Lan Wuxin spit out the snow foam in her mouth with a "bah bah" sound, her heart filled with regret.
If he had known this, he would not have coveted the bounty. He knew that Tibia Creek in winter was many times more dangerous than usual. In the snowy night, the ice was biting and the snow seemed to have absorbed the sound of footsteps. The only sound in the forest was the howling wind.
Walking through it is unsettling.
He raised the rosin torch in his hand. The flame was like a rag in the wind and snow. The swaying light reflected the interlaced shadows of rows of fir trees. Rows of blue-gray dead faces gathered together and swayed.
He staggered towards them.
The locals call these things 'resurrection corpses', which are the souls of those who drowned in the Tibia Creek. Although Lan Wuxin knew that this was just a legend, he still couldn't help but look at the dead faces.
My heart goes crazy.
He suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and patrolled the depths of the forest. There must be a few 'ghouls' commanding these dead people secretly. The cunning of the 'ghouls' is innate. Most of the teams are destroyed in the forest every year.
Related to these undead creatures.
But the ‘ghoul’ is not the scariest thing in the forest——
He had previously seen a narrow and strange shadow flashing through a fir tree, which reminded him of something legendary in this area. Just this thought almost made his blood freeze at the time. Fortunately, the thing was so
It never appeared again after that.
He was a little selfish and didn't tell anyone else about it. He just hoped that he was hallucinating because he was too nervous.
There were six people around him, and three or four torches. The torches in the hands of several people gathered together were enough to provide a group of light in the wind and snow. When Lan Wuxin led everyone to leave Tibia Creek and turn back, there were still seventeen people in the team.
Eight people, and the remaining people fell in the wind and snow.
Those people might be luckier than them. They might have been resurrected in the temple of Amea, found a warm place to drink a glass of wine, and waited for them to go back and join up.
When they thought of this, everyone couldn't help but cursed in their hearts, but people were not willing to waste the starlight in this place for no reason.
They had already thrown away long weapons and heavy loads that should have been thrown away, but they were still stopped all the way after escaping here. Facing the surrounding undead, everyone could only stand back to back, preparing for the last fight.
The steel-forged sword pointed at the row of pale faces, and the handle reflected the firelight, shining brightly in the snowy night.
At this time, Lan Wuxin heard the accompanying alchemist in the team shout: "Wait a minute, there is light over there!"
"Don't be distracted!" He yelled with some annoyance, and poured a mouthful of wind and snow into his mouth, making Lan Wuxin couldn't help coughing twice. The accompanying alchemist was a newcomer from Du Lun in the south of the Great Valley, and he had no skills.
She's also very stinky and always likes to get into trouble——
"I'm not lying to you, there is really light over there." The young man insisted.
"I want you to concentrate," Lan Wuxin said angrily, "No one will save you later."
The young man only muttered twice: "Damn it, I'm the only one who likes to blame others."
Lan Wuxin naturally heard the muttering, but he moved his eyebrows and thought for a while but did not speak.
Surrounded by powerful enemies, he did not want to cause the team to argue at this juncture. Although this was the first dangerous mission, he had led the team on several other missions before and was a fairly experienced captain in the nearby area.
But if it weren't for the protection clause in the contract, he really wanted to kick this guy out and feed these undead so that he could play some role.
But having said that, he still glanced in that direction with his peripheral vision, and saw two beams of light passing through the forest in the darkness, shaking in this direction. There were other teams, and Lan Wuxin was moved.
However, he did not immediately issue an order for the team to move in that direction. After all, the opponent's position was unclear in the wilderness, and it was not impossible for the opponent to add insult to injury.
What's more, even if the other party doesn't add insult to injury, they may not necessarily come to their aid. They have to run at least a mile or two along the way, and in the wind and snow, one or two people will have to be lost.
If the other side just stood by and watched, they might as well stay here and fight the enemy. At least the terrain here was quite favorable to them.
But before he could speak, the alchemist shouted again:
"I saw it. It must be another team. Let's get close to it quickly?"
"Hurry up and give the order. You don't understand this? Do you want to kill us in this place?"
