Chapter 252: Disappearance (1/2)

Chapter 252: Disappearance

Translator: CynthiaEditor: CakeHermit

Lou Lan was leading the way.

Without his sword embryo, Ai Hui’s ability to detect dangers was largely weakened. Fortunately, they still had Lou Lan. Under Lou Lan’s lead, they twisted and turned along the streets and roads, but were always able to find a less dangerous route.

Lou Lan was very sensitive to blood spiritual force; therefore, he could feel the blood fiends from a distance. This ability was currently playing an important role.

If they really couldn’t avoid a blood fiend, then the craftsmen would stop and hide themselves first, after which Ai Hui would sneak up on the blood fiends and kill them. Finally, they would be able to continue their forward march.

Fortunately, the blood fiends they met were not at all strong.

Gnashing their teeth and gathering their energy, the craftsmen behind them carried the gold needle and closely followed.

At this moment, everyone was pushing themselves.

”The sinkhole is not far away!”

The leader of the craftsmen encouraged them loudly. The shout boosted everyone’s spirits.

Finally, they were just one block away from the sinkhole. Moreover, there were no blood fiends on the street.

But then, Lou Lan suddenly stopped at the crossing, so Ai Hui and the craftsmen followed suit.

Lou Lan said, ”Ai Hui, there are five blood fiends there.”

”So many?” Ai Hui asked in surprise. He glanced at the street and said, ”But Lou Lan, I don’t see any.”

”Then they are hiding somewhere.”

”So let’s take another route.”

Lou Lan and Ai Hui were talking loudly. Hearing their discussion, the five people who were hiding to ambush the group were speechless. They’d thought they were hiding well enough and didn’t expect their enemies to notice their existence so effortlessly.

How did Ai Hui’s sand puppet find them?

Blood fiends? They were regarded as blood fiends? Having just transformed from beasts to human beings, they were extremely disgusted to be treated as blood fiends from the bottom of their hearts, especially the young men like Shi Wei. He almost rushed out on impulse.

They were all looking at Old Lei and waiting for his instructions.

Old Lei was experienced enough to keep his composure.

Although he’d been laughing at Yan Hai just now, he didn’t underestimate Ai Hui at all. He was surprised that they’d been seen through, but chose not to rush out.

Young men like Shi Wei felt angry when they heard themselves being treated as blood fiends, but Old Lei believed this might be a good opportunity. They could take advantage of the mistake.

He thought fast about how to use this advantage.

Hearing Ai Hui say that they were going to the sinkhole, Old Lei became more relaxed. The street they were hiding in was the only shortcut to the sinkhole. If they did not take this route, they would have to go a long way around.

Old Lei was not at all in a hurry.

He was also curious about the big pillar, as he had a feeling that the pillar must be something important. He was sent to the casualty barrack early, before the plan of ”treating the city as a piece of cloth” was announced, so he knew nothing about the gold needles. Still, his keen sense of smell made him realize that the pillar was unusual.

Meanwhile, seeing Ai Hui talking to his sand puppet, Old Lei was a bit surprised. It seemed that this sand puppet was unusual too.

He became vigilant about anything unusual.

After a while, Ai Hui walked to the leader of the craftsmen and told him something. Since they were too far away, Old Lei couldn’t hear it clearly, but he did see that the leader’s expression was a bit weird.

Weird?

What had he said?

Old Lei tried to guess the content of their conversation, but didn’t have the slightest idea.

Yan Hai glared at Old Lei with enmity. I am the team leader, thought Yan Hai. Why was he being isolated by the others?

They must envy him for being trusted by Sir!

We’ll see. If the mission fails, then you will know how frightening Sir can be, thought Yan Hai to himself. He made up his mind that if this really happened, he would not intercede on their behalf.

He had cursed Old Lei in his heart thousands of times, but as he was the weakest member and one who feared Ai Hui the most among the five, he didn’t dare to rush out either. He witnessed the battle of the streets himself, the horrible scenes of which still haunted his dreams.

Old Lei waited patiently. It was not at all necessary for them to rush out.

In his eyes, it was their most critical moment. Once they were targeted by elementalists, they could only attract more enemies. The level of hatred elementalists had for blood elementalists and blood fiends was totally different. If they were discovered by an elementalist, only death would follow.

That was why Old Lei didn’t give any orders, so the others continued to wait silently.

Ai Hui didn’t move for a while.

Old Lei didn’t move either. He was patient and calm, qualities he believed an experienced hunter should possess. He had been through too many battles, and with his rich experience in battlefields, he knew it was best for them to wait under such circumstances.

After a while more, Ai Hui still didn’t move.

Old Lei began to wonder what this guy in front of him was doing. In such a chaotic and dangerous moment, the other elementalists were either putting up a desperate fight or hiding themselves. Despite that, Ai Hui was standing still in a place threatened by a growing crisis and could be attacked by blood fiends at any moment. Was he thinking about the philosophy of life?

This was weird!

Old Lei thought hard, but still couldn’t understand. He narrowed his insightful eyes and stared at Ai Hui as if he wanted to pierce him with his sharp stare.

Wait! His eyes suddenly widened. Where was Ai Hui’s sand puppet?

The sand puppet that looked unusual?

He glanced over the whole place, and was astonished to find that the sand puppet had disappeared right under their noses.

Right at that moment, Ai Hui began to move.

It appeared that after thinking for a long time, the stone man was finally bestowed life. Ai Hui moved and the three craftsmen who were carrying the pillar also moved after him.

A flash of vigilance flashed across Old Lei’s eyes. Wait! The craftsmen were now standing at the spot where the sand puppet had disappeared?

Then a craftsman disappeared.

Hmm?