Hu Die Lan
Chapter 382 Clearly Wanting to Snatch
Looking at the crowd of players from the two cities behind him, still gleefully fighting, Bai Shi Jing Lun, as a member of Sunset City, couldn't help but feel depressed for his city's mercenary brothers.
He had already heard from his brothers that the two sides had been fighting for a long time. Rumor had it that Todd was among those four teams, but now, after all the fighting, Todd was nowhere to be found. It was like executing an earth-shattering conspiracy, only to find an empty matchbox at the end. Who could understand such frustration?
The players of the Sunset City Mercenary Alliance were in exactly that mood. After not finding Todd here, the news quickly spread through the channels. After Black Finger was defeated, they also notified the brothers in Cloud City of the bad news. The two opposing factions in the passionate battle stopped fighting simultaneously, looking at each other, suddenly feeling that their leaders had been fools.
Indeed, nothing was more boring than realizing that something was meaningless after it was done.
The Sunset City players felt that it was meaningless because Todd wasn't there; while the Cloud City players felt that they hadn't successfully completed the escort mission. As news hadn't arrived that Todd had safely arrived, everything they had done would become meaningless if he was still caught and killed.
It shouldn't have ended so quickly! The Cloud City players regretted it. The reason was the sudden intervention of the Hundred Battles Mercenary Group. Heavens, where did these cheap people come from! Having one or two such experts was already perverted enough, but these guys actually formed a mercenary group. Was there any justice left? All the players thought in great indignation.
"If Todd isn't in the four teams, then where is he?" Bai Shi Jing Lun didn't have so many emotions, and calmly continued their mission.
"This…" his subordinate couldn't answer.
"Does anyone know?" Bai Shi Jing Lun put on an air of "I'll reward anyone who speaks."
No one paid attention.
"Strange! When they came out of the valley, they were clearly divided into four teams. There wasn't a fifth!" someone muttered.
"Valley?" Bai Shi Jing Lun was startled, "If they're not here, wouldn't that mean they're still in the valley?"
Everyone was stunned. Some meticulous people immediately began searching for the expressions they needed on the faces of the Cloud City players. Sure enough, they saw a flash of regret on the faces of some people when they heard this.
"Did any of your people go to the valley in groups?" Bai Shi Jing Lun asked his Sunset City colleagues.
"No…" the person who answered was ashamed, feeling embarrassed that they hadn't been able to judge this possibility. In fact, it wasn't that they hadn't thought of it, but those who had thought of it had acted selfishly.
And this selfish person had no choice but to share this resource now. After assigning four teams to take down the area outside the valley, but not finding Todd, he immediately announced in a tone of sudden realization: "I understand, they're hiding in the valley, trying to enter the city from the valley!"
He had to say this. He believed that even if his allies were stupid, they would easily realize that if he wasn't in the four teams, then he was still in the valley. If the main force rushed over and met them in the valley, his little schemes would be exposed. So he chose to strike first. As soon as the news came, he immediately reported this speculation, and then shouted: "I'm close, I'll take people down to the valley first! Hurry everyone!"
If he was still thinking of monopolizing the fruits of victory at this time, he would be brainless.
Moreover, even if he wanted to, it was too late. Because at this moment, he still hadn't found the Han Family's Young Master in the valley.
The advance team chased and chased all the way, and was about to rush to the roots of Sunset City, but still couldn't find them. They had already reached the intersection that ran horizontally, and found nothing.
"Could it be that they just ran past when we weren't there, and they came out of here, so they're sandwiched between us now?" the guild leader muttered.
Jian Nan You frowned, already vaguely feeling something was wrong.
"Brother Jian Nan, what do you think?" The guild leader asked him by name, showing that he was a little helpless after tossing around for so long. Moreover, since he couldn't monopolize the fruits of victory, his fighting spirit had dropped by countless percentage points.
"First, tell your people outside to keep an eye on the valley. If anyone goes up, they must be discovered," Jian Nan You said.
"Don't worry, I've already arranged this, and absolutely no one has gone up," the guild leader said.
"Then they must still be in the valley!"
"Definitely!"
"Could it really be because of several coincidences that they didn't meet?" Jian Nan You thought.
"You guys, continue to move forward and meet up with the people who are turning back. If you meet them, just delay them, the main force will arrive soon," the guild leader commanded, his words filled with unconcealable disappointment.
"Brother Jian Nan, let's walk this way again!" He pointed to the river that ran horizontally, "Maybe they're coming from this way."
