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What's the matter with this reaction?
Just when Yechen was a little puzzled, the leader Baishuang immediately shook his head and let out a long sigh, explaining in a hoarse voice: "Recently, an extremely dangerous giant ape appeared here, which turned the Hanfengpine forest upside down, causing the current forest It is almost full of corpses and remains of creatures eaten by it, and more than a dozen people in our village have been eaten... In order to stop the atrocities of that beast, everyone came out to hunt it in groups, so, you don’t If the people in the city who understand the situation want to survive, it is best to leave this forest before it gets dark!"
It turns out that the beast contaminated by the abyss has already caused such a serious impact...
Ye Chen sighed inwardly for a while, then nodded to the villager team that slaughtered the cannibal monsters.
"I understand, so count me as one."
"what?"
Everyone was dumbfounded after hearing this, but they saw the boy sitting on the horse shaking the silver revolver in his hand, and announced in a calm tone: "I am also a hunter, and this time I came here to hunt apes." , please let me join you and help you."
Chapter 0010 Cold Wind Pine Forest
In the intricate forest, a team of fully armed men and horses is marching towards the depths of the cold wind pine forest.
The five people who took the lead were from the villages near the cold wind pine forest, and the one who followed at the end was the young man Yechen who came from other places.
Considering the uneven terrain of the pine forest, it was inconvenient for the old horse Heiqi to use his legs and feet, so Ye Chen let him move freely on the trail outside the forest, while he followed the local villagers on a journey of hunting gigantic apes.
"Lloyd, do you really want to let this strange person from unknown origin join our operation? He doesn't even dare to show his face. I think there is definitely something wrong with this guy."
Hoarfrost, who was second in the front row, glanced back at Ye Chen, who was wearing a mask, and immediately whispered to the first leader of the team, Lloyd, with a worried expression on his face.
"Even if he is a criminal who escaped from the Prison of White Frost City, he will never stand on the side of the cannibal monster. Our combat power is limited, so it is a good thing to have more power at this time."
After listening to Lloyd's explanation, the worried companions had no choice but to put their suspicions aside temporarily and concentrate on finding the culprit who killed and devoured many villagers.
While everyone was on their way, Lloyd, the leader of the ape hunting team, also briefly explained his village and the situation of the ape cannibalism to Yechen. His attitude and tone were very enthusiastic, and he seemed very grateful to the helper who came from the sky in front of him.
It turned out that the village of Lloyd and his party was called Cold Wind Village. It was a self-sufficient farming land. However, because it was deeply embedded in the mountains and forests, it was inevitable to be threatened by ferocious beasts. In order to protect the safety of the village, it was born. A group of home guards like Lloyd who are proficient in hunting beasts.
The ice ape in the cold wind pine forest is the opponent that the guards of the cold wind village have dealt with the most times. Most of the beasts maintain a body length of about one meter, and they mainly eat fruits on weekdays, just like ordinary apes. No threat.
But every year, a unique headed ape is born in the group of ice apes. This headed ape is not only up to two meters tall and has terrifying and ferocious strength, but also has a natural love for violence and oppression. villagers to have fun.
But even so, for many years, the guards of Cold Wind Village have been able to keep the village by relying on their superior numbers and weapon technology, but...
Having said that, Lloyd's expression suddenly darkened, and he seemed to be immersed in the bad memory, and some couldn't extricate himself.
"Just what?"
With Ye Chen's reminder, Lloyd finally recovered and rubbed his tired eyes.
"For some reason, the apes that appeared this year have undergone some changes..."
"Not only has its physique expanded to three meters, but its strength has also increased exaggeratedly, and..."
"Its attack on Cold Wind Village has also become a hundred times more brutal. It is no longer just for fun as before, but simply wants to eat all the people in the village..."
When the different head apes appeared and attacked Cold Wind Village, a dozen victims appeared immediately, and their fates were all chewed up by the head apes with their sharp teeth, and then swallowed them in their stomachs. .