As soon as he opened his mouth, the team's hearts immediately started to change. After all, no one wanted to die once, and most people didn't think so carefully as Lan Wuxin. When they heard that there was another team nearby, they immediately had no intention of fighting here.
Everyone looked at Lan Wuxin.
Lan Wuxin just wanted to stab this guy through with his sword, but someone had already kicked the alchemist out one step before him. That was his old partner, and he obviously couldn't bear it anymore.
The man didn't expect that someone would attack him from behind. He lost his center of gravity and screamed, throwing himself at the drowned corpse in front of him. The latter felt the breath of the living and opened his mouth to bite his neck.
But just as it opened its mouth, a sharp sword had already pierced its cheek, and its head flew away, causing its bones to roll onto the snow. Lan Wuxin had quick eyesight, and pulled the young man back and threw him to the ground.
He was not kind to women, but he was just afraid that the craftsmen would always cause trouble for them. The adventurer team had the obligation to protect the accompanying alchemist. Although this man wanted to die, his behavior had not crossed the bottom line stipulated in the contract.
The alchemist seemed to have not yet reacted, and shouted with a pale face: "Who, who kicked me just now?"
It's a pity that no one answered him. Obviously this person is not popular among the team.
Only the man who kicked him before looked at him indifferently and did not speak. After all, this young man was not really stupid. After seeing this look, he finally got a shiver and reacted, shrinking his neck and not speaking again.
At this time, just like Lan Wuxin, others also began to fight with the gray-blue corpses, but they had no fighting spirit and just retreated.
Seeing this, Lan Wuxin sighed, knowing that the people's hearts that he had finally stabilized had been completely destroyed, so he had no choice but to give the order: "Fight and retreat, move closer to that side."
He could only pray in his heart that the other party could help.
…
"Captain, they are coming!"
The box was holding the net rope and standing outside the ship's side. In the wind and snow, he seemed not afraid of falling. He saw the movement of the firelight in the darkness for the first time and turned around and shouted to Fang Plover.
Everyone had long since discovered these adventurers who were besieged by the undead. If they were ordinary people, they would really consider whether to take action under the current harsh weather. However, with Fang Plover's temperament, he would naturally not ignore death.
What's more, there are just some zombies in the forest, plus some ghouls, which are not dangerous opponents for their team.
After being accustomed to seeing the big scenes underground in Dolifen and Fenris Island, this scene is really not worth mentioning in the eyes of everyone.
Fang Plover was walking to the starboard side. He raised his hand, and a copper ball passed through the wind and snow, and its wings fell on his hand. He was wearing goggles, and the corners of his coat were fluttering in the wind. At the same time, he turned to look at other people.
The man ordered: "Tianlan, inform Miss Aitila and ask Mr. Huiyan to turn sideways——"
"Hello!"
Tianlan knocked on a vertical copper pipe in the bow cabin and shouted inside: "Sister Aitila, ask Mr. Huiyan to turn sideways."
The copper pipe carried the sound all the way to Guy's Platform behind Mr. Gray Rock below. The boat tilted slightly, and the direction of the wind and snow in the dark night seemed to have turned 180 degrees.
Fang Plover swept away the snowflakes coming towards him, and then ordered: "Parker, Miss Siesta, use the searchlight to guide them, illuminate the nearby undead for them, and let them continue to move closer to us."
The two did as they were told, and two beams of light penetrated the darkness and shined into the forest.
"They saw us!"
Parker shouted immediately.
Fang Plover nodded. He also had two clockwork goblins outside, so of course he could see the situation in the forest clearly.
Those people retreated at an inappropriate time, and there should be several ghouls on the opponent's flanks surrounding them. However, if Mr. Huiyan arrives in time, there shouldn't be a big problem.
However, he just had some doubts in his heart. How could these people with so little experience dare to trek on foot in the snowy night at this time?
At this time, he heard the sound of footsteps and turned around, just in time to see the twin sister changing into a military uniform and walking up from below. Alyssa couldn't help but feel a little funny when she saw him wearing goggles, and looked at the other side with some curiosity.
