Chapter VI: The Danger of Regimental Annihilation
With yesterday's experience, the whole team was frightened, and now they are very frightened when they encounter any movement, and they feel that this desert is full of dangerous enemies, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a soldier.
When you see a figure in front of you, your first reaction is to make the first move.
Fortunately, the expedition team doesn't need to use people to investigate, and the wolf warrior runs over to take a look, it's the caravan or something, everyone says hello and goes their own way, and when they encounter sand thieves or something, the wolf warrior can also pretend to be forced to run, without losing anything.
The alchemist began to manipulate the wolf to run over, and the manipulator was a little nervous, and soon he became even more nervous, because the wolf sent to reconnoiter was destroyed before he could get close.
"Commander, they have a guide cannon!"
"What?"
At this moment, a white light flashed in the yellow sand.
Sensing the danger, Mephis immediately rolled sideways to dodge, shouting loudly.
"Dangerous ......"
Boom -
A violent explosion spread in the center of the convoy, and the heat wave swept up several people and threw them into the distance, and the vehicle was torn apart in the explosion. I am afraid that this kind of artillery power can only be caused by guide guns.
A flash of light followed, and the expedition was surrounded by explosions and dust, and rolled sand falling from the sky that almost buried a person.
The enemy's firepower is more focused on the place where the alchemy machinery gathers, and the sand thieves already know their power, and they will never rashly engage in white-knuckle combat again, as for the baggage carts, the sand thieves seem to be deliberately avoiding them, so the casualties of the alchemists are not very large.
Mephis moved cautiously under fire, and I don't know whose arm flew in front of him and landed in front of him, and there was a smell of burnt. Soon another round of shelling, and although he tried his best to dodge it, the impact still threw Mephis several meters away, and his back seemed to be slashed by a sharp blade, and there was a burning sensation.
It would be bad to stop here, and Mephis, propping up her body with her hands, quietly climbed behind an overturned carriage and hid, taking a short break while observing the situation.
The shelling of the sand thieves stopped, and they rushed forward in dozens of people, their cruel expressions and sharp knife lights terrifying.
The previous shelling was all taking care of the mechanical alchemy, and the location of the mechanical alchemists was close to the periphery, except for a few who were unlucky, most of the alchemists survived, losing a large number of alchemy machinery, and could hardly form a resistance force.
In the panic, some alchemists threw explosive bombs, and the sand thieves calmly dodged, and in their contemptuous shouts, the alchemist was beheaded.
There are also some armored cavalry in the convoy that can form a resistance force, and the alchemists use their last strength to fight against the sand pirates, and everyone knows that to give up is to die. However, after all, the armored cavalry was used for defense, and the action could not keep up with the sand thieves without an advantage in numbers, and they were easily bypassed, and the sand thieves began to slaughter the alchemists in the rear.
The alchemist resisted with a crossbow, which was incredibly powerful, and had a magic structure inside, which was not inferior to bullets, but it was very slow to reload, and although it caused damage to the sand thieves, after being approached, they were killed almost without any power to fight back. There were also alchemists who were about to throw poison, but as soon as he raised his hand, a crossbow bolt shot through his neck, and the poison fell to the ground, and the green smoke spread around, and the surrounding alchemists could only quickly escape from this place.
Some people inhaled the poisonous gas and fell to the ground and convulsed, there were sand thieves and alchemists, and some people chose to die together, an alchemist blew up a baggage cart full of potions, and sprayed all kinds of potions around, many sand thieves were splashed with drugs to produce different reactions, and the worst people were even the belt meat made a sizzling sound and rotted into a lump of blood.
The scene was chaotic, after the previous bombardment, there was no longer a sign of Snod, and some alchemists lost their will to resist, they untied the camels on their cars and rode away, and soon a rain of arrows pounced on the fleeing people.
"Ahem, ahem! Shit, these bastards ......"
"Teacher, how are you?"
"Lao Tzu is not dead yet, don't make a fuss!"
