Chapter 401: One Not Left
Under the vast grassland are ant nests covering an unknown area, and the number of ants is absolutely incalculable. Just as the man with the bow said, when there is a target, the ants that gather together are as terrifying as a sand wave.
An ant nest is a tiny microcosm of human society, just like the comparison between ordinary people and psychics. Among the many ordinary ants, there are queen ants who command all ants, and there are also ants of different species who are equivalent to psychics.
Ordinary ants will not take the initiative to enter the royal city, but alien ants with a higher threat level will actively invade the royal city and attack the visible life.
The reason why the cordon is set up in the settlement is to prevent the invasion of alien ants, and the alien ants are an important source of meat for the human beings in the settlement.
The sound of the bell was to remind everyone in the residence that there was an invasion of foreign enemies. Sa Ling thought it was an alien species of ants who came to deliver the head, but this time it was not alien species of ants, but a vicious army of sand robbers.
Luo and the others came in from the east mountain road, while Sand Pirates came in from the west mountain road, in different directions.
When Luo came in, he counted the number of members in charge of security on the east side, and counting the people who lived there, he came to a conclusion of nearly four hundred.
In fact, in the other three directions, there are teams of 50 people, that is to say, about 150 people will be added to the estimated number of people.
The sand robbers came from the west of the grassland, and the team was huge, causing quite a commotion, but for some reason, the soldier ants in the ant nest did not respond to the arrival of the sand robbers at all.
Never attack people who come in, but will actively attack people who want to go out.
This law of behavior is something that everyone in the residence has not understood until now.
The army of sand bandits passed through the grassland smoothly and came to the open space outside the imperial capital. The residents in charge of vigilance noticed the huge momentum immediately. They were shocked and sent the news back immediately.
In the next five minutes, most of the members in charge of the cordon in the west direction were besieged by sand bandits, and their blood was immediately splashed on the spot, turning them into corpses hacked to death.
Such dozens of people are not enough for this group of bloodthirsty sand thieves to share food. When they swarmed up, they felt the impact of chopping the target into meat paste.
"There are actually living people in the restricted area."
Geralt stepped on a mangled corpse, looking at the chopped animal clothes, a little surprised.
He glanced at the fifty captives held firmly,
It was originally used to test the cannon fodder on the grassland, but it turned out that there was nothing wrong with it all the way. As for whether this group of cannon fodder will stay or not, it is worth considering.
Noticing Geralt's icy gaze, the prisoners surrounded by a pile suddenly shivered.
"I'm sure there's still something useful."
Geralt muttered to himself, and with just a change of thought, he pulled back the captives who were about to fall into hell.
"Kill the people inside first, and leave no one behind!"
Geralt gave an order to the sand thieves who were about to move. After speaking, he raised his foot and crushed the corpse's head. Bone fragments and blood splashed on his calf, revealing a cruel breath.
"Do you understand?" Geralt asked indifferently.
"clear!"
The Sand Bandits raised their weapons, roared, and rushed into the city.
Miria shrunk in the crowd, lowered her eyebrows and looked at the ground. While gritting her teeth, she didn't dare to look at Geralt easily.
The cruelty of Sand Pirates has reached a level beyond human nature.
"Who can come and destroy this group of beasts!"
Miria wailed in her heart, which might also be the voice of the other prisoners.
However, everyone knows that it is extremely unrealistic. Even the three oasis countries can't eradicate the sand bandits together. So what else can we do to eradicate the sand bandits?
If there is, then only God's punishment is left...
A sense of despair surged in Miria's heart. She followed the Sand Pirates all the way and was lucky to be alive until now, but she knew very well that she would die at the hands of these beasts sooner or later.
Now, the surviving human beings in the ancient city of the imperial capital may not be able to escape the vicious hands of the sand robbers.
In the city, all the security personnel scattered in all directions withdrew and gathered in the residence. Every man with a weapon was like an enemy.
"Old people, women, and children all run eastward, hurry, hurry!"
The bow-wielding man seemed to have exhausted all his strength to shout, with many veins popping up on his face and neck.
The old, weak, women and children in the residence obeyed the command, formed a team and fled in a panic towards the east, while the remaining men took up weapons and set up a line of defense towards the west.
"The number of enemies is very large, and their methods are extremely cruel. It is the style of sand robbers!" The man with the bow glanced at Ali and his party with anger in his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "You must also join the battle. If you can't resist, everyone You have to be buried with him."
After finishing speaking, Ali didn't give Ali a chance to inquire at all. He brought a sufficient amount of bows and arrows and went to the roof of a house.
"Sand Pirates!?"
Ali's heart trembled, why did the Sand Pirates appear here, and there were so many of them? What is the specific quantity?
So many questions, I could only swallow them before I had time to ask them.
Ali gritted his teeth, picked up his spear, and said to the Eagles: "Follow them."
"Yes!"
