The gap in the stone crevice was narrow, and eight people could barely fit in. Fortunately, after getting the warning of sealing the dust, Kaede and the two girls took the lead and hid in the innermost part of the stone gap, and the rhino who walked in the front was not so lucky. The Silver Armor Hunter himself was large, and he was the last to retreat back to the entrance of the cave, but at this moment, he poked half of his body out of the cave, and it was only a matter of time before he was found standing here.

Although Kaede was still very concerned about why Feng Chen could warn of the attack of the beast herd in advance, the hunters were almost face to face with the strong men of the reverse scale, and they could smell each other's breath, and now was obviously not the time to ask these questions. The old hunter suppressed the doubts in his heart, and only said that no matter what the "demon art" that Feng Chen mastered, it could not only be used to track the traces of monsters. The Shadowhunter froze, and asked the guys standing at the entrance of the cave, "What's going on outside?" ”

"You won't listen to it yourself?" Sen Luo said irritably.

The rumbling of footsteps came from the direction where everyone was going, like rolling stones, and it was impossible to tell the number. Feng listened to it for a few seconds, and then estimated in his heart: "It's only three or five hundred meters at most, and it's a blink of an eye for monsters." ”

"There are about seven or eight of them, all of them lord-level," Rhino said hatefully as he raised his hammer to guard the outside of the stone wall, quickly explaining the situation, "Hell...... I haven't seen any of them, but now I have to deal with so much in one breath? ”

"Are there any flying species?" Captain Reverse Scale was unusually calm.

"The vision is so poor that I can only see the outlines of a few of them, and I don't know if there are any flying guys behind me." He quickly reported the names of several monsters, "Fortunately, they are all land walking types, but none of them are good stubbles among the lords, this time it is really a big loss...... "The higher you go, the higher the overall quality of the monsters, and encountering a marching beast near the top of the mountain is a tricky situation even for the reverse scale."

"There are too many chieftains, and the residents at the top finally can't control it, so they come down collectively to fight for territory?" Senro pondered.

"You can't rush out." Bai Ye estimated in his heart and shook his head slightly. There were only four of them, and even they couldn't shake a march of this magnitude at the same time. Although the number of monsters attacking can reach the level of the smallest beast tide, it has already been able to form a complete race. Ethnicity means a higher intelligence of coordinated attacks, and a significant increase in individual strength. If one of these monsters can act as a leader, and one of them is not handled carefully, the entire team will be wiped out.

"It's not an option to hide here." More monsters go together, which means that the way they perceive each other can make up for it, as long as one or two of them find themselves and others, there will still be a big battle sooner or later. The position of the rhino bears the brunt, and the sense of crisis is much more serious than that of others. He poked out half of his head, and after only a few seconds, the silhouette was clearly visible in the shadow of the volcanic ash fog, "Are you going to call the airship?" ”

"It's too late." Bai Ye shook his head, "By the time the airship comes, we will already be torn apart." What's more, even if there is a way to escape, it may surprise the golden lion. If it changes its mode of operation, all our previous information will be in vain. ”

"I have a solution!" Feng Chen pointed at himself.

"I'm not going to let you go to war, don't even think about it." Before hearing about the young man's plan, Captain Scales retorted. He was more worried about the Shadow Hunters who might be waiting behind him during the battle than the monsters in front of him. Bai Ye looked at the hand wrapped in gauze in the dust, "Don't think I didn't see what you just wanted to do, the only way for you to get paid to leave the volcano alive is to be a good guide to the scales." ”

The young hunter's Adam's apple moved, and he looked noncommittally at the rock wall of the crevice.

