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Dense dots of light.
When Leah presented the picture obtained by the mental scan in everyone's minds, the light spots representing the number of ratmen made all the high-ranking people feel a little bitter. Judging from the speed and strength of the ratmen just now, they can at least be comparable to human warriors of the sixth rank, and even more dangerous. But everyone present would rather face a group of fighters of the sixth and seventh ranks than face this kind of local aborigines in the special environment of the underground canyon.
There is no doubt that these alien species who are familiar with the environment here will have enhanced abilities in all aspects.
"Leah, scan to see if there is any place where we can attack." Zero said.
Leah nodded, her eyes became dim again.
Mo Ni frowned and said, "Don't you think about leaving?"
Zero shook his head: "If this is the distance in the back part of the canyon, then I will consider leaving here. Unfortunately, we are located in the first half of the canyon, and there should be a long distance from the canyon. The speed of these ratmen, I am afraid Only you, me, and Yeliu can hope to get rid of it. As for the others, they can't, since they are entangled with them on the way to escape, it's better to find a more favorable place to meet them."
"Even if they can't be wiped out, we must beat them to death, otherwise our road ahead will be very troublesome."
Mo Ni nodded in agreement. Liya said at this time: "I found it, 500 meters ahead. There is a turning point, where I scanned a building. It looks a bit like the previous advance base."
"That should be a stronghold established by the Shadow Clan when they came to the Giant Beast Canyon. Let's go." Ling said: "Ye Liu, please take Liya with you. She is the slowest, and I will break the back. Jin and Alice and your abilities cannot adapt to this kind of high-speed battle, so you will stay in the middle of the team. Hai Wei and Mo Ni, you protect the two sides of the team, remember not to love to fight. If you can't kill them in seconds, just break their joints."
As for the other blade hunters, they were completely dispersed to protect the formation from being impacted by the ratmen.
After determining the direction, Zero gestured. The team started to move, and as soon as they moved, the light spots on the cliffs on both sides also moved. In the darkness, the sound of paws rubbing against the ground resounded continuously. Zero yelled, "Kim, we need some light!"
Naturally, at this time, we couldn't be stingy with the flares, and Jin immediately shot them into the sky. The flares swayed into the air with their flame tails, and when they approached the underground dome, they shone brightly. At the edge of the visible range of the flare, at a glance, there are all thin and slender ratmen. They rushed down from both sides of the mountain wall without making any sound, and then they chased behind everyone like a tide.
Zero stopped suddenly, bursting with momentum, and waved a fate break. A golden thread appeared in the canyon, and in an instant the golden thread turned into billowing waves, crashing into the crowd of rats a hundred meters away. However, these ratmen were very vigilant, but the moment the golden thread appeared, most of them jumped or rolled, and scattered away. Breaking Zero's fate can only hit about twenty ratmen, which is frighteningly inefficient.
But in the memory of the Ratmen, there was probably no one who could take the lives of dozens of their compatriots in one blow, so the pace unexpectedly stopped. Let the compatriots behind pass by, and then came back to their senses, forming a wave to chase after him again.
The team moved forward at full speed.
Suddenly there was a sharp whistling sound from the mountain walls on both sides, and seven or eight ratmen in gray fur fell to the ground, and then came towards the two sides of the team. These rat people are obviously stronger, and there is a hexagonal spar embedded in their foreheads. When they were running at full speed, a blue fire lit up deep in the spar. The light gradually increases from weak to bright like a light bulb at the end.
The speed of the squirrel man continued to increase, and a faint power of energy emerged from his body. Every squirrel has reached the eighth level of human strength!
The elite of these skaven quickly approached the group, bearing the brunt of the scattered blade hunters. These biological weapons didn't know what fear was at all, they were in groups of two, and each pounced on a squirrel man. The blade hunter's speed is no worse than that of an ordinary squirrel. It may not be as fast as a squirrel in a short-distance sprint, but it is more than enough to entangle the opponent.
