Chapter 72: Evolution
"Whew...... Whew......"
Old Hank staggered through the knee-deep bushes with his cheap son, and a group of Cyclops wielded sticks in hot pursuit.
These sub-humans seem to be clumsy and bloated, and the fat all over their bodies shakes violently when they walk, but they can't stand their size, three or four times the size of ordinary people, and they have a long endurance. It has been glued behind the two of them from beginning to end, and it hasn't been shaken off for several days, and it looks like there is still a lot of energy left.
"I can't do it anymore...... My waist is going to break. β
Derek had been jolting on Daddy Cheap's shoulders all day, and the whole person felt like his spine was about to break, and he felt like life was worse than death.
"Shut up!"
The old grave robber angrily ordered him to shut up, and ran quickly through the woods in a panic, when he suddenly turned his head, and vaguely saw that there seemed to be a small cave not far away, which seemed to be just enough for a man to pass through.
"Finally saved!"
Old Hank couldn't help but be surprised and delighted, and ran to the cave on the left with all his might, and at the same time lifted the dying young man on his shoulder, and threw a precise parabola with all his strength.
"Ahhh
Derek screamed and rolled into the cave, and before his eyes could adjust to the darkness, Daddy Cheap fell from the sky, fell on the young man, and pushed him several yards into the cave by inertia.
In the process, Derek, who was devastated as a meat pad, simply rolled his eyes and fainted directly.
When I woke up again, it was nearly noon outside the cave.
The young man only felt an indescribable ache all over his body, as if every bone had been shattered. Looking up with difficulty, he found that Old Hank was leaning his body against the wall and carefully looking out of the hole.
"How long have I been unconscious?" he whispered.
"Two or three hours. Old Hank turned his head as he spoke, and glanced at his cheap son with a wry smile:
"This time it's dead. These one-eyed pigs are not low in intelligence, and when they can't squeeze in after tossing for a long time, they gather around the entrance of the cave and make a fire, and it seems that they want to smoke us out. β
"It doesn't matter...... Anyway, I don't believe in Catholicism, so it's a big deal to give myself a knife at a critical time. β
Derek, who had had enough of the crime, had already begun to give up on himself, and the old tomb robber, who had been watching the Cyclops' actions, did not say anything at this time, and his expression looked extremely grim. It seems to be prepared for the worst.
When the pain in his body had subsided a little, the young man began to observe the structure of the cave and found that it was a very gentle and steep slope. He was about two feet below the entrance of the cave.
To the west, you can still see the dense forest and a blue sky, and the outside of the cave, both in the bushes they passed and in the surrounding meadows. There are cyclops picking up dead branches.
"We still have a chance. β
Old Hank stared at the campfires that were piling higher and higher outside the cave. wiped his sweaty face and whispered: "Prepare, I'll throw you out before they light a bonfire, I'm fighting them here, you have to hurry up and escape." β
"Forget it. β
Derek leaned his body against the right wall of the cave, looked at the blue sky in the distance, and sighed in a trance: "Even if I can get out alive, without you." You won't survive more than three days in this forest. β
β......β
The old tomb robber's throat twitched twice, and his eyes were complicated and wanted to speak several times. But he never spoke.
Soon after the two fell silent, they suddenly felt the ground shake slightly, and in a short time it became extremely violent, and the branches and leaves mixed with dust fell one after another, and the sky suddenly turned gray.
Derek and Old Hank watched as the smoke suddenly flew up four or five feet high, and even if they pressed their bodies close to the entrance of the cave, they could only see a few yards away.
Dozens of huge figures stiffly raised their arms to hide their faces in the dust, to prevent their eyes from being blinded by the dust.
"Good chance!"
The young man, who had just been extremely depressed, jumped up, grabbed Old Hank's sleeve, and was about to rush out of the cave.
"Wait a minute!"
The old tomb robber pinched his wrist with his backhand, pressed the cheap son who was about to move in place, stared directly at the inside of the tumbling smoke and dust in front of him, and said in a low voice:
"Front...... Something looks like it's coming!"
"What?"
The young man tried to keep his eyes open wide, trying to see through the dust to see what lay ahead, but his vision was obscured by the dead branches and leaves flying from the sky.
Boom Boom Boom Boom!
