Chapter 43: Shedding Wolf
Xiang En asked Andrea to step on the stool and see for herself, Andrea, who was tall and long-legged, would not be blocked by the two-meter wooden wall, and clearly saw the ghoul crawling on all fours in the snow.
The ghouls are still approaching, but not very fast, and their speed is obviously affected by the weather.
Even if an ordinary magical beast reaches the gold level, the magic power is all over the body, and the adaptability is strengthened, and the temperature outside will still affect the state.
The body of these ghouls used to be silver-level warriors, but after becoming monsters, their strength has not improved much, and now they can only be regarded as bluffing, in fact, very stupid non-IQ monsters, naturally unable to resist the influence of the cold.
There is only one ghoul outside, as long as the number does not form a scale, Xiang En has confidence in Andrea that she can deal with it!
"It's almost there!"
As soon as the ghoul approached the wooden wall, Andrea jumped out of her chair and assumed a defensive stance.
Xiang En hurriedly stepped back, and he already heard inhuman wheezing and whimpering in his ears.
The sounds of these human-turned-monsters are always strange, perhaps because of the fact that their faces have become larger.
"Uh-uh!"
With a whimper, a black humanoid monster instantly jumped out from behind the wooden wall, and attacked Andrea with a strong stench.
In the face of the condescending pounce, Andrea did not hold up, but took a few steps back, and when the ghoul fell into the snow, she quickly bullied the short knife in her hand and aimed at her head and slashed straight down.
The stiff ghoul was powerless under the knife, and his head was split in half by the short knife, and he didn't move without twitching......
Seeing this scene, Xiang En in the back still maintained a state of magic release with both hands, and the buff of a layer of wind blessing had just been brushed up, and the battle was already over before he started a retardation technique?!
Ah......h
Not only Xiang En, but even Andrea, who actually cut down a ghoul, was a little unbelievable, just with a knife, the ghoul who came running violently was gone?
It's like a hunter hunting with a spear, and a wolf suddenly comes out, and the hunter thinks there must be a fierce battle today, and the spear stretches forward, and the wolf crashes into it and dies.
It's a bit of a mystery.
After being stunned for a while, Xiang Encai came back to his senses, stood on a stool and carefully observed the scene outside the village, and finally determined that there were no ghouls outside the village who were ready to approach the village.
"Do you want to throw the corpse out? Or was it burned with fire? Andrea asked in passing as she wiped the strange liquid from the dagger against the ghoul's tattered clothes.
Waving his hand, Xiang En was about to let Andrea just throw it away, but he suddenly remembered that he hadn't carefully studied the ghoul in his current state, so he walked up to the ghoul.
The ghoul lying in the snow was turned over with a wooden plank and looked closely.
Andrea stepped aside, also looking at the ghoul.
The ghoul's appearance is almost incompatible with that of humans, although the body surface is hairless, but it is covered with a disgusting tumor, the black skin is pitted, the face has become narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and a large mouth grinning at the root of the ear, with a lot of messy sharp teeth.
A fishy smell can be faintly smelled from a distance of more than a meter in winter, and it is uncomfortable in every way.
Now Andrea doesn't have the fear of killing people before, only a little frightened by the appearance of the ghoul, and she doesn't want to see more things she doesn't like, so she looks at it for a while and then looks away.
On the contrary, Xiang En looked at it very carefully, his brows furrowed, and his face was solemn.
Staring at the ghoul's big face plate, Xiang En couldn't help but have a lot of questions in his mind, the most important and the most terrifying one.
They went from being a humanoid to being an inhuman monster, and their jaws and body shape changed a lot, how much time did it take?
This starts from the moment the body dies?
Or did it start after that rain?
This is a world with all kinds of magical powers, and if it starts to change from the moment the villager dies, it is still within the realm of common sense.
But if it becomes like this after the acid rain that day, the speed of alienation is terrifying.
There is uncertainty about what the ghouls will become, or what their final form will be, and a half-understood uneasiness haunts the mystery of the apocalypse.
After exhaling a breath of hot air, Xiang En shook his head, pulled out a dagger from his clothes, hesitated for a moment, and still started to cut open the ghoul's chest.
His hands continued to poke out, and in the stinking blood that was not warm, he found a heart that had been dyed black and red.
If you look closely, you can see that the ghoul's heart doesn't have any magic crystals attached to it, which doesn't mean that the ghoul doesn't have magical powers.
Magic power is everywhere, and the dead magic beasts, the magic crystals in the heart can also be stored for a long time in a sealed state.
Ghouls deserve to have magic crystals, and without magic crystals, they can only be consumed, or perhaps become the nourishment for the alienation of their bodies, so that they can have a stronger body.
Leaving behind the bloody heart, Xiang En kept wiping his hands with snow to wash away some of the blood stains on his hands.
"Let's go back and boil water, I'll have to take a shower later."
Hearing this, Andrea replied somewhat absentmindedly: "Then, what to do with the corpse?" ”
In the face of such a scene, she has seen a lot, the internal organs of animals are not much different from the internal organs of people, as long as she accepts the setting that ghouls are not human, and when she sees this scene again, her mentality will not change much.
Maybe that's growth......
"Throw it out of the wall." Xiang En made a decision.
The two then worked together to throw the ghoul's body out of the wall, nearly splattering blood on their clothes, and if they did, they would have to wash them.
After dealing with the sudden appearance of the ghoul, the two returned to their busy work, one shoveling snow and boiling water, and the other raising the chimney.
Da-da-da-da!
With the sound of hammers, there was a new movement in the woods.
With the first attack outside the village, Xiang En naturally increased his alertness to the surrounding environment, and at this time, he discovered a new attacker as soon as possible.
In the snowy woods, a sturdy timberwolf led six of his men stiffly out of the woods, apparently attracted by the sound of beating in the quiet forest.
Seeing the figure of the wolves, Xiang En, who was wielding the hammer, was surprised and missed, and the hammer hit the left hand holding the nail, causing him to gasp several times in pain.
"I ...... Hiss! Ha! ”
Looking at the approaching wolves, Xiang En almost blurted out a dirty word, shook his hands and shouted uncomfortably: "Anli! ”
But a lot of cruel thoughts came out of his heart, glaring angrily at the wolves in the distance, thinking about how to deal with the wolves later.
Stewed and eaten? Or grilled and eaten? There is always more moisture in fresh meat than in dried meat!
He and Andrea hadn't eaten juicy food in a long time!
"In?"
Andrea's voice came from the front of the wooden house, and there was a slight confusion in her tone, obviously not knowing what Xiang En called her again.
"There's food coming!"
"Huh?!"
Hearing the word food, in just a few seconds, Andrea, who was holding a sword and shield, appeared beside Xiang En.
Jumping more than a meter high on the spot, seeing the wolves approaching outside the wall, instead of panicking after she landed, she looked at Xiang En excitedly, "Are those wolves?" Is there wolf meat to eat today? ”
Xiang En wanted to pull out a smile and say "yes", but after the wolves half-ran and half-jumped to a certain distance, he with good eyesight, it seemed that something was wrong when he saw those wolves!
Without waiting for his reply, Andrea couldn't resist the temptation of meat, and jumped up to look at the wolves outside the wall.
After landing this time, the excitement on her face was gone, replaced by puzzlement.
Those wolves...... How can it still shed in winter?