Chapter 22 The Bell Tower Bells
The rain finally stopped.
But the sky was still overcast, and the air was humid and muggy, making people feel out of breath for a while.
Men with farm tools came and went in the fields, peasant women with mules and horses passed by the ridges, three or four children held hands and played in a circle under the trees, and a few dogs drove the sheep along the field paths, looking completely calm and peaceful.
The premise is to ignore the scattered stumps and broken corpses on the side of the road.
The blood stains have been washed away by the heavy rain overnight, but the stumps and broken arms are still left. The intact corpses had all regained the ability to move again, but the scattered pieces of the corpses were thrown aside, and there was no hope of resurrection.
The caravan with the bells removed was driving on a stone road.
A few townsfolk with dogs were walking from the side of the path, and when they were about to meet at the junction, a dog suddenly stopped and barked at a tree on the side of the road, and the expressionless monster townspeople followed the direction of the dog's barking, circled the tree a few times, and found nothing but a few footprints, and by the time they turned around and continued in the previous direction, the caravan had already passed.
"Whew", a loud whistle, I don't know from the roof of which house, heard the whistle, the caravan immediately stopped, the cockpit shook, and then there was no movement.
Several humanoid monsters still looked the same as they had last night, their eyes straight and staring, and they passed by the stopped caravan. There were no people in the cockpit, the carriage was covered by a canopy, and the people inside could not be seen, and several monsters were obviously not very smart, obviously the caravan around them was an eye-catching object, but they still ignored it, and walked straight by, one of them glanced inside when he passed by the cockpit, and then walked over without noticing.
It wasn't until a few monsters had passed that a head popped out of the cockpit, and Monica, who was huddled under the seat, got out, but before she could sit down in the seat, there was another loud whistle, and Monica immediately curled up again, and a few seconds later, a farmer drove three sheep away from the fork in the road.
When the crisis was over, Monica looked back at her seat, pedaled hard, and let the caravan continue to creak forward.
Just ran a few meters, from behind a few stacks of hay around two humanoid monsters, Monica's heart tightened, and was about to brake to dodge, the figure next to the haystack flashed, and then suddenly fell, just crushing the two monsters underneath. When the two monsters pushed through the haystack and crawled out with great difficulty, they could only glance at the back of the caravan, and did what they were used to in life.
"Algan, Nina."
After rushing for hundreds of meters, taking advantage of the fact that there were no enemies around, Monica knocked on the canopy behind her and asked in a low voice.
"You two are fine, especially Algan, your wound is not broken, if it is broken, let Nina wrap it for you first, don't let the smell of blood be too strong, otherwise it will not be half a barrel of beaded fruit wine that can cover it."
"Daddy's fine." The little girl Nina replied timidly in the caravan, "Yes, it's ......"
"It's the other child...... "Algan, the former rider, said weakly for his daughter, "is she really invisible?" She always faced us, as if she had been staring at us, and her expression was very weird, always feeling like she was going to eat us at any moment. ”
"Uh, no, probably not...... Well, when her brother left, he told her to watch your safety, maybe she misunderstood. Monica remembered the tragic experience of several strange creatures on the road in the past half a month, and she was a little weak when she said this, but she still tried to comfort the father and daughter in crisis, "Forget it, don't think about it, how to go ahead?" ”
"First east, then all the way north. It's already here, and not a single pursuit battle has broken out. The caravan opened a small slit and then quickly tightened, and Argan exclaimed, "When we arrived the day before yesterday, we alarmed the monsters at least five or six times, and each time it was a bitter battle. I don't understand, I really don't know how you did it. ”
"According to him, he is a professional in this kind of infiltration and infiltration mission."
Monica didn't continue to boast, trying to keep the caravan moving at a steady pace, quietly waiting for the agreed whistle, ready to stop at any time, the whistle did come, but at the same time there were more and more chaotic sounds around her.
There were footsteps everywhere around, and the monsters were shouting restlessly, and they surrounded in one direction, and the unusual change made Monica's heart quite uneasy, and she had to take a deep breath to suppress the tension.
"Dead child, don't let anything happen to you."
The dead child didn't have an accident, on the contrary, he was doing something.
At this time, he was lying on a high roof two hundred meters away from the caravan, observing all the changes around the caravan without saying a word, looking down condescendingly, the caravan and the terrain around it in his field of vision seemed to have become a constantly refreshing three-dimensional map, and the red dots marked on each enemy map were repeatedly interspersed around the caravan, and the caravan was between the dense enemies.
