148. The Wayfarers (II)
The next morning, Lin Ziyue woke up early, there was no such weird wind last night, although she no longer dreamed, but she still didn't sleep very well.
She yawned and got out of the carriage, feeling her shoulders sink.
"Early. ”
The Raven closed his eyes, as if it wasn't what he said.
Lin Ziyue smiled and carried it into the carriage: "What's early, I'll go wash up, what are you doing." ”
Yan Crow's eyes turned almost white, Lin Ziyue couldn't help laughing, and smoothed two handfuls on Yan Crow's head like rubbing a dog's head, and was pecked by Yan Crow with his beak in anger.
She chuckled and ran.
Yan Yao was suddenly very annoyed, was he poured ecstasy soup by Meng Li last night? Why do you believe that guy! Isn't he still working as a coolie by Lin Ziyue's side when he comes back...... He's not a pet!
But Yan Crow doesn't want to turn into a human body, because of the death of the body, so if he becomes a human form now, he will be a crow's head and a human body, and he will definitely be ridiculed by Su Jiujiu and Meng Li.
However, since the appearance of the spotted leopard, Lin Ziyue and his party have encountered more monsters on the road, and the number of appearances has become more and more frequent.
Solve a few tusk-like batwing monster fish flying around at low altitude, and in front of you is the resting village that a few people had inquired about before.
At least from the map bought by the big city, there is a farmhouse village famous for loquat fruits, but there are so many monsters near this village, so the village may not escape the fate of being attacked.
Lin Ziyue didn't speak, not planning to change the established itinerary, but urging to speed up the pace of progress.
The woods were silent, there were no birds or insects, but there were signs of wild beasts passing by.
Where a group of people passed, trees, vines and shrubs automatically avoided them, and the carriage drove out of the forest and came to the official road.
There are a lot of fallen trees on both sides, and there are obvious blood stains on the official road, black blood and red blood, if it weren't for the fishy smell in the air, the color blocks spread on the ground are like large pieces of poured dye, and this long carpet made of blood spreads all the way to Luzhi Village, which is known as the "Little Loquat Garden".
But seeing the overturned messy trucks in front of him, as well as all kinds of broken carts or carriages, Lin Ziyue's face became more and more gloomy, and the others were more alert than compassionate, alert to the monsters that might appear at any time.
Tang Lingling probed out of the carriage and was quickly stuffed back by Su Jiujiu, but even so, Tang Lingling was still so disgusted by the fishy smell that he almost vomited.
Su Jiujiu also looked extremely painful, she remembered the tragic situation when she was a child, when the fox clan's hometown was invaded.
Although there is a big difference, this sadness is not much different.
It is the displacement of many people, and the destruction of families in towns, towns and counties.
There was a pool of blood all the way, but there were no corpses, no corpses of people, animals, and monsters, at most it was blood foam, and even the stumps were swallowed clean.
Lin Ziyue faced up to the existence of the Demon Realm for the first time and asked Yan Crow, "What kind of place is the Demon Realm?"
Yan Crow only replied to her with eight words: "Extremely dark, chaotic and lightless." ”
By the time they could get their sights on the village, a few of them had something more on their way.
Oval-shaped, white eggs, about the size of a fist, a dozen strands of red thread entwined together, most of them hanging from objects, like collapsed tree trunks or gnawed carriages, occasionally the eggs could be seen shaking.
Yu Tingrong, who had just been online, came out of the carriage, and almost didn't vomit after just a glance, after her family tricked her into eating silkworm chrysalis when she was a child, she had a psychological shadow of the insect eggs, and she was just curious about what a group of people were doing, but when she saw this scene and smelled the bloody smell in the air, Yu Tianrong decisively went back to sleep and went offline directly.
Lin Ziyue and Yan Crow glanced at each other. Although Yan Crow did not have a soul contract, he felt that after this conflict, the tacit understanding between the two had reached a higher level, and at this time, Lin Ziyue nodded knowingly with a look, and flew up from Lin Ziyue's shoulder.
The black feathers flew down one after another, but when they touched the eggs, they instantly ignited, and after the flames burned the white eggs, they poured a wisp of black gas back into the crow, and then were flapped out by the crow's wings again.
In this way, Yan Crow kept opening the way for the carriage, but burned it all along the way.
But such a blatant move naturally attracts those who spawn to come.
Hundreds of black-armored and red-eyed insects flew from the air, their bodies were as long as a basin, and their black wings flapped with a buzzing sound that made the air tremble, and at first glance they looked like pure black beetles, but their mouthparts were long with sharp teeth, and their bodies were pitted like toads, and there were slender tentacles like cockroaches on the top of their heads.
