Chapter 6: The Long Night (Part II)

Stepping on the ribs of one forerunner after another, with an innate thirst for the flesh and blood of the living, a skeleton warrior clutched a broken sword with thick iron filings in his hand, and crawled with difficulty step by step.

Just when he finally climbed to the top of the 'human' ladder, holding the water chestnut on the edge of the city wall with one hand, and was about to jump up and kill these creatures who had made him feel hatred from the depths of his soul, he saw an ordinary iron sword suddenly appear in its field of vision, piercing straight into its skull, which was empty except for a faint ray of soul fire, and then, all longing and hatred ended in this instant.

"Hey, this guy's bones are so hard, my sword almost didn't pierce it, and the shock made my arm numb, Xiaoren, you come for me for a while, I'll rest." ”

With a flick of his numb right hand, Mino stepped aside to rest, and the long-standing Yeren immediately plugged the gap left by Mino's exit, knocking the next skeleton that had worked so hard to climb up to the ground.

"It's nothing, just wait for these skeletons to climb up and cut them down like whack-a-moles, if you don't have to be careful with those damn skeleton archers to release cold arrows, I, the undead hunter Night, will be as easy as playing." ”

Another sword was chopped down, and Yeren's sword just smashed the skull of a skeleton, and he pulled a sword flower handsomely, and Yeren's old mistake was committed again, and he talked triumphantly.

"It's like playing? Bah! You're an undead hunter like you, and you're a fool and a stupid person. ”

Looking at the appearance of the Yeren bag, Tucker, who was holding a long knife and waiting for him next to Mino, took a sip and scolded Yeren with his head and face.

"Who do you think you kid? A mage apprentice who can do a few tricks, not a fart, so small that you can't even chop people's bones with this kind of first-class skeleton, most of them have to push the undead who climbed up down the city wall to barely hold on, if there is a skeleton warrior like the one that Mino cut down just now, mage boy, if no one comes to help you, your kid will have to die here today." ”

After speaking, without looking at Yeren's gloomy face, Tucker turned his head to look at Mino, who was gulping down water, and his face with disdain instantly changed to a look of appreciation.

"You kid is not bad, when you meet the strengthened skeleton warrior just now, even a second-level warrior may not be able to kill with a sword, Lao Tzu originally wanted to help, but I didn't expect your kid to stab into the skeleton's head with a sword, the name of a genius swordsman is really not for nothing." ”

Faced with Tucker's rare praise that didn't have a good word in his mouth after the meeting, Mino raised his eyebrows, and was about to say a few words of joy and pride, but his mind suddenly flashed the gloomy face after Yeren was scolded just now, and swallowed back the words that came to his mouth.

"Lord Taco praised it falsely, it's just a coincidence, if I meet such a skeleton warrior on the ground, I will definitely not be able to beat it with my strength, I just took advantage of the territory. ”

"Yes, in the end, it's just a geographical advantage, if it weren't for this wall, this Tassi town would have ****** finished. ”

Rushing up and slashing a skeleton that had rushed up the city wall, Tucker beckoned someone to replace the warrior who had been slashed by the skeleton, and said with emotion.

"But even if there is this city wall, I'm afraid we won't be able to hold out for long, these strengthened skeletons are much harder than usual, the second-level skeleton warriors who can barely be blocked by the first-level warriors, basically can't bear it without the strength of the second-level, basically one percent of these tens of thousands of undead are second-level skeletons, if it weren't for the fact that they killed a lot of things like stones and oil before, they would have been unbearable. ”

As for Tucker's words, he had just witnessed a militiaman not far away being hacked to death by a skeleton warrior, and nodded in agreement, but Mino shook his head gently.

"No, if these skeletons aren't strengthened, we won't be able to stop them for long. ”

"Fuck your mother's fart, according to what you say, the weak are harder to beat than the strong?

Seeing that Mino actually refuted his words, Tucker blew his beard and glared loudly and questioned loudly, insisting that Mino say something.

"It's true that the weak ones are easier to fight than the strong ones, and if these skeletons hadn't been strengthened, our battle would have been much easier. Looking directly into Tucker's eyes with hidden anger, Mino pointed to the dark curtain in the sky and replied without flinching: "But don't forget, how these skeletons are strengthened, if this weakened version of the death canopy was replaced with the twelve fourth-level skeleton mages or one fifth-level skeleton mage who cast it, Tarsi Town would have been breached long ago." ”

Tucker was speechless when Mino said this, and just as he didn't know how to get himself down the stairs, he suddenly heard the cheers of the people around him.

"The undead have retreated! The undead have retreated! We have won!"

Tucker hurriedly turned his head to look out of the city, only to see that the remaining more than 2,000 undead somehow stopped the attack, and retreated towards the mountains outside the town of Tassi.

