Chapter 398 Predator's War
Many large-scale wars have indeed broken out between the ghoul and demon groups. This can be seen from the traces of fights on the mountains and cliffs.
As for why there is still a life-and-death fight for territory in this dark underground world, this can only be understood by several aboriginal races in the underground world.
Milo thought that he would be intercepted by demons after crossing the boundary line built by the ghouls, but the fact was that he and Marshall walked on the mountains of the Tombs of Xin for a full 10 years. For hours, there was no sign of any demons.
As the two of them moved further north, the light within their field of vision gradually weakened.
As Pickman said, only the very end of Xin's Tombs has the stream of light in mid-air. After entering the territory of the demons and ghosts, the light no longer exists.
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The landscape of the Tombs of Xin is composed of layers of low mountains. Between these mountains are countless tombstones, densely packed. According to Pickman, those are They are the dead who have been completely forgotten by people on the ground.
There is no vegetation around. You can see gray rock formations and gravel everywhere. There seems to be no wild animals. This area cannot be simply described as depressed. It has no trace at all. Lifeless.
Along the way, Milo and Marshall were much more silent than before.
Marshall may still be in a trance, unable to accept the fact that he has been away from Ursa for nearly two hundred years.
And Milo was always vigilant about the demons and ghosts that might appear in the shadows around him.
However, his heart rate has always remained within a normal floating range.
Until the next day, Milo began to smell a faint smell of blood in the turbid air.
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"There is movement ahead."
He stopped.
Marshall raised his ears, and it was obvious that he also noticed the subtle sounds coming from the shadows in the distance.
Milo squatted down among the rocks, took out Pickman's map, and roughly calculated the time and distance:
"We are not far from Sheffield's grave. ”
"There's a fight ahead." Marshall's sense of smell was more sensitive than Milo. He raised his head and sniffed the air a few times, and said firmly: "There is the smell of blood of two different species."
"Ghost, Guge giant?"
Milo nodded.
According to Pickman, the territory of the demons has expanded northward to the city of the ancient giants, so if there is a battle between two different species ahead, then it can only be the ancient giants. Giants and monsters.
“Go around the back of this mountain range and have a look.”
Milo glanced at the map, pointed to an arc-shaped mountain path ahead and said.
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Half a day passed.
Milo and Marshall were already disgraced after trekking for a long time in the dry gravel mountain stream.
However, following the back of the mountain range, they successfully approached the edge of the battlefield, and after climbing out of the mountain stream, they saw the light of fire for the first time in this world.
The fire came from a few kilometers behind the battlefield. Visually, it looked like a corner of a city, emitting light with a normal flame color.
That should be the city of the ancient giants.
At this time, the fighting was in full swing on the battlefield.
Two different races can be clearly distinguished at a glance.
Close to the Tombs of Xin, there is a group of humanoid creatures that are much taller than adult humans. Most of them have vague facial organs, no noses, and their skin is rougher and full of wrinkles than the ghouls. The most significant difference from the ghouls is The point is their lower limbs. Although they are also bipedal upright creatures, their lower bodies are more like kangaroo-like legs and have hooves. Therefore, they do not move forward with their legs staggered like humans do, but jump forward. ...
They also have a short, thick animal tail.
So on the vast plains, these creatures were flying around like fleas, and their neighing sounds were heard all around.
Obviously these are the "ghosts" the ghoul Pickman calls.
Because their opponents are a group of behemoths with a height of more than six meters, it is obvious that this race is more suitable for the title of "Guge Giants".
The Guge giants are covered with black soft fur, and their huge feet have terrifying hooks. The shape of their upper limbs is even more weird. Their arms split into two parts at the front, each hand has a Claws similar to those on the feet.
But what is really chilling is their heads. The heads of these creatures seem to be chopped in half vertically, or to be more precise, they have a vertical head full of fangs. It has a huge mouth, and two eyes with red dark light fall on the left and right jaws of the giant mouth respectively.
