Chapter 129 - Tragic Deaths, Collusion
Chapter 129: Tragic Deaths, Collusion
When Zhou Chen returned to the Wulong Inn in Phoenix Ridge City, the sky was completely dark.
He had already exchanged the two demon heads for twenty silver ingots, making the money pouch he was holding heavy.
“If nothing unexpected happens, this money should be enough to last me for the remaining twenty days.”
Zhou Chen was quite rich at the moment and did not have much motivation to earn money. He stayed here to kill the demons for the Inspiration Pill.
After drinking wine and eating some food alone in the inn for a while, Zhou Chen realized that none of the five people who he had teamed up with had returned.
“They’re not back yet? Are they planning to kill demons all night?”
Zhou Chen was puzzled, but he did not take it to heart.
The night passed quickly. The next morning, Zhou Chen woke up early and went downstairs to eat breakfast.
“They’re not back yet?”
When he was chatting with the people he knew during breakfast, he realized that none of the five people had returned.
“Did something happen…”
Zhou Chen felt that something was wrong, because according to his observations in the past two days, demon slayers rarely spent the night in the mountains.
“All of them are quite strong. If something happened, it means that they have encountered powerful demons. Doesn’t that mean…”
Zhou Chen immediately felt that he needed to enter the mountain. Although a powerful demon meant a greater risk, it also meant that he could obtain another Inspiration Pill.
After making some preparations, Zhou Chen entered the mountain alone.
After entering the mountain, he would ask any beasts he met about the five people yesterday. However, his luck was not good. The beasts he encountered were not able to provide any useful information. Only a few had seen the five people walking in the mountain from afar.
This was normal. Some demon slayers would kill some wild beasts to sell if they did not find demons, making the wild beasts hide far away when they saw them.
After spending some time, Zhou Chen arrived at the forest where he had parted ways with the five people yesterday and began to search for traces of them.
“They seem to be walking this way, their movements look like they were still trying their luck.”
Zhou Chen searched the forest for a while and barely determined the direction they were going.
He searched for more than two hours and unwittingly arrived outside a cave that had poor lighting.
This cave was not the one where he had hunted the bear demon yesterday. It was an unfamiliar cave.
“There are no demons in this cave, nor are there any living creatures.”
After sensing with the Bloodthirst passive skill, Zhou Chen determined that there was no suspicious target within 300 meters.
“But there is an obvious stench of blood coming from this cave, something should have happened inside.”
Standing at the entrance of the cave, Zhou Chen could smell the pungent smell of blood. This was not normal. Even if a carnivorous beast was inside the cave, it would not smell so bad unless something happened to be dead inside.
“Don’t tell me those people died here…”
With doubts in his heart, Zhou Chen slowly walked into the cave that was emitting the smell of blood.
After walking for a while along the curved cave passage, Zhou Chen arrived at a rather narrow passage. At the end of the passage, he could see a rather spacious room.
With his Dark Vision, Zhou Chen realized that there was a large amount of blood on the ground, some weapons, a large number of broken arrows, and some broken corpses.
“This cloth… Could it be that young man?”
Zhou Chen’s gaze was first attracted to the clothes on a part of the corpse on the ground, because he felt that the clothes looked very familiar, very similar to the athletic clothes of the young man.
“The corpse part is fresher, it might be him.”
After carefully thinking for a few more seconds, Zhou Chen felt that he was most likely right. He determined that the young man might have died here.
“These shoes… seem to be the short youngster’s…”
Zhou Chen then realized that there was a cloth shoe with blood on the ground. The style of the cloth shoe was simple, making him feel like it was worn by the short and burly youngster.
Then, Zhou Chen found a blade and scarf that he suspected to have belonged to the blade-wielding woman.
“This is too tragic, there’s no intact corpse.”
Zhou Chen could already confirm that the young man, the short youngster, and the blade-wielding woman had all died miserably here. The cause of death should have been arrow penetration and very brutal beast attacks.
“Were they ambushed by some people or demons? What about the tall muscular man and the fat youth? Did they separate? Or did they escape?”
There were a total of five people among Zhou Chen’s companions yesterday. He only found traces of three here, and the other two were missing.
“I have to look into this…”
Whether it was for the sake of killing the demons or for his own safety, Zhou Chen had to investigate this strange matter.
He quickly left the cave and went to look for wild beasts to understand the recent situation.
After some time, he finally obtained some information.
Yesterday afternoon, seven fully armed monkey demons entered the cave. Five people entered later, and after a while, only two people came out of the cave.
“This… the muscular man and the fat youth colluded with demons to kill the rest?!”
Zhou Chen was shocked by this information. He found it difficult to understand what benefit these two gained from colluding with the bloodthirsty demons. That was completely illogical.
“Do they want fewer people to split the reward? But there’s no need to collude with demons…”
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that there was a problem.
“Something’s wrong… Something’s very wrong… Could it be… I think I know what’s going on…”
After frowning in thought for two seconds, a thought suddenly flashed in Zhou Chen’s mind, making him guess why they were doing this.
“Hehe, let me take revenge for you!”
After understanding some of the key points, Zhou Chen was determined to take revenge for the young man and the other two.
He quickly left and relied on the information provided by the beasts to find the muscular man and the fat youth.
This search was not easy because it was not easy to run into beasts that happened to see the two of them. It was not until more than three hours later that he obtained some concrete information.
“Those two were in the forest behind the mountain not long ago? Those monkey demons were there too?”
At this moment, Zhou Chen learned precise information from an eagle that was eating a wild rabbit on the ground.
“All of them are actually gathered together. I need to think of a plan.”
Zhou Chen had always relied on brute force to solve problems, but that was based on the fact that the enemy was not very strong. This time, there were many enemies, so he had to be cautious.
“I have to play it safe. It’s best to wait for an opportunity to kill them one by one..”