33. Long-horned demons
Red Socks ran into the woodland where the accident had happened, and didn't talk about it again.
He Boqiang carefully avoided a piece of bloody minced meat on the ground, and covered his mouth and nose with his hands, and the forest was filled with a strong smell of blood.
The soldiers of the second squad rushed to this woodland, and they were also stunned by the scene in front of them.
The woodland was a mess, shredded hyena skins were scattered everywhere, there were bloodstains, shredded flesh and hyena bones on the ground, and it looked like the red-eyed hyenas had been dismembered by some kind of wild beast, and these marks were all over the woodland, and some bones were even bitten, and it looked like the monster had an amazing bite force.
Surdak crouched in the woods, holding a dog bone in his hand, and a layer of reddish slime remained on the bloody bone, like the saliva of a beast.
The scene was quite tragic, dozens of red-eyed hounds were slaughtered in this woodland, and there were no intact corpses at the scene, as if these hyenas, the size of calves, had been swallowed by the monster.
Seeing that all the members of the squad had rushed over, Surdak asked the bearded man:
"Kargle, what kind of beast even eats hyenas?"
Cagle crouched beside Surdak and said in a deep voice, "I don't know! ”
"Maybe the big guy hasn't gone far......" Augustus leaned over and said, "I said...... It could also be a group of ferocious jungle iguanas. ”
Cagle patted Augustus on the shoulder and said, "I've never heard of jungle iguanas in Mount Candarear, and those iguanas aren't necessarily the match for these red-eyed hyenas, these red-eyed hyenas are so big that I can't tell what the hell this big guy is, but we'd better get out of here as soon as possible." ”
The second group of warriors set their eyes on Surdak, who groaned for a moment and said, "I know it's a bit dangerous to do this, but I want to know what it is, otherwise once they run to the side of the forest farm, our camp will be greatly threatened." ”
Then, he instructed the soldiers of the second squad: "Everyone is free to divide into four squads, and search for clues in this forest area, whether you can find them or not, and gather here in an hour." ”
Hearing the captain's arrangement, the soldiers of the second squad hurriedly cheered up: "Understand ......"
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Surdak, He Boqiang and the two recruits got together as a team, and no one wanted to form a team with the two newcomers, so Surdak decided to take them with him.
He Boqiang came to the place where the struggle was most intense, it was more like a slaughterhouse, a lot of blood seeped into the soil, dyeing the land purple-red, some broken fur was scattered all over the woodland, and many of the red pine trunks here had scratches, like those left by the bite of a red-eyed hyena.
There were still some circular holes in the pine trees pierced by sharp conical weapons, and the edges of the holes were stained with blood.
Surdak touched the blood on the edge of the hole, put it under the tip of his nose and sniffed it, and said, "Could it be that the manticore was left by the sharp horns on its head?" ”
He Boqiang shook his head, pointed to this woodland, and gestured that manticores are not social monsters, and one or two manticores can't make such a big scene.
Surdak straightened up, looked at a messy woodland, and said with a serious expression: "It feels like this group of red-eyed hyenas has experienced a herd of bison, don't have a one-horned bison smashed their bodies, and then they were eaten by a group of hungry piranhas, no, there is no way for the piranhas to eat these red-eyed hyenas to the bones." ”
The two recruits trembled behind Surdak, and when they entered the woodland, they were like timid quails, always thinking that it would be safest to tuck their heads into their chests.
He Boqiang took two steps, he bent down and looked at the ground, stretched out his hand to pick up a few blood-stained leaves on the woodland, and a few brand-new footprints were left in the woodland, which were strange foot prints, which were longer than normal people's feet, and there were only two toes in front of them, which looked like a 'Y'-shaped branch.
He didn't recognize such strange footprints, so he looked up at Surdak.
"These are the footprints of the long-horned demon......" Surdak's face turned very bad, and he said to He Boqiang, "We need to gather our men and leave here quickly, the long-horned demon is not something we can deal with." ”
As he spoke, he stopped exploring the woodland, but turned and strode back, gesturing to the other members of the group to evacuate as he went.
He Boqiang has heard the words 'demon legion' countless times from other people's mouths, this time the Grand Duke of Newman is preparing for a general battle in Handanar County, the opponent is the demon legion on the Warsaw plane, but Surdak tracked the traces of the long-horned demon, and his first reaction was to decisively leave the woodland with all the members of the team.
Seeing the captain gesture to evacuate, the other groups immediately gathered on Surdak's side, and then quickly left the forest.
"Fighting against the demon legion is a matter of constructing the Knights, and we heavy infantry are not even cannon fodder in front of the demons, so we must rush back to the camp as soon as possible and report the findings here to Baron Sidney." Surdak said as he walked.
It wasn't until the second squad of warriors had all left the woodland that Surdak's slightly pale face eased, and it seemed that the demons had left a big shadow on Surdak's heart.
At this time, He Boqiang recalled yesterday's events.
The native girl approached the second team's makeshift camp, as if she wasn't following them, as if she wanted to lure him away from the dangerous area, or else she wouldn't have taken him that far.
It's a pity that he didn't understand the intention of the indigenous girl at that time, and now that he thinks about it, He Boqiang can't help but break out in a cold sweat on his back.
"Whew......"
A giant bear roar was heard in the valley below, and the whole valley shook with it.
"This roar is a precursor to the madness of the Earth Storm Bear, there is a Earth Storm Bear below the valley, Captain, we have to leave quickly, once we are targeted by the Earth Storm Bear in the rage, no one can escape." Augustus leaned over to Surdak and said eagerly.
"Hurry up, it's too dangerous here!" Surdak waved at the rest of the team and ran towards the makeshift camp.
Surdak said to He Boqiang as he ran: "You said that big guy...... Will you meet ......?"
He was only halfway through his words, his voice became a little trembling, and he actually paused after speaking, and he grabbed He Boqiang and looked at the bottom of the hillside with a frightened expression.
He Boqiang followed Surdak's gaze and saw two cubs lying next to the river stream down the hillside, bleeding from the ground, and a horned demon squatting next to the cubs......
The four-meter-tall Earth Storm Bear raised its two front paws and pounced on a horned demon of about the same size on the opposite side.
The boulder under the feet of the Earth Storm Bear was trampled to pieces.
And the horned demon actually bowed his body and aimed two meter-long black devil horns at the earth storm bear by the river.
At the moment when the Earth Storm Bear rushed closer, the Horned Demon's body bounced up, and the horns on the top of its head pierced into the Earth Storm Bear's chest without hindrance......