An armored beast like a small tank faces off against a small group of humans (theoretically), and the tension between the two sides seems to be on the verge of breaking out. The eyes of the black beast are full of killing and hunger - the latter is particularly dangerous. The three heavily armed knights of the Kingdom who were directly facing each other seemed to be facing a formidable enemy. They held the long swords in their hands tightly and kept fine-tuning the positions of their feet to ensure that the moment the enemy rushed over, they could dodge and launch a counterattack at the fastest speed. , the heavy armor on his body does not seem to bring much sense of security to the knights. Although it is strong and excellent in the eyes of many people, facing a dark moon monster whose claws are about the size of a person, no one dares to say that his body is covered with How much protection can the half-centimeter steel plate have.
While we were analyzing the special energy carried by the monster in surprise, Joseph was also planning the battle plan of his three-person team as the captain. He did not dare to take his eyes off the monster, and said in a low tone: "Keep calm! , Hold your weapon tightly, stare into the enemy's eyes, and don't run away, the speed of human beings can't run away from this monster."
Qiao took a deep breath, and raised the long sword obliquely in front of his body, ensuring that he could launch it immediately no matter whether he was stabbing or blocking: "It would have been nice if we were riding on a horse before, but fighting on foot is very bad for us now."
Joseph's voice was still steady: "It doesn't work on horseback. Didn't you see that our three horses have already pissed—stop talking nonsense, keep your body leaning forward, tighten your lower muscles, and use all your previous experience in engaging the enemy superior."
Anna nodded: "What to do next, what attack plan do you have?"
"No plan," Joseph shook his head bachelorly, "it's just that it's more dignified to die like this."
Everyone: "..."
I was discussing with Bingtis next to me, and I finally couldn't hold back when I heard this. There was never a time when the trio of Iron Knights couldn't break the chain normally! The female hooligan strode over, and under the stunned gaze of the three of Joseph, she came straight to the beast. The latter was still grinning and pretending to be fierce, but it instinctively raised its head when it saw Bingtis approaching. Raising its paw, it just showed hostility towards Sister Bing, then it trembled as if it had been fatally attacked. Then it made a whimpering sound, and trembled and backed away. Bingtis stood less than one meter away from the monster, looking up at the huge black figure like a hill: "Are you honest now?"
There was a strange gurgling sound from the giant beast's throat, and it slowly lowered its body. I noticed that the muscles of this beast were shrinking rapidly, and the fur and horny armor on its body were also losing their luster at a speed visible to the naked eye: it was freezing. Tees lost his life force under his gaze.
"However, it's a life." Bingtis stretched out his hand and pressed on the twisted claw of the giant beast, his voice was a bit soft, "It's not uncomfortable if your body mutates like this... Sleep peacefully, I will temporarily exile your soul Go to a safe place, and the world will be in our hands, and everything will be fine when we wake up. Now, go to sleep."
The ferocious and terrifying beast was completely quiet before. It seemed to understand Bingtis' words, its eyes lowered slowly, and a murmur came out from its throat, like the last babble in sleep.
The last breath of life also left this huge and distorted mutated body. It shriveled at a speed visible to the naked eye, and turned into black dust and mist scattered in the air before it completely rotted. Bingtis reached out and caught the last bit in her The black ash hovering around him was slightly crushed with his fingers, with a thoughtful expression on his face.
"It should have died hundreds of years ago, and the power of the abyss made it linger in a state between corpses and wraiths to this day," Bingtis read something from the black ash, "The domesticated abyss... yes Things that are completely harmless to us are still beyond the tolerance of these creatures. There should be many such monsters wandering in this Gobi desert, if we don't want to spoil our mood, we'd better go around."
Lin Xue waved at Joseph vigorously: "Wake up, wake up, you are still alive, don't just stare there like you were scared to death. Pack up your equipment and go on—do you still want these three horses?"
The trio of iron knights walked around the gate of hell in a daze, and now put away their weapons in a daze. Joe's eyes flicked around us, but after opening his mouth for a long time, he still didn't know what to say, so he could only spread his hands and check the condition of his horse. The three poor animals may have undergone rigorous training, but they obviously have no experience in confronting monsters the size of tanks. A horse may be able to recover, but basically it can only be used for carrying things in this half month.
I came to Bingtis and watched the last bit of black ash slowly dissipate on her fingers: "Is it really an abyss? We haven't felt it on the neighboring planet?!"
"You also know that the abyss is divided into many energy levels, and there is a strange state of complete inertness," Bingtis smiled. "Can you usually sense the abyss reaction on Sandora? It's the same here—they present Out of a completely harmless steady state, although some of the properties of the abyss still remain, it is not infected, does not spread, does not produce significant radiation, and does not even have much destructive power left. It was an ordinary animal just now, and it was killed by the abyss. After hundreds of years of pollution, although it mutated like that, it still remains awake, which is enough to explain the problem. If it wasn’t for coming to such a close distance to meet face-to-face, who would have known that there was such a thing on the dark moon.”
