Volume 19, Chapter 15: Guardians of the Ruins

"Everyone, rush! Destroy the transnational teleportation array and victory is ours!"

The Japanese players who crossed the city wall looked at the unobstructed building complex and roared excitedly as they rushed towards the city ahead. However, just when the fastest group of people had just rushed in front of the nearest building, A sudden change occurred.

The eyes of the evil ghost embossed on the outer wall of a building near the city wall suddenly flashed red, and the outline of the evil ghost suddenly loosened. Then, in the surprised eyes of the *** player in front, the evil ghost He actually jumped off the wall of the building, leaving only a devil-shaped pit.

After the evil ghost landed on the ground, it first moved its body and limbs to shake off a layer of stone powder, and then looked around. After seeing the *** player in front of him, he suddenly looked up to the sky and roared, followed by the whole body. The city seemed to suddenly come alive. The various reliefs and statues hanging under the eaves, standing on the roof corners, embedded in the walls, and standing quietly on the streets all came to life one after another. Their eyes suddenly flashed first, and then their bodies struggled to move. After breaking free from the constraints of the wall, these monsters jumped down from their original positions and quickly gathered towards the city wall.

"Damn, what the hell is this?" A player was rushing forward and suddenly found that the player running in front of him was taken away by a monster with long fangs and drool dripping from the corner of its mouth. In mid-air, before the player could react, the monster bit off the player's head and swallowed it directly.

Because the monster ate the player's head in the air, many people below saw this terrifying scene, but what surprised them even more was that the monster did not stop after swallowing the head. It swallowed the whole person into its stomach like a biscuit. In the end, it even licked its own paws as if it was still not satisfied. Although the monster was not small in size, it was not much bigger than a human. However, this guy actually swallowed a human, but its belly was not big at all.

After eating the player, the monster glanced down again, and then suddenly swooped down again and rushed towards a player.

Seeing the monster flying towards him, the player who was targeted by the monster immediately raised his weapon and wanted to fight, but what he didn't expect was that the monster hit him before he could react. The monster's two hind paws stepped on his chest with swooping force, forcing the breath out of his lungs so hard that he almost lost his breath. However, just as he was knocked over by the impact, the monster's front paws accurately grasped his head, and then its body rose and flew away from the ground with him. The players standing next to this man wanted to help, but unfortunately the monster was too fast and the man was taken away before he could react.

The monster that picked up another person didn't hesitate at all, opened its big mouth and bit off the person's head in one bite, and then swallowed it completely like the previous person. However, as if it never had enough to eat, the monster swallowed one person again and immediately pounced on the next target.

If there is only such a monster in the sky, it doesn't matter. Even if it moves quickly, how many people can he eat in the face of such a huge army of zombies? However, things are not as simple as they appear. There are at least thousands of monsters in the sky that look similar to this monster, and there are tens of thousands of creatures on the ground that look like the thing in the sky without its wings running around. Although some of these terrifying creatures can fly and some cannot, their recipes are obviously the same, and the one thing these guys have in common is that they are super fast and attack accurately. Very few players and NPCs who come into contact with them can get involved with them. People who are targeted almost immediately will be dragged out of the crowd by these guys and taken to a distance, and then what is waiting for them is to have their heads bitten off and their whole body Swallow.

"Damn, where did these gorillas come from?" A player complained while standing on the roof holding a longbow and shooting at the flying monsters in the sky.

"Orangutan? How do these guys look like orangutans?" The player next to him said while loading arrows into his crossbow: "Look at those guys, although they have a body structure similar to that of orangutans, they are much thinner than orangutans. And these guys don’t have hair either. And their heads, don’t you think they look more like fish than primate heads?”

"Actually, I think these things look more like gargoyles besides having fish-like heads," another player said.

A mage who had just released his spell took the time to put a magic potion into his mouth, and then said: "It's not gargoyles, these things are called gargoyles, and they are not the same thing as gargoyles."

"Do you know this thing?" the archer from before asked in surprise.

The mage nodded and said: "I know. I've seen these things before in a mission map. They are the guardians of the ruins, specializing in devouring nearby creatures. I just don't know why there are so many in Fulcrum City. Ordinarily these things should be They will attack when they sense someone approaching, but why do they only attack us?"

"You don't know, let alone us." The crossbowman raised his hand to aim and shoot an arrow, then immediately reloaded the arrow. At the same time, he said: "By the way, how is the combat effectiveness of this thing? Is it compared to a gargoyle?" Want to be more powerful?"

"Not yet, but maybe in the future." The mage said with some worry: "The gargoyles will continue to decline in strength due to their sleep, so their strength is not fixed. When we first came into contact, the strength of these guys It depends on how much strength they have reserved before and how long they have slept. However, these guys can continue to grow and strengthen themselves by devouring the corpses of their enemies, so I am not sure how far they can develop in the end. But one thing I can be sure of is that if we don’t kill as many as possible now, we will be completely finished when they evolve.”

