Tens of minutes later.
"Ta-ta-ta-ta..."
The sound of rapid hoofbeats sounded from the horizon, dust flew into the sky, and a large group of humans on horseback appeared.
The horses they ride on are nearly two meters tall, like flesh and blood tanks. In comparison, the humans on horseback are slightly shorter, most of them less than 1.6 meters tall.
There were twenty of these humans, all wearing yellow and green camouflage cloaks. They had serious expressions and their eyes were constantly scanning the surroundings.
They carried heavy crossbows on their backs, almost bending over them. The black metal arrows were already strung and ready to be fired at any time. The tails of the metal arrows were connected to translucent ropes, which looked very long. There were a lot of them on the horseback, and the ends were tied around the waists of these people. They seemed to be used for climbing.
"Ta-ta-ta-ta..."
The group of people rode horses for several hundred meters and stopped in front of several giant trees that were hundreds of meters high.
A middle-aged man in the lead took out a parchment map from his arms, looked at it and said to the people behind him: "It should be around here. According to the report of the first detachment of the Scout Corps, there are an unknown number of giants active here. There is a certain threat to our city, and we cannot rule out the suspicion that we are concentrating our forces to launch an attack on our city.
Therefore, our ninth team's mission this time is to investigate the situation of giants and determine how many giants there are, what their strength is, and whether there are any evolved forms. If conditions permit, we will try to hunt down a lone giant and bring the blood back for analysis. Do you understand everything? "
"Yes." The people behind the middle-aged man nodded in unison, including many young faces, but they all had serious expressions and firm eyes.
"Everything... is for our city, for the high wall of protection that will never collapse, and even more for the light of civilization." The middle-aged man in the leader lowered his head and said with a pious expression, as if he was praying for something.
"Everything... is for our city, for the high wall of protection that will never collapse, and even more for the light of civilization." The rest of the people followed, and after speaking, they drew out their weapons and made fighting postures.
"Action!" The middle-aged man waved his hand suddenly.
"brush!"
The rest of the people immediately dispersed around and began to carefully investigate a large area.
One of the red-haired boys rode a black horse and chose the due east direction. After bypassing more than a dozen tall trees, his field of vision widened, and then his eyes suddenly shrank.
A hand hurriedly reached into his arms, took out the whistle, and blew it suddenly.
This is a special whistle that can emit low-frequency sounds that can be heard by companions, but will not disturb most creatures, including giants.
The red-haired boy whistled, and soon the others rushed over. They were about to ask what was going on. The next moment they saw the scene in front of the red-haired boy, they were all stunned, including the middle-aged man at the head. look.
Then, on the vast land, a nearly 100-meter-long giant was lying on the ground, motionless, obviously dead.
The strange thing is that there are not many traces of battle on the giant's body - there are no special wounds from being shot by a crossbow, nor deep marks from being entangled by ropes, only an inconspicuous wound near the heart.
This was obviously not hunted by their urban reconnaissance corps, or even by ordinary soldiers like them.
I heard that in other distant cities, there are modified soldiers with special abilities who can kill giants with one blow through sneak attacks, but it is impossible to come to their urban areas to help and do good deeds.
What exactly is going on
The middle-aged man was thinking about it when a subordinate rode up to him, patted him on the shoulder, pointed to a position farther away, and said in a trembling voice: "Captain, look at that again."
"What?" The middle-aged man looked doubtfully and saw a small mound in the direction of his hand.
After staring at it for two seconds, he blinked and his mouth suddenly opened wide. He was surprised to find that it was not a small mound at all, at least not the kind formed naturally, but a corpse mound made of giant corpses.
There were at least thirty corpses of giants, piled densely together, and they were all dead. The cause of death was the same as the first giant. There were almost no battle scars on his body, except for an inconspicuous wound near his heart.
The middle-aged man was thinking about it, but he could not imagine that there was any existence that could kill so many giants... Even the members of the prehistoric civilization that were destroyed by the giants in the legend could not do it. After all, if it could, how could it turn into a prehistoric civilization...
I can't understand it, I can't understand it at all.
The middle-aged man was full of doubts. Under the confusion, he rode a horse towards the giant corpse mound. After a moment, he bypassed the giant corpse mound and saw more giant corpses appearing on the ground, spreading towards the distance, one after another. One, there are almost too many to count.
Here, the middle-aged man saw that among the corpses, there were many terrifying giants that had never been seen before, nearly two hundred meters high. If such a being were alive and led a team of ordinary giants, it would be enough to break down their high walls and destroy their The city has become everyone’s nightmare.
But without what, even such a powerful terrifying giant is now like a dead dog without dignity, lying motionless on the ground.
The middle-aged man felt a little suffocated, and the other people around him who followed the middle-aged man also felt a little suffocated, feeling that they had encountered the most incomprehensible thing in their lives.
According to their inference, the matter is obviously much more serious than what the first detachment of the Survey Corps said. There are giant corps gathering in this area that are far beyond imagination. As expected, they will raid their city and destroy the few remaining flames of civilization.
But just before the Giant Corps attacked, an unexpected factor broke in, killed all the Giants, and forcibly changed the fate of their city being destroyed.
So what is this unexpected factor
The middle-aged man took out a pocket monocular from his arms, stretched it with his hands, and looked farther away in the direction of the giant's corpse, until he saw the mountains in the distance.
Then he saw inside the mountain, a giant king who seemed to be more than two hundred meters high, roaring, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he shook his body and fell straight down.
An ordinary-looking man appeared and walked up to the Giant King. With a wave of his hand, something very tiny flew out from the Giant King's heart and landed in his hand.
Then the man thrust his hand into the air, as if grabbing the handle of a transparent door. A gray light flashed away, and then the man disappeared without a trace, leaving only corpses scattered all over the mountain.
The middle-aged man put away the telescope, opened his mouth, and then, under the puzzled eyes of his men, jumped off his horse, leaned down in the direction of the mountains in the distance, and made the most pious salute.
From the middle-aged man's point of view, he was completely unable to understand what kind of existence the man in his field of vision was, but this did not prevent him from expressing his most sincere gratitude for saving the lives of the entire city residents, including him. life.