Chapter 36 Prey or Hunter?

Facing the generous conditions offered by this "miner," Fang Senyan remained cautious and said coldly:

"That's a terrible and illusory reason. It's more like a delicious pie drawn on paper than a real benefit, because at least I can't verify the truth of your words in the short term. More importantly, my patience is running out. To prevent you from successfully delaying time, I've decided to give you a maximum of ten seconds."

The miner smiled straightforwardly:

"Then what benefits do you want?"

Fang Senyan said without hesitation:

"I want you to set up the explosives and give me the detonator. Can you do that?"

The miner said readily:

"No problem. The Stockholm team promised to protect my safety, but they didn't. So, for my own safety, I can agree to your request."

After the miner finished speaking, the absolute protection light on his body disappeared. Fang Senyan could now kill him easily, but he saw that the miner seemed very cooperative, quickly installed the detonator, and handed it back. More importantly, when Fang Senyan intended to use the helmet's active ability to observe his information, he received a prompt from the Nightmare Imprint:

"You are attempting to observe a neutral party, which will be detected by the other party and cause unknown consequences..."

This prompt made Fang Senyan determined not to kill him. Fang Senyan carefully checked the detonator in his hand, confirmed that there were no loopholes or traps, and then simply waved for the miner to leave. The miner gave Fang Senyan a deep look, smiled, and said:

"Good luck, Major... To be honest, you're the only first-tier contractor with the rank of major I've ever seen."

"So you can consider investing in me," Fang Senyan said bluntly.

The miner laughed and said:

"I will, of course, within the rules allowed by the space."

Next, Fang Senyan waited for a while—specifically, one minute and eighteen seconds. He saw scattered figures appearing in the hazy mist in the distance, and he clearly felt that an extremely strong killing intent was lurking not far away!

So Fang Senyan pressed the detonator without hesitation.

It was just a very muffled sound, ridiculously like a gloomy fart inside the cliff.

The smoke from the slight explosion dissipated in the rain and mist, instantly annihilated.

Then, an almost imperceptible crack spread from the explosion point. It looked like the crack didn't exist at all, completely ineffective, like the kind of crack on the surface of a bowl that doesn't affect its use.

But soon, two slightly larger cracks appeared at the end of its extension, and then the two cracks extending outward became four, and four became eight...

In a short period, the cracks on the cliff were as dense as a spider web. Finally, with a crisp "kaler" sound, a small amount of gravel and soil slowly fell. Immediately afterward, half of the huge mountain began to slowly disintegrate and collapse, and the roots of the golden tree, deeply embedded in the rock, also began to wail and tilt in this collapse.

After the explosion, it was clear that the Stockholm team on the opposite side began to waver and disputes arose, because they were very clear that since the landslide had occurred, it meant that the people they had sent out had completed their mission, so their life and death were temporarily unimportant... What was important was to seize those two powerful Elven rings! But at this time, they were not in the best position!

Fang Senyan's purpose was simple. He wanted to rescue Wu Ge in the chaos. The biggest obstacle was the Ringwraiths, but with Wu Ge's followers going to entangle them, the two sides basically formed an exchange. He believed that delaying them was possible.

However, the group of guys from the Stockholm team were the biggest variable! Fang Senyan knew nothing about their strength or organizational structure, only that the overall strength of this group of guys must be quite strong.

More importantly, these guys' Nightmare Imprints were on their shoulders, which meant that if they launched a massacre against his group, the gains would be very rich! Killing one person was equivalent to the Merit Points of completing a main mission.

Moreover, for the Elven forces present, apart from King Elrond, who was seriously injured, the weakest should be Wu Ge. And from the fact that Wu Ge was imprisoned, it was destined that she would likely receive the least help from the Elves, so she might also be on the hit list.

Fang Senyan asked himself that if he were the leader of the opposing team, he would definitely not give up this great opportunity to harvest. Although his side had Mo Yi, Shu Ren, and Irina, these three cannon fodders, to attract the other party's attention, Fang Senyan still felt that the situation was fraught with danger!

