Chapter 76: Tiger Roars in the Forest, the Mob Trembles in Fear

"Whoosh!"

The sound of air being pierced rang out, and another cold arrow flew out from the shadows.

Zhou You did not dodge; the armor plates on his back deflected the arrowhead, ringing out with a crisp clatter.

It was indeed a hunting arrowhead capable of killing tigers and bears, with fierce force; even though it was dispersed across a palm-sized armor plate, it still caused his skin to bruise.

Over a dozen hunters had been killed, making them increasingly cautious, with expert archers hiding in the shadows to fire cold arrows.

"Get down here, hiding on the roof playing dead? You spineless bastards."

A hunter held a grappling hook, a tool used to hook into the hides of wild beasts and slow their movements.

As long as he had the chance to pierce flesh and lock onto joints, he could drag Zhou You from the roof to the ground.

Suddenly, his hand loosened, the grappling hook slipped away, and immediately his mouth felt a sharp pain as a cold breeze poured into the back of his head.

The last image he saw was Zhou You gripping the end of the long bamboo pole, thrusting it into his mouth and piercing through the back of his skull.

Zhou You walked back and forth on the eaves as if strolling in a leisurely courtyard, plucking a bamboo pole as easily as picking grass to stab the hunter to death.

One by one, the red dots extinguished, and the hunters besieging the ground were killed or wounded to the last.

Suddenly, in the Battlefield Perspective, another cluster of red dots appeared on the roof model.

Zhou You turned his head abruptly, rotating a full one hundred and eighty degrees, and saw the enemies that had suddenly appeared behind him.

Two hunters held fishing nets, one on the left and one on the right; they had just reached 7 or 8 meters behind him when they were discovered, and their feet paused slightly.

"Ahhh!"

The fishing nets were torn to shreds, and the two hunters were sent flying through the air to land, directly splashing two blooming flowers of blood.

In the perspective, a green dot flickered, its light growing faint.

Li Hao's situation was not looking good; he was injured! The number of hunters and hounds besieging him was too great, and lacking the advantage of flat ground, plus not possessing the Battlefield Perspective, he had taken several sneak attacks in succession; his calf had been torn by a massive wound, and his shoulder had also been struck by an arrow.

Zhou You understood well the principle that if the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold; he could not sit idly by! He leaped into the air, grabbed the two nearest hunters, and used them as cushions under his feet to jump off the eaves.

Squish!

From the 5 or 6-meter-high roof of the Shan Shen Miao, Zhou You landed with a slight pause, completely unharmed!

The two hunters used as cushions were like toads crushed by a tire, their internal organs bursting open.

"Li Hao, kill your way out."

Zhou You rushed into the crowd, grabbed a hunter, and channeled his strength to fling him away.

He pointed toward the direction where the red dots were thinnest, signaling Li Hao to break out alongside him.

The hunters in front were collided into by their own companions, falling in a chaotic mess, and a chorus of curses rang out.

Seeing that they wanted to leave, the hunters were not about to give up, and cold arrows and throwing spears fell like rain.

There were also grappling hooks and stabbing poles poking at their calves and feet along the ground, constantly harassing them and forcing them to divide their attention.

"Howl!"

Hounds and fishing nets loomed in and out of the crowd, converging toward the direction of the two.

"Go, follow the same path we came from."

The two killed a few more hunters, realizing that their physical exertion was too great and their strength was waning; they could not keep fighting like this.

The hunters were clearly using human-wave tactics, intending to exhaust them to death.

Zhou You called out to Li Hao, "Follow me, let's kill our way out together."

Li Hao wiped his face; his eyes were already blurred by sweat and blood, and he could only see shadows of people all around.

Placed on the battlefield with enemies on all sides, where could a way out be found? Zhou You inhaled and exhaled the airflow, his footsteps like the wind; he turned left, threw a punch to kill one man, then made a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and threw another punch to kill a hunter at his side.

With the strength of one man, he threw the hunters into complete disarray, however...

"Isn't this just running around like a headless fly?" Although Li Hao was anxious, he still tried his best to provide support, holding his arms horizontally to guard his rear.

