Chapter 2828

City of Smoke, District 10, on a remote street, a spatial vortex appeared, and Su Xiao walked out from it, carrying Baja.

"Boss, I can't do it anymore. Before I kick the bucket, I have one wish: can we not carry me by the head? It makes me look like I have no status."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak, took out a bottle of 【Vitality Stock Solution】, and poured it down Baja's throat. Baja's injuries healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Revived."

Baja flapped its wings and landed on Su Xiao's shoulder.

Su Xiao took 【Sun's Fury · Apollo】 out of the storage space and stopped its activation through mental power. 【Sun's Fury · Apollo】 that had been activated halfway and then stopped would become somewhat unstable. If it weren't used up in this world, it could only be disposed of as scrap.

Just now, Su Xiao had indeed activated 【Sun's Fury · Apollo】, but what he had instantly detonated was actually a normal Apollo.

He had two choices just now. If the enemy hadn't fled, he would have truly instantly detonated the 【Sun's Fury · Apollo】 in his hand, trading injury for injury, and then decided what to do next based on the enemy's degree of damage.

If the enemy had chickened out and used a trump card to escape, Su Xiao would have put away the 【Sun's Fury · Apollo】 that had been activated but not yet triggered by mental power, and instead instantly detonated a normal Apollo, causing an explosion in a two-kilometer range to mislead the enemy.

With Su Xiao's current vitality and physical defense, plus the strength of the crystal layer, resisting a normal Apollo head-on was no problem. Back then, the Hive Lord Tythmissa had managed to do this, let alone the current Su Xiao.

Boom—

A muffled thunder sound rang out from the sky. The moon was very round, and this was clearly not caused by a thunderstorm.

This should be the follow-up effect of 【Lightning Attraction】. Su Xiao estimated that the lightning that had just fallen wasn't strong, but it was good news; after being struck by lightning, the enemy would immediately expose her position.

Su Xiao sat on an old carriage by the street and took a bottle of 【Vitality Stock Solution】. He exerted force with his left arm, and purple-black blood flowed out from the wound on his left arm.

Just now, when rushing toward Eunice, Su Xiao's left arm had been scratched by the opponent's spider leg. The injury wasn't severe, but there was poison on the spider leg. This was a potent poison; if Su Xiao hadn't suppressed it with Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy, this potent poison would have already spread throughout his entire body.

【Prompt: You are affected by an unknown potent poison. You will take 59 points of poison damage per second, with the effect lasting for 12 hours.】

【Prompt: As this potent poison spreads, the poison damage you take per second will increase, and the duration will be significantly extended.】

Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao wasn't surprised. This should be one of the opponent's core abilities. That Apocalypse contractor was like a mother spider, very patient and cautious; as long as she wounded the prey once, she would hide in the darkness and wait.

Facing this kind of potent poison, Su Xiao wasn't afraid. The Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy in his body had the strongest devouring effect on energy, and for devouring poison-type substances, it ranked in the second to third tier. After all, Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy wasn't omnipotent; it was fine for dealing with most poison-attribute attacks, but against this kind of potent poison, it could at most suppress it.

"A nice material."

Su Xiao took off the clothing on his shoulder, revealing his entire left arm, and took out several ring shackles, fastening them onto his left arm. The shackles were of a full mechanical structure, and as soon as they were fastened, they clung tightly to the skin.

After fastening 22 ring shackles on his left arm, Su Xiao put his clothes back on. These shackles were products of alchemy; they had no restrictive effect on the potent poison, but they could provide a perception-shielding effect. The side effect was that they would limit the speed of neural sensing.

Su Xiao didn't know the characteristics of this potent poison, but he had to guard against one thing: that the enemy could sense his position from a distance through the potent poison in his body.

After waiting for about half an hour, a tubular object suddenly appeared in the darkness in the distance and drifted over.

"What kind of monster is that!"

Baja was quite startled, but then it relaxed.

"Woof."

A very muffled bark, carrying a bit of an echo, came. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang ran out from the darkness, a two-meter-long metal pipe stuck on his head. He looked like a cannon at this moment.

This was clearly because after Su Xiao flung Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang away, he hadn't chosen a good landing spot, and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang had rammed head-first into this metal pipe. He was in a hurry to meet up with Su Xiao, and since it was stuck tight, he could only be like this for the time being.

"Woo-ooh-woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang ran to Su Xiao, a flash of a blade gleamed, and a section of the metal pipe was cut off. Su Xiao grabbed both ends of the metal pipe, pulled it apart with a creak, and tossed it onto the carriage to the side.

District 5 couldn't be visited for the time being. Xisilo's whereabouts were unknown. Considering that guy had lived in the City of Smoke for over a decade, it might not take long before he could be found.

Glancing at the time, it was already 6:30 in the morning. The sky in District 10 was beginning to brighten, while District 5 remained dark, as if shrouded by darkness.

Finding an inn, Su Xiao pushed open the door and walked into the somewhat old-fashioned guest room. The accommodation fee was several times more expensive than usual; this was caused by the Healing Church evacuating civilians from District 5. Around 12:00 noon today, the Pillar Fall Tide would erupt there.

