Our family is in decline

In this dim environment, vision is not the first sense at all, and the two parties discovered each other before they even met.

"There are no limits, use all your strength to kill any enemy you see."

Lance raised his hand and pulled out a small shield out of thin air, holding a hand ax in his right hand. The giant sword was not very practical in this kind of space.

The space is narrow and it is difficult to move and dodge. The shield can resist some enemy attacks, and the ax is good for chopping, which is suitable for displaying his strength.

Boudica picked up the halberd. She didn't know what was happening. She only knew that she was going to kill.

Tardif also quickly drew out his ax and entered a fighting position, his eyes under the helmet staring straight ahead.

Disma had a musket in one hand and a short sword in the other, and his sharp gaze seemed to penetrate the darkness.

The two sides were close, and finally saw several strange figures rushing out of the darkness.

One is the monster that Geralt described.

The pig-headed man has a strong body, but only in the upper body, because the lower body is more like a pig than a human. It drags a chain hammer in one hand, and the sound of the chain's shaking and collision makes it stand out.

The other hand held a serrated meat cleaver, which was dark in color and stained with unknown amounts of blood, like a crazy pig-headed butcher.

But the shapes of the other two are a bit weird. Their bodies are slimmer than the ones in front of them, and their heads are completely covered by a weird and substandard full-coverage steel hood.

There are signs of large-scale modifications on its body. The left hand is a shield made of various garbage materials. The right hand has been modified and added with a huge hook. The palm of the hand has been cut off and nailed into the flesh to fix it. This modification extends to the whole body. Everywhere, even the deformed pig's trotters were tied with sharp iron bars, just like shoeing a horse.

The chaotic and illogical transformation is like a toy put together by a child.

But anyone who underestimates the sharp hook is destined to suffer.

But this level is far from the limit of the cave, until a monster smaller than the first two pops out of the darkness in a weird posture.

That thing was not even half as big as its companions. It was about the size of a seven or eight-year-old child, and it looked very weird.

Although the other pig monsters are weird, you can still tell what they are.

And this monster is a ball of twisted and deformed flesh. The only obvious feature on its body is the pig's head. Its body is covered with tumors and sparse pig hair. It has layers of loose and wrinkled skin, and its chest can actually... I saw a clear human face, as if there was a skeleton growing inside the body.

The lower body has completely degenerated and shrunk, leaving only the deformed and crippled pig's trotters, and the bone spurs that pierced the skin for no apparent reason. What supported its movement was a pair of arms, which crawled and jumped in the darkness in the passage, but it was very flexible.

Neither the sturdy Pig Slaughter nor the Pig Hookhand caused any trouble to Lance, but the appearance of this figure immediately made him alert.

The crippled pig man is a pathological hybrid of humans and pigs created through research by the ancestors, a twisted fusion of flesh and blood.

But it was obvious that the ancestor's ritual failed, and his body was twisted into strange shapes and the host of countless unspeakable diseases.

And this is what worries Lance, in terms of aggression, they pose little threat, but their real danger is that they carry a plethora of diseases and are able to spread through disease ridden vomit.

And it was obvious that the sharp neighing just now was caused by this thing, because it was also neighing non-stop now, as if it was killing a pig.

I don't know if this is a warning from the monster to its companions or a call for reinforcements, but the sharp sound increases through the pipe and becomes more irritating, creating inexplicable pressure.

A Pig Slayer, two Pig Hookhands, and a Pig Cripple.

This familiar team configuration seemed to bring Lance back into the game in a trance.

But it only took him a moment to react, because the pigs were more enthusiastic than these visitors, and the battle was about to break out!

"Disma aims at the smaller monster and shoots." Lance directly raised his hand to mark the crippled pigman, then raised his shield and charged forward.

After the distance between the two sides was close, Disma was able to spot the enemy in the dim environment, and immediately raised his musket upon hearing the lord's instructions.

The dark environment and narrow terrain, as well as its short size and flexible movements obscured by other pigs, all these realistic factors are superimposed. Now, even if Disma is confident in himself, he is still aiming and looking for the opportunity to shoot after a long time. .

