Chapter 25: The Lizard Swarm
As the minutes ticked by, I don't know when the surrounding forest became silent. At midnight, the exhausted crowd finally began to fall asleep gradually under the invasion of sleepiness.
Jin Shi held a huge round shield and lay on his side behind the trunk of a large fallen tree, the time had entered the second half of the night, it should have been Xiao Yu's turn to keep vigil, but he didn't wake Xiao Yu up immediately, and of course he didn't want to wake him up. Because Jin Shi knew very well that Xiao Yu was definitely the most injured and tired of the people, he needed to rest now, and no one except him had enough ability to lead this group of people to survive from the forest.
There were five other people at the vigil, three or four of whom fell asleep unconsciously, but Jinshi did not blame them and let them sleep. He still held the big shield, worked harder to cheer up, listened to the movements around him with bated breath, and did not dare to slack off in the slightest.
The forest under the dark curtain is a little cold, a full moon hangs high in the night sky, sprinkling a faint cold light, bringing a thin layer of light, the wind blows, the branches and leaves sway, and the ground is mottled with light and shadow. Unconsciously, Jin Shi's consciousness began to shake a little, and he found it in time, and immediately pinched himself hard to keep him awake enough.
At this time, a person who was sitting next to him and keeping vigil together, his squatting body slowly stood up, habitually poked his head out, and glanced out a few times to confirm whether anything unusual had happened, but the moment he moved his head out of the cover, an unexpected shock happened.
Without warning!
Flutter!
A barbed pink object shot straight into the eye socket, blood blooming out, and the huge penetration force made a small hole in the back of the head. The unlucky man didn't even snort, and after a few slight spasms, he stopped moving. Jin Shi, who was half-lying below, happened to see the scene of the head being pierced, and the red and white things flying all over the sky, and the thick blood even splashed all over his face, and the warm liquid full of the smell of blood instantly made the sleepiness disappear. His eyes widened and he let out a hysterical roar.
"There's a monster!"
It was an ugly-looking group of monsters, a group of gray lizards, each the size of a wolfdog. One of the lizards spat out a two-meter-long, barbed pink tongue that pierced the man's eye socket and shattered his skull.
Shout!
At the same time as Jin Shi sounded the alarm, the tongue contracted violently and carried the lifeless body over, and the giant lizard opened its bloody mouth, revealing its fangs and easily biting the entire skull, and several lizards around it also quickly surrounded it, desperately grabbing food. The thunderous sound of the golden stone had exploded among the trees, and no one had slept very dead, and he was awakened immediately at the sound of the scream. Hurriedly picked up his weapon and stood up, making a defensive gesture.
Jin Shi turned over and jumped, his feet on the fallen tree trunk, and he felt two shadows shooting like lightning in front of him. Jin Shi reacted in time, raised the goblin shield "Dangdang" twice, blocked the two tongues that shot at him, and then roared and jumped towards the lizards, and several lizards who were hovering saw him and immediately fled in a hurry. A lithotic right arm fell heavily on the body of a gray lizard, and the ground shook with great force, and the mud was crushed into a depression, and the lizard's internal organs were squeezed out, and the whole thing was smashed into a meatloaf.
"They're not very powerful!"
Jin Shi's heart was relieved, but when the next scene came into view, the trace of luck that had just been generated was instantly wiped out. I saw countless red lights in the dark forest, one pair, two pairs, ten pairs, a hundred pairs...... In the blink of an eye, patches of scarlet eyes lit up were extremely dense and widely distributed, roughly estimated to be hundreds, or even thousands...... Just looking at such a scene makes people's scalp tingle.
The others were ready to fight with short spears and wooden shields, but when they saw the surrounding situation clearly, they immediately froze, and without exception, they gasped and suddenly felt a sense of despair.
There are so many of them, how can this be fought?
"Fat man, stone, help me build obstacles." Xiao Yu picked up the huge tree trunk more than 20 meters long with both hands, and swept a thousand troops and swept away several jumping lizards.
Han Kexin's voice sounded, "We can't stop it, let's kill it!" ”
"There are too many of them, there is no way to break through, you can only defend." Xiao Yu waved the huge tree trunk and quickly retreated, "Don't panic, these lizards are just a large number, they are not difficult to deal with." Block them, don't let them get close! ”
Wang Chao and Jin Shi quickly retreated, and the two of them each picked up a big tree more than twenty meters long, swept several times, and slapped away the lizards that tried to get closer, at this time everyone gathered together, Xiao Yu waved his knife to cut off the big tree, and used the three largest broken trees to form a triangle, and more than 20 people stood back to back in the middle of the triangle.
