound. If you carefully identify it, there is the sound of water, a strange sound similar to a child crying, and a cooing sound like a frog.
The closer they got there, the more panic in everyone's hearts, and finally followed Qin Lun into the bushes, almost tiptoeing over.
Cut through the bushes, and in front of you is a gravel beach on the shore of a lake. This place is different from ordinary beaches. There is neither fine sand nor pebble beach. The shore is full of ferocious reefs. They are not big, but their edges and corners are extremely sharp, like razor blades.
The lake water came in waves, smashed on the gravel beach, and there was a sound of rushing water among the reefs.
As long as Acadia National Park is a lake and beach, there are basically many tourists, but obviously no one will come to this beach, and basically even the animals in the forest will not come here to drink water.
Coupled with the thick fog in the early morning, the vision of the surrounding environment was poor, and Qi Madness looked gloomy and mysterious, which made Allen and others get goosebumps all over their bodies.
In front of the bushes where everyone was hiding, they finally saw the "assailant" whom they called the fjord monster.
This is a humanoid creature with dark green scales all over its body. It is similar to what everyone guessed, and it should be amphibious. Their heads are like crocodile heads, with long fins around their ears, mouthfuls of sharp fangs like daggers, webbed toes, and curved nails like hooks.
The two big monsters are more than 3.5 meters tall. They may not be used to walking on land, and their backs are slightly bent. They are standing on both sides, watching their surroundings vigilantly.
The three small monsters are smaller in size, but because they are lying on the ground to eat, they can't look carefully. What made everyone feel terrified was that they lay down on the ground and ate two human corpses.
The two corpses were both female. Their clothes were torn, and a big hole was opened in their chest and abdomen. The internal organs inside were being held and gnawed by three little monsters.
One of the women's head was facing the bush where everyone was hiding, her chin rested on the ground, and the place where her eyes were had turned into two blood holes. All the tender meat on the face had been gnawed off, and the mouth was devoid of lips and tongue, exposing the upper and lower gums. The skull was lifted from the forehead, and the brains had disappeared, obviously eaten up.
Another woman was lying on her back on the ground, the two lumps of soft flesh on her chest had turned into two holes. The thighs and arms seemed to have shrunk, becoming much thinner, revealing the pale bones inside.
"Ouch..." Allen and the others vomited on the ground, their eyes full of fear, and they instinctively suppressed themselves from making any sound. Now they knew what the frog-like sound was, it was the sound of the monster swallowing as it gnawed on the corpse.
Qin Lun didn't pay attention to them at this time, but glanced at Donald inadvertently. The fat man lowered his head, covered his face with his palms, his shoulders trembled, and looked terrified, but Qin Lun noticed that besides himself, he was another person who had never vomited.
Rich experience can sometimes become one of the flaws, just don't know if this fat man is a reincarnation or an apostle!
There was a sneer on Qin Lun's face. With his ability, he could force himself to vomit, but this kind of embarrassment could be seen through at a glance, so he didn't do it.
There are specializations in the arts, and apostles and reincarnations are not omnipotent. Even if you have the acting skills of an Oscar winner, you need to prepare your emotions in advance. Vomiting is not the point, and the embarrassment during the vomiting process will not be pretending.
He knew it, and Donald knew it, so the two of them never pretended to be pitiful.
Allen and the others received too much sensory stimulation, their minds went blank, and they didn't even think about the identities of the two corpses. However, Qin Lun did notice that the two bodies were beyond recognition, and it was impossible to tell whether they were Fanny, Karin, and Susan who had disappeared before.
But judging from the tattered clothes, Qin Lun was sure that the Susan and Karin he had seen were not among them. The people these five monsters attacked and took away last night may not be limited to their camp.
These thoughts flashed through Qin Lun's mind, and the next moment, he stood up directly from behind the bushes, and the pulley bow in his hand was pulled full moon.
"Swish, swish!" In the horrified eyes of Allen and others, the three carbon arrows held by the five fingers of Qin Lun's right hand were shot out almost in a line.
There are many types of arrows used in modern pulley bows. Compared with the slightly heavier fiberglass arrows and aluminum alloy arrows, Qin Lun prefers this kind of carbon arrows with light weight and straight ballistics, pursuing initial speed and accuracy. Moreover, carbon arrows are not easy to burst, which reduces the trouble of replenishing later.
"Wow..." Three little monsters lay on the ground and gnawed on the corpse, and the one facing the bush let out a shrill scream, like the sound of a baby crying.
Of the three carbon arrows Qin Lun shot, the first aimed at its forehead, but it only smashed a few scales before it was bounced off by the skull. A second arrow was aimed at its throat, but still only penetrated two centimeters. Probably shot into the esophagus, but judging by the amount of bleeding, the injury is not fatal.
His third arrow really hit the little monster hard. Its right eye was shot, and blood mixed with traces of white brains flowed out from the eye socket.
However, the vitality of this fjord sea monster is obviously very strong. In the case of joint trauma to the brain, this little monster is still not dead, and starts to attack everything around it regardless of whether it is enemy or friend.
Its two brothers and sisters were obviously frightened. They threw away the dead body at their feet and ran around with their heads in their arms.
However, the two big monsters in charge of vigilance are different. They seem to possess a certain level of intelligence, one of them quickly stopped in front of the maddened monster, and tightly grasped its arms, preventing it from wreaking havoc any longer.
The other crocodile roared and rushed towards the bushes. The ferocious and distorted crocodile face did not conceal the inner rage. However, even in this situation, it was still cautious enough to block the front door with its arms knotted in muscles to prevent the weak facial features from being shot by arrows.
Qin Lun narrowed his eyes slightly. His temptation was successful, but the result was not ideal.
The defense and wisdom of these monsters are far beyond imagination. With the pulley bow in his hand, the effect of long-range attacks is limited. With his physical attributes, he might be able to kill them in close quarters, but the existence of the god of death made him use his weapon.