Otherworldly Skeleton

On the fifth night after Hegu Village was massacred by skeletons, a team of 15 people stepped into the valley full of bones.The team searched repeatedly at the bottom of the valley and in Hegu Village, and quickly found the retreat direction of Lu Yan's skeleton troops, the Wama Grassland.

Ten minutes after the team left, a thin middle-aged man in a purple-black robe with an unhealthy complexion entered the battlefield. After searching alone for a while, he also chased in the direction where the skeletons left.

And Lu Yan knew nothing about the pursuers behind him. He was lying behind a grassy hill and secretly observing the human gathering place thousands of meters away.

"Probably less than 100 people, this should be the smallest tribe." Karen Val's voice came from his mind. This method of communication is called "soul speech", which is a skill that can only be mastered by war bones and above-level skeletons. Lu Yan is still a red bone, unable to use this kind of skill, he can only move his dull jaw joints, and express his agreement with a "huh" sound.

After Uhtred's death, the skeletons circled south at the suggestion of Karen Val, but the tribes on the grassland were as numerous as the stars in the sky. Not only did they not avoid the gathering places of humans, but they interacted with humans more and more frequently. Contact and conflict occurred, coupled with the high temperature that lasted for nearly ten hours during the day, the skeletons were seriously lost, especially the fragile ashes, the number was less than [-].

Just when all the bones thought this was a dead end, Karen Val proposed to take the initiative to attack the human tribe.

It's a crazy idea, but a good one.

Human living souls are the best evolutionary agents for skeletons. If you kill a tribe, hundreds of living souls may cause many gray bones to evolve into red bones, and the vitality of red bones is much stronger than that of gray bones.The other war bones didn't have much objection to this adventure plan, these ordinary skeletons only knew how to cling to the strong.

So Karen Val and Lu Yan spent several hours secretly investigating the three nearest tribes on the way forward, and picked out the one that was easy to attack. The first two had nearly 300 people, and this one had the least number of people, so they could only take He operates.

"I heard that men on the prairie are born warriors. Although this tribe has less than a hundred people, there are at least 40 men, that is, more than 40 warriors. We only have [-] warriors, and our strength is not half of theirs. , it's a bit difficult." Karen Val's voice revealed Nai.

Lu Yan knew that what Karen Val said was true. When fighting humans, red bones are not real fighters, let alone ashes, so it seems that there are thousands of skeletons, but in fact the combat power is very weak.

"It would be great if we could put poison in their water." Lu Yan thought of Zama's tragic situation after drinking the poisonous pond water.

"You want to give them bath water again?" The voice from Karen Val revealed a wry smile: "It's difficult, you see that there is a source of water among their tribes, and now they all live in water, how can you They jumped into the water right under their noses?"

Sure enough, Lu Yan saw several human women washing clothes around a pool of mushroom-shaped tents and cattle and sheep. Karen Val was right, it was impossible to poison them under such circumstances. And even if it is poisoned, humans will not drink this poisonous water again.

"Then let's go around?" Lu Yan asked depressedly, since he couldn't beat him and couldn't poison him, why didn't he slip away?

"Go around?" Karen Val's voice was still naive: "We have just stepped into the edge of the Varma Grassland, let alone whether the trainee magician who died in Hegu Village will attract pursuers, just say The sun for dozens of days in the future will burn us all, I must attack humans to survive, and capturing this small tribe is actually our only way out."

"Okay, so what's your plan?"

"There is only one thing to do, the success of this battle depends on you, my loyal red bone." Lu Yan heard cunning again from Karen Val's voice.

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In the early morning, when the night was darkest, there was a strange humming sound from around the Songye tribe, and a group of about six or seven gray bone skeletons howled and rushed towards the tent in the north of the tribe.

The men in the tribe were naked, pulled out their sharp scimitars from the head of the bed, and rushed out. Almost before the gray bone skeleton touched the first tent, more than a dozen young and strong men rushed out and killed the tent. They were cut to pieces, the men in the grassland were born fighters, it was true.

But at this moment, there was a sound of falling into the water in the pool to the south of the tribe, and then someone screamed: "Ah, the skeleton jumped into the pool!"

Realizing that they had been tricked, the soldiers rushed to the pool, but there were already two animal-shaped ashes swimming happily inside. This pool was abandoned, and generally speaking, it would not be drinkable by humans or animals for at least half a year. Despair and anger climbed into the pool. The faces of the nomads.

The furious boys smashed the ashes in the pool with willow sticks. Those who lost their water source had to migrate to find a new place to live, which meant a hard life in the next few weeks, and a large number of livestock died to test the water If they don't find a suitable water source within a few weeks, their entire tribe may die of thirst. Of course, they can also go to those big tribes, but the other party may ask for courtesy, such as occupying the youngest and most beautiful girl in their tribe.

The tribal men who were dazzled by anger searched around, there should not be only a few ashes, these skeletons have always appeared in hundreds or thousands.

Sure enough, they found a few clumsy and thin figures stumbling under the moonlight about 1000 meters away to the south. They were not human movements, but they looked like skeletons.

Almost without thinking, more than 30 tribal men got on their horses and rushed towards the skeletons like the wind, while the women of the Songye tribe salvaged the ashes in the pool with tears in their eyes. If the things are fished out, the water pool may return to normal one day earlier, so that they may be able to regain this water source after spending a winter under a sojourner.

The few old people and children in the tribe were also awakened. They looked at the crying people by the pool in puzzlement, and they didn't even understand what happened.

At this time, thousands of ferocious skeletons were slowly approaching the Songye camp from the north.

