Translator: ryuxenji Editor: H2dH2mr Seeing this scene, Ling Lan's heart skipped a beat. This team leader's aura was chaotic, and he had lost his usual composure — this was definitely a good opportunity for an assassination. Ling Lan was just about to make her move when three figures flew over from different directions.
"Leader!" shouted one of the team members.
Meanwhile, the other team member saw the blood-soaked Xiao Lai lying in the leader's arms, and could not help but cry out, "Xiao Lai!"
Hiding to one side, Ling Lan secretly lamented. If those three had arrived five seconds later, she would have had a chance to make her move. Ling Lan was also a decisive person. Seeing that there was no longer any possibility of a sneak attack here, she once again retracted all her aura and lay low like an inanimate object.
The team leader suppressed the grief and indignation in his heart, saying through gritted teeth, "Xiao Lai was ambushed by the opponent and sacrificed! The opponent is proficient in concealment and assassination. You all need to be careful. " The chaos only lasted for a moment. By then, he had already regained his composure, and immediately deduced Ling Lan's approximate location. "He should be not far from here. From the time I sensed the killing intent to the scene, it was only a short three seconds. He wouldn't have had the chance to run too far."
The team leader believed that although his mind had been thrown into chaos by Xiao Lai's sacrifice, he had not lost his perception. If Ling Lan had still chosen to run at that time, he would definitely have sensed the disturbance. However, when he arrived at the scene, the surroundings were silent. That meant that the opponent had chosen to hide nearby.
Perhaps, he was right beside them, waiting for a chance to kill them in one strike.
"From now on, you three will form groups of three. Don't stay too far away from each other when searching. It's best if you can keep an eye on each other." The team leader knew that his three team members were equal in strength to Xiao Lai. Once they were alone, it would be very dangerous, so he decided to let them search in groups of three. As for himself... if the opponent thought that he was an easy target when alone, he would let that brat know that in the face of true strength, any ingenious sneak attack or assassination was useless.
"Yes, Leader!" The three of them acknowledged the order with solemn expressions. Xiao Lai's death put them on guard. They did not have the confidence to avoid the opponent's silent sneak attack.
Ling Lan saw that the four of them had split into two teams and were searching in two different directions. Ling Lan was undoubtedly very lucky. The direction that they chose to search in was not where she was. Of course, this was only temporary. When they didn't find anything in those two directions, they would definitely come back and search the places that they hadn't searched before. In other words, Ling Lan had been hiding here all this time, and she would be found by them sooner or later.
Ling Lan thought for a moment and decided to find an opportunity to follow the three-man team. Although on the surface, following the team leader to carry out the assassination plan seemed to be more likely to succeed, Ling Lan inexplicably felt a faint sense of danger from the team leader. It was this sense of danger that made her immediately give up the idea of ambushing the team leader.
Of course, it would be difficult for Ling Lan to launch a sneak attack on the three-man team, but Ling Lan believed that as long as she was patient, she might have a chance.
At this moment, a gust of wind blew past, causing the leaves on the trees to sway and rustle. Ling Lan pushed herself lightly with her palms, and her entire person flew like a ghost in the direction that the three-man team had disappeared in...
When the sound of the wind died down, Ling Lan floated down gently like a leaf, darting into a hidden spot to hide once more... Ling Lan's endurance was very strong — even if the three-man team was still nowhere to be seen, once the wind died down, she would not move again, unless the next gust of wind blew again.
The team leader was currently searching in another direction with his head lowered. His ears vibrated with the sound of the wind, and although he was expressionless, a flash of doubt passed through his eyes...
He actually could not detect anything out of the ordinary. Other than the sound of the wind and the rustling of the leaves, there was only the sound of their footsteps stepping on the dead leaves and vegetation. Could it be that his guess was wrong? The opponent had still chosen to hide in the same spot, and had not followed up with a sneak attack? Or perhaps he had already followed them, and it was just that he had not heard them?
The team leader's expression became serious. Right at this moment, a wisp of fog actually appeared in the forest, and then it slowly became thicker. Just like that, the team leader's figure disappeared into this white fog.
The members of the three-man team followed the team leader's instructions closely — the distance between them did not exceed 10 meters. Not only that, they also maintained a situation where one of their team members was always in their line of sight. This was the Federation's unique triangular formation, a defensive formation with no blind spots.
Ling Lan continued to use the sound of the wind to conceal herself, quietly following the team of three. However, she was not happy at all. Instead, her brows were tightly furrowed, because she realized that with this formation, she had no chance of launching a sneak attack at all.
She had to break this formation as soon as possible! Ling Lan knew that she did not have much time left. Little Four, who had been keeping a close eye on the team leader, had just told her that the team leader could not be found. Although Little Four had used high-definition satellite surveillance to conduct a comprehensive search of the area where the team leader had disappeared, that area had already turned into a thick fog. In this situation, even high-definition satellites would be useless.
