Chapter 102: The Insect Tide is Coming
The sky is cloudy and raindrops are falling incessantly, and this is the rainiest time of the year, with heavy rains every two or three days.
"What the hell is the weather. ”
Guise scolded and wiped the rain from his face, this kind of weather was definitely the worst for the sentry, the rain covered the sky so much that he couldn't see anything two or three hundred meters away. Guise climbed up to the beacon in a heavy robe, and when he saw the rain-soaked pyre, he could only smile wryly and shake his head. The firewood was completely unlit, and it had to be removed after the rain and replaced with new dry firewood. For a post of only 3 people, this is a lot of work.
Guise, a soldier under Victor's command, and two other comrades were stationed at the post on guard duty on the orders of Captain Nelson. Their main job is to monitor the entrance to the Everglades.
Since no trace of ogres has been found in the Western Mountains, Victor has decided that the ogre tribe must be in the swamp, because the old ogres don't come out of thin air. So, Victor ordered Nelson to build a sentry at the entrance to the Swamp, set up a beacon, and station three soldiers. In order to ensure the safety of the soldiers, Victor specially equipped them with three alchemy crows, and once the alchemy crows warned them, they immediately lit beacon fires and then retreated on horseback.
The water-soaked coat was very heavy and uncomfortable to put on his body, so Guise decided to go back to the shack to take shelter from the rain. As soon as he entered the shack, he heard Lev shouting at him: "Guise, you boy is lazy, and now you should be on duty." ”
Ignoring Lev's ridicule, Guise smiled at a middle-aged warrior: "Head, it's raining too hard outside, I can't see it clearly, anyway, there are dust falcons monitoring the entrance to the swamp, I want to come in first to avoid the rain, and when the rain stops, I will continue to go to the guard." ”
"You can rest first, I'll take a look. Matthew, a middle-aged warrior, put on a coat and pushed the door open and walked out.
Outside the door, the roar of the rain was deafening, Matthew couldn't help but shudder, he scolded secretly: "It's only been half a year, and this little rain has scared me?"
Matthew is the old man of the War Bear Mercenaries, and he has been leading two recruits to carry out a guard mission here for a month. Matthew knew very well that no matter how bad the weather was, there would be no shortage of people at the guard post. Because, if there really is a monster to attack, the first person to flee for their lives is themselves.
The entrance to the Everglades is a large slope, and the guard post is located on a mound two kilometers from the entrance. In normal times, the entrance can be seen from here, but now Matthew can only see the scenery about 400 meters with his full eyesight. As Guise said, even if he came out on guard, he couldn't see the situation below.
Matthew hesitated to take shelter from the rain in the shack. A dust falcon flew crookedly through the rain curtain and landed beside him, screaming at him.
"Little one, you can't fly like this. I'll take you to wipe your feathers and bake the fire. ”
Matthew is glad to find a reason to shelter from the rain, and picks up the falcon and wants to go back to the shed, but the falcon doesn't appreciate it, and screams even more fiercely.
The Dust Falcon's unusual behavior caught Matthew's attention. He slammed to the edge of the guard stand, his eyes wide fixed on the entrance of the swamp, and it was a white expanse that Matthew could only feel heavy.
The ground shook slightly, Matthew's face changed, he quickly lay down and put his ear on the ground of the guard post, and the feeling of vibration was suddenly clear and audible, like ten thousand horses galloping.
"Enemy attack!"
Matthew kicked the shack open and rushed in in the rain, and Keith and Lev were startled and shouted, "Head!?"
"Enemy attack! Set fire to the house!" Matthew picked up the barrel and poured fire oil everywhere in the shed, and when he saw the two newcomers standing still in a daze, he said angrily: "Don't start the fire yet!"
The outside of the hut was wet and dry, and it quickly burned when it was sprinkled with fire oil, and the smoke was no different from the beacon tower, except that the second outpost that passed the beacon fire could not see the situation here at all.
