Absolute Gate

Chapter 54 Dog bites dog

Wu Zhong gave Jordan a deep look; this guy is so honest.

They answered every question I asked.

"Can't you lie?" Wu Zhong suddenly asked in a low voice.

Jordan blurted out, "Yeah, that's true, I'm very single-minded."

Before Wu could ask anything more, he noticed Long Kui turning to look at him, her eyes piercingly intense.

He immediately lowered his head to read the book, running and reading at the same time, while also carrying Yangchun sand, galloping across the icy and snowy land.

On this snow-covered mountain ridge, the cold wind howls, the oxygen is thin, the air pressure is low, and it is cold and dark.

This isn't a place for humans; anyone who can move at high speed here must be incredibly capable.

For example, Yangchunsha is actually quite difficult to withstand, requiring only twice the physical strength.

If it weren't for the fact that the Mad Blood Clan has higher immunity and recovery ability, she would have died too.

Even so, there was no strenuous exercise at all; Wu Zhong was carrying the entire load.

Of course, Wu Zhong's physical strength is twenty times that of the human, so he can definitely withstand it; he's already superhuman.

"Refining essence into qi, it really does seem like a cultivation technique..."

"What do you mean by 'essence' here?"

Wu Zhong looked at it for a while and managed to understand it, albeit barely.

After all, there are annotations and interpretations from other researchers.

But it was all useless; I was still completely confused.

Jordan shrugged and said, "Actually, it also refers to vitality, but after refinement, the effect is to affect fertility, haha."

“Vitality…” Wu Zhong’s eyes lit up.

He's a member of the Mad Blood Clan; he's never short of vitality.

In particular, the nineteen mentally ill patients in the initial embrace pool have already been absorbed. By utilizing the initial embrace mechanism again, what is absorbed is all repetition, all vitality!
Let him practice, practice as much as he wants. He can replenish his lost essence and blood.

As for going astray in cultivation and endangering one's life force? That's out of the question.

His Achilles' heel is an absolute characteristic; what danger could it possibly pose?

There are also those who don't consider meridian aptitude? That all martial arts principles are inapplicable? That the more you learn, the less you can practice? That's even better.

Wu Zhong knew absolutely nothing; he didn't even know the name of Fei Peng's martial arts.

Unfortunately, now is not the time to study this thing.

He put the notebook away and looked at Xia Heng in front of him.

Luo Yi was bouncing on his back, his bloodshot eyes facing Wu Zhong, holding a leaf in his hand and shaking it slightly as a signal.

Upon seeing this, Wu understood immediately.

He looked around at his surroundings.

"Oh!"

"Ouch!"

Wu Zhong fell directly into the ice hole, rolled around for a moment, and then splattered into an icicle.

The ice spike pierced through his body, going from his lower back into his abdomen, leaving him covered in blood.

"Ah!" Yang Chunsha jumped down, trembling.

Immediately after the cave entrance, the others poked their heads out to look down.

"What's wrong?" Xia Heng asked, jumping down with concern.

With a whoosh, the laser melted the ice spikes one by one in an instant.

Wu Zhong, with an ice pick stuck in his abdomen, said, "It's too dark, I can't see the road..."

He leaned against the cave wall, unable to stand up.

Longkui stood at the cave entrance, arms crossed, and said angrily, "Seriously? Your team is way too weak!"

She finally couldn't hold back anymore.

The initial idea for collaboration was that these four people should be capable of pursuing their target.

Later, seeing Luo Yi and Yang Chunsha's condition, he was somewhat disdainful, but still very cautious, not daring to underestimate other teams, especially since Xia Heng and Wu Zhong were quite formidable.

But now, seeing Wu Zhong's miserable state, it's hard to look down on him.

Well, in this four-person team, one member suffered severe mental trauma, his mind twisted to the point of sleepwalking.

One of them was in such poor health that he couldn't even withstand the harsh environment and couldn't take a single step. If he were left in the snow-capped mountains, he would surely die.

Another one was doing well, but he lost his way while traveling and ended up falling into a glacier cave, where he was pierced and seriously injured on the spot.

"What kind of level are they? How dare they do the same tasks as me?"

"You can't grasp that mark."

Longkui, no longer wanting to cooperate with these people, inadvertently revealed her interest in the monstrous creature.

Wu Zhong said in a suppressed, painful voice, "Brother, I can't go on..."

