The Divine Hunter Chapter 5: Insect Corpse


In the afternoon, while everyone was having a meal and resting, the demon hunter called Roy, and the two of them found an excuse to temporarily leave the convoy and got into the bushes beside the road.

"Do you smell..."

Roy nodded.

The convoy carrying a large amount of goods left Shire Village for less than half a day. Before they had gone far, an unusual smell of blood wafted from the side of the road.

"Not human, with the smell of insect biological pheromones."

Leso activated his witcher senses and walked across several crooked-neck trees for about five minutes in search of scent particles. He uncovered a clump of alfalfa and suddenly stopped.

"Hiss——" Roy couldn't help but gasped when he looked at the scene in front of him - surrounded by waist-deep bushes, more than a dozen corpses were piled into a hill, with a faint stench and blood. The smell continued to spread around.

Looking from a distance, they are all grey-brown, like spider-like arthropods enlarged hundreds of times.

The temperature in winter is not high, and the corpses still look particularly fresh.

Roy and Leisuo did not approach in a hurry. Instead, they took up their weapons and moved over slowly, keeping vigilance. Then Leisuo used an Alder sign to blow the hill-like body to and fro, confirming The monsters in front of me have lost their attack power.

"How come there are so many monster corpses in the wilderness? They are gathered together. This does not seem like the behavior of unintelligent monsters and beasts."

At Leisuo's signal, Roy squatted down and began to examine a nearby corpse.

The corpse was almost as high as a human knee.

“The spindle-shaped body is covered with down... and four chitin carapace... There is no obvious dividing line between the chest and abdomen... There are four jointed limbs growing on both sides... The head is so small that it is almost invisible. Facial features..."

"Andraeger?" The demon hunter said tentatively from the side,

Roy shook his head, "Want to mislead me? This guy doesn't have the iconic scorpion tail and chelicerae. He is clearly Qiqimo..."

Anderegg and Qiqimo are both insect-like creatures created after the celestial sphere converged. They usually live in groups in the wild and attack other beasts and even passing humans.

Also dangerous for witchers.

As he spoke, Roy turned over the small bucket in front of him again. Different from the back covered with thick gray soft armor, the belly under Qiqi Mo's body was soft and light yellow, making him appear extremely fragile.

"The fatal injury... was on the abdomen, half of the body was torn apart by sharp weapons or... claws." The smelly, green organs were all over the floor, and four insect legs were covered with mud.

"You can almost imagine its violent struggle before death."

Roy stretched out his hand to touch the edge of the wound on Qi Qimo's stomach without disdain, with a solemn look in his eyes.

He changed the body and continued his inspection.

"The hard back carapace is covered with claw marks, and the body has multiple sprains... It can be determined that the murderer's strength is extremely amazing... almost tearing it in half."

"Several head-sized holes were opened in the abdomen. The shape of the wounds is similar to the bite marks of some kind of wild beast. The center of the bite marks is relatively flat, but there are jagged lacerations on the edges... It should be caused by canine teeth."

"Huh? There's still one that's not completely dead. Insects are really tenacious."

"Pfft——"

"Kill Qiqimo, experience value +30."

"Yes, there are only two magical creatures missing."

Roy withdrew the arrow stained with green blood from the monster's petite brain, pulled off a handful of weeds stained with light dew, and wiped his hands clean.

"Have you reached a conclusion?" The demon hunter said with an investigative look on his face.

"There are thirteen corpses in total, which is almost the standard number for a Qiqimo clan. In other words, the murderer directly wiped out a whole family of Qiqimos." Roy frowned, his face full of fear. "It has claws as sharp as daggers and four deadly canines..."

"Is it possible that it's a leopard, a wild dog, or a small mist demon?" The demon hunter asked and investigated,

"Leopards and wild dogs don't have that much strength to tear Qiqimo apart so cleanly, but the characteristics of the little mist demon's teeth don't match, and besides -"

Roy's eyes scanned the flat ground covered with corpses and green blood,

"My intuition tells me that there is only one murderer! This open space is obviously not the first scene. It is covered with weeds and there are almost no suspicious footprints."

The demon hunter did not ask him any more about the murderer's situation, "According to your statement, you can kill a Qiqimo tribe by yourself. The combat capability is definitely not inferior to that of the demon hunters in their heyday... Do you want to continue?"

Roy hesitated, "I'm afraid we can't help it. The slow-moving convoy may be attacked by this monster at any time, and we will also suffer. The investigation must continue, at least to find out what that thing is. Be prepared for specific situations."

After saying that, Roy knelt down on one knee and put his index and middle fingers together to pick up a handful of weeds stained with suspicious blood. Not the green of Zichimo, but the bright red blood of a mammal.

"I have to go back and say hello to Aaron first so that they won't be impatient. Let's leave the tracking of blood traces to professional demon hunters."

……

After separating from Roy, the witcher dragged his injured leg and limped along the way he came with a cane for about five minutes, and arrived at the source of the smelly blood stain.

On a piece of sand surrounded by a few bare tung trees, there were messy footprints and pits of varying depths everywhere.

Among Qi Qimo’s round-hole-shaped and chaotic footprints, several huge footprints with three toes are extremely eye-catching.

There are also some unique-looking things in the center of the sand - fist-sized balls, compactly packed into a pile like frog eggs~IndoMTL.com~The whole body is green with some black and red blood vessel-like scratches.

But now, they were brutally broken open and leaked out piles of sticky amniotic fluid, as well as shapeless Qichimo larvae.

"Tsk, tsk, kill them all without leaving any trouble." Lei Suo rubbed a crooked tung tree nearby, just on the bark of the tung tree. It is not known whether the murderer intentionally or unintentionally left the A row of neat and eye-catching claw marks.

Leso's eyes lit up.

……

When the demon hunter returned to the convoy, everyone in Sea Scorpion was already a little impatient, and Aaron came over to negotiate.

"Master, please don't wait for such a long time next time when you go out for a walk. After all, everyone is waiting. One more thing, originally, both of you have rich experience in wild survival. I don't need to say more, but I I feel the need to remind you, just do it during the day and never leave the camp at night."

After receiving repeated assurances from the two of them, Aaron left with peace of mind.

"How was it, how was the harvest?"

"After you left, I went back to the corpse site to check it out and found some interesting things." The witcher stared into the distance, which was the direction back to the Shire Village.

"Qi Qimo's lair is not far from Shire Village, and there are traces of frequent activity between the two places."

Roy groaned, "What do you mean?"

"Those dead Qiqimo still had undigested poultry bones in their stomachs. In addition, I found a piece of damaged human clothing."

The young man's expression changed, "So, the village chief's previous guess was wrong! The ones harassing the Shire Village were not the little leprechauns, but these Qiqimos."

Then his face was full of doubts, "The murderer killed these Qiqimo, but he was doing harm to the people? This is so unreasonable."


Leave a Reply