Chapter 388: Return to the Fortress (Part 2)
When everyone feels that life is in front of them, they often burst out with a very powerful force of action, just like when Cao Cao used Wangmei to quench his thirst to boost morale. Although everyone knows that plums are only sour and cannot quench their thirst at all, it is precisely because plums are sour that they can produce saliva in people's mouths, which temporarily relieves the thirst crisis. The same place with flowing water is not necessarily safe, and there may be danger in the same place, but the danger is unknown and it is better than Chen Kai and they are now surrounded by wolves and bitten to death. The most important thing is that danger and safety are one in two in the area where they go to the water source, and Chen Kai and they will definitely fight for that one in two chance of safety with their lives.
Everyone would rather believe that they would be safe by jumping into the water than stay here and endure the attacks of the Shadow Wolves, especially when their bodies begin to show damage. The wooden shield could not completely counteract the impact and penetration of the Shadow Missile, even under the protection of Douqi, and after several rounds of continuous attacks, the shield in the hands of the shield guardian in front of the team had begun to appear. It is estimated that those shadow wolves only need to attack in one round, and the shields held in the hands of several shield guardians will be tragically reduced to a pile of broken wood.
"Retreat! Rush towards the south, don't crowd each other, everyone retreats in an orderly manner, and the release of the fighting spirit in the back blocks the wolves! "The more at this time, Chen Kai knows that the more he can't mess up, once everyone rushes to the back, then the ending will be extremely tragic, the player is estimated to either die in the mouth of the giant wolf, or be trampled or pushed by himself, and then be bitten to death by the giant wolf rushing from behind. Everyone knew that they had to follow the command and retreat in an organized manner, but at the moment they heard that there was a way out of the rear, some of the timid people couldn't help but shrink their feet and let the shadow wolf seize the opportunity.
Even if the player obeyed Chen Kai's command in an instant and stabilized his position, more than a dozen warriors guarding behind waved the weapons in their hands and drew more than a dozen powerful fighting slashes, there were still shadow giant wolves rushing in at that moment, and more than a dozen white-haired elite giant wolves rushed over in an instant, nearly ten meters away, stepping on the giant tree pole and rushing in front of Chen Kai and them. They pounced from top to bottom, and the shadow missiles in their mouths exploded the moment they made contact, and two or three shadow missiles in a row flew out in a scattered state and shot towards their respective targets.
At the moment when they saw those elite-level shadow giant wolves with white hair, Chen Kai and the others, who were originally about to step back, directly raised the weapons in their hands and slashed towards the giant wolves in the air. In the blink of an eye, the collision of energy caused a stream of air to spread through the forest, but too few people reacted, and some people didn't think to raise their weapons until the shadow missile was close to them, only to be directly hit by the missile. Although they were not directly killed, the loss of lives was the least frustrated operation, and the most important thing was that the dozen or so elite-level shadow giant wolves directly broke into the circle guarded by Chen Kai.
The Shadow Wolves that burst into the circle of guards charged with the sharpness of their natural claws, causing wounds directly on several shirtless players around them, and even piercing the stomach of an unlucky bastard with their claws. Although the wooden half-body armor had a little bit of defense, it did not have any resistance in the face of the shadow power carried by the shadow wolf's claws, and it was directly cut like tofu.
All the players looked at the elite wolves in horror, because the devastating damage was so terrifying, even if the wooden helmet armor didn't have much defense, it was at least three centimeters thick. Such a thick wood was directly split into firewood by a giant wolf's paws, just the incision is simply a nano-level standard Guanghua cross-section, as for the wound under the incision, it is more regular, and a few scars almost begin to bleed after the wound is completely torn open. It is an absolute thing that the wound will bleed, but the difficulty is that the bleeding does not start until the wound is completely opened, which requires not only that the object that caused the wound is fast enough, but also that it is sharp enough to cut through the skin directly by touching it.
Obviously, even if the giant wolf's claws are sharp, they can't reach the point where they can directly penetrate and cut when they touch the wood, and it is even more impossible to directly use their claws to open the skin when the player uses the Dou Qi Protector to protect their body, and the only explanation is that the shadow power condensed on their claws makes these claws sharper, and even erodes the skin's defenses in the moment of contact. This is definitely a dangerous thing for the player, as at least thirty percent of the players on the team are equipped with wooden zuò busts, which are all pieced together from wood at zero hour, and obviously cannot stop the claws of the elite giant wolf.
