Cataclysm King - #26 - Chapter 26: exposed

  Chapter 26 Exposed

  Bang   “Kang Cha, Bang Cha, Bang Cha.”

  The train started.

  The vent hole finally has air flowing, and the smell is much better.

  The carriage is heavily armored, and the speed is not fast. Ji Xun reckons it is only fifty or sixty kilometers per hour.

   Jumping off the car should not kill you.

   At this moment, carriage 15.

   There is a lot of voices here.

   For the life-and-pay treasure hunter, there is no better form of entertainment than gambling and women.

   “Come, come, come, one more flower card and I’ll be twenty!”

   “Boom! Boom! Boom!”

  “.”

  A table was cleared, and dozens of hunters gathered around the table to play poker in full swing.

   What I played was poker, a bit like blackjack in my previous life.

  Among a group of gamblers, Ji Xun, who was wearing a half-face gas mask, was also betting.

   If you lose money, you will curse, and if you win money, you will be flushed with excitement.

  Whether they know each other or not, as long as they are gambling, gamblers can quickly get acquainted.

  He had no interest in this kind of low-level gambling.

  Participating so deeply, in addition to wanting to marinate among the crowd, the most important thing is to hide the fact that I have no seat and no companions, so as not to be noticed.

  Ji Xun watched the surroundings while gambling, and arranged some preventive measures by the way.

  It was very noisy in the carriage.

  In addition to dirty jokes, these hunters also have a lot of useful news.

  Ji Xun also listened with great interest.

   “Old Chen, I heard that you found an abandoned warehouse in the eastern suburbs of Devil’s Crossing a few days ago, and made a fortune.”

   “Oh, I can’t talk about getting rich. It’s just that I have money to buy a better breathing method for my kid after I go back this time.”

  “.”

   “Uncle Dong, have you found the material for your [Enforcer] sequence job transfer?”

   “I found one, and it’s not bad. You can change jobs after you go back.”

   “Then congratulate Uncle Dong in advance for becoming a spell card master, and I will take care of my younger brother in the future.”

   “It’s still early. Only when you don’t lose control after fusion can you be considered an official advanced spell card master.”

  “.”

   “Scar, I heard that your Iron Ax group produced a rare black iron quality demon mark in that different-dimensional space in the East District yesterday?”

   “Tsk tsk, this guy is well-informed. [Ace of Hearts-Bright Knight], the imprint has an extra 15% extra entry for flesh and blood growth.”

   “Oops, there are additional entries? This is amazing.”

   “It’s not too powerful. Just after returning to the camp, the manager of the Haisen Chamber of Commerce went to Xiaowan and took it away.”

   “Fuck!”

“Hahaha”

  “.”

  These hunters talked about their cave exploration experience in Devil’s Crossing, and revealed a lot of information.

  Ji Xun listened silently and learned more and more about this world.

   “How the **** are you going to find it!”

  The old dog walked from the No. 1 compartment all the way to the back, looking for it, and complaining wildly in his heart.

  His demon mark is [Spades 4-Beast Walker], the contract points to the great demon Oser, and the occupational sequence is also the ability of animalization.

  Although the kobold image is not too powerful, it gives him a sense of smell far beyond human.

  Because of this ability, although he was not strong in combat, he managed to find a fixed salary position in the Blackwater Mercenary Corps.

  I usually do some investigation and tracking work, which is not too dangerous.

  Originally the old dog was satisfied.

   But this task, he really has a headache.

   Looking for a man and a woman among the thousands of people on the train?

  I’m looking for something special!

   The more sensitive your sense of smell, the more you will suffer in this train.

   Just looking for eight cars, he felt that he was about to be stunned.

  Ordinary people can only smell bad smells, but after transforming, he can distinguish a hundred kinds of bad smells from that smell. What is the smell of fermented meat stuck between the teeth in the mouth, the body odor of not taking a shower for a few days, the smell of stepping on **** on the shoes, the smell of virus infection and rot

  The key is that there is only one aspect.

   There are other troubles!

  Which one of the people in Innocence City has no secrets?

  There are too many ruthless characters.

   Don’t look at their Blackwater Mercenary Group’s face, if they really provoke those guys, they will still be beaten.

   Fortunately, the only accurate information is that the other party is a card master apprentice.

  This can also narrow down a lot.

  The old dog felt that he was going to be smoked to death.

   It took two hours for the eight carriages. Along the way, he encountered many suspicious guys, but after investigation, they were all wrong.

  There are still eight cars!

  But several other teammates also wandered around the carriage many times, but found nothing.

   Cursed secretly, he didn’t dare to complain, and continued to search.

  Finally, we reached the fifteenth carriage.

  Ji Xun still stuck in the crowd and gambled wildly.

  He naturally noticed that in the past few hours, several groups of people passing by seemed to be looking for someone secretly.

  But those people without exception ignored Ji Xun in the crowd.

