"Tuk Tuk Tuk~"

Rosen knocked on the outer wall of the carriage and asked, "Sister Mary, I just forgot to ask you, how is the girl?" Were you scared? ”

"My lord, she hasn't spoken......"

"I'm fine." The voice of the black-haired girl suddenly sounded: "I...... I've seen fire bombs made by alchemists in the north, and of course, they're nowhere near as powerful as yours. ”

The girl is articulate and speaks fluently, so there shouldn't be any big problem.

"Oh, if only I wasn't scared. You can recuperate in peace. Rosen was relieved.

He stood up, walked to the luggage rack behind the carriage, and took out first a bag of dry rations, and then three thick bear skins, one wrapped himself, one to Anne, and the other to the coachman.

Then he poured some grease on the ground next to the carriage, put a cotton cloth on top of the grease, lit it, and it became a bonfire for heating.

Sitting down by the campfire, Lawson rubbed his somewhat cold hands and patted the rocks beside him: "Annie, you can sit too." And John, come and sit too, it's warm here. ”

John came over and sat in the corner by the campfire, deliberately keeping a distance of nearly 2 meters from Rosen. It can be seen that he is in awe of Rosen.

Anne didn't move, she was still looking at the ghouls in the distance.

Lawson smiled: "Don't worry, those guys are frightened and won't dare to come again for a while." ”

Anne shook her head, wrapped the bear skin around her body, and walked over and sat down beside Rosen: "I'm not worried about these ghouls right now, I just think it's a little weird. ”

"Tell me about it." Lawson opened the bag of dry food, took out two large fried meatloaf from it and handed it to Anne, and threw another one to John, the coachman, and then knocked on the door of the carriage, and when the door opened, he handed three large meatloaf inside, and finally took out one of himself, and ate it with relish.

This fried meatloaf is a specially prepared staple food and is made of fine white noodles and is filled with tender pork ribs mixed with celery, chives, minced garlic, plenty of salt, and some monosodium glutamate that Lawson makes in his spare time. Finally, the chef of the Baron's Court will fry the wrapped patty with the best fresh olive oil, and finally the meatloaf will be fragrant, and when you bite into it, the aroma of delicious gravy and vegetables will fill the whole mouth, which is not inferior to the delicious taste of the earth.

When the meatloaf was ready, Baron Draco ate five large meatloaf in one go, saying that he had never eaten such a delicious patty in his life.

In addition, Rosen also deliberately used the power of alchemy to sterilize and disinfect the meatloaf, coupled with the low temperature in late autumn, which allowed these meatloaf to preserve the delicious taste for a long time, enough to support the group to rush to Berkeley, the free city.

John, the coachman, had begun to gobble up, and in the carriage little Alice was holding the meatloaf in her two small hands and nibbling quickly, because she ate fast and chewed slowly, her cheeks bulged, and she looked like a hamster all the time. The black-haired girl who hadn't moved much was also assigned one, she smelled the fragrance, tried to take a bite, her eyes lit up suddenly, and she said softly: "It's delicious~"

She immediately took another big bite.

Anne was also hungry, and ate a few large bites of meatloaf before she spoke: "According to my previous experience, ghouls basically have no brains, and they have no revenge mentality, and once they feel that their prey is tricky, they will run away from it. I can't understand why those guys haven't left. ”

Rosen was stunned, he didn't pay attention to this detail. Because in the game, the various monster models are very rough and not comparable to the real world. Therefore, although he is a master hunter in the game, his understanding of monster habits is far less than that of Annie, the aboriginal of this world.

Now when he heard Anne say this, he immediately became interested: "Why do you think this is happening?" ”

Anne had a look of worry on her face: "I don't know, but I can think of two possible reasons. Either that, or there's something in our convoy that has a huge attraction for ghouls. Either that, or maybe these ghouls are being restrained by some more powerful monster. ”

Hearing this, Lawson frowned slightly, he gulped the meatloaf clean, used the power of alchemy to remove the grease from his hands, and then picked up the binoculars and carefully observed the ghouls in the distance.

