Chapter 34 Monster Beast Hu(1/2)
The city filled with fire, with the sound of fighting and running everywhere. The strong man in iron armor and holding a machine, the small monsters running around and attacking sneak attacks, the residents crying and wards shooting with muskets, Mars flying in the night sky, and life burning and withering at this moment.
In this gradual chaotic night, sounds of breaking through the sky came from the east, and shadows of the lake were like huge bats, sliding across the cold night sky.
On the streets of burning fire, when the strong man from the Fire Tower Gate was knocked away by the black-patterned deer and bull monster, he had a strong arm behind him, lifted him up, and then rescued him.
When the body slowly fell back to the ground, the strong man tried hard to open his drowsy eyes and gradually saw the figure fighting in front of him.
Swordsmen wearing straw raincoats and hats were passing through the streets. The cloak was black and green on the top. The sword blade was neither wide nor narrow. When it came to the tip, it had a trace of arc, like an eagle's beak, waving in the firelight, like a thin net of green shadows, quickly cutting out the long and narrow wounds of the running monster, and then died of blood.
"Is it from 'Yuqingwu'..." He thought lowly, and as his eyes slowly closed, he fell into a coma.
Living through the water, the fish master is green.
"Yushi" is the name of a water bird, and its feather is blue indigo. Later, this term is often used to refer to fishermen. "Yuqingwu" is a major sect in the east of Zheyezhou, Shuiluozhou. Its ancestor was the "Qingshan Laoweng" more than 300 years ago. Most of the disciples in the sect were fishermen on the river, who were good at using swords. The disciples in the sect were both good and evil, and some were engaged in assassination and attacks, which were feared by outsiders.
Compared with the "Fire Tower Gate" that has risen in recent years, Yuqingwu has a much longer history and has been passed down in Shuiluozhou for hundreds of years. However, it has always been mysterious and few outsiders know it.
Fishing on the river is by no means a high-end profession. Sometimes it is not as good as a porter in the city. Moreover, because on the water all year round, the toes are soaked, the palms are cut by fishing lines, and the smell of fish on the body is not dissipated, and ordinary people are unwilling to interact with it. Over time, these fishermen often have cold and introverted personalities, and sometimes even intercept and kill strong people alone for a sum of money.
These fishermen who wear hats and use fast swords are often the lowest and lowly assassins. They will intercept the road for a gold dish. Although they die ten times and seven times, they are always uneasy. The dynasty officials once wanted to suppress the arrest, but these assassins hide among normal fishermen and are alone on the river and lake for many years. It is difficult to distinguish and capture, and then they are left alone.
As the "Yuqingwu" gradually grew, many disciples in the sect were assassinated and their swordsmanship became faster and more fierce. Seeing that the faction was about to become the target of the dynasty's government's focus on suppression, the core disciples in the sect awakened and reorganized, and eliminated the cruel and bloody people in the sect. Later, they decided to set the "Three No Deads" and restrained their disciples with various rules. Only then did the reputation gradually recover and be tolerated by the dynasty.
However, although the style of the sect has been restored, the Kuaili sword technique, which is constantly developed and researched and dedicated to assassination, has been preserved and has become the feature of its faction. Now, in order to protect itself, some fishermen will also go to Yuqingwu's outer sect and learn a little bit.
When the disciples of the Fire Tower Gate gradually disappeared and retreated step by step in the city, hundreds of elite disciples from "Yuqingwu" arrived and repelled and killed the monsters entering the city. The situation finally stabilized.
In the courtyard of the prefecture, there are torches everywhere, and tight iron-armored guards stand inside and outside the courtyard, protecting the core of the Yashishi City.
"Now we must block the gap in the north of the city, otherwise the monsters will come in continuously from there and eventually cause a disaster." A man in a green python robe and official uniform pointed to the map on the table.
"Mr. Zhou Mu said very much, but now our troops are all on the top of the city and we can't pull out any man." The captain wearing Jintong Mountain Cultural Armor shook his head and sighed.
"The disciples of the Fire Tower Gate wipe out the monsters that rushed into the city. Now they are mostly tired and difficult to take action."
The man, known as the Zhou Mu, frowned, slowly stroked his beard in front of him with one hand, looked at the map on the table, and kept thinking.
"Is there anyone from other factions in the city who can ask for help?"
"The rest are all small players who are not as good as the climatic ones. I guess there are not many sixth-level experts in the sect..."
"Go and try it, now this is the only way. I promise that they will have a great reward after success, and with the remaining disciples of the Fire Tower Gate... We will send the personal guards of the prefecture to assist, and we will eventually succeed."
After hearing this, the commander looked up in surprise and looked at the governor of the state.
The Duwei himself is a sixth-level extraordinary person and can still protect himself during the attack of this monster, but this Zhou Mu only has an ordinary fourth-level strength. In this chaotic situation, there is no personal guard protection. If it is not good, an accident will occur.
