"I didn't expect Yu Linglong to find you." Sambot sighed.
Silin smiled, but then Silin found that there was something wrong with Sambot's right hand hidden in his slender sleeve.
Sensing Silin's gaze, Sambot raised his right arm and pulled up his sleeve, revealing his right arm that had been cut off. The wound had been treated, but it was only a rough treatment. It must have been quite painful.
"I was betrayed. They implanted a signal transmitter in my right hand." Sambot said.
Sambot had been chased for some time. He also wondered why those people could always find him even though he was hiding so well. After checking several times, he didn't find anything special. Later, when he was in danger, he met Pian Huo. Pian Huo said the reason. Sambot's right hand was implanted with a special signal transmitter.
Sambot liked the wristband communicator. Once, his wristband communicator broke, so he used a new one. He wore the communicator on his right hand, and since then, he had never taken it off. After Pian Huo said the reason, Sambot knew that his communicator had been tampered with.
Knowing the reason, Sambot wanted to take off the communicator, but found that it was useless. The transmitter had already seeped into his right hand. Therefore, Sambot decisively cut off his right hand and destroyed the communicator. One of the reasons why he didn't take the initiative to contact Silin, and Silin couldn't contact Sambot was because the communicator was destroyed. However, Sambot didn't use the bodyguard's communicator. He had to be cautious now.
Pian Huo wasn't sure if there was only one signal transmitter. Maybe there were other more hidden signal transmitters to let the pursuers know Sambot's specific location. Therefore, they didn't dare to stay in a place that was easily exposed. When Pian Huo was looking for a hiding place, he took a fancy to the courtyard in the wilderness. He also observed that there seemed to be no one living there, so he wanted to take the courtyard and use it as a temporary hiding place. After taking the courtyard, Pian Huo could use the courtyard's protective network to set up some simple shielding facilities. However, he didn't expect to bump into Silin and the others as soon as he jumped in.
"Don't you need to treat your injury?" Silin asked.
"No, let's stay like this for now. We'll talk about it when it's safe in the future. We might not even be able to return safely." Sambert waved his hand and was supported by the bodyguards into a room arranged by Silin for them to rest. They were really tired, but no matter how tired they were, the bodyguards had to take turns to guard them.
For Sambert's hand injury, Silin didn't take out those medicines. Sambot was now very guarded against people. Perhaps he wasn't like this in the past, but after knowing that he was betrayed by someone he trusted, his guard became even stronger. If Sambert could be trusted a little more, the wound on his hand wouldn't have been treated so roughly. Silin didn't believe that Pixihuo hadn't taken out healing equipment, so it must have been Sambert who refused. They didn't even trust Pian Huo who had saved them, so they definitely wouldn't trust Silin who was entrusted by Yu Linglong to protect Sang Bai.
"Aren't you going to rest?" Silin asked Pian Huo, who was playing with Huimao with a piece of dried grass.
"I'm not tired yet. I'll rest later." Pian Huo plucked the dried grass from Huimao's paws and swept Huimao's nose. He seemed to be in good spirits.
"Ah, right. Silin, does the Eleventh Squad accept outsiders?" Pian Huo turned to Silin.
"You want to join?"
"Yes. I'm quite envious of you Hunters. You can go on adventures everywhere." Pian Huo looked at the short piece of dried grass in his hand that was bitten by the gray cat. He threw it away and sat upright, "I'm serious. If you can accept outsiders, I want to join you as an outsider."
"Nope, the Eleventh Squad doesn't accept outsiders." Wheeze interrupted Cillin before he could answer. It was as if Wheeze was the decision-maker.
Pian Huo looked at Cillin again and saw that he was thinking the same thing. After a moment of thought, he asked, "What if I join the Eleventh Squad?" That way, he wouldn't be considered an outsider anymore.
Silin fell silent. Pian Huo was backed by one of the three great forces of Sector S, Fire Phoenix. If Pian Huo joined the Eleventh Squad …
"Will your master agree?" Silin didn't believe that Fire Phoenix would be so easy to talk to.