"But what are these guys doing so fast..." Before the person who asked the question had finished speaking, he saw a wingless monster suddenly jump up from the alley next to him. Then when everyone hurriedly changed the direction of attack, the monster suddenly jumped up. At an extremely abnormal speed, he bit the man's head three times and jumped to the top of a building far away from here. Due to the distance and angle, although the people present could see it, they were basically unable to attack it.

Seeing that no one was attacking anymore, the monster stood upright with its hind limbs. Then it hugged the man's shoulders with its two front paws, then bit off the man's head and swallowed it. After eating the head, the monster put the man's body into its mouth three times and two times. Just when everyone thought it was about to attack the next target, the monster suddenly looked like it was in pain and pushed its head against the head. on the roof, and then hugged his head desperately with both arms. Just when everyone was guessing what it was doing, they saw two small meat bumps bulging out from the monster's back. Then the two meat bumps began to grow and become thinner quickly, and finally turned into a pair of monsters flying in the sky. The wings on the backs of those monsters are exactly the same.

"Oh my God! It turns out that the monsters on the ground and in the sky are basically the same species, no wonder they look so similar."

The evolution of this first monster was like a starting signal. As it evolved, the monsters behind also began to evolve one after another. They all grew wings and began to fly and run into the sky.

With the advantage of flying, the monsters' hunting actions have become even more crazy and unscrupulous. Except for a few advanced players who can barely block these guys, most people are almost helpless in front of these things. Their terrifying speed And super-reactive nerves are the main factors that make these guys difficult to deal with.

Looking at the swarms of monsters flying in the sky, *** players have no hope of destroying them now. All they want is to rush to the transnational teleportation array as soon as possible to destroy them. After all, although there are many monsters, they are not enough to destroy them all. Everyone will be eaten. As long as the casualties are not taken into account, *** players don't have to tangle with these guys.

Under the influence of this kind of thinking, *** players began to rush towards the transnational teleportation array even more crazily. On their way forward, monsters that had all evolved into flying units kept swooping down like they were attending a buffet party. Come down and grab an enemy player or NPC, take it to a high altitude and then devour it. During this period, the number of *** players being eaten continued to rise, but the number of monsters killed was very few. It's not that these guys are so awesome that they are completely invincible. The key is that they are too fast. If they choose a target and find that they can't beat it, they will immediately run away and attack another target. Those ordinary players simply can't deal with these monsters, and the experts are caught in the crowd and have no way to deal with them. Occasionally, a monster will target them and it will come and go like the wind. It is difficult to guarantee that they will be killed in one hit, and as long as If they can't be killed, these guys' wounds will heal quickly after they continue to eat a few more people, making them useless at all.

Just when *** players thought they could rush to the cross-border teleportation array as quickly as possible in this way, a painful roar suddenly came from the sky, and then they saw one of the monsters struggling in the sky holding its head. got up. Seeing the appearance of that monster, and then thinking of the appearance of the monster that evolved into an aerial unit before, the *** player below instantly understood that this thing was about to evolve again. However, even if they were beaten to death, they did not expect that these things would actually have super abnormal ways of evolution.

Everyone saw the monster holding its head and screaming. After struggling for a few seconds, its body suddenly began to expand rapidly as if it were inflated. After swelling into a big ball, the guy actually exploded in the air. However, instead of the whole thing being blown to pieces, a new monster with a silver-white metallic luster on its surface jumped out of it. In addition to the skin color of this new monster being different from the original individual, the size is also smaller, and their heads no longer look like fish heads, but become a bit like cheetah heads. However, although the shape of his head has changed, this guy's good teeth have not diminished at all, but have become more developed.

Originally, it was nothing to transform a new monster. The key is that when the monster exploded, in addition to the new monster, a lot of red viscous liquid was sprayed out. The pieces of flesh and blood that exploded fell directly onto the crowd below, and many unfortunate people were hit by those disgusting things. However, just when everyone was disgusted and wanted to wipe off the things on their bodies, those who were stained suddenly all held their heads and screamed. Then, before the people next to them could figure out the situation, these people suddenly seemed to degenerate into monkeys Usually, they will start to pounce on the people around them with all four limbs, hug and bite them.

Because the incident happened suddenly, the people who were bitten had no idea that their companions would suddenly go crazy, so many people suffered. Those who bit people quickly sucked up the blood of the bitten person. Then the body began to swell, and the armor and equipment on his body were quickly torn off, and finally he turned into the wingless monster running on the ground before.

