An armored beast that looks like a small tank is facing off against a small group of humans (theoretically). The tense atmosphere between the two sides seems to be on the verge of breaking out. The eyes of the black beast are shining with killing and hunger - the latter is particularly dangerous.
, and the three fully armed kingdom knights who were directly confronting them were as if they were facing a formidable enemy. They held the long swords in their hands tightly and constantly fine-tuned their positions to ensure that they could dodge and launch as quickly as possible when the enemy rushed over.
Counterattack, the thick armor on the body does not seem to bring much sense of security to the knights. Although it is strong and sophisticated in the eyes of many people, facing a Dark Moon monster with claws about the same size as a human, no one dares to say that they are covered with
How much protection can the half centimeter steel plate attached have?
While we were surprised to analyze the special energy carried by the monster, Joseph was also planning the battle plan of his three-person team as the captain. His eyes did not dare to leave the monster at all, and his tone was low: "Keep calm.
, hold your weapon tightly, stare into the enemy's eyes, and never run away, humans cannot outrun this kind of monster."
Qiao took a deep breath and held the long sword diagonally in front of him, ensuring that whether he was stabbing or blocking, he could launch it immediately: "It would have been better if we were riding on horses before, but fighting on foot is very detrimental to us now."
Joseph's voice was still calm: "It doesn't work if you ride on a horse. Didn't you see that the horses of the three of us have already peed? Stop talking nonsense, keep your body leaning forward, tighten your lower body muscles, and use all your previous experience in engaging the enemy.
Use it."
Anna nodded: "What to do next? What's your plan of attack?"
"There is no plan," Joseph shook his head in disbelief, "It's just that it's more dignified to die this way."
Everyone: "..."
Bingtis and I were discussing next to each other. When we heard this, we finally couldn't hold it in any longer. There was never a time when the iron knight trio didn't let go of their chains! The female hooligan strode over. In front of Joseph's trio
Under stunned gaze, he walked straight to the beast. The latter was grinning in a ferocious manner. When Bingtis stepped forward, it instinctively raised its paws. As a result, it just showed hostility towards Sister Bing.
Then his whole body trembled as if he had suffered some fatal attack, and then he let out a whimpering sound, and his whole body trembled and kept retreating. Bingtis stood less than one meter away from the monster, looking up at the small mountain-like monster.
Ran's black figure: "Are you honest now?"
There was a strange gurgling sound in the throat of the giant beast, and it slowly lowered its body. I noticed that the muscles of this beast were rapidly drying up. The fur and horny nails on its body were also losing their luster at a speed visible to the naked eye: it was freezing.
He lost his vitality under Tis's gaze.
"It's still a life after all," Bingtis stretched out his hand to press on the twisted claws of the giant beast, his voice was a bit soft, "It's not comfortable for your body to mutate like this... Go to sleep peacefully, I will take your soul away temporarily
Exile to a safe place. Leave this world to us, and everything will be fine when you wake up. Well, go to sleep."
The previously ferocious beast became completely silent. It seemed to understand Bingtis's words, its eyes slowly lowered, and a purring murmur came from its throat, like the last murmur of sleep.
The last breath of life also left this huge and twisted mutated body. It shriveled up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and turned into black dust mist scattered in the air before it completely rotted. Bingtis reached out to catch the last bit of it in her
The black ash hovering around him was slightly crushed with his fingers. There was a thoughtful look on his face.
"It should have died hundreds of years ago. The power of the abyss has allowed it to linger in a state between a corpse and a wraith until today." Bingtis read something from the black ashes, "The domesticated abyss...
Things that are completely harmless to us are still beyond the endurance limit of these creatures. There should be many such monsters wandering in this Gobi Desert. If we don’t want to ruin our mood, we’d better avoid them.”
Lin Xue waved vigorously at Joseph: "Wake up. Wake up, you are still alive, don't be in a daze like you were scared to death. Pack up your equipment and keep walking - do you still want these three horses?"
The trio of Iron Knights walked around the gate of hell in a daze, and now they put away their weapons in a daze. Joe's eyes flicked around the rest of us, but he opened his mouth for a long time and finally didn't know what to say, so
I could only spread my hands to check the condition of my own horses. Those three poor animals may have undergone rigorous training, but it was obvious that they had no experience in confronting a tank-sized monster. At this time, they were already frightened and lost their minds.
After an inspection, the Iron Knight came to the conclusion that the three horses might be able to recover, but they would basically only be used to carry things for half a month.
I came to Bingtis and watched the last bit of black ash slowly dissipate on her fingers: "Is it confirmed to be the 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 also a weird state of complete inertia," Bingtis smiled, "Can you usually sense the abyss reaction on Sandora? It's the same here - they
It presents a completely harmless stable state. Although it still retains some of the properties of the abyss, it does not infect, spread, or produce significant radiation, and it does not even have much destructive power. The animal just now was originally an ordinary animal, and was killed by the abyss.
Even though it has mutated like that after being polluted for hundreds of years, it still remains awake, which is enough to explain the problem. If we hadn't come into such close distance and had face-to-face contact, who would have known that there was such a thing on Dark Moon."
