The swaying light of the fire, the mist, and the piles of dead bodies on the ground made it impossible to see the full picture, but even so, the outline of a humanoid standing nearly three meters high still gave the group a great shock.
The tragic results of the past confrontation with the ghost clan have not been forgotten by the samurai, so when Henry said: "Let's evacuate like this," Narumi no longer insisted on implementing the samurai spirit of self-sacrifice.
A stubborn samurai is not an idiot. Faced with an opponent who can kill a heavily armored samurai with one blow, this kind of sacrifice is not only disrespectful but also fails to act as a hindrance.
At this point in time, the first person they want to rescue has been rescued, and the team is basically exhausted and injured, so continuing to fight is harmful and useless.
"Teacher!" The huge mountain of meat on the ground was rising and falling as if it was still alive. Mira, who noticed this detail, reminded loudly, and when the vigilant Henry and others glanced over, a large group of pale bodies looked familiar, like an octopus. The organism emerged from it, but its movement speed was very slow and it did not pose any real threat.
"Let's go." Torataro stood up with the unconscious Hui on his back. Because the ground was full of smelly body fluids, his feet slipped. Although he didn't fall, he seemed to have pulled a hamstring. He grinned and limped slowly, and his speed became slower. A lot.
"I'll-" "Go away!" Galeva wanted to go over and help, but Torataro yelled and had to stand there blankly. Hui's clothes were all dissolved, and Torataro gritted his teeth, obviously tabooing her being touched by other men.
"Tsk - it's time like this." Mira tutted, put away her knife, took off her coat and ran over to help. As a woman, she took action and Torataro no longer showed that aggressive attitude. After wrapping Ah Hui in a feather coat, the two of them worked together to transport her to the upper end of the passage. After the three of them went up, the others followed.
"Uh-hiss-" The huge carapace figure seemed to have just woken up and was still in a dazed state. It roared like a mixture of multiple voices. But the group of people who had completed the rescue mission immediately climbed up without stopping. The last sage turned his head and threw down the almost burned out torch the moment he stepped onto the passage.
"Chi--" The flames burst into flames. Due to the rupture of several ovaries and the collapse of the huge meat monster, the smelly bodily fluids flowing across the ground aggravated the concentration of combustibles in the air. In an instant, the fire spread even Following the footprints of Tora Taro and Mira, they were trying to burn the passage, but fortunately the sage stepped on them in time.
"These things are probably still alive." Ling looked down. The fire that suddenly burned in the dark cave was so bright that she had to squint her eyes. The creatures that seemed to be larvae just now disappeared. No one knows whether he was burned to death or not.
"Let's go." Galeva pulled the dumbfounded doctor and asked her to move forward quickly, but Ling glanced at her and suddenly struggled and shouted: "Wait a minute!"
"Where's that big guy?" The flames followed the spreading body fluids and burned next to Roshan's body, but the huge human figure standing nearby could not see the black shadow.
"Run." Henry pushed everyone else up with one hand, and then tightened his grip on the big sword he had taken back from Mira. With the death of the cave lord, his night vision ability was also recovering bit by bit, so Xian The reader was able to see clearly the whole picture of the guy lying on the wall in the darkness where others could not see.
It has a humanoid outline but has six arms. Like a spider, its powerful palms spread out from the back and are firmly grasping the rock wall. The surface of the torso is covered with a thick carapace, and there is a ball of pale flesh squirming from the head to the back of the neck. Under Henry's gaze, it buries itself bit by bit under the protection of the carapace like a creature gradually sinking into a swamp. among.
"..." The monster that avoided the flames and climbed to a high place on the wall was at a height that even Henry could not reach. It leisurely completed its final evolution. The sage opened his coat and touched the leather on his waist. set, but the flying knives have long been used up. Even the dagger was damaged when killing the cave lord. Even he was helpless at this moment when facing the object crawling on the rock wall several meters high.
For a while, the opponent didn't seem to move. Although it was completing some kind of worrying transformation and seemed to be increasing its strength little by little, it lacked long-range weapons and couldn't reach it, and it certainly wouldn't attack anyone at this time.
This created an eerie calm, and everything that happened next depended on whether the group of people ran out faster or whether it completed the transformation faster - Henry turned around, put away the sword and caught up with the others.
"Hurry up." Fortunately, the second exit was not far away. After climbing up the passage, they stepped on the broken bones on the ground and quickly returned to the vicinity of the rune weapons. Then he picked up the last hemp rope that he had removed before and threw it into the moonlit hole.
"They are all really dead." Mira looked at the beasts she had killed before. The bat corpses and tentacle remnants beside her were no longer taken away. There were also a few bats with intact bodies that curled up and fell to the ground stiffly - it seemed After the cave lord was killed, they died together without having time to return to support.
