Chapter 182 Winner!
After Su Li returned the clothes to the youngster who was stunned in the gra.s.s, she followed the trace of the tactical matrix and found a flaw which was set by Fang Yuan, herself and others.
The big tactical matrix could not be perfect. The Northwest Hunting Ground covered an area of hundreds of thousands of hectares. Because the area was large, and the hunting ground hadn’t been repaired for years, the tactical matrix naturally had many weaknesses.
Those who didn’t know the tactical matrix well couldn’t deal with these weaknesses. However, someone who was proficient in the tactical matrix could open an entrance in a short of time by taking advantage of the weaknesses.
In the previous life, Su Li had studied the tactical matrix for a period of time and been taught by a famous teacher. In terms of the tactical matrix, although she was not extremely miraculous, she could be the master. She didn’t have to open an entrance and could go out with her own power!
In the wasteland outside the city, Fang Yuan and Qu Qingning were practicing and waiting in peace. Yin Xuetong took charge of the business of the Linli Building. Recently, the business of the Linli Building was a little better. They recruited a few temporary waiters. After the first group of trainees trained in the secluded site finished the training, the manpower would be enough.
“Terrible weather! It was sunny just now, but it is raining now.”
Qu Qingning licked his lips and opened a water bag.
Fang Yuan slowly opened his eyes and looked at the tactical matrix barrier that he could not see but could touch.
Although he didn’t worry about Su Li, Su Li might need help in the hunting ground. Therefore, they made an agreement that Fang Yuan cooperated with Su Li outside the tactical matrix. Fang Yuan knew for the first time that it was not impossible to get in the Northwest Hunting Ground, and that Su Li’s achievements in the tactical matrix were remarkable.
At this time, the nothingness in front of the crowd was rippling. Then, Su Li came out with eight corpses. Three skulls of the corpses were hung on her waist. It was really horrible!
“Puff…”
Qu Qingning was taking a water bag to drink. When he saw Su Li, he instantly spat out water everywhere.
“Su Li, you…”
Fang Yuan stood up and looked serious. Su Li put the corpses in front of them and quickly said, “Take them back. I need them. You can talk with me when I come back.”
Then Su Li entered the tactical matrix quickly.
Fang Yuan came to investigate and found that the corpses’ bodies were still warm. They were fresh ones, and the inborn realm breath still existed. These people were all warriors of the inborn realm!
“Wow! Eight warriors of the inborn realm. When did the warriors of the inborn realm become so worthless?”
Qu Qingning sighed. He really felt that he couldn’t keep pace with Su Li in terms of cultivation. He had to work harder to practice!
…
However, when Su Li came back to the hunting ground, she hunted some preys feignedly and went back to the high platform following the trace of Ling Ping. She took a lot of time to find the flaws of the tactical matrix. The Autumn Hunting Contest was coming to an end. Therefore, Su Li didn’t have much time to talk to Fang Yuan and left quickly just now.
Eunuch Feng and his trusted subordinates were counting the casualties and beast ears. These eunuchs were not ordinary obviously. They all were experienced. When they saw those whose legs or arms were broken and corpses, they were all calm.
The eunuchs felt strange that Su Li threw out a pair of rabbit and deer ears. She met them along the road and killed them conveniently. She only had few preys.
“She only had few preys. Did she go autumn outing in the three days?”
People around her couldn’t help but whisper. They looked at their preys and all had the sense of superiority inside. They thought that no matter how mediocre they were, they were better than Su Li.
“Hey, isn’t she Su Li?” Finally, someone recognized Su Li. The voice made lots of people see her. The seats for counting immediately became crowded.
“Where is she?”
“Let me see. Don’t pus.h.!.+”
A group of people rushed to the seats. However, they still didn’t see Su Li who left from a specific pa.s.sage. After the first person heard the comments, he couldn’t help but sneer and say, “Su Li is kind and will not do something merciless. Why couldn’t she come for an autumn outing? She is the apprentice of the miracle-working doctor Qi Xianqing and not short of practice methods and weapons. The reward of the contest is useless to her!”
