Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Killers Who Were Pitted
It's like a magic show. The audience was greeted with a magical and incredible picture, racking their brains and unable to figure out why this was happening, and for the magician, it was just a little trick.
The leader of the Assassins of the Temple of Night had no idea what was happening in the water, but God Blessing did, because it was all his plan.
Everything that happens in the river is actually quite simple. It all started when the assassin, codenamed Four-Seven, stepped on a trap, but his eyes didn't matter, the black powder was the key.
This powder is actually bamboo charcoal powder, of course, it is not ordinary bamboo charcoal powder, but charcoal powder made after crushing bamboo charcoal soaked in the secretions of female shallow water crocodiles.
The shallow water crocodile is a demon beast, which is essentially different from the crocodile, and will not take care of the young crocodile after laying eggs, and the male crocodile will even devour the young crocodile and the newly laid eggs. In order to maintain the population, the female shallow-water crocodile must lay as many eggs as possible to ensure the continuation of the population in large numbers. In order to achieve this, female shallow-water crocodiles must mate and lay eggs constantly during the spawning period. At the same time, the female crocodile must not lay eggs in front of the male crocodile, otherwise all the eggs will be eaten by the male crocodile.
In this way, throughout the spawning period, the female crocodile must constantly attract and wave the male crocodile. However, it is not difficult to chase away the male crocodiles, and they will leave on their own, but it is not so easy to find them.
So, in order to save time, the female crocodile evolved a pheromone that can quickly spread in the water, and can make the male shallow water crocodile quickly enter a state of excitement, and then pounce on it regardless of it.
In order to ensure that the concentration of pheromones in the water is high enough, the female shallow-water crocodile has evolved a bladder-like sac of fluid, which is specially used to accumulate pheromones, and when the female needs to summon the male crocodile, it will be expelled through the lacrimal glands, and the male crocodile will immediately rush to the male as soon as he touches it.
As long as you understand this, it is not difficult to understand why the people of the Night Temple are unlucky.
The killer in the bamboo forest thought that he hadn't touched the powder, but he didn't know that Siqi had actually been stained with a lot of it, and he rubbed it on him when he was examining Siqi. The reason why Siqi's eyes are irrelevant is also because whether Siqi dodged the mechanism, and then went into the water with a body of powder, or did not dodge the mechanism, rubbed the powder on other people, and let others go into the water with the powder, this thing will be brought into the river anyway.
As long as the Night Temple's killers intend to continue their pursuit, they will inevitably pass through the Taniguchi Waterway, and once the powder is in the water, it will attract all the male shallow water crocodiles in the vicinity.
Creatures are very violent when competing for mates, and pheromone-guided male shallow-water crocodiles swarm only to find that the female is nowhere to be found. In this state, you can imagine what kind of mood the male crocodiles are in, and at this time they just happened to find that there were many people nearby, so it is not difficult to imagine what happened next.
The leader of the Assassins at the Temple of Night eventually discovered that the Shallow Water Crocodiles were attacking each other in the water, and it was because the Shallow Water Crocodiles were actually fighting for a mate, so they fought themselves. There were so many shallow-water crocodiles, if they had concentrated on dealing with these killers at that time, it was estimated that in addition to this assassin leader and a few masters who led the team, these assassins would have to fold in the river. Of course, there are many dead now.
As for the appearance of deep-water crocodiles, it was actually an accident. The deep-water crocodile is actually a shallow water crocodile with successful cultivation, and they are completely the same thing, but because the compiler of the "Demon Record" made a mistake and divided it into two kinds of demon beasts and recorded them separately, which led everyone to think that these were two kinds of demon beasts. Tianyou, like everyone else, didn't know it was a mistake. Of course, knowing that he won't change his plans, I'll be happier if I don't get it.
After the assassins came ashore, the last unlucky guy who was dragged into the water by the deep-water crocodile was actually the guy who went to check on Siqi's condition in the first place. When he got out of the water, he still had a small amount of pheromones on his body, so the deep-water crocodile didn't attack others, but dragged him down. But think about it from another angle, if it weren't for the fact that he had the highest concentration of pheromones on his body, and the large group of shallow water crocodiles protected him as a female crocodile, preventing other male crocodiles from approaching, he might have been killed before he could get ashore.
Looking at the river, the leader of the Assassins at the Temple of Night couldn't understand why this was happening, but he wasn't the kind of person who would dig into the horns, and he quickly gave up thinking and turned his attention back to the mission. Merely......
"Oh, damn it!"
"Poisonous scorpions, poisonous scorpions on the ground!"
Although the person who was bitten quickly issued a warning, it seemed to be a little late. By the time everyone was back together, seven or eight people had been stung, and five of them had died, and the rest were foaming at the mouth and falling to the ground convulsively, and they seemed to be alive.
A poisonous scorpion that might even be trampled to death by ordinary people, how could it be classified as a level 25 demon beast? It was this terrifying toxicity.
At another time and place, with the cultivation and vigilance of this group of killers, it is impossible to be injured by poisonous scorpions, but the water melee just now has exhausted their physical strength, and the pleasure of the rest of their lives after the catastrophe has made them relax their vigilance, and as a result, because of the negligence of this moment, the eight people are gone.
"Get out of the river beach first, go into the woods, and watch your step. ”
It was the first time for the leader of the assassins to feel so powerless, and the loss of leading the team into the palace of the Han King to assassinate **** before was not so scary. Along the way, more than 30% of the personnel had been reduced without anyone noticing, and the team of more than 100 people was now less than 70, and almost everyone was injured. He wasn't even sure how many people he would have left when he caught up with his target.
Although the psychological quality of the killers far exceeded that of the noble children, the battle in the river was far more physically demanding than a simple swim crossing, so many of the killers could not hold on to the trees after moving away from the river beach and into the woodland.
Because Boss He and Qu Dazhi had better water quality and did not have to obey the orders of the assassin leader, they had been struggling to escape after being in distress, and they were lucky enough to let them climb ashore. However, the Dog King guy was not so lucky, and the leaders of the small gangs who came with him also died, and there were only two people left except for the two of them.
Qu Dazhi held on to a big tree and had the courage to communicate with the assassin leader. "Why don't you let everyone rest for a night and then chase after it? This forest is too dark, we are not familiar with the terrain, it is easy to be ambushed, and everyone is tired, and if we continue to chase after us, we will be finished first." Why don't you rest for the night and continue tomorrow?"
How can there be a reason for the assassination operation to be left unused at night and waited for the day? But in this special situation, these killers really have no combat effectiveness at all. Besides, the night is the peak of monster activity, and running around in the unfamiliar woodland at this time is about the same fate.
"Okay, everybody's resting on the spot. Second, arrange a vigilance, and others take turns to rest. Three, four, five, six, each of you take two of your subordinates who are in better condition, scatter out and search the surrounding area, and if you find a target, don't do it yet, and come back to inform me. ”
"I'll go too. After the previous female assassin spoke, she didn't wait for the leader's consent, and directly shouted softly: "Erqi, Wuqi, follow me." ”
The two killers got up from the ground weakly and left with the female killer. The leaders of the teams who were named also led their own people to scatter to investigate.
Watching the scouting team leave, the leader ordered the rest of the people: "Don't be on the ground, all go up the trees, it's not safe down there." ”
Although they were half exhausted, the killers did not dare to disobey the order, not to mention that they also knew that the ground was indeed not safe, so they climbed the trunk of the tree to find a branch to rest.
Unlike the miserable Night Temple killers, less than five miles in front of them, the energetic Tianyou was carrying a pile of things to the boulder that had left before, where Yingying and his party, who were in slightly better condition than the killers.