Chapter 94 Fraud (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
Lumian dances to attract strange creatures, with the purpose of diving closer to a nearby place through "stealth", observing the activity patterns and daily behavior of flame monsters, and gathering enough information for future hunts.
That is, in thirty or forty seconds, he used the ancient Hermes language to make the mouthparts monster attach to him again.
The strong feeling of hunger swept over, and Lumian opened his mouth uncontrollably, as if he had also grown a mouthpart with teeth distributed in a swirl shape.
He hurriedly suppressed the bloodthirsty and crazy thoughts that filled his body, took out a small biscuit and cut square cheese, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed and swallowed.
At the same time, he amplified the instinct of the mouthparts monster to become invisible and disappeared into place.
After suppressing the hunger slightly, Lumian tried to close his mouth to prevent the smell of cookies and cheese from escaping.
Immediately afterwards, he directly followed the traces of the flame monster along the edge of the road.
Soon, Lumian saw the monster burning everywhere with its scorched body.
It is setting new traps in the vacant lot last time.
Have become monsters and are still so dedicated? Lumian mocked silently.
Of course, he knew very well that this was actually a manifestation of the monster acting according to instincts.
Lumian didn't dare to get too close, and stayed next to a broken wall on the edge of the clearing.
He looked at the flame monster for a few seconds, then looked back at the road he had come, and found that although his footprints were very shallow and inconspicuous, and they were all hidden in places that were not easy to find, they still really existed.
Looking down at his current position, Lumian had some ideas.
He paid close attention to the monster's actions, and when he picked up a larger stone and threw it aside, he immediately pressed the broken wall with his right hand, jumped up, and landed steadily on the wall.
Bang! The movement of Lumian was perfectly masked by the sound of the stone hitting the ground.
After changing the observation location, Lumian was relieved a lot, paying attention to the consumption of his own spirit, while looking at the flame monster seriously.
He found that the traps set by the flame monster this time were not of a very hidden and difficult type to discover, and there were no loopholes in their thinking and inertia in their behavior, they were simple and did not hide themselves.
A simplest example: the flame monster pulls a rope on the other side of the clearing, between two collapsed buildings, a little above the ankle.
As long as humans or monsters with normal vision can find this trap.
Lumian didn't understand what this was doing at first, but after bringing himself in, he gradually discovered the possible meaning:
The purpose of these traps is not to directly injure or trap enemies, but to create a more suitable environment for hunters to play.
In the heat of battle, if you are not good at observing the environment and paying attention to the surrounding targets, you need to be constantly distracted to avoid the various restrictions here, and sometimes you have to slow down or change your posture to jump over traps.
In this way, the strength of both sides has diminished.
In Auror's words, Yang Mou...... Lumian nodded with understanding.
At this moment, he felt that the flame monster was like a stern teacher, imparting certain experiences about "hunters" to himself in this way.
Almost at the same time, he remembered the content of one of Aurore's novels:
Stealing teachers will be killed!
After a while, the flame monster stopped moving, and its charred face instinctively looked around.
Then, against the flames coming from inside its body, it walked towards the edge of the clearing near Lumian's side.
"Follow a fixed route to the next place?" Lumian thought and excitedly muttered to himself in his heart.
It is very valuable for hunters to know the route of action of their prey.
Most of the traps are buried on such routes!
The flame monster kept looking around and checking the ground as it walked, acting very vigilant.
This made Lumian frown, feeling that high-sequence "hunters" were really difficult to deal with.
The most restrained extraordinary people are often people or things with a higher sequence of the same path, even if they are only one or two sequences higher.
I am better at what you are good at than you, and you may not have what I have!
If it weren't for the "Dancer" related ability and the "Fallen Mercury" dagger, Lumian wouldn't have dared to hit this flame monster at all.
Seven or eight seconds later, the flame monster came to the edge of the clearing, about five or six meters away from the broken wall in a straight line.
Just like just now, the flame monster's gaze instinctively turned to this side.
Its gaze then paused, as if looking at the footprints suspected of someone standing on the edge of the broken wall.
Plop, plop, Lumian's heartbeat involuntarily quickened a little.
He was not ready to hunt the flame monster now.
Not to mention that the two sides are five or six meters apart, just that the "Fallen Mercury" has not yet stored the fate that can be exchanged, so Lumian has no certainty of killing the other party.
Now that the battle was really about to break out, he was the one who was hunted before he had time to half-activate the black thorn symbol!
Trying to control his heartbeat and breathing, Lumian placed his right hand on the black strip of cloth wrapped around the surface of the Fallen Mercury blade, ready to tear them off at any moment.
Within the current distance, he jumped hard, giving him a chance to bully the flame monster and avoid the long-range battle with the largest gap between the two sides.
Two or three seconds were about to pass as time froze, and the flame monster retracted its gaze and continued to move forward.
