Ghoul.
This is a monster that eats corpses. It is found in cemeteries, around ancient tombs, and anywhere where the dead are buried. It usually appears during a full moon, and the stench of corpses is a delicacy to them. When driven by hunger, ghouls will prey on creatures without hesitation. They can only be harmed with fire, silver and bright sunlight. Fearing the sun, it only hunts at night.
Physically, ghouls are similar to humans, but in fact they are the opposite of everything human. They have hands and feet like humans, but they walk on all fours like dogs or other wild animals. Their faces look like humans, but there is no reason, emotion, or even consciousness. What drives them is an insatiable desire for human flesh.
After the Northern War, the continuous wars and the large number of corpses that could not be disposed of made the corpse-eating creatures become more and more bold in their actions, and the number in the Northern Kingdom increased greatly.
Ghouls themselves are the most common corpse-eating creatures. They usually act in groups. They will also attack living people when they are hungry or angry. For ghouls, a living person is just a raw material that needs to be processed. Eat. After tearing the meat into pieces with fangs and claws, it needs to be left for a while.
At this time, Xie Yuan was going to a lumberyard occupied by ghouls.
"Hmm!!!" Upon seeing the arrival of a living person like Xie Yuan, one of the ghouls immediately flexed its body like a cat with its hair exploding, accumulating strength, and then immediately rushed forward to scratch itself with its teeth and claws.
"哠!!" The other monsters behind also began to accumulate strength, attacking simultaneously from both sides. The three ghouls came forward one after another, working in tacit cooperation.
Um! The speed is very fast, the reaction is very sensitive, and the coordination is very good. Xie Yuan doesn't know how fast the witcher's reaction is, but if the soldiers in Ginkgo Village deal with these three ghouls now, they will definitely be caught off guard. You will suffer a big loss.
But Xie Yuan is not an ordinary person. He stepped back with his hind legs and put a little distance away from the approaching ghoul. Then with a flick of his wrist, the head of the stick moved up and down like a living snake. In an instant, Be quick on the three ghouls--
"Crack! Click! Click!" With three sounds of broken bones and tendons, the three ghouls were directly knocked to the ground, their bodies twitching continuously.
"Huh? The tenacity to survive is so strong," Xie Yuan couldn't help but comment, "He's still alive after such a blow."
The stainless steel rod in Xie Yuan's hand weighs twenty kilograms. When he swings it, it hits one point with nearly 500 pounds of force. This rod can even break a person's skull - it seems that the monsters in the wizarding world do have Its strong survival resilience.
However, even if he was not killed by this blow, Xie Yuan was sure that he would not be fully recovered so quickly, so he quickly strode to meet the other guys who came.
"Bounce! Bounce!" Two more monsters rushed up, but Xie Yuan already understood the general abilities of this monster and was able to deal with it with ease. He simply knocked the monster to the ground with a stick and made it unable to move. .
Then he moved the back of his ears, directly pushed the slide handle forward to accumulate strength, and then pushed back without looking back——
"哠——!" He lowered his voice behind him. The ghoul who wanted to sneak attack from behind was directly hit in the head by Xie Yuan's pestle. He didn't even have time to scream, so his eyes were bulged and he collapsed. The ground is gone.
But still not dead.
"Tsk, tsk!" Xie Yuan couldn't help but be shocked by the tenacious vitality of these guys, but considering that these monsters were half-dead at this time and could not recover in a short time... then he took out the long sword in his hand. Cut off the heads of each monster.
Then they searched the entire lumberyard carefully to confirm whether all the monsters had been killed. But just after walking around, they found a roar of "哠!" coming from the front of the lumberyard.
Xie Yuan slowly walked out from behind the lumberyard with a stick in hand. Looking at the ghoul who kept roaring and looking at him with hungry eyes, he leaned the long stick against the wall with a nonchalant sound.
The long stick still needs to be modified. It is best to melt it and change it into a two-section self-defense stick with a length of 1.8 meters. At the same time, it can also wear a simple knife head - so it will be necessary to make a simple knife by then.
And while Xie Yuan was releasing the stick, the remaining ghoul rushed forward impatiently, ready to pounce on Xie Yuan.
