Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Monster in the Swamp
"Why do I feel like you're getting taller?"
"Stupid master, who made you come here in power armor, you are sinking!" Emma slapped her forehead helplessly.
As soon as Alice found herself stepping in the water, she teleported to Xiaowa's back, and the two little guys watched him sink little by little on Zhang Lin's head.
Zhang Lin realized that half of his calf had sunk into the swamp, and hurriedly used the system backpack to recover the power armor, instead of slowly taking off the power armor, he laboriously lifted his foot out of the mud, and his shoes were already filled with muddy water.
It was a swamp in the middle of the woodland, a disgusting smell of rancid and fishy smells spread through the air, and the surroundings were very quiet, there was not even the sound of birds in the woods, and a layer of fog shrouded the place, although it was still daytime, but there was still an eerie feeling.
This kind of swamp is not very soft and easy to fall, according to the weight of ordinary adults, as long as you don't stand in place all the time, it won't sink, but Zhang Lin is wearing power armor when he crosses over, and he is going to make a shocking debut, but not only is no one shocked by him, but he also pits himself.
While Zhang Lin was changing shoes, Ciri, who was already familiar with the system functions obtained by teaming up with Zhang Lin and them in the main world, raised her left hand, and a light curtain appeared in front of her, and she very skillfully called up the map interface to check it.
"It's a humpback swamp." Ciri was unfamiliar with this kind of place name, but when she zoomed in on the map and saw the familiar places that were not marked with place names, but were much rougher than the ones shown on the hand-drawn map that were now displayed in the light curtain, she finally confirmed that she had returned to the original world.
"What the hell a place, I hate swamps!"
Whether it was severe cold or scorching heat, they would not feel uncomfortable for Zhang Lin, but the feeling of mud in the shoes just now made Zhang Lin very unhappy, especially the mud still had a foul smell.
Several people who had been in the main world for nearly half a month finally waited for the new door to open, because of the appearance of Ciri before, Zhang Lin had some guesses about the world that he might come to this time, and the result was indeed as he expected, they came to the world where Ciri's hometown is located.
"Something is approaching!"
Emma gave a warning, and she was keenly aware of something unusual in the swamp, and took out a spear and held it in the palm of her hand.
After hearing the warning, Zhang Lin quickly felt a noise coming from the mud in front of him, but saw a blue-skinned humanoid monster suddenly burst out of the mud, and a disgusting ugly face appeared in front of Zhang Lin, two big white eyes looked like they were about to fall out, and the mouth full of sharp teeth was about to bite him.
"Sting!"
The spear stabbed diagonally from the side pierced the monster in an instant, and then Emma, who was holding the spear, trembled with both hands and threw the guy into the distance, and the huge wound opened by the spear almost split the monster into two parts, and the blood and internal organs were directly spilled.
"It's a water ghost!" Ciri reminded loudly.
As soon as the words fell, a group of water ghosts jumped up in the swamp and rushed towards them.
This monster is said to have been formed by humans who have drowned in accidents or storms and have not been able to rest in peace, usually living near the water, often hiding in the mud, attacking unsuspecting maidens bathing in the river, sometimes pulling down the horses of travelers passing by the shore and dragging them into the water, as for why there are so many water spirits in the swamp, either transferred from the nearby river or by the unlucky ghosts who have fallen into the swamp.
Hill turned around flexibly, dodged the pounced water ghosts, held the hilt of the sword with both hands, leaned forward to lower the center of gravity, and then a few green lights flashed, and I saw the long sword in Ciri's hand slashing through the cold light, and the heads of several water ghosts moved instantly, and the body that lost its head fell into the mire with a convulsion.
Little Lori, who was riding on the back of Xiao Wa, rarely waved her staff and used magic, this time it was not the enchanted attack attached to the weapon when she was studying in the world of the Elder Scrolls, but the magic that belonged to her own profession appeared, only to see three white balls of light appear on the heads of the three water ghosts under Xiao Wa, and then several lightning bolts in a row cleaved down from the ball of light, and after a while, the three water ghosts became charred.
This kind of ordinary water ghost was simply no threat to Zhang Lin and the others, and soon, more than a dozen water ghost corpses lay in this swamp.
However, there was a cloud of white mist that was slowly drifting towards Zhang Lin, and a strange wriggling could be vaguely seen in the mist, as if it had life, Zhang Lin vigilantly swept a sword into the mist, but saw a cloud of mist showing the phantom of a monster being instantly dispersed, but Zhang Lin could clearly feel that his sword did not touch any entity.
Then a figure flashed with a new cloud of mist, and in the blurred shadow, it could be seen that this guy had his hands over his knees, his chin and ears were pointed and long, it was obviously not a human, but a monster similar to a water ghost, this is a magical creature that can manipulate the fog and its own atomization, the fog demon, and at this moment it is obviously eyeing Zhang Lin alone.
The fog in front of Zhang Lin dissipated again, but nothing appeared inside, but the figure of the monster appeared behind Zhang Lin, smooth and hairless skin with corpse-like blue-gray, hideous and twisted facial features like a hairless monkey, glowing eyes with two white lines in the movement, its chest and abdomen as if hollowed out, revealing a large area of flesh and bones, giving people a very disgusting and terrifying feeling, and then the fog demon who appeared behind waved his claws and swung down towards Zhang Lin quickly.
Zhang Lin, who had been prepared, slashed back violently, colliding with the fog demon's claws.
"Goo ......" was Zhang Lin turned around and slashed the claws of the fog demon with a sword let out an ugly scream, this rare monster in addition to being good at sneak attacks is more greedy for life and afraid of death, as soon as it was injured, it manipulated the fog and quickly retreated, but it was not just Zhang Lin alone, I saw that the sudden rush of Ciri and Emma came behind the half-fogged fog demon at the same time, and attacked it at the same time.
The waist of this fog demon, which was only half thick, was directly cut off, and the two halves of its separated body struggled in the swamp, splashing in all directions, and after a while, its eyes that were shining with white light finally went out, and its body stopped moving.
"Phew, the wild is full of monsters, but unfortunately there are fewer and fewer demon hunters who are good at dealing with monsters." Ciri couldn't help but sigh with emotion as she looked at the corpses of the monsters all over the ground, and then she wiped the sword in her hand and fell silent.
Zhang Lin knew that Ciri was thinking of her adoptive father, Geralt of Livia.
"Beep~"
There was a burst of electronic sound, attracting everyone's attention, but they saw a small spherical robot with a propeller on its head, levitating in front of Alice, and Alice was poked with her fingers and swayed, unlike the embarrassed little robot next to Mia, this one was in a smiling state.