0086. Encounter 1
"Hell, the cold spell is supposed to last two weeks at most, and we should have seen the first dawn after the cold spell ended yesterday, but so far it was as dark as the barrels of ink in the dye shop. ”
The mark on the back of Parker's neck had almost disappeared, which meant that he had recovered from the symptoms of weakness caused by the loss of sperm, but the fisherman did not feel the slightest sense of happiness, but became extremely irritable, probably the sequelae of being deceived by the goblin, and squatted outside the tent and kicked the snow and muttered and complained, trying his best to exsert negative emotions.
"When will it be light?" he cried, "I can only stare at the light of the torches all day, and now when I close my eyes, there is still the outline of the fire, and I have no doubt that it will be so dark that by dawn everyone will be blinded." ”
"Alright, you're talking. Marjery leaned against the tent, and without hesitation, he reached into his trousers, picked at his buttocks, and put his fingers to his nose.
"What kind of are you, isn't it even more tragic that the weather is so cold that your intestines are frozen? You, do all of you remember when the last time you pooped? I guess it's been a week, I can't even pull out a fart after eating so many things, and I guess it's all piled up in my stomach to ferment now, and I feel terrible when I think about it. ”
"I've never looked forward to smelling poop like I do now!" and "I've been picking at it for a long time!"
Oliver half-crouched next to the campfire pit . By the light of the fire, he rubbed the arrows and daggers against the rough rocks, and he didn't bother to deal with the two walking negative emotions at all.
Lloyd lazily half-lay under the camphor tree, holding his head by the trunk of the tree, and resting sleepily.
"Hey, wake up. ”
In a daze, Lloyd felt someone shaking his shoulders and barely listened to what was being said.
Nasty voice, he thought, the unusually long-lasting cold wave is enough to make people depressed, and it is really a bleak life to make up for a nap and someone to disturb him.
He wanted to pretend to be asleep and ignore the voice, but the patience of the other party was obviously extraordinary, after eight shakings. Lloyd finally opened his eyes in frustration.
"It turns out that you are fine, then I am relieved, I almost thought you were frozen and fainted. Hodge said in a tone of reasonableness, and sat down beside him quite naturally.
Lloyd rolled his eyes, not believing a word of Hodge's nonsense, and as long as he wasn't blind, he couldn't tell that he was sleeping.
He was still quite confident in his sleeping appearance, snoring one after another, and the non-stop snoring ran down the corners of his mouth...... Anyway, Hodge must be trying to wake himself up, and all that nonsense is an excuse for nonsense.
"Captain, look over there. Hodge said, "The players are all messed up like rats in the pot, squeaking and squeaking, and you're not going to take care of it?"
"Tube?" Lloyd pouted, "tell me, this is the first time you've been on a real battlefield." ”
"For the first time, to be honest, I never thought I'd be fighting again. ”
Lloyd had a really such expression: "That's right, that's why you don't understand the rules of the battlefield, for the boys under you, basic discipline is necessary, but not too harsh, it's a good thing to have a channel to vent your emotions, it's a hundred times stronger than holding back internal injuries, so why should I care?"
"Shouting that you can't pull out poop is also a way to vent?"
"I don't care what the method is, even if that stupid big man temporarily rises up to swallow a pound of wolf dung, it has nothing to do with me, anyway, it means that he still has the strength to make trouble, that is, his combat effectiveness has not declined, which is not enough. ”
"Any way?"
"Anything goes. Lloyd repeated impatiently, "You'd better go find something to do and don't disturb my sleep." ”
"Actually, I've found it. ”
"What is it?" he asked casually.
"Wake you up. ”
“......”
The sharp whistle instantly resounded through the dense forest, and Hodge immediately retracted his complexion, and together with the rest of the people, he picked up the weapons scattered on the ground and quickly approached the position of the whistle warning, which was the sound of the scout discovering the enemy's situation, which meant that there was a suspected mutant approaching the camp.
Lloyd rushed to the spot where the whistle came first, stretched out his hand to remove the bushes that blocked his view, and his face immediately became gloomy, and he saw that the scout was half-crouching on the ground, cold sweat running down his cheeks, and opposite him, in the deeper jungle, at least a dozen pairs of eyes with a faint red glow were staring at him.
"Come back!" he exclaimed, "slowly, move closer to me." ”
The Scout's throat twitched slightly, and he moved slowly, lowering his body as low as he could towards Lloyd's position, but luckily the mutant didn't rush to attack, but kept his eyes on him.
By the time the scout came back to the crowd with a thrust, his back was completely soaked with sweat.
"Why haven't these brutes moved? The red eyes in the depths of the jungle stared at the bushes, but the monsters still didn't come out of the jungle.
"Fourteen pairs of eyes. Oliver squeezed his position and poked his eyes to count the number of mutants on the other side before answering Lloyd's question, "We're watching them, and they're watching us." ”
Smack.
