But the current situation was that Xiaoyao's two traps had no advance warning, and both consecutively took away their second-generation members.
At this moment, someone seemed to notice this point too, why were the people who died in traps all these second-generation members, and not those servants and lackeys?
Could this also be coincidence?
It should be, otherwise this matter would be too terrifying.
"Since you're not doing your job properly, then go ahead and clear the path."
After two trap incidents, they were now not only careful but also somewhat afraid, having their subordinates clear the path first and only following after it was safe.
"Let's see if there can still be such coincidences now." Feng Hai sneered coldly. He felt that even if there were traps, even if the traps were very clever, it didn't matter, because those who would die definitely wouldn't be people like them, but unimportant servants.
In their view, the life and death of these servants was equally unimportant, they could be sacrificed anytime, anywhere.
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At first it went quite smoothly. Under the path-clearing at the cost of casualties by those servants, several traps were destroyed. It seemed that in such circumstances, Xiaoyao really had no solutions left, the traps were all destroyed, so what else could he do?
Actually, Xiaoyao still had methods. He had thought about this point too, so he designed another type of trap that could handle the current situation.
Traps didn't necessarily have to trigger at the first moment. As long as you added delayed mechanisms, you could control the activation time at will.
So Feng Hai and others were once again struck by another "coincidence," and this time it was large-scale.
When those servants had all passed through, and after several times of nothing happening, they relaxed a bit and walked directly into Xiaoyao's trap. The carefully calculated delay time arrived at this moment, and the trap appeared.
Various traps flying everywhere blocked all escape routes within the trap's range, leaving no chance of escape. This was a precisely calculated trap that Xiaoyao had truly spent considerable time on.
This trap eliminated five or six second-generation members, bringing the fear of death to those remaining.
"Who can tell me what's going on?" Feng Hai and others began going crazy.
"Who exactly captured this person? Not only is he an expert poison user, but he's also very proficient in mechanisms and traps. This is definitely not something ordinary people can accomplish."
Seeing that those dead people couldn't escape, they understood the cleverness of these mechanisms and traps. Otherwise, with their abilities, how could ordinary mechanisms catch them?
When they carefully examined things, they not only discovered these mechanisms and traps were so clever they couldn't believe it, but also paid the cost of one person's sacrifice. Xiaoyao had long anticipated someone would examine this, so he had set up a trap here too. Another piece of scum was gone.
"Why didn't such a person escape or reveal his identity, but instead mixed in among them? What's the reason?" Everyone began speculating.
"Perhaps he deliberately wanted to target us. We've killed quite a few people, maybe someone related to him." Someone guessed. Walking dark paths too often, you'll encounter ghosts, surely everyone would understand this principle.
"This is possible, but I think there's another possibility. Although this person is proficient in poison and mechanism techniques, his personal strength isn't high, so he has no way to escape and no way to face us directly. He can only use these to defeat us." A relatively wise person said.
"This possibility is very high. The people we captured were all Scholar Level, with just a few General Level. I think the person scheming against us should be that last youth. He's only early Scholar Level, very weak." Feng Hai analyzed.
"I also think it should be that youth. What's his background? Who captured him?" Now everyone had to take this small character Xiaoyao seriously.
"I captured him. He's just an early Scholar Level, and he even claimed to be a little servant, the abandoned kind." Feng Hai frowned. Now he felt this seemed like a joke, he might have been played by him.
"An abandoned little servant, how could such a person be a little servant, and how could he be abandoned? If that were the case, then his master's family would be blind." Someone said very sarcastically.
Indeed, they were blind.
If this conversation were heard by the Mo family, if they truly understood Xiaoyao's value, they might want to bang their heads against walls.
However, currently they still didn't know Xiaoyao's value. What they regretted was only driving Guxing away. As for Xiaoyao, just a little servant, they didn't care, although this servant did have some uses.
Those who knew Xiaoyao's value, besides the Demon Cult, were people like Ning Zhiyuan, all people standing at the continent's pinnacle, and only a few at that. They wouldn't have any intersection with the Mo family, so naturally the Mo family wouldn't know.
