After a turbulent day, night fell again, and Dendera Fortress ushered in its second night.
A patrol team from the fortress is holding a torch and patrolling along the streets of the fortress city. Although the zombies in the city have been almost eliminated after the day's killing, sporadic attack reports are still coming. Therefore, this patrol team still appears to be very vigilant.
However, since the goblins have basically been lost, patrols have to be carried out by the Naga snake demons and the archmage. The Naga snake demons are better, but the archmages are secretly complaining about this. No wonder, these master mages, have they ever spent the whole night patrolling back and forth like this? But there is no way to prevent the emergence of zombies. The iron golems and gargoyles are not up to the task. Those puppets who only know how to obey orders are just stupid and do not have the ability to make active judgments at all. They cannot distinguish those Are the zombies who look like little goblins enemies or friends?
Moreover, if these puppets are used to patrol, even if zombies do appear, they will not attack them, and they will not be able to patrol at all.
The mages are used to being pampered. When they walk a certain distance, their backs and legs hurt and they have to stop and rest. This makes the patrol process intermittent. Although the Naga snake monsters are very disdainful of these guys, they can only Stop and wait, who makes them teammates?
Naga snake monsters are a special race living in the swamps of the Kingdom of Bradaka. They are amphibians. Because their upper bodies have multiple pairs of arms and are strong and powerful, these Nagas can be said to be natural sword masters. The Kingdom of Dhaka recruited them as the kingdom's army to make up for their shortcomings in close combat and water warfare, and also gave them a corresponding status, only a little lower than the mages.
During the patrol, these masters were basically out of reach, so the Naga snake demons were responsible for the main vigilance mission. Because their lower bodies were snake tails, they were very sensitive to vibrations on the ground.
While the team was resting, a Naga snake demon suddenly noticed a slight movement coming from the ground, so he immediately became vigilant and called the other Naga snake demons to come forward.
After this investigation, the Naga snake monsters discovered that this subtle movement seemed to come from the sewer...
Due to the special geographical location of the Dendera Fortress, a large number of troops are stationed here all year round. Therefore, there are naturally corresponding residential buildings for the troops to live and live in the fortress. Since daily life is to be carried out, facilities such as sewers are indispensable. Less.
In fact, Dendera Fortress has a complete and complex network of underground waterways. These underground waterways are spread throughout the neighborhoods in the city, and after being aggregated, they lead to the large river outside the fortress that runs through the entire canyon. These underground waterways are very It's low. Normally, it's basically maintained and cleared by goblins. Not to mention the mages, even the Naga snake demons have never gone down there in person.
So when they realized that the noise was coming from the underground waterway, the patrol team was in a bit of trouble and hesitated whether to send someone down to take a look.
The sewer was smelly and dirty. Just opening the lid almost made the Naga snake monsters faint. The Archmage even avoided it, which made the members of the patrol team look at each other. But who Neither wanted to go down.
"Ahem!" When everyone was in trouble, a great mage coughed twice and said, "Actually, I don't think it's necessary. Haven't you noticed that those guys who were infected by the plague and turned into zombies are actually mentally ill? , He just attacks the living everywhere based on instinct, how could such a guy be smart enough to hide in the sewers?"
"Yes, that makes sense!" These words suddenly made the other great mages suddenly realize, they clapped their hands and praised: "You are smarter and see things thoroughly!"
"Everyone has probably thought of it, but it's just not as accurate as what I said!" The archmage was also very proud, but he pretended to be humble and exchanged business with other archmages.
The Naga snake demons secretly cursed. Of course they knew that these masters were just looking for an excuse not to go down, but... I have to say that this excuse really makes sense. How could those zombies without intelligence think of it? How about hiding in the sewers to avoid being searched?
Just when the Nagas were thinking this, the movement in the sewer disappeared. After waiting for a while, no one appeared. The Naga snake monsters finally breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Maybe it's just some rats in the sewer." , we thought too much..."
Just when they were about to close the lid of the sewer and continue patrolling, suddenly, where the great mages behind them were sitting and resting, the ground exploded with a bang, and a black shadow sprang out at an extremely fast speed, and everyone was watching. Before he could react, the black shadow suddenly rushed into the group of mages!
A shrill scream was heard, and the archmage who had been exchanging business blows before was bitten by the black shadow's neck and taken away!
As for the remaining archmages, because several of them were right next to the mage who was taken away, they were pushed down directly when the black shadow attacked, leaving a bloody claw mark on their chests, with bones clearly visible. …
The attack came so fast that it took a while for the patrol team to come to their senses and hurriedly chased in the direction of the screams.
"Damn it, what the hell is that thing!?"