The ground beneath his feet shook more and more violently, and the trees not far in front of him suddenly collapsed one after another, rising even more dust. The two of them heard the sound of trees breaking in the smoke, and the dozens of cyclops in front of them seemed to notice the scene, roaring and raising their thick sticks, as if they were afraid of some kind of impending formidable enemy.
"Roar!"
The Cyclops beckoned to their kind, and the surrounding Cyclops surrounded them, but at this moment, a huge black shadow suddenly fell from the sky.
Boom!
With the loud sound of the weight falling, a behemoth had already fallen from the sky and fell on it with a large number of branches and leaves, and the sharp teeth bit the Cyclops's head, and the sharp teeth pierced its skull directly, lifting the huge subhuman race from the ground.
The cyclops let out a scream of pain, and the skull, which was more than a foot thick, did not die instantly, but immediately raised the wooden stick in his hand and stabbed the monster in the chest.
It was only then that Derek could see the monster's appearanceβit resembled an enlarged version of a flea, dark red, three pairs of arthropods, and its lower limbs covered with sharp barbs were extremely long, more than three times the height of the monster's torso. Its back to tail was covered by a wavy exoskeleton, its mouthparts extended outward along its jaw with two spear-like teeth, and a pair of compound eyes on its carriage-sized skull glowed dark green like two pillars of light.
Bang!
The stick slammed into the monster's breastplate, sending a cloud of sawdust flying without causing any damage.
Click!
The giant flea bit the Cyclops' head in one bite and lowered its head along the fallen corpse. Piercing sharp teeth on the subhuman's back, greedily sucking its juicy bodily fluids.
At the same time, a pair of glowing compound eyes swept over dozens of cyclops. Eventually stop on the cave behind them.
At that moment, Derek curled up in the cavern froze in terror - the feeling was indescribable, and the dark green light seemed to pierce his heart through his chest, injecting a heart-piercing scream into it, and he almost screamed with it.
"Roar!!
The Cyclops watched as the leader was sucked into a shriveled skin, bloodshot one-eyed almost popping out of their sockets and wielding wooden sticks in a frenzy. Be prepared to rush over and fight hard.
"It must be here to kill us...... Fight!"
The old tomb robber gritted his teeth and drew a dagger from his belt, and was about to rush forward, but was pulled by the corner of his clothes by the confused young man.
"What are you doing? Isn't it good to let them kill each other? Derek said eagerly.
"They're so far apart. Cyclops are no match for that monster, and if I don't help now, it'll be our turn when they're gone!"
Old Hank kicked the young man away as he spoke, licking his shriveled lips. He roared angrily and rushed into the one-sided battle situation in front of him.
"Gah!"
I saw the old tomb robber swing a sword wind and slash over. The giant flea monster jumped high with a scream, and after rising to a height of dozens of yards, a pair of arthropods on its chest bounced at high speed, quickly expelling the air and creating a large area of strong winds.
The wind speed beside Old Hank increased dozens of times in an instant, and although he tried to dodge, the air flow was everywhere, and he was thrown into the air by the sudden whirlwind like a leaf caught in a whirlpool.
The next moment. A pair of arthropods of the giant flea also stabbed out in an instant.
However, the blow was not successful, and the old tomb robber shot a spider silk from his wrist. It stuck to a nearby pine tree, and with the elasticity of the spider's silk, the wind dispersed and shot out like an arrow.
As soon as the monster touched the ground, its massive body flew up, slamming through the overlapping trees in a flash, approaching Old Hank, who was swinging towards the pines.
"You don't want to kill me!"
The old grave robber twisted around like a cat, staggered the blade-like forelimbs of the other man, and then stretched out his other arm and shot spider silk at a cyclops in the distance.
β......β
The cyclops saw a white silk flying towards him, and after thinking about it for only half a second, he raised the wooden stick in his hand, let the spider silk wrap around and stick to the stick, and then tugged hard.
Buzz!
There was a sound in the air that resembled a bowstring tauting, and Old Hank's figure suddenly froze in midair, staggering the monster's body like lightning and bouncing in the opposite direction.
"Gah!"
The giant flea's lower limbs pointed to the ground, stirring up a cloud of flying dust, and it closely pursued the figure of the old tomb robber, and the forelimbs on the breastplate flew up while stabbing straight at the same time, and dozens of air blades were ejected in an instant.