But it's getting harder and harder, the deeper you go into the center of town, the more enemies you'll encounter, and the more difficult it will be to infiltrate inward......
Babu whistled loudly, and before a few of the monsters around him were attracted by the whistle and turned their heads to look, he had moved from one rooftop to another, rounding to a sheltered spot everywhere.
A humanoid monster was turning over the haystack in the corner with a pitchfork, and when he bent down again and then straightened up again, a dagger stretched out from his back, from the bottom up, along the gap at the lower edge of the occipital bone, straight into the brain, and pulled it out after stirring it hard.
The monster was struck by lightning, its body instantly weakened, and the pitchfork in its hand also fell, but before it could fully land, it was picked up by Babu behind him.
While catching the pitchfork, Babu raised his leg and stepped on the wall twice in succession, climbing up the wall with his strength, and without looking back, he poked the pitchfork behind his back, and then climbed over the wall to the other side of the wall.
When the pitchfork poked back, the monster's head burst open, and the shadow mass with tentacles drilled out of the neck, but as soon as it was drilled out, even the tentacles were still in the process of unfolding, and they were hit head-on by the pitchfork, and two sharp metal pierced the neck and poked into the shadow cluster that had just been formed.
All the monsters within two or three kilometers of the surroundings seemed to pause for a moment at the same time, no matter what they were doing, the monsters stopped what they were doing, raised their heads and looked in the same direction, and then just like last night, these monsters rushed in the direction of raising their heads one after another, and the speed was even much faster than the previous action.
Monica, who was hiding under the cockpit chair and was worried, also noticed the anomaly, and before she could make any action, another whistle came from her ear.
With a relaxed expression, she bit her lip and scolded the dead child with a smile, Monica's movements were obviously a lot lighter, and she even had to hum a song, looking at the monsters concentrated in one direction, who didn't know what was going on, and quickly pedaled, the ground had changed from the dirt road outside the town to a stone road, which made the caravan speed increase and speed all the way.
"Try to hurry up as much as you can." Before the speed was fully raised, Monica heard a soft noise around her, and Babu had already gasped for breath and chased after her, and got into the cockpit. ”
"How?" Monica said as she accelerated, "Need to force a breakthrough?" ”
"Yes, I've seen the front, there are too many enemies, it's impossible to bypass them, and it's hard to lead away like now. Unless the monsters all go home at night, or unless I give a few more veterans to cooperate with the action, it is impossible for the two of us to infiltrate, and we can only break in. Babu said a bunch of words in one breath, then wiped his sweat, turned around and knocked on the caravan and said, "Algan, you draw me the specific location of the camp, I will adjust the plan according to the situation in a while, if there are too many monsters, we will abandon the car first and take Nina over first, you will wait here, anyway, monsters generally do not destroy the facilities, as long as you hide well, the car and you will be fine." Wait until we get Nina to camp and call someone to come back to pick you up, so everyone is safe. ”
"I don't have a problem, as long as you can get Nina to the gathering place safely, and I'll draw you a picture. Actually, you don't need to draw a picture, the tallest building in the town is the bell tower, you can see, there is an auditorium next to the bell tower, it covers a large area, it is an obvious building, and it is the gathering place. Algan in the carriage said in a weak voice, "However, if you are lucky, you shouldn't have to be so troublesome, you are making a lot of noise, you should have found it inside, and they will find a way to take it." ”
As he spoke, the caravan had already rushed into the center of Tanuki Town, and the commotion caused by Babu's killing of monsters had gradually subsided, and more and more monsters had begun to return to their original positions, and then they found Babu and Monica, who were trying their best to drive the caravan, and chased after them.
The pursuers behind him had already been thrown away from the distance, so there was no need to worry about it at all, but in the central area in front, more and more humanoid monsters appeared, although they did not have the sharp farm tools of the farmers outside, but they all held all kinds of strange tools as weapons, blocking the front tightly.
Monica had given up pedaling and handed over the task of controlling the car to Babu, so she simply jumped on the roof of the car and brandished her long whip, throwing the enemies in her way one by one by the neck and forcing a way out.
But the cleanup was far from being as fast as the blockage, and soon, the front was already blocked and there was no way out. The two simply stopped the car, looked at each other and nodded, ready to take out the two children from the carriage, they both knew that it was time to abandon the car and walk, and they could not hesitate any longer.
Picking up Anna and Nina, watching the monsters around them gradually approach, at this moment, a distant and loud bell rang from the bell tower not far away.
"When, when, when......"