Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Curse
The change happened only in an instant, first the short-toothed dog man crawled out of the human body, and then pounced on the person next to him, the whole process was only a few seconds. Ke Zhou had just stretched out his hand when a person was bitten on the neck by the short-toothed dogman - the cubs of the short-toothed dogman were not aggressive, they could even be said to be very timid, very hungry and did not dare to attack other species around them at will.
But the cub does not follow this rule at all, and as if it had some kind of command, it immediately rushes to the next person after biting the first person by the neck. His goal seems to be single, which is to clean up all the villagers here. While it opened its bloody mouth and raged, a large number of villagers began to roll on the ground in agony, and in a short time the same short-toothed dog man crawled out of their backs.
There was little confusion, no confusion, as if they had been born to kill the humans around them, and they wreaked havoc among the villagers. People screamed and fled, unarmed, like wheat harvesting in the face of this swift and terrifying killer creature, without any defense.
Without running a few steps, they lay on the ground, and after writhing, new short-toothed dog people crawled out of their bodies, and continued to harvest their lives.
Beibei seemed to have been stunned by the scene in front of him, hiding behind Ke Zhou, not daring to look at this scene. In the same way, this terrifying sight was something he had never seen before—organs, blood, and even brain contents, splashing everywhere and flowing in all directions. Ke Zhou, who had never seen such a scene, immediately turned around, picked up Beibei and ran away from Zhou Xiong.
Zhou Xiong's concentration seemed to be the best here, and he quickly rushed into the group of short-toothed dogs, smashing the dogs with his fists, as long as the dogs were hit, they would turn into cold corpses in an instant. But that didn't change the situation, the dog people didn't care about the terrifying human-bear creatures, they were so bent on killing the surrounding villagers, and in just a minute, all of them were dead.
The short-toothed dogs scattered into the jungle, although Zhou Yu and Zhou Ting killed a few on the road, but because they ran too scattered, they were not killed in the end.
Ke Zhou, who was in shock, Zhou Xiong, who was calm on the surface, and Beibei, who was holding Ke Zhou tightly behind Ke Zhou's back and didn't dare to look there, and Zhou Lugen, who was paralyzed next to the tree with his mouth open and didn't know how to express it.
When Zhou Yu came over, everything here was over, he had read countless books, but he couldn't think of any kind of event or magic that could match the current situation. Even the undead don't have such an unreasonable thing, they must at least kill the living first, and then summon the zombies with the body of the living. But this kind of thing in front of you......
His eyes widened, he couldn't believe everything in front of him, and Zhou Ting beside him, after seeing this scene, turned his head to the other side, probably also seriously disgusted.
Silence, no one spoke, the frustration of the failure to save the villagers and the strong impact of this terrifying reality, even the eldest Zhou Xiong and the erudite Zhou Lugen, were speechless, for them, this was unknown territory. Because of this, several people have lost even the most basic judgment ability, just staring blankly at the pile of corpses, or leaning against the trees, looking at the battlefield just in the distance in a daze.
"Is this a curse?"
I don't know how long it took, Ke Zhou's question finally broke the silence. It was also at this time that this group of people was pulled back to reality from the scene just now, and at the same time, they began to think about the nature of the current situation.
"It should ...... Bar...... There should be no magic other than curse magic...... Be able to do this. ”
Zhou Lugen's answer seemed to confirm Ke Zhou's guess, and at the same time gave Ke Zhou room to think. Although he was the most shocking of the group, he was also the first of the group to react to why this was the case—thanks to his current knowledge of magic, and it was precisely because he didn't understand anything that he first thought to ask.
It was precisely because of this inquiry that he was given the opportunity to think.
"Cursed words...... Is it driven by the formation, or is it chanting...... Or is it a rune?" Although Ke Zhou's contact with magic is not deep, he can also understand these three basic methods of using magic. Runes are stored for a long time, but they can be activated at any time, and the magic scroll is the principle of runes, and it is a little faster and more convenient than chanting, and has a certain degree of self-sustainability. Needless to say, the chanting is very powerful, but it needs to be cast on the spot, and it lacks continuity. Finally, there is the formation, the only way to use magic that is almost impossible to draw on the battlefield.
But once the formation is formed, the duration of its power is incomparable to the same level of runes and chanting magic, and at the same time, the magic consumption is also the largest, so although it is powerful, it is difficult to put it into practice, Ke Zhou is an alternative - but even he can only draw simple formations, and the field involved in complex formations is still too far away for him.
