Chapter 164: The Fugitive
Octopus Eye Village faces west and northerly, and travels for more than ten miles, the terrain gradually becomes higher, with many mountains and hills stacked, towering ancient trees standing in the sky, and sometimes beasts roaring and birds singing.
The Lawrence Mountains originating from the northwest plateau area of the Delun Empire are like a big dragon winding southward. When it reaches the port of Tulun, it has exhausted its power. Compared with the majestic mountains in the hinterland of the empire, the highest peak among these overlapping mountains is only three or four thousand feet.
However, this mountainous area is particularly fragmented. There are valleys, rivers and ditches everywhere, and there are many cliffs and cliffs between the peaks. The terrain is steep and rugged, and the situation is extremely complicated.
In this mountainous area, there are a large number of mountain people, refugees, bandits, etc., whether it is the Delun Empire, the United Kingdom of Nice facing southwest, or the small principalities in some large basins in the mountainous areas, which are not binding on these people.
This is a lawless land that follows the laws of the primitive jungle.
Between two unknown peaks, under a row of cliffs, a military camp lies quietly here.
In the early morning, only two teams of ten-man patrols were wandering in the camp, and several light and dark posts were watching the surroundings vigilantly.
Behind the barracks, a rope ladder hung down from a cliff five or six hundred feet high, climbed up the cliff along the rope ladder. A brick and stone bunker dozens of feet high was built here, with several small-caliber field cannons on it.
Several sentries on the night stand at the top of the bunker, holding cigarettes in their mouths, and silently exhaling a mouthful of blue smoke.
At the top of the bunker, facing the western mountain area, a tripod was studded with a large military monocular telescope fixed on it. A sentry sat on a high stool, one eye was placed on the eyepiece, slowly shaking the telescope left and right, carefully observing the movements in the mountain area.
With the moonlight and the height advantage of the bunker and this special large-caliber telescope, even at night, the sentry can see more than ten miles.
The garrison of Tulum Port has placed a new type of musket battalion here.
There were 256 flintlock musketeers in two companies, each musketeer was assigned a sword and shield soldier as an auxiliary, and there were 512 combatants. In conjunction with a special logistics company and a mule, horse and baggage transportation platoon, the camp was extremely powerful.
There are several camps like this in this mountainous area.
Since Tulun Port stationed troops here, large-scale invasion of mountain people, bandits and other people in this mountainous area have rarely occurred.
In the forest, there were rugged and barely two carriages in parallel, dozens of fast horses were galloping wildly. The sound of horse hooves smashed the silence of the forest and alarmed countless birds and beasts chirping wildly.
These horses have been running for a long time, and each horse is dripping sweat, and white foam is constantly spraying out of its mouth.
Suddenly, two horses stepped on the rocks, and accompanied by a harsh sound of fractures, the two horses fell to the ground. One of the horses let out a shrill roar and fell into the steep cliff beside the mountain road.
The knight on the horse reacted very quickly. The moment the horse slid out of the mountain road, he jumped up from the horse's back and rolled onto the ground.
"We broke the back!" Another knight who also jumped up from his mount in time drew out his sword and roared loudly.
Dozens of fast horses rode away without a slight pause, and quickly ran along the mountain road. The two knights looked at each other, stood shoulder to shoulder on the mountain road with swords in hand.
In the mountains and forests behind, heavy footsteps came.
Birds flew in shock, wild beasts roared, the ground was slightly shaken, and the sand and gravel were shaken up several inches high.
‘Puchi, puchi’…Along with the harsh roar of steam, at the sharp bend of the mountain road, several trees of two people’s thickness were shattered, and a huge figure ten feet tall ran towards him with heavy footsteps.
The two knights who broke the back shouted in unison. They took out a thin glass test tube from their chest pockets, pulled out the cork plug on the test tube with their teeth, and drank the black potion in the test tube in one sip.
'laugh'!
The two knights had a thick white mist sprayed out from their nostrils, and the temperature around them was dropping rapidly. Their bodies were trembling violently, and long gray-white hairs kept coming out of them.
The bones of their bodies were squirming and deforming like glue. With the harsh bones cracking and stretching sounds, their bodies grew taller quickly. In just a few snaps, they became two burly werewolfs eight feet tall, with white hair all over their bodies emitting a cold air, and stood up.
Tiny ice crystals fell in the air, and under the feet of two white werewolfs, a blue and white halo with a diameter of nearly ten feet and a shape like hexagonal snowflakes appeared.
The cold blue and white halo was shrinking unsteadily, and the temperature within a range of 100 feet was dropping rapidly.
"For Lucia!" The two burly werewolfs had blood flashing in their eyes. They waved their swords that looked slender and petite, and took the initiative to face the huge figure running from behind.
‘Buzz,buzz,buzz’!
A harsh sound kept ringing, and the huge figure's left arm swung forward hard. On its left arm, the position of its fist, was a circular saw about two feet in diameter and was rotating at a terrible high speed.
