It doesn't work if you don't eliminate them. The moat team just wants to train strictly, but they don't want to starve to death on purpose.
Even if the physical fitness of the spirit hunting warriors is stronger than that of ordinary people, it is possible to die if they are not supplemented by high-intensity training for many consecutive days. Therefore, the soldiers who couldn't keep up with the training progress were simply eliminated.
Of course, before leaving the barracks, they can get a full meal, which can be regarded as compensation for their performance in the past two days.
In Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian's team, they were the only two who received the rewarded spirit stones. Now, the other soldiers in the same team looked at them differently. They are masters!
Throughout the whole day, Xia Ruize kept reciting the spiritual formula while training, and his talent was activated from time to time. Finally, he completely dispelled the spiritual power of a low-level spiritual stone, but the harvest was a bit disappointing, but the power value increased 0.1.
Compared to the last quest world where hunting a wild animal could give you a fruit that increased your strength by 0.1, the rewards in this quest world seem to be insufficient. It took a whole day to get a 0.1 increase in strength.
However, considering that the previous world was a novice world with generous rewards, one can understand the gap between the rewards.
Even so, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian's interest in spirit stones has not weakened. They still plan to collect as many spirit stones as possible. Even if the task world does not have time to absorb them all, they can slowly dissolve the spirit power when they have time in the future.
As night fell again, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian slipped out after the barracks entered a state of rest.
The cloaks they are wearing today are the ones presented by the store. They are of high quality and fine workmanship. They can hide their identities very well and are easy to move around. Old Baitou found them.
There is no way, there are not many spirit hunting warriors who have not taken off their hoods after entering the tavern, and some of the situations where the two young people walked together were screened out. and Cheng Huaiqian.
"Old Cheng? Ozawa?" Old Baitou pretended to walk casually to a table next to their table, looked away, but asked them softly.
"Why so mysterious?"
Hidden under the wide sleeves of the cloak, Cheng Huaiqian was playing with Xia Ruize's fingers, seeing this he asked with a smile.
After listening to the voice and confirming that it was Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize, the old white head breathed a sigh of relief, lowered his voice and explained nervously and quickly:
"A major event happened yesterday! Last night, more than 30 teams, large and small, left the city, but none of the strongest ones came back. I specifically inquired, and the ones who came back were all those who were only active in the low-level evil spirit area. squad.
I went to the city lord's mansion today to report the situation I encountered last night. The city lord personally received me and said that he would handle the matter and told me not to spread the word. I suspect... Those who did not come back are also middle-level evil spirits The active area encountered a situation similar to ours.
I am not planning to go out of the city these days, and I advise you to be more careful. If you still want to go out of the city, the person in the red leather armor at the entrance of the tavern is called 'Daniu'. His brother 'Little Niu' went out last night and failed to come back. He is going out of the city today to have a look. He is quite capable and familiar with the surroundings. You can go with him. "
The old white-headed man didn't look at Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian during the whole conversation, and covered his mouth with the big wine glass in his hand, as if he just sat here by chance to have a drink or two.
After quickly explaining the situation, the old white head finally said, "Take care!", got up and swayed to other seats to sit down, chatting with other people from time to time.
"It seems that the situation is not good..."
Cheng Huaiqian looked at Daniu who was recruiting team members at the entrance of the tavern, and said softly, but the interest and eagerness in his voice betrayed his true thoughts.
Xia Ruize is used to it. He has never seen his lover worry about the difficulty of the task. This guy simply wishes for the task to be as difficult as possible.
After careful observation, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian found that compared to the joyous and excited atmosphere of the previous day, the tavern tonight was more anxious and depressed.
For a long time, no one stood on the small platform in the middle of the tavern to recruit teammates, and sporadic people like Daniel who tried to recruit teammates ran around the tavern trying to convince the spirit hunters.
It has to be said that these spirit hunting warriors are very sensitive to the situation. After realizing that the situation outside the city might be different, most of them decide to hold back temporarily and wait for the situation to be clear. They are very patient and vigilant.