Not only that, the head ape's stomach swept away all the creatures in the forest, big and small, so that Ye Chen followed the guards to explore the cold wind pine forest, and the road was covered with those leftovers. animal remains and carcasses.
This year's head ape, as if being manipulated by an endless appetite, has completely turned into a mad beast.
Half of the dozen or so victims killed in Cold Wind Village belonged to the Guards, that is, Lloyd's comrades-in-arms. When he remembered the horrified and desperate expressions on their faces before they were torn apart, Lloyd was so grieved that he couldn't help himself, biting his teeth. It rattled, and it seemed that he hated the man-eating beast to the extreme, desperately eager to avenge the victim.
Is the influence of the abyss so exaggerated...
After hearing the tragic situation in Hanfeng Village, Ye Chen fell into silence.
He originally thought that the abyss was just a disgusting and viscous liquid like mud, but he did not expect that the creatures infected by the abyss would have many huge changes in body shape and food habits, which was like another form. Nightmare effect.
After thinking for a moment, Ye Chen returned to the theme of hunting, and asked Lloyd about the business: "Then the place we are going now is the territory of the ape?"
"No, since the head ape has undergone some changes, the territory of the ice ape has also disappeared, because the other apes under it... have been eaten by itself... The former ice ape's lair is now full of land. The ape bone... and that monster is wandering in different areas of the Cold Wind Pine Forest every day, constantly gnawing on other living creatures..."
Lloyd shook his head and explained.
"However, the leader of our guards, Ponson, is following it every day. We saw the signal wolf smoke lit by Ponson in the village a few hours ago, and then we attacked in groups, and now we must only follow Ponson. These traces are gone, and we'll see the beast in no time."
Ye Chen looked at the trees around him, and found that there were fork patterns drawn by knife marks on the roots of the trees every ten meters. Presumably these were the marks left by the leader of the guards named Pangson. .
At this point, Yechen didn't say much anymore, but was ready to fight at any time, and continued to follow the Hanfeng Village guard team to go deep into the Hanfeng Pine Forest...
An hour later, Lloyd led the crowd to a small hill in the pine forest, and looked at the suddenly broken root mark, his expression immediately became dazed.
"What's going on? The mark is gone, but there's nothing nearby..."
"Boss, what is he doing? Could it be... something happened to him too?"
"No, the boss is very strong, he can't be killed so easily!"
The guards, who had suddenly lost their direction, were immediately infected with confusion and anxiety, and they all started talking.
Lloyd glanced around nervously, trying to find the tall back of his leader, while Ye Chen leaned over to observe the bumpy snow under his feet, stretched out his hand and gently rubbed the surroundings a few times, and soon found a few vague lines. Huge shallow pit, the outline of which resembles footprints.
"Lloyd, the head ape is probably nearby, and the Ponson you mentioned may no longer exist."
Ye Chen whispered, while gently swiping the straight knife across his arm, the blood-stained blade burst into a faint fluorescence, exuding an extremely sharp cold air.
"What did you say?"
Lloyd opened his mouth, and just at this moment, a member of his team suddenly shouted.
"Look, isn't this Ponson's hat!"
Hearing the sound, the guards immediately came up and saw a gray wolfskin hat turned over in a hidden rock crevice in the hill, the surface of which was stained with faint dark red blood.
"Pangson has been wearing this wolfskin hat every day for decades. It is impossible to leave it in this kind of place... It seems that he has really been murdered." Lloyd looked at the blood-stained hat, His eyes finally darkened.
And just when the group of Cold Wind Village hesitated because of the sudden change, a loud voice suddenly came from the bottom of the hill.
Da da da.
At this moment, everyone felt an obvious vibration from their soles, as if the whole hill was shaking violently, and all this was caused by the arrival of some kind of creature.
Chapter 0011 The Ape Contaminated by the Abyss
Aware that the danger was approaching, Lloyd couldn't help taking a deep breath. He immediately took out his longbow, pulled the string and mounted the arrow, and looked down from the edge of the hill.
