After seeing her, Zerom also saw Monnie.
Only Monnie seemed hurt, lying flat on the sand with a bandage around her left s.h.i.+n.
On the pure white bandage, there was a slight blush.
Lara was right next to Monnie, the animal nuzzling her with its body.
Perhaps because it was too dry, Zero licked his lips.
Then, his face changed and the faint taste of rust came from his lips. He knew very well that it was blood, and human blood at that.
Then, as if there were something left in the wall of his mouth, he stirred it with his tongue and touched a piece of meat with the tip of it.
It was just a simple contact, but there was a huge amount of data flowing into his mind.
Thus, he knew that like blood, this piece of flesh came from the human body"s tissue.
Looking at Monnie"s injured left leg, Zero seemed to know something.
A few meters away, she could feel the heat radiating from her body.
The hot air even wrapped around him and rotated him slightly, causing his black hair to flutter gently.
At this moment, there was not even a breath of wind on the G.o.d of Death"s Ridge.
After a while, the air current and heat wave finally disappeared.
Rala looked at Monnie for a moment before flapping her fat wings and flying to Zero"s shoulder.
Zero leaned down and brought himself close to Monnie"s face.
He leaned into Monnie"s ear and moved his lips slightly.
No one knew what he said.
At night, Monnie woke up.
Because of the blood loss, her pale face added a hint of blood to the bonfire.
After eating the mutated rabbit meat that Aisha had roasted, a smile appeared on Mony"s face.
With some energy, Monnie began to speak, praising her for her skill, and making a bad joke or two from the drinkers of Rouleville.
Occasionally he would interject a sentence or two, but most of the time he was as quiet as she was.
After settling a piece of breast meat, Zero said that he had eaten his fill.
The three of them seemed to have some sort of tacit understanding. No one mentioned the injuries of Lingcun and Monnie, as if it was a wound that they did not want to touch.
Although this wound will always scar later on, it will never disappear.
"After resting for 10 minutes, we will continue on our way. We"ve already left too much time behind, so we need to hurry up."
Zero said.
"I"m fine, but you two?"
"I"ve almost recovered, even if I have to fight someone now, there shouldn"t be a problem."
Zero knew his body very well, and he would not force himself to do anything beyond his limits unless it was necessary.
Now that he was on the road, and he still had some time to rest before he got to the downstream area, he would be able to adjust to his best condition before the Parkland killer showed up.
Monnie also raised her hand. "I"m fine, but I might need a cane."
Aisha didn"t even raise her head as she said, "There"s no need. It"s better if I carry you on my back. It"s faster this way."
Thus, the matter was decided. After he had eaten and drank his fill, the rest of the rabbit meat was carefully preserved by Atessa.
Mutated beasts with this type of herbivorous nature were rare, and even Atatha, who had grown up in the G.o.d of Death"s Ridge, had not seen many in a year.
The meat of the herbivores was delicious, a rare delicacy.
Of course, she wouldn"t waste it. Although there were a lot of mutated beasts on the G.o.d of Death"s Ridge, there were only a few that she could eat.
If he ate the leftover rabbit meat sparingly, he would be able to hold on for another two days.
After cleaning up their luggage and the traces of the bonfire, the three of them started on their way.
The soil was already damp from the proximity of the Rama.s.son River, where the roots of the various plants, which had been misshapen and tangled deep underground, demanded water from the Rama.s.son River.
When the plants had absorbed enough water, the excess would be drained out, and the water made the dry ground slightly moist.
The three of them walked through the wetland at the foot of the hill, directly into the woods, and then came to the river.
But they dared not come too close. There was no more cover on the beach, only the occasional clump of shrubs at the edge of the unsteady riverbed.
In fact, the Lamarson River is not a good place for plants to grow, and the giant toothfish will sharpen their teeth with these plants, while the triangular jaws will rub their huge bodies against the plants in order to grind away the dirt on their bodies.
Even the mutated plants in the Ramathon River had been shunned, not to mention the ordinary trees.
Therefore, within ten meters of the Ramason River, there was hardly a single decent plant.
Instead, giant toothfish flocked out of the water, and trigonous jaws clashed in the water.
They tried to stay close to the sh.o.r.e, but chose to move along the edge of the forest. By the time it was close to dawn, they had already reached the downstream area.
The river in this area was at least a thousand meters wide. The rus.h.i.+ng water from the upper reaches of the river came cras.h.i.+ng down on the tall and sharp reefs, creating a loud rumbling sound.
From time to time, waves ten meters high would shoot up into the air, then wet the sand within a hundred meters of the riverbank.
At this point, there were no mutated beasts around. Neither the crocodile nor the giant tooth fish would approach this part of the water.
The reason was that there was a huge crack that led to the Death G.o.d"s Ridge.
The waters of the Rama.s.son would flow like a waterfall down into the bottomless abyss a kilometer below, and then across the land into the endless, polluted sea beyond the coast.
It was not without reason that Zero chose this place as his sniper position. First of all, the geography here was very complicated, not to mention the vast forest behind the riverbank, even the disordered boulders over ten meters were natural camouflage, and second, the unceasing impact of the river water would cause a loud noise throughout the day. The sound of the waves would interfere with Parkland"s judgement and provide a perfect cover for a sniper.
The plan for Zero was simple. First, he would have her ambush at a corner and fight the a.s.sa.s.sin when he appeared. As for Zero, he would choose a high ground to take the initiative to snipe him.
This was exactly what a.s.sa.s.sins did when they were in Phoenix City. They used fighting domain espers to wrap their prey in close range and then used sniper segments to find a chance to kill them in one hit.
This method was not suitable to deal with multiple prey, but if the other party was alone, he would often have miraculous effects.
Especially if the other party did not know that he had no help from her, his chances of success would be very high.
However, to everyone"s surprise, Parkland"s a.s.sa.s.sins did not appear within their expectations.
It was not until the second day after reaching the lower reaches of the river that she saw, in the distance, an almost splintered raft drifting in from the far side of the Lamarsson River, moving closer to the sh.o.r.e under the control of a man on the raft.
The prey had finally arrived!