A sword of bright light parted the rainy night, and from the bottom up, it lifted a skeleton with half a broken torso, flew into the air, and fell into the muddy water after a few turns.

The lion was tall, and the double-headed sword in his hand swept left and right, cutting a silver light in the group of skeletons. Causing these undead creatures to fall in pieces.

A few bone arrows flew in the darkness, but before they could get closer, a golden light mask lit up next to Red, and a faint web flowed, bouncing the bone arrows away. The paladin looked around, but saw a curtain of rain, and countless undead were hobbling around.

He stood still, his double-headed sword held high in both hands, chanted the name of the valiant lady Marlan, and thrust it into the ground.

Behind him, the golden light on the magic furnace was magnificent, and the aether magic overflowed from the main crystal, like countless golden points of light gathered on his blade, and slammed into the ground with his movements.

A dazzling web of light centered on the tall lionman spread out in all directions along the cracked ground, and then the golden flames broke through the soil layer and rose into the air, forming pillars of light one after another.

In the sea of light, countless undead disappeared. The glow reflected Rhett's fiery red mane, like a bright flame, and the brass ring above the mane exuded a clear light.

After clearing a clearing, the Holy Flame finally revealed the form of an elderly knight who had fallen to the ground. Attila dodged from behind Rhett to the other man's side, grabbed his arm, and picked him up.

"Be careful, Lady Elf." Red reminded behind her. Attila looked up, only to see several tall figures with spears looming behind the bushes not far away.

Skeleton Samurai.

Unlike those trash undead who were only two or three levels old, and as soon as they appeared, Atira recognized these elite undead who had been further strengthened by the dark negative energy, and their existence indicated that there might be high-level undead among these undead creatures.

For example, witch figurines.

The skeleton warrior stepped forward and hurled the bone spear at Attila, which let out a shrill roar and burst through the air, nothing like the floppy attacks of the bone racks that had preceded it.

But the elven girl only took a step back, and let the bone spear thrust at her feet.

About a few dozen meters behind her, the platform on the back of the Grey Ridge Negative Hill opened fire again, and the bullets grazed over her and the lionman's heads, raining down into the bushes like light. At close range, you can see that the Fortress Walker doesn't have a high hit rate, with only one shot hitting occasionally.

The bullet that hit slashed a golden arc of light on the black light breastplate of the skeleton warrior, and was bounced to the side, the skeleton warrior is a seventh-level undead creature, and the negative energy armor of the undead of this level, the flexible construction of the square plover is difficult to break the defense.

However, the impact force still had an effect, preventing the opponent from attacking. Parker fires a blasting bolt, the flames of the explosion once again blocking the path between the undead and the two, and Reid steps forward to take the knight from Attila and back away with the elven lady.

Neither of them intended to take advantage of the victory to pursue, because the undead in the forest were like an endless ocean, and it was impossible for human beings to defeat them.

Not many people in this world know the reason for the formation of the undead tide, which may be related to the rise and fall of negative energy under the abyssal sea. However, rioting undead often subside before daylight falls, and when the negative energy dissipates, it returns to dust.

But it's not without the kind of undead natural disasters that last for years, and once they erupt, they can turn thousands of miles into scorched earth. Even if it is an army, it is not easy to pay a lot to quell such a disaster, so adventurers usually choose to avoid the undead when they encounter them.

After Attila and Red brought back the unconscious tribune, Fang Plover ordered the pack beast platform to retreat. Just as they don't have a good way to deal with these undead, the same is true for the undead, and the armored pack beast platform can easily kill a few people in and out of the sea of undead.

Fang Yu watched them gradually break away from the main battlefield, and then turned around to ask Chris, if there was anyone else missing. But the latter couldn't say why—the lumberyard people had fled at the beginning, and they were just one of them.

In fact, his father stayed in the lumber yard, saying that he wanted to live and die with the lumberyard.

"My father is very stubborn, and everyone says he's an old man with a bad brain, and he must have been in Elpahim by this time." In Chris's description, everyone learned that the young man was the son of a lumberyard owner. The young man cautiously checked the condition of the tribune, who had been placed by Red on the Paparal's bed, one size smaller, but the big cat insisted that no one share a nest with him, as he called his clumped bed.

After discovering that the older knight had only fallen into a coma due to weakness and excessive blood loss, the young man breathed a sigh of relief, this injury was fatal to ordinary people, but for a knight of the tenth level, the self-healing ability was enough to deal with. "Lord Protector fought in the Battle of Byrne, and he died in the wolf plague the year before last, and I'm not sure if he has a chance to resurrect - in fact, I was supposed to stay and break off, but unfortunately I was too useless."

Fang Yu could only comfort him with two words.

Although Aitaria is skilled in magic guidance, there are more dangers in the wild than on Earth. There are many dangers lurking in the floating continent, such as the wave of undead without warning, but also large predatory creatures - such as rock sharks, mountain beasts, as well as active black-clad hunters, beast plagues and cult believers, and some mysterious natural disasters in the ruins, which cannot be changed by manpower, and can only migrate.

