Chapter 18: Counterattack
Covering Carmen's body with twigs and dead leaves, Alan and the others followed the fjord monster again, but the morale of the team had fallen to the bottom.
The strange injuries of Carmen's decapitation made everyone's hearts heavy. Qin Lun personally judged that this was the second mysterious power native to Arcadia, but Allen and the others believed that it was artificially caused. In other words, among the tourists who entered the camp with them was the serial murderer.
There is some truth to both judgments, and if the Grim Reaper game can lead them to Arcadia, then it is not uncommon to attract a few more serial murderers. However, Qin Lun prefers the first type, the serial murderer's change of the plot situation is too weak, and the mysterious power is not strong at all.
As the sky gradually brightened, Alan and the others slowly found that their surroundings were becoming more and more unfamiliar. In the outer forests of Acadia National Park, where tourists often walk around, most of the natural paths are left in the trees. The paths are covered with dead leaves, and the grass is tread smoothly by pedestrians.
But after hours of tracking, Alan and the others had gone deep into the forest, and they had crossed several warning signs along the way. There were no such paths around them that tourists had trodden, and most of the weeds on the forest floor had grown to more than a foot high, making it almost impossible to see the soil below.
Natasha took out a few leather bands that she used to tie her hair, and told everyone to tie their trousers tightly so that snakes and insects and the like would not crawl in. The girl's careful gesture immediately won the praise of everyone.
"Did you hear anything?" Qin Lun tilted his head to listen uncertainly, his hearing was much worse than his eyesight, this would not be a pretentious gesture.
In fact, when he entered this forest, he had already tested several bloodline abilities on his body one after another. Perhaps due to the limitations of the laws of the world, or perhaps the interference of other mysterious forces, he was unable to use Elven Story here, and his gaze aura was weakened a lot.
The buffs from the Elven Bloodline and the Hunter class are basically negated. High-level magic skills are also greatly restricted, for example, the A+-level Tree Realm is not usable at all, after all, this is a low-magic world.
The only good news is that some low-level skills and physical attributes are not too restricted, such as: bow and arrow skills rapid-fire, scattering, and piercing arrows; Ballistic refraction of firearms, weak crosshairs, etc.
This also refreshed Qin Lun's cognition and made him feel the importance of comprehensiveness.
In fact, this also exposed his weakness of not accumulating enough, with his current ability, if his skills are fully opened, he belongs to the upper level among the second-order apostles. But once he changes to some task worlds with relatively large restrictions, he may be weaker than ordinary second-order apostles, because the accumulation of middle- and low-level skills of others is stronger than him.
"I didn't hear anything."
"Neither do I!" Allen's face was a little confused and nervous, except for the kind of precognitive hallucination, he was still just an ordinary person in other aspects.
"Here, follow me, I want to hear some weird noises." Qin Lun motioned for everyone to be quiet, listened attentively for a while, then pointed out a direction, beckoning everyone to follow him.
"What the hell is this?" Alan and the others looked ahead with the bushes, except for Qin Lun, everyone else couldn't help but tremble all over their bodies, and a stream of urine rose from their lower abdomen.
For ordinary people living in peacetime, this scene in front of them is too shocking. The moment they saw it, their minds went blank, and they had no ability to think at all, only fear that came from the instinct of life.
Qin Lun didn't take them far away, and after about two or three hundred meters, everyone heard the kind of voice he said. The sound was obviously a mixture, and if you made it closer, there was the sound of water, a strange sound similar to a child's cry, and some kind of frog-like cooing.
The closer they got there, the more panic in everyone's hearts became, and finally followed Qin Lun into the bushes and almost crept over.
Peeling through the bushes, there is a gravel beach on the shore of a lake. Unlike ordinary sandy beaches, there is no fine sand or pebble beachheads, and the shore is full of hideous reefs, small in size, but sharp in edges and corners, like a razor blade.
The water of the lake came in waves, smashed on the gravel beach, and the sound of rushing water could be heard between the reefs.
Acadia National Park has a lot of tourists as long as it's a lake and a beach, but this beach obviously doesn't come to anyone, and almost even the animals of the forest don't come here to drink.
In addition, the fog was thick in the early morning, the view of the surrounding environment was very poor, and the madness seemed eerie and secretive, which gave Alan and the others goosebumps all over their bodies.
In front of the bushes where the group was hiding, they finally met the "attacker" they called the fjord monster.
This is a humanoid creature with dark green scales all over its body, which is similar to what everyone guessed, and should belong to the waterway amphibian. Their heads resemble crocodile heads, long fins in their ears, dagger-sharp fangs, webbed toes, and crooked nails.
The two large monsters are more than three and a half meters tall, probably not used to walking on land, and their backs are slightly rickety, and they are standing on either side, looking around vigilantly.
