Astral Apostle

   Chapter 81 Acquaintances

   Zhou Jing and others rushed to the workshop first. The inventory here was looted, and all kinds of alien blood potions and alien beast equipment were gone.

   Even the craftsmen disappeared, the entire workshop was empty, and there were not many corpses.

   "It is estimated that they were all kidnapped."

  Everyone looked around.

  Since these thugs are alien blood warrior bandits, most of them will capture the craftsmen and force them to work.

   Cole said solemnly: "This group of thugs are still raging in the city, which means they have a temporary place to hold the prisoners."

"Certainly, they dare to attack the fortress city, they can't just take away everyone's loot, so there must be a temporary assembly point in the city, and most of them have prepared a caravan of pack beasts. They sacked the city and took the loot one by one. Move in together, and finally return with a full reward."

   Zhou Jing did not hesitate.

The    workshop didn't find much, and the group hurried to the hunter's tavern.

  The tavern was a mess, with fragments of tables and chairs all over the floor. It was obvious that there had been a battle, but there was not a single hunter's body.

   "It seems that the hunter was also taken away, and this group of thugs did not kill anyone." Cole was surprised.

   "Maybe they plan to convince hunters to join the team like captive craftsmen?" Zhou Jing guessed.

   "This is too..." Cole didn't know what to say.

  In his opinion, if you want to sack a town, the first thing to do is to deal with the hunters in the city.

   If the hunters are kept alive, even if they are imprisoned, it will be an unstable factor, and it will become trouble at any time. It is better to silence them.

   Don't kill the hunters, but also want to convince them to join the group... These thugs are either stupid, or extremely confident, or both.

   Zhou Jing observed the traces of the battle in the tavern, touched his chin, and pondered the analysis:

"This is a fortress city, there are not many hunters, even if most of them are outside, there will be at least a dozen or twenty people in the town... So the damage caused by the fight will not be so small. It is impossible for this group of thugs to easily subdue many people. The hunter must have used the means, I guess it was poisoning, making the hunter lose his combat effectiveness."

   "The hunter is alive, and we still have a considerable number of helpers." Cole was delighted.

   "It's hard to say. Being alive doesn't mean you have combat power. You should also be detained by the thugs in their temporary stronghold, guarded by someone... Look there!"

   Zhou Jing said casually, looked around, and suddenly found intermittent blood spots extending along the road all the way.

   Everyone saw it, and their eyes lit up.

   This should be the blood stains left by a hunter who resisted being beaten and was transferred and detained.

   "Along the blood trail, you should be able to find the place of detention."

   The group immediately followed.

  …

   Somewhere in Deep Rock City, a small bunker.

  This place was originally one of the barracks where the guards were stationed. At this time, the guards were completely destroyed and occupied by the gang of children of different blood as a temporary stronghold.

  The fire did not spread to this place. The bunker was full of people, hoarding a lot of looted materials, and there were seven bandits of the son of different blood guarding here.

   Zhou Jing and his party followed the blood trail to find this place, hid behind a building in the distance, quickly probed into the bunker, and wrote down the appearance and location of the bandits

"Most of this place is the stronghold of the thugs. There don't seem to be many people left behind. It is estimated that they felt that they had subdued most of the hunters and thought that there was no resistance in the city, so they sent a large army to loot?" Cole said in a low voice. .

   "This is good news, how do we attack?" The hunter team leader asked everyone for opinions.

   "When the bandits are not there, go straight up and hack them to death."

   Zhou Jing did not hesitate.

  Although they are all alien blood enhancers, their squad is the elite of imperial hunters.

   Both himself and the squad leader were strengthened three times, and Cole, an elite who was strengthened twice, had a similar number of people, so there was nothing to be afraid of.

   There is a high probability that a group of bandits will not have very powerful characters. Most of them are strengthened at one time... The seven people left behind are enough to resist the town hunters who slipped through the net, but they are far from the opponents of their elite hunter team of the empire.

   Everyone thought about it, but there was no opinion.

   Since you are not facing a large army of the enemy, you don’t need to use too much brains, just to weaken the overall strength of the enemy.

   The group pulled out their weapons one after another, spread out slightly, took a deep breath, and rushed out.

   As soon as they set foot on the empty street, they were noticed by seven left-behind bandits.

   The seven people suddenly looked shocked, and hurriedly threw flying knives, javelins, and flying axes at Zhou Jing and others.

