Although the bodies of the slave trader and the others were cold, they were still soft and elastic, indicating that Xi Xin had been gone for less than three hours.
Preliminary rigor mortis begins about three hours after death!
From the time he left the Crystal Palace until now, Lu Ping has been pursuing her all the way, always lagging behind Xi Xin's progress by at least three days. Now he has discovered the traces she left within 3 hours. It can be said that he is the closest to Xi Xin. once!
"You can't run away." Lu Ping concentrated on tracking him all the way.
In order to speed up, he even acted directly in [Hunter] form.
He has tried many times, and the hunter form that incorporates the giant viper gene is currently the only form among his many recombinant forms that can never be detected by the alien detector! Although pure humans will not trigger alarms, they are much worse for tracking.
The hunter form is good at hiding. The mimicry of the octopus and the cortical cells of the chameleon allow him to maintain the mimicry at all times when moving against the wall, making it difficult for others to see him from a distance. There are fleshy pads on the soles of the feet, so even if you run wildly, you can make no sound, and the organs such as sight and smell are a mixture of several feline and canine species. There are even snake smells and infrared sensing organs on the tongue!
If the Beastmaster form is a battlefield overlord tank that is best at frontal combat, then the Hunter form is more like an unmanned stealth reconnaissance aircraft.
Flexible, strong perception, good at hiding!
However, after following for a moment, Lu Ping frowned slightly.
"Xi Xin... obviously knows that I may be following her, and she is trying to get rid of me!"
The reason is also very simple.
Where Xi Xin passed, there were crowded markets with dense crowds, pungent-smelling e-waste mountains, and garbage alleys that were difficult to navigate in rugged areas!
And she left very few traces such as footprints... You must know that the sinkhole area of Neptune City is very dirty, with sewage flowing across the ground and mud on the ground. It is difficult not to leave any traces, but she has left behind all the traces along the way. There are very few traces, and it is obviously using various methods to interfere with the sight and hearing of the pursuer.
But none of this troubles Lupine. He currently relies mainly on scent for tracking.
And the hunter's sense of smell is so strong that he is sure to distinguish the remaining scent wherever Xi Xin passes within ten days! Besides, it's only a few hours apart now.
Lu Ping chased him all the way, even passing by a lively market equipped with alien detectors! I don't know how she got through... But Lupine ignored it and kept mimicking the whole process, passing quickly against the wall without causing any alarm from the detector.
But ten minutes later, he still encountered his first problem.
At the entrance to a sewer, the metal manhole cover clearly showed signs of being turned over.
"Did you get into the sewer?" Lu Ping frowned, and immediately opened the manhole cover and got in.
After a while, Lu Ping endured the sour smell and stood on the edge of the underground sewage river... This is the Tiankeng area, with a huge difference in terrain, and the raging water is rushing from high to low. .
"This is going to be difficult..." Lu Ping rubbed his temples.
Xi Xin used the water body to cover up the smell, which originally could not prevent her from tracking, because the underwater sense of smell in the form of a wise dolphin is no worse than the sense of smell in the hunter form on land! The fact that he was able to chase him all the way from the Crystal Palace to Neptune City was proof enough... However, what he saw in front of him was not an ordinary body of water.
Rather, it is a river of sewage that surges from top to bottom...
Almost without thinking, Lu Ping knew that Xi Xin should have escaped downstream.
Because Shuo swims upstream, her scent will continue to be transmitted from upstream, and he can easily track it... But if he swims down the river, even if he jumps into the water and takes on the form of a wise dolphin, he will still only be able to contact her. The water flowing down from the upstream has never been touched by Xi Xin's smell!
Lu Ping dived into the water and immediately verified this - there was clearly Xi Xin's scent on the shore, but there was none in the water.
"No, this method is not perfect." Lu Ping took a deep breath and thought to himself, "The genes of Xi Xin's body are the Mexican axolotl and the sparrow-tailed mantis shrimp, and I have tried this recombinant form... This Both genes cannot allow a person to breathe underwater completely on her own, and the most they can do is prolong the holding time! So she must still show her head to breathe from time to time.
"As long as she dares to show her head to breathe, the smell will inevitably spread, and I only need to follow the direction of the sewage river and look for her smell in the air."
Lu Ping quickly found a way to crack it in his mind, but he also knew that this method was not easy.
This sewer obviously extends in all directions, and the sewage river is likely to branch off... And if there are forks, you have to look for each one!
And if Xi Xin's ability to hold her breath was strong enough, she might only need to breathe once every ten minutes. At the speed of the sewage river, Lu Ping felt that she could float several kilometers away in ten minutes... This meant that Lu Ping wanted to confirm the exclusion. Any wrong fork in the road would have to be traced for at least a few kilometers!
Not to mention that it was extremely dark in the sewer, and it was almost impossible to see.
There are also various domestic garbage on the ground next to the sewage river. Various fermentation smells blend together, making it more difficult to distinguish specific smells.
Under such harsh conditions, even if we hire a dozen well-trained police dogs to search together, we may have to give up.
Lu Ping couldn't help but glance at Xi Xingao. He thought she was just an ordinary extraordinary person who escaped from control because of her special genes. But now the more he chases, the more he feels that he is facing a very smart and thoughtful person. opponent!
"Then let's see who is more skilled."
Lu Ping no longer delayed, his eyes exuded a dim light like a hunter in the night, and he ran downstream with great skill.
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Two hours later.
On a dirty street at the bottom of the Tiankeng District, a metal manhole cover was suddenly pushed up a crack.
Lu Ping looked around and found that no one was paying attention, so he quickly jumped out of it!
"The hard work paid off, and I finally caught him." Lu Ping was still a little proud. After all, it was not easy for him to accurately find Xi Xin's scent in the maze-like sewer! It would be impossible for any one person to do this.
But just as he was putting the manhole cover back in place, Lu Ping's expression suddenly froze.
On the ground next to the wellhead, there was a shiny silver thing lying on the ground. It looked like a high-tech mechanical prosthetic limb, but it was smaller.
Lupine did not move it, but carefully observed the shape and relative position of its joints, and soon realized that before it drilled out on its own, this thing was probably gently pinched on the edge of the manhole cover with a movement similar to that of an orchid finger! And there was some domestic garbage covered on top of it for cover.
With just the pinching force of two mechanical fingers, the resistance is extremely small, much less than the weight of the manhole cover itself... So when I came out, I pushed up the manhole cover hard and didn't feel its existence at all... But at this time, it was obviously because of myself The action of opening the manhole cover forced the mechanical joints to open, causing him to lose his balance and fall to the side.
I could smell Xi Xin's scent on the mechanical prosthesis and the pieces of garbage used to cover it. Obviously, she placed these!
"A detection trap?" Lu Ping looked grim and suddenly raised his head and looked around.
At the same time, two streets away, Xi Xin was wearing a brainwave controller of a "psychokinetic prosthesis" on her head, and her face was equally ugly.
"Crystal Palace, how many powerful extraordinary beings have been sent to chase me? I'm so cautious in escaping, but I still can't get rid of the people who are chasing me?" She murmured to herself, with a trace of gritted teeth on her face, "It seems that the only way is to do that." There is a glimmer of hope to survive..."
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