"Let me out." The beasts were approaching step by step, and time was running out, and Lena, who was caught in the middle of the group, slapped her head, and for the first time her face changed to a third expression other than bloodthirsty and curious, and she said seriously, "We don't need to fight those guys. ”

"You want to lure them away alone?" The tower giant was not worried about the safety of his companions, but he was concerned about other things, "There is only one way up and down the mountain on this terrain, and if you turn back, you may not be able to keep up with the team for a long time." ”

"There's only one way for humans—" corrected the purple-clad hunter, pointing to the wide, hot river of lava just outside the cave, "It's not the same for these monsters. At this height of the lord level, soaking in lava is no different from bathing. ”

"Magma?" Feng Chen's heart welled up with a bad premonition, "How to do it?" You can't jump into the lava on your own. ”

"Ignorant little imp...... Lena chuckled as she squeezed past her companion to the crack in the rock, setting up a heavy crossbow at the entrance of the cave. The Shadowhunter rummaged through his backpack for a while, took out a piece of black metal that was disproportionate to the color of his weapon, and assembled it into the tip of the fist-thick chamber. She pressed on a chunky ballista and opened the scope to peek into the ash mist, "I'm a crossbowman, and I never need to show myself to lure monsters. ”

"Wait...... Maybe there's another way! Feng Chen hurriedly stopped him. However, the huntress had already made up her mind, and was engrossed in the next shot, deaf to the young man's shouts, but Sen Luo made a vicious gesture to silence him.

"Boom ——!" The giant beast finally stepped out of the haze with a slam of foot, and the beast dragon species that walked in the front was covered in dark scale armor, and its mouth was spitting hot sulfur gas. Lina's pupils shrank, the monsters in the vanguard position have always been the lowest level of the beast tide, and the monsters in front of him seem to have the strength that only a three-star backbone hunter can fight, and the strength of the army behind him is self-evident. The thought only flashed through the crossbowwoman's mind, and the crossbow gun in her hand was completely steady, and the muzzle of the gun was not pointed at the monster, but at the lava river across the cave.

"Don't ......!"

"Bang-" A slight muffled sound rang out from the muzzle of the gun, and for a moment it was lost in the rumbling footsteps. The black metal tube appears to be made of material capable of erasing the marks of a shot, and the enclosed chamber does not emit the slightest fire, and the trajectory is barely visible. At the same time as the gunshots rang out, the bright red river surface dozens of meters away reacted, and the lava rippled like a small pebble had been thrown, rippling in a circle of beautiful ripples.

Half a breath later, the pebble exploded beneath the surface of the river.

"Hula!" The explosion unleashed a cylindrical wave of lava. The heat wave soared into the sky, reaching a height of several tens of meters, and then gradually cooled and hardened, before falling back to the surface of the river and remelting into red-hot rock droplets. All of this was formed in an instant, and the beast dragon species that rushed out of the smoke screen was obviously startled by this explosion, and the monster's two short forelimbs retracted back into its belly, and its hind feet actually jumped backwards, colliding with its companions behind it.

The monsters screamed a few times, but none of them were interested in the explosion that had suddenly appeared a few seconds earlier. The beast dragon species in the front row even hit the rock wall in the opposite direction with its body several times, only to hit the mountain wall and shake, and the stones on the top fell down one after another. Seeing that they could not break through the obstacle of the stone wall, the monsters simply clinged to the mountain rock, tried to stay away from the lava river, and went down the mountain more quickly, almost sticking to the stone crevice where the hunters were.

"What's going on? Why didn't they respond? Lena said suspiciously, and the movements of her hands were not slow at all. She pressed a few more bullets, and the explosions in the lava pool rang out one after another, and the monsters watched the way down the mountain even more intently, and even the snorting spontaneously decreased.

"Let her stop, if she continues like this, it will be exposed......" Feng Chen said in a false voice to the white night, "These monsters don't seem to want to fight." ”

"Hell...... half of her body was exposed outside the rock wall, and Lena also figured out the reason. The Shadowhunter moved his crossbow and glanced at the top of the hill with his scope, gritting his teeth, "They're hiding from something, but it looks like I'm going to end up myself." ”

There are two reasons for monsters to assemble, group attack or group escape. Figuring out the cause of a beast tide requires a lot of investigation, and the current predicament can only be guessed by past experience. The monsters in the lower levels of the main peak are being slaughtered on a large scale, and it is only natural for the inhabitants of the top to take the opportunity to expand their territory.

However, how can the old hunter's guess be as accurate as the dragon's cavity that directly confronts the will of the beasts? Feng Dust could see their fear from a few hundred meters away, but he couldn't explain the reason for his guess, and he never had a chance to speak. The young man could only watch as the crossbowwoman did not succeed in diverting the herd, but frightened them closer to the hunters.