Ling Lan reckoned that the thick fog was the other party's innate ability. Perhaps the other party had already turned around at this moment and was hurrying over. Not only did she have to find a chance to get rid of the three people in front of her as soon as possible, she also had to be careful of the situation behind her. She could not allow the tragedy of the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind it to happen again.
A gust of wind blew past, and the trees and bushes swayed gently with this gust of wind, producing a rustling sound. The three-man team had been nervous and cautious at the beginning, but now, they were calm. They only stopped in their tracks and subconsciously swept a glance in the direction of the sound.
When Ling Lan saw this, her heart could not help but skip a beat …
When the three of them saw that there was nothing out of the ordinary, they continued their search. Not long after, another gust of wind blew. Just like before, the leaves and bushes rustled. But this time, something almost invisible flew out with this gust of wind.
Ling Lan took advantage of this gust of wind and flicked out an extremely thin but sharp ice needle from her finger. Her target was the team member closest to her. At this moment, the other party's line of sight happened to turn in that direction due to the sound, and this direction just so happened to expose his temple, which had the weakest defensive ability, to Ling Lan's eyes.
Ever since humans used genetic agents to promote the evolution of their bodies, their body's vitality and defensive abilities had become much stronger than in Ling Lan's world 10,000 years ago. Therefore, other than the brain region, the other parts of the body were no longer considered fatal weaknesses.
If Ling Lan wanted to rely on this extremely thin ice needle to inflict a fatal wound on the other parts of the body, this was practically impossible. Only by shooting it directly into the brain and destroying the other's brain region would there be a chance of killing them. For example, when Ling Lan had assassinated a Twilight Empire mecha operator on planet Demonbeast, she had used a short wooden needle to shoot it diagonally upwards from the other's jaw, destroying the other's brain region and killing the other. Otherwise, if she had simply pierced the throat, she might not have been able to kill the other.
Compared to the layers of defence mecha operators had around their heads, this three-man team before her had not put up much defence around their heads because they were pretending to be instructors. This allowed Ling Lan to have a chance of killing them in one strike.
Ling Lan's ice needle was really too thin and small, and she had also used the sound of the wind to come silently. When the ice needle was less than 10 centimetres away from the other, the other's expression changed abruptly.
No matter how much she used the sound of the wind to conceal herself, a Qi-Jin level combat expert would naturally have a defensive air current around them. The moment she got close to the other's air current, she would be discovered by the other. This was also why Ling Lan had chosen to assassinate at close range from the start. After all, hidden weapons were not very effective against a Qi-Jin expert who was fully focused on defence.
That person was just about to turn his head to dodge when Ling Lan's long-prepared spiritual attack came right at him. This spiritual attack was not as strong as the one she had used on Xiao Lai, causing the other to faint immediately. Instead, it made the other feel his head jerk violently, and the movements he had wanted to make would suddenly lose control and come to a halt.
This was only for an instant. After fainting, that person immediately regained consciousness, but in that instant, to his horror, he found that it was already too late!
The ice needle had silently pierced into the other's Dayang acupoint, leaving no trace behind, only a tiny red dot peeking out from there. And the look of horror on his face before he died!
The other two had not noticed what had happened at all. They continued to search forward in their triangular defensive formation, but before they had taken a few steps, they found that the team member at the other corner had actually not followed them...
One of the team members stopped in his tracks suspiciously and shouted, "Xiao Lin, what did you find? Why aren't you following us? "
Xiao Lin continued to stand there unmoving, only staring at one spot as if he had discovered something.
The two of them looked at each other, gesturing with their eyes to go over and take a look. They walked over carefully, and one of them even walked up to Xiao Lin's side and pushed his shoulder, saying, "Hey, aren't you going to answer our questions?"
Unexpectedly, his push caused Xiao Lin's entire body to fall forward. The two of them jumped in fright — one of them nervously defended himself, while the other hurried forward to check, only to find that Xiao Lin had already stopped breathing...
"Ah... you damned bastard, hurry up and f * cking come out! What kind of hero is a sneak attack? If you have the guts, fight me one on one..." That person jumped up abruptly, shouting agitatedly at the dark forest. He had been frightened by Xiao Lin's silent death.
"Xiao Chong, calm down!" The other team member shouted anxiously, looking around warily. The surroundings were cold and silent, with not a single person in sight...
"Team leader! Team leader! "The agitated team member shouted, hoping that the team leader would hurry over and find the cause of Xiao Lin's death.
But the only reply he received was still deathly silence — even the team leader had not made a sound. The agitated team member gradually calmed down, but his face was also growing paler and paler. He could not help but think — could it be that their team leader had also been killed silently?
He shook his head fiercely. No, the team leader was so strong, he definitely would not have been killed by a 13-year-old child... but, was that really just a 13-year-old child? Or perhaps the person who had done this was not the person they had imagined? Was it the devil?
He thought of the large hole in Xiao Lai's chest that had been pierced by some unknown weapon, and then looked at Xiao Lin lying on the ground. There were no wounds on his body at all, only an expression of extreme terror, as if he had seen something terrifying before he died...
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