Xu Xin rode the Silver King to the altar as quickly as possible.
The altar had not changed at all from when he left yesterday, the only difference being that the blood-stained pillar without a statue no longer emitted heat.
Xu Xin looked at the ground of the altar. There was nothing unusual about the ground. It was still an uneven surface that had been exposed to the wind and sun for a long time. But Xu Xin was still sure that the blood-marked troll just now came out from here.
There are no traces of its origin around. If it didn't come out from the altar, could it have fallen from the sky
In order to avoid any further mishaps, Xu Xin came to the altar table, opened the small drawer where the altar knife was placed, and put the altar knife in first.
The small drawer suddenly retracted by itself, and at the same time the entire altar began to emit a cold atmosphere.
It lasted for about ten seconds, and the cold air faded away. When Xu Xin opened it again, a brand new and shiny altar knife appeared in the drawer.
Xu Xin took out the knife and found that all traces of yesterday's use were gone.
"Is this why I have to put it back every time?" Xu Xin said to himself.
Checking the map, Xu Xin discovered that the tigers that were wandering around the altar yesterday had disappeared, and the area around the altar was filled with relatively weak beasts.
Perhaps they were scared away by the Blood-marked Troll just now, and the other little beasts might be like the Silver King, not daring to move, so they did not run away.
"That's perfect. We spent a lot of effort to avoid these tigers during the hunt yesterday."
While these tigers have not returned yet, Xu Xin plans to go to the place where the trolls disappeared first, and then go hunting wild cats.
He looked at the messy new road opened up by the blood-marked trolls. The road was littered with broken poplar trees, some of which were broken by the trolls' feet, and some were smashed by the sticks in their hands.
He was really curious about where the blood-veined troll had gone and why it hadn't returned to the altar.
On the map, the red dots around this newly opened road are denser. In addition to the wild beasts that were originally here, there should be some wild beasts nearby that came here out of curiosity.
Xu Xin was holding his rabbit-ear crossbow and riding a wolf along the road.
As he expected, there were many corpses and seriously injured small wild animals on the road created by the Blood-Marked Troll. Most of them were killed by fallen trees, and there were even many birds.
In just a few minutes, Xu Xin picked up a lot of materials. The only drawback was that there were no points, but being able to pick up materials for free was already good enough.
After arriving at the hill where the blood-veined troll disappeared, Xu Xin was a little confused looking at the jungle that showed nothing unusual.
At this time, he had walked out of the hilly resource area, and the road made up of crooked trees ended here. There was only a very ordinary jungle in front, and there was not even a cave around.
"What happened? That blood-marked troll disappeared right after arriving here?"
"Ying!" Coco jumped off the wolf's back and ran forward.
It seems that Coco must have discovered something.
"Silver King, follow Coco."
Coco ran around the edge of the hill for a long time, and finally stopped at an open space outside the hill. She stood up and looked around in a daze.
"Is this the place Coco?"
"Hmm?" Coco tilted her head, confused.
Xu Xin looked around. The hills here were like cliffs, straight up and down, and the entire hill was like a thick wall, isolating the hill resource area from the outside world.
"Huh?" Xu Xin discovered that the traces naturally formed on the mountain wall by wind and sun seemed to form a pattern, and this pattern looked very familiar.
Xu Xin tilted his head left and right, looking at it from different angles, and for a moment, the pattern overlapped with the impression in his mind.
"This... this pattern is the pattern on the chest of the blood-marked troll!"
Xu Xin took a sudden step back.
Why are there patterns similar to those on the trolls' bodies carved on the mountain where the blood-marked trolls disappeared
Did this troll merge into the mountain? Or was this mountain actually the blood-marked troll itself
Could it be that all the hills around here are made up of these monsters
Xu Xin had always been a little puzzled as to why a circle of hills suddenly appeared in this relatively flat area.
He got goose bumps when he thought about how he had climbed up the hill more than once.
