Chapter 50 - Eat Round Eggs to Mend Round Balls

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The three watch Long Lan rubbing his chest and Joyce laughes, “How do you feel about fighting with a mutant beast for the first time?”

Long Lan cries, “I’m just a support crew, so why should I also participate in hunting?”

“If you have the opportunity to practice, you must seize it.” Cang Yan is also astonished at the performance of Long Lan.

“I think I’m cut off for this. I’d better working as a support crew.” At this moment, Long Lan completely abandons his dream of becoming a regular. He feels that the support crew is actually very good, and very safe.

As soon as finishing his words, two huge backpacks smash toward Long Lan and nearly knock him down. After carrying the backpacks in a hurry, Long Lan finds that the captain and vice-captain are already gone. He hurriedly carries two extra heavy backpacks, plus one of his own, he’s almost overwhelmed by these three backpacks.

“I have a question. I don’t know whether to speak it or not?” Long Lan follows behind.

Joyce smiles, “You can keep it first. This the work of the support crew.”

Long Lan: “…”

What the hell! The support crew means hard labor? I … Well, labor is okay. At least a labor doesn’t have to face directly alien beasts and mutant beasts.

Rovel carries the horned ox laboriously. Long Lan is carrying three large backpacks. The group move forward slowly.

On the way, Rovel and Kain jointly hunt down a mutant beast on Level II, long-toothed brown wolf.

The long-toothed brown wolf is in the size of a small calf. With a long and thin body, it’s very agile. The long teeth and the sharp claws are its edge tools of attack. In order to hunt this long-toothed brown wolf, Rovel gets several cuts scratched on his arms. Rovel’s reaction speed is not as good as that of Kain. Faced with the long-toothed brown wolf, he will inevitably be injured.

Long Lan, who is always looking on, is grateful that he’s a support crew. Otherwise, it must be he who’s injured.

But soon, he finds that it’s not so good to be a support crew. Because he needs to carry the hunted long-toothed brown wolf. The long-toothed brown wolf is already very heavy, what disappoints Long Lan more is that he has to walk with three backpacks.

His speed is getting slower and slower. Not far he walks, he’s too tired to move anymore. He can only move forward hardly step by step, breathing hard and sweating.

Carrying a horned ox, Rovel is also sweating. But his physical fitness is obviously better than that of Long Lan. As a heavy equipped player, on the field, he is the human shield of the team. His physical strength must be good and he must be strong.

Seeing that Long Lan is tired and is about to fall down, Rovel says kindly, “Let me help you carry the long-toothed brown wolf.”

Long Lan is overjoyed. Finally, there’s a conscientious person. But, when he just wants to put down the long-toothed brown wolf, a smiley voice comes from the front.

“This is what the support crew should do. In fact, the horned ox on the shoulder of Rovel should also be carried by you.” Joyce smiles very mildly.

“Flop!”

Long Lan’s legs give out, and he directly lies prone on the ground. The backpacks and long-toothed brown wolf all load on him, he’s narrowly smashed to vomit blood.

Long Lan aches all over his body, and he even doesn’t have the strength to move a finger. He struggles: “I, I think … I can try it, try not to be a support crew.”

Kain squats down with a smile and asks curiously, “Long Lan, what’s the footwork you use to avoid the pursuit and attack of the horned ox?”

Long Lan’s round eyes becomes rounder, “Footwork? What footwork? Did I use it? I don’t know any footwork at all?”

All people: “…”

His cold gray eyes shows that he’s pondering. Cang Yan mutters, “He should have used it unconsciously when he was forced into desperation. Now let him use it again, and he will definitely not know how to use it.”

Cang Yan is right, Long Lan can’t use it. He even doesn’t know that he had used a footwork. He has seen Bai Xiaoli use it before and feels it handsome. He’s also practiced for a while. Because his qualifications is too poor. He always fail to learn, so he gives up. It’s unexpected that at the moment of life and death, his potency is inspired and learn it without teacher. …Although it’s not very standard, even the teacher Bai Xiaoli doesn’t admit, but it also works.

“Let’s go, this hunting is over now; let’s go back to the city.” Cang Yan feels that the time’s almost up, and it’s time to go back.

Their direction is towards the periphery of the mountains. At this moment, they’re already at the edge zone. After a short walk, they will reach the parking place.

They no longer toss Long Lan, and each takes his own backpack. The prey is also carried by several people in turns.

Going out of the dense forest, they see a lot of people standing at the parking place of the vehicles. They see someone coming out of the dense forest and look at them in unison.

A middle-aged man surrounded by the crowd, with a cigarette between his fingertips, raises his chin to look down at the people who just come out and asks, “Recognize, are they?”

A few lucky survivors stare at Cang Yan and the other team members for a long while and finally fail to recognize them.

At that time, Cang Yan and others were far away from the rune beast. Their looks can’t be seen. And they’re all wearing the field suits. This kind of clothes is too common. The hunters often wear it. It’s impossible to identify them from the clothes.

At that time, a few people had seen the real appearance of Bai Xiaoli. What impressed them most are his long silver hair and the beautiful and immature face. Now, Bai Xiaoli’s hairstyle and hair color are all changed. He eats barbecue while walking, without raising his head. Standing in the crowd, he’s not conspicuous at all.

