The group emerged from the stone chamber and continued walking forward.
At a corner, Yu Hanjiang suddenly stopped.
His ears picked up a sharp sound of unfamiliar footsteps. Yu Hanjiang immediately held his breath and whispered in Yu Hanjiang's ear, "Someone is following us."
He is a professional criminal police officer who frequently tracks criminals, so he also has a strong sense of counter-surveillance.
The corridor was paved with bluestone slabs, making footsteps very clear. Tang Ci and Liu Qiao were in their teammate's pockets; there were four of them, so there should have been four footsteps. Lu Jiuchuan's footsteps were heavier, Xiao Lou's were lighter, and Lao Mo walked slower because he had to draw as he went…
The footsteps that just reached my ears did not belong to any of my teammates.
Upon hearing Yu Hanjiang's words, Xiao Lou suddenly recalled the scene from Iron Tree Hell — the Hunter hanging from an iron tree, his chest pierced by a sharp blade, bleeding to death.
That was just one of the Hunters; there were definitely more than just her infiltrating the labyrinth.
so...
The one following us might just be Hunter!
Xiao Lou immediately tensed up. He lowered his voice and asked Yu Hanjiang in his ear, "How many people are there?"
Yu Hanjiang listened carefully and said, "The footsteps stopped. The other party is very cautious, and I can't tell how many of them there are right now. However, we can keep surveillance footage."
Xiao Lou understood, looked up and glanced around, and noticed a lamp that was always on in the corner.
Then, he left the [ drone ] card that Tang Ci had given him behind the ever-burning lamp. In this way, the ever-burning lamp would block the drone due to the light, so that the other party would not notice the existence of the surveillance.
Upon discovering that Xiao Lou had installed surveillance cameras, Lu Jiuchuan and Lao Mo were about to speak when Xiao Lou made a "shh" gesture to his lips, and the two immediately shut up. Yu Hanjiang made a hand gesture, indicating that someone was following them.
Lu Jiuchuan's expression changed slightly, and he asked in lip reading, " Hunter?"
Yu Hanjiang nodded.
After setting up the surveillance camera, Xiao Lou used Telepathic Connection to notify Ye Qi: "Xiao Ye, there might be a Hunter following you, so be careful. Note that you shouldn't make a sound yet, and try to inform your teammates as soon as possible."
Upon hearing Xiao Lou's voice in his mind, Ye Qi quickly wrote a few words in his teammate's palm: "There's a Hunter following us."
Gui Yuanzhang frowned slightly and turned to look at Long Sen and Qu Wanyue.
The two exchanged a glance, then immediately pressed themselves against the wall, using the " chameleon card " to blend into their surroundings.
The Chameleon Card allows for stealth detection and is difficult to spot. Long Sen and Qu Wanyue disappeared quickly behind the group like two wisps of air. They moved along the wall for a distance and sure enough, they saw three Hunters sneaking towards them from the corner. They immediately turned back and reported to Gui Yuanzhang: "Three, two men and one woman, wearing silver masks."
Chu Huaying said, "So few people? Are they the most capable elites?"
The Hunter Organization also has a strict hierarchy. Ordinary Hunters usually enter low-level secret rooms, such as Spade 3 and Spade 4, to hunt down newbies. Intermediate Hunters often appear in a-grade secret rooms and Weekly Secret Chambers. Teams that reach these levels have more cards and are more experienced, making them more difficult to deal with, so hunting missions often fail.
Since the other side already knows that Lu Jiuchuan is in this team, yet they only sent so few people... perhaps, the people they sent this time are all highly capable elites.
Chu Huaying had frequented the Weekly Secret Chamber with Lu Jiuchuan, killing countless Hunters. The Spider Queen's name was at the top of the Hunter Alliance's bounty list. She had some understanding of the organization. She walked up to Old Gui and lowered her voice, "If it's three elites, we should have a chance of winning in a six-on-three fight."
Gui Yuanzhang shook his head: "Let's not alert them yet, let's wait and see what happens on Xiao Lou's side."
Xiao Lou and his group of six continued walking forward as if nothing had happened, discussing the maze and the sarcophagus. On the surface, they seemed unaware that they were being followed by Hunter.
The man and woman breathed a sigh of relief and continued forward.
Unbeknownst to them, Xiao Lou was holding a card in his hand, which resembled a video window on a mobile phone, clearly displaying surveillance images from the corridor.
He saw a man and a woman walking towards him. Both of them were wearing silver masks, so their faces were not visible, but judging from their walking movements, they seemed to be quite skilled.
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang exchanged a glance and pointed to a stone door next to them.
Yu Hanjiang nodded, slipped inside the door, and his teammates followed. They didn't find the stone coffin inside, but there was a staircase leading upwards.
Yu Hanjiang and Lu Jiuchuan quickly hid on either side of the stone gate, while Xiao Lou said loudly, "There are steps here, which should be the exit of the maze. Let's go up and take a look."
