Chapter Forty-Eight: The Silent Village
In the afternoon of the next day, the improvised scout squad reached the outside of the village of Edans. Except for Erid in the Ranger class, everyone dismounted, and the horses were put into Mondos's pet ring.
The village is huge, but it is unusually quiet, there is no one and no livestock can be seen.
"Be careful, everyone!"
Darren raised his shield and walked in front.
The thick-eyebrow assassin Geralc flashed a light of fighting energy, and his figure slowly disappeared, but Wu Yu could still vaguely feel his position, although he was near the team, but he deliberately kept a certain distance. This position is suitable for the Assassin profession, and even if the team is ambushed, Geralc will only be able to attack by surprise.
Wrapping the fighting energy around the whole body and changing the color to blend it into the surrounding environment, although Wu Yu has heard of this level 2 fighting technique "sneaking", this is the first time he has seen it with his own eyes.
There were no footprints on the smooth snow, and yesterday's wind and snow covered up many valuable traces, which made this reconnaissance mission a lot more difficult.
As the seven of them stepped into the village one by one, one foot at a time, leaving a footprint, a small but crisp cry came out from the snow, which was particularly poignant in this silent and terrible village.
Entering the village, Wu Yu sniffed, his brows furrowed, and a faint smell of blood blew from the wind, permeating them.
"Shall we search separately? Maybe find something. ”
Wu Yu suggested.
"Nope! Don't spread out, keep up and don't fall behind! ”
Years of experience in scout missions have taught Mondos that it is safest to act together in the face of unknown dangers, as they can take care of each other.
Pushing open the first cabin, it was empty, and there were a few pools of dried blood.
"It must have been done by the thieves, you see there are still traces of cutting here!"
Deaton pointed to one of the pillars of the hut and gave his opinion.
"It's been said before, and the possibility of a thief attack has been ruled out."
Beldon gave Deaton a blank look, and she thought the guy was talking nonsense.
Mondos's hand touched the opening in the pillar of the house and looked around. He usually doesn't like to talk, but only when analyzing the traces will he not be stingy with his saliva.
"This is cut with a firewood knife, and the villagers will use a firewood knife. Looking at some other traces, it can be inferred that the people in the cabin fought back when it was attacked. There were three people in the house, two adults and one child. The adults were a man and a woman, and the children were boys, but then they all died and their bodies were dragged away. ”
"It's as if you saw it."
Deaton felt that Mondos was pure nonsense, and he hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes, how could he know so many things.
"Before we came in, there were four kinds of footprints in the hut, two for adults and one for children. There are three kinds of clothes hanging on the walls of the hut: those of adult men, those of adult women, and those of boys. There are also these blood stains, judging from the shape of the spray, it should have pierced the heart, and only the blood of the heart can be sprayed so far. And here...... Here and here, there are traces left by the dragging of corpses. ”
"Didn't you say there are four kinds of footprints? What about the other one? ”
Deaton keenly grasped the loophole in Mondos's words.
"There is another ...... I don't know what it is...... But it definitely won't be human footprints! ”
Wu Yu was quite shocked, he didn't expect that some traces could infer so many things, this Mondosi really deserved to be a senior scout!
The group searched the village for a long time and found no particularly useful information. What is known is this: the creatures that attacked the village are most likely not human, and none of the village cabins have been seriously damaged.
The village of Edans is a medium-sized village with a population of 1552, even if it is a powerful monster attack, when the monster invades the village and the villagers flee in all directions, there should always be a survivor, and in the known monster attacks, the village has caused serious damage without exception. Even in the case of a Warcraft attack, the movement of the Warcraft is very large, and it should have been noticed before they attacked the village, so the villagers should have evacuated in advance.
What exactly happened to Edans Village?
"What did you find?"
Bel Dong noticed that Wu Yu's face was a little solemn and asked him in a low voice.
"You know, I have an affinity for all the magical elements, and here, I feel a breath of dark elementals......"
"Could it be that someone unleashed the dark magic here?"
"I don't know, it's also possible that the ...... of the dark monster"
Human beings have eight elemental affinities, which are light, darkness, fire, wind, water, electricity, earth, and wood, among which darkness is the most rare and mysterious, but there are many types of dark monsters.
After searching the village, Mondoth released his horned eagle beast for aerial reconnaissance, and flew around the village within a radius of 50 miles, but found nothing.
At sunset, the light of the setting sun was imprinted on the dark clouds, a dark red rolling and tumbling, and for a time the blood red light covered the sky and the sun. Under that red cloud, it felt as if everything was dyed red.
Mondos stared at the cloud, and his heart was very restless, and he always felt as if something bad was about to happen.
In the evenings, they stayed in the village for the night, choosing a wooden hut near the edge of the village as a campsite.
There was firewood left by the owner of the wooden house, and the fireplace was lit, and the house was much warmer at once.
The night breeze blew in from the window of the wooden house, bringing in a hint of chill, and Wu Yu stood in front of the window, feeling complicated. According to Mondosi, the missing villagers should be more than lucky. Thinking that the originally lively village suddenly became lifeless, and those children and villagers were gone all of a sudden, Wu Yu felt very uncomfortable in his heart.
