Elena tried to struggle, but the difference in strength between her and Zhou Si was too great, and Zhou Si's words just now were not meant to distract her. Elena also noticed the commotion in the distance.
"open."
Seeing that Elena had calmed down, Zhou Si immediately released her wrist. The little bird rubbed her wrist and glared at Zhou Si with some shame and indignation.
She'll let it go for now, but she'll remember this.
In the direction Zhou Si pointed, several beams of flashlight pierced the darkness in the forest, where a few young people in windbreakers were searching for something.
"Brother Tao, is that video really not fake? We've been searching here for hours, and we haven't found anything."
A man with a buzz cut, holding a flashlight, looked at the woods in front of him, his tone slightly dissatisfied, but he only spoke up now out of respect for the man in the lead.
"There won't be any problems. I asked someone to verify it, and the video showed no signs of post-production editing. The monster is indeed real."
Chen Tao couldn't suppress his excitement. The monster looked like some kind of animal contaminated by dragon blood. Such monsters are usually not very strong, making them perfect for young people like them who don't have much practical experience to practice on.
If they could hunt down such a creature made of dragon blood, their family's evaluation of them would rise considerably, and they could at least escape their current unappreciated status.
This is basically the situation for most of them.
"Who's over there?!"
Suddenly, a rustling sound came from the bushes nearby. Chen Tao's expression changed, and he shone several beams of flashlight in the direction of the bushes.
"Go and see."
Chen Tao winked at the crew-cut youth who had just asked the question. Their golden eyes met for a moment. Although the crew-cut youth had some complaints, as mentioned before, Chen Tao was the leader of their group. In terms of bloodline, ability, and background, he was the best among them.
The young man with the buzz cut didn't have the courage to disobey him, so he could only nod and obediently walk towards the grove of trees.
Parting the dense thicket, the flashlight shone through the gaps, but there was no so-called dragon blood creation in the thicket, only a face filled with embarrassment and fear.
"Lu Mingfei???"
Zhou Si, watching the man being brought out from the rooftop in the distance, was completely bewildered. Why was this kid here at this hour? Wasn't he just an ordinary person?
I should be sleeping at home right now, since I have classes at Shilan Middle School tomorrow.
"Brothers, I'm really just passing by."
Lu Mingfei was also eager to know the answer to this question. He knelt in front of the group with a mournful face. He had just been lying in bed not long ago, and when he opened his eyes again, he found himself in this forest.
Before Lu Mingfei could even react to what was happening, he was caught by this group of people.
No, Lu Mingfei seemed to have had a strange dream. In the dream, a little kid who claimed to be his younger brother spoke some incomprehensible words to him and left with the words, "Brother, I've sold you." Then he woke up.
Am I still dreaming?
Lu Mingfei muttered to himself, even reaching out to slap himself hard in an attempt to wake himself from his dream, but the burning pain on his cheek told him that everything he was experiencing was not a dream.
The person in front of me, wearing a windbreaker, carrying a flashlight, and even with a gun hanging from his waist, is a real person.
Could it be that his aunt finally couldn't stand him anymore and sold him to human traffickers? Is this sometime in northern Myanmar?
This was the only possibility Lu Mingfei could think of. Two lines of tears streamed down his face. Thinking of the tragic stories he had seen in the news, he had given up hope for the rest of his life.
"Brother Tao, is this kid an idiot?"
The crew-cut youth looked at Lu Mingfei, who was crying and laughing after slapping him, and asked uncertainly.
"What's your name?"
"Lu Mingfei, brother, I really was just passing by."
"But you've already seen our faces."
Chen Tao was somewhat embarrassed. Upon hearing his words, Lu Mingfei almost fainted. Seeing the kid's embarrassing performance, everyone present couldn't help but laugh.
"Brother Tao, don't scare them."
Another gentle-looking man with glasses in the team smiled and said that he was obviously much closer to Chen Tao. The man with glasses walked over to Lu Mingfei and helped him up from the ground.
"Xiao Lu, don't be afraid. We are police officers. The owner of the farm here reported that his pigs were missing, so we came to handle it."
The bespectacled man showed his police ID to Lu Mingfei. Although it was fake, an ordinary person would obviously not be able to tell the difference. They could just find someone to erase Lu Mingfei's memory of it later.
After all, even mixed-race people can go to jail for harming ordinary people in modern society, let alone those with connections but who are not valued.