Lighting the gas lamp in the room, Su Xiao took off his upper garments and began to treat the potent poison in his left arm. He first took out an injection gun and injected an adaptive antidote into his left arm, then took out a piece of amber-like 【Natural Propolis】. This was a specialty of the Primordial Continent and had a very good effect on potent poisons.

Pressing the 【Natural Propolis】 onto the already purple wound on his left arm, after a few seconds, the 【Natural Propolis】 turned black-purple. Seeing this, Su Xiao removed the hardened 【Natural Propolis】 and pressed a new piece on.

This process was repeated dozens of times. When only 3 pieces of 【Natural Propolis】 remained, the potent poison remaining in Su Xiao's left arm was completely devoured by the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy. 【Natural Propolis】 was good stuff; it was a pity that this item was unique to the Primordial Continent.

Su Xiao felt the not-too-strong sense of weakness in his body. If he were to fight the enemy head-on, enduring this potent poison was unavoidable; the spider legs that appeared suddenly were extremely fast and had strong penetrating power.

Once this potent poison was stackable, every time he was attacked by a spider leg, it would lead to a deepening of the poisoned state, which would be very troublesome.

Su Xiao suspected that if it weren't for the Green Qing Qing Gang Ying energy in his body suppressing the potent poison, preventing it from further deteriorating, he would have likely fallen here today.

The good news at the moment was that the enemy wasn't the type to charge and kill head-on. If she were, he would have had to fight hard just now.

Just as Su Xiao was pondering, Baja appeared in the room.

"Boss, that guy got struck by lightning again. Looking at the direction, she's in District 7."

"District 7."

Su Xiao took out the map of the City of Smoke and drew a line between District 5 and District 10; District 7 was right between these two places.

"Withdraw."

Su Xiao took Baja and left. Twenty-some minutes later, he arrived in District 3 and found an uninhabited two-story residential house.

At the same time, in District 10, Eunice was walking slowly along the street. In front of her was a giant crab spider with a huge spider abdomen and a body covered in a carapace.

"The poison sense is being shielded too severely. The hunter from Reincarnation Paradise... truly cautious. But it's also normal; after all, the rule-breakers over there are the hardest to deal with. It's very difficult to catch this hunter."

Eunice looked at the giant crab spider in front. This giant crab spider would occasionally be confused for a while, and its tracking efficiency was very low.

Eunice stopped near an inn, and a jumping spider landed on her shoulder.

"No bloodstains left along the way? Tch—"

Eunice walked into the inn. Before long, she walked into the room Su Xiao had just occupied, releasing a large number of small spiders to scout every inch of the room.

"Nothing left behind."

Eunice sat on the bed with some frustration and began to ponder her subsequent plans.

Outside the door opposite Eunice, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who had blended into the environment, took out a camera and silently snapped a photo.

"There are three nodes left. I don't know if it's because the Black Tide is about to appear, but the nodes have been in District 5. If that bastard occupies one more node, he wins. Given that bastard's level of vigilance, it's impossible for him to appear again; he will definitely try to find ways to deal with me from the shadows. An old schemer from Reincarnation Paradise."

Eunice gave a cold snort of annoyance. Her gaze inadvertently swept across the wall next to the door, and her vision immediately froze.

"This is!"

Eunice suddenly appeared before the door. Just as she was about to grab the photo on the wall, her hand stopped in mid-air. She was skilled in using poison, so she would naturally have precautions in this regard.

The photo pasted on the wall at this moment was the image of Eunice sitting on the bed thinking just now.

Seeing this photo, Eunice knew the enemy was monitoring her. She immediately took out a gemstone and crushed it. About 2 seconds later, spatial fluctuations appeared around her. Before using the item for spatial movement, Eunice remained vigilant of her surroundings.

High above the inn, Baja, aided by the dim light before the night faded, glided silently through the high altitude. Suddenly, it opened its eyes and locked onto a position in District 10. Spatial fluctuations appeared there—very slight, but having the bloodline of space, it had captured them.

District 10, inside a factory, all kinds of machinery had stopped, and hot steam was slowly spraying out to facilitate startup.

Eunice suddenly appeared inside the factory. She looked around, her complexion becoming somewhat ugly. If she had been the spider in the hunt just now, then now, she wasn't quite sure if she was still the one doing the hunting.

"I don't believe you can still chase me."

Eunice walked toward the outside of the factory. Just as she opened the door, a refugee happened to be walking toward her. Seeing Eunice, he was just about to shout a question when a spider crawled into his mouth, followed by extremely painful whimpering.

Eunice walked out from the back door of the steam factory and immediately stopped in her tracks, looking at the glass window across the narrow street. Pasted on it was a photo of her just walking out of the factory.

Purple veins bulged on Eunice's neck and her otherwise pure face, making her look ferocious.

Seeing this scene, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, who had blended into the environment, yawned. It had more important things to do and couldn't keep following the enemy. Its master had only ordered it to reach this extent—to keep the enemy suspicious and paranoid; that was enough.

The hunt... has begun.