Chapter 129: Traces
It turns out that the anteater-like monster is called the Corpse Eater, so it's no wonder that it eats the scorpion and kills it with a fireball before eating it.
It wasn't until now that Fan Wu knew that the Devourer's first fireball wasn't used to attack himself at all, but was aimed at the seriously injured scorpion in the first place.
The purpose was to kill the scorpion and eat its corpse, but judging by the limited number of fireballs the Devourer, it was actually the last fireball left at that time, so it had to kill the scorpion instead of Fan Wu.
Devouring corpses can emit fireballs, I don't know what principle it is based on, if it absorbs energy, then wouldn't the living prey be able to provide more energy?
It is estimated that it absorbs some kind of energy that is only found in corpses, and this is the only way to explain why the Necro Eater expends energy to kill the scorpion before devouring it.
In this way, the number of fireballs it emits after eating the corpse of the scorpion is actually only three, whether it will emit a different number of fireballs because it consumes different corpses, or whether each corpse is the same number but only has different power, it will be tested when it meets again in the future.
Anyway, Fan Wu gained a lot from this battle, not only saw two different demon creatures, but also learned a little about the strange attack methods of the demons, and the most unexpected thing was that the thunder dragon was actually promoted to the second level.
Although the information from the Thunder Dragon does not have much explanation about Level 2, even if there are no new skills to be obtained, at least the power of the Thunder Dragon will definitely increase a lot.
Although there is no explanation of the voltage, it is estimated that it has not increased, Fan Wu tried it, and sure enough, it was still maintained at 500 volts, but the attack range was increased to 7 meters in diameter, and the attack frequency was also enhanced.
According to the information fed back by the Brontosaurus, it also encountered a scorpion and a corpse eater just now, and they appeared near the Brontosaurus at the same time.
Fortunately, the corpse eater had lost its fireball ability and couldn't damage the brontosaurus at all, so it wasn't difficult to deal with, but because there was a scorpion next to it, and it was a complete scorpion with no missing arms or legs.
Although their stealth ability has little effect on the Brontosaurus who relies on ground vibration to determine its location, the two are still relatively difficult to deal with.
In particular, the stinger on the scorpion's tail not only attacks quickly and efficiently, but also the scorpion venom is also very lethal, although the thunderbolt of the thunder dragon can dissolve and evaporate some of the toxins, but it does not dare to be stung by it easily.
Therefore, the thunder dragon was trapped on the outskirts of the settlement, and Fan Wu summoned it twice but couldn't get out, and later it was at the cost of serious injuries that he electrocuted the corpse eater to death, and the scorpion was able to escape with serious injuries.
Originally, the brontosaurus had been seriously injured, and due to tail poisoning, he had been struck into charcoal by thunder and lightning by himself, although it was not yet fatal, but it was estimated that it would not help much.
Who knew that when it came, Fan Wu had already beaten the Corpse Eater to a serious injury, and the Thunder Dragon only needed to release an electric shock to kill the Corpse Eater.
Then I was lucky enough to be promoted to the second level, I don't know what the principle is based on or the rules of summoning creatures, or the characteristics of the creature itself, after upgrading, all the injuries on the thunder dragon have been recovered, and the energy state has also been restored to full.
Now that there was a thunder dragon with him who was in full state after the upgrade, Fan Wu continued to explore the situation in the basin with more peace of mind.
This time, Fan Wuxue was obedient, and he turned on the stereoscopic image skill every once in a while to prevent a scorpion or corpse eater from sneaking nearby.
And let the second-level Thunder Dragon also patrol around him, ambushing all enemies that come close.
Fan Wu's stereoscopic image is only 5 meters in radius for the time being, and now it seems that the Thunder Dragon's reconnaissance power is not as strong as judging the location according to the ground vibration, so later Fan Wu simply handed over the patrol task to the Thunder Dragon.
He continued to wander intently, because of the existence of the corpse eater, and now that he knew the whereabouts of the corpses in the settlement, he must have been eaten by the corpse eater.
And it seems that each corpse eater is accompanied by at least one giant scorpion, and both creatures can stealthily and stealthily, which is a good explanation why there are not many traces of fight here.
It is estimated that the most likely is that the scorpion will directly attack with a poisonous needle, poisoning all the people in the settlement and then eating the corpse by the corpse eater.
Thinking of this, Fan Wu raised his head and looked at the scale of the settlement again, nearly 200 tents, not to mention four or five hundred people were here at the same time.
Even if it is a sneak attack at night and kills people in their sleep, at least more than 200 scorpions and corpse eaters are needed, otherwise it is difficult to handle the scene so cleanly.