Finally, Daniel turned to their vicinity, trying to find familiar spirit hunting warriors to go out of the city in a group.
When Daniel passed by, Cheng Huaiqian took the strip of metal out of his hand, easily bent and opened it, and threw it back to Daniel, pointing to himself and Xia Ruize, "Count us two."
"it is good!"
Daniel readily agreed, and everyone was unwilling to leave the city tonight. He originally planned to gather a team of nine people, but most of the invitations finally received a negative answer. It is rare that two people are willing to join, no matter whether they are Know the situation, regardless of their strength, multiple strengths are always good.
In the end, after walking around the tavern for almost half an hour, Daniel finally gathered enough people to prepare to set off. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were not in a hurry, and sat there listening to a lot of gossip and guesses from the spirit hunters.
The vast majority of spirit hunting warriors believed that those who left the city the day before and failed to return had crossed the cordon, approached the sea of evil, and encountered high-level evil spirits.
From the perspective of Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize, this guess is not necessarily wrong. The only thing that is different from the facts is probably that they did not guess correctly how those people got close to the evil sea.
In the end, there were eight people in the team that gathered together, and they followed Daniel quickly through the city of Ping'an, climbed over the city wall, and jumped out of the city.
The eight spirit hunting warriors followed Daniel away from Ping'an City in the formation of the first three, the second and the last three.
Different from the prudent old white head, Daniel is bolder and more direct. His footsteps keep rushing away from the city of Pingan. rush forward.
It only took more than 20 minutes for a group of people to rush to the green warning line. Seeing that Daniel still did not slow down and continued to rush forward, some teammates finally couldn't hold back, and suggested:
"Should we take a break first, take a rest, and then continue to move forward?" Many low-level evil spirits missed before they had time to kill them, what a pity.
Daniel crossed the cordon and continued to walk forward, until his teammates made the same suggestion again, before replying:
"No, I'm afraid it's too late, I want to go to the beach to see for myself!"
"What?", "What did you say?"...
Four exclamations came out at the same time. Except for Daniel, a friend who knew about it, Lao Lin, Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize who didn't care, the other four were all frightened by Daniel's real thoughts.
"Are you crazy?! There is no such thing as a good place to go to the seaside. If you encounter a high-level evil spirit, don't you want to live?!"
One of them questioned in a low voice, and at the same time stretched out his hand to hold Daniel, preventing him from going forward.
"Yeah, you can't just think about yourself, you also have to think about the rest of us. If you want to go to the beach in normal times, we'll go with you, but now it's before the full moon! Me, me, me , anyway, I don’t agree, I don’t even want to go deep into the middle-level evil spirit’s activity area!”
"Daniu, you are too rude, you didn't tell us in advance that you want to go to the beach tonight!"
Because of Daniel's true thoughts, the temporarily gathered team had a huge disagreement. The four people who held opposing opinions refused to go any further, and even dragged Daniel and Lao Lin to refuse to leave. The group just went like this stopped in place.
Xia Ruize noticed that during the time when the few people in front were arguing, the small piece of ground under their feet was turned 180 degrees by the evil spirit, and their direction was changed again.
Cheng Huaiqian, who was in the know, was almost not happy. Today's situation is different from yesterday. Their teammates wanted to go deeper today.
However, this also proves that it is not the mid-level evil spirits wandering nearby who are really planning this human trap. Otherwise, the strategy should be changed in time according to the actual situation, instead of setting a trap as soon as a conflict between human spirit hunters is discovered.
"In any case, Lao Lin and I will continue to move forward. If you want to be together, you can go together. If you don't want to, you can go back by yourself!"
Daniel said stubbornly that he and his friend Lao Lin knew about it and insisted on going to the beach. The other four recruited teammates were unwilling to move forward, so everyone looked at Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize together, waiting for their opinions.
Xia Ruize: ...
