86: Chapter 86 Hunter and Prey? Hunter and Monster!

Lin Yan walked through the forest. Under the suppression of 10x Gravity, every step he took left a shallow depression in the damp ground.

Monsters continuously respawned along the way.

[Killed Level 18 Monster] [Points + 180] [Killed Level 19 Elite Monster] [Points + 1045]

His points continued to grow.

Remaining time until the golden spirit fruit matures: [1 hour 39 minutes]

Lin Yan was not in a hurry.

At his speed, he could easily reach the nearest golden pillar in time.

However, just then, a shrill scream suddenly rang out from the depths of the dense forest ahead.

"Help!!!"

The voice was hurried and panicked, as if someone were being besieged by monsters.

Lin Yan frowned slightly.

The next moment, boom!

Trees collapsed, and a disheveled figure rushed out from the woods.

It was a young man, covered in blood, with seven or eight Level 20+ elite monsters following behind him.

Just as the young man rushed out a few dozen meters, a pale blue rune suddenly lit up beneath his feet.

Boom!

He was instantly blasted away, blood spraying everywhere, and he collapsed to the ground, heavily injured.

Lin Yan's pupils constricted.

A trap! And it was set up extremely covertly.

In the moment he was pondering, high up in the treetops in the distance, the corners of Gu Cangshou's mouth slowly curled up.

"Step one."

"Complete."

Seeing Lin Yan, the young man seemed to have grabbed a lifeline.

"Brother, save me!"

"There's a beast tide behind me!"

Lin Yan didn't move; he wasn't stupid.

In the Dungeon, those who actively ask for help are often more dangerous than monsters.

However, the next second, rumble—the ground shook, and more monsters rushed out.

There were dozens of them, including even a Level 20 boss.

Lin Yan's gaze darkened slightly; this didn't look like a coincidence, but rather like someone had deliberately driven them here.

Lin Yan instantly understood that someone was setting a trap.

His eyes narrowed, and he swung his battle axe to fight the monsters.

[Killed Level 19 Monster] [Points + 209] [Killed Level 19 Elite Monster] [Points + 1045]

...

[Killed Level 20 BOSS] [Points + 2400]

When Lin Yan finished killing the last BOSS, he spoke up.

"Come out."

Just then, a voice rang out from the darkness.

"Not bad."

"You discovered it so quickly."

Lin Yan looked up.

At the top of the tree canopy, Gu Cangshou slowly appeared, wearing a fur cloak.

With his hands in his pockets, he looked down at Lin Yan from above, as if looking down at prey.

"Allow me to introduce myself."

"Gu Cangshou."

"My profession."

He grinned, revealing his stark white teeth.

"A hunter."

As he spoke, he snapped his fingers lightly.

The next second, runes lit up on the surrounding trees simultaneously, chains shot out from the ground, and dozens of traps activated at once.

Under Lin Yan's feet.

In the trees.

On the surrounding ground.

Light erupted everywhere.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom—!!!

Explosions, poison mist, binding, slowing.

They all descended in an instant.

The entire forest turned into a true hunting ground, and Gu Cangshou stood outside the traps.

His eyes were filled with extreme excitement; ever since he discovered Lin Yan, he had already prepared everything in advance.

A hunter never chases prey.

A true hunter makes the prey walk into the trap themselves.

And now—the net had tightened.

The ground beneath Lin Yan's feet suddenly collapsed, and the soil within a radius of several dozen meters cracked open.

Lin Yan's body sank, and black chains shot out from within the soil, instantly wrapping around his limbs.

[Binding Trap] A one-time-use item specifically designed to restrict large targets.

Lin Yan swept his battle axe horizontally.

Bang, bang, bang! The chains were all snapped.

But the next second, boom!

An ancient tree in the distance suddenly exploded, and a large number of sharp wooden spikes covered the area.

Lin Yan raised his arm to block, and the wooden spikes shattered.

Subsequently, these trap mechanisms triggered continuously like dominoes.

Lin Yan moved and dodged the whole way, but dense white marks were still left on his tyrant armor.

These trap mechanisms didn't deal much damage, but they were exceptionally annoying.

...

A voice came from the forest.

"Not bad."

"Your reaction is faster than I imagined."

Gu Cangshou appeared again above the treetops.

"Lin Yan."

"One hundred thousand points."

"A bounty of 7,500."

"Although the points aren't much, I am very interested in you as prey."

"I hope you can let me enjoy the thrill of the hunt!"

He laughed.

Lin Yan didn't waste words and charged directly with his axe.

Boom! The ground cracked, and his physical strength erupted instantly.

But the next second, Gu Cangshou's figure drifted lightly dozens of meters backward, his speed ridiculously fast, completely unaffected by the 10x Gravity.

Lin Yan's eyes narrowed slightly; the opponent had a means to be immune to gravity.

Meanwhile, Gu Cangshou had already reached a conclusion.

"Strength: 95 points."

"Defense: full marks."

"Health: full marks."

"Mobility."

He grinned.

"20 points."

Boom! He vanished instantly and began moving at high speed around Lin Yan.

One trap after another was triggered.

Poison mist.

Explosive talismans.

Binding nets.

Freezing nails.

Slowing mud puddles.

Although the damage wasn't high, within the healing-prohibited domain, every bit of damage would be permanently retained.

Gu Cangshou didn't fight him head-on at all; he was purely kiting him.

Lin Yan had already crushed over a dozen traps in a row, pushing forward while enduring all the damage.

His health was dropping crazily.

280,000.

270,000.

250,000.

...