Su Jiujiu, whose face was pale, groaned, if it weren't for Xuanyuan Yan's quick hand and a burst of light smoke drifting over to help her, I am afraid that Su Jiujiu would be able to fall from the front panel of the car.
Xuanyuan Yan jumped beside Su Jiujiu and took over the driving of the carriage. Xuanyuan Yan directly persuaded Su Jiujiu to also enter the carriage, and asked her to be optimistic about Tang Lingling, if the little girl saw this scene, she would not be directly frightened and fainted.
Xuanyuan Yu had already sat side by side with Lin Ziyue since he encountered the enemy, after all, this carriage was at the front, although he knew that Lin Ziyue had recovered, but Xuanyuan Yu was always unsure, and he had already taken the reins from her.
Seeing Su Jiujiu like this at this time, Xuanyuan Yu also asked tentatively: "Are you afraid? If you are afraid, you can go inside." ”
Lin Ziyue's expression did not change: "I used to catch cockroaches at home. ”
Well, it seems that he has no possibility of being a hero, and he has no chance to learn from his brother about the warm man's demeanor. Xuanyuan Yu thought depressedly.
Then Lin Ziyue looked at Xuanyuan Yu: "Are you afraid of insects? If you are afraid, you can hide for a while." ”
Xuanyuan Yu's face instantly turned a little dark, and Lin Ziyue patted him on the shoulder: "I, I'm just kidding......"
The crow turned around in the air, its eyes lit with red fire, but there was a gray flame on its forehead, and it flew higher and higher, and found that there seemed to be a change in the village, and there were some sapper insects coming over, but there were no female insects, and the team of sapper insects was not neat enough, indicating that the female insects were not in the center of control.
"Hey, someone in the village seems to have restrained the female worm!"
When Lin Ziyue heard Yan Crow's words, she immediately rushed back and said, "Fight quickly!"
Then she kicked her feet and her hands lit up, and at the same time as the moon staff appeared, two moon blades floated out, and she stepped on them lightly, and flew to the same height as the fire crow.
The swarm of insects on the opposite side was dense, and in terms of number, there were no more than a thousand, so it was not tricky for this group of people. It seems that these monsters have indeed been subject to a lot of restrictions after leaving the demon world, and the eggs laid by the female worm all the way have not hatched, otherwise the insect swarm they will face at this time will be even more turbulent, but this number is enough to ransack a small village.
Meng Li also flew up, the bat's wings stretched behind him, but the long sword in his hand reflected his somewhat impatient face.
Xuanyuan Yan lazily shouted below: "Then you go, we are watching the car!"
Although Xuanyuan Yu also wanted to go up to help, his spatial rift and spatial turbulence attack method was friend and foe, and this kind of group battle was really not suitable for him. Although Xuanyuan Yu can teleport but can't fly, so there are insects everywhere, and after teleportation, he will only throw himself into the mouth of the insects, he hesitated for a long time, and finally chose to look at the carriage honestly and not go up to join in the fun.
And Xuanyuan Yan was just lazy, Blue didn't speak, staring at Lin Ziyue's figure with blazing eyes, not knowing what he wanted to see.
Botisi got out of Meng Li's pocket, and her body instantly became extremely wide, encircling the three carriages, Lin Ziyue looked sideways in surprise, and Botisi nodded at her.
Therefore, Lin Ziyue no longer waits for the insect swarm to approach, since Botisi volunteered to be the protective line, then Lin Ziyue and the three of them have no worries.
"Let's go. ”
The words were very brief, but Meng Li and Yan Crow's almost at the same time as Lin Ziyue, and their speed was the same.
The three of them rushed into the black cloud of insects, like three drops of boiling oil falling into ink.
They blast through the darkness, revealing a corner of the dusk of the twilight.
Falling shimmer.
Lin Ziyue's expression was very indifferent, and he didn't use his sword like he did before against the wolves, but simply used the moon shield to protect himself, watching those insects pounce on it, and the mouthparts of the insect swarm rubbed against the moon shield and made a tearing sound. The moon scepter in Lin Ziyue's hand continued to shine with clear light, and every time it flickered, dozens of slender but slender deformed moon blades flew out. The blades as thin as pieces of paper pierced through the moon shield without hindrance, swirling, and without returning, they cut a long black stream through the swarm, and large swaths of insects fell to the ground.
