Chapter 30: Chapter 24: Hooked_2
Translator: 549690339
“After all, just relying on honest hunting, being exploited, I normally need to earn ten silver taels. It would take at least half a year of time. But now, it only took a few minutes to get ten silver taels.”
Indeed, as the old saying goes.
Killing and arson brings gold belts, building bridges and roads leave no corpses; the ancients never deceive me.” Murmuring, Lu Yuan burrowed into the mountain ridge.
Those Qingzhu Gang members could catch up any moment, better run into the mountain, so that there is enough sense of security.
Only in the big mountains can excellent hunters, like fish entering water, play to their full strength without restraint.
He was looking forward to the Qingzhu Gang people chasing in.
Just now, ten silver taels were a bit less, our Dayu Mountain Arrow God, wanted to fish for more.
A moment later.
At the entrance of Xiaoyu Village, that strong man who was originally at the city gate, Du Qing, hurriedly came with his seven younger brothers. “Where are Zhao and the others?”
Their gazes scanning left and right on the wide official road, a few shadows were nowhere to be seen. Du Qing frowhea ana askea.
Logically, regardless of whether someone was ambushed or not, upon seeing him coming, those men should have come out to greet him.
“Big brother, look!” At that moment, a younger brother next to him discovered corpses beside the distant grass pile, and immediately exclaimed.
“Zhao Er…”
Du Qing led people to the corpse’s location, and as soon as he saw the dead were his men, his face suddenly turned ugly.
“Who killed Zhao Er?”
“They were ambushing the Hunter here. Could it be him who made the move?”
The younger brothers next to him looked shocked at the corpse. Their voices trembled, clearly frightened.
Whoever had killed Zhao Er and the others so cleanly could also kill them just as cleanly.
Those gang underlings who joined the gang only wanted to have their way in the market and bully the powerless commoners.
At this moment, meeting a ruthless person who dares to kill and is capable of killing, they suddenly became a bit timid.
Why bother?
They usually only earn a few bucks, is it worth the risk to play with such a murderous person?
This thought suddenly rose in many people’s minds.
What?
Jianghu chivalry?
Please, they are gangsters, there wouldn’t really be anyone who thought that gangsters would have any Jianghu chivalry, right?
“That’s right, it’s that Hunter.”
Du Qing squatted down, turned over the wounds on Zhao Er’s corpse, confirmed the trace, indeed it was an arrow wound, his face turned completely blue with anger, gritted his teeth and said: “That kid dares to kill my people, daring to violate my Qingzhu Gang, we can’t let him go. Otherwise, what face will I have as Du Qing, and what face will Qingzhu Gang have?”
He stood up and said to a younger brother next to him: “Li Si, you return to town immediately and report this to the gang leader. Let the gang leader mobilize manpower and search the mountain for that Hunter.”
The mountains are vast, it’s not easy for them to find people with just a few of them.
Only by organizing a large-scale manhunt and catching a few Hunters familiar with the environment as guides, can there be a chance to catch that audacious Hunter.
“Yes.” That gang member named Li Si, upon hearing the order, felt as if he had been pardoned, and immediately ran towards the city.
The other gang members looked at his fading figure, their eyes filled with envy.
But soon they had no time to envy, because Du Qing was looking at them: “Someone killed our brother, we must avenge Zhao Er and the others.
Follow me to chase into the mountain.
Zhao Er’s bodies are still warm, the person hasn’t gone far. If we chase now, we might catch his tail.
I want to skin that kid alive, torture him viciously, only then can I vent my hatred.’
With their boss staring at them like a fierce beast, the younger brothers felt their scalp go numb and dared not say no. They hurriedly nodded in agreement.
“Follow me.”
Du Qing nodded in satisfaction, then led the six younger brothers into the mountain forest.
Lu Yuan was weaving through the dense forest.
His steps were light, his figure agile, like a ghost, patrolling his own realm of death.
A year of mountain life, coupled with the original body’s decades of experience, had long fused him with the mountains.
But after running through the forest for a while, his speed gradually slowed down, finally stopping on a hidden grassland covered with ice and snow.
His eyes looked at the unremarkable snow surface, his highly-perfected [Hunting Trap] skill allowed Lu Yuan to keenly sense that beneath this snow surface was a trap meticulously set by someone.
Hunters hunting wild beasts rely not only on archery and brute force; actually, their most used method is traps.
“There are hunters in this mountain area, and they must have set many traps in the mountains for hunting, and they are distributed in nearby areas.” Lu Yuan stared at the trap, lost in thought.
He didn’t know how many of the Qingzhu Gang were chasing after.
Although he wanted to use the familiar mountain forest to hunt down all these people, facing them head-on, even if it was just archery, was still a bit risky.
“But if I can use the traps, I don’t even have to face them, and can directly eliminate these people, that would be perfect.” At the thought of this, Lu Yuan was instantly tempted.
He hesitated no more and followed the traces of the trap in front of him, searching for other traps nearby..