What surprised Milo was that these seemingly cumbersome Gug giants were all carrying burning torches.
It seems that they also know that the demon race hates and even fears the light, so they set up a wall of fire on the battle line, hoping to increase the winning rate of the battle. But they obviously made the wrong calculation.
For ordinary uncivilized organisms, when faced with the substance they fear, they will indeed move away in the opposite direction based on their instinctive desire to survive.
But today's demons and ghosts are no longer just low-level swarming creatures that eat hair and drink blood. Individuals with high IQs have been born among them, and they have realized the control and command of the tribe.
When something called "command" appears in the consciousness of demons and ghosts, the light that is not fatal enough becomes the fuse that ignites their bloody nature.
Swarms of monsters screamed hysterically and swarmed towards the defense line of the Guge Giants like a wave. Although their individuals were much weaker than the Guge Giants, their long claws and fangs Still able to tear flesh and blood from the opponent's body.
The scene on the battlefield is very bloody.
Under the swaying firelight, Milo could clearly see the broken corpses of the monsters crushed to death by the Guge giants. He could also see the Guge giants that had been knocked down by dozens of monsters and had not yet expired but had their abdominal organs removed. .
These two species seem to be conjugated in the food chain. Both sides are each other's prey. On the so-called battlefield, in addition to bloody fighting scenes, there are also greedy and brutal eating scenes. , the ancient leather giant eats the demon and ghost, or the demon and ghost eats the ancient leather giant.
So a situation occurred.
The demon ghost, whose mouth was filled with the intestines and minced meat of the Guge Giant, was crushed in half by another Guge Giant that rushed forward, and was then thrown into the giant vertical mouth of the Guge Giant.
More demons and ghosts then rushed forward and quickly killed the Guge giant. They took out the corpses of the same kind that had just been swallowed from the Guge giant's abdomen. Three, seven, twenty-one, stuffed all into his mouth.
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Primitive, brutal, bloody...
It was the first time for Milo to see such a shocking and disgusting "war".
“Have you found it?”
Milo and Marshall were lying on the other side of the mountains, plotting quietly.
Marshall squinted his eyes and stared at the monster formation for a long time: "You mean the leader of the monster group? We haven't found him yet."
"Who is looking for that? I'm talking about Sheffield's grave." Milo said angrily: "The red and white marble tombstone."
"There are red and white things flying everywhere on this battlefield. How can I find them?" Marshall was also helpless.
It asked Milo: "Didn't you promise that old ghost to help him kill the demon leader?"
"Why did you suddenly become so kind?" Milo He looked at Marshall with a surprised look.
Marshall shook his head and muttered in a low voice: "Shameless human beings."
Milo pretended not to hear Marshall's complaints at all. He pointed to the mountainside with dense tombs on the other side of the battlefield: "There There are many graves, let’s go around and look for them first.”
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Half an hour later.
Milo and Marshall finally found James Sheffield's tombstone in the tombs as they wished.
In order to prevent his work from being in vain, after Marshall confirmed that the Usa text engraved on the tombstone was indeed Sheffield's name, Milo immediately took out the crowbar and dug up the soil behind the tombstone to confirm that Sheffield's coffin and body were there. In the soil.
"Very good, help me buy some time."
Milo put away the crowbar, looked at the bloody battlefield not far away, and ordered Marshall:
"I need about ten minutes."
Marshall jumped on the tombstone aside and showed his sharp cat claws:
"Leave it to me."
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Milo leaned against James Sheffield's tombstone, skillfully and quickly immersing his mind into the perspective of the deceased. .
Soon, he touched the deepest memory of the translator of the evil classics——
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"So, in the year of the Black Goat, a shadow came to Nass. It was a shadow that should not exist in the world..."
"It feeds on the souls of mortals, the dead. They will be seduced by dreams, blinded, until terror and endless night come to them..."
"The only freedom that can be obtained seems to be waiting in the place where the three suns rise... ”
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(End of this chapter)