Hunter Queen: Killer Queen

Chapter 349 Mist × Scream × Unexpected Disaster

When night came, thin mist began to appear in the sea of ​​trees, and the marching team stopped near a big tree.

The exploration of the Dark Continent is not something that can be rushed, so the team still focuses on safety and explores the Dark Continent bit by bit.

The sound of insects slowly began to disappear at night. This was completely different from the forest under normal circumstances, which made people feel a little uneasy.

However, the expected dangers did not appear. Only the sounds of some wild beasts appeared in the forest, but they did not get too close to the team's location.

The first night after arriving in the Dark Continent was spent in this slightly quiet atmosphere.

When the light in the sea of ​​trees became slightly brighter, the mist rising in the sea of ​​trees began to disappear, and the team continued to move forward.

But after walking a certain distance, everyone couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

Because a large number of insect corpses appeared in the forest. These corpses were not bitten by wild beasts, nor were they killed by attacks from anything. They just died in the forest covered with layers of white mist.

Joey and Crook were the most curious about this situation, but they did not dare to come into contact with the corpses of these insects rashly.

After all, with their previous experiences on the imaginary continent, the two of them were more cautious and careful about these unknown situations.

But Biyande, who was walking at the front of the team, was not wary of the insect corpses at all. He aimed at the insect corpses in front of him and kicked them out.

The pale corpse, which was less than half a man's height, did not fly out under Biyang De's kick. Instead, it was kicked away like a mirage.

This strange situation made everyone in the team stunned.

But Biyangde had no idea of ​​explaining, but turned his gaze to the nearby area, seeming to be searching for something. Unfortunately, he did not make any moves in the end. He still took the lead and walked in front of the team, heading deeper into the sea of ​​trees. go.

One morning, Joey and the others encountered a large number of mist-like corpses, starting with insect corpses and then animal corpses gradually appeared.

Whether it is a small insect or a large beast, they are all in a state of being scattered at the touch of a touch.

But there are differences between the two sides. Joey sensed a weak breath of life from some super large monsters, and it took some effort to break up such a huge fog.

This gave him some thoughts. The mist in the sea of ​​trees seemed to have the property of devouring life force.

But they were exposed to this fog yesterday, so why didn't it affect them?

Or is this a mist with rules similar to an operating system? What conditions need to be met before the life force wrapped in the mist can be sucked in?

But no matter what, Joey became wary of the fog.

However, neither Yangde nor Jie Ge took any action to dispel the fog and prevent it from getting closer. So Joey would not choose any special action. After all, without knowing the specific conditions for the activation of the fog, taking rash actions would only May cause unexpected effects.

At noon, the sea of ​​trees regained its vitality, the mist-like monster disappeared, and a large number of living creatures once again filled the sea of ​​trees.

And they became even more violent than what Joey and others encountered yesterday.

When discovering a marching team, there will be situations where people rush up to them and want to kill them regardless.

This kind of mindless behavior is completely inconsistent with the habits of beasts in Joey's opinion.

Hunting requires rights and pros and cons, especially the hunting of wild beasts. Every failure will bring you closer to death, so no matter how powerful the beast is, you must be extremely patient when hunting.

But now the ferocious beasts and insects in the sea of ​​trees seemed to have completely lost their minds and just wanted to tear everything in front of them into pieces and stuff them into their stomachs.

This is very wrong!

But all Joey and the others could do for a while was to continuously kill these attacking things, and they were unable to investigate the specific reasons at all.

passive!

This is Joey's most intuitive feeling when he steps into this sea of ​​trees.

Whether it's the mysterious fog at night or the fierce attack now, they are the ones who deal with it passively.

After more than two hours of fierce fighting, the creatures in the sea of ​​trees gradually returned to the normal state they had when they first entered the sea of ​​trees yesterday.

But even in this normal state, there is always a need for people in the team to kill things that will be saved from time to time.

Fortunately, whether it was mercenaries or hunters from the association, it was not too difficult to deal with these crises. However, after fighting all the way, the team's speed was obviously slowed down.

Joey was protected in the middle of the team, but did not participate in the battle.

Even during this process, he still had time to examine and analyze the killed insects and beasts.

