Jeff still has some palpitations when he recalls the scene, it was hundreds of small vampire bats, they suddenly appeared in the middle of the team, causing a large commotion, even the old group leader who knew in advance that similar creatures would appear and bought an alchemy explosive at a high price did not expect that there would be such a large number.

And in the blink of an eye, the vampire bats and the mercenaries were mixed together, and even if there were powerful weapons, they didn't dare to use them, so they had to attract the attention of most of the bats with their own strength, so that six or seven mercenaries escaped, and he paid the price with his life

Hundreds of ...... Leon looked at Caterina with a deep groan, and the knight girl's expression was very stern, she should have been troubled by such a large number of vampire bats. This news is very important, although the second-order knight is much stronger than the old leader at the peak of the first order, but if you are not prepared, you can retreat at most if you rush in, and it will be very difficult to continue to go deeper.

"Is this bat very powerful?" asked Leon without any idea of this, so he shamelessly asked.

"It's not amazing, it's all very low-level magical beasts, but it's a lot of them, and the negative effects of paralysis and bleeding when attacking are a bit difficult for us to deal with. ”

"Oh......" Li Ang understood, thought silently for a while, and suddenly an irrepressible thought arose in his mind, and he said confidently: "I have a way, you do what I say, and you will definitely succeed." ”

Under the expectant gaze of several people, he recounted the plan in its entirety, and seeing that no one raised objections, he assigned everyone's tasks by the way.

"Do you really want to go in with us?" asked Leon at last.

Jeff shrugged his shoulders, "The old head is good to me, if I have a chance to find it, by the way, burying his bones can be regarded as an explanation, even if I can't find it, it doesn't matter, I should increase my knowledge, anyway, I feel safe with you." ”

Leon has nothing to do with this, this person has a good impression on him, and Jeff should have a lot of experience, if he brings it, he should learn a lot of knowledge if he has nothing to do with it.

So with Leon's approval, Katarina's acquiescence, and Sophia's indifference, Jeff naturally joined the team temporarily.

......

"I'm so hungry," Jeff said regretfully, looking at the discarded roast on the ground, "Is there any extra food?"

Li Ang's face turned red, and he handed over a piece of charred food, "The bad news is that you can only eat burnt wild boar, and the good news is that there are many ...... of this kind of barbecue."

"Ah......" Jeff exclaimed, observing the abnormal color of the barbecue and the bloody shredded meat, "this food is really tender and juicy." ”

"There's a lot of nonsense, it's up to you whether you eat it or not," I don't know if it was because the other party was picky about Li Ang's "cooking skills", the knight girl looked a little impatient.

Jeff didn't mind at all and asked, "Is there any fresh meat?"

Because he knew that it was not good to roast, Li Ang still had about half of the raw meat left untouched, and after handing it to Jeff, he watched him take out bottles and cans from his backpack one by one with great confidence, and then cut the meat slices on the shelves in one go, and finally poured out all kinds of powder from the bottles and cans and sprinkled them on it.

Soon the aroma of real barbecue came to his nose, and Jeff expertly turned the slices of meat so that every part was evenly heated, and after a few minutes he handed a piece of roast meat to Leon.

"It's not going to be poisoned, is it?" Leon quickly dismissed the boring idea and tried the taste of the barbecue.

"This ...... How do you describe this? Is it still a familiar taste, or the original recipe?" "Li Ang didn't expect that there are cumin-like seasonings in this world, and the barbecue meat is unusually tender, which means that the heat is very well mastered, and the combination of seasonings is also very similar, how many years have I not eaten this kind of barbecue?

He was so moved that he almost burst into tears.

Seeing Leon's strange expression, Sophia also took a piece and put it in her mouth, and suddenly her eyes lit up, and she swallowed the barbecue in a huff.

"It's delicious!" the priest girl beckoned as she stretched out her hand and continued to ask for food, "Sister Katarina, the meat that the uncle roasted is really good, come and eat it!"

"I'm full," said the knight maiden, who smelled the aroma so much that she couldn't eat it even if she wiped her cheeks—the girl had just eaten enough to keep her body up, so she walked silently into the distance.

"That's good, uncle," Li Anghu ate the barbecue, feeling that the food had brought everyone closer a lot, "You used to be a chef?"

"It's just a hobby...... Jeff sighed, and he said that with a smug look on his face.

After a meal, there is not much left of the wild boar meat that has prepared two days' worth of food, and it doesn't matter, because "Uncle" Jeff has said that he can make food that is no less than the standard of this meal with any ingredient.

The same was true for breakfast the next day, in the evening Jeff went to the river to catch a few fish, and ate delicious grilled fish in the morning, this time Caterina was also satisfied, only Leon and Jeff sighed together that there was no suitable cutlery, otherwise a steaming pot of fish soup would make the whole person feel much better.

It was not far from the location of the ruins, and a few people were not in a hurry, walking slowly along a stream, and after more than thirty minutes, an entrance to a valley covered with trees appeared in front of them, and Jeff pointed out the path opened by the mercenaries when they entered and exited before.

This path is very simple, just cut the entangled vines with a sharp weapon, and ignore the knee-deep weeds and shrubs on the ground, Caterina looked at Sophia, who was following at the end, drew her long sword and walked in the front, cutting the plants on the ground as much as possible with each step, so that the worst priest girl could walk more comfortably.