“Her cultivation has reached the acquired eighth hurdle at a young age. It is higher than that of ours. We can’t compete with her. All of you are so ignorant. How can you laugh at Miss Su Li?”
“Right!”
“Shame on you!”
Lots of people supported Su Li. Those who laughed at Su Li were speechless and ashamed.
Su Li didn’t hear those words. Even if she heard, she would not care about them. She had already stopped squabbling with others. It was useless.
“Miss Su came back!”
Fatty Tang stood up happily and greeted Su Li. When he saw Su Li’s clothes were neat without blood, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Miss Su, it’s great that you are all right!”
After Tang Lei got along well with Su Li for a long time in the Affiliated School, he was less afraid of Su Li, and they became closer. He called Su Li “Miss Su” instead of “Lecturer Su”.
Su Li smiled and nodded, “I went to enjoy the scenery. Therefore, I would not meet any danger.”
After giving a salute to Ms. Gu and Qiu Meng, Su Li resumed her seat and found Ling Ping, Ling Qinglan and the puzzled young man whose clothes were taken away in the crowd.
Su Li sighed secretly. It was just because that he was near to Su Li and wore cyan clothes. Su Li sent him some beast ears which were the consolation to him.
“Master Wu came back!”
“General Ling Ping came back!”
“…”
When the two major characters appeared, the audience were instantly silent. Even those who were counting the beast ears stepped aside voluntarily. The s.p.a.ce in front of the counting seats was vacated. Wu Jin stood on one side and Ling Ping and Ling Qinglan were on the other side.
The atmosphere was tense instantly. Mrs. Gu frowned and looked at the s.p.a.ce. She didn’t worry that Ling Ping would not win the first prize with his ability. However, there were lots of vile characters in the Wu Family. They might play tricks on Ling Ping. If Ping couldn’t deal with them, he would fail.
“Ha-ha, what a coincidence! Did Second Brother Ling just come back?”
Wu Jin smiled. It seemed that he had forgotten what happened in the waterside pavilion in the south of the town.
“Coincidence? Master Wu, you may read too many books, and your brain is not good. The autumn hunting was over. Should I wander outside instead of coming back?”
Ling Ping laughed at him and disregarded his feelings.
Nonetheless, Wu Jin was calm and waved his hand. He said, “Of course not. Your temper is so bad.”
At this time, Ling Qinglan sat on the ground casually. He saw the performance of Wu Jin with great interest. “Mr. Li” sent them a sack of preys, so they didn’t worry about the result of the autumn hunting.
Ling Li saw Ling Qinglan sit on the ground suddenly and frowned instantly. It seemed that Ling Qinglan was tired. Did his ice toxin show its effect? Or did something happen… these days?
There was blood on clothes of Wu Jin, Ling Ping and Ling Qinglan. It was difficult to distinguish whether it was human blood or animal blood. Although the Yinmo Cult had lots of undercover agents, they didn’t have some in the Royal Guards. Ling Li didn’t know what happened in the hunting ground.
Ling Qinglan sat down to watch their acting. Wu Jin immediately stopped smiling. Both Wu Jin and Ling Qinglan were princes’ brainpower. For this reason, Wu Jin was fed up with Ling Qinglan. He didn’t hate Ling Ping to such an extent!
Ling Ping moved and blocked Wu Jin’s sight. He sneered, “My temper is bad because I saw someone who was hateful. You are so confident. It seems that you think that you can win the first place in the Autumn Hunting Contest.”
“I really don’t deserve this. My cultivation is inferior to yours. But I am lucky.”
Wu Jin walked to the front of the high platform with his sack. Many beast ears were poured out. All the eunuchs were amazed. All the audience were in an uproar.
“So many preys! There are so many beast ears and scales of seven cun of big snakes!”