"Ahhh
Old Hank screamed and pounced on the cyclops, his back almost clinging to the sharp air blade, and he resolutely twisted his waist and turned around before the blade touched his body, gritting his teeth and slashing through the air blade from top to bottom.
At this moment, the old tomb robber's eyes met the monster's compound eyes, and the speed of the two was almost the same, and for a while, a static and strange picture was formed in mid-air.
"Say you!"
Old Hank didn't hesitate to break the spider silk on his wrist, raised a middle finger towards the giant flea, and aimed his other arm at an oak tree on the right side, stretching out the slender and tough spider silk again.
Buzz!
His body spun around in midair, swaying past the monster, avoiding the forelimbs of the other man's catape, and swinging like an ape towards the south side of the woods.
"Gah!"
The giant flea monster screamed and braked, dragging out two furrows of smoke and dust, and without waiting for the momentum to slow down, it resisted the supercharging and chased after the old tomb robber, only to be smashed by dozens of thick wooden sticks that came at the oncoming scene.
Bang bang!
The monster slammed into the thick wooden stick in a high-speed dash, no less than being hit head-on by a row of charged crossbows, and the bone armor of its whole body suddenly collapsed, revealing its soft body inside, and rolled on its side to break through a large dense forest.
"Roar, roar, roar!"
When the vengeful cyclops saw the blow, he immediately flapped his chest like a gorilla, and couldn't wait to pounce on it, vowing to beat the water dogs.
"Gaga...... Ga...... Ga ......"
The embarrassment giant flea tried to leap up from the ground, only to find that its entire lower right limb had been completely broken, and having lost its mobility and armor, it could only swing its nearly broken forelimb to deal with the cyclops.
Subhumans and monsters soon fought, and xenomorph roars nearly tore through the forest.
And at this moment, old Hank, seeing this wonderful gap, took the cheap son who sneaked out, and left this place of right and wrong unconsciously.
......
The sun shines like gold on the surface of Keith Island.
Yet just below the shallow layer of sunlight, the country roads paved with brown-yellow rocks were now dappled brown ground.
The twisted corpses of the villagers were lying on the road, their spines spun several times, and they were twisted into a twisted posture by external forces. The chapped skin clings to the bones, and the body seems to be a dried corpse that has been treated by the sun, without a trace of moisture.
The dock, which was supposed to be full of people, is now immersed in an eerie dead silence.
The ground, walls, boats, and taverns were all covered in a layer of dark brown markings, and the shriveled corpses of the villagers lay everywhere, and a few pitch-black shadows suspended in the air like giant whales flashed by, and soon disappeared into the cold shadows of the building.
The late summer sun shone on the earth, but there was no warmth, and the life and breath of the whole village seemed to be blocked by some substance. The island surrounded by the sea is obviously frighteningly hot, but there is a faint chill to the bone.
In front of the pier, on the opposite side of a shallow blue sea, a sailboat flying the royal flag of the Highland Kingdom rushed head-on and quickly approached the lifeless village.
On the deck, Nicole and Clark held on to the guardrail and looked at the dock opposite, looked at each other with complicated eyes, and sighed softly:
"There are no life fluctuations on the other side. β
"We seem to be late. β
After Beverly heard their conversation, there was a hint of anxiety in his eyes, he stomped his foot vigorously, gritted his teeth, and said, "We need to land on Keith Island and search around the island to see if we can find survivors and any clues." β
"We're only responsible for protecting you, and you have the rest up to you. Nicole thought about it for only a second, then nodded nonchalantly.
"Don't be in a hurry to land yet, let's circle around the island and see how it goes. Clark was conservative and cautious in his approach, and felt that he could not make a rash landing on this obviously problematic island.
"That's it. β
The red-haired boy also knew how many pounds and taels he had, and even though he was anxious at the moment, he still listened to the other party's opinion.
According to their instructions, the sailboat sailed to the pier to turn the bow of the boat, and sailed quickly along the beach on the edge of the island, showing the island scenery near and far in an orderly manner in front of the trio.
Beverley's gaze swept over the corpses of the villagers who were dead on the beach, the expression on his face became more and more ugly, and he said with his teeth clucking:
"Demonic plague! This must be a demonic plague!" (To be continued.) )