After passing through a small forest, Tianyang soon saw the gathering place. The holographic model floating on the captain's wrist indicated that they were located to the west of the gathering place.
This is a grassy slope where you can see the entire gathering place.
The fourth settlement in the fortress is small in scale, with wooden buildings occupying most of the area. These houses of various shapes are piled up in disorder in the settlement, forming complex alleys and countless narrow and dark corners.
The tallest building in the entire gathering place is three-story and is located on the northeast side. The steel-structured iron building is particularly eye-catching as it refracts sunlight in the daylight.
A blue light flickered deep in Tianyang's biological prosthetic eye. The farsightedness function of the prosthetic eye was activated, and the field of vision kept zooming in. The boy saw a corpse hanging in the corridor on the second floor of the small iron building.
A rifle fell from under the body, which looked to be one of the few weapons in the gathering place.
In fact, corpses like this can be found everywhere in the gathering place. Most of them are men, a small number are women, and there are seven or eight elderly people or children.
The corpses were hardly complete, with some missing arms or legs, and some were so gnawed that they were difficult to distinguish.
When the wind blew through the gathering place, the disgusting smell of blood spread.
Han Shu snorted heavily in his nose: "A bunch of picky eaters!"
"Captain, six o'clock." Ji Yu whispered from behind.
Everyone looked in the direction she pointed, and saw four creatures moving around near a half-collapsed wooden house.
Tianyang's heartbeat quickened slightly, and his biological eye locked onto one of them.
This creature is about the size of a calf, with two stout limbs, a head a bit like a fox, and a fluffy tail that seems to serve as a balance.
The most unforgettable thing is that it has a circle of braid-like whiskers on its neck, with gray light emitting at the end. These whiskers seem to be supported by an invisible force, floating in the air like seaweed floating in the sea.
Han Shu's voice came to his ears: "Let me introduce you to the most common evil spirits. Evil foxes are beastly species with very sensitive noses. Since they are here, there may be survivors in that house."
Cangdu pulled out his newly acquired mechanical heavy sword: "Want to attack, Captain?"
Han Shu shrugged. "Nonsense, but you must remember not to let them run away. These guys are very cunning. If they escape, they might come here soon with other evil spirits."
Ji Yu raised the crossbow: "I will cover you."
Han Shu slapped Tianyang on the shoulder: "You go first, Cangdu follow me."
Tianyang nodded and reached out to pat the storage box behind him. The storage box opened, and the built-in mechanical arm raised the weapon rack containing the Red Moon and Predator for Tianyang to choose.
The young man drew out the Predator, and looking at the gray-white bone sword in his hand, Cang was a little surprised.
After all, Tianyang ranked sixth on the battle list, so the reward he got should be good, but this bone sword looked a bit ordinary.
When Tianyang held the bone sword, his palm felt slightly numb, as if an electric current was passing through it.
The blood-red lines on the hilt flashed with a faint light, and the built-in artificial nerves had established a connection with Tianyang. The predator was like an extension of the boy's body, and there was no difference between self and self in terms of feeling.
With star energy revealed, the young man locked onto one of the evil foxes and suddenly shot down from the grass slope.
The evil fox raised its two pointed ears at the same time, then turned its head to look in the direction of the grass slope, but only saw silver rainbow light filling its vision.
Then its whole body paused, and Tianyang had already rushed over and stabbed a sword into its head!
The young man raised his left hand, took off the death knell that had been filled with star energy on the way here, pointed it to the right, and pulled the trigger.
The second evil fox next to it was just jumping up and preparing to flee, when a burst of silver light gushed out and washed over it like a torrent, and the fox's head and half of its body were blown into countless pieces in the silver light.
The flesh and blood with fur splattered all over the ground, and the rest of the body fell to the ground with a plop, but its two strong limbs were still digging, as if the body was still running.
One of the four evil foxes died and one was injured in an instant.
The remaining two immediately separated and fled.
Suddenly, several blue frozen arrows shot out from the grass slope and hit one of the evil foxes. The fox's body quickly froze and its movements became stiff and sluggish.
Two more flaming arrows shot over, and with the sound of explosion, the evil fox turned into a fireball.
The remaining one successfully left the spot and ran desperately towards the outer edge of the gathering place. Suddenly, a shield was blocked in the road. It ran too fast and hit the shield head-on, and was bounced back.
A mechanical sound was heard from the shield, and a row of miniature rapid-fire machine gun muzzles protruded from the shield's periphery. Thin tongues of fire spurted out of the muzzles, and the dense rain of bullets made the evil fox flee in panic.
It was about to crash into a wooden house, but unexpectedly a figure suddenly rushed out of the house.
The heavy sword with a mechanical structure was raised high, and thick black smoke actually spewed out from the smoke pipes that looked like motorcycle exhaust pipes.
