Krafft's Anomaly Notes

Chapter 111
A torch was thrown impromptu, and pierced the facade like a javelin.

Quick and powerful footsteps followed the flames, the metal was flipped in the hand, the palm of the hand grasped the blade, and the gauntlet and counterweight were smashed down as hammerheads.

This is a technique used on the battlefield. When two full-armored knights in iron plates meet, if there is no blunt weapon such as a hammer to effectively kill them, they can only temporarily use the long sword in their hands as a substitute.

Sufficient skill allows the user to give the cast iron gauntlet the speed enough to knock the concave helmet on the premise that the palm will not be scratched.

The seemingly harmless blunt part can often achieve more effective results than the dangerous blade. It is manifested as a crisp sound under the buzzing of the helmet after it is tapped, resulting in frontal, parietal and temporal bone fractures with intradural hemorrhage, external hemorrhage and brain contusion Injuries and other serious consequences, with the current medical methods, let alone treatment, even detection is impossible.

To put it simply, this is used to deal with hard points. When William's saber bounced off, the comer sharply adjusted his moves and used targeted killing methods.

But that layer of face is also unreasonable. Even if it had been expected, the feedback sent made people suspect that it had hit some kind of non-living inorganic matter, which was to compete with the rock.The force he used counterattacked himself, and the blade almost escaped the control of his fingers. He cut the thick gloves, and licked his palm with a cold and sharp feeling.

The extremely hard material seems to be some kind of carapace, which is not as tough as metal. The point of force is slightly concave, and then quickly cracks and collapses around it.The fragments between the bone and the stone were turned over, pushed up, and pierced the pale skin, but no blood flowed out. The face was really torn towards the depression like a curtain, and the radial folds completely destroyed the relationship with the "person". An image association.

The part of the face that had been hidden in shadow was briefly exposed, and the phantom retreat dissipated, but it was enough to see what leaked before disappearing.

The matte surface is like a formed shadow, solidified in an incomprehensible way, and grows into an arthropod-like structure. William has no doubt that it will dissolve into the dark background in the next moment-in fact, it does that, once it leaves the light At the most intense place, it can no longer be pursued in the shadows.Even if it occasionally crosses the edge, it is impossible to tell whether it is the fluctuation of the fire, or the crustacean with the familiar face probing with its limbs.

The violent blow knocked it back, and the face of Walker, who was hit in the middle, fell back into the darkness, and the faces of the other two sailors retracted together.Indiscriminately synchronized, incomprehensibly synchronized, they seem to be parts from the same individual.

Just when William thought it would allow him a moment of respite, a sharp corner protruded from the edge of the arc-shaped shadow, stretched sharply against the light source, and pierced from a blind corner that could not be considered by the field of vision.

The slack consciousness failed to direct the body to respond, the sense of crisis made the brows itchy, the pupils contracted to reflect the tip of the shadow, and the belated thinking told him that it was an arthropod.When you get close, you can see the fine barbs at the end like steel needles, scraping towards the ears and face.

But the action of the person in front of him was earlier than it. He changed the target first, then changed his technique again, grasped the hilt of the sword, and controlled the spine of the sword with one hand. Retrograde shadows.

The arthropod fled, and the sword blade sliced ​​through the damage with large cracks on it, paying enough price before it retreated into the shadows.

This should be enough pain, the sound of the carapace's sharp shell hitting the ground rolled away, messy and dense, and it was hard to hear how many limbs it had for it to move.

"Wake up!" Kraft grabbed William and took the opportunity to distance himself. He couldn't take a few steps with all his strength, and in desperation he grabbed William by the collar and tried to pull him up from the ground.After a burst of sutures snapped and the cloth was torn, a large piece of the right collar was pulled off, and the person was still lying on the spot kicking his legs.

"Get up, or we won't be able to run away!"

He wanted to activate his spiritual senses to investigate the movement of that thing, but he couldn't guarantee that he could withdraw from the cave within a limited time, so he could only rely on his eyesight to guard against the darkness while picking up the torch.

"Wait for me for a while! Wait for me for a while!" William cried and rolled over and crawled away, using his hands and feet for a long time to stand up from the ground against the cave wall.It was so scary, the courage inspired by the dying moment disappeared without a trace.

For some reason, the expected pursuit did not follow, and after the sound of rapid joints hitting the rock, it probably stabilized its figure.

In the invisible darkness, a thick, resonant sound resonated through a long cavity, ringing from weak to strong.The compressed air flow is gradually propelled in the expanding rigid pipe, and it is transformed into a long-distance vibration suitable for transmission. It sounds like a giant horn longer than a chimney, blown by countless people.

From William's horrified face, Kraft realized that this was something worse than sticking out the limbs in the dark.

"what is that?"

"It's coming, run!" The captain tried his best to drive his legs, running back and forth, and he knew enough to call out to Kraft.But even if he doesn't say it, anyone with normal intelligence will understand that he should follow up at this time.

The latter's doubts only lasted for a short while.

A very similar response came from the other end, which was where they came from.Although the sound was so consistent with the arthropod wearing the face, the volume was not on the same level at all, and it was enough to negate the idea of ​​​​taking it as an echo.

From an unreachable distance, the sound of the grand horn can be heard clearly, coming on stage with the cold current and the approaching vibration.

The previous sound was some imitation, a call, and something that answered the call was coming along the cave.

"It's over." William stopped and looked back and forth in despair. It's over, it doesn't matter to waste time to say a few more words, "You're right, we shouldn't come down."

"Remember the thing on the rock painting at the entrance of the village? These caves are not natural. That thing, the thing that made the cave...now it is coming towards us."

"No one will thank you for being a sensible ghost, think about what to do!" Kraft replied casually, put the sword back into the sheath, and retracted one free hand into the sleeve, the unexplained movements were quite methodical.

For some reason, William felt that he was not very panicked. Compared with the calmness of facing death, it was more like the worst option that he was not willing to choose.

"We definitely won't be able to run away from it." He sat down slumped, the energy for running was squeezed out by a glimmer of hope, since he couldn't run away, he would rather die comfortably.

But overall, he still made a profit, and he still has a little time for dying prayers.

William emptied the purse and found at the bottom the double-winged ring amulet that he had taken off when he came. Dr. Foote got into this with me."

"But Dr. Kraft is here to save lives. Although he is not a believer, I implore the door of the kingdom to be opened for him..."

"I hope that the last solution you can think of is not to pray to the father of Lao Shizi! I have never seen that thing, and now I can only rely on you to find a way!" The amplitude was getting bigger and bigger, Kraft threw away the torch, and rushed to William to grab it. Holding his hand, the distance between the two is so close that they can be packed into a bucket.

"I apologize to you for the blasphemy that he used your title before..."

Kraft was about to be annoyed by William, and he thought about this prayer quite thoughtfully, and he didn't forget to bring it to himself, "Damn it! Is it better than Heavenly Father that I can come to hell to get you myself?"

A burst of dizziness and nausea interrupted the captain's temporary prayer of hugging the stinky feet of the heavenly father, the illusion of weightlessness struck, and the senses were disturbed.

He heard the burn of acid reflux and tasted rumble and crawling vibrations as Kraft squeezed something in the sleeve before his eyes.Among all kinds of cross-linking confusion, only one is the most obvious-falling.

(End of this chapter)