When dawn came, Meng Yang walked out of the humble wooden house where Gustav was.

In the open space outside the room, all the people in the entire gathering place stood here at this time, and the eyes of every woman, child, and old and weak fell on him.

Gustav had died the previous night, and before the other party died, Meng Yang, a stranger who had just arrived here, had been appointed as the head of the gathering place, and the resolution was passed with almost no hindrance.

One of the reasons is that the two most important people in the entire gathering place, the female shooter Phoenix and the healing power of Sheila, did not object, and the others would not disagree at this time.

Moreover, this gathering place has lasted for a long time, and there are almost no young and strong men, even if Meng Yang is an outsider, but for the people in this gathering place, as long as someone leads them, it doesn't matter who it is.

Meng Yang glanced at the crowd below, he probably already knew the situation in the entire camp, plus he himself now has a total of 58 people, of which the elderly and children add up to more than half, and the rest are women.

The reason for this situation is that on the day of the destruction of the City of Despair, most of the young men had already gone out to face the monster invasion, and only the old and weak women and children were protected. Of course, with the scale of the City of Despair, there should still be many remnants of human beings both inside and outside the city, but now that there are crises everywhere, it is not easy to communicate with each other.

"What are you going to do next?"

Female shooter Phoenix stood beside Meng Yang, looking at him calmly, wondering what he was going to do next.

For the female shooter, who has already experienced countless death scenes, it seems that the separation of life and death can no longer affect her strong nerves.

The final loss, like the first birth, is a necessity of life. The last sunset, like the first morning light, illuminates the world.

The dead are gone, only the living live on!

Meng Yang cleared his throat slightly, walked in front of everyone, and faced a group of old and weak women and children, he didn't know where to start for a while.

At this moment, suddenly the sound of a gong on the fortress wall suddenly sounded.

"Gnoll!"

"The gnolls have spotted us!"

An old man with gray hair shouted in a hoarse voice on the wall.

Almost immediately, Phoenix, the female shooter next to Meng Yang, jumped out, connecting her legs on the escalator and the raised footsteps by the wall, and went up to the wall in a few steps.

The old and weak women and children present were nervous, and the first reaction of the women was to take up weapons from each house, and there was no shortage of swords, clubs, and other things in the once desperate city, and they were also collected in the gathering places. One by one, the children spontaneously hid in a wooden gate in the deepest part of the fortress.

Meng Yang followed Phoenix's figure, and quickly climbed up the fortress wall through the escalator next to him, standing beside Phoenix, looking down.

On the street outside the fortress, two gnolls with six hunting jackals were looking at the place at this moment.

One of the gnolls had a black ball on his shoulders, as if he was smeared with something, Meng Yang could see clearly, this gnoll was the one who attacked him and Gustav, and was finally injured by Phoenix's arrow, and the black thing smeared on the other party's shoulder should be some kind of herb.

Next to the gnoll with a shoulder injury stood an even taller and stronger gnoll with a scar on his left eye, which looked hideous. Compared to the gnoll man next to him, he obviously had a higher status, not only was he wearing some kind of armor on his upper body, but he was holding an iron axe as a weapon.

"Roar!"

A roar came from the mouth of a jackal with a scar in the corner of his eye.

The six hunting jackals next to them immediately rushed out from the two gnolls, pounced around the wall outside the fortress, and spun left and right, trying to find a place to jump up.

The wall is actually very high, four meters high, which may not be difficult for a behemoth like a sawtooth tiger, but it is basically impossible to hunt an animal like a jackal, which is about thirty or forty kilograms.

But the hobbling and roaring of the six hunting jackals under the wall, as well as the tentative actions such as digging holes and jumping in search of obstacles from time to time, still put considerable pressure on the people on the wall.

Meng Yang had had brief contact with several hunting jackals before, and although he was not afraid of this canine that was similar to a dog, the string in his heart couldn't help but tense when he saw their attacking movements.

Boom!

A bowstring vibrated over the wall.

A hunting jackal that was digging in the soft soil under a wall let out a mournful "whoosh", and a feathered arrow shot down from above the wall, piercing the hunting jackal's neck and nailing it to the ground.

The other five jackals were instantly frightened by this scene, and they all took a few steps back, one by one, baring their fangs and roaring at the top of the city wall.

Seeing this, the scarred jackal at the head suddenly let out a low roar, and the five hunting jackals immediately quickly withdrew from the area near the city wall.

Then the two gnolls ignored the whimpering jackal under the walls, and quickly disappeared from the block in front of the fortress with five hunting jackals.

It was only before he left that the jackal, who had a scar on the corner of his eye, looked deeply at the position of the wall again, and then turned his head and left.

"We're in big trouble!"

On the city wall, Phoenix slowly put away the longbow in her hand, and for the first time, her face, which had been calm, showed a solemn expression.

"Didn't these gnolls retreat?" Meng Yang asked with some confusion.

"No!" Phoenix shook her head, "They'll be back." The gnolls who came here today should have followed the trail of our return yesterday and found this place, and we have killed several of the other party's hunting jackals, which is considered to be a grudge. ”

"And how many gnolls will come next time?" Meng Yang asked the question he was most concerned about.

"At least ten or more, if not more." "Gnolls live in packs, and a group may have 20-50 gnolls, and a dozen or so hunting jackals that live with them. Jackals with hunting jackals are usually their scouts or hunters, and if they encounter an invincible opponent or have a grudge, they will then dispatch the entire group. ”

"What about time?" Meng Yang asked again.

Phoenix paused slightly, then said slowly, "It's probably tonight." ”