Chapter 94: The Smell of Blood
Leaving the col where the fifth class was camping, Chang Le took twenty-one untouchables to the north, and soon turned west.
Although he had "broken" with Class 5, he was still concerned about the safety of his brothers after all, so he used his new team to simulate Class 5, hoping to draw the attention of the provost.
Calculate the time, if there are enemy survivors in the battle of the first-line Sky Pass, the provost will get the news soon after dark, and if another force is sent to attack disguised as bandits, it should have entered the mountain at this time.
His more than 20 people marched forward with great fanfare, and they couldn't see the face of their clothes clearly at night, and it was easy to mistake it for the fifth shift according to the route of travel.
In case of an encounter, Chang Le didn't want to sacrifice these untouchables who escaped death, and distributing swords to everyone was just for them to pretend to scare people and give themselves a strong momentum, Chang Le knew in his heart that the combat effectiveness of these people was still "zero" for the time being.
But if he encounters an enemy, Chang Le is not alone, there are Blue Moon, Lao Hei, and Iron Claw around him, all of whom have been summoned from the Beast Soul Space, and the three soul servants all have the strength of a war master, as long as the opponent is not a large number of cultivators in the Blood Soul Valley, there is always the strength to fight.
In addition, the iron-backed wolf queen "Mao Mao" and her wolf pack were also sent to the front and flanks to serve as guards, if there was an ambush, even if Chang Le was negligent for a while, he could not escape the keen senses of the iron-backed wolf, and the wolves shuttled through the woods, more dexterous and more concealed than humans.
After a year of cultivation in the beast soul space, as well as the sharing of Changle's combat experience, all soul minions have been greatly strengthened. Including Mao Mao, he is already a level 10 beast, which can be called the pinnacle of existence among beasts, and is on a par with lions and tigers, and has an overwhelming advantage over ordinary human soldiers.
The rest of the iron-backed wolves did not obtain the key cultivation quota of the Beast Soul Tower, and they were unable to share Changle's experience, but they were also growing rapidly just by relying on the high-concentration source power of the Beast Soul Space, and now they were all as strong as leopards.
Therefore, at this moment, Changle actually still has a strong team, and the quantity and quality should not be underestimated.
The untouchables were much more relaxed when they saw the powerful monster guards around them, but when the iron claws were summoned out at first, they were all frightened, and the metal claws of the super goblins, which looked bigger than the wheels, and their faces were extremely hideous, and the four-year-old Doudou cried on the spot.
And when Blue Moon appeared, the untouchables present widened their eyes, even if the moonlight was dim and hazy, it couldn't hide the beauty of the Meizu woman, and even added a little poetry to her.
Uncle Zhaoxiang couldn't help but exclaim:
"Girl, are you a fairy in heaven?"
Lan Yue listened to the compliment, and smiled like silk, which made the old man almost collapsed, and then she sighed to Chang Le:
"Master, finally a chance to fight alongside you. ”
At the same time, a clear moonlight halo loomed, emerging from her and Chang Le's feet.
Chang Le shook his head and pointed to Caidie's mother and son, Ah Hong and others:
"You don't need to fight, it's enough to have the support of your aura, take care of the women and children in the back, even if there is a fight, you just have to protect them!"
Blue Moon smiled:
"You're always so nice to women, no wonder women like you, I'm really going to fall in love with you!"
Because Fanny turned her face, Chang Le was in a very bad mood, and after hearing Lan Yue's words, he was even more depressed:
"I'm not in the mood to laugh, do your thing!"
Then the whole team was quiet.
The patchwork team grew to more than 70 men by the next morning, most of them carrying improvised sticks due to lack of weapons.
As the red sun rose in the east, the "ghost crying" wind quickly dissipated, and the valley returned to silence, and only the sound of birds and apes could be heard in the mist.
In this environment, Chang Le's sense of smell and hearing became acute again, and he could recognize the smell of various creatures from a few kilometers away, so he found more than a dozen hiding places for "prey", but unfortunately only the first few encounters were with living people, and dozens of untouchable prisoners from different cities were rescued.
When you get closer to the west side of the mountain range, you can see mostly the tragic scene after the massacre.
