When Xu Yi arrived at the origin of the screams, a crowd had already ford, unable to hide their sadness and fear on their youthful, tender faces.
The company employees who had co to inspect were hardly any better off, with pale faces, and female staff covering their mouths, constantly retching.
Xu Yi faintly sensed sothing and pushed through the crowd, a bloody scene unfolding before his eyes.
A man and a woman lay embraced in the mud, the woman atop the man, covered at the waist by a white cloth. One could imagine why the two were hiding in the bushes, attempting to find the wonderful pleasure of dopamine.
Alas, a spear had frozen everything in place—the spear was made of wood and had pierced through both of them from above, skewering them together like a kebab.
Xu Yi frowned, realizing that the strength required to penetrate two bodies with an ordinary wooden spear was unparalleled.
The killer was very likely not an ordinary person.
"What do we do now? Call the police?"
"Look around you, do you see a phone booth anywhere?"
A group of young people were completely panicked, discussing what to do without a clue.
Anna fetched her cellphone, but unfortunately, in such a remote prival forest, it was simply impossible to get a signal. Experience new tales on empire
"Wuu! I said we shouldn't have co! You just wouldn't listen, and now I want to leave! I want to go ho!" A girl from the camping group suddenly broke down in tears, clamoring to leave.
A few young people looked at each other, and following one heading towards the car, the rest sward after.
"Miss Anna! What should we do?"
The bodyguard walked up to Anna, his hand on the pistol at his waist, looking around guardedly.
Anna's previous bodyguard had been dismissed for dereliction of duty and was now cleaning toilets at the company headquarters. They were new bodyguards, increased to two, and had not expected to encounter such an incident so soon.
"Mr. Xu Yi, what do you think?"
Instead of answering, Anna turned to ask Xu Yi beside her, well aware that he was the "expert" at handling these matters.
Mark witnessed this exchange and could hardly contain his frustration. What use was it to ask this pretty-boy? The obvious action was to leave quickly!
"Let's leave first!" Xu Yi hesitated for a mont before making the decision.
To encounter such an extraordinary murderer, and in the woods near where cult mbers had disappeared, it was difficult not to link the two events.
However, the presence of so many ordinary people made it difficult for him to take action. He planned to send these people away before coming back to investigate.
Martin looked at Xu Yi with even more disdain, thinking that after all the talk, they were still just running away.
The convoy started up again, but the mood was completely different. The drive there had been light-hearted and joyful; now it was filled with faces of fear, and they fled in panic.
The sun had already set, and the sky had completely darkened. The beautiful scenery of the day had now turned sinister, prompting an instinctive urge to press the accelerator harder, to escape sooner.
Leading the way was an old Ford, and the young driver suddenly cried out in alarm. Before he could react, the car had lost control and violently crashed into a tree by the roadside.
The second car couldn't escape the sa fate either; it too skidded off the road and nearly tumbled down a slope.
The following two cars collided fiercely due to sudden braking, and only the car in the rear had better luck, stopping in ti.
"What the hell happened?" Anna murmured to herself, still seated.
Xu Yi pushed open the car door with one hand and pulled out the Alchemical Revolver ssiah from his waist. The muscles beneath his clothes began to swell, and his eyes stared fixedly ahead of the road.
The headlights illuminated sothing on the road—a long, thin Iron Thorn, with darkened blood remains, slightly rusty, tied between the trees on either side of the road, forming a "speed bump."
The car in front had its tires punctured and, driving too fast, had ultimately lost control.
But what made Xu Yi tense was not this; he felt it—the cursed aura on the Iron Thorn, one of the stolen Cursed Items from the Room of Minos.
Could it be that the cultist's destination was here?
The deford car door was opened with difficulty, and the startled teenagers erged cursing at the Iron Thorn on the ground, but their curses were soon stifled.
A long shadow arched through the air from the forest and accurately pierced the head of one of the young n. With shock and reluctance frozen on his face, he slowly fell to the ground.
More and more arrows flew out of the forest. Xu Yi grabbed Anna just as she got out of the car, pressed her against the side of the car door, and used the car as a shield to avoid the arrows.
An arrow whistled past Xu Yi's head, the sound of the wind showing its imnse power, and it went straight through a tree by the roadside.
Two bodyguards flanked Annabelle on either side, returning fire, but it was all in vain. The forest was pitch dark, and they couldn't spot their target at all—the thick ancient trees provided the best cover.