Old Mo played along: "Let's go, everyone be careful."
Then, Xiao Lou and Lao Mo pretended to climb the steps, but actually jumped down after a few steps and hid in the stone chamber.
In the corner.
The room fell completely silent. Ye Qi's voice echoed in Xiao Lou's mind: " Professor Xiao, we have three Hunters on our side. Sister Huaying wants to take care of them. What's the situation on your side? Do you have many Hunters?"
Xiao Lou said, "There are only two. Let's get started, lest things get complicated."
These Hunters were probably a vanguard sent to investigate their situation. They didn't intend to kill them in the Weekly Secret Chamber, so they were secretly observing them from behind.
Lu Jiuchuan once led a team of a dozen men to kill several times their number of elite Hunters. His reputation and strength were enough to make the Hunter Organization wary. They wouldn't act rashly before figuring out the background of Lu Jiuchuan's new teammates.
If Xiao Lou and his companions find themselves in extreme danger within the maze, these Hunters might seize the opportunity to appear and deliver a fatal blow. However, if they handle the situation calmly, the Hunters might never appear at all.
We don't know how much information these five Hunters have yet, but we can't let them go back.
Time ticked by, and the room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop; everyone held their breath.
Just then, I heard footsteps.
The man and woman seemed to think that they had already gone upstairs, so they quickly followed and entered the stone chamber.
However, as soon as the two entered the room, they were greeted by a sharp military knife!
Yu Hanjiang's attack was swift and ruthless, slashing at the man's neck with a sharp blade that nearly severed it! The man's reaction was equally agile; almost the instant Yu Hanjiang swung his blade, he bent down and took a side step, narrowly avoiding the blade. At the same time, he lowered his body and retreated as if he were wearing roller skates.
Lu Jiuchuan's Ice Sword followed closely behind, sweeping across with a single strike, its tip radiating a chilling aura.
The man raised a strange metal shield, blocking Lu Jiuchuan's freezing airflow. His eyes behind the mask were as sharp as an eagle's, and he sneered, "You think you can kill me so easily?"
Yu Hanjiang, too lazy to waste words, directly pulled out his pistol, attached a silencer, and turned to aim it at the metal shield.
A bullet whizzed through the air, striking the center of the man's shield and creating a spiderweb-like pattern, but it didn't harm him at all. The man laughed, "My shield is bulletproof..." But the next moment, his laughter abruptly stopped.
Because Yu Hanjiang's second bullet followed immediately, hitting the center of the pattern created by the previous bullet's explosion with perfect accuracy, piercing through the shield with a "poof" sound and directly entering his chest!
The man stared in disbelief, his eyes wide, and fell straight to the ground.
Even if two shots hit the same spot in a row, the metal shield can still be broken.
Lu Jiuchuan praised, "Your marksmanship has improved."
Another tall woman, sensing something was wrong, immediately turned and ran away.
Xiao Lou was prepared.
He had just drawn a lot of metal rings for later use. At this moment, he raised his hands slightly, and countless rings, like a net, rained down from the ceiling. The woman's legs were instantly trapped and she was unable to escape for a while.
Lu Jiuchuan leaped forward, thrusting his Ice Sword straight out, aiming to sever the throat with a single strike!
The woman's body convulsed twice, then she collapsed to the ground and quickly stopped breathing.
Lu Jiuchuan walked over and removed her mask, while Yu Hanjiang removed the mask of the man who had died at the entrance of the stone chamber… They both looked quite ordinary. He frowned slightly and asked, "Brother, have you seen these two Hunters?"
Lu Jiuchuan shook his head: "No." He pulled open the back of the woman's collar, revealing a black totem tattoo on her shoulder, and said in a deep voice: "Judging from the tattoo, she should be a mid-level Hunter. High-level ones aren't so easy to deal with. However, since the organization has already found out my whereabouts, sending only these few as cannon fodder is underestimating us, isn't it?"
Xiao Lou paused, a chill suddenly running through her: "Run!"
Almost as soon as he finished speaking, the bodies of the two Hunters suddenly exploded into pieces with a "boom"!
The entire chamber was ablaze with flames, and the intense heat almost knocked Xiao Lou to the ground. Luckily, Yu Hanjiang and Lu Jiuchuan ran fast, or they would have been blown to bits.
As Hunter's corpse exploded, the maze began to shake violently, as if the entire tomb was experiencing an earthquake, so much so that everyone could hardly stand.
Liu Qiao's expression changed: "Is this place going to collapse?"
Yu Hanjiang immediately used his Lightness Skill to fly over and gripped Xiao Lou's hand tightly: "Let's go!"
Lu Jiuchuan mounted the Vermilion Bird, cursing, "These bastards actually carried out a suicide attack? Damn, putting bombs on their bodies, how could they even think of that!"