The circular saw was swinging, and a werewolf slashed heavily, slashing hard on the circular saw. With the harsh sound of friction, a large piece of sparks flew, and the sword made an overwhelming whine, and the "clang" sound broke into two pieces.
The circular saw pushed forward with the momentum, and the werewolf threw down the broken sword and flew backwards extremely agilely.
The circular saw almost stroked against the werewolf's chest, and a large piece of white hair was cut off. A half-inch-deep blood appeared on the werewolf's chest. A large piece of hot blood was sprayed out, and then it quickly froze into ice crystals in the cold air.
Amid the dense metal collision sounds of "Ding Ding Ding", the long sword in the hand of another werewolf, and the huge figure clasped his right hand, and the heavy sword the size of a door panel suddenly collided.
Every time the long sword and heavy sword hit, the werewolf's body would shake violently, and then take a big step back.
After hitting this continuously for more than a dozen times, blood was sprayed out from the werewolf's mouth, nostrils, and ears at the same time. He roared in a low voice, slashed out with all his strength, and collided with the heavy sword that was slashing down on his head.
The sword was shattered, and the werewolf flew backwards.
The heavy sword cut through his body and cut a very deep wound on him, almost cutting him into two pieces.
"For Lucia!" The seriously injured werewolf roared, and he suddenly opened his mouth and let out a loud "swish". A very cold air as thick as a bucket was sprayed out of his mouth, spraying directly onto the huge figure.
‘Squeak…ga’!
The huge figure suddenly frostled, and a layer of white frost thick with palms quickly spread on it.
The seriously injured werewolf made a long wolf roar and staggered and hit the big guy.
‘Bang’!
The halo under the werewolf's feet shattered, and his body exploded into large pieces of blood-colored ice. A thick layer of blood-colored ice was applied to the big guy in front of him again.
The sound of horse hooves came, and nearly a hundred men wearing black cloaks and top hats chased after them along the mountain road.
The werewolf whose chest was cut by a circular saw was constantly dripping from his mouth. He looked at the pursuers and kept making low roars.
Without any nonsense, the werewolf ran wildly and rushed towards the chasing enemy. He opened his arms, and the sharp claws on his ten fingers grew rapidly, and in an instant it turned into more than a foot long.
He roared and crashed into the pursuit team.
Swords slashed him, cutting open the thick fur on his body, leaving fatal wounds on him.
The werewolf roared, not caring about the battle swords that were slashing at him. He was just desperate and used his claws to tear the enemies around him hard.
The narrow mountain road has no room for refuge.
The sharp claws were deeply trapped in the pursuer's body. The werewolf waved his arms vigorously, lifting the enemy off the horse's back and throwing it off the cliff on the roadside.
In just one short blink of an eye, the werewolf was slashed at least nearly a hundred swords. His fearless attack also threw three enemies off the cliff, and severely injured five enemies. He took a claw on the enemy's chest and abdomen.
"Damn gray animal!" A delicate battle sword flashing with a faint light flew past like a ghost. The werewolf covered in blood saw the sword light, but there was no time to stop or dodge.
The huge wolf head flew high, and the man holding the sword sat on the horse's back, kicked his right foot hard, and the werewolf's body exploded with a "bang". A large piece of body mixed with blood mist was kicked off the cliff.
Anger flashed in her eyes, and the man holding the sword shouted sternly: "The wounded bandage the wounded on the spot to rest, we... continue chasing. Damn, damn, there is the border of the Delun Empire in front... She cannot escape into the Delun Empire, absolutely not!"
The war horse galloped past, and the man holding the sword waved his right hand, and the faint sword light turned into a gorgeous rose in the air, whirling through the huge figure frozen by the ice crystals like a breeze.
Palace sword skills!
Such a fancy, gorgeous, but powerful sword skills are definitely from the palace of a great country that has been passed down for a long time!
The thick ice crystals shattered, and a low roar was heard in the huge figure. On the thick armor of its body, white lights lit up, outlining ancient and mysterious runes on it.
‘Puchi’!
A large piece of high-temperature steam spurted out near the neck of the huge figure. The circular saw on its left hand rotated rapidly, and its huge body rushed forward and took dozens of feet away. The steps continued to pursue the mountain road with earth-shaking sound.
The speed of the war horse was not as fast as this big guy. Soon the people in black who were riding wildly could only hear the footsteps of the big guy and could no longer see its back.
At the winding and rugged exit of the mountain road, on the cliff, on the top of the bunker, the sentry with eyes on the telescope suddenly jumped up: "What's wrong, the bird is flying... There's something wrong!"
The military camp, which had only a few windproof lanterns hanging, suddenly woke up. The soldiers put on military uniforms in the dark and entered the preset position with weapons.
Twenty-four field guns were moved out of the warehouse and moved to the preset gun position.
Chapter completed!