It didn't look like it found Lumian's footprints.
After walking out more than ten meters, the flame monster suddenly turned around.
The clusters of flames that emerged from its body instantly condensed and turned into a huge, blazing white fireball.
The fireball was like a cannonball, blasting towards the edge of the broken wall where Lumian was standing.
Lumian, who was squatting on the wall, didn't think about it, and followed his instincts and jumped directly to the other side of the broken wall, that is, the open space where the flame monster had just set the trap.
Boom!
The fire wave exploded, and the already crumbling broken wall collapsed on the spot.
After Lumian landed, he rolled two times in a row, avoiding the smashed stone bricks and the shock wave mixed with fire.
Immediately afterwards, he jumped up, remained invisible, passed through the various traps left by the flame monster, and ran towards another exit in the clearing.
The flame monster failed to spot the enemy immediately, so he had to focus on finding traces.
Finally, it saw a series of tiny footprints.
At this time, Lumian had already come to the rope between the two collapsed buildings, jumped over easily, and escaped from the clearing.
Running all the way back to a natural trap, he completely got rid of the flame monster.
After reviewing what happened just now, Lumian, who had already been released from the "invisibility" state, scolded bitterly:
"It's too treacherous, it's too treacherous!
"The heads of these monsters are better than Pons's, and after discovering my footprints, considering that the two sides are too close, they are likely to be counterattacked, so they pretended not to see anything, and naturally opened the distance!"
Lumian scolded angrily, but felt that he had learned a little more.
Of course, this approach also has obvious disadvantages:
The distance was widened, giving Lumian room to escape.
In addition, he was still invisible, so that the flame monster could not lock his traces immediately, and it became a high probability that he would escape from that area smoothly.
After gasping for a moment and regaining some spirituality, Lumian muttered while eating cookies and cheese:
"According to the situation just now, as long as the arrangement is done properly and after stabbing that guy, it is entirely possible that I will have the opportunity to rely on 'invisibility' to distance myself, escape to a farther place, and wait for the exchange of fate to be completed."
- When attacking, the "Invisibility" status is removed, but Lumian can be used again as long as it is disengaged.
This was his biggest gain from this reconnaissance.
At the same time, he also discovered a problem:
"As a hunter, 'going up the mountain to hunt' didn't even bring water!
"I'm dying of thirst!"
Whether it's cheese or biscuits, you need to drink water to temper it.
The jerky that Lumian wanted to make later also fell into this category.
After resting for a while, he decided to hunt the "Noodle Man", strip it of its bad fate, and store it in the "Fallen Mercury", so that he could not fight back in case of emergencies like just now.
- The fate of the puppet also belongs to "Fallen Mercury" and can be exchanged, but Lumian is not a "knife bearer" and cannot exchange his own fate for the fate of others, otherwise, he will gladly send the bomb on his body.
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About half an hour later, Lumian found the "Noodle Man" with his limbs and facial features pieced together in a mess.
After dancing the ritual dance in advance, he walked over openly and saw the "noodle man" crawling down unexpectedly and lying on the ground.
"Very well-behaved......" Lumian praised.
He was holding the iron-black axe in his right hand, and his left palm was holding the "Fallen Mercury" that had exposed its silver-black blade.
Holding this evil dagger for a long time, Lumian found that even if there was no direct flesh and blood contact, it would gradually bear the little pollution it escaped, which for most extraordinary people, this might slowly induce signs of loss of control, but Lumian had long been accustomed to it and had a certain resistance.
After looking at the trembling "Noodle Man" for a few seconds, Lumian withdrew his gaze from its mouth at the position of its forehead, and sighed:
"According to Auror, in your state, death is equivalent to liberation, die early and be happy early."
As he spoke, he squatted down on one knee and stabbed the silver-black short knife into the back of the "noodle man" neck, disappearing deeply.
The "noodle man" trembled even more, but did not resist or struggle.
Lumian immediately withdrew his left hand, held the handle of the iron-black axe with his right palm, and swung it down vigorously.
In the dull sound of knives and axes entering the flesh, the head of the "noodle man" broke away from his body with "fallen mercury" and rolled to the side.
A large amount of blood gushed out and spilled all over the ground.
After the "noodle man" convulsed a few times, it completely returned to silence.
Lumian took a big stride and came to the head of the "Noodle Man", stretched out his left hand, and held the "Fallen Mercury".
In the next second, he saw an illusory river glowing with a little bit of light.
The river seems to be spelled out of one intricate mercury symbol after another, and each symbol is like a river entangled with itself.
At this time, at the end of the illusory long river, all the tributaries had disappeared, leaving only the most important one, which broke off from it, bending as if it wanted to return to the original point but could not succeed for the time being.
ps: Ask for a monthly pass~
(End of this chapter)