"I understand. Let me send you to the Fire Tower Gate's residence first. At present, except for the state capital, it is the safest there."
After that, the two walked out of the house, greeted the guards in the yard, and began to gather the remaining forces in the city, and explained the plan they had just made.
"Hurry, hurry up, invite the remaining small sect representatives in the city. Whether you can defend the city this time depends on this move."
"Yes, sir." Afterwards, several soldiers ran out of the yard quickly and passed the orders.
Before the soldiers who were sent to the order came back, there were sounds of breaking through the air in the streets outside. Then, swordsmen wearing straw hats and straw raincoats walked through the night, and the sword lights flew, quickly killing and destroying the escaped monsters.
"That's the guy from Yuqingwu." The two immediately recognized this special outfit.
"It's a blessing that they actually came to help."
After receiving the assistance of Yuqingwu, the raid team immediately became full of manpower and set off quickly.
In the ruins of flames and smoke, this team of nearly a hundred people quickly advanced on the streets, defeating and destroying monsters along the way, and gradually approaching the gap in the city wall that was open in the night.
"hiss--"
A monster with a little white pattern on the black hair was raised high, its shape was like a deer or a cow, and its long curved horns were on its head. It screamed in the wilderness outside the city. Then turbid waves came and washed over the foot of the city wall, striking waves. Some monsters became more flexible in this turbid black water. They jumped up from the water waves and rushed straight to the city wall. The slippery outer skin made their skin and scales more difficult to penetrate, and the battle on the city wall became more and more difficult.
"Start up!" A swordsman with a black hat looked at the scene on the city wall in the distance, shouted softly, then flashed and rushed forward.
At this time, everyone had approached the gap in the city wall. Now many black waves were pouring in from the gap, and some monsters were swimming and jumping into the gap more conveniently.
After a sound of mechanism pulling, a black sharp arrow shot out through the air, nailing some small monsters to death in the night. Then the swordsmen in straw raincoats stepped forward, and the sword light was treacherous, piercing the scales of some monsters in reverse, piercing them through and bleed, and killing them quickly.
He is indeed a fisherman and assassin who live on the river for many years. He is particularly skilled in dealing with these aquatic monsters, which makes many small sect practitioners say surprised when they see it.
After cleaning up these monsters, several disciples of the Fire Tower Gate first poured tin oil into the broken gap, making some monsters afraid to get close. Then they found various gravel and bricks around, constantly filling the gaps in the city wall and erecting them high.
When the average city wall is half a height, thick iron bars are inserted into the ruins and connected with steel cables to form a blockade. This will form a simple defense, allowing the defenders to shoot from behind and continuously kill the monsters that hit the iron bars and steel cables.
In the night light reflected by the flames, this gap finally gradually stopped, and the number of monsters pouring into the city decreased significantly.
When the defenders on the city wall saw this, they finally recovered a little confidence during this difficult resistance, and continued to fight against the monsters that kept climbing and jumping up, blocking the gradually weakening attack.
Perhaps, hope is near.
But the crying and crying sound in the wilderness broke everyone's fantasy, and the black-haired and white-patterned monster raised its head and roared.
“官(yuan)——”
It was like crying and sobbing sounds spread in the darkness, and soon afterwards, a rustling sound came from far and near.
“That’s…”
"It's the sound of water tides, it's the sound of water flowing." Someone heard the essence of the sound.
The dazzling spots of light rose again, illuminating the dark wilderness outside the city. Tumor waves rushed across the ground, sweeping the corpses, bloodstains, debris, etc. from the original wilderness. Some monsters were also swept by the tide and rushed to the lonely city in the wilderness along the tide.
Soon, the front waves slapped on the city wall, splashing high waves, and a stinky water vapor rushed towards us, followed by monsters leaping up from the tide of water. They clamped the gaps in the city wall with their claws and climbed upwards.
The waves continued to wash away, stones and debris gradually accumulated, and slopes slowly formed under the city walls. The attacks of monsters became more and more violent. Many soldiers were injured in the impact, and some remote places began to appear loopholes.
"Oh no, I can't hold on if I keep going like this."
"Is there no one in the city? Find someone to support me!" someone shouted anxiously.
"Call me! Hurry up, if the city is lost, everyone will be dead!"
A rapid arrow rose in the night sky, and the sound was sharp and stern.
After hearing the anxious call signal, several left-behind personnel in the city distributed to support the city wall again, but even so, they could only barely delay the trend, and some fronts began to be broken.
"hiss--"
A thick water python spitted a letter and coiled around the city gate. The snake's head was raised high, looking down at the crowd below, raiding down from time to time, swallowing people into their mouths.