Most of the population was concentrated around the safer cities, and thanks to the help of the Adventurers' Guild and the Artisan Guild, the various mines and forest farms were manned.

Small villages and towns in the mountains and forests are the frontiers of civilization guarded by the followers of Marlan, Roman, and Aimea.

Fang Ou re-surveyed the battlefield with the clockwork elves, and confirmed that the number of undead in the west was small, and the lumberyard workers he had rescued earlier should have fled in that direction. It was only after consulting with others that he gave the order to turn the limestone westward.

In the meantime, they encountered a few more skeletons, but these low-level undead were simply free experience, even if a few skeleton warriors broke through to the front, they were not everyone's opponents.

The first time Fang Yu saw Sylvid's maid make a move, Xie Sista used a halberd combat equipment that could fire hook spears as a weapon, and the magic furnace was a professional type of warrior magic furnace, but it seemed to be a customized version, and Fang Yuan didn't recognize the model.

After a few encounters, Fang Yu felt a toothache.

He found the Fortress II Walker to be a fairly formidable and flexible build, but there's a reason why the Combat Tinkerer didn't like it. It seems that the gains outweigh the losses of using this thing to fight two or three level monsters, but when the level is high, its attack power can't be beaten-a skeleton on a tabula rasa only has more than ten points of experience when it falls to a person after deducting the level penalty and team division.

And a special magic bullet costs several Lissels, and he calculates it according to half the ammo base for each encounter, and it costs more than a thousand yuan to fight a battle. And the experience in hand is only a few hundred, even if the experience is bought, it is not so expensive.

Moreover, the crystal charge of the magic guide gun is very troublesome to reload, and it requires special tools, and he basically doesn't have to think about loading that set of tools with a pack beast. Fang Yu didn't think about it so much when he was preparing, but when he looked at it after the fight, he found that half of the ammunition he had prepared had been used.

That's the root of his toothache -

Fortunately, before dawn, the frequency of the undead decreased significantly, and gradually became sporadic and sporadic . Fang Yu simply took the Type II walker back into the utility room, and the damage to the structure from the battle in the rain was not small, and he checked it, and the average wear and tear of the four structures was above ten percent.

Before the wee hours of the morning, the forest was completely silent.

The negative hill beast walked through the forest for more than ten minutes, but did not encounter a skeleton again, and everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Sky Blue was a little curious, and couldn't help but ask the others, where did those undead go?

The lionman stroked his mane and told her in a serious manner, "The undead will bury themselves with a layer of earth before dawn." Do you see this fertile forest, little girl, whose dark ground is nourished by bones. ”

The lion man struck a match, reflecting his somewhat grim face, and he lit his pipe with the flame, then threw it away.

A spark arced and sank into the darkness.

“…… That's why the locals call this forest the Land of Bones, and if you listen closely, you can even hear the wails of the wraiths in the wind. ”

Tianlan imagined the scene of the bone-covered scene under the land where she was standing, and her hair stood on end in fright. She hurried to ask Chris, how dare they live in such a horrible place.

Unexpectedly, Chris was confused and told him that the locals called this place the Doryphin Point Forest, and Doryphin Point is the long headland that stretches from Short Bay to the empty sea. As for what the Land of the Dead is, he said he hadn't heard of it.

Of course, out of respect for the Lionman - the young man also said that his family had lived here for only a dozen years, and he did not know what history there was before, and perhaps Mr. Lion knew the place better than he did, because the knights of Marland always had a special sense of smell for the undead.

But Tianlan is not a fool, where does he not know that he has fallen into evil, and angrily goes to the paladin on the spot to theorize. As a result, Red said that he was not lying, and although he didn't know why there were so many undead in this place, he did give him the answer with the lionman's wisdom, that is, the mysterious voice of the underworld.

Tianlan was stunned for a moment and asked, "Is the mysterious voice in the dark an oracle of Lord Marlan?" ”

Red took a puff of his cigarette and puffed it out of his big nose, letting the smoke envelop him. He held his pipe in one hand, pointed at his head with his paw in the other, and shook his head gently, "No, it's here." ”

"Wisdom?"

"No, it's imagination."

"Die, Mr. Big Cat!" Azure screamed angrily and kicked over.

"Hahaha." Parker on the side hugged his stomach and laughed backwards and forwards, and then simply fell to the ground and rolled around. Atila, who was caring for the wounded, lifted him by the back of the neck with a blank face and threw the struggling little fat man out.

The others were also driven out, and Fang Yu himself was implicated, he stepped out of the house and took a deep breath, outside it was the darkest hour before dawn, and the silent forest was waiting for the first rays of dawn to come.

He stretched out his hand, the rain almost stopped, and when he looked back, he saw a tall trainee boy wearing an oilcloth cloak, lying on the roof and nailing nails.

