Tang Qi Tan

Following the last fleeing beast, like a tattered skin, it dragged and sprayed blood all over the ground, and fell crashing into the flattened grass.This short but intense raid also came to an end. None of the 97 ghosts and sixteen beasts survived.

The expert team members only paid the price of one serious injury and 11 minor injuries; and except for the severely injured person who was unfortunately pierced through multiple places by the head horn bone spurs of the beast, the others all had some skin injuries. Healing and recovery, you can fight again.

Afterwards, Jiang Tian also followed the traces of these aliens, and found a small water dock/settlement in the depths of the grassland; but, except for the human and animal bones scattered all over the ground, and the smelly excrement Besides, there is nothing else left.

But these traces and clues alone are enough to prove a certain conjecture and worry of Jiang Tian.The animal disaster that once raged in the north, under the continuous attack of the imperial court, has been moved to the remote areas of the south along with the black hands behind the scenes, and started to grow secretly again.

However, in the waterway battles, the lizardmen and swine dragons/predators encountered by the fleet are more like new products that were cultivated and bred in batches according to local conditions.Then, they are stocked on the spot within a specific range, acting as a certain degree of peripheral alert and defense.

And the hidden bone pillar seems to have a special attraction, which can make these aliens gather, and instinctively attack all living creatures that break into the range.As for the ghosts and their beasts that appeared later, they were the real guards and monitors.

And after solving these peripheral obstacles and threats, it also means that the surprise army led by Jiang Tian is already quite close to the innermost area controlled by the Yunmeng thief according to the captured Shi Liangdong.Therefore, the fleet traveling along the waterway encountered several attacks again.

But no matter in terms of scale or intensity, it is far inferior to those aliens encountered in the first place.It's more like an instinctive counterattack confined to a specific range.After destroying the nearby bone pillars again, they easily repelled and dispersed them without even using the firearms on board.

The sailors and right guards on board also quickly completed the process; from yelling, startled, to insensitive and accustomed to the transformation process.After all, when it is confirmed that these hideous and ugly existences can be killed, naturally there is no fear.

When the fleet finally passed through the continuous grassy slop and reached the open water at the other end, they found that there was no room for them to continue sailing.In other words, whether it is the land ahead or the possible branch of the waterway, they are all shrouded in a large white mist.

The fog close to the ground in front of me is not very high, and it doesn't look very dense, but it stretches over a large area, and it is impossible to see where the edge can be bypassed; and under the light and the river wind , there is no sign of dissipation or loss.

And this is what Shi Liangdong described, the second layer of defense used by the Yunmeng bandits to protect and cover themselves; it is also one of the main reasons why the previous round of four-way government-army suppression failed miserably.It is said that as long as you enter it, you will easily lose your basic sense of direction.

Then, in the case of low visibility, they ran aground on the river beach, aquatic plants or dead tree stumps one after another; or they accidentally capsized and fell into the water under mutual collision.Then they were attacked by aliens and giant beasts from the mist, and they had to fight each other with heavy casualties.

Only the members of the Yunmeng Bandit who carry the token of special aura can not be attacked by the aliens dormant in it, and can travel there without incident.There are even specially trained aquatic beasts who are responsible for pulling and towing the boats related to the Yunmeng Thief into and out of the river safely.

However, this method is completely inapplicable to the entire current fleet and the more than 1000 soldiers on the same ship.Then more than a dozen laymen stood up and put on full-body protective overalls and headgear with goggles; they buckled a traction chain made of fine steel around their waists.

Then they were divided into three groups carrying bundles of small flags, dragging the chains one by one into the mist; after counting the steps softly and walking ten steps, a thin flagpole with a bell was erected as a reference ; Simultaneously according to a certain rhythm to affect the bell to notify.

And the soldiers who walked into the mist one by one, seemed to be vaguely squeezed into some invisible bubble, and what they could see and hear was a little distorted.Therefore, under the bright blue sky and broad daylight, after only three rings of the bell, Jiang Tian couldn't see them at all.

Not even the last sound, like a dull echo, could be heard.Only the stainless steel chains that are continuously pulled forward by the inner force and released can prove that they are still continuing to penetrate deep into the mist.Until suddenly a certain chain tightened.

And the flagpole erected in the mist as a signpost was popped up and flew up one after another under the violent shaking of the bell; in an instant, without Jiang Tian's order, more than a dozen laymen worked together to reverse the roulette on the ship, and Pull back the tight chain inch by inch.

The other soldiers also raised their firecrackers; lowered the turntable muzzle and wide-mouthed cannons on the ship's deck and aimed them into the mist, ready to fire at any time.But fortunately, the worrying thing did not happen; until the last person was dragged out, the chain was not broken.

