Lan Wuxin spit out the snow foam in his mouth with two 'bah bangs', and his heart was full of regret.

He knew that he would not covet that bounty, knowing that the tibia stream in winter was several times more dangerous than usual, and in the snowy night, the ice was biting, the snow seemed to absorb the sound of footsteps, and only the whining wind passed through the forest, which made people feel uneasy.

He raised the pine resin torch in his hand, and the light of the fire tore like a rag in the wind and snow, and the flickering light reflected the shadows of rows of firs. Rows of blue-gray faces of dead people, gathered together, staggered towards them.

The locals called these things 'Soul Corpses', the spirits of those who drowned in the Tibia Creek, and although Lan Wuxin knew that this was just a legend, he couldn't help but feel furious in his heart when he looked at this frozen face.

He forced his heart to patrol the depths of the forest, there must be a few 'ghouls' secretly commanding these dead people, the cunning of the 'ghouls' is innate, and most of the teams that are wiped out in the forest every year are related to these necromantic creatures.

But 'ghouls' aren't the scariest thing in the forest—

He had seen a narrow shadow flash in a field of firs, and it reminded him of something in the legend of the area, the mere thought of which had almost made his blood clot, but fortunately it hadn't been seen since.

He was a little selfish and didn't tell anyone about it, hoping that he was hallucinating because he was too nervous.

There were six other people around him, three or four torches, and the torches in the hands of several people gathered together, which was enough to provide a ball of light in the snowstorm. When Lan Wuxin led everyone out of Tibia Creek and turned back, there were still seventeen or eighteen people in the team, and the rest of them all fell in the wind and snow.

Those men may have been luckier than they were, and they might have been resurrected in the temple of Ameia, and had found a warm place to drink a glass of wine while they returned to the meeting.

When they thought of this, everyone couldn't help but scold their mother in their hearts, but people were always unwilling to waste starlight in this place for no reason.

The long weapons were almost lost as the ones that should have been lost, but they fled all the way here, but they were still stopped, and in the face of the undead who surrounded them, everyone could only go back to back, ready for a final fight.

The steel-forged blade pointed at the row of pale faces, a hilt that shone brightly in the snowy night.

At this time, Lan Wuxin heard the accompanying alchemist in the team shouting, "Wait, there's light over there!" ”

"Don't get distracted!" He yelled a little annoyed, and a mouthful of wind and snow poured into his mouth, causing Lan Wuxin to cough twice. This accompanying alchemist is a newcomer from Dulun in the south of the Great Creek Valley, who has no skills, and stinks a lot, and always likes to cause trouble-

"I didn't lie to you, there's really light over there." The young man insisted.

"I'll tell you to concentrate a bit," Lan said angrily, "but no one will save you later." ”

The young man only muttered twice: "Damn, I cook my own food, and I like to blame others." ”

Lan Wuxin naturally heard this grunt, but his eyebrows moved, and he didn't speak after thinking for a while.

Surrounded by strong enemies, he didn't want to let the team quarrel at this moment, although this was the first time to go on a dangerous mission, he had led the team on several other missions before, and he was a fairly experienced captain in the vicinity.

But if it weren't for the protective clause in the contract, he would have kicked this guy out and fed the undead so that he could play a role.

Still, he glanced in that direction with his peripheral vision, and saw two pillars of light in the darkness passing through the forest, swaying in that direction. There were other teams, and Lan Wuxin's heart moved.

However, he did not immediately give the order to let the team lean in that direction, after all, the position of the other party in the wilderness is not clear, and it is not impossible for the other party to fall into the well.

What's more, even if the other party doesn't fall into the well, he may not necessarily help them, and he will run for at least one or two miles along the way, and he will have to reduce one or two people in the wind and snow.

If the other party is watching from the sidelines, they might as well stay in this place and fight the enemy, at least the terrain in this place is still favorable to them.

But before he could speak, the alchemist cried out again:

"I saw it, it must be another team, let's get over there?"

