Mercenaries and Adventurers

Five parasitic monsters with hidden identities walked from the main road to the small village of Lanjing along the dirt path with slightly panicked footsteps.

As they walked, they frequently looked back at the dark night behind them. These people looked quite embarrassed, covered in mud, and breathing heavily, as if they had been running for their lives before.

"It's almost there! It's almost there! Everyone, try harder!"

The leading guy encouraged his companions, his words were panicked but fluent, and even the words he spoke had an accent that was spoken by the people near Yemei Town.

A guy who was walking at the end staggered and tripped over himself, and was about to fall. Fortunately, his companion who was a step ahead grabbed the man's arm tightly, helped him up with a drag, and followed him together. Get on the person in front.

"Hold on, those monsters won't come after you. There are so many people ahead."

"Hold on, don't fall behind!"

Encouraging each other, these guys were finally less than a hundred meters away from the village gate.

There was an armed squad guarding the village gate, but after all, they couldn't see far or clearly at night, so except for vaguely hearing suspicious voices on the path ahead, these armed people didn't realize that someone was fleeing. come over.

But this does not mean that the refugee team’s nighttime vigilance capabilities are limited to this.

On the side of the path where the five guys were walking, in the half-man-high messy weed farmland, there was a suspicious whistling sound, and then pairs of green light spots that reflected the firelight in the village suddenly appeared in the weeds.

There's something hiding in the overgrown farmland!

The five parasitic monsters looked at each other and were about to slow down when a sharp cry sounded from the grass.

"Meow-!"

The sudden cry startled these five guys, and their pretentious and scattered breathing calmed down in an instant.

"Meow-!"

There was another sharp warning call, and this time, the members of the armed squad who were resting by the fire at the village gate all picked up their weapons and stood up.

"There's something going on! It's a warning from the alien orcs!"

The captain of the armed team reacted immediately and shouted: "Everyone get up, everyone get up!"

Only half of the people sat down to rest, while the other half of the team members who were on guard duty gathered together in three or five people, with torches in one hand and swords in the other, ready for battle. The young archers who used bows and arrows climbed onto a carriage parked at the entrance of the village. Regardless of the complaints of Courage Maomao in the wooden box, they stepped on the large wooden box where the Maomaos usually rested, and condescendingly put homemade or captured weapons on the bow strings. arrows.

"Five people! Empty-handed! Here they come!"

Courage Maomao complained, but he still jumped off the carriage, thrust his tail on the ground like a pole vault, and suddenly came to the captain of the armed team, telling him the information he got from the warning of his companions. .

Although the Maomaos in the weed fields in front seem to be calling the same thing, they actually mean very different things. But only they, Maomao, can tell the difference. People of other races hear nothing but sharp howls.

"Who is it! Stop! Tell me your identity!"

The squad leader held a sword in one hand and a wooden shield in the other. He was wearing a piece of repaired clean leather armor. He stood in the middle of the road at the entrance of the village and shouted loudly toward the dark place ahead.

On the dirt road ahead of the village entrance, in the pitch-black environment, footsteps sounded again, gradually approaching, accompanied by a panicked shout: "Help! Please save us! Please save us!"

After hearing what the other party said, the captain rolled his eyes. The long sword in his hand hit his shield hard, and he made a warning sound: "Tell me your identity! And, here you go. I stop! Stop!"

"There are monsters chasing us! Save us! We are businessmen in Yemei Town! Soldiers, save us!"

"Stop! Come over slowly!"

The team leader shouted, but the panicked footsteps in front of him still didn't stop. As the distance got closer, the armed people at the entrance of the village could already vaguely see each other supporting each other and walking quickly under the light of the torches in their hands. several human figures.

"I said stop! Didn't you hear me? Archer! Aim with your arrow—"

Following the words of the squad leader, the five young bow-wielding youths standing or squatting on the wooden box of the carriage immediately put the bow arrows in their hands on the bow strings. At the same time, they slightly adjusted their body orientation and the preparatory movements of their arms, ready to open their arms at any time. , quickly draw the bow and release the arrow.

Although it was difficult to see clearly the target to be attacked at night, with five people firing in volley, the firepower could make up for the accuracy.

On the path ahead, the parasitic monsters who wanted to get closer quickly had to slow down as they were told. They are monsters, but not idiots, especially after parasitizing humans, their intelligence has also increased somewhat.

Seeing that the other party finally slowed down and approached obediently, the captain of the armed team continued to shout: "Are there monsters chasing you? Are some damn rotten tree roots occupying human corpses? Is this such a thing?"

Upon hearing this group of humans insulting them, the five parasitic monsters opened their mouths in dissatisfaction and cursed in a low voice. Then the leader responded: "Well, we were attacked just after dark, so we didn't see clearly. . But they are all very strong and rude guys, who call themselves a group of 'hanged ghosts' bandits! Please, please protect us for one night, please this soldier captain, please."

As the two parties talked, the distance continued to get closer. Of course, the people in the armed team did not move. They were all five guys wearing businessmen's clothes walking over, supporting each other.

