The Warrior of Love

With their speed and stealth, it's easy for them to hide for a while... but it's just a delay.

After the evil ghost catches two or three mice, no matter how dumb it is, it will realize that something is wrong and will probably rush back.

What Jiang Liu needs to do is to escape as far away as possible during this period of time.

The role of those rats is not only to attract the attention of evil spirits, but they also spread their scent everywhere while running around, which can effectively interfere with the evil spirits' search for Jiang Liu.

"Two hours...it's almost dawn, we just need to delay it for two hours."

Jiang Liu let out a long breath and stood up with difficulty, but his movements were obviously much more agile than before.

During the time he was lying on the floor, his strength recovered a lot. Although his injuries did not improve much, the pain was relieved a lot, and at least he regained some mobility.

From this we can see that his physique is actually very different from that of ordinary people - divinity is not useless.

Even if it is specifically used to control the divinity of the machine god, it still has a minimum physical enhancement effect!

It is still short now, and as time goes by, the improvement of physical fitness by divinity will become more and more obvious.

"Where are you going?"

Jiang Liu stood in the moonlight, looking around calmly.

This is a deserted little mountain village. It looks uninhabited and there is no sound of dogs barking or other livestock. The house where Jiang Liu lives is located in the northwest corner of the village, next to the mountain road that connects to the outside world.

In this way, the trap set by the evil spirits becomes obvious.

It's just like an anglerfish. In the darkness, only this house has light, which naturally attracts lost pedestrians.

But since there are people who are lost, it means that—

"Are there any human settlements nearby?" Jiang Liu thought thoughtfully.

Come to think of it, although most of the evil spirits in this world stay away from cities (too conspicuous and easily exposed), they feed on humans after all, so they will not really stay away from the world. They are probably active near rural towns.

These two demons seemed to have been hunted by the Demon Slayer Corps before, so they fled to a more remote mountain, but logically they should be near some village.

As for which direction it is, you can tell by looking at the only main road in the village.

As long as you follow this road that runs through the village, you can always get out of the forest or find another village.

Then, Jiang Liu's escape route was determined: he turned around and walked into the desolate mountain village without hesitation, found a dilapidated house and walked in.

Run away? Compete with the evil spirits?

If he walked along the mountain path, he would definitely be noticed, but if he ran around blindly in the mountains, Jiang Liu might kill himself with his current physical condition.

So what he has to do now is still to play hide-and-seek with the evil spirit.

Generally speaking, when the two evil ghosts caught the mouse and realized that they had been tricked, they would definitely go looking for Jiang Liu separately in a rage.

The first thing they thought of was the room at the beginning, and then of course they were worried that Jiang Liu would run to the human gathering place and spread their news.

In other words, the evil ghost's room and the mountain path are their first targets of search, and this village... Generally, no one would hide in a place that is obviously a trap after encountering an evil ghost.

Because they will be found here sooner or later, a normal person would not hide here and wait for death - the evil spirits would think so too.

However, Jiang Liu is not an ordinary person, he knows the evil spirit's weakness: sunlight.

As long as he can hold out until the sun comes out, he will win, so hiding is definitely not waiting to die!

Ordinary people don't know this information, so they will make completely opposite choices.

If the evil ghost regarded Jiang Liu as an ordinary person, he would naturally use the same idea, and this is Jiang Liu's only intelligence advantage.

All in all, this strategy actually doesn't require much technical content, it is the so-called "darkness under the lamp".

After experiencing the adventure of a world, although Jiang Liu is still a flesh and blood body, his mentality has long been that of a battle-hardened fighter.

He had experience playing hide-and-seek with the enemy like this. He was concentrating on hiding and would not make any unnecessary movements or noises. The only possible flaw was the smell - he had to thank the evil ghost for that.

This village had long been crawling all over with those "nostalgic" rats, so Jiang Liu would definitely not attract attention if he hid in a house.