This was the first time he had lost health this quickly since entering the Dungeon.

And Gu Cangshou was almost completely unscathed; he was trembling with excitement.

"Yes!"

"That's it!"

"Bleed!"

"Struggle!"

"Prey should look like prey!"

Seeing Lin Yan trapped by a trap, Gu Cangshou laughed mockingly from a distance:

"Do you know why I like hunting Contestants?"

"Because grinding monsters is too slow; after working hard for half a day, you only get a few thousand points."

"But you geniuses will grind for me, explore resources for me, and accumulate bounties for me."

"In the end—"

He spread his arms, his expression intoxicated.

"I just need to harvest."

"How easy."

Lin Yan dragged the trap and cleaved a few incoming trap bombs with his axe, then said.

"So you targeted me."

"That's right. To be able to fight Li Qingxiao."

"Prey like you is not often seen."

Gu Cangshou became more and more excited as he fought; he realized his judgment was completely correct.

Lin Yan was ridiculously strong, but too clumsy, with no displacement, no ranged attacks, and unable to catch him.

As long as he kept dragging it out, the prey would bleed to death sooner or later!

After another explosion.

Gu Cangshou stood on a distant treetop, clapping lightly.

"It's over. Your shortcomings are too obvious."

"If there are no accidents, you will die here today."

Lin Yan didn't speak, just slowly looked up, his eyes locking onto him for the first time.

Gu Cangshou's heart suddenly skipped a beat, he didn't know why.

He always felt that the opponent seemed to have been waiting for something.

---

Gu Cangshou didn't know.

Lin Yan had actually been observing the whole time.

Observing his movement routes.

Observing his habits.

Observing his trap layout.

A hunter is most terrifying not when they strike, but when they are hidden.

Once exposed, they become the prey.

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After half an hour of pursuit, Lin Yan had discovered the pattern.

Gu Cangshou was very fast, but every time after setting a trap, he would subconsciously return to the same direction; that was an extremely complex ancient forest area.

Clearly, that was his home turf.

And at this moment, Gu Cangshou was preparing to close the net.

He deliberately exposed a flaw and retreated toward that area, guiding Lin Yan to pursue.

He had absolute confidence that as long as he entered his own hunting ground, even if Li Qingxiao came, he would have to lose a layer of skin.

Sure enough, Lin Yan chased after him.

The smile on Gu Cangshou's face grew thicker.

"Hooked."

The next second.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Continuous explosions rang through the dense forest, and dozens more traps activated simultaneously.

The entire area seemed to turn into a death maze.

However, just then.

Boom!!!

Lin Yan suddenly cleaved his axe toward the ground, the earth cracked, and dozens of ancient trees collapsed simultaneously.

The entire structure of the hunting ground was instantly destroyed.

Gu Cangshou's expression changed.

"Bad!"

Only at this moment did he finally understand that Lin Yan had never intended to solve the traps.

Instead, he was prepared to directly dismantle the hunting ground.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Lin Yan was like a humanoid Tyrannosaurus.

He pushed forward horizontally, trees collapsed in pieces, the ground cracked crazily, and a large number of hidden traps were exposed in advance.

Gu Cangshou panicked for the first time, because he discovered that his greatest advantage was disappearing.

He dashed forward instantly, preparing to increase the distance.

But at this very moment, Lin Yan suddenly grabbed an ancient tree, over ten meters wide, that he had chopped down.

He threw it violently.

Boom!!!

The ancient tree was like a siege spear, tearing through the air.

Gu Cangshou dodged it by a hair's breadth, but his body finally paused.

He subconsciously wanted to retreat in one direction, but remembered that the mechanisms there seemed to have been destroyed by Lin Yan, and he didn't know if they would suddenly take effect.

Thus, the hunter was surrounded by his own traps!

"Damn it!"

A mere second of hesitation.

That was enough.

Lin Yan had already used the Agility Boost Scroll and Burst Scroll, his feet crushed the ground, his whole body turned into a cannonball, and he charged, closing the distance instantly.

Twenty meters.

Fifteen meters.

Ten meters.

Gu Cangshou's pupils contracted, and for the first time, he felt death.

"No—"

Boom!

[Rage of the Barbarian King 50 stacks, gain 50% damage reduction, 50% damage bonus.]

[Tyrant Cleave]

The battle axe fell, and the space vibrated.

The fur cloak along with half of his body shattered simultaneously, and Gu Cangshou spat blood crazily as he flew backward.

He still wanted to escape, but Lin Yan had already arrived.

The second axe.

It fell with a boom.

Boom!!!

The ground exploded into a huge pit, and Gu Cangshou was smashed into the soil.

His bones were shattered throughout his body, and his health points were cleared.

[Successfully defeated the Awakened Contestant!]

[Obtained 1,500 base combat points, seized 10% of the opponent's existing 14,000 points! Fully transferred the opponent's 100,000 bounty points!]

[Current accumulated points: 140,000]

[Current bounty points: 110,000]

[Current Dungeon ranking: 2,200th]

One hundred thousand bounty!

Obtained directly!

Lin Yan looked down at the spot where Gu Cangshou had disappeared, his expression calm.

Gu Cangshou was very strong, even one of the most dangerous opponents; if it weren't for the fact that the opponent relied too much on the hunting ground, this battle might have been even more troublesome.

Just then, in the distant sky.

That golden pillar of light suddenly erupted!

[Remaining maturity time: 1 hour.]

Lin Yan slowly looked up, gazing at the pillar of light, and hoisted his battle axe onto his shoulder.

The next target, the golden spirit fruit.