Chapter 239: The Lake of Death on a Rainy Night
After following Rogge in the storm for an unknown amount of time, the three of them had moved away from the Amazon village, surrounded by hazy rain and mist, barely visible except for the muddy water under their feet, the sky was dark, and the cold air lingered around the three people who were soaked for a long time.
"Wait a minute!" Lisa, who couldn't bear it anymore, grabbed Rogge and shouted, "Where are you going? We're going in the opposite direction, are you going to save people, or do you have other intentions?"
"Don't worry, we've almost found them. Rogge calmly wiped the rain from his face and stared at Lisa's shocked face.
"What? why are they here?" asked Lisa, surprised.
"Don't ask, if we go fast enough, we should be able to get them all back, otherwise you may have to transport their bodies back!" Rogge said as he broke free from Lisa's grasp and strode forward.
"Is he telling the truth?" Lisa looked at his back in amazement, and turned back to Tali who had followed, and the Mermaid Guardian nodded silently and said, "I don't know, but I don't think there's a better way than to trust him now." ”
Lisa groaned slightly, so she had to continue to follow, and she didn't go far when Rog suddenly stopped, and Lisa and Tali, who were following behind, stopped at the same time, saw him look left and right, slowly stepped forward and squatted down, and picked up something from the ground.
"They're here!" Rogge said to the two of them, Lisa and Tali watched in amazement as he held in his hand a huge corpse of a worm about the length of an adult's legs, a turquoise body, four transparent wings on its back, two huge red eyes with fangy mouths underneath, and several detached spikes on its tail.
"It looks like a giant dragonfly!" said Tali, looking at the bug.
"This is the dragon fly," said Rog, pulling the arrow that pierced through the dead worm's body, "This thing is extremely fast, and the fact that these girls can shoot it to death shows that they are very good at archery!"
"Of course, the girls in the Amazon are all good archers!" said Lisa, not without pride.
"But that's not enough, dragonflies aren't something they can deal with!" Rogge dropped the dragonfly's body on the ground and turned to beckon the two to move on, as they found more dragonfly corpses on the way, as well as arrows and javelins scattered on the ground or embedded in tree trunks.
After walking for a long time, Rog stopped again, he picked up the corner of an animal skin skirt from the ground, and looked back at Lisa with an inquiring gaze, and Lisa's face suddenly turned pale when she saw the corner of the skirt.
"There's blood on it, something must have happened to them. Rogge threw away the corners of his skirt and looked around searching for the smell in the air, when suddenly he locked onto a direction, turned and ran quickly in that direction, Lisa and Tali hurrying to follow.
When Rogge finally stopped, they were presented with a wide expanse of water, and there was nothing to see on the dark green surface of the water except for the ripples left by the impact of the rainstorm.
"Tully, if I'm not mistaken, they're in this lake!" Rogge said with a grim face.
Tali understood, and stepped forward to point at the surface of the lake with the mermaid staff, only to see a whirlpool appear in the center of the lake, and began to gradually expand, and several hazy humanoid objects soon appeared in the whirlpool that rotated clockwise.
"Get them up!" Rogge shouted as he pointed to the humanoids, and Tali chanted loudly, and several jets of water rose into the sky, throwing the three of them to the shore, and Rogge flew to catch them and put them on the ground, finding that all three were unconscious.
"Oh my God!" exclaimed Lisa at the sight of the three girls, and she ran to the three of them, where she saw that their bodies were covered with wounds of all sizes, and that several black bugs were gnawing at their naked bodies.
"These are the larvae of the dragon flies, they are used as food for the larvae!" Rog flashed his winged blade, swung his knife to shred the larvae that stuck to the trio, and reached out to probe their snorts, all of them were no longer breathing.
"Tully, they've been drowning for too long and need first aid!" Rog said loudly to Tully as she stepped forward, and the Mermaid Guardian told them to place the three girls side by side on the ground, standing on the side of their heads, crossing their palms over their palms, closing their eyes and silently chanting the incantation.
After a while, the mouths of the three girls opened at the same time, and water spurted out of their mouths, and the three of them gasped and let out a frightened scream, Lisa hurriedly stepped forward to call their names, and the three girls slowly opened their eyes, looking at Lisa with lost eyes.
"It's all right, kids, it's all right!" Lisa and Rogge sat up with the three children, and she held them tightly in her arms, and heard them say, "I'm sorry, we should have listened to you, and we shouldn't have sneaked away to get revenge on the bugs!"
"It's okay, it's all in the past. Lisa hugged the three girls tightly and shed tears of joy, and the elder sister of the three children said weakly, "Thank you for saving us, we thought we wouldn't see you anymore." ”
"Don't thank me, thank Mr. Rogge and Miss Tully!" said Lisa, looking back at Rogge and Tully.
