The Death List Novel - Chapter 212

Chapter 212 Hill Cave

Qin Lun stood still and looked in the direction where the Arrow Beast and Cassie had disappeared. His gaze flickered slightly and he didn’t know what he was thinking. It wasn’t until Cassie’s cry for help faded away that he turned around and ran back to the hill giant’s nest without hesitation.

“Hill, how are things on your side?” Qin Lun asked on the guild channel as he flew.

‘”Hansen is leading the big fellow towards the ambush circle. The young giant really couldn’t catch up. However, you must be careful. There was a slight deviation in the original plan. When we arrived at the nest, the big fellow seemed to have been alerted earlier!” Hill said calmly.

“Yes, I know!” Qin Lun estimated the time and quickened his pace.

The hill giant’s hillside nest quickly returned to view. Qin Lun carefully borrowed the cover of the trees and approached the empty space in front of the cave. At this moment, there was a fat little giant sitting cross-legged on the ground in the open space of the cave, his head lowered in frustration.

There was a bloody swelling on the young hill giant’s forehead. It looked like it had just received a blow. Perhaps it was because his child had been hurt that the adult hill giant would go berserk and chase after Hansen and the others. As for the young hill giant, his feet weren’t good enough. After chasing him for a while, he was probably pulled behind him and had to return to his nest.

There was a thick animal thigh bone next to the little giant’s feet. The end of the bone was wrapped in soft fur, and the front was tied with a sharp stone by a tree vine. It was made into a simple stone axe. The little giant didn’t seem to be in a high mood and was fiercely gnawing on a ball of bacon wrapped in fresh leaves.

“Haha, you actually know how to match vegetables. This is considered a hamburger, or a sandwich!” Qin Lun smiled gently. It seemed that the intelligence of the hill giant was indeed as high as the intelligence reports said.

The hill giant looked very ugly. Its arms were over its knees and its spine was raised high. It was born with a hunchback. Their foreheads protruded high, their skulls pointed out, their eyes sunken, their brains disproportionate to their bodies, and their appearances were somewhat similar to those of horse monkeys.

Hill giants living in the jungle have grayish-brown skin and sparse hair, mostly brown or black. Forest-dwelling hill giants are smaller among giants. Adult giants range in size from 14 to 16 feet and weigh between 4,500 and 5,500 pounds. In other words, it was five meters tall and weighed two tons.

The little giant in front of Qin Lun was not even ten years old, and his intelligence was about the same as that of a two-or three-year-old child. It stood about 2.56 meters tall. However, under the careful care of its mother, the little giant was well nourished. It had a tiger head and a tiger brain. Its body was fat and its belly was bulging like a ball.

The hill giant’s hillside cave was about ten kilometers away from the camp. It could be considered a relatively close nest for high-grade creatures. Most of the reason why the hill giants hadn’t been hunted down by the camp members was because they weren’t willing to make a move.

The reason why the high-ranking experts in the camp were unwilling to make a move was because the gains were not worth the losses. The hill giant had no magic power, so there was no magic core condensed from magic elements in his body. Bones and skin were used to make equipment, not as good as a Tier 5 Wind Wolf or a Tier 4 Hairy Bear.

Moreover, the hill giants possessed quite a bit of intelligence, and they never harassed the shelter camps. Some high-level experts would sometimes hire them to do some strenuous work, so they didn’t have to kill them.

Most importantly, the hill giant believed in all the gods of the forest and the earth, and the silent Anna Aldemis was one of them.

Although Anna Aldemis would not interfere in the hunt of the hill giant, she had granted the hill giant a powerful magical immunity. As long as they were in the silent forest region, apart from the forbidden spells, even level 12 magic would only tickle the hill giant.

He couldn’t use magic. Killing the giant in sweat wouldn’t do him any good. He would also risk offending the forest goddess. In this way, which high-level expert in the camp would have enough to eat and have nothing to do to find trouble with the hill giant.

As for the apostle team, there were quite a few people in the camp who wanted to try and kill the giant mother and son. Even if Qin Lun was a weak guild, as long as he led the giant into a trap and coordinated with the local people, there was still a certain chance that he could grind the hill giant to death.

The reality, however, is that no team or individual has really succeeded so far.

Adult hill giants were quite intelligent, at least thirteen or fourteen years old, and they were very familiar with the terrain. If it weren’t for the elaborate set of traps, the hill giant wouldn’t have been fooled at all, and it might have even dug itself in.

Another problem was that the hill giant was still a Tier 8 creature no matter what. Although he did not possess any magical abilities, his strength was boundless, his skin thick and his flesh thick, and he possessed an incredibly tough vitality.

