Chapter 139: The Sudden Attack of the Swamp Fishman (Medium)

There is no doubt that when a third of the planks supporting the carriage to float on the water were destroyed, all the carriages began to shake uncontrollably. Fortunately, Chen Kai and the others had already circled the carriage into a circular formation, and used a long wooden pole to insert it into the mud below, and used natural spells to ripen the plants to wrap and fix it, so after losing part of the buoyancy of the plank, although the carriage fell into shaking, it did not sink in a short time.

Although the carriage did not sink, Chen Kai's face was still not very good-looking, because they were not able to leave many tridents behind. Most of the tridents fell into the water immediately after being knocked off. There was no doubt that the weapons that fell into the water must have been picked up by those fishmen again, and the number of weapons bound by spells was too small to reduce the attack power of those fishmen at all.

Looking at the black shadows swimming slowly underwater, Chen Kai's teeth creaked, but there was nothing he could do about them. Although several casters have begun to cast lightning-type spells underwater, hoping to use guò electricity to paralyze these fast-moving fishmen. The problem is that these fishmen seem to have a strong immunity to spells, and although they are still paralyzed when attacked by electricity, this paralysis only lasts less than a second. After a second, although the fish-men's swimming speed had slowed down a lot, it was still not something that Fei Yun could lock, even the dwarven musketeers.

The dwarves had not yet mastered the ability to aim at the target and shoot in a second, and their muskets had become firing pins, but it took at least a third of a second from the moment the trigger was pulled to the time the bullet was fired. Although the bullet was very fast when it was fired, the fish-man had already swam out of the muzzle of the musket before then. If you add the refraction of the water surface, the hit efficiency of the dwarven muskets is simply low.

Fortunately, the splash of water did not affect the firing of the dwarves' muskets, so although the dwarves on the carriage had lowered their accuracy from seven or eight out of ten to one or two out of ten, the continuous gunfire did not stop. It wasn't the hit rate that made the dwarves feel depressed, but the appearance of those fishmen after they were hit. There is no doubt that the slime on the surface of the fish-man's body greatly reduces their resistance in the water, and it has become a barrier to block the current, and more importantly, this layer of slime can make the bullet warhead deflect when it hits the fish-man. Although this offset is small. But even if it's small, it can reduce a little damage.

Originally, the bullets could tear at least a bowl-sized wound on the fishman's body, but under the action of scales and mucus, these sharp bullets could only tear off a piece of flesh on the surface of the other party. The total damage dealt is not enough to be fatal, and sometimes it just slashes across the surface of the opponent's scales, leaving a burning scratch and disappearing into the water.

This aggrieved situation made the dwarves more and more frizzy when they pulled the trigger, because a full minute had passed since the battle began, and they hadn't killed a single fish-man. This situation is definitely not a good thing, because the more frizzy the dwarves are, the more difficult it is to calm down and aim, and the more efficient the guide is to hit.

Of course, Armand, who never fired, did not make a sound to warn the dwarves, but kept staring at the rippling swampy lake with a musket in hand. The moment his eyes narrowed. The finger pulled the trigger heavily, and a thick bullet swooped down the water with the muzzle of the musket rising and the spews of flames.

With a scream, the head of a fish-man was completely exploded by a bullet in an instant, and the splattered brains and blood seeping through the body quickly stained a patch red on the murky swamp water. After firing this bullet, Armand didn't look at the effect of the shot at all, but quickly loaded a new bullet and pulled the trigger again the moment it was reloaded. In less than half a minute, Armand completed three shots, all of which hit the target accurately and turned the opponent's body into a corpse.

"Adjust your breathing! Brothers! Don't let people look down! We're the dwarven musketeers who will stand at the top of our warriors in the future! We are going to kill all the enemies with the muskets in our hands, and let's use the bullets of revenge to tell us who the stinky fish in these ponds are...! you dare to sneak up on Lao Tzu! Damn the slag! Before Armand could finish speaking, several fishmen locked their eyes on him and hurled their heavy tridents at him.

Heavy weapons mixed with the whining of wind quickly approached the black dwarf. Then Armand, who had just been giving a passionate speech, had to raise his musket and start shifting positions. He had just jumped onto the roof of the carriage not far away, when the wooden plank that had been stepping on was directly shattered by the trident that had been fired at him with a few clicks.

Of course, these fishmen who came out of the water were immediately angrily attacked by the dwarves, and the three fishmen who came out of the water and waved their weapons quickly turned into a hornet's nest. Because the dwarves with muskets fired quite high at the head of the platoon, although there were still a few dwarves who missed. However, the dense bullets still made the three fishmen lie on the spot.

The corpse of the fishman floating on the surface of the water was still twitching, but Chen Kai was not in a good mood, because there were still many fishmen lurking around, or so far Chen Kai did not know how many fishmen were lurking in the water. Chen Kai held a longbow in his hand, and used extremely clumsy bowing skills to continuously pour arrows into the water. Of course, many of these feathered arrows ended up floating on the water. turned into a wandering buoy. Because the power of the arrows shot by Chen Kai was too weak, even the mud under the water could not penetrate it.

