will of the planet

Chapter 18: Chapter 29: The Insect Carpet
The number of wolves climbing up is not much, but they are also a great threat. The densely packed fangs in their mouthparts can easily bite through leather armor.

Even the sharp claws on their forelimbs can cut a hole in the leather armor.

The pikeman standing on the city wall, before he could make an effective response, was thrown to the ground by the wolf worm that climbed up, his chest was torn open, and his heart was directly crushed.

The spearmen around hesitated for a moment, then reacted, and stabbed them with spears in unison.

But the wolf worm was not a vegetarian either, so he put down the still-dead pike soldier on the ground and bumped into him with the pike.

The steel gun head collided with the hard shell on the wolf worm's back from the side, and sparks came out. In an instant, several pikemen were knocked out and fell to the city wall, dying or dying.

Several pikemen were killed in a second, and Lin Xiao's heart was bleeding. He gritted his teeth and said:
"The shortbowmen shoot with all their strength, don't let the wolf worms come up again!"

Having said that, it is impossible to prevent the wolves from climbing the city wall, but it can also cause them a lot of damage.

You must know that almost all the wolves gathered under the city wall. After several waves of arrows rained down, almost none of them missed. This also slowed down the speed of the wolves' attack and gave the pikemen on the wall a chance to breathe.

Relying on the superiority in numbers, the pikemen drove down the climbing wolves at the expense of more than 1 people.

Lin Xiao took advantage of this gap to replace the sword and shield soldiers. They were equipped with steel armor. If they couldn't beat the wolf worms, they could only retreat behind the space crack.

As soon as the sword and shield soldiers were replaced, the wolves attacked again. This time they had tasted the power of the steel armor, and it was difficult for their claws and mouthparts to hurt the sword and shield soldiers inside the armor.

Under the sharp steel knife, the wolf insect that climbed up was slashed, bleeding profusely, and finally died under the random knife.

The shortbowmen were also giving full support, and the wolves had to pay a heavy price every time they stayed under the city wall for a longer period of time.

The follow-up support also became insufficient, and the defensive crossbow on the watchtower also launched an attack, shooting and killing several insects suspected of being the leader of the wolf worm.

The second attack then failed...

The third attack came soon, and the wolves rushed forward with all their strength, but were quickly repelled. The remaining wolves were much more honest, retreating hundreds of meters, but had no intention of leaving.

This distance is also very ingenious, the range of the short bow is not enough at all, even if it is replaced with a city defense crossbow, it still cannot hit.

"These wolves don't want to waste time with me, or do they have reinforcements?" Lin Xiao became vigilant, he didn't have time to waste time with wolves.

At present, he has killed nearly a thousand people and injured hundreds of people before repelling the wolf worms, leaving only the corpses of 2 wolf worms and killing 5 wolf worms.

According to this ratio of casualties, he couldn't afford it, and gradually had the idea of ​​retreating. In Xiaozhou, he had many ways to deal with the wolves.

This was the place where he plundered resources, so he was a little unwilling to withdraw in such a desperate manner, and it was difficult to choose for a while.

"Human, don't you find that the behavior of those bugs is very strange?"

Chocolate on the side looked at the wolf worms in the distance, and stretched out his fingers to their rear.

Lin Xiao heard the words and looked over, only to see hundreds of wolves crawling over from behind dragging a light brown ball like a dried thorn.

It can be found that the whole body of this ball does not have thorns, but twisted bugs.

Just like a ball, the whole body is covered with Cordyceps sinensis, these grasses are still alive, it only makes people's scalp tingle when they look at it.

After transporting the 1-meter-high worm ball, the wolf worms started to work, dragging the corpses of the soldiers killed before, and all the corpses of the same kind, and piled them on the worm ball.

Lin Xiao didn't understand the thoughts of wolves for a while, but he knew that it would definitely not be good for him, and the hundreds of wolves newly added were also a great threat to him. Who knows if there are any wolves in the future? reinforcements.

Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated, and ordered the soldiers to retreat.

In order to prevent the wolves from discovering the abnormality, Lin Xiao didn't leave immediately. He also wanted to see what the worms were doing.

Ten minutes later, there were only a dozen soldiers left in Fort No. 1, and they could easily withdraw to Xiaozhou.

Lin Xiao also noticed an abnormality. A large number of caterpillar fungus grew out of the worm ball, which gradually spread and spread over the corpse, devouring the flesh and blood of the corpse.

A few hours passed, and hundreds of square meters of insect carpet made of Cordyceps were laid out. During this period, wolf worms looted everywhere, whether it was insects or plants, living or half dead, all became the nourishment of the insect blanket. .

This is not the scariest thing, the bug blanket stopped growing when it reached 1 square meters, and the injured wolf worms stepped into the bug blanket and were submerged in it.

Contrary to imagination, the injured wolves did not become the nourishment of the bug blanket, and the bug blanket where they stayed all withered, and these wolf bugs all recovered from their injuries!

Lin Xiao was a little shocked, more out of fear. If he hadn't ordered a retreat, when the wolves recovered from their injuries, it would be another fierce battle, and there was no chance to retreat even if they wanted to.

"Withdraw, all withdraw!" Lin Xiao ordered the retreat without stopping.

As soon as he withdrew, all the wolves raised their heads, regardless of whether their injuries had recovered, they all rushed towards Fort No. 1.

The distance of hundreds of meters is not very far for the wolves, but they have just climbed the city wall and cannot see people inside.

However, when the last one just entered the space crack, it was still seen, and all the wolves rushed over, but it was still a step too late.

Losing the breath of their prey, the wolves gathered around the crack in the space, watching the river flood in, and did not act rashly.

A few seconds passed, and the wolves seemed to have reached an agreement. A few wolves entered the space crack as the vanguard, while the rest of the wolves waited aside.

The wolf worms who were the pioneers returned quickly, which also meant that they were not in danger, and the rest of the wolves rushed up and stepped into the cracks in the space by stepping on the river.

As soon as they came to the other side of the space crack, the wolves found a large number of human soldiers guarding not far away, staring at them.

Due to the huge gap in numbers, the wolves did not act rashly and waited for the follow-up troops.

It didn't take long for nearly a hundred wolves to gather, and the wolves who had gained confidence were eager to try and would rush up at any time.

"All soldiers retreat 1 meters!" Lin Xiao ordered.

The soldiers Qi Shanshan retreated, which also made the wolves think that these human soldiers were afraid of them, so they moved forward a few steps.

"The quantity is just right..." Lin Xiao muttered, if he waited any longer, the wolf worm would attack, which was not what he wanted to see.

Calming his heart, Lin Xiao stared at the ground under Wolf Chong's feet, and suddenly said: "The ground, split it open for me!"

The wolves could understand this sentence, but they still had difficulty in understanding. They were a little dull, and within a second, the ground shook slightly.

A crack formed under the wolf worm's feet, and the earth and rocks were sunken in immediately. A large number of wolves were caught off guard and fell into the crack.

The wolf worms are very agile, and many of them managed to hide, but there is more than one crack in the crack.

Just in case, Lin Xiao opened 10 large cracks, which were more than 30 meters deep, and hundreds of square meters of land were sunk in, leaving no place to stand.

That's why he asked the soldiers to retreat, just to avoid hurting his own people.

A few seconds passed, and there were big cracks under the cracks in the space. The wolf worms who came to support fell into it before they understood what was going on, cutting off the possibility of going back to report.

Lin Xiao felt much more relieved when he saw this, and now he could finally take revenge on these damned wolves, but what he didn't expect was that the soldiers behind him all knelt on the ground and worshiped him.

Chocolate had seen it once before, but she was still shocked, looking at Lin Xiao with complicated eyes.

The rest of the soldiers were not as calm as Chocolate, and directly regarded Lin Xiao as a god...

(End of this chapter)