Baggins glanced in the direction of Jita, and then asked: "I just heard gunshots down there, what happened?"
"Something is on board." Fang Plover replied.
"what?"
"vampire."
"vampire?"
"It's a vampire, Captain." Baggins squatted on the ground and checked the bullet holes on the ground. He dipped his hand into the blood near the bullet holes, picked it up and took a look, and replied to the two of them.
The general undead have no blood, and even the bloated zombies only have rotting liquid. Only vampires, the legendary undead creatures of Etalia, can be injured and bleed.
Moreover, the strange behavior of the previous shot was not something that ordinary monsters could show.
"Be careful, Baggins. Take Luo Yu to the bottom cabin to check it out."
Fang Yu reminded. Vampires, like the chosen ones, can have high or low levels. Low-level blood servants are only slightly stronger than ordinary people, while high-level vampires can easily destroy an adventure group above level 30.
things.
Of course, Fang Plover does not think that there will be high-level vampires in Tibia Creek, but be careful when sailing the ten-thousand-year ship. Vampires have the highest wisdom among the undead. They are elusive and elusive. Even the attendants of blood like to mix in the crowd and make people confused.
aware.
He didn't think that the vampire left after being hit by a shot. The other party must have had other intentions when flying onto the ship. The platform was not big. Luo Yu, Jita and Sylvide had also checked other cabins before, so they just
The remaining tanks containing ballast have not been inspected.
Baggins is one of the most high-end combatants in the team. Together with Luo Yu, he should be able to handle even a casual battle.
After listening to his order, both of them nodded and got off the deck.
However, Fang Yu vaguely saw a white shadow flashing behind the two of them. He thought he had seen it wrong, but he heard Alyssa say softly from the side: "Huh?"
"What's wrong?"
"That seems to be Delise."
Only then did Fang Plover think of the cat.
Since it stopped following him, it began to wander around the ship. Now a battle was imminent, and no one had the time to pay attention to the cat lady.
Moreover, the other party had not been on the boat for long, and was unanimously loved by most people. It had previously asked for some dried fish from Alyssa, and then licked Jita's fingertips affectionately, so that the two of them turned to Bao.
The Cat Party's camp is gone.
By the way, this is the first party in the team founded by Tianlan, with the purpose of allowing the cat lady to stay on the ship.
But Fang Yu didn't have the intention to care about this now. He shook his head and looked into the forest again.
In the darkness, the light of a few torches was getting closer and closer.
In the area of Maxson Creek Station.
Lan Wuxin thinks that he should be considered a veteran. This year is his seventh year as a selector. In the past few years, he has been in and out of other people's adventure groups, and he has accumulated a lot of experience.
Naturally, no one invited him to join the regular adventure groups, but his old partner was a man with little talent, and in order to win over his old partner, he never agreed.
Later, he began to try to pull up his own team, but it was not easy. After all, the adventure was a matter of life and death, and most people would not trust an inexperienced captain.
Fortunately, the winter environment in the forest near Tibia Creek has become more severe year by year in recent years, and the undead production is poor, so some experienced adventure groups have gradually moved to the south.
This gave him the opportunity to pull together a motley team. At first, he naturally only dared to hand over tasks in the summer and autumn, and gradually accumulated a little reputation. But this time, he rashly went out to carry out dangerous tasks because the team needed to expand.
, because there is an urgent need for an inflow of funds.
He originally thought that there would be no danger near the Maxson Creek Station, but he didn't expect that fate would not work out as they wished, and they would encounter a formidable ghoul and a banshee.
If they hadn't happened to have a high-level member of the local guild in the team, they would have been wiped out when they encountered the giant skeleton. However, the opponent was also caught in the battle, and most of the team was reduced by half.
While Lan Wuxin was running forward with the others, he saw the two searchlights passing through the forest.
The two beams of light did not lead the way in front of them, but patrolled the left and right of the team, which made him feel a little at ease - unlike others, he realized early on that there were several ghouls sneaking around on the flanks of the team.
Following them was the reason why he was unwilling to turn the team around before.