Not to mention the Mo family, even families much higher than the Mo family equally weren't qualified to know.
Because of this, these people were even more impossible to know Xiaoyao's identity. They could only guess and would never have answers.
"Regardless of whether he's a servant or not, what's most important is what we should do now?"
"What else can we do? Of course find him and kill him. Don't forget, his strength is only early Scholar Level." Feng Hai said.
"But his poison techniques and mechanism skills are impossible to guard against." Someone raised the most crucial problem.
"Setting up such mechanisms takes time. I don't believe he can keep arranging them like this." Feng Hai said coldly.
"That's right. Impossible to have time..." Someone chimed in.
In fact, Xiaoyao indeed didn't have this time. Even though he arranged traps much faster than others, such intricate designs still needed time and couldn't be faster than their walking pace.
"Have some people from the front return to monitor the movement along this route. I don't believe he can dig these traps without any sound." Feng Hai gave an order. It had to be said he was quite smart. Xiaoyao arranging traps like this would definitely make noise. If someone paid attention, they would definitely discover it.
Previously, Xiaoyao had used a vacuum zone to arrange traps. If discovered, he would definitely be exposed and lose effectiveness.
This vacuum zone formed because the people ahead ran too fast, and most people were already very far away. Those monitoring naturally put their focus on the front. Even knowing there was still one person here, they wouldn't pay too much attention. Moreover, they thought all the people were already ahead and no one was here.
Now with people returning from the front to watch carefully, Xiaoyao would definitely be unable to arrange traps. At least the roads they watched would be safe. After that, if Xiaoyao wanted to lure them into traps, he would have to show himself, unable to arrange them on their path like now.
This move seemed to cut off Xiaoyao's idea of using mechanisms and traps, forcing him to approach from other angles, or set up traps that might or might not be useful.
Or, he could still...
"No one at all? This is impossible. You must not have searched carefully. Go back and search again."
Feng Hai and others didn't understand. Although no traps appeared, Xiaoyao also seemed to have disappeared. After meeting with those responsible for surveillance, they found no one in the area. This meant Xiaoyao either wasn't in this region, or was hiding somewhere others couldn't discover.
Based on the situation, the latter possibility was greater, because they all felt Xiaoyao couldn't have run far, the time spent setting traps prevented him from going far. Also, they felt Xiaoyao should continue setting traps ahead, so he should be in the forward area.
They couldn't find him only because he might have discovered someone was looking for him, so he suddenly hid. Since that was the case, they'd find him.
Among Feng Hai's people, there were also quite a few tracking experts. Otherwise how could they play this hunter game? Even if they weren't very good before, after several times they had gradually become proficient.
People treated as prey couldn't possibly not know about hiding. Many people would know to do this, after escaping to a certain distance, shake off trackers and hide. This was something that had to be done.
So those following them would naturally know not to let people shake them off. Even if they hid, they could find their targets.
Because of this, plus having strength in numbers, finding one person shouldn't be difficult. They felt that even if Xiaoyao hid, it wouldn't be too hard to find him.
But this idea of theirs was wrong again. They searched again and still didn't find him. If they continued searching, it would only waste more time. At that point, forget catching Xiaoyao, even those people from before might escape.
Their previous ability to prevent others from escaping, besides having enough manpower and familiarity with terrain, was also because time hadn't dragged on too long. They could resolve people in a short time. Even encountering troubles and accidents, it was within acceptable range.
But the current situation, Xiaoyao had counter-hunted several of their people, which was already beyond acceptable range. Plus from start to now, besides dealing with Xiaoyao, they hadn't touched any other person. This time was enough to give some people opportunities, and with some manpower here now, the chances were even greater.
The current situation seemed to force Feng Hai and others to make a choice, choose Xiaoyao, or choose those people.
Because if they gave up to go after those other people, Xiaoyao surely couldn't be caught, they could think of this and be very certain about it.
But if they continued catching Xiaoyao, the others might escape some, possibly even more. This forced them to make a choice.
(End of Chapter)