On Earth, vultures can smell carrion from tens of kilometers away.

In this world, ghouls are more sensitive to carrion, and once the corpse is exposed in the wild for more than 1 hour, the smell will be smelled by ghouls within a radius of nearly 100 miles.

If it's overcast, or if it's just night, the ghouls will rush to the scene like sharks smelling blood.

Ghouls have even earned the nickname 'Battlefield Scavenger'.

Now, Rosen's carriage was in the wasteland, more than forty meters in front of the carriage and more than twenty corpses were lying there, and the sun had set again, and the arrival of the ghoul was completely expected.

Rosen didn't bother to inspect the scene any longer, he immediately turned around and strode back towards the carriage.

He was already running with all his might, but he was still not fast enough, and his steps rushed less than 10 meters, and there was a sudden sound in the grass on the left side of his body, and a black shadow swooped down on him with a pungent stench.

Lawson didn't have time to think about it, the muzzle of the spiral troll turned sharply, and the power of alchemy wrapped around the lead azide in the bullet, stimulating.

"Bang!"

There was a bang and a flash of fire at the same time, and a large number of steel balls erupted from the barrel of the gun, crashing into the black shadow.

"Poof~~" There was a muffled sound of bullets entering the flesh, and the ghoul was less than 2 meters away from Lawson, and at such a close distance, its body almost completely withstood the impact of the spiral troll.

The ghoul, who was in mid-air, was knocked to the ground and flew back into the grass with the force of the impact, never to get back up.

Why?

Because one of the most likely monsters to encounter in the wasteland is a ghoul, Lawson is naturally prepared for this. He deliberately doped the bullet with silver nitrate, an agent to restrain ghouls.

Once the silver nitrate enters the ghoul's body, it can quickly release silver ions into the ghoul's body fluids, and the poisonous effect of silver ions can make the ghoul go into shock and lose his ability to move in an instant, and the ghoul will be poisoned to death after three minutes.

In fact, silver, a metal and its compounds, can restrain most of the monsters in this world, and because of this, silver is also called a sacred metal by the Flame God Cult.

After killing a ghoul, Lawson continued to run forward.

Unexpectedly, he had just started, and before he could retract the spiral troll in his left hand, he heard Anne shouting at him again: "Be careful! ”

At the same time, Rosen heard a strange noise on the left side of his body.

'There's a vampire coming at me from the left, and my trolls won't have time to turn back!' ’

In a flash, he saw a black shadow flying out of the grass in the corner of his left eye, less than a meter away from Lawson.

"Ahh Anne shouted in horror.

She immediately took out her musket and prepared to aim and shoot, but the moment she picked up the gun, she knew that time was too tight, she didn't have time to do any aiming, and the probability of hitting the ghoul would be very low.

At this moment, Lawson suddenly stretched out his left hand to the ghoul, activated the power of alchemy, and activated the defensive magic: air cannon!

This air cannon is very peculiar, Lawson did not condense the air to the extreme, but gathered a large amount of air in the space with a diameter of about 30 centimeters on the left side of the body, and then violently pushed the air out.

'Buzz~'

The air made a muffled sound, and a violent current appeared, slamming into the ghoul as it slammed into the air.

"Bang~"

The ghoul was blown to the ground by this air current, and the momentum of his body was stopped.

The reason for this is because although the ghoul is fast and powerful, it has a flaw, that is, it is too light, about the same weight as an ordinary human fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, and when it pounces into the air, the impact force is not too large, and it is easy to be disturbed by the sudden appearance of the force to disturb the balance of the body.

"Defend against arrows!" Rosen made another move.

Another stream of air appeared, pushing the ghoul in mid-air and stumbling backwards.

The force of this air flow is not too strong or small, and the direction is also very clever, blowing diagonally upward, one part of the force keeps the ghoul in the air, and the other part is small enough to keep the ghoul falling backwards slowly.

From a distance, this ghoul looks like a ball of feathers fluttering in the air, fluttering.

"Annie!" Rosen shouted.

Anne realized, she had already raised her Sky Destroying Sight, and now that the ghoul was slowly falling backwards, it was a good time to kill.

She took aim and pulled the trigger.

"Bang~"

The muzzle of the gun flashed, and the ghoul who was hit back by the air flow in the distance suddenly had a fist-sized bloody hole in the front and back, and almost his entire face was knocked off.

Ghouls have a lot more vitality than humans, but they are far inferior to vampires and werewolves.

After the shooting, Anne felt the body of the girl she was supporting tremble violently, as if she was frightened by the destruction of the sky, she hurriedly comforted: "Girl, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, we are all good people, only deal with monsters." ”

"Hmm~" The black-haired girl lowered her head and answered softly.

Maybe it was because the attack was too shocking before, and he waited for Lawson to run back to the carriage, but he was never attacked by the ghoul again.

Anne was already waiting for him by the side of the carriage.

"How's that girl?" Rosen asked.

"In the carriage, Mary was treating her wounds. Rest assured, she's fine. ”

"Well, that's good." Lawson looked at the location of the wrecked carriage in front of him.

In a matter of moments, more than 20 ghouls had appeared in the place, and ghouls were constantly jumping out of the grass on the side of the road.

These ghouls are about 1.5 meters tall and humanoid, covered in mucus that resembles a thick nose, and their muscles look like carrion, and the pungent rancid stench can be smelled from a distance.

The ghouls devoured the corpses in a very wild way, they threw their heads directly into the corpses, and they took big bites, and the 'crunching' sound of them munching on the flesh and bones of the corpses echoed in the air, which was very penetrating to listen to.