The three small monsters are petite, but they don't look very carefully because they are lying on the ground and eating. And it was this that frightened everyone, they lay on the ground and ate the corpses of two humans.
Both bodies were women, their clothes were torn, a large hole had been cut in their chests and abdomen, and the internal organs were being eaten by three small monsters in their hands.
One of the women had her head pointed towards the bushes where everyone was hiding, her chin resting on the ground, and her eyes had turned into two bloody holes. The tender flesh on the face was all gnawed off, and the mouth had no lips and tongue, revealing the upper and lower gums. The skull was lifted from the frontal door, and the brains were gone, apparently eaten.
Another woman was lying on her back on the ground, and the two towering lumps of soft~ flesh on her chest had turned into two holes. The thighs and arms seemed to shrink and become much thinner, revealing the pale bones inside.
"Vomit~~" Alan and the others vomited one after another, their eyes were full of fear, and they instinctively suppressed themselves and did not make any sound. Now they knew what that frog-like sound was, the sound of a monster swallowing as it devoured a corpse.
Qin Lun didn't pay any more attention to them at this time, but instead glanced at Donald inadvertently. The fat man lowered his head, covered his face with his palms, his shoulders trembled, and he looked extremely frightened, but Qin Lun noticed that in addition to himself, he was another person who had never vomited.
Rich experience can sometimes become one of the flaws, that is, I don't know if this fat man is a reincarnation or an apostle!
Qin Lun showed a sneer on his face, with his ability, he could force himself to vomit, but this kind of pretended wolf bèi could see through it at a glance, so he didn't do it.
There are specializations in the arts, and the apostles and reincarnators are not omnipotent. Even if you have the acting skills of an Oscar actor, you need to brew love in advance, vomiting is not the point, and the wolf bèi in the vomiting process does not pretend to be like it.
He knew, and so did Donald, so the two of them never covered their ears and pretended to be pitiful.
Alan and the others were stimulated by their senses too much, and their minds were blank, and they didn't even think about the identities of the two corpses. However, Qin Lun noticed that the two corpses were unrecognizable, and he couldn't tell if they were Fanny, Karin, and Susan, who had disappeared before.
But judging from the tattered costumes, Qin Lun could be sure that Susan and Karin he had seen were not among them. The people these five monsters attacked and captured last night may not be limited to their camp.
These thoughts flashed through Qin Lun's mind, and the next moment, he stood up directly from behind the bushes, and the pulley bow in his hand was pulled for a full moon.
"Whoosh!" In the horrified eyes of Allen and the others, the three carbon arrows that Qin Lun held between the five fingers of his right hand were shot out almost in a line.
There are many types of arrows used in modern pulley bows, compared with slightly heavier fiberglass arrows and aluminum alloy arrows, Qin Lun prefers this kind of carbon arrows with light weight and straight ballistics, pursuing muzzle velocity and accuracy. Moreover, the carbon arrow is not easy to burst, which reduces the trouble of replenishing it in the later stage.
"Wow~~" Three little monsters lying on the ground gnawing on corpses, one of them facing the bushes let out a terrible scream, like a baby's cry.
Of the three carbon arrows that Qin Lun fired, the first one aimed at its forehead, but only a few scales were shattered before the skull flew away. The second arrow was aimed at its throat, but it was still only two centimeters deep. It may have been shot into the esophagus, but judging by the amount of bleeding, the injury was not fatal.
It was his third arrow that really hit the little monster hard, its right eye exploded, and blood mixed with a trace of white brain pulp flowed out of its socket.
However, the fjord sea monster is obviously very vigorous, and despite the collateral brain trauma, the little monster is still not dead, and begins to attack the surrounding Yiqiē without distinction between friend and foe.
Its two siblings were visibly frightened, discarding the corpses at their feet and scurrying around with their heads in their hands, screaming aggrievedly at the little monster that attacked them, presumably not understanding what was happening to this brother.
However, the two big monsters who are in charge of guarding next to them are different. They seemed to possess some kind of wisdom, and one of them quickly stopped in front of the mad monster, grabbing its arms so tightly that it could no longer wreak havoc.
The other roared and galloped towards the bushes, its hideous, twisted crocodile face making no secret of its fury. However, even in this case, it was still cautious enough, blocking the door with its muscular arms to prevent the arrow from hitting the weak part of the features.
Qin Lun narrowed his eyes slightly, his temptation was successful, but the results he obtained were not ideal.
The defense and intelligence of these monsters are far beyond imagination, and with the pulley bow in his hand, the effect of long-range attacks is limited. With his physical attributes, he might be able to kill them at close range, but the Grim Reaper's existence made him throw a rat trap.