Xiang En asked Andrea to step on the stool and see for herself. Andrea, who was tall and had long legs, would not be blocked by the two-meter wooden wall and could clearly see the ghoul crawling on all fours in the snow.
The ghouls are still approaching, but not very fast. Their speed is obviously affected by a lot of weather.
Even if ordinary monsters reach the gold level, the magic power is spread throughout the body and their adaptability is enhanced. The outside temperature will still affect the state.
These ghouls were once silver-level warriors, but after turning into monsters, their strength has not improved much. Now they can only be regarded as bluffing people, but in fact they are stupid monsters with no intelligence and cannot resist. Effect of cold air.
There is only one ghoul outside, and as long as the number does not reach a large scale, Xiang En has confidence in Andrea that she can deal with it!
"Coming!"
When the ghoul approached the wooden fence, Andrea immediately jumped off the chair and assumed a defensive posture.
Xiang En quickly stepped back, hearing inhuman gasping and whimpering sounds.
The sounds made by these human-turned-monsters are always strange, perhaps because their faces have become larger.
"Uh-huh!"
With a whimper, a black humanoid monster jumped out from behind the wooden wall and attacked Andrea with a strong stench.
Faced with the condescending attack, Andrea did not step back, but took several steps back. When the ghoul fell into the air and fell into the snow, she quickly stepped forward and aimed the short knife in her hand and slashed down on the head.
The stiff-bodied ghoul had no power to fight back under the knife, and his head was split in half by the short knife. He stopped moving without even twitching...
When Xiang En saw this scene from behind, his hands were still in the state of releasing magic power. The buff of Blessing of Wind had just been applied. The battle was already over before he even cast a slow spell? !
Ah this...
Not only Xiang En, but also Andrea, who actually chopped down a ghoul, was a little unbelievable. With just one knife, the ghoul that came running menacingly was gone
There was no real feeling at all, just like a hunter was hunting with a spear, and a wolf suddenly jumped out. The hunter thought that there would be a fierce battle today, so he stretched his spear forward, but the wolf hit him and died.
It's a bit confusing.
After being stunned for a while, Xiang Encai came back to his senses, stood on a stool and carefully observed the scene outside the village, and finally determined that there were no ghouls outside the village who were preparing to approach the village.
"Are you going to throw the body out? Or burn it with fire?" Andrea asked by the way as she rubbed the strange liquid on the knife onto the ghoul's tattered clothes.
Waving his hand, Xiang En was just about to ask Andrea to throw it away, but he suddenly remembered that he had not carefully studied the ghoul in its current state, so he walked up to the ghoul.
He turned the ghoul lying in the snow over with a wooden board and observed it carefully.
Andrea walked aside and also looked at the ghoul.
The appearance of the ghoul is no longer close to that of a human being. Although the body is hairless, it is covered with a layer of disgusting tumors. The black skin is covered with pits and pits. The face has become narrower at the top and wider at the bottom. It has a wide grin. There are many messy sharp teeth growing out from behind the ears.
A fishy smell can be faintly smelled from one meter away in winter, which is very uncomfortable no matter which way you look at it.
Now Andrea doesn't have the fear of killing someone before. She only feels a little frightened by the appearance of the ghoul. She doesn't want to see more of things she doesn't like to see. After looking at it for a while, she puts it aside. Out of sight.
On the contrary, Xiang En looked at it very carefully, his brows furrowed and his face solemn.
Staring at the ghoul's big face, Xiang En couldn't help but have many questions in his mind, the most important and scariest one.
They transformed from a human-shaped being into an inhuman monster, with many changes in their jaws and body shape. How long did it take for such a change
Does this start from the moment the body dies
Or did it start after that rain
This is a world with all kinds of magical powers. If it changes from the moment the villagers die, it is still within the scope of common sense.
But if it had become like this after the acid rain that day, the speed of alienation would have been terrifying.
It is uncertain what the ghouls will look like, nor what their final form will be, and the uneasiness of half-knowledge always lingers in the mystery of the apocalypse.
After exhaling a breath of hot breath, Xiang En shook his head, took out a dagger he carried with him from his clothes, hesitated for a moment, and then started to cut open the ghoul's chest.
Continuously reaching out with his hands, he found a heart dyed black and red in the stinking blood that was not warm.
After careful inspection, there are no magic crystals attached to the surface of the ghoul's heart. This does not mean that the ghoul does not have magic power.
Magic is everywhere, and the magic crystal in the heart of a dead monster can be preserved for a long time in a sealed state.
The ghoul should have the magic crystal. Without the magic crystal, it could only be consumed, perhaps turning into nutrients for its body's alienation, allowing it to have a stronger body.
Leaving Gugu's bloody heart behind, Xiang En kept wiping his hands with snow to wash off some of the blood on his hands.
"Go back and boil the water. I have to take a shower later."
Hearing this, Andrea replied absentmindedly: "Then, how to deal with the body?"
She has seen a lot of such scenes. The internal organs of animals are not much different from the internal organs of humans. As long as she accepts the setting that ghouls are not humans, her mentality will be different when she sees this scene again. Not much will change.
Maybe this is growth...
"Throw it over the wall." Xiang En made the decision.
Then the two of them worked together to throw the ghoul's body out of the wall. In the process, they almost got blood splattered on their clothes. If blood splattered on their clothes, they would even have to wash them.
After dealing with the sudden appearance of the ghoul, the two returned to their busy work. One shoveled snow and boiled water, and the other raised the chimney.
Da da da!
Along with the hammering sound, there was new movement in the woods.
After the first attack outside the village, Xiang En naturally became more alert to the surrounding environment, and he immediately discovered the new intruder.
In the snowy woods, a sturdy forest wolf led six of his men out of the woods stiffly, apparently attracted by the beating sounds in the quiet forest.
Seeing the figures of the wolves, Xiang En, who was swinging the hammer, lost his hand due to surprise. The hammer hit his left hand holding the nail, causing him to gasp several times in pain.
"I... hiss! Ha!"
Seeing the approaching wolves, Xiang En almost blurted out a curse word, waved his hands and shouted uncomfortably: "Enri!"
There were many sinister thoughts in his mind, and he glared at the wolves in the distance, thinking about how to deal with the wolves later.
Eat it stewed? Or bake it? There is always more moisture in fresh meat than in dried meat!
He and Andrea haven't eaten food with juice in a long time!
"exist?"
Andrea's voice came from in front of the wooden house, and her tone was slightly doubtful. She obviously didn't know what was going on when Xiang En called her again.
"Food is coming!"
"Eh?!"
Hearing the word food, Andrea appeared next to Xiang En in just a few seconds holding a sword and shield.
Jumping more than one meter high on the spot, she saw the approaching wolves outside the wall. Instead of panicking after landing, she looked at Xiang En excitedly, "Are those wolves? Are there any wolf meat to eat today?"
Xiang En wanted to smile and say "yes", but after the wolves half-ran and half-jumped to a certain distance, he, who has good eyesight, saw that something seemed wrong with those wolves!
Before waiting for his reply, Andrea couldn't bear the temptation of meat and jumped up again to look at the wolves outside the wall.
After landing this time, the excitement on her face disappeared and was replaced by confusion.
Those wolves...why do they still lose their fur in the middle of winter
I think there will be a second update tomorrow
(End of chapter)