At this time, the distance between the two parties was only about 20 meters. From the armed team's perspective, there were indeed only five people appearing on the road ahead. They spoke clearly and thought fluently. They were not like the stupid parasites they encountered at noon today. monster.

So the members of the armed team breathed a sigh of relief and felt that things were becoming normal.

The captain in the middle of the team also opened his eyes and carefully observed the five panicked businessmen walking in front of him.

He saw that these businessmen were all in a mess. The sturdy and expensive clothes they were wearing seemed to have been kissed by mud, split from dusty grass stalks, dirty and torn apart, and several of them had bare feet. , it seems that in their previous escape, these people even lost their valuable shoes. In addition, these people's faces were panicked, and they were all pale and dim. They were obviously extremely frightened.

"What happened? It turned out to be like this?"

He stepped forward and asked.

But at this time, behind the five guys, there was a sway in the weeds on the roadside, and a Maomao with its tail raised high jumped out of the grass. It lowered its tail and propped it up on the ground, then quietly landed on the road where the five guys had walked.

Of course, it jumped out for a reason. Where the five strange guys walked by, a guy who ran in a panic tripped over him, and it was that trip that caused the other guy to drop something on the ground.

This Maomao hopes that the other party has dropped a piece of metal, of course, preferably a human flat soft metal, a coin! Because although this thing is soft and slippery, a small piece can be exchanged for more metal.

Maomao also knows the importance of coins in human society!

It jumped over, stretched out its hand to fish it out, and knew from the touch on its front palm that it was not a metal or a coin. This made it a little disappointed, thinking that there would be no more gains today, so it looked at the thing in its hand and realized, oh, this is a human little toe, and the smell is very unpleasant.

Even if he didn't bring this thing close to his nose, Maomao could smell the rotten smell coming from the broken toe.

Um?

Broken toe? Rotten stench?

Maomao turned to look in the direction of the village entrance and tilted its head as it looked at the five human figures slowly walking towards the entrance of the village where the armed team was guarding.

My toe fell off, it must hurt a lot, right?

But why don't they cry out in pain? After all, the human wounded in the team were still crying out in pain all night long, even if the human witch doctor stretched out his hand to rub the wounds to treat them. Those with sensitive ears can hear the low wailing of injured humans at night.

Unless among the five people in front, the guy with the broken toe is not a human!

Thinking of this, this Maomao immediately opened his mouth and screamed: "Meow~~!!"

As soon as Courage Maomao, who was idle by the carriage at the entrance of the village, heard the cry, he immediately reacted. After screaming in his mouth, he instantly threw the human dagger and Maomao's sword above his head.

Then it lay on the ground with all four limbs, keeping it steady and grounded, and then flicked its tail back, then rolled it back toward the top of its head to strike.

Snapped!

The toughest part of Courage's furry tail just hit the end of the handle of the dagger spinning in mid-air.

Then a stream of light flew from Courage Maomao to the chest of the businessman at the front.

Poof, after a quick and short stabbing sound, everyone present, or those who were not human, were stunned.

The leader of the embarrassed merchant looked down at the iron dagger on his chest. The members of the armed team guarding the village entrance widened their eyes, and many of them opened their mouths. After being shocked by this scene, they didn't even know what to do. What sound does it make.

The captain of the armed team immediately turned his head to look in the direction of the dagger throw. He happened to see the little alien leader lying on the ground and his long tail swinging in the air.

"you……"

Just as he was about to speak, Courage Maomao, who was lying on the ground, slapped the ground, stood up and shouted to him: "Monsters! Monsters! They, monsters!"

The team leader was stunned for a moment, and then turned back at an extremely fast speed. The speed made people wonder if he would have sprained his neck if he went any faster.

When he turned to look at the five businessmen who were suddenly attacked by the aliens, the embarrassed businessman who saw a dagger stuck in his chest raised his head and looked at him with an unexpected look.

Then the squad leader heard a sentence that made his scalp tingle, and he said from the mouth of the person opposite: "Really, tell me, what should my reaction be at this time?"

That person, no, that monster seemed to be asking the armed team, but it was actually communicating with other companions behind him.

The other four parasitic monsters shook their heads and cursed. At the same time, when the humans were stunned by the accident, they quickened their pace, and the next moment, they started running.

The squad leader immediately came to his senses and shouted: "Archer! Shoot the arrow! Shoot the arrow!"

The young men on the carriage who were about to draw their bows were not as dazed as the others below. Because they were at the top of the two-meter-high carriage, they could see everything that happened in front of them, including the alien orcs who suddenly moved, and the After the attack, the embarrassed businessman looked like nothing happened, and everything that happened after that.

Therefore, when the squad leader just called the archer, before he finished speaking, the five young men who used the bow stretched their arms forward and back, stretched their left arm forward, and pulled the bowstring back with their right hand. When the force was right, they moved their fingers, and the bowstring was no longer blocked by the leather sheath on their fingers, directly driving the arrow to fly forward.

The speed of the arrows was much faster than that of the attacking monsters.

Before the monsters started running, the three fastest guys in front were hit by several arrows.

The force was such that these guys were brought to the ground.