The hunters are very fierce. As soon as they pounce on the squirrel man, they immediately use their sharp blades to go in and out of the opponent's body. Ratmen are far inferior to sauropods in terms of physical strength, and they don't have a natural bony armor stomach for protection. Even the squirrels are no exception, but they are not comparable to the lizard dragon in terms of mobility and explosive power.
Being entangled and torn to death by the sharp-bladed hunter, the squirrel man was unafraid. Letting the hunter's blade go in and out, the forelimb was like a knife, and the sharp blade cut off the hunter's head immediately. Just being entangled by the sharp-bladed hunters, there were only two squirrels approaching both sides of the team from the original eight.
Hai Wei and Mo Ni shot at the same time.
Although both of them are also at the eighth level, their combat experience is far from comparable to these natives who have lived underground for a long time. In the case of the same rank, the amount of combat experience will directly determine the outcome of a battle.
The battle had just begun, and it ended almost instantly. Both Moni and Hai Wei had explosive fighting styles. The death assault brought Moni to the back of the squirrel man, and the squirrel man's waist was cold, and Mo Ni was cut in half. On the other side, Haiwei slammed into the rat man's left forelimb joint. She concentrated her strength and broke the ratman's joints without any difficulty, and at the same time the huge impact lifted the ratman up.
The Rat Man was still in mid-air, Haiwei squatted on the ground and bounced to the Rat Man in an instant. She clenched the squirrel man tightly with both hands and feet, and her body spun down in the air, directly breaking the squirrel man's cervical vertebrae. Although the Ratman died immediately, he was unable to hunt down Haiwei again. The girl clapped her hands and returned to her original position in the line.
After getting rid of the attack of the elite team of ratmen, Zero's team quickly left. During this period, Zero blasted two more Destiny Breaks, hindering the pursuit of the soldiers behind.
Finally, they spotted the ShadowClan stronghold at a bend in the canyon.
Somewhat similar to the previous forward base, but obviously on a much smaller scale. However, the people of the Shadow Clan did the necessary fortifications meticulously. Leah had already found the entrance of the stronghold on the way, which was also a gap in the bunker, but Leah reminded that there was a small amount of life inside. Arriving at the entrance, Ye Liu put Liya down, and rushed into the mouth first.
After a while, the screams of some kind of beast kept ringing in the entrance. Zero knew that Yeliu had started to clean up the stronghold, so he let go of the girl and gestured for the team to enter one after another. After Zero's responsibility was broken, the Blade Hunter was completely consumed here. Next, they can only rely on themselves.
As soon as they entered the bunker, the wall near the gap was shattered piecemeal, and the gap was sealed by falling rocks, so that if the Ratmen wanted to attack, they had to attack from the front. Coming out of the passage of the dark fort, the killing in the stronghold has ended. Zero saw three or five rat corpses. It seemed that this stronghold was patronized by the Ratmen and should be used as a lair by the Ratmen, but their luck was not bad.
It seems that just in time for the Ratmen to come out in full force, they instead occupy the magpie's nest and get a huge advantage.
This stronghold is located at a triangular corner of the canyon, so the stronghold is built in a square shape. Facing the open space of the canyon, a triangular structure is formed by the sentinel walls on both sides. After Zero and the others came out of the passage, they immediately passed the sentinel wall on the stone steps behind the wall. The light of the flares was fading, and a wave of ratmen had already rushed to the ground of the canyon.
They stopped not far from the stronghold, and seemed in no hurry to attack. From the performance of these rat people, it can be confirmed that they have evolved wisdom, and they can also be regarded as a branch of the alien race. It's just that they live underground for a long time, and they are ferocious and barbaric by nature, just like the primitive aborigines who cannot communicate with words. Therefore, it is foreseeable that the final return of the two sides is to repel them by force.
"We need firelight, find everything that can be ignited." Zero said.
The others immediately dispersed, each looking for something to go. Standing on the wall, Zero smelled a stench. He frowned, walked around, and found that there was a wooden trough installed on the outside of the sentry wall, and the wooden trough was filled with some dark things. It was the problem of the stench of these things. Zero dipped his hand a little and found that these things were very oily, like ointment from certain creatures.