I think of the abyss powers in Sandora that she forcibly conquered with her willpower. It is indeed very similar to the situation before us: the tamed inert abyss cannot be detected at all. Even if Sandora completely lets go of her power, you
You have to be very close to her to feel that dangerous aura, and unless Sandora actively catalyzes it, the abyss power in her body will not contaminate anything - it is exactly the same as the abyss in that beast.
The difference is that the powerful Queen of the Empire controls the abyss, and the poor animal just turned into a half-dead monster after being tortured for hundreds of years.
The question now is: Where did the inert abyss on this planet come from?
The first thing I thought of was the artifact.
Many clues suddenly fit together at this moment, like precise gears clicking together, the origin of the Dark Moon Demon, the earth-shaking changes on this planet, and the shadow of the demon released from the artifact mentioned by the old Pope and the Dragon Girl.
, these are all organized. I even have vague guesses about the nature of several Dark Moon Wars. Although Bingtis still has not sensed the star domain artifact on this planet, I can basically guess what it is.
What impact do things have on the world?
"There is a village near here," Dingdang was lying on my head to act as a biometric radar. At this time, he suddenly stretched out his hand to pluck my ears and shouted, "And there are a few people coming in our direction. They will be there in about ten minutes."
Can be touched."
I shook my head and put aside those complicated associations for the time being. Dingdang grabbed my hair and shouted: "Don't shake your head! Don't shake your head! Dingdang is carsick, Dingdang is carsick!"
The Joseph trio heard someone approaching. They immediately clenched their weapons and looked even more nervous than when they met the giant beast. In their common sense, there were only demons and monsters on Dark Moon. This was a place where everyone except themselves
It was the enemy's place. I glanced at Qiao slightly, and I didn't know if this elf had thought of so many complicated variables when he followed me.
"Don't be nervous." Bingtis waved his hands lazily, and then the air in a large area nearby suddenly distorted for a moment, "Don't go too far or you won't be seen. Let's stay hidden first and take a look at the local area.
It doesn’t matter what the person looks like.”
Thinking of the "invisibility technique" that could deceive even the ancient dragon, Qiao immediately put away his weapons with confidence. I looked at the three of them and suddenly came up with an idea: "Can you change these clothes first? Go deep behind enemy lines."
You are still wearing the uniform of the coalition forces on the ground. With your clothes, if the enemy catches you and does nothing, you will be roasted on a pile of firewood for three days."
Joseph looked down at the battle suit outside the armor, scratching his hair and feeling a little embarrassed: "But we are knights..."
Anna pulled off the uniform with the coalition logo on the ground and stuffed it into the rucksack on the back of the horse. She glared at Joseph: "Okay, okay, it's not like you just came out of the village, why are you still acting like a child?"
Childish, I know you are a knight, right?"
The trio packed up and took off their upper body armor, leaving only the mail armor underneath (after the scene just now, they already felt that the equipment they were wearing was of little use). This completely erased the appearance of the coalition forces on the ground.
The logo. At this moment, the local people that Ding Dong sensed came into everyone's sight.
Several vague figures emerged from the thick fog, getting closer and closer. Bingtis concentrated on sensing whether there was an abyss reaction on the other person, and then slowly shook his head: These are a group of normal people who have not been contaminated.
This suddenly became a bit interesting: not all Dark Moon creatures have been affected by that secondary abyss. What does this mean?
It means that there are actually two opposing groups on Dark Moon. Think about the Gobi Desert under our feet that was left behind by the battle two thousand years ago!
"They don't look much different from the people on the ground, and they are civilians, right?" At this time, the small group was getting closer and closer, and we could already see each other's appearance clearly, and we watched Qian Qian curiously as they walked by.
These people suddenly pointed at three of the children who looked like children and shouted, "Ajun, look, they have animal ears, animal ears, and tails~~~"
I also saw them. They were three very short locals, two women and one man. The clothes they wore were no different from the common people on the ground. Anyway, they were just gray and coarse cloth sewn to cover their bodies, and their appearance was not that different.
They are no different from ordinary humans, but their biggest feature is that they have ears and tails like animals. One of the women looks a bit like a cat, with a pair of black cat ears and a swaying cat tail.
One woman and one man have some characteristics of dogs, and of course they may be wolves - I judged it based on their tails. All three of them were wearing loose clothes, and their tails poked out from the hem of their coats, wagging back and forth in the air, watching.
Very fun.
However, I didn’t have any other thoughts when I saw the animal ears: I have a bad fox at home, and her ears almost make me pinch out cocoons, and every now and then, I will be tied up with nine tails like a rice dumpling, so how can I still do it?
I have a special feeling for animal ears and tails, so in winter when I can’t find a warm baby, I will think of that big fur ball...
When Qiao saw the three beast-eared creatures, he felt as if he was facing a formidable enemy. The muscles in his body tensed up. Even though he was completely hidden, he still lowered his voice: "Those are monsters... Don't be fooled by their size. Their
The magic talent is higher than that of elves, and after transforming into beast form, the combat power is no less than that of dwarves. When Dark Moon attacks, these monsters are often officer-level figures... But these demons in front of me look like Dark Moon demons in my impression.
