Chapter 31: The Scavenger (What to do~)
After ending his conversation with the Star Spirit Phase Technician Kelles, Xue Hua reconnected with Stokoff, who had been on standby.
He ordered the fleet commander to leave some of the Mother Worms and the Swarm ground forces to guard the Star Spirit Colony, and all the rest of the fleet immediately began to attack the location of the next beacon.
At the same time, he also told him not to bring back the things on the Star Spirit Colony for the time being, and to stay there for the first time, if Kyles finally agreed to cooperate with the swarm, then these things could obviously play a greater role in his hands.
After issuing the order to the fleet, Xue Hua quickly rushed back to the caravan on the cockroach, and at this time, it was also the time for the caravan to start a new day's journey.
After knowing the distance left between them and Lu Gaoyin last night, Xue Hua was no longer in a hurry, but began to enjoy this rare leisure time.
The level of danger that separates the desert and the mysterious sand dunes is not at all an order of magnitude, and no one knows why those magical creatures that can resist even the pollution and summoning of the forces of hell live in that mesa.
Anyway, since the caravan entered the partition desert, the expressions on the faces of everyone in the team were noticeably relaxed.
And it turned out that in this vast and huge desert, there was really nothing that could threaten such a huge caravan.
Occasionally, one or two waves of monsters attacked, and they were also regarded as a good opportunity for professionals and guards to make extra money, and they were all cleaned up.
In such a leisurely atmosphere, the caravan safely walked out of the partition desert and entered the gravel wasteland area.
Unexpectedly, however, after leaving the no-man's land that separates the desert and entering the rubble wasteland, the caravan is in trouble.
Those troubles come from those scavengers in the air.
This is a giant bird monster that looks a lot like a vulture.
It is said that they were actually vultures that can be found everywhere in the desert before they were polluted by the energy of hell.
Not only did these already hateful-looking and vicious birds become more difficult to provoke after being polluted by the energy of hell, but even under their wings, a pair of twisted and sharp hands and arms have grown!
This monster is able to fly very high, so high that only a small black dot can be seen on the ground.
At this height, only high-level professionals above fifty or sixty levels had the ability to knock them down.
Those little rookies in the caravan who were twelve or thirteen, at most fifteen or sixteen, couldn't reach them anyway.
Moreover, the attack method of this monster is also extremely disgusting, which is completely different from the stupid bird virtue in the game that falls and faces your liver.
They will swoop down over your head when you're not looking, then scratch at you with the extra pair of sharp claws on their chests, and try to grab your shoulders, take you high into the air and throw you down.
And the most disgusting thing is that it will attack not only people, but also caravanserais.
This was the first time Xue Hua had seen a hell monster that dared to take the initiative to attack the beast of burden.
Generally speaking, with the huge size of pack beasts and the brute strength of their anger, ordinary monster projections are simply not enough for them to step on.
But scavengers are aerial monsters, so even though the pack beasts are covered in cuts all over their bodies, they have no choice but to run around with a scream, trying to avoid their attacks.
However, it didn't matter if they ran, the formation of the caravan was immediately scattered by them.
In desperation, Varif ordered the caravan to halt its advance and put all ranged attackers on top of the caravan to defend themselves against the large vultures that rushed down.
Then, he would run into Xue Hua's caravan and ask him to take out those annoying scavengers.
Xue Hua didn't want to directly use the alien dragon to kill all these annoying things.
On the first day the caravan was attacked by them, he sent the dragons to do just that.
But what he didn't expect was that these ghost things were really cunning, and some of them didn't even look like unintelligent monster projections.
Whenever the dragons appeared on the battlefield and began to slaughter them, the scavengers would scatter and flee, and Xue Hua would order the dragons to disperse and pursue.
But once these strange birds found that they could not escape the pursuit of the dragons, they simply stopped running, stopped on the spot, and launched a suicide attack on the dragons.
In this way, this time the scavenger attack was resolved, but in less than two hours, another group of scavengers of the same number would reappear in the sky above the caravan to continue the "unfinished business" of their "ancestors".
Xue Hua had sent the group of dragons dozens of times in just two days after entering the gravel wasteland, so that he would simply let the dragons patrol the caravan's air later.
But when the dragons patrolled the caravan's airspace, the disgusting things didn't come from above, but skimmed the sand at low altitudes, and then landed on the outskirts of the caravan, relying on two feet to come and attack the caravan from land.
And since no one could have imagined that these monster projections would suddenly come with them, all the guards were on the roof of the car, and it wasn't until the scavengers rushed into the middle of the camp that the night watchman around the campfire spotted them.
This kind of harassment tactic simply annoyed Xue Hua and Varif and others, but because they couldn't find where their nests were, they couldn't catch them all.
"Varref, haven't you ever been in this situation before?"
Xue Hua watched the group of stinging snakes around him shoot out overwhelming spiny needles to beat more than a dozen scavengers in the sky into a sieve, before he lowered his head, rubbed his swollen temples, and looked at Varif standing on the roof of the car with a headache expression.
"I've met... Each time, all of them had to shrink into the caravan and let the pack beast drivers rush with all their might... And every time, a mad beast of burden rushes into the desert with a slow carry......"
Variif tilted his head, squinted at the blue sky, and replied helplessly as he watched to see if there were any other black spots.
"As long as you want to walk on this trade road, everyone has to pass this hurdle... We generally refer to this area as the Westbound Tax Payment Station. ”
He jumped off the top with a helpless smile on his face, obviously used to this kind of thing.
"Well... So how long will it be before we get out of this damn 'tax station'? ”
Xue Hua rolled his eyes and saw the principals of the other two caravans coming from the rear of the convoy, then pouted and retracted the stinging snake into the Leviathan.
"Come on, we've been in the gravel wasteland for two days, and we're only two days away from the city of Lugoin... I reckon we will be able to reach the first checkpoint on the trade route set up by Rogoin this afternoon. ”
Variv also saw the two principals, so he smiled at Xue Hua and turned to meet him.
"Hey... It's finally here... Blizzard made games back then, how much work did it save~"
Xue Hua looked at his back and exhaled, and ran towards his caravan on a cockroach.
However, no sooner had the cockroach run to the caravan than an Amazon, standing on the roof of the caravan, shouted loudly.
"Scavengers! Substantial! Hundreds of them are estimated! Get ready to defend! ”
"Damn! Is this a premonition that we are about to get out of their hunting range, and are we ready to go out and make a big move? ”
Xue Hua scolded loudly, and when he looked up, he saw that dense black dots were rapidly approaching them from the sky on the north side of the caravan.
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