"I don't know, it was too fast! I didn't see it clearly at all!"
"There! It jumped on the roof!"
Although the patrol team did not catch up with the black shadow, they saw the jumping figure from a distance, so a quick-reacting archmage immediately waved his staff and fired a light beam in the direction of the black shadow. Use magic bullets.
The blazing magic bullet flew all the way out, and under the flickering white light, everyone finally saw the black shadow.
It was a plague-infected person with the appearance of a goblin. However, its appearance at this moment was hugely different from that of a normal goblin. It was lying on all fours high in a bell tower. The archmage who had just been taken away was Stepping under its feet, its lips have been completely torn to the cheeks on both sides, revealing a pair of sharp teeth, and on its face, there is a pair of gray-white eyes, two pairs of four eyes in the magic bullet. Under the lighting, it looked so weird. The most outrageous thing was that there was a pair of insect-like transparent elytra on its back!
When it was lying on the bell tower, the pair of elytra were still trembling, making a low buzzing sound, as if it was issuing a threatening warning...
Although it was just a glimpse, the strange and ferocious appearance of this little goblin still made everyone take a breath of air-conditioning, and the horrifying gray eyes made everyone's hair stand on end.
This kind of monster can no longer be called a goblin, but no one can find a suitable name to call it.
At the moment when the light of the magic bullet was about to disappear, everyone saw with their own eyes that the monster bit the archmage who was being stepped on, and then pulled hard!
The archmage's screams stopped suddenly, and a huge gap appeared on his neck, causing him to die instantly.
After biting off a piece of flesh and blood, the monster on the bell tower raised its neck and swallowed it in one gulp. Then, after the darkness resumed, it turned into a black shadow and disappeared...
After struggling for a while, the patrol finally got the body of the dead mage down. After examining the body, everyone looked nervous and serious.
It has amazing bite power and mobility, can jump, and can fly briefly, and most importantly, this monster seems to have a certain amount of intelligence. It knows how to attack the weakest position of the patrol, move away with one blow, and use its own speed. Make it impossible for the pursuer to attack it...
"Is this...are these still those zombies that stagger and rush forward!?" A great mage said with a trembling tone: "Why? Why do such monsters appear!?"
No one could answer him. Everyone looked at the dead mage's body in silence. When they found that the already cold body was trembling slightly again and showing signs of waking up, everyone finally sighed and said: "Burn him, this matter must be reported!"
Before leaving, a Naga snake demon suddenly found a shiny object on the ground. He couldn't help but pick it up and look at it, only to find that it was a small piece of broken transparent crystal.
"Strange, what is this? Did it fall off the monster just now?" The Naga snake demon murmured to himself. After looking at it for a long time, he couldn't find anything, so he could only throw it away...
However, when the patrol team returned to the interior hall to report the incident, they discovered that the hall was in chaos.
Not only them, there were multiple patrol teams that were attacked by monsters during their patrols tonight!
Moreover, the monsters that attacked them were all different. At least from the descriptions of eyewitnesses, almost every monster looked different. However, these monsters had one thing in common, that is, they were all agile and powerful. Incomparable, and have a certain hunting instinct. Compared with the previous zombies, these monsters are more like real... beasts!
The worst thing is that even though they were attacked frequently, no patrol team captured such monsters. These monsters seemed to disappear and hide after catching enough prey!
And there is only one most likely hiding place for them, and that is the underground waterways throughout the fortress!
After learning the news, Eschar and Soram all sighed angrily. It was a sign that they wanted to be angry but couldn't.
Because they understand that it may be quite difficult to destroy these monsters...
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At the same time, Roy, who was dozens of kilometers away, seemed a little surprised after witnessing these mutated creatures in the fortress.
According to his calculations, the re-degenerated and reverse-mutated T virus, in addition to being infective, should also retain its original high variability. As long as there are enough infected samples and a little more time is given for mutation, something like " Monsters like "Hunter" are definitely possible, but what Roy didn't expect was that these mutated creatures didn't know whether it was due to different genetic species. After the mutation, they looked completely different from what Roy had imagined. , and even one of the mutants that Roy observed through the devil's eyes actually inherited Roy's frost power and could spit out strong cold air to freeze prey.
Under the attack of these mutants that became more powerful, huge casualties once again appeared in the fortress, and this time the casualties were not only the archmages and Naga snake monsters, but also some green dragons and Titan giants. Although these high-level creatures did not suffer much damage from the mutant attack, in the sudden attack, they were stunned and failed to leave those mutant monsters behind...
This situation made Roy scratch his head a little: If the T virus continues to mutate like this, maybe high-level creatures will also be affected? And...can I control this spreading infection by then?