Everyone resisted the chill that was running around in their bodies, followed Ali to the roof, hid in the same place as the residents, and got longbows, bows and arrows.
Taking advantage of the geographical advantage, it is a common method of war to use the longbow to consume long-range to reduce the enemy's personnel as much as possible.
The Eagle Group followed to join the team, and it was impossible for Bharat and the others to sit idly by, and it was also the people who lived in the same place who ambush together.
Not long after, the sound of Sand Pirates marching reached everyone's ears first, and then, the overwhelming number of people appeared, making everyone in the Eagle Group feel ashamed.
How to resist such an exaggerated number of people, just relying on a few hundred of them?
Including Ali, everyone in the Eagle Group immediately lost their fighting spirit when they saw the number of Sand Pirates.
They are well aware of the horror of the sand bandits, not only their cruel style, but also their combat power comparable to the king's elite army.
The Eagles lost their will to fight, and the people living on the ground would not give up in order to survive. They raised their bows one after another, and no one needed to issue orders. When the Sand Bandits entered the attack range, a rain of arrows flew out from the shadow of the building almost at the same time. To the Sand Pirates rushing forward.
chi chi!
In one encounter, more than two hundred Sand Pirates were directly killed by arrows. However, the Sand Pirates were not vegetarians, so they looked for their positions and spread out like a big net.
The people living on the ground shot another wave of arrows, but this time the effect was not satisfactory, and only fifty or sixty people were lost by the sand robbers.
"hateful."
When the bow-wielding man saw this, his heart was suddenly shrouded in shadow.
In order to deal with the invading alien ants, everyone has practiced superb archery skills, because only long-range attacks can minimize the loss rate of personnel.
However, this group of sand robbers is more difficult to deal with than the alien ants, and the individual combat power is not weak, but the difference in number is so obvious, can they really resist it?
Whether they can resist it or not, they have to fight to protect those behind them.
After several successive waves of arrow rain, the fighters in the settlement immediately changed their positions and started guerrilla warfare. However, the gap in numbers was too obvious. After fighting back and forth for several rounds, Sha stole the large net woven by the number of people in the end. covered.
The encirclement slowly shrank, and the combatants in the settlement began to suffer casualties, and gradually entered the situation of fighting between trapped beasts.
Ten minutes later, the team of 400 people was directly reduced by half, and every corpse was stamped into residue without exception, showing the tyrannical mood of the sand bandits.
The battle circle is tightened, and the long-range attack method is constrained, so they can only switch to melee combat.
At this time, William, Ge Er, and Bharat joined the battle, and killed the Sha Pirates in all directions, but there were too many Sand Pirates, and the people living in the area would die under random swords every moment.
If it continues like this, even if Bharat and the others are capable minds, they will probably be tortured to death by the Sand Bandits.
Even they have a feeling of being in danger. The people who live in the area and the Eagles are tantamount to saying that they are in a situation of death.
When Geralt brought the rest of the Sand Pirates and prisoners to the battlefield, there were only a hundred or so people left in the area.
Standing on the periphery of the battle circle, he looked at the three Bharats who showed great power, his eyes were cold, and he secretly ordered dozens of cronies who also knew the ability to restrain them, so that other Sand Bandits could kill the others as soon as possible .
Following his order, dozens of people with abilities besieged the three of Bharat, and the situation fell to one side completely, and the people living in the area were torn apart. If this continues, it will take less than a minute for everyone to die to die.
At this moment, a wave of thought power came from the sky not far away, and blood holes appeared in the heads of more than a dozen sand robbers who were besieging the people who lived in the area, and they fell to the ground on the spot.
Immediately afterwards, a figure suddenly fell from a high altitude to the position of the resident.
call!
Not seeing any movement, the Sand Pirates flew backwards one after another, and immediately vacated the encirclement several times.
That figure was Luo who showed a faster speed than Sa Ling, so he came here first.
The thought-infused aura suddenly emanated from Luo's body, sweeping towards the sand bandits who numbered more than 2,000 around.
All of a sudden, the Sand Bandits paused for a moment, and when they looked at Luo Shi, fear flashed in their eyes, but the reaction was not deep. After all, these Sand Bandits were all tough-minded people, even if the evil spirits came before them, It is also a matter of slashing with a knife.
The aura didn't have any big effect, but it made almost all Sand Pirates notice Luo's existence.
Geralt frowned slightly as he looked at Luo who suddenly appeared and released his mind power wantonly. That distinctive appearance directly reminded him of the man who could control quicksand described by his subordinates earlier.
"Is it the same person?"
Geralt frowned, thinking about it, with seven or eight percent certainty.
He suddenly stomped on the rocky ground under his feet, and suddenly let out a silent sneer.
If this place is a desert, he really has to weigh the threat of Xia Luo, but under the imperial capital, there is a hard rock layer, even if Luo can control quicksand, he can't use it here.
Furthermore, the people he brought were not just a few hundred.