Of course, the ultimate purpose of these feathered arrows was only to drive away those fishmen, and at the same time, to cooperate with Zhou Xuan and Fei Yun to attack the underwater enemy. However, it only depends on the dwarves and two players. There is no doubt that Chen Kai and they are definitely not the opponents of these fishmen.

If a few elven mages don't make a move, there is no doubt that Chen Kai and them will almost never leave this water area alive, but even if Nero Ailu and the others make a move, they may not be able to make these fishmen retreat. After all, their strength has dropped too much now, and when it came to stealing the corpses of the demigods, several elven mages had almost exhausted many of the means in their hands. Of course, there was still one thing in the hands of several elven mages that was not used, and that was a spell that Chen Kai handed back, a frost-type spell scroll Freezing Storm. If Chen Kai was allowed to use this spell scroll, then there was no doubt that he would definitely freeze himself, but if a few elf mages used it, the result would be different.

When a pale blue spell scroll was thrown out of the carriage where the elven mage was, Chen Kai felt a cold wind blowing. Chen Kai, who was standing on the water, couldn't help but tremble, and then he saw a small snowflake that looked extremely harmless falling from the spell scroll. The moment the snowflakes fell on the surface of the swampy lake, a faint frost began to spread out in all directions.

Pale blue frost instantly covered the body around the carriage. But there were only a few carriages frozen in ice. There was no doubt that under the control of a few elven mages, the originally violent freezing storm became mild, and even the way and structure of the spell formation changed. In fact, the elven mages used the frost power contained in the magic scrolls, but did not fully use the spell structures in the scrolls. Of course, this kind of change was extremely costly, so Nero Eru and the others who were huddled in the carriage could hardly even move their fingers. In order to ensure the power of the spell and not let the spell affect themselves, several elven mages can be said to have exhausted their strength, and the magic power that had just been restored was all exhausted, not to mention that they almost even caught up with their own magic origin.

There were no days to meditate and sleep this time, and a few elven mages didn't want to release even zero-level magic spells. However, this time is definitely not a good experience for the fish people in the water, there is no doubt that the frozen area of the freezing storm is not large, that is, hundreds of meters, but the actual area after this distance is added to the radius. Although it was not possible to freeze all the fish-people into the ice. But sixty or seventy percent of the fishmen have undoubtedly been tricked. Even if they don't die for a short time, the longer they are frozen, the closer they are to death.

"This ice is hard enough!" When Chen Kai stepped on the ice cube with both feet, he found that even if he used to step on the ice, he could not make it shatter in the slightest. Even if the giant sword in his hand slashed, at most, there was a trace of broken ice that was more than ten centimeters deep on the ice.

"It's hard to be good! So that we can step on the ice without worrying about breaking down underneath, and don't you think it's a good battlefield? Guan Yu jumped from the carriage to the ice with a slight leap, and the blade of judgment in his hand made a soft thud on the ice.

"Look! There's one frozen in ice! After Fei Yun jumped on the ice, he quickly found a fish-man frozen in an ice block less than five meters away from the carriage, and there was no doubt that he was frozen at such a close distance, and this fish-man was basically dead and could not die again. The fish-man almost kept the expression of the moment he was frozen, and the trident in his hand wanted to be projected but was directly frozen in the water. The murky waters of the lake did not become clear after being frozen. Chen Kai: What they can see is the part of the ice surface that is relatively clear, and the hideous and stunned expression of the fish man when he is frozen just belongs to this part that can be seen.

Of course, they can only see the vague shape of their faces because of the distance, unless they melt the ice, which is absolutely impossible. Before the magic is completely dissipated. This large block of ice will last for at least a few hours, especially now that the ice will gradually spread outward when the magic is at its strongest. This spread is on the one hand a natural freeze, and on the other hand, an unnatural freeze caused by the escape of magical power. For Chen Kai, the most troublesome thing for them is undoubtedly the former, because this kind of natural freezing cannot be resisted with spells. The extremely low temperature of the ice quickly lowered the temperature of the water around the carriage, and small pieces of ice were immediately formed in the water around the carriage.

Although the freezing point of muddy water with impurities can be below freezing, the problem is that the cold air emitted by the condensed ice around it directly reduces the temperature of the water body to below freezing. If Chen Kai at this time they fell into the water. It felt absolutely chilly, of course not cool but frozen. Therefore, Chen Kai and the others had no way to slowly freeze the water, so they could only choose to pull the carriage up from the water with force.

Of course, with the help of Evelyn, who didn't consume much magic power, relying on her natural spells to slowly push the carriage out of the ice hole, Chen Kai and the others saved a lot of energy. But even so, when the last wagon was pulled out of the ice, the ice ballasts and icicles hanging on the entire carriage had turned the originally black wagon white. Three or four centimeters of ice covered the carriage's doors, so Chen Kai and his team had to pry the ice open to open the doors.

