Chapter 43
"What's that sound?"
Everyone looked into the depths of the woods and saw a huge black shadow running towards them, causing the ground to shake like an earthquake.
The members of the Eagle Squad drew their weapons instantly. As the shadow approached, they could feel the huge pressure even more. The size of the thing was even larger than expected.
"Yanhong! Take Lu Shiyu to the tree!"
Lu Shiyu only felt that her body was suddenly held up by someone, and the world in front of her eyes shook violently. When she opened her eyes again, she was already on the tree. Yan Hong's movements were still so fast, so fast that people could not react at all.
After sending Lu Shiyu to a safe place, Yan Hong immediately went down and acted together with his teammates.
The thing came at them fiercely, like a cannonball, and they quickly dodged to avoid a head-on confrontation with it.
The huge creature missed its target, and its four hooves kicked around and it used its feet to brake, causing dust to fly around. Only after it turned around did everyone see its appearance clearly.
The creature was almost taller than a human, and even several people gathered together wouldn't be able to hug it. Its size alone was overwhelming. Its body was covered in long black fur, and a row of sharp bone spurs sprouted from its back. Two pairs of curved fangs flared from its long mouth. Its fur was caked with dried mud, like armor, and its two pointed fangs stood up, as if carefully discerning for sound.
"What is this? A mutant wild boar?" Shao Xingyang said gritting his teeth.
To be honest, it is quite difficult to defeat such a large deformed creature without getting hurt. Regardless of whether it has any intelligence or not, its size alone is scary enough.
The deformed pig's face was covered with dust. It shook it off, found the direction of the people and was about to attack again.
Several people stood apart, keeping as much distance as possible. The deformed pig quickly locked onto its target and rushed towards Yan Hong. Yan Hong stood still, and when the deformed pig was about to reach her, she instantly supported the pig's head with both hands and sat on its back. Due to inertia, she was almost pierced by the bone spurs on its back. Fortunately, she grabbed the bone spurs in time to steady her body, thus avoiding danger.
The deformed pig became instantly angry when it felt Yan Hong jumped onto its back, and kept shaking itself to try to throw Yan Hong off. Yan Hong took the opportunity to turn her body around and completely grasped the deformed pig's neck.
The deformed pig screamed again in anger.
"Ouch——!!!"
At this time, the deformed pig's attention had been completely attracted by Yan Hong on its back, and it successfully bought time for the other people.
Chen Yunliang drew his crossbow and loaded it with a powerful anesthetic arrow, which would incapacitate the creature if it struck. Shao Xingyang gripped his swords tightly, several water balls hovering beside him. Tang Zeyu wrapped flames around the blades, waiting for the right moment.
Finally, the deformed pig was completely enraged by Yan Hong and roared towards the sky.
"superior!"
Two figures rushed forward at the same time. Chen Yunliang aimed at the deformed pig from behind, and Shaoxingyang slashed at the deformed pig's side several times, but the deformed pig was not hurt at all!
"Damn it! Is this pig skin or rhino skin?"
The deformed pig noticed Chen Yunliang suddenly appearing, and in anger, it wanted to use its fangs to attack Shaoxing Yangding, but was blocked by Tang Zeyu alone.
"Don't hack around! Find the weak spot!"
Yan Hong, who was lying on the deformed pig's back, was also extremely anxious. The skin on the deformed pig's back was not only ridiculously thick, but also covered with protruding bone spurs. Yan Hong needed to use one hand to grab the bone spurs to avoid being thrown away while lying on the deformed pig's back. However, one hand alone could not pierce through this layer of hard armor-like skin, and if she was not careful, she might be scratched by the sharp bone spurs from all directions. It was really inconvenient.
Yan Hong couldn't find a solution and was feeling uncomfortable, so she simply jumped off the deformed pig's back and retreated to Chen Yunliang's side to get out of the way.
"Why haven't you aimed yet?" Yan Hong asked with a frown.
"Its movements were so large that it could have hit the captain and Shao Xingyang if we weren't careful," Chen Yunliang said after taking a deep breath. "And its hide was so thick. Shao Xingyang stabbed it multiple times, but it didn't even bleed."
"What?!" Yan Hong turned around in shock and asked, "What should we do? His skin is so thick that even a knife can't cut it."
"Calm down, it's just the skin on your back and sides that's tough," Chen Yunliang said, staring intently at the target. "We just have to wait, wait for the right opportunity."
Yan Hong looked irritably at the two people who were still restraining the deformed pig, and said with a determined heart, "Why not just use guns?"
"Are you crazy?" Although Chen Yunliang's movements were not affected at all, his figure became several degrees taller. "What if we shoot here and attract other deformed creatures?"
"So what do you want?" Yan Hong grabbed her hair in frustration. "This isn't a solution."
Chen Yunliang frowned slightly. He certainly knew that facing an enemy that was obviously much stronger than him, trying to rely on attrition to kill the enemy would be courting death. However, he had no other choice but to continue waiting for an opportunity to shoot the deformed pig and for the arrow to penetrate the pig's skin.
"What's going on?" Lu Shiyu, who was standing on the tree, shouted to the two people below: "Are you in trouble?"
Yan Hong raised her head and glanced upwards: "Just stay up there and don't come down. We will take care of it."
Lu Shiyu looked at the battlefield. Shao Xingyang was swinging his sword while controlling the water ball to hit the deformed pig, diverting some of his attention and cooperating with Tang Zeyu. Tang Zeyu had also slashed it several times, and several charred cuts appeared on the deformed pig's body. He barely cut through a layer of skin, but it was still unlikely to kill the deformed pig with this. Moreover, both of them were injured. Shao Xingyang was kicked by the deformed pig, and Tang Zeyu was accidentally stabbed by a bone spur. The overall situation of the battle was that he killed one thousand enemies and lost eight hundred of his own. If this continued, even if he won, it would be a miserable victory.