"Let's give up on this mission. Apart from you, the rest of us are a bit too much for it."

"The altitude is getting higher and higher, and I can't hold on any longer."

"Even if we catch up with the target this way, it will be extremely dangerous. Why force it?"

"I see..." Xia Heng remained noncommittal, only looking at the two people opposite him.

Their plan always had two options.

One tactic is to initially declare that they are abandoning the mission, allowing others to lure them away, and they leave in another direction.

When the other party assumed they were colleagues rather than targets, they abandoned the mission, thus eliminating competitors—something the other party was more than happy to do.

However, this is based on the premise that the other party's tracking ability is not strong.

Unexpectedly, Jordan had a harbinger of disaster, and it pointed directly to him.

Even if these people are tricked into going to the ends of the earth, they can still find their location.

"Miss Longkui, as you can see, my team can't keep up."

"We're abandoning this mission. You guys hurry up and go after them. Good luck!"

Xia Heng looked helpless and spread his hands.

Longkui squinted and said, "Abandoning the mission is fine, but what about wasting my time? How do you compensate?"

The group was taken aback. Was there really such a thing as wasting time?
Is this... deliberately trying to pick a fight?

Xia Heng stepped out of the cave and stared at the woman: "You were the one who offered to cooperate. Wouldn't it be better if we abandoned the mission now?"

Longkui said indifferently, "You agreed so readily, and now you're just giving up? We've wasted so much time talking to you; the target must have already gone far away..."

"How about you sacrifice one of my people so that we can divination obtain more detailed information about the target, and then we can call it even?"

She glanced coldly at the seriously injured Wu Zhong and Yang Chunsha, who was too cold and oxygen-deprived to move. Clearly, she had other ideas because she saw that their team was weak.

Upon hearing this, everyone was on high alert.

Although Wu Zhong was still half-lying on the ground, his muscles were already tense. He thought to himself that he seemed to have overacted. This woman was so greedy.

It seems they have to initiate the group purchase first?

At the same time, he felt enveloped by an icy aura.

"It's so cold..." Yang Chunsha's shivering stopped, her body was about to freeze, and now she felt hot all over.

Wu Zhong touched the cloud-like ring at his waist and felt the same icy energy.

So the energy stored in the Night Wanderer's body belongs to Long Kui.

Does that mean the Night Wanderer judged that she was enough to wipe out the entire group of four?

Wu Zhong immediately took a deep breath and roared, "Damn it, to put it bluntly, you just want to kill us!"

"Then you are clearly still Endless Summer in disguise, so why pretend to be Longkui or Okra!"

Wu Zhong had an ice pick stuck in his abdomen, yet he could still roar so loudly, which surprised Long Kui.

Longkui then sneered, "How stupid! They actually thought I was Endless Summer."

"How pathetic. If you can't even tell the difference between a 'black market client' and someone else, you shouldn't be taking on such high-level missions."

Seeing that Longkui was about to make a move, just when Wu Zhong thought a fight was about to break out.

Xia Heng simply said, "Someone once taught me to never create unnecessary complications during a mission. What do you think?"

“…” Long Kui paused, staring at Xia Heng’s cold and calm face.

She naturally understood this principle; it was the way of survival for high-ranking mercenaries.

Disasters and strange objects are very dangerous, and you're bound to encounter tough opponents... Of course, this is what mercenaries do for a living, so the dangers are self-evident.

However, apart from mission objectives, try not to provoke unknown enemies, otherwise any unknown opponent could be the end of your career.

"What a waste of my time!" Longkui snorted coldly, holding back her anger.

Xia Heng's composure still intimidated her, preventing her from losing her temper and causing further trouble with these people.

"Jordan, let's go!" She frowned and walked away.

Jordan glanced strangely at Wu Zhong, who was lying on the ground with an ice pick stuck in his stomach, but still quickly followed Long Kui.

In an instant, the two disappeared into the hazy snow.

After walking a distance, Wu Zhong gave a thumbs up: "Brother Xia is really something, he scared someone away with just one sentence."

Xia Heng looked at Wu Zhong with a strange expression: "Are you trying to act this realistically? She almost ate us just now. Luo Yi and Yang Chunsha are in bad shape. We can't take over the group. We have to let others go first."

Wu finally pulled out the ice pick, took two breaths of the Yangchun Sand, and his abdominal wound visibly healed.

