The muffled sound echoing in the mountains sounded like rolling thunder, or like a huge rock falling from a cliff. It reverberated rumblingly for half a minute, and Becky stopped abruptly in the middle of her words. After the voice subsided, he blinked his eyes and said, "Could it be a landslide on the mountain road?"
Hao Ren's expression suddenly became bitter: "I'll go, so I won't be so unlucky, right?"
"Hurry up first, don't waste time," Nangong Wuyue took the lead, and then quickly turned back, "Um, Becky, you come to lead the way, I don't know..."
Everyone stopped talking nonsense, buried their heads and continued on their way, and began to advance at full speed on the rugged mountain road. ?. .
This road was built hundreds of years ago under the auspices of the royal family of Holleta, and it has been in disrepair for a long time. Usually, only brave mercenaries with high skills or adventurers who are really in a hurry will take a shortcut here. The ancient road twists and turns along the mountain, and there are flat stone roads in some wide places, while the narrow and steep places can only be steep slopes formed by layers of stone steps, and some places even have stone steps. Nothing at all, it's just the original mountain rock slope, only a guardrail made of thick iron chains is added to the edge of the slope. Even the peculiar horses with strong endurance, which are special products of this world, are not easy to advance on this kind of road, so everyone's progress slowed down a lot after crossing the gentle mountain that was relatively easy to walk at first. Soon after, the team arrived at a famous and dangerous section of the ancient road. This section was excavated directly on the side of the steep cliff. On one side is a thick and oppressive rock wall, and on the other side is the vast mountain with dry and cold mountain wind. cliff. Beside the narrow mountain road that only allows one or two people to advance, there are only a few thick iron chains hanging outside the road as protection. On the outside of the road, if the foot slips, it is entirely possible to fall directly from the gap between the iron chain and the ground. It can be said that the psychological comfort of this "guardrail" is greater than the actual effect. So Hao Ren walked cautiously. Even Lily followed Hao Ren nervously and grabbed the hem of his clothes: this girl is currently in human form, if she transforms into a werewolf, she must have her tail tucked by now.
"If it falls, it will definitely hurt to death." A gust of mountain wind hit, Lily said, sticking out her tongue.
Hao Ren rolled his eyes. Lily dared to say this thanks to her strong body. If an ordinary person fell, would it be "painful to death"
Vivienne was the calmest person on the scene, but she can fly...
Before embarking on this dangerous road, Becky asked everyone to drive all the horses to the front of the team. Letting these old horses lead the way is the mercenary experience in this world: these horses themselves know how to advance on the dangerous road. There is no need for people to lead them in front, and letting them walk in front can also prevent the horses from being frightened and rushing the people in front of them off the cliff when an accident occurs. "I seem to smell..." Vivienne walked in front of Hao Ren, and when she was halfway through the dangerous road, she suddenly turned around with a frown. "There seems to be a smell of blood in front, very fresh."
"Blood smell?" Hao Ren was startled. I said in my heart that it must not be that the visitor from another world had an accident, "Hurry up!"
Everyone finally walked through this narrow mountain path without any danger. After bypassing a few huge rocks, the road in front of them became clearer, and the bloody smell Vivienne mentioned was getting closer and closer, even Hao Ren himself It can be vaguely distinguished.
A burst of noise came from the front, mixed with the roar of people, the collision of swords, and the rumble of something exploding, as if a battle was taking place ahead.
Becky has drawn out her enchanted sword: "Can you guys fight?"
Vivian's eyes were already bloodshot. Lily's ears and tail have also popped out. In this world, the two don't worry about the troubles caused by transformation, so they change without hesitation when the situation requires it. Seeing them in this form, Becky felt relieved: "Ha, it turns out they are werewolves and vampires, so at least there is no problem with self-protection. Let's touch them carefully."…
The battle sound was getting closer and closer, and those roars were also mixed with the pain of some people who were injured. After turning the last detour, Hao Ren finally saw what was happening in front of him: a team of men and horses were fighting...some kind of stone monster.
