Universe Infinite Canteen

The Giant Curtain's city wall was 16 meters high, and with the vast dome, the highest point was even over 20 meters from the ground. Furthermore, the width was also astonishing. Discover stories with m,v l'e-NovelBin.net

Ma Lu roughly estimated and felt that two MPVs could run side by side on top of it.

The reason for building it so thick was to defend against attacks from some of the gigantic beasts.

The desert was full of dangers, and although the large prey near the Giant Curtain had mostly been hunted by various Hunting Groups, occasionally some would slip through the net.

But this time, the beasts from the desert were emerging en masse, not just a few strays.

At this time, quite a few hunters had gathered on the city wall, observing the situation outside the city, including Wei Cha, the leader of the Flame Fang Hunting Group, whom they had just met before.

Wei Cha was also surprised to see Ma Lu and Boggy, seemingly not expecting that after just fighting their way out of the beast horde, they hadn't gone back to recover and catch their breath, but had instead come directly to the front lines.

He couldn't help but regard the two young men more highly once more, especially Ma Lu, who Wei Cha found more and more to his liking.

But since Wei Cha had already been warned by Boggy once before about recruiting Ma Lu, it wasn't appropriate to poach in front of Boggy now, so he could only nod at the two as a greeting.

And Ma Lu was already itching to take out his hand crossbow.

He went to the edge of the wall and peeked down.

What his gaze met was a sea of beasts. A group of Short-Eared Link Hedgehogs noticed him and immediately quivered their bodies, sending out dozens of thorns with a swoosh.

But with Ma Lu's current reaction boost of 379%, he immediately retracted his head as soon as the hedgehogs poised their backsides, and those thorns ended up embedded in the concrete wall.

Ma Lu's retaliation came swiftly. As soon as they finished shooting, he cast a [Pain Link] and then retaliated with his hand crossbow.

This arrow did not trigger a [Headshot], but since there were sufficiently many Short-Eared Link Hedgehogs below, it still hit one of the little creatures.

The wound itself was not serious, merely a grazed skin, but immediately after that, the hedgehog was engulfed in flames and fell into states of severe injury, bleeding, poisoning, and slow motion.

There was no helping it; this time, Ma Lu's golden and purple blessings were not numerous, but his white blessings were maxed out, and they were almost all +10 enhancements.

With a single arrow shot, he himself didn't even know how many effects it carried.

In no time, the Short-Eared Link Hedgehog succumbed to the continuous bleeding and poisoning.

Then, the effects of [Explosive Arrow] were successfully triggered.

The area within a three-meter diameter around the corpse experienced a small-scale explosion.

This explosion directly took out the nearby Short-Eared Link Hedgehogs; the [Pain Link] hadn't even had a chance to take effect.

When Ma Lu peeked down again, there were no more annoying hedgehogs shooting thorns at him.

Very good, it seemed the power was quite satisfactory!

[Explosive Arrow] was simply a godsend when dealing with small, thin-skinned creatures.

The only pity was that the dead Short-Eared Link Hedgehogs couldn't be recovered. Although Ma Lu didn't set his sights high on these 1-star and 2-star ingredients now, even a mosquito was flesh.

Even if he didn't take them back, they could still be exchanged for some money in the local market.

It was a shame that he could only watch helplessly as those dead Short-Eared Link Hedgehogs were devoured by other beasts while standing on the city wall.

Ma Lu glanced around and noticed that most people's attention was fixed on the large wild beasts, discussing the possibility of hunting them down, with no one paying mind to the Short-Eared Lync Hedgehogs that had died abruptly nearby.

Then he shot a few more arrows, further testing the power of the Blessings on his body.

Now, his attack was hard to categorize in any single style; it felt like he was a patchwork monster, sewing together everything he could.

The good news was that with each shot of an arrow, there were always Blessings that activated, and in considerable numbers at that. The bad news was that there could be some conflict between one Blessing and another.

But that was inevitable, after all, he had chosen option C for all of them, so a bug cropping up afterward was within expectations.

However, it wasn't a big issue. As long as there were enough Blessings, a little conflict didn't really matter.

Ma Lu was no longer satisfied with just those lowly ingredients; he set his sights afar, planning to look for some truly fearsome game.

Then his eyes went blind.

As it turned out, constantly avoiding looking at the sun was somewhat challenging, especially when you were standing high enough and looking in all directions.

Fortunately, Ma Lu knew that the blindness would only last ten seconds, and besides, he was currently in a safe area. After meditating with his eyes closed for a short while, his vision returned to normal.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw Boggy staring intently in a certain direction, with a grave expression.

"What's wrong?"

"It's Sanrew, he's here too."

Ma Lu followed Boggy's gaze and saw a figure.

At first glance, there was nothing particularly noteworthy.

Unlike the leaders of the dark forces with ferocious faces that Ma Lu remembered, Sanrew seemed very quiet.

He was neither tall nor short, with a very ordinary square face, a cleanly shaven beard, and clean fingernails without any filth, all details indicative of a man who took personal hygiene seriously.

Besides these, there was nothing else particularly memorable about him, and as a leader, he didn't possess the imposing bulk of Wei Cha.

If Jinjian was like a sly fox, then Sanrew gave the impression of being a stone.

You couldn't tell what he was thinking or predict his next move.

At that moment, Sanrew was listening to a portly man speaking. Presumably feeling Boggy and Ma Lu's gaze upon him, he also lifted his head to look this way the next second.

Their eyes met, but Ma Lu couldn't discern any emotion in those black pupils.

Sanrew turned his head, said something to the man who looked like an official, and then began walking towards them.

"Boggy, Ma Lu," Sanrew spoke first, "I have heard of your names. Your Hunting Group has become quite famous in the Giant Curtain recently."

"No, Chief Sanrew, it's your Black Horn that's truly renowned by everyone."

Perhaps detecting a hint of sarcasm in Boggy's words, Sanrew seemed unfazed as he responded.

"Do you think those hunting groups will abide by the law and live harmoniously beyond the city walls without Black Horn? Didn't you also encounter robbers not so long ago? In the end, isn't it still about who has the mightier fist in this desert?"

Sanrew then pointed towards the beast herd outside the city, "Now is the time for us to compete with them, to see who has the stronger fist. The winners have the right to survive. You see, survival has never been about justice."