Deep in the dark mountains.
The pioneering team has been active here for a month. After initially gaining a foothold, Gao Wen will send out various exploration teams every day to search for supplies and survey the terrain in the southern mountains, western forests, eastern mines, or the wilderness on the other side of the Baishui River. The serf's route into the mountain is one of the natural mountain paths discovered in recent days. But even though it was newly discovered, there have been exploration teams and soldier patrols going back and forth several times, but no trace of the monster has ever been found.
Those aberrations have no doubt appeared here very recently.
The road into the mountain was not easy. Although Gao Wen and Amber had amazing feet, there were two ordinary serfs who couldn't walk so fast. It took them nearly an hour to finally get close to the side road where the monster attacked. near the mouth.
As she got closer and closer to that place, Amber, who is usually carefree and jumpy, couldn't help becoming nervous. She held the small dagger tightly and lowered her voice: "It's been so long, those monsters should also Wander away..."
"Not necessarily, you don't understand the 'habits' of aberrations," Gawain looked at the rocky mountain road ahead and the overgrown plants on both sides of the mountain road, his eyes stopped on a steep mountain wall that seemed to collapse at any time After a long time, he said in a low voice, "They are not normal life forms. They don't need to eat in a magic environment. Apart from the instincts of attacking intelligent life and tending to the source of magic power, they also have no clear purpose of action. If there is If there is a human or magical response, they will pounce, but if not, they will wander aimlessly, or stay in place. Of course, if their numbers reach a certain level, their actions are unpredictable. "
"So what the hell is an aberration..." Amber muttered, her eyes constantly wandering between the shadows among the trees, not to be vigilant against the enemies hiding in the dark, but to constantly look for escape routes.
Gao Wen shook his head: "It's really hard to say. There is a conjecture that human beings become deformed after being attacked by chaotic magic, and there is another theory that a passage to another world opened in the magic wave, and the deformed body came from another world. It came from the space, but none of the claims has actually been proven.”
Amber curled her lips, thinking that even someone like Gao Wen who had fought against monsters for twenty years in his previous life couldn’t tell where the monsters came from, so it seems that the so-called experts and scholars in the interior of the kingdom are even more unreliable in this regard. up.
And when her eyes swept around, a trace on the ground suddenly caught her attention: "Hey, there seems to be something over there!"
On the stone wall not far ahead, you can see the rocks that have been scratched, and the dried blood can still be seen in the cracks of the rocks.
When the two serfs in charge of leading the way saw the traces, they trembled like chaff.
"It seems to be around here." Gawain gripped the pioneer sword tightly, sensing any subtle changes in the surroundings, "be vigilant."
Amber swallowed her saliva, followed behind Gao Wen and carefully turned to the other side of the fork in the road, as if facing an enemy.
Suddenly, Gao Wen stopped, and an instinctive alertness from this body permeated the air. Under the guidance of this alertness, he quickly hid behind a boulder, and looked towards the other side of the mountain path.
Four huge humanoid creatures that looked like giants of flesh and bones appeared in the field of vision. They staggered on the mountain road, with no facial features on their faces dripping with red mud, but chaotic, profane sounds were constantly emanating from their chests and abdomens. , The indescribable low voice Bibi.
Oh, murmur.
"One, two, three... four," came the warm breath, and Hu Po's low voice came from behind, "It seems that the serfs encountered them. It seems that they haven't found us yet, you go first , I’ll wait until you can’t see me before I run.”
Gao Wen didn't pay attention to the elf shame's daily chatter, and his eyes were fixed on the abdomen of one of the deformed bodies, where he could see a distorted, decayed gray-black object. He couldn't tell what it was at all, but Gao Wen saw the clue after looking carefully: it was a weapon of the Gondor Empire!
He withdrew his gaze, sensed the surroundings intently, and confirmed that there were no more monsters nearby, and then responded to Amber: "I will charge forward later, you sneak up to backstab the last one, hold the one next to it, and after I finish the other two, we will Join forces to resolve the battle."
Amber blinked and nodded cheerfully: "Okay, I'll wait for your action."
Although she deliberately made jokes and said some strange things before, it was obvious that when it came time to do business, she was still unambiguous.
The two serfs who led the way were already frightened by the monster and couldn't move, but they mustered up the last courage to cover their mouths, and they didn't scream in panic or run away. This is already a pretty good performance for them , Gawain nodded to the two, told them to keep quiet and wait, and then raised the pioneer sword.
Magic power was injected into the blade, and scorching light gushed out from the blade. Gawain's armor was also covered with a layer of pale white gleam, and then he jumped up and directly crossed tens of meters The distance, like falling from the sky, slashed at the monster that had just reacted.