The face is still that face. Changing the hairstyle is equivalent to changing the face. The people who’re unfamiliar with him will absolutely not recognize him at first glance. Before, even Joyce and others who’re familiar with Bai Xiaoli didn’t recognize him at first, let alone the hunters who have just seen Bai Xiaoli once.

“No, there were only 5 people in the group at the time, and now they have 6. They should not be that group. Also that youngster with long silver hair is not here.”

The middle-aged man frowns, “Recognize carefully. It’s been one day, and I haven’t seen the youngster with long silver hair you said.”

Someone suddenly says, “Isn’t that a wig?” Will the hair of a normal person be in that color? And it’s kept so long, it must be a wig!”

Someone follows to pat their legs, “If it’s a wig, it’s troublesome. If he just picks off the wig, it’s really hard to say what color it’s going to be.”

“Have they already escaped by this means?”

“It’s very possible. Otherwise, we wait the whole day and also send someone into the mountains to search, but finds even no shadow.”

“I’ve seen those people!” A hunter suddenly says.

Everyone looks at those people again and all are ready in action.

“Hey! You!”

Cang Yan et al. who are about to get on the vehicle silently are stopped by those people and have to stop to avoid being exposed.

Cang Yan looks at the group of people with a calm look, without any slight confusion. In fact, he is secretly watching out, “Is there anything wrong?”

The one who stops them stares at them for a while, “It’s you!”

The hunters are all shocked. Did they finally find them?!

We’re recognized?!

Cang Yan’s heart is tight; his hand touches secretly into the backpack. If it turns wrong, he can immediately start to fight. But before the opposite party show clearly their intentions, Cang Yan can’t fight without confirmation. The number of opponents is several times of theirs. And there’s no lack of masters among them. It’s really hard for them to take advantage during the fight. So he doesn’t show up on the face and wait to see.

The atmosphere is getting more and more stifling, and everyone’s nerves are stretched to the extreme. It seems that the battle is on the simmer.

“You-you-you … you’re that … giant ape bro?!”

The question marks suddenly hangs over the heads of all.

What’s that? Giant ape bro? What the hell is that?

“You make us so miserable. You can just escape yourselves, but you get us involved in escaping. As a result, we’re chased all over the mountain. When we look back, you have slipped! You run fucking fast!”

Cang Yan suddenly understands. It turns out that they’re recognized, but that guy is talking about the steel-armed giant ape!

With a sigh of relief in his heart, Cang Yan apologizes, “I’m sorry, we don’t mean to involve you intentionally. We were chased by the giant ape. There was no way out. We fled all the way. Then we met you. Sorry, sorry. Have your people been killed or injured?”

Cang Yan knows very well that they’re not killed or injured; otherwise, they will not stand and talk in such a regular way. They will certainly start to fight.

“No casualties. Just the brothers almost run to break their balls!”

“Here you are. There’re some round eggs to mend your round balls. We just pick them up on the road.”

A pleasant voice suddenly comes behind Cang Yan. The sound is so nice that it makes a few hunters feel itchy as being scratched by a cat and want to reach out to see who’s talking. But they’re blocked by Cang Yan who measures 1.9 m tall with a slender figure. The hunters are all much shorter than Cang Yan. They crane their heads to peer but fail to see the one behind Cang Yan. They can just give up with regret.

Long Lan thinks about it and steps forward, sending out a few bird eggs in his clothes.

The hunter is confused. After understanding the meaning, he immediately blows up, “Who need to mend the balls?! Take it away, take it away, and take it away! I ask you, have you seen a youngster with long silver hair carrying an explosive-fire-rhinoceros?”

Joyce’s eyes are lightened up. He comes forward and says excitedly, “I know, I know.”

The hunters also have their eyes shining, “What do you know? Say it!”

“The explosive-fire-rhinoceros carried by the youngster is actually a rune beast, right? We came here yesterday. Because I heard a few hunters talk that a rune beast had appeared and was hunted by a youngster with silver hair. I just want to try my luck and see if I can find that youngster. If I can’t get the rune debris, getting one piece of meat is also very good. At least, the meat has been nourished by the rune power.

However, we risk to stay in the mountains all night and two members are injured. After turning around one day, we don’t see a feather at all. How can there be the youngster with long silver hair? It’s just bullshit; haven’t you been fooled, too?”

Their car is parked here all night, and these people must have seen it. If they are doubtful, it’s more favorable to prove their innocence by saying it themselves.

Sure enough, the hunters see nothing they can get from them and immediately wave their hands impatiently, “Go, go, go, get away quickly. Don’t bother us.”

They don’t explain that the rune beast is true. They earnestly wish fewer people to believe it. So that their chance of getting the rune beast will be greater.

Cang Yan and Joyce tie the horned ox to the roof of the SUV. The long-toothed brown wolf tied on the roof of Kain’s vehicle. Joyce and Long Lan gets naturally on Kain’s vehicle, while Bai Xiaoli and Rovel get into Cang Yan’s vehicle.

They are doing as what they said before leaving the dense forest. They must do it naturally and not invite people to doubt.

The two cars are just driven away like this in full view.

None of the hunters will think that the person they have always been looking for is already released by them.

After driving the vehicles far away from there, they’re finally relieved.

Finally, they’re safe.

The two vehicles return to the city without any problems before dark.

Not long after entering the city, Long Lan receives a message from his mother asking him to go home. It seems that there’s something she wants to discuss with him.

Long Lan gets off the vehicle and plans to take a taxi home.