Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 581 Under heavy reward
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The reason why classic quotes become classic quotes is because they have a high degree of universality and can be verified in most situations.

"Under heavy rewards, there will be brave men."

With the generous terms offered by the three major families, twenty-seven hunters volunteered to join the assault team. Including Cheng Ming, the "captain," a total of twenty-eight "suicide squad members" were gathered in the command tent.

"Isn't there a bit too few people..." Bai Lingqiu muttered to herself as she looked at the twenty-eight people.

“The key to this operation is quality, not quantity,” Chen Jing shook his head. “Besides, they only have six minutes to get from the top of the pit to the bottom… Too many people will easily cause chaos.”

Meng Yunfeng scrutinized these people with a cold gaze. In his view, these twenty-eight people might not be the strongest twenty-eight people in the two hunting groups, but they must be the twenty-eight people who were most confident in their abilities. After all, when he announced the "assault plan" to everyone, he had already stated that if they failed to deal with the monster's main body, the probability of the assault team members returning alive was basically zero.

Free hunters and mercenaries are used to death, but that doesn't mean they aren't afraid of it. They are nothing like the reckless berserkers of medieval Norse mythology who see death as their inevitable end and are eager to reach the legendary Valhalla.

These twenty-eight people clearly believed that they could kill the monster at the bottom of the pit, or at least come back alive.

For example, there's that skinny guy next to him with messy, dry hair that looks like straw—Meng Yunfeng had dealt with this hunter several times. He knew that the source of the other's infection was a strange anchor, and that this person's abilities were also clearly related to the anchor.

This ability was given the name "Marking the Boat to Find the Sword" by the other party. When the ability is activated, it leaves a "marking point" in the original place. The marking point can last from a few seconds to a few hours, depending on the hunter's own will.

When the hunter reactivates his ability, as long as he is no more than 15 kilometers away from the marker, he will be instantly teleported back to the marker.

This is legitimate spatial teleportation, not high-speed movement. Even if there are various obstacles between the hunter's location and the marker, even if the hunter is trapped and unable to move, as long as the ability is successfully activated, he will immediately appear at the marker's location—in a completely naked manner.

Only the hunter can use this teleportation function, and all the equipment he carries, including his personal clothing, will be left at the location before he was teleported.

"Whether the assault team can take down the target or not, at least this kid will definitely come back alive," Meng Yunfeng thought to himself.

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“Chen Jing is preparing to organize a commando team… to put it bluntly, a suicide squad. They plan to concentrate all their firepower to tear a gap in the puppet group, and then throw this suicide squad in to fight that giant worm grass head-on.” Yang Qiaoxi said to Sun Hang, “Cheng Ming, whom you were very concerned about before, has volunteered to become the captain of this suicide squad.”

“I know,” Sun Hang nodded.

After the new battle plan was released, Chen Jing and Bai Lingqiu immediately sent a copy to Sun Hang. However, before Sun Hang could tell anyone else, Yang Qiaoxi had already shared her secondhand information. "Aren't you going to stop him?" Yang Qiaoxi asked in a half-joking tone. "What if he dies down there? You'll never be able to figure out the mysteries surrounding him... Aren't you afraid of regretting it for the rest of your life?"

“If he died down there, then those suspicious points about him are not worth investigating further,” Sun Hang said.

When the second hunting party arrived at the camp, Sun Hang did not choose to make contact with Cheng Ming. He only glanced at Cheng Ming, who was standing in the crowd, from a distance, while Cheng Ming was completely unaware of Sun Hang's gaze.

Cheng Ming had an aura that Sun Hang found somewhat familiar, yet not quite so familiar... Sun Hang found it difficult to describe this feeling in words, as if a scene he vaguely recognized was appearing before his eyes, but when he tried to investigate it closely, he found that this scene did not match any of his memories.

Very similar, but not.

"Wow, the Bai Group is really generous." Yang Qiaoxi observed the movements of the hunting party's camp through binoculars while talking non-stop. "The 'Breakthrough' military powered exoskeleton, costing over six million to nearly seven million per set, is provided to each person, along with a smart tactical helmet with holographic imaging... The weapons and equipment that these hunters can choose are also high-quality items that are hard to find even in Dragon City... If we calculate it this way, their investment in these hunters is almost half a hundred million per person."

"Half a hundred million? Where did you get so much? How did you calculate that?" Charles paused for a moment, then turned and asked.

“There’s also the promised reward from the three major families and the extra bounty for the commando team. Oh, and I’ve included the five times the compensation for each of them,” Yang Qiaoxi said.

"Are you so sure this commando team will be wiped out?" Charles's expression became slightly tense.

"They're definitely going to die." Yang Qiaoxi shrugged. "At first, the firepower reconnaissance didn't yield any results, so now they've switched to hand-to-hand reconnaissance, but it's still essentially reconnaissance. They don't even know what the monster at the bottom of the pit looks like now. You expect these twenty-odd people to take down that big guy? You're dreaming!"

“What if, I mean, what if, there are truly skilled hunters among these hunters?” Charles questioned.

“The elite hunter of Tian Shu Tower, a top expert who hasn’t fallen out of the top 30 on the leaderboard for five consecutive years, Zhu Long, this guy should fit your definition of a ‘true expert’, right?” Yang Qiaoxi pointed at Zhu Long, “Ask him, if you let him lead this group down, what are his chances of killing that monster?”

Charles looked at the Candle Dragon.

“Zero.” Zhulong shook his head calmly. “My abilities are not very effective against fungal monsters. Even if the insect-grass monster does not put up any resistance, it will be difficult for me to eliminate it in a short time.”

"You're not just being modest, are you?" Charles asked incredulously.

"No modesty here. A few days ago, I caught a few mycelium golems that had crawled out of the pit for testing. It turns out that my abilities can only produce the most basic physical damage to mycelium golems. They are completely immune to the negative effects of the Yin-cold attribute in the Candle Dragon meme. In a sense, my threat to these monsters may not be as great as a cannon on those armored vehicles."

“So, you also think they will…” Charles paused for half a second, “...all die down there?”

(End of this chapter)