A claw poked out of the shadow of the jungle, and the red-eyed monsters came out of the jungle one after another, perhaps Oliver's guess was correct, they counted the number of mutants, and the other party also found out the situation on their side.
Seven mutant wolves, four mutant deer, and three mutant ink-eyed eagles.
"Barely able to deal with it. Lloyd spat in his palm, rubbing the back of his hand as he pulled out the broadsword at his waist and rushed forward.
"Wait a minute. Hodge grabbed him and looked at the monsters with a solemn expression, "Not quite right, look at the wolf." ”
"Which one?"
"The youngest one, something is very wrong, you don't notice that the other mutants seem to be afraid of that little wolf. ”
Sure enough, Lloyd looked in the direction he had instructed, a little wolf with darker hair was standing in the center, the other wolves and deer were standing half a step in front of it, and the ink-eyed eagle was also hovering around its head, at first glance it seemed to protect the little wolf, but this protection was not out of pity, he clearly saw that the legs of the other mutants were trembling slightly, and they quietly wanted to get farther away from the little wolf.
They were scared of the little wolf.
"Standing shield. Hodge advised, "We can't rush into attack, let's play a round of defense first." ”
Two shield guards stepped forward, followed by the others, and Oliver stretched his arm and drew his longbow, squinting to estimate where the arrows would fall.
"It's coming!"
The sound of hooves surged, and mutants rushed in.
The messy monster figure rushed halfway, but the youngest wolf suddenly stopped, raising the paw of his left forearm.
"This is!" Lloyd was surprised to see the messy monsters line up quickly, with four mutant deer at the front against their horns, wolves running behind, and ink-eyed eagles flying on their wings in the air, ready to respond to the attack and defense of the wolf deer.
It's rudimentary, but it's like a whole line of charge.
The beast actually learned to arrange the layout?
Bang!
The charge of the four snow deer directly overturned the two steel shields, and the shield that had no time to dodge was first knocked into the stump behind it, and then torn into pieces of flesh by the wolf's long claws, and the others who were scattered stumbled to avoid the impact of the wolf deer, but were forced to dodge left and right by the hard feathers of the ink-eyed eagle.
Just the moment they saw it, Lloyd's team, which had never suffered casualties, directly killed two shield guards, and three others were wounded.
"What the hell. Lloyd scolded angrily, as they learned more about the mutant information, it was difficult for the common wolf-deer-hawk combination to cause overwhelming damage to the soldiers, but no one expected that the new situation of the mutant was not the emergence of an additional mutant population, but the group aggression.
The little wolf with its claws raised in the distance is obviously the command!
This is far more threatening than the emergence of new variants.
"I can't beat it. Hodge calmly analyzed, "Look at their second wave formation, the deer and wolves are mixed in a row, and the ink-eyed eagles are no longer on the sides, this is a pure attack formation, the reason is that we don't have a shield guard defense. ”
"What then?"
"What else can I do if I can't beat it, of course I'm running away. Hodge said, "Spread out, each running his own way, and one can live one." ”
"Let's go!" he ran without looking back.
In the dense sylvestris forest, fourteen monsters appeared at the same time, and the little wolf was at the front, looking around, muttering something to the ink-eyed eagle wandering in the sky.
Hodge, who was hiding behind the trunk of the camphor tree, poked out a pair of eyes, and sure enough, as he expected, it was right to run separately, and the targets of these monsters were all himself.
As early as in the city, after meeting the strange face composed of gray fireflies, he got a message that "something is coming at him", followed by the cold wave coming, the monster besieged the city, how can there be such a bizarre coincidence, most of the people behind the control of these mutant monsters are the "he" that the strange face said, and the news revealed by the dream demon that was exterminated a few days ago before his death also corroborates this.
So scattering is good for both others and himself, being able to lure away most or even all of the monsters on his own, as well as being able to use abilities unfettered.
He stepped out of the snow from behind the trunk of the camphor tree, and the little wolf twisted his head sharply.
Scold!
The knife in his boot was held in his hand, and invisible ripples vibrated out of his body.
"Is the higher-order mutation actually increasing wisdom? ”
He nodded thoughtfully and smiled, "Something interesting." ”
......
He had lost his bearings, and in any case it seemed that he was getting farther and farther away from the Stone Castle, and the wind was blowing with snow chips, and the wound in his abdomen was almost unable to support his body.
Fortunately, when he walked along the camphor forest, he finally found a cave, and hurriedly propped himself up and hid in it.
There was a fire in the cave, and a figure, only half of his eyes were still open, blocking the fire, and said weakly to the figure, "Sorry, borrow a fire." ”
When I looked up, I saw not a veteran coming to help, but a figure who was stunned in place, with strips of cloth wrapped around his chest, and the rest of his upper body was exposed before he had time to put on his shirt.
"Woman?" Hodge muttered in a daze, unable to support his heavy body, and sat down slowly against the rock wall.