Chapter 545: Hunting Game

With Chen Chen’s memory ability, he imprinted the entire map in his mind in just a few seconds. Then, he tore the map to confetti before continuing to search for traces of other people.

“Since my opponents aren’t ordinary people, then my strategy has to change…”

Chen Chen left the house. He expanded his Field to the maximum and scanned for any clues within a radius of 50 meters. At present, it seemed that if he wanted to win the consciousness battlefield, he must kill all the invaders and find the Consciousness Stealer.

However, his opponents were not necessarily good people as well. Based on the skills of that rogue earlier, these people would not just be sitting ducks but have their own prowess.

Silently thinking about all this, Chen Chen lifted off again and began to patrol the entire sky.

The area of the entire Wasteland City was about ten square kilometers and the map showed it was a square city, which meant that the city had a side length of 3.3 kilometers. At Chen Chen’s current speed, it took about an hour and a half for him to do a thorough sweep. However, the main thing was that this group of people might not just be hiding in one fixed place, so it became more difficult to search for them.

Chen Chen felt that he still had to begin with these intruders.

“Whoosh!”

Thinking of this, Chen Chen flew right up. He wandered a little bit over the city, scanning every house he passed. With the power of Field energy, it was very simple to do this kind of thing and his total Field energy nowadays could sustain such activity as long as it was not a highly vigorous use of Field.

Soon, when Chen Chen was scanning a house, his heart suddenly leaped. Although he did not see anyone else, he found another yellowed tin box.

Chen Chen waved with one hand and the iron box flew out from the gap in the iron window grille and into Chen Chen’s hands.

This iron box was not as splendidly decorated as the previous one. Chen Chen thought for a while then started by wrapping Field around the iron box before he slowly opened it.

There was no mechanism in the iron box. Instead, there was a simple glass bottle half-filled with some purple potion.

“What is this…”

Chen Chen frowned. He opened the lid and sniffed it lightly, detecting an ink-like smell. Could it be that this was a bottle of ink?

Nonetheless, there was no description on this bottle of potion and Chen Chen was not certain what this bottle of potion was.

Perhaps only those invaders with their D&D background could identify this potion.

Chen Chen casually put the potion into his pocket and then continued his sweep. Soon, in a house, he found a trap in the form of two stone bricks.

He recognized this was a trap because one of the stone bricks had weird patterns on it while the other stone brick had rows of spikes.

Chen Chen tried to put the palm of his hand on the stone brick with weird patterns. Under this pressure, the spikes on the other stone brick immediately flew out, whistling harshly as they pierced the wall on the other side.

Chen Chen’s eyes lit up. He collected all the spikes and pressed them back into the hole of the second stone brick, only to see that the lines on the first stone brick had become a little dim, but it still contained some energy. Maybe it could be used one more time.

A spell trap?

Such a term flashed in Chen Chen’s mind.

Chen Chen collected these two stone bricks as well and resumed his inspection.

Ten minutes later, Chen Chen found a longsword.

This time, the place where he found this sword was just a very simple firewood shack. This shack was located in the space between two mansions. If he did not pay attention, he might even have overlooked the existence of this firewood shack. The box containing the sword was also very ordinary, much more ordinary than the first two boxes he found, but this iron box had an iron lock that the iron boxes before did not have.

When Chen Chen penetrated deep into the lock of the box, he immediately found that the lock of this iron box was extremely complicated. It was likely that even professionals would need to spend a lot of effort to crack it. Upon opening the box, he saw the long handle of the sword inside.

Like the iron box in which it was contained, this longsword was also very ordinary, without any embellishing patterns, just a simple blade and black handle. It even appeared to be inferior to the ordinary iron swords that had not been ground on Taobao.

However, when he saw this sword, Chen Chen frowned because he felt a mysterious burning sensation emanating from the sword.

Chen Chen landed into the room and tried to grasp the hilt, but the next second, a piercing heat stung him. This scorching pain even exceeded the time when he was exposed to the sun and at the same time, Chen Chen’s consciousness also became blurry.

“Clatter!”

The iron sword slid from Chen Chen’s hand and stabbed into the wooden floor with a “clang”.