As for the soldiers who were forcibly dragged out, although they were staggered and scratched all over the ground, at least they still seemed to have complete limbs, and they were able to respond with a strong voice; it was just that the asbestos-made protective overalls were already stained. thick mud and dirt;

Immediately, the sergeant in charge stood up with the help of his companions, and couldn't wait to take off his hood, panting greedily and cursing: "Damn it, it's very evil here. You haven't gone far, just Unknowingly, it was sunk in by the ground, and there was something crawling in."

"The more I walked in, the more I couldn't breathe. I accidentally stepped on a certain puddle, and something entangled my legs and feet, pulling me desperately..." Another soldier connected to him also said : "Then, my chain was caught by something and I couldn't move."

Afterwards, when the mud and dirt on their bodies were washed away with a pressurized water jet, the sergeants nearby couldn't help but gasped; because the surface of the rubber asbestos smock was already covered with criss-cross patterns. Scratches, and many wriggling strips.

And these wriggling strips are impressively full of links, earthworms as thick as fingers, or creatures like loaches covered in mucus; through the protruding thin mouthparts, they are tightly attached to the gown.After being exposed to the sun for a moment, they fell off one after another.

Then, it tried its best to bounce or wriggled to escape into the mist, and dragged out a series of crystal tracks.Immediately, he was quickly chopped up by the comrades standing beside him, trampled and crushed into puddles of sludge.The other soldier frowned and took off his damaged rubber boots.

Then, at his ankle, the tip of the burr vine, which had been broken in half, was tightly strangled into the flesh.However, after picking it off with a dagger, leaving a bloody strangle mark, the soldier didn't feel any pain; and the half of the thorn was still moving.

Immediately after being exposed to the sun, it quickly dehydrated and shriveled up into a circle.Then someone brought a brazier and threw it into it and burned it to ashes.At this time, the other two groups of soldiers were also led out of the mist one by one, but their whole bodies became wet.

And the protective coverall on his body also has some strange living creatures attached to it; for example, a cleft-toothed fish with a pinched mouth, a lizard that sprays acid, and even self-winding grass blades... It seems that All kinds of distortions are produced in this fog.

Therefore, when it is exposed to sunlight and relative air, it will gradually dehydrate and lose its activity.From this, Jiang Tian also understood that the survivors of the navy who fled back before kept chanting the meaning of "Yunmengze is alive".Obviously created by the special environment of fog.

Perhaps in a long-term high-humidity environment, there are also effects of distorting sound and deflecting vision, leading to dyspnea, hypoxia and suffocation, and hallucinations.In fact, after only a while, there were obvious spots of rust on the recovered chains.

Therefore, Jiang Tian ordered to push the lit brazier into a section of the mist; he saw that the mist was squeezed out of a gap, and then seemed to be very reluctant to accommodate it; in a blink of an eye, the burning firewood in the brazier The carbon sizzles, shrinks and annihilates.

Immediately afterwards, it was replaced with a few oil-soaked torches, which also gathered together in the mist and quickly extinguished; on the contrary, the relatively closed wind lamps continued to burn for a long time after being sent in, before being slowly infiltrated by the thick water droplets that condensed on the inner wall. Soaked out, but the surrounding fog became transparent.

Another soldier took out several explosive bombs filled with gunpowder; after igniting them, they threw them into the depths of the mist, and heard a few extremely dull bangs, and it seemed that several obviously thin holes appeared in the mist visible to the naked eye; and then It was filled again by the flowing mist.

Then after it was replaced with kerosene bombs, even the brittle deflagration did not happen.Seeing this, Jiang Tian already knew the basics in his heart.He had seen a similar fog at another time, in the assassination incident outside Lyon.

It's just that the area wasn't so big at that time, and the fog wasn't so dense, as if it had been accumulated for a long time in Yunmengze.Then Jiang Tian ordered: "Come here, bring me all the fire oil prepared on the rear team's boat."

Then, at the edge of the fog stained, a shallow ditch was dug; in a short time, it was filled with dead wood, dry wood and other combustibles collected around, and then covered with a thick layer of charcoal and Coal; Finally, several large barrels of high-fire oil were opened, and all were poured and soaked in it.

The moment the ditch was ignited, the flames and black smoke that covered the sky and the sun rolled like a wall, and the burning and strange mist suddenly shrank a large area; revealing the wet and muddy gray-black ground.Then Jiang Tian in front of the wall of fire waved his hand, and a large cloud of fire rose up.

I saw billowing flames and hot air, as well as deflagrating sparks and charcoal fragments; they suddenly gathered in the sky; and under the action of an invisible force, a deep red fire whirlwind several feet high was formed; The mist grew stronger and stronger.