He was overjoyed immediately, when Jin and the others moved some dead branches. I don't know what kind of underground plants these dead branches are taken from. They are hard to the touch, and I don't know whether they can be burned. Zero picked up a section, directly dipped the ointment in the wooden trough, and then fired a shot at the dead branch with a rifle. Sparks flickered, and the dead branches immediately burned. Obviously, the ointment in the wooden trough is combustible.
This wooden trough and ointment should be another means of defense used by the Shadow Clan. The wooden trough and the sentry wall are separated by a distance of about ten centimeters, and are fixed with triangular brackets. As long as the bracket is cut off, the wooden trough will fall together with the ointment. The oiliness of the ointment will make the sentinel wall difficult to climb. At that time, add a fire to form a wall of fire to block the attack.
Simple, but brutal.
"Head, we found something else."
Haiwei and Yeliu brought something over, and in Haiwei's hands were three simple wooden crossbows. Without any special processing technology, after zero trial, the range of this wooden crossbow is also very average, and it is quite rare to be able to shoot an arrow about a hundred meters. As for Yeliu, she was holding two wooden boxes. There are some short arrows stacked in these two long wooden boxes, but what makes people dumbfounded is that these short arrows are also made of wood.
In short, these are primitive weapons. Maybe it's okay to shoot animals, but it's just a joke to use it to whack rats.
Ye Liu looked at Ling, and said calmly: "The arrow is hollow, and there is something inside."
Ling looked at the girl in surprise, Yeliu had already picked up one of them. The arrow and the rod can be separated with a little force, and Ye Liu handed the arrow to Zero. As she said, the arrow is hollow, and it is also filled with the ointment in the wooden groove. In this case, the lethality of the arrow itself is negligible, but the low ignition point of the ointment can be used to cause fire damage.
There are more than two hundred arrows like this, not many, but not many.
"Very good, with these things, we will be a lot easier." Zero said.
King said with a wry smile: "Now I miss the big guys like Brown."
Zero knew that he was talking about Brown's six-barreled machine gun. Indeed, if there was such a big killer, the battle would be easier. He patted Jin on the shoulder and said, "Staying will cause them some trouble."
"If time permits, I can even create a quicksand belt for them."
Zero nodded, looked down, and said, "Let's create some light first."
So they dipped the dead branches with oil, and then used the burning wooden branches just now as torches, lit these dead branches and threw them on the ground outside the stronghold. These sticks were strange, and although they were dry and flammable, they did not burn fast enough to serve as lighting for the battlefield. Under the light of the fire, one could vaguely see that the Ratmen on the other side were just wandering around, but did not attack immediately, which was very strange.
"It always feels like they are waiting for someone to give orders." Zero said with his arms crossed.
"Could it be the Mouse King?" Jin half-jokingly said, but in exchange for zero seriousness, he said with a dry smile, "I guessed it right?"
"It's not surprising that they have evolved intelligence and must have a leader."
At the end of Zero's words, a huge aura suddenly rose from the dark end of the canyon. The aura was very violent, like a giant tornado connecting heaven and earth. Zero was surprised, judging from the strength of the breath, it turned out to be the ninth rank.
A level nine Ratman
He took a wooden crossbow from Haiwei's hand, loaded it with arrows, and put it on the fire to light it. Zero immediately shot an arrow towards the source of the breath, the arrow did not fly straight, but passed a parabola. When it was about to fall, the fire in the shell ignited the oil inside, and the arrow exploded. The ointment inside was ignited by the flames and spread out, falling to the ground to form several balls of flames. By the light of the fire, everyone saw that the Ratmen were in confusion for a while, and then the chaos subsided. And behind these brown ratmen are dozens of gray ratmen. Among the squirrel people, there is one squirrel who stands out the most.
It has fiery red hair, as bright as a ball of flames. The fiery red-haired rat man is not as big as the squirrel man, but it is upright and has two spars on its chest. This red rat man is the leader of this alien species of rat man. It was extremely angry at the zero-fired rockets, and pointed at the stronghold and let out a short and sharp cry.