The three girls hurriedly thanked them, Tali gently crouched down beside them to comfort them, and Lisa asked Rogge curiously, "How did you know they were here?"
"Actually, my initial suspicions about the whereabouts of the three of them began when I heard their little sister tell about how the three were captured by monsters. ”
Rogge glanced at the three girls and said, "How can a fourteen-year-old child, no matter how strong, behave so calmly and speak in an orderly manner, neither crying nor showing horror after his sisters were captured by monsters and he escaped death?"
He smiled at Lisa's thoughtful face and said, "Moreover, the child's body is very clean, and she didn't have any mud and water or blades of grass on her body until you changed her clothes, which is not like the condition of a child whose sister ran back from the swamp in the heavy rain after being taken away and begged for help." ”
"You're right, I remembered, but I didn't notice that before you said it!" Lisa nodded in realization.
"So, that made me suspicious of the child's words, and then I learned from you that the jackal barracks was located in the southeast of the village, and her three sisters were taken to the north of the village, so why did the jackals brave the pouring rain and go all the way to the other side of the village to hunt?"
He saw Lisa nodding silently and continued: "Subsequently, I heard that the mother of the four children was killed by the dragon fly, and the third child was also injured by the dragon fly not long ago, which made me connect with your statement of the character of several children, so I made a judgment. ”
Speaking of this, Rogge lowered his head and smiled at the eldest of the three girls and said, "I think it was your idea, you originally planned to go with the four sisters to avenge the third child and her mother, but the timid little sister didn't dare to go, so you let her come back by herself, and taught her a set of rhetoric to delay time." ”
"Sir, you must be a wizard! you know it so well!" said the girl, surprised, "Indeed, we should have listened to Sister Lisa, and should not have come here alone!"
"Unfortunately, I'm not a wizard, but I know more than a wizard, as long as they have happened. Rogge said with a smile and brushing her messy wet hair around her sideburns.
"Bad wolf bragging, you didn't know when I eavesdropped on monkeys!" said the little furball, who had been hiding in his hat and was lazy.
Hearing this sudden voice, Lisa and the three girls couldn't help but be stunned, and looked at Rogge in surprise, Rogge rolled his eyes, reached out and picked up the hat and grabbed the little furball out of the hat and threw it into the sky, and said loudly: "I said that you are not allowed to mention the monkey, I think you should be drenched in the rain!"
"I don't want to, I'm going to sleep now!" the little furball slipped back on his head, shaking all the rain from the feathers on Rog's head, and Rog pursed his lips and snorted, and pulled her back into his hat.
He stood up and looked at the calm surface of the lake, and said to the people, "If you feel like you can, we'd better get out of here now, this is the hatching pool for dragon flies, and it doesn't do any good to stay here for a long time." ”
He, Tali, and Lisa picked up a girl and carried them back the way they came, and after a few steps, Rog suddenly stopped, frowned and looked back at the lake, where countless red lights lit up in the rain and fog around the lakeshore, which looked particularly strange in the hazy mist.
"That red light is ......" Rogge looked at the place where the red light flickered, and faintly heard the buzzing of wings flapping, he hurriedly turned back and shouted to everyone: "Hurry up, those bugs are coming!"
The six of them quickened their pace and ran back, but the sound of wings flapping was getting closer and closer, and the three girls couldn't run fast because of their physical injuries, so they could only stumble forward, Tali turned back to Rogge and shouted: "This can't be done, their bodies can't last long, they have to find another way!"
Before the words fell, a huge dragon fly whistled from behind, Rogge hugged the girl and retreated sideways, the dragon fly whistled past the two of them, Rogge steadied his heels and looked up, only to see the figure of the dragon fly everywhere in all directions, and the huge dark red eyes flashed red in the rain and fog.
"We're surrounded!" Lisa gritted her teeth and pulled out her axe from her waist and looked at the dragonflies viciously, the dragonflies in the sky aimed their tail spikes at everyone on the ground, and their blood-red eyes showed a fierce light.
Suddenly, a dragon fly fell from the sky and pounced on Lisa and the girl beside her, Lisa protected the girl behind her, and waved the short axe in her hand to meet the axe, but the dragon fly moved very fast, flashed slightly sideways from the edge of the hand axe, and the tail hook stabbed Lisa's hand fiercely.
"Ahh
The girl next to her screamed and tried to help her up, but Lisa fell to the ground like a seriously ill person, and could only look at her helplessly with her eyes, and at this time, the dragon fly that had just been hit swooped down again, and the spikes in its tail swooped down like arrows to the girl next to her.