Chapter 24 Blood-stained Streets (Part 1)
Joel looked at each other silently. He held the black sword in one hand and in front of his left hand there was a list of "backpacks". The shield and crossbow were gone, and only some weapons were plundered from the depths of the snowfield. Fortunately, Joel had already driven the weapons used for practice from the ancient fortress. At this moment, the weapons in his "backpack" were all weapons that could be used to kill people.
But can it be used to kill monsters? Joel thought suspiciously.
But at the moment he was thinking, the monster had already jumped up. He waved his thin arm, like an iron rod, and swung his webbed palms wide open. Joel hurriedly turned his body and pressed forward. He could feel the bloody smell of the monster's body. His terrifying arm passed by Joel's side. He held the sword in both hands and stabbed towards the monster's right rib, but the monster's speed was even more exaggerated.
Joel almost immediately withdrew his attack as soon as he stabbed the sword. The monster's right arm swung again. Joel raised a black sword to block the front, blocked the sword body with his left hand, and held the hilt with his right hand, and then the monster hit the sword body with a fierce blow. Joel heard the metal whine. This attack was even more serious than the previous attack that Ding Ke had attacked him. Joel flew backwards, and the sword blade could not completely block the monster's attack.
Joel knocked down a brazier, and the ashes, charcoal and half-burned firewood were scattered all over the ground. The twinkling Mars flew like a frightened fireflies. The heat and firelight spread to the surroundings. The black sword had fallen from Joel's hand the moment he was knocked away, and the monster rushed forward in a victory.
It opened its mouth full of jagged teeth and rushed towards Joel's neck, but its bloody and foul mouth could not bite Joel's throat, and its momentum was suddenly stopped. Joel let go of the hand holding the hilt when he was knocked away, but pulled out a wooden spear from the "backpack". When the monster rushed up, Joel, who fell to the ground, aimed his spear at its abdomen. Its swollen abdomen was directly pierced by the spear, and its momentum was also stopped.
Before it was over, Joel told himself. His free right hand quickly pulled out another one-handed iron axe from the "backpack", but the monster was faster. The pierced by the spear did not stop it. It opened its mouth again and bit Joel's throat. The spear that pierced it was stained scarlet and drilled out from its back. Joel held the iron axe and smashed it fiercely towards the monster's head. The axe blade hit the bottom of its ear. The axe blade stabbed into its head, but it was still not stopped. The monster whose head had been smashed bite on Joel's shoulder, and the serrated teeth pierced the mature leather armor and nailed it to Joel's shoulder bone.
"Um!" Joel gritted his teeth tightly, and then a grim smile appeared on his face under his mask.
The left shoulder bitten by the monster was not flowing out of blood, but sparks. The curse brought by the Goddess of Disaster Industry, Joel's blood would burn when it touched the air. The monster immediately let go of his mouth. Joel heard its roar in horror, and wisps of smoke came out of his mouth. He seized this opportunity. Joel grabbed the wooden handle of the iron axe again, pulled the axe blade out of the monster's skull, and attacked the monster's left shoulder with another fierce attack.
The axe blade slashed into the monster's left shoulder, staggering. Joel immediately picked up his spear, kicked the monster's abdomen, pushed the monster away, and he was able to get up from the ground. Joel, who had just gotten up, immediately pulled out an iron sword from his "backpack".
The monster grabbed the spear on its belly, then held the handle of the spear and broke it. At this moment, three broken spears were already inserted into it, but it seemed like nothing was going on. Monster, Joel thought a little sadly, so did I.
Then the monster suddenly turned around and avoided a big sword from Mozi who had recovered from the previous adverse reactions, but it could not completely avoid it. The wide blade cut the scales on his left rib, revealing his white ribs.
At this moment, a fire finally came from the end of the street. Someone rushed over, but I didn't know if it was a mercenary or a guard. The monster obviously noticed it, and it turned around and looked in the direction where the fire came, and then it took two steps back.
"It wants to escape! Stop it!" Joel shouted, and rushed up with his iron sword. The monster was like a cunning fish. As soon as the situation fell, it would want to escape. It would escape into the Canjin River, where it was its world, and no one could stop it in the water.
After hearing Joel's words, Mozi quickly dragged the big sword to block the monster's way out. The monster turned around and saw the girl behind him, but Joel had already arrived with an iron sword in front of him. The monster turned around and waved his long arms. Joel, who was ready, leaned over to avoid it. The iron sword in his hand stabbed towards the monster's legs. Unlike the thin arms, the monster's thigh muscles were extremely developed, so that its legs looked a little swollen.
But the iron sword could not penetrate the monster's scales. Although he noticed that the monster's scales were extremely strong at the beginning, Jon could only confirm after he tried it with his own sword. I needed "silence", Joel told himself, but at this moment he did not have the black sword at hand, and the black sword fell somewhere on the street.
The monster's webbed left hand directly grabbed Joel's throat, and the huge force strangled Joel's throat. The painful suffocation immediately made Joel struggle. The monster's power lifted him off the ground. His feet were kicking weakly. He could feel the monster's power increasing. It was going to twist my neck directly. Joel realized, but the monster suddenly let go of the hand that grabbed Joel's neck.
