Deep Rock's fire pierced through the night.
A few people found that it was not good, and quickly accelerated the pace.
As we got closer, the sounds of burning, crying, and footsteps in the city became clearer.
When Zhou Jing and his party arrived at the gate of Deep Rock City, they found that the gate was broken from the inside out, and there were mutilated bodies of guards everywhere.
Looking through the doorway, I saw the houses on both sides of the street were on fire, and the heat wave was blowing.
"What's going on, alien beasts attacked the city?" Cole was surprised.
Zhou Jing squatted down to look at the bodies of the guards, his eyes narrowed: "It's the wound caused by the weapon, not the attack by a strange beast."
"It turned out to be man-made? Could it be that there is a riot in Deep Rock City?" The captain of the hunter team was alert.
Just then, cluttered footsteps were heard in the distance from the burning street.
I saw a group of civilians running from a distance, in a state of embarrassment, like a temporary group that had assembled to flee the city.
When they found Zhou Jing and his party in front of the city gate, this group of civilians seemed to see something scary, and they were so panicked that they were about to disperse.
Cole and other hunters immediately stepped forward, caught a few disgraced civilians, and asked:
"What happened here?"
A few civilians shivered and responded with gossip.
"No, I don't know, I just want to run for my life!"
"Many people died and the whole city was in chaos!"
"There is a group of hunters who go crazy, kill anyone they see, and set fire everywhere!"
Zhou Jing also came over and listened to his companions interrogating these civilians, and had a general understanding of the current situation.
At this moment in Deep Rock City, a group of thugs suspected of alien hunters are looting the city, slaughtering and setting fire to the city.
Unknown quantity, unknown origin, unknown strength...
"If you guessed correctly, it should be a group of bandits strengthened by different blood. Some of them pretended to be free hunters to enter the city, broke the city gate from the inside, and let others enter the city to burn, kill and loot." Cole gritted his teeth.
Among the superhumans who have undergone the strengthening of alien blood, there are noble and dedicated alien hunters, mercenary guards who are pragmatic and seeking money, and naturally there are villains who rely on their strength to do evil.
Although the threat of alien beasts is the biggest problem of the Terra Empire, and the general environment is consistent with the outside world, it cannot prevent the powerful villains from doing whatever they want. There are still bandits, but the frequency and scale are not high, and they are generally rare.
"I can actually bump into such a thing." Zhou Jing raised his brows and turned to look at Cole: "Has it happened before?"
"At most, it's looting the village. It's the first time I've seen the attack on the fortress city. It's too arrogant, and I don't care about the empire... Go, stop this group of people."
Everyone asked about the direction, pulled out their weapons in unison, temporarily dropped the spoils, and went straight to the lord's castle along the road.
If the town is still able to resist, then the troops will mostly gather in the castle.
As an imperial hunter, it is your duty to defend the town. Although it is not an alien beast attacking the city, if you encounter such a bad thing, you can't just sit back and watch.
Zhou Jing had no objection either, holding two knives in hand, and following the crowd quickly.
…
Meanwhile, the lord castle.
Hundreds of guard corpses fell to the ground, blood stained the castle hall.
The lord of Deep Rock City leaned against the wall with panic and fear on his face.
Two blood-covered guards of different blood stood in front of him, panting, looking at the scene in front of him nervously and desperately—they were the only guards left by the lord.
At this time, there were more than a dozen villains around, all of them were alien blood warriors, with different weapons and armors. The only thing in common was that they were stained with the blood of the guards.
"You, who are you?"
The lord of Deep Rock City trembled.
Hearing this, a leader came out of this group of villains. He had rough hair, a face full of flesh, carrying a machete with both hands, and said coldly:
"The dead don't need to know so much."
After he finished speaking, the man with messy hair ignored the lord and instead looked at the two nervous guards with different blood, with admiration in his eyes, and said loudly:
"Two brothers, give you a chance to live, join us."
The two alien-blooded guards clenched their weapons, distrusting them.
Seeing this, the messy-haired man took two steps forward without caring, and Shen Ning said:
"Ask your heart, you have spent the life-and-death strengthening of the alien blood, and finally gained extraordinary power, but in the end you have to obey the orders of mortals and sacrifice your life for mortals. Are you willing to die here?"
"Don't come here again!" The two foreign-blooded guards shouted angrily, nervously pointing their weapons at the man with the messy hair.
The messy-haired man stopped, ignoring the enemy's dazzling blade as nothing, and said solemnly:
"Why should you obey the orders of mortals, and why can't someone more powerful give orders. When this weak mortal instructed you to run and run west, didn't you imagine breaking his head for a moment?"
