Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf

"I was really happy, but now that I think about it, the Doctor was much happier than me! And she had so many people to play with, even Lin went! He's usually the Death Star if he didn't do a mission, but he went to the island with the Doctor."

Erwin chuckled dryly, "I think Lieutenant Lin was just fooled by the captain..."

"What are they doing now? Could they be... building sandcastles?"

"Could they... really be so lacking in ambition?"

"Starting today, we'll take turns on night duty. We don't know the characteristics of that Honkai Beast yet, but it shouldn't be an ordinary Honkai Beast." Lin set up some simple tripwires around them and said to Sakura, whose face was bright and cheerful, by the campfire, "You didn't get enough rest yesterday, so I'll go on night duty first."

"All right."

Sakura watched as Lin nimbly leaped to the top of a nearby tree and gazed into the distance. He was probably observing the movements of the birds roosting in the woods to determine if any creatures were nearby.

She hadn't rested well, and this was something that couldn't be taken lightly. She leaned against a tree, closed her eyes, and began to rest.

After confirming that Sakura was asleep, Lin gently jumped down from the treetop and onto the branch of another tree.

He still found it very strange. They went on vacation and then happened to encounter a shipwreck. He and Sakura happened to drift to this island, and there just happened to be a kind of Honkai Beast on this island.

Moreover, what's bizarre is that the island has a strange variety of creatures.

There's a saying: When there are enough coincidences, you have to consider whether they're man-made.

"The west..." Lin jumped to the top of the tallest tree, which gave him a view of most of the area ahead, but when he looked to the west, he could only see a mountain range that blocked out the sky.

Another coincidence...

Moreover, if there are mountains blocking the way, how did the roar reach the east?

Too many mysteries.

Most importantly... where did Kevin and the others go?

The first rays of morning sunlight fell on Ying's face. She woke up groggily and saw Lin's profile as he grilled fish.

"Forest..."

"Good morning."

Lin handed over a skewer of grilled fish. Logically speaking, one shouldn't eat such oily food in the morning, but there was no other choice.

Sakura nodded and accepted the grilled fish. Only then did she realize how quickly she had accepted life on the island.

"Let's go after we finish eating."

"Aren't you going to rest for a bit?" Lin's expression didn't change much because of the night shift, but Ying felt that a night of high-intensity vigilance would eventually consume too much energy.

"Need not."

Lin shook his head, took the two chilled grilled fish with him just in case, and then they headed west.

"This island is quite large..." Sakura carefully stepped over the thorns. The surrounding scenery seemed familiar, like something she had seen an hour ago—the same old forest. "Are we really moving forward?"

"You're right."

Lin's sudden remark startled Ying. Then she saw Lin walk to the trunk of a tree and carve an X in stone.

"Our position is changing, but the sun's position remains the same." Lin pointed to the sun overhead. "Its trajectory changes according to our position."

In other words, the sun's position changes every hour based on its stationary position, which is like...

Are we stuck in the same place?

"We are unlikely to get lost. As long as we follow our route into the mountains and do not encounter terrain that would lead us back to our original path, we will not get lost."

Lin jumped onto the tree trunk again and looked at the mountains. The distance between them and when they set off in the morning was not much different. It was still so far away. In other words, they had not even reached the middle of the island in two days.

This is very abnormal.

From the moment I set foot on this island, things were already abnormal to an extreme.

After Lin marked the location, they began moving towards the mountains again. Lin kept an eye on the position of the sun in the sky, and when the sun was directly overhead...

Lin stopped in front of a tree, staring at the X mark he had carved a few hours earlier, motionless.

"Hello, hello, may I ask if you dropped the gold knife or the silver knife?"

Then, a grinning little dwarf crawled out of the ground and appeared before them.

Chapter 150 Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf

It was very sudden.

A thing that makes you think, "Is this guy's style different from ours?" pops out of the ground, like the Earth God in Journey to the West, but it doesn't look kind of the Earth God at all. Instead, it has a kind of sharp and cold feeling.

His head was almost completely bald with only a few hairs, his teeth were yellow and uneven, and he held a gold knife and a silver knife in his hands.

It makes one wonder, "Is he playing the role of Earth God or River God?"

This almost unbelievably bizarre scene made Sakura immediately want to subdue the dwarf, but Lin stopped her with a swift movement. He calmly looked at the grinning dwarf and asked, "Are we being asked to choose between a golden knife and a silver knife?"

"Hehehe, yes."

An unpleasant laugh came from his probably foul-smelling mouth.

"This silver knife can be used to slay the 'Mountain God' that dwells in the mountains, while this gold knife can pierce the body of the 'Sea God'."

"Mountain God... Sea God?" What do these two words mean? Sakura looked at the dwarf in confusion, and who was this dwarf anyway? Why did Lin stop her to ask about this person?

"It's a pity we didn't lose anything, but could you lend us these two knives?" Lin reached out to the dwarf, but the dwarf chuckled and withdrew his hand.