"Of course. My master has never objected to my decisions." Pian Huo said confidently.
Silin's curiosity was piqued. He had learned some information about Pian Huo from Tsiegeyou, and he knew that the current leader of Fire Phoenix valued Pian Huo greatly. Pian Huo's status in Fire Phoenix was very high, but the current Fire Phoenix didn't restrict him at all. When the prison was still around, Pian Huo often visited the prison, and when the prison was no longer around, Pian Huo left Sector to roam freely. Moreover, the current Fire Phoenix didn't even assign a bodyguard to Pian Huo.
It was a little illogical.
Regardless of whether Sector S was a special place or not, the other two forces besides Fire Phoenix, Golden Beginning's Angenia protected Gen Xingfu and the others very well, and Flying Snake's Tsiegeyou also had a few protectors around him. It just so happened that Pian Huo, whom the current Fire Phoenix valued quite a bit, was an exception.
Tsiegeyou was puzzled when he mentioned Pian Huo. There was no doubt that Pian Huo's status in Fire Phoenix was undeniable, but this person was just too weird. Could it be that Pian Huo had disguised himself every time to avoid being recognized? If it was just a disguise, then the current Fire Phoenix shouldn't have allowed Pian Huo to run around freely.
Seeing that Silin didn't answer immediately, Pian Huo turned around and looked at Huimao who was licking his paws. He said seriously, "I can pay the admission fee! This amount! "Pian Huo said and gestured with his fingers.
Huimao's eyes lit up in an instant, and he immediately looked at Silin. His meaning was for Silin to think about it 'carefully'.
Silin was speechless. Had this cat's weakness been exposed so quickly?
"Alright, I'll give you time to think about it. I'm not in a hurry. You can give me an answer after this incident is over." Pian Huo dusted his hands and stood up to stretch his arms. He didn't return to his room to rest, but instead sat on a stone bench in the courtyard and stared at the sky.
This courtyard was already shielded from satellite surveillance, so even if there was an explosion in this courtyard, the 'Sky Eye' wouldn't react.
"Hey, Silin, where has your Eleventh Squad been? Recommend me some special places. If I can't join a Hunter regiment, I want to go check them out myself, "Pian Huo said.
"Special places?" Silin thinks for a moment, and then named a few places that Hunters frequented, including their former hunting grounds.
"That's great," Pian Huo said.
Silin didn't know if Pian Huo was referring to the Hunter profession, or those places.
Huimao's ears twitched as he listened to the conversation lazily. "Silin!"
Silin didn't need Huimao's reminder to notice that someone was coming his way. He had installed some sensors within five hundred meters of the courtyard, and someone had triggered them. The sensors didn't detect people, but metals. This way, the chances of being discovered would be reduced.
The people in this area wouldn't carry precious metals with them. Weapons made from such metals were extremely expensive, and the people of the civilian district couldn't afford them at all. Moreover, the fact that someone was able to move so quickly while carrying such metals meant that they were no ordinary person.
Czedow immediately notified Sambot while he was next door. As expected, the signal transmitter wasn't the only thing they relied on to track someone.
A moth-like insect flew into the courtyard, and Silin stared at it for a moment. It looked very similar to a normal moth at first glance, but a closer look would reveal that there was a huge difference between the two.
This wasn't a moth. There weren't many moths in this area, and they were considered a rare species. The most common species in this area were flies.
Smell.
The smell of blood on Sambot's injured right hand, and Sambot's own scent.
These people were using these special moths to sense smell to track Sambot. They had made a few preparations. At first, they must've relied on the signal transmitter to track Sambot, but they also considered the possibility that the transmitter might be discovered and destroyed. Therefore, they used this kind of moth.
Huimao jumped up and swallowed the moth that flew into the courtyard. He opened his mouth and swallowed it.
"Disgusting," Huimao commented.
