Chapter 365: Twists and turns, an unexpected scene (two chapters in one)
"Mad, there are so many people!" A guard suddenly opened his eyes wide in surprise when he saw the figures in the grass. Yelled.
"Shoot an arrow." The guard captain made a decisive decision without hesitation and immediately gave the order to attack to his companions.
The guards holding crossbows in their hands immediately aimed at the grass with figures in the distance and pulled the triggers one after another.
“Phew.”
"Boom."
"Boom..."
The shot arrow tore through the air, making a harsh sound, and instantly enveloped a large area.
“Pfft.”
“Pfft.”
"Pfft..."
The dense arrows that plunged into the grass hit the target, and shrill screams came from the thick grass.
"Ah..."
"Fight back." The rich voice drowned out the screams coming from the grass, and then a series of tiny noises sounded in the grass.
“Boom, boom, boom…”
I saw the same rain of arrows shot out of the grass, hitting the guards hiding in the circular fortification.
"The robbers have counterattacked. Everyone, pay attention to dodge, fill up your arrows, and wait for my order to attack them..." As the commander of the guard, when he saw the robbers in the grass fighting back, he immediately shot his own shouted his companion.
After hearing the reminder, the guards immediately squatted down, began to take out arrows from the quivers on the side, and loaded the crossbows.
“Bang, bang, bang…”
At this time, the advantages of connecting the carriages end to end to form a circular fortification are revealed. The guards hiding behind the carriage, Facing the counterattack fired by the robbers in the grass, he was not hit. The dense rain of arrows all fell on the carriage.
"Illumination." A deep voice shouted in the grass, and then a ball of white light flew out from the grass, hanging in the air dozens of meters high, illuminating a large area like daylight.
The caravan manager hiding in the carriage looked at the situation outside through the window and found dozens of white light balls suspended in the sky, illuminating the situation in the camp clearly. His face became colorless and pale for a while.
The grooms who gathered around the caravan manager's carriage were so frightened that they became weak and screamed again and again when they saw this formation.
"Shopkeeper Wu, what should we do?"
"Will we die here?"
"No! I don't want to die."
"If I had known that I would encounter such dangers on this trip to Dongwu City, I wouldn't even come out if I were beaten to death."
"Father, mother, I'm sorry, my child is unfilial and I can't support you till the end of your life."
The caravan manager hiding in the carriage was originally very scared. After hearing the cries from outside, the fear in his heart actually subsided a lot. He got out of the carriage and said to the people gathered around the carriage.
"Shut your mouths and be quiet. Didn't you see that Captain Wang is leading his brothers to help us resist the bandits? You are disturbing the morale of the army by crying like this.
By then, if Captain Wang and the others are defeated by the bandits because of their crying, none of us will survive. "
"Well..." After hearing the reprimand from the caravan manager, the crying horsemen immediately raised their hands and covered their mouths to prevent their cries from affecting those who were resisting the bandits. Guards.
"Don't worry, nothing will happen to us. Captain Wang and the others will definitely be able to defeat the incoming bandits..." The caravan manager saw that everyone stopped crying loudly, and then he spoke in fear. The crowd cheered.
The situation was just as the caravan manager said. The guards who were resisting the thieves felt upset when they heard the cry from behind.
Suddenly, they heard the cry from behind disappear, and their upset mood immediately calmed down, and then they concentrated on following the command of the guard captain and attacked the incoming bandits.
"Listen to my command...shoot the arrows." The guard captain saw that his companions had filled up their arrows and immediately gave the order to attack.
"Boom."
"Boom."
"Boom..."
The dense sound of breaking through the air sounded again, covering the people hiding in the grass. The robbers in.
"Raise your shield, hurry up and raise your shield..."
"Counterattack, shoot them..."
A strong voice sounded, and the bandits hiding in the grass raised their round shields. Withstand the hail of arrows.
At the same time, they also used their few bows and crossbows to fight back against the attacking guards.
"Brother, the opponent has prepared enough arrows. It's not okay to continue to waste them like this!" A hoarse voice sounded in the grass.
The caravan manager came out this time and specially set aside a carriage to hold arrows. He did this because he was afraid that if he encountered bandits on the road, he would not have enough arrows to fight back.
