"Anya!?" Cesare thought that Anya was still in the room, and hurriedly chased him out, but the thing crawled very fast, and it couldn't be matched by two fleshy legs. When Cesare ran out of the cellar, that thing The door has been opened.
Cesare threw the ax but was still a step too slow. The ax blade pierced the door panel but did not stop the monster's pace. It seemed as if he heard the thing's throat muttering "hungry" and "meat" and his whole body was slippery. Get inside the house.
Feeling that it was too late, he quickly pulled out the ax and rushed into the room where he and Anya had just rested as quickly as possible. He saw the monster covered in dark mycelium already entrenched beside Anya's bed.
An ugly head that still retains human hair and facial features has a cracked mouth, and the burnt yellow fangs inside are full of bloodshot eyes, and it is about to bite the girl's white back of the neck.
"Anya! Be careful!" Cesare swung his ax and rushed forward, but the monster preyed faster, and the sound of flesh and blood stimulated the creature's desire to eat.
Just before everything became too late, Anya turned over, and the girl's curious eyes met the monster's terrifying eyes at close range.
Then, a sharp blade was suddenly pulled out from the straw on the bed, and it was stabbed cleanly and straight along the monster's exposed upper jaw, instantly piercing out from the sky.
Then the monster raised its body and wailed with force, and Anya pulled out the sword. The monster covered its injured head with its forelimbs, and its slender torso swayed painfully in the room.
When Anya got out of bed, she slowly shook off the black blood and hyphae on the sword. "I'm sorry, but you are the second gentleman to be so rude to me today."
Anya said a little irritably, and then she saw Cesare who was so frightened that he was sweating coldly, and smiled again. "Where were you just now? Is this the friend you just met? He's a bit... tall? He doesn't seem to be my type."
"Stop talking nonsense! Hurry up and leave without taking your luggage!" Cesare shouted anxiously. They didn't have many belongings with them. They quickly picked up Anya's backpack and oil lamp. Cesare grabbed Anya's sleeve belt. She quickly ran out of the house.
It was almost sunset time again. Although Cesare didn't know how good these monsters' night vision abilities were, they didn't want to risk their lives. After finding the direction of the sunset, they just wanted to leave this broken town.
"Uh..." Anya was dragged away by Cesare, and she freed her hand to touch Cesare's shoulder. "It seems that your friend is following you."
Cesare looked back and saw that a house behind him was knocked out of the sky and filled with ashes. The human-headed lizard showed an angry face in the smoke.
It crawled back and forth between the walls, and showed amazing jumping ability. It jumped from one eaves and landed on another. It was getting closer and closer to Cesare and Anya. It must have decided to eat this dinner. .
Quickly observing the surroundings, Cesare found that they ran back to the square in the center of the town. "No, I can't run away!" That thing will only crawl faster and faster in densely built areas. On the contrary, in this relatively empty square, there may be a chance to risk one's life.
Seeing the human-headed lizard getting closer and closer, you can almost hear its sticky footsteps crawling on the wall, as well as its greedy and evil sneer.
However, just when Cesare and Anya were ready to fight hand-to-hand, the guy who was about to rush into the square suddenly dove down into the street and shuttled back and forth around the square at such a fast speed that they could only A black shadow can be seen rotating erratically around the buildings around the square, and it is difficult to detect with the naked eye which direction it is currently hiding.
Cesare and Anya were back to back, not knowing from which direction the human-headed lizard would attack. At the tense moment, Anya seemed to have thought of something interesting, smiled inappropriately, and said to Cesare behind her. "Do you still remember that long and narrow bed? Maybe this thing is the old woman's son."
"Are you still thinking about this now?" Cesare couldn't believe it.
"Yes, while you were looking out the window in a daze, I secretly observed the room and found that the walls of the room were not just coated with a layer of tree paint. The purpose seemed to be to cover up some scratches and blood stains."
Anya smiled and turned the sword in her hand. "Is it possible that the gentleman is the old woman's son, and the reason why the old woman took us in is to prepare dinner for her precious son."
Cesare listened to Anya's horrifying conjecture, whether it was true or false was no longer important at this moment.
The human-headed lizard had obviously gained a memory because of Anya's sword. If he was really the old woman's son, and he loved hunting but was bitten by a prey, he would definitely feel uncomfortable. Now it is probably trying to kill both of us in one go.
As I was thinking about it, a familiar figure flew past my eyes. The red-eyed raven landed at Cesare's feet. After looking at Cesare for a few times, it flew up again, and this time it landed on Anya. on the shoulders.
"Hello, little one, what's the matter?" Anya looked at this weird bird, which was just like Cesare imagined, and she liked it very much, and the raven was also calling in Anya's ears, He seemed to be saying something seriously.