Even with cars for cover, two unlucky individuals couldn't dodge in ti and were pierced by arrows, falling into pools of their own blood.
The sound of arrows slicing through the air suddenly ceased. The deadly missiles stopped flying from the forest, perhaps because they had run out. Already jittery, the group scread and sward into the forest below the road, fleeing for their lives.
"Everyone, don't run! Don't split up! Staying together is the safest!"
Annabelle shouted at the top of her lungs, and she wasn't wrong—beside her were two bodyguards, but most importantly, there was Xu Yi.
Unfortunately, those people were already scared witless and didn't look back.
Even though they knew Annabelle was right, they wouldn't stop running because they all thought they would be the lucky one to escape.
"Annabelle! Run!"
In such an urgent situation, Martin still thought of Annabelle, but after shouting once and realizing she had no intention of leaving, he imdiately turned and fled.
"Running so fast? In a hurry to be reincarnated?"
Xu Yi was sowhat speechless. Weren't these people, by scattering in the woods, giving the killer a chance to pick them off one by one?
The forest suddenly fell silent—a chilling quiet that made the two bodyguards break out in cold sweat. Just then, four or five spears suddenly flew from the forest below, heading straight for the group of four including Xu Yi.
The bodyguards' pupils dilated. They were hiding on one side of the vehicle, always on guard against the forest above the road, never expecting their assailants to have quietly circled below them.
With spears inches away and about to impale them, a purplish-red barrier opened, revealing Annabelle's toy Treasure Box, which enveloped all the spears. The spears abruptly vanished from sight.
Xu Yi was least afraid of such common long-distance weapons; even if a squad of soldiers shot at him continuously, they couldn't hurt him in the slightest.
The two bodyguards, still in shock, then did sothing astonishing—they actually abandoned Annabelle, the one they were supposed to protect, and both jumped into the vehicle.
The car engine was still running; they floored the accelerator and the Land Rover, like an enraged bull, pushed through the cars in front and fled into the forest.
The tires of regular cars, once punctured, were rendered useless, but their vehicle's wheels were custom-made; even punctured, they could still cover a substantial distance.
"It seems the security you hired isn't very reliable, huh?" Xu Yi said to Annabelle with a teasing remark while keeping his attention ahead.
Perhaps realizing that spears couldn't harm him, the killer hiding in the forest finally erged.
Xu Yi frowned at the approaching figure, not sure if it could be called human—its skin was rotting, its arms and legs were unusually long like those of a gibbon, and its pupils were filled with splotches of blood.
"That's a mountain man!" Annabelle suddenly exclaid in surprise.
Before Xu Yi could ask, Annabelle volunteered an explanation, "Before coming here, I heard a legend that there is a tribe living in this prival forest. They are all deford due to inbreeding and are not ntally sound."
The deford person, wielding a large machete, charged at Xu Yi with an alarming speed, his veins bulging on his arms, indicating formidable strength behind the blade.
"Be careful!" Annabelle shouted instinctively.
But as soon as her voice dropped, two gunshots rang out, and the deford person charging forward suddenly collapsed to the ground, struggling to rise but unable to get up.
The deford person's leg joints had been shattered. Xu Yi calmly watched the person writhing before him. Under his Supra-dynamic Vision, the other's swift movents were as slow as a tortoise's crawl.
He scanned the forest below and found no other deford individuals.
It was likely that, seeing they were only four people, leaving one deford person was deed sufficient to deal with them while the others hunted down those who fled.
Xu Yi initially thought to kill the opponent outright, but at the last mont, he changed his mind.
He walked slowly towards the deford person and fired two more shots, disabling both hands, and kicked the machete out of his grasp.
"I have a fun ga here—do you want to play?" Xu Yi crouched in front of the deford individual, completely ignoring the murderous intent in the latter's bloodshot eyes, and said softly.
The deford person suddenly lunged. Having both hands and feet disabled, he surprisingly launched himself into the air using just his waist and abdominal strength.
He opened his mouth wide, lunging to bite Xu Yi, his yellowing teeth extrely sharp.
With an emotionless face, Xu Yi grabbed the deford person's neck, his hand's imnse strength nearly crushing the neck bones.
The deford person, facing Xu Yi's cold gaze, shivered. He suddenly couldn't tell whether he was the monster or if the true monster was the person before him.
Xu Yi wore a smile that chilled the deford person to the bone. He forced open the individual's mouth and stuffed two items inside—it was the Soul Jade and the newly crafted Nest of the Evil God.
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