Chapter forty-fifth, the ancient city behemoth (5k)(1/2)
The next day, the weather was clear and there was no trace of clouds in the blue sky.
According to the lizard man guides, this is a typical "desert day".
Pan Long and the others asked the guides to stay in the camp, and the seven people put on a full set of suits suitable for combat and headed to the city ruins.
Six agents who didn't know whether to be considered professional or amateur formed a standard combat formation: they walked in front with a big horn with a tall black shield with one man in front, ready to use their shield or even their bodies to resist the attack for their companions; the electric snake with the left-handed riot shield and the right-handed pistol followed closely, and the two separated left and right, enough to block both sides.
At about three or four steps behind them, Franka followed her with her long and short swords. She always smiled and looked grim at the moment, with murderous intent in her eyes, ready to fight at any time.
A little later, Turin was in front and Ansil was behind. One of them was holding a short black wooden wand and the other was holding a short protective stick. Although they both looked very serious and serious, they could tell at a glance that the two of them had limited combat power and could only serve as auxiliary.
The one who landed at the end was Langil holding a large black bow. The old lizardman looked sharp and kept scanning the surroundings. He held an arrow in his left hand and could shoot arrows as fast as possible at any time.
They obviously have been trained normally, and the front and back positions are just right. No matter who is attacked, everyone else can come to support them as soon as possible.
When they watched them posed this formation outside the city, Pan Long immediately became more confident.
It probably looks like 50% to 51%.
It’s not that he looks down on others, but he really doesn’t think that this group of people can help him when facing that big monster.
Although they are all armed and serious, in terms of combat effectiveness... Pan Long feels that if he fights seriously, as long as he is not careless, these six may not be able to hold on in front of him for a minute.
This is not his bragging, just look at the shield on Bighorn.
That shield is not stronger than the stones in the fortress before...
Pan Long wanted to go to the front by himself, but after thinking for a while, he gave up this plan.
His body is too heavy. If no one is exploring the way forward, it is easy to step on the weathered and rusty floor and then fall directly into the city.
Although this city, called "Scolap", seems to have only two floors from the outside, is actually empty below the ground - its main structure is actually underground, and it is actually an oversized armored vehicle, and the ground part is just an accompanying one.
The monsters with only a lot of red tentacles should live inside the city. I don’t know what they survived with such a large size?
Pan Long was a little curious.
In the Jiuzhou world, there are indeed wonderful creatures who "eat the wind and drink dew" or "swallow gold and chew iron". Grandpa Pan Shou once said that when he was young, he went to the Jincheng defense line and once saw a monster chew a soldier in iron armor and ate the armor.
Maybe this big monster is of the same type.
Eating metal or eating sand is nothing more than these two possibilities.
...After all, there is nothing else to eat except metal and sand.
Whether it eats metal or sand, no monster that can eat this kind of thing is easy to deal with.
Pan Long took a deep breath and adjusted his state to ensure that he could attack with all his strength at any time.
After a while, Rangier suddenly shouted: "Get back! Be careful underground!"
Everyone took several steps back, and then the ground suddenly cracked open, and a red tentacle drilled out from the ground, almost against a large horned shield, rushed into the sky like a drill bit.
The face under the big horn mask was covered with cold sweat. He was only one step away from being hit by this guy.
That tentacle was thicker than his legs. If you were drilled by this thing, you would be disabled even if you didn't die!
He didn't feel that he was so hard that he could withstand this thing.
The operators of "Zion" can indeed be called elite. Although the incident happened in a hurry, they launched a counterattack less than half a second later.
The pistol of the electric snake fired first, without the explosion of gunpowder weapons. It was just a slight sound, and streaming light flew out from the muzzle and landed on the red tentacles. Each shot could create a hole the size of a finger. Although it was not clear how deep it was for the time being, gray-red liquid flowed out from it.
Immediately afterwards, Franka bent down, her body seemed to be as soft as boneless, and she shuttled out between the two heavy operators. The slender sword in her left hand, which seemed to be a decoration, suddenly became bright and turned red in an instant.
With a wave of her hand, the thin sword cut a long wound on the thick tentacle. The wound was charred, but the flesh and blood were burnt, and even blood could not flow out.
She was about to seize the time to increase the results of the battle when Ranjil shouted again: "Get back! Go back!"
The three of them retreated without hesitation and did not dare to have any love for the battle.
In just one or two seconds, the ground they were standing before was torn apart, and another tentacle reached out from the ground.
The sound of tooth-inspiring metal tearing is endless with the sound of building collapse.
Mixed among these sounds, Rangier's old but full of energy shouts: "Get back! All retreat! Anshir retreated to the end, Turin prepared spells, Bighorn went to guard the back road, the electric snake, Franka alerted, and with the old man as the center, all retreated!"
Everyone accepted his command, and even the nominal captain Dajiao was no exception.
The only person who didn't listen to his orders was Pan Long.
As soon as he saw the tentacles appear, Pan Long took a deep breath and bowed down to prepare for the charge.
Last time he was not strong enough, so he couldn't see it. Now his strength has increased greatly and he feels much more sensitive. As soon as the tentacle appeared, he immediately realized that the other party was not a mere "giant beast", but something far more dangerous and terrifying than ordinary beasts or monsters.
To deal with such things, all your strength is not enough. You have to blow out all your strength in three punches and two kicks to have hope of winning.
He was accumulating strength behind him, while the "Zion" operators in front fell into a tough battle.
