It was a short gray-white bagpipe.
It is about 12 cm long, with a protrusion in the middle. Judging from its texture, it is either made of stone or modified from the skeleton of a living organism.
Hitzfeld still remembered the basic description of the creeper.
They usually cover their faces with tattered cloaks, and are surrounded by gray fog and stench. They hold simple musical instruments such as flutes, pipes, and harmonicas, and use music to drive the insect tides.
"summer……"
Hitzfeld glanced at Xia Yibing.
"I remember this kind of thing. They also don't like dry climates..."
"Normally they only come out during the rainy season." Xia Yibing nodded, ready to swing the Changxia Sword again.
It's unclear why the place and time don't match up, but they certainly don't have any good intentions.
"Don't be impatient." Smail raised his hand to stop Frick, "Let me try first."
Everyone's eyes were on him. He walked to the front of the cliff and confronted the strange man from a high position.
"We are not here to start a war!" he shouted. "This is just an inspection mission! We do not want conflict!"
"Oh~" Hitzfeld twisted his mouth slightly, "I thought he would take the opportunity to shoot from behind..."
Judging from the way Smail responded, she was surprised that the creepers could actually communicate.
Although these things were indeed humans a long time ago - fallen ones among the human race, it is normal for them to understand human language.
But so many years have passed, and the ethnic group should have had many generations change over such a long period of time, yet this language and culture has not been cut off.
Are they still passing on knowledge among themselves?
Or...is their lifespan enough to support them from the beginning to the present?
"Humanity...does not welcome...disturbing...the great existence..."
In response to Smail's speech, the Worm Knight in the firelight let out a hissing sound from his cloak.
It was very soft, but clear enough that even though what was being said was already very obscure, one could still make out the general content.
"Leave...Warning..."
Just a warning?
Everyone, including Smail, breathed a sigh of relief.
If possible, no one wants to fight creepers in the middle of the night.
Because what they are facing is not the crawlers themselves, but the huge swarm of insects driven by them.
"We'll leave at dawn tomorrow!"
Smail continued shouting despite himself.
"We promise not to go any deeper - what do you think?"
If he really talks about his inner thoughts, he is definitely unwilling to leave.
But the situation was such that there was no way out. They were completely trapped on an isolated island. Once a conflict broke out, they would have to pay a heavy price just to break through.
"Leave... now!"
The Worm Knight's hissing became more and more rapid.
Including the giant insect under his crotch, it also seemed extremely anxious at this time, constantly shaking its head and retracting its sharp teeth.
Illusion?
Hitzfeld frowned slightly.
It always seems like it's in a hurry...
why?
Aren't these the ones who should be anxious now?
Just as she had this thought, she suddenly felt the ground beneath her feet begin to shake.
The vibrations became larger and more intense... She looked up suddenly and saw a huge shadow rising out of the fire.
What a horrifying scene it was… The body that blocked out the sun was covered in smoke and dust. She saw layers of pitch-black shells flashing before her eyes, and then a huge mouth larger than the moon and full of sharp teeth suddenly opened.
It came over here with its head covered.
One mouthful.
Completely devour the Worm Knight.
Chapter 43: Calling on God’s Name
If the giant insect encountered during the day was equivalent to the dancing dragon in the evening performance, then the thing that appeared at this time had a cross-sectional length exceeding half the stage.
The narrowest part of its body is at least twenty meters long. If its proportions are the same as other worms, then its length must be over three hundred meters.
The ground was shaking... The area illuminated by the fire was obscured and covered by dust... Hitzfeld had to grab Xia Yibing's arm to barely stay standing, and when she realized what she had just seen, the thing had already drilled most of its body back into the deep red soil, just enough to see the last section of the spine disappear.
She opened her mouth slightly, and just pinched Xia's arm hard, her mind going blank.
Seriously, she'd seen more spectacular things than this.
At least it's something similar.
Whether it's the super giant corpse-dissolving monster Braceworm or the forest of Death Trees, in terms of size alone, they are actually not inferior to this thing at all.
They may even be bigger than this one. If we only discuss the sense of oppression brought by the size, their scores will definitely be higher and stronger.
But in fact, in Hitzfeld's opinion, this thing is much more terrifying.
The details here are very complicated. If you really want to delve into it, she already had a response strategy when facing Braceworm, and when the Death Tree appeared, there was also a mechanical sun to contend with it, so she didn't need to face that power head-on.
Another point... just as few people are afraid of the slowly crawling rhinoceros beetles, but many people are afraid of spiders that crawl quickly with eight long legs... the terrifying appearance needs to be combined with the power of action beyond cognition to truly break through the psychological defenses.
This thing is so fast.
It took less than two seconds from the ground shaking to the moment when its huge head appeared. It took a little more than a second to swallow its companion in one gulp, and then returned to the red earth even more quickly. From the attack to the disappearance, it was probably only about half a minute.
The pressure of having to face a huge body, as well as the opponent's agility... can only be understood if you are really in this position. The combined sense of oppression brought by them is by no means comparable to that of a slowly moving lump of rotten meat or a giant tree.
Hitzfeld almost immediately conjured up the following picture in his mind - if the part of the camp that protruded from the ground was compared to an isolated island, and the surrounding red soil, or even the entire red soil plain, was considered the ocean, then this thing would be equivalent to a giant, agile sea snake.
This is a dead end.
