Mo Xiren was digging through the bushes everywhere to look for traces, but Lu Ning was lost in thought.
It's just... too weird.
Logically speaking, even if so many people fled, they should leave some marks to show where they went. It was understandable to abandon the dead, but was this really the same mountain forest that I had been to last night?
Looking at the unchanging scenery around him, Lu Ning had some doubts.
Since it has been proven that there is a curse here, it is not impossible for ghosts to break into the wall and the like. Lu Ning also couldn't guarantee that the continuous mountains would really not "move".
After walking for a while, a simple wooden house appeared in the forest.
"The wood has begun to rot. As for the door..."
Lu Ning reached out and touched the doorknob that already had several cavities, but she heard a soft sound and the entire wooden door was torn down by her.
"So light."
"It must be empty. It seems like no one has been to this place for a long time." Mo Xiren looked inside the room and was immediately suffocated by a smell of decaying moisture.
There are still some furnishings in the room, including a bed, a set of tables and chairs, a wooden shelf, and a large wooden box. There were only wooden boxes that were not too rotten due to oiling, and everything else collapsed at the first touch.
Lu Ning approached the wooden box, checked it and found that it was not locked, so she forcefully lifted the lid.
What she saw in front of her made her eyes light up.
A black paint crossbow was placed on top of several oilcloth packages, with several cloth balls thrown around. She took out the oilcloth and opened it, and found that inside were well-kept crossbow strings, a pack of twenty bone crossbow arrows, a crescent dagger, a pack of tools for maintaining and modifying crossbows, and four sealed bottles. Medicines in small clay pots.
"What did you find?" Mo Xiren asked her outside the house.
"Good thing... Are there many huts like this on the mountain?"
Lu Ning took out the crossbow from the box, took out the tools to tighten the bow string, and then fixed it on his right arm through two iron rings.
"It's a very exquisite weapon, but I don't know why it was thrown here."
"Weapons found? Then we can leave this place, right? It's more important to find someone."
"Wait a minute, I don't know what these bottles of medicine are for yet."
Lu Ning unscrewed the jars and found that two jars contained white and green ointment, and the other two jars contained blue and lavender powder.
"Eighty percent of it is poison or wound medicine. Don't people who hunt in the mountains have to prepare some?"
"No...the hunters here are not ordinary people." Lu Ning looked at the four cans of medicine with great interest. The amounts in them were not large. If there was really a large demand for items, they would not use this method. stored.
She pulled out a larger oilcloth and packed everything she needed together, then walked out of the house.
"You didn't find any leftover information, right? This place is probably used to obtain some self-defense weapons, but how useful can the weapons be?"
"Then I might as well tell you that I found another hunter's cabin last night, which contained weapons and a hunter's diary."
After hearing this, Mo Xiren's expression relaxed a little.
"So these cabins are also a reminder for us?"
"Why else would I be searching so carefully? Although these weapons may not be of much use, they are better than having no resistance at all."
As Lu Ning spoke, she pulled some vines, tied up her pockets, and straddled her body. Mo Xiren was not interested in weapons, but the news about the hunter's notes made her a little interested.
"After we find my sister, we can search the mountain. Since we can find two, there may be more than one. It will be better if we can piece together some of the background here."
"before this……"
Lu Ning cocked a crossbow arrow and pointed it at Mo Xiren.
"Should you have something to say to me?"
The expression on Mo Xiren's face froze.
After a while, the worry, anxiety, and confusion in her expression were completely gone.
"I do not quite understand you."
"To be honest, from the first time I met you... I didn't trust you very much. Do you remember that villa? Nine of you survived at that time. This number was far beyond my expectation, but you only He told me that it was because he was 'lucky' and 'cowardly' that he didn't search carefully and let the ghosts kill him for seven days."
"uh-huh?"
"Cheng Wuling also talked about her idea at that time, right? Although it is unbelievable, it is indeed feasible. I can't find any flaws, but isn't there a big problem on your side?"
"Because there are nine people, right." Mo Xiren sighed. He didn't have the slightest fear of the arrows in front of him, but instead smiled. "I thought that at that time, most people were too scared to care about so many things. I didn't expect that some people would think about it carefully. But having said that, I left such obvious loopholes just to see who else really It’s just that they have ‘quality’.”
