Chapter 38: Cicada vs Mantis

  "Ten Skull Crystals!" The big guy looked at Guo Fei with a dull tone.

  "It's so expensive!" Guo Fei took a look and felt a bit reluctant. He had bought this fox with a sympathetic attitude, planning to release it, but the high cost didn't seem worth it anymore.

  "Squeak squeak!" The little fox looked at Guo Fei with tears in its eyes, calling out to him nonstop.

  "Alas!" Guo Fei sighed, and since this little thing was so spirited, he couldn't bear to refuse it. He took out a soul crystal pouch, fished out ten soul crystals from inside, and handed them over to the big fellow.

  The big guy stole a glance at Guo Fei's soul crystal bag, his eyes turned cold, and a sly smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. Under the cover of the fighting cap, Guo Fei naturally didn't see it.

  Guo Fei carried the iron cage and walked out along the mountain path in the belly of the mountain. At this time, the people in the cave had dispersed almost completely, and the hustle and bustle had become sparse and scattered, as if they had vanished into thin air. Guo Fei walked out of the cave, identified the direction, stretched his figure, and merged into the darkness.

  In another half hour, it will be broad daylight, and now it seems even darker.

  "Huh!" Guo Fei exclaimed in surprise, with the keen senses of a ninja, he perceived that since leaving the cave, three people had been following him from behind. At first, he thought they were just going in the same direction as him, but now he realized they weren't, these three people were clearly tracking him down.

  In such an unfamiliar place, Guo Fei was unwilling to provoke trouble, but not because he was afraid of it. Judging from the footsteps of the three people, their cultivation should be above mid-level Qi Refining, and comparable to his own after becoming a ninja. If they were to fight one-on-one, Guo Fei wouldn't dare say he had an advantage. But with the addition of two corpse soldiers, at least he wouldn't lose, and if tactics were used properly, the three people might not have the upper hand, after all, the corpse soldiers were hidden "killing machines".

  "The three of them had walked out for ten kilometers, I don't know what it means?" Guo Fei turned around a mountain path and sat on a big stone, the three of them turned around and faced Guo Fei.

  "Those who know the score will leave the little fox behind, spit out all the valuable items, and we'll spare your life!" The three men, each tall and robust, wearing steel plate armor on their chests, holding a large battle-axe in hand, spoke in unison.

  Behind him were two men, one slightly shorter in stature, holding a short gun in his hand, and the other with a bow on his back and two quivers of arrows tied at his waist.

  Guo Fei, after so long a period of training, is no longer the young whippersnapper he once was. The three men's formation clearly indicated that they were a well-coordinated trio, with the big fellow in the breastplate taking the lead in charging forward, the archer hiding behind him to launch long-range attacks, and the one wielding the short spear providing cover on the side.

  Guo Fei took a look, and this big guy was the one who sold him the little fox. Although he was wearing a bamboo hat and his face couldn't be seen clearly, his steel plate armor and voice were very eye-catching. At the same time, Guo Fei suddenly realized that the reason why the three of them could always "hang" on to him was probably closely related to this iron cage or the little fox.

  "Oh, you three want to take back what's already been sold?" Guo Fei sneered.

  "Damn it, today is really unlucky, after such a long time, I met you poor devil. Don't waste our time with nonsense, we're here for wealth not to kill people, hand over the Soul Crystal. If you keep stalling, don't blame us for being ruthless." The big man said harshly.

  Guo Fei immediately understood that the three men selling this little fox were "decoys", just looking for a "fat sheep" to slaughter by following the vine and touching the melon.

  "This little fox doesn't seem to be what you said it was, is it a monster?" Guo Fei's face sank as he spoke.

  "Damn it, aren't you a demon hunter? Can't even tell that, and yet you come to buy a demon beast. Thought you were one of us. This little fox was caught from the Wan Kuang Mountain, at least 300 years of cultivation, already half-humanized, worth at least ten spirit stones, can you take it away for ten soul crystals?" The man with the short gun sneered.