When Luo Yu saw a few people, he took out the long iron nail in his mouth and greeted them with some silence: "Good morning, Mr. Red, Ed." ”

"What about me?" The Paparals jumped with their hands raised.

"You're good, Parker."

"Haha." The little one was very proud.

"You'll have to fix it up this time," Sky Blue looked up, not forgetting to teach him earnestly. "At least it can't leak anymore, you know what, the rain almost hit my bed yesterday and I'm going crazy."

Luo Yu didn't refute, only nodded.

Fang Yu thought more and asked, "Is the loss big?" ”

Luo Yu shook his head, he grabbed a bone arrow and threw it out of the platform. "It's okay, it's just a few arrows, just fill the gap. The point is that it's the same battle two days ago, and I'll figure out how to fix the drawbridge when the weather clears. Also, Mr. Limestone steered too many times at high speed last night, and I can't be sure if it affected the load-bearing structure of the bracket and the Guy Crystal, so I need to wait for confirmation. ”

"If there's a problem with the bracket or the load-bearing system, do we have to stop?" This was exactly what Fang Yu was concerned about, and he couldn't help frowning. "If it's going to be repaired, how long will it take?"

"It's not good to repair it in a week or two," Luo Yu shook his head: "This kind of work is best to have a special workshop and crane to lift the platform, especially if the bracket is broken, so daily inspection is more important." ”

Fang Yu nodded when he heard this. He walked over to the front saddle bridge and inspected a mechanical box there, which was the core of the platform, and the pipe below attached to the back of the pack beast connected to the buoyancy generator of the front and rear two Guy Crystals, the box contained the main crystal, and the instrument panel on it showed the status of the entire system.

Inspecting this thing used to be one of Luo Yu's daily tasks, but since he came, it naturally fell to him, a professional alchemist. Fang Yu looked at the data on the meter, most of them were normal, only the magic meter was a little problematic, he let go of the goblin to the bottom of the platform to check the working status of the magic storage crystal there, but found that it was okay.

It seems that something is wrong with the dashboard itself.

Obviously, the previous night's battle still had a more or less impact on the platform.

This is also because the platform is too heavy, and the wooden structure is not solid, if it were not for the Guy Crystal device that could act as a buffer, the bumps of Mr. Graystone's daily walk alone would have caused it to fall apart. And even so, the high-load movement will still have a great impact on the precision instruments above.

If only there was Tasya technology.

Fang Yu had a vague idea in his heart, but he couldn't schedule it for the time being. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but scratch his head, as if this adventure group had been busy with things to deal with since its establishment.

After a few minutes or so, the eastern sky finally turned white, and the first rays of morning light pierced through the forest. At this time, Chris at the lookout saw the workers of the lumber yard where they had fled earlier, and they seemed to have gathered the other refugees, and when they met the plover and others again, there were many more people than before.

And when these people saw the tall figure of the Gray Ridge Negative Hill Beast, they all stopped and saluted in this direction. Of course, the workers remembered the previous night and knew that these men had saved them.

Seeing this, Fang Plover simply asked Attila to stop the pack beast in advance, and the crowd gathered one after another, Chris was the first to jump down, and the workers couldn't help but burst into exclamations when they saw him.

When they heard that the chief protector was fine, their exclamations turned into cheers, and when Fang Yu went down, he was treated like a hero. I don't know whose girl ran up and kissed him secretly, which made him blush for a long time, causing a burst of laughter.

He looked back, just in time to see Sylvid smiling at him on the platform—

After this little episode, the uneasy atmosphere in the crowd that began to dissipate a lot, in fact, since most of the people still have Starlight, the damage from last night's attack was actually not much, but many people complained that the lumberyard owner there was too stubborn. Of course, it was Chris's father, who didn't mind - it was just that after a tiring night, the young man sat in the crowd looking a little tired.

After checking around the perimeter, Fang Yuan turned around and found him, the former still had some doubts about what happened last night, so he asked Chris privately what happened last night.

Naturally, he wasn't sky blue and wouldn't have listened to Red's exaggerated descriptions. The scholars of Aitalia have long proven that the undead are not what people thought long ago—moving bones and corpses, or souls.

The undead are only the product of the combination of negative emotions and the dark ether - negative energy, and the bones, decay and withering are only the manifestations of death itself, it is not the other side of the human after death, and it does not leave any memory of life. The undead do not even possess a real physical existence, and when the negative energy dissipates, they naturally return to dust.

But the negative energy gathered in this forest is somewhat beyond Fang Yuan's imagination, and judging from what he saw last night, except for the relatively few high-level undead, the others are basically enough to reach the threshold of disaster.

Where does the negative resentment of so many dead people come from? As Attila said, there are no ancient battlefields around here.

Chris listened to Fang Yuan's question, rubbed his eyes, and asked a little uncertainly: "Don't you know, don't you know, these undead should all be from the abandoned town." ”

"Abandoned town?" Fang Yu was stunned: "Dorifen? ”

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