Chapter Twenty-Three: The Serpent and the Witch II
"But......" Snake Thousand Eyes was about to say something more, when suddenly a spy from outside reported that the Minotaur army had entered the cave and was less than a mile away.
"Let's go, don't let the old man die in vain!" said the snake witch hurriedly.
Snake Thousand Eyes also understood that the situation was critical, and for the sake of today's plan, he could only take one step first, so he bowed to the snake witch to the end, turned around and ordered the rest of the people to withdraw from the other end of the cave.
In a moment, the surviving snake people have gathered in the cave, in fact, there are only about 30 people left, basically all of them are the personal guards of the snake thousand eyes, and when they retreated, the snake thousand eyes finally bowed deeply to the snake witch sitting on the stone bed, turned around and fled.
The snake witch began to close his eyes and return to his senses when he heard the spy coming, and he didn't open his eyes when the snake thousand eyes left, and only slowly opened his eyes after hearing the sound of "rustling" scales running across the ground in his ears, and muttered: "Snake Gang, don't let the teacher down, but remember to take revenge!"
After that, the snake witch's hands were sealed repeatedly, and the quiet cave suddenly began to make a "click" sound one after another, and one after another white skeletons began to crawl out under the ground, and after a while, nearly a hundred skeleton warriors stood all over the cave, and at this time, he also heard the sound of "dodo" heavy objects stomping on the ground outside the cave entrance, he understood that this was the minotaur had come to the cave, and the sound was made by their feet wearing heavy boots on the ground, which was completely different from the "rustle" sound of their snake people swimming.
Niu Hong led the army to chase all the way, and killed many snake people along the way, in fact, the snake people warriors are only good at sneak attacks and assassinations that are difficult to prevent, and if they face the enemy Minotaur face it, it is like a child and an adult fighting, and they have no power to fight back. Niu Hong was worried at first that he would encounter the necromantic warriors again when he approached the lair, but he didn't expect that he just cleaned up a few scattered snake warriors, and there were no headache necromantic warriors, so hundreds of people came to the mouth of the cave shown in the drawings.
Niu Hong raised his hand, all the warriors stopped together, he looked at the entrance of the cave, it was almost dark and couldn't see clearly, but according to the confession of the newly captured captive, the snake thousand eyes and the necromancer were in the cave, but it was not clear how many people were left in these peripheral snake bandits.
"Strategist, what now?" Niu Hong looked at the dog.
"Well, judging from the situation along the way, the snake bandit necromancer should be not lightly injured, but it is not ruled out that he deliberately showed weakness to lure us into the bait, but even so, his mana must be greatly reduced now, and our army can push forward with all its might!"
"That's what I mean, light the torch and push in!" Niu Hong looked at Jing Jun again and said.
Jing Jun felt that he should walk in front of the lightning ball condensed, but now as long as his brain consciousness tried to mobilize the power of lightning, his eyes immediately turned black, his chest was stuffy, and he couldn't concentrate at all.
This cave is not very deep, at least Jing Jun felt that it was far less deep than the cave occupied by Snake Yi at the beginning, and there was no foul smell, so he estimated that he had advanced forty or fifty meters inward, and the army stopped. Jing Jun was a little ahead in the middle of the team, Niu Hong didn't let him be in the front, the team stopped, and all the people in front of him were the backs of the tall minotaurs, and Jing Jun couldn't figure out what the specific situation was to stop the team from advancing.
"Boom!" A strange laugh came into the ears of Jing Jun and Feng Chime, and then the eerie voice that made people feel cool down their backs sounded, "The Minotaur really lives up to his reputation, and his combat power is not bad, so he found this place so quickly!"
"Thank you for the compliment, I don't know what to call you. Niu Hong saw a thin old snake man sitting in the midst of the many skeleton warriors, and did not see any other snake people.
"Hehe, don't mention the old man's name, but why don't you give the snake man who came to Aoki Ridge a way to live?" said the snake witch gloomily.
"The old gentleman probably didn't know that many years ago, the Snake Emperor and the Ape Emperor signed a peace treaty, clearly demarcating Aoki Ridge as being under the jurisdiction of the Ape Emperor. Niu Hong is colorful.
Of course, the old man knows, but Thousand Eyes has been persecuted so far, so this is not a disregard for the peace treaty. The snake witch continued to argue that he was actually delaying the snake for Thousand Eyes to escape as soon as possible.
"Hmph, robbing passers-by and killing nearby villagers, is this also an observance of the agreement?" Niu Hong said angrily when he heard this.
"Ahem," the snake witch coughed twice, "there are always some people who don't listen to good words, and it's just a lesson." β
"You!" Niu Hong was angry and speechless for a while.
"But you still have a lightning mage in Donghai Town, which is much of the old man's surprise, can you see it. The snake witch looked at Niu Hong, who was already angry, and changed the subject in order to prevent him from attacking him immediately.
Jing Jun heard clearly behind him, he had slowly passed through the crowd, came to Niu Hong's back, and did not show his face directly, but looked at the opposite side through the gap in the crowd, this look was secretly surprised, there were also a hundred skeleton warriors on the opposite side, densely packed with a thin body, but the appearance was almost the same as the skeleton The old snake man surrounded a stone bed in the middle, leaving only a narrow passage enough for one person to pass through for him to communicate with Niu Hong face to face, the stone bed was bloodstained around the stone bed, and the snake man's skinny face was dead ash, and there were traces of blood at the corners of his mouth, this should be the snake man necromancer, it seems that the injury is not lightγ
The snake witch wanted to see Jing Jun, Niu Hong was stunned, but the dog next to him said: "General be careful, this should be a delaying tactic for the snake bandits, at present, we only see this old guy and don't see anyone else, the old guy is definitely not the snake thousand eyes, the subordinates guess that the real snake thousand eyes have fled here, and the old guy is delaying time for them." β
When Niu Hong heard this, he suddenly woke up, although the snake witch on the other side didn't hear clearly, he also guessed clearly, and laughed: "The minotaur is really just muscular, this dog is right, the old man is just delaying time! Let the horse come over and let the old man kill him happily!"
The snake witch spoke, his fingers sealed, his lips moved slightly, and he slowly began to move as his skeleton warrior began to move.
Niu Hongqi's blood surged upward, and he wanted to attack with a sledgehammer.
Jing Jun saw that the white bone skeleton was about to come forward to attack, and in a hurry, he tried to mobilize the power of lightning, but his head still hurt suddenly, and the lightning ball still couldn't be condensed.
Jing Jun almost slapped himself when he heard this, how could he forget the gun he was most familiar with as soon as he learned to cast magic lightning, saying that it was too late, it was too fast, Jing Jun pulled out his pistol in his right hand, and at the moment when the skeleton warrior was about to hide the old snake man behind them, he aimed at the snake man's eyebrows, and gently pulled the trigger with his index finger.