  "Second oldest, what's the point of talking to him? Just take him down and grab his stuff. Let's hurry up and get to the next place." The big guy in front said in a deep voice.

  "It seems that the three of them are a team of demon hunters! They've done this kind of thing more than once or twice." Guo Fei thought to himself. In his heart, he had a low opinion of demon hunters, and they weren't all chivalrous heroes like Jin Datong and others who claimed to be righteous. These three were actually a mix of bandits and swindlers, far removed from the heroic ideals of those who called themselves knights-errant.

  Guo Fei's heart skipped a beat, and the flying dagger in the soldier's space appeared in his hand, tightly attached to his palm. Guo Fei didn't dare transform into a sword soldier now, as he didn't know when he might upgrade to a sword guard. Before his body was tempered to be even stronger, Guo Fei didn't dare use a sword soldier to kill people, or else he would be "killed" by the intense heat of the sword shadow. That would be too unjust a death.

  The figure of the man with the short gun flashed, leaping forward as the gun tip stabbed out in a smooth motion, aiming at Guo Fei in mid-air. Guo Fei subconsciously felt danger and his body suddenly rose up, jumping back.

  "Bang!" Guo Fei had just left the large stone, when it suddenly split open with a crack as wide as a bowl. The invisible true energy shot out from the gun body and struck the large stone, producing a violent sound.

  "Even stronger than Wang Zhi and Yang Yingchang!" Guo Fei was overjoyed rather than shocked, such good zombie material couldn't be wasted.

  Kuo Fei landed and pondered, the figure moved again, a short gun flashed towards Kuo Fei like lightning. Kuo Fei's figure suddenly rose again, dodging to the side by one zhang high, this person's combat experience was exceptionally rich, the previous move was actually fake. The gun tip suddenly changed direction, his body floated up, directly stabbing at Kuo Fei from below.

  Guo Fei was in mid-air, looking down at the gun tip that was coming towards him like a sharp flash of lightning. His heart skipped a beat, and the ninja energy inside his body began to swirl. He touched both feet together, and his body rose higher, barely avoiding the invisible gunshot. At the same time, he raised his palm, and the flying knife wrapped in true energy shot out towards the person like lightning.

  "Whoa!" "Ah!" The flying dagger swooped down towards the man's face, he turned his head and dodged to the side, the dagger pierced into his shoulder, directly penetrating his leather armor and deeply embedding itself in his flesh. The man let out a cry of surprise.

  "Hiss!" How could Guo Fei waste such a good opportunity? In the instant his shadow fell, a second flying knife was launched. The moment this man was stabbed and stunned, a black light flashed, and the flying knife pierced his neck.

  "Ugh!" The man's short gun fell to the ground, and he clutched his neck in pain as he collapsed.

  "Second!" This sudden change made the big man suddenly shocked and pale, hastily raising the board axe in his hand to charge forward. At the same time, the archer behind him panicked and drew an arrow from the quiver at his waist.

  Guo Fei couldn't wait for him to finish preparing his bow and arrow, so he made a move. Two corpse soldiers suddenly appeared on either side of the archer, their mottled long swords flashing quickly as they shot out a trail of grey air towards the archer.

  The big man wielding the giant axe swung it in a wide arc, unleashing a thick beam of true energy that shot towards Guo Fei. Guo Fei's figure rapidly retreated backwards. The big man was about to make another move when he suddenly discovered two corpse soldiers attacking from behind, and he hesitated, unsure whether to continue chasing Guo Fei or turn back to rescue the archer. As he hesitated, he heard a blood-curdling scream from behind - the archer had already been killed by the two corpse soldiers, with a mottled long sword stabbed into his heart, his body shrouded in a grey mist, and there was no way he could be saved.

  This series of actions, seemingly complex, actually resolved the situation between the two in an instant. The big man wielding the board axe stood stunned on the spot, while Guo Fei and the two corpse soldiers formed a triangular formation around him.

  Two white rays of light flashed out from Guo Fei's hands, enveloping the two dying people, and instantly disappeared on the spot.

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