Chen Chen looked a little anguished. He opened his right hand but saw that the palm of his hand had been burned and blistered. The rotten meat on his hand was constantly giving off white smoke as if what he had just grasped was a red hot soldering iron.

“This sword is strange…”

Chen Chen pulled back his palm and tried to use the Field energy to enclose this longsword, but was even more shocked to discover that even Field energy dissipated when it touched the longsword. Chen Chen could not wield this item at all.

Thinking of this, Chen Chen’s expression became gloomier. He picked up the iron box, put it over the sword, and scooped the sword back in, then buried the iron box into the ground.

After doing all this, Chen Chen waved one hand to smooth out the traces of the burying. He was about to leave but suddenly stopped because his Field energy detected that two humans had entered his sensing range.

They were heading in this direction…

Chen Chen raised his eyebrows and immediately slipped into the building next to him. He wanted to find out how they noticed there was movement here, but when they were about 40 meters away in Chen Chen’s range, the two of them halted at the same time!

Just when Chen Chen was puzzled, the two suddenly spun around, then scattered without hesitation, and fled in two directions!

Had Chen Chen been discovered?

Chen Chen looked even more astounded. He stopped hiding but chased one of them. With the power of the Field energy, the opponent could only run away for a few seconds before Chen Chen caught up!

It was not until then that Chen Chen could see that the one he was chasing was a girl in a cloak holding a wooden staff!

Wizard?

This word flashed in Chen Chen’s mind. Both the attire and the wooden staff resembled wizards in movies and Chen Chen had already obtained some data from the young rogue, so he had a flash of realization now.

“O—K—G!”

However, as Chen Chen swiftly approached her, there was a glint of perseverance in the girl’s eyes. She turned around and uttered a phrase of unknown meaning. At the same time, she raised the staff in her hand and aimed the top of the staff at Chen Chen.

Suddenly, an inexplicable spatial fluctuation rushed over him. Chen Chen had never felt this kind of fluctuation but he did not evade it. Instead, he gathered a large amount of Field energy to form an invisible barrier in front of him.

He was going to test the opponent’s strength with his strongest defense!

Although it might be easier for Chen Chen to dodge, he was now facing unfamiliar forces after all, and the total number of opponents exceeded 20. If they besieged him at once, he was afraid it would be difficult for him to evade them all. Instead of doing so, it was better to test out his opponent when they were alone, to better understand their abilities.

These thoughts zipped through Chen Chen’s mind. In the next second, a blazing white firelight flared up at the top of the staff and at the same time, seven or eight rays of light surged directly toward Chen Chen!

“Arcane Missile!”

Just as these rays of light struck Chen Chen, the girl on the other side also called out the name of this spell!

In the next second, Chen Chen only felt that his Field was corroded by those few streaks of flame, resulting in a few big holes. However, each one only burrowed a few centimeters forward before exhausting its energy and was extinguished.

This was…

Chen Chen raised his eyebrows. Although the thrusting force of this fire was lacking, its might was extremely impressive. Each ray was comparable to the power of an anti-material sniper rifle. Even so, it was a pipe dream for them to penetrate his own barrier. Now, the power of Field energy was simply not something this person could break through.

Thinking of this, he was about to crush his opponent to death but suddenly, there was a wave of fluctuations behind him. A faintly discernible phantom emerged from behind him while stabbing a dagger toward the middle of his back!

“Huh?”

Chen Chen looked even more puzzled. He abruptly turned around and at the same time, seized the opponent’s dagger in the palm of his hand with a backhand. Only then did he see this opponent. This person was completely dark as if he were a shadow!

Seeing that his fatal blow was fended off by Chen Chen, this dark shadow was also startled, but his reaction was extremely quick. He immediately gave up the dagger and leaped back again. He suddenly melted into the dark shadows around him, vanishing right in the perception of Chen Chen’s Field!

“So, you can blend into the shadows?”

Chen Chen squeezed furiously and there was a nauseating snap. Chen Chen had pinched the dagger into broken strands. Then, he stretched out his hand again and gestured, and the girl in the wizard robe flew toward Chen Chen at once!

“R—U—A!”

