A sword slashed away a wild wolf in front of him. Duan Qing slowed down his physical strength, and then shouted to the other side: "How is it? Can you survive?"
"It's okay now, but it won't be okay in a while..."
When he realized that the four people on his side were about to be surrounded, Duan Qing gave the order decisively and moved the team to a position near the cave entrance against the wall. With his back to the rock wall, he began to face the attacks of wild wolves from left to right.
.
That's right, the monsters in the cave now are wild wolves.
Why are there wild wolves in this place? This question is no longer the first thing Duan Qing and the others think about, because the attack power of these wild wolves is much stronger than what they encountered in the wild before. They fell at the entrance before.
The crystal worms are proof of this.
Those wild wolves seemed to have signs of becoming demonized, and after becoming demonized, they did not gain the ability to cast magic, but their strength was enhanced. When Duan Qing's team just retreated to the edge of the rock wall, there was a
The wild wolf that rushed over was pushed to the wall by Duan Qingxu, and then... that claw scattered the protruding rocks over there.
Several people's eyelids twitched, and they gave up their original idea of a battle, and instead began to calmly resist the attacks of several monsters.
Mengzhu's fighting ability is not strong, and with the purple robe she has not changed out of in the Novice Village until now, her defense is probably tight, so she can only hide behind Uncle Smiling's shield and fight Xiao Hongchen.
He defended the attacks on both sides with one right. Due to the previous lessons, the shirtless man was no longer as brave as before. He honestly chopped back the threats on both sides with axe. He even made mindless moves and was able to defeat the four wild beasts.
Something was gained from the Wolf's siege.
Of course, the wild wolf's attacks are mainly focused on the smiling uncle at the front.
"Pay attention to your positioning. Just keep guarding behind me at all times." The uncle, who turned around from time to time with a focused look, still had the energy to direct the other two people who had an obvious gap in strength and consciousness: "If you can't see clearly what's ahead.
In this situation, I just took action without thinking... eh."
The wild wolf in front made another violent impact, knocking back the smiling butcher's next words.
"Uncle, are you okay?"
"It's okay." The old man in front let out a long breath, and then put the shield up in front again: "Fortunately, I replaced it with this black iron shield before..."
"There is no way to go on like this." Mengzhu forced the wolf back with a knife, and then looked to the other side anxiously: "If you keep guarding like this, my uncle's physical strength will not be able to hold it..."
"Hey, I can't hold it anymore... just follow me!" The smiling uncle suddenly removed his shield, took two steps back, and then pointed the black iron shield forward again: "But it's not a problem, let's
I just need to take a breath..."
"So it's time to act recklessly!" Behind him, Xiao Hongchen's arrogant shout suddenly rang out. Before the smiling butcher could say anything to stop him, the muscular man was already shouting and jumping.
Got out.
"Eat my whirlwind fire dance!"
He held the ax in both hands and slashed from the upper left to the lower right.
Because it was a fall after jumping up, Xiao Hongchen's ax was extremely powerful. The two wild wolves that were barking in front of the iron shield were slashed by the sudden ax and rolled to the side wailing, but they were on the ground.
The way he was twisting wildly meant that he probably didn't die immediately. Xiao Hongchen gave a long laugh, and just as he was about to rush forward to finish off the wound, the two remaining wild wolves rushed up, one on the left and the other on the right, biting the comrade in front of him who dared to attack them.
of prey.
In desperation, Xiao Hongchen could only lift the ax handle and barely blocked the attack of one of the wild wolves. The other wild wolf stretched out its claws and slapped his right leg with one claw.
With a bang, it was swatted away by the smiling butcher's shield.
Xiao Hongchen staggered to the side, and then he was thrown to the ground by the wild wolf biting the ax handle. There was saliva dripping from his mouth, the wild wolf stared with red eyes, roared in a low voice, and then suddenly let go of the axe.
With the handle, he slapped the man lying on the ground on the head with one claw.
Then, its head was stabbed through with a dagger.
Mengzhu pulled out his weapon with all his strength, staggered back two steps, and was protected by the smiling uncle. Amidst the barking of the other wild wolves, the uncle roared like never before.