And at the same time he jumped out, a hazy shadow also flashed in the air, and then the last one of the four monsters was shaken all over. Gawain had just attracted his attention, and he raised his head to the sky Chaos roared, but the chrysanthemum was severely injured, and fell to the ground after a critical blow.
Amber emerged from the shadows and began to swim quickly around the other monster that had already reacted. Her small dagger had no effect at all when it hit a place other than the monster's weak point, and could only splash some red mud. or sparks, so start the fight and yell, "Boss help!"
Gao Wen's long sword had already been cut down, and he staggered to slash the first deformed body. Then he didn't pursue, but turned around and rushed towards the monster with an ancient sword stuck in its belly, just as he expected The same way: Although a sword stuck in the stomach is not a fatal injury to this freak, it will also affect its activities. Facing Gao Wen's fierce attack, it only resisted twice, and was directly chopped into pieces from it. two paragraphs.
If you have the power to cut the enemy in two, then it doesn't matter if you hit the weak point or not.
The deformed body in front of him let out a chaotic and inexplicable roar. Its murmur before death was mixed with power that could disturb people's mind, but Gao Wen didn't care about the momentary trance in his mind. Hit the enemy who was wounded by his first sword.
Afterwards, amidst Amber's humiliating screams, the last enemy was also successfully beheaded.
As the giant made of flesh and mud fell heavily to the ground, and quickly decomposed into chaotic elements in the air, Amber also fell to the ground with a fart: "Oh my god... I'm exhausted... It seems that I still You have to strengthen your escape skills..."
Gawain inspected the monster wreckage on the ground and replied without raising his head: "Shouldn't the normal way of thinking increase the frontal combat power at this time?"
"Let me tell you, my current frontal combat power is already my personal peak. I am very self-aware... Hey, what are you studying?"
Amber didn't notice that Gao Wen was squatting next to the wreckage of one of the deformed bodies in the middle of speaking, with his head lowered and his face devoted to research, so he asked curiously.
Gao Wen waved: "Come and see."
Amber leaned over obediently, and she saw the deformed body fell to the ground. A large amount of flesh and mud on its body had "evaporated", leaving only a pair of blood-red bones (the bones would not completely dissipate after a few days) . And on this terrifying skeleton, a piece of severely twisted and corroded metal was stuck.
Amber blinked: "What the hell is this?"
"The soldier's sword of the Gondor Empire," Gawain said in a serious tone, "it can't be wrong. It is the model used by the northern outpost of the Empire."
Although Amber has a wild personality, she is not stupid. At this moment, she reacted instantly: "Wait! This monster has this thing on it... so it came from the wasteland of Gondor?!"
Gawain nodded silently.
"This...how is this possible!" Amber felt cold sweat spread from the back of her head to her heels in an instant, "The entire wasteland of Gondor is surrounded by magnificent walls built by elves, and those sentinel towers are not just decorations... how are these monsters possible? Run out?!"
Gao Wen was silent for a while, and suddenly said quietly: "The magnificent wall has been standing there for seven hundred years."
Amber twitched, and smiled dryly: "Hey... hey, don't scare me, maybe these monsters were shut out of the wall in the first place, and they have been wandering between the Dark Mountain and the Sentinel Tower, and then wandered here this year .”
"Impossible, the aberrants will gradually disintegrate after leaving the magic tide environment, unless their number reaches a new chaotic magic environment," Gawain dismissed Amber's last hope, "These monsters cannot survive outside the wall Seven hundred years, so...they came out of the wall."
Amber thought for a while, then shivered: "... Oh my god!"
"Don't say anything," Gao Wen looked into Amber's eyes, "It doesn't have to be that bad. I was there when the Sentinel Tower was erected. I know those things have the function of self-healing and load balancing, so it's unlikely. Will shut down completely. Most likely one of the sentinel towers has temporarily lost power due to age, but the barrier will heal itself in a short time... ”
Amber swallowed: "What does it mean to translate it in human language?"
Gao Wen: "...that is, there may be a hole in the barrier temporarily, but it will fill it up by itself."
"Then why don't you say it earlier," Amber hurriedly patted her chest, which didn't have much sense of presence, "Scared me."
However, Gao Wen still frowned: "Don't be too busy to relax. It is obvious that there is something wrong with the magnificent wall. Even if a hole is made and then patched, it is enough to prove that it is aging. Sooner or later, the small hole will become a big hole. of."
"Then what to do?!"
"...No, I have to take a look, even if the wall is still there from a distance," Gao Wen abruptly got up, "Stay here and guess wildly, you will never be at ease."
"Then I..." Amber stood up after him, her mentality fluctuating violently between cowardly and reckless, but in the end she was still infected by Gao Wen's attitude, and she gritted her teeth, "I'll go with you!"