Water drops dripped from his wet clothes. Lund looked at the bounty hunters not far away.
"You mean, there was another set of footprints found?"
Lund grabbed the shield-axe man by the throat and lifted him up. Before he could breathe, the shield-axe man hurriedly explained,
"We found two sets of footprints and thought that the woman had reunited with her companions, so we split our forces into two groups in the hope of catching them all in one fell swoop.
Just now, I didn't mean to attack them. I just thought they heard our footsteps and dived into the turbulent water. I wanted to strike first and injured them by mistake. Sir, you..."
Roughly throwing the shield-axe man aside, Lund lifted up the knight's helmet and let the dirty water in the helmet flow down from the gap between his neck.
After chasing for a long time, Lund did not see any trace of Iyas coming ashore.
Speculating whether Iyas heard his voice and dived into the water, or whether she ran out of energy and fell in the rushing water, Lund finally dropped his meteor hammer and jumped into the sewage to search for Iyas.
Now that the flood season has just ended, the water level is not high. The tall Longde can even stand in the rushing water and stick his head out.
If Iyas tried to be clever or sank to the bottom of the river, Lund was confident that he would be able to detect it immediately.
But his efforts were ultimately in vain, as Lund never expected that Iyas didn't even jump into the water.
“I just said it was a little strange.
Even though the water was a little fast, I should have been able to find her immediately with my speed.
But, until now, not even a hair has been seen.
It turns out that she has played me around again. I am really underestimated again."
Lund gnashed his teeth and looked at the bounty hunters beside him, and these bounty hunters immediately trembled.
They saw with their own eyes that after the shield-axe man threw the shield-axe, Longde actually stood in the rushing water, reached out to grab the shield-axe, and threw the shield-axe back, and it stuck deeply into the wall of the sewer.
The man in front of them was far beyond their reach in terms of reaction ability and strength, and was not an opponent on the same level as them.
Faced with such a powerful boss, there is only one thing they can do - listen carefully to the boss's request.
"Immediately follow me back along the original route and catch up with the other team.
Search every corner of the sewer and find that woman.
Once you find her, let me know immediately. I want to show her what real hell is like."
Even though the firelight could not illuminate the expression under the helmet of the Lund knight, everyone present knew that there would be no good results in going against the angry Lund.
So, the bounty hunters took action one by one, obeyed Lund's order, returned along the original route, split up, and searched the sewers one by one.
Longde is not a reckless person. After being fooled by Iyas twice, he is able to calm down and think.
Thinking about the possible escape route Iyas might choose, Lund soon realized that Iyas might rely on the ladder used for maintenance and cleaning to leave the sewer, so he immediately dispatched underground bounty hunters to search for passages where there might be ladders.
The city's sewers divert part of a tributary of the Xingyue Gonghui River, greatly reducing the intensity of manual cleaning work.
Unfortunately, the Hidletra is interconnected, and the corresponding sewer pipes are also interconnected, so there are always some channels that are not easy for water to flow into.
The garbage there will gradually accumulate and form thick sludge. When the sludge accumulates to a certain level, it will need to be cleaned up manually.
And those places are also where ladders are most often repaired.
Iyas also thought of this while moving forward, dragging her legs to find a passage where the water flow was not turbulent and was even somewhat congested.
However, due to the injury on her foot and the fact that she had consumed a lot of her physical strength by knocking down the underground bounty hunter, Iyas's speed in finding the ladder was extremely slow, far slower than the underground bounty hunters who were acting separately.
With the help of the holy light in her hand, she finally found a ladder on the other side of the passage. Iyas was just about to lift her foot and wade through the sewage on one foot to climb up the stairs.
Unexpectedly, an underground bounty hunter discovered the light in the passage, recognized Ias, and shouted,
"I found her! She's right here!"
Looking at the ladder that was only five meters away, Iyas gritted her teeth unwillingly, raised her bow and arrow, shot an arrow through the chest of the underground bounty hunter, then turned around and ran deeper into the sewer.
Iyas has lost the opportunity to climb that ladder, and if she goes out of that ladder, the underground bounty hunters will definitely catch up with her.
With her physical strength running out and her ankle injured, even if Iyas could successfully climb the ladder back to the ground, she would have no way of winning the chase on land.
Now Iyas can only gamble that the sewer pipe will fork, she will choose one side, and the person chasing her will choose the other side, and then they will be able to find a new ladder and open the passage to the city.
But even though Iyas sped up a lot, she did not see the end of the endless darkness.
She only heard the noisy footsteps getting closer.
Finally, a bright firelight illuminated the darkness behind her, stretching her shadow into the bottomless black.
"She's right there!"
Iyas, who was moving with the help of the wall, stopped. She was injured and her fate was to be caught up. In that case, she might as well stop and fight.
Hearing the footsteps getting closer, Iyas pulled an arrow from the quiver and put it on the bow, then turned around suddenly and launched a preemptive attack.
However, the same scene was repeated in Iyas's eyes. Londe stretched out his hand and easily caught the flying arrow, and then crushed her arrow into pieces with one force.
Walking in the flickering firelight, Longde's tall figure gradually covered Iyas. He greeted Iyas in an extremely terrifying tone.
"Hey, we meet again. You've made me look so hard. This time I'm going to break both of your legs and take you back with me."
"If you can do it, just try it!" Iyas pulled the bowstring again and shot three arrows at the same time. When the three arrows were flying in the air, they suddenly turned into six.
Lund swung his meteor hammer and smashed the four arrows in front of him, and continued to approach Iyas.
"It's no use. I won't make the same mistake as last time."
Before he could finish his words, Iyas's stray arrows hit the two underground bounty hunters behind Longde, and the two underground bounty hunters howled in pain at the same time.
But these two howls of pain did not shake Lund's steps. Lund continued to walk towards Iyas with firm steps, looking unstoppable.
(End of this chapter)