()

Camp Dawn is located in a basin surrounded by mountains. [Chinese.com. The Starters]

The basin is wide in the east and narrow in the west, and is surrounded by steep straight cliffs tens of hundreds of meters high on all sides. Only to the south is there a meandering valley into the basin.

The valley is narrow, only more than four meters at its narrowest point and only seven or eight meters at its widest point. On both sides are 100-meter cliffs as straight as a cut, and when you walk in the valley, when you look up, you can only see the sky as narrow as a line.

A rudimentary level of civil structure, towering over the entrance to the valley.

This level is not high or big, and the city walls are even thinner, and it seems that any warrior of level four or five can tear it down with his bare hands. The valley mouth is less than six meters wide, and there are cliffs of tens of meters on both sides, and the terrain is originally very dangerous, and it is simply a waste of the excellent terrain of the valley mouth to build such a simple checkpoint here.

However, there are only a few hundred people in Camp Dawn, and most of them are old and weak, women and children, and there are no powerful magicians yet. With such a meager manpower and having to work hard every day for food, how can he have the ability to build a Xiongguan at the mouth of the valley?

In desperation, he could only build a simple small level as a comfort. If you really want to encounter a strong enemy attack, this small level can never be counted on, and at most it can only serve as a sentry.

At this moment, in this small level, only six warriors are guarding.

These six fighters are all one of the few professional soldiers in the Dawning Camp. But even if they are professional soldiers, their average strength is only two or three levels. They are all over forty years old, and they have long lost the potential to become stronger.

In the past, with their age and strength, they should have been discharged from the army a long time ago. But now, not to mention a few low-level veterans who have no potential, even older old men, even women and children, have to take up arms and fight when necessary.

The veterans are old, their strength is poor, and their equipment is seriously lacking. None of the six veterans were armoured or shielded, only a few rudimentary wooden shields.

In terms of weapons, the six men had only one bow, one hammer, two heavy swords, five spears, and two axes - these two axes were not yet professional battle axes, but only logging axes.

There is a serious shortage of all kinds of supplies in the Dawning Camp, and it is already very good to be able to equip the six veterans guarding the checkpoint with so many weapons.

It was nearly dusk, and the team leader in the checkpoint, a middle-aged man in his forties, stood behind the log wall, holding the wall in his hand, squinting and looking ahead.

Ahead is an overgrown wilderness, and a dozen kilometers past is a rolling mountain.

The rolling mountains belong to the Mulan Mountains, but of course they are only on the periphery of the mountains. There are no dangerous creatures, but they are not very abundant.

A while ago, the Dawn Camp often organized people to go there to hunt, and at the same time collect wild fruits, wild vegetables and edible plant roots to supplement food. But you don't get much out of each trip, and the more you go, the less you get from it. It is evident that the food resources in the outer mountains have gradually been depleted.

If you want to get more, you have to go deeper into the Mulan Mountains. With the vastness of the Mulan Mountains, it is not a problem for a small camp of a few hundred people to be fed by the output of the mountains. It's just that the Dawning Camp doesn't have the strength to exploit the resources deep in the mountains. With the current strength of the Dawn Camp, it can only revolve around the outskirts of the mountain range. A little deeper, it will cause casualties.

Just like the other day, there was a hunting team that chased a wild boar too far, too deep into the mountains, and ran into a poisonous python.

That poisonous python is not a demonic beast yet, but it is good at lurking and is poisonous. As a result, only one of the four-man hunting team came back alive. The man also had a broken arm, and he could no longer take part in the hunt, not even a heavier job.

After that accident, the camp did not organize a team into the mountains. In addition to the loss of manpower, but also because of the depletion of resources in the surrounding mountains, a trip into the mountains, the harvest is often not enough for the team to enter the mountains for a day's dry food, which is really worth the loss.

"I just hope that Lord Angelina will become strong as soon as possible." The team leader looked at the mountains in the distance, licked his dry lips, and thought to himself: "Lord Angelina is a divine bloodline, and she has obtained the guardian artifact of the great Prometheus, and she will soon become a real powerhouse. At that time, we will be able to develop the rich resources in the depths of the Mulan Mountains under the leadership of Lord Angelina. The women and children in the camp will never have to go hungry again......"

Just thinking of this, the team leader's pupils suddenly shrank, and his gaze suddenly froze.

At the same time, the longbowman in the squad, old Hank, who had the best eyes, exclaimed, "Someone is coming!" Boss, do you see that? There is a team...... There's a team of people who don't know what to do from the other side of the mountain! ”

The distance was too far for Old Hank, even if he was a sharp-eyed longbowman, to see all the details. He only vaguely saw dozens of small black dots coming from the side of the mountain towards the checkpoint, and the speed was quite fast!

Of course, the team leader saw the dozens of small black dots, he squeezed his fist hard, and said loudly: "Quick! Sam, release the letter eagle! Inform Lord Angelina that dozens of unidentified creatures are coming to the camp! At their rate, up to ......"

"Two minutes!" Old Hank quickly estimated the time when the other party rushed over, and at the same time counted the specific number of dozens of small black dots: "Fifty unknown creatures!" Arrive at the level in two minutes! ”

Sam, who was in charge of the letter eagle, quickly copied the information of the captain and old Hank onto a palm-sized wooden plaque with a quill. While Sam was transcribing the information, another veteran had already quickly removed the eagle from the cage and carried him to him.

