Keep attacking girls and try not to be killed by them

"How are you? Are you hurt anywhere, Gallopfoot?"

"Um...I'm fine, thank you, Mr. Geffex."

At the foot of the mountain just below the steep cliff, the dark rabbit girl and the wandering mercenary were each brushing off the dust on their bodies.

Being able to fall from the middle of a cliff hundreds of meters high and survive was something that Junzu would never have dared to imagine in the past.

10.146 - A good strategy is better than a thousand troops

When Mr. Griffiths pulled him off the cliff, Junglefoot thought he was dead.

Although as the combat profession rank increases, the physical fitness of combat professionals will also be improved to a strength far beyond that of ordinary people, but the impact damage caused by the height of hundreds of meters is still not negligible - especially for Junzu, whose remaining vitality is not much.

Just when Junzu thought she was going to fall to her death, Mr. Gfix suddenly threw her upwards, instantly reducing Junzu's falling speed. Mr. Gfix used some unknown technique to stand firmly on the ground earlier than Junzu, and then caught the falling Junzu with ease.

By the time Mr. Griffiths put him down, Junzu still hadn't figured out what the wandering mercenary had done. He couldn't have just used his physical strength to withstand it, could he? That would be too outrageous!

"It seems that your tribe has been controlled by that 'monster'." Geffex looked up at the entrance of the cave and said to Junzu.

"Well...it's all my fault for coming back too late. That guy got the upper hand."

Junzu sighed. This feeling of powerlessness, having tried her best but accomplished nothing, made her feel particularly useless.

"Don't be discouraged. Without you, your Dark Rabbit clan would have lost even their last hope."

Mr. Griffiths patted Gallop's shoulder and immediately gave his battle plan.

"Junzu, find a place to hide nearby and recover your strength. I'll go and expose that 'monster'."

This simple sentence contains two pieces of information.

One is to subtly advise Junzu not to force herself anymore, as she is only holding them back;

The other one said that Mr. Geffex would outsmart the enemy and not bring unnecessary harm to the Dark Rabbit Clan;

Although Junzu is not good at thinking, he is very sensible.

No matter how much she wanted to save the tribe herself, she wouldn't be stupid enough to use her naive ideas to make things worse for Mr. Gfix.

"Then I'll leave it to you, Mr. Geffex... Oh, I forgot to tell you about that monster's abilities. It's very good at jumping, and it seems it can enlarge its limbs at will. Its reaction speed is extremely fast! You must be careful!"

"Okay, I understand, thank you."

Mr. Griffiths made a "received" gesture to Gallop, then jumped onto the cliff as light as a swallow and began to climb up like flying.

Striding Foot stood and stared for a moment, then turned and began to search for his own hiding place.

When Gallop Foot finally found a place to hide herself, she suddenly remembered that she had not given the Blood Tiger Claw to Mr. Gfix.

——(This is over. How is Mr. Gfix supposed to fight without weapons?!)

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Galloping Foot would not know that the Mr. Griffiths she knew was not short of weapons at all.

The main reason why he borrowed the Blood Tiger Claw from Junzu was to hide his true identity.

After separating from Junzu, Jiang Ran, wearing the vest of "Wandering Mercenary·Geffex", has entered combat mode.

In addition to his promise to Junzu, his next strategic goal also includes another personal goal.

"Rabbit God-sama," what secrets do you know about the "One and Only Demon God"? Let me test you...

(The shadow behind.)

Jiang Ran summoned a black shadow clone near the cave entrance, and then found a place to hide outside the cave.

Although the black shadow clone without the "Fake Shadow" attribute is a little weaker in adaptability, in terms of the three basic attributes, he is no different from Jiang Ran.

As the black shadow clone broke into the cave openly, sounds of commotion immediately came from the cave where the Dark Rabbit clan lived in seclusion.

Jiang Ran hid outside and listened to the noise inside. He knew that the black shadow clone was diligently carrying out the task assigned to him. The content of this task was: to run around as much as possible without being caught.

(Five…four…three…two…one…)

Pinpointing the moment when the shadow clone's duration ended, Jiang Ran summoned a new shadow clone again, and then repeated the same routine.

Just imagine the scene in the cave of the Dark Rabbit Clan, where mysterious black shadows of unknown origin are running and jumping as if they are in an empty space.

Just when everyone was about to corner him in a dead end, the shadow suddenly disappeared, and then news of the shadow's invasion came from the entrance again.

