novelraw Chapter 153 - 152: Kill This Guy, Take His Stuff
Chapter 153 - 152: Kill This Guy, Take His Stuff
Lin Li wasn’t the only one afraid of getting soaked, rushing back to the safe zone before the rain hit.
Even the Mutant Beasts that roamed the wilderness began heading back to their lairs after seeing the lightning and hearing the thunder.
"ROAR..."
"WHINE..."
"CLUCK CLUCK CLUCK..."
Some of the Mutant Beasts that were out with their young called to their offspring, urging them to hurry home and take shelter before the downpour began.
In the wilderness, a burly, middle-aged man with a buzz cut, standing around 1.8 meters tall and appearing to be in his forties, was hiding in the tall grass, panting heavily.
"HUFF..."
"Dammit..." the buzz-cut middle-aged man cursed, still gasping for breath. "My trip to Rongcheng was supposed to be completely secret... How the hell did those damn Investigators track me down?"
A little over an hour ago, the man had been in a house he was temporarily renting in the suburbs, about to make himself a bowl of instant noodles. But then, Investigators had kicked his door in and attempted to arrest him.
Luckily, his reflexes were sharp. He’d smashed his way out through a window, grabbed a random passerby as a hostage, and forced the pursuing Investigators to back off, which gave him the chance to escape.
But now that the Investigators from the Superpower Administration Bureau were onto him, staying in the city was no longer an option. He had no choice but to venture into the wilderness to evade their manhunt.
The last rays of sunset would soon be gone. Dark clouds rolled in from the horizon, threatening to swallow the sky before the final glimmer of light faded.
Within the heavy, ink-black clouds piled layer upon layer, brilliant, silvery-white bolts of Thunder flashed.
"RUMBLE."
"RUMBLE."
"RUMBLE."
The deafening thunder rumbled incessantly, shattering the wilderness’s silence. At the same time, a cacophony of beast roars echoed one after another across the land.
The buzz-cut middle-aged man hiding in the grass knew his situation was dire. He had to find shelter from the elements. ’Otherwise, when the downpour starts, I can’t just spend the night out in the open, can I?’
Even as a Cultivator, if he spent the whole night out in the downpour, the resulting hypothermia meant he wouldn’t live to see the morning.
"Damn you, Rongcheng Investigators. Mark my words. Sooner or later, I’ll be back to settle this score."
The buzz-cut middle-aged man muttered a curse, then rose from his hiding spot in the grass and prepared to head toward a small wood in the distance.
He planned to build a simple shelter in those woods to ride out the night’s storm.
As for food, he had some crackers in his backpack. They would have to do for the night. Tomorrow, he would hunt a Mutant Beast for a proper meal.
"RUMBLE..."
Just as the buzz-cut middle-aged man stepped out of the grass, he suddenly heard a familiar roaring sound from the distance.
Having just escaped the grasp of the Superpower Administration Bureau’s Investigators, the buzz-cut man immediately dove back into the grass upon hearing the roar.
’The sound of a motorcycle?’
The buzz-cut man listened to the approaching roar, and a confused expression crossed his face as he identified it.
It was common knowledge that using a vehicle in the wilderness was a death wish; the noise would easily attract swarms of Mutant Beasts.
’Who would be riding a motorcycle out here? Are they trying to get themselves killed?’
Still hiding in the grass, the buzz-cut man pulled a pair of binoculars from his backpack, along with a small, thirty-centimeter Spiritual Crossbow.
"Damn, someone really is riding a motorcycle out in the wilderness!
Judging by his clothes, he looks like an Exotic Beast Hunter. But he’s not wearing a backpack, and I don’t see any weapons on him."
Through his binoculars, the buzz-cut man saw an Exotic Beast Hunter in camouflage fatigues on a black motorcycle, speeding in his direction.
As the Exotic Beast Hunter on the black motorcycle drew nearer, the buzz-cut man’s mind raced. In an instant, he decided to kill the hunter and steal his bike.
’I’ll kill this Exotic Beast Hunter and take his motorcycle. After nightfall, I can use its fuel to start a fire and stay warm.’
Having made up his mind, a vicious glint flashed in the man’s eyes, and he sprang into action.
He raised the small, exquisite Spiritual Crossbow—thirty centimeters long with an effective range of thirty-five meters—and aimed it at the head of the approaching Exotic Beast Hunter.
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"RUMBLE..."
A sudden clap of thunder exploded from the dark clouds behind him, masking the roar of the motorcycle.
"Almost at the safe zone. Don’t start raining just yet!" Lin Li twisted the throttle, pushing the motorcycle to go just a little bit faster.
Lin Li was now very close to the safe zone. At his current speed, he could reach it in about three more minutes.
’This road is rough!’ Having just sped up, Lin Li felt the motorcycle start to buck violently and immediately eased off the throttle.
The instant Lin Li slowed his bike, his Perception picked up a sudden Spiritual Energy Wave from the grass more than twenty meters away—it was from a Second Rank Initial Stage Cultivator.
’Danger! Someone’s ambushing me.’
The moment his Perception detected the Spiritual Energy Wave from the grass, alarm bells went off in Lin Li’s head.
A golden streak of light shot out from the dense grass over twenty meters away, moving even faster than a bullet.
An ordinary Second Rank Initial Stage Cultivator, speeding on a motorcycle, would have had no choice but to take the full force of such a sudden attack.
Unfortunately for the attacker, Lin Li had eaten two Magical Little Fruits from the Magical Little Tree. His overall attributes far surpassed those of a typical Second Rank Initial Stage Cultivator.
Reacting to the sudden attack, he instantly channeled the Spiritual Energy from his Dantian throughout his body and, with a powerful leap, threw himself sideways off the speeding motorcycle.
After Lin Li leaped off the motorcycle, the golden streak of light shot past where he had been, flying over the now-driverless vehicle before disappearing into the distant grass.
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