At the beginning, everyone felt that it was a bit redundant for the caravan manager to do this. After all, a carriage was dedicated to loading arrows instead of loading goods, which would cause a lot of losses.
Now, as the caravan manager feared, he encountered a robber. At this time, everyone had enough arrows to attack the robbers. Everyone couldn't help but admire the caravan manager's decision.
"You Mad, how come this caravan has so many arrows? It seems like they can't shoot them all..." After a wave of arrows, a rich voice cursed.
"Brother, we don't have many shields. If we continue to stay here and let them consume us with arrows, we will lose a lot of people. In my opinion, let's just charge!" said the hoarse voice.
"Okay, after the next wave of arrow rain passes, we will launch an attack immediately." The rich voice responded.
Then, he gave the preparation order to his younger brothers, "Brothers, pay attention, wait for the next wave of arrows to pass, everyone rush with me."
"Okay, brother ." The robber boy hiding in the grass responded one after another.
A guard with a light golden light in his ears listened to the conversation in the grass in the distance.
Although there was a long distance, he used the awakened power to strengthen his hearing and was able to hear the conversation between the robbers clearly.
"Captain, those bandits are going to wait for our next wave of arrows to pass before launching a charge."
Hearing the information provided by his companions, the guard captain's eyes suddenly condensed, and then he looked at the other companions who were waiting seriously. said.
"Attention everyone, after the next wave of arrows is fired, the bandits will charge us, everyone is ready to fight."
These guards escorting the caravan , as the guard captain said to the caravan manager earlier, they are all experienced professionals.
Faced with a gang of robbers whose number was nearly twice theirs, although everyone looked solemn, they did not show any timidity.
"Mard, damn robbers, come on!"
"My ax is already thirsty." "I want to see whether it is the heavenly spirit of these robbers that is stronger, or my mace. . ”
The guards knew that after the next wave of arrows was fired, the bandits would launch a charge, and everyone was gearing up for a fight.
At this moment, under the hazy night, there is a large group of dark creatures, which are quickly approaching the battlefield on the shore of the lake, but the humans fighting are unaware of this situation.
"Fire arrows..." Following the command of the guard captain, a wave of arrows shot into the grass in the distance again, shooting many unlucky bandits to the ground.
"Ah..."
The robber who was not directly shot by the arrow fell to the ground, covering the area where he was shot, and screamed in agony.
"Brothers, charge with me..."
After a wave of arrows, the bandit leader ignored the younger brothers who were hit by arrows and fell to the ground and were still breathing and could be saved. , raised the spiritual sword in his hand, shouted, then took the lead and rushed out of the grass.
"Kill, kill, kill..."
When the robber brothers saw that their elder brother had rushed out first, they immediately shouted and rushed out of the grass.
For a moment, the sound of killing was loud, the momentum was like a rainbow, and it looked unstoppable.
"Everyone, follow me to meet the enemy..." The guard captain saw all the bandits in the grass swarming out, and gave the order to fight. He jumped out of the fortifications first. Seeing this, the guards He also followed out.
The reason why we did not choose to hide in the fortifications and wait for the enemy to rush in was because there were many incompetent personnel hiding in the fortifications.
If the guards chose to stay within the fortifications to face the enemy, it would be easy to accidentally injure them.
In the business of escorting a caravan, the first priority is to protect the personal safety of the caravan members.
If all the caravan members die after the escorts defeat the incoming bandits, then their escort mission will have failed.
Such a failure will damage their reputation. As a result, no caravan will dare to hire them to escort them in the future, so they must go out to fight and protect the safety of the caravan personnel.
The white light balls hanging in the sky clearly illuminated the battle that was about to break out.
With their backs to the carriage behind them, the guards armed with weapons looked at the group of bandits who were attacking quickly with burning eyes.
The leader of the bandits is a strong man with a broad waist and a height of 1.85 meters. He exudes mid-level second-level psychic energy fluctuations.
There are ten gangster leaders who are one step behind him, and each of them has the psychic energy fluctuations of the first stage of the second stage.
More than a hundred bandits followed, twenty or thirty of them with cultivation levels from the beginning to the peak of the first level, and the others were ordinary people.