Why are you eating it even though it's disgusting?! Pian Huo curled his lips at the side.
Pian Huo and Silin retreated to the small building. Czedow and Sambot's two bodyguards stood guard on the other side of the building.
Almost silent bullets shot toward Silin and Pian Huo, but they were all blocked by a transparent shield in front of them. This was Pian Huo's setup.
Puchi —
An arrow of blood sprayed into the air from outside the wall. Then, there was the sound of a human body falling to the ground.
This was Huimao's handiwork. Squatting next to the stone bench and being ignored, Huimao took advantage of the moment when the people were shooting at Silin and Pian Huo. His claw almost broke the person's neck, and this was the result of Huimao holding back.
It had been holding back for a long time, and it had been waiting for this moment for a long time.
After discovering that their companions had been hit for some reason, the people immediately became vigilant of their surroundings. But in the next moment, three of them were shot in the head almost at the same time.
Who fired the shot?! This was the question on the remaining people's minds.
The only person who pulled out a gun at the small building was Silin, but they clearly saw that Silin's gun wasn't pointed in their direction. Why … were they shot?! And three people were shot at the same time!
This was just the beginning. Five more people were shot in succession. They were still wondering before they died. They clearly avoided the muzzle, and they clearly weren't in the direction the muzzle was pointing at, so why were they shot?
After finishing off these people, Silin turned around and Pian Huo also finished off two people. There was a hidden weapon on her arm. Normally, it looked like a normal armguard, but it was a killing weapon right now. The hidden weapon shot out was very fast, and it had a certain degree of tracking function. After the hidden weapon hit the person, it exploded inside the person's body. Although it was a small explosion, the critical point was that the internal organs exploded and killed them very quickly.
A product of Fire Phoenix's technology? Silin was puzzled.
"I remember you have a whip," Silin said.
Pian Huo didn't answer. She hadn't recovered from her nervous state just now. She looked around vigilantly, "There are thirteen people here, but there are only eleven corpses."
She suspected that there were two more people hiding around.
"There's no need to look, they're all dead."
The moment Cillin finished speaking, the gray cat jumped over from the other side of the courtyard wall and curled its lips. It complained as it walked over, "Disgusting."
Pian Huo: "..."
On the other side of the building, Czedow had finished off seven people, and the remaining two were taken care of by Sambot's subordinates.
When Silin entered the house, Sambot and his subordinates looked at Silin and Czedow strangely. They didn't see Silin's performance, but two subordinates who were responsible for observing Silin's side did.
Just a moment ago, they were still doubting Czedow and Czedow's capabilities, but before they could react, they saw Czedow pull out a gun and shoot at them. Not only that, he was also shooting at them at an extremely fast speed. His speed was so fast that they only realized how many people Czedow had killed when he dragged the dead pursuers inside.
Sambot had witnessed the Eleventh Squad's combat power back at Sector M, and he was shocked once more today.
From the moment they discovered the pursuers, to the moment they attacked, to the moment they finished off the entire wave of pursuers, it didn't take more than three minutes. Strictly speaking, the time it took to finish off the pursuers was less than a minute, excluding the time they spent waiting vigilantly.
When Sambot's bodyguards thought back to every time they ran into a wave of pursuers, they fell silent.
"Is everyone in Vanguard the same as you?" Sambot asked.
"Nope." Silin knew what Sambot meant, but if even a fifth, a tenth, or even a hundredth of Vanguard's members had Czedow's combat power, the Big Four would've ceased to exist a long time ago. The only one left behind would be Vanguard, the absolute ruler of the high ground.
"I think so too." Sambot smiled himself. It was obvious that he had thought of the same logic.
The pursuers this time were only the first wave. They were the vanguard sent by Yu Linglong's second cousin brother, Yu Xing. There would definitely be more coming after them, but no one knew when they would arrive.
"However, I advise you to treat the wound on your hand first, and conceal your aura." Silin took out a small spray bottle. Everyone in the Eleventh Squad was very familiar with this kind of spray bottle because they used it often.
