Chapter 45: Cicada, mantis, oriole (3)
Once Tie Gang gave the order, his men started moving.
They surrounded the area to make sure that there wouldn't be a single way for Lin Fan to escape before closing in on him.
Of course, they made sure that they were hidden so that Lin Fan had no idea that they were there.
Once they were in position, they jumped out with their weapons and surrounded him.
It was just that…
"So you're finally here." A faint smile crept onto my lips when I saw them appear in front of me.
The moment that he saw this, Tie Gang knew that the bad feeling that he had wasn't for nothing. It seemed that this person had known that they were here the entire time and had been just waiting for them to attack.
He could see that even the exhausted state that he had been in was nothing more than an act.
Only for his men, it didn't seem like they noticed this.
When Tie Gang's men saw this, they just thought that I was acting tough, which was why…
"Ha, you were expecting us? Then we're here now!"
"That's right, what are you going to do now?"
"Hand over everything and we might leave you with a complete corpse!"
I didn't bother saying anything else to these people since there was nothing left for me to say.
It had even taken them longer than I thought to fall into the trap that I had set for them.
I thought that they would attack as soon as they saw that I started acting like I was running out of energy, but they actually didn' make a move. They had waited until the very end to make their move.
"Retreat!" Tie Gang suddenly shouted, cutting his men off.
Without even waiting to see if they were running or not, Tie Gang had already turned to run.
Seeing this surprised Tie Gang's men and they weren't able to react in time because of this.
"It turns out that they had someone capable leading them." I couldn't help thinking to myself as I watched Tie Gang turn and run.
The only problem for them now was that it was already too late.
They were already trapped in my area, so there was nowhere for them to run.
"Freeze." I suddenly said out loud.
The moment that I said this, all of Tie Gang's men and even Tie Gang froze.
There were looks of shock and confusion that appeared on their faces as they couldn't understand what was happening, but I didn't care at all about this as I turned to walk away.
I walked in the direction that Tie Gang was frozen in and when I passed him, I looked at him to say, "You should have followed your instincts when you could have. In the end, you wanted to be the mantis stalking the cicada, but it's too bad that you were unaware of the oriole behind you."
Tie Gang revealed a bitter look in his eyes, but he found that he wasn't able to say anything as there was something that was freezing his mouth from moving.
I didn't care at all about this as I continued walking away.
During this time, there were less and less monsters that were focused on fighting with the Thunder Deer. The monsters that had been fighting the Thunder Deer were slowly withdrawing away from the area where the Thunder Deer was.
The Thunder Deer was confused about this at first, but then it realized that there was something else that had appeared around it.
The moment that Tie Gang and his men saw this, they immediately understood what was going to happen.
The Thunder Deer had enraged eyes as it looked at them.
It was as if it was saying…
"How dare you ambush me like this?!"
The electricity gathered on the horns of the Thunder Deer and soon there were bolts of lightning that were released at Tie Gang's group.
But right before the bolts of lightning were released, they found that the thing that had been freezing them in place disappeared. They found that they were able to move again, which allowed them to dodge out of the way in time.
Though one of them wasn't lucky enough to dodge in time and was hit by the lightning right in the chest.
All that was left was a smoking corpse with a burnt hole in the middle of his chest.
As soon as they found that they were able to move, there was no hesitation at all that came from Tie Gang and his men as they turned to scatter like rats.
But after taking a few steps, Tie Gang suddenly came to a stop as he realized something.
Why would that person suddenly release them like this instead of letting the Thunder Deer execute them while they were frozen?
It didn't make sense at all.
His answer came when a few of his men suddenly froze.
Once they got a certain distance from the Thunder Deer, they found that they were frozen again.
There was something that suddenly came over them that prevented them from running away.
The Thunder Deer in the center of this area didn't miss this.
During the time that they had been running away, the Thunder Deer had been shooting its lightning bolts at Tie Gang's group.
There were some that weren't lucky enough to avoid the lightning bolts that were thrown at them.
They were turned into charred corpses just like the first ones that were hit with these lightning bolts.
There was no resistance at all as they were pierced right through by the bolts of lightning.
There was even less resistance from the ones that were frozen when they got too far away.
"So it seems like he's only giving us one choice." Tie Gang couldn't help saying to himself in a bitter voice.
His instinct was correct, Lin Fan had allowed them to move for one reason.
They either had to fight the Thunder Deer and take it down or they would die here.
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