Chapter 387: Return to the Fortress (II)
"Whew! Whew! A heavy exhalation sound came from Chen Kai's mouth, although he was still very decent, but the long-term high-speed running system began to warn his body. Although you can continue to run as long as you are full of body in the game, there must be a limit, and it is not that there are no unlucky players who die suddenly in the middle of the run, and it is definitely the result of ignoring the system's alarm and continuing to run.
In fact, not only Chen Kai, as long as the players who participated in the 10,000-meter run that they were forced to participate in this time, they were tragically warned by the system, although there was no text prompt, but everyone knew that they had reached the limit. If you run down, you will either run alive or die suddenly and tragically, which is the most disgusting thing about the system, which completely copies the limit state of movement set by the physical condition of human beings in reality. As soon as the player touches this limit, he will experience various states such as shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, and the worst thing is that he will suddenly hang up. Of course, the so-called suddenness is that the movement reaches the limit and then the internal bleeding, although the people who appear in this situation in the game are undoubtedly unlucky people who will stuff their teeth when they drink water, but it is an objective fact.
Chen Kai definitely didn't want to run to death directly, so he had to slow down and let his body slowly recover, while he slowed down, there was still a large number of shadows behind him, the sound of giant wolves running wildly, obviously compared to humans, these four-legged big guys are much better in terms of endurance, or the system is lighter than the player in terms of body suppression.
Therefore, listening to the heavier and closer footsteps behind them, everyone felt unusually depressed in their hearts, but fortunately, they basically had nothing to lose except for a body of flesh. The probability of most of the equipment in the backpack being exploded is very low, unless you are unlucky enough to drink water and stuff your teeth to go to the toilet without paper, otherwise few people will be exposed to the equipment in the backpack. The most important thing is that their experience accumulation is basically gone, so after finding that it is difficult to escape, everyone calmly draws their weapons and decides to teach these wolf cubs chasing after their butts a hard lesson before hanging up.
Slowly calming the constant gasping air flow in the body, and at the same time recovering the rapidly depleted body, everyone just leaned motionless under the trees in the forest and looked in the direction of the wolves behind them. They waited less than thirty seconds before the first two-meter-long shadow wolf sprang out from the shadows beneath the trees. Its mouth was unusually wide open, and its fangs and scarlet tongue glowed with bloodthirst.
It's just that before it could taste the delicious blood with its open fangs, it was split directly from the air to the ground by an axe, except that the skull was not split, and the whole head was as red and black as if it had opened a dye shop. Of course, it didn't die, it was just that its tongue was bitten off by itself. It didn't have time to close its mouth after the blow to the head, and its teeth hit Darla's tongue directly out of it, and the whole tongue fell to the ground.
Behind this battle axe, more weapons, from long swords to spears, beckoned towards it one by one, although the fur of the shadow giant wolf was very tough, but under such a dense attack, it was quickly pierced through the defense, and it was directly opened a dozen openings. Drops of foul-smelling wolf blood continued to flow down from the wounds, converging on the ground to form a small stream. Under such an attack, the shadow giant wolf at the front of the scurrying was directly seriously injured, and then with a snow-white knife light, a tumbling wolf's head fell to the ground. The first shadow wolf to die at the hands of the player was ignored by no one, its fur and flesh were constantly trampled on, and by the time it subsided, the original black wolf skin had become filthy, but it still fell quietly on the soil of the forest, on the forest land with heavy humus.
The moment the contact battle with the giant wolf broke out, everyone began to use their newly acquired skills, if there was one, of course. For example, Chen Kai's Battle Angel Possession and Su Xinghe's Boiling Blood, the effect of this special skill is very strong, and at the same time, when used, the body will emit all kinds of light, which is far more rumored and thick than the Douqi light. Looking down from the forest canopy, dozens of warrior knights with earthy yellow, blood-red, and pure white glow could be seen rushing towards the location of the Shadow Giant Wolf, and behind them, more players used their primal Dou Qi Protector to protect their bodies and charge.
It was none other than the defenders with improvised wooden shields and unarmed players who used their wooden shields to push the giant wolf's body backwards and even hit the four-legged wolf cubs with a huge impact. Of course, because they are not genuine shield guardians and earth knights, these warriors have poor skills in using shields, but they still have some effect. The thick wooden shield successfully blocked the Shadow Wolf's attack, protecting the few bare-chested players behind without weapons or armor.
It's just that the shield is made of wood after all, and they don't have the skill of wrapping the shield with fighting spirit to protect the shield from immediate damage, so they can only rely on brute force and the solidity of the shield itself to resist the minions of the giant wolf. But it's important to know that these shadow wolves don't just have claws and teeth, they also have shadow missiles that can corrode and pierce through wooden shields.
Dozens of Shadow Missiles shot out from behind when the shield hit the giant wolf's body, directly through the shield and punched a row of bullet holes in it. However, it doesn't really hurt many people, because the player knows the methods of these shadow wolves, and knows that they will unleash such an attack, so they directly lowered their bodies beforehand. However, there are still unlucky players who are hit by the Shadow Missile and then hide behind them with their wounds covered. The attack power of the Shadow Missile is not high, and for players at this stage, unless it is a direct critical hit, it will only cause a maximum of 300 to 400 points of damage, but its most frightening effect is the penetration effect, once it penetrates the head or heart, no matter how much health will be instantly zeroed.