"No, it shouldn't be. Maybe it's just a mark left by the Blood Veined Trolls. Maybe it's a teleportation device that teleported the Blood Veined Troll away."
This statement was more convincing, and Xu Xin gradually calmed down. However, his previous thoughts had planted a seed in his heart, making him look at these hills with a different mentality.
It’s better to stay away from it.
Xu Xin lifted Coco onto the wolf's back, rode on the Silver King, and moved away from the cliff with strange totems carved on it.
Let's gather the offerings first. This blood-marked troll is still too far away for him now.
With the help of the crossbow with faster arrow speed and greater power in his hand, it didn't take long for the number of cat claw offerings in Xu Xin's hand to exceed double digits, enough to dye all the patterns on the stone pillar of the cat statue red.
The koi that Xu Xin had eaten in the morning also clearly played a role. Yesterday, he hunted so many small beasts, but didn't cut out a single blue-grade material. Today, he only hunted a few wild cats, but he already got a blue-grade wild cat skin.
"It's time to go hunting mutant wildcats."
Xu Xin took a deep look at the hill with patterns carved on it from afar, then turned around and rode towards the altar on his Silver King.
His strategy to deal with the wild cat was actually very simple. Based on the experience of the sacrifice the day before, when the sacrifice was completed, the mutant beast would need to wait for a while before coming back to life, which was enough time for Xu Xin to run away.
He had a more advanced crossbow in his hand than the one he had yesterday. As long as he could hit the target, Xu Xin was confident that the crossbow could cause considerable damage to the mutant beast. So he only needed to fly a kite from a distance, use the crossbow and poison arrows to hinder the mutant wild cat's movements, and then deliver the final blow when it was exhausted.
It's easy to calculate, but it's not easy to actually put it into practice.
Xu Xin ate an orange (blue) in advance to raise his spirits to the best state.
Returning to the altar, he glanced at the wild cat statue. The sharp claws that were deeply pierced into the stone pillar made people feel a little scared.
Taking a deep breath, Xu Xin placed the wild cat sacrifice on the altar, then quickly withdrew from the altar, rode on the Silver King and ran to the farthest distance his crossbow could reach, loaded a poisonous crossbow arrow, and silently waited for the sacrifice to be completed.
Not long after, the cat statue was covered with red patterns. Red rays of light shot out from the gaps between the patterns. From a distance, it looked like a dazzling sun, illuminating the entire altar red.
The stone sculpture shattered, and a wild cat with blood-red patterns all over its body and two exaggeratedly sharp claws in yellow and white appeared on the stone pillar. It raised its head to the sky and meowed, but animals of the subfamily Felidae cannot roar like tigers and lions, so the meow had no dignity at all, but was shrill, hoarse and unpleasant.
"Now!"
Xu Xin raised his hand and pulled the trigger, and the poisonous crossbow arrow immediately flew towards the blood-marked cat on the stone pillar at an extremely fast speed!
The blood-marked cat's cry suddenly stopped, and it waved its claws in a movement that was difficult to capture with the naked eye, and actually caught the crossbow arrow that flew right in front of it!
But Xu Xin's strengthened crossbow arrow could not be stopped by its casual grab. The crossbow arrow simply deviated slightly in trajectory and hit the blood-marked cat's shoulder directly.
"Meow!" A shrill cat cry sounded, and the blood-red pupils of the blood-marked cat instantly locked onto Xu Xin who was holding a crossbow in the distance.
"It's done. As long as we hurt it and attract its hatred, this guy will chase us relentlessly! Silver King, run! Coco, hold on tight!"
“Ah!” “Bing!”
The Silver King ran as fast as he could in the direction opposite to the altar.
Xu Xin sat astride the wolf king's back, holding a crossbow in his hand, aiming at the blood-marked cat that suddenly jumped up and quickly approached him.
"I'm going to kill you without any injuries this time, you mutant monster!"