The entrance to the Ice Canyon was already within reach.
Both sides were lined with ice walls, leaving only a slightly narrow passage in the middle.
The wind howled through the center, carrying snowflakes that stung the face and made it impossible to keep one’s eyes open.
Aqina glanced back, looking slightly panicked.
Six gray-white figures were already closing in; the nearest one, a short figure like a mouse, was less than thirty paces away from her.
The stage was set, and the actors were all in position.
This grand play of luring the enemy into the trap was about to begin.
Aqina knew the time had come…
Now!
She acted as if she had finally exhausted her strength, stumbled, fell forward, and crashed heavily at the entrance.
The nameplate bag flew out of her hand, rolled a few times on the snow inside the canyon, and emitted an alluring, metallic clinking sound.
“She can’t run anymore!” An excited growl came from behind.
Aqina pretended to be unwilling to give up; she reached out to grab the nameplate bag and struggled to pick it up.
Then, with all her might, she ran another dozen steps into the canyon.
She fell heavily again, and the nameplate bag rolled to the side.
The six Scavengers arrived near her in an instant.
They were well-trained and approached her in a fan formation.
Even though they believed victory was in their grasp, the ‘Scavengers’ maintained their basic tactical formation.
Two men held military crossbows on the flanks, and one held a military saber in the rear.
Scarface and Gloomy Eyes were in the middle of the group.
The most impatient ‘Mouse’ rushed to the front, diving straight for the nameplate bag on the snow.
“Beware of a trap!” Scarface shouted angrily, but his eyes were locked tightly on the bulging bag.
The Mouse’s hand had already touched the leather bag.
At that very moment…
“Do it!!” Aqina’s sharp shout and the sound of Tatiana’s skill erupted simultaneously.
“Boom—!” On the ice walls on both sides of the canyon entrance, two scorching fireballs exploded without warning, not towards the crowd.
But onto the Explosive Melons that had been placed at the entrance of the passage long ago.
Under the impact of the fire element, the Explosive Melons exploded instantly, with power comparable to a military bomb.
The huge roar, massive amounts of ice, snow, and the buried mountain rocks poured down like a landslide.
Instantly blocking the entrance of the canyon completely.
And completely cutting off the Scavengers’ last retreat.
“A trap!” “We’ve been tricked.” The Scavengers were shocked and angry, but years of experience licking blood from the blade did not make them completely panic.
The Scavenger on the right with the crossbow instantly aimed an arrow at the face of Aqina, who had just jumped up from the snow.
Aqina did not dodge or avoid, just slightly tilted her head.
This avoided a vital spot, but the arrow grazed her cheek, leaving a bloody streak.
She was waiting for this opportunity.
The moment the Scavenger’s crossbow fired, she lunged at the Mouse who was still trying to pick up her nameplate bag.
The Mouse reacted quickly; a dagger was already in his hand, and he stabbed backhanded.
Unfortunately, he encountered Aqina, and she was least afraid of getting hurt.
Aqina didn’t block at all, and of course, she didn’t shrink back either.
Instead, she let the dagger pierce her right abdomen, while simultaneously reaching out and clamping the Mouse tightly with both arms.
Borrowing the momentum, she rolled with him towards the depths of the canyon behind.
“Third Bro!” Scarface pulled out his military saber, intending to save him.
Iul provided support from afar, firing a crossbow bolt at Scarface’s vital spot, but Scarface dodged with a sideways movement.
However, Aqina had already rolled into the trap zone with the Mouse.
Iul’s first trap, activated!
“Crash.” With a sound, the snow suddenly collapsed.
It wasn’t a naturally formed ice cave, but a carefully disguised snow pit.
The bottom of the pit was filled with dense, sharp ice spikes that, upon closer inspection, emitted a cold light, making one shudder.
The Mouse and Aqina fell in together.
Aqina had long been experienced in trapping people.
She didn’t know how many times she had dragged people into pits, so she decisively used the Mouse as a cushion.
The Mouse screamed as his legs were pierced by the ice spikes at the bottom of the pit; the pain made him instantly lose strength, and Aqina, seeing this, knocked away his dagger.
The Mouse struggled unwillingly, and Aqina was also stabbed in the shoulder by an ice spike.
But she was mostly cushioned by the Mouse below, so she didn’t suffer any fatal injuries.
She smiled viciously, looking at the Mouse below who wasn’t dead yet.