The sword light around Meng Li's body was like quicksilver, and the sword flower held an elegant arc, easily skimming over those insect swarms, the sword aura was like a shuttle, and it stabbed into the bodies of those huge insects along the sword light, but the black blood splashed out did not touch the corners of his clothes at all. Meng Li's eyes were as clear as a sword, and he vented his depression in the swarm of insects these days, and the feeling of not having to think about it except killing made him feel as if he had returned to the time when he was wanton in the Demon Realm.
But when it comes to lethality, the fire crow is the real main force. His entire body was covered in red flames, and all the black feathers seemed to be ignited, except for the gray chaotic fire above his head. The fire crow was like a fire ship sailing, rippling everywhere it went, and those black insect swarms were pushed to both sides, and the flames that fell from his body spread extremely quickly, just a little stain could drown the whole insect in the breath, and burn those demon insects directly into a piece of flying ash. He left a large void behind him, causing chaos in the swarms, most effectively blocking the swarms from advancing further in the direction of the wagon.
In just a few moments, the swarm of insects burned by Yan Crow himself was almost equal to the number of insects killed by Lin Ziyue and Meng Li.
The battle didn't last long, just half an hour later, the remaining dozens of insects completely dispersed, and even fled extremely chaotic and inexplicably, all of them were swept into the flames by an outbreak of the crows, and they were completely wiped out.
Lin Ziyue looked worried, and glanced at Yan Crow, who nodded at her: "Something must have happened to the mother worm, that's why the sapper worm is messed up like this." ”
Lin Ziyue shouted at Xuanyuan Yu below, "Let's go and have a look first!"
Then she took Yan Yao and Meng Li and flew directly in the direction of the village.
Xuanyuan Yu turned around and urged Xuanyuan Yan and Blue to speed up the speed of driving the carriage and go to the village to meet them as soon as possible, Botisi naturally opened the way in front, squeezing obstacles to both sides along the way so that the carriage could pass, and it also used its tongue to roll up the insect corpses blocking the road from time to time, these are tonics for it, this is still thanks to Lin Ziyue's absence, otherwise it will definitely stop Botisi.
Lin Ziyue flew past the most bloody place at the entrance of the village, where a battle should have broken out, and it could be seen that there were more traces of swords, guns, sticks, and slashing, and the black blood of the insects was much more than the red blood, and it seemed that the people in the village had resisted in an organized manner.
Closer to the village, Lin Ziyue also noticed that there was a carapace mountain in the village, the kind of black thick shell was much smoother than the previous insects, but the whole was also more huge, about the size of a basketball court, and a whole trail behind him was along the road from the official road to the entrance of the village and extended inward. At this point, the carapace mountain was no longer moving, but there was a piercing scream from there, not like the sound of a human being attacked, but like some kind of bird.
The flame crow reacted very quickly: "Biluo thrush, it stands to reason that it is a natural enemy with those top insects. ”
"It can't be that the Bi Luo Thrush did it, how can the Bi Luo Thrush beat the mother of the worm? I'm afraid it's here to pick up the leak, and I don't dare to approach when I smell the smell of this group of insects, I feel that the mother worm is dead and comes to grab it." Seeing Lin Ziyue's puzzled face, Meng Li added two more sentences: "The size of the Biluo thrush is about the same as that of ordinary sparrows, but it is born with the ability to secrete body fluids that decompose the shells of the insects, and they specialize in feeding on the swarms of insects. ”
Yan Crow reminded Lin Ziyue: "Of course, they also eat others, such as people." You have to understand that there is no such thing as a good kind in the demon world. ”
"You're a bird, too, can't you think of a way to take care of them?"
Yan Crow scolded angrily again: "What kind of brain are you! I'm not that kind of chop bird like shredded vegetables! Can you compare it! Have you ever seen an elephant take an ant's nest in which direction? An elephant has this heart, can ants understand it?
Lin Ziyue said a lot of good things to calm down the Yan Crow, and when a few people fell from the sky, they just happened to startle the group of black-tailed finches with fiery red wings, which were originally lying on the female insect. Each little black and red finch has a bald bulge like horns on its head, and it is oozing pink juice, which makes a corrosive "hiss" sound when it drips to the ground.
"I see, it's really not good. Lin Ziyue's teeth were sour.
Seeing that Lin Ziyue and Meng Li had no intention of coming, those Bi Luo thrushes shouted a few times at the Yan Crow to indicate that this was their prey, and retreated again and again in the sneer of the Yan Crow, and then continued to eat the corpse of the insect mother without caring about a few people. The corpse of the mother worm lay on its side on the ground, crushing several courtyard gates, and beneath the heavy carapace of the back was a dense network of slender insect feet. At this time, the extremely long knife wounds on the abdomen of the worm mother were exposed, but according to the scars, they were cut not from the outside but from the inside, although there were knife marks on the shell of the worm mother, but they could not hurt it at all, so someone got into the belly of the worm mother and cut it all the way.