So even if you don't have metal zuò armor in your hands for the time being, those players who don't have equipment will try their best to keep their heads and hearts protected. In this way, wooden helmets and busts are the best choice for these players who have lost their equipment, and at the same time, they are also made quickly and rich in materials, just because of manual problems, the guide looks a little ugly. The only characteristic of these wooden zuò things is that they are thick, and in order to provide sufficient defense, all helmet cuirasses are very thick, and the wood that protects the head is as thick as three centimeters. Even so, the defense provided by such a helmet was only slightly higher than that of a leather helmet, but it was enough to block the penetration of the Dark Shell Projectile, at least not to be killed by a single blow unsuspectingly.
For players, as long as they don't have a one-hit kill at the beginning, they have a chance to stay alive, because they can use healing potions, while those shadow wolves can't heal, and this is the player's biggest advantage over beasts. When it comes to healing injuries, players definitely have an advantage over beasts, and it's a great advantage, but the beasts in the game are all social animals, and there are very few lone beasts in front of the player, so this advantage is obvious in many cases, because the player can't drag on the endurance battle with the beast, and all the battles are over in a short time.
However, for Chen Kai, it is a very difficult thing for them to choose whether they drag the Shadow Giant Wolf into a war of attrition or kill them with a direct blow, because there are too many of them. Although it looked like four or five hundred at the moment, it was already two to three times the number of Chen Kai and all of them, and the most important thing was that God knows how many shadow giant wolves were hiding in the shade of the trees and preparing to sneak attack.
"! How can there be so many? "Chen Kai has not cut down many shadow giant wolves, although he wants to kill the other party every time, but these giant wolves are very organized. All offense and defense have different giant wolves, and every time one giant wolf is injured, it will immediately and then another giant wolf in peak condition will attack the target, and the most terrifying thing is that these giant wolves have no regard for losses. If you can deal damage to the player, even if you kill one of them, you will actively choke the player's weapon, and then the other wolves will rush up.
Chen Kai saw with his own eyes that after a player's weapon stabbed into the body of a giant wolf, he was directly bitten by the giant wolf and couldn't pull out his arm and couldn't pull out the weapon and hand, and then the shadow giant wolf behind instantly rushed out from the shade of the tree, and three or four giant wolves directly tore the player's body from different directions. The wooden helmet turned into sawdust after three seconds of holding it up, and within a second of losing the wooden helmet, the player's head was bitten off, and blood gushed out from the broken neck like a fountain.
"Get together! Don't be separated by these brutes! Su Xinghe shouted at the top of his voice, but in this noisy and chaotic situation, who could listen carefully to what he was yelling there, and in the end, it was Fei Yun who shouted in the team channel to let everyone hear.
"Nnd! Oh?~" Zhao Tiezhu waved his shield and smashed a giant wolf that wanted to pounce on him, but a giant wolf pounced on him from behind, although he rolled forward directly and dodged most of the power, but still left a few bright red paw prints on the other party's back.
"Pillars! You tmd for Lao Tzu to come back, you rushed forward! Chen Kai looked at Zhao Tiezhu's position and yelled anxiously, because there were almost no people around him who assisted in defense, except for the shadow giant wolf or the shadow giant wolf. As long as he is restrained by those giant wolves, it is estimated that he will be attacked in an instant, and at that time, even if he uses the body of the earth, there is no way to resist it. It's just that Chen Kai roared a little late, because at that time, Zhao Tiezhu had already fallen into the encirclement of more than a dozen shadow giant wolves, obviously he couldn't rely on his own strength to rush back into the player's position, and he could only continue to use his shield to resist the shadow giant wolves that exuded strong killing intent around him.
"!" Zhao Tiezhu kept using his shield to block the giant wolves that pounced around him, but every time he got close to Chen Kai's place where they were, he would be attacked by more giant wolves. If it weren't for Chen Kai and their constant attacks on those giant wolves behind him to clear the way for him, it is estimated that he would have been completely torn apart by the giant wolves that pounced on him. But soon he didn't have to worry about his back anymore, because Chen Kai and the others had slowly pressed forward.
More than a dozen shield guardians blocked the front of the team and released the shield rush, although the impact force formed by the huge fighting qi did not cause much damage to the giant wolf, but directly flew away a lot of giant wolves blocking behind Zhao Tiezhu, the most important thing is that at this time, Chen Kai and they all gathered together, and it was no longer because they ran all the way and became scattered quickly. However, when everyone gathered together, they tragically found that there were only 152 people left in the original team of 187 people, and 35 unlucky people were sent back to the Wilderness Temple by the shadow wolf who pounced on them.