"Lulu." Henry leaned on the wall below the cave and turned to the smallest hunter girl. The girl immediately understood and stepped on the sage's thigh, then climbed up his shoulder, and finally grabbed Henry's arm. With the help of his forceful upward swing, he managed to reach the edge of the hole.
"Well -" Like a kitten poking its head out of bed, Lulu emerged from the tall grass. She narrowed her eyes and quickly adapted to the bright moonlight under the cold and clear night air outside. She quickly picked it up. He picked up the grappling hook that was thrown on the ground.
"Come." The sage then waved to Mira, and the Luoan girl followed suit and followed suit. She and Lulu worked together to find a tree that was strong enough on the surface and quickly fixed it. Good rope.
"Okay? Pull it and have a look!" The white-haired girl stuck her head out from the hole full of weeds and shouted. Henry below pulled the rope: "Huh? It's reliable." Then he turned his head and let Torataro come over.
"The back is ready." The young Chinese boy's injured leg was still in excruciating pain? Every step he took, he bared his teeth and let out a gasp of "Ah hiss - ah hiss -" - but despite this, he But he still refused to let Ah Hui go and hand it over to others, and in this race against time, no one had the energy to argue with him. Henry used cloth straps for padding and hemp rope reinforcement to tie Hui firmly to Torataro's back, so that he could have his hands free.
The relatively thin body of Torataro and Hui were large enough to pass through the cave together. However, the physically weak martial arts disciples, coupled with the pain in their legs and carrying the weight of one person on their backs, actually slipped down again the moment they climbed up. Sitting on the ground.
"Tsk!" Mira looked very anxious from above. She shouted down: "Grab the rope, I'll pull!" The anxious Luoan girl planned to intervene forcibly to speed up the process, but even after long training, she still had the strength. Disadvantage? It is still very difficult to pull two people in one go, even with Lulu helping.
Fortunately, Henry and Galeva helped hold up Torataro and Hui below, while the martial arts disciples were just holding on to the rope tremblingly and motionless? In the end, Mira couldn't help but cursed Luo An and yelled. : "Hurry up and crawl too!" Then he moved his arms.
Torataro, who finally climbed into the cave, lay on the ground with his head drooped like a dying dog, panting heavily with a livid face, and remained indifferent despite the hay sticking to his face. Mira and Lulu, who were working harder next to them, both looked better than him. They moved him and Ah Hui aside and then lowered the rope again.
"Follow up quickly." Followed closely by the young master and Miss Doctor. Because the rope can withstand Henry's pull, there is no big problem for them to climb at the same time. Even though Yajiro was very physically exhausted and Aya was not a warrior, they still climbed up at a very fast speed. But just as Narumi and the others were about to continue to follow, noise suddenly sounded from below.
"Let's go, leave us alone." The weird humanoid creature had obviously completed its transformation. Henry said to the young people who had climbed up. Narumi and Lao Qiao went directly to the original exit on the other side.
"Follow me quickly." The samurai leader turned around and shouted to Leng Touqing, who was still in a daze, while the remaining five people quickly ran through the first half of the mine where the flames were still burning.
"Ahhhh——!!" The six-armed shell giant approached at an alarming speed. With its ability to climb on the rock wall, it quickly shortened the distance that the group of people had finally opened. While running, he turned around and threw the short sword he carried with him, but because of the opponent's extremely fast speed, even he couldn't hit it.
"Ding——!" The short knife bounced off the rock wall and fell into the fire, but the group of people who were running in front passed Iwatora's body and ran to the entrance of the narrow spiral passage.
"Ahhhhhhhh!" A human-like roar came from the mouth of the shell giant, and then it also threw something in this direction as if it was responding to Joshua's attack.
"Wha—" "Pah—!" The thing that made the sound of breaking through the air hit Old Qiao's head, and Henry grabbed it. The soft and slippery touch immediately made the sage realize what it was—a pale white color. The tip of the parasite's tentacles immediately poked out spikes and directly pierced the skin of the sage's arm and began to drill inward, but he didn't care and squeezed it hard and crushed it into pulp.
"Thank you, sir." Old Qiao, who was still in shock, stared at the several bloody holes on Henry's arm in shock. If the sage hadn't stopped him in time, he might have had the hole in his head now.
"You shouldn't be able to get in. Run faster." As the sage waved his hands, the trotting group quickly entered the narrow spiral passage. Even Henry and Galeva found it difficult to move inside. The nearly three-meter-tall shell giant in the corridor had no chance of entering.
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"Ahhhhhh-" It roared and hit the cave entrance hard, causing the water drops and gravel on the top of the cave to tremble and fall. But at this time, there was no time to care about such things. The group just accelerated forward and He quickly passed through the open stone door.
"Huh--" Henry, who was in the last position, pushed back the stone door and slammed it shut.