Xia Ruize got stuck for a while, and the current situation is that they want to go deeper, but they actually have to turn their heads and go back. Xia Ruize didn't hide it at all, and repeated what he said the night before to Daniel:
"There are evil spirits under our feet that have changed the direction of the area where we are standing, so the direction you think you are going back to the city is actually continuing to go deep into the sea. The two of us are willing to accompany you to the sea, but we should turn our heads and go back. "
After Xia Ruize's helpless words were finished, Cheng Huaiqian finally burst out laughing uncontrollably, propped himself on Xia Ruize's back, and urged a few people: "Hahaha, I think you should hurry up and decide which direction to go, there are people around you. The evil spirits are about to surround you."
"Where did you two come from? Don't pretend to be crazy at this time!"
Someone was angry at Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian's lack of cooperation, and couldn't help but sneer.
Daniu's character is thick and thin, just when he heard Xia Ruize's words, he subconsciously frowned in disbelief, but then a thought popped up in his mind, and he couldn't suppress it. , Da Niu asked tremblingly:
"You, are you telling the truth?"
At this moment, Daniel seemed to know why his younger brother failed to come back. My younger brother is not much weaker than him in strength, and it is no problem to deal with middle-level evil spirits, but if in a critical moment, my younger brother runs in the wrong direction and instead runs to the evil sea...
Seeing Xia Ruize nodded, Daniel made up his mind in an instant, and shouted: "Stop arguing! Just go back!"
After finishing speaking, take the lead and turn around and walk in the same direction.
In this way, the four opposing team members were silent. What is the situation now? Did Daniel really decide to go back to the city or did he believe the man in the cloak
Daniel's friend Lao Lin followed closely behind. Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize also turned and went back. The remaining four looked at each other for a while, and finally decided to chase after them.
Hmph, I was almost fooled by their teamwork!
They don't believe in a change of direction, and turning their heads back must be the direction to return to the city!
Of course, the facts were revealed. As the group continued to move forward, the surrounding fog became denser and the number of evil spirits increased, but the green cordon was still missing.
"Da, Da Niu, are we really walking towards the beach?"
One of the team members finally couldn't suppress the fear in his heart and asked out.
Daniel remained silent until he was asked twice in a row before replying: "I don't know."
But looking at his steadfastness as he walked forward while fighting, it really didn't look like he didn't know anything.
"No, I don't want to go forward, I want to go back!"
The most terrifying conjecture was verified, and several team members who were unwilling to go further quit immediately, but they no longer dared to go back alone. There were too many mid-level evil spirits around, and only eight people could help each other. Reluctantly cope, if half of the combat power is lost, it may not be able to hold on at all.
Daniel continued to walk forward without saying a word.
"Daniu, you killed us!" The other person said anxiously, and tried to persuade Lao Lin, Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize, "Daniu is going to the beach to find his brother's belongings, why do you go to the beach to follow him to death?"
"Oh? How to say?"
Cheng Huaiqian asked with interest, he and Xia Ruize only knew that Daniel must go deep into the sea, but they didn't know why he insisted on going.
"You don't know anything about what fun to join in?!"
The person who spoke was stunned, and instantly lost his temper, but seeing Cheng Huaiqian's indifferent appearance, he had no choice but to suppress his anger, and explained while killing the evil spirit:
"If someone dies at the hands of the evil spirits, the evil spirits don't want the clothes on him. They will be taken to the beach when the tide rises late at night. If a spirit hunter goes out of the city and fails to return, if his relatives and friends want to get back the relics If so, they will find a way to reach the seaside within three days, and it is possible to find the relic."
"Daniu must go to get back his younger brother's belongings, but we have to die in vain..."
"Hey, if we can't go back tonight, we won't let you go if we become evil spirits! Usually it is very difficult to rush to the beach, and you still have to take risks at this time! You simply don't want us Be friends!"
The four soul-hunting warriors who regretted it did not dare to go back alone, so they could only fend off the evil spirits while cursing Daniel, hoping that the other three would wake up and they would form a team and return to the city together.
Daniu accepted everything without saying a word, but he didn't stop walking, and rushed straight to the sea.