"Cold-faced and hot-hearted big sister type knight......" Leon noticed this detail, and Jeff did the same.

The more you move forward, the more obstacles you encounter, there are a lot of branches that spread out in front of everyone, it seems that the mercenaries are not doing their best, Jeff takes the initiative to help with the short sword to reduce Katarina's consumption. Li Ang didn't mean to do anything, he wanted to keep the body for the next step, which was also the previously agreed assignment of duties.

Suddenly, they stepped out of the web of wild plants that had been woven over the centuries, and in front of them was the heart of the valley, and the ruins of a medium-sized monastery appeared before everyone.

The exterior walls are long gone, a pointed arched bell tower collapses on the left, scattered stones sink deep into the earth, and the mottled surface is covered with ivy-like plants. The entire top of a ruined church had been reduced to rubble on the ground, and the remaining half still stood in the middle of the monastery, the stained glass shattered, the fragments still embedded in the window frames, like beasts opening their jaws full of sharp teeth, ready to tear the intruder to pieces.

The ruins of the entire monastery were unusually dilapidated, full of the weight and bleakness of history, and Leon exhaled and turned his attention to the path that led to the monastery.

"Where were you attacked by vampire bats?"

"Just as you were about to enter the monastery on the road to Guò, countless bats flew out of the church. ”

"Okay, then go according to the plan, and remember that no matter what danger I encounter, don't take action, and doing my own thing is half the battle. ”

"Are you really ......," Caterina asked with a solemn expression.

"Trust me, that's right," Leon said with a vicious twist, gesturing in a "V" shape.

Although she couldn't understand the meaning of the gesture, Caterina chose to trust Leon's decision, so she, Sophia, and Jeff all nodded solemnly.

Bursts of white light spread out from Sophia's scepter and fell towards Leon, blessing him with the "Armor of Faith", while Jeff directly stuffed a bottle of micro-healing potion, which made everyone start to look at him differently.

"Alright, I'm going......" Leon rubbed his hands, suppressed the nervousness and excitement of being about to express himself alone, and strode straight in the direction of the convent's church.

The closer you get, the faster your footsteps become, and all around you is a dead silence that has lasted for hundreds of years, and in the end, only the sound of your own footsteps is left in your ears.

The short distance of one or two hundred meters was soon approaching, and he was about to enter the convent, and Li Ang found that there seemed to be some strange sounds in addition to the sound of footsteps, and then the sound became more and more noisy, and suddenly black dark clouds erupted from the windows of the church, pressing in the direction of Li Ang.

It was hundreds of dark brown vampire bats, with small heads with flexible triangular ears on either side, noses invisible in the middle of their faces but replaced by a flesh-like organ, and each with a conical snout, revealing well-developed and sharp canine teeth that opened and closed to penetrate the skin of the creature and feast on each other's blood.

The dense and ugly creatures made Leon's heart palpitate for a while, but after all, he had already experienced a bloody battle, and his psychological endurance had improved a lot, and at the moment, his heart that was beating violently rolled forward to break away from the latest wave of vampire bats, and fled to the other side of the monastery with a large army of bats.

"Quick, let's go!" the knight girl gave the order, grabbed Sophia and began to run wildly, and Jeff's speed was much inferior, but he insisted on following behind, without the slightest hesitation.

In the blink of an eye, a few people entered the confines of the monastery and slaughtered several bats that had fallen behind, and Caterina led Sophia straight to the church, while Jeff stayed outside and seemed to be looking for something.

At this time, no matter how fast Li Ang's feet were, he was inevitably swept to the ground by a wave of bat clouds, and countless vampire bats clenched his skin with their teeth, sucking in the fresh blood that had not been seen for a long time.

"! it's disgusting...... Li Ang was very unhappy in his heart, but when he opened the template and watched his health drop at a rate of 1% in two or three seconds, he became a little happy again.

"Sure enough, it's the same as I thought, these annoying things have low attack power, and even if there are a large number of them, it's impossible for them all to pounce on their bodies and suck blood, so the damage they take is controllable, and as long as you hold on for a few minutes, it's not a big problem. ”

Even so, he didn't want to be wrapped in a ball of meat by hundreds of bats, and the farther away from the church, the more likely the plan was to succeed, so he casually ripped off a few bats hanging near his neck and threw them out, and knocked away the bats that wanted to sneak up on his face, and tried to get up and continue to run with his eyes covered.

Suddenly, his legs were numb, and he fell to his knees with a "poof", and was surrounded by a swarm of bats again, this time there were more of them, giving Li Ang the feeling of hanging a weight of hundreds of pounds on his body, which made him a little out of breath.

"Luck!" he knew that it was the paralyzing effect that occasionally came with vampire bats attacking, but fortunately, this creature was very small, and it was estimated that there would not be too many toxins in its body, so it only took a second or two to recover, he gritted his teeth and got up again, and almost dragged the bat swarm forward with difficulty.

The church hasn't moved since Caterina and Sophia entered, and Jeff is nervously watching Leon and the shapes on both sides of the church while searching for the target.

Suddenly, there was a loud earthquake inside the church, and one of the outer walls collapsed, and a huge creature rolled and flew out, and when its body stopped, it was actually a bat the size of a bull, with a blood-red mane all over its body, and a pair of light bulb-sized eyes flashing with an evil red light.

Second-order creatures, giant vampire bats, enter.