The Death List Novel - Chapter 728
Chapter 728 Counterattack
Covering Carmen’s corpse with branches and withered leaves, Alan and the others followed the tracks of the fjord monster once again, but the morale of the team had already fallen to the bottom of the valley.
The strange injuries caused by Carmen’s decapitation caused everyone to worry. Qin Lun personally judged that this was the second mysterious power in Arcadia, but Allen and the others believed that this was caused by man. In other words, there were serial killers among the tourists who entered the camp with them.
Both judgments made sense. If the game of death could lead them to Arcadia, it wouldn’t be surprising to attract a few more serial killers. However, Qin Lun was more inclined towards the first type. The serial killers’ change in the plot was too weak, and they were not as powerful as the mysterious forces.
As the sky gradually brightened, Allen and the others slowly discovered that their surroundings were becoming more and more unfamiliar. Outside the Acadia National Park, there are frequent tourists, mostly leaving behind naturally formed paths. The paths were covered with dead leaves, and the grass was smoothly trampled by pedestrians coming and going.
However, after several hours of tracking, Allen and the others had already gone deep into the forest and crossed several warning signs along the way. The paths that tourists stepped on were no longer visible around them. Most of the weeds on the forest floor grew to over a foot tall, making it almost impossible to see the soil below.
Natasha took out a few leather tendons that she used to tie her hair and told everyone to tie their trousers so that they wouldn’t let snakes and insects crawl in. The girl’s careful action immediately won the praise of everyone.
“Did you hear anything?” Qin Lun tilted his head to listen with uncertainty. His hearing was much worse than his eyesight. This was not an act.
In fact, when he entered this forest, he had already tested his bloodline abilities one after another. Perhaps because of the restrictions of the laws of the world, or perhaps because of the interference of other mysterious forces, he was unable to use the language of Elves here, and his gaze halo had also been weakened considerably.
The gains from the Elves bloodline and the hunter profession were basically negated. Higher magic skills were also greatly limited. For example, an A + level Tree Realm couldn’t be used when it descended. After all, this was the Low Demon Realm.
The only good news was that some low-level skills and body attributes weren’t too limited, such as archery skills such as Fast Fire, Scatter, and Penetrating Arrows; Guns’ ballistic refraction, weakness points, and so on.
This also refreshed Qin Lun’s cognition, allowing him to feel the importance of comprehensiveness.
Actually, this also exposed his weakness of not accumulating enough. With his current abilities, if his skills were fully activated, he would belong to the upper echelons of the Second Grade Apostle. However, once he switched to a mission world with greater restrictions, he might even be weaker than an ordinary Tier 2 Apostle, because other people had accumulated more mid-and low-tier skills than him.
“I didn’t hear anything.”
“Neither did I.” Alan’s face was a little confused and nervous. Other than having that kind of hallucination, he was still just an ordinary person.
“This way, follow me. I really want to hear some strange sounds.” Qin Lun gestured for everyone to be quiet. After listening for a while, he pointed in a direction and beckoned everyone to follow him.
“What exactly is this thing?” Allen and the others scratched the bushes and looked ahead. Other than Qin Lun, the others couldn’t help but tremble as urine rose from their stomachs.
For ordinary people who lived in peaceful times, this scene in front of them was simply too shocking. The moment they saw it, their minds went blank. They no longer had the ability to think, leaving behind only fear that originated from their life instincts.
Qin Lun didn’t take them very far. About two to three hundred meters later, everyone heard what he said. This voice was clearly a mixed sound. If one looked carefully, they could tell that there were sounds of water, strange sounds like children crying, and some kind of frog-like cooing sound.
The closer they got, the more terrified everyone became. Finally, they followed Qin Lun into the bushes and almost crept over.
Splitting open the bushes, in front of him was a gravel beach on the shore of a lake. This place was different from ordinary beaches. There was no fine sand, nor was it a cobblestone beach. The shore was filled with ferocious rocks. It was not big, but its edges and corners were extremely sharp, like a blade.
The lake water gushed over one after another and smashed into pieces on the gravel beach, causing the sound of water to rush out from the rocks.
Acadia National Park had a lot of tourists as long as it was a lake and beach. However, it was clear that no one would come to this beach. Even animals in the forest would not come here to drink water.
In addition to the dense fog in the early morning, the vision of the surrounding environment was very poor, and his rage was gloomy and mysterious, causing Allen and the others to have goosebumps all over their bodies.
In front of the bushes where everyone was hiding, they finally saw the “attacker” they called the Fjord Monster.
This was a humanoid creature with dark green scales all over its body. It was similar to what everyone had guessed. It should be an amphibious creature on the waterway. Their heads were like crocodile heads, their ears were long, their mouths were full of sharp dagger-like fangs, their toes were webbed, and their fingernails were bent like hooks.