The worst thing is that almost all of these players are concentrated in the area where the elite shadow giant wolf attacks, perhaps those giant wolves found that the armor on these players is different from that of others when they raid, and the wooden armor is too obvious in this daytime environment. With the sharp vision of the giant wolf, they can definitely detect the difference between these half-body armors, of course, this is just the answer that Chen Kai and they don't want to guess the most, because if this is really the case, then the wisdom of the leader who commands the giant wolf is absolutely terrifying. It's almost impossible to describe each other as a wolf, it's even more terrifying than a person.
Closing their eyes and waiting for death was definitely not Chen Kai's idea, even if they knew that the wooden helmet armor on their body could not stop the claws of the elite shadow giant wolf at all, these players still pounced on it desperately. Compared with the elite giant wolves who rushed into the team, Chen Kai has an absolute advantage in numbers, and the most important thing is that they still have hole cards. The light emitted by various fighting qi suddenly rose on these players' bodies, and they directly began to fight hard at this moment, using the punishment skills that were rewarded after completing the Demon Gate mission.
The heavy fighting spirit exploded directly at this moment, because most players chose offensive skills, and because of the relatively high proportion of fighters in the entire team and some of them were killed at about the same time, the skills selected were sometimes similar. However, these skills are all very powerful attack skills without exception, and even the weakest ones are twice as sharp and impactful as the player's previous Fighting Slash. There are even some skills that far exceed the increase of the fourth slash of the holy sword slash mastered by Chen Kai, Chen Kai's holy sword slash can increase the increase coefficient of the sharpness of the weapon when the fourth sword is split, that is, if he is holding a 6-point sharpness worthy weapon, the maximum can be split with a similar power of close to 8.4 sharpness value. This kind of power is enough to cut through the defenses of most creatures, and the defense power of these shadow demon wolves is only 6 at most, and the powerful Dou Qi Slash is enough to cut through the skin on the surface of their bodies in an instant, and then instantly break their bones, and finally directly dismember them.
Even if it is an elite-level shadow giant wolf, its defense power is only about 6.8, otherwise it would not have been directly divided by the player's fighting spirit last night. Therefore, once the player in the middle is desperate, relying on the attack in exchange for the loss of life and body and the release of all his fighting energy, he can definitely kill the shadow giant wolf in an instant, and the most important thing is that there are more than thirty attacks in an instant, and there are more than thirty giant wolves that go straight to the middle of the team. These giant wolves only raged for less than ten seconds, and they were directly dismembered.
Chen Kai had just risen a little excited when the blood and broken wolf flesh fell, but then he was once again filled with a cold sense of danger as he found that they seemed to have been tricked. If the leader of the shadow giant wolf was really wise, he would definitely remember that the four elite giant wolves who were divided for protecting it would not know that Chen Kai and they had an attack to kill them in seconds, in this case, the only possibility that this giant wolf still sent his men to death was that it wanted to force out Chen Kai's hole cards, and it obviously did. With his life threatened, the player apparently exploded the chassis and killed the guy it sent to his death as the shadow giant wolf calculated, so Chen Kai felt a little cold when he thought about it. This feeling is like dog days suddenly being stuffed into an ice cave shirtless, and the whole body is instantly cold and about to freeze.
"Withdraw! The person who unleashes the skill immediately retreats! The people in the back pulled them down and poured them into the body lì potion! The Earth Knight opens a defensive skill for Lao Tzu to block those wolf cubs, don't let a wolf rush in! Chen Kai shouted hoarsely in the team channel, and the people in charge of opening the way behind were surprised to listen to Chen Kai's hoarse roar, and they stayed for a while and immediately involuntarily carried out Chen Kai's order. This move saved the lives of thirty-two players, and as the men behind dragged their exhausted companions to the protective range, more than thirty elite giant wolves roared and rushed over.
At that moment, the shields in the hands of several earth knights all lit up with a burst of earthy yellow light, and five or six shields composed of earth elements blocked in front of the giant wolf, blocking half of the shadow giant wolf in an instant. Half of the remaining giant wolves were blocked by the shield guards, and the other five giant wolves were blocked by Zhao Tiezhu alone, and he stood directly on the route of these giant wolves and took a deep breath. A large amount of air entered the throat from the nasal cavity, entered the lungs, and slowly gathered into the throat after circulation, and at the same time, hundreds of points of fighting qi rushed into the throat, slowly condensing with the agitation of his chest.
"Roaring !!!" The vindictive roar that Fei Yun jokingly called the throat-breaking lion's roar suddenly appeared, and at the same time, a trace of blood clots and broken vocal cord tissue due to the rupture of the vocal cords were roared out. Zhao Tiezhu's skill is very difficult to practice, and until now, he has also promoted it to the level of preliminary mastery, which is still far from being proficient, even then he doesn't know how many times he has been sent to the temple for treatment, and every time his vocal cords are shattered, so that he can only speak through the team channel.
