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The black-clad youth skidded to a sudden stop.
This was the end of the road.
At that moment, the sun rose in the east. The first light broke over the water, and the imperial nectar still clinging to leaves and needles instantly vaporized. It vanished without so much as a hiss, dissolving back into heaven and earth.
The night of twists and danger was finally over.
And with daylight came the clear verdict that his pursuit had failed.
The black-clad youth stood on the shore for a long while, staring blankly. Then he stretched, like someone shaking off an annoyance.
“Fine, fine.”
It seems that I must admit that this prey was simply too slippery. He threw his ragged outer clothes into the burrow of two boar monsters to mislead the chase, buying him the most precious several deciding minutes.
Hah, he even had the leisure to dig a pit and plant an explosive trap on the one obvious path through.
He Lingchuan still had a few jars of black powder in his storage ring, and he had rigged a quick little trap. He also had small hand-tossed firecrackers that exploded when you slammed them on the ground, and these made perfect makeshift fuses.
The moment the black-clad youth stepped on one, the trap set off.
Once He Lingchuan dove into the lake, the youth truly had no answer. Now the sun...
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