In the dense pine forest below, a black shadow as huge as a hill was swaying toward the hill on which he was standing, making the ground under Deroyd's feet shake even more violently.
Da da da!
"Everyone, get ready for battle!"
Lloyd, who caught a glimpse of the shadow, immediately roared at his companions, and everyone in the guards did not dare to be vague when they heard it.
"Calm down, it's not in range yet!"
Lloyd saw that a companion beside him was so nervous that he could not even control the bowstring, so he quickly patted the other's shoulder, signaling his companion to cheer up.
But the next moment, another companion behind Lloyd panicked again, because he found that Ye Chen, an out-of-towner who had been staying at the end of the team, had disappeared unknowingly.
"Where's the out-of-towner!? Where did he go—!?"
Lloyd was shocked when he heard it and looked back. Sure enough, he could not see the trace of Ye Chen, but the dark shadow was about to reach the bottom of the hill. Now, Lloyd has no time to pay attention to it.
"That guy probably ran away! Leave him alone! Let's unite and avenge Ponson!"
Lloyd's firm roar evoked various memories of the Boss Pangson from the Cold Wind Village Guards team. When they remembered that the kind and reliable man had become the victim of the ape's mouth, everyone's expressions became pale. Mixed with grief and anger, the initial panic and fear were swept away.
"That's right, let's avenge the boss together and skin that beast!"
Everyone raised their bows and roared, their morale soared. At the same time, the huge black shadow finally reached the bottom of the hill, and the distance from the guards had reached 50 meters.
As the distance got closer, although the dark shadow's face was still shrouded in the shadows of the woods, Lloyd's group was able to further discover that its two terrifyingly rough hands seemed to be holding something tightly.
I saw that the shadow's left hand was holding some kind of leaking block, and it kept pouring liquid on the ground, while the right hand was holding some kind of long object and kept sending it to the head. The overall action was like It was a figure walking and eating chicken feet.
"What... is it grabbing in its hand?"
The people who were originally fighting spirits, after seeing the strange things in Sombra's hands, their faces wavered again, and when the distance between the two sides got closer to a certain point, this time even the leader of the team, Lloyd, looked They couldn't help but become livid.
It turned out that the leaky lump held by the black shadow's left hand was a corpse whose limbs and head had been bitten off. It was dripping blood on the ground, and the one that the black shadow was chewing with his right hand was a piece of flesh and blood. A vague human arm, an arm that was sent into the mouth by the shadow with the flesh and bones.
At this moment, everyone in the guards reacted, and what Sombra held tightly in his hand was their former boss Pangson.
And the leader who once instructed and trained Lloyd and his party was now dismembered by five horses. Like the beasts that died everywhere in the cold wind pine forest, he was tragically reduced to a meal for the head ape.
hiss.
At the moment when everyone felt that the air at the tip of their nose was extremely cold, the black shadow's real body was finally completely exposed to the light, and a giant ape with a round belly appeared in everyone's field of vision without any cover.
Its fur should have been snow-white all over, but at this moment, a large area of pitch-black mud clings to the epidermis of the giant ape, staining the body color of the giant ape to half white and half black. Creep in.
And after seeing Hoarfrost's terrified face, the giant ape grinned and giggled hideously, then threw Pangson's arm into his mouth and chewed it until it became a crumb, and let out a burst of sound. The sound of broken bones.
"Shoot me—!"
Lloyd, whose mind was obviously several times stronger than others, immediately issued an order to fight to the death before his companions' fighting spirit had completely collapsed.
And this roar of his made the people around him sober again, and everyone was afraid of the tall evil ghost in front of him, but even so, the arrow was on the string and had to be sent, and they would never sit still.
On the other side, Ye Chen was crouching on the top of a tall pine tree near the people in Cold Wind Village, paying attention to the situation below without saying a word.
Before going to the location marked by Pangson, Lloyd had told Yechen that the head ape had attacked Cold Wind Village a few days ago. At that time, the guards had a head-to-head with the head ape and found that no gunpowder could seriously damage the head ape's body. , the warhead will be stuck between its thick skin and will have no effect other than causing a bleeding wound.