There are more teammates tonight, and their strength is stronger than the teammates from the previous night. Under the circumstances of working together, they were not overwhelmed by the evil spirits. the red line.
In the dark night and thick fog, this red line is very conspicuous.
"That's the last warning line set by the city lord. Hehe, if you cross the line, you will be closer to the sea, but you may also encounter high-level evil spirits after crossing the line. No matter what, we can't go forward, Daniel, you Do it yourself."
Before the red line, everyone stopped, and Da Niu finally thanked: "Thank you for accompanying me here, if I Da Niu can come back alive, I will come to thank you one by one!"
After finishing speaking, Daniel stepped across the red line and continued to walk towards the beach.
This time, even Lao Lin stopped where he was, resisting the evil spirit together with several others, trying to hold on for a while, hoping to wait for Daniel to come back safely.
To everyone's surprise, Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize bypassed the crowd and followed Daniel across the red line.
"Are you two crazy?"
Everyone couldn't believe their eyes, what happened to these two people, could they be relatives of Daniel
"I haven't seen the Evil Sea yet, I've come here, I have to go and see it."
Cheng Huaiqian casually dropped a sentence, and walked forward with Xia Ruize following Daniel.
They walked a few steps, and looking back, they could no longer see the figure behind them, but looking forward, surprisingly, there were not many evil spirits.
Since leaving the city, a layer of fog has been shrouded above the head, and the surroundings are gloomy darkness, as if there are evil spirits hiding everywhere.
On the contrary, now, the dense fog above the head has completely dissipated, revealing a bright half moon and a bright galaxy. From a distance, you can still see the vast sea in front of you.
Daniel took a deep look at the two people behind him, and thanked again: "Anyway, I thank you Daniel!"
Whatever their reasons for accompanying him to the end, he is grateful.
"No, we still have to thank you for leading the way, otherwise we wouldn't have seen such a magnificent scenery."
With a cheerful voice, Cheng Huaiqian took Xia Ruize's hand and walked slowly towards the seaside. The surroundings were silent, with the sea breeze blowing, and there was a romance of walking by the seaside at night.
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Daniel didn't bother to worry about whether the two people were mentally ill or not, so he rushed to the beach, and then knelt down on the beach, begging for something.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian stood on the beach and looked towards the sea.
"If this place is not so dangerous, it will definitely be a very beautiful check-in spot."
Xia Ruize smiled and leaned on Cheng Huaiqian's shoulder. Under the influence of his lover, he felt very relaxed when he should be nervous.
"I will accompany you to see more and more beautiful scenery. When we are old, sitting on the rocking chair in the garden, there will be countless memories to share."
Cheng Huaiqian embraced his lover's waist, turned his head and gently kissed Xia Ruize's hair. At the same time, the black energy on Cheng Huaiqian's body surged backwards, enveloping a group of black shadows rising from the ground.
"The last time I saw that the main god was selling various life skills, I plan to strengthen my drawing skills, and then draw all the memories for preservation."
Xia Ruize enthusiastically shared his new ideas. He wanted to draw down the memories of the two of them getting along, and even make them into animations, which can be enjoyed at any time in the future.
"Okay, then I'll learn how to compose and arrange music, and add exclusive background music to your paintings."
Anyone who saw Cheng Huaiqian's cheerful smile would never have thought that a high-level evil spirit was struggling endlessly under his hands, but unfortunately, the extent of the struggle was getting smaller and smaller.
On the evil sea that should be the most dangerous, the two chatted freely about the little romance in life.
A big wave hit the shore, and something hit Daniu's face head-on. Daniu took a closer look and found that it was the blue leather armor his younger brother was wearing when he went out last night.
Enduring grief and putting away the leather armor, Daniel got up and left the evil sea.
Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize also turned around, and they put their heads together to admire a palm-sized black ball in Cheng Huaiqian's hand.
This is a high-level evil spirit. It was in a huge state during the battle, but now it has become a pet tamed by Cheng Huaiqian's [Devil God's Pressure], so it shrank into a ball shape, beating gently in Cheng Huaiqian's hands.