Under his unwilling gaze, she used him as a stepping stone.
She gave a fierce kick and leaped out; the Mouse was completely pierced through.
“Third Bro!!” Everything happened in a flash of lightning.
Scarface rushed over recklessly, slashing his blade at Aqina’s neck, wanting to avenge his brother.
Aqina saw him delivering himself to her door and felt that heaven was helping her.
She lunged at Scarface again, her eyes full of the stimulation and madness brought on by adrenaline.
Scarface also went mad, stabbing his blade in along the momentum of Aqina’s lunge.
Aqina couldn’t help but spit out a mouthful of blood, but she didn’t let go.
Scarface wanted to pull out the dagger to continue stabbing her, but he was held tightly by Aqina.
“I’ll beat you to death, you lunatic!” Scarface confronted Aqina, punching her vital spots hard, one punch after another.
Aqina relied entirely on the physique granted by the skill card to withstand it.
Her vision went black, and she was in great pain, but she wouldn’t let go.
She knew that head-on, she could never beat this kind of black-market mercenary who had undergone countless training and killed without blinking.
But she was also a desperate outlaw who would do anything to survive.
“Let’s go to hell together!” Aqina laughed wildly, blood at the corner of her mouth, her eyes full of anger and madness ignited by the beating.
She used her body weight to slam into Scarface.
The two fell to the ground in a tangle, fighting for control.
But Scarface had clearly never experienced such a hooligan-like fighting style.
Even when killing, he was quick and clean, and when encountering cowards, they would always kneel and beg for mercy.
He couldn’t understand how anyone would want to die together.
In an instant, control was seized by Aqina.
The two rolled together, crashing hard into an inconspicuous ice crevice by the edge of the pit!
Although this was a natural crevice, it had been calculated in advance.
Because, below this connected to a more hidden weak point of an ice cave.
“Crack…
Boom!” The ice layer shattered, and the two, entangled, fell into the bottomless ice water cave below.
Leaving only the blood shed during the fight and traces of rolling.
“Boss!” “Chief!” The remaining four Scavengers were trembling with fear, not just because of the death of their accomplices.
But also because of the ruthlessness of that recruit when trying to die together.
“Don’t scatter, back to back.” Gloomy Eyes was worthy of being the second-in-command; seeing that the Boss and the Third Bro were both gone, he still instantly suppressed all panic.
He commanded sharply, “Fourth, check the exit; Fifth and Sixth, guard the top and sides!” But it was too late.
“Welcome~” A playful, smiling Damselette’s voice came from above the ice wall.
Vera was lying on the top of the ice wall on the left, holding a large paper package in her hands.
She lightly tossed it towards the people below.
Pale red mixed with ice-blue fine powder, like fog, drifted down with the wind in the canyon.
“Hold your breath!” Gloomy Eyes roared, but the airflow in the canyon was chaotic, and besides, the powder was pervasive.
“Achoo!
Cough, cough, cough…” “My eyes!
My eyes!” Two types of special pollen mixed together became an artifact for messing with people, with dual effects.
Especially Fifth, whose face was covered in the powder, who instantly felt his face both burning and freezing.
He fully enjoyed the joy of heaven and hell.
His eyes stung unbearably, and tears flowed continuously.
His vision was blurred, making him unable to help rubbing them; it would have been better not to rub, but once he did, the pain was unbearable.
The third trap, Ice and Fire, took effect!
Chaos was the order of the day; it was a complete mess.
“Now, Tatiana!” Iul’s voice came from the ice wall on the other side.
“Burn it for me!!” Tatiana’s figure appeared on a protruding ice platform.
She was bathed in fire, her long hair dancing wildly in the wind, like a God of Fire.
Her hands held empty air, and massive fire element power condensed frantically in her palms.
A huge fireball was smashed by her fiercely towards the snow under the Scavengers’ feet!
Directly attacking the chaotic Scavengers, and also incidentally…
“Rumble, rumble, rumble!!” What had been buried under the snow long ago…
Homemade explosives made with a small amount of gunpowder seized from the veterans and flammable grass seeds provided by Vera.
Were precisely detonated by the big fireball.
The snow exploded, and firelight mixed with crushed ice and snow shot into the sky!
Although the power was not enough to directly kill these small fries.
But the violent shockwave and the deafening roar were enough to make them suffer greatly.
And also completely scattered the Scavengers’ last bit of formation, as well as their hope…