Pfft, pfft, pfft! Several cold arrows shot over; he widened his eyes, his mouth and nose exhaling gray airflow.

General Unloading Armor, a great mantle, Hard Qigong protecting the body.

His skin instantly shimmered with a faint metallic luster, and the arrows collided with it, emitting crisp sounds; they returned without success, falling listlessly to the ground.

This breath was the last of Li Hao's remaining reserves; after using it, his entire body became exhausted.

His legs went weak, and just as he was about to collapse to the ground, he was grabbed by the wrist by Zhou You.

When Li Hao looked up, ahead was a clear sky with no enemies.

It turned out that, unknowingly, the two had already joined forces to kill their way through the hunters' heavy encirclement.

In Zhou You's Battlefield Perspective, two green dots had jumped out of the dense circle of red dots and were roaming outside.

"Catch your breath, we'll come back later to slaughter these human-skinned beasts."

Watching the red dots scatter to both sides, the hunters broke into smaller groups and dove into the grass or climbed up mountain rocks, wanting to use the same old tricks to trap them in an encirclement again.

Zhou You nodded at Li Hao; they would split up to act and hunt individually, ensuring they wiped the others out completely.

The heads of this group of hunters had been cut off, leaving them a scattered mess; if they couldn't even finish them off, they would have no face to return to the martial arts hall to report.

"Xu Jia Laoqi is dead, his heart and liver have been hollowed out; quickly call his brother to drag the body away."

"His brother died even earlier; when he poked his head out at the corner just now, he was punched into a smashed watermelon."

"The mountains are clearly our territory, how are we being played in circles by that brat?"

The hunters did not understand; ever since Zhou You began guerrilla warfare against them, a nightmare had descended.

The Tiger-Subduing Fist imitated the tiger's form, and his ability was even more pronounced in the mountains than on flat ground; dealing with this group of hunters was like chopping melons and vegetables.

The key was that Zhou You also had the Battlefield Perspective; any ambush or sneak attack was clear at a glance in his eyes, making it almost a one-way transparent slaughter.

The hunters were numerous, but their individual strength was far inferior to his and Li Hao's; fighting one-on-one was a dead end.

From the slaughter at the Shan Shen Miao to the front mountain, and then from the front mountain to the back mountain, the sounds of killing did not cease for the entire night.

In front of and behind Shan Shen Miao, hunters who had suffered heavy casualties were wailing and cursing everywhere, with severed limbs and broken arms, blood flowing like a stream.

In the eyes of the hunters, Zhou You was comparable to a demon; not only did he have two eyes in the front, but he also had two eyes on the back of his head, and even two eyes on the sky above his head, so no one could use Stealth to get near him, and even the most experienced hunters were discovered from dozens of meters away.

At this moment, the low-morale hunters thought of their savior.

Besides Pan Laoda, they had a Second Master above them, mysterious and unpredictable, whose whereabouts were uncertain.

"Pan Laoda is dead, hurry and find the Second Master to come back and take charge!"

"Now that we have offended Wang Laohu and so many people have died, the business cannot go on either!"

"We only hope the Second Master kills those two little bastards and takes us to join the Cloud-Touching Stronghold, where we can eat meat, drink wine, and live happily."

"Their heads will be our pledge of allegiance; we must not let them return to Gongliang City alive. Brothers, bring out the skills you use to serve prey and chase after them; don't let them rest for even a moment."

"Once we join under the five leaders of the Cloud-Touching Stronghold, no matter how powerful Wang Laohu is, his reach will be limited, and he won't be able to do anything to us."

A hunter spoke viciously, and the companions around him nodded in agreement.

They were not good men or women to begin with, and having suffered such painful losses, their first reaction was not repentance, but to seek powerful strength to slaughter their enemies.

Looking around again, the ground was covered with remains and corpses everywhere, and the mountain wind could not blow away the thick smell of blood.

Beast roars came from not far away; wild beasts nearby had smelled the blood and were arriving one after another to forage.

(End of this chapter)