"Give the order, don't you understand this? Do you want to kill us in this place? ”

As soon as he spoke, the hearts of the team suddenly fluctuated, after all, no one wanted to die once, and ordinary people didn't think about it so thoroughly, and when they heard that there was another team nearby, they immediately had no intention of fighting here.

Everyone's eyes were on Lan Wuxin.

And Lan Wuxin only wanted to pierce this guy with a sword, but someone had already kicked the alchemist out one step ahead of him, it was his old partner, and he obviously couldn't bear it anymore.

The man didn't expect someone to attack him from behind, and when he lost his center of gravity, he screamed and threw himself at a drowned corpse in front of him, who felt the breath of the living and opened his mouth to bite his neck.

It had barely opened its mouth when a sharp sword pierced its cheek, sending its head flying and its bones tumbling down the snow. Lan Wuxin was quick to see and pulled the young man back and threw him to the ground.

He wasn't a woman, but he was afraid that the craftsmen would always get them in trouble, and the adventurer team had an obligation to protect the alchemist who accompanied him, and although this person died, his actions had not crossed the bottom line stipulated in the contract.

The alchemist didn't seem to react yet, and cried out with a pale face, "Who was it, who just kicked me?" ”

Unfortunately, no one answered him, and it was clear that this person was not popular in the ranks.

Only the man who had kicked him earlier gave him a faint look and did not speak. And this young man is not really stupid after all, seeing this look, he finally reacted with a cold war, and craned his neck and stopped talking.

At this time, like Lan Wuxin, the others also began to fight with the gray and blue corpses, but the people had no fighting spirit and fought and retreated.

Seeing this, Lan Wuxin sighed, knowing that the hearts of the people who had finally stabilized had been completely destroyed, so he had to take advantage of the situation and order: "Fight and retreat, move closer to that side." ”

He could only pray in his heart that the other party could help.

……

"Captain, they're coming here!"

The box was clutching the net rope and stood on the side of the ship, and in the wind and snow, it didn't seem to be afraid of falling. The first time he saw the movement of the firelight in the darkness, he turned back and shouted to Fang Yuan.

Everyone has long discovered these adventurers who are besieged by the undead, if they are ordinary people, I am afraid that they will really consider whether they will make a move under the current bad weather, but with Fang Yuan's temperament, he will naturally not see death without help.

What's more, there are just a few zombies in the forest, plus some ghouls, which is not a dangerous opponent for their team.

After getting used to seeing the big scene underground on Doriphon and Fenris Island, this scene is really not worth mentioning in the eyes of everyone.

Fang Ou was walking to starboard, he raised his hand, a copper ball passed through the wind and snow, and the four wings fell into his hand. He wore goggles, the corners of his coat fluttering in the wind, and at the same time turned back to the others and ordered, "Sky Blue, inform Miss Attila to make Mr. Greystone turn sideways-"

"Howler!"

Sky Blue tapped a vertical brass pipe in the bow and shouted inside, "Sister Attila, let Mr. Limestone turn sideways." ”

The brass carried the sound all the way to the Guy platform behind Mr. Greystone below, and the ship tilted slightly, and the direction of the wind and snow in the dark night seemed to turn one hundred and eighty degrees.

Fang Yu swept a handful of oncoming snowflakes before ordering, "Parker, Miss Shesta, guide them with a searchlight, show them the undead in the vicinity, and let them continue to move closer to us." ”

The two did as they were told, and two lights pierced through the darkness and into the forest.

"They see us!"

Parker immediately screamed.

Fang Yu nodded, he still had two clockwork goblins outside, of course, he could see the situation in the forest clearly.

The men had retreated at an inopportune time, and there should have been a few ghouls on their flanks closing in on them, but if Mr. Greystone had caught up in time, it wouldn't have been a big problem.

However, he only had some doubts in his heart, how could these people be so inexperienced, how could they dare to trek on foot in the snowy night at this time.

He heard footsteps and looked back just in time to see the twins' sister dressed in a military uniform and walking up from below. Alyssa couldn't help but be a little amused when she saw him wearing goggles, and glanced in the direction of Baggins and Kita on the other side with some curiosity before asking, "I heard a gunshot down there just now, what happened?" ”

"Something is on board." Fang Yu replied.

