Chapter 24 - Dangerous Journey

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After the attack, everyone immediately retaliated in anger. Within a short period of time, the nest of Scarlet Hot Snakes was beaten to death by the group as expected.

After that, the group, which had suffered their first loss, became even more cautious. However, in the forest filled with demonic beasts, it was clearly impossible to completely avoid them. 

The team walked less than 500 meters before they were attacked by three waves of demonic beasts. Fortunately, the mercenaries had the advantage in numbers. Under the price of more than 20 soldiers being injured, the three waves of demonic beasts were completely repelled.

Many demonic beasts rampaged through the dangerous forest and over a series of battles, the team relied on their overwhelming battle strength to repel wave after wave of demonic beasts’ attacks. Of course, the battle would definitely be accompanied by losses. While the team suffered some losses, most of them were only light injuries.

After half a day’s journey, they finally arrived at their destination, the Nine-Headed Mountain which was the headquarters of the Nine-Headed Bird bandit gang. Su Chen first explored the surrounding terrain.

Walking in the shadows of rocks, mounds, and others, he encountered towering rocks and used spider silk to leap forward. In some spacious areas, he walked slowly to assess the layout of the area.

“I didn’t expect it to be like this.” He continued to walk around.

He was surprised to find that to go to the hill in the center of the valley, they would have to reach the top of the hills on the left and right side before walking on the drawbridge to reach the hill in the center.

That was where the stronghold was located. The first difficulty was to find out how to enter the hills on the left and right.

Su Chen had checked with his eyes. There were 20 people at the entrance alone, and teams of patrols often passed by.

“It’s true. The security here’s quite tight,” he said and sighed.

“Forget it. I’ll just charge in from the front.”

He decided not to take the usual route and go straight ahead.

After all, if they entered from the left and right sides of the hill, they did not know what other checkpoints were inside. It was too much of a waste of time.

The soldiers easily broke through the Nine-Headed Bird bandits’ gate.

“Haha! F*ck the Nine-Headed Bird! It’s not that great!”

“I think, we should discuss the distribution of the spoils of war now.”

“It’s said that the Nine-Headed Bird captured a caravan. Hehe! The excellent crystal ores produced in the northern plains can be sold for a high price!”

The soldiers were all smiling mischievously. Even before the battle started, they were already discussing the distribution of the spoils of war. This was no surprise. They had a large number of people. Of course, this was the enemy’s territory. If the other party was guarding the gate, it would probably take them a lot of effort to take it down. However, now that they had effortlessly broken through the gate of the stockade, did that not mean victory would be a piece of cake?

Because of this, the mercenaries had smiles on their faces. They were no longer so nervous about the upcoming battle.

However, at this moment, Su Chen, who was walking at the back of the team, was puzzled. Breaking through the enemy’s defense line was too easy, right? It could be said that they had entered the enemy’s heart without any effort.

“Huh? This terrain…” When his gaze swept across the several artificially built highlands around the stronghold, Su Chen’s vigilance immediately rose. He immediately turned his head and looked at the broken stronghold door behind him. There was a huge rock on it. When he saw this, Su Chen’s expression suddenly changed…

As expected, it quickly came true as he had guessed. A strange phenomenon suddenly appeared.

From the high ground in front of them, dozens of Nine-Headed Bird bandits suddenly appeared in a row!

Seeing that the situation was not right, the soldiers immediately set up their formation and prepared to fight at any time. Although they were confident of victory, no matter how confident they were, they would still keep their vigilance.

Just as the soldiers were preparing to fight, something unexpected happened!

The bandits who were lying in ambush on the high ground lifted up large rocks which began to roll down one by one. The danger was right in front of them. It was obvious that Su Chen and the others were surrounded.

In the blink of an eye, the bandits surrounded him.

“Brothers, attack!”

All of them aimed at Su Chen’s head. Just as they were about to chop him into mincemeat, a loud noise suddenly came, one after another.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The weapons in their hands fell.

Black shadows flew by and crashed into the big tree next to them.

What was going on?

Everyone was dumbfounded.

A person wearing a hood appeared in front of them. Then, the surrounding bandits and children all said in unison, “Lord Nidong.”

She stood in front of Su Chen and the others without saying a word. Then, Yousi could not help but say, “You’re wearing a hood and you don’t dare to show yourself. You must be the bandit leader…”

She raised her hand and grabbed both sides of the hood before slowly taking it off, revealing a head of snow-white long hair. She slowly said, “I’m afraid that you’ll be scared to death by my appearance before you’re killed.”

“White hair. You look pretty,” Yousi said as he looked at the white-haired girl with her head lowered.

“How about this?” The white-haired girl suddenly raised her head. Her beautiful face was as white as jade, and her eyes were silver-white. She also had a perky nose.

The only thing that did not fit was under the girl’s eyes. There was a small patch of blood-red lines on her right cheek, like an electronic circuit diagram. The lines extended all the way to her neck. They could not see anything below that.

Yousi was stunned. The figure under the hood looked surprisingly good-looking.

“Like I said. What do you think? You’ll be scared.” The white-haired girl was stunned at first when she saw the dazed look on the other party’s face. Then, she snorted coldly and laughed. Just like the people who saw her appearance before, they were all scared.

She stared at them with her silver-white eyes, pursed her lower lips, and resisted the urge to put on the hood.

“Are you born with it or something?”

The white-haired girl tilted her head and her eyes were dazed. She had never thought that Yousi would ask her such a question.

“Aren’t you afraid of me?” the white-haired girl asked with her eyes wide open.

“Why should I be afraid of you? Is it because of the lines on your face?” Yousi blinked his black eyes.

Could it be that there was something special about the blood-red lines? Or was there something particular about them?

“No… Look carefully. Are these all real?” The white-haired girl hurriedly took a few steps forward and pointed at the blood-red lines on her face.

“You don’t say. They’re quite beautiful.” Yousi carefully looked at the lines on the girl’s face.

The blood-red lines would even sparkle. It was indeed quite cool.

“Beautiful?” The white-haired girl muttered to herself. Her silver-white eyes were stunned..