Alien Survival: Start with a Golden Apple Enchantment

In the boundless night, darkness and deathly silence enveloped everything.

The desert was silent, with only the howling cold wind and the rustling sound of sand sliding slowly echoing through the air.

Qin Yi left his spot early, and it's currently empty...

A short while later, a dark figure broke the silence.

This was a burly man with a bald head that shone brightly even in the night, and a pair of large, piercing eyes that swept across the ground like an eagle.

"Bloodstains and footprints."

"It seems this guy got into a fight here."

Jin Yong discovered Qin Yi's footprints within half an hour. He followed them and arrived here before the strong wind erased the traces.

Jin Yong bent down and carefully examined the traces and footprints in the area. He frowned slightly and followed the footprints for a while.

Despite the howling wind, the man's breathing was even, his back straight, and his steps steady, as if the massive sandstorm had no effect on him.

"The hurried footsteps at the beginning indicated either that they were running away or that they were chasing someone."

"The following footsteps were slow but powerful, indicating that this person was quite strong and should be the victor of the chase."

Jin Yong may seem like a simpleton, but he's not.

His mind is often more powerful than his muscles.

He picked up a spent cartridge from the ground, examined it closely, and then said, "7.62mm caliber bullet, either from a rifle or a sniper rifle."

Looking around, he couldn't find a second spent cartridge.

"Only a few shots were fired; it must have been a sniper rifle."

Jin Yong rubbed the spent cartridge case, walking at a leisurely pace, following in Qin Yi's footsteps.

"There is very little blood on the ground, and it is all dark purple, so it must be the monster's blood."

"That means the man was not injured."

He continued forward through the sandstorm, but paused for a moment.

"I need to be careful that this man doesn't ambush me with his footprints."

"Let's go into stealth and give chase, hehe."

"Hopefully this prey will be interesting and won't waste my stealth state."

Beneath the burly man's broad, thick eyebrows gleamed a pair of shrewd and deep eyes. His figure gradually blurred under the cover of the wind and sand, and finally disappeared.

. . . . . . .

Qin Yi, who was strolling ahead, was unaware that a powerful hunter had his eye on him.

However, he was not entirely unprepared. To prevent anyone from following his footprints and ambushing him from behind, Qin Yi would stop every fifty meters, turn around, and lie in ambush for a while.

This seemingly insane action is actually the result of Qin Yi's cautious approach, which has allowed him to survive to this day.

Although he was wandering aimlessly, his next plan was still very clear—to find and subdue a level 3 or 4 treasure chest monster, or other powerful monsters, before dawn.

Unfortunately, apart from two reckless giant lizards, Qin Yi did not encounter any other strange beasts along the way.

“giao——giao——”

The sand sculptures circling overhead kept emitting strange shrieks, which annoyed Qin Yi.

"So much time has passed since the night started, and I still haven't accomplished anything."

"If you keep squawking like that, I'll make you kill me before I waste my bullets."

Qin Yi's fierce gaze swept over the sand sculptors in the sky, scaring them away.

After seeing the annoying, stupid bird fly away, Qin Yi lay down on the spot, intending to hide and lay an ambush, but he sensed something was wrong.

The desert wind was blowing from behind him to the front, but the moment he spoke, the wind behind him seemed to disappear or weaken for a split second.

However, judging from the surrounding situation, the wind has not stopped.

In other words, it is very likely that something Qin Yi could not see suddenly appeared behind him and blocked the wind.

Qin Yi kept his expression unchanged, pretended to put his right hand in his pants pocket as if it were frozen, and gripped the Desert Eagle tightly in his pants pocket.

He kept glancing around with the corner of his eye, but found nothing.

There weren't even any footprints.

"It's absolutely impossible that I'm being paranoid or that I'm misinterpreting things."

Qin Yi had absolute confidence in his senses. The fact that he couldn't find the enemy could only mean that the enemy's stealth skills were too strong.

However, this approach is still not viable. The enemy is in the shadows while he is in the open. Although the enemy is currently wary of his caution and has not made a move easily, Qin Yi will ultimately suffer losses if this continues.

Wait a minute... This enemy didn't make a direct attack?

Doesn't this directly prove that the enemy doesn't have long-range weapons? At least, no guns!

Qin Yi maintained absolute rationality and calmness, quickly gathering available information and constantly thinking of ways to defeat the enemy.

Randomly firing indiscriminately is definitely not an option. If you're unlucky and miss, the enemy will seize the opportunity to kill you during their firing window.

To defeat this invisible enemy, we still need to find him first.

Find him...

Qin Yi murmured these three words, a glint of light flashing in his eyes.

The enemy was standing right behind him, blocking the wind from blowing towards him!

This actually gave Qin Yi a huge piece of information.

Although this enemy doesn't leave footprints when it becomes invisible, it doesn't ignore collision volume!

There was no wind in front of him where he was standing!

Knowing this, catching this person becomes very simple!

Qin Yi's gaze shifted slightly downwards, directly looking at the sandy surface.

If there is a sandy area where the sand is blown by the wind on one side and not on the other, then the matter is quite simple.

That enemy is standing right there!

Qin Yi's gaze carefully swept across every inch of the sand surface, finally focusing on the area where the "strange phenomenon" had occurred.

That's it!

The thought flashed through Qin Yi's mind in an instant, and his right hand suddenly swung out of his pocket, ready to pull the trigger.

At the same time, the enemy seemed to realize that his position had been exposed. His figure slowly appeared, his muscles bulged, and he pounced directly at Qin Yi.

Bang bang bang! !

Qin Yi fired three shots, but saw blinding sparks flash across the man's body, yet he himself was completely unharmed!

"Damn it, this person has protective gear."

Seeing that things were not going well, Qin Yi didn't have time to put away his pistol. He loosened his right hand and threw the Desert Eagle to the ground, then gripped the Windbreaker Blade and met the uninvited guest.

A head-on collision? I, Qin Yi, couldn't be happier!

In the biting cold wind, the two men began to fight!

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