Soon he got this opportunity. The crippled pig man jumped up with the support of his arms and wanted to rush forward.

But at this moment, fire suddenly appeared in the darkness, and the shocking gunshots kept going back and forth in the passage, directly overpowering the screams.

The projectile exploded with powerful force driven by gunpowder, roared through the monster's cover, and accurately penetrated into the crippled body of the jumping pigman.

The monster was knocked down halfway as soon as it jumped up. This shot tore the monster's chest, but it was far from directly killing it. At least the monster was still lingering.

"Damn it! I didn't hit your eye." Seeing this, Disma frowned and cursed secretly, and hurriedly loaded the next bullet.

In fact, the battle has already started.

The Pig Slaughterers didn't care at all about the life or death of their companions. When they got close to each other, they didn't rush up without thinking, but threw the heavy chain hammer at Lance.

If you were hit by this fist-sized hammer, covered with rusty spikes and mixed with countless kinds of filth, what would be terrifying would not be the torn flesh and bones and broken bones, but the subsequent infection that cannot be treated at all.

This is the terrifying thing about this place.

Lance raised his shield in front of him. In the next second, sparks flashed across the surface of the metal shield. The power attached to it was removed by the tilted shield surface, making it impossible to repel him.

And Lance also seized this gap to step forward, not giving it a chance to retract the hammer, and swung his ax to fight the Pigman Slaughterer.

Boudicca raised his halberd and charged away. A pig-man hooked in the way hurriedly raised his shield made of broken wood and iron chains to resist.

However, there are also skills in using a shield. The big taboo is to block it head-on, so that all the force of the enemy's attack will act on the shield holder.

Lance was taught by Barristan, a master, but it was obvious that these pigs were just imitating certain behaviors.

They only know that this can withstand attacks, but they have not yet learned from experience.

The tip of the halberd penetrated directly into the shield, and the broken wood actually blocked it!

But the exaggerated power carried by the charge was instantly poured into the pig's skinny body. With a pig's cry, it began to lose its balance unconsciously. It seemed that the modified pig's feet did not have much effect. effect.

Boudica is not just a dasher, on the contrary, her fighting skills are quite powerful.

After inserting the wooden shield, she then picked it up. She originally wanted to lift the shield directly to let it go, but she didn't expect that the transformation of the pig's hook hand was so weird. Its arm was not holding it, but holding it with the shield. Tie together with chains.

Under this situation, despite the crazy struggle of the pig's hook hand, the shield was still pulled out, and then he screamed and rushed forward to hook Boudicca.

Boudica didn't pay attention to the failed attack, but swung her halberd towards it. The small space did not affect her movements at all.

Tardif had only seen pig-man slaughterers, and thought they were all of this type. Unexpectedly, the species here were so diverse.

But this does not affect his killing in any way.

He directly threw out the hook chain and hooked the huge iron helmet of the other pigman's hook hand, and pulled hard, making a whipping sound as the rope tightened.

The Pig Hookhand probably didn't expect that even if he didn't hook others, he would actually be hooked by others.

It was obviously a big head and a small body, but it couldn't resist the force of Tardif and was pulled forward.

Tardif rushed forward and swung the ax. Instead of cutting elsewhere, he slashed at the unprotected right arm of the pig's hook hand. He cut off the pig's hand directly and dropped the hook to the ground.

The hook pig lost its hook, just like the West lost Jerusalem.

The pigman's hook hand, which lost the ability to counterattack, was hacked to death by Tardif with an ax within a few strokes.

What armor? Can't we just slash at the areas without armor?

On the other side, Lance had already killed the Pigman Slaughterer. In fact, he just rushed forward and hit the head with an axe. Tardif couldn't cut in, but with the blessing of Lance's brute force, it was not a hindrance at all.

The first blow of the ax penetrated deeply and opened the pig's head directly. The second blow of the pig's brain was split open and there was no possibility of survival. After all, the pig was not a descendant of the ancestor.

Boudica also eliminated the enemy. The wooden shield of the pigman's hook hand was shattered by her in just the second blow, and the halberd stabbed through the body. It was unable to get close enough to swing the iron hook until it died.

