The Death List Novel - Chapter 268

Chapter 268 Tracking

An hour later, Qin Lun returned to the ruined building where he had rested last night and scratched the broken wall to look outside. This ruined building had twelve to three floors, three to four hundred meters in front of it was the branch fortress of the Wheel of Heaven.

Qin Lun had already escaped from the military fortress for more than ten minutes. He had originally thought that he would need to use the Tier 7 “Shadow Cloak” scroll, but he didn’t expect that when he sneaked back to the fortress in less than half an hour, the entire situation would undergo an earth-shaking change.

Unlike Qin Lun’s sneak into the military fortress last night, the warehouse where a fire broke out gave directions to the thirty or so apostles who entered the fortress this morning. They soon saw the roughly complete apostle mecha. Of course, they also saw the remains of more than a hundred Atlanteans who had turned into charcoal in the sea of fire.

Seeing this apostle mecha worth a million broken crystals, how could these apostles not understand what the blueprint fragments in their hands were? With the apostle mecha, the scene of the massacre, and the side evidence of the black mouse and silver sail, these apostles were almost completely convinced of the authenticity of the treasure map.

If they hadn’t noticed the strangeness of the blueprint fragment before, then now that everyone had used all sorts of identification methods to examine the blueprint fragment, they had naturally discovered the threads as thin as brocade inside the blueprint.

However, the only thing Qin Lun couldn’t accurately predict was that after these apostles discovered the “secret” of the treasure map, their originally seemingly distracted attacking posture immediately turned invisible. They didn’t break through Qin Lun’s siege, instead, they were afraid of being besieged by others because of the blueprint fragments in their hands.

Including the swordsman and sniper, the apostles all left the fortress as quickly as possible. In this situation, no one was willing to start a chaotic battle. They would rather launch a sneak attack and challenge the other fragment owners in the next two weeks.

Although it was unknown whether the apostles would immediately embellish themselves with others when they left, at this moment, all the apostles present understood that their original plan of suppressing them first and then raising them up had been in vain.

Everyone knew that this treasure map could not be restored to its original state, but the more fragments one obtained, the closer they got to the treasure location. Once the treasure was opened by an apostle, it was unlikely that it would appear during the entire battle.

Therefore, the apostles who were interested in obtaining this half-plane or treasure of the Wheel of Heaven were naturally unable to endure any longer. Only those who had killed more people in the earlier period would be able to obtain more fragments.

In one way or another, this was also a fair thing to do. Most importantly, not only would these apostles not keep the news confidential when they left, they would also deliberately spread it among everyone.

They could not remember all the thirty or so apostles present, nor could they casually slaughter among the two hundred or so apostles. Everyone knew that the fewer people left, the more the blueprints would be concentrated if the two hundred or so apostles were involved in the storm.

The next thing the thirty plus apostles were going to do was to exaggerate the value of the treasure even more. Turn this area into an apostle meat grinder, forcing everyone to participate in the slaughter. In the end, the blueprint fragments slowly gathered in the hands of a small number of people.

Qin Lun sighed and counted his reserves. Before he could see the end of this plan, the scroll reserves on his body had almost been emptied, and even the flesh and blood puppets had been consumed.

Compared to when they first entered the battlefield, they only had one-third of their reserves left. The ‘Sacrifice’ gloves reloaded the last Light Body Technique and another Tier 6 Earth Wall, leaving behind a Tier 7 ‘Wooden Cage Totem’ and ‘Shadow Cloak’, three ounces of Elven Ancient Tree Essence, and a small half pot of walnut wine.

He touched the wound on his shoulder. The essence of the Ancient Fairy Tree was indeed very powerful. He only drank an ounce or so and the bloody hole on his shoulder healed at a speed comparable to a surgical suture.

“He still hasn’t stayed!” Qin Lun turned his head to look at the extinguished campfire. A strange expression flashed in his eyes.

The orphan he brought back left without waiting for him to come back. However, the remaining rabbit meat on the grill was completely cleaned out, not even leaving a single bit of minced meat.

“Don’t die!” Qin Lun expressionlessly looked into the distance through the hole in the ruins.

After a while, Qin Lun hesitated and reached into his arms. He took out the ragged doll he had picked up yesterday, patted the dust, and placed it in the corner of the ruins.

“Don’t you want it?”

“It doesn’t belong to me!”

The expression on Qin Lun’s face twisted slightly as he strode towards the opening in the ruins. He jumped down from the broken wall and gradually disappeared into the ruins.

After he disappeared for more than an hour, a small squirrel with a fluffy tail popped out of a hole in the corner of the ruined room. Squirrel nimbly circled the room, straightened his body, and sniffed humanely, as if judging whether Qin Lun had really left.