Even if those two guys quickly realized something was wrong and rushed back, and gave up the outer search as if they had foreseen the future, and only searched this village...it could still delay for a while!

Time is on Jiang Liu's side!

But if the worst case scenario happens: the evil ghost finds Jiang Liu before dawn...then we can only fight hard.

Although Jiang Liu tried his best to avoid a head-on encounter with the enemy in such a situation, if such a situation really happened, he would definitely not retreat.

"Hmm? Has anyone lived in this room before?"

Jiang Liu originally thought that this village was created by evil spirits as a cover, but he did not expect to find traces of human life, but it looked very old.

“Is the resident here a carpenter?”

He found some tools piled up in the corner, such as axes, ink fountains, chisels, long lines and the like, but without exception, they were covered with a thick layer of dust.

As for where their original owners are now... they have probably turned into "dregs".

"Tsk!"

Jiang Liu felt impatient when he thought about this. If his physical condition was intact, even if his physical fitness was no different from that of an ordinary person, he would find a way to use traps or something to kill these two evil spirits.

"The axe is rusty..."

Jiang Liu squatted down and carefully examined these things, frowning slightly.

"Forget it, it's better than nothing."

Chapter 8: Look into my eyes!

"Hehehe... Hahahaha!! That idiot! Let him go look for it in the mountains. I'll enjoy that human!"

The evil ghost in brown shorts was laughing wildly as he shuttled through the woods, approaching the village.

His companion, the guy with the special taste, had a very sensitive nose among evil spirits, so even with just a faint smell, he still successfully found the target in the mountains in the dark.

However, after he and his companions caught several mice in succession, they soon realized that they had been deceived, so they split up, one person followed the river along the mountain path, and the other returned to the village.

However, his companions probably didn't know that his decision to return to the village was not a random one but a well-thought-out one.

"That idiot turned good human flesh into a pile of shit! It's a waste to give it to him, so just give it all to me and make me stronger!"

Rushing back to the original room, the evil ghost stretched out its sharp nails and pierced into the tatami on the ground, then pulled hard and lifted up half of the floor.

"Haha, weak human, let me do it - huh?"

Looking at the empty space, the evil ghost was stunned for a moment: "Escaped... But you can't escape from my palm."

The evil ghost closed his eyes and began to concentrate, even reducing his own breathing to a minimum, and then slowly stuck out his tongue.

It is worth mentioning that his tongue is not ordinary in appearance, but forked like a poisonous snake or lizard.

At the same time, the shape of his nose began to change. The nostrils gradually turned up, and the surface area of ​​the entire nose seemed to have expanded by half. He stood there for a few minutes, and a hideous arc appeared at the corner of the evil ghost's mouth again, and his eyes slowly opened.

"Hey, I found it."

Perhaps even Jiang Liu was limited by his own cognition, so he did not expect this: this evil ghost has the ability to detect beyond the five senses!

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"Come on, cutie, I know you're hiding in there."

The evil ghost stopped in front of a room and circled around playfully, speaking slowly.

"Behind the door, maybe waiting to ambush me when I go in? What a cute idea. Do you think I can be defeated by a mere human?"

However, according to his thermal sensing, the figure behind the door did not move at all.

His tongue and nose are covered with heat-sensing nerves, almost like another organ, very similar to snakes. This is not blood vampire magic, but a simple physical mutation.

People may be able to cover up their whereabouts, voices, and even smells, but the only thing that can never be erased is body temperature.

He knew from the beginning that Jiang Liu was hiding under the floor, but he pretended not to know out of selfishness. Once he was separated from his companions, he immediately ran back in a hurry.

He was very confident in himself. With this kind of sensing ability, he was not afraid of losing an ordinary person in the dark.

Sure enough, even though Jiang Liu hid, he was still found by him.

"I'm a gourmet, unlike that pervert. Don't worry, I won't turn you into vomit. I will just do it carefully, meticulously, and slowly..."

As the voice gradually became lower, the evil ghost approached the door step by step, his steps light and steady.