The sound of the strong vindictive spirit mixed with the ** is not strong, but the impact on the ears is very strong, especially these beasts and animals. Their sensitive ears also meant that the eardrum was more susceptible to sound waves, and the moment they were hit by Zhao Tiezhu's close-range sound wave, the five elite giant wolves directly stopped, and collectively fell into a stupor. This sluggishness lasted less than a second, and was dispelled by them shaking their heads, but in the next second, the head of the shadow giant wolf in the middle of the lead was directly smashed into the neck by a huge black orb.
"Good, I actually hit a 4x attack directly!" Zhao Tiezhu pulled the chain of the chain hammer back hard, and withdrew the huge black chain ball. The hideous spikes of the metal orb were stained with the hair and flesh of the giant wolf, and an open wolf eye with a pupil shrunk on it. When Zhao Tiezhu shook the chain hammer, all the flesh and bones were thrown out, splashing not only on the bodies of the surrounding people, but also directly on the bodies of those elite giant wolves. As a result, all the giant wolves that tried to rush into the player's position again directly stopped them, making Chen Kai's retreat path a little safer for the time being.
"The wolf cubs want to pass over from me, first ask you if Grandpa Zhu's shield agrees?" Looking at the approaching elite shadow giant wolf in front of him and the more and more ordinary giant wolves behind him, Zhao Tiezhu directly raised his shield in front of him in addition to turning the chain hammer ready to launch at any time, and his remaining shield was basically no different from a half-waste. In addition to the magic array, the entire shield was still fully operational, and other things like shield thorns were gone, and even the magic array was temporarily organized by Chen Kai with Mithril using the alchemy knowledge he found at zero hour. Basically, the entire shield is a tattered that doesn't work from time to time, but thankfully it's broken down twice so far, and it still provides some spell resistance for the time being.
Behind him, some players began to retreat slowly, of course, when retreating, they directly guarded his back road and waited for Zhao Tiezhu to retreat together, because they all knew that at this time, the protection that a fully equipped earth knight could provide was definitely much more reliable than five or six shield guardians with only shields left. Although Zhao Tiezhu's Earth Temple suit was gone, he still had the old equipment that Chen Kai had given him and had not sold. Wearing it on your body doesn't provide as much defense as it used to be, but it's still much better than not wearing it at all. So he's one of the few fully equipped Earth Knights, and his newfound skills can be called top-level MT-level defenders. Having such an MT in the back is definitely more reassuring than a shield guardian carrying a wooden shield, and naturally he can't be hung up lightly, so even if they retreat more eagerly, they still firmly guard Zhao Tiezhu's back road, so that he can step back step by step and block the giant wolves that rush up with his footsteps for him.
The whole team continued to block the attack of the giant wolf, and then slowly but very orderly retreated, in less than three minutes, they walked a distance of nearly five hundred meters safely and without loss, and the sound of the water became clearer and clearer. In between the collision between the weapon and the wolf's minions, everyone could clearly hear the sound of running water coming from behind, and the sound of rushing water sounded like a heavenly sound at this moment.
In the bright sunshine, the sparkling water surface emits golden reflections, white splashes continue to splash on the water surface to show the scene of the river rushing, on one side of the turbulent water the forest blocks the continuous human screams and canine roars before death, and on the other side of the gentle water flow, more than a dozen crocodiles are slowly crawling from the beach into the turbulent water under the guidance of the smell of blood, they are quietly lurking on the side of the gentle current, and on the sparkling water surface it seems to be a piece of wood sunk in the water. If Chen Kai and the others saw these crocodiles, they would definitely not decide to go into the water lightly, but they couldn't see these crocodiles staying in the bay dozens of meters below the river, they were in a position above the river and a full fifty meters away from the crocodiles, and they had to rush down the turbulent river to enter the crocodile's sphere of influence.
However, according to Chen Kai's habits, they will definitely cross the turbulent river directly, instead of swimming downstream at the risk of being hit by the river and being injured or even killed, because everyone knows that once they are carried by the current in the turbulent river, they will definitely be hit on the stones and crushed. Although Chen Kai and the others have not really experienced the situation of being carried by the water and hitting the rocks, but they have never eaten pork, they have seen pigs run, and the most important thing is that they will not take risks, because everyone knows that this place is not far from the swamp, and in the swamp, in addition to the demons, there are also those terrible crocodiles. Rushing water is hard to cross, but it's better than encountering a crocodile in a gentle current, so when the first player reaches the riverbank, instead of running towards the gentle flow area downstream, they start wading directly on the rushing river.
