"One hundred and twenty steps, release the arrow!"

Suddenly, a shout sounded in Xiao Jinxing's ears, and a row of dazzling rockets appeared in his eyes and soared straight into the sky.

The rockets streaked hundreds of red arcs of light through the dark air, inserting them into the front of the creep as they approached.

Obviously, the arrows weren't meant to be an attempt to kill the Creeps, but rather for range-finding purposes. Of course, this is also because the bows and arrows of the Huaxu people can only shoot this distance at the farthest.

"One hundred steps, shoot the arrow!"

With another shout from the commander of the command, hundreds of rockets shot from the wall to the grassland outside the city with red light. By this time, the worm had already passed through the wall of fire formed by the first rocket stuck in the ground.

In the eyes of Xiao Jinxing and the others, those walls of fire seemed to have no other purpose except to make the figure of the worm more obvious, and even in the running of the worm, those rockets were also hit and trampled out.

Xiao Jinxing looked around, he didn't have the back hand of the Huaxu people, and he was a little confused about the purpose of their ranging. Are they just trying to see the creeps outside the city?

The worms slowed down as they reached a hundred paces with their shields in hand, and they seemed to wonder why the rain of arrows that had been so violent during the day had turned into several non-threatening rockets at night, and they were always inaccurate.

Either way, the tension of being on guard against a rain of arrows from the sky faded away as the worms slowed down and raised their shields.

"Eighty steps.

Last ranging. ”

The voice of the herald leader appeared again in the quiet city, and at the same time once again attracted Xiao Jinxing's attention.

Sure enough, it was clear from the words of the herald soldier that the Huaxu people released the rocket for ranging measurement. So what are these Huaxu people going to do next?

Confused, Xiao Jinxing stared closely at every movement of the archers on the city's head, guessing what they were about to do.

After a dozen breaths, Xiao Jinxing was about to see if the worms under the city wall were about to throw wooden spears, when he suddenly heard the hoarse shout of the herald leader:

"Fifty steps, all arrows!"

The sound resounded like a thunderclap in the quiet of the night, and then all the bow-bearers in the city took out their rockets from their quivers and shot them down.

The eyes of Xiao Jinxing and the others followed the trajectory of hundreds of rockets to the fifty steps that the worm man was about to arrive.

However, the rockets were stuck in the ground again, and they didn't seem to be any different from the previous ones, except that there were significantly more of them.

After the rocket was fired, the city wall suddenly returned to a dead silence. Everyone stared blankly at the place where the row of rockets was inserted.

Even the archers forgot to take the next arrow from the quiver and set it on fire.

The Wriggling once again stepped over the wall of rockets in front of everyone's gaze, and kicked the arrows to the ground.

Xiao Jinxing looked strangely at the wall of rockets and arrows that the worms were about to sweep through, and then at the Hua Xu warriors who were in extreme tension but still stared at the wall of fire and forgot to change the spearman.

It seems that the Huaxu people have some plan to fail. Xiao Jinxing just thought of this, but heard a loud noise outside the city.

Xiao Jinxing felt the city wall under his feet shake violently like an earthquake for several breaths, and his pale face became even paler under the shaking.

With Xin'er's support, Xiao Jinxing stretched out a hand and grabbed the wall in front of him, which gradually stabilized his figure.

"Boom."

Except for those Huaxu people who seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, the other people on the city wall looked surprised and shocked, watching the loess under the feet of the wriggling people outside the city all exploded in an instant.

There seems to be a strong force underneath the ground, and all the worms and shields on it have been lifted into the sky.

Not only that, the loess also brought out a large amount of black liquid when turned out, and these liquids "boomed" together with the attached soil when they encountered an open flame.

The firelight shot straight into the sky, illuminating the grassland outside the city like day, and the fireworks were even more dazzling, causing everyone to open their mouths one after another, and their faces were extremely shocked.

"Earthfire?"

Xiao Jinxing looked at the earth, flames and worms falling from the sky, and muttered in his mouth.

"Brother, what is Earthfire?"

Xin'er, who was also pale beside Xiao Jinxing, looked outside the city and asked in horror, obviously it was Fang Cai's movement that made her feel terrified.

"Earth fire is a fire that is said to exist in the far west, which can incinerate all things in the heavens and the earth.

Although this is an exaggeration in the description of false rumors, there are indeed some caves of earth and fire that have endured for thousands of years.

These caves of fire were first discovered by chance by herdsmen who were looking for lost cattle and horses and stumbled upon caves that people had never touched before, and discovered that there were burning flames underground.

Although no one knows how these caves of earth fire were formed, it was gradually discovered that there was often some black fire oil next to the caves where the earth fire burned.

It's just that the oil is hidden deep underground, and it's also in the heart of the Creeper Lair.