Snod's voice came from the side of a large pit, the uncle was disgraced, and finally dragged himself out of the sand, immediately got up and dug out a pile of rags from the overturned car, and finally raised a blue cane, on which a burst of electricity flashed, and swung it violently in the direction of the sand thieves, and suddenly a cyan arc of light shrouded the past, and six sand thieves were caught in the net with their camels, and instantly turned into ashes.
"Miscellaneous people, I want you to look good! If you want to eat my team, be prepared to burst into a mouthful of blood!! ”
"Teacher, don't say it, run away!"
Luo Luo had the mind to cry at this time, in the bombing just now, the master and apprentice were lucky not to die, but they also became disgraced, at this time Luo Luo desperately dragged the camel that wanted to escape, just waiting for Snod to come and escape, maybe a camel can't escape the pursuit of the sand thieves, but it is also a chance to fight, it is better than dying here.
"You run away, Lao Tzu can't escape, and the hundred pounds on his body will leave anywhere today...... Belch! ”
"Teacher!!"
After killing more than a dozen sand thieves in a row, Snood's save was also discovered by the archers, and after several rounds of continuous shooting, Snood's knee was shot through and he fell to the ground, and then he was also hit by an arrow in the shoulder and abdomen.
"Shhh It's miserable, it's miserable, it looks like I can't go back. ”
The sand thieves rushed over, raised their scimitars, and were about to cut off Snod's neck, Snod laughed miserably, supported himself to his feet, and prepared to press the staff again, while Lolo was so frightened that he closed his eyes and let go of the camel he was leading.
At this moment, four fireballs flew from the side and hit the sand thieves, and then three thick books flew and smashed the two sand thieves off their camels.
"Mr. Mephis! I thought the shelling just now was ......"
"Don't talk, quickly pick up the uncle, let's get ready to run."
The sand thieves' camels had lost their owners, and just as two of them had not gone far, Mephis hurried over, whistling a special whistle urging them to quiet down and follow him, helping Lolo to drag Snod up.
Another sand thief rushed over, Mephis took the book of flames in front of him, a stream of fire engulfed the sand thief, soon, an arrow was shot in the distance, the three of them hurriedly lay down, Mephis squatted in front, let the three books block the head, after a few arrows, pretended to fall to the ground and did not move, sure enough, the archers turned to shoot elsewhere.
At this time, Mephis called for the Book of Mist to come back to his side, and the real mirror image appeared, and a cloud of mist appeared out of thin air on the sand, condensing into an illusion identical to him, just like riding a camel, and the phantom immediately ran in the opposite direction.
In the chaos of the battle, the sand thieves were the first to be deceived by this phantom, and the arrows in the distance shot at the phantom, and seeing the right time, Mephis hurriedly beckoned Lolo to run away from the other direction.
"What about the others?"
"Although I'm a little sorry for them, I'd better take care of myself at this time!"
Mephiss replied loudly without looking back, and hurriedly drove the camel forward, and Snood, who sat behind Lolo, shook his head weakly, and at this time everyone had to ask for more blessings.
Only then did the sand thieves realize that they had been deceived, and a group of people who were watching the excitement in the distance split a team of more than a dozen people to chase after them.
"Mr. Mephis, what's next?"
"Follow me!"
Mephis didn't know what to do, obviously there was no way, and even if he escaped the pursuit of the sand thieves, he would die of thirst and exhaustion in the desert, and it would be so difficult to get out.
“…… They caught up. ”
The bumps in the wild rush almost killed Snod, in the process, the uncle gritted his teeth and drew the arrows on his body, took out the medicine bottle he carried with him and poured a mouthful, but the blood kept flowing, and it was up to fate whether he died or lived.
Mephis looked back, and sure enough, the sand thieves chasing behind him were steadily closing the distance, not thinking too much, and hurriedly controlled the Book of Flames to attack, and the flames shot round after round, and it was not difficult to accurately hit the moving machine qì in high-speed movement, at least there are many times in the game that you have to master this skill, calculate the amount of advance, and it is a necessary skill for a veteran player like Mephis.