I think of Sandora's abyssal powers that were forcibly conquered by her willpower, which is indeed very similar to the situation before us: the tamed inertial abyss cannot be detected at all, even if Sandora completely releases her power, you You have to be very close to her to feel that dangerous breath, and unless Sandora actively catalyzes it, the abyss power on her will not contaminate anything—it is exactly the same as the abyss on that beast.
The difference is that the powerful Queen of the Empire controls the Abyss, and the poor animal just now has been tortured for hundreds of years and turned into a half-dead monster.
The question now is: where does the inert abyss on this planet come from
I immediately thought of the artifact.
At this moment, many clues fit together like precise gears "clicking" together, the origin of the dark moon demon, the earth-shaking changes of this planet, and the shadow of the demon released from the artifact mentioned by the old pope and the dragon girl , all of these are in order, and even I have a vague guess about the nature of the several dark moon wars. Although Bingtis still hasn't sensed the star field artifact on this planet, I can basically guess what impact that thing has had on this world.
"There's a village nearby," Ding Dong yelled while lying on my head as a bio-radar, and suddenly stretched out his hand to pluck my ear, "and there are a few people coming in our direction, about ten minutes later can touch."
I shook my head, temporarily put those complicated associations aside, Dingdang grabbed my hair and shouted: "Don't shake your head! Don't shake your head! Dingdang motion sickness, Ding Dong motion sickness!"
When Joseph's trio heard someone approaching, they immediately clenched the weapons in their hands, looking even more nervous than when they encountered the giant beast just now. In their common sense, there are only demons and monsters on Dark Moon. This is a place where everyone is an enemy except themselves. I glanced at Joe slightly, and I wondered if the elf had thought of so many complicated variables when he followed him with enthusiasm.
"Don't be nervous," Bingtis waved his hands lazily, and then the air in a large area nearby suddenly twisted for a moment, "Don't go too far or you won't be seen, let's hide first and look at the local area Let’s talk about what people look like.”
Thinking of the "invisibility technique" that can fool even the ancient dragon, Joe immediately put away his weapon with confidence. I looked at the three of them and suddenly came up with an idea: "Can you change these clothes first? Go deep into the enemy's rear You are still wearing the uniform of the coalition forces on the ground, and with your clothes, if the enemy catches you and does nothing, it will be enough to be roasted on the firewood stack for three days."
Joseph lowered his head to look at the battle suit that was put on outside the armor, scratching his hair a little bit embarrassed: "But we are knights..."
Anna tore off the battle clothes with the logo of the coalition forces on the ground and stuffed them into the backpack on the horse's back, while glaring at Joseph: "Okay, okay, it's not when you just came out of the village, why are you still like a child?" Childish, I know you are a knight, okay?"
The trio tidied up, and took off the armor on their upper bodies, leaving only the chain armor inside (after the scene just now, they already felt that the equipment on their bodies would not be of much use), which completely wiped out the power of the coalition forces on the ground. logo. And at this moment, the locals sensed by Ding Dang also came into everyone's sight.
A few vague figures emerged from the thick fog, getting closer and closer, Bingtis sensed whether the other party also had an abyss reaction, and then shook his head slowly: These are a group of normal people who have not been polluted.
This immediately became interesting: Not all dark moon creatures have been affected by that kind of secondary abyss, what does this mean
It means that there are actually two opposing groups on the dark moon. Think about the Gobi desert under our feet left by the battle two thousand years ago!
"It doesn't look much different from the people on the ground, and this is a civilian, right?" At this time, the small group of people was getting closer and closer, and we could already see each other's appearance clearly. These people suddenly pointed at three of them who looked like children and yelled, "Ah Jun, look, they have animal ears, animal ears, and tails~~~"
I saw it too. It was three very small locals, two girls and one boy. The clothes on them are no different from the civilians on the ground. Anyway, the dusty coarse cloth can be sewn to cover the body, and the appearance is no different from ordinary humans, but their biggest feature is that they have the same ears and ears as animals. Tail. One of the women looks a bit like a cat, with a pair of black cat ears and a cat tail that flicks around. The other woman and a man have some dog-like features. Of course, they may also be wolves—I judged by the tail, All three of them were wearing baggy clothes, and their tails protruded from the hem of their jackets, wagging in the air, which was very fun to watch.
But I don't have any other thoughts when I see the animal ears: there is a second-rate fox at home, her ears are almost making me pinch cocoons, and every now and then I will be tied up like a zongzi by nine tails. I have a special feeling for animal ears and animal tails, so when I can’t find a warm baby in winter, I will think of that big fur ball...
When Joe saw the three beast-eared creatures, he felt as if he was facing a formidable enemy. His muscles tensed up, and he lowered his voice even though he was completely hidden: "That's the monster... don't be fooled by their size, their magic Talent is higher than that of elves, and after turning into a beast form, the combat power is no less than that of dwarves. When Dark Moon attacks, these monsters are often officers. Too much the same?"