The three of them set the shed on fire, raised their spears and short swords and rushed out of the fire house, and as soon as they got outside, they gasped, countless black-brown monsters had surrounded them. These monsters are 1.7 meters tall, with six limbs like centaurs, one of which is on all fours, they have a black-brown carapace, and their heads resemble enlarged ant heads.
In a desperate situation, everyone behaves differently, some people are cowardly, some people are brave, and Matthew is the brave one. Matthew is a mercenary and a warrior, and with no way back, he chooses to embrace the fate of a warrior.
"Kill!"
Sitting on his hips, twisting his waist, his spear trembling straight and sharp, the sharp tip of the spear piercing through the rain curtain and stabbing at the nearest monster. Matthew's assassination was a thousand hammers, and he once stabbed a Sarsan soldier in chain mail with his spear, and although he was no longer young, the stab was still unstoppable.
The green liquid splashed, and the spear pierced the monster's neck, and Ant-Man fell limply to the ground. Matthew was excited, these terrifying monsters are not invincible!
However, the other monsters were more excited than Matthew, and the death of their companions caused them to hiss merrily, and the hissing sound came and went, all the way to the Swamp, and even louder waves rang out from the Swamp, and Ant-Man was responding to his own kind in an endless end. Matthew had a look of despair on his face, and the ants swarmed up, instantly overwhelming the seasoned warrior.
Seeing Matthew torn apart by Ant-Man, Gies and Lev's faces were snow-white, and they couldn't lift the weapons in their hands, so they could only kneel and tremble in the heavy rain.
When the swarm separated, there was nothing left on the ground except blood, shards of leather armor, and a spear. An exceptionally tall Ant-Man walked over, picked up Matthew's spear and swung it skillfully a few times, the iron spear dancing faster and faster in its hand, turning into a cloud of silver light and emitting a terrifying humming sound.
As soon as Ant-Man retracted his hand, the silver light dissipated instantly, and the fine iron spear was pointed at Gith's forehead, seeing that Gith didn't react, Ant-Man's head came to Guise, and the huge mouthparts like pincers opened suddenly, and let out a roar at him. Keith saw countless versions of himself in Ant-Man's compound eyes, and knelt in the muddy water with a hastily face. Gith's mind went blank, a few months ago he was just an honest farmer, and he had no courage to resist in the face of terrible monsters.
Ant-Man's head slowly moved away from Guise's line of sight, and he walked forward with his spear on all fours, and the other Ant-Man followed him, walking past Keith and Lev, who were paralyzed in the muddy water. It wasn't until the last Ant-Man disappeared into the rain that the two realized that the monsters hadn't killed them.
Keith and Lev helped each other up from the ground, gasping for air, tears mixed with rain running down their faces, and they were glad they had survived.
However, the earth trembled, and the two farmers were desperate to find that a black torrent was gushing out from the direction of the entrance to the swamp, an endless army of Ant-Man. One, two, ten, and a hundred Ant-Men walked past Keith and Lev, ignoring them all, but before they could rejoice again, an Ant-Man knocked them straight to the ground, and countless arthropods passed over them until they were trampled into a pile of flesh.
The boundless Ant-Man is like a black tide spreading in the centaur hills, this is the land they have never set foot on, and today they are coming. They grow in battle, plunder in killing, and give back in death, and that's Ant-Man's mission.
The shack was smoky, and even in the rain, the oil was stubbornly scorching the wood. A swarm of ant-men stepped past the shack, unbeknownst to them, a black crow hiding in a corner, its wet feathers drying out under the charcoal roast.
Ten hours passed, and the Ant-Man army began to thin out. At this time, the rain gradually decreased, and the alchemy crow jumped out of the gap where it was hiding, and while Ant-Man was not paying attention, it quickly picked up an eye that it didn't know who it was, and swallowed it, this bloody eyeball would make it have enough physical strength to fly back to the hill camp.
With a croak, the alchemy crow shot into the sky like an arrow, and it was about to alert Victor before the Ant-Man army. This is also the mission of the alchemy crow.