After spending these days with them, Lu Shiyu realized that the people in the Flying Eagle Team relied on Chen Yunliang, a member with healing abilities, to fight almost without regard for the consequences. Just like now, even though they were injured, they still did not choose to retreat. If they had chosen to escape at the beginning, they might have escaped danger. It was just that they thought they could get treatment later, so they fought without regard for their lives.
Lu Shiyu gritted his teeth, knowing that Yan Hong and Chen Yunliang would not pay any attention to him even if he told them, so he shouted at Tang Zeyu who was still fighting with the deformed pig.
"Tang Zeyu! Lure it over here!"
The two people under the tree were both startled. Chen Yunliang quickly recovered and took aim, while Yan Hong asked the person on the tree what he wanted to do.
When Tang Zeyu heard Lu Shiyu's call, he turned his head to look at him. After hesitating for a moment, he chose to believe Lu Shiyu.
Seeing that Tang Zeyu really led the deformed pig towards her, Lu Shiyu was also a little surprised. Then he quickly prepared things. When the deformed pig approached, Lu Shiyu aimed at the deformed pig's head and threw the deformed creature that was prepared as the ingredient for the next meal.
The deformed creature was thrown precisely onto the deformed pig's face and stuck firmly to it.
The deformed pig lost its vision and direction in an instant and began to rush around. Only then did the few people breathe a sigh of relief.
Seeing that the method worked, Lu Shiyu breathed a sigh of relief.
Just now, she had deliberately stuffed some pungent seasoning into the deformed creature's mouth to make it secrete more mucus, so that it could stick more firmly and the deformed pig would not be able to get it off in a short time.
The deformed pig, having lost its vision, stumbled around and eventually fell into the water. It then climbed back in panic and slipped and fell asleep when it was getting ashore. Chen Yunliang found the right moment and shot an arrow at the belly of the deformed pig that he had finally waited for to reveal. The arrow with a paralyzing effect pierced the deformed pig's belly, causing the deformed pig to howl in pain.
But when the deformed pig went into the river and touched the water, the mucus began to dissolve. The deformed creature was thrown aside by the deformed pig. The deformed pig, which had regained its sight, immediately aimed at several people.
Just when everyone thought that another fierce battle was about to begin, the deformed pig's running body began to sway from side to side, and finally crashed into the tree where Lu Shiyu was waiting. The whole tree shook from being hit by the deformed pig, and the leaves fell to the ground. The deformed pig also collapsed to the ground due to the effect of the potion and fell asleep.
Several members of the Flying Eagle Squad hurried to the tree and saw Lu Shiyu holding on to the branch tightly, with his legs and hands wrapped around it, so he was not knocked down by the impact of the deformed pig.
"Phew, that was a close call."
Lu Shiyu had just breathed a sigh of relief when he suddenly heard a "creaking" sound behind him.
"No way, I can't be so unlucky!"
The branches began to break off little by little from the connection with the trunk, and Lu Shiyu's voice gradually turned into a crying tone.
“Aa ...
The branch made a loud noise and fell down completely. Lu Shiyu tried to curl up into a ball to minimize the damage he would suffer from the fall.
As long as you're not dead, Chen Yunliang can heal you, but using Chen Yunliang's ability is really painful! If all the bones in my body are broken and I have to ask Chen Yunliang to heal me, I might as well just die!
The expected pain did not come. While falling, Lu Shiyu suddenly felt that someone caught him. He tried to open one eye, and the first person he saw was Tang Zeyu.
"Lu Shiyu, why are you shouting so loudly?" Shao Xingyang scratched his ears and said, "This tree isn't very tall, is it?"
Lu Shiyu looked at Shao Xingyang, then looked at Tang Zeyu who was holding him as a princess, smiled awkwardly, and got down from Tang Zeyu's arms awkwardly.
"It was my first time falling from a tree, so I didn't have much experience."
After asking Lu Shiyu if anything happened, Tang Zeyu turned and walked towards the unconscious deformed pig.
Although the paralyzing drug was very effective, the deformed pig was too large and it would metabolize the drug and wake up soon. So it was better to just not do it again and kill it directly.
Tang Zeyu turned the deformed pig over with its belly facing up, aimed at the deformed pig's heart, stabbed it once and then pulled the knife out.
"alright."
"Huh? Is that all?" Lu Shiyu asked doubtfully, "How can you be sure that one strike will solve it?"
Yan Hong replied, "Captain's knife must have pierced its heart. If you don't believe me, I'll have Chen Yunliang dissect it and show you."
"Hey, stop treating me like a tool."
Yan Hong kicked the deformed pig on the ground and said to Lu Shiyu, "See if this deformed creature is edible. It would be a shame not to eat so much meat."
Shao Xingyang suddenly interrupted from nowhere: "Oh, I didn't expect that you would take the initiative to eat deformed creatures one day."
"Get lost! It started to float away before it could even kill you."
After Yan Hong said this, Lu Shiyu remembered that Shao Xingyang and Tang Zeyu were both injured in the battle with the deformed pig just now, and it was Tang Zeyu who caught her when she fell just now.
Sure enough, Tang Zeyu's wound was still bleeding, and his clothes were soaked with blood.
"You, you, you! Your wound!" Lu Shiyu stuttered when he saw how serious the wound was.
"Oh, it's nothing. Let Chen Yunliang treat it." Tang Zeyu lifted the hem of her clothes to reveal the bloody hole on her abdomen. "It's not serious."
Lu Shiyu: “!!!”
How can this be considered nothing or not serious? My stomach is about to be perforated!
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