Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 291 Killing

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Meanwhile, another line of action.

"The No. 6 observation post is ahead." Zhu Long looked around cautiously as he walked. "I don't think that heavy rain and mudslides can kill those experienced special agents... You should understand what I mean, right?"

"Isn't it just a weird thing?" said a hunter assigned to Zhulong's group, "It's just our job."

"Speaking of which, Zhulong, you should have the strongest perception ability among these people, right?" Ye Jiu said, "Can you sense which direction the aura of the strange creature is the strongest?"

Zhulong shook his head. "It's everywhere. Even where we are, it's filled with a strong smell of strange creatures... I'm not sure whether these smells come from real strange creatures or Chimera 17's interference methods."

"Wow, a means of interference? Is it afraid of us?" Ye Jiu hung the wolf-fang spear behind him and held the Tang Dynasty horizontal sword named "Zhan Shuang" in his hand, dragging the tip of the sword on the ground - anything that was touched by Zhan Shuang, whether it was mud or rain, quickly froze into ice, forming a road made of ice under Ye Jiu's feet.

Thanks to him, several other hunters in the same group were spared the embarrassment of trudging through the mud. They all followed Ye Jiu and walked on the icy path.

“By the way, how many weapons are these missing special agents equipped with?” a hunter at the end of the team asked.

"They are not equipped with weapons." Zhulong replied.

"No weapons? Are you kidding?" The hunter had just arrived in Tianfu City yesterday and was obviously not very familiar with the situation. "When the sheriff catches a thief, he has to bring a baton and a stun gun. You tell me these special agents don't have any weapons?"

"Even tactical nuclear bombs can't kill Chimera 17. What weapons do you plan to let them bring? Big Ivan?" Another hunter who arrived a few days earlier complained, "In such bad weather, every gram of weight must be carefully calculated. If they bring one less gun and one less magazine, they may be able to bring a whole set of monitoring equipment... Do you think they don't want to bring weapons?"

"If we encounter a strange creature, won't we be unable to fight back?"

"When Chimera 17 first appeared, all the monsters in this area were killed by it. In addition to the nuclear attack, theoretically, there are no other monsters in this area except Chimera 17." Zhulong explained patiently, "The biggest threats they face are actually heavy rain, radiation, and mudslides... But no one expected that a group of monsters would suddenly appear in this area."

"Speaking of which, have the frequencies of the strange creatures detected later been confirmed to be independent individuals?" Ye Jiu asked, "Where did these strange creatures come from? Did Chimera 17 just watch them wander around? What happened to the agreement that there can't be two tigers in one mountain?"

"Yang Qi believes that these newly emerged strange creatures are likely to be the 'guards' created by Chimera No. 17—" Zhu Long suddenly stopped talking in the middle of his speech, "Watch your step!"

The mud near the ice track suddenly exploded, and several figures covered in mud jumped out of the mud and pounced on the hunters standing on the ice track.

"Fuck!" The hunter at the end of the team cursed subconsciously, but his arm, which had already formed muscle memory, had already raised a special shotgun, directly locked onto the figure closest to him, and pulled the trigger!

"Bang!!"

The deafening gunshot instantly drowned out the noisy sound of rain. A large burst of fire shot out from the muzzle of the shotgun, and the figure that jumped out of the mud flew backwards rapidly under the huge kinetic energy before it could pounce.

Ye Jiu's movements were not slow either. He slashed out several air blades with the Frost Cutting Sword in his hand at a high speed. Wherever the air blades passed, the mud froze. The attackers who had just jumped up and whose bodies had not yet completely left the mud were directly frozen, and then fell heavily on the ice.

"Nothing more than that." Ye Jiu rushed out with a knife in his hand. With a flick of the knife, he instantly chopped off the heads of the two fallen attackers.

All the hunters present were experienced and experienced in actual combat. Except for the hunter who just cursed, no one else was surprised by the attack. Everyone took action, either using their abilities or using modern weapons, and in a blink of an eye, they repelled all the attackers lurking in the mud.