The roar of an engine sounded from the heavy sword, and with one slash of the sword, the evil fox's body was split in half and suddenly exploded, with fragments scattered all over the ground.
When Han Shu and his companion killed a vicious fox, Tian Yang also ended the life of the strange beast with his sword, but just when they thought that all the vicious foxes were killed.
But then Ji Yu shouted, "There's a fifth one at three o'clock!"
Tianyang looked and saw a figure coming out of the wooden house. Its two strong legs stirred up dust and it ran quickly out of the gathering place.
The young man's eyes lit up again, and the world in his eyes turned into a blurred receding light and shadow, and the figure of the evil fox quickly expanded in his field of vision.
Tianyang raised his hand and swung the bone sword.
Cang couldn't help but frown when he saw this scene. After all, the young man was still some distance away from the evil fox. He couldn't touch a single hair of that thing by dancing with the sword in the air.
But the next second, Cang was frightened.
It turned out that the bone sword in Tianyang's hand was actually breaking apart! Inside the sword body, you could see a dark red thing that looked like a monster's whiskers.
They connected each section of the sword, turning the original straight sword into something like a long whip!
Using neural sensing, Tianyang activated the predator's whip sword form. This long whip with gray and dark red colors swung in the air, instantly splitting the evil fox in front of him into two halves!
The young man swung his arm and swept the whip sword back and forth across the evil fox several times, completely cutting it into more than a dozen pieces.
With another flick of his wrist, the whip sword retracted and returned to its original position, and in the blink of an eye it was reassembled into the shape of a straight sword.
Tianyang was a little surprised. It was his first time using a whip sword, but with the help of neural sensors, it was not difficult to use.
The whip sword was as easy as using one's own arm in his hand. He wielded it freely and completed every movement strictly according to his wishes.
At this moment, through neural sensing, Tianyang felt a sense of satisfaction.
The feeling was conveyed to him by the predator. The boy found that a circle of blood-red lines on the hilt lit up.
Come.
That was the predator consuming the blood and flesh essence of the evil fox and converting it into energy for storage. When all the lines on the hilt were activated, it could release the beam attack that Gu Min named the death ray.
The battle was not truly over until this point.
At Han Shu's request, they collected the fox corpses, threw them into an iron bucket, and then burned them.
After they cleaned up the half-collapsed wooden house, they found a cellar in the house. Just in case, Han Shu raised his shield and signaled Tianyang to open the door of the cellar.
As soon as the door opened, gunshots were heard from inside, but all the bullets hit the shield.
Apart from making the shields clang non-stop, there is no other benefit.
When the people below had run out of bullets, Han Shu said, "Don't be afraid, we are from the Sky Fort, and those beasts are all dead."
The captain shouted three times before crying was heard from downstairs, and then a woman came out of the cellar.
This woman looked to be about 28 or 29 years old, and had a natural charm. Especially now that she was crying, it made people feel particularly distressed.
Tianyang was fine, and Han Shu had seen countless women, so his expression was normal.
But Cangdu's face suddenly turned red, and Han Shu saw it and chuckled. With his experience, the captain knew very well that this mature and charming woman in front of him was the most attractive to a young man in his early twenties like Cangdu.
As for a 17-year-old boy like Tianyang, he is not that attractive. After all, how can a kid who hasn't even fully grown his hair know the goodness of a mature woman
Han Shugan coughed: "Madam, can you tell us what happened here?"
The charming woman wiped her tears, stopped crying, and said sadly: "Isn't it obvious what happened? Dead, all dead, everyone is dead!"
... ... .
The soldiers dug out corpses one by one from the corners of various buildings and gathering places, and then placed them neatly in the open space.
Later, they will cremate the bodies collectively to prevent the spread of plague.
Han Shu picked a relatively intact wooden house as a place for everyone to rest, while Cangdu took water and food and brought them to the woman who called herself Qingdai.
The woman looked numb. She drank some water and took two bites of food. Then she sighed and shook her head, indicating that she couldn't eat anymore.
Cangdu seemed to care about her very much. He took off his long uniform and let her put it on.
Tianyang sat by the door, eating, and looked at Cangdu and Qingdai with interest.
According to the woman, the evil spirit appeared five days ago, on a quiet evening. As usual, the people in the gathering place had a simple dinner and went to bed early.
There is not much entertainment in the gathering place, and there is too much work to do during the day. The burden of life makes people have no time to seek pleasure.
Being able to survive until the next spring is the most ardent wish in most people's hearts.
That night, the attack came suddenly, and unprecedented horrors swept through the gathering place. Men, women, the elderly, and children became delicacies in the mouths of those monsters.
Only Qingdai escaped the disaster in the cellar, but the collapsed house prevented her from leaving, but this also indirectly saved her life.
Otherwise, the evil foxes wandering around would be happy to share her delicious meal, but now the gathering place is gone and all the people she knew are dead. This charming woman is very depressed and she doesn't know where to go.