It's too reckless, Lin Ziyue is not unseen in the world, but it's a little disgusting to think about it.
But if she wants to deal with this insect mother with tricky defense, she doesn't need to go in by herself, she pushes a wordless recipe into the worm mother's stomach, which should have a similar effect.
There was a voice coming from behind the nearest courtyard wall, as if they were arguing in a low voice, and before Lin Ziyue could open his mouth to ask about the situation of the survivors, someone shouted and rushed out of it, dragging Lin Ziyue and Meng Li back.
As a result, Yan Crow fell off Lin Ziyue's shoulder, and he flew up in confusion, looking at the young man standing in front of Lin Ziyue and Meng Li opposite.
The boy was only seventeen or eighteen years old, his body was already covered with holes and black blood, and the broken sword in his hand was also scarred, and his hands were trembling, and the tip of the sword aimed at the Yan Crow was also trembling.
While swinging, the young man shouted to Lin Ziyue and Meng Li behind him: "Go in! Go into the yard! These monsters will squirt acid water! If the skin is rotten, there is no law! You go in quickly! Go in! I'll stop this guy!"
Lin Ziyue and Meng Li looked at each other, Yan Yao was even more crisp, and after spitting out the young man's face with a mouthful of saliva, he fell back on Lin Ziyue's shoulder.
The young man shouted and struggled on the ground, closed his eyes and waved the broken sword indiscriminately for a long time, but it didn't seem to be ruined or killed, and it didn't even hurt, he subconsciously raised his sleeve and wiped his face, the saliva just wiped his face full of dust and blood a little clean, he raised his head and looked at the fire crow that fell on Lin Ziyue's shoulder in confusion.
Then as if he thought of something, the young man's face turned white again: "You, you! You are a gang! You are also a monster, aren't you! Wearing a human skin, you ended up with the demon bird! No wonder this big demon bird will honestly let those little demon birds——"
Yan Crow really couldn't listen to it anymore, and couldn't wait to spit again: "Demon you are big, where is the little fart, where is your adult?"
As soon as the boy turned over and ran, he screamed and went back to the yard, and when he ran back, there was chaos again, and there was a loud and scolding sound like a fryer.
The Bi Luo Thrush over there was frightened, and looked up and wanted to fly here to see what was going on, but in the angry shout of the Yan Crow with coercion, these Bi Luo Thrushes only turned a few times, and did not dare to touch the moldy head of this big demon, and went back to gnaw on the worm mother honestly.
Lin Ziyue was still not sure, but Meng Li took the lead and stepped forward, and with just one kick, he kicked the far door wide open.
Several cabinets, tables and chairs blocked behind the door were directly scattered to the ground, and in a burst of frightening shouts and scolding, Lin Ziyue and Meng Li walked into this small courtyard.
The sword-wielding young man was lying on his stomach next to a straw mat just now, and when he saw Lin Ziyue and Meng Li coming in, he immediately pointed at them and said, "Master!
Lin Ziyue first looked around, the people in the courtyard were of different ages, some of them seemed to be villagers, and most of them looked frightened, but they couldn't even hold the hoe or kitchen knife in their hands, and the self-defense equipment they held was not stained with blood. Another part of the people stood among these villagers, looking at the dressed identities ranging from rangers to servants, most of them were scarred, and many of them were still wrapped in strips of cloth or simple crutches, and they were so vigilant that they used their swords to face Lin Ziyue and others who had just entered.
"Are you all left in the village?" Meng Li frowned like Lin Ziyue when he saw this.
The man on the straw mat was helped up by the young man, it was a middle-aged man with a full beard, although blood was oozing under the bandage on his chest, which made him look extremely weak, but the middle-aged man's eyes were very grim, like a blade.
A cold light flashed in his eyes, like a searchlight, and the middle-aged man carefully looked at a few people, his eyes stayed on Lin Ziyue for the longest time, and then he took a hard breath and said to the others: "It's okay, they ...... It shouldn't be a monster......"
The middle-aged man swallowed the remaining half of the sentence into his stomach, even if they were monsters, he couldn't understand it, then no one here could beat him.
Then the middle-aged man couldn't hold it anymore, and he opened his eyes to make his breath that he had finally relieved, and he tilted his head and fainted in the young man's arms.