Chapter 70 Looking for clues
Xu Xin rode the Silver King to the altar as quickly as possible.
The altar remained unchanged from when he left yesterday. The only difference was that the blood-stained pillar without a statue no longer radiated heat.
Xu Xin looked at the altar floor. There is nothing unusual about the ground, it is still an uneven surface that has been exposed to wind and sun for a long time. But Xu Xin was still convinced that the blood-striped troll just came out from here.
There are no traces of where it came from. It didn't come out of the altar. Could it have fallen from the sky?
In order not to make any mistakes, Xu Xin came to the altar table, opened the small drawer where the altar knife was placed, and put the altar knife in first.
The small drawer suddenly retracted on its own, and at the same time, the entire altar table began to exude a cold atmosphere.
It lasted for about ten seconds. The cold atmosphere faded away. After Xu Xin opened it again, a brand-new and shiny altar knife appeared in the drawer.
Xu Xin took out the knife and found that the traces of yesterday's use were completely gone.
"Is this why you have to put it back every time?" Xu Xin said to herself.
Looking at the map, Xu Xin discovered that the tigers that were wandering around the altar yesterday had no idea where they had gone. The altar was surrounded by relatively weak beasts.
Maybe they were scared away by the blood-striped troll just now, and maybe the other little beasts were like the Silver King and didn't dare to move, so they didn't run away.
"That's just right. Yesterday's hunting took a lot of effort to avoid these tigers."
While these tigers haven't come back yet, Xu Xin plans to visit the place where the trolls disappeared before hunting wild cats.
He looked at the messy new road opened by the blood-striped troll. This road was littered with broken poplar trees, which had been trampled directly by the troll's feet, and some were smashed away by the stick in its hand.
He was really curious as to where the blood-striped troll had gone and why he hadn't returned to the altar.
On the map, the red dots around this newly opened road are denser. In addition to the beasts that were originally here, there should be some nearby beasts who came out of curiosity.
Xu Xin was holding his rabbit-eared crossbow and riding a wolf galloping along this road.
As he expected, there were many corpses of small beasts on the road smashed by the blood-striped troll, as well as seriously injured small beasts. Most of them were killed by falling trees, and there were even many small beasts. Few birds.
Within a few minutes, Xu Xin picked up a lot of materials. The only drawback was that there were no points, but it was good to be able to pick up materials for free.
After arriving at the hill where the blood-striped troll disappeared, Xu Xin looked at the jungle without any abnormalities and was a little confused.
At this time, he had already reached the outside of the hilly resource area, and the road composed of swaying trees ended here. There was just a very ordinary jungle ahead, with not even a cave around.
"What's going on? The blood-striped troll disappeared right here?"
"Hey!" Coco jumped off the wolf's back and ran forward.
It seems that Coco must have discovered something.
"King Silver, follow Coco."
Coco ran around the edge of the hill for a long time, and finally stopped in an open space outside the hill. He stood up and looked around blankly.
"Is this here Coco?"
"Huh?" Coco tilted her little head, confused.
Xu Xin looked around. The hills and mountains here are like cliffs going straight up and down. The entire hills are like a thick wall, isolating the hilly resource area from the outside world.
"Huh?" Xu Xin discovered that the traces naturally formed by wind and sun on the mountain wall seemed to form a pattern. The pattern seemed familiar.
Xu Xin's head tilted left and right, looking at it from different angles. For a moment, the pattern overlapped with the impression in his mind.
"This...this pattern is the pattern on the chest of the blood-striped troll!"
Xu Xin took a step back suddenly.
Why are the patterns of the troll engraved on the mountain where the blood-striped troll disappeared?
Is this troll integrated into the mountain? Or is this mountain actually the blood-patterned troll itself?
The hills around here aren't all made up of these monsters!
Xu Xin has actually always been a little surprised as to why a circle of hills suddenly appeared in this relatively flat place.
