The Death List Novel - Chapter 192

Chapter 192 The Villa Is Really Fierce
“Sass, we’re fine. We’re in the wooden house now!” Cora’s voice quickly came from the guild channel.

The three of them felt relieved. This place was too strange. Even Qin Lun and Hansen felt tremendous pressure.

“When did you go back? Why didn’t you tell us!” Sass looked awkwardly at Hansen and Qin Lun and complained softly to his wife.

“I don’t know. We were always following behind you. You disappeared while we were walking, but we saw the wooden house again!” Cora said in surprise.

“Could it be that this place is a lost array?” Sass widened his eyes in shock.

“Try it and you’ll know!” Qin Lun and Hansen exchanged a glance and said in a deep voice, “We ran for more than ten minutes just now, but we won’t go back now. Let’s continue walking for another ten minutes. If we still go around the wooden house, we can confirm it!”

“But … Cora and Michelle are still in the wooden house!” Sass hesitated.

“Sass, do as Qin Lun says!” Cora said calmly, “We will be fine. We will temporarily seal the doors and windows of the wooden house. Even if we are attacked, we will still be able to last for some time!”

“Alright then, be careful. We’ll be back soon!” Sassler gritted his teeth and agreed. He had at least experienced five mission worlds and knew that sometimes he needed to fight to find a way out. He had no choice but to temporarily give up the idea of returning.

The three of them moved forward in the forest for a period of time. As time passed, the fog became thicker and thicker. The surrounding trees seemed to be identical under the fog, completely losing their reference.

“Guys, we’ve already walked for more than ten minutes. Shouldn’t we go back? If we continue walking like this, we won’t be able to find our way back in a while!” Sass murmured. Although he and Cora had been in contact on the guild channel, the worries in his heart did not lessen at all.

“No need!” Qin Lun, who had the best eyesight among the three of them, suddenly trembled. He smiled bitterly and pointed in front of him, “We’ve already returned. If we walk another hundred meters, you should be able to see the wooden house!”

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“So this place is a maze?” Michelle blinked her big eyes. Compared to the other apostles, the centaur girl let go without worrying about her own safety.

“En, from the looks of it, it is indeed a maze formation.” Qin Lun nodded calmly. They had just returned to the wooden house a few minutes ago.

“But why haven’t I encountered such a strange phenomenon when we went out of this woodland before?” Michelle asked relentlessly.

“Sheriff Malloff should know the truth about this place. When he brought you into this forest, he probably chose the right time every time, avoiding the night and fog!” Qin Lun muttered.

“That’s true. When Chief Marloff brought us into the forest, it was never night, nor did he encounter any fog!” Michelle tilted her head and thought for a moment before nodding in agreement.

“Qin Lun, do you think this place is what we guessed before?” Hansen looked at the others and secretly asked on the guild channel.

‘”No, it’s not like that. If it was the matter we were discussing earlier, then there should be a hint from the Broken Star System right now. Besides, we don’t know why Hill disappeared yet. We haven’t solved the mystery of the Crystal Lake yet.” Qin Lun shook his head and gave Hansen a look.

“Qin Lun, what should we do now?” Cora hesitated for a moment and asked on the guild channel.

“Don’t do anything!” Qin Lun sighed. “We’ve done so much before, and it has already proved to be useless. It won’t work if we continue. If there are other dangers in this place, then it will naturally show up slowly. We just need to gather together and wait. This way, the survival rate will be the highest!”

As the night grew darker, the people in the wooden house gradually lost their enthusiasm for discussion. The wooden house was completely silent, and even the sound of insects in the forest seemed to have disappeared.

The fog that enveloped the crystal lake and the nearby forest slowly seeped into the wooden house. The room was filled with cold moisture. Everyone knew that they were in great danger, but they still couldn’t help but doze off.

Even Qin Lun felt his eyelids heavy as he slowly closed his eyes. The night breeze outside the room was like sobbing, like the singing of a sea demon, and like a lullaby from heaven, luring everyone into their deepest slumber.

“Ao!” Just as everyone was about to sink, a miserable scream came from afar from the wooden house.

Qin Lun was shocked and opened his heavy eyelids again. A scarlet flash suddenly flashed in his eyes as he struggled out of his slumber.

“I can’t sleep, I can’t sleep!” Hansen struggled to his feet, pulled out a dagger from his leather boots with one hand and stabbed it into his thigh. Blood gushed out from his thigh, causing the disciples to wake up completely.

Other than the two great murderers, the willpower of the others wasn’t that strong. Sass only raised his eyelids and lowered his head again. As for Cora and Michelle, they didn’t even move. They turned a deaf ear to the screams coming from outside the room and slept like dead pigs.