"Laugh at Hongchen! If you are a man, stand up quickly!"
"...Damn it, Lao Bang's legs were broken!"
It seems that the wild wolf's blow just now was not completely avoided...
Mengzhu gritted his teeth and wanted to rush out and drag his teammates back, but the two wild wolves that had been knocked away by Xiao Hongchen also rushed back and pounced on the remaining three people.
Mengzhu grabbed Xiao Hongchen, who was still lying on the ground struggling. In the field of vision ahead, the bodies of two wild wolves suddenly enlarged, and then... a foot appeared out of the air and kicked one of the wolves.
superior.
The wolf howled again and flew sideways, knocking over its companion running beside it, and then rolled on the ground several times before stopping.
"They just have stronger attack power." When Duan Qing's voice sounded, the outermost wolf had already been chopped down by his sword: "Don't carry them all the time, you must learn to avoid them."
He rushed forward, stepped behind a certain wolf in a few steps, and then punched out, knocking the wolf staggering.
The smiling uncle rushed forward in two or two steps, slapped the other wolf with his shield, and sent that wolf flying away. Then he and Mengzhu brought Xiao Hongchen back. In front of them, wearing Mengzhu,
The man in the brown leather armor he received in Novice Village was still dealing with the remaining two wolves. At a certain moment, he rolled over behind a certain wolf, then knelt down, raised up, slashed horizontally, and struck again.
The two wolves forced themselves out.
I remember that there were three wolves besieging the bad uncle before...
Mengzhu stared blankly at Duan Qing, who was still rolling in front of him, and then was woken up by the smiling butcher: "Hey, hey! Where are the bandages..."
"oh oh......"
The girl hurriedly took out the first-aid bandage from her backpack, and then bandaged Xiao Hongchen, who was constantly gasping for air.
"Uncle Xiao Hongchen, please don't be so impulsive next time..."
"Hey...hey, man...how can it be...not impulsive..."
"I guess that's why you always get kicked out of other teams."
"How did you know... No, labor and management didn't... get kicked out... Ouch, it hurts so much, lovely Mengzhu...
Sister, can you please be gentle..."
"Stop talking nonsense! The injured should squat down..."
"Just...don't worry about me, just save your life if you can..."
"Don't look at us, the fight is almost over."
Amid another wolf howl, Duan Qing got up from half-kneeling on the ground and walked back to the middle of the team.
"Can I still leave?"
"Hiss...there is difficulty..."
"Then there's nothing we can do. Let's fix it first."
"What does fixation mean...?"
Under Xiao Hongchen's puzzled gaze, Mengzhu took out two more wooden boards from his bag, and then... took out some ropes.
"What is this..."
"Don't be afraid, I found the method online." Duan Qing said: "But we haven't tried it yet...so."
"Just in time to practice with you."
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Although they survived the attack in the end, the team suffered serious losses in this battle, and the remaining people became more and more worried during the exploration.
As for the original mission goal, it has become less important.
As one of the moderate monsters, the Tunnel Crystal Worm is not a very dangerous monster to begin with, so even with the current team's average level of 20, this kind of task of cleaning up the mines is within their acceptable range.
However, their purpose was not to kill insects in the first place. Now that things have developed to this extent, they have to give up the idea of "taking advantage of others".
As they went deeper, more and more strange monsters appeared.
Fortunately, the remaining three combat-effective personnel were much more cautious. In the next tunnel, several people encountered lone wild wolves, wild boars, lizards, and poisonous snakes. They were all pulled out and cleaned up separately, smiling.
With the cooperation of Uncle and Duan Qing on offense and defense, there was not much danger in their advancement. However, because of this, their progress slowed down greatly, until they encountered a wild bear that could stand upright, and several people struggled
After a lot of hard work, they finally stopped moving forward.
"Although these monsters are less powerful than the old Emerald Forest, they are... really weird."
"We are all people who have read very few books and do not understand the game of the free world... Xiao Hongchen, you should be the person who knows this game best. In such a situation... in the free world
Is it common?”