In the dim vision, these ghouls stay aimlessly in the wasteland, walking up and down from time to time, occasionally glancing in the direction of the carriage, but most of the ghouls spend most of their time in a daze.

This state does not look like a desire for prey at all.

"Could it be that they're waiting for us to let our guard down?" Rosen asked. Carnivores on Earth do this kind of crouching to guard their prey, wolves, hyenas, lions, and many other carnivores, running aimlessly around their prey, and when the prey is used to their prey, they will look for an opportunity to suddenly erupt.

Anne shook her head: "If it's monsters like werewolves, evil ghosts, and water ghosts, it's possible, but ghouls are absolutely impossible. It's a half-human, half-corpse monster with only the most basic devouring instincts. ”

After saying that, in order to increase the convincing power, she added: "My judgment is not only based on my own observation of the habits of ghouls, but also from the monster logs left by the pursuers in Holdberg. ”

Lawson was convinced, and he thought: "Hmm~ If it weren't for the sneak attack, then their current state would be a bit like they were waiting for someone, or something. ”

"Wait for ....... Wait a minute! Anne's face suddenly darkened.

"What do you think?"

Anne's face was worried: "I thought of a possibility, a very bad possibility. ”

As she spoke, a palpitation flashed through her golden eyes, "We may have entered the realm of some giant ghoul lord. ”

Rosen suddenly said: "Giant ghoul lord....... Oh~ It's really possible, it's fun now. ”

Ghouls are strange things, and as the amount of flesh devoured increases, there is a chance to evolve. Ghouls will evolve into giant ghouls that are larger, have barbs on their bodies, and are more intelligent. The giant ghoul continues to devour flesh and blood, and over time, its size, strength, and intelligence will further increase, with more spikes on its body, and a thick hard shell will grow on its skin, becoming the giant ghoul lord.

In terms of combat effectiveness, ordinary ghouls can fight against ordinary human five-person combat teams with their fearless fighting style and highly poisonous rancid pus, and giant ghouls can easily wipe out a 10-person combat team. As for the giant ghoul lord, together with the ghouls gathered by his men, it is possible to exterminate a town of Sunderland's size.

Anne whispered, "The territory of the giant ghoul lord can stretch for dozens of miles, and the number of ghouls under his command can be hundreds. Without lord restraint, the only result of nearly 200 ghouls coming together would be to kill each other, rather than fight together. This is enough to show that there is a giant ghoul lord in this area. ”

"Makes sense." Rosen nodded, and then asked, "Annie, do you think the Skybreaker Musket can pierce through the outer shell of the giant ghoul lord?" ”

He has only dealt with ordinary ghouls in the game, but he has not fought with the giant ghoul lord, and he does not know much about the power of the giant ghoul lord.

"I don't know." Anne gripped the hilt of the musket in her hand: "In the world of the Stalker, no one can single-handedly kill the giant ghoul lord, ordinary crossbows, guns, and swords are completely ineffective against this thing, and you must always be on guard against the poisonous spikes thrown from its body." According to the hunting records, more than 200 years ago, a giant ghoul lord with thousands of ghouls attacked a small town called Varano in the south, and trebuchets smashed hundreds of kilograms of boulders on it, only to smash it, and finally let it run away! ”

"You're talking about the night of the Varano massacre?" Rosen asked, this information came from the memories of the original owner of the body.

"Yes. That night, there was a massacre in the city, killing thousands of people, and the smell of corpses was overwhelming, which is why the ghouls attacked the city. After speaking, Anne lowered her voice and asked, "Lawson, if the giant ghoul lord is really here, do you want to use a secret weapon?" ”

Lawson pondered for a few seconds and said, "No need to say anything else, take it out and prepare it first." ”

"Okay."

Anne stood up, climbed onto the scaffolding beside the carriage, and reached out and removed a long strip of tarpaulin tightly wrapped from the shelf on the roof of the carriage.

When Anne returned to her side, Rosen reached into his arms, took out a palm-sized wooden box from his coat pocket and handed it to Anne: "Take it." ”

Anne carefully took the wooden box, looking like a devout disciple of the Northern Flame God Cult.