No one could escape from such a situation - not on foot, and riding a horse would only help them survive for a few more seconds.
This is a very cruel statement, as if they can't even defend this isolated island. But in fact, that thing is not a sea snake... The campsite is not a real isolated island exposed to the sea. The other party is actually a land creature, and it has the ability to capture this island!
In other words, whether this large group of people can survive, and if so, how long they can survive, is no longer something they can control.
It depends on what this big guy thinks.
"It seems to have a lot of opinions about us..."
As Darent uttered this whisper, the ground began to tremble slightly again.
Before people could prepare themselves mentally, dust exploded again from right behind them - the position where most of them were facing away, and the terrifying head that was bigger than the moon and covered with dense sharp teeth from inside to outside jumped out from the smoke again, like a giant flesh and blood hammer that had been magnified countless times, smashing down with a loud bang, knocking most of the people to the ground.
This time Xia Yibing's reaction was fast enough. She was the first person to turn around. Long before the impact came, she had already pulled Hitzfeld into her arms, forcing her to lie down with her.
boom! ! !
The vibration feeling you feel when you are lying down is different from that when you are standing.
It was a touch that made the entire earth tremble. There was no other moment when one could feel this tremendous force so clearly, and feel the deep terror that seeped into one's bones.
Hitzfeld clenched his teeth tightly, looked up with his one eye wide open, and witnessed the entire process of the giant monster eating people.
The impact directly collapsed half of the cliff. A large number of horses were frightened and struggled desperately to break free from their restraints and escape. Many people who had not yet had time to lie down were either knocked unconscious or thrown into the air by the huge impact… The distance was actually not very long, but more than a dozen pink tentacles instantly popped out from the open, eerie giant mouth, like a chameleon's long tongue, and after hitting the target, they pulled and rolled, and all the unlucky guys who were chosen were pulled into its mouth.
"Ally! No—"
She heard someone screaming and calling out their companion's name.
“Crack! Crunch! Crunch—”
She saw the monster's face clearly, and its internal structure that was covered with sharp teeth from the outside of its mouth to the inner wall of its abdominal cavity. She saw the layers of terrifying sharp teeth twisting and turning like springs, and the lives that were still alive a second ago, who might have met her not long ago and raised their glasses to her while sitting by the fire, were just like that, without any resistance, being turned into rotten meat, ground into meat paste, and swallowed whole by it.
And then……
It seemed to be some kind of coincidence, or perhaps this huge evil creature had an overly keen sense of some kind of power.
In short, the movement that was supposed to retract suddenly paused. Everyone saw it gradually lower its head, and turned its ugly face without any eyes towards this side.
It's looking at me.
Hitzfeld suddenly had an idea.
She didn't know the reason, the cause...it was just a pure and strong feeling - it was staring at me now, yes, it noticed me!
At this moment, the huge monster's dust, which was carried by the giant monster as it broke through the red soil, began to shine down. The knights' vision was seriously disturbed, and its body was also looming in the dust.
The corner of Xia Yibing's mouth twitched, and she glanced at the girl who was holding her down. She found that she narrowed her single eye little by little, and in her deep blue eyes that seemed to be dark because of the environment... a cloud of gray mist seemed to be gradually rising.
The picture Hitzfeld saw changed.
The smoke and dust seemed to have become the gray fog itself, and the body of the giant insect cut through the gray fog and descended in front of him.
She was so close to it that it seemed as if she could touch the black shell with her hand.
She saw it slowly open its huge mouth.
Yes... She saw it very clearly...
In the outermost circle of teeth - the largest, most ferocious circle of teeth - there were seven huge tusks with "eye" patterns carved on them.
She reached out and ripped off the eye patch on her left eye, revealing the dark golden pupil. With an effect similar to an optical illusion, it was divided into seven screens, and she looked at the carved patterns on each eye at the same time.
There was an obvious and sharp rustling sound in the gray fog, as if ten thousand arthropods were climbing there.
She heard waves of songs coming from the end of the gray fog.
All the insect sounds, noises, and songs merged into one after passing through the gray fog, and gathered into a sacred name in her ears.
Abu-Ghasar.
"Aibu, Gesar..."
She recited it unconsciously, stood up straight and stretched out her arms forward.
"Aibu, Gesar..."
Chanting this strange name, her sight seemed to penetrate the gray fog at this moment.
She saw clearly the darkness behind the gray fog. She saw the complex and intertwined underground caves buried under the red soil plains, the endless waves of worms stacking and brewing in the caves, and the bright and bright red lava fire forging red lotus, and then -
Her gaze penetrated the earth's crust and the earth's core, as if it spread from one end of the world to the other, and finally spread to the void of the universe.
Then she saw that life.
An indescribable mass of wriggling darkness. If you didn't look carefully, you would almost think it had merged into the void.
Seven huge and dazzling eyes grew closely in its center, also casting their gazes over.
boom--
It was as if something had forced its way across the river of time and was trying to wake up.
An unprecedented severe pain descended from the void. Hitzfeld had just covered her eyes and had no time to catch her breath when the black leather collar around her neck suddenly tightened again, squeezing into her flesh.
The breath was choked back.
Her eyes widened and her tongue stuck out, like a fish pulled up from the riverbank, desperate for air.
...until a soft and wet thing came up to him.
She desperately put it in her mouth.
Chapter 44: The Only Chance
"Aisun..."
"Aisun!!!"
The cheeks were constantly being patted.