Thinking that he had climbed up the hills more than once, he got goosebumps all over.
"No, probably not. Maybe it's just the mark left by the blood-striped troll clan here. Maybe it's a teleportation device that teleported the blood-striped troll away."
This statement was more convincing, and Xu Xin gradually calmed down, but the previous thoughts planted a seed in his heart, making him look at these hills with a different mentality.
Just stay away.
Xu Xin carried Coco on the wolf's back, rode on the Silver King, and stayed away from the cliff with strange totems carved on it.
Let’s get the sacrifices together first. This blood-striped troll is still too far away for him now.
With the faster and more powerful crossbow in his hand, in a short time, the number of cat claw sacrifices in Xu Xin's hand had exceeded double digits, and it was enough to dye all the patterns on the stone pillars of the cat statue red.
The [Koi] Xu Xin consumed in the morning also obviously played a role. Yesterday, I hunted so many small beasts, but not a single blue-grade material was harvested. Today, just a few wild cats, and a blue-grade wild cat skin was produced.
"It's time to hunt mutant wild cats."
Xu Xin took a deep look at the hills engraved with patterns from a distance, then turned around and ran towards the altar on the Silver King.
His strategy for dealing with feral cats is actually very simple. According to the experience of the sacrifice the day before, when the sacrifice progress is completed, the mutated beast still needs to wait for a while to come back to life. This time is enough for Xu Xin to run far away.
He has a more advanced crossbow than yesterday. As long as he can hit it, Xu Xin is confident that this crossbow can cause considerable damage to mutant beasts, so he only needs to fly a kite in the distance and use the crossbow with poisonous arrows to hinder the mutation. The action of a wildcat is to deliver the final blow when it is exhausted.
The abacus is good, but the actual operation is not a simple matter.
Xu Xin ate an orange (blue) in advance to raise her spirit to the best state.
Returning to the sacrificial table, he glanced at the wild cat statue. The sharp claws that penetrated deeply into the stone pillars made people feel a little frightened.
Taking a deep breath, Xu Xin placed the wild cat sacrifice on the altar, then quickly withdrew from the altar, mounted the Silver King and ran to the farthest distance that his crossbow could reach, and fired a poisonous crossbow bolt. Waiting silently for the sacrifice to be completed.
Not long after, the cat statue was covered with red patterns. From the gaps in the patterns, red light shot out. From a distance, it looked like a dazzling sun, illuminating the entire altar red.
The stone sculpture shattered, and a yellow and white wild cat with blood-red patterns all over its body and two extremely sharp claws appeared on the stone pillar. It looked up to the sky and meowed. However, cats in the subfamily Catinae cannot make sounds like tigers and lions. Roaring sound, so this cat meow has no majesty at all, but is high-pitched, hoarse and unpleasant.
"Now!"
Xu Xin raised her hand and pulled the trigger, and the poisonous crossbow arrow immediately flew toward the blood-striped cat on the stone pillar at an extremely fast speed!
The cry of the blood-striped cat suddenly stopped, and its claws waved in a movement that was difficult to detect with the naked eye, and actually caught a crossbow bolt that happened to fly in front of it!
But Xu Xin's strengthened crossbow arrow couldn't be stopped by just grabbing it. The crossbow arrow just deflected a little and hit the blood-striped cat's shoulder.
"Meow——!!" A shrill meow sounded, and the blood-red eyes of the blood-striped cat instantly locked onto Xu Xin, who was holding a crossbow in the distance.
"It's done. As long as you hurt it and attract hatred, this guy will chase you! Silver King, run! Coco, hurry up!"
"Ouch!" "Ouch!"
Silver King ran in the opposite direction of the altar as fast as he could.
Xu Xin was straddling the Wolf King's back, holding a crossbow in his hand, aiming at the blood-striped cat that was rapidly approaching him.
"This time I will kill you mutated monster without any injuries!" (End of Chapter)