"What's that?"

"Vampires."

"Vampires?"

"It's the vampire, Captain." Baggins half-crouched on the ground, examined the bullet holes on the ground, dipped his hand in the blood near the bullet holes, picked it up and looked at it, and replied to the two of them.

Ordinary undead have no blood, even bloated zombies only have putrefus, and only vampires, the legendary undead creatures of Aitalia, will be injured and bleed.

And the anomaly of the previous shot is not something that an idle monster can show.

"Be careful, Baggins, you take Luo Yu to the bottom cabin to check it out."

Fang Yu reminded. Vampires are the same as the Electors, they can be high or low, and low-level Blood Squires are only a little stronger than ordinary people, while it is easy for high-level vampires to destroy an adventure group above level 30.

Of course, Fang Yuan didn't think that there would be high-level vampires in Tibia Creek, but be careful to sail the 10,000-year-old ship, vampires have the highest intelligence among the undead, they are elusive, even the blood acolytes like to mingle in the crowd and be difficult to detect.

He didn't think that the vampire had been shot and left, the other party must have had other plans when he flew onto the ship, this platform was not big, Luo Yu, Kita and Sylvid had also checked the other cabins before, and only the bilge where the ballast was kept was left unchecked.

Baggins is one of the highest-end combat forces in the team, and with Luo Yu's words, he should be able to handle idle battles.

Listening to his orders, both of them nodded and stepped off the deck.

However, Fang Yu vaguely saw a white shadow flashing behind the two, and he thought he had seen it wrong, but he heard Alyssa whisper on the side: "Huh? ”

"What's wrong?"

"That seems to be Delis."

Only then did Fang Yu think of the cat.

Ever since it had stopped following him, it had begun to wander around the ship, and now that a battle was imminent, the people had no intention of paying attention to the cat lady.

Besides, the other party had not been on the ship for long, and it was unanimously loved by most people, and it had asked for a little dried fish from Alyssa, and licked Kita's fingertips affectionately, so that the two of them would turn against the camp of the 'Cat Protector'.

By the way, this was the first party in the team that Sky Blue had founded, so that the cat lady could stay on the ship.

However, Fang Yu didn't have the heart to care about this now, he shook his head, and then looked back at the forest.

In the darkness, the light of a few torches was getting closer.

In the vicinity of Maximon Creek Station.

Lan Wuxin thought that he should be considered a veteran, and this year was his seventh year as a Draftee, and he had accumulated a lot of experience in the early years of being in and out of other people's adventure groups.

Naturally, no one invited him to join those regular adventure groups, but his old partner was a man with little talent, and he never agreed to help his old buddy.

Later, he began to try to pull up his own team, but it was not easy, after all, the risk is life and death, and most people would not trust a captain with little experience.

Fortunately, the forests around Tibia Creek have become worse and worse in recent years, and the undead are barren and poor, so some experienced adventure groups have gradually moved to the south.

This gave him the opportunity to pull up a ragtag army, and at first he naturally only dared to hand over the task in the summer and autumn, and gradually accumulated a little reputation, and this time he rushed out to carry out dangerous tasks, also because the team needed to expand, and it was extremely necessary for a capital inflow.

He didn't expect to encounter any danger near the Makson Creek station, but he didn't expect that the heavens would not fulfill people's wishes, but they would encounter difficult ghouls and banshees.

If it weren't for the fact that there happened to be a high-ranking member of the local guild in the team, they would have been wiped out when they encountered the giant skeleton before. However, the other side also hung up in that battle, and the team was reduced by half.

Lan Wuxin led the others forward as he saw the two searchlights passing through the forest.

The two pillars of light did not lead the way in front of them, but patrolled the left and right of the group, which only gave him a little peace of mind - unlike the others, he had realized early on that there were several ghouls on the flanks of the group that had been sneaking after them, which was why he had been reluctant to turn the team around.

