Chapter III: Entrapment

The licker is a mutant beast, and under the virus ecology, there are two kinds of existences that can pose a threat to humans, one is the corpse tide, and the other is the mutant beast.

Not only because of their powerful destructive power, but also because they ignore the influence of corpse exorcism fans and attack humans with ferocity.

But even so, in the face of the stronger Manna ecology, humans are still reluctant to clean them up completely, and in the face of them, it is more about containment and control.

It is more cost-effective to throw them into the Manna ecoregion to kill the Extreme Beasts and fight poison with poison.

This is reflected in the corpse hunting team, that is, for mutant beasts, there is no reward for killing, but instead reports to the wizarding academy and invites them to come to contain more rewards.

In the camp in front of him, with Roman's warning, the entire camp was in chaos, and the members of the corpse hunting team ran away one after another, not even packing up their things.

The captain shouted, "Quick, run away, report to the Wizarding Academy, gold coins and magic stones are waiting for us." ”

Then he turned his head to look at Roman and said loudly: "Roman, you and I are knights, let's block it and buy everyone time to escape!" ”

Roman nodded, looked at the several empty iron cages on the carriage, and said thoughtfully:

"I have an idea, to contain them and bring them to the Manna ecoregion, these mutant beasts are useful to me."

The captain was surprised: "I have no problem, so the reward will be more generous, but what you have to do, as long as it is not life-threatening, we will listen to you." ”

Roman said lightly: "Kill a cow and put it in the cage......"

After a few moments, Roman was ready and stood at the edge of the camp with the captain to block the oncoming lickers.

Each corpse hunting team will be equipped with one or two knights, who will be pampered, live in the best tents, and eat the best food, but they have only one mission: to buy time for the mutants to escape when they come, and to beacon the mutants for future tracking.

"Ding! Licker Distance...... 300 m ...... 200 m ...... 100m ......"

The chip constantly prompted the distance, and Roman drew his heavy sword, but he did not use the crossbow, because the licker had thick skin and flesh, and ordinary crossbows did not work at all.

In his sight, the hideous face of the licker appeared, and after Roman and the captain shouted, they went straight to the licker.

Lickers have agile speed, sharp claws, sharp teeth, and tongues that can roll people up like frogs, and ordinary people can only torture and kill in front of them.

But knights are no ordinary people, they are no less swift and powerful, wielding heavier, sharper weapons, and wearing heavy steel armor full of spikes, which the fangs and claws of the lickers cannot penetrate.

"Captain, don't kill them, just destroy the ability to act!" Roman shouted as he swung his heavy sword and slashed off a claw.

The captain's hand was wrapped around a red tongue, and the rest of the devouring beasts besieged from all sides, the captain did not panic at all, he grabbed his tongue with his hand, and a sharp blade popped out of the armor in his palm, and with a turn of his palm, his tongue was broken, and his heavy sword was swung.

An arc of light flashed, and several of the lickers lost half of their bodies, leaving a little hanging on their bodies.

"Hahaha, I'm sorry, I'm a little heavier......," the captain said apologetically.

A few lickers, but a large number of combat power, Roman couldn't help but feel pity, but after seeing that they were still struggling tenaciously, he immediately said:

"It's okay, just give them more meat, and leave me a few more horses later, and I'll feed them......"

The captain said briskly: "No problem, according to this time, the team members have run away, and we can leave." ”

"Okay, run!" Seeing that the lickers were gathering more and more, Roman and the captain hurriedly ran towards the rear.

The lickers were about to chase when they smelled a burst of blood.

It's fresh meat!

This is a supreme delicacy for them, and many lickers have never eaten a bite of meat since birth, and now they have three cows in front of them.

The blood flowing from the dead cow's body, like a mandala in hell, deeply attracted the lickers.

They're fed up with photosynthesis! They want to eat meat!

As a result, countless lickers stopped their pursuit, turned into wolves, pounced on the source of the smell, burrowed into the iron cage, and chopped in large pieces.

In the distance, Roman and the captain watched the scene, and the captain asked, "Can you trap the licker in this cage?" ”

Roman said lightly: "This is the product of the wizard, they are using it themselves, they must be trapped." ”

The captain was surprised: "Oh, that must be expensive, where do you get your money?" ”

Roman continued to reply: "I will configure corpse repellent powder, this thing is not very difficult, and the profit is not high, but it can still be done by buying a cage." ”

The captain pouted, thinking that this was Versailles, and it was not very difficult to repel the corpse powder, that was for wizards, mortals wanted to configure the corpse exorcism powder, and they had to accurately grasp the timing of the material fusion, but they lacked the means of observation, so they often failed.

But Roman has a chip, which is convenient for him to grasp the material ratio carefully, so he has a high success rate.

Collecting his thoughts, Roman noticed the gradual silence in the distance, and muttered: "It's now, let's drop the gate!" ”

With that, a knife cut the rope, the iron cage gate fell, and dozens of lickers were locked in cages.

Lickers have no vision, and their perception mainly depends on smell and hearing, and the "clang" sound of the gate falling makes them vigilant when they are eating.

But after a while no danger came, and the lickers continued to nibble on their food, and in a short time they had eaten several cows.

Then, when they were ready to leave, they found that they could not leave their cages, and without their sense of smell and hearing, they slammed around until they were exhausted.

Hours passed, Roman and the captain brandished their long knives, slaughtered the fish that slipped through the net one by one, and came to the camp, looking at the cage of nearly thirty lickers, and immediately felt proud.

The captain laughed and said, "It's the first time to catch so many at once!" Later, when I get old, I will tell my grandson, 'Your grandfather once caught thirty mutant beasts at a time, and he was unharmed......

Roman was also satisfied, with this group of lickers, he would be much smoother in the Mana eco-zone, so he urged:

"Hurry up and beacon them, just put them down in the Mana Eco-Zone, and you will have no worries about eating and drinking for the rest of your life!"

In the eyes of wizards, mutant beasts are used for two purposes: one is to make corpse repellent powder, and the other is to throw them into the Manna ecoregion, and eat dogs with the Eater of Poles to suppress the spread of the Manna ecology.

Therefore, dealing with mutant beasts to different degrees corresponds to different levels of rewards, from low to high: kill, beacon, capture, and delivery.

The beacon has a tracking function, which can be convenient for wizards to capture in the future, and then put it into the Manna ecoregion, which is equivalent to saving the wizard's human resources and rewarding nature more.

That's why the captain is so sincere in helping Roman.

After the beacon bolts were fired into the lickers, the fleeing team members returned, and the patrol set off again.