CHAPTER 54 - HUNTING BEASTS
Translated by Luxican
The depths of the Yue Wu Mountain Range were covered with tall trees, and under the trees, where the light never reached the ground, the smell of rotting leaves lingered.
"We've walked so long already, why hasn't the demon beast appeared yet?" Huang Ling and the mercenaries had gradually entered the depths of the mountain, the sun had suddenly disappeared, and a gloomy atmosphere preserved here. The longer they walked the more they felt something was wrong.
"It won't be long, the demon beast is cunning, it's surely hiding in the deepest part of the forest. Little girl, you said you came from the east?" The few mercenaries had all very attentively listened to Huang Ling's words along the way.
Although the little girl looked naïve, but if asked about her family, she would shut her mouth tightly like a clam.
Gradually, the hunters had lost their patience.
They took Huang Ling to a secluded place and halted their steps.
"What are you doing?" Huang Ling became alert and pulled out her magic scepter.
"What? Little girl, do you want to join us in hunting the demon beast too? Stop dreaming, the mutant demon beast isn't only a measly fifth-rank demon beast it's a dual-elemental demon beast of wind and thunder. Just obediently surrender all your possessions and do what we say. Write a letter to your family," the bald mercenary showed his true colors, several mercenaries grinned, and rushed at Huang Ling like eagles at a chicken.
A purple thunder bolt struck directly beside the bald mercenary's feet.
"Damn magicians," but the bald mercenary was a Great Martial Artist, his technique was very good, and dodged the purple electricity.
But Huang Ling took this opportunity, applied a light body technique onto herself, and started running. Like an agile little beast, she vanished into the dark forest.
They were now in the depths of the Yue Wu Mountains, the terrain was undulating, and the roots of the ancient trees were covered with branches and leaves, it was easy to get caught in them.
This topography happened to be a good place for fleeing.
Huang Ling supported her speed and agility with her wind magic. For a moment, the mercenaries were unable to catch up with her.
"Dead girl, looking for death," the female warrior grumbled. She took off her long bow, her eyes full of anger, the bow string stretched to the limit and was let go, and the feathered arrow flew through the forest.
Huang Ling could only hear the sound of an arrow being fired. In panic she used her wind magic to defend against it. How could she not know, after using her magic repeatedly, she was gradually weakening, but she still pushed the arrow a few inches off its trajectory.
The sharp arrow burrowed into her should. She screamed, and fell to the ground. The magic scepter rolled out of her hand.
Several warriors slowly walked over and stood before her.
Huang Ling struggled to grasp the magic scepter with her hands.
The bald warrior stepped on her wrist and spit on her body: " You won't be able to run, brat, don't even think about it. Now, which family are you from?"
The bald weighed no less than 200 pounds, after he stepped on Huang Ling's wrist, she just felt like her wrists would be broken any second.
Huang Ling whimpered, bit her teeth together and refused to answer.
"She still won't yield, cut off her hand first, and then send it back with the letter. Hope your family will send the money over," several mercenaries said with a grin on their face.
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In the bushes not far away, Yun Sheng and Xiao Hei were hiding.
Seeing that Huang Ling wouldn't open her mouth for the death of her, Yun Sheng felt a complex emotion.
There was a total of five opponents, the woman in the back was the weakest, the bald warrior was the strongest, and should have the strength of the top military commander.
Yun Sheng estimated that there was a slim chance of saving Huang Ling.
At this moment, Xiao Hei in Yun Sheng's arms moved, its black fur was standing up, his back arched, and growled into the distance.
"Boss, did you hear something?" Several mercenaries were just about to cut of Huang Ling's hand, but then, heard a sudden sound behind them.
The five of them looked back.
Hundreds of meters away from the group, stood a large bull-shaped beast with electricity flickering around its head.
It was twice the size of the golden rhino pigs that Yun Sheng had seen, and gave the impression of a small moving fortress.
It had a bull head, but a strong lion-like body. There was a poison injury on its belly. The spot emitted a bad smell, and the injury was still spreading.
"It's the Wanted Demon Beast!"
It turned out that the mercenaries had unknowingly entered the range of activities of the Wanted Demon Beast.
A few days ago, it had been injured by the poison of "Scorpion Tail", and this demon beast called Fire Lion Bull had since been hiding deep in the mountains.
The smell of Huang Ling's bloody arrow wound had attracted it.
"Don't panic, it was seriously injured, Old Wu, you stay and watch over the little girl, Er, San, and Si, we will go together." The bald mercenary immediately made the choice to kill the Wanted Demon Beast.
This was a rare opportunity. If they were lucky, their "Blue Wolf" team could become a famous mercenary squad through this battle.
Several martial artists released their douqi.
The bald mercenary took the lead, he jumped high into the air, with a dagger in his hand.
The other three also took out their weapons, the four people surrounded the injured demon beast.
The Fire Lion Bull roared, and a blaze erupted from its mouth.
A fifth-rank demon beast's combat effectiveness was not small, even if it was seriously injured.
Huang Ling was injured, and there was blood pouring out of her wound. With the passage of time, she gradually felt cold all over her body.
Suddenly, the female hunter guarding her made a short cry, and fell straight to the ground.
Immediately, Huang Ling felt something cold on her back. Someone had poured a hemostatic agent on her body. The hemostatic agent had an amazing effect. After the medicine was applied, the bleeding stopped.
"Fortunately, your heart wasn't hit, you were very lucky," she could hear Yun Sheng's voice behind her.
"It's you! I don't want you to save me!" Huang Ling never expected Yun Sheng to actually save her!
"Help..., Boss, help me!" The cry for help made the two of them look ahead.
In front was a lot of red.
Yun Sheng and Huang Ling witnessed a hunter being torn in half by the Fire Lion Bull.
After the remaining three mercenaries saw this. They didn't expect the fire lion bull to still be so strong after being so severely injured, no, it seemed to be even fiercer than usual!
"Run, run quickly," Yun Sheng dared not look back again, and raised up the stupefied and injured Huang Ling, planning to escape.
Behind them were two more screams. Needless to say, two more hunters had died.
C-Class Wanted Demon Beast, it was really deserving of this name.
"You two! Don't even try to escape!" The only to be still alive was the bald mercenary, having seen the fierceness of the bull, he knew he wasn't its opponent, after looking around he had found Yun Sheng and Huang Ling who were about to escape.
Let's use these two girls as decoys!
The bald mercenary immediately bolted towards them, picked Yun Sheng up with one hand and Huang Ling with the other.
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