Hansen swiftly took out a box of ointment from the guild warehouse and applied it to his thigh wound. He took out an asthma device and placed it under his nostrils. He took a deep breath and threw it at Qin Lun.

Qin Lun took a deep breath and felt an extremely pungent smell rush into his mind. He couldn’t help but sneeze a few times, but his spirits were refreshed and he didn’t feel sleepy at all.

“What is this?”

“A refreshing powder I bought from a mercenary. A little trick used by mercenaries.” Hansen grinned and said nonchalantly, “Wake them up!”

Qin Lun raised his eyebrows with the asthma device, somewhat shocked by the disciple’s strong will. He wore the Iron Cross Medal, possessed an iron will, and had borrowed Joey’s power just now to get rid of the mysterious power in the fog. Hansen, on the other hand, had completely escaped his slumber by relying solely on his own will. Clearly, his disciples’ willpower, tempered from the war, was incomparably firm and not weaker than his.

With the help of the refreshing agent, everyone quickly woke up. Only Michelle was still a little dizzy and could not stand firmly.

“Looks like the change we’re waiting for has already occurred!” Qin Lun stood up and pushed open the wooden door. “Let’s go and take a look in the forest. That miserable scream just now seems to be very close to us!”

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“What is this?” Cora wiped her hazy eyes and looked at a corpse lying in the bushes.

The corpse died miserably. It was sliced in half from its waist and its stomach was dragged to the ground. However, its wounds weren’t the only ones. Its limbs, chest, and abdomen were bloody, and many parts were chopped into minced meat. Only its face was still clear.

“Oh, I know it!” Michelle leaned on the tree trunk with a pale face and vomited loudly. She pointed at the corpse without turning her head. “I saw a picture of it in the files of the tragedies twenty years ago. It was one of the two rangers who used to run the campsite, Giant Demon Fink.”

“This is a troll?” Sass drew the length of the two corpses.

According to the information available in the Nars World, the troll was a large creature that was 2.56 meters tall. However, even if the two corpses in front of him were pieced together, they would only be 1.8 meters long at most. Moreover, their bones were slender, and they looked more like a human.

“Dang dang!” Qin Lun’s eyes lit up as he crouched down and knocked on the Giant Demon’s ribs with the Evil Dagger. The sound of metal striking could be heard in everyone’s ears.

“It looks like a troll, but its body seems to have been condensed. Its bones and muscles are as dense as steel!” Qin Lun looked at the corpse with an indifferent expression. He used a dagger to cut open a portion of his intestines. After examining it carefully, he smiled and said, “We seem to have found the culprit of the villa tragedy. There are still some human organs in its stomach that have not been digested!”

“Vomit!” Hearing Qin Lun’s words, Michelle’s face turned pale as she spat out again.

“If it really is one of the two troll rangers and can even run to the edge of the campsite to commit a crime, why is it still lingering in this campsite for so many years?” Cora asked confusedly, “Have you lost your mind?”

“Judging from the tragedy at the villa, it should not have lost its mind. Otherwise, it would not have put the skull coins into the victim’s mouth!” Qin Lun muttered, “It hasn’t returned to the outside world. It may have something to do with its abnormal body!”

“Whether it’s the murderer or not, it’s already dead. Perhaps we should be more worried about what killed it!” Hansen said expressionlessly, “Troll Fink, who can break muscles and bones as hard as steel, is clearly not an enemy we can deal with alone!”

“Troll Fink should have been living in the dark cave of the wooden house all this time, hunting animals in the forest for a living.” Qin Lun said thoughtfully, “I’ve been hiding for twenty years, but I still haven’t escaped a single knife today. We killed it. If we hadn’t spent the night in the wooden house, it would have dodged the thing that killed it in the dark cave!”

“Sir Castro, do you think another ranger killed him?” Michelle finally finished vomiting and asked weakly.

“It’s not like that. If it was just an internal conflict between the two forest rangers, Fink wouldn’t have left this place even if he hadn’t been entangled for twenty years!” Qin Lun shook his head. “Most importantly, I seem to have seen another troll’s thigh bone in the dark hole under the wooden house!”

“Qin Lun!” A trace of surprise flashed across Hansen’s face and he secretly gave Qin Lun a glance. “Hill contacted me!”

“Oh?” Qin Lun’s pupils narrowed slightly. “If this old fox is still alive, then it means that he was not kidnapped by the troll Fink … but he hid himself and has been avoiding us!”

“Yes, he explained it to me. Tell him yourself!” Hansen nodded calmly.

“Qin Lun? I’m Hill. I’ve solved the mystery of the Crystal Lake!” The Shepherd’s whisper came from Qin Lun’s guild channel, “Listen …”