Chapter 733: Chapter 487 Mindset Change_2
The victor would be crowned king, while the loser’s body vanished along with their path.
Alas, as they gambled on whether the pursuers would leave carelessly after waking up, just like themselves, little did they know that some survivors simply stayed awake all night, watching the entire process of their transformation and hiding right on the scene.
The captors who slept soundly through the night woke up to see some of their companions walking over to an item nearby and, without picking up a gun, confidently captured a hider.
The process was as smooth as flowing clouds and water, leaving them dumbfounded, causing them to wonder if they were on the same wavelength as those people, or if the latter had somehow cheated while they slept.
When the successful pursuers returned with satisfied smiles on their faces, the others frantically gathered around them, eager to learn how they were able to pinpoint which object the hider had transformed into.
Since they had already reaped this wave of benefits, most people didn’t mind sharing their experiences.
When the others learned about the happenings after they fell asleep, they beat their chests and stomped their feet in regret.
Unfortunately, there is no medicine for regret in this world, so many pursuers could only seethe with anger.
Unlike other pursuers who only remembered one or two and tried to blend in by hiding nearby, Dong Tianyu had marked over thirty hiders last night with Divine Sense.
Although most of the hiders were dispersed and hidden throughout the manor, with only one or two daring to transform and hide nearby, the majority were scattered across the estate.
And now, Dong Tianyu’s Divine Sense could only cover a range of about fifty meters. Although this seemed like a large area, one must remember that this was a manor, not a farmhouse built on rural homestead land.
Manors are seldom smaller than a thousand square meters; if a place is crowned with the title of a manor, its size is generally measured in acres.
Zachary hurried through his breakfast and immediately began his capturing operation.
All day long, whenever Zachary arrived at an area, the hiders there felt their hearts pound with fear as they saw him head straight to a spot and promptly drag out a hider.
Fortunately for them, after they transformed, they no longer possessed any life signs, which ensured they wouldn’t accidentally reveal themselves due to fear or panic.
However, they observed that after capturing one or several hiders, Zachary didn’t linger to search for others in the area.
The unhunted hiders gradually realized that Zachary must be able to lock onto the positions of the hiders he captured due to some reason.
Some clever hiders immediately associated this with their unrestrained actions last night, knowing that the pursuers were unconscious.
Thinking back, some of the smart hiders regretted their brazenness the previous night, reflecting that they shouldn’t have acted so arrogantly.
Yet after Zachary had left, more breathed sighs of relief, grateful they hadn’t listened to the so-called ’geniuses’ who had preached that the most dangerous place was the safest.
Seeing Zachary’s actions, they guessed that those who had transformed and hidden near the pursuers definitely wouldn’t be overlooked as they had originally planned.
Zachary, unconcerned with the hiders’ psychological activities, had marked over thirty people last night. Further, with the manor being so vast, he was busy all day long before he could find most of them.
Those who hadn’t been found by the hiders might have been captured by other hunters, or they could be hidden in places too remote and overlooked by Dong Tianyu during his search.
After all, with Divine Sense’s range merely over fifty meters, compared to the manor measured in acres, it felt like a little pony pulling a heavy cart.
Before nightfall on the second day, Dong Tianyu returned to rest near the main building of the manor. Although experience from the previous night indicated that the hiders couldn’t attack the hunters, and the hunters could sleep anywhere alike,
still, Dong Tianyu didn’t want to take that risk with his life. He chose a spot where more people were around and deliberately covered his body with some items, creating a few arrangements to hide himself.
Perhaps it was Dong Tianyu’s actions during the day that frightened the hiders; after nightfall, unlike the previous night, no hiders came to observe the sleeping positions of the hunters as if watching animals in a zoo.
Even when some hiders passed by and saw some hunters sleeping inside, they promptly turned around and left in a hurry, without lingering any longer.
Maybe because Dong Tianyu’s performance the day before was too conspicuous, his catch that night was not much, marking less than ten hiders.
Today, there were no reckless hiders hiding near the rooms where the hunters rested at night; all hiders avoided places far from here.
Like the day before, Dong Tianyu went straight to the point and captured those hiders he had marked.
Since they hadn’t found any new food sources in the manor, most hunters were left with only enough provisions for two meals: one for tonight’s dinner and the other for tomorrow’s breakfast.
This meant that most hunters could stay here at most until noon the next day.
By this time, Dong Tianyu had nearly captured sixty hiders. Without a ranking system, and having hardly interacted with other hunters over the past three days, he was unclear about his own ranking.
However, with a total of just over two hundred people among hiders, nearly sixty captured meant about one-quarter, which should at least warrant a top-three ranking.
As dusk fell, all hunters again succumbed to unconsciousness, although many were aware that hiders may appear and had prepared to stay alert.
But the weariness that emerged this night was different from the previous two; those nights, the sense of exhaustion remained constant, and with a strong enough will, one could persist.
However, tonight, for some reason, as darkness deepened, the feeling of exhaustion in their bodies kept intensifying. The overwhelming fatigue made it difficult for even those hunters who were mentally prepared to keep going.
In the end, including Dong Tianyu, the number of hunters who managed to stay awake throughout the night could be counted on one hand.
Regrettably, although they were steadfast in will and did not succumb to sleep due to fatigue during the night, there were no hiders coming to observe them, not even any approaching the areas where they were.
Until dawn, not only the hunters relying purely on sight without Divine Sense but also Dong Tianyu, who had a fifty-meter range of Divine Sense, didn’t make any catches.
When daylight came the next day, all the unconscious survivors began to wake up. Although everyone was full of Essence, Qi, and Spirit, they felt somewhat dejected because they hadn’t persevered through the night.
They all understood that the food they had was only enough for breakfast, and if all hiders weren’t captured before noon, the outcome of the competition was self-evident.
At this point, including Dong Tianyu, knowing that the roles would be reversed for another round of competition after this one, everyone, even in the face of defeat, didn’t have a mindset for a last-ditch counterattack.
At this time, the majority of hunters had an indifferent attitude, merely acquiescing to the situation. What they didn’t realize was that there was no need to wait for the next round of the competition, as the roles on the playing field had already shifted.