After that, the Guards changed their strategy under the leadership of Ponson, and they finally decided to use bows and arrows coated with deadly poison as the main weapon against the head ape.
This kind of poison was carefully prepared by Pangson, and the poison is extremely strong. The beasts in the cold wind pine forest that were infected by it have never been able to survive for ten seconds, and they all ended up dying suddenly.
Therefore, even if the power of the bow and arrow is much weaker than that of the musket, as long as the arrow can pierce the target's skin and allow the lethal poison to penetrate into the body of the head ape, then the Cold Wind Village Guards will still be able to defeat the terrifying head. Possibility of evil beasts.
And now, the boy hiding among the treetops just wants to witness the feasibility of this plan.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
The guards fired five arrows, with poisonous arrows stabbing straight at the giant ape, but in the face of such an attack, the head ape did not dodge or evade, and only opened his mouth to take Pang Sen's remaining torso. Put it in his mouth and let the arrows fall on his body.
Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha.
The five arrows hit the belly and chest of the head ape respectively, and the guards were not surprised. Although it was a little reluctant, the arrows still penetrated shallowly under the target's skin.
"Success!"
Seeing this scene, several members of the guard team couldn't help cheering immediately. From their point of view, this stupid and arrogant beast must have thought that he was using an ordinary bow and arrow, so he didn't take any defensive measures. After a few seconds, it will ask for trouble, hum...
The head ape stood still, chewing Pangson's corpse, and suddenly his body twitched.
However, just when everyone thought the poison was taking effect and were about to cheer for joy, it actually burped and told everyone leisurely: I just choked because I ate too fast, so don't be so nervous... …
"The accumulation of toxicity is not enough, keep shooting—!"
Feeling that he had been teased and humiliated, Lloyd was furious on the spot and ordered his companions to shoot the next round.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
The poisonous arrows swayed again like raindrops on the surface of the head ape's body, but it grinned playfully and walked towards the Cold Wind Village guards step by step with heavy steps, even though the belly and chest were immediately hit by poisonous arrows. When it was full, the expression of the head ape was unmoved.
Everyone in the guard team was busy shooting arrows, and had no time to pay attention to the details of the target. Only Yechen, who was observing all this in secret, was able to notice that every time the poisonous arrow penetrated the surface of the giant ape, the particles clinging to the surface of its body The pitch black silt will quickly sweep over the wound, forming an extremely tiny vortex, completely absorbing the dark green toxin attached to the arrow...
It seems that the abyss swallowed up all the toxins... The strategy of the guards completely failed.
Ye Chen on the treetop came to the above conclusion in his heart with a calm expression, then threw out the revolver and dripped the freshly baked blood from his arm into the bullet nest, causing it to quickly condense into a bright red "Blood Bullet" .
Chapter 0012 Whispers of the Ghost
Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha!
The new round of poisonous arrows hit the giant ape's strong chest one after another like raindrops. In addition to the total amount of previous shots, the front of the head ape was already full of arrows, and at first glance it turned into a head. hedgehog.
However, even so, the corners of the mouth of this man-eating beast always maintained a twisted arc. While pulling off the sharp arrows one by one with his arms, he continued to approach the crowd at a trembling pace.
"Lloyd, poison arrows won't work at all, shouldn't we escape—!?"
Seeing that the ape was completely unmoved by the rain of arrows, the guards group who had shot for six consecutive rounds looked more and more panicked, almost lost their will to fight, and cast helpless glances at the captain.
Seeing this, Lloyd clenched his teeth, and knew in his heart that the failure of the ape hunting operation was basically a certainty.
But when he was about to wave his hand to signal everyone to retreat and flee back to Cold Wind Village, but when the ape saw that they had the idea of escaping, the huge soles of his feet stomped on the ground instantly, immediately shoving its multi-ton body. , shot into the air in one fell swoop.
Boom!