It's an extraordinary thing for more than 200 demon creatures to attack a colony without causing any additional damage.
But this is not the most perplexing part of Fan Wu, although the difficulty is not small, but it can still be done if it is really organized, a period of professional training and a commander who puts enough pressure on them will do, the point is why?
Why do you want to do this? This is what puzzles Fan Wu the most.
This is only the outer area of the chaotic land in the south, and their neat style does not look like an ordinary revenge hunt or just foraging for food, but like a planned unified action, and Fan Wu also smells a hint of military action from it.
Killing the inhabitants wasn't their purpose, it was like refueling here, and it seemed that it was mainly for the Necro Eater to replenish the energy needed for the fireball.
So what is their ultimate purpose?
Fan Wu continued to search the settlement in order to find some clues to help determine the true purpose of these demons or the direction they left.
The hatred between man and demon seems to be really engraved in his bones, and it seems to have become a fragment of his genes for hundreds of millions of years, and the two races are inherently unable to coexist.
Fan Wu now wants to find out the true purpose of the demon clan and find a way to destroy it, by the way, how many can be killed, in addition to the reason for their slaughter in the settlement, there is also an inexplicable disgust for them.
Although he didn't know where this feeling came from, Fan Wu did not suppress this disgust and hatred for the demons, as if he wanted to destroy them all.
Fan Wu in this life has absolutely never had any huge hatred with the demons, and when the gratuitous hatred in his heart appears, it is like the feeling of encountering a natural enemy or an old enemy, which is basically to the extent that you don't have me.
Fan Wu didn't know whether this was the commonality of the human race, or if he was the only one, but he knew that there seemed to be a voice roaring in his heart, asking him to kill all the demons in the world.
Fortunately, Fan Wu is still a rational person, so he was not swayed by this kind of emotion that emerged from the depths of his heart, and he still maintained a certain rational judgment, so as not to immediately ignore the consequences and go to the demons to fight hard.
However, the disgust in his heart really affected his perception, like the feeling of a fly flying over the food while he was enjoying it, and he wanted to slap it to death immediately.
Suppressing the impulse in his heart, Fan Wu patiently continued to look for unusual places in the settlement, but after searching all the tents here, there was nothing wrong.
And what's even more strange is that except for a few tents at the entrance, all the other hundred or so tents are clean and abnormal, and there is not a trace of blood.
This is definitely not an effect that the Corpse Eater can do, and it was overlooked that the Corpse Eater is so large that it is unlikely that it will enter the tent without destroying anything.
So either everyone in the colony was killed in the open air, or someone else killed or dragged the corpse out of the tent, not the previously judged Devourer.
This made Fan Wu even more nervous, because the scorpion does not have the ability to carry weight, and if the inference is true, it means that there is a third class of troops to fight together.
Even if it's not a powerful race, at least it's a petite but load-carrying support class.
It's already very difficult for two different races to work together, and it's even more difficult if three classes are deployed together to complete the same mission.
The demons and the human race are different, the Terran army fights together only the different types of troops, but the race is the same, the different types of the demons mean that the races are different, and some are not intelligent creatures, and the difficulty of coordinating them is very high.
Sometimes, the time and effort it takes to coordinate armies of different races is simply not worth the loss compared to the results achieved, and it is better to let them fight separately, which is easier and faster.
Therefore, there must be some great purpose for combining three different races of demons to act together.
Moreover, these three demons have not yet appeared on the battlefield and have already acted together, and they have done it so cleanly, which proves that they should have been trained together for too long, otherwise they will definitely not behave like an army.
At the same time that Fan Wu made this discovery, the thunder dragon also found some clues, and Fan Wu immediately came out of the last tent at the end of the settlement and came to the place where the thunder dragon found the traces.
Located 3 meters outside the end of the settlement, there is the back half of the scorpion's tail, on which the stinger has been broken, as if it has been broken by something, and there are still a few hairs on it that look like some kind of animal.
The hair was golden, and Fan Wu twisted one and found that it was as flexible as a steel wire, and it took a lot of force with both hands to pull it off.
There are two obvious footprints left in front of the severed tail of the scorpion, the two footprints are of different sizes, but they both penetrate more than 5 cm deep into the ground, indicating that either the weight is very large, or the strength is very high, so that they can step on such deep footprints on the hard mud ground.
One is about the same size as a human footprint, and the other is like a horse's hoof, but at least ten times larger, and even if it is a horse, it must be a giant horse.
Strangely enough, there was only one of the two footprints, and there were no follow-up footprints on the ground ahead, but there was a forest about 50 meters away.
A few trees on the periphery of the woods facing this side had fallen forward, as if they had been trampled on by something.