When the fog began to rise from the forest again, the team stopped again.

But not long after they stopped, Joey and others simultaneously heard human screams coming from the sea of ​​trees further ahead.

It’s Cajin’s team!

Everyone's hearts moved and they already had a count.

However, neither the association nor Biyang De had any intention of finding out or helping each other. Everyone just stayed in the camp quietly and listened to the screams that would come from time to time in front of the sea of ​​trees. Until the scream slowly disappeared completely.

As soon as the fog dissipated the next morning, the team headed towards the place where the screams occurred last night.

Everyone seemed to be thinking the same thing, wanting to know exactly what happened last night.

Even if they can't find anyone alive, everyone still wants to find something that can provide clues. This seems to be the confidence for them to continue moving forward in the sea of ​​trees.

But when everyone arrived at the screaming location, all they saw was a large amount of blood and the remaining mist corpses of various beasts and insects.

Overall, it looked like Kajin's team was attacked by ferocious beasts and insects in the forest.

But everyone knows that even if the overall strength of the Cajin team is not as good as theirs, with the strength of the various insects and beasts they encountered along the way, they want to cause such a team to scream like last night. The level of damage is impossible.

So Kajin’s team must have encountered something yesterday!

So do you want to catch up and ask?

From details such as blood stains and scattered clothing, it can be judged that Kajin's team was not wiped out by the group in the sea of ​​trees.

It’s just a small group of Cajin people who are left here forever!

Based on the distance calculation, the position where Cajin's troops were repairing last night was not too far away from them.

Based on their traveling speed, they should be able to catch up with the team in front before noon if they only need to increase it slightly.

But regardless of whether it was Bi Yang De or Qi Duo, after some exploration of the vicinity, they had no idea of ​​​​accelerating, and even slowed down a lot, making the team's next actions a very steady and steady advance. style of play.

This is obviously an attempt to maximize the effect of Kajin, the vanguard.

Or to be more precise, Kajin is completely used as cannon fodder.

Don’t the Cocagin people understand this?

Joey had some doubts in his heart. After all, neither the first prince nor the second prince, nor Chrollo who was following Cajin's team, were brainless people.

Even Joey, who has had contact with people in both fields, can confirm that these people are very discerning!

So now that Cajin still wants to be ahead of the association and the Byande team, there should be a reason why they have to do so.

What will it be?

Joey did not expect that after arriving in the Dark Continent, the first thing he had to think about was not the crisis in the Dark Continent, but the game with humans.

Is this the only extent of the Dark Continent?

At that moment, Joey couldn't help but have this thought in his mind.

But at the moment when he had this idea, a mercenary in front of the team suddenly let out a cry of panic, raised the gun in his hand in panic, pointed it in front of him, and quickly pulled the trigger.

The sound of gunfire rang out nearby in an instant, and even Joey didn't have time to completely block the sound of the gunfire.

He only had time to cut off the sound caused by subsequent gunshots after the first gunshot.

But he knew that this effect should only be considered better than nothing!

At the moment when the gunshot sounded, something had already broken into the circle he released and rushed towards the location of the gunshot.

Joey's attention couldn't help but be attracted by the changes in the circle, but at this moment, he heard a very familiar name in his ears, Pap!

Pap?

Joey's thoughts only filtered through his mind a little before he realized that this name is the existence named one of the five major disasters, the nurturing beast Papu!

But, how could it be?

The thing that broke into the circle is no longer important. If it is really the nurturing beast Papu, then what they are facing now is likely to be a real life and death crisis, a crisis that cannot be compared with those insects and beasts!

With this thought in mind, Joey turned his head and saw that the mercenary holding the gun before was now staring like a withered old tree root with a pair of disproportionately big eyes being hung by a brown branch-like thing. In the air.

But looking along the branch-like thing, all he found was another shriveled corpse, but unlike the corpse that had just been hung up, the shriveled corpse had a weird smile on it.

That smile, cheerful, happy, and sunny, shouldn't appear on the face of such a weird thing at all, but it just happened to appear. It can even make people forget its own intentions the moment they see it. They can only look at it. Feel a unique joy.

