Chapter 855, Silhouette of a Forbidden Object: The Divine Artifact in the Forbidden Forest!
The black man asked in sign language: Why did you kill him?
He Jinqiu thought for a moment: "A-level is being managed by C-level, I don't think he's qualified."
Dark contemplation... So it was internal strife?
This was his biggest surprise after a day of trekking.
At this moment, all of Black's previous fatigue vanished!
He gestured and asked: What is your plan?
He Jinqiu responded with a smile: Actually, killing a C-rank doesn't even require a plan. You have 14 people in the reconnaissance battalion, right? Can't 14 B-ranks kill a C-rank? He's going to pee now, which is the perfect opportunity to kill him.
Black responded with a gesture: But if it is discovered that we were the ones who killed them, I'm afraid Marquis Bolton will not let us off the hook.
He Jinqiu: Don't you have any ways to fake that he was harmed by the rules? I don't believe it. He's a C-rank, accidentally got lost in the Forbidden Forest, and even stepped into other areas before completing the rules. Isn't that a good enough reason? Hurry up, or he'll pee his pants. Don't worry, Marquis Bolton isn't that smart. I'll cover for you.
Beside the campfire, He Jinqiu began to direct the camp: "Send a few people to chop some more firewood. A few of you go to the east, and a few of you go to the west!"
He Jinqiu sent out more than 160 people in a row, so that Hei Se and the others would not be so conspicuous when they left the camp.
Black and Yellow exchanged glances and immediately set off, along with the other 7 members of the Crimson Blood Squad, making a total of 14 people, and headed towards the dark Forbidden Forest.
Actually, they had no choice.
Qing Chen is now a favorite of Marquis Bolton, and he makes all the decisions, leaving Marquis Bolton to do nothing.
The Crimson Blood Squad already had a grudge against Qing Chen. Even if they wanted to settle things peacefully, did they dare to gamble on whether Qing Chen would let them go?
Gambling with your life?
Therefore, at this point, it's a fight to the death.
After drinking the Jingshan tea, He Jinqiu watched with a smile as the 14 members of the Crimson Blood Squad walked into the darkness, then circled around and chased after Qing Chen.
The 14 men exchanged tactical hand signals, operating with the precision of an assassination mission targeting a top-level enemy, and searched from three angles in a 4-4-6 formation.
They had been teammates for many years and their teamwork was extremely seamless. Fourteen B-level fighters could kill one C-level fighter, and they could even kill an A-level fighter!
He Jinqiu sat on the edge of the camp, waiting silently.
The vanguard of the Giants Dynasty could arrive at any time. Bolton was a complete fool, so there was no need to worry, but with the butler as an unstable factor, he was uneasy.
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Deep within the Forbidden Forest, Qing Chen stood in the darkness, urinating while humming a song.
The singing in the silent forest was like a landmark, drawing people's attention.
Black and the others put on night vision goggles and spotted Qing Chen's figure from afar, then cautiously made their way over.
Black made a tactical hand signal: Check the environment!
Yellow used high-performance thermal imaging to scan an area of three kilometers in radius, leaving no stone unturned, even the tree canopy.
He shook his head at the black figure, indicating that no one was hiding.
Black was somewhat puzzled.
At first, they were worried that there was an ambush here, because when the steward came out to urinate, he went so far that the wailing might not be heard even from the camp.
This is absurd, because normal soldiers wouldn't walk this far to use the restroom.
So Blackie kept a watchful eye on things, worried that Qing Chen and He had conspired to have that A-level expert 'He' take care of them under the cover of night.
As they left the camp, they kept observing He Jinqiu using night vision thermal imaging, fearing it might be a trap.
But He Jinqiu didn't move an inch from beginning to end, showing no intention of following.
Black was even prepared to kill He as well.
He asked in a low voice, "What are you doing?"
On the communication channel, someone responded in a low voice: "He's taking off his shoes to warm himself by the fire; he hasn't gone anywhere."
Black frowned. He felt something was wrong and wanted to give up, but the die was cast. If he gave up now, the butler would kill him when he got home that night.
"Keep moving forward!" Black said in a low voice. "Yellow, you're in charge of observing the surroundings. Make sure it's quick and decisive... Even if there are A-ranks here, we'll kill them all!"
Actually, this is Black's biggest source of confidence: with 14 B-level fighters here, even if that 'He' comes, they can kill him all at once!
Slowly, they got within 50 meters of Qingchen!
The next moment, Blackie gave a tactical hand signal, and everyone began to speed up and approach Qingchen.
But they had only taken two steps when they suddenly heard a sound coming from the tree canopy above them.
The sound was like someone passing through the tree canopy, rubbing against the leaves, and landing on the ground, yet it was so light that it didn't make a sound.
not good!
There's an ambush!