You also know that it has always been a forbidden area for humans and animals, so not too many of this kind of fire oil have been unearthed, and not many people know about the existence of this thing. But they didn't expect that the Huaxu people would bury the fire oil in the ground, and the amount was so amazing.

This is not something that can be done in a year and a half.

Could this be Ruga's killer feature? ”

Xiao Jinxing explained to Xin'er as he looked at the unusual silence inside and outside the wall with a little emotion and thought deeply.

"Brother, are you saying that the Huaxu people have been preparing for a long time to fight against the worms?

Then why do they still listen to the will of that god, why do they send their own people to the Worm Temple every year, why do they refuse the invitation of your brother to fight against the Worms? ”

Xiao Jinxing, who was deep in thought, shook his head when he heard this, his heart seemed to be about to think of something, but he was still at a loss, and it seemed that he couldn't understand anything.

"Although there have been allusions since ancient times, such as lying on the salary and tasting courage, enduring for decades and then taking preemptive action, it is really incredible and admirable that a person like the Huaxu clan can endure for five or six hundred years, and the price they have paid is too great."

As he spoke, Xiao Jinxing and Xin'er were silent together.

Outside the city, there were raging fires burning all over the city, and with the blessing of those black earth fire oils, these fires burned more and more, and spread along with the cold wind and the whole grassland.

In addition to many of the invulnerable worms in the firelight, many of whom were torn to death by the initial explosion of the earth's fire, there were also many of them contaminated with fire oil and turned into moving torches, howling, running, rolling, and roaring in the grassland.

There are also more than 100 worms on fire

ran hard in the direction of the black water. But in the eyes of everyone in the city, those burning worms fell to the grassland one by one before they reached the black water, and could no longer move.

Seeing that most of the worms were wiped out by the earth fire in an instant, the people in the city did not show the slightest cheer. For everyone saw that more than three hundred survivors had gathered under the walls, but they were full of murderous aura.

They were the lucky ones who were the first to step through the fire area because of the delayed explosion of the earthfire, and some of the survivors who were buried in the explosion and struggled to get out of the dirt but just happened to avoid the earthfire oil.

But at this time, they were creeping beasts and monsters that had been completely enraged with a little cold light in their eyes.

In front of everyone's eyes, one of the more than 300 wrigglings walked out of the largest and suddenly let out a loud roar at the people on the city wall.

This roar reached the ears of everyone in the city, and it immediately made people shudder.

But this was only the beginning, and then more than 300 wrigglings behind him let out a deafening roar at the same time, which mixed with the sound of fire burning behind them, causing nearly 100,000 people of the tribe who heard it to hold their breath at the same time, with fear on their faces.

In a yurt in the center of the tribe, which seemed to have been uninhabited for a long time, an old man raised his head in the darkness and moved his gaze in the direction of the black water. There was a loud explosion and the subsequent roar of the wriggling, turning the old man's gaze from antiquity to disappointment.

"It seems that the Mandate of Heaven is really not here with the Huaxu people."

Just now the fire burned and burst out with such a large amount of energy, even a thousand worms were not killed and burned, it seems that he still underestimated the ability of the worms, and overestimated the careful preparation for so many years.

She frowned slightly, sighed softly, lowered her head again, closed her eyes and merged with the darkness around her again.

"Quick, the worms are going to the city, change the guard, change the guard. The spearmen came to the front. ”

With a loud shout from the roar, everyone in the city woke up from the shock.

Then the spearmen with extra-long spears hurriedly replaced the archers in the front line, and poked their spears under the city to prepare to deal with the worms who were about to climb the city.

Xiao Jinxing frowned when he saw this, these worms didn't have ladders and other things in their hands, how could they climb the city?

With doubts, Xiao Jinxing looked fixedly, only to see that the worms under the wall picked up wooden spears from their feet and threw them out towards the city.

Originally, it was expected that the worms would throw their spears at the head of the city like the white sun, but what people didn't expect was that the trajectory of these wooden spears flew out of the city instead of running towards the city, but deep into the earthen city wall.

Apparently, the Creeps were trying to erect a fixed ladder on the city walls.

Seeing this scene, not only did Xiao Jinxing feel that his hairs stood on end, but even those Huaxu people didn't expect that the worms would make such a move, and in a hurry, they hurriedly used the spears in their hands to resist the wooden spears inserted in the wall and wanted to poke them off the wall.

But the strength of the Wriggling Man's hand was something Xiao Jinxing had taught, and how could those wooden spears that were deeply inserted into the city wall be easily destroyed so easily.

Although many soldiers joined the ranks of destroying the wooden spears, Xiao Jinxing was desperate to see that those wooden spears did not move at all under the destruction of everyone's joint efforts.

By this time, the worms had already arrived under the city walls with lightning speed, ready to climb upward.