The dark village was silent in the middle of the night, and the taiga outside Edans swelled in the night wind like waves of the sea.
"Rustling ......"
"Rustling ......"
Voices rang out from unknown places around them.
"Huh? What was that? ”
The perceptive Mondos was the first to notice this subtle voice, and his expression changed.
Deaton let out a "haha" and waved his hand.
"Uncle, isn't this the sound of the wind blowing the leaves, what a fuss!"
"Eried!"
Mondos called, and Erid understood, walked over to the fireplace, lit the torch, and threw it away.
Where the flames lit up were a group of crawling black shadows.
"Ahh Spider! ”
Deaton jumped to his feet, and suddenly he felt breathless. The shadows were all huge spiders, bigger than dogs!
Aried threw out a few more torches, some of which set fire to a nearby wooden house, and the flames lit up the surroundings as if it were day.
The firelight tore through the black curtain, and the darkness in front of him suddenly opened up. Seeing the surroundings clearly, Wu Yu and the others were suddenly terrified, the giant spiders in front of them were densely packed and there were almost no gaps, there were their crawling shadows everywhere, and their eight eyes flashed with a strange red light.
"Prepare for battle!"
Needless to say, everyone had already picked up their weapons and rushed out of the hut.
"Rustling ......"
As if receiving some order, the spider swarm suddenly rushed towards Wu Yu and them.
"Whoosh...... Whoosh......"
The bows and arrows in the hands of Mondoth and Eried shot feathered arrows and pierced the nearest giant spider with precision. The giant spiders that were shot fell to the ground, and they quickly decayed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turned into a cloud of black mist.
"It's the breath of the dark element! Are these giant spiders a form of dark magic? ”
Wu Yu's exclamation surprised everyone. These spiders turned out to be magically formed?
Fortunately, these spiders are only larger, and according to their strength, they are not even low-level magical beasts, so their attack power should be very limited. But their numbers are so large that it would be dangerous to let them surround them.
Both Mondoth and Eried shot more than twenty feathered arrows in one go, each of which killed a giant spider with precision.
When the giant spiders got closer, Geralc struck as well, and he lifted his coat, revealing that it was full of throwing knives. A small flying knife with the blessing of fighting energy, the attack power should not be underestimated, each flying knife shot out can penetrate the giant spider entirely, and after penetration, although the flying knife power is weakened, it still pierces into the body of the giant spider behind, and there is no hilt.
Wu Yu held the sword in both hands, only to see him pull it gently, and the star sword of the Xingchen White Jade Sword was pulled out by him. At this time, the hilt of the star sword was connected to the iron chain and turned into a rope dart. He strode a few steps, stood in front, turned into a rope dart star sword or slashed or tossed or swept, drawing a circle of sword shadows, where the sword shadow went, the giant spiders fell down one after another, turning into black mist, for a while those giant spiders could not get close to him within five meters.
"Good...... Awesome......"
Wu Yu's hand amazed Mondosi and Geralc Ered. Deaton's eyes also lit up, and it was the first time he knew that the Star White Jade Sword in Wu Yu's hand could also change rope darts.
There were all giant spiders around, and many of them bypassed Wu Yu and rushed towards Darren and them behind.
Deaton was a little hurried for a while, after all, he was a child, and he had never seen such a terrible scene.
"Half Moon Slash!"
Darren slashed away with a sword, and the fighting qi condensed into a moon shape, cutting a straight line in the giant spider swarm.
Deaton, who reacted, also took action, and he felt ashamed of the behavior of being frightened by this low-level creature just now. When he slashed the first giant spider with a sword, Deaton found that these spiders were not so terrible, so he walked with his short sword in both hands, and his agile figure shuttled around, and he blamed all the shame on these giant spiders.
Wu Yu's Rope Dart Star Sword is very suitable for dealing with this kind of battle situation where there is no strength but only quantity, and his Rope Dart Star Sword has a wide range of attacks and is varied. Mondoth and they also saw the advantage of Wu Yu's swordsmanship, so the battle situation became Wu Yu was responsible for cleaning, Mondosi, Geralk, and Eried were responsible for long-range support, and Deaton and Darren were responsible for dealing with those spiders who came around closely.
Wu Yu's rope dart star sword kept dancing, and pieces of giant spiders fell under his sword, but there were too many giant spiders, and they went forward and followed. At this time, Wu Yu saw that a giant spider had quietly circled behind Mondos and pounced on him......
Wu Yu wanted to come to the rescue, but the spiders around him made him unable to do anything, and just when Wu Yu was shocked, a "lollipop" suddenly appeared and smashed the giant spider into a pulp.
Beldon took out her "lollipop" staff and held it up.
"Feel the guidance of my will, O illusory wind, and roll up your wrath ......"
"Whew!"
Beldon summoned four tornadoes in one go, and these tornadoes roamed around under Berdon's control, and the giant spiders were swept into pillars of wind and shattered into pieces.