dark moon

Chapter 196 The disturbed scorpions
Parvatiga has a very unique city system, at least in Shuer's opinion, it is very unique and different from any city in the Eastern and Western Continents of his home world.

In Parvatiga, when talking about a certain city, sometimes it does refer to the city itself, but more often, it refers not to a certain city, but to a complete system including attached towns, villages and various ancillary facilities. .

This particularity is caused by the heart of the city.

In order to protect city residents from ferocious or weird monsters and dangerous natural phenomena energy environment, the gods gave the heart of the city to intelligent creatures. The heart of the city is very important to the city, especially like the wood elves and sea elves. For a race that builds a city in a special environment densely populated by monsters, the heart of the city is even more essential.

However, a complete country cannot only have cities. Villages and towns that focus on food production are obviously more important to the country than cities.

Therefore, after a long period of research, intelligent creatures have found a way to make subtle adjustments to the Heart of the City, which can reduce the coverage area of ​​the Heart of the City, and then transfer the reduced area to a certain radius - most It is the other areas within fifty kilometers, thus forming an urban system with the city as the core and towns and villages as the outer edge. This is the name most often spoken by the Parvatiga people - urban area.

There is no need to worry about safety within the city limits, at least in most situations. Outside the city limits, life and death are on the line.

This is true for all cities, and Gravel City is no exception.

Gravel City also has a city area. Although most areas are deserted, it can at least ensure the safety of travelers. However, when travelers step out of the city area, no one can predict what will happen next moment.

It was already afternoon, but the scorching sun was still high in the wilderness outside the gravel city.The carriage of the sun god Sur seems to be particularly fond of this barren land, and is always attached to the sky. The high temperature of the sun carriage scorches the earth, making the wilderness feel like hell.

Under the still dazzling sunshine, with the sound of camel bells, a long team came from the end of the world.

More than 30 camels lined up in a long line. For the sparsely populated western wilderness, this was already a very large caravan, at least larger than most caravans.

At least half of the camels in the camel team were carrying a lot of cargo on their backs. All the cargo was tightly wrapped and looked very heavy, which made the camels slow down.

The other half of the camels had passengers sitting on their backs. Most of the passengers were ordinary people. They looked weak and weak. Their physical fitness was far worse than that of warriors. They were fainting due to loss of water under the scorching sun. Feeling sleepy.

This is of course Mia and her excavation team.

The 30-member excavation team, at least half of them are ordinary people and scholars, and the mages of several part-time scholars. Compared with the high-level warriors who walk on their legs, they are much happier.

Most of the combat workers were walking. These strong men used a loose formation to protect the excavation team members and important equipment in the middle. They were the last and most reliable barrier for the excavation team.But there was one thing that gave Mia a headache. These warriors with strong personal strength seemed to have... learned something bad from a certain battle priest.

Not long after setting off, the white-winged man in the team, who claimed to be an ordinary mercenary named Yuri, discovered by chance that Shuer, who always maintained a kind smile, was walking with the evasive Saff. The key is, the two of them It doesn't seem to be affected by sun exposure at all.If you look closely, you can see that this guy has been hiding in the shadow of the camel from beginning to end. The tall camel gave them the best protection.

Anyway, there were many camels and shadows, so Yuli also hid, and then, except for the necromancer who was lying on a bone recliner and carried by a skeleton, and the skeleton helped hold an umbrella, the seven high-level servants The soldiers hid neatly on one side of the team, leaving only poor Mia and two unlucky old mage assistants on the other side.

Unfortunately, Mia was so keen that she discovered it before leaving the city and forcibly adjusted the team's position, otherwise everyone would have been able to cool off for a while.

"It's not outside the city limits anyway, right." Seeing the infuriating smile on Xiuer's face, Mia almost punched him with his coldness.

However, after his troubles, the atmosphere in the team has been coordinated a lot. The common pranks have narrowed the distance between these self-esteemed fighters. At least they have begun to communicate with each other, which is no longer like it was at the beginning. So cold.

Maybe this is the purpose of his laziness?Secretly exchanging glances with the Necromancer, Mia looked at Xiu Er's profile thoughtfully.

Sure enough, I still wanted to beat him.This is the final conclusion Mia came to after seeing it, because Shuer is now sitting comfortably on the back of a camel, and he has pulled up an awning for himself with a leisurely look, as if he is on vacation.

But it was hard for Mia to say anything, because firstly, he did not leave the position he was responsible for, and secondly, this was the treatment he got back.

The mercenaries did not have camels, but the Gravel City Lord Guards who escorted the excavation team did.