Listening to the call of the raven, Anya suddenly nodded and left Cesare's back. Before Cesare could figure out the situation, she had already jumped onto the dry stone fountain and stepped on the collapsed stone sculpture station. At the highest point of the entire square.
"What are you doing!" Cesare wondered. If he was going crazy at this time, he would die in vain.
This time, Anya did not give Cesare an answer. Instead, she let the raven fly into the air and listened carefully to the bird's chirping with a serious expression.
"On the right!" The corners of Anya's eyes flickered. As she twisted her upper body, the human-headed lizard poked its head out from the edge of the square on her right, bent its limbs and grasped the ground, suddenly gathered strength, and then moved extremely fast. The speed jumped up, roaring and pounced on Anya from a distance of dozens of meters away, as if flying in the sky.
At this moment, Anya took out a handful of shiny objects from her bag, and pointed a crossbow with arrows at the flying monster. The human-headed lizard was surprised to see something familiar. Eyes widened.
And because of this, Anya aimed with one eye and pulled the trigger. The taut bow string shot out the arrow, and a cool breeze penetrated from the monster's left eye and exited from the back of the head.
The unbalanced human-headed lizard twisted its slender body crazily in mid-air, and fell towards the central fountain like a free fall. Its huge body soon covered Anya's head, and darkness shrouded the sky above the girl.
"Uh...this is bad." The confident smile on Anya's face disappeared instantly, and her flushed face turned pale with shock. She was about to be smashed into pieces by the monster but had no time to dodge. Anya's waist was hugged tightly by the sudden sense of security.
Cesare seized the last moment, rushed towards Anya and jumped up on the fountain, hugging the girl tightly in his arms, and fell off the fountain in time when the monster smashed down. The two of them were on the dusty ground. After rolling a few times, he finally stopped, choking and coughing with his mouth full of sand.
The already dilapidated fountain was smashed into even more pieces by the monster's body, but the collapsed edge of the stone sculpture happened to get stuck into the monster's body, pinning the human-headed lizard to the fountain, and its body was also impacted It was almost split in half, with a large section of the spine exposed.
Wailing, followed by a cry similar to that of a human being, the monster completely lost its arrogance just now, covering its face in pain and crying, not knowing whose sympathy it was trying to win.
Cesare endured the pain and stood up, then helped Anya, who was still dizzy. He saw that the hyphae on the monster's body were healing those horrific wounds. He had already seen this kind of healing ability once and would not make the same mistake again.
Cesare turned his ax and came to the human-headed lizard. Looking at its almost broken body, he seemed to think of something. Cesare took advantage of the fact that it couldn't move, and used the ax with one hand to chop hard at its torso. One hand grasped the exposed spine, and using both hands together, the bones with abnormal lengths were peeled off from the layers of hyphae.
Looking at the bone staff in his hand, the size and length seem to be very similar to the magic wand... I just don't know if it can work. Cesare poked the end of the long bone into the ground, and immediately all his senses were aware of a flow of magic that was different from the past. It was so conspicuous, but also...evil.
The part in contact with the ground began to melt into black water, and countless hyphae spread upward along the bottom of the long bone, gradually trying to crawl towards Cesare's arm.
Feeling that the situation was not good, Cesare quickly raised the bone staff, thinking that it would be better to study it further just in case. After putting away the bones, the ax in the other hand glowed coldly. If that drunken priest Istvan hadn't lied, he should be able to eliminate these monsters by just cutting their hearts out.
Just as he raised the ax and was about to do it, the old woman's cry came running from a distance. Before Cesare could make a move, the old man hurriedly ran over and grabbed Cesare. Push back.
"Get away! Stay away from my son!" She cried loudly, picking up the melted mycelium and throwing it back to the monster's body. "My son is not dead, don't you think he is doing well! You beasts are just like those crows! You are all beasts! My son is not dead!"
Looking at the scene in front of her, Anya covered her head and swayed towards Cesare. "My head hurts so much... I feel like I hit a stone. I must write down today's experience in my diary. Can you write down the date for me?" Anya shook her head and looked at the painful old woman holding the monster. "So what now?"
Cesare was silent, as if waiting for something.
The monster struggled to move its muscles that had just been restored by the mycelium. Without the support of bones, the withered skin was forcibly twisted by the mycelium. It used its short arms to try hard to hug the mother-in-law who was embracing it.
"Mom..." A hoarse and unpleasant voice came out with difficulty from the throat of the human-headed lizard, with a painful and desolate sound.
"My mother is here, son, my mother is here! As long as you don't die, my mother will give you everything!" the old woman cried, stroking the face that was covered with mycelium and had no human appearance with her wrinkled hands.
"Mom...I'm hungry..."
At dusk, the sun mercilessly took away the last light of the town. Only the crow of the raven, accompanied by the scream of the old woman, spread far and wide, until there was a sound of a sharp ax falling, and the last thing happened. Return to deathly silence. Only the raven crows—never again.