The two alien-blooded guards tightened their grip on their weapons, pursing their lips and did not respond.
The man with tousled hair suddenly opened his arms and said boldly and loudly: "They are afraid of us, they are afraid of us, they don't give what you want, they want to tame us and bind our power with order. When morality and law forbid your desires , you should force it!
There should be nothing in this world that can bind us, all the power and wealth in this world should belong to the strong like us, and mortals should be servants... We can do everything we want! "
What the hell is this guy talking about? !
The Lord of Deep Rock City widened his eyes and subconsciously had such an idea.
However, he found that more than a dozen other villains heard these words, and their faces showed natural and frenzied expressions.
The messy-haired man looked at the two foreign-blooded guards who were trembling, and said slowly:
"We have the same strength, so I give you a chance - kill the people behind you, liberate the shackles in your heart, become one of us, and we will be brothers in the future!"
The lord of Deep Rock City couldn't help but refute: "Don't believe him, he just wants to..."
However, before the words fell, a cold light suddenly passed by.
The lord of Deep Rock City slammed into his neck, blood spilling out of his fingers.
He looked in horror at the guard on the right, who cut his neck without a word.
"you… "
Before he could finish speaking, another foreign-blood guard also turned around and stabbed the lord's abdomen with a knife.
The lord of Deep Rock City threw himself to the ground, clutching the bleeding wound, staring at the two guards, and said hoarsely:
"The Empire will not let you go..."
Bang!
His head exploded like a watermelon and was kicked out by one of the guards.
"Well done, my brother!"
The messy-haired man applauded in relief.
The two alien-blooded guards looked at him expressionlessly, but they never put down their weapons and remained alert.
The two of them could see the situation clearly. If more than a dozen villains swarmed up, they would only end up being hacked to death by random knives, and they couldn't even pull the back.
They just want to survive. Since the other party has given a chance, even if it may be a lie, it is better than a desperate fight.
The messy-haired man didn't care about the alert of the two, suddenly turned his head, exposed his back to the two without defense, and laughed at the other accomplices:
"All put away your weapons and welcome our new brothers!"
More than a dozen villains did the same, and the murderous aura of swords and arrows dissipated immediately, and only the strong bloody smell of the whole field was still pungent.
The messy-haired man then turned around, held the palms of the two of them, pressed the weapons back into the sheaths, and then grabbed the shoulders of the two of them, his tone full of pride:
"Tonight, this city is our carnival, how you want to vent is up to you. Fully appreciate the omnipotence brought by power. After tonight, you will understand how cowardly and narrow-minded you used to be, and how forceful you were. Happiness is more than anything."
The two foreign-blooded guards were a little at a loss, but looking at the arrogant smiles of many villains, it seemed that a heartstring was touched, and the dark desire was like a released beast, walking out of the cage.
Finally, one could not help but ask:
"Who are you?"
The messy-haired man patted the two of them on the shoulders, hehe said with a smile:
"I'm Dodun, as for our group, all of them are alien blood warriors, you can call us - sons of alien blood!"
The son of alien blood...
The two chewed the name in their hearts.
At this moment, two villains suddenly rushed in from outside the castle carrying a corpse and shouted loudly:
"Dorton, some of our brothers who were looting outside were killed!"
Duodun restrained his smile and asked in a deep voice:
"Who did it?"
"I don't know, we rushed over when we heard the sound of battle. When we got there, we only found the body of the brother."
With that said, the two villains put the corpse on the ground.
Duo Dun leaned in to take a look, and was suddenly stunned.
This corpse was not killed by a weapon, but was penetrated by more than a dozen soil thorns.
Dodun didn't understand, he simply shook his head and said coldly:
"It seems that there are not only those hunters who were subdued and imprisoned by us in the city, but also other forces, gather everyone and find them!"
Saying that, he strode away from the castle, and the other villains filed out after him.
The two foreign-blooded guards hesitated, and finally chose to integrate into it.
…
Another corner of Deep Rock City.
A plainly dressed man was walking through the burning streets, looking like an ordinary fleeing civilian.
"Heaven Comes"
A blood-stained rag was wrapped around his head, as if torn from someone else, and used as a simple hood to cover his face.
The man was panting and running forward, still swearing in a low voice.
"Damn, there will be riots in such a safe fortress city as Deep Rock City. I knew that it would be unreliable not to live in seclusion here."
The man crossed the alley and turned into a large road.