When he reached the door, he suddenly laughed wildly and shouted, "I'm going to eat you up!"

Bang!

The tattered and old door was kicked open, and it was unable to stop the evil spirit with extraordinary powers, and it was easily broken in.

Just at this moment, the evil ghost noticed a black shadow coming from the side.

Under the cover of night, the attack was certainly very concealed, but the evil ghost laughed disdainfully.

"Innocent!"

It would be understandable if he turned around and ran away, but choosing to launch a sneak attack was really stupid.

Ghosts are creatures that are active at night and naturally have night vision abilities far superior to humans. They will not be ambushed in the dark. In addition, their strength is several times that of ordinary people!

"Snapped!"

Subconsciously, he reached out and firmly grasped the attacking shadow, which was the soft and fragile human wrist.

"I got you, Xiao Ke—Pfft!"

Before he could finish, a large cloud of dust came flying towards him and landed right on his face. The evil ghost choked and instinctively closed his eyes and held his breath.

What Jiang Liu was holding in his hand was not a weapon, but a bag of dust and sawdust!

But at the moment when the evil ghost closed his eyes, Jiang Liu's other hand that had not been caught by the evil ghost also raised up, and an obscure cold light flashed in the night.

"Pfft-"

The rusty axe chopped into the evil ghost's neck, and blood splattered all over Jiang Liu, and the evil ghost immediately let out a painful scream.

However, even though he succeeded, Jiang Liu did not relax. Instead, he frowned and looked serious.

Because he found that, either the axe was not sharp enough or he did not have enough strength, his strongest blow failed to cut off the evil ghost's neck, but instead got stuck in the bone gap.

"Uhhhhh!"

Jiang Liu continued to tear the evil ghost's wounds with the axe, trying to cause him more damage. While the evil ghost screamed, he also urged his right hand, and the wrist he held made an almost breaking sound.

"Damn it, damn it, damn it!!"

A kick hit Jiang Liu in the abdomen, sending the boy flying and crashing into the wall. The evil ghost covered the stuck axe and the wound on his neck with his hands, groaning constantly.

"Damn it, damn it, damn it—you bastard!"

For ordinary people, this is an injury that is definitely fatal, but for evil spirits, it seems to be nothing. At least the one in front of him can still speak normally.

"Tsk, what kind of structure is this body made of... it's still too far-fetched."

Jiang Liu felt a burning pain in his chest and abdomen, and he leaned against the wall, breathing with difficulty.

At the moment of being attacked, he had tried his best to defend himself, and even relied on foresight to let go of the axe and retreat half a step. It can be said that most of the impact force was relieved, but even so, he almost died.

This shows how huge the power gap is between evil spirits and humans.

This is bad. Not only did he fail to cut off the evil ghost's neck (although this wouldn't kill the ghost either), but such a shallow wound instead angered the other party - Jiang Liu thought to himself.

It's incredible that he can still remain calm even though the situation is so critical.

Perhaps, during the year of waiting for the Humanity Burning to come, he had fully understood that "Impotent Rage" was useless.

"You bastard, I've changed my mind. I'm going to tear you into pieces and grind you into minced meat—"

"Wait a moment!"

When the evil ghost pulled out the axe and was about to pounce, Jiang Liu suddenly spoke, and powerful syllables reached the other party's ears.

Strangely enough, this sentence actually gave him pause.

"Huh? Begging for mercy? Forget it. I'm really hungry now! I'm even hungrier after being chopped by you!"

"Oh, I see." Jiang Liu nodded, "But don't you have a companion? Is it enough for you to eat just me?"

"Of course I enjoyed it myself. That idiot couldn't tell the difference between good and bad, so it would be a waste to give it to him. I tricked him into the mountains a long time ago. Hehehe, we have enough time to be "alone together", so just give up!"

After saying this, the evil ghost was stunned.

"Why... should I tell you so much?"

"When people are emotionally excited or feel they have a chance of winning, they will have a strong desire to show off and tend to talk more."