Xiao Yu looked at the lizards that were pouring in from all directions like a tide, and ordered loudly: "Stand in two circles, the people outside are half-squatting, and the battle stands inside, you must hold your shield, and you must hold it!" ”
Han Kexin quickly organized: "It's not good, they're coming!" You guys do what Xiao Yu said, hurry up! Wang Chao, Jin Shi, you go back, Xiaowen, you stand inside. ”
Under the organization of Han Kexin, the people quickly divided into two groups, the first group held a wooden shield and a short spear and leaned on the broken wood and half squatted down, the wooden shield was erected on the wood, and the second group of people stood behind, also holding a spear to make a defensive posture, in the triangle composed of three broken trees hugged by several people, more than 20 people used wooden shields to form an iron-like defense. Xiao Yu, Wang Chao, and Jin Shi each stood in a corner.
Hundreds of lizards emerged from all directions, surrounded by groups, they did not choose to attack directly, circled around the triangular position, seemed to be looking for the best point of attack, but the defense of this group of people in front of them was very tight, and everyone hid in the wooden shield.
"Hiss!"
More than a dozen lizards couldn't resist and pounced first, spitting out a long tongue with strong piercing power in mid-air, and the person hiding in the wooden shield moved his body the moment the lizard jumped up, and the lizard's tongue fell on the wooden shield, making a few muffled sounds, but it was successfully resisted, and a sharp short spear rushed out of the gap in the shield, instantly piercing the lizard corpse in the air.
These gray lizards are a very powerful zero-order monster, and their individual strength is several times stronger than that of goblin slaves, but they are not strong, but they are numerous, cunning, organized, and very difficult to deal with. The lizard let out an angry roar and stopped its walking footwork, and the hundreds of large gray lizards did not retreat, but suddenly stopped.
It's calm before the storm...... The atmosphere that froze in an instant was simply suffocating.
Hundreds of lizards lined up in a neat line, their scarlet eyes staring at the only twenty or so humans, their long tails flicking, and slapping the ground regularly, "Bang! "Bang!" "Bang!" The neat and dull sound, shaking down a large number of dead leaves, was like beating a war drum, and the sound was terrifying.
Jin Shi asked, "Holy shit, what does this mean, what the hell are they doing?" ”
Xiao Yu said calmly: "They want to overwhelm us in momentum, intending to let us collapse before we fight, or there are gaps in our defenses, so that they can take advantage of it." ”
Wang Chao scolded: "I'll it, and I'll have tactics in my heart!" ”
Hundreds of gray lizards the size of wolfdogs kept flicking their tails and slapping the ground, making rhythmic dull loud noises, but the more than twenty people in the group were unmoved. The gray monitor lizard also seemed to be a little impatient, and the sound of its tail slapping the ground changed from slow to rapid, from rhythmic to messy.
Xiao Yu held the long knife in one hand and reminded, "Get ready, they're going to attack!" ”
"Shhhh
With a series of hissing, the gray lizard, which had been stagnant, surged like a tide, and a huge force hit the wooden shield, making a dull loud noise, but none of the people present were strengthened, and the strength was several times stronger than that of ordinary people, and it could barely resist it.
Short spears stabbed out of the gaps in the shields, killing a dozen gray lizards at once.
All the gray lizards that were stabbed to death were immediately dragged back by the tail bitten by their companions behind, and then seven or eight of their kind surrounded them together, and in the blink of an eye, their corpses were gnawed all over the place.
Jiang Xiaowen was very shocked when she saw this scene, "They are actually eating injured kinders!" ”
Xiao Yu replied loudly: "It's normal, this kind of lizard has an extremely strong ability to reproduce, dozens of lizards can reproduce to thousands in a few years, and the strong reproduction ability leads to very cruel competition within the race, and the congenitally weak, or seriously injured or dead kinds, without exception, will be devoured by the strong kind." They never stop hunting without food. So we have to keep going, as long as we wait until most of the lizards are full, they will naturally retreat, and we will be safe! ”
Han Kexin: "What a terrible species! ”
Xiao Yu said lightly: "No, it's all about survival!" ”
More than a dozen lizards were drowned in the surging lizard group in a blink of an eye, and in a blink of an eye, they were gnawed and even the scum was left, the lizard group launched a fierce attack again, dozens of hundreds of lizards rushed up without fear of death, and the wooden shield made a burst of thunderous noise under the violent impact, and the tongue arrows that were not inferior to bullets attacked again and again, and some attacked the people inside through the gaps in the wooden shield.
Han Kexin pierced a lizard with a goblin short spear, and immediately used blood sacrifices to suck it dry, and the confused red mist covered the surroundings, allowing the wounds of several people to heal quickly.
The lizards that were stabbed after the failure of the attack were instantly dragged by their kind, and some of them were not yet dead and let out bursts of desperate screams, but their companions didn't care about this, and they gnawed mercilessly on the body of this loser with their big mouths, and the sound of "click" sounded, which was the sound of bones being gnawed.