Then ordinary Ratmen began to push forward. They were divided into several rows, each row was spaced apart, and they spread out to avoid a head-on blow to Zero. The swarm of rats surged, and Zero looked at Jin. The latter has been concentrating on mobilizing the earth element of the space. This place is located under the ground, and the earth element is extremely rich. Soon, the ground shook, and sharp stone cones burst out of the ground one after another, picking some ratmen who couldn't dodge into the air.
The unlucky ghosts who were impaled by the stone awl were cut open by the sharp awl point, and did not die immediately, but the blood flowed continuously from the wound, dyeing the stone awl red in a blink of an eye.
A forest of stone cones emerged out of nowhere on the ground. They didn't kill many ratmen, but they effectively disrupted their attacking rhythm. Hai Wei, Zero, and Mo Ni have already seized the opportunity and greeted the Ratman below with rockets. These rockets are not very powerful by themselves, the real lethal power comes from the ointment in the hollow arrows. When the arrow hits the Rat Man, when the surrounding area explodes on the ground, the ointment inside will splatter in flames.
The ignition point of the ointment is very low, and it almost ignites when it encounters a fire. After a while, the ground under the stronghold is already full of fireballs. Even if the rats that were stuck to their bodies by the ointment were not killed by the fire, they were scorched in a large area.
For a while, most of the Ratmen's forwards were stopped under the stronghold. Only a few of the arrow rains that passed the zero-level people rushed to the sentry wall of the stronghold. At this time, Alice would greet the other party with her ice shards. The rat man's body was not as strong as the lizard dragon's defensive strength, and the whistling and spinning ice shards were enough to leave deep holes on their bodies. Alice waved and threw dozens of ice flakes, killing those who slipped through the net to bloody flesh.
Seeing this scene, the Red Rat screamed angrily. It drove the remaining squirrels and the elite squirrels to attack together. Seeing this, Zero dropped the wooden crossbow and picked up his own rifle instead. Switching to sniper mode, Zero put the Red Ratman in the front sight. Almost at the same time he pressed the trigger, the leader of the Red Rat in the sights also looked towards Zero. Then it hit the ground like lightning, and the sniper bullets only plowed across its back, tearing off a large piece of red hair and a cloud of blood mist!
Under this attack, the leader of the Red Rat was a little panicked, apparently he had never encountered such a weapon as a sniper rifle. But it has evolved intelligence, but it sneaked into the attacking team quite cunningly, and launched a charge towards the stronghold along with the Ratman army.
Yeliu's cold snort sounded next to Zero, and the girl's figure flickered, and she went straight down the wall, directly attacking the Chinese army!
Ye Liu ignored those ordinary rat people, she passed through a large number of brown-haired rat people like a ghost, and then rushed into the white rat people's position. Looking from a distance, the head or some part of the body of the White Ratman flew high between the flickering of several pitch-black silk threads. But Yeliu didn't stay long for the Rat Man, her goal was to go to the Rat Man leader.
Locking on the leader of the Ratman, Yeliu's little hand caught it, and countless black silk threads gathered into a bundle, forming a black rapier in her hand. This thin sword, which is bundled with countless energy threads, flickers in the air like black electricity. When it skims the air, it even leaves one or two electric snakes as thin as gossamer. It's just that although the electric snake is small, a squirrel accidentally bumped into it, allowing the electric snake to sink into its body. Within three or two steps, the Squirrelman suddenly had a huge wound on his body, but it was torn open by the inconspicuous electric snake!
The leader of the Ratmen saw Yeliu rushing towards him, and it screamed, its hair standing on end. The two clusters of spar on his chest shone with dazzling light, driving his strength to the extreme, the Red Ratman went to meet Yeliu. The two intertwined, red light and black electricity continued to explode, and the sound of collision between energies continued. Both Yeliu and the leader of the Ratman fought fast, and instantly turned into countless afterimages intertwined together, forming dazzling shadows.