Chapter 39: The Most Dangerous Place is the Safest!

  "Hmph! You're done for! Don't think you can just waltz in here and disrespect us, the Black Tiger Mercenary Group. This kid has crossed us, and now he's just waiting to die! My Black Tiger Mercenary Group is the one that rules these mountains, and in all these years, who dares to provoke us? Hmph, this time, Lord Black Panther himself is taking charge, mobilizing half of our forces. It's been decades since we've done something like this! You just wait and see, this kid doesn't know what's good for him, daring to mess with the likes of us. Even if he's got some tricks up his sleeve, in a few days, he'll definitely be dead at the hands of my Black Tiger Mercenary Group!"

  In the search team, as soon as the squad leader uttered this arrogant sentence, others immediately stopped their surprise at Ning Chong and echoed the squad leader's words.

  Indeed, with the strength of Hei Hu Mercenary Group walking horizontally for over a decade, they had long been accustomed to annihilating everything that dared to oppose them. They didn't think Ning Chong could escape alive under the pursuit of Hei Hu Mercenary Group.

  That squad leader's sentence that sealed Ning Chong's fate, Ning Chong naturally also heard it, but he was overjoyed instead - because from these people's conversation, he discovered an excellent hiding place!

  "Hmm, the most dangerous place is actually the safest place. I'm afraid even Black Panther wouldn't think of it - that I would choose to hide right under his nose?"

  He made up his mind quickly, and Ning Chong immediately took action. He lightly jumped down from the big tree and hid in the bushes and shrubs, watching every move of the search party like a hunter looking for prey, waiting for an opportunity to strike.

  While evading the search party's pursuit, Ning Chong looked for opportunities to counterattack, and thus he was able to hold out against the search party, always keeping his figure well hidden.

  It was also unknown when Ning Chong's opportunity finally came, a thin man in the search team had an emergency and left the large group to find a hidden place to relieve himself.

  He held his breath, concentrated his spirit, and acted swiftly. Just as the thin man had left the group and entered a hidden place, he quietly approached the thin man from behind and pinched off the thin man's neck.

  Afterwards, Ning Chong quickly stripped the thin man of his clothes and buried his body in a nearby natural pit, handling it in such a way that no traces were left behind.

  It was said to be quick, but Ning Chong had spent a considerable amount of time even at the fastest speed. Just as he had just changed the clothes of that thin man, several members of the Black Tiger Mercenary Corps who had not seen the thin man return for a long time became suspicious and came up together to investigate.

  This was exactly what Ning Chong wanted to see, he quietly hid again, waiting for the few team members to come up, and then suddenly burst out and quickly killed them.

  Only a trembling in the bushes, several shrill and mournful cries, and then the bodies of several comrades were thrown out from the bushes and fell to the ground.

  This sudden movement immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding crowd, who quickly drew their weapons and rushed over to see what was happening.

  This small team of about five people, in the blink of an eye, these five people were thrown out from the bushes and became corpses on the ground. Everyone who saw this was shocked, taking a deep breath, their bodies chilled to the bone. Judging from the events of the past few days, this was another sneak attack by that white-robed youngster.

  Everyone hesitated for a moment, then quickly gathered together to check the shrubs in front. However, they didn't find anything, nor did they see any trace of Ning Chong. It seemed that after Ning Chong had killed someone, he had already slipped away.

  Even with the strong hand of the fourth-level martial artist leading the team, the brothers in the group were still ambushed by Ning Chong and five people died. While everyone was shocked and their legs were trembling, they also thought of the increasingly irritable Black Panther.

  These days, the black leopard, who often bursts into rage, has casually pinched to death several innocent team members. Therefore, although they are afraid that they will die at any time in Ning Chong's unpredictable hands, they are even more afraid of being brutally killed by the enraged Black Leopard and do not dare to have any intention of retreating or escaping. In the end, they can only curse their bad luck and continue to execute the task of searching for Ning Chong.

  As for the five corpses on the ground, everyone followed the old rules and placed them together. When the sky was almost dark, their team's task time had arrived, and they hadn't found any movement again. Everyone let out a sigh of relief, lifted up the five corpses, and began to head back.

  There is a saying "falling leaves return to their roots", on the continent of Shenwu, it has always been popular to bury in the ground. If not possible, mercenary groups with sufficient strength, such as the Black Tiger Mercenary Group, have always tried to bring back and bury the bodies of deceased members, so that they can rest in peace.

  This time, everyone had no doubts about the five blood-stained corpses and simply carried them away on stretchers. They naturally didn't notice that one of the "corpses" wasn't actually dead, but was still very much alive.

  He lay motionless on the stretcher, and Ning Chong followed the group for a while before finally feeling at ease, knowing that his plan to pretend to be a dead member of the Black Tiger Mercenary Corps had succeeded.

  It turned out that Ning Chong suddenly thought of hiding in the camp where the corpses were placed after hearing the discussions of several team members, hiding under Hei Bao's eyelids, and refining the bone jade blood coral.

  The living always have some taboos about the dead and will not like to stay in a tent where corpses are placed, but this can create an opportunity for Ning Chong, allowing him to hide more safely.

  The options were limited, Ning Chong made a swift decision and came up with a plan. He first took out the thin man, obtained the Black Tiger Mercenary Group's uniform, then made himself look like he was covered in blood, his face almost unrecognizable.

  He then killed the four men who came to look for Qiao. When throwing out the bodies of the four, he also pretended to be thrown out and "fell" to the ground, dying seamlessly.

  Everything is going smoothly according to Ning Chong's plan, and the people in this search team not only have no suspicion, but also take Ning Chong as a dead man, carrying him together towards the camp of the Black Tiger Mercenary Corps.

  It wasn't until the sounds of conversation grew louder that Ning Chong opened his eyes to find himself back in the Black Panther Mercenary Corps' camp.

  Ning Chong only glanced at it lightly, and his heart couldn't help but feel heavy. In this camp, there were nearly hundreds of people scattered all over the place.

  Generally, a mercenary group with several hundred people is already considered an excellent mercenary group. However, the Black Tiger Mercenary Group has split out at least half of its personnel to guard the main roads in the Dark Forest, and there are still hundreds of people searching for Ning Chong's trail outside.

  Even so, there are still hundreds of people in this camp. The grandeur and strength of the Black Tiger Mercenary Corps can be seen from this! It's no wonder that it's a generation of overlords in the Xuan Yuan mountain range, walking horizontally!