"......Shh I'll take care of them. "You still have to bear the consequences of rash action, Lena didn't say more, and lifted the heavy crossbow and stepped out of the stone gap completely. The metal stub was quickly removed by a pair of skilful hands, and the huntress crouched in front of the herd, the chain tied to her waist ripped off and roughly stuffed into the ammunition feeder next to the crossbow.

"Be careful!" The rhino subconsciously covered his eyes with his hands.

"It's you who should be careful—" Lena glanced meaningfully at Senro in the group, "If I'm not mistaken, 'that thing' might be somewhere at the top of the mountain." ”

"Sudden ......!" A string of flames rose from the muzzle of the gun like a dancing candle, and the bullet casings clinked to the huntress's side, covering the entire area in front of Lena like a curtain.

The power of the standard type ballista is not high, but it is better than the small size and light weight, and the number that can be carried under the same weight is three times that of other standard tactical ballista, and the heavier fixed ammunition is not considered. Only these powerful warheads can withstand the consumption of this "thousand army", and there is no more suitable bullet than it to attract the attention of monsters.

There were at least eight huge monsters crowded into the narrow corridor, and the lords had no room to dodge, and each of them had eaten a few rounds of crossbow shells. The scales and shells of the monsters can withstand thousands of degrees of heat, and these few blows are just as painless as mosquito bites, but they have managed to attract the attention of the giant beasts. Seeing that the little reptile that launched the attack was not as big as the sole of his own foot, the lords howled one after another, and their eyes full of fear finally changed back to the sharpness that belonged to the king.

"Hooked......" Feeling several pairs of eyes looking at him in unison, the huntress Shi Shiran ran ran out of the last bullet on the chain, got up and retracted the heavy crossbow, and ran down the hill without stopping.

Holding Kaede's heavy sword, Rhino and White Night pressed against the outer edge of the stone crevice, completely protecting everyone inside. Outside the narrow cave, there was a sound of hooves and paws trampling, and the gravel on the stone wall of the cave was peeling off. Dusty covered his mouth and nose, dodging the small rocks that were thrown around, and it took a long time to feel the last monster drifting away, and the tremor became weak.

"What a bad luck ......" Rhino put down his greatsword across the stone. The crisis that was enough to destroy the team had just been lifted, but the tower giant had already become normal, and such a dilemma seemed to be common in the reverse scales, "Anyway, Lena is gone...... It's going to be okay, right? ”

"Her fight was a mess." Sen Luo snorted first, "But with those messy toys in the backpack, it should always be no problem to escape." ”

"I wouldn't be surprised that she had destroyed them all by herself." White Night shook her head. The important hunting equipment specially prepared by the team for the hunt of golden lions, only she knows how to adjust it. Captain Reverse Scale is most worried about whether this battlefield craftsman can get back as soon as possible, "We can't wait here. ”

"It should be safe." The rhino poked his head out to take a look, and finally came out of the cave and let himself out of the cave. The height of the gap was too low, and the giant man of the iron tower was carrying several times the weight of supplies, and he had been bending his waist, and he was finally relieved at this moment, "Send a positioning signal every twenty minutes, and she should catch up by herself." ”

"Come back! The monsters haven't all left yet! Feng Chen's eyes suddenly opened, and he shouted anxiously to the silver-armored hunter outside the cave.

"What other monsters are there?" The rhino looked left and right, and the smoke on both sides of the ramp was completely cleared by the herd of beasts that swept by, and the vision became extremely clear. There was nothing on the ground but bullet casings and messy footprints.

"In the lava!"

Captain Scales subconsciously followed Dust's suggestion and looked up the lava river, only to see a cluster of bubbles bubbling somewhere on the surface of the river. Bai Ye's pupils shrank, and without thinking, he untied the big sword behind his back and flew out, standing up to block the rhino who still didn't know why.

The Silver Armor Hunter was overloaded, and his usual movement was not a big deal, and the reaction of the battle slowed down by half a beat. The rhino was slow to retreat, and suddenly it was filled with an infinite expanse of bright red. It took him a second to figure out that it was clearly a wave of magma that had hit the shore. The red curtain tinged the entire ramp, and a large head emerged from behind the curtain and swooped down on the hunters' stands.