Therefore, he seized this opportunity to blow up the cliff, in order to catch the Stockholm team off guard in the face of this sudden event. In this situation, they would inevitably make two choices. First, most people would go to seize the two Elven rings. Second, they would divide their forces to chase and kill him because of the hatred for killing the team's deputy leader, as well as the advantage in distance!

Under these two premises, the Stockholm team's threat to Wu Ge would be weakened again. Fang Senyan himself took on the risks that originally belonged to her! Fang Senyan knew very well that this matter was very dangerous, but he was forced to do so.

Because if he didn't do this, then Jiao Shi would have to. But without Jiao Shi, the MT, blocking in front of Wu Ge, Wu Ge's own strength would not be able to exert even 50%, which would be even more detrimental to the overall situation.

In the extremely intense and grand landslide, the earth was shaking slightly. Although the rain was pouring, the smoke and dust raised by the rolling stones also had a sky-covering feeling. Fang Senyan turned around and fled without hesitation. At this time, how far he could escape directly determined the success or failure of Fang Senyan's layout, or even his survival or death!

Just as Fang Senyan threw a bottle of curse potion behind him to delay the opponent's actions and then fled frantically, he suddenly felt an unusual sensation coming. The Nightmare Imprint immediately sent a clear prompt:

"You have been scanned by the unknown target? Colonizer?'s black iron team ability: Hunter's Mark. If marked successfully, the marker will clearly sense your location, and the damage they inflict on you will be increased by 5%, lasting for 30 minutes. This effect has priority."

"Unknown target? Colonizer?'s black iron team ability: Hunter's Mark scan has been resisted. Your team rank is higher, suppressing their team ability."

"Unknown target? Colonizer?'s black iron team ability: Hunter's Mark scan has been resisted. Your team rank is higher, suppressing their team ability."

"..."

After a series of resistances, Fang Senyan saw a red message.

""Unknown target? Colonizer?'s black iron team ability: Hunter's Mark scan successfully marked you. You have become his prey!"

"Prey??" A ferocious smile suddenly appeared on the corner of Fang Senyan's mouth: "Very good, you have the guts to chase after me."

In the fierce running, every step Fang Senyan took caused mud and water to splash, leaving deep footprints. He didn't look back at all, because that might reduce his running speed by a few seconds. After running less than a kilometer, the sound of rushing water was already coming from ahead. It could be seen that the original mountain stream had risen into a turbid and violent river, and those torn trees and leaves were flowing sadly downstream with the river water.

However, there was already a wide raft on the river. The raft was very strange. It didn't need any vines to tie it together. Instead, it was directly connected and grew together. Although it looked very strange, it was natural and seamless. Obviously, this was the work of the Elves.

Fang Senyan nimbly jumped onto the raft, tore off the vines next to him, and was immediately rushed downstream by the turbulent river at a very high speed. He looked back at this time and found that two or three contractors had stopped two hundred meters away and were cursing. It was estimated that there were no good words.

If it were Jiao Shi and Hei Ge, they would definitely be at a loss in such a torrent similar to a mountain flood, but for Fang Senyan, who dared to face the challenge of typhoons, controlling a raft in such a mountain flood was simply not worth mentioning like a small ditch! What's more, the raft made by Elven magic was very strong and reliable?

After being rushed down the river for a few kilometers, Fang Senyan let out a sigh of relief, and his tense body also relaxed. But at this moment, from the gaps in the raft under his feet, several streams of water strangely stretched out. Those streams of water intertwined together and immediately formed a yellowish-brown liquid hand. This big hand suddenly grabbed Fang Senyan and then dragged him down hard! Immediately, it made him fall face up!

Even more terrifying was that behind the raft where Fang Senyan was about to fall, a turbid stream of water suddenly surged out and instantly condensed into a sharp water thorn. If Fang Senyan fell down like this, there was no doubt that his heart would be pierced from behind!

Such a strange attack method was indeed unexpected by Fang Senyan. After he lost his balance and fell down, he subconsciously pressed down with his backhand and immediately pressed on the ice cone!

As blood spurted, Fang Senyan's left palm was immediately pierced with a bloody, bowl-sized hole, and even the white bones of the palm were clearly visible. However, Fang Senyan used this to stabilize his center of gravity and avoid the enemy's subsequent attacks.