Mo Zi immediately retreated with one blow. The monster who was slashed on his back roared due to the pain. The sound was unpleasant and harsh, but it made the people coming from one end of the street excited.
"It's a monster! Monster!" a man shouted excitedly.
"Quick! Go! Cut off its head and share the money!" Another shouted, and the others immediately laughed and pulled out their weapons and rushed towards the monster's location.
Joel immediately opened the distance, and air poured into his lungs made him cough. He heard the mercenaries cheering, whistling, and mocking at the monsters. Mercenaries? The suffocational departure made Joel's consciousness clear. It was indeed a mercenary. Joel recalled that when he was in the ruins of Lengxi Town, a group of mercenaries were in danger, but he had already begun to discuss how to divide the spoils.
Are mercenaries like this? Joel pushed away temporarily, and the crowd rushed over quickly surrounded the monster. Joel saw Mozi standing up like him. Both of them knew that this was not to give up on the monster, but because they both knew that the monster was not so easy to be killed. Joel quickly walked away and saw the black sword falling on the ground at a glance, lying at the feet of a mercenary. Joel walked over and picked up the sword.
The mercenary was surprised when he saw Joel picking up a sword, and then saw the sword in Joel's hand and then whistled again. Joel pushed it aside, and the monster's previous hit the Black Sword also hit his chest. He suspected that he had broken several ribs.
Joel raised his head and looked at the mercenary. There were eight people wearing all lone mercenaries, without uniform clothing. Among them, there were only two people wearing iron armor. Their weapons were completely different, such as big swords, straight swords, axes, longbows, and almost no duplicates. They were not in the same group. Thinking of this, Joel subconsciously retreated a little. He turned his head and found that Mozi was looking at him. Her thoughts were the same as his.
Because they are all mercenaries who act alone, and not with both Joel and Mozi, there are eight people, and there is only one monster's head, which is a head worth three bags of gold coins. They will not cooperate, no, not only will they not cooperate, but they will also compete.
But that is a monster, a veritable "monster", which is not something that can easily die under the greed of mercenaries.
As expected, before Joel had reacted, the first mercenary who rushed forward screamed, and his sword failed to pierce the monster's scales. Then the monster was directly caught by it, tore open his throat with sharp teeth, and blood sprayed out. The mercenary's scream stopped abruptly and turned into a gurgle, blood bubbles spurted out from his mouth, and then he turned into a corpse, but the monster did not let it go, but began to chew the flesh of the corpse.
What is it doing? Joel suddenly thought in confusion.
The monster's bloody behavior made the mercenaries around him awake a little. The cheers, mockery and whistles disappeared, leaving only the monster's sharp teeth tearing the flesh and blood.
"Monster...monster..." a man shouted dryly.
Did they realize it? Jon wanted to hold his forehead.
"Kill it!" cried a mercenary in iron armor. His weapon was a straight sword and an iron shield in his other hand, which reminded Joel of the Alps.
The mercenary in iron armor rushed towards the monster first. He held the shield and raised the straight sword, intending to sprint over and pierce the monster with the straight sword. But the monster could see clearly that although its fish eyes looked dull and dull, Joel knew that there was a cunning and vicious soul in those eyes.
The monster reacted indeed. He grabbed one of the legs of the corpse in front of him and smashed it hard as a weapon at the mercenary's shield. The sudden attack caught the mercenary off guard and knocked him down with huge force, but the monster did not rush towards him, but rushed towards the person on the other side.
"Kill it!" The man in front screamed, but he was immediately caught by the monster. The spear in his hand did not pierce the monster in panic, but slashed through the monster's body full of blood and mucus. Then the monster's webbed palm grabbed his neck and face, and the scream stopped with a crackling sound.
Some of the other mercenaries were frightened and retreated, while the others roared and walked forward with weapons. One of the players holding the iron axe left scars on the monster's body, and then they were knocked away by the monster's backhand.
The fight between the two sides continued, accompanied by roars, wails and screams. The mercenary holding the bow was grabbed by the monster and threw it out. His wailing sounded through the night sky. Joel saw more people coming at the end of the street. This time he heard the sound of iron armored iron boots, which were guards.
The monster obviously noticed it, and its offensive became more and more violent. Joel knew that it was eager to escape, so he swam on the edge of the battlefield and blocked the direction the monster wanted to rush towards.
The monster blinked and killed four people, but the remaining four mercenaries were indeed capable. They were trembling with the monsters. The mercenaries in iron armor fearlessly blocked the monsters. The mercenaries protected them from being killed immediately by the monsters. Every time one of them was knocked down, the other mercenaries in iron armor would push them up.
After the mercenary holding the iron axe chopped the iron axe into the monster's hind legs, the monster let out a resentful roar. Then he slammed fiercely at the mercenary's chest regardless of the iron swords of the other two mercenaries. The mercenary spewed out blood and flew backwards, fell to the ground and struggled for a few times before moving.