Jian Nan You hesitated slightly. He was a little worried that those people weren't in this direction. Although he and the guild leader had agreed to leave the video mage to them, it was obvious that the situation was no longer up to this person, and the other party's main force was about to arrive. If he went the wrong way, and those people were actually on the other side, he was worried that the video mage would be gone by the time he rushed back, and his precious equipment would naturally fall into the hands of others.
But after thinking about it, he couldn't be in two places at once. So after thinking carefully, he finally chose to go in the same direction as the guild leader.
Along the way, the guild leader was extremely silent, occasionally sighing softly, and was dispirited, sweeping away the previous high spirits.
Nothing! When Jian Nan You and the others finished walking this section, the sound of rumbling footsteps came from outside the valley, and the main force had arrived. This road was also not peaceful, and the Cloud City players had to come to support, so the two sides maintained their battle formation and rushed over together.
This situation directly led to the Hundred Battles Mercenary Group arriving the fastest. When Jian Nan You and his group had just walked out of the river intersection, they saw several figures continuously swooping down from the valley above, landing firmly in front of them. The leader slowly raised his head, pressed his forehead, and smiled after seeing the people in front of him: "Invincible, you came really fast!"
Jian Nan You didn't know who the newcomer was talking about. He turned his head and saw that the guild leader's face was extremely ugly, staring at the newcomer without saying a word. At this time, more and more people jumped down, and the conspicuous proportion of the Fighter class made Jian Nan You understand the origin of these people: the Hundred Battles Mercenary Group.
So the leader is naturally Bai Shi Jing Lun, one of the Five Little Strongs who is as famous as himself? Jian Nan You had only heard of this person, and this was the first time he had met him. He couldn't help but take a few more glances. Bai Shi Jing Lun was smiling and greeting the guild leader, and Bai Shi Jing Lun saw the guild leader's ugly face, but still smiled indifferently.
"Did you find Todd?" Bai Shi Jing Lun asked.
"What are you doing here?" the guild leader, called "Invincible," answered irrelevantly.
"Same as you, a mission!" Bai Shi Jing Lun said.
Guild Leader Invincible looked ugly, and it seemed that the Hundred Battles Mercenary Group was not doing this kind of business snatching for the first time. And looking at his ugly face, he guessed that he had never had good luck before.
At this time, news also came from the right side of the valley that the two sides had met, but those people were not seen.
"Not there either?" Guild Leader Invincible was completely stunned. He looked at Jian Nan You with a puzzled expression.
"Eh, is there a problem?" Bai Shi Jing Lun came up to gossip.
"None of your business." Guild Leader Invincible glared at him and said to Jian Nan You in a low voice, "Not there either."
Before Jian Nan You could speak, Bai Shi Jing Lun had already smiled and said to him, "This brother looks very unfamiliar!"
"I'm from Linshui City, Jian Nan You." Jian Nan You introduced himself calmly.
"Ah!" Bai Shi Jing Lun also seemed very surprised, and looked at Guild Leader Invincible and said, "You even hired foreign aid this time? Is it targeting me?"
"Hehe, not at all, I have some private matters of my own, and I just happened to run into everyone." Jian Nan You explained for Guild Leader Invincible lightly.
"Oh…" Bai Shi Jing Lun responded and looked at Guild Leader Invincible again, "What did you just say, what did you find?"
"They have already left the valley with Todd, go chase them!" Guild Leader Invincible said unhappily.
"Childish." Bai Shi Jing Lun pointed at Guild Leader Invincible and laughed, "You want to fool me with this? Naive, very naive."
"Seeing that you came out of this road, then of course you came from the right side of the river. In this case, they are neither on the right side of the river nor on this horizontal road. So is it the left or the right here?" Bai Shi Jing Lun spread his hands and pointed to both sides and asked.
His left hand side was the dead end of the valley, and the right hand side was the direction they came from.
Logically speaking, the Han Family's Young Master would never go to a dead end, but at this time, Jian Nan You and the others had already searched all over the place, and the dead end direction was the only place they hadn't been to, so the possibility of them being there was very high.
Then he heard Guild Leader Invincible gritting his teeth and saying, "Let's each take one side, left and right."
"Oh, then which side are you going to take?" Bai Shi Jing Lun let the other party choose first.
Under Jian Nan You's hint, Guild Leader Invincible chose the dead end side.
"Hmm, very good, let's go this way too!" Bai Shi Jing Lun greeted the brothers.
"You…" Guild Leader Invincible was so angry that he couldn't speak, and after a while he roared: "You're obviously going to snatch it!"
"Yeah! Don't you know that? What are you doing, is this the first day you've met me? You're inexplicably angry." Bai Shi Jing Lun said a few words before turning around, and then walked towards the dead end of the valley with his brothers.
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An early chapter ~~ Does everyone have any premonitions?