The seventh-generation giant locust is no longer something that ordinary arrows can threaten.

The arrows fired by the soft bows with slightly less bow power could not even penetrate the energy protection layer on their bodies.

At the very least, a strong bow with a bow strength of more than one stone is required to allow the arrow to gain a large muzzle velocity and pierce this energy layer that is very similar to Bai Yuqi's [Mage Armor].

But the Tang Dynasty army used all seven-bucket bows, not to mention the hunting bows and soft bows made by the common people, which caused the mercenaries to be almost unable to damage them with bows and arrows in the early days of contact with the seven generations of giant locusts.

Fortunately, the mutated giant locust has a very fierce temperament, and as soon as it is attacked, it will launch a crazy counterattack, and the bows and arrows in the hands of the mercenaries can also be used as a tool to "attract monsters".

But the problem is that there are not just two giant locusts.

Even if they do not gather into a locust tide for the time being, they will gather into small groups of dozens or hundreds of locusts to act together.

This thing is like a hornet, and I don't know why the temperament of evolution is so great, provoking one is equivalent to provoking a group, if you don't kill them all, it will be on the bar with you, and you will not stop until you are killed!

So at the beginning, many mercenaries suffered the loss of rashly attacking the locust swarm, and they suffered a lot of casualties.

After the highly mutated seventh-generation giant locust, not only has its size, strength, and defense been greatly improved, but its bounce power is even stronger!

A jump can jump hundreds of meters away, and the flight speed is up to more than 120 kilometers per hour.

A giant locust about a meter long, estimated to weigh several kilograms, plus its evolved thick exoskeleton is full of sharp bone spurs.

Imagine when a giant locust rushes towards you, it is equivalent to someone throwing a durian weighing several kilograms at you with a catapult 100 meters away, flying at a speed of 120km/h, and also has its own locking function.

If you can't dodge it the moment it hits you, it's no different from being bombarded by a solid shot from a bronze cannon, and it still has its own ramming angles!

What's even more terrifying is that if the sixth-generation giant locust is named "sickle giant locust" because of a pair of long legs with sharp bone spurs, being hooked is equivalent to being sawed by a big saw.

In addition to inheriting the characteristics of their parents, the seven generations of giant locusts have become very thin at the tip of the supporting bones of their two pairs of huge wings, and they also have a row of sharp bone spurs, which slash at you when they fly, just like several high-speed vibrating guillotines, so they are named "razor locusts"!

Fortunately, the Mercenary Guild released the characteristics and weaknesses of the seven generations of giant locusts in advance, reminding the mercenaries to be as prepared for battle as possible, which minimized the casualties.

This also forced a large number of mercenaries to have to upgrade their equipment in order to save their lives.

For example, an iron shield that can cover one's whole body, a stronger bow, sharper arrows, faster knives, and so on.

The Iron Shield is used to block the impact of the giant locust a little when it is really impossible to avoid it.

The effect is not great, and it will be knocked away as if it should be knocked away, but it is better than being hit directly.

The strong bow and sharp arrows are used to attack the giant locust from a distance, and the effect is also not great, but at least the arrows shot can pierce the body of the giant locust and cause some damage.

The main thing is that the Mercenary Guild has introduced a new weapon with a huge power, the crossbow.

Shoot farther, aim more accurately, and fire a bolt that bursts open to wreak havoc on a giant locust when it hits it!

What's even more amazing is that this kind of crossbow has no bowstring and no bow arm, only a thumb-thick bamboo tube embedded in the crossbow arm to fire crossbow arrows, plus a magazine for carrying crossbow arrows and a crossbow machine for firing crossbow arrows, the whole body is very light!

This made the mercenaries very puzzling, how could they fire crossbow arrows without bows and bowstrings?

I can listen to the people of the Mercenary Guild explain that this effect can be achieved because the crossbow is engraved with a kind of [Infinite Gate] "Spirit Pattern Talisman - Arrow Technique", and it is inlaid with a "Spirit Crystal" taken from the giant locust's body, which is used to activate the spell in the "Spirit Pattern Talisman".

I don't understand, but it feels so powerful?

Many mercenaries who had a lot of money in their pockets spent a lot of money to buy it and give it a try, and they were immediately shocked!

This magic weapon treasure called the "Spirit Pattern Arrow Spear" is made of hard diamond bamboo.

In the spirit pattern rune array inlaid with gold and silver filaments on the crossbow body, there is a glittering bean spirit crystal.

After each launch, it only takes three breaths (6 seconds) for the Spirit Pattern Rune Array to be re-filled with spiritual power by the Spirit Crystal, and it can be fired again!

Although the launch speed is a little slower, and it can only shoot ten feet away, the stubby crossbow arrow, which is only the length of a thumb, can kill the giant locust with one shot!

Well, Bai Yuqi admits that this thing is a modified version of the "single-shot rifle" that he concocted considering that it is difficult for ordinary mercenaries to kill giant locusts.

What is engraved on the body of the spear is nothing more than a rune circle of a Tier 0 spell [Arrow Shooting].

You can launch a crossbow or arrow 30 meters (the effective increase in distance, not flying 30 meters and falling down).

The power is not great, almost equivalent to the bird gun of later generations, but it is enough to kill seven generations of giant locusts.

Some people might say, isn't this just a small pistol with a range and power of the Type 38 rifle?

Of course, the more powerful Bai Yuqi also made it,

But first, the level of disciples who can burn spell runes is limited, how much can he make on his own?

Second, if you want to create more powerful, you must burn more complex rune arrays, such as [Spell Enhancement], [Spell Upgrade] and the like.

Then you have to consume more arcane materials, because of the cost, it definitely can't be sold too cheaply, and the bitter haha mercenaries who already owe a lot of debt to the mercenary guild can't afford it.

Third, this kind of dangerous equipment must also be controlled to a certain extent, so as to prevent people with bad intentions from using it to assassinate Li Shimin.

So in addition to the purchase need to strictly register the purchase information, Bai Yuqi also racked his brains to add a binding to the use of this thing, which can only be used by the buyer to prevent outflow.

Why didn't he develop thermal weapons before? Wasn't it just to avoid that?

And now it seems that there is no need to study simple thermal weapons in the Datang time and space.

Because of the evolution in this state, Bai Yuqi was very skeptical that light thermal weapons could pose too much threat to mutant creatures.

Therefore, this kind of simple and inexpensive, copycat rifle made by [Tiangongmen], engraved by the alchemy workshop, and capable of assembly-line mass production, has become the best choice for improving the combat power of mercenaries against giant locusts.