But what this unlucky beast didn't know was that Xie Yuan's best skill was never with guns or clubs, but with swords.
Without even looking at the ghoul that rushed over quickly, he moved his hand in the direction in which the ghoul was charging, and flicked the guard of the long sword at his waist with his thumb - "Clang!!"
The long sword flew directly out of the scabbard towards the ghoul, and Xie Yuan just put down the long stick with his other hand, then bowed his legs and suddenly disappeared in place!
"Brush!" There was a flash of sword light, and the long sword that had been shot away was now back in Xie Yuan's hand. The blade of the sword was gradually dripping with black blood because he had just blocked the sword from the corpse. The ghost's neck passed by it.
"Gulu, gulu." The ghoul's severed head had already rolled on the ground several times before it lost all momentum and stopped. However, its body was still running wildly behind for a few steps, and then gradually and feebly "Puff!" Fall to the ground.
"Wow! Wow!" Xie Yuan swung the sword to the ground a few times to remove the blood, then took out some silk cloth cut into small pieces from his pocket, wiped the sword body carefully, and then sheathed the sword.
After doing this, Xie Yuan blew a loud whistle, and soon two Nilfgaardian cavalry suddenly rushed over. They were about to draw their swords and ask questions, but they stopped drawing their swords when they saw that it was Xie Yuan. the behavior of.
"Sir Yuan, are you...the monster who cleaned up the lumberyard?" One of the Nilfgaardian cavalry asked respectfully.
"Yes!" Xie Yuan nodded and picked up the long stick a few steps away. "Send a message to the elders in the village for me. The lumberyard has been cleared. Send someone to take over quickly."
"Yes! Your Excellency." The cavalryman immediately made a simple courtesy, and then left immediately, but the other cavalryman needed to stay and continue patrolling, but at this time, his face was still full of disbelief, "These monsters... are really Did you...did you kill it alone?"
"Yes! But I have a question that I need to ask you." Xie Yuan pointed to several ghoul corpses on the ground, "Does anyone need the biological tissues of these monsters to do any medicine preparation or alchemy experiments? If they are buried like this Or burn it down, I really feel it’s a pity.”
"Uh... Your Excellency, generally only the legendary demon hunters may be interested in these monster organizations, because they need to make potions and so on... I read it in the previous books, and I don't think anyone in the local area would be interested in it. I want these things."
The knight also said that he was helpless. For the military, if monsters can be dealt with by themselves, they will usually deal with them in the same way as human corpses. There is little talk about cutting off biological tissues.
Even if there is, it is not the task of the military. Naturally, there are people in the empire who are dedicated to extracting tissue.
"Maybe... maybe you can find a local herbalist or something." However, probably because he didn't want to show his incompetence in front of Xie Yuan, the cavalryman still made a more pertinent suggestion, "Maybe... Hmm... maybe these people would want a little bit of a monster organization."
"Oh?! There is a herbalist here?!" Xie Yuan's eyes lit up after hearing this, "Where is this herbalist?"
I have long had the ambition to understand the properties of local herbal medicines and develop Chinese medicine culture in other worlds. I have been busy making weapons these days, but I almost forgot about this.
The cavalry gave Xie Yuan a general direction. With Xie Yuan's eyesight, he could see a hut that was independent from the village and a little remote - but unlike the vastness of the wheat field, there was only a row of dense plants around the hut. Group - should be a medicinal field dedicated to growing herbal medicine.
It is indeed the configuration that a herbalist should have.
After thanking the knight who wanted to return to patrol duty, Xie Yuan looked at the monster's remains on the ground for a moment, then decided to leave it alone and let it be dealt with as a routine matter. He went to visit the herbalist first.
Anyway, there are ghouls everywhere at any time. This thing and another kind of monster called water ghost are like grass. Wildfires can't burn them out, and spring breezes will regenerate them. But for local knowledge, Xie Yuan is in urgent need of it. Hope to master it as soon as possible.
Otherwise, you won’t understand anything in a foreign place, your eyes will be darkened, and you will do nothing.
Lose everything!