The five squads of the Royal Military Academy entered the mountain from five mountain passes respectively, and five of them were led by Changle to follow the secret trail and made a lot of gains, while the second, third, and fourth squads were attacked by orcs and many people were injured, so they did not dare to move forward anymore and camped near the entrance.
The children of the first class of nobles were strong enough, and they took the detailed map given by the provost and marked all the locations in the mountains where people could be hidden, so they marched all the way, and most of the killing fields that Changle saw later were done by them.
But the worst scene was at the hands of the orcs, a dozen untouchables died in the woods, and the corpses looked horrible to see.
The reason for judging that they were killed by orcs is very simple, the children of the nobles participating in the exercise must cut off their right ear as a battle record to kill the "prey", and the corpse here still has ears, but the internal organs are hollowed out and eaten, very similar to what the beast did, but the beast does not have the ability to kill so many people at one time, so the murderer can only be an orc.
Changle left the women and children outside and led the men in the group into the forest, so that they could see with their own eyes what a "tragic death" was.
In front of him, there was not only the visual stimulation of tearing off the skin and flesh to reveal the white bones, but also the abdominal cavity of the bloody forest that was turned over, flies flying, and a strange and fishy atmosphere surrounded everyone.
Some of them vomited, some cried, some fell to their knees with weak legs, and some turned around and fled with a howl.
It took Chang Le a long time to regroup the team, bring them back to the corpses, and force them to continue watching, because the twenty-one people had been encouraged by his lecture last night, and the new recruits today were still cowardly.
"Oh God!" a thin boy wept silently.
Chang Le walked over, grabbed his hand, and raised the sword in his hand:
"God can't save you, only He can!"
Then he turned to the crowd:
"If you don't want to be like this, hold on to your swords!"
One of the men asked timidly, nervously:
"Could it be that we want to fight with the official army and rebel?"
"Rebellion?" Chang Le sneered, "I don't have that ambition, we just want to survive, we want to live, whoever kills us, we will kill him, is that clear enough?"
Everyone nodded.
"Answer me!" Chang Le roared.
"Clear!"
"I can't hear you!"
"Clear !!"
The high-pitched answer was still echoing in the sky, and Chang Le had already put on a straight face, silently walking to a female corpse and squatting down.
The corpse was broken at the waist, the lower half of the body was wearing bloody trousers, a few meters away, and the upper body was lying on its side, the placket was open, holding a baby tightly in its arms.
The female corpse had a full breast, the front end of which was filled in the baby's mouth, and on her delicate and pale face, her blank eyes were still staring at her child.
Obviously, she tried to protect her son at the moment when she had been cut off, and fed the baby for the last time.
The baby looked less than half a year old, and it didn't seem to be hurt, Chang Le gently probed, and the little guy still had a temperature on his body, and he actually fell asleep sucking his mother's milk.
This is a baby girl, and when Chang Le picked her up, she woke up, and then she cried and turned her little head around to find her mother.
Such a cry would expose the entire team, and Chang Le could only send her directly into the beast soul space, where no matter how she cried, no one would hear her, and the life energy could also sustain her survival.
Changle then gritted his teeth and looked back at the dead mother of the baby.
Such women will also be thrown into prison and dragged into this exercise to die, not only by a few orcs, but also by many humans, including the royal guard!
Chang Le's hands trembled as he removed his armor, took off his azure guard uniform, and carefully covered the body of the female corpse.
Taking off the military uniform is not only to cover the poor and respectable mother, but also to say goodbye to Chang Le's one-year military school career, from then on he will never become a soldier again, and will not take care of the home for the royal family and nobles.
Then, with his finger out, he dipped the uncoagulated blood from another nearby corpse and smeared it on his face, streaks of crimson like tabbys.
Everyone watched in horror, didn't understand what he was doing, and their eyes widened.
After Chang Le got up, he explained in a deep voice:
"The smell of the blood of my compatriots reminds me that in order to survive, we must fight!
Everyone opened their mouths one after another, but they couldn't speak, some nodded, and some were stunned.
Chang Le stretched out his hand and pointed to the corpses everywhere:
"You guys, do as I do!"