  Zhou Jing was the fastest, rushing at the forefront, dodging the flying weapons with ease, and rushing in front of a bandit in a blink of an eye.

   The enemy was about to launch an attack, but the weapon was only half lifted, and two extremely fast cold lights circled around his neck.

  Puff!

   The bandit fell with blood and was powerless to fight back.

   Zhou Jing kept walking, his two knives dragged out two light trails, and two people were hacked to death in the blink of an eye. The opponent didn't even have time to defend, so he fell with wide-eyed eyes.

   The level of one-time enhancement is now completely unable to keep up with Zhou Jing's speed. He nearly killed in a single duel, and only made a parry posture, and his neck has been cut off by double knives.

   At the same time, in a certain room in the bunker, a dozen or so hunters were lying on the ground, **** tightly, weak and cursing.

   "The guy named Dotton actually pretended to be a hunter. I thought it was real, but I didn't expect it to be a gangster!"

   "This **** put paralyzing medicine for alien beasts in the wine while we weren't paying attention. I'm still numb."

   "Damn, he didn't die in the mouth of the alien beast, but was planted in the hands of a group of bandits."

  The hunters were full of grief and indignation.

   They were drinking as usual in the hunter tavern, but they were plotted against each other and all were poisoned.

The paralysis potion used by the enemy itself was used to capture alien beasts alive, which could paralyze the alien beast for a long time. The bandits also added weight to the wine, and everyone was knocked over by three strikes, five divisions and two, and there was no power to fight back. .

   Now the effect of the medicine is getting stronger and stronger, everyone is paralyzed, and they can hardly move.

   The chains that would normally be broken with force were not able to be broken at all at this moment, and the dozen or so hunters could only lie there honestly.

   At this time, Weber in the crowd said in a deep voice: "Don't be discouraged, think of a way to get out of trouble, these gangsters didn't kill us for some reason, but they can change their minds at any time and kill us."

   After leaving White Plains City, he traveled everywhere. As a freelance hunter, he recently settled in Deep Rock City. He didn't expect to be involved in such a turmoil.

   Soon, someone reluctantly responded: "We have no strength at all, and we can't escape at all. I hope there are other hunters in the city who are not recruited like us."

  Now, everyone can only hope that at the time of the incident, someone was not in the tavern, and there was no talk.

   But having said that, people don’t actually have much expectations.

   Even if there are hunters in the city who have not been recruited, the number will not be too many, and they are not opponents of gangsters at all. It is not certain whether people are willing to take risks to save people.

   Even if they were rescued, the efficacy of the medicine would still be exerted, and everyone would have no fighting power after getting out of trouble. They could only turn into fuel bottles, unable to organize a counterattack, and completely unable to stop the large number of gangsters. At most, they would run away and let the city fall.

  Weber was depressed and helpless, but there was nothing he could do.

   This feeling of not having one's life in your hands is too unsettling.

   At this moment, faint sounds of battle and screams came from outside.

  Weber's expression changed, and he said solemnly, "Did you hear that?"

   "There seems to be a fight outside?"

  Everyone hurriedly turned their ears to listen, but soon there was no sound.

   After a while, the door slammed open.

   Zhou Jing walked in with his teammates, holding a **** bandit in his hand.

   "Brother Hunter, we are here to save you." Cole on the side declared his identity loudly.

   Numerous hunters were overjoyed immediately, and hurriedly twisted on the ground, like earthworms one by one, beckoning those who came to release them quickly.

   Cole and the others quickly tore off the chains of the hunters one by one, and helped them sit up.

   At this time, many hunters saw the appearance of several people clearly, and found that they were unfamiliar faces, and couldn't help but be stunned.

   "Aren't you the hunters of Deep Rock City?"

   "Well, we are imperial hunters. We went out to hunt a deadly alien beast. We happened to pass through Deep Rock City and discovered the accident here."

   Cole replied, briefly explaining the cause and effect.

   "Fortunately you are here, otherwise we are finished."

   Numerous hunters looked lucky and looked at a few people subconsciously.

  Weber's eyes swept over everyone, only then did he see Zhou Jing's appearance, and he was suddenly stunned.

  This guy...how does he look so much like Jason?

   At the same time, Zhou Jing also found this familiar face, his heart froze, but his face was calm, pretending not to recognize it.