The pig man was crippled and died. His head was repaired by Disma's second shot, and his brain turned into paste and flowed out of the bullet holes. It seemed that even the monster's tenacious vitality could not withstand the power of gunpowder.

Now it's what it should be - a quiet piece of rotten flesh.

The battle may actually last only three to five minutes from start to finish. This is the actual situation of most small-scale battles.

"Check for any injuries."

As Lance spoke, the fire suddenly appeared in the darkness, opening up an aperture range, causing several people who were originally accustomed to the dimness to subconsciously blink to avoid it.

However, the firelight was gentle, not as hot as the sun, but I got used to it in the blink of an eye.

The battle just now was not difficult for them. The pigs looked hateful, but in fact they were not strong. This can be seen from the encounter just now.

"I think this hook pig is too weak. Next time I will deal with the big pig!"

Boudica was obviously not satisfied yet, and seemed a little dissatisfied. He raised his foot and kicked away the hooked pig in front of him.

"What's really scary about these monsters is not their combat ability, but that their weapons and bodies carry countless viruses and bacteria. As long as you are injured, there is a high probability of contracting the disease, wound infection, and even death in the end. It has to be amputated.”

Boudica immediately became honest as soon as she said this. The period of blindness was really torture for her. She couldn't imagine her life after amputation, so how could she fight?

"But don't worry, I'm still here. Even if you are injured, you will be fine as long as you deal with it in time. So after the battle, you must check whether you are injured. If you find out, please speak up quickly and don't delay the treatment time. "

Tardif was a little surprised when he heard this. It was normal to get injured in this business, but he usually dealt with it himself. This was the first time he had encountered an employer like the lord who was responsible for both logistics and treatment, and who also paid a lot of money.

"The equipment of these pigmen is closely related to the cultists..."

This is the first time that Lance has come into contact with pigs in reality. If he wants to quickly understand their situation, he needs to examine these pigs more carefully.

"Damn it, we haven't completely unified the equipment, but these pigs have unified it first. Don't they still have blacksmith pigs?"

These pigmen were mentioned in the previous meeting, and Disma found that the equipment on these pigmen was very uniform.

The Knife Pig is wearing the same weapons as described by Geralt, and the modifications and equipment of the two Hook Pigs are also highly similar.

"Aren't Knife Pig's disc belts and rag leather the equipment of those cultists? It's obvious that these pigs have a close relationship with the Ascension Sect, and these equipments may have been provided by them."

Lance actually didn't care about this. He was now focusing on Hook Pig. He took off the weird hood and found that there was also a pig's head underneath, but it looked a little deformed, and then there were traces of transformation on the body.

There is nothing very special about the body structure of Knife Pig and Hook Pig, but Lance, the crippled pig, was very cautious and did not even dare to make direct contact. He just used a dagger to cut and move them.

It's not that he's afraid of infection. His [natural purification] properties can eliminate most diseases and toxins. It's just that appearance that makes people feel both physically and psychologically disgusted.

"The humanoid face on the chest of this pigman can tell that those monsters are monsters created by cultists using sorcery. They are pathological hybrids of humans and pigs, a kind of forcibly fused and twisted body using sorcery. This is Their crimes against the laws of nature.”

From the Knife Pig to the Hook Pig, and finally to the Crippled Pig, Lance could probably tell that it was a series.

Knife Pig is the most successful transformation. It has a strong body, rough skin and thick flesh. It also has human-like arms that can grasp weapons, and its lower limbs can support the body and perform various activities.

The Hook Pig may have had some problems with the ritual, and the development of the Hook Pig could not reach the level of the Knife Pig, so the waste could only be used for physical transformation.

As for the crippled pig, it is the most failed work. Its deformed body is not even worth transforming because it cannot even walk normally.

Of course, it is also possible that the product is constantly iteratively updated. The crippled pigs that failed in the initial experiment were improved by the ancestors before the third batch of knife pigs were produced.

Lance guessed like this. It didn't matter whether the truth was true or not. They all had to die anyway, so there was no need to worry about it.

Thanks to [Peerless Crazy King] for the 100 reward.