These words frightened everyone and couldn't help but retreat.
Chang Le roared: "Do it!"
Everyone shook and stopped retreating, but they still didn't have the courage to touch the corpse.
At this moment, a woman strode over, dipped in blood and painted on her face, this is the blue moon, orcs are bloodthirsty by nature, not strange.
But what followed the blue moon turned out to be a colorful butterfly!
Caidie painted herself as a bloody flower face, and then she held her sword and got up:
"If I die in battle, please take care of my son and tell his dad in the future that I will fight for my son until the last moment!"
Chang Le nodded silently, giving her a thumbs up, then turned to the men and stared at them with disdain.
For men, this is a strong stimulus, and no matter how willing the untouchables are, they still have a little self-esteem. Eventually, people began to pounce on the corpses, screaming and smearing blood on their faces, and the rest of the people stepped forward with their companions.
Ten minutes later, a hideous group of unrecognizable centaurs returned to the narrow mountain road and set off again. This time, the momentum of the entire team has been very different, with high morale and murderous spirit.
Based on the smell left at the scene of the slaughter, Chang Le tracked all the way with the help of wolves, and after two hours, he found the murderer, a knife orc, and four sapper-type goblins.
The knife clan is a very famous fighting orc, whose strength is equivalent to the realm of a warrior, with arms like knives and a hard body, like a big praying mantis, and has an insect-like jumping ability.
Not to mention a group of untouchables who have no power to resist, they are the regular army soldiers of a squadron, and they also deliver food when they encounter the orcs of the Sword Clan.
The sapper-type goblin is a relatively cheap orc slave, and it is also one of the prey that the academy has thrown into the mountains in large quantities this time, and the knife clan is very rare, and it is estimated that which front-line troops have just been captured and sent to increase the difficulty of the exercise.
Different groups of orcs usually kill when they meet, and this knife clan has accepted a few goblins as minions, probably knowing that the situation is dangerous, and controlling these guys who are good at digging holes to help him hide.
But no matter how deep the hole is dug, it can't escape the olfactory tracking of Changle and the wolves.
Chang Le's team of centaurs looked really weak, so the orcs of the Sword Clan were not afraid, and as soon as they noticed that someone was attacking, they jumped out of the ground with a loud roar.
The mantis-like arm knife slashed out a dark green rainbow, slashing an iron-backed wolf with a probe at the entrance of the cave into two sections, the wolf corpse had not yet landed, and the other arm knife slashed longitudinally, turning the two sections into four sections.
Several goblins also followed behind and shouted and charged, but when they saw the presence of Iron Claw, they immediately lost their momentum and even turned to escape.
The goblin society is very similar to ants, the sapper goblin is the "worker ant", but the iron claw brought by Changle is the "soldier ant", and the combat effectiveness is not at the same level at all.
These ugly little things were also involved in the bloodshed, and of course they were not allowed to escape.
"Stop those goblins!" Changle ordered Iron Paw through mental communication.
"Help the untouchables block deadly attacks!" was an order for the old black.
"Protect women and children!" finally the order was given to Blue Moon.
Chang Le himself greeted the giant mantis-like sword orcs.
The Knife Orc has a human face and a sinister expression similar to that of a human, and it seems to be full of disdain for Changle.
After all, Chang Le was only at the realm of a peak monk, and theoretically he was not its opponent.
However, where is Chang Le just a monk?
The blades of the two sides intersected, and the knife arm of the orc of the knife clan was immediately broken, which was equivalent to disarming, and the guy's face changed miserably, and he roared and jumped high, trying to get out of the battle.
Chang Le reached out like lightning, grabbed the opponent's hind legs, and slapped it on the ground, causing a terrible howl.
Chang Le's face was expressionless, and the sword swung away, cutting off all the limbs of the sword orcs, leaving only a bloody forest body writhing and rolling on the ground, covered with dirt in the blink of an eye.
In addition to having the strength of a war master, this "giant mantis" also has agility far beyond that of human cultivators of the same level, but unfortunately Chang Le's agility is not within the scope of human common sense, it can be said that through the cultivation of the beast soul, Chang Le himself is a powerful demonic beast.
