Chapter 4: The King of Giants
The Ranger who stood in front of Grant lit a torch, and a giant grabbed him, and he burned the giant's skin with the torch, and the white juice on the giant's body was ignited like kerosene, and the flames surrounded the giant and the ranger, and the insects that had been quietly entrenched in the walls and ceilings of the cave flew all over the sky, flying towards the burning giant. The Giants and the Ranger screamed together www.biquge.info the Fun, and the juice on the ground also burned, igniting the other two giants, and worms enveloping their bodies.
The 3 large fireballs hit and shook the Giant Fruit, but the Giant Fruit did not burn. In a few moments, the overwhelming insects cut off the air from the giant's body, and the flames were extinguished, leaving behind four charred corpses, as well as countless black bug corpses.
The air was filled with the stench of protein, the smell of insect corpses exploding.
"No—" Grant cried, punching himself in the head, "he's here to protect me...... To protect my ......"
Cassiu lifted Aldington up, and now there were only six Rangers left, and Grant was crippled.
Anderson looked up, everything fell silent, and the ticking sound sounded again. He coughed, examined the quivers and supply bags, and said, "We don't have many crossbows and arrows and food. Captain, we can't hold on much longer. ”
"Keep fighting. Aldington gritted his teeth, "Until the ammunition runs out, until the last man fights, and one more is killed." ”
"Listen to me, captain, we must retreat. Cassius stared at Aldington's ice-blue eyes, which burned with ice-blue flames.
"No, we have managed to find the place where the giants are sleeping, and this opportunity has not come easily. The captain shook his head and pushed Cassius away, "Our advance team, no one is a coward, you can escape on your own." ”
As soon as the words fell, Cassius punched Aldington in the face, and grief and indignation surged into his heart like a flood, turning into tears, and leaning down: "Wake up! Aldington!
"I don't need you to remind me," the captain asked, punching Cassius in the face, "We've died so many brothers and we've come here so hard, and you're telling me to give up?" he picked up his dagger, turned his wrist, and said, "You're going to fight, aren't you?" if you want to dissuade me, unless you kill me. ”
Kashew raised the shield in his left hand, raised the long sword in his hand, and with a wave of his hand, the long sword turned into an iron whip and wrapped around Aldington's left foot, he pulled hard, and Aldington fell on his back.
Aldington sat up, Casthew's shield striking him in the face, he spat at the blood and cursed, "Son of a bitch magician, you cheat!"
Cassius took a step forward, pressed one knee on Aldington's chest, and the shield in his left hand turned into spikes, facing Aldington, he scolded: "You are unwilling to be reconciled! You just can't let go of your heart! You sober up! Behind us, there is the Great Wall, and the Empire, we die here, who is going to tell them about the situation here?"
"We finally got here. Grant cried, a strong muscular man, his right leg instantly became crippled, he didn't cry, but now he was crying bitterly. He was not reconciled.
Unwilling, no one is reconciled, everyone is crying. For most of the past half a month, after a lot of hardships, it has failed.
Tears welled up in Aldington's ice-blue eyes. He was silent.
Anderson walked over, took Cashew's hand, and said to Aldington, "Captain, when you set out, you said that you would give the giants a head-on blow, and we found their lair and killed several giants, and we have done it. Cassius is right, we don't kill ourselves, there are Eddard and Fat William outside, Thorne hasn't found them, if we die here, what will they do? The key question is that those giant fruits are not afraid of fire, most of them are invulnerable, even if we die, we can't kill them. ”
Cassius wiped away tears and a new thought came to his mind: "None of us are cowards. But we have to get out alive and tell more people about what is going on here. The Great Wall may be able to withstand the attacks of the giants, but there are too few of us, and when I go out, I will send a letter to His Majesty the Emperor to gather enough troops and magicians to come. ”
After a long time, Aldington shook his head and sighed, "Cassius is right, retreat, this is an order." ”
The Rangers inspect equipment and supplies. According to Cassiu's estimates, this is the third day of entering the cave, and many of the Rangers have gaps in their swords, and there is not much dry food left, and they will starve to death sooner or later before they kill all the giants.
The Rangers, who had regained their composure, with a strong desire to return to the Great Wall, followed the huge roots of the trees, on the periphery of the Giant's Fruit, found a way.
Two giants wandered at the intersection, looking left and right.
"Damn it!" Aldington said through gritted teeth, "It seems like this is the exit." ”
"I'll go and lead them away, and you go quickly. Cassiu stood up. He turned his shield into a long sword, and with two long swords in both hands, he rushed towards the giant.
The first giant spotted Cassius first, and with a low roar, he rushed at Cassiu.
"Damn, the other one didn't get it!" Cassius muttered. The giant's right hand swung at him, and he ran to the giant's right, and the giant swept back, and he was sent flying.
He saw out of his eye Aldington jump to the inside of the calf of the other giant. Yes, I can do it too!" He stood up, and the giant stepped on it, and he simply ran forward, went around behind the giant, turned the sword in his right hand into a mace, and smashed it into the giant's ankle.