"That won't do... Since you didn't lose anything, how can you ask others for it?"

"These two knives should be a reward for honest children, right?"

The dwarf smirked, staring coldly at Lin: "An honest child? Why does honesty always bring rewards? Do you think this is a fairy tale?"

Lin listened to his words and pondered for a moment, then nodded. "That makes sense, this is not a fairy tale."

"But as long as you complete the task I've given you..."

"So let's just rob it."

"What?"

Before the dwarf could react, Lin grabbed the hilt of a long sword in each hand and kicked the dwarf in the face, sending him flying.

Then he casually tossed the silver knife to Sakura: "Let's go. We must be lost because of the Mountain God. Let's go kill it."

"Lin, Lin? Is this okay?" Sakura hesitated as she looked at the dwarf lying on the ground. She hadn't expected Lin to attack without saying a word, and he was accepting the situation too quickly. Wasn't this like switching from a science fiction worldview to a fantasy worldview?

"What?"

Lin tried waving the golden knife, then asked Ying.

"That's the one..."

"It's okay. We'll do a task he gives us according to the fixed procedure. Then he'll ask us to collect something for him. Judging from his attitude, he'll probably use what we collect to turn into a BOSS. After we defeat him, these two swords will drop."

Lin shrugged. "I just did the last step ahead of time."

"..."

This sounds a lot like a game.

Confused, Sakura could only follow Lin forward.

Five years ago, it had a beaming smile.

Five years ago, its fangs were fully exposed.

Five years ago, its claws gleamed.

Five years ago... it devoured a person.

Five years later, her smile was distorted.

Five years later, her hunting rifle was still accurate.

Five years later, her skills were superb.

Five years later... she hunted down the past.

"Bang!"

A bullet struck a large tree beside Yingnao's head. Had she not seen the cold glint of the gun barrel and dodged in time, the bullet would have pierced her head.

"Gun?"

Sakura and Rin immediately took cover behind the cover in the direction the gun was firing. How could someone be shooting at them?

"Hehe..." A chilling laugh came from a certain direction and echoed through the forest.

"I'll do it." Sakura nodded to Lin. With her speed, there was no way she would be hit by a bullet. After considering it, Lin nodded to her.

She immediately left her cover and rushed into the woods. The moment she appeared, bullets were fired in her direction, but Sakura easily dodged them, turning into a blur as she hurtled towards the direction from which the shots were fired.

"Boom——"

But a soft sound reached her ears after she stepped on something, followed by a feeling of restraint wrapping around her right leg.

Trap?

Sakura immediately lowered her head as bullets pierced through her hair. The shooter was a highly skilled marksman, aiming every shot at her vital points.

"Hehe..."

The laughter came again. Sakura pulled with both hands and broke the tripwire on her feet. She jumped to the treetop, leaving three bullet holes in the spot.

"My little wolf, where are you? Come out and play with me~ Hahaha..."

This time, Sakura heard it clearly; it was a female voice, very hoarse, filled with a twisted excitement.

"Are you human? Stop! We are human too!" Sakura tried to communicate with her.

However...

"Humans? Do humans grow animal ears on their heads?"

"..."

The question posed by that voice silenced Sakura.

There was no other way but to subdue her by force.

Sakura's eyes sharpened, and she leaped up from the tree branch, transforming into an arrow that shot into the sky, blocking out the sunlight.

The man noticed the change in the shadow, raised his shotgun, aimed at Sakura in mid-air, and pulled the trigger with a cold smile.

"Bang!"

Sakura gripped the hilt of the silver sword with her right hand and, in an instant, cleaved the bullet that was fired at her.

"Varied--"

"Boom!"

The cherry blossoms fell like a cannonball, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Lin squatted down in front of the unconscious person and began to examine him.

The person was wearing a red hood that covered most of her face. Judging from the rise and fall of her chest, she was a woman, but her attire was not very feminine.

The hunter's robe, which did not fit her body size, was deliberately cut so that it could barely fit her. There was a crossbow bolt on her right arm, four hunting knives were bound to her legs with bandages, and even a short blade was hidden in the sole of her shoe.

Two pistols were tucked into the holster at her waist, along with wire, poison, needles, thread... A belt of bullets was wrapped around her chest, and the old-fashioned hunting rifle she had just used had fallen to the side after being knocked unconscious by Sakura.

This is... a hunter?

Although she was called a hunter, her attire didn't really resemble that of a hunter. After all, hunters aren't armed thugs. Most hunters choose their targets and then adopt the corresponding hunting methods, rather than bringing all their weapons at once.

After Lin finished examining her attire, he reached for her hood, wanting to see what was underneath...

"Crunch."

Lin stared blankly at his right hand, which was bitten in the mouth of his thumb.

The woman had woken up at some point, and it seemed that when she saw Lin trying to lift her hood, she bit his hand.