It's as if becoming like this is the happiest choice for that shriveled thing in this life!

And if he continued to look behind the dry thing, all he could see were a few pairs of eyes hidden in the darkness.

When those eyes looked at the people in the team, they were full of curiosity and desire.

Joey's mind was rapidly thinking about the current situation.

I thought that this operation would only encounter gold and silver ingots in the labyrinth city, but I didn't expect that the nurturing beast Pappu, who was supposed to be on the steep mountains on the northeast coast of Lake Mobius, would appear here.

According to the description, this thing should be [an equivalent exchange of happiness and life].

Among the speculations that Joey had seen, some people speculated that Naniga was the nurturing beast Pap.

Because wishes represent happiness, and life represents price.

Every time you make a wish toward Nanika, you will pay the price with your life.

This speculation was somewhat convincing, but when he actually faced Pappu, the nurturing beast, Joey felt that this statement was not right.

The mercenary must have seen the picture of the human-nurturing beast Papu, so he was surprised and shot like a stress reaction at the first moment.

In this case, Joey really didn't believe he would have time to make a wish to Papp unless Papp made the request when he showed up.

But when it comes to requests, it probably has nothing to do with happiness!

After all, it’s hard for the person being requested to be happy! Especially when what is requested is something related to life, it will be even less happy.

Calculated in this way, the attack of the nurturing beast Pappu is very disorienting.

The mercenary shot at it, and then it turned into a happy shriveled thing and was hung on something like a branch. It showed a strangely happy smile while swaying in the wind.

So what does this happiness and life represent?

If you give life to Pappu, Pappu will bring happiness to the other person?

The joy of hanging on a tree?

Thinking of this in Joey's mind, he suddenly wandered into the Infinite Tsukuyomi in Naruto, which seemed to be an alternative way of depriving life and giving happiness.

This Pappu has this kind of ability, right?

Take away the other person's life in an instant, and let the other person fall into a fantasy world and gain happiness forever!

But even so, there are always conditions required to activate the ability!

What are the conditions to be met?

"Let's go!"

There was no surprise. The moment they discovered the nurturing beast Pappu, Qi Duo and Biyang De made a judgment at the same time.

The difference is that while Biyang De ran away, Qi Duo pulled Norbu over and asked Norbu to take out a large number of things from the fourth-dimensional apartment.

It's just that Qi Duo didn't let Nobu attack Papu, nor did she choose to attack on her own. She just ran away with Nobu and threw the things she took out casually on the ground.

Joey is familiar with what Chido and Nobu spilled!

Because weren't those things he gave to Nobu for safekeeping before, the bombs he made with scales in the imaginary continent!

As for why Qiduo and Nobu did not take the initiative to attack, they probably judged the initiative to attack as a condition for Pappu to launch an attack.

After all it is very possible!

The mercenary was hung up directly after the attack was launched.

Joey was calculating in his mind, but his movements were not slow. He had no idea of ​​contacting Papp, and he didn't even have the idea of ​​throwing a bomb. He just ran away.

According to the evaluation given, the level of cruelty of the human-nurturing beast Pappu is A-2, its quantity is unknown, and its reproductive capacity is unknown, but its destructive power is smaller than that of the chimera ants, and it only reaches the B-1 level.

Taken together, Pappu is a more terrifying A-level existence than the chimera ants.

Joey's sight and Yuan had already explored the area. Before the mercenary discovered Pap, he didn't sense Pap's life breath at all. This was very abnormal.

Even now, he could only see Pappu and could not sense Pappu's existence.

This made it impossible for him to determine how many Pappu there were.

Happy laughter came from behind as he ran quickly, and a shriveled thing with a weird smile began to be lifted into the air and floated towards everyone.

Looking back, Joey saw that the eyes that had been hidden in the darkness had crawled out from the dark bushes. It was a shriveled thing with a weird smile.

And what connects them is the brown thing like the branches of trees.

The person running behind showed signs of dryness in his body as he ran, and the muscles on his face were twitching. There was no pain, only a creepy smile that was so weird that it made people feel panicked.

He is hopeless!

This was the first thought in Joey's mind, and what followed closely was that he didn't seem sad, and even a little happy, happy!