The giant screamed, reflexively lifting his injured ankle.
Cassiu's mace was firmly nailed into the giant's ankle, and he felt the wind in his ears, and he was instantly lifted to a height of more than a meter above the ground. He stabbed the sword in his left hand into the giant's calf to stabilize his body, and as expected, the giant sat on the ground, and Cassius abandoned his weapon a second before he was about to be crushed by the giant's ankle, jumped to the ground, and rolled to dodge the huge ankle.
The giant turned his head and saw Cassiu, and with a swing of his right hand, Cassiu was knocked to the ground.
Kasieu's head was dizzy, and in a trance, the giant grabbed him with both hands, pinching his bones and making his bones creak, and if he hadn't been wearing plate armor, the bones of his body would have been crushed.
"Cassiu!" Anderson shouted, he raised his crossbow, and the arrow shot into the giant's eye, and the giant threw Cassiu, covering his eyes, and slamming his uninjured left foot into the ground.
Kasiu fell to the ground and barely got up, and with courage he ran to the giant's right ankle, turned the two maces into two whips, and pulled them out with all his might, bringing out a piece of the giant's flesh.
"Run. He lost his combat effectiveness. Cassius turned his weapon back into a shield and sword and said, "Don't dwell on it for too long. ”
At Aldington, several Rangers had severed the joints of the remaining giants' legs.
'That's it, we're aiming for a breakout. Cassiu took a deep breath, pain all over his body, but he had to be patient.
Walking out of this giant fruit forest, the passage is wide enough, and there is a breeze blowing.
"It's the air that flows, and we're going in the right direction. Anderson exclaimed in surprise as he walked out of the passage first, "Here, my God, there's an underground palace here!"
The Rangers walked out of the passageway, stunned and stunned.
This underground palace is made of cement and rocks to form a road, and the area of the ground on both sides of the road is as large as the area of Thunder Castle, and the palace is surrounded by huge stone pillars as load-bearing beams, and the stone pillars are carved with strange patterns, which is very exquisite. What puzzled the Rangers even more was that there were iron chains around the place, and the underground river was flowing into the depths with a roar.
"Who made this?" Cassius knew no one could answer, but he asked anyway.
"Holy, how good is the giant's craft?" Anderson pointed into the distance, "Look, there are no disgusting bugs around the walls here." ”
Kasiu shook his head and said, "Look at the wall, those lights, is it fire?"
"It's torches!" Aldington was convinced, "someone built it, and the ventilation system, so there's torch lighting here." ”
The Rangers walked cautiously on the road to the end of the palace. The steps here are so wide that adult men have to walk four or five steps to complete a step, and each time they go up, they have to climb. Cassieu turns the shield into a stretcher, and the 2 Rangers carry Grant up, Grant begs to let him go and die here, and Aldington punches him and tells him that the Rangers don't give up on any of their brothers.
As the Rangers had struggled to the top of the steps, they pushed open the gate together.
"O Seven......! It's ......" Anderson's eyes widened, and he pointed ahead to see a huge chair made of rock, three stories high, with a huge crown carved into the back.
An oversized giant sits on a rock chair, his clothes are sewn from several animal skins, he holds a huge stone hammer, and in the center stands two rows of giants, but those giants are only 6 to 8 meters tall, in front of the oversized giants, like small children.
"If I'm not mistaken, it's the King of Giants. Cassius whispered, "Let's go along the perimeter, don't alarm them." ”
The giants seemed to be discussing something, and their voices sounded like thunder. No one could understand them. They split into two factions, glared angrily, and then moved on their hands. One of the giants knocked his companion to the ground with a punch, and he immediately beat the other. He picked up a stone axe on one side and split his opponent's shoulder. Now the giants were in a mess, pushing each other and slashing each other with weapons.
"I thought we humans were going to quarrel, but it turned out that the giants were pretty much the same. Anderson laughed, "Let's fight, it's best to kill each other." ”
At this time, the ground shook so strongly that it almost made Cassiu unsteady, he turned his head to look, only to see the king of giants holding a stone hammer, slamming the ground, the giants were arguing, the king of giants stood up, more than twice as tall as the other giants, almost 15 meters high, he swung the giant hammer, and sent the two giants flying, and another blow, knocking the other three giants away. He roared, his voice almost piercing Cassiu's eardrums.
The other giants fell silent, the king of giants said something, the gate opened on the left side of his palace, and the giants who were arguing with each other rushed out with weapons and shouting.
The Rangers came to the door, and the sun shone in.
"It turned out that this was the front door, and we kept wandering around the back door. Aldington sighed, "Let's go." The king of giants sat in his chair, as if he had not reacted at all. ”
The steps leading to the main entrance are still wide and must be climbed. The Rangers are finally coming out of the ground.
"We're out!" Anderson waved his hand, he turned his head, and two giants came down from the road above, and an axe split his upper body diagonally, and Anderson didn't even have time to speak, and fell to the ground.