No matter how hard these Dark Rabbit people try, as long as they don't have combat support other than the "Dark Rabbit Queen", the result of being toyed with by the shadow clone is doomed.

When the third time of summoning the shadow clone came, Jiang Ran changed the content of the command, letting the shadow clone run around until half of the remaining time was left and then run out of the cave.

Jiang Ran believed that after these two or three incidents of disturbance, the "Dark Rabbit Queen" would definitely take action personally. After all, to the "Dark Rabbit Queen", he was a "stinking" "Shadow Rat".

Sure enough, just when Jiang Ran was about to summon the fourth black shadow clone, the "mighty" Dark Rabbit Guard rushed out from the entrance of the cave.

The reason why the word "major and mighty" is put in quotation marks is because there are only about 10 to 20 people in this group. To be honest, it cannot be called majestically large.

But the reason why I still used this word is because the sudden appearance of a dozen people in this desolate place is quite visually impactful - especially when the leader is the "Dark Rabbit Queen Wusuoqi".

(Great, the big fish has taken the bait.)

Jiang Ran immediately summoned a fourth black shadow clone and ordered him to lure the Dark Rabbit clan members to run as far away as possible.

And as for Jiang Ran himself?

Of course, he took the opportunity to sneak into the cave of the Dark Rabbit Clan.

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The strategy of "luring the tiger away from the mountain" can be said to be the basic operation among various tricks.

For a third party outside the game, this strategy can be seen through at a glance, but for an insider, once they get carried away, they can easily be led by the bait.

While the Dark Rabbit Clan's cave was still in chaos, Jiang Ran sneaked into the shadow of the small flying insects and went deep into the cave in one fell swoop.

He had two goals in this infiltration. One was to re-investigate what Junzu said, and the other was to look through the files of the Dark Rabbit clan to see if he could find any valuable information from the tribal historical records.

With the help of his identification ability, Jiang Ran quickly figured out what happened in the cave last night.

He identified the bloodstains of Wind Ear outside the cave where the Dark Rabbit Queen rested, and sporadic bloodstains continued into the Dark Rabbit Queen's cave.

Judging from this situation, Feng Er may have been silenced by the "Dark Rabbit Queen" or the "Rabbit God". The reason for the silence may be that Feng Er has found evidence that the "Rabbit God" is controlling the Dark Rabbit Queen.

However, apart from the "bloodstains on Feng'er" being an objective fact, everything else was just Jiang Ran's speculation.

Whether the speculation can be proven depends on whether Jiang Ran can make any discoveries in the Dark Rabbit Clan's database.

10.147 - Encounter Again

After several twists and turns, Jiang Ran found some valuable information in the temporary seclusion cave of the Dark Rabbit Clan.

In fact, a lot of this information had been discovered by Feng'er before, and she had also told Junzu. Unfortunately, Junzu didn't listen carefully, which resulted in her not being able to tell this part of the information when Jiang Ran asked her earlier.

Fortunately, this information that was once "lost" has now entered Jiang Ran's mind in a different way.

After sorting and speculating, Jiang Ran discovered that every time the "Rabbit God" appeared in the records, it was always accompanied by unfortunate news about a certain Dark Rabbit Queen.

They either disappeared suddenly or died inexplicably...and all these things were handled quietly, and their presence was cleverly reduced.

If Jiang Ran hadn't carefully sorted it out and made a list for comparison, it would have been difficult to discover the pattern behind it.

Combining the clues he had found and the speculations he had made before, Jiang Ran gradually came up with a terrifying guess: If the Dark Rabbit Queen's "soul control" state was indeed an abnormality caused by the "Rabbit God", then...

(This Rabbit God... is he "parasitizing" the bodies of successive Dark Rabbit Queens, using their lives as the price of his "coming"...?)

Here, Jiang Ran used the word "parasitic" in his heart to describe the relationship between Lord Rabbit God and the Dark Rabbit Queen.

The reason why he didn't use a neutral word like "boarding" was because Jiang Ran didn't have a good impression of the Rabbit God.

However, personal preferences should not be brought into reasoning unless there is solid evidence.

Jiang Ran is currently unable to define the "Lord Rabbit God" because he doesn't know whether the Dark Rabbit Queens of all generations sacrificed their lives voluntarily or were forced to do so?

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For the prosperity of the tribe, it does not seem too outrageous that these queens who are nearing the end of their lives and dying will take the initiative to burn their last value.

When discussing life on an individual basis, we can discuss it not in terms of quantity but in terms of surplus value.