The strength of such a bandit gang with more than forty practitioners as its backbone and nearly two hundred people cannot be underestimated.
One hundred meters, eighty meters, sixty meters...
The bandit gang that launched the charge kept closing the distance with the guards who were preparing to fight.
When the distance between the two sides shortened to fifty meters, a sharp beastly roar that made people couldn't help but cover their ears suddenly sounded.
"Roar..."
The guards and robbers who were preparing to fight were stunned when they heard the sudden roar of the beast.
The bandit gang that launched the charge stopped and turned their heads to look in the direction where the beast's roar came from. The guards who were preparing to meet the enemy also looked over.
"Rust, rustle..."
There was a sound in the thick grass not far away. Under the light of the light balls in the sky, everyone saw an extremely huge The figure moves in the grass.
“What a big guy.” A bald robber had better eyesight and could see the huge creature in the grass more clearly than others. In an instant, he let out a horrified cry.
As soon as he finished speaking, a huge creature crawled out from the grass. It was a super giant centipede with a body length of 25 meters.
If you want to use something to describe this centipede, you can use the green train on Blue Star as an analogy.
The body parts are connected together, just like the train carriages are connected together.
After this giant centipede climbed out of the grass, it raised its body and looked down at the humans present. It exuded extremely powerful spiritual energy fluctuations.
"Oh my god! Second-level high-level, no, this is a strange beast that is about to break through to the second-level peak, with second-level high-level cultivation."
Those present A practitioner with a second-level cultivation level opened up his senses and immediately detected the huge centipede in front of him, and the extremely powerful spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from its body.
Ordinary second-level high-level alien beasts are already extremely terrifying, and this second-level high-level alien beast that is about to break through is even more irresistible.
At this moment, the guards and the robbers, who were about to have a fierce battle with each other, all gave up the idea of fighting. The same idea came to their minds... to escape, to run away with all their strength.
It is normal for everyone present to have this idea of escape.
Because even though the total number of humans present is nearly 350, when everyone faces such a strange beast that is about to break through to the second level peak, even if they put aside their past grudges and work together Together, it is impossible to be its opponent.
Therefore, decisively choosing to escape is the most correct decision at the moment.
"Brothers, let's retreat..." The bandit leader turned around and shouted to his younger brothers.
"I'm going to die! Run away." The originally aggressive gang of robbers changed their previous appearance and ran away with frightened expressions.
"Captain, what should we do?" A guard asked the guard captain with a trembling voice, his palms constantly sweating.
"Let's go, we can't take care of the goods anymore. Let's take Shopkeeper Wang and the others and get out of here quickly." The guard captain with a second-level cultivation level, like a bandit leader, decisively gave the order for all members to retreat. Order.
And just when all the guards and robbers chose to escape, the giant centipede beast that was about to break through to the peak of the second level, looking down at the human being, once again let out a stinging eardrum-piercing sound from its mouth. A sharp beast roar.
"Roar..."
As this sharp beast roar came out, the grass around the battlefield shook and there was a rustling sound.
Immediately afterwards, one after another, the body was pitch black, with a body length of one meter and two, two long tentacles on its head, and its body was segmented one by one, each segment having a pair of feet. He came out of the grass and surrounded the humans present who were preparing to escape.
Centipedes, many big black centipedes.
Under the illumination of the white balls of light in the sky, looking around, I feel that there are large black centipedes everywhere in the mountains and plains, numbering at least tens of thousands.
"We are surrounded by a swarm of centipedes. We are doomed now..." The escaping bandits saw that all the ways to escape were blocked, and they looked miserable and let out desperate wails.
"Brother, what should we do now?" The bald robber looked at the big black centipede that was approaching, and shouted to the thief leader in a crying voice.
"Back off, everyone back off." Faced with this situation, the leader of the thieves had no solution, and he shouted to his brothers in a panic.
Next, an unexpected scene happened. The guard and the thief, who were originally on the same side and wanted to fight to the death, got together.
Everyone hid in the circular fortification formed by the carriage, and together they resisted the swarm of centipedes that surrounded them.
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(End of this chapter)