  There are estimated to be four to five thousand people on the whole train, and there are also many solo travelers. How can it be so easy to find yourself who has become one with the gamblers?

   It has not been found yet, which means that the other party does not have much information.

   It sounds like this train will take ten hours to drive, and it will be much safer to get off the train in a few hours.

   Ji Xun also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

  He chose carriage 15 because it is near the rear of the car.

  He has already observed that if he can get the key on the conductor of the train, he can open the back door of sixteen carriages, and there is also the possibility of jumping off the train.

  The armor of the steam train is very thick, but the locks are not as complicated as the doors in the previous 407 different-dimensional space.

  Ji Xun didn’t go to steal the key, but just glanced at it a few times, and the photo-remembering ability brought by [Trickster] easily memorized the exact structure of the key. Taking advantage of the gap between gambling and going to the toilet, he has also forged a temporary key.

   Now that I have several preparations in hand, even if it is discovered, there is still room for response.

  Ji Xun was not careless, and continued to observe his surroundings.

   The carriage was still noisy, but as he listened, he suddenly heard a story that flashed to him.

   “Hey, have you guys heard that something happened to the camp in the alien space of the [Old Silver Moon Altar] two days ago?”

“Why haven’t I heard of it? It is said that the people from the Old Smoker Group discovered an altar and found some ancient relics. Someone wanted to steal it, and then killed all the thirty or so people in the entire camp. The Hunter Union also offered a reward of 10 Wan, looking for clues to the murderer.”

“I’ve heard different versions. It seems that the person got in touch with the ancient relics, lost control and deformed into a monster, and then violently killed people. It is said that dozens of corpses in the camp were gnawed. If it wasn’t for the distortion, who It’s okay, why kill someone and eat the corpse?”

   “In other words, there is really an ancient relic from the Silver Moon Altar?”

“Seems to be.”

   “Hey, any level I relic is worth hundreds of thousands. If you really want to meet a high-level relic, you will never have to worry about it for the rest of your life. Why aren’t we so lucky?”

  “.”

  During the few hours in the car, Ji Xun had already heard several similar stories about his teammates taking risks in the wild with black equipment, or killing people and stealing goods.

  Stories like this happen almost every day, and the hunters don’t think it’s an anecdote to kill people for money.

  The law of the jungle is the keynote of Innocence City.

   Even compared to how many people died, they are more curious about how much the relics are worth.

  Ji Xun gradually understood why Cao’s house in the Governor’s Mansion couldn’t stop calling a train, and the binding force was so low.

   It’s not that there is a problem with the power of this world.

   Rather, the people of Innocence have a problem.

  When others heard the story just now, they just sighed with emotion.

   And Ji Xun suddenly captured a key word in his mind: out of control?

  After merging [JOKER] before, he also has a special ability, that is, he can perceive the out-of-control magic power of creatures.

  Normal people’s spell power is like body temperature, which is constant.

   Usually invisible to the naked eye.

   Even if someone occasionally shows it deliberately, it can be seen as a uniform flame.

   Just before he got on the train, while he was observing the nearby carriages, he found a guy in the rear carriage of No. 16 whose mana overflowed very irregularly, resembling an “octopus tentacles”.

  After Ji Xun saw it, he paid more attention.

   Only then did I confirm that the guy leaked it irregularly every once in a while.

  Ji Xun suspected that this might be the so-called “mana out of control”.

  Normally speaking, if the mana is out of control, it will be distorted into a monster.

   But strangely enough, the guy didn’t.

   This made Ji Xun even more strange, so he paid more attention.

  He thought it was because of his lack of cognition and misunderstood the loss of control.

   But after hearing the story about the murderer and robbery just now, he felt that the guy became more and more suspicious.

right,

   is suspicious!

  With this assumption and then bring in the conditions, more problems will be discovered at once.

  The guy chose to be in the No. 16 tail car. He was originally a very inconspicuous ordinary passenger.

   But now Ji Xun feels that this guy may have the same plan as his own, for the convenience of jumping off the car.

   In addition, there are very few people walking around at the rear of the carriage, so it is easy to tell if someone comes deliberately.

   But this guy also chose a corner position facing the front of the carriage.

  It is inconspicuous, but has a very wide field of vision, and you can see all the people coming and going.

  Many coincidences put together are not coincidences.

  There are signs that this guy has a strong anti-reconnaissance awareness.

   Then there is the story I heard just now.

  Although there were thousands of people in the whole train, this was the only person whose spell power got out of control.

  Ji Xun suddenly took his seat: Could this guy be the one who murdered and robbed?

  Thinking about it, the possibility is quite high.

   To leave the Devil’s Crossing camp, the only way is to take the train, and there is only one trip every two days, so it is not surprising to encounter it.

  At the same time, if both of them were passers-by, it would not be surprising to meet them at the rear of the carriage.