It would take a long time to kill it. One had to know that its magical immunity was not only aimed at high-level experts of the inner world, but also the magical skills that the apostles could use in the inner world.

With such a long period of consumption, there would be many problems if he wanted to hunt down the hill giants. For example, other groups of apostles, other high-level predators in the jungle …

Therefore, planning to kill the Hill Giant was not enough for just one Black Iron Team. At least two teams would be needed to work closely together. One team was in charge of hunting missions, while the other team was in charge of blocking those malicious spies who heard the news.

It was precisely because of this that Cora subconsciously noticed that something was wrong with the team’s plan and became suspicious of the three murderers’ plans.

Unfortunately, the three murderers had demonstrated a good team spirit and fair distribution of benefits in the previous mission to the Crystal Lake. It made her hesitate in contradictions and lost her last chance to choose.

In fact, in the plan of the three murderers, hunting down the adult hill giant was only a prerequisite. Only when other variables appeared in this step would the real plan begin. Of course, apart from creating variables, there was also a small real goal, which was to create an opportunity for Qin Lun to hunt down the small hill.

Only Qin Lun could not fail in this prerequisite step. On the other side, apart from the Suss and Frank, who had already completed the trial mission, Hill and Hansen were already mentally prepared for the failure of the main mission.

After going through the whole plan in his mind again, Qin Lun put away his disguise and slowly revealed an indifferent expression. He bent down and rushed out of his hiding place, rushing towards the young hill giant sitting cross-legged on the open space.

“Oh ~ ~ ~” Seeing a creature charging towards him from the forest, the young hill was slightly stunned and immediately made a natural response from the jungle creature.

It used both hands and feet. Its fat body crawled up, grabbed the stone axe beside its feet with one hand, squatted and jumped, and its huge body jumped into the air. This jump of the young hill easily exceeded five meters in height. The landing was a loud bang, causing the entire open ground to tremble.

This was the main reason why the hill giant had reached rank eight. Its powerful legs gave it extraordinary leaping power. Adult hill giants could even surpass a height of twenty meters.

Just imagine how big a trap a hill giant that was five meters tall, three meters long, and had a jumping ability of more than twenty meters would need to dig. It could be said that apart from using a series of mechanisms, there was practically no way to trap an adult hill giant with heavy injuries to its legs.

As for using long-range physical attacks such as arrows and kites to drop adult hill giants, that was even more of a joke.

There were trees everywhere in the forest. The hill giant was so powerful that it could easily pull up a tree the thickness of an adult thigh. You use the bow and arrow, it uses the big tree. An arrow in it is like being bitten by a mosquito. You are smashed by a big tree and directly turned into a meat pie. How can you play with this?

Feeling the tremor beneath his feet, Qin Lun didn’t even look at the young giant who had jumped to the side. He rushed straight in front of it and flew towards the cave at the end of the clearing.

Since Qin Lun dared to kill the young giant alone, he had already done his homework.

According to Hill and Qin Lun’s analysis, although the young hill was only rank six, and its intelligence and jumping ability were far inferior to the adult hill, it was almost impossible to kill the young hill alone in the open. Moreover, they had to consider the possibility that the adult hill giant would abandon Hill and the others and return to its nest if time dragged on.

Therefore, Qin Lun set up the battlefield in the hill giant’s lair, inside the cave on the hillside.

The interior space of the cave was limited, basically limiting the jumping force of the small hill. Moreover, there was an additional benefit to doing so. The enraged young hill would not easily escape. It was bound to fight Qin Lun to the death to protect the nest.

Of course, the small cave also limited Qin Lun’s space to dodge. However, he had a Hellfire Devilhound with the same rough skin and thick flesh as his meat shield, so he wasn’t afraid of coming into close contact with the young hill.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa!” When the young hill saw Qin Lun rushing towards the nest, it was really furious. It twisted its fleshy butt and chased after him.

Qin Lun’s indifferent face was calm. The moment he rushed into the entrance of the cave, he flicked his finger and a few small beans scattered in front of him. Then, they were trampled into the dark brown mud by the cowhide boots.

The caves where the hill giants lived were a bit too spacious for humans. The cave was about six meters high, seven meters wide, and more than ten meters deep. There was a thick layer of hay and withered leaves on the innermost part of the cave.

The giant cave stinks even more than the open space outside. Not only does it smell of rotting meat, it also stinks of disgusting feces. There were several relatively intact remains in the surrounding corners of the cave. From the looks of it, it was actually a human-shaped skeleton.

Probably some of the newbies from the camp who had caused trouble for the hill giants in the past. Perhaps they were the last batch of apostles who had entered the Narsley world.