When the city gate fell, in the overwhelming flying sand, the army of horse bandits rushed in, and the banner of the nomadic saber swayed wantonly in the cold wind, like a wild beast showing its fangs.

Baiza's heart was already chilling to the extreme, and he tried to maintain the front: "Don't scatter the teams!" Pick up your spears! Shield Wall! Forming a shield wall!! ”

However, in front of the murderous horse bandits, the morale of the remnants of the defeated army in Shilin Town had already collapsed, and they shouted in fear one by one, and fled backwards in a panic.

Originally, if they had maintained the line with spears and shields, as Baiza said, they would still have the strength to fight against the lightly armed nomadic horse bandits.

Not to mention the light cavalry, even the heavy cavalry did not dare to casually attack the spear formation.

But they are now fleeing in all directions, just giving these lightly armed cavalry the opportunity to slaughter.

"Whew!!" The desert bandits erupted in their trademark battle cries, kicking the horses in the belly and turning into terrifying afterimages, and even men and horses rushed into the chaotic crowd at full speed.

In just one breath, at least 30 soldiers of Shilin Town were killed, some of them were crushed by their horses and stepped into the ground with blood and mud; Some were slashed by sharp sabers, and their stumps flew all over the sky with short screams; Some of them, in order to survive, stabbed their comrades with a spear, leaving them behind to become bait, so that they could have a chance to escape.

A blood mist burst out across the battle line, accompanied by cries of begs for mercy and war cries, staining the nomadic banner scarlet.

It was not only the soldiers of Shilin Town who suffered, it was late at night, and the speed of the horse bandit attack was so fast that many civilians did not have time to evacuate, shouting and running in the streets.

The bandits were bloodthirsty and never minded killing innocents, they rode directly into the crowd, like butchers entering a slaughterhouse, slashing and killing unarmed civilians in a frenzy, screaming and begging for mercy one after another, but they were all shattered under the saber, staining the town of Shirin into a sea of blood.

The mercenaries were tightly surrounded by at least 100 horse bandits at this time, and everywhere they could see were galloping horses and sabers.

Lugo clenched his shield spear and scolded with a grim face: "Grandma, it seems that you will have to pay me the balance in the next life." ”

"I don't like to drag it that long." Chino stared at the collapsing gates, and when the last of the bandits rushed into Shirin, he took out the second Thunderbolt in his arms, lit it with a fire break, and launched it into the air.

"Boom!" A loud bang shook the sky, dyeing the canopy the same color as the earth.

Chino: "Everyone, put on the beak mask!" ”

"Beak Mask?" Lugo was stunned, hurriedly took the mask he was wearing around his waist, and scolded, "Damn, you shouldn't be..."

A few seconds after the thunder exploded, the night in the distance suddenly sounded one after another, after the dissipation of space, these sounds had already become noisy and blurred, but even from such a distance, the deterrent power did not weaken.

What's even more shocking is that everyone can feel an invisible pressure from that direction, like an impenetrable wall pressing wildly, making them all breathless.

At this moment, even the most elite horse bandits unconsciously held their breath, unspeakable fear invaded from all the pores of their bodies, and the battlefield instinct kept sending dangerous signals.

Gradually, the horses under the bandits began to become restless and uncontrollable, and this reaction meant only one thing...

There are monsters approaching.

The outermost horse bandit swallowed his throat and subconsciously raised the torch, and when he saw the approaching black shadow through the light of the fire, the whole person was already cold in his hands and feet, and roared: "Plague beast!! ”

"Roar!! The distorted black shadow swooped in, and his swollen hands grabbed the bandit's head directly, lifting him off the horse's back and lifting him in the air.

The bandit's skull could not withstand such tremendous force, and his skull began to crack, and he clenched his saber in severe pain, trying to hack the monster to death.

But who knows, the sharp saber slashing at the body seemed to have no effect on the monster, it erupted into a fierce roar, allowing the blood on its body to fly, and the giant shark-like teeth bit the horse bandit's wrist with precision, and directly bit it in the flesh tearing and wailing.

The blood mist surged, and the monster pinched his head with one hand and his leg with the other, twisting it into a ball like a twisted flower, first drinking the squeezed blood, and then eating him alive.

The torch in the hands of the corpse fell to the ground, and everyone finally saw the true face of the monster.

Plague beast, the name of a person infected in the late stage of a bestial disease.

Although this plague beast can vaguely see the human form, the muscular body has long been covered with all kinds of abnormal black tissues, like a hideous maggot flesh growing, earthworm-like spreading blood vessels under the skin are bruised, and even a rotten arm grows out of its back, and its five fingers are claw-shaped, constantly dripping with flesh and blood, which seems to be some kind of fighting organ.

The bestiality epidemic is so cruel that once it is infected, it cannot be cured for life, and can only be cured with blood therapy to stop the deterioration.

Once you don't get blood therapy for a long time and the lesions deepen, you will become this kind of plague beast that is neither human nor ghostly.

In addition to salt crystal epidemic prevention and blood treatment to control the epidemic, alchemists have also been looking for a way to "cure the epidemic", and often need to infect late-stage plague beasts for live experiments.

Therefore, unless there are special circumstances, plague beasts are not allowed to be killed, they must be captured alive, imprisoned in iron cages, isolated and imprisoned in the lower epidemic areas of various places, waiting for alchemists to sample and study.

These plague beasts have no humanity, only residual primitive instincts, hunting all creatures with different breaths, and due to the mutation of the body caused by the epidemic, all functions are far beyond mortals.

The most lethal thing is that every plague animal is a source of infection, and contact with them is very likely to cause infection.

Seeing that so many plague beasts suddenly appeared, Shan Wule's scalp was numb in an instant, and he shouted to his heralds: "Herald! Everyone's smearing salt crystals! ”

As he spoke, he took out the azure salt crystals from the bag he was carrying, rubbed them on his nose, lips, and around his eyes, and took some more internally.

The other bandits who received the order did the same.

Chino's eyes narrowed when he saw this, first the desert fire, then the salt crystal, the secret alchemy mastered by Dogulander, these horse bandits actually can.

Is it a coincidence?

Or is it...

Soon, Chino's thoughts were interrupted by shouts of killing.

Just like the beak mask, these salt crystals have a protective effect on the human body, and the horse bandits can not worry about being infected, they wave the butcher knife again, and attack forward.

Lugo stood with his spear and shield in the face of the chaos of the battlefield and laughed, "So this is your backup plan? Wait for all the horse bandits to enter the city, and then open the epidemic area and release the epidemic beasts. ”

Chino raised his crossbow and shot a horse bandit with precision, and said lightly, "If you have a better suggestion, I can listen to it." ”

"Oh no, no, no, this tactic is cool!" Lugo roared, raised his shield against the blighted beast's claws, abandoned his spear for his sword, and reflexively slashed his blade upward, slashing its huge head away, cursing in his mouth, "Of course, it would be better if they knew how to avoid us." ”

Behind him, a solemn voice came: "The plague beasts can only distinguish between the same kind and the non-same, whether we are or the horse bandits, they are just fat in their eyes." ”

Hearing this, Baixa looked back with joy: "Paladin! ”

Paladin, wearing a bird's beak mask and still in good clothes, scolded and said, "It's just a little bit, I'm about to be overwhelmed by the plague beast, but I'm good to run fast." ”