  Ji Xun thought of this, and instinctively thought of something else in his mind.

   But before he thought about anything else, something suddenly happened.

  Suddenly, a tall and thin guy with a hood covering his face appeared in his eyes.

   This guy was not walking fast, and his hood was shaking slightly, as if his facial muscles were moving regularly.

  Ji Xun saw this guy and immediately became alert.

   Smell?

   Extraordinary with enhanced sense of smell?

  But he didn’t change his face, and continued to gamble among the crowd.

  Even if you really came to find someone, you may not be able to find yourself.

  The guy in the hood looked like he really didn’t notice anything, and walked straight over.

   Soon, compartment 13.

  The four-member reconnaissance team of the Blackwater Mercenary Regiment, all three of them were frowning after meeting.

  They have been looking for several hours, but they found a few suspected people, but they went to confirm that they were not the people the group was looking for.

   “Boss, is there no one in the car?”

   “Whether we are in the car or not, we have to look for it. The regimental leader just sent a death order, so it will be very troublesome to find it this time!”

   “How big is it?”

   “Take your head up and see you.”

   “What the **** is going on?”

   “I understand now, I’m afraid it’s not the leader who is anxious, but someone else.”

“oh?”

   “Who do you think is paying our current salary in Heishui?”

   “You mean the Cao family in Shangcheng?”

  “.”

  The more they talked, the more they felt that the situation was not good.

   And at this time, that rosacea suddenly came back.

  The strong man hurriedly asked: “How is it, old dog, did you find anything?”

  The old dog took off his hood, revealing his gradually humanoid dog face, and reported: “Boss, we found something! It’s in the No. 15 carriage!”

   When the three of them heard this, they looked at the past together.

The old dog continued: “When I passed by, I found a special smell in the crowd. It is the devil’s breath that can only be left by disaster corpses above B level. The smell is very weak, and it should have been used recently [deodorizing potion] ]. But the irritating smell is still there. It is obvious that it has been contaminated not long ago. Most likely, it has not been long since it came out of the different-dimensional space. But there are many people in the 15th compartment, and the smell is too mixed. I am not sure which one it is. I just think it should be It’s someone from the group playing cards. I was afraid of being found out, so I came back first.”

   “Good job.”

  Hearing this, the three strong men looked happy.

  Intuition tells them that they may have found an important breakthrough.

  If you are an ordinary hunter, even if you have just come out of a different dimension, you don’t need to use any [deodorant potion].

  And B-level disasters are very rare in the wild, and it happens that there is one in the 407 space!

  The time is also right!

  Someone in car 15 has a big problem!

   Without further ado, the brawny man ordered directly: “Gao Mei, go there and see if you can identify the person with your sixth sense.”

  The woman in the leather jacket nodded and said, “I’ll try. The carriage is locked, and the target range will be smaller. If it’s just a card master apprentice, it should be fine.”

The brawny man: “Okay. After confirming, don’t startle the snake, wait for me to do it together. Since the guy can slip away from the leader and the others, he can think of some means, don’t underestimate it. And try not to make a big noise, use hypnosis Make a quick decision. Otherwise, if there is a commotion in the carriage, the Hunter Union will also intervene.”

  The woman in the leather jacket nodded: “Yes.”

As soon as the words fell, the strong man ordered the skinny man playing with the dagger again: “Xiao Wu, go to the No. 16 compartment first, and be careful that that guy might jump from the rear of the car. If you really can’t control it, you’ll pick your hamstring. Just live there.”

  The skinny man frowned: “But boss, it would be nice to see blood in the car?”

  The strong man was also a little helpless: “I don’t care so much anymore. First catch the person and then talk.”

   As he spoke, he ordered again: “Old dog, you go last, don’t show your face, so as not to be noticed by that person.”

  Old Dog: “Yes.”

  As soon as they met, they immediately started to act.

   On the other hand, Ji Xun watched the man in the cloak walk around and left, and didn’t take it seriously at first.

   Thinking that it was probably the same as the previous waves, and left without finding anything unusual.

   However, it didn’t take long.

  Ji Xun suddenly watched a skinny man with a half-faced gas mask walking over.

  Although this person seemed to be just passing by, he didn’t stop in the No. 15 car, and went straight to the No. 16 car.

  But Ji Xun immediately noticed something was wrong.

  He now has the ability of photographic memory. Although this guy has made a disguise, looking at the black leather dagger sheath on his waist, Ji Xun recognized it at a glance: This guy has been here once before!

  Before this guy looked around all the way, obviously looking for someone, most likely someone from the Blackwater Mercenary Group.

   Now it’s here again, and it’s still a disguise, but it’s so decisive to go, obviously there is some purpose.

   “Is it still found?”

  Ji Xun’s eyes were awe-inspiring, and he immediately made a judgment in his heart.

  He didn’t take any chances.

  The worst has happened.

  (end of this chapter)