Squirrel quickly confirmed that there was no one in the room and immediately ran back to the small hole. A moment later, the small orphan’s big head quietly popped out of the ruins. The little fellow rolled his big black and white eyes and immediately noticed the ragged doll.

He silently walked in and picked up the ragged doll from the corner of the wall. His eyes were constantly flickering, revealing a trace of confusion and hesitation. Unknowingly, bean-sized tears rolled down from his eyes, leaving two white marks on his black face.

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Three days passed in a hurry, and the area where Qin Lun was fighting became more and more popular. Traces of battle could be seen everywhere. After three days of deliberation, the 200-odd apostles in this region had more or less learned about the appearance of the half-plane of the Wheel of Heaven branch.

Of course, no one believed this news at the beginning. However, the increasing number of battles that followed, as well as the fragments of blueprints and parts of the apostle mecha, slowly pushed the news to its peak.

The first climax of the chaotic battle occurred yesterday afternoon, starting with the five Treasure Map witnesses, and then involving the remaining apostles who happened to be in the ruins.

By the time the chaotic battle ended, more than sixty apostles had joined the battle and watched from the sidelines, nearly one-third of the total. Sixteen apostles died in battle, and three of them were witnesses to the Treasure Map incident.

After this battle, the area of the battle for supremacy had finally sunk into a white heat. At this time, regardless of whether the remaining apostles believed the news or not, as long as they entered the line of sight of the other apostles, they had no choice but to accept a battle that could occur at any time.

Even the apostles who had initially made up their minds to hide were ambushed and ambushed while searching for food and water. In comparison, because they weren’t mentally prepared for the battle, they were more likely to be eliminated if they were caught off guard.

During these three days, Qin Lun had a very comfortable life. The detection halo combined with the Heavenly Spirit Eye allowed him to avoid all traps and ambushes and detect the approaching apostles in advance. Moreover, a few packets of dry military rations and drinking water that he had taken out of the large canvas bags in advance were sufficient for him to survive the first week on the basis of only guaranteeing the minimum requirements.

Of course, Qin Lun also had his own troubles. For example, the two people that the detection halo had detected.

“This is already the third time. It seems that we can exclude accidental factors. These two people actually have their eyes on me!” In Qin Lun’s clockwork pupils, three hands were slowly beating, “How did they do it!”

Not far in front of the ruined building where Qin Lun was hiding, the swordsman named Long Feng was looking around and carefully searching the ruins. The other person beside him was the one-eyed sniper with the huge sniper rifle on his back.

At this moment, the sniper’s one-eyed eyes flickered with a rainbow glow, illuminating every corner of the ruins like neon lights.

In the past three days, Qin Lun’s hiding place had already been changed twice, but the two of them were still like maggots of tarsus, following him. They were actually unable to open up any distance at all.

‘”Aura? No, no, the ruins are filled with wild animal feces. I’m eating dry military food and clean water. I’m afraid even the best wolf dogs won’t be able to find me.” Qin Lun’s heart suddenly moved and his right hand pressed down on his painful left shoulder. “Could it be the aftereffects of that shot?”

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“Qin Ba, are you sure he’s in this area?” Long Feng wore an ancient Chinese robe, and his front was tied to his belt. He held his Moon Song Sword in his right hand and asked his companion beside him with a frown.

“Hmph, it’s not like you don’t know the effects of the nanocrystal bomb!” The one-eyed dragon sniper called Qin Ba glared at Long Feng discontentedly. “Unless he returns to reconstruct his Laws body or is burned to ashes, even if he is cured during the battle, the nanocrystal worms will still flow through his blood vessels. There is no way to remove them.”

“That’s not necessarily the case. You can still draw it out with a high-energy magnet!” Long Feng turned his head and retorted inaudibly.

Of course, he acknowledged his companion’s judgement. He didn’t think that Qin Lun had a high-energy magnet on him. The probability of that was too small.

“We can’t find him. Perhaps this person also possesses eye skills or other scouting abilities, deliberately avoiding us!” The one-eyed dragon said indifferently, “I’ve already said that you should keep a distance from me and lure him out. We also have fragments on us, and he can only appear if we move separately.”

“Alright then, we can’t find him here anymore. We’ll talk about it after we separate for a while!” Long Feng nodded. He looked at his companion and said worriedly, “Judging from the two combat mechs in the warehouse, our opponent should be a demon warrior who uses daggers and magic. His melee combat ability is very strong and his speed is very fast. If you meet him alone, you must be careful!”

“When the time comes, it will depend on the situation!” The one-eyed dragon frowned slightly and forced a perfunctory sentence. However, his one-eyed eyes suddenly flashed, “Eh, what is that?”