The two large monsters were over 3.5 meters tall. They were probably unaccustomed to walking on land, and their backs were slightly bent. They were standing on both sides of the road, watching their surroundings vigilantly.
The three small monsters were slightly smaller, but because they were lying on the ground and eating, they couldn’t look very carefully. This was what frightened everyone. They were lying on the ground and eating the corpses of two humans.
These two corpses were both female. Their clothes had been torn apart, and a large hole had been opened in their chest and abdomen. The organs inside were being eaten by the three little monsters in their hands.
One of the women’s heads was facing the bushes where everyone was hiding. Her chin was on the ground, and the place where her eyes were had already turned into two bloody holes. All the tender flesh on his face had been eaten off, and his mouth had no lips or tongue, revealing his upper and lower gums. The skull was opened from the forehead, and the brain fluid had disappeared. It was obvious that they had been eaten up.
Another woman was lying on her back on the ground. The two balls of soft meat on her chest had already turned into two holes. His thighs and arms seemed to have shrunk. They were much thinner, revealing the pale white bones inside.
Allen and the others fell to the ground and vomited, their eyes filled with fear, instinctively suppressing themselves from making any sound. Now they knew what that frog-like sound was. It was the sound of a monster devouring a corpse.
Qin Lun didn’t pay any attention to them at this time, instead, he inadvertently glanced at Donald. Fatty lowered his head and covered his face with his palms. His shoulders trembled, and he looked extremely scared. However, Qin Lun noticed that he was the only one who hadn’t vomited.
His rich experience sometimes became one of the flaws. He didn’t know if this Fatty was a Samsara or Apostle!
A cold smile appeared on Qin Lun’s face. With his ability, he could force himself to vomit, but he could see through this kind of embarrassment with a single glance. That was why he didn’t do it.
Apostle and Samsara are not omnipotent. Even with the acting skills of an Oscar-winning actor, he still needed to brew his emotions in advance. Vomiting was not the main point, so the embarrassment in the process of vomiting was not like it.
He knew, Donald also knew, so the two of them never pretended to be pitiful.
Allen and the others were so excited that their minds went blank. They didn’t even think about the identities of the two corpses. However, Qin Lun noticed that the two corpses were completely different. It was impossible to tell if they were the missing Fanny, Karin, and Susan.
But judging from the tattered clothes, Qin Lun was sure that Susan and Karin, whom he had seen, were not among them. Perhaps the people these five monsters attacked and kidnapped last night were not limited to their camp.
These thoughts flashed through Qin Lun’s mind. In the next moment, he stood up from behind the bushes and pulled the pulley bow in his hand for a full moon.
“Whoosh whoosh!” Under Allen and the others’ horrified gazes, the three carbon arrows in Qin Lun’s right hand were shot out almost in a straight line.
There were many types of arrows used in modern pulley bows. Compared to slightly heavier FRP arrows and aluminium alloy arrows, Qin Lun preferred lightweight, straight-trajectory carbon arrows. He pursued initial speed and accuracy. Moreover, carbon arrows were not easy to explode, reducing the trouble of replenishing them later.
“Wow ~ ~” The three little monsters that were lying on the ground gnawing at the corpses, one of them let out a miserable scream towards the bushes, just like a baby crying.
The first of Qin Lun’s three carbon arrows was aimed at its forehead, but it only shattered a few scales before being bounced away by the skull. The second arrow was aimed at its throat, but it was still only two centimeters deep. It may have been shot into the esophagus, but judging from the amount of bleeding, the injury was not fatal.
His third arrow had truly severely injured the little monster. Its right eye had been shot, and blood mixed with traces of white brain fluid flowed out from its eye sockets.
However, this Fjords sea monster’s vitality was obviously very strong. Even though its brain was injured, this little monster still didn’t die. It started attacking everything around it regardless of whether it was an enemy or a friend.
Its two siblings were clearly frightened. They abandoned the corpses at their feet and ran around, screaming at the little monster that attacked them in grievance. They probably didn’t understand what was going on with this brother.
However, the two monsters guarding the area were different. They seemed to possess a certain level of intelligence, and one of them quickly stopped the monster from going berserk again and grabbed its arms tightly, preventing it from continuing to ravage.
The other one roared and rushed towards the bushes. The ferocious and twisted face of the crocodile did not conceal the fury in its heart. However, in this case, it was still cautious enough to block the face door with its muscular arms to prevent the arrow from hitting the weak facial features.
Qin Lun narrowed his eyes slightly. His probing was very successful, but the result was not ideal.
The defense and intelligence of these monsters were far beyond imagination. With the pulley bow in his hand, the long-range attack effect was limited. With his physical attributes, he might be able to kill them at close range, but the existence of the god of death made him shy away from it.