The fact that he was a police officer clearly gave Lu Mingfei a great sense of security. The group of people who had just looked fierce and menacing now seemed unusually friendly.
"Awen, you take Xiaolu back down the mountain first."
The bespectacled man, Li Wen, nodded. They couldn't possibly take an ordinary person to find the Dragon Blood Creation; they should send him back to the city first.
Moreover, there are still many suspicious points about this kid. After all, what kind of good person would appear in the deep mountains and forests at this time? In any case, having him by your side is not a good choice.
But things don't always go as planned. Just as Li Wengang was about to leave with Lu Mingfei, a strong gust of wind swept in from afar.
"Watch out, Ah Wen!"
Along with the shouts came the obscure dragon script. The elements in the air began to stir under the power of the words, and a sudden gust of wind howled through the silent forest, blowing Li Wen and Lu Mingfei away.
The next moment, several jet-black feathers shot into the ground where they had just stood, half of the feathers disappearing into the earth.
"It's that monster!"
They had seen this attack method in the surveillance video before; it was the monster's arm. But when they actually faced the monster's attack, they realized just how fast those feathers were shooting out.
Chen Tao gently tapped the feathers on the ground. The hard, metallic feel came from his fingertips. If those sharp feathers, gleaming with a cold light, were to hit them, they could easily tear their bodies apart.
"Find its location."
If the monster had remained hidden in the shadows, it would have posed too great a threat. Fortunately, they had considered this when they arrived, which is why they brought the crew-cut youth with them.
The young man with the buzz cut took a step forward, and several thin beams of light shot out in all directions like a swarm of snakes, transforming the terrain information of the entire forest into a 3D image that appeared in his mind.
And the monster's location...
“There it is!”
The young man with the buzz cut suddenly turned around and pointed to a large tree. Everyone looked in the direction he pointed, but they only saw a flash of red light, and the next moment a huge black shadow blocked the faint moonlight overhead.
At the prompting of the crew-cut youth, everyone in the group immediately dodged to the side, except for the bespectacled man named Li Wen. He only had time to push Lu Mingfei out of the velociraptor's attack range before being swept away by the velociraptor's tail and crashed into a tree, his fate unknown.
"Officer!"
Lu Mingfei watched in horror as the police officer who had just been comforting him was sent flying in front of him, and the huge monster was staring at him right in front of him.
Fear and worry filled Lu Mingfei's heart, and just then, the voice of the child he had heard in his dream rang out from behind him.
"Brother, don't be afraid."
Lu Mingfei turned around abruptly and saw the little devil who called himself his younger brother standing next to him, watching him with a smile.
"Was this your doing?!"
Lu Mingfei's face flushed red, and his body trembled with excitement. He realized that it wasn't a dream at all; it was all this guy's conspiracy.
"Don't be angry, brother. I'm here to help you."
Lu Mingze wiped the spittle that Lu Mingfei had sprayed onto his collar, walked past him, and came to the front of the pitch-black beast.
'That's incredible.'
Looking at the velociraptor in front of him, Lu Mingze could feel the explosive power contained within the monster's body. If we only consider physical strength, this monster could even tear apart a second-generation species with a complete dragon body.
Lu Mingze glanced at the farm in the distance, then looked back at his foolish older brother, who had signed the most unequal deal in years for his own sake.
"Brother, oh brother, I've even sold my underwear for you, so it's only right that you suffer a little now. After all, I'm doing this for your own good."
"This is all fake, isn't it? Send me back right now!"
Lu Mingfei only hoped that all of this was just a nightmare, but the little devil had clearly shattered his illusions once again.
"It's a pity, brother, this is the truth of the world." The little devil walked to Lu Mingfei's side, opened his arms, and his golden pupils shone brightly in the night. "Don't you often fantasize about magic and superpowers?"
"But I don't have any cheat codes either!"
“I’m your cheat code, aren’t I?” Lu Mingze patted Lu Mingfei on the shoulder. “It’s just that the loading progress is only at 99% right now, and it hasn’t been unlocked yet.”
What nonsense are you talking about?
Lu Mingfei's grief-stricken eyes revealed these words, but Lu Mingze simply smiled and turned to walk into the depths of the woods.
"Where are you going? Didn't you say you were my cheat code?"
Lu Mingfei, who had just been full of malice towards the little devil, became afraid again when he saw that the little devil was really leaving.