"These guys... seem to be the special agents who have lost contact?" A hunter glanced at the head that was chopped off by Ye Jiu and was still wearing a helmet, and frowned.

"They are infected." Zhulong took a deep breath. "It seems that the strange individuals detected earlier are probably these infected special agents."

However, the two "infected people" beheaded by Ye Jiu did not die. Their headless bodies struggled to raise their bodies, and a large mass of tentacle-like things emerged from the necks of the corpses, wriggling wildly.

"Tsk, that looks disgusting."

Ye Jiu said with some disgust, stepped on the shoulder of the headless body, and then inserted Zhan Shuang directly into the incision on the neck!

Those tentacles were instantly frozen into ice sculptures. Ye Jiu shook his wrist and slightly shook the blade of the knife, and these ice sculptures turned into fragments and fell on the ice surface.

"Isn't this too weak? Does Chimera 17 expect to use these things to stop us? If it were me, Zhulong, we should... Zhulong?"

Ye Jiu pulled out Zhan Shuang, looked up, but found that there was no one around.

Zhulong disappeared, and the monster hunters in his group also disappeared.

"What's going on?" Ye Jiu's heart tightened instantly, and he changed his posture from holding the knife with one hand to holding the knife with both hands.

He suddenly realized that the heavy rain had stopped at some point.

A semicircular crescent moon appeared in the dark night sky, and the bright white moonlight shone down, imprinting on Ye Jiu's armor, emitting a murderous chill.

“The moon? How can Yongye see the moon?” Ye Jiu was stunned for a moment. “No, even if I can see the moon, it should be a blood moon… But this moon is white, and it’s a crescent moon… No, no, no!”

Ye Jiuyi lowered his head and was shocked to find that what he was standing on was no longer ice, but frozen soil as hard as iron.

Black blood was dripping from the blade of Zhan Shuang, and at his feet lay an indescribable corpse.

It can be vaguely distinguished that this is a human corpse, but the surface of the corpse is covered with black bristles that would never appear on a human. The pair of sharp claws and the densely packed row of "eyes" on the back are also reminding Ye Jiu... this corpse is not a human at all.

At least, not normal humans.

"What is this thing...is it the infected person I just killed?"

Ye Jiu suddenly shuddered, turned around, and froze in place. Less than a hundred meters behind him, an army was quietly arrayed.

The cavalrymen wore black clothes and armor, rode black horses and saddles, and even the pheasant feathers on their helmets were dyed black.

This army had at least a thousand men, but they were as quiet as ghosts... Not only the people, but even the horses did not make the slightest sound.

There were no flags in the army formation, and no flags on the backs of the cavalrymen, but based on the style of their armor and weapons, Ye Jiu still recognized the true identity of this army.

The "Black-armored Cavalry" of the prosperous Tang Dynasty!
"Fuck!" Ye Jiu couldn't help but curse in his heart.

The "killing" suit he was wearing came from the Black Armor Cavalry. Of course, he knew the combat effectiveness of this army very well.

In the era of cold weapons, they were the top fighting force of mankind.

A thousand brave cavalrymen in black armor were enough to wipe out any country in the Hexi Corridor or any tribe on the northern barbarian grasslands... During that period, no other army could stop their iron hooves... Even a high wall made of huge stones might not be able to stop them.

The most famous battle achievement of the Black Armor Cavalry in later generations was that they used a force of 2,000 people to kill the Langya rebels who had more than ten times their number, beheaded several generals of the Langya rebels, and delayed the fall of Chang'an city by several months.

But the Black Armor Cavalry of that period was nearly a hundred years old after it was first established... According to the description in ancient books of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the Black Armor Cavalry of this period was far inferior to the Black Armor Cavalry when it was first established, both in terms of number and combat effectiveness.

However, there are very few records in the literature about the Black Armor Cavalry when it was first established.

The Black Armor Cavalry originated from the "Black Armor Army" led by Emperor Zhenguan himself. The Black Armor Army followed Emperor Zhenguan in conquering the world and created many great achievements. However, the Black Armor Cavalry that was born later had almost no combat record during the period of Emperor Zhenguan.

