Chapter 63, Iron-Eating Worms
Fang Hao had seen rotting corpses in Yinfeng Castle, but he was not shocked at this moment.
The animals we usually see have now turned into monsters with strange movements and rotten bodies.
A giant-horned deer, its body covered with rotten acne, most of its head has been sunken, its eyeballs have fallen off and hang to the side, but it is still attacking the pig-headed man.
The pig-headed men who died in the battle, after falling to the ground, were like infected zombies, joining the rotting animals.
Attack your former companions.
The entire battlefield is full of weirdness.
【Gianthorn Deer Carcass】
[Prairie Wolf Corpse]….
Fang Hao looked at the information of several animal zombies one after another, and without exception, all displayed were corpses.
It is not a combat unit.
This isn't right.
In Shadowwind Castle, the level and skills of a rotten corpse will be displayed when you encounter them. How can it be shown that it is a corpse?
Tap tap tap! !
Horse hooves trampled the ground, attracting the attention of pig-headed people and animal zombies.
When the pig-headed people saw a group of undead cavalry coming, their faces became even paler. They were entering the tiger's mouth before leaving the pack of wolves.
You must die today.
The zombie animals were more direct. They looked at Fang Hao and others and launched an attack directly.
"Go on, kill them. I don't believe you can also infect skeletons." Fang Hao said in a low voice.
Even if you are a zombie, you can be infected.
That's also infecting ordinary creatures. I don't believe you can infect skeletons.
Upon hearing Fang Hao's order, the cavalryman drew out the iron sword from his waist, clamped the horse's belly and launched an attack.
The cavalry's charge was so powerful that they decapitated several animals in one encounter.
The head of one of the prairie wolves rolled to the feet of Fang Hao's horse.
As soon as it stopped, a slender insect emerged from the coyote's head and tried to escape into the distance.
【Iron-eating worms】
[Ability: Parasitism]
With a gentle step of the bone-white horse's hooves, the iron-eating worms were crushed into a pulp.
It seems that this iron-eating worm itself is not aggressive, but attacks through parasitism.
Soon, the parasitized animals were killed by the cavalry.
Iron-eating worms emerged from the animals' heads and were trampled to death by the pig-headed people who were lucky enough to survive.
Once the iron-eating worm leaves its host, it has no attack power and can be easily killed.
The battle is over.
The skeleton cavalry surrounded the remaining ten pig-headed men, killing or keeping them, waiting for Fang Hao's order.
Fang Hao approached on a skeleton horse and looked at the pig-headed team coldly.
This was the second time he met a pig-headed man.
"Excuse me, do you know Mr. Fang Hao?" Seeing that the skeleton cavalry was about to take action, a pig-headed man stood up bravely.
Fang Hao was slightly startled when he heard what the other party said.
"Do you know me?" Fang Hao asked.
The pig-headed man saw that the direction in which the skeleton cavalry was coming was the direction of Fang Hao's territory, so he simply gave it a try.
Unexpectedly, the skeleton in front of him admitted that he was Fang Hao.
The pig-headed man hesitated and asked carefully: "Are you Mr. Fang Hao? Do you still remember the Manim Market I took you to a few days ago?"
profound!
After saying this, Fang Hao knew.
This pig-headed man is the pig-headed man who took him to Manim, Bolton.
"Bolton, is your village nearby?" Fang Hao directly called the other party's name.
He saw that the pig-headed people all looked the same, and if the other party didn't tell them and there were no obvious differences, they wouldn't be able to recognize each other.
"Yes, yes! Master Fang Hao, you saved me for the second time." Bolton became excited instantly and knelt on the ground to thank him loudly.
He didn't know why Fang Hao was a skeleton, and he didn't care much.
But he knew that if he and Fang Hao recognized each other, the other party would not immediately kill people like him.
When the other pig-headed men saw Bolton kneeling down, they also knelt down and thanked Fang Hao loudly for his life-saving grace.
"Get up, why are you here?" Fang Hao asked.
Bolton stood up with several pig-headed men and replied respectfully: "Sir, there is a mine ahead. We are mining some ore in a safe place."
"Are you talking about the abandoned mine?"
"Yes, the mine is very large, but it was occupied by these bugs. No force dared to mine it a long time ago. Our village is nearby, and we occasionally arrange for people to mine some in safe places nearby." Bolton introduced softly.
Through Bolton's introduction, Fang Hao also gained a general understanding.
This mine has existed for a long time, and many forces have tried to mine it.
But any creature that comes close will be attacked by the iron-eating worms, turning it into a corpse golem.
No force could bear this kind of loss, so the mine was completely idle and became an abandoned mine.
The pig-headed village is not far from here, and occasionally people will be arranged to mine some ore.
But situations like today often happen, with casualties.
There is no way around this. Pig villages are not wealthy, and are sometimes threatened and plundered by other orcs.
Even if people die, manpower will be deployed to mine the ores despite the risks.
"Okay, take me to the mine to have a look." Fang Hao said softly.
Upon hearing these words, the expressions of all the pig-headed men changed.
Bolton reacted quickly and said: "Sir, several of them are injured. Let them go back to the village. I will take you there."
"Okay, don't waste time." Fang Hao nodded in agreement.
Several pig-headed men glanced at Bolton, turned and left.
Bolton took Fang Hao and other cavalrymen and continued to move towards the mine.
With Bolton's guidance, we soon saw the entrance to the mine.
The mine covers a large area and can even be called a mine.
You can also see abandoned rail cars and some abandoned facilities.
It seems that this place was specially constructed earlier.
"Master Fang Hao, the bugs are particularly active today. They will attack as soon as they get close. It is difficult to deal with them." Bolton said softly.
"Okay, you wait here, I'll go in and take a look." Fang Hao said, leading all the cavalry forward.
Just stepped into the scope of the mine.
Then he saw manipulated corpses coming out of various mines, including various beasts and animals, as well as manipulated orcs.
"Dismount and fight." Fang Hao ordered.
All the cavalry dismounted, drew their weapons, and began to attack.
Fang Hao wanted to verify whether these iron-eating worms had any effect on undead creatures.
Sure enough, during the battle, an iron-eating worm broke away from its original host, took advantage of the chaos, climbed up on the head of a skeleton cavalry, and got inside.
But the next second, the Skeleton Cavalry directly inserted his fingers through his pupils, grabbed the iron-eating worm and strangled it to death.
It seems that this iron-eating worm is useless against the skeleton.
As more and more bodies came out of the mine, Fang Hao also gave the order to retreat.
"Retreat."
The cavalry remounted their horses and moved away from the mine area.
After retreating to a certain distance, the manipulated corpses retreated one after another and got back into the mine.
Bolton also came over at this time, "Sir, are you okay?"
Bolton, who lives nearby, is naturally aware of the dangers of abandoned mines.
No one who goes in can come out alive.
Fang Hao was the first.
Of course, under the current circumstances, Bolton is not sure whether Fang Hao is still human.
"Let's go to your village." (End of Chapter)