On the contrary, Yang Chunsha gasped for breath, briefly losing the effects of the Berserker Clan, and almost fainted.

“I was afraid I couldn’t fool her, so if I was going to pretend to be weak, I had to make it real. But I was too weak and she got greedy.” Wu Zhong touched his stomach.

Xia Heng quickly replied, "It's alright, they were scared away after all."

"But their monstrous object can predict our location, so it will definitely be relocated and found in a while."

“Unless we seize that tortoise shell or eliminate them, shaking them off is just treating the symptoms, not the root cause.” Wu Zhong said in a deep voice, “If she has the guts, she can take on all eight of them!”

Then he looked at Luo Yi and asked, "Brother Luo, what's the situation with the other team?"

Luo Yi seemed not to hear, his mouth still full of frozen saliva, and only came back to his senses when Wu Zhong called out to him.

He picked up a leaf and called out, exchanging a few words briefly.

Tell everyone, "They've been nearby the whole time; they just heard you yelling."

"It's just that we didn't have a more precise location capability before, and we always relied on aura tracking. Since there was no battle on our side, they couldn't find us for a while."

Wu Zhong stroked his chin: "So once a battle breaks out, they can get there very quickly?"

Luo Yi nodded slightly, but his mind was elsewhere.

Wu Zhong looked around, pondered for a moment, and said, "This area must be the battlefield. We can dig a tunnel in advance while we have the chance."

"The terrain here is complex, the mountains are solid, and there are canyons and glaciers everywhere."

“The cave we just visited was quite good, Debiao. Keep digging down the cavern.”

"Even if they have a way to track disasters, they will be unable to catch up with us once they lose the initiative due to the obstruction of the mountain cliffs."

"De Biao's multi-method approach is still very practical. In terms of digging tunnels, even you and Master Luo combined can't compare, right?"

Xia Heng looked at Yang Chunsha: "Even if I bombard it continuously, it's a completely solid rock layer, and I still can't dig it as fast as she can..."

Despite her tough exterior, Yang Chunsha is an absolute master at digging tunnels.

Such cold, hard, and solid rock can only be driven at a maximum speed of 4 to 6 meters per hour, even by heavy-duty tunneling machines.

She pushed through the underground rock strata for five kilometers in an hour, which is equivalent to digging 1.38 meters deep per second!

Wu Zhong finally said, "Master Luo, leave a shadow on it."

"De Biao, hang in there a little longer. Once they're fighting like dogs, we can have hot pot."

……

Just five minutes later, Longkui sensed something was wrong.

After chasing for so long, we haven't seen a single trace of the enemy.

"Jordan, let's do it again, the target may have changed direction."

Longkui summoned cattle and sheep, and Jordan once again slaughtered the livestock, dismembering the offerings.

"The enemy is behind us..." Jordan pointed in the direction they came from.

"Ok?"

Longkui was taken aback. Had they gone too far?
That's good, it means their goal isn't far away.

"go back!"

She immediately turned around and ran wildly against the wind and snow.

She paused for a moment when she returned to the spot where she had parted ways with the four campers.

Here she felt the presence of diverse energies.

“It’s magic…” Longkui’s nose twitched. She was most sensitive to magical energy because it came from a similar universe.

She examined the cave where Wu Zhong had fallen: "Earth element...did they hide underground? A bunch of groundhogs."

Longkui scoffed, too lazy to bother with these useless people, and turned to continue pursuing her mission target.

Jordan couldn't help but say, "Sister Silver Ring..."

"I told you to refer to plants when you're out!" Longkui growled.

Jordan shrank back: "I'm wondering, could the sugar daddy be lying? Are those four really the Master of the Gods and his party?"

Longkui rolled her eyes: "That's impossible. Are you trying to say that it's too much of a coincidence that both times the direction pointed in the direction of this group of people?"

"Actually, this is quite normal. It means that the God and Demon Master has been circling around this mountain, trying to create conflict between us and other mercenary groups... This is exactly what the 'Black Gold Master' intends to do. We can't fall for it."

"Jordan, you just need to accept one logic: the enemy would never let a ghost or god pretend to attack them as a performance; that would be a losing proposition!"

"What BlackBerry is saying is complete nonsense!"

Jordan said, "Yeah, I'm still too stupid."

Longkui sighed, but still said, "It's okay, Jordan. You'll understand after just one divination here."