Black looked at Yellow, but Yellow looked completely bewildered, because he really hadn't seen anything when he scanned it earlier!
The black figure suddenly turned around, and in that instant of twisting, its feet planted firmly on the ground, the power from its legs transmitted to its waist, and the waist twisted its body.
With a single, powerful motion, he swung the dagger backward!
However, he didn't hit anything!
Black turned his head and saw the moonlight filtering through the tree canopy, casting sparse and dappled light. A pitch-black shadow stood staring straight behind Yellow.
Deep within this forbidden forest, a figure as black as ink had no face, no features, and didn't even look human—how terrifying!
"Watch out!" Black couldn't worry about anything else and could only warn Yellow.
Surprisingly, the shadowy figure didn't kill anyone. Instead, it took a pair of scissors, crouched down, and cut something in the air.
Soon, the dark figure did not linger in the fight, but relied on its superior speed to disappear into the shadows like a ghost.
It was as if it belonged to the darkness and could merge with it at any time.
Strangely, night vision devices couldn't see it, and thermal imaging couldn't see it either!
This is not because the shadow has disappeared, but because the characteristics of night vision goggles are precisely what make them vulnerable to the shadow.
Under normal circumstances, all shadows in an infrared night vision device are extremely blurry, and it is difficult to detect the existence of shadows unless there is an infrared supplementary light source.
Therefore, when all the B-level experts used night vision goggles to search for the shadowy figure, they could only see a blurry shadow quickly passing by.
Thus, the situation became:
Even with night vision goggles, the people in black couldn't find the shadowy figure.
Without the night vision goggles, I couldn't even see the road.
How can you even play a game like this?
Black and creepy, he couldn't understand how such a ghostly thing could exist in this forbidden forest. Could it be a racial talent of some giant?
He looked in the direction where Qingchen had been standing, but found that Qingchen was no longer there!
Where did they go?
Black lowered his voice and asked angrily, "Where did the butler go?"
Everyone looked horrified; none of them had noticed when Qing Chen had disappeared!
At that moment, the green shadow was also cut off, and the red shadow was also cut off... The sound of the scissors closing was right next to their ears, but Black and the others didn't even have the ability to destroy the shadow.
The night in the Forbidden Forest is perfect for showcasing silhouettes of forbidden objects.
If you can't even see where it is, how can you fight it?
Moreover, the silhouette inherited Qing Chen's powerful physique as an A-level knight, making it much faster than these B-level gene warriors.
The Forbidden Forest now has more than just Qing Chen, an A-rank character; Jian Ying is someone who can easily defeat gene warriors of the same rank.
"Find the butler! It was the butler who did this! He's not a C-rank!" Black shouted to Yellow. "If we can't find that shadow, use thermal imaging to find the butler. To catch the thief, catch the kingpin first!"
Looking at the yellow figure through thermal imaging, one discovers that the butler's orange-red figure is leisurely leaning against a tree trunk.
Qing Chen laughed and said, "Hey, what's behind you?"
Black suddenly turned around and heard a cracking sound coming from behind him. Then, the shadow that had originally belonged to him slowly crawled up and turned into a new black shadow.
Not only him, but behind each of his teammates whose shadows had been cut, a black shadow stood up.
At this moment, Qing Chen's side has two A-level and fourteen B-level...
"You're not the butler, who are you?!" Black roared as he fought his own shadow.
He was shocked to discover a cruel reality: whenever he attacked the shadow, not only did it not shatter the other party, but it also caused him pain.
He slashed at the shadow's neck, but his own neck began to throb with pain.
This kind of battle where you kill yourself is simply unsolvable!
Actually, while the silhouette itself was very powerful, it wasn't that powerful, until Qing Chen put it on the Three Realms Outer Card, which caused a bug.
Tonight, in this forbidden land, let alone 14 B-level gene warriors, even if a hundred come, Qing Chen will still kill them!
He didn't even have to lift a finger!
Black stopped fighting its own shadow and instead ran madly toward the Third Division's base.
But as he ran through the darkness, he felt a sharp pain in his chest. In the darkness, a black arm used its fingers as a knife to pierce his heart.
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In the camp, He Jinqiu sat by the campfire, waiting, preserving her alibi.
He knew that the Fifth Princess must have instructed the steward to monitor him. Now that the steward was dead, he had to clear his name before he could continue to seek the technology he wanted from the Fifth Princess.
After calculating the time, He Jinqiu suddenly stood up and said, "Why hasn't the steward returned yet? Someone, come with me to find the steward!"
As he spoke, he led the experts from the reconnaissance battalion into the Forbidden Forest, and he rushed so fast that he created a distance between himself and the B-level experts behind him.
However, before He Jinqiu had gone far into the Forbidden Forest, she saw Qing Chen slowly walking out of the darkness.