And the opposite team was so far away from them, and they actually realized this, which made him slightly surprised at the same time, but also had a glimmer of hope in his heart - this shows that the other party is at least quite experienced, and experience often means strength.

And the other party seems to be willing to help them, otherwise they won't stop and let the searchlight shine in this direction, and it should be quite risky for the other party to stop and wait for someone in such a snowstorm.

And the other party dares to stay, either because they are too stupid, or they have something to rely on.

Lan Wuxin prefers to believe that it is the latter-

But apparently not everyone in the team thought so, and the young alchemist was panting and babbling about why the other party hadn't turned on the searchlight, causing him to fall several times in the dark, and his nose and face were swollen.

Hearing this, Lan Wuxin only wanted to strangle the latter and hit them with a searchlight? Do you think it's the spotlight on the stage, and you don't die fast enough in such a situation?

And the others obviously disliked this guy too, and at first there were people who pulled him when he fell, and then gradually no one wanted to care about this guy. Only when he fell too far behind, and when he screamed behind him, Lan Wuxin would stop and wait for him.

And only because of contractual constraints.

"It's up ahead!" Suddenly, someone in the team shouted.

The others were relieved and couldn't help but look forward, but the young man's eyes widened suddenly: "Airship!?" ”

It wasn't just him, everyone was taken aback, airships were not common in the outback. They immediately thought that they were lucky and ran into the kingdom's patrol airship, but they had some doubts in their hearts, after all, they had never heard that the patrol airship would be dispatched in such a stormy and snowy weather.

However, no matter what they thought in their hearts, the two pillars of light above the forest were clearly shooting down from above the canopy, and nothing seemed to have this height other than the airship.

The crowd was still secretly surprised, but suddenly the pillar of light swept in their direction, shining right on their flank, in a fir forest.

Lan unintentionally subconsciously covered his eyes, beware of snow blindness. He heard the alchemist scolding beside him again, as if his eyes were dazzled, and he couldn't help but be a little speechless in his heart: "Didn't you let the other party hit the pillar of light?" ”

However, he understood that judging from the other party's previous performance, he would not do this for no reason, and when he looked back, he saw a dense blue-gray 'soul corpse' staggering from the forest.

"They're catching up!"

There was a frightened cry in the ranks.

Lan Wuxin was also bitter for a while, he had expected that these undead would catch up, but he didn't expect it to be so fast. On flat ground, they could easily shake off the undead, but in the snow, it was physically demanding for them to take a step and run.

But the undead don't have much physical fitness.

Now everyone is exhausted, and they have long since lost the strength and courage to fight again, and the only hope in their hearts is that the 'airship' will arrive in time. The young man had collapsed to the ground in fright, and Arashi had no intention of drawing his sword and standing in front of everyone.

At the same time, he couldn't help but glance back.

Just in time to see the silver pillar of light, cruising over their heads, and behind the pillar of light, a huge shadow swept over the canopy. He froze for a moment—he hadn't expected the 'airship' to be so close to them, and much smaller than he had imagined.

Is it just a patrol boat?

And the next moment, Lan Wuxin saw two figures appear on the side of the ship, and one of them was obviously explaining something to the other.

platform.

Fang Yu was lifting the goggles, only glanced at the situation below, and then opened his mouth to the box on the side and said: "You go and disperse those things below, be careful, it is the 'Soul Returning Corpse', there must be a ghoul behind them commanding them." ”

"No problem, Captain, look at me."

The chest, as always, was full of confidence and didn't take any ghouls seriously. Just kidding, he didn't know how many of these things he killed when he and the captain were underground in Fenris.

"Be careful." Fang Yu said angrily, obviously extremely uneasy about this guy in the middle two.

But the latter just shrugged his shoulders and whistled: "Heaven to justice!" Then he loosened the rope and jumped down.

"I rely on ——!"

When everyone in the forest saw this scene, they couldn't help but cry out in their hearts. Although the height of the 'airship' was lower than they imagined, it was at least ten meters, and that guy actually jumped off like this?

In such a snowy weather, even the glider can't be opened, right?

Is this man crazy?

……