More than 30 Songye men were galloping across the grassland like the wind. They were rushing towards the fifth batch of ashes. These ashes were scattered on the grassland strangely and sporadically. It would be just right to move after they killed the last batch of ashes, roaring and rushing, and then smashed under their horses' hooves.

The number of each batch of ashes is very small, four, five, sometimes even two, but they are as stubborn as weeds, killing one batch after another.

When No.13 was killed, that is, about 60 gray bone skeletons, the men in Songye realized that something was wrong. At this time, they were thousands of meters away from the tribe, and they could no longer see the light of the tribe's torches. .

But they didn't think too seriously about the matter, suspicion was just like a faint shadow pressing on their hearts, they still drove the horses under their crotches to rush down the next group of skeletons with inertia.

Finally, they saw the distinctive skeleton for the first time. It was a red bone standing alone on a high grassy hill, as cold as a statue.

Standing in the moist night wind, Lu Yan felt fear and excitement crazily stimulating every bone in his body, and faced more than 30 strong human warriors alone. Is this the task Karen Val set for himself? What a fucking thrill!

The more than 80 ashes along the road are all his subordinates. According to Karen Val's suggestion, he successfully lured the men of the Songye tribe out in this way, but the little trick of diving into the pool was his own play. Later, Karen Val also admitted that if it wasn't for Lu Yan's clever trick, the men in Songye would not be so angry, and the sneak attack of the war bones would not be so easy in the end.

The tactic of "striking east and attacking west" has been perfectly successful. In a sense, the Songye tribe is over. What Lu Yan has to consider now is how to make his bait survive successfully.

The young man with the best equestrian skills in the Songye tribe rushed towards Lu Yan with flaming eyes. Behind him, the eyes of the older tribe warriors showed suspicious expressions. Lu Yan was no different from other human skeletons, but he had a strange look. Feeling churning in each of them, this red bone is not simple.

"If you want to save your relatives, then it's best not to kill me!"

Lu Yan's indistinct voice was blown into the ears of the men in Songye along the cold night wind on the grassland, and also into their hearts. Thirty or so hearts wrapped in anger were instantly frozen, and they had been shrouded in their hearts just now. The sense of ominousness was released at the same time, and almost everyone guessed that this was a tactic.

"Xiaoliu!" The young man rushing towards Lu Yan yanked his horse's head, and the tall prairie horse with reddish skin snorted and raised its front legs, but because its body couldn't stop the inertia of charging, it jumped forward several times He stepped forward and finally stopped in front of Lu Yan. If the young man hadn't turned the horse's head, the falling horse's hoof would have crushed Lu Yan.

Feeling the strong wind brought by the horseshoe passing over the smooth skull, Lu Yan secretly sighed in his heart: "Karen Val is right, this sentence can really stop human beings."

"What are you talking about, what are our relatives?" The young man on the horse looked only sixteen or seventeen years old. He was shirtless, and his strong abdominal and chest muscles showed his impressive strength and good body coordination. The scimitar covered with broken grass proves that he has always been on the front line in the previous battles. It seems that many ashes died under his knife.

"Your tribe has been taken over by Lord Kerenval." Lu Yan held his head high, anyway, it was meaningless to put on a begging look: "You better take me back to the camp, otherwise you All relatives will be killed by adults."

Fears confirmed, from the mouth of a skeleton.

The young man's eyes were red, and the handle of the scimitar was almost crushed by him, but his trembling arms swung lightly in the darkness a few times, and finally he couldn't make up his mind to split Lu Yan's head with the knife, and finally he clenched his steel teeth He bent down, lifted Lu Yan up on the horse, and pressed Lu Yan fiercely in front of him, then shook the rein and rushed towards the tribe quickly.

The other men, like the young man, rushed back anxiously, no one talked, and everyone was full of worry, remorse, and fear.

Without any suspense, the Songye tribe has become a sea of ​​skeletons. Thousands of skeletons have formed a half-crescent shape waiting for them to return. Several corpses are lying on the ground. There are about 30 old people, children and women. Many people were tied up like zongzi, each with bone weapons around their necks.

"Let them go, or I'll kill him!" The young man escorting Lu Yan rushed into the tribe first, lifted Lu Yan with one hand, put the machete on his neck and shouted.

No skeleton answered, and Karen Val just smiled.

Lu Yan snorted coldly: "Don't use me as a threat. There is no emotion between skeletons. Even if you chop me up and make soup, the other skeletons won't blink."

The young man was stunned. He looked at a girl in the crowd whose neck was strangled by a red bone, and two lines of tears flowed from his eyes.

At this time, a slightly more stable man shouted at Karen Val from a distance: "Why didn't you kill people on the spot? Do you have any plans?"

"Why should I kill them?" Karen Val shrugged like a human being: "Their vitality is low, I don't need them, as long as you are willing to surrender and let my men kill them, I will let them go." these women and children."

"Skeletons have no credit!" The man shouted angrily, he did not believe that Karen Val would let women and children go.

Karen Val said with a so-called face: "You have no choice, why don't I kill them first, and then we all work together?"

After speaking, Karen Val raised a forelimb, as if to order the slaughter.

"Wait a minute!" The man stopped immediately, and he looked at a four or five-year-old child in the crowd, showing his heartache, and finally he sighed: "How can you promise to let them go?"

"Women and children in the prairie can also ride horses?" Karen Waal raised her left and right forelimbs high, and each raised a paw: "If one of you dies, I will release one on the spot, and they can ride your horses. One-on-one, no one suffers.”