The militant orcs didn't understand what happened to them until they died.
More than seventy untouchables all rushed up, and even Caidie handed over her son Doudou to Blue Moon and charged with her own sword.
Because Lao Hei and Iron Claw were entangled with a few goblins, the group was basically not seriously attacked, and the sharp swords and wooden sticks in their hands came and went, and soon all five orcs were dismembered.
The orc's blood was as bright red as the blood, and Changle dipped his hand in the blood again, smeared it on his face, and then licked it with the tip of his tongue.
For some reason, the blood of the enemy made his heart beat faster, and he couldn't help but want to look up to the sky and laugh wildly, maybe it was the influence of the demonic energy of the king's suit, or maybe it came from the murderous factor in the blood of his ancestors.
The untouchables are also excited at the moment, they have killed the murderer of the tragedy, both the pleasure of avenging their fellow human beings and the surprise of finding that they can fight the orcs.
"The blood of the enemy, the blood of the enemy!" many people followed the example of Chang Le, wiping the blood of the orcs from their faces.
In fact, Chang Le's stripes on his face are not only to boost morale and deter enemies, but also to hide his true appearance. If possible, he hoped that he would lead the untouchables to escape without becoming a wanted felony for the entire empire.
Of course, this is just a hope, even if he is not recognized, if someone in the fifth class informs him, he will also be wanted. Anyway, saving the lives of nearly 100 untouchables is the key, and no matter what you face in the future, it is worth the price.
After regrouping the team, Changle examined the wounds of a few of the wounded and treated them with Phantom Feather Tianlu, while Old Black, Ironclaw, and Ironback Wolves feasted on a feast, eating a few orcs down to their skeletons.
The Knife Orcs and Goblins were eating people not long ago, and now they have been eaten up, and retribution is coming so quickly.
Iron Paw eats other goblins without the slightest sense of guilt, and in his opinion, only the children of Queen Istella are of the same kind, and the rest of the goblins are the worst enemies in the world, which is also similar to the ant society.
The untouchables were not frightened or stunned by the bloody scene this time, and they made a great improvement from before.
Chang Le was deeply satisfied, and came to the front of the team, pointing to the remains of the orcs:
"The mighty orcs of the Sword Clan were killed by a group of weak pariahs, do you believe it?"
Most of the people shook their heads, and some whispered "I can't believe it", because everyone witnessed with their own eyes that this powerful orc was defeated by Chang Le with one move, and then cut off his limbs, and then it was everyone's turn to hack to death, if there was no Chang Le and his demonic beast subordinates, I am afraid it would be another result.
But Caidie suddenly shouted:
"I believe it! Because it's true! The monster's corpse is right in front of you!"
This girl has a stronger personality than many men, no wonder she dares to elope with a civilian guy at the risk of death.
Chang Le smiled at her, then turned to everyone, pointed to the orc bones and shouted:
"Now, believe it or not?"
"Letter!" replied in unison this time.
"You are the bravest warriors in the world! I am proud of you for having such a record in the first kill!"
In fact, Chang Le was a little sorry when he said this, but now what everyone needs is encouragement.
The untouchables were really even more excited, shouting repeatedly, and many people praised Chang Le's strength, saying that he was worthy of being a "big official in the official army".
Of course, the title of "the great official in the official army" was spread by Zhaoxiang, and the uncle kept showing off his relationship with Chang Le, and also praised Chang Le's strength, wisdom and status to the sky, anyway, this kind of propaganda is beneficial to his own prestige, and Chang Le did not stop it.
"Alert formation, let's go!" Chang Lego ordered in a loud voice.
A group of blood-stained, hideous-looking untouchable warriors, sword and club, lined up in a slightly messy tactical formation, slowly advancing along the valley to the west.
This is an army made out of nothing, and not long ago they were submissive pariahs, beaten and scolded, kneeling and waiting for death.
Now that they have taken up their weapons, even if their combat effectiveness is not worth mentioning, Chang Le looked at the dignified faces next to him, and still felt that some kind of power was germinating, and maybe one day in the future, they would be invincible!
What can be done then? Chang Le can't think of it yet.
And the team's goal at the moment is very simple - to survive.