The sand thieves who caught up were shocked to find that their number was decreasing, the Book of Flames would shoot and unfold a quadruple magic array every time, and those who were targeted could not avoid it at all, because they could not stop quickly in the wild run, and the four flame jets blocked the left and right dodge routes, and there was still the strength to kill them perfectly.
"These ...... of waste"
Among the sand thieves, a thin figure wrapped in a black robe snorted coldly, he lowered his body, took out the injection and injected it into the camel's body, the camel's skin under his body immediately underwent strange changes, and strange red blood vessels surfaced on the epidermis, and the speed of running suddenly left the same kind behind him.
Mephis noticed this man, and the quadruple magic array immediately aimed at him, and the flames erupted in unison.
"Insect carving skills." The thin figure pulled out a scimitar from his waist, which was also different from the one used by the usual sand thieves.
"Demon Drinker's Blade... A weapon to restrain magical attacks, the camel's reaction is also odd, and it should be a stimulant drug. Mephiss narrowed his eyes, and he could see the whole picture of the scimitar through the wind and sand, and then shouted to Lolo, "You go first!" ”
"Mr. Mephis?"
"Leave me alone."
Mephis made an arc and slowly stopped, first terrified at the incoming sand pirates, and then a chill from his head to the soles of his feet.
Spiegel stops water.
The skill of the Book of Mist, providing a passive state, the effect in the game is to increase the probability of the Demon Sect Scholar dodging physical attacks, but there is no chance in reality, Mephis feels an unprecedented calmness, and his body is as natural as flowing water.
The sand thief sneered, and the scimitar slashed down the door in front of Mephis, who bent down and dodged almost against the back of the knife.
“!” What the heck? Isn't this guy a mage? Do mages have any agility?
The sand thief thought that this knife would be hit, and after hacking Mephis, he could chase the other two people without stopping, but he pounced, and a black shadow appeared in his field of vision in a blink of an eye, which frightened him to dodge, and thought it was deadly magic...... Book?
Mephis fell into a strange calm, and he thought he was going to hit the sand thief when he slashed at him, but his body reacted naturally, as if the flowing water would naturally bypass the raised rock in front of him, and he entered a state of physical and mental calm.
The sand thieves secretly hated and turned back to kill Mephis, who would not stand there and wait for death, and called the Book of Flames with his backhand as four erupting pillars of fire, and the battle soon fell into a strange stalemate. Every time the sand pirate attacked Mephis, he was lightly dodged, and Mephis's magic could not break the Demon Drinker's Blade.
As the name suggests, the scimitar can absorb a qiē spell lightly, unless Mephis's attack is overloaded, which Mephis can't do now.
However, the sand thieves who were left behind had already surrounded him, and after being encircled, coupled with the attack of the small leader of the sand bandits, Mephis was inevitably unable to stand alone.
An arrow flew and struck the camel beneath Mephis, who fell to the ground helplessly and rolled quickly to avoid the stampede, and when he got back up, all retreats had been cut off.
At this moment, Luo Luo's voice was heard again in the distance.
"Mr. Mephis, I'm here to save you!!"
"This idiot!"
The sand thieves had a playful look on their faces.
"Looks like your companion has failed your kindness, haha, and it will save a lot of trouble."
Mephis was about to say something, when he caught a glimpse of something falling from the sky, his pupils contracted, and without saying a word, he immediately hugged his head and squatted down.
Luo Luo threw an explosive bomb, which just landed in the crowd, and such a move on the empty sand was so powerful that both Mephis and the sand thieves scattered and fled at the first time.
Boom!
The whole ground shook, and this tremor spread far away not only from the point where the bomb landed, but also from the point of landing to all sides.
Mephiss was horrified to find that the sand in the crater was now sinking, as if the earth's crust was cracking, and this crack was constantly expanding, and in a blink of an eye, he was at Mephis's feet, and he was so frightened that he turned around and ran.
Why is it so powerful?
Luo Luo was also a little puzzled, and Snood couldn't care about the painful and shivering wound, so he hurried away.
But it was too late, and in the constantly flowing sand, the whole ground was like a giant mouth of a monster, swallowing everyone down.