Chapter 24 Demon Devouring Insects
The bonfire that had been burning for a night gradually went out, leaving piles of red ashes