Those people should also be mercenaries, wearing a variety of equipment, weapons and armor styles are all uneven, which is a typical feature of a mercenary "miscellaneous army". There are about twelve or three of them, and the one fighting them is Hao Strange "creatures" that Ren could never have imagined. They were a group of strange things that looked like rock statues. They were four or five meters high, with a greyish-brown rock texture. They roughly looked like limbs and heads. They were all covered with moss and broken vines, like monsters out of grotesque fairy tales.
The battle seemed to have lasted for a long time. More than a dozen mercenaries were all wounded, and some of them had even lost their combat effectiveness. They were covered in blood and could barely stand on the edge of the battlefield with the support of their weapons. At the same time, they struggled to dodge the aftermath of the battle. And the situation of the remaining mercenaries is not much better. Those giant rock monsters seem to have overwhelming fighting power. Although they move a bit slowly, the thick mountain rocks are almost invulnerable. Most of the mercenaries' swords can only jump out a string of sparks when they are cut on these monsters, and the magic bombards them. It just blows up some rock debris, and conversely, if the rock monster casually hits a mercenary with a mortal body, it will be the result of his flesh and blood.
The fighting methods of those monsters are also very simple and rough, that is, rushing and trampling. Their slow movement is not a problem. No matter how slow a huge creature with a height of four or five meters runs, it cannot be easily caught up by short humans, so The mercenaries can only wait for the monster to approach and rely on agility to dodge in a small area: this should be the experience they have just accumulated.
There were only three rock monsters, but they beat up more than a dozen mercenaries into danger.
On the other side of the mountain path, Hao Ren saw a large spread of broken rocks, which seemed to be the only rock monster killed by the mercenaries, and he didn't know how they did it.
It was the first time Hao Ren saw such a bizarre battle scene, and he was inevitably stunned for a moment, but Y'zaks had already rushed up, shouting, "Hurry up and help!"
Then Vivienne spread her wings and rushed into the air, quickly summoning two groups of electric bats, and began to brew her powerful lightning strike, while Lily summoned her own bats. He raised his head to the sun (there was no moon at this time) and let out a long wolf howl. After being dazed by the sun, he lowered his head and rushed towards the cliff—Hao Ren quickly stepped forward and dragged her to change the direction, silly girl Then rushed to those rock monsters.
Nangong Wuyue quickly found a safe place to get up, and cautiously lowered her hatred value: There is no way, she is only a healing profession, if facing ordinary creatures, her sea monster power may be useful, but what about those rock monsters? It doesn't look like one with water in its body, nor does it look like a spiritual unit that can be hypnotized by singing...
Hao Ren handed the girl's pot to Nangong Wuyue, and rushed forward with the shield.
Although he didn't like this kind of inexplicable battle, he was a man and couldn't watch from the sidelines at this time.
"Boom!" Vivienne's lightning shock was finally brewing, and two cone-shaped electric lights made of bats slammed into the stone monster closest to her like two high-explosive warheads. The sound of the huge explosion echoed in the mountains for a long time.
Lily waved her double blades and happily rushed into the range of the explosion. She wanted to snatch the head angrily: "Look at how awesome I am!"
As a result, she rushed out in the next second: "You bastard, bat! Stones don't conduct electricity!"
The mountain wind blew, and the smoke cleared away. Sure enough, the rock monster hit by Vivian's lightning strike was still standing there. Although the explosion just now was really powerful, a layer of stone was cut off from the monster's body, and half of its head was still standing there. It was also blown to pieces, and its whole body was covered with scorched marks and cracks, but it was still standing, and it had already started chasing Lily, who rushed up recklessly just now.
It seems that for a stone monster, this kind of injury is not a big deal at all.
Vivienne's lightning shock has two stages of damage, one is two electric cones bombarded together to produce an explosion caused by high temperature, the other is the strong electric shock itself, the latter's lethality to ordinary creatures is simply at the level of natural disasters, The voltage is as strong as thunder in nature, but the vampire girl seems to lack experience in dealing with such strange monsters: their resistance is too high, and they don't seem to be afraid of explosions...
The advantage of sneak attack has been lost, and the next step is to fight head-on. )