Struggle in the Steam Age

This is a small pond with a diameter of about 20 meters. In the center of the pond, there is a wriggling gravel pile the size of a round table. It looks like a guy is trying to dig a hole to keep himself at the bottom of the water.

"Let's lure it out first, and lure it to the shore to fight." After looking around, Lawrence found that this place is indeed more suitable for an ambush, at least there is an open space by the pond, and there will be no obstacles to stop everyone of the mobile.

When everyone was ready, Lawrence took his rifle from behind and aimed at the wriggling sand pile in the water, and then fired an exorcism bullet.

In an instant, the pile of sand exploded, and then a monster the size of a carriage jumped out of the pond and went straight to Lawrence. Lawrence stood there calmly, pulled the lever down calmly to eject the shell of the fired bullet, and then loaded the next bullet.

Boom——after another gunshot, the monster's fist-sized eye exploded directly. This kind of pain made the monster tremble and stop, then stood up straight and let out a sharp cry like fingernails scratching glass.

There was a soul shock in this cry, but after the invisible ripple touched Lawrence, it was completely dissolved by the phantom of Bai Ze in Lawrence's mind. At this moment, Lawrence realized that the guy standing in the pool was actually a huge gray-black spider.

Taking advantage of the spider's momentary immobility, Lawrence loaded a new round and pulled the trigger again. The moment Lawrence raised his rifle, the huge spider in the pond waved its eight claws in an attempt to avoid it. But the distance was too close, and with a bang, another big black eye was directly blown out.

"Squeak—" The re-wounded spider was completely irritated. Its huge oval body suddenly sat down, and then jumped out of the water and rushed towards Lawrence.

Lawrence swiftly stepped back obliquely to avoid the blow. At the same time, other people who were previously stunned by the spider's mental attack also launched an attack. John and Leto rushed out from both sides, one from the left and one from the right, swinging knight swords and axes to attack the two frontmost claws of the spider, while Cog manipulated a three-barreled bursting cannon protruding from the robot. Like this spider's body strafing away.

However, as a professional-level monster, even if it is the bottom one in terms of defense, it still has a strong defense. At least for transcendents below the professional level, its mutated carapace is still an obstacle that is difficult to break through.

For example, in the round of attack just now, John and Lesso only left two deep marks on the spider's two front paws when it took the initiative to unload its force. And Kogna was just a few rounds of 20mm short-barreled shells loaded with ordinary steel-core armor-piercing bullets, and it just knocked out a few pieces of fluff on the spider's body.

However, because everyone launched it together, the spider shifted its attack target from Lawrence to John and Lesso who were closest to him. Its sharp knife-like claws pierced towards the two warriors standing in front of it like raindrops.

At this time, Lawrence seized the opportunity to fire another bullet. It's just that what he fired was no longer exorcism bullets, but explosive bullets he bought from the church at a price of 3 yuan before participating in the competition.

If it simply hit the surface of the spider, this bullet, which is equivalent to a grenade, might only cause some skin trauma. But Lawrence's close marksmanship from Annie Oakley maximized the effect of this bullet.

Accompanied by a whistling sound and a slight explosion, the bullet shot directly into the wound on the spider's left front paw that was opened by John just now, and then exploded with a bang. Immediately, the spider's claws with a length of arm and black blood separated from the spider's body and flew away.

"Nice job." After using the little bit of holy light attached to the shield to block the corrosive black blood sprayed on him. John took advantage of the gap exposed by the spider's lost front claw and took a big step forward, then holding the knight's sword with holy light, he stabbed fiercely at the joint where the injured claw connected to the body.

Poof——, with the sound of piercing into a bag full of rice, the spider's left front paw was completely abolished. Just when it saw the situation was bad and tried to take a step back to avoid John's next attack, a black figure suddenly appeared beside it, and then stuffed a glass bottle specially made like a spearhead into its wound.

At this time, Laka appeared in front of everyone. As a rogue, her attacks were not effective against this kind of guy with high defense and thick blood, and she was not good at head-on one-on-one gladiatorial combat. So she had been hiding her aura just now, until now when the opponent showed her flaws, she released her powerful blow.

"Avoid the wound, my bottle is full of poison." Laka shouted, but she didn't need to say that everyone was on alert, because the dark green liquid in the bottle just now looked ominous.

Sure enough, after the bottle was stuffed into the spider. The spider's movements immediately became crazier, and at the same time, he let out a scream that was completely different from the previous one.

Following the scream, there was another ripple in the pool just now. More than 20 zombies crawled out of the water and walked towards the battlefield.

These zombies should not look like humans, but belong to some monsters. It looked like a corpse that had been buried underground for several years, not only did not rot, but also saponified.

Their color is brown-black like rotten wood, and there are many traces of decay on the surface. Luckily they were in the water before, so there wasn't much of a smell.

Also because of the saponification, these zombies are very shriveled, and can basically be described as skinny. But correspondingly, the scales, muscles and skin on their bodies formed an extremely tough protective layer. It's like a tire with steel wires added.

For example, Raka the Skaven rushed up after discovering these emerging zombies, but she found that it was difficult for the dagger to cut enough in these places when it pierced the hard and tough skin of the zombies covered with scales. the wound. The moves used to attack weak points and the poison on the blade have little effect on zombies.

Just when Laka was almost scratched by the zombie's paw due to a mistake in judgment, a positive energy ray passed her cheek and accurately hit the head of the zombie opposite her. In an instant, the soul fire of the zombie was extinguished, and then it fell straight forward on the ground.

"Thanks." Laka thanked Lawrence in a low voice, and then joined the crowd besieging the large spider. And Lawrence turned his rifle back to his body and began to use a mixture of revolvers and magic to clean up the zombies climbing up from the pool.

The talent of the Bai Ze blood has a special damage bonus in the face of these undead creatures, plus the level of crushing. Lawrence can basically take out a trainee-level zombie in one hit.

I have to say that the advantages and disadvantages of zombies are equally obvious. Once they gather in groups or in some small spaces, they will bring great harm to others with their armor-like skin and strong magic resistance. trouble.

But there are more than 20 zombies in an empty space, it is not so difficult to deal with, especially when Lawrence's magic and blood are just able to restrain them.

If the spider can still be kept and can guarantee the control of these undead creatures, maybe they can still bring some danger to Lawrence. But now it is surrounded by four people plus a mana robot, and it is too busy to take care of itself, let alone manipulate those zombies.

So in the following period of time, Lawrence held back almost all the zombies to buy time for the others to beat up the spider-like monster.