After Sam finished copying the information, he tied the small wooden card to the eagle's leg, then picked up the eagle, touched its head, and said, "Go to Lord Angelina and bring the information to her!" With that, Sam threw the eagle with his hand, and the eagle, which was less than a foot long, spread its wings and flew up, flapping its wings twice, and soaring into the sky like lightning.

Releasing the Eagle, Sam grabbed a spear, lifted a wooden shield, and ran to the edge of the wall.

At this moment, the six veterans in the level had already rushed to the edge of the wall with weapons, lined up behind the wall, and stared nervously at the dozens of small black dots in the distance that were quickly coming in the direction of the level.

"It's so fast...... There was no sound of horses' hooves...... Not a cavalryman, who would run so fast in a hurry? Those guys, they can't be living corpses, right? A veteran muttered, a tremor in his voice.

"What, you're scared?" The team leader glanced at the veteran soldier and said lightly: "Even if it is really a living corpse, there are only fifty heads." As long as there are no living corpse warlocks among them, we six old fellows, it's easy to stop them. ”

It has been more than three months since the outbreak of the plague. The people who survived until this time basically knew a lot about living corpses. Know the various characteristics of the living corpses, and also understand their strengths and weaknesses.

The living corpses are indeed fast, but they only know how to go on a rampage, turning slowly and awkwardly. As long as you can avoid their face-to-face pounce, it is easy to deal them a fatal blow from behind.

Living corpses are not capable of sight, and rely on their sense of smell and hearing to catch their prey. As long as you hold your breath and stand still, even if you are only two or three meters away from ordinary living corpses, you can make ordinary living corpses unable to find them.

Therefore, in the Dawn Camp, even children know that ordinary living corpses are not terrible. As long as you are bold and careful enough, even a teenager can take advantage of the weakness of a living corpse and kill a living corpse one-on-one. Many of the children in the camp have single-handedly killed a living corpse.

As for the six veterans in the level, from the outbreak of the plague to the present, they have all killed at least twenty or more ordinary living corpses. There are only fifty living corpses, and they are really not taken seriously by the team leader. The six veterans in the level have the advantage of terrain to resist, even if they can't kill all the fifty living corpses, they can at least drag until reinforcements arrive.

The squad leader's calm and confident words made the tension in the veterans' hearts gradually fade. The old soldier who had just spoken smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "Hey, I haven't killed a living corpse in many days since I set up camp, and when I suddenly saw a living corpse, I became nervous for some reason...... The boss is right, what's there to be nervous about? There are six of us! All of them are veterans who are used to killing living corpses! ”

When the veterans heard this, they all laughed, and the only remaining bit of nervousness disappeared without a trace. Just as the veterans were in good spirits and gearing up to make a big move, Old Hank, the longbowman, suddenly said, "No...... Wrong! It doesn't look like it's a living corpse over there! It's not like that when a living corpse runs! ”

The fifty figures on the opposite side were getting closer and closer, and Old Hank could already faintly see their posture as they marched. Judging from their marching posture, there is a clear difference between them and living corpses - when the living corpses run wildly, their upper bodies will lean forward as best they can, and their arms will swing wildly, giving people the feeling of a fierce beast pounced. And normal people, no matter how fast they run, feel completely different.

"Not like a living corpse?" Hearing Old Hank say this, the team leader, who was originally calm and confident, not only did not relax, but his face changed greatly. He looked at Old Hank with a solemn look in his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Old Hank, you can see clearly, is it really not a living corpse?" ”

Old Hank shook his head bitterly and said, "I can be sure that it is definitely not a living corpse." ”

The veterans suddenly took a cool breath in unison, their faces changed greatly, and their expressions were bitter.

In the last days, the living corpse is not the most terrible. At least, ordinary living corpses that are not on a large scale are not terrible. What is truly terrible is the mob in the last days.

Most of the thugs who dare to attack their kind and commit evil in the last days have a certain strength. The post-apocalyptic thugs may not be too strong - the really strong can gather a group of people and set up a stable camp without having to loot everywhere - but they can't be too weak.

If those fifty people were really the post-apocalyptic thugs who tried to loot the Dawn camp, then their six veterans would only be a dead end. Those fifty people may not be the opponent of Angelina with an artifact, but the six veterans of them will not be able to support Angelina to come to the rescue under the attack of fifty post-apocalyptic thugs in any case.

"Guys, looks like we're going to die here today." The team leader took a deep breath and said with a wry smile: "Fortunately, Xinying has already released it. Otherwise, fifty thugs will storm the camp, and even if Lord Angelina can kill them all, the camp will be full of casualties......"

As he spoke, a loud eagle roared in the air. The veterans looked up and saw a big eagle hovering more than ten meters above their heads.

"Yes...... Warcraft! Feeling the strong aura inadvertently emanating from the big eagle, the veterans only felt numb in their hands and feet, breathing hard, and suddenly their faces showed despair.

At the same time, in the winding valley, Angelina held a sword in one hand and a divine shield in the form of a small shield in the other, running like a fly on the narrow path between the valleys, rushing towards the side of the level.