At this time, with the nervous shouting of the squad leader, other people around him reacted and rushed to fight while waving torches.

Everyone in the armed team watched the fire torture in the afternoon, and they all understood that this kind of monster is afraid of flames, at least the flames can burn the opponent to death, so the torches in their hands whirred, but the swords did not cut through it very much.

After all, everyone knows that although this kind of monster in human skin is very powerful and is not easy to be injured and dies, it is not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is that if the opponent's hands, feet and head are injured, the blood lurks in the body. Those disgusting roots that look like earthworms and snake balls will stick out from the body. Not only can they attack, but they can also kill anyone they catch.

So at this moment, everyone was shouting and waving the torch in their left hands back and forth, constantly driving away the five parasitic monsters that were rushing towards them.

"Call the Lord Knight! And the Lord Priest! Hurry, no matter who it is, move quickly!"

The team leader shouted something behind him. They were guarding the entrance of the village, and not far behind them were the farmers' yards and houses. Of course, there were other people inside who were resting for the night.

Although it has been dark for a while now, and everyone is tired from the day and needs a rest in urgent need, not every young person will go to rest. For example, men and women make eye contact on the road, or young people who are lovers or couples, or energetic young men who have just finished eating and are active, chatting and bragging, or going to the camp center together Watch the same energetic young people training and fighting.

At this moment, these people noticed the chaos and fighting at the entrance of the village. They woke up their companions who had fallen asleep early and ran towards the center of the village as fast as they could. On the way, they kept shouting: "The fight is starting! The entrance to the village." There’s a fight there!”

Because of the distance, no one in the farmer's yard or house knew that one of the parties fighting at the moment was the parasitic monsters they had just encountered at noon.

After all, those monsters still looked human at this time, and they were not the same as at noon. Many parasitic monsters were rushed by Keir on horseback, and many conspicuous plant roots stretched out with severed hands and heads.

Huh-huh, the flames were waving, and the monster with astonishing strength pounced forward, trying to hug some armed people, but the people dodged left and right, causing it to miss.

After landing on the ground, before it could get up, the archer who saw the right moment fired a volley, and all five arrows hit the unlucky guy.

The human body cannot withstand the shooting of bows and arrows at such a close range. Although the archers only use ordinary hunting bows, and the arrows are ordinary or even ordinary homemade bows of average quality seized from the bandits, they cannot withstand the close range and the large number.

Five arrows pressed the parasitic monster that was trying to get up to the ground, interrupting its movement to get up. Then the armed people who dodged from left to right then burned the torches in their hands towards the back of the parasitic monster.

Everyone knew that those monsters would parasitize in the human body and trunk, so they didn't care about their hands, feet, and heads, they directly hit the torch on the parasitic monster's body and trunk, and stamped the sword in their hands!

There was a crackle, a burst of slashing fire, and the parasitic monster stopped moving.

A particularly courageous guy clenched the machete in his hand, stepped forward and cut off the parasitic monster's neck, but then no plant roots protruded from the broken neck, and even the monster's bright red human blood was gone. There was no risk, just some plant juices that smelled good came out.

"Ha! We've got one! We've got another one! Our team is also open!"

"I think these monsters are just like this, kill them! Take them all down!"

After defeating a parasitic monster, everyone became excited and the cows began to brag. The companions holding shields in their left hands and torches in their right hands were following the team leader to resist the monsters' attack.

"What a bunch of idiots! Come over and help once you've solved it!"

The squad leader roared, and the others swarmed forward and immediately drowned a parasitic monster that the squad leader had defeated alone.

Seeing his companions being knocked down and killed one by one, the little leader of the parasitic monster immediately wailed and shouted: "Quickly retreat! Escape into the darkness!"

As soon as it shouted, it and the other two parasitic monsters turned around and ran away. They finally knew how this large group of humans got here.

However, there cannot be a head-on confrontation, and an ambush attack in the dark night is not impossible.

Previously, there were merchants in Yemei Town who wanted to leave the town to do business, so they sneaked in at night and captured several small caravans. As for caravans with larger numbers, a sudden attack may not necessarily capture them all at once, as some will always escape at night.

But unfortunately, human vision at night is not very good, far inferior to that of parasitic monsters.

Therefore, almost all of the attacked caravans who escaped were dragged into the darkness one by one in the dark night by these guys, and then became one of them.

The little leader of the parasitic monsters had a good idea. Even if these humans were carrying torches, as long as they stayed away or dispersed in the surrounding barren farmland, they would not be allowed to attack and sneak up on them.

But these monsters don't seem to be very lucky this time.

As the three of them retreated into the dark night and howled and wandered in the farmland around the entrance of the village, Courage Mao Mao swung his tail excitedly. He barked a few times, and something was coming from the farmland near the entrance of the village. Moving fast.

The subordinates, who were originally evenly distributed around the entire village, quickly exchanged positions. Courage Maomao called his melee Maomao over, while the other Maomao continued to patrol the surrounding areas.

Then, in a cry that humans couldn't understand, it gave orders to the close combat furries, and the night hunting of the long-haired lynx orcs began.