"Since you have to hide these past things, your credibility is really very low. I have never completely believed what anyone said, and I don't believe it at all as for you. Are you alone? No weapons? And Can you wander around the mountains leisurely like this? Do you think I am easier to deceive?"
"You are wrong." Mo Xiren smiled, "This is a basic test for strangers. In order to test your 'qualification', I have to pretend to be like an ordinary person who is easily affected by words and environment. , there’s nothing wrong with that, right? Being able to find loopholes at least proves that your observation and thinking will not be intimidated by the environment here.”
"Oh? So what's next? Is it another test?"
"You are really sharp." Mo Xiren's smile became even brighter, "After the test against strangers, of course it will be against the teammates fighting side by side! You are right!"
She waved her arm violently, and a jet-black whip shadow shot out from her cuff, slamming into Lu Ning. Lu Ning was also prepared, and did not waste time to shoot the arrow, but took a few steps back. , avoiding the attack range of the whip.
"It's strange that you and my innocent and silly sister can get along so well, but you can see through my disguise all at once."
Mo Xiren missed a hit and did not pursue. The whip in her hand fell on the ground and even made a shallow mark. It was a long black whip with a crystal-clear transparent crystal on the tip. The whole thing had not passed through Too much retouching, but obviously well maintained.
"Maybe it's because of the natural aura differences between people. So you're lying when you say you're not good at fighting?"
"Ah... that's not it. It's a lie. It's easier to say eight points true and two points false."
As Mo Xiren spoke, she flicked her wrist, and the whip returned like a flexible snake and wrapped around her wrist. Then, she opened her left hand, put it against the whip, and slowly wiped it.
The strange blue flame burned on the black whip. This sight made Lu Ning's pupils shrink slightly.
"Indeed, as you said, there are some hunter cabins scattered in this mountain, but not as many as you think. There are only five in total. They all look very conspicuous. The one Shu Xingruo found is probably the most conspicuous. The worthless one, right? Just a bunch of useless weapons and a useless tattered book."
The blue flame whip whipped out a loud sound in the air, as if in demonstration.
"The value you found is considered low. In fact, I have already visited the two houses that are really valuable. It is useless even if you look for them now, haha."
"Where did you learn your blue fire?"
"Hunter cabin, wasn't I talking to you?" Mo Xiren laughed loudly, "How on earth did you people survive so many testing grounds? When we encounter an enemy without superpowers, Shouldn't we first search for ways to learn super powers? Even if people participate in a battle royale, the first thing they can think of is finding weapons to protect themselves instead of looking for people to fight? It seems like I haven't entrusted you with everything, right? Is it the right decision?"
"You...really didn't say anything."
"Well, it's fake - of course, from my sister's point of view, it should be real. You have to know that it's not easy to disguise it."
"The only person you hate?"
"It's just the culprit that caused our death. A fool like my sister would believe it. After all, who doesn't hate the murderer who killed him? I'm not very happy, but my sister couldn't protect us. It’s really disappointing... Fortunately, since God has given me a second chance, I might as well give her a second chance... Is it too much to say? You have to understand, people have too many things in their hearts that they have to find. Let’s talk about it some time.”
Mo Xiren drew a circle in the air with his whip, and the flame stayed in the air, burning in a circle. Then, the scenery in the circle slowly blurred, as if it had turned into a frosted mirror.
"By the way, you can say this to my sister. You can repeat the original sentence and see if she believes you or me. Don't worry, I don't like to kill people. I just don't like people who have no ability to kill people. Just follow me. If you are not convinced, just try to come to me, my progress is far ahead of you!"
After saying this, she stepped into the ring of fire and disappeared.
Lu Ning watched helplessly as the flames quickly disappeared in the air, but there was nothing she could do.
"The progress... is far ahead of us? It's strange... Then she came back to the mountain village... so there must be something there that is worthy of her going back! And she doesn't want me to know?"
Although there were still some doubts, Lu Ning immediately grasped the key to Mo Xiren's current actions.
"She met me by accident, so she needed to get me out of the mountain village. Judging from her willingness to spend time acting with me along the way, she didn't care about wasting this time. It was because she had plenty of time or the time had not come. Now with the help of this transmission method, She must have gone back to the village to do what she just wanted to do.”
Even so, it cannot be ruled out that Mo Lianren deliberately wanted her to think this way.
Lu Ning knew that she couldn't hesitate now. First of all, no matter what, she went back to the mountain village to check the situation!
