Quiet.
This was how Ji Gaochuan felt after not receiving a report from the hunter team for half an hour. He originally had no intention of intervening in the ceremony, but no news came back from the five teams, which made him vaguely feel that something was wrong.
"Do you think this is normal?" He asked Ren Qingxue, who was sitting and looking at her mobile phone. "There has been no report for such a long time. Even if there is an attack, they should say a few words, right?"
Ren Qingxue replied casually:
"You don't have to worry, the hunters' sons all enjoy their hunting process and will concentrate on it before completing the hunt. If there are any problems, they have already reported to us."
Ji Gaochuan paused and said:
"I always felt it was a little too quiet."
Ren Qingxue casually raised and pointed at the tactical intercom device in front of him:
"Then you ask them how they are doing, but if you want to get along with these hunters' sons for a long time, respecting their traditions and beliefs is the prerequisite. This is the only important thing to them.
“Hunting is not just a ritual for them, it is also a way to get to know their gods and show their piety.
"You, an outsider, don't understand that only by personally practicing the guidance of the gods and understanding the great nature symbolized by the gods can we slowly get closer to the gods we worship.
"My advice is, don't bother them."
Ren Qingxue originally didn't want to explain so much. Most of the children of the flames are quite irritable and have little patience, but the reason why she was able to get this responsibility is that she is a little calmer than the other brothers and sisters.
She has a different understanding of fire.
Ji Gaochuan was a little surprised that she took the initiative to explain this, and then he immediately asked:
"What about you? Do you want to worship your gods by watching the burning phenomenon?"
"Don't ask such stupid questions." Ren Qingxue said, "No one will tell his feelings about the gods. This is disrespectful to the gods, and our understanding of the gods is quite personal. If you are really curious if……
"The Sons of Flame are still accepting new members."
Ji Gaochuan said nothing more.
It seems that Ren Qingxue is indeed here to cooperate with the Federation as she said. At least she does not confront herself on the surface. It seems that as long as she remains cautious, she can indeed become one of her helpers in the Southern Federation.
It is almost impossible to do something on this land without the support of the local people. The past Coordination Bureau and the southern state governments have proven this. This is why the Investigation Department wants to cooperate with the New Gods Alliance. ——This is the prerequisite for complete control of this place.
They waited here for another ten minutes.
beep.
A communication request came over the intercom, coming from the fourth team.
But the communication was not successfully connected.
"No." Ji Gaochuan said. He directly reached out and pressed the fourth button of the intercom device, and Ren Qingxue next to him made no more attempts to stop it.
He said to the machine:
"can you hear me?"
no respond.
He quickly pressed the first button:
"Fargo, please answer when you receive it."
Still nothing.
Ren Qingxue stared at the intercom device.
Ji Gaochuan connected all channels:
"Teams 1 to 5, please answer if you hear me."
Dead silence.
"It may be that there is signal obstruction. It should be that the Salvation Alliance is really here. I didn't expect them to pick this place to attack." Ren Qingxue frowned slightly and said, "Don't be afraid, Fargo may not be able to deal with them."
She had known for a long time that the hunting ceremony could not go so smoothly, but she did not expect that there would be problems in Gowen State.
Ji Gaochuan pressed the communication channel of the investigation department:
"Can anyone hear me?"
After a few seconds of silence.
The device came out with the voices of members of the Investigation Department:
"Report, everything is going well on our end."
Ji Gaochuan and Ren Qingxue looked at each other, and then they felt a cold feeling on their backs at the same time.
None of them were worried about problems with the ritual itself. Killing and injuring several hunter sons was not a bad thing for Ji Gaochuan, who was affiliated with the Federation, or Ren Qingxue, who was also in the New Gods Alliance.
The problem is that they disappeared without a trace.
Ren Qingxue threw a lot of flames onto the trees and watched as their pupils began to dilate.
"We were attacked. Is the investigation department's protector agreement still there?" Ji Gaochuan asked anxiously, "The entire hunter team has lost contact."
"It's still running normally. Wait, news came from the headquarters. Thirty percent of the hunting rituals being carried out at the same time have gone wrong, and 17% have been confirmed to have failed temporarily. Emergency predictions are being made. Once the number exceeds twenty, problems will arise.”
This was actually good news for the Federation, but Ji Gaochuan was not happy when he was in it. The disappearance of the twenty ability users only made him feel afraid for his own life.
"Retreat, let's retreat now." Ji Gaochuan turned around and got into the car. Ren Qingxue followed after seeing a few burning trees.
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The communication device transmitted information from the Investigation Department:
"More than 21% of the rituals have been declared to have temporarily failed, and they are still heading towards the critical value of 25. Once it crosses the threshold, it is a serious mistake. The blood sacrifice must be continued on a universal scale next year before the ritual can be restarted.
"Based on the model, the number of Level IV ability users that appear may be more than three times the number on our list..."
It was clear to both people who heard this that the hunting ritual was doomed to fail.
Ren Qingxue said:
"It seems you underestimated the Salvation League."
Ji Gaochuan said:
"It does seem so. We originally thought that the number of high-level ability users in the Southern Federation should not be that large. Although the number of low-level ability users here is amazing, the number of high-level ability users should be much lower than in other regions. That’s right.”
Ren Qingxue shook her head:
"Let's think about how to report back to the headquarters. Now we have lost all our hands and feet. If you need it, I can temporarily ask the Sons of Flame to help, but they won't be able to stay here for long."
The God of Hunters will definitely be very angry. He is only one step away from level V.
In fact, according to Vulcan, the gods all felt that the God of Hunters could not succeed in just a dozen years, but they did not expect that the God of Hunters would suffer such a heavy blow in the first year...
However, he has completed his mission.
He succeeded in attracting the attention of these mortals.
The God of Hunters is not even one of the most important plans of the New Gods Alliance. The really important parts are all led by those gods who are still at level V, the Sun God, the Moon God, and...
God of fire and destruction.
Each son of the flames has a different understanding of the burning process, but they all agree that it is destruction from the inside out.
Now they are "inside".
