Chapter 160 The Mutated Chongui Flower

　　Fang Yue was stunned by An Shenyi's words.

　　"You haven't seen a jushou xuequan (giant-headed bloodhound)? It's…"

　　Fang Yue stopped, realizing he couldn't reveal the blood hunter's secrets.

　　But An Shenyi seemed to guess what Fang Yue was thinking. He smiled and said,

　　"Yueye, you misunderstood. I know about jushou xuequan. In Mo Village, we often hear rumors about guilies (strange hunts) like jushou xuequan appearing near the village."

　　"It's just that I'm not a hunter and have no interest in guilies. I've never encountered one, so it's normal that I don't know about its abilities. Everyone has their specialties. I'm sure blood hunters don't know how to heal and save people."

　　The blood hunter didn't refute, but said calmly,

　　"An Shenyi is right. Doctors save people, hunters hunt. But you're wrong about one thing. Jushou xuequan isn't something you can encounter just because you're interested. Without an experienced hunter, tracking their movements is a problem, let alone hunting them. Among all the villages in our joint village organization, very few hunters can capture guilies. And I am one of them."

　　The blood hunter's words seemed to have a hint of contention, and An Shenyi's expression tightened slightly.

　　"Looks like you're very confident."

　　"I wouldn't be able to subdue guilies without confidence."

　　"Very well, then how confident are you in stopping the jushou xuequan from helping the Chongui Flower?"

　　The blood hunter raised his eyelids and glanced at him, "As confident as An Shenyi."

　　An Shenyi laughed, "I have no confidence at all."

　　The blood hunter laughed as well, "Me neither!"

　　Fang Yue: …

　　Luo Xin: …

　　Are you two playing riddles? You have no confidence, yet you're testing each other.

　　"Alright, alright, I know you two are both amazing, so let's get moving. The Chongui Flower will start moving if we're too late."

　　"Okay."

　　Fang Yue spoke, and the two didn't hesitate. They walked toward the back of the group.

　　While the others were discussing, the group had almost entered the forest.

　　The two arrived at the end of the group, stopped at the forest entrance, and began to set up.

　　An Shenyi stuck the sangui xiang (scattered ghost incense) into the ground and lit it.

　　With a sizzle, the top of the sangui xiang lit up red, burning and emitting a thick, spherical cloud of smoke that floated above the incense and spread out in circles.

　　"That's it for the smoke?"

　　Fang Yue was worried, but An Shenyi quickly explained,

　　"This is just the beginning. After the sangui xiang burns for a while, the smoke will become denser and spread throughout the forest entrance."

　　An Shenyi glanced at the blood hunter.

　　The blood hunter didn't say much. He petted the jushou xuequan's head, took out a gourd-like object from his waist, and opened the wooden stopper to give it a drink.

　　After a while, the jushou xuequan spread its legs and peed a puddle of pink urine beside the sangui xiang, emitting a fresh fragrance that was quite dreamy.

　　This, this is very manly!

　　Fang Yue was a little confused.

　　"This urine… seems different from before."

　　"I gave it some special diuretic wine, which makes the blood dou's (blood fight) urine smell stronger and also has a stronger effect of confusing the guiyi's (strange and unusual) sense of smell."

　　Alright, alright, a maiden touch is a maiden touch. Maybe this jushou xuequan is female.

　　Fang Yue tried to quietly lower his head, but he heard the blood hunter say calmly, "Don't look, the blood dou is female."

　　"Um… I, I wasn't looking."

　　Fang Yue scratched his head awkwardly, "Then let's retreat while the Chongui Flower hasn't caught up. As for the effect, we'll know if it appears."

　　The others exchanged glances and nodded.

　　"Okay."

　　Just as everyone was about to return to the group, Fang Yue suddenly saw his friend list flashing wildly.

　　What's going on?

　　He clicked it open.

　　"Brother Yue, help! Brother Yue, help! Brother Yue, Brother Yue, help!!"

　　More than a dozen messages, all with the same content, and all from the same person.

　　"What's wrong?"

　　"Vice-Captain Yue?"

　　"Yueye?"

　　An Shenyi and the other two looked at Fang Yue, who had suddenly stopped. They saw Fang Yue look up and scan around.

　　Then, Fang Yue frowned and focused his gaze in a certain direction.

　　Following his gaze, they could see a tall figure rushing toward them.

　　"Aba, aba!"

　　An Shenyi: !!!

　　An Shenyi was the first to react. He was about to rush over, but Fang Yue grabbed his right hand and pulled him back.

　　An Shenyi took two steps back before steadying himself. He was about to tell Fang Yue to let go, but he saw Fang Yue point down with a meaningful expression.

　　Luo Xin and the blood hunter beside Fang Yue were staring at the ground with grim expressions, not paying any attention to him.

　　An Shenyi followed their gaze and his pupils contracted.

　　He saw a flower, a black flower, had emerged from the spot where he almost stepped.

　　The flower pattern was in a circular spiral shape. Just staring at it for a moment made him feel dizzy.

　　Chongui Flower!

　　It actually… caught up!

　　How could it be so fast!

　　An Shenyi's expression was a bit ugly, and he also felt a lingering fear.

　　If he had stepped on it just now, he would have been crushed into meat paste, and might have even awakened the Chongya Gui (Heavy Pressure Ghoul) directly!

　　"Yueye, thanks."

　　Fang Yue didn't speak, but pointed in Niu Niu's direction with a dark expression.

　　The others followed Fang Yue's gaze and saw a shallow ditch moving quickly in the direction of Niu Niu, moving in another direction and about to merge with another ditch to form a closed loop.

　　An Shenyi's expression changed. "How could this be! According to the information I've seen, the Chongui Flower won't release the heavy pressure circle unless it's attacked! But now…"

　　"That means this Chongui Flower may have mutated, or your information is too old and outdated."

　　The blood hunter snorted and ran into the forest with the jushou xuequan.

　　"Is it okay for us to run into the forest in front of it?"

　　Luo Xin followed the blood hunter, feeling a little worried.

　　"It doesn't matter. The forest is so big, and it's still early. We can interfere a second time. Let's get out of its heavy pressure circle as soon as possible."

　　The four of them were all strong, so they ran quickly and escaped the heavy pressure circle in an instant.

　　An Shenyi turned his head to look. He saw Niu Niu still running wildly in the heavy pressure circle, seemingly not knowing what death meant, and couldn't help but reveal an evil smile.

　　"You guys go first. I want to watch how my dear test subject is crushed to death here. I'll catch up with you later."

　　The blood hunter and Luo Xin had no objections and continued to run forward to rejoin the main group.

　　Fang Yue stayed behind, wanting to persuade An Shenyi, but before he could speak, his expression suddenly changed as if he had learned something.

　　"No! We can't stay here!"