The battle was extremely bloody and brutal. The guards holding the iron shield were beaten by the monsters and retreated step by step. However, the monsters were stained with their own blood. More and more wounds were cut, and their hands, which were used as weapons, became bloody. It was not only the blood of the people they killed, but also its own.
Just after a mercenary in iron armor broke his neck by a monster, the guards finally arrived. Joel noticed that this was a twelve-man team, holding torches, iron armor, holding iron swords, spears, square shields and crossbows. In the direction they came, more people holding torches were coming towards this side.
"You! Go away!" A guard captain shouted loudly. The surviving mercenaries looked over. The six guards had already picked up their crossbows and headed towards their locations with the monsters. "Prepare!" The guard captain drew his sword and raised it high.
"Bastard!" a mercenary in iron armor told and scolded.
"Fire!" The sword in the captain of the guard fell, six guards pulled the trigger, six crossbow arrows pierced the air, three empty, two shot the monster, and one nailed to the shield of the remaining mercenary wearing iron armor.
"Come with me!" The guard captain shouted, rushing towards the monster with an iron shield, and the guards behind him with a spear and a square shield followed closely.
Joel and Mo Zi stood on the other side. The monster looked at them and found that the way to escape was blocked, and then roared.
The two surviving mercenaries were forced to withdraw by the guards, one because they were really difficult to support, and the other was that the guards' approach made them very afraid. Joel knew what the mercenaries were thinking, and he was consistent with their ideas, and these guards also came for bounty.
"Do you want to go?" asked Mozi, an exotic girl standing beside Joel, faintly.
Joel was surprised, but he replied: "No, wait a little longer, I always feel something is wrong."
After hearing Joel's words, Mozi didn't say anything, but she still stood beside him with a big sword.
Although the monster was injured all over, Joel always felt something was wrong. He instinctively felt that it was dangerous, so he just kept a wait-and-see attitude. But after the guards killed the monster, we had no chance... No, that thing will not die, it will not die.
The guards with shields rushed up. The monster wanted to struggle, but was pierced by the iron spear. The guards with square shields drove the monster to a house and forced him to the wooden wall. The monster roared at them, but the guards used it to respond to it were iron spears and iron swords. The guards holding crossbows followed behind. They shot at the monster at close range, and the crossbows nailed the monster's body. Gradually, the monster's slender body was filled with all kinds of weapons.
Finally, the monster wanted to roar, but was pierced by the guard's iron spear and nailed it to the wooden wall. Later, not only his throat, but his limbs and legs were nailed to the wall by the iron spear. The monster's body was spread out and fixed, like a fish waiting to be slaughtered on the chopping board.
At this time, the mercenaries holding torches arrived. When they saw that the monsters had been caught, they were first amazed, and then sighed, and people felt that their gold had flew.
"Good job!" the captain of the guard shouted happily, and then he laughed, "Okay! It's fixed! Next, cut off its fish head and get the reward!"
"Wait!" a man shouted loudly.
The guard captain turned around and saw the iron-clad guard who had fought with the monster before. He strode forward, "Wait!" he shouted, with anger in his tone.
"What? Are you doing something, mercenary?" asked the captain of the guard disdainfully.
"This monster is ours! We paid so much blood when we fought with him, but we took it away by you?" The mercenary's angry voice made the captain of the guard silent for a moment, and the other mercenaries holding torches also took the opportunity to start.
"That's right! Why are our spoils stolen by the guards!"
"You guards who are taking advantage of the situation!"
"Leave the monster to us!"
The mercenaries holding torches were shouting louder and louder, and the captain of the guard subconsciously took a step back.
"It's so ugly," Mozi said calmly, "it's no matter which side."
After all, that was three bags of gold coins. Joel thought to himself, that was not a small amount of money. It was the same attraction to both guards and mercenaries, and money was attractive to anyone.
But this money was not placed there waiting for people to get it. Joel thought gloomyly.
"Shut up!" The guard captain pointed his sword at the noisy mercenaries and shouted, "Do you want to attack us! You want to attack the guards in the territory of Jin Falls? Could you be crazy?!"
Maybe he would have to pay back a little if he didn't say this. After Joel heard the captain of the guard say this, the mercenaries suddenly fell silent, no one was noisy anymore. Just when the captain of the guard was a little proud, the first voice sounded, the sound of drawing a sword.
"What do you want to do?!" the captain of the guard shouted in horror.
Next is the second person drawing the sword, the third person, the fourth person...
"You...! We are guards!" the guard captain shouted loudly.
The mercenaries had already taken out all their weapons, putting arrows on the strings, holding shields, and holding swords. Some of them were holding warhammers and battle axes, and leaning on the sword and spear. Nearly twenty mercenaries were holding weapons and looking silently at the twelve guards in iron armor.
"Hehehehehehe..." A creepy laugh suddenly rang.
"Who?!" The captain of the guard turned around and found that the round, silent and dull fish eyes on the fish's face were looking at him, and there were gloomy laughter from his mouth full of blood and jagged fangs.
Chapter completed!