Five Yu Qingwu disciples wearing straw raincoats and holding fast swords flew forward, stepped on the broken city tower and ruins, and rushed straight to the arrogant python with poisonous flames.
During the battle, one of the disciples bit the body for the python, and the other people also found an opportunity. The sword light slashed down and blinded the aquarium python's eyes. Soon after, the sixth-level monster, the Aquarium python, slowly fell to the ground, and only three of the five people who had originally raided were left.
Such a scene took place everywhere in the city walls. In addition to some small monsters, some powerful monsters of level 5 and level 6 also began to appear, causing a large number of casualties.
"No, you have to kill the black-haired and white-patterned monster in the wilderness, otherwise it will be impossible to kill such a beast tide if it has been driving away and commanding other monsters in the wilderness."
In the midst of the turmoil, someone finally realized something was wrong and discovered the source of this beast tide.
"That seventh-level monster is 'Jinghu', extremely fierce. We may have no strength to do it." But some people also know the current situation, and there is no extra power in the city.
This "Yinghu" is a few special monsters sitting down on "Yingqu". When "Yingqu" causes disaster to all directions, monsters like "Yinghu also followed him to make trouble. Now one of them is attacking Zheye City.
"Fuck, it would be great if the sect leader was still there." The disciples of the Fire Tower Sect couldn't help but scold, but they couldn't.
Some time ago, the sect leader and several other major sects besieged the "Yanqu" with many masters. They thought they could win completely, but they were all destroyed. This led to the lack of high-level extraordinary people in the nearby continents and they lost their losses in this city.
"What should I do now? Do you have to sit and wait for death?" It will be a matter of time before the defense line at the city is lost.
"Retreat? How to retreat? If it scatters, these monsters will immediately chase and fight, which will probably be even worse."
There is still a little hope of perseverance, but once you retreat and you are defeated like a mountain, the advantages of monsters in chaos will be greatly amplified. In this dark night and tide, how can people escape these monsters accompanied by water, and they will only die even worse.
People on the city wall were panicked, and they gradually became desperate in the face of this endless tide of beasts.
"No, then 'Jihu' rushed over." A burst of exclamations broke out from the crowd.
Perhaps there was no subsequent monster to summon, or perhaps because he couldn't stand such a slow progress, the tall monster attacked himself and rushed towards the city wall.
The black hooves stepped in the water, like walking on flat ground, and even faster. The white patterns in the dark fur formed ghost faces, which were extremely strange. The monster had long horns similar to deer, but looking at its curved and thick appearance, it was a bit similar to a cow. When it ran, it made a 'yuan' shout, as if it was telling its name, which was terrifying.
Carrying the heavy turbid water waves, the monster crashed into the city gate tower and knocked over the city tower that was level with its body. With the sound of rocks and wood falling into the water waves, some nearby factions rushed forward with their weapons, preparing to fight with the monster, but when they saw Jen Hu roar, the colorless sound spread, and the nearby people were bleeding from their seven orifices and died.
Seeing this, the other people couldn't help but avoid it, using long-range weapons to shoot, muskets and sharp arrows, but in front of the thick and tough fur, they were tickling and were avoided by the monster. Then they jumped up, jumped into the city, and began to rush towards the brightly lit place in the city. It could sense that a large number of weak humans were gathered there.
When monsters have wisdom, they will become more cruel and difficult.
Even though there were constant shooting and chasing behind, hoping to attract the attention of the monster, everything seemed to be in vain. It shattered the ruined streets, knocked down buildings, and kept approaching the city. Some screams and horror sounds were coming one after another in the city, and more people began to panic.
Seeing that the monster was about to succeed, a blazing lightning suddenly exploded in the night.
"Card--"
The bright yellow lightning shot down from the sky and directly hit the monster's forehead, breaking its pace, trembling all over, and blue smoke rose, and the smell of Jiaohu was everywhere.
"Gong--" The monster roared again, then looked around, and then discovered the figure standing on the high bell tower in the city.
He is tall and dressed in a white monk's robe, with bright yellow patterns on the corners and sleeves, a vertical crown on his head, and a square sword in his hand. His blade and hilt are as long as the sword hilt, which can be held together and cut, which is extremely sharp.
The monk's sleeves were fluttering in the firelight of the city, with a cold expression. There was a bright yellow mark in the middle of his eyebrows, shaped like a flying flame. When the monk noticed him, his fingers clamped a bright yellow talisman and quickly chanted it in front of him.
Then the talisman spontaneously ignited without fire, and turned into ashes in the night wind. Soon after, the clouds in the sky stirred up, and a shocking lightning crackled again, hitting the forehead of the Hu, bringing waves of powder and smoke.
"Gong--"
The dark red and rich bloodstains flowed down from Xiang Hu's forehead, and his eyes widened and blood opened, galloping towards the figure regardless of the matter.
To be continued...