"Okay!" Jordan nodded.

As Longkui was casting a spell to summon cattle and sheep.

"Who!" Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of a dark figure out of the corner of her eye with extreme sharpness.

With a whoosh, an anti-tank rocket came hurtling through the snow from a hundred meters away.

"Boom!" Longkui was engulfed by flames.

She was completely unaware of the other party's presence until she fired the cannon.

However, the cold wind dispersed the flames, and a broken ice crystal wall stood in front of Longkui, blocking the explosion; only her trench coat was blown to shreds.

Her eyes sharpened instantly, and she immediately tore her trench coat to shreds and threw it away.

"Chase!"

She wore only a strapless top, braving the wind and snow, exuding the oppressive aura of a lithe predator.

His pupils suddenly contracted, turning into vertical pupils.

I saw it; in the dim light and snow, a figure was running away.

"Got him! I finally caught him! He was right in this direction, and there was no body heat at all!"

Longkui became agitated. She was very sensitive to heat, and she wouldn't have noticed it if the other party hadn't attacked her.

Fortunately, she finally caught them on her radar.

"Die!"

As Longkui sprinted at top speed, she spread her arms wide.

Suddenly, the entire glacial canyon was swept by fierce winds, which formed spiraling white mists of freezing air in all directions.

This icy, snowy environment seems to be her natural home ground.

"Boom!"

She triggered a massive avalanche where the dark figure was, instantly engulfing the avalanche.

She followed closely behind, leaping high into the air and clearing the twenty-meter distance in one bound, slamming her fist into the snowdrift!
The immense force blasted open an ice hole, and at the same time...

"Uh-huh-huh-huh-huh!"

Dozens of sharp, blue ice crystal cones burst forth from the snow, crisscrossing and densely packed.

"You think you're still alive after I catch you?" Long Kui slowly stood up, her snow-white skin glowing in the cold wind.

"Ah, that's right! Sister is awesome!" Jordan followed up, clapping and cheering.

However, Longkui frowned, not noticing anything unusual.

She waved her hand, and the snowdrift was blown away by the white frost, but she didn't see anyone.

He quickly scanned his surroundings and saw a figure fleeing about seventy meters away.

"So fast? When did you climb over there?"

Longkui was surprised and became somewhat serious, but she still had to follow.

"Still trying to run!" Long Kui's white freezing air accelerated like a turbine, and she leaped thirty meters.

But just then, a shrill sound of something tearing through the air came from the upper diagonal.

In an instant, an arrow fell from the sky, striking her directly in the abdomen, the immense force pinning her to the ground.

However, she rolled over, pulled out the arrow, and the flesh in the wound quickly tightened, without even bleeding.

Looking up again, an off-road vehicle came flying in the wind, like a war machine soaring through the sky!
"Endless Summer! I finally caught her."

A man stood on the roof of the carriage, facing the wind, and once again drew his bow and nocked an arrow.

Meanwhile, three other people were leaning out of the car windows. Some were sticking out fireballs with their fingers, some were already firing their anti-materiel sniper rifles, and others were carrying an anti-tank rocket launcher and firing it.

In an instant, a barrage of attacks came crashing down on us.

"Boom boom boom!"

Longkui's skin was torn open, and blood gushed from her body. The most powerful weapon was the arrow, which could pierce through her entire body.

Fortunately, she was fast enough, while her opponent was 100 meters in the air.

With a whoosh, she dodged the subsequent shots, her body stained with blood.

She wanted to wait for the car to land, but it didn't. Suddenly, a cold wind swept through and blew the car back into the air.

Is that car a kite?

Longkui looked at him with surprise and doubt: "Get down here!"

She drove the storm, and the off-road vehicle, affected by the wind and snow, spiraled and plummeted.

However, there was a bearded man in the car who could also ride the wind, stirring up the surrounding air currents and creating a tug-of-war with her.

"Who are you?" Long Kui demanded sharply, her high-pitched voice piercing through the storm.

"Kill your people!"

From the rooftop, Airo looked down and fired a powerful shot from his bow.

He still had a mint leaf in his mouth, communicating with the blackberry, or rather... with Loy.

"Party A, we've found them. A man and a woman are chasing a dark figure."

"What? That dark figure was you?"

"So disheveled...you four were..."

"Huh? Another fifty million? Okay, okay, sir, you should focus on recovering first."

……

(End of this chapter)