Chapter 100: The Mire Scavengers
The dragon spirit's eyes were sharp, and when he looked at it, he could see that the thing was probably a person, about three or four meters tall.
The body is severely deformed, the legs are as slender as a heron, the body is as slumped as a beast, the back is like a huge hump, and the head sticking out in front of it hangs down long hair.
Its arms are equally slender, and it walks slowly on the mudflats with a pole in each hand, supported by long legs and poles.
"It's coming here!" The dragon tightened and let out a low cry, and everyone hurriedly picked up their weapons and looked at them together.
"What is it?"
A group of humans are very nervous when they encounter strange monsters in the dangerous swamp.
The Great Wizard looked hard, his eyelids jumped a few times, and he shook his head and said, "I don't know." β
"There's still there!"
A person shouted, and the dragon spirit hurriedly looked in the direction he pointed, and sure enough, it was a deformed figure again.
"That's too!"
"There are a lot of them!"
As everyone screamed, one deformed monster after another appeared around them, all slowly walking towards the high ground.
The human army hurriedly mobilized and came to the edge of the high ground to prepare for battle, many brandishing weapons and shouting threats at the monsters in the distance.
"Don't panic, don't panic!"
When he was nervous, Bakabaka waved his hands and shouted, and ran over to the dragon spirit and Shi Pan and said, "Those are the mire scavengers, they are just out looking for food, and they will not attack us. β
"What scavengers? Who are they? The dragon spirit asked, stretching his bow.
Bakabaka said: "The mire scavengers are also a kind of intelligent people, they usually hide in the mire, no one can find them, and they only sneak out at night to find food. β
"Scavengers are gentle and withdrawn, only picking up fish and insects in the mud to eat, never coming into contact with outsiders, let alone attacking people. Don't panic, everyone. β
"Really?" The dragon spirit relaxed his bowstring, still vigilant in his heart.
Everyone was on guard for a while, and when they saw that those deformed humans were only looking down slowly, and had no intention of rushing over, they put down their hearts and slowly dispersed.
The dragon spirit and the archwizard did not go back, and pulled Baka Barka to ask about the scavengers.
Bakabaka didn't know much, but he knew that the rumors had a guess that the scavengers might be the ancestors who built the ruins. Later, somehow, they were abandoned by the gods and turned into monsters who survived in the muddy waters of the swamp.
"They're actually living a miserable life."
Bakabaka looked at the scavengers, took a sip of wine, and said with a pout, "Our great wizard said that they are also under a curse like us, but it is much more powerful than ours. β
"And their curse has already begun, and only in the swamp can they barely survive with the help of the divine power of the Mother of Wetlands."
After listening to this, the dragon spirit looked at the quagmire scavengers who were like seriously ill old men, and couldn't help but feel pity.
"The other aliens of this age seem to be cursed."
He thought about it and said in his heart: "It should be a hereditary disease, or a disease caused by a genetic defect." If all intelligent beings competing with humans have such problems, then humans will not be able to win without a fight. β
Just thinking about it in his heart, he suddenly seemed to feel something, and turned his head to look, only to see a scavenger standing still, staring straight at him with eyes reflecting the blue light of ghost fire.
The dragon spirit was uncomfortable and was about to leave the water's edge, when he saw the scavenger merge the long pole in one hand into the other, and then raised his long, swarthy and thin hand and beckoned in this direction.
"Is heβhe's waving at us?" The dragon spirit couldn't believe his eyes and asked the Great Wizard and Bakabaka.
"Seems to be." The Grand Wizard looked at it carefully and said.
Bakabaka also opened his mouth in disbelief, rubbed his eyes and looked at it for a while and said, "The scavengers will take the initiative to communicate with outsiders? We, who have lived in the Swamp for hundreds of years, are the first time we've encountered something like this! β
"Do you want to go over?" The Grand Wizard asked, staring at the dragon spirit.
The dragon spirit laughed and said, "Witch Crow Gong, you are a wizard, he must have sensed it, so I called you over, you can go over and take a look." β
"Hmm......"
The Great Wizard's face turned red, he coughed, and said to Bakabaka, "You rumors are familiar with them, and that scavenger must be greeting you." Baka Baka, go ahead. β
Baka Bakabaka bared his fangs and patted his thighs and shouted, "I won't go, although they all say that scavengers don't hurt people, but no one has ever come into contact with them." Their ugly look is scary to look at, and IβI'm not going. β
"It's better for you to go, you have demons in your body, and no one can help you." He pointed at the dragon spirit and screamed, and the archwizard nodded in agreement.
"I'm ......" Long Jing hesitated, he was really a little worried in his heart.
Look at the scene in front of you, in the dark night of the swamp illuminated by ghostly fire, in the thick black fog, a ghostly deformed monster stands in the mud, beckoning you to pass. To go or not to go?
Needless to say? Fools know that you must not go!
The three of them looked at each other, scratching their heads and scratching their chests in silence for a while, and they all made up their minds that they would not die.
"Maybe that thing is chasing flying insects, how could it possibly greet us."
Long Jing smiled forcefully, and saw that the two people on the other side nodded in agreement, and hurriedly said: "Let's go, there's nothing to see, go back to sleep." β
The three of them turned around, looking back as they went, but saw that the scavenger was waving more urgently, and then threw down the pole and waved his hands.
I don't have to say anything about it, I must be saying hello.
The dragon spirit looked at the great wizard who deliberately bent down and pretended to be weak, knowing that this old guy didn't care about the consequences after his curiosity attacked, and then looked at Baka Baka who was shrunk in the eggshell, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.
He gritted his teeth and said, "I'll take a look." β
"Okay, be careful." The Grand Wizard and Baka Baka were busy answering.
The dragon spirit went to say hello to Shi Pan first, and then rode up the canopy boar and walked towards the scavenger.
Protected by the fierce beast seal dolphin and the winged fire snake, coupled with his superhuman skills blessed by demons, the dragon spirit did not believe that the group of scavengers who moved slowly like sloths could deal with him.
"Even the quagmire trap can't help my mount." The dragon said ruthlessly.
He let out the four winged fiery serpents, all on the pig's back, with a bow and javelin dangling from the saddle, and a spear in his hand, and gradually approached the scavenger.
Unexpectedly, when the scavengers saw someone coming, they turned around and walked away with the one who beckoned, their movements were very slow, but they all disappeared into the darkness as they walked.
The dragon spirit broke out in a cold sweat, and looked nervously around with a spear, only the ghost fire, the green light was miserable, but he couldn't see any of them, as if he had gotten into the mud.
But the big boar snorted uncontrollably, walked to the place where the waving scavenger was standing, stopped, sniffed on the ground, and suddenly raised his head and roared.
The dragon spirit was engrossed in guard, startled when he heard the sound, and looked down to see that there seemed to be something on the ground.
If you look closely, you can't help but be surprised.