Chapter 268: My name is Langdon, and I'm from underground
Wow!
Whoa......
The grass swayed, and a head poked out of it, and he looked around carefully for a few moments before retracting, and after a few moments, figures emerged from the dense jungle.
This is a relatively complete expedition team, walking in the front is a shield guard, nearly one meter nine tall, wearing a leather armor inlaid with iron scales, and a chain mail on the outside, holding a long shield with two-thirds of his height, he looked around vigilantly, and slowly moved forward.
Behind the shield guard was followed by 4 people, followed by him was a strong man, average height, but the strength was more than the shield guard, he had a round shield on one hand, but this was obviously not what he commonly used, the mace he was holding in the other hand was the size of an ordinary person's head, and the mace was full of blood and all kinds of fur scraps, which was his real main weapon, which was the most basic advanced profession of the warrior profession - mercenary.
Behind the mercenary were two half-elven archers with a longbow, and a light crossbow with a sword at his waist.
The last member of the team was still peeking left and right, and it was the man who had poked his head out of the grass before, and just by looking at the ghostly appearance of his walk, it could be seen that this was an advanced class of thieves or thieves.
A very ordinary expedition team, in the absence of the "high-end configuration" of the spellcasting profession, is already a pretty good team, at least the configuration is quite complete, and all aspects such as attack and defense reconnaissance from near and far are taken into account.
However, at this time, the five people were a little embarrassed, the shield of the shield guard and the shield of the mercenary were already covered with blood, and both shields had a lot of damage, especially the small round shield used by the mercenaries of obviously average quality, almost half of it was missing, and the other half was almost destroyed.
Not only that, but even a ranged class like the archer was stained with a lot of blood, and several scars could be clearly seen on that piece of leather armor, making it impossible to tell whether it was his own or the blood of the enemy.
The group was all out of breath, although they were still cautious, but all of them had obvious eager expressions on their faces, as if they were eager to run, only the thieves who walked at the end of the team said with a slight expression on their faces: "It's really an endless road, who would have thought that there would be such a cave in such a hidden place, with our strength, relying on this cave, even if that group of forest wolves doubled, it would be useless!"
The group continued on their way, and finally reached the cave in front of them.
"Stop!" the shield guard finally spoke, stopping all the members as he stopped first.
"What's the matter? don't stop, hurry, get into the hole!" cried the thief anxiously.
"Don't worry, don't you notice there's no sound behind you?" said the shield guard.
"So what, don't forget that they attack us silently, it's the Jungle Wolves, and this is their territory!" cried the thief still eagerly.
"The problem is, it's probably more dangerous than those jungle wolves. It was not the shield guard who answered him, but the half-elven archer, who had broken away from the group and came to the mouth of the cave, and looked inside, and as he said this, he put his longbow into the cave and pulled it twice, and then a skull was drawn out by him.
A simple action, but it was like a basin of cold water poured on the heads of everyone in the team, and the thief looked at the obviously human skeleton with some blank expression, and suddenly ran a few steps to the entrance of the cave, and poked his head inside.
"Don't look at it, with my eyesight, I can only barely see about 10 meters inside, and there seems to be a layer of black fog shrouded in it. The archer said.
"That's right, I can only see less than 5 meters in, which is obviously abnormal, so I stopped everyone from rushing in. The shield guard nodded.
"I saw at least 10 bodies. The archer finally added.
"So, did we run to a dead end ourselves?" the ranger at the end of the line did not move any further, but stopped on the spot, first filled the barrel of his light crossbow, then took out the remaining crossbow arrows from the quiver box one by one, lined them up on the ground, and then pulled out the long sword that had just been hung back on his waist not long ago, and put it on the ground as well—this would make it easier to change weapons than if he had hung the sword on his waist.
The strong mercenary didn't say a word from beginning to end, and at this time he simply stood in front of the ranger, he shook his hand, directly threw away the remaining half of the broken small round shield, looked around, and then picked up a fairly handy stone from the ground.
Seeing this, the others stopped talking, and each stood in the most familiar combat position with his weapon in hand, ready for the upcoming battle.
It didn't take long for the sound to come from the jungle, and the faces of several people sank completely, however, at the same time, the slightly pointed ears of the half-elf archer moved slightly, and his face changed again: "There is a sound!"
Seeing that the faces of several people were inexplicable, he hurriedly added: "Back!
The faces of several people changed drastically again, especially the shield guard, who was the defender of the team, who no longer knew whether he should be facing the jungle or the cave.
At this time, a more pronounced sound came from the cave.
Click!
The sound of bones breaking indicates that the half-elf archers have found something coming out of the cave!
The faces of several people became even more ugly, and the shield guard, who was still the captain, said in a deep voice: "Go to the mountain wall over there, relying on the mountain is at least slightly beneficial to us." ”
Several people moved quickly and formed a battle formation again on the side of the mountain wall.
Almost at the same time, the circle of bushes in the outermost part of the jungle suddenly shook violently, and the next moment, several vigorous figures suddenly jumped out of it.
The terrifying predator of the jungle - the Jungle Wolves!
The individual strength of this kind of creature has not entered the black iron realm, and it seems that it is not strong, but when they form a group, they can hunt down opponents who are ten times or even dozens of times stronger than them.
Bang Bang Bang!
Six wolves who were the first scouts in the jungle wolf pack landed at the front of the group!
At the same time, a voice came from the mouth of the cave, and one foot stepped out of the shadow of the cave.
"Yo, it's very lively, are you welcoming us?"
A very indecent voice sounded extremely inappropriately in such a tense occasion, attracting not only the attention of the team members, but also the attention of the wolves.
But he only heard the voice and continued: "Huh, no, even if we want to ambush, we don't have to send you rookies, right?"
With the sound, several people had all stepped out of the shadow of the cave and into the sunlight.
"Ah, by the way, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Langdon and I'm from the underground. ”