At this moment, a villain happened to be abducted from the opposite alley. He was wearing a trousers belt. In the alley behind him lay a naked woman with lost eyes and a blue neck. She was violently strangled to death.
The man and the villain found each other across the street, and both stopped.
"Boy, are you lost?"
The villain grinned, took off the flail hanging from his waist, swung it up in his hands, and walked towards this man like a lamb to be slaughtered step by step.
The man took a step back, instead of looking at the approaching villain, his eyes focused on the land behind the villain.
His pupils shuddered slightly, and khaki ripples bloomed in the bottom of his eyes.
An invisible force quietly shot out, attached to the ground, and soaked in.
The villain didn't notice, and was still slowly approaching the man in a teasing manner.
At this moment, the ground that was being watched by the man suddenly cracked.
Bang!
The soil spurted out, and it quickly turned into a dozen small soil thorns in mid-air. Between the lightning and flint, it quickly hit the undefended back of the villain.
Puff puff-
Soil thorns inserted into the flesh one after another.
The villain was shocked all over, his eyes suddenly widened, and he looked at the tip of the soil thorn piercing through his chest in disbelief.
"who is it?!"
The villain turned back suddenly, but there was no one behind him.
At this moment, the man reached out and grabbed his hands and drank softly.
"Nianhe · Earth Spirit!"
A sharp stone pillar suddenly rose from between the villain's legs.
puff!
The villain could not avoid it, and was directly pierced by the stone pillar, entered from the lower body, and leaked from the mouth, and the bloodshot eyes instantly lost their vigor.
clap la la...
The next moment, the stone pillar collapsed and turned into mud.
The corpse of the villain also fell to the ground, blood poured like a spring, and he died thoroughly.
"Fortunately this guy didn't rush over directly..."
The yellow light in the man's eyes disappeared, he took a deep breath, did not dare to delay, and hurriedly left the place, for fear that the villain's accomplices would arrive.
…
When Zhou Jing and others arrived at the lord's castle, the building was already empty, and only the corpses on the ground could prove that a fierce battle broke out here.
"Don't you have a living mouth?"
A group of people walked in carefully, groped around, and finally stopped in front of a headless corpse. Judging from the clothes, this person should be the lord.
Cole squatted down to check the wound and frowned: "Oops, this man is the lord of Deep Rock City, it seems that he is dead."
"Do you still need to look at it?" Zhou Jing rolled his eyes.
Cole was speechless, turned his head to observe the surrounding battle marks, and said: "Look at the destruction marks, there are probably more than ten alien blood warriors who fought here before. I don't know where they are now."
"The lord is dead, and the army is almost destroyed, but I haven't seen a single enemy's body on the road. Maybe all the enemies are alien blood warriors. If the city can be destroyed to such an extent, I expect the enemy to be no less than twenty people." The team leader The tone is solemn.
"Where have all the hunters in Deep Rock City gone, why doesn't it seem like no one is stopping them?"
"Maybe he was killed... You think, since these villains are cooperating with the outside world by pretending to be hunters, they will definitely use the convenience of their identity to easily solve the most troublesome hunter in the town."
"This is bad. We have no allies. Can we stop this group of thugs with just a few of us?"
The hunter team members were worried.
Zhou Jing lowered his head to observe, and suddenly found a corpse with a different way of dying. It was covered with thorns, and it was not dressed as a guard.
"Come and see, this may be the corpse of the enemy."
Everyone immediately gathered over to observe this unusual corpse.
"It should be the enemy... How can he die so strangely, is he caught in a trap?" Cole wondered.
"Hard to say."
Zhou Jing pulled out the soil thorns one by one, and found that the shapes and sizes were different. If it was a trap, it would be a bit too rough.
"Do any of you know this enemy?"
"I haven't seen it." Everyone shook their heads.
Zhou Jing pondered for a while, suddenly remembered the tribal independence plan, and asked, "By the way, is the lord of Deep Rock City a tribal lord, or a lord assigned by the empire?"
"I know this, he was assigned." Cole replied.
Since it was assigned, there is no local tribe as a foundation... Zhou Jing scratched his head, not sure if it was the accident caused by the tribe's independence plan, but he always felt that it was not the same.
After all, if the tribe is independent, no one will burn down their homes.
At this time, the squad leader said in a deep voice:
"The lord's castle has fallen, and we can't find any helpers. We will also suffer if we rush to search for the enemy. Let's go to the hunter's tavern and workshop first, try to find the surviving town hunters and guards, and gather our troops."
Everyone nodded and hurriedly left the dead lord castle.