"Why don't you kill it baby, I want to see what the high-level evil spirit's spirit stone looks like."
Cheng Huaiqian looked at the spherical evil spirit in his hand, and suddenly suggested.
Xia Ruize looked at the small ball that was frozen in mid-air for an instant, stretched out his hand to poke it, and replied with a smile: "Let's keep it. Compared with the other three, it is round and cute enough."
The tallest of the dwarves, the high-level evil spirit in the form of a ball is already the least scary-looking among Cheng Huaiqian's dark pets, Xia Ruize is not willing to kill it.
"Two, let's go."
Daniel greeted the two from a distance, he was not dazzled by grief, after all, he had already prepared himself before coming, and it was far beyond his imagination to get his brother's relics so smoothly.
Don't bother to think about why the sea is calm and no evil spirits are seen, Daniel just wants to rush back to the safe city immediately.
"You lead the way."
Cheng Huaiqian said casually, and put away the little black ball in his hand.
There was some shadow in Daniu's eyes, and he looked at Cheng Huaiqian and Xia Ruize with dissatisfaction. The attitude of these two people was a little too casual, and they didn't take into account his grief at all.
Daniel didn't say anything in the end, of course he crossed the red line, and the five teammates who stayed behind had disappeared, and they should have returned to the city.
The three quickly moved away from the evil sea, and it didn't take long to find the five people who returned first, probably because the five people in front had attracted a large number of evil spirits, and the pressure faced by the three people behind was very small.
The five of Lao Lin were both surprised and happy to see the three of them again. They were surprised that they left the evil seaside unharmed, and they were delighted that after the reunion of the eight, they were more confident of returning to the city safely.
The eight people rushed towards the direction of Ping'an City with all their strength, and finally successfully crossed the green warning line, climbed over the city wall, and returned to the safe city. As soon as they landed, several people collapsed to the ground. The experience tonight was truly amazing. It was so exciting, they seemed to have walked on the edge of a cliff.
"Everyone, let's meet again."
Not long after climbing over the city wall, Cheng Huaiqian suddenly bid farewell, then dragged Xia Ruize and disappeared into the alley. Daniel was eager to catch up, but he couldn't see anyone.
"Daniel! You fucking almost killed me, don't try to run away!"
After a short rest, they came back to their senses. Thinking of what happened before, several team members who had been tricked stood up angrily and rushed towards Daniel. It is impossible to vent out.
As a result, several people fought into a group. If the sergeant of the guard team hadn't heard the sound approaching and the several people left quickly, they might have fought hard.
On the other side, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huai sneaked around in the alleys of Ping'an City. After a certain turn, a layer of illusion was cast around them, and they watched three people dressed in black appear behind them. They searched for the place where they disappeared for a long time.
"Why is the person missing?"
"Keep looking!"
The three men in black searched around for half an hour, and finally confirmed that they were indeed lost, so they had to go back to report, but they didn't know that the person they were looking for was following them, chasing them all the way until they saw them enter the city lord's mansion .
"Do you want us to hide the news about the abnormality of the middle-level evil spirits?"
Xia Ruize touched his chin and asked suspiciously.
The three men in black followed the old white head from the homecoming tavern and followed them. Although they did not follow them out of the city, they were found as soon as they returned to the city. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were really curious about who was staring at them. Unexpectedly, it was basically that the city lord that the old white head had just met during the day did not run away.
"I'm afraid it's not that simple. If you want us to keep it secret in order to avoid causing panic, just come to us in an open and honest manner. This sneaky approach may hide something, but it doesn't matter. It's getting late, we should go back and rest. .”
Cheng Huaiqian calmly analyzed the sentence at the beginning, but at the end, his voice suddenly became excited, and he wanted to go back to the barracks by pulling Xia Ruize.
He hates the military camp during the day, there are always many people watching, making him want to get close to his lover, but he likes the military camp at night, no one can disturb them.