The Black Armor Army was born in troubled times, while the Black Armor Cavalry was born in prosperous times - no one knows why Emperor Zhenguan spent several times more resources than the Black Armor Army to build such an elite force... In the prosperous Tang Dynasty at that time, such an army was completely a decoration. The surrounding areas of the prosperous Tang Dynasty were all vassal states that surrendered to the emperor, and even the barbarians in the north had to keep their tails between their legs under the pressure of the "Heavenly Khan" Emperor Zhenguan... The existence of the Black Armor Cavalry, except for intimidating the four directions, has no practical significance at all.

Some people believe that the Black Armored Cavalry is a national weapon created by Emperor Zhenguan to promote martial virtues, while others believe that it is just a symbol of Emperor Zhenguan's warmongering... Later generations have been arguing about this, and there has never been a definitive conclusion.

But one thing is beyond doubt - no one knows what kind of battles this black-armored cavalry fought during the reign of Emperor Zhenguan.

But no one disputes that they didn’t fight.

Many documents have recorded the weapons and equipment and personnel replenishment of this unit - normal training, no matter how intense it is, the loss of equipment cannot be so huge. Only in war, and extremely brutal war, will there be a bizarre situation where thousands of sets of armor and tens of thousands of reserve soldiers are replenished every year, while the total number of Black Armor Cavalry has never exceeded 5,000.

In other dynasties, or even in the era of other emperors during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, it might be attributed to corruption in the court and the officials... But during the reign of Emperor Zhenguan, this would never have happened.

What's more, this is the military expenditure of the Black Armor Cavalry.

Ye Jiu couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Although no one told him the answer, he vaguely understood something in his heart.

The black-armored cavalry in front of us are probably the same black-armored cavalry from the Zhenguan Emperor period.

In that era, the prosperous Tang Empire had no force that could be called an enemy... So, who would be the opponent of this army?
Ye Jiu couldn't help but lower his head and look at the corpse at his feet.

The enemy of the Black Armor Cavalry... is a monster?

A sharp whistle tore through the silent atmosphere. Ye Jiu suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction where the sound came from.

I saw strange creatures all over the mountains and fields rushing towards this direction - these monsters still retained most of the characteristics of humans, but those equally obvious mutated organs and charging speeds that were much faster than war horses all told Ye Jiu: they were not human at all.

A uniform sound of metal friction came from behind. Ye Jiu looked back again and saw that the black-armored warriors riding on horseback had put down their upright spears, with the sharp tips of their spears pointing in the direction where the monsters were rushing.

Every black-armored warrior was wearing a ghost mask exactly the same as Ye Jiu's, so that Ye Jiu could not see their expressions at all.

"Kill." A low roar came from the black-armored cavalry.

"Kill!" All the black-armored cavalry roared together. An invisible air wave emanated from the army formation and spread to the surroundings.

Ye Jiu noticed that the tips of the spears in the hands of these black-armored cavalrymen were actually wrapped in a circle of purple-black hidden flames that were imperceptible to the naked eye.

"These spears...are they all strange weapons and equipment?" Ye Jiu was really dumbfounded. "These thousands of black armored cavalrymen are all qualified to use strange weapons and equipment?"

This incident shocked Ye Jiu even more than the fact that the real enemy of the Black Armor Cavalry was a monster.

"How can this be?!"

Ye Jiu was in a daze, but the black-armored cavalry, which had already lined up, had already launched a charge towards tens of thousands of monsters!
The horse's hooves were raised high and then dropped heavily. The hard frozen tundra shook violently. The cavalrymen in black clothes and armor were like a high-speed iron stream, swallowing up the hundred-meter distance in an instant.

Just when Ye Jiu thought that all this was just an illusion brought to him by "killing", a brave cavalryman in black armor who was galloping past him suddenly reached out and lifted him up from the ground.

"Eh? Hey hey hey hey hey?!"

The black-armored brave cavalryman swung his sword violently, and Ye Jiu flew backwards. Then, he landed on an empty warhorse.

"Is this... my mount?" Ye Jiu grabbed the reins and managed to steady himself on the horse's back.

(End of this chapter)