Why is it different?"
After a brief moment of astonishment, Joseph and Anna also recognized the races of several other Dark Moon people. Joseph pointed to a tall and thin man walking at the front of the team: "That's the Night Demon Elf. It looks very similar to Joe, doesn't it?"
Like? But his eyes are red and his skin color is darker. This is the characteristic of the Night Demon Elf. Although I have never seen him in person before, I have seen it in the picture album distributed by the Knights."
Anna pointed at the other two men and women who looked almost the same as the people on the ground: "Those are the Darkbloods, right? Their eyes are golden, just like 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.
"They are corrupted humans and vampires," Anna bit her lip. "During a war, didn't the mountain barbarians use black magic to corrupt the coalition forces? Corrupted elves are called night demon elves, and corrupted humans are called vampires. But there is another
They are called Darkbloods: it is said that their blood is black because they have been completely corroded."
"Oh..." I nodded perfunctorily and looked thoughtfully at the few travelers not far away.
There are no traces of pollution on their bodies by the abyss, which means that the so-called legends of night demons and vampires are mostly false. There are no elves and humans that have been corrupted into new races. Night demons and vampires should have existed since ancient times.
Apart from that, I didn’t see any characteristics related to demons in the Dark Moon people who walked past me. Although they looked different from the people on the ground, apart from these differences in appearance, they were
Very ordinary people: just a small group of travelers on their way.
Joseph also had a strange look on his face. He scratched his wild hair that looked like a lion's mane and couldn't help but mutter: "I thought the Dark Moon people were all vicious and covered in blood. These few look terrible.
It’s different than expected.”
"The Dark Moon people in your impression must not eat, drink or talk. They have no family, no job, no parents. They have spent hundreds of years doing nothing but being crazy on the moon and staring at the sky. Moreover, the child is only 1.8 meters tall when he is born.
You're still wearing the Demon King's armor, right?" Bingtis curled her lips disdainfully. "The church and the army have taught you stupid people. The Dark Moon people are also living people who want to eat, drink, and have sex. They also have scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants, okay?
Back then, I saw a group of demons, including composers and national singers..."
The trio of iron knights made the female hooligan stunned for a while. Qiao stayed there for a long time before nodding stupidly: "Hey, I really didn't expect so much at first..."
At this time, the small group was already more than ten meters away from us, and was about to walk into the thick fog. Lin Xue quickly poked my arm to signal to follow, and the group followed this group to see them.
They planned to go somewhere. The other party didn't look like they were traveling a long way. Judging from their clothes and the small luggage 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 the direction they were heading was opposite to the direction of the village and town that Dingdang sensed, and we didn’t know what this group of people were going for. We followed for a while, and finally someone from the small group in front spoke, and it was the leader of the team.
Night Demon Elf, the content of the other party's opening was beyond our expectations: "Speaking of which, the fog here in the wilderness is really unbearable. Breathing this air all day long will even affect your lifespan. My second uncle lived in the wilderness for too long. As a result,
He died just after he reached two hundred years old."
The monster girl with wolf ears behind him immediately started chattering like beans: "How many times can you keep talking about this topic? Your second uncle obviously fell to death while going hunting in the valley. What does the fog have to do with it?"
There is fog everywhere on the Moon, and it’s not just here. Why do you suddenly think of going to Dadi City? Every time you teleport, you feel dizzy. Don’t you know? You speak. If you don’t speak, I don’t know where to go.
I’ll take it next…”
The tall and thin night devil elf walked slowly and waited for a long time before speaking: "I have to punctuate your words in my mind, otherwise I don't know what you said. Isn't the Tiandi Bridge going to open again?
, there are many people in the underground city who are still thinking about crossing the Heaven and Earth Bridge to return to Hessenwood. The situation there may be a bit chaotic now. I'll go see if your uncle and the others want to help. If it doesn't work, take them back to stay."
The bean monster girl immediately grunted dissatisfiedly, and swung her tail back and forth, which she didn't know whether it was a dog's tail or a wolf's tail: "It's been hundreds of years, why do they still want to go home? It's already been..."
Several generations have passed. By the way, you should be talking about those elves. I can imagine that this is really a troublesome thing. Once they go back, there will definitely be trouble. The Blood Princess and the Barbarian King will definitely not agree. I haven't seen the Barbarian King for a long time.
It hurts to have to be stabbed on the ground again. By the way, we didn’t go in the wrong direction, right?"
The tall and lanky elf thought for a while and continued to say unhurriedly: "It must be true, I am very good at pathfinding."
A few of us followed not far behind and listened clearly to their conversation. The mention of Dadi City and the people in Dadi City who wanted to return to Hessenwood almost instantly reminded us of hundreds of years ago.
Those soldiers who went on the expedition to Dark Moon!
"Oh, my energy is high this time," Bingtis whistled, "I didn't expect the first day to go so smoothly!"