Capítulo 1053: Chapter 826: Don’t Wander After Dark
There’s an unwritten rule in Oasis City: never leave the commercial district after dark.
The desert and glaciers are adjacent, and at night, the thin green vegetation on the city’s edges can’t stop the invading cold wind, which will chill you to the bone.
Moreover, those hooligans who maintain a facade of civility during the day will reveal their true vicious nature at night.
The transport vehicles making extra cash refuse to start at night.
It’s a small matter if the vehicle is lost; the fear is the person may never return.
From Zone C to Zone B, and from Zone B to Zone A.
The boundaries of each zone are distinctly marked by carefully cultivated green jungles, growing lush under the protection of the sky barriers, with sweet glacier meltwater nurturing rare life in the desert.
But… God knows what people are hiding in those jungles, God knows how many corpses are buried under that soil.
However, some people in this world are ultimately daring.
Mu Fan discarded his blood-stained mercenary coat at the trash recycling station for destruction, and now he’s wearing a thick coat specially designed for desert nights.
Wrapped in a gray-blue headscarf, Mu Fan appeared travel-worn.
Behind him, Lu Qingxue wrapped her face more thickly, revealing only a pair of bright eyes.
Only when close could one smell the faint snow lotus fragrance from her.
“Leaving the city?”
“City exit fee is 500, two people 1500.” At the edge of Zone C, a few unfriendly guards cheerfully blocked Mu Fan and his companion.
That number was clearly an act of harassment.
However, Mu Fan glanced indifferently from under his headscarf and casually tossed out a couple of bills.
“Keep the change.”
The guards let them pass, chuckling as they watched Mu Fan and Lu Qingxue’s backs.
“At this time, those leaving aren’t hunters but prey, heh.”
“Anyway, there are always those willing to die,” another mercenary chuckled.
“Look, here comes another sheep; this time it’s my turn to collect.”
Unrestrained laughter came from behind, but Mu Fan paid it no heed.
To him, these countless small-minded people full of greed, curiosity, and envy were truly what made the real world.
At least seeing their completely unmasked vile behavior felt strangely familiar.
The high society, where one needs to wear masks, was sometimes too exhausting for him…
Lu Qingxue looked at Mu Fan’s back with a gentle expression.
Sometimes shy, sometimes mature, but always responsible.
In her eyes, his character’s brilliance even surpassed individual excellence in skills.
As a girl from the Snow Clan, her perspective was sometimes unique.
“From now on, be careful of everything.”
“Mm.”
In the low voice, the cold air began to rise, and the two figures gradually disappeared into the varying heights of the jungles.
From start to finish, Lu Qingxue never asked Mu Fan what was in his password box.
…
What they didn’t know was that less than an hour after they left, a man wrapped in a black cloak arrived at the city exit.
He took out a photo; it was a secret snapshot of two figures from a hidden angle.
Under the black cloak, the photo was shown to those guards.
“Where did these two go?” The voice was soft, yet carried an indescribable evil, as if countless whispers were echoing in one’s ears.
“I don’t know…” The guard who extorted the exit fee from Mu Fan didn’t even look and sneered.
A pale hand suddenly reached out, grasping and lifting the speaking guard by the throat in an instant.
“Think carefully…”
“Put him down!”
“Damn it, causing trouble here, don’t you know whose turf this is!”
Another guard’s face twisted into a snarl, and as he cursed, he pulled the trigger on his rapid-fire bullet-style electromagnetic gun!
Rat-tat-tat-tat, over twenty small bullets were densely shot out in a second.
They were by no means kind-hearted.
At such close range, no one could possibly dodge.
He wanted to see this person turned into a sieve.
However, they only saw darkness before them, seemingly when that black cloak was lifted.
A series of sparks burst in front of them.
The photo previously held in his left hand was gone, with a fist now in midair, gradually opening.
Deformed bullets fell like droplets from the sky…
Then, in the horrified eyes of the guard who fired, the black-cloaked figure suddenly blurred from sight, followed by a cold hand clamping onto his head.
“Hilarious… Do I need to ask about territorial matters to kill?” Pearly white teeth flashed in the dark, a cruel smile.
The fingers clamped down fiercely.
The shooter’s head exploded like a watermelon, bursting apart.
Brains and blood splattered onto the nearby men.
The headless body fell to the ground.
The remaining five or six terrified guards stood petrified for a moment before fear and rage rose within them, their fingers instinctively pulling triggers.
Bam bam bam bam, the faint muzzle flash joined to form a curtain of light.
Amidst the crossfire of bullets.
The man in the black cloak raised the first guard with his right hand, instantly turning into a black storm, weaving through the gaps.
His left hand’s five fingers slashed across those heads like knives…
The gunfire abruptly stopped.
All six guards had their heads gripped and exploded.
The guard held in his hand was now terrified, his legs weak, and a smell of urine started to emanate from him.
“Now, do you understand? I don’t need useless people.”
“I understand, I understand.” The guard nodded desperately, struggling to point outside the city, “Zone B… they went to Zone B.”
“Very good.”
The black cloak drew closer, and the guard saw a horrifying face with skin stretched over protruding bones and muscles.
This ghastly-faced freak chuckled grimly.
“Your usefulness has ended.”
The right hand clenched abruptly.
Crunch…
The opponent’s neck was directly snapped, and crimson blood sprayed like a fountain.
That head rolled alone on the ground.
The terrifying man in the black cloak licked the blood on his hand, lightly tilted his head, and pressed the communication earpiece.
“Ice Snake, prepare the ambush in Zone B.”
“After dark… don’t wander around… heh heh.”
The black cloak lifted slightly, a black mist spread, and when the mist dispersed…
The person vanished as if he had never been there.
…
“Chen, this Night Hawk Eye Sniper Scope I traded from Black Jack in Zone B, how’s it? Is it useful?”
A man in forest camo lay on the densely leaved canopy, looked through binoculars at the distance, and laughed.
On a suspended branch not far below him, a young man with a cunning glint in his eyes was camouflaged, blending almost completely with the trees.
A long Gauss Rifle lay among the camouflaging vines, with only a dark muzzle exposed.
He was “Chen” mentioned above.
Both were specialized Night Hunters, and in Oasis City, murders occurred constantly.
People often fled the scene hastily after committing crimes.
The city is large, but the areas between zones are only filled with these jungles, and their survival method was hunting those who left the city.
This is Oasis City’s ecosystem.
“Tsk tsk… Let me see, there’s prey again.”
“Wind speed 4.2, coordinate left correction by 6.5 degrees, do you see that Big Leaf Grass? Three people will appear in 3 seconds.”
“Three…”
“Two…”
“Fire!”