"Don't worry, you'll be fine, I promise."
After saying this, Lu Mingze disappeared into the night. Lu Mingfei's vision blurred for a moment, and the huge monster was already in front of him. Everything just now seemed like an illusion.
The velociraptor opened its blood-red maw, about to crush the head of the little man in front of it. Lu Mingfei closed his eyes in fear, but for some reason, its sharp teeth stopped less than half a meter in front of Lu Mingfei's head.
Lu Mingfei slowly opened his eyes. The huge monster was struggling in front of him, but something seemed to be pulling on its tail, preventing him from taking another step forward.
Looking back, Lu Mingfei saw the older brother who had saved his life from his aunt yesterday, and who had saved his life once again.
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The author is back! There will be another update today, let's go!!!
Regarding the question raised in the comments about whether she would act as Lu Mingfei's bodyguard, the answer is absolutely not; Lu Mingfei's role will not be very large.
Chapter Fourteen: The Little Bird: The Poor Child
Zhou Si wrapped his arms around the velociraptor's tail. The monster in front of him struggled violently, mud flying everywhere. The velociraptor's limbs were almost embedded in the ground, but its body remained motionless.
Feeling the extent of its struggle in his hand, he realized that, just as he had expected, this velociraptor hadn't eaten in a long time. Although it acted fiercely, it was actually weak and feeble inside.
"Wake it up for me!"
Zhou Si leaned back slightly, then suddenly exerted force.
To the nimble dragon's bewilderment, its body suddenly rose straight up from the ground, drawing a graceful arc in the air.
In Lu Mingfei's eyes, however, it was an astonishing sight of Zhou Si angrily pulling out the tail of the swift dragon.
The velociraptor's massive body crashed to the ground. Seeing that it was still struggling, Zhou Si grabbed its tail and slammed it back and forth. The earth shook violently, and the surrounding trees and rocks were smashed into a mess by the velociraptor's body.
Now, the already dazed and confused velociraptor was completely knocked unconscious by this attack. The belated little bird then added two more tranquilizer darts to the velociraptor's attack.
This is a powerful anesthetic specially made by the guild for capturing monsters. Not to mention Nargacuga, even the King of Fanged Beasts would be knocked down after being hit by two shots.
Under the effects of the anesthetic injection, the Swift Dragon's breathing gradually stabilized. Zhou Si stroked its head; the creature had completely fallen asleep.
"Most velociraptors are timid and cautious, so this little guy must be terrified to have suddenly arrived in this world."
Zhou Si is no longer the clueless novice hunter he once was. With Bai and Gu Niao's patient tutoring, his understanding of most monsters far surpasses that of the average hunter.
After all, his two teachers were a top-notch Palico and a top-notch hunter, respectively, and their experience was something that ordinary hunters couldn't possibly compete with.
Elene also came to the front of the velociraptor. She had not yet suffered from the common pre-head syndrome among hunters. She put away her weapon and looked at the huge monster in front of her.
The little bird reached out and gently stroked the velociraptor's feathers. Compared to the knowledge in books, the monsters in reality are much more exciting.
"What to do with these people?"
After a brief observation of the velociraptors, Elena pointed to the group of hybrids lying nearby.
"Give them some medicine, and then someone will take them back."
Most of these people were stunned by the roar of the velociraptor. The most seriously injured was the bespectacled man who was sent flying by the velociraptor. But fortunately, his Word of Power was defensive, so the velociraptor's tail whip only broke a few of his bones and shattered some of his internal organs.
Hybrids have pretty good vitality; this guy barely survived. Giving him a secret medicine later will bring him back to life.
As for this one in front of us...
Zhou Si and the little bird turned their gazes to Lu Mingfei, who was pretending to be a quail. The kid had been sneaking around to one side since the beginning, and his intention to escape was all too obvious.
'As long as, as long as we can get to that place!'
At this moment, Lu Mingfei was lying on the ground, crawling towards the distant bushes like a leash. Once he reached that spot, he could escape the two men's sight, and then...
Before Lu Mingfei's fantasy had ended, a figure squatted down in front of him.
"Hi~"
Zhou Si gave what she thought was a rather friendly smile, but Lu Mingfei didn't seem to think so.
“Big Brother, we met last night, and you even helped me.”
Lu Mingfei tried his best to get closer to her, forcing out a face that looked worse than crying.
"But you bumped into me back then?"
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