While she was still in the air, the girl hurriedly spoke again, but before she finished her words, she suddenly felt something bulky and invisible stuffed into her mouth, choking off all her remaining words!

“Ugh…”

The girl suddenly widened her eyes. She did not understand what was stuffed in her mouth, but she felt her throat swell and widen uncontrollably, and even her breathing was blocked!

“Save, save me…”

The girl’s throat was swollen until tears and snot were streaming over her face. She looked desperately at the shadows around her as if praying to the shadow man for help!

“Let her go!”

Suddenly, the shadow man loomed out of the darkness at Chen Chen’s bottom right and at the same time, with a decisive stroke, he aimed a dagger directly at Chen Chen’s waist…

“Clang!”

Still, this time, Chen Chen had long been prepared. The man only pierced into an unseen barrier but he could not go any further!

“Bang, splat!”

Immediately, there was a sound of a watermelon bursting and rupturing. The shadow man looked back blankly, only to see the girl’s head exploding, with red and white stuff splashing all over her body!

“Thump!”

The headless body of the girl dropped directly to her knees and the nerves of her body twitched unconsciously because of the loss of the brain center…

“Argh—!”

The shadow man suddenly unleashed a desperate roar, but in the next second, Chen Chen directly raised his hand and pressed it on his head, then pushed viciously!

“Plop!”

The shadow man’s snarl was cut off immediately, for Chen Chen had pushed his head into his chest cavity…

“The toughness and strength of his body are beyond that of human beings in reality…”

As if finishing a trivial task, Chen Chen shook off the blood on his hand and thought aloud in a low voice, “This is probably the factor of physique. These adventurers with magical backgrounds have physique and strength that surpass modern people, but not by much… Maybe because these two aren’t capable enough… But their skills are peculiar indeed. If it weren’t for my Field power, I’m afraid it’d take me a lot of effort to kill them…”

Just as Chen Chen was thinking about this, he suddenly sensed that three more silhouettes were approaching on the right front and at the same time, five figures had appeared on the left!

“Eight people?”

Chen Chen’s expression shifted because he sensed that when they were about 40 meters away from him, everyone suddenly paused. Then, as if someone had said something, the team of five continued approaching whereas the team of three on the other side stopped for a few seconds before making their way here at a lower speed.

“It seems that everyone can sense my presence when they are 40 meters away from me? To fight or not to fight?”

Being cautious by nature, Chen Chen had already noticed that when facing this group of adventurers, he did not seem to have the power to fully crush them easily, especially when there were too many opponents.

Chen Chen wore a thoughtful look, but after thinking about it for half a second, he quickly backed away, and then left the scene…

After going off for fifty or sixty meters, he only heard an angry roar from the area where he was fighting earlier. Someone from the eight people knew the two who were killed.

“Don’t worry, it’ll be your turn soon…”

Chen Chen smirked icily and then hurried toward the castle.

At this time, more than an hour had passed since the beginning. Anyone with the intention to do so might have come close to the location of the castle and Chen Chen dared not claim that this group of NPCs with magical abilities would not have the ability to find the fireplace tunnel.

A few minutes later, Chen Chen hurried back to the castle. The moment he entered the castle, his Field was fully activated, scanning everything in the hall like a radar, but he found nothing.

The wooden gate of the castle had decayed and collapsed for some reason, so the castle was, strictly speaking, defenseless, and anyone could enter. Chen Chen was afraid that he would fall into the encirclement of his opponents when he entered the castle.

However, it seemed that no one had entered this place for the time being.

In this case, Chen Chen looked at his feet and then he pried out a floor brick at the entrance of the castle, put the brick with runes below, and then re-laid the previous floor brick. As for the brick capable of shooting out spikes, Chen Chen hung it directly on the ceiling directly above the first brick.

In this way, if someone entered the castle and stepped on this, they would immediately be taught a harsh lesson by the spikes.

“It’s a pity I couldn’t bring in my nano poker cards.”

Chen Chen shook his head. If his poker cards could be brought into the consciousness battlefield, he would have been invincible even against the gods by now. Unless it was the Consciousness Stealer who had the same defensive ability, the wizards and rogues would be practically defenseless before him. They would have no ability to sense his attacks.