"Boom -" with a sound, the stone door, which had no arm bones stuck, finally closed tightly this time.
"But it should be able to climb the wall." Galeva said blankly. Although he looked like a goose most of the time, he was quite sharp on some things. The sage shrugged without comment, and they continued forward, and then found the old pharmacist lying on the ground on the previous cliff.
"I just fainted." The old pharmacist with blood on his forehead had some scratches on his body. Judging from the size of the claw marks, he was probably attacked by a bat. There were also his fallen shoes next to him and the water marks on the ground. He just fell and lost consciousness, but he was still breathing.
Fortunately, the old pharmacist who was not dead spilled the medicine he carried with him on the floor, and after Henry checked the extra bottles of spirits, he asked Galeva to carry the old pharmacist on his back.
The cheap containers used to sterilize spirits are all common items. In addition to wooden ones, they are also made of pottery. The sage tied several bottles of spirits together with torn cloth strips and then removed the cork from one of the bottles. He stuffed the cloth strips inside, then stirred several strong-flavored medicinal powders and poured them into several other bottles with quick hands and feet.
And as if it was agreed upon, the moment he finished all this, the six-armed shell giant climbed up from the side rock wall like an ape swinging between trees.
Pursuing closely means that it has extremely sharp senses, and the sharper the senses, the more fragile it is under certain circumstances.
"Wear the scarf." Henry reminded the others and immediately took action.
"Ah -" it opened its mouth and tried to let out a threatening roar, but the sage, who had no knight or samurai spirit, didn't give it this chance at all and directly rubbed the torch in Narumi's hand and drank up the liquor. Throw it out.
"Crack——! Bang!" The roar suddenly stopped and then turned into screams enveloped in flames and smoke with a strong pungent smell.
The six-armed giant had to stretch out two of his hands to cover his face.
"Hurry up, Joshua, follow me." After the interference move was carried out, the sage ordered the other three people to retreat first with the unconscious old pharmacist, and while drawing out the big sword, he spoke to the red-haired swordsman.
"Yeah." The scream gave the swordsman the best position. He held the sword in his hand while the sage rushed forward with his big sword.
"Ahhhh--" The giant with six arms punched the two of them at the same time. Henry directly faced the fist with his big sword without avoiding it, while Joshua fine-tuned the edge of the sword and turned around. Cut along the arm to its neck.
"Rub -" "Click -!" The big sword cut off an arm and the tachi shattered the carapace of the neck but was stuck in the muscle.
"Qiang——" Joshua did not hesitate to draw the knife, and at the same time used the sharp blade to slash hard to expand the result of the battle. Then he leaned down to avoid further attacks - was it more a persimmon pinch or an attack aimed at the neck? The threat to the two men was unknown, but the Carapace Giant obviously ignored Henry's attack and swung his fist at Joshua. This gave the Sage a chance to expand the victory. He directly turned Claymore's sword blade and made an iron butterfly. posture.
"Huh——" The fire burned and the irritating smoke interfered with the senses. This newly born monster was unable to make accurate and timely judgments under the overflow of external information. It had no brute force but it was difficult to exert it - slant Then he slashed and stabbed at the shoulder joint, then twisted his wrist and changed his footwork to an upward lift, directly cutting off the other two thick arms on one side. The final blow hit its head, and the red-haired swordsman was like Like the sage, he lowered his body at the same time and struck the shell giant's calf with a horizontal slash that was almost vertical to the ground.
With three arms missing, it was already unbalanced on one side, and its center of gravity was broken. It seemed as if it had intentionally crashed into Kramer's unparalleled sword blade.
"Clang——!" The solid carapace was not metal after all. Under the power of the sword, the seemingly perfectly defended head was beautifully chopped off and flew towards the bottom of the waterfall.
"Hiss——!" And at the moment it died, multiple parasites in the carapace on its back quickly broke away from this useless body. However, the moment they came out, they were covered by the parasites still covering the body. The flames burned, making a "crackling" sound like a roasted leech shrinking into a ball.
"Boom -" The huge body that represented the cave lord's last stand crashed to the ground, and the body that lost the control of the parasite quickly fell apart. However, it was still unknown whether a small number of people would escape and then resurrect. Having now eliminated the last threat, Sage and Joshua also turned around and quickly followed the others.
"Ha ha--"
It only took more than an hour, but returning to the surface felt like a lifetime ago.
The fresh air and bright moonlight fell leisurely, as if nothing happened. The sound of "rustling" was accompanied by the "hissing" sound of painful inhalation. Carrying Ahuide Torataro, Mira, Aya, Lulu and Yajiro walked down from the mountain, pushing aside the bushes. Everyone was exhausted and slightly scarred. The Luoan girl breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the old pharmacist being put down:
"At least we haven't lost our staff."
So said.