Silin told Sambot about the moth from before and took out a moth. There were two tracking moths, and Huimao had eaten one of them. The other one was kept as evidence.
Sambot didn't refuse this time, and Pian Huo took out his medical equipment of his own accord for Sambot to use. However, Sambot's bodyguard didn't know how to use it, so Pian Huo guided him from the side.
"No, no, you need to apply the medicine evenly. It can't be too thick. You need to apply another medicine later! Don't apply it too far away from the wound … "Pian Huo kept instructing the bodyguard on the correct application of the medicine.
However, the bodyguard's hands weren't very dexterous, and he wasn't very proficient in this. In the past, when they were injured, they just had to do some simple treatment. After enduring it, they would go to the healing pod and lie down. The medical machinery would help them, so there was no need to do such complicated things. Although the treatment would definitely be much better, the process of applying medicine was really troublesome, and there were many details that needed to be paid attention to.
The bodyguard who was more familiar with medicine was injured, so his movements wouldn't be very dexterous. He could only let this person who wasn't familiar with medicine help Sambot.
After applying the first medicine, the bodyguard was already sweating profusely. He felt that this was much more difficult than dealing with the pursuers.
Seeing this, Sambot waved his hand and looked at Pian Huo. "I'll have to trouble you to help. They're too clumsy."
"Okay, it'll be quick. I'm familiar with this, and now that it's done, it'll be much easier for you to go back and do the differentiation treatment." Pian Huo picked up the second medicine and began to apply it skillfully.
The bodyguard used five minutes to apply the first medicine, while Pian Huo only used half a minute to apply the second medicine, and then continued with the other treatments.
Judging from Pian Huo's proficiency, it wasn't hard to imagine that this person had suffered many injuries before.
Most of the time, it was these primitive medicines that saved people without any auxiliary machinery. Even the most advanced medical equipment couldn't replace these medicines, and this was something that hunters felt the most deeply.
Five minutes later, Sambot's hand looked much better than before after being treated anew. Sambot and his subordinates had also used the scent concealment spray Silin had given them before, so they should be able to avoid the tracking moths. It was just that they didn't know what other methods the pursuers might use to track them down.
"This time, I have to thank you brats!" Sambert said.
You … brats?
Huimao tilted his head and looked at Pian Huo. It was obvious that this person was a woman at first glance. This old man's eyesight was really bad.
It wasn't that Sambot's eyesight was bad, but Pian Huo's disguise was too good. After all, Sambot and his men weren't Huimao and Czedow.
Sambot moved his newly treated arm and looked at Pian Huo again, "I suddenly feel that you look a little like an old friend of mine."
Just now, Silin noticed that Sambot's gaze towards Pian Huo was a little strange. So this was the reason. However, Sambot's friend …
Pian Huo, who was tidying up the medicine bottles, paused for a moment when he heard Sambot's words. Then, he continued to tidy up and asked in a casual tone, "Your friend? Who is it? "
"Si Fang."
Silin's eyelids twitched. Si?
Very quickly, Silin's attention moved from this surname to this name.
He had seen this name before when he went to Sector S with Lung in some of the information Lung had given him. This person wasn't mentioned in the military information the League of Stars government had made public. And the reason why Celine was able to pay special attention to this person was mainly because he was Grandfather Mo's son. Because before Grandfather Mo's son Mo Qing, the person who sat in his position was Si Fang. After Si Fang, Mo Qing then took over Si Fang's position.
Si Fang was a famous general of the Empire back then. She was also the only woman among the most influential generals.
Later on, due to certain matters, Si Fang was sent to Sector S's highest prison, and there was no news of her after that. At the time, Silin didn't pay attention to the information of a lot of military higher-ups who were sent to the highest prison. But now …
Looking at Pian Huo who was playing with a medicine bottle with her head lowered, Silin felt a little suspicious.
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