Three months in the past, adventurers from Harmony Village took the crude map given by Zhou Qingfeng and began to explore the elven ruins. The first location identified during the exploration was a jackal's lair, which was particularly suitable as a supply station.
place.
This is a lair consisting of seven or eight male jackals and two or three times female jackals and cubs. It is only about ten kilometers away from Harmony Village. It is built on a hill with water source. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It can be used as a good
Halfway rest area.
Death always makes Zhou Qingfeng tense up. He decided to find out what triggered the wave of monsters in the Black Forest, and immediately organized a temporary expedition team. The main force was a dozen orcs who were familiar with the forest. In addition, there were
Several adventurer subordinates.
After putting on equipment and calling for manpower, the team set off immediately. After several days of exploration, the road entered the depths of the difficult black forest. The rugged forest was filled with thick fog that obscured the view, and deadly dangers were hidden among the trees and shrubs.
Druinar reached out and caressed a big tree in the forest. She closed her eyes and was silent for a while. Half a minute later she said to Zhou Qingfeng beside her: "The forest is very quiet, but I am not sure if there are any monsters around."
Todd waved his hand, and the orcs holding heavy axes moved forward alternately in a fan pattern. As spearheads, they walked through the woods and across the valley, advancing in the direction marked on the map.
Zhou Qingfeng has skeletons and ghosts presented by Mondino, but the skeletons cannot move fast and the ghost perception is weak, so they are not suitable for detection. Opening the underworld plane requires the consumption of mental power. Under normal circumstances, he will not summon undead creatures casually.
On the twisted tree trunk, a blood-sucking vine slowly drooped. The spikes on the vine protruded, waiting for prey to fall into the trap. But this time, the approaching prey noticed this dangerous monster in advance.
The hunter in the expedition raised his bow and arrow and was about to shoot, but Old Borg came up to stop him and said: "Don't shoot, let me do it. The vampire vine is both an animal and a plant. Its pith has special effects on many diseases. When you meet
Don’t miss it.”
Old Borg took the initiative to bring several "plague priests" to join the expedition. He could provide medical treatment to the members of the team and collect some rare magic materials.
The vampire vine on the tree trunk sensed danger and quickly retracted. It kept shaking its vines, making strange creaking noises.
"It's summoning symbionts." Nar shouted in a low voice: "Hugo, pay attention to your surroundings. The symbionts of the Vampire Vine are jackals. They protect each other and assist in symbiosis. We are likely to have entered the periphery of the jackal's lair."
The map was too crude and it was difficult to determine the location and distance. In the vast forest, Zhou Qingfeng did not know exactly where he was. But according to the records of "once", the jackals did use vampire vines as warning creatures outside their lairs.
Sneaking in close to failure...
Zhou Qingfeng raised his hand, and the team of more than 20 people gradually shrank. The team members slowly stopped and silently formed a formation to cover each other. In the quiet woods, he could communicate with other people through gestures without opening his mouth.
Old Borg is casting a spell to capture the vampire vine. This rare creature is very deadly when hiding. But it moves slowly, and once discovered, it is difficult to escape. At this moment, it is entrenched on several tree trunks and constantly waving the vines, resisting the confinement imposed by the magic.
power.
Amidst the sound of rattan whipping, messy footsteps sounded from far to near. Zhou Qingfeng closed his eyes. His ability to 'listen' in the forest was better than his eyesight. He could clearly judge the number and location of the incoming attackers.
"About five jackals are approaching from the west." Zhou Qingfeng whispered. His super mental power brings long-distance perception, which was also taught and forced by Cyric. "The other three are in the east.
They want to take advantage of the chaos to attack us."
"Concealed." Todd commanded the orc guards, "We orcs fight with the gnolls in the forest every day, just to let them taste the power of our new axe."
Anyone familiar with the jungle knows that jackals with wolf heads and bodies are difficult to deal with. They are taller, stronger, more ferocious, and cunning, and are much more difficult to deal with than the same number of goblins.
But the orc guards following Zhou Qingfeng formed a semicircular formation and slowly stepped forward, forming a conspicuous protrusion in the team. They were no longer the poor appearance they had been in the past. The axes in their hands and the armor on their bodies were both extremely sophisticated, which brought
Enough confidence.
Whoosh..., a bone arrow shot out of the thick fog.
This was like a signal, followed by more than a dozen bone arrows being shot out one after another. One wave after another without stopping - the orc guards who came forward faced the dense rain of arrows, and they shrunk slightly and hid behind the trees.
, covering each other.
There was a loud sound of arrows being hit, and the trees, the ground, and Zhou Qingfeng's raised buckler were all impacted. Some of the impacts were particularly strong, and there was a muffled sound the moment they hit the shield.
It's the jackal's short javelin!
This is a common method used by gnolls to deal with human shields. They will first rain down a wave of arrows, and then throw heavy short javelins. Even if they cannot break the human shield, it can make the human warrior holding the shield very difficult and expose gaps in the defense.
"Xinda." Zhou Qingfeng shouted. The smoke rose, and the elf statue appeared next to him. The powerful recurve bow immediately opened, and several laser arrows whizzed into the thick fog, responding to the jackal.
Human blind shooting.
A roaring scream came from the dense forest, which was the angry outburst of the wounded jackal.
Those humanoid beasts rushed out.
There was a sound of snapping trees in the woods, and two jackals rushed out with bone clubs. Todd was the first to meet them, slashed hard with his ax, and shouted loudly: "Try my new axe."
The monsters in the jungle fought day and night, and they had rich experience in cooperating with each other. The two jackals rushed forward side by side, and after a few steps they separated from each other. One threw a short javelin, and the other exchanged a bone club for a shield. Two muffled sounds occurred at the same time.
The short javelin hit Todd's chest. The hardwood head was also extremely tough, but it was blocked by the two heavy armors on Todd's body. The jackal responsible for throwing saw this kind of orc opponent for the first time.
The roaring heavy ax struck his companion's wooden shield.
The wooden shield of the jackal was two or three times heavier than that used by humans, and was extremely thick. However, the heavy steel ax struck it and broke it in half. The jackal behind the shield snorted, and most of the ugly wolf head was cut off.
.
Two orcs were covering Todd's flanks from behind. When the jackals threw hardwood javelins, they threw manganese steel throwing axes. The small axes were only as big as an orc's hand and were carried around at the waist. They were much lighter than short javelins.
The sharp ax blade whirled and hit the gnoll's chest. Under the orc's huge force, it cut through its tough, thick-haired skin and hacked into its internal organs.
This was also a fatal blow. The jackal struck by the ax was forcibly stopped from charging forward. It lowered its head and glanced at the flying ax embedded in its chest, and was immediately chopped into pieces by the cooperating orc guards.
After just one wave of hedging, the attacking Gnolls were severely damaged. There were also three Gnoll archers hiding in the forest and shooting blindly, but they did not expect that the attacks of their companions had no effect.
Old Borg had finished capturing the blood-sucking vines, and casually gave Nal a 'Wild Power'. Nal immediately transformed into a giant bear, crashing through the trees in the forest like a tank, and with the sound of banging footsteps, headed towards the jackal.