Chapter 56: The Swarm and the Caravan
After leaving the underground, Kane found it difficult to get back.
After walking a hundred kilometers southeast in two days, they didn't even see a hole in the ground, indicating that this thing is not as ubiquitous as Mario's water pipes.
Only those who are unlucky will be dragged underground, and apart from man-made, there are not many people who fall into the ground.
The inner layer of the carapace bit down on the flesh so hard that Kane fell to one knee in pain.
Keisha, who was a few steps away, immediately came over to help him up, and Kane waved his hand to say he was fine.
Skinnail was hungry, and the pain drove Kane to get it something to eat.
Now, even if a disgusting-looking blind reptile emerges from the rock, Kane won't hesitate to grab it and devour it.
"How are you feeling?" Kane asked Keisha.
"Better than you." She laughs.
It is very common to have a stinging in the skin and nails, it hurts when you are hungry, it hurts when you find an enemy, and sometimes it hurts even if you say the wrong thing......
Although Kane was able to stop the sting with the Abyssal Eye, he would soon recur, and he simply ignored it.
They were used to the fact that the hunger would last for days without any real harm to the human body, and she was sure they would soon find food.
The two continued to advance in a southeasterly direction, and finally walked out of the border of the Shurima Desert and entered the desert area.
In the vast desert, the two of them saw some living plants—stubborn ferns that were so low that they were lying on the ground, their tiny leaves a deep dark green, sparsely scattered across the golden earth.
Kane breathed a sigh of relief, and if he walked further, he might see plants like cacti or even peach trees.
He was about to say something of encouragement to Keisha when he heard a strange voice from far behind him.
Buzzing...... He was familiar with the sound, he had heard it in himself, it was the sound of insects flapping their wings.
But the sound was very dense, as if a plague of locusts had passed through.
He and Keisha turned to look behind him in unison, a hill obscuring the view, but the sound grew louder and louder.
The speed of approach was fast, and with it the sound of wheels and whips, but not as loud as the flapping of wings, like a leaf floating in a torrent.
Immediately afterward, Kane saw a scene that looked like an action movie.
Two camels pulled a caravan from the highest point of the hill, smashing it down and down the slope at a rapid pace.
Immediately afterwards, there was a black and oppressive cloud of insects, hundreds of Milos flew in the sky, biting their jaws and waving their big crows, chasing the prey below.
The woman sitting in the driver's seat outside the carriage shook the whip so hard that the camel pulling the cart ran for its life in pain. The carriage seemed to be carrying people, and from time to time it shot a decent arrow from the window, knocking down one or two of Milos.
But this does not help in the whole.
"Mom! There are not enough arrows! A child's shouting came from the carriage, and it seemed to be younger than Keisha.
"Oil bottles! Cabinet on the left! Hold on, we must run through them! The woman outside the carriage shouted, and several more whips rang out, and the caravan suddenly accelerated forward, and the sound of cans clattering and the clatter of little boys falling could be heard from inside.
Then, from the carriage, incendiary arrows wrapped in tarpaulins were shot into the swarm of insects in the sky.
Several flaming Milos beetles fell from the sky and landed on the sand fluttering, emitting the smell of burning chitin.
The swarm finally flew over the caravan, and they fell, and there was a thud from a body the size of a hound's on the roof of the shed. More beetles landed on the roof of the shed, and the wooden wagons creaked under the weight of the giant insects.
"Hold on!" The woman shouted, then jerked to shake off some beetles.
More beetles landed on the car, and the big ao broke through the beams of the roof of the shed, and the children in the car screamed.
The caravan shook and bumped, like a boat in a stormy sea, and it looked like it was about to roll over.
The struggle of mother and child to survive makes Keisha feel compassion, but natural selection is the law of nature.
It didn't involve the Void, and she didn't know if she should make a move.
"If you want to save it, you can save it." Kane noticed that Kesha's body was tense and ready to move, so he went over and patted her on the back.
"But ......"
"But what? Indecision is not like you. Keisha, if you're worried about scaring people or being misunderstood, don't look forward to it...... Yes, you're just hungry, you're targeting the beetles, saving people or something. But if those people are scared away, then their stuff is ours. ”
Kane's words make Kesha's eyes light up, and she finds a reason to convince herself!
"Thank you! I'm going to hunt for you. She kissed Kane on the cheek, then put on her helmet and turned into an afterimage and rushed towards the swarm.
Kane snorted, put on his helmet and vibrated his wings and flew away, rushing in the direction of the caravan.
Keisha stabbed the swarm like a sharp knife, her shoulder pod spewing out swirling missiles that whistled down a dozen or so Milos beetles, their hard chitin shells melting in purple flames, emitting scorched smoke.
When Kane arrived, the caravan was overwhelmed by the swarm.
He swooped down and pierced the head of a Milos trying to burrow through a hole in the roof of the shed as he tried to burrow through a hole in the cabin. Then they stood at the top of the caravan to clean up the giant insects attached to the carriage, and the siblings in the carriage nervously looked up at him in a carapace through the hole in the roof of the caravan.
He cleaned the beetles outside the carriage one by one, and then Kane found that he only had to stand on the roof of the car, and the subsequent swarms would not dare to approach him due to the terrifying aura that emanated from him.
He didn't have a good way to kill enemies in the air, so he stood next to the car and paddled the water, and even took off his helmet to greet the siblings in the car, which surprised them.
Keisha alone is enough to encompass an entire swarm, and her attacks are highly effective against these fragile ordinary lifeforms, and she can move at high speeds while maintaining her head, and each round of Acacia Rainstorm can accurately shoot down more than a dozen Milos beetles.
The beetles swooped down on her at the same time, but they couldn't even touch the corners of her clothes. She suddenly disappeared out of invisibility, and then the next moment she appeared more than ten meters away, the flashing figure was even more ghostly than a ghost, and then a pair of fist blades spewed out blue-purple flames, incinerating the swarm of insects.
In less than two minutes, the burning corpses of giant insects were piled up around the caravan, and more than a hundred Milos were killed without leaving any of them.
Keisha panted as she walked over to Kane, and she saw the siblings crawl out of the carriage and stand in a pile of strange bottles and cans looking at her in surprise.
Their mother walked up to her and bowed deeply to her and Kane in turn.
"You saved us," she said. "We are grateful."