"That's just 15 shadow wolves, and 35 people died?" Everyone was a little unconvinced, but when they opened the battle log, they found that they had only killed 15 Shadow Wolves, most of them at the beginning of the battle. It can be said that when it came to the melee in the back, almost a few shadow giant wolves were killed, and the most aggrieved thing was Chen Kai and a few of them who activated the new skills to use the additional state, and spent nearly two minutes continuing to fight, but they were only adding wounds to the giant wolf and did not have any experience to enter, which was the most depressing thing.
"The head wolf who commands the pack must be killed!" This was the only thing that everyone had on their minds after discovering the outcome of this battle, as everyone felt that it was terrible to be able to command a wolf pack and inflict heavy losses on the player. Although the main reason for this loss is that the player directly engages the enemy in a chaotic situation, it does not hide the wolf pack's tactics of taking turns to drag down the enemy in battle. Most of the players who hang up are not killed while fighting the wolf alone, but are killed by the shadow wolf who sneaks up on them after their weapon or body has been bitten by them.
"There it is!" Everyone's eyes kept searching the wolves, but the shadow of the head wolf did not appear for a moment, and several archers and thieves climbed onto the tree pole to observe the wolves' movements, and they found the one-eyed wolf four or five hundred meters away from the player. But even if they saw them, it was impossible to pose any threat to the giant wolf, because it was so far away that even the best bow and arrow could reach it. Maybe the bed crossbow can shoot directly at a distance of four or five hundred meters, but the key problem is that Chen Kai and they don't have a bed crossbow, and even if they do, they can't deploy it in a terrain like a forest.
Therefore, even with the guidance of the thieves, everyone felt powerless against the one-eyed leader giant wolf a few hundred meters away, and could only find other ways to escape this wolf disaster. In fact, if these shadow wolves can't climb trees, it is estimated that going up trees is the best way, but don't look at the huge size of these big wolf cubs, they are extremely agile and athletic, as long as there is a place to step on them, they can jump up from under the trees. There is nothing else in this forest, but there is no shortage of shrubs that can be used to step on, so the archers and thieves who climbed the canopy were also attacked by the shadow wolves, but due to space problems, all the giant wolves that attacked them could only attack alone and could not besiege, so that the people lying on the canopy finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Unable to hide from Chen Kai in the trees, they could only find a way to go elsewhere, and a group of people slowly retreated in the forest while carrying the attack of the shadow giant wolf, but they could not escape from the siege of these shadow giant wolves. It's just that due to the gathering of each other, the player's injuries have begun to be alleviated, at least the injuries can be taken care of by others, and they will not be attacked and hung up by the hungry wolves around them. The relative loss of the Shadow Wolves began to slowly increase, after all, their minions were too ordinary compared to the player's weapons, in fact, these Shadow Wolves were almost an ordinary magical creature except for their size and the ability to release Shadow Missiles at will, and they were also the lowest kind of magical creatures. They can't compete with the top magical creatures except for the strength of the population, and they belong to the lower end of the magical creature food chain, but once they are large in number, it is also a terrible thing.
The biggest reliance of the demon wolves that crisscross the Great Wasteland is not the Golden Demon Wolf of the Great Lord who has reached the low-level legendary realm, but the tens of thousands of huge demon wolves and hundreds of thousands of ordinary gray wolves in the wilderness. Relying on the huge number of his own population, the Golden Demon Wolf was able to occupy a place in the Great Wasteland. Of course, without the strength of the low-level legend of the Golden Demon Wolf, it would be very difficult for the Demon Wolf to develop to this number, so the population size and the strength of the powerhouse of the leading race are interdependent. However, that was only when facing a powerful group, and now for Chen Kai, the number of shadow giant wolves was enough to give them a headache, if there was a high-level shadow giant wolf mixed in, they would definitely collapse and commit suicide.
Chen Kai and the others have been fighting for nearly ten minutes, although they have now repelled several attacks by the giant wolf, but there are more and more wolves gathered around. The most frightening thing is that there are not only ordinary shadow wolves, but also many elite giant wolves with white hair, and there are no less than a hundred of them just that can be observed. Under such onlookers, even the strongest people will feel their legs tremble. However, Chen Kai, who has experienced a bigger battle than this, is used to doing more with less, because not long ago they were being chased around by tens of thousands of demons, so although Chen Kai and the others were a little nervous, they were not so bad that they lost their proportions.
"Did you hear anything?" Lu Xiaofeng, who was hiding behind the team, pricked up his ears to listen to some sounds, and at the same time asked Fei Yun beside him, but the latter shook his head and said that he didn't hear it. After all, the surrounding environment is too noisy, and it has no intention of caring about anything else during the battle.
"I heard it, it seemed like there was a sound of water and it seemed like it was very current!" Bai Xiaosheng, who was hiding behind Fei Yun, whispered, there were a few deep tooth marks on his shoulders, and the entire shoulder was drooping, obviously useless.
"Yes! The sound of water, I think we can escape with the help of the current! Lu Xiaofeng's voice sounded in the team, this sentence ignited the hope of all life, and in less than ten seconds, everyone directly decided to rush towards the location where the sound of the water source was. With a few shield guardians as assaulters, he pushed the giant wolf in the direction where the sound of water came from.