Chapter 423: Slingshot
"Zhu Shaoxia, are you awake, has Zhenli fully recovered?"
After Zhu Tianpeng, Yingqiu, and Yuan Qing discussed in the City Lord's Mansion, they couldn't find a way to leave the Fire Extreme Secret Realm safely, so they came to the wall of the Second Acropolis, intending to help the Second Family defend the city.
As soon as the three of them came to the city gate, before they had time to understand the battle situation, the second Yue on the city tower saw Zhu Tianpeng and greeted him with concern.
As for why Eryue called Zhu Tianpeng a "young hero"? That's because Lao Zhu has a young and handsome face, no matter how he looks at it, he looks like a young man full of vitality, who knows that he is an old monster?
Lao Zhu didn't object, after all, the second Yue saved him once, and the second Yue is the lord of a city, and he is the top boss in this world, so give him a little face.
"Thank you to the city lord for helping me save my old Zhu's life, and now he is fine. - I learned that the monster was attacking the city, so I came to help, hoping to help!"
Hearing this, the second Yue said with a smile: "As soon as the water season arrives, it is normal for demonic beasts to rush to the human town to die, and this time it is my turn to be the second acropolis." You see the ghost ants outside the city, in fact, their bodies are very weak, and they die at the touch of a button, but there are a bit of a lot of them. When they are more than half dead, they will naturally retreat. ”
The Ghost Ant is a six-legged monster with a pair of long chelae and a tail sac that occupies most of its body.
Standing on the city wall and facing it directly, Lao Zhu felt the horror of the ghost ants in terms of numbers. From the root of the city wall outward, it stretched outward for thousands of meters, and all I could see was black ants. Not only is it covered with the ground, but the ants are also stacked one by one, I don't know how thick the layer is, in short, you can't see the soil on the ground.
Even people who don't have a phobia of density will feel a chill in their hearts when they see this face.
Everyone greeted each other on the city tower, and Zhu Tianpeng also introduced Yingqiu.
The second Yue saw Yingqiu for the first time, nodded at her, and said with a smile: "It's rare for a woman to be a ranger, welcome to the second acropolis." ”
Previously, the ants attacked the city wall like a tidal wave, resulting in heavy casualties, leaving a thick layer of ant corpses under the city wall.
It's a break in this battle between men and beasts, and the rangers get a moment to rest.
"In any case, the ants will not be able to breach the Second Acropolis! However, you should pay attention to your own safety and do not let the ants get on their bodies, because the two fangs of the ants have the poison on them. ”
Phlorox is a neurotoxin. A bite from an ant is not fatal, but it can cause fainting. With a few more bites, the heart will stop beating and the person will soon die.
As he was talking, countless pitch-black balls suddenly appeared in the ant colony seven or eight hundred meters away from the city.
Those balls were densely packed with thumb-sized ants.
The second Yue was alert and shouted: "The ghost ants are going to attack the city!
The sound spread far away, and all the rangers on the city wall moved into action, standing on the outer edge of the city wall, ready to fight.
The balls in the colony were not big at first, but in the process of rolling towards the city wall, more ants continued to attach to them, and the balls rolled bigger and bigger, and by the time they were close to the city wall, they had a diameter of three or four meters.
At this time, the second Yue took out a slingshot.
Could it be that the "first person under the god king" used this child's toy-like thing to deal with the ants?
"Fire Beads!"
Wei Shizhong, who was standing behind the second Yue, handed over the fire beads, and the second Yue took it and put it on the slingshot, raised his hand to pull the rubber band, and shot the fire beads out.
A large ball of ants was in the middle of the fire. The speed of the antball's rolling slowed down immediately, first shrinking sharply, then rapidly disintegrating, and then, burning violently, only a dazzling white fire was seen.
The second Yue kept firing fire beads, destroying hundreds of ghost ant balls in a matter of moments.
On the city wall, there are also many rangers who are also firing fire beads, and the second day is one of them.
It's a pity that his record is much inferior to his Lao Tzu, although the fire beads that are launched have all hit the target, but few have destroyed the ghost ant ball, and the fire beads often pass through the ghost ant ball before they begin to burst and burn.
Firing a fireball may seem simple, but it actually involves an understanding of the structure of the fireball and the delicate manipulation of the power of the fingers.
Before launching, the fire bead should be squeezed into an unbroken state, and when it penetrates the ant ball more than halfway through, it will completely shatter, and the flame will burn violently inside the ant ball, thus burning the ant ball.
The next day, Jiao saw that the fire beads he launched always failed to achieve his goals, and he was so annoyed that after shooting the last fire beads, he even threw out the slingshot.
"What kind of ant-killing artifact? Fetch a rocket for Ben Gongzi!"
There are so many pellets that the ants roll up, and there are always a few that will hit the city wall directly.
As soon as the ant ball hit the wall, it instantly dispersed, spreading out more than ten meters of the wall at once. Some of the ants even sputtered onto the five-foot high city walls.
The iron broom quickly brushed and swept the ants off the wall. Where it was too late to clean, a ranger with a bucket caught up and quickly splashed black oil.
The pungent smell of black oil is the most disgusting thing for spectered ants. In addition, the black oil is very lubricating, and the ghost ants can't stick to the hedron wall and slides off quickly.
Unfortunately, the black oil could not be retained on the hedron walls, and soon the walls dried.
The ghost ant ball that successfully hit the wall is equivalent to the vanguard of the beach, and the ghost ants continue to climb up. Then, the ants on the wall gradually spread.
It was only two or three incense sticks, and except for the high part of the wall near the battlements, the entire outer side of the city wall was already crawling with black ants.
What used to be a reddish hedron wall is now a black wall.
At this time, the rangers have no time to pay attention to the rolling ghost balls!
The battle was so fierce that Zhu Tianpeng on the city gate tower couldn't calm down.
"Second City Lord, assign some tasks to Lao Zhu!"
The battle on the walls was fierce, but it was busy and orderly, and each ranger had his own place. Zhu Tianpeng wanted to go up to help, but he was afraid that he would mess up their original rhythm. My heart is full of the passion of fighting, and I can't be idle, so I want to find something to do.
The second Yue stopped the slingshot in his hand, looked left and right, pointed to a ranger not far away on the right, and said: "That ranger has been fighting for several days in a row, and his spirit is a little sluggish, you can replace him! The main task is to take care of the ten-zhang city wall, and don't let the ants sneak up on the knights who clean the wall." ”
Lao Zhu soon took over from the tired general, taking charge of a section of the city wall of about 30 meters.
Because of the divine sense, none of the ghost ants that escaped from the rangers in charge of cleaning could only avoid Zhu Tianpeng's detection, and they were killed by Lao Zhu before they could find the target of the attack.
When Zhu Tianpeng was clearing the ghost ants that had slipped through the net, he still had the leisure to pay attention to the situation on the entire battlefield.
When he inspected the huge ant colony, he found a six-legged monster with a woman's face far away from the city walls.
The monster was about the size of an ant, but it was much larger, about the size of a child of thirteen or fourteen. It has a human-like head, and its face is delicate, like a cute loli.
Discovering this anomaly, Lao Zhu used "sound transmission into the secret" to inform the second Yue.
"Haha, Zhu Shaoxia actually discovered the ghost ant demon! Great! When I kill it, the ghost ant colony will soon collapse!"