"I can't figure out that these three are the deadliest...... Ke Zhou rubbed his temples, turned his back to the pile of corpses, and began to sit down to think. The others looked at the young man and waited quietly, waiting for this person to bring them any breakthrough.
None of them possessed a much broader reserve of knowledge than Ke Zhou, but in this case, they were simply comparing reality with what was in their heads. It is precisely because I can't compare anything and can't think of anything that I start to panic, start to get upset, and start thinking without a clue.
And Ke Zhou, it is precisely because he doesn't know anything that he can calm down and look for even the slightest bit of relevant connection. It is only at this time that there is a feeling that "ignorance is a blessing".
"A formation can't be drawn on no one person, and a long-range formation won't just affect them and not us. Chanting can't wait until we've already saved someone, so the principle of the opponent's magic should be runic magic. After Ke Zhou finished speaking, he seemed to sigh, after all, this was entering his unknown territory.
"Then what shall we do, sir?"
Zhou Yu seemed to have misunderstood Ke Zhou's tone, and understood that Ke Zhou had already thought of a solution. This sudden question made Ke Zhou panic for a moment, he really didn't know what to do next, could it be that he could still go squatting?
Wait, squatting?
"If they're going to do the first, there's going to be a second. We just have to go to a nearby village and find out why. After all, Ke Zhou's tone was still a little weak, and he could only think of so much of this kind of scene. There is no specific plan at all, and I can only tell my first reaction to the people around me.
"If you squat, you can know how and how they use it, you can think of solutions, and you can find the truth behind the scenes. Is that so?" Zhou Yu turned his head again after hearing Ke Zhou's answer, his thinking ability was no worse than Ke Zhou's, and even slightly better.
"But these short-toothed dog people have no intelligence, and they can act like this today, they must be controlled by someone, and it is precisely because of this manipulation that everything that happened here has been caused. ”
Zhou Yu finally relieved himself, his thoughts poured out like a fountain, and he began to pour into Ke Zhou without stopping. First analyzed that they killed the villagers to prevent the spells on the villagers from being discovered, and then analyzed that they did not bring the villagers back in the first place to simply transform these villagers into short-toothed dog people, otherwise they didn't have to bother to bring them back, just transform them on the spot.
"So, your idea is ......" Zhou Yu's analysis was much more comprehensive than Ke Zhou's simple analysis, which also made Ke Zhou a little alert to the swordsman in front of him.
"If you want to find out about this, you have to find the lair of the monsters. As long as you find the nest, many things should be able to fall into place. After this blow, they will definitely not act rashly, but will set up a defense of their lair to protect themselves. After Zhou Yu finished speaking, he turned his head to look at Ke Zhou.
"Excuse me, can I delay you for some time? I can't sit idly by while I'm on an escort mission. Zhou Yu's eyes were unusually firm, and it seemed that if Ke Zhou didn't agree, he should go with Zhou Ting and let the other two continue to escort him.
Ke Zhou smiled bitterly and looked at Beibei, after all, the first priority now is to go to Shanhe City first, and then take an airship to send Beibei to Dragon Valley. But when he saw that even Beibei was looking at him with some determination, he realized that this kid had probably never seen such a scene, and he was also frightened.
According to the child's psychology, he may also feel that this kind of thing is unreasonable and should be stopped, so he will look at him with such firm eyes. Ke Zhou's brain made up a lot, rubbed Beibei's head, and then looked at Zhou Yu, "It's okay, let's solve it with you, with these things here, it will be a disaster for all beings after all." ”
Such a choice is not a bad thing, whether it is for the sake of the villagers here, or for the psychological growth of Beibei, or for the justice in the hearts of these two young righteous guests. And no matter how much this man says, he is also a purple brand mercenary, and his combat effectiveness will not be too bad, and a person who can have such combat effectiveness should not be too big a problem to solve this kind of incident.
The most important thing is that he himself urgently needs the reserves and experience of knowledge related to this world, as long as this action does not affect the time of sending Beibei to Dragon Valley too much, and there is no big mess, it can be said that it is a matter of killing multiple birds with one stone.
Of course, no matter what the benefits are, whether it is Beibei or Zhou Yu, or himself. The premise of all these benefits is four very important words: there is no mess.