Chapter 292: Shell Blade
"What, we're going to retreat before we fight. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info"Xiong Fuji received personal encouragement from the team leader and was confidently preparing to fight a tough battle, but he didn't expect to see his teammates a few minutes later, and the order to evacuate came from the entrusted kanban office.
"Stop complaining." Feng Chen stuffed all kinds of props into his backpack, and the leader's order was to give up the baggage, even if he didn't take these props, he would only be left here to be destroyed, "If you can deal with hundreds of monsters of two races at the same time, plus the patriarch of two high-level predator species, you can stay here by yourself." β
"Maybe you'll be able to get your hands on the trainee's dragon man gear after this battle is over." Nie Xiaoyang sneered, "Noβif Big Bear had that kind of power, I'm afraid he wouldn't even need dragonman equipment." β
"Hmph, give me time, I may not be able to kill the monsters of the two races." Since one person blocked several rounds of attacks from the eight peach fur beasts, Xiong Fuji's confidence quietly swelled, "If it weren't for ......"
What he wanted to say was "If it weren't for the protection of the girl", but as far as he could see, the scrivener had followed silently. Lu Yingying only carried a one-shoulder satchel, and the scrivener's robe was replaced by a slightly shorter expedition shirt, but it was still blue and green, and with a beret, it was even more playful and lovely for a girl.
Jia Xiao continued to talk with his eyes to stop Xiong Buji, who was not going to take his head, while looking at the girl and asking, "Have you already packed up your things?" β
"There's nothing to pack." The scribe's spirit was not very good, and he responded half a beat slower, "I'm not a hunter, so I don't need to bring so much equipment for fighting." β
"Where's your book?" Lu Xiu asked, in his memory, there were dozens of books and classics stored in Miss Lu's room, all of which were treasures that the girl regarded as her life.
"It's been sent back to the base camp with the supply ship." The girl replied in a dull voice, that although she wanted to stay at the outpost forever, the gloomy atmosphere of battle in the camp could not be ignored, and the little scribe always had to prepare himself for both.
Although the teenagers had been with Lu Yingying for less than two days, the scholars' habits of being out of touch and being used to commanding had long been seen by the trainees. After several responses, the girl in front of her seemed to have lost her soul and lost her usual vitality. Or Shentu Miaoling, who is also a girl, is thoughtful, and she slowly approached the little scholar: "What, don't you want to go back to the base camp?" β
During the two days of guarding, Shentu Miaoling, as a girl, took the lead as the personal guard of the entrusted target, and the familiarity of the two girls far exceeded that of others. Hearing Sister Miaoling tell her heart, the little girl's mouth immediately flattened: "I...... My parents are already at the base camp and are here...... Take me home. β
No explorer would want to go home when he just got the treasure information, and seeing the girl's situation, it would be difficult to get out after being caught once. Lu Yingying's unwillingness was written on her face, and the whole person was in a trance.
"Yingying, it is natural for your parents to be worried about your safety, and perhaps in their eyes, no kind of relics and treasures can compare to your preciousness. You've done the camp a great favor with your discoveries, and I think it won't be long before you'll be able to earn more opportunities to explore in the field. Shentu Miaoling squatted down and looked up at the girl with a bitter face, "It's too dangerous here now, and the hunters can't avoid it, so it's not a good time to investigate." β
"But ......," the little scribe was still reluctant, "you are both strong and can protect me, right?" β
"We can't protect you from the menβ" Dusty gestured into the distance, and as he moved, the ground of the camp began to rumble and tremble, and patches of carapace of different colors but equally hard emerged from all directions. Among them, there was a thickest and sharpest dark blue spike, like a spear that pierced through the heavens and the earth, breaking through the ground not far away.
"Sickle crab! It's the sickle crab coming! Lu Xiu warned loudly, and the big sword behind his back was grasped in his hand in a blink of an eye. Hearing this, the companions quickly prepared for battle, and Shentu Miaoling had already pulled the little scholar and blocked behind him, observing the terrain and the direction of the monster, and retreating towards the temporarily safe ground.
"Hell, what about the traps? Didn't the trap work? Nie Xiaoyang cursed, gesturing to gather everyone together. As far as the teenager could see, more than a dozen crab shells sprung out of the relatively soft ground in various places around the area, like mushrooms after a rain, so that the trainees had nowhere to escape.
"I don't know ......" Feng Chen was not sure about this temporary idea, but now was not the time to think about it, the trainees were already in a crisis at the moment.
The dorsal shells of six or seven small sickle crabs slowly rose from the soft mud and surrounded the teenagers. With the ability to sense vibrations, monsters can easily know the location of their prey underground, and at this moment, they are just in time to get out little by little. Once the siege was complete, the teenagers would inevitably have to fight hard before leaving, but looking at the entire camp, more sickle crabs were breaking through the ground, and there were still the peach fur beasts that were about to attack outside the wall, leaving little time for the hunters to fight.
"Fight!" Xiao Yang gritted his teeth, drew his one-handed sword, and rushed towards a sickle crab with only a gray-white back shell that only surfaced to the ground. There was still a distance of two or three meters from the monster, and the boy monster screamed, rose from the ground, and slashed out with a powerful jump, cutting straight into the lines of the monster's back shell.
"No!" Feng Chen wanted to stop it, but it was too late, Xiao Yang's one-handed sword smashed the monster's body, but the back shell and the sword collided with a puff of sparks, and it was not cut into half a point by the one-handed sword. The tall boy's eyes widened, and a powerful anti-shock force came from the carapace, which was not much weaker than the strength of his own attack. As soon as his feet hit the ground, the hand holding the sword was shaken high, and even his whole body fell back, and he had to take a few steps back to defuse the shock.
The attacked sickle crab suddenly pulled out a slender and sharp blue giant scythe from the ground, covered it with the dirt it had brought up, and swept it in front of it against the ground, bringing a vicious wind from the tip of the turtle, Xiao Yang couldn't dodge it, and cut a long wound on the calf.
The boy endured the severe pain and rolled two times in a row to dodge, and as soon as he stood up, he wrinkled his brows and shouted in surprise and suspicion, "The shell of this monster...... Why is it so hard? β
Except for the sharp scythe on the double crow, the carapace of the sickle crab is not solid everywhere on its body. However, on their backs are a strangely shaped bulge that allows the monster to easily carry alien carapaces of various shapes. The skulls of other monsters, the shells of the carapaces, and even the armor left behind by humans can be used as a shield to protect their backs. Sickle crabs grow extremely quickly, and their warlike nature makes their back shells extremely vulnerable, and the most important thing in the life of monsters is to find a larger and harder back shell in addition to foraging and reproducing.
Although Nie Xiaoyang's one-handed sword has a jewelry bead bonus that increases sharpness, it is already the sharpest weapon in the entire team, but the nameless back shell on the monster's body is obviously strong and abnormal, and the young man's full force blow can't shake it at all, but under the collapse of the blade, he was caught by the sickle crab and injured him lightly.
"Don't slash with your sword, smash with your shield!" Feng Chen said the second half of the sentence of reminding his companion.