Someone couldn’t help but take a deep breath to say. He had much more beast ears than those of others. How did Wu Jin get so many preys within three days?
The eunuchs quickly began to count and then announced, “Eighteen pairs of big beast ears! Eighty-three pairs of medium beast ears! Seventy-seven pairs of small beast ears! A total of one hundred and seventy-eight pairs!”
“He got nearly two hundred pairs, which are close to seventy percent of beasts in the hunting ground. How can it be possible?!” All the audience exclaimed and looked at Wu Jin with doubts.
It was really unbelievable that one person got seventy percent of beasts in the hunting ground.
Wu Jin glanced at Ling Ping, who was expressionless. He shrugged his shoulders and said,
“Second Brother Ling, I was lucky. I picked up a sack of beast ears accidentally in the forest. Although it is unfair to you, the rules of the Autumn Hunting Contest say that the beast ears with big tactical matrix brand are all approved. Eunuch Feng, I didn’t break the rules, right?
Eunuch Feng stood out and replied with a smile, “Of course, you are right.”
When the princes who had returned to the high platform and changed their clothes saw the scene, their expressions were different. The First Prince Dongfang Sheng and the Third Prince Dongfang Lang raised their eyebrows simultaneously. Wu Jin actually had this ability. He could even cheat in the Autumn Hunting Contest. What’s more, Eunuch Feng couldn’t refute him for a reason.
The Fifth Prince Dongfang Yang smiled. It seemed that he didn’t care about Wu Jin. What’s more, the Seventh Prince Dongfang Wuxue… had slept on his seat.
Clap-clap-clap!!
Just when Wu Jin thought that he was the winner, Ling Ping clapped his hand suddenly and said with a smile, “You were so lucky. You could find so many beast ears. However, I was lucky too. Do you think we can compete with each other?”
Ling Ping picked up his sack in one hand while he was speaking, and all the preys were poured out on the ground. It seemed that Ling Ping’s preys were no less than those of Wu Jin.
All the audience exclaimed and looked at Wu Jin strangely. The total preys they got were more than the number of beasts kept in the hunting ground. It was obvious that one of them cheated in the contest.
On the surface, the cultivation of Ling Ping was higher than that of Wu Jin. The audience naturally thought that Wu Jin cheated!
And so it was!
Wu Jin became pale. He had prepared almost half a year to ask the tactical matrix master to simulate the big tactical matrix brand. He had asked servants to bury the preys in a specific location on the previous day. But he did not expect that Ling Ping could get so many beast ears!
How could that be?!
Previously, there were no more than one hundred and fifty pairs at most. What method did Ling Ping use to hunt the beast ears?
He would not believe that Ling Ping would cheat like him because all the people in the Ling Family were decent. What’s more, the Ling Family didn’t know any tactical matrix master. There was only one possibility. Ling Ping got the preys by killing one by one!
Then, the problem came back again.
When Wu Jin was puzzled, the eunuch finally announced the hunting result of Ling Ping. “Thirty-eight pairs of big beast ears! One hundred and twenty pairs of medium beast ears! Forty-five pairs of small beast ears! A total of… two hundred and three pairs!”
Boom!!
The crowd burst into cheers, and some people even shouted, “General Ling was invincible.” The exclamations were like waves covering the whole hunting ground. Wu Jin was gloomy and finally left from the specific pa.s.sage. He was just like an injured wolf that hid itself to lick its wounds alone.
Eunuch Feng managed to stop the exclamations and went to the high platform to announce the result. He said, “There is no doubt that the winner of this Autumn Hunting Contest is General Ling! Three days later, the Baishou Feast for General Ling Ping would be held in the Shenwu Square of Yunjing. Please attend the feast on time!”
Ling Ping stood on the high platform. He took three rewards and raised them.
“Hurrah!!”
The hunting ground was full of louder exclamations. The young talents were full of pa.s.sion and were not weaker than the young talents before. The Dahan Country was still strong!