Dragging his injured leg, Xiao Hongchen followed slowly behind the team. What was being used as a crutch in his hand was the clothes pole he had obtained in the previous mission.
"How do I know...well, I really don't know." Seeing the team stop, he panted and leaned against the wall of the cave, erected the iron pole to the side, and sat on the ground with his broken leg stretched out.
——It had to be that he was also one of the reasons why the team was moving slowly at this time. In order to ensure the safety of the rear, Duan Qing and others even had to explore and clean up the aisles along the road.
"All kinds of strange phenomena are one of the charms of the free world. So... is it normal for these messy things to appear in the mine?"
"No, this is not normal..."
"Okay, it has to be solved." Duan Qing put away his weapon and sat down next to Xiao Hongchen: "Then let's analyze together why these wild monsters appear here...
....”
"Before that, I think another issue is more noteworthy." Uncle Smile put the black iron shield aside and participated in the discussion: "The person who gave us the task before did not mention it...
This is the current situation.”
"Well......"
"Maybe it's because he doesn't know?"
"With so many miners coming in and out, it's impossible that not a single wild wolf has appeared...and their attacks were so strong, those crystal worms were as hard as rocks, and they were actually eaten by them...
....”
"So they are all demonized creatures. In a place like a mine where there is no sunlight, it is possible to survive the presence of demonized creatures, right? And with their unscientific powers, why can the bugs be easily carried away by dogs?
You can get by..."
"But their existence itself...does not pass."
"Is there another entrance to this mine? They might have come in from that kind of place..."
"Then they became demonized? Then they took over the mines?"
"Still doesn't work..."
"Come on!" The girl's cry suddenly came from the front of the cave. Soon after, several people discovered Mengzhu who had rushed back from the tunnel behind the black bear's body.
"There is a corpse ahead." She gasped: "I'm scared to death..."
The girl didn't know when she sneaked to the front, then ran back in panic, and was laughed at and comforted by several grown men as usual.
Under the illumination of the torch, Duan Qing led the team to find the body. Judging from the degree of decomposition, the man seemed to have died not long ago. The brown robe was draped on him, but it had been torn to pieces.
It turned out to be the work of those crazy beasts. Several people endured nausea and searched his body up and down, but found nothing that could prove his identity.
The only thing that could be confirmed was that this man seemed to have been a mage in life. In addition to the fact that he was wearing something that looked like a robe, several people also found his staff not far away.
[Stone Staff (Excellent)]
[Weapon power: weak]
[Equipment requirements: Intelligence 7, Spirit 1o]
[Special effect: Your soil spell will become harder.]
["Most of Sunderland's mages focus on earth magic. Even the most junior mages will have their own earth magic staff, which makes their earth magic more powerful."]
"Hmm, it seems to be something with a lot of history." After looking at the staff, which was all yellow and seemed to be made of tree branches, Duan Qing passed it on to others.
"This mage should also have a background, so..." Uncle Smile touched his chin and nodded: "If we go back and report to the Mage Council, we should have an answer."
"Of course." Duan Qing said: "But we have to wait until we get back. And..."
He looked at the front of the mine. There was no light in the dark depths of the cave, like the mouth of a beast that chooses people to eat.
"We have to be able to withstand what's coming next..." He took out his weapon and shook the sword as usual: "If he is indeed a member of the Council of Mages, then things will be serious."
"Assuming he is a member of the Mage Council, then the Mage Council does have a lot of vision." The smiling butcher raised his torch and tried to light up the road ahead: "No matter what he was sent here to do, he should be an earth magician.
, then... sending him here should be a very correct choice."
"But he's dead now."
"So what we're going to face... could be a very serious situation."
"Let's look for other things that can represent his identity. This way we can find out his identity when we go back..."
"Hey guys, maybe there's more to this than you think."
Sitting aside with his injured leg, Xiao Hongchen, who had not moved all this time, suddenly said, "Didn't you discover... the cause of death of this deceased?"
He leaned against the wall and pointed at the neck of the corpse who also had his back against the wall with the makeshift clothes pole used as a crutch.
"He was killed, and...it was a stab wound."
This chapter has been completed!