Although this 50-man Western Camel Cavalry is only the lowest-level warrior, they are well-trained in adapting to the environment. They are very reliable in guarding the outside, enough to scare away most hunting monsters, so that the mercenaries in the inner circle only need to It is enough to deal with those special monsters with strong individual strength.However, even if they are well-trained, the world outside the city is still too dangerous. Even high-level warriors may not be able to protect themselves, let alone these lowest-level warriors.

Therefore, just two kilometers away from the city, a team of nearly a hundred people encountered a sudden attack.

The environment at that time had a wide view, no living creatures could be seen around, and no one noticed any danger. As a result, two members of the excavation team and seven camels fell down one minute later, seriously injured and on the verge of death.

Due to lack of food, there were not many large monsters in the wilderness, but small monsters were densely populated. The excavation team suffered heavy losses because they accidentally destroyed the nest of a group of scorpions.

This group of scorpions, called Ilt's Hair, is one of the most hated creatures by wilderness travelers.Yilt is the master of poison. With his name, one can imagine the poisonous nature of these scorpions.

They usually like to stay in their lairs and avoid conflicts with large creatures, but once their lairs are attacked, they will launch a fierce counterattack against the attackers and then flee as quickly as possible.

The key is that these scorpion nests are featureless. Even the most experienced travelers in the western wilderness may encounter them if they are unlucky. Once stung by their tail hooks, they will be paralyzed within twenty heartbeats. If you don't get treatment within 10 minutes, you will definitely die.

Two ordinary scholars' camels were stabbed and paralyzed. They met the same fate when they rolled off the camel. The camel riders who wanted to disperse the scorpions were also affected. Five camels were injured. Fortunately, the riders reacted quickly. He only escaped disaster when he landed.

The scorpions scurried away, but the problems had just begun.

There are many poisonous insects in the wilderness, and the knights did carry an antidote with them in case of emergency. If they were used by two scholars, although the scorpion poison could not be removed, it could delay the onset of the poison, enough to take them back to the gravel city to find Professionals came to the rescue.

But what about camels?The antidote is for humanoids, and it has little effect when used on camels. In addition, the camels are too large, which will further reduce the effect.

Therefore, facing the poisoned camels, the western cavalry had no choice but to send them on the road to avoid suffering. This is also the most common way of handling them in the western wilderness.

The hearts of the five cavalrymen were bleeding, and their tears could not be controlled. In order to cultivate a relationship with their mounts, these elite warriors spent every day together with their mounts. They had long regarded their mounts as their closest companions. Now they had to kill their comrades with their own hands. Everyone His hands were shaking.

As a result, at the moment when everyone was crying and ready to do something, the seven camels suddenly came to life, stood up shaking the soil, and sprayed saliva on the face of their owner, as if nothing had happened.

Not only the camels, but also the two injured scholars stood up with bewildered expressions. In the past, people who were poisoned by Ilte's hair would have to lie in bed for a day or two to recover even if they were detoxified. However, these two actually It was so lively that one couldn't help but suspect that the scorpion just now was just an illusion.

Of course it was not an illusion. The owners of the injured camels were holding their alien comrades and crying with joy. They did not notice it, but the other cavalry and high-level mercenaries did. Behind them, Shuer shook his head in black robes. He shook his holy robe, drew a circle on his chest with a humble smile, and pulled the girl beside him back into the shadow of the camel caravan.

Um?Hiding in the shadows again?
No, no, no, that's not the point. The point is that everyone just remembered, yes, there are high-level priests who specialize in healing in this team.

Priests have some general detoxification magic, including low-level and high-level ones, but the poisons they target are not comprehensive.

There are not many priests who have studied the specialized detoxification magic in depth. The detoxification in the general magic is enough to deal with most scenes in the adventure. Make certain changes when releasing divine spells, and use different variants to increase pertinence.Whether it is recording or studying, it is too cumbersome, and the difference between input and output is too great, so most priests choose to give up.

Shuer's perversion of exaggerated memory is of course an exception. In his opinion, do you really need to remember these things?

As a result, Shur became a hero in the eyes of the western cavalry. They stubbornly believed that the hero must be very tired after saving two people and seven camels at once, so they insisted on taking care of the hero and giving him a camel to ride.

After all kinds of rejections and unwilling to hurt the enthusiasm of the cavalry, Shuer could only reluctantly accept their kindness.

Well, reluctantly accept it, if the expression on his face is not so unpleasant, maybe someone will believe it.

(End of this chapter)