"Haha, Lao Tzu said that Lao Tzu is not so easy to die, the boss said, fight off the undead and get a bounty, each person will get at least five gold coins, Lao Tzu, the deputy head of the regiment, can also get at least twenty, it's really fucking earned, and this kind of record is not something anyone can have, look at how the group of mongrels in Houston City will show off in front of them in the future. ”

Tucker slapped his thigh with joy, and Yaren smiled from ear to ear, only Mino's brow furrowed when he glanced at the retreating undead.

No, the undead who are not afraid of life and death would choose to retreat, this is a joke, there must be something we don't know about happening, and this matter is important enough for these undead to make their empty brains suppress their instinct to crave flesh and blood, otherwise it is absolutely impossible for the undead to retreat, at least not in these wild undead who are not controlled by necromancers.

But what is it that is more important to the undead than the instinct to thirst for flesh and blood? And where is the skeleton mage who cast the Death Canopy again? The skeletons that appeared in the previous battle seem to be all humanoids, and why didn't any of the beast-shaped bone demons that appeared during the attack on the village appear, and what is hidden in this?

Doubts kept echoing in Mino's mind, making him feel as if he was in a fog, everything seemed to be a flower in the fog, and whether the next step was a smooth road or an abyss, he would never know until he took that step.

Although there are countless doubts and uneasiness in his heart, and he feels that some major crisis is brewing secretly, Mino can't say these things and let everyone go to solve them in advance.

Because he is just the lowest and ordinary member of these more than 300 people, if it weren't for the old friendship between the village chief of his village, Grandpa Conseil, and the mayor, I am afraid that he would not even be able to get close to the mayor, let alone listen to the village chief, but even if there is such a relationship, the mayor will not listen to his own opinion in this kind of decision related to the survival of Tarsi Town, after all, this is just a guess he made based on his own intuition and doubts, if it is not right, it may make Tarsi Town weaken its defense because of sending people out to find it, so that it will be broken by the army of undead who have never been there, so Mino can only suppress his uneasiness in his heart, like everyone else who didn't notice anything, participated in the carnival after the victory with a smile on his face.

After a long time of gleeful madness, when everyone vented the joy in their hearts, it was already dusk time at sunset, and after the mayor announced that he would come to the square tomorrow morning to discuss the reward for meritorious deeds, everyone was clamoring to go back to their respective homes to find their own mothers.

Bidding farewell to all kinds of exaggerated and exaggerating recounts of his heroic deeds with Grandpa Conseil, Mino returned home, and when he saw his sister cooking and waiting for him at home, he waved at Mina with a bright smile.

"Sister, I'm back. ”

Seeing that Mino, who had come back intact, Mina, who had been worried at home for a day, stared blankly at her brother, her eyes were instantly bloodshot, and tears slipped down from her eye sockets, falling on the blue and white stone floor tiles one by one.

"Sister, what's wrong with you crying? Did someone take advantage of my absence to bully you?"

"No, it's nothing, your sister and I are mage apprentices, how can anyone dare to bully my sister. Awakened by Mino's words, Mina hurriedly wiped the tears on her face, and the pretty face of the pear blossom with rain showed a happy smile, and pulled Mino to sit on the chair, "Sister just accidentally got some sand in her eyes, brother, you must be hungry after a tired day, sister made your favorite Momo cake, hurry up and eat it while it's still hot, the other dishes are a little cold, sister go and heat it up." ”

After saying that, Mina hurriedly walked towards the kitchen with a plate, and Mina, who tried to hold Mina and let her not bother, looked at her sister's eyes welling up with tears again, and was speechless.

Mino, who had been hungry for a day, finished his meal, rolled up his sleeves and wiped his mouth, and hurried to Grandpa Conseil's house despite Mina's retention.

When Mino rushed to Grandpa Conseil's house, Grandpa Conseil and Yeren, who had also been hungry for a day, were eating, and the anxious Mino didn't care about being polite or impolite, regardless of the fact that people were still eating, and sat down and poured beans into a bamboo tube to express the doubts, uneasiness and speculations about the dangers that might be hidden.

For this steady young man who has grown up since he was a child, and has always shown extraordinary talents and talents, Conseil is naturally very trusting, especially through the deduction of those doubts raised by Mino, Conseil can also vaguely feel the frenzy surging in the dark, and immediately put down the rice bowl in his hand, and rushed to the mayor's house non-stop.

Looking at Conseil's back gradually moving away, the uneasiness in Mino's heart was faintly alleviated, looking at Yeren who was still confused on the side and Sister Yelai, who was busy with housework in the backyard and could vaguely see the figure, recalling the sister's instantly red eyes and big drops of tears falling on the floor when she returned home before, Mino clenched his fists and vowed to guard the town of Tassi, so that the relatives he cared about would not be harmed.