The team on the opposite side, so far away from them, actually realized this, which made him slightly surprised. At the same time, he also had a glimmer of hope in his heart - this showed that the other team was at least quite experienced, and experience often meant that
Have strength.
Moreover, the other party seems to be willing to help them, otherwise they would not stop and let the searchlight shine in this direction. Stopping and waiting for someone in such wind and snow must be quite risky for the other party.
If the other party dares to stay, he is either too stupid or he has something to rely on.
Lan Wuxin would rather believe it was the latter——
However, it was obvious that not everyone in the team thought so. The young alchemist was panting and complaining endlessly, complaining about why the other party didn't turn on the searchlight, causing him to fall several times in the dark, leaving him bruised and bruised.
After listening to these words, Lan Wuxin just wanted to strangle the latter and shine a beam of light on them with a searchlight? Do you think it is the spotlight on the stage? In such a situation, you feel that death is not fast enough?
Others obviously disliked this man. At first, some people tried to help him when he fell down, but gradually no one was willing to care about him anymore. He was the only one who lagged too far behind. When he screamed from behind, Lan
Only when Wu Xin did he stop and waited for him.
It's just because of contractual constraints.
"We're in front!" Someone in the team suddenly shouted.
Others felt relieved and couldn't help but look forward, but the young man's eyes widened: "Airship!?"
Not just him, everyone was surprised. Airships are not common in inland areas. They thought they were lucky at first and ran into the kingdom's patrol airship, but they had some doubts in their hearts. After all, they didn't listen.
I have said that patrol airships will be dispatched in such windy and snowy weather.
But no matter what they thought, the two beams of light above the forest were obviously shot from above the forest canopy. Except for airships, there seemed to be nothing else that could reach this height.
Everyone was still secretly surprised, but suddenly the light beam swept in their direction, and it happened to shine on a fir forest not far from their flank.
Lan Wuxin subconsciously covered his eyes to guard against snow blindness. He heard the alchemist curse next to him again, and seemed to be dazed. He couldn't help but feel a little speechless: "This is not for you to hit the beam of light.
?"
However, he understood that judging from the opponent's previous performance, he would not do this for no reason. When he looked back, he saw dense green-gray 'resurrection corpses' staggering around from the forest.
"They're catching up!"
Someone in the team screamed in fear.
Lan Wuxin felt bitter for a moment. He had expected that these undead souls would catch up, but he didn't expect it to be so fast. If they were on flat ground, they could easily get rid of these undead souls, but under the cover of snow, they walked away
Running also consumes a lot of physical energy.
But the undead don't have any physical abilities.
Now everyone is exhausted and has no strength and courage to fight anymore. The only hope in their hearts is that the 'airship' can arrive in time. The young man has collapsed on the ground in fear.
, but Lan Wuxin just pulled out his sword and stood in front of everyone.
At the same time, he couldn't help but look back.
They happened to see the silver light beam passing over their heads, and behind the light beam, a huge shadow was sweeping over the forest canopy. He was stunned for a moment - he did not expect that the 'airship' was so far away.
They were so close and much smaller than imagined.
Is it just a patrol boat?
The next moment, Lan Wuxin saw two figures appearing on the side of the ship, and one of them was obviously explaining something to the other.
on the platform.
Fang Yu was opening his goggles and took a glance at the situation below. Then he said to the box on the side: "Go and disperse those things below. Be careful, they are 'returning corpses'. There must be a ghoul behind them commanding them."
."
"No problem, captain, just look at me."
Box was as confident as ever and didn't take any ghouls seriously. Just kidding, he and the captain killed countless of them when they were underground in Fenris.
"Be careful." Fang Pliong said angrily, obviously extremely worried about the guy in the middle.
However, the latter just shrugged and whistled: "Justice from heaven!" Then he let go of the net rope in his hand and jumped down.
“Holy shit—!”
When everyone in the forest saw this scene, they couldn't help but scream in their hearts. Although the height of the 'airship' was lower than they expected, it was at least ten meters, and the guy actually jumped down like that.
Already?
In such windy and snowy weather, even the hang glider cannot be opened, right?