Chapter 675: Insect Plague (II)

A soldier with a strong body stared at his bloodshot eyes, roared and slashed out, knocking down a steppe barbarian who had already climbed the city wall, but the degree of mutation of this steppe barbarian was not low, and the hard insect armor and scales on his body actually blocked most of the power of this knife, so that the force that should have been decapitated with one knife only cut half of his neck.

Hit hard by this, the steppe barbarian who had mutated did not die for a while, but instead stimulated the ferocity, waving his hand that had mutated into a sharp claw and struggled to pounce on the defenders of the city, the soldier wanted to cut again, but found that the machete was actually stuck in the neck bone and muscles of the steppe barbarian, and could not be pulled out for a while.

Several soldiers who wanted to come to help next to him were far away, and they didn't have time to arrive, seeing that the other party's sharp claws were about to pierce his chest, a sharp red knife light suddenly fell from the side, splitting the mutant steppe barbarian in half and completely dead.

"The enemy's evil magic is getting more and more powerful, and the vitality of these barbarians has become very tenacious, don't be careless!" With the shout, a middle-aged general who was covered in blood and his armor was broken, but his majesty and heroic spirit did not diminish stride.

"It's General Li!" "Great, the general is here, we will definitely survive this wave of attacks!" "General, when will our support return, the brothers are about to be unable to hold on." ”

Seeing the middle-aged general coming, the nearby soldiers were full of morale, and they rose up to repel this wave of attacks of the steppe barbarians, and then asked him nonsense while resting. Obviously, this General Li has a high prestige in Yingyang Pass, and he can usually get along with his subordinates.

Looking at the expectant eyes of the soldiers around him, General Li first laughed and scolded, "You bunch of rabbit cubs, you always shout that you don't have enough fun fighting with those turtle and grassland barbarians on weekdays, why did they beat your courage when they got up this time, and they couldn't wait for reinforcements? It seems that you haven't trained enough before!"

Then, he glanced around, and said in an uplifting tone: "Just now, the worshippers in the city have received the flying sword summons, and the fastest batch of people to come to help will arrive in half an hour! Although there are not many of them, they are all worship masters who have fought with the Northwest Demon Legion for a long time, they are experienced and powerful, and they can multiply the defense capability of our Eagle Yang Pass. This time, you can always rest assured, hurry up and recuperate, survive this half an hour, and wait for the reinforcements to arrive and repel the invading grassland barbarian coalition army, and the court will definitely reward you!"

Hearing General Li say this, the soldiers nearby were suddenly shocked, and their faces couldn't help but show joy, and they all started talking happily. Soon, the news of the imminent arrival of reinforcements spread throughout the entire Yingyang Pass, and the morale of the defenders was in a great array, and they all repelled wave after wave of attacks by the steppe barbarians.

However, they rejoiced too soon.

Just as the night was getting darker, and if there were no torches to illuminate it, it was almost impossible to reach out to five fingers, and even the warring sides were tired and rested for a while, when the earth suddenly trembled continuously.

Immediately afterward, countless large and small holes appeared on the ground at any time, and streams of filthy, evil, and fishy gray-black gas emerged from the holes, quickly filling the entire battlefield like life.

The gray-black gas is obviously toxic, and if you inhale a little, you will cough incessantly, then become delirious, lose hair, melt your skin, and eventually turn into a puddle of pus in a scream.

The first to suffer was the steppe barbarians, first a large number of wounded people who gathered in tents to recuperate were infected (although they were distorted by the "evil fetal movement", but the minimum judgment ability is still there, and the high-level of the steppe barbarians will not let the wounded fend for themselves, and they can still go to the battlefield after recuperating from their injuries), probably because the resistance has deteriorated due to the injury, and the wound is contaminated with poisonous gas, and they have screamed and rolled over and over, and then died in the struggle.

Then there were the weaker warriors, who were first confused, then fought and bit each other, and after the wounds on their bodies, they were also quickly poisoned to death.

Only those warriors with a deep degree of demonic mutation, not only did not be poisoned, but seemed to enjoy the nourishment of this poisonous gas very much, and they were obsessed with the origin of the poisonous gas, and no longer obeyed the commands and orders of their superiors, and jumped into the large and small holes that appeared not far away.

Seeing that the army was out of control, the leaders and shamans of the steppe barbarians who were powerful and cultivated were hurriedly turned to the Demon Dao cultivators who accompanied the army. However, the strength of the Demon Dao cultivators who accompanied the army this time was generally not high, and the strongest one was only in the late stage of refining qi and transforming gods, and they couldn't crack this weird poisonous gas at all. In the end, they had to turn on their own defensive magic weapons and retreat in embarrassment.

The defenders of Yingyang Pass in the distance also discovered the abnormal changes in the grassland barbarian camp at this time, and immediately reported to their superiors. Not long after, the top of the garrison led by General Li also appeared on the city wall, looking at the turmoil in the steppe barbarian camp in the distance, gloating and wondering.

However, since this poisonous gas was so lethal, it was difficult to guarantee that it would not float to the side of Yingyang Pass, so they immediately asked the worshippers to open the complete protective formation again to prevent this poisonous gas from entering the city. (Although the complete city protection formation is the strongest and most comprehensive, the consumption is too large and can only be used for emergencies, and the usual offensive and defensive battles are half-opened or even not opened.) ）

Not long after the Qingguang Yingying City Protective Formation rose, the tremor of the earth suddenly became more violent, and then, a strange shape of the demon insects drilled out of the large and small holes in the ground, they were covered in blood, and even some internal organs and flesh fragments hung on their bodies, obviously, the mutated grassland barbarians who entered the cave before had become their food.

These demon insects are as small as a calf, as big as an elephant, with hideous scales and armor, and some of them have huge bone horns on the top of their heads, looking at the cold light and magical luster flashing on the bone horns, once they hit the city wall, I am afraid it will not take long to collapse this solid city wall.

Just as the defenders frowned, they saw that the demon insects turned their heads in one direction and kept chirping.

With the sound of chirping, a huge crack slowly opened in the earth, first emitting a thick black-brown poisonous gas, and then, a huge ugly demon insect like a small mountain crawled out.

It has no carapace, only layers of fat and wrinkled scales, its body size is similar to the combination of centipede and ant, it has dozens of pairs of huge arthropods, drags a fat belly, the upper half of the body is held high, its mouth has a huge chelicera, and its head is covered with dozens of large and small eyes, constantly glancing around, exuding an evil and strange light.

It's clear that it's the leader of these monsters!

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