The first person to step into the water was none other than Lu Xiaofeng, who ran the fastest. He could be said to be the first player in the entire team to reach the riverbank, and he had been hesitating on the riverbank for nearly a minute when Zhao Tiezhu and the others were still trying to block the giant wolf's pursuit. It's just that in the end, he was the first unlucky one to tie a rope and go into the water, because he failed to draw lots.
Looking at the wooden stick in his hand, Lu Xiaofeng once again felt that it was necessary for him to go offline to incense, because he felt that his luck was starting to deteriorate again. So he prayed that there would be no crocodiles in the river and tiptoed into the water. The icy water made Lu Xiaofeng's feet feel numb for the first time he stepped on it, and at the same time, the turbulent water almost reached his chest, making him feel as if he would be flooded at any time. At that moment, he subconsciously tightened the rope tied to his waist, and then directly on the bank of the river, he picked up a stone the size of a football and began to flow water.
When he was on the bank of the river, the turbulent water had barely reached Lu Xiaofeng's chest, and before he had walked two meters, it had already reached the bottom of his neck, and the stone in his hand had already been lost, because if he held the stone, he would definitely be drowned with the stone. In fact, the only thing Lu Xiaofeng relies on now is the rope wrapped around his waist, if it weren't for that rope, he would have been feeding fish and shrimp at the bottom of the river or being washed downstream by the current. In fact, the entire river surface is not wide, according to Fei Yun's visual measurement, it is only four or five meters, such a river surface is definitely a matter of several times a minute in normal times, but now it takes a minute or two to just walk to the middle of the river. The underwater turbulence and whirlpools caused a lot of trouble for the people who went into the water, and none of the five thieves who went into the water managed to touch the other side of the river, and the farthest one swam three meters before being swallowed up by the whirlpool and almost did not breathe air again. If it weren't for the fact that the people behind saw that he didn't pull the rope to the bottom of the river without being dragged by the whirlpool, it is estimated that the unlucky guy would have been washed away.
"If you can't go underwater, you can shoot ropes with crossbow arrows!" The dark dagger looked at the T boy who was dragged back and only half a breath was left, and sighed, the one who was almost swept into the water by the whirlpool was none other than the dark dagger's younger brother T boy. Looking at his younger brother's appearance, he also knew that it was unlikely to cross the river from underwater, so he could only find a way to cross the river from the water, and if he wanted to cross the river in a short time, he could only rely on ropes to nail the wood on the opposite bank, and then climb over. However, this would have to be done by a fast climber who could quickly cross the river, because the ropes of the bolts could not support everyone's movements, and only by tying the ropes to the wood on the other side could they be safe.
In the end, everyone's eyes were on Lu Xiaofeng, who was the first to go ashore and was pouring out the water in his boots, because his escape ability was the strongest among thieves, and he could find a way to escape even if he encountered danger on the other side. Therefore, this unfortunate task and heavy responsibility was once again shouldered by the depressed Lu Xiaofeng, and it was not okay not to accept it, because the dark dagger used the matter of selling spirits as a threat. In the end, Lu Xiaofeng, whose face turned pale, could only grit his teeth and accept the task of the dark dagger, at the cost of the other party helping him fight against the black cauldron.
"Hmm! I don't know if Fei Laosi's rope is nailed firmly! This was the only thought in Lu Xiaofeng's heart when he climbed to the middle of the river, at this time he was only less than five centimeters away from the turbulent current, and the rope he was carrying was almost submerged in the water. At the same time, he felt that the rope was constantly shaking with every step he climbed, but he couldn't stop, because the shaking of the rope would not disappear because he stopped crawling, and the longer he stayed on the rope, the higher the chance of falling into the water. So even if he had such and such worries and worries in his heart, he could only bite and crawl forward, and after climbing for nearly two minutes, he finally reached the opposite bank safely under the urging of the people behind him, and at this time, the crossbow arrow shot by Fei Yun was about to fall off the wood that was shot.
As soon as he arrived at the other side, Lu Xiaofeng kept picking up ropes from the ground and tying them to thick trees, and the players who climbed over on his first tied rope did the moment they fell to the ground. In less than three minutes, nearly thirty ropes appeared above the entire river, and one player after another crawled towards the other side of the river with both hands on the ropes, while others kept putting planks on the ropes because some people couldn't crawl without arms.
After the planks were put up, the rope became a rope bridge, but this bridge could only be walked by one person at a time, and someone had to go on the other side to pull the rope to prevent it from shaking. This makes it very difficult to keep it steady, and if you're not careful, you'll fall right off the slippery plank and into the water with the board. Of course, you can also use a simpler solution, which is to have someone tie you up with a rope and drag you through the water. This is very dangerous, because the underwater turbulence and aquatic weeds will entangle your feet and take you out of the water, and you may be pulled out of the water by the other side of the river.