"Big guy? How big?"
Hearing El's question, [Sky Curtain] fell into a rare short silence. After a moment, this somewhat strange electronic voice said:
"Why do you think a burning beast fell from the sky?"
---
The fire started burning.
In just a few seconds, the flames spread from the bottom of the giant woven from plants directly to the top of its head, illuminating the entire night sky with red light.
This is not the first time that the Burning Wicker Man has appeared, but this thing did not have the chance to come to Hope City last time and was killed directly by Lin Qingliu from dozens of kilometers away.
But now, under the manipulation and drive of Clotho, a special monster became the brain of this giant and launched a charge towards the city wall of the inner city.
Following behind it were countless strange beasts, the hair on their bodies ignited by the flames, burning more and more vigorously as if they were covered in gasoline.
The pain intensified their savagery, causing these guys to launch more ferocious attacks on humans.
While charging, the wicker man would use his arms formed by vines and willow branches to pick up groups of strange beasts from the ground and throw them into the city.
This is the origin of the strange beast that El saw.
What he diverted was only the first attack launched by the Wicker Man. These guys without the ability to fly actually had no way to adjust their posture in the air.
Therefore, when the anti-aircraft guns are activated, such attacks will be ineffective.
But the threat of the Wicker Man has not gone away.
If this giant crashed into the city wall, regardless of whether its body made of plants could break the concrete, from the perspective of the alien beast, its body covered with wrinkles and vines would become the best siege ladder.
Many soldiers felt a sense of despair when they saw this scene. Even the members of the Extinction Corps had no choice but to prepare for a fight to the death and apply for reinforcements from the rear in advance.
The giant was getting closer and closer to the city wall, and the rolling scorching heat waves could almost melt the smart mask of the exoskeleton.
At this moment, Liu Xiaoheng noticed a flash of light beside him out of the corner of his eye.
He looked quickly and saw a young man who looked familiar appeared beside him.
The person who came was none other than the one who had fished him out from underground before the war broke out. His name seemed to be... El.
"Are reinforcements coming soon?"
He quickly asked the young man.
“We’re already here.”
“Why didn’t I see…”
Liu Xiaoheng suddenly realized something was wrong when he was halfway through his speech, and stared blankly at the boy beside him:
"Just you?"
"We are short of manpower. Compared to the Burning Wicker Man, things like the fire-breathing dragon, the goat-headed demon, and the two-headed giant turtle are obviously more terrifying."
El shrugged and looked down at his clothes, reaching out his hands and twisting them hard.
Only then did Liu Xiaoheng notice the strangeness of the other person - this young man had obviously just been pulled out of the water, and his clothes were still dripping with water.
Perhaps it is a side effect of some ability? He thought so and asked:
"Can it be solved? How can I help you?"
El nodded:
"I really need your help."
"Go ahead."
Liu Xiaoheng patted his chest.
The conversation between the two was not actually abrupt. It had not been long since the city wall had repelled a wave of attacks from alien beasts. Many of the remaining alien beasts retreated briefly and joined the Wicker Man's "Burning Legion".
Although the impending impact and explosion are terrifying, the current period of battle is a rare period of relaxation.
The soldiers chatted briefly with each other, and some even took out their treasured cigarettes to share, as if they were enjoying the last calm before the storm.
They are so calm mainly because of two facts:
First, the attack of the Wicker Man is visibly unavoidable, and a new wave of burning beasts will come later.
Second, they cannot retreat.
Since they were all going to die anyway, everyone adjusted their mindsets in this short period of time and waited for the fire attack to come.
El reached out and tapped Liu Xiaoheng's exoskeleton and asked:
"Do you believe me?"
"Don't talk nonsense, young man. Didn't you save me last time?"
"good."
El nodded and said calmly:
"I need you to get me inside that wicker man."
Liu Xiaoheng looked at the young man and asked in the last bit of time:
"Your ability is to put out fires?"
El shook his head:
“I can’t put out fires, but there are places where I can.”
"where?"
"The sea."
At this moment, Liu Xiaoheng finally distinguished the smell of blood and gunpowder that permeated the battlefield, that is, the smell coming from the enemy's wet clothes.
That is the salty smell of the sea.
The flames on the wicker man were no match for the strange beast that El had just transferred away. In addition, his abilities had just been advanced and he had not yet been able to master them well. He could only rely on a soldier from the Extinction Legion to help him achieve his goal.
If he could still use his ability for one or two seconds against that kind of "fire meteor", then facing such a big guy, it would be difficult for him to last even a second.
But El, who has recently been cramming his knowledge, has learned one thing: objects generally burn from the outside to the inside, and the internal temperature is actually slightly lower than the external flame.
"When do we leave?"
"Now."
El put his hand on the exoskeleton, and Liu Xiaoheng's eyes blurred, and he felt the feeling of weightlessness.
He and El were now in mid-air, and below them was the path that the wicker man had to take.
Now the two of them are like meat being roasted over fire, except that El is normal barbecue and Liu Xiaoheng is beggar's chicken.
At this time, El had already moved to the back of Liu Xiaoheng's exoskeleton, and his hoarse shouting came over the communication:
"Hold your breath and dive!"
With the help of the propulsion device, the two men crashed into the wicker man below at an extremely fast speed. The other party also noticed it and raised his burning hands to attack the two men.
The huge hand that was several meters wide grabbed with all its strength, but caught nothing.
The strange beast in charge of controlling the body thought it was dazzled, but it didn't expect that its eyes would really become blurry the next moment.
“Plop!”
The huge body fell into the sea, the flames below were extinguished immediately, while the flames above burned more and more vigorously.
Liu Xiaoheng's mask popped open, and he was standing on the section of the city wall in the sea, gasping for breath. El, with more burn marks on his body, was lying on his back on the ground, looking at the sky blankly.
"Are you okay?"
Liu Xiaoheng asked with concern.
"It's okay. It's just the first time I teleport something this big. I feel a little exhausted."
El propped up his upper body and looked at the sea. Just as he was about to report the results of the mission to [Sky Curtain], he found that the wicker man had naturally disintegrated, and a group of strange beasts gradually emerged from the hollow body of the wicker man.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