For example, if other things are equal, is it more sinful to kill a healthy, ordinary baby or to kill an elderly person who is dying?

Yes, although we prefer to believe that the value of all lives is equal, in this world, most things that seem equal are actually unequal...

Even if you buy two apples of the same price at the supermarket, one might be sweeter and the other more sour. So if the "value" that the "Rabbit God" brought to the Dark Rabbit Clan far outweighed the "disaster", then the "evil" he committed, such as killing Feng Er, killing the Dark Rabbit Queen Wusuoqi, and attempting to kill Junzu, etc., would become acceptable...

Or at least, it is acceptable to the Dark Rabbit Queens who "put the overall situation first".

Thinking of this, Jiang Ran looked at his right index finger.

After being cursed by the werewolf ancestor, a black bone spur grew from the tip of his right index finger. It was called the "Thorn of the Ancestral Wolf's Judgment."

The "Thorn of Judgment of the Ancestral Wolf" has the effect of killing the seventh-order 350-level and below "Dark Rabbit Clan" demi-humans with one blow. It can be said to be a nuclear weapon against the Dark Rabbit Clan.

At first, Jiang Ran didn't understand why the curse required the target to be to pierce the "Ancestral Wolf's Thorn of Judgment" into the heart of the Dark Rabbit Queen, instead of directly describing it as killing her.

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[Note: For details, see chapter 9.09 - Strategizing]

Now Jiang Ran seemed to understand that the target of the "Curse of the Ancestral Wolf's Conviction" was not just to kill the Dark Rabbit Queen. The real purpose of the werewolf ancestors might be to kill the "Rabbit God" who was parasitic in the body of the Dark Rabbit Queen.

When Junzu answered without hesitation that the Dark Rabbit Clan's number one enemy race was the Werewolf Clan, the deep hatred between the two races was self-evident.

(That 'god' who protects the werewolves... seems to want to eliminate the threat from the rabbit people once and for all...)

Suddenly, Jiang Ran inexplicably felt like laughing.

It is true that Lord Rabbit God is probably not a good person, but the werewolf clan is definitely not a good group either.

Because of the curse, I am caught up in the struggle between two races. What should I do to avoid regretting my decision today in the future?

Jiang Ran was only hesitant for a second, and then he stopped hesitating.

He believed that since all the necessary thinking and reasoning had been done, he just had to follow his current thoughts. As for whether he would regret it in the future, only God knew.

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Now, the purpose of searching for intelligence has been achieved.

Jiang Ran glanced at the time and estimated that the Dark Rabbit Queen and the others who had been lured out should be back soon.

Before escaping, Jiang Ran planned to meet the Dark Rabbit Queen again - no, it should be said that he planned to meet the "Rabbit God" again.

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In the snowy mountains of the Besent area, after leading the team in pursuit for a while, the "Dark Rabbit Queen Wusuoqi" suddenly realized that she might have fallen into a trap.

Although the humanoid black shadow had the stench of shadow rats, it did not have the pungent smell of wolf cubs - these guys who had made a mess of the tribal cave were probably baits used to lure the "rabbits" out of the cave.

If that's the case, then the enemy's real target is actually inside the cave!

——(Sinister and cunning rat...)

The Dark Rabbit Queen ordered her men to continue the chase, while she returned to the cave to see if she could trap the stinky rat in the cave in time.

"You keep coming back to trouble me. I can't get over the hatred I feel unless I kill you..."

Lord Rabbit God controlled the Dark Rabbit Queen and ordered her to charge at full speed.

After getting rid of his subordinates' sight, Lord Rabbit God forced the Dark Rabbit Queen's limbs to increase their strength, transforming her into a monster, running across the snowy mountains using both her hands and feet.

If someone saw the Dark Rabbit Queen at this time, they would only think they saw a four-legged beast, not the queen of the intelligent subhuman race.

However, before Lord Rabbit God could return to his secluded cave, the target he wanted to kill actually showed up on his own initiative.

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A strong smell of shadow rats made the "Dark Rabbit Queen" stop in her tracks.

Mixed with this stench was a hint of the werewolf's stench. There was no doubt that the true form of that cunning rat was most likely nearby.

(Ugh, huh, huh~ What a narrow path for enemies to cross, you stinky rat…)

The "Dark Rabbit Queen" originally planned to quietly follow the smell to find the stinky rat, but she didn't expect that the stinky rat would appear by itself just as she stopped.