   Before Weber could ask questions, Zhou Jing took the initiative and asked, "How are you guys doing, can you still fight?"

   Hearing this, many hunters shook their heads with bitter expressions on their faces.

   "We were plotted against us, and we took the paralyzing medicine, but the effect of the medicine has not passed, so we can't help you."

   Cole couldn't help frowning: "This is bad..."

   They came to rescue the town hunters in order to find helpers to fight the gangsters, but the hunters lost their combat effectiveness, so not only could they not help, but they had to be distracted to protect them.

   A few people just caught a live and inquired about the information - this group of gangsters called themselves the sons of alien blood. There are nearly forty members of the gang, all of them are alien blood warriors. If there are only a few members of their team, I am afraid it will be difficult to deal with.

   In particular, Doton, the leader of the son of different blood, turned out to be a three-time strengthener, the backbone of this bandit gang.

Nearly forty alien blood warriors are already a force that cannot be underestimated. A gang of this size can pose a threat to most cities. It is precisely because Doton has the strength that he has strengthened three times that he can gather so many alien blood warriors. able to convince people.

From the mouths of the captured prisoners, we learned that this Doton was not always a gangster. He used to be a serious hunter. Later, he didn’t know what happened, his temperament changed greatly, and he finally embarked on the crime of gathering in the mountains and forests and committing crimes. the way.

   As for other gang members, many were recruited during the looting process. They seized this group of hunters and did not kill them, just to persuade people to join the gang and strengthen the gang.

"Listen to this live mouth, their plan is to loot all night, the night is still long, and we still have a lot of time... While the alien blood sons are still looting outside, you should take the hunters and transfer them, and by the way, take those workers out. The craftsmen also let them go."

   Zhou Jing turned his head and said to the crowd with a firm tone.

   "What about you?" The team leader didn't mind Zhou Jing giving orders, but asked with wide eyes.

   "I'm going to scout to see if I can find a single enemy to kill, and by the way, prevent the enemy troops from coming back so quickly and create time for you."

   "...Okay, you pay attention to safety."

   The team leader thought for a while, but had no objection.

He is not too worried about Zhou Jing. Although he has been strengthened three times, he and Zhou Jing have discussed many times in the past few months, and they have never been able to win. He knows that Zhou Jing's strength is superior to him, and the other party is just too lazy to lead the team. .

   Zhou Jing nodded, threw down the bandits and left the bunker.

  Weber watched Zhou Jing leave, opened his mouth, but still did not speak.

   He was full of surprise, wondering why he saw someone so similar to Jason.

  Weber can only be sure that this person is definitely not Jason, because Jason is already dead, and he is still watching the burial.

  This similarity can only prove that this person and Jason may have a blood relationship...

   But now is not the time to say these, Weber did not immediately ask the doubts in his heart, and decided to find a chance to ask in private... If he can survive tonight.

  …

  Dorton and his party searched in Deep Rock City and found no other resistance team, but they found the body of another accomplice killed by earth stabbing, as if they had been pierced, going up and down, and the death was tragic.

   "Who the **** did it, dare to kill my brother!"

  Dorton looked at the body of his accomplice, his eyes burning with anger.

   He didn't know the specific battle process, but in his opinion, a normal battle would not be such a tragic death, it must be the enemy's brutal killing and venting of anger.

   "Keep looking, I want this guy to taste the same way of dying!"

   Duodun got up, his face ashen.

   But the accomplices behind him had different opinions and said:

   "Boss, let's go back to the base first and put the harvest away."

   Just in the process of searching, everyone also ransacked. At this time, everyone was full of loot, and they just wanted to go back and save it, and then come out to continue looting.

Duo Dun glanced back and saw that everyone had the same wishes, so he had to suppress his inner anger and nodded: "Okay, then go back to the stronghold first, put down the things in your hands, and then go after this enemy, by the way, let others not Order again."

   More than a dozen bandits immediately returned to the stronghold.

  The bandits who received the news on the road also came to join, and the team quickly grew to more than 20 people.

   Walking along, the group of people suddenly stopped and looked forward in surprise.

  I saw at the end of the street where the fire spread, a figure with a pair of knives slowly approached in the smoke, looming, blocking the way.

   Zhou Jing stepped out of the smoke, stood in front of more than twenty people, glanced at everyone with implicit excitement, and then pointed at all the enemies with the blade.

   "Finally found you guys, come and slash with me."

   (end of this chapter)