John, the coachman, was shaking like chaff, and if it weren't for the fact that Rosen and Anne were standing beside him, he would have turned around and run away in the morning.

"Big ...... My lord, what now? John asked with a sad face.

Rosen frowned: "There are so many ghouls. Anne, have you ever seen this before? ”

Anne shook her head slightly: "No, I have seen 15 at most at one time, but there are at least 30 of them here, and there are ghouls who keep rushing here...... Could it be because this is a war-torn zone and there is too much food? ”

"It's a possibility." Rosen nodded, and then quickly said, "It's not safe here, we may be attacked at any time if we stay nearby." The carriage turned around and retreated, and then ducked back for a while. ”

Ghouls are a bit like African hyenas, they can eat carrion, but if they see a living thing, they won't mind eating more, and once they do, they won't die. Unless the prey is too powerful and the price paid for the hunt far exceeds the harvest, they will give up the hunt.

So, once these ghouls have eaten the corpses, they will definitely tentatively attack the carriage. With so many ghouls, there's bound to be a fierce battle tonight!

John had been waiting for this, and immediately drove the carriage to turn around, and when the carriage had turned, he whipped his horse, and the horse neighed, and pulled the carriage along the way it came.

Neither Rosen nor Anne entered the carriage, and the two stood on a specially installed stand next to the carriage, weapons in their hands, on guard.

Behind the wagon, the number of ghouls increased to more than 40, and they desperately fought for the flesh of the corpses. Every now and then, two ghouls will fight over flesh ownership, screaming 'chirp~tuck~tuck' and biting each other, and once one ghoul is crippled, it immediately becomes food for the other ghouls.

The terrifying monsters, the scattered pieces of flesh and blood flying all over the sky, and the dense cracking sound of bones are simply a picture of a devil's banquet.

What's even more terrifying is that even so, ghouls are constantly jumping out of the grass, their numbers increasing rapidly, and the corpses on the ground are rapidly decreasing.

Anne whispered, "At this rate, at most, in a quarter of an hour, all the corpses, human and horse, will be eaten up!" ”

Lawson pondered for a few seconds and said, "In a quarter of an hour, the horse gallops with all its might, and it will only run five or six miles, and it will run out of horsepower." The most important thing we should do now is to find a good place to build a defensive position and prepare for battle. ”

Anne nodded, "You're right. ”

After about another 3 minutes of driving, Lawson suddenly pointed to the side of the road: "John, go up to the slope over there, quick!" ”

"Okay." As soon as John pulled the reins, the carriage sprang out of the dirt road and onto a slope about 30 meters away.

This slope is actually a huge rock, the highest place in the surrounding area, the east side of the slope is gentle, and the west side is about 5 meters high a rock fault, as long as it is slightly arranged, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

After the carriage reached the top of the rock, Rosen jumped out of the carriage first: "Annie, set up!" ”

"Understood!"

Anne also jumped out of the carriage, and then ran quickly to the back of the carriage, and removed a large box at the back of the carriage, and opened it, and inside were silver-white metal spikes, divided into five groups, each group could easily spread out into a stable triangle, one of which protruded from the dense cross-shaped spikes, and there were 12 of them.

This is a barbed horse guardrail, made of high-strength aluminum alloy, which is hard and lightweight. Lawson deliberately built it in order to construct a temporary position as quickly as possible.

Anne held a set of spikes and pulled suddenly, only to hear a metal crisp sound, and the aluminum alloy spikes unfolded, the shape was exactly the same as the wooden stinger guardrail of this era, but the defense and power were much greater.

She inserted five sets of stabbing horses into the east side of the carriage in a semicircle, just around it. On the steep and difficult side, there is a special opening, and the rest of the place is sealed.

In this way, ghouls can of course jump over the barrage of the stinging horses, but their speed will inevitably be greatly limited, and they will be scratched by the aluminum spikes.

With their low intelligence, ghouls instinctively choose to attack through the breach, where they will have to face the powerful muskets of Rosen and Anne.

During this time, Rosen was not idle either.

He first took out a small box from the luggage rack at the back of the carriage and opened it, and the box was stuffed with cotton wool, mixed with fist-sized iron lumps, and there were more than 30 of them.

Rosen took out six of them, handed them all to Anne, and instructed, "Anne, when the ghouls come towards us, if they are in a group and in a tight formation, then you can throw this thing at them." Remember, be sure to throw 40 meters away, and if the ghoul is already close to you, give up the weapon so as not to accidentally get hurt, understand? ”

"I see." Anne nodded, she was well aware of the enormous power of these things, and she was very careful when she took the iron lump.

Rosen took out another jar of yellow grease as thick as lard, and poured a large circle along the thorn horse, especially on the stinging horse, deliberately pouring some more, and after pouring a circle, he wrapped a layer of oil-soaked cotton cloth on the spikes of the thorn horse, and then poured another layer of grease on the tarpaulin.

Finally, he lit a torch and planted it on the torch stand by the carriage.

After doing all this, Lawson picked up the spiral troll again, filled up the bullet he had just fired, and then 'clicked' and pressed it onto the spiral magazine.

"Everything is ready, just wait for the ghouls to come and die."

"Lawson, you have to be careful later." Anne inhaled deeply, her heart beating hard.

In the nearly 2 years since she became a stalker, she has always avoided encountering large groups of ghouls, and this is the first time she has faced each other head-to-head like today. Although she was very well prepared, she still didn't have much confidence in her heart.

Rosen responded, "I understand." You are also careful."

After that, the two waited quietly for the ghoul with their backs to the carriage and muskets in their hands.