Chen Jing seemed to have been suddenly pushed into the water, and he drowned in the air without any warning.
Thick, heavy, and viscous moisture passes through the respiratory tract and enters the lungs, making one want to cough it up, but the outside air is also filled with viscous moisture, making it impossible to breathe fresh air.
Discomfort, fear, despair, helplessness.
asphyxia.
Chen Jing mobilized his still-movable body, quickly turned around and ran backward, concentrating all his strength.
Drowned ghosts can convert the surrounding air into thick water vapor, but this is limited; they can only convert air within about 10 meters of themselves!
The last time a drowned ghost appeared in Ash City was eleven years ago. Although Chen Jing and his group had not experienced it, many hunters had heard of it and shared their knowledge about the drowned ghost with others.
What should you do if you encounter a drowned ghost when you are unprepared?
First, everyone spreads out from different directions, holds their breath after breathing in the air, and then returns to the battle.
A person who suddenly suffocates cannot maintain their fighting ability!
Chen Jing ran, like a drowning person struggling to swim to the surface.
Just then, muffled gunshots rang out sporadically behind Chen Jing.
Because the city guards were not highly elite or professional soldiers and had not received any training, when they suddenly encountered a suffocation situation, someone instinctively opened fire!
This is premature firing before reaching the designated position or post, and it's indiscriminate firing. Such firing can ruin the entire planned operation.
The Ash City Guard uses bolt-action rifles, which were invented in the later stages of the Ruins War. Bolt-action rifles require manual loading and unloading of bullets, and can only fire single shots, not bursts.
Although the time interval between loading this rifle is extremely short compared to earlier smoothbore guns, in dense fog, being able to see the target means there is probably only one chance to fire!
A water ghost running at high speed can cross this short visual distance in less than two seconds!
"Ugh...cough cough cough, cough cough cough..." Finally out of the viscous vapor, Chen Jing began to vomit and cough as soon as he came into contact with the air.
The viscous vapor was coughed up and fell to the ground, forming a puddle.
Just then, Chen Jing heard the sounds of battle coming from behind the mist.
The terrifying roars mixed with the water ghosts' screams were the terrified cries of people in the "air" combined with the suffocating sound of inhaling large amounts of water vapor; it was the sound of bayonets colliding with the water ghosts' bodies.
Chen Jing gripped the Heavenly Heart, took a deep breath of fresh air, held his breath, and walked into the water vapor.
Chen Jing had not received any training in breath-holding combat, and he knew very well that he could not maintain this state for long. He had to kill the drowning ghost in one breath!
Once the battle drags on, Chen Jing's combat strength will decline significantly due to being in the water vapor!
...
The situation was worse than Chen Jing had anticipated.
The soldier who suddenly opened fire missed completely, because his sudden firing caused the others to scramble to fire as well. This time, the shot only hit one figure.
Moreover, because they fired too early, the three kinds of oil thrown by the soldiers in the back row didn't hit anyone at all, but only set off several smaller walls of fire on the ground than expected.
This is completely different from Huang Yuanlong's original plan.
With the sudden appearance of the drowned ghost, it can be said that Huang Yuanlong's tactics have collapsed.
The seven figures ran towards their position, with the one at the front—Li Aidan—sliding into a sandpit as planned. The other water ghosts charged towards their formation.
What follows is a feeling of suffocation, a sudden inability to breathe fresh air!
However, Huang Yuanlong had already prepared strategies to deal with unexpected changes.
If his plan succeeds, taking down the man-eating water ghosts here will be effortless, but if his strategy fails, he also has a backup plan.
That was himself.
Huang Yuanlong, who was in the middle of the formation, decisively retreated and created distance.
He chose to use the soldiers here as human shields to buy time, and once the distance was created, Huang Yuanlong, who was breathing fresh air, would kill a drowned ghost in the chaotic army in one breath without any problem!
However, the other soldiers did not shield Huang Yuanlong from the knife as he had expected; many of them also chose to turn and run away under these circumstances.
Many people, like Huang Yuanlong, fled in terror, which immediately tore apart the already fragile formation. The soldiers in the front ranks who could still fight with bayonets were isolated and helpless, and were almost immediately knocked down and killed as soon as they came into contact with the man-eating water ghosts.
Suddenly, a giant crocodile appeared from the water vapor and bit the leg of a man-eating water ghost. At the same time, Dao Nan, who had finished breathing on the flank, returned. His long sword was on fire, and despite the water vapor, he took away a man-eating water ghost with one strike.
But the key is that drowned ghost. If the drowned ghost is not dealt with, the battle will still turn in favor of the man-eating water ghost.
These man-eating water ghosts are hideous and terrifying in appearance. Their bodies are swollen and huge, like corpses that have been soaking in water for a long time. Their skin is a strange bluish-black color, their hands are swollen to the size of human heads, and their hard and terrifying teeth are wrapped with silk scarves and papers left by residents on both banks.
The swollen fist came down like a meteor hammer, bending the rifles of some soldiers, and even worse, the fist hit their bodies, causing part of their bodies to collapse and fall to the ground.
As Huang Yuanlong retreated, he realized that this method was not a quick way to create distance. He made a tough decision and quickly drew a hand seal in the air with his free hand.
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