Seeing that the exploding blood clot actually had the effect of infection and reproduction, the *** players below were shocked, but it seemed to have reached a critical state. Just after the first infected monster appeared, the monster in the sky They began to enter the evolutionary stage one after another, and then they saw pieces of blood raining down, and large groups of new monsters appeared in the crowd.

"No, if we continue like this, we won't be able to rush to the teleportation array and there will be no one there. We must kill those monsters." Some smarter people finally realized that they can't let the monsters do whatever they want even if they are not afraid of death. If they were just more lethal, it wouldn't matter. Anyway, the Japanese troops had enough troops, and even if they didn't resist at all and let them kill them, they would kill them for a while, but now they find that these guys can actually reproduce, that's different. . They were ignored before because their numbers were small and the harm was not great. Now these guys have begun to multiply in large numbers. If this continues, the surroundings will soon be filled with these monsters. Although the killing speed of a single monster is not high, it would be terrible if tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of monsters appeared here.

The *** players who decided to kill those monsters took out their weapons and started jumping on the roof to look for nearby monsters to kill, but the monsters were also waiting for them to appear. As those people jumped on the roof, more people began to realize that they should deal with the monsters first, so they jumped on nearby buildings to resist the monster attack, but the monsters were not afraid of their counterattack at all, and just rushed towards the people. the crowd.

Seeing a monster charging towards him, the archer standing on the roof immediately set up his long bow and prepared to fire arrows. At the same time, a warrior took the initiative to stand in front of him and prepare to provide him with cover. Watching the monster gradually enlarge in his pupils, the archer aimed at the monster's head and suddenly let go, and the arrow immediately flew out like a rainbow, hitting the monster's forehead instantly.

Ding. The expected scene of penetrating the monster's skull did not appear. Instead, a metal collision was heard, and the long arrow that hit the monster's forehead was broken into two pieces and fell off.

Seeing that the shot could not penetrate the monster's head, the archer immediately realized that something was wrong, but what reassured him was that he was fortunately protected by soldiers. However, just as the idea came to his mind, he saw that the monster had already rushed in front of them, then slapped the warrior's sword away with one claw, pinched the warrior's throat with its hind claws, and then grabbed his head and wings with its front claws. The fan soared into the sky again.

Although the monster before evolution was a bit larger than it is now, it could only capture one person at a time. But now this monster actually took two people into the sky together in turn, and judging from its ability to break flying arrows, this guy's The skin obviously already has the ability to metalize.

After the archer and warrior were taken high into the sky, the monster directly brought the archer in front of him, then bit off his head and swallowed it whole. However, it did not eat the archer's body, but directly took the body. Throw it down. After dealing with one of them, the monster handed the warrior it held in its hind paws to its front paws and brought it to the front, then bit off his head like it did with the archer and threw the body away.

While the monster ate, the attacks continued. ***Players were surprised to find that monsters started eating only their heads instead of everything else. Compared to completely devouring the entire corpse, the worst thing about eating only the head for Japanese players is that the monsters eat faster. Although monsters basically don't chew their food and just bite off a large piece of corpse and swallow it whole, after all, a corpse still requires many bites, and the whole process takes at least thirty seconds to complete. But now, the monsters just bring people to their mouths, bite off their heads, and then throw away the bodies. This shortens the entire meal process from more than thirty seconds to three seconds. In other words, each monster used to wait until after catching a person. It takes nearly forty seconds before the next attack can start. Now this monster not only captures two people at a time, but also only takes six seconds to start the next attack. This efficiency is definitely much higher than before.

"What should I do? What should I do? That thing is getting more and more powerful!" A player shouted nervously as he watched the monsters rising and falling in the sky and the corpses being picked up and dropped one after another.

"How do I know what to do?" The player next to him said helplessly: "These guys are getting faster and faster, and they are still evolving. Now the masters can still block them, but after a while, even those masters may not be their opponents. ."

"Then we just wait to be killed by them?"

"I...wait, what is that?"

Just when the *** players were helpless and didn't know what to do, a sudden light bomb suddenly appeared over the crowd and directly hit a monster that was about to dive to catch people, followed by a loud bang. The monster was instantly surrounded by a ball of flames. When the flames dissipated, everyone saw only a pile of burnt blackened fragments falling down.

"Long live, long live Miss Angel." After finally seeing clearly the source of the light bomb, those *** players couldn't help shouting excitedly, because they discovered that the Sakura Rain God Hina who was fighting against Kristina before was not I don't know when I flew into the city.

Ignoring the cheers of the *** players below, Ying Yu Shen Hina fired out glowing bullets in the air without stopping, while the monster groups on the opposite side were like fighter jets targeted by tracking missiles. Lose. Although some monsters tried to attack Ying Yu Shen Hina, they ended up dying faster.

"Sure enough, high-end things still have to be solved by high-end personnel!"