Although they reacted quickly and had no problem dealing with it, the power of those tentacles was too great!
Dajiao was originally going to go to the back to help defend the back road, but after only two steps, he saw the tentacle that appeared behind to tear the room next to him and swept across.
He had no time to dodge, so he could only half-squat down, hold the giant shield in front of him, and use his body as a support to try to block this move.
With a loud bang, he flew out with his people and his shield, collapsed a rusty wall and fell into the room next to him.
Anshire exclaimed and rushed to rescue him. As a result, Turin grabbed his clothes after taking a step.
"Wait!" yelled Torino, "I'll divert it!"
As she said that, she waved her wand, and a ball of flame rose from the tip of the wand, and flew out like a poisonous snake with a scream, hitting the tentacle that knocked the big horn away.
The tentacle was immediately attracted to its attention and turned in this direction.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Anhil rolled and crawled into the room, hugged Dajiao, who was still lying on the ground and coughed repeatedly, and didn't care about the shield, so he dragged him out and ran out.
On the other hand, the electric snake's pistol was like infinite bullets, constantly emitting streams of light. In conjunction with Franka's thin sword that seemed to be burned red, the two joined forces to block a tentacle that was chasing them.
The tentacle was thrusting and swaying, and each blow could destroy at least one wall. The solid metal wall was like paper in front of it. If it was hit, unless it was really steel and iron, it would be seriously injured even if it did not die.
But the Electric Snake and Franka exerted their own keenness to the extreme. The two jumped up and down, avoiding its attacks again and again. Not only were they not hit, they could even seize opportunities repeatedly and add wounds to it.
It would be fine if the gunshot wounds were cut, but Franka's sword would be a deep hole. After several times, there were already several miserable large wounds on the tentacles, and gray-red liquid flowed all over the ground, and the movements became slower.
At this moment, Ranjir, who was standing in the rear, shouted: "Get back!"
The electric snake immediately retreated, but Franka did not execute the order immediately.
She saw that the tentacle was about to be cut off, and she wanted to seize the opportunity to cut two more swords, cut off the tentacle and retreat.
But it was this moment that the surrounding ground collapsed, and tentacles stretched out from the ground, surrounding her in the middle.
Franka's face changed drastically and she rushed out. Finally, she reacted quickly and moved flexibly enough. She rushed out before the tentacles surrounded her, but was poured into a lot of gray-red liquid, and a large piece of red on her head and body was red.
She had just rushed out a few steps and was about to fight back, her face suddenly changed. She screamed in dismay: "It's poisonous!"
Before she finished speaking, she had already fallen down straight, and her whole body was stiff like a wooden stake.
Fortunately, the electric snake arrived in time, put away the gun, hugged her, carefully avoided the gray-red liquid on her body, and hurriedly retreated.
There were loud noises, and the ground, walls, and houses in front were constantly shattered by huge tentacles. The metal fragments were beaten by them, and they roared in the air and flew everywhere, just like stray bullets on the battlefield.
The electric snake blocked it with a riot shield, and only the sound of banging on the riot shield was heard constantly. The powerful force shocked her arms and her heart was a little numb.
Just some fragments splashed out after the attack are powerful enough to be comparable to those of ordinary psychics. Such terrifying power is simply unheard of!
And this is just a few tentacles of the giant beast. Its body has not even appeared in front of everyone!
No wonder this city was abandoned at the beginning. Not to mention a long time ago, even now, no matter which city it appears, there will be only one, that is, the city is abandoned and people flee in scattered lives.
With her experience, it is simply impossible to fight against such a giant beast!
As a heavy-armed operator, she is not weak. Even if she holds Franka in her right hand and a shield in her left hand, she still walks steadily.
However, those tentacles are faster!
Accompanied by the howling wind, a tentacle suddenly thrust over.
A sharper sound of wind sounded, and a long black arrow cut through the air and shot it first. It exploded immediately after it was shot, turning into a ball of flames.
The tentacle's attack was curbed, and the electric snake seized the opportunity and shouted "Don't touch the liquid on her body" while throwing Franka back.
The current situation no longer allows her to retreat.
Turin waved his wand, and the wind gathered in the air and turned into a mat, and caught Franka. Then Anshire opened the medicine box he was carrying, took out the disinfectant potion from it, and shot her face, neck, and arms... anyway, it splashed in the red liquid, and it was poured on.
Although the situation was urgent, this young man with a slim look at the elbow-eared rabbit who looked a little stern, and his movements were not slow at all. It seemed like he was in a hospital surgery, without panic.
Turin was in a very embarrassing situation. In order to cover Anhil and Dajiao, she used spells to lure a tentacle away, and then the tentacle stared at her and kept chasing her and hit her.
Thanks to her short figure and crawling, she was able to avoid its attack. Until now, she still had to dodge her full tail.
But just now, she used her spell to pick up Franka, and her movements were slowed down, and her tentacles were immediately found by the hunt for her.
The tentacle first shrank slightly, then stretched out suddenly, like a spear thrusting straight towards her.
Big Kok, who had just been dragged back by Anshir, roared angrily, took a metal wall that temporarily acted as a shield, and hit the tentacle from the side, stumbled its direction slightly, and flew over to Turin's body.
Turin, who had saved his life, turned pale and hurriedly avoided the side.
On the other hand, the electric snake was also in danger of death.
One tentacle blocked her way from behind, and the other approached from the front. Even though she shot repeatedly and shot wounds on the tentacles, she could not stop it.
To be continued...