Joseph and Anna also recognized several other races of the Dark Moon People after a brief shock. Joseph pointed to a tall and thin man walking at the front of the line: "That's the night elf, doesn't it look very similar to Joe?" Like? But his eyes are red, and his complexion is darker, which is the characteristic of night demon elves. Although I have never seen a real person before, I have seen it in the picture book issued by the Knights."
Anna pointed to the other two men and women who looked almost indistinguishable from the people on the ground: "That's the dark blood man? Look at their golden eyes, it's exactly what the knights said."
"What are dark blood people?" I had never seen this race in the pile of information collected by Bingtis, so I immediately asked curiously.
"It's corrupted humans, vampires," Anna bit her lips. "Didn't the mountain barbarians use black witchcraft to corrupt the coalition forces during a war? Corrupted elves are called night elves, and corrupted humans are called vampires, but there is another one." The name is Dark Blood Men: It is said that their blood is black because they have been completely corrupted."
"Oh..." I nodded perfunctorily, looking thoughtfully at a few travelers not far away.
They have no traces of being polluted by the abyss, that is to say - the so-called legends of night goblins and vampires are mostly false, there are no elves and humans corrupted into new races, night goblins and vampires should have existed in ancient times ethnic group. And other than that, I didn't see any demon-related characteristics in the few dark moon people walking past in front of me. Although they look different from the people on the ground, apart from these appearance differences, they are very ordinary People: Just a small group of travelers on their way.
Joseph also had a weird look on his face. He scratched his messy hair like a lion's mane, and couldn't help muttering: "I thought the Dark Moon people were all vicious and covered in blood. These few look terrible." It's different than imagined."
"The dark moon people in your impression must not eat, drink, or talk. They have no family, no job, no parents. They have done nothing for hundreds of years and just stared at the sky on the moon to get nervous, and the child is born with a height of 1.8 meters Still wearing the armor of the devil, right?" Bingtis curled her lips in disdain, "The church and the army have taught you to be stupid, and the dark moon people are also living people who want to eat, drink, and scatter. My old lady saw a group of demons back then, and they also had composers and national-level singers... "
The trio of iron knights made the female hooligan froze at what she had said, and Qiao stayed for a long time before nodding stupidly: "Hey, I really didn't think so much at first..."
At this time, the small group of people was already more than ten meters away from us, and they were about to walk into the thick fog. Lin Xue quickly poked my arm to signal to follow, and a group of people followed behind this group of people, wanting to see them Where are you planning to go. The other party didn't look like they were traveling a long distance. Judging from their clothes and the small baggage that only two of them carried, these people should only be planning to travel for half a day: otherwise, it would be impossible to carry such a small amount of luggage. But they were heading in the opposite direction to the villages and towns detected by Ding Dong, and they didn't know what this group of people were doing. We followed for a while, and finally someone from the small group in front spoke up. It was the night elf who was the leader of the team. When the other party spoke, the content was beyond our expectations: "Speaking of which, the fog on the Great Wasteland is really unbearable. Breathing this air will even affect your lifespan, my second uncle lived in the wilderness for too long, and he died when he was just two hundred years old."
The monster girl with wolf ears behind him immediately started crackling like beans: "How many times can you repeat this topic? Your second uncle obviously fell to his death while hunting in the valley. What does it have to do with the fog? Rhett There is fog everywhere on Muen, and it’s not only here. Why do you suddenly remember to go to Dadicheng? Every time you teleport, you get dizzy. Don’t you know? Next up..."
The tall and thin night elf walked unhurriedly, and waited for a long time before speaking: "I have to punctuate your words in my head, otherwise I don't know what you are talking about. Isn't the Tiandi Bridge going to open again?" Well, there are quite a few people in the Upper City who still want to cross the Tiandi Bridge to return to Heisenwood, the situation there may be a bit messy now, I'll go and see if your uncle and the others can help, if it's impossible, bring them back to live in."
The bean jumping monster girl immediately snorted twice in dissatisfaction, and she didn't know whether it was a dog's tail or a wolf's tail flicking back and forth: "It's been hundreds of years, why do they still want to go home? It’s been several generations. By the way, you should be talking about those elves. This is conceivable. It’s really troublesome. Once they go back, there will be troubles. The blood princess and the barbarian king will definitely not agree. I haven’t seen the barbarian king for a long time. It hurts me to have to go to the ground again to get that knife again, by the way, did we go in the wrong direction?"
The thin tall elf thought about it again, and continued to say unhurriedly: "It must be true, I am very good at pathfinding."
A few of us followed not far behind and heard their conversation clearly. The Dadi City mentioned by the other party and those people who wanted to go back to Heisenwood in the Dadi City almost instantly reminded us of hundreds of years. Those soldiers who went on the expedition to the dark moon!
"Oh shit, it's high energy this time," Bingtis whistled, "I didn't expect the first day to go so smoothly!" RS