While Chen Kai and the others were dealing with the carriage, the fishmen who were frozen in the ice were disposed of one by one. Although there was no doubt that the fishmen near the center of the spell were completely frozen, only part of their bodies were frozen by those who were far away, and the ice was not as thick as Chen Kai and the others imagined.

Therefore, when dealing with these fishmen, Chen Kai and the others were very careful, not only to kill the other party when they broke free from the ice, but also to be careful that these fishmen broke free or even destroyed the ice in order to survive. Of course, the cold ice water is also terrible for the fish-people. Yan zhòng reduced the activity of their bodies, making their movements extremely sluggish, and the frozen parts of their bodies were even more fatal. Because the ice was gradually spreading, especially in the beginning, the slight sound of the ice spreading sounded like a talisman to the fish-man's ears.

A fish-man is like this, watching himself being slowly frozen by his body, until the spread of the spell stops, he is still alive and can even breathe, but when Chen Kai and they dug him out, this fish-man was completely dead. Its gills were frozen, and when it had no way to breathe, it switched to lung breathing and its lungs were also frozen, and the amphibious fish-man finally suffocated before it could freeze to death. So when Chen Kai and the others found this fishman, his expression was extremely hideous, and the surrounding ice was almost shattered by his brute force before he died. But under the effect of the cold air created by the escape of the magic power. The fish-man's body is frozen underwater like a sculpture.

Looking at a few silent fishmen, Chen Kai suddenly remembered the Templar Knights who were frozen in place on the Golden Great Plains. The thousands of motionless ice sculptures were so quiet, as if time had been frozen. Therefore, Chen Kai did not deal with the corpses of those fish men later, but stayed quietly around the carriage to be on guard.

Although most of the fishmen were frozen to death under the ice, Chen Kai knew very well that there must be fishmen who left safely. Those fish-men might run back to move the rescuers, or maybe they would just snoop around, ready to strike a fatal blow when Chen Kai and the others slackened. Therefore, Chen Kai acquiesced to Fei Yun's practice of digging out the fishmen who were not dead and killing them, because this could force those fishmen who were hiding in the shadow to rush out in order to ask for help from their living kind. There was no doubt that Chen Kai and the others had succeeded, when the first fish-man who was still alive was dug out from under the ice and then thrashed by a dagger in the eye socket. A few fishmen hiding not far away rushed out of the water in great anger, and the trident in their hands exploded towards Fei Yun like a cannonball.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time!" With this thought, Fei Yun tugged the fish-man body beside him hard, and then pulled out the dagger that was stirring in the opponent's eye socket, and then his body began to jump back quickly. When his feet landed on the ice. The weapon mixed with the whistling sound of the wind had already fallen heavily on the ice, directly killing the fishman who was dragged by Fei Yun.

When these fishmen jumped onto the ice, they were directly hit by the muskets held high by the dwarves, but even though their bodies were pierced with several holes, several fishmen still roared and grabbed the weapons stuck in the ice and rushed towards Fei Yun. Of course, it was only a few meters away. A few fish-men fell heavily on the ground. Of course they weren't dead, but their bare feet were stuck to the ice and a piece of skin was torn off. But soon they were completely dead, under the feathered arrows.

When the last fish-man's dying screams spread. Chen Kai saw that there were at least a few splashes on the surface of the lake around him, but in the end, none of the fishmen rushed out. There is no doubt that these fish-men held back, and after seeing that they could not achieve their goals on their own, they chose to wait for the ice to disappear.

So in the next period of time, as long as there is no mistake Chen Kai, they should be able to take a little rest, the only problem is that the cold ice is not only harmful to those fish people, but also to Chen Kai and themselves. The cold air that gradually escaped quickly took away the body temperature of Chen Kai and the others, so Chen Kai and the others immediately turned into pandas one after another, and their bodies were wrapped in extremely thick clothes.

"Ahh Chief! How long are we going to stay here! Fei Yun, who had completely turned into an Eskimo, wiped the snot from his nose and kicked the ice under his feet. Originally, Chen Kai and the others thought that the ice would melt after a while, but the result was not as Chen Kai expected, because the ice was still spreading around. Originally, the area was hundreds of meters in radius, but now it has spread at least nearly twenty meters, and it is still spreading at a rate of five or six meters per hour. Even though the ice is extremely thin at first, it will gradually thicken over time to at least thirty or forty centimeters thick.

"Wait a little longer!" Chen Kai was inspecting the ice, and in fact, after discovering that the ice was spreading outward, he thought of a new way, which was to use the ice as an iceboat to carry them out of the swamp with the carriage. The biggest difficulty of this method lies in the thickness of the ice surface and the problem of fixing the carriage, after all, the ice surface is very slippery, and the only way for Chen Kai and his family to fix the carriage is to push the carriage onto the ice and then pour water on the wheels to freeze the wheels and the ice together. (To be continued......)