The truck behind stopped beside the carriage, and the driver yelled at them, "Get in!"
The guards on the carriage burst into fighting spirit, grabbed Morey and Xi Luo, and jumped onto the truck bed. The truck was loaded with supplies to help the villagers and material samples brought from various places. As soon as the three of them got on the truck, it was packed full.
There was a female major sitting in the passenger seat of the truck's cab. She was Cao Lu, who was assigned by Li Tianrui, the military chief of Green Forest City, to be in charge of special security work for Morey. There were also two guards escorting supplies behind them. They started pointing their guns at the tree man rushing over and shooting.
Ordinary bullets have limited effect on tree people. Cao Lu said to Morey who was on the truck, "Mr. Morey, can you add magic effects to our bullets? Those tree people will not die even if their bodies are penetrated, and bullets hitting their faces will be useless."
Morey said, "Hand over the gun."
He took out several bottles of materials from his ring and let them float in front of him. Several thin threads flew out from his fingers and dipped them into different alchemical materials. In the gaps between the four soldiers' shooting, he quickly drew several magic circles on the muzzles of the four soldiers' guns. Morey was indeed a great alchemist. He could form it in one go even in a bumpy car.
The air rifle that he temporarily enchanted would be contaminated with magical flames when the bullet was fired from the muzzle. This flame was different from ordinary flames. It burned with magic power as fuel, and when it hit the tree man, it would become a fire that was difficult to extinguish.
However, even with the increased lethality, it is still very difficult to kill a tree man, as the flames need to burn for a while before the tree man is burned to death. And the tree man with flames on his head will still charge towards the truck.
Morey asked Ciro to help him throw the cargo off the truck to lighten the load.
The lightly equipped truck started at full speed and finally became much faster than the tree man.
Cao Lu asked everyone to shoot at the tree people rushing in front to clear the way for the truck. Lian Xi Luo also took out a gun and shot at the tree people who were closest to him based on his feeling.
Morey took out a monocle from the ring and put it on. He input his mental power into it, and the tree people in his eyes began to reveal their energy nodes. Morey found that the place where their energy was most concentrated was not the head and face, but the lower part of the tree trunk, near the roots. He said to several warriors: "The weakness of the tree people may be about 30 centimeters above the intersection of their legs."
Cao Lu cast a precision spell on himself, replaced the armor-piercing bullet, aimed the gun at a tree man, and the bullet hit the tree man's energy point. The tree man wailed and then collapsed to the ground. However, even though it couldn't move, it still waved its upper limbs, as if venting its anger at humans.
"It works." Cao Lu immediately cast precision magic on several other warriors. Although their archery skills were not as good as Cao Lu's, their firepower could finally slow down the tree man's pace.
The truck sped all the way to the village. The village gate was open. Perhaps the villagers had not yet realized the chaos outside, and there was not even a single person at the entrance of the village.
Cao Lu saw two tree men approaching the village entrance and concentrated his firepower to knock them down more than ten meters away from the door.
The truck rushed into the gate, and two warriors with fighting spirit jumped out and closed the door.
"Back up the car in front of the gate and block it!" Cao Lu looked up and saw that the wooden wall was well made, with a platform for standing and shooting. She ordered, "Bakaresa and Endro, go up the wall to guard the gate. Elisa, don't worry about the car, take your gun and fight the tree man together. Hines, come with me to the village, something is wrong here, there are shouts of killing coming from the back village."
Morey said: "Then I will start to set up the teleportation array. Xi Luo, come and help me."
"Okay." Xi Luo suppressed his panic and followed behind Morey.
Instead of going to the back of the village, Morey looked for a family's yard at the entrance of the village. He pushed open the fence and smelled a bloody odor. He looked closely and saw a woman lying in front of the chicken coop, her stomach ripped open by some unknown creature. Next to her was an overturned basin, with blood-stained grains all over the ground. And at the door of a house not far away, a four or five-year-old child was lying on the road looking for his mother with his head and body torn apart.
Xi Luo had traveled a lot over the years and had seen many dead people, but seeing ordinary people die in such a tragic way in this seemingly peaceful village still made him feel sick. He held the rifle and looked towards the door tremblingly, fearing that some monster would jump out from inside.
"There are no monsters inside. I sensed a breath going to the back village. Major Cao Lu will deal with them." Morey handed Xi Luo a bottle of pure blue liquid, "Drink it, you will feel much better."
Xi Luo drank the tube of medicine, and felt a spicy breath entering his body through his throat. The feeling of nausea and vomiting disappeared, and he even felt that the fear in his heart was gone.
"What a good medicine." Xi Luo felt courage filling his chest. He even dared to walk over and observe the two bodies. "It was some kind of monster with claws that killed the mother and son."
“That claw is at least that big.” Silla showed a forearm’s length between his hands.
Morey said: “There is no such thing as a good medicine, every medicine has a price.
As for these two guys... I guess they died at the hands of the chicken-turned-monster."
"chicken?"
"Didn't you see that many chickens in the chicken coop died, but there was no trace of blood. It was as if their vitality was drained away?" Morey pointed at the chicken coop and said, "If they mutated in the same way as the tree people, there must be more than one mutant chicken. This woman was killed by the chickens while she was feeding them."
“It’s really weird.”
"We will set up the array right away." Morey said no more and took out the materials for building the teleportation array from his storage ring. Although his magic skills have not improved much in recent years, as an alchemist, he has many ways to use props to achieve the same effect as a magician. And at least in terms of array theory, even Lorenzo dare not say that he is better than Morey.
This time, he had planned to build a teleportation array to facilitate the movement of personnel after selecting the location of the factory, so the materials he brought with him were all ready-made semi-finished modules. As long as they were assembled and activated, they could become a magic array capable of medium-distance teleportation. The destination of the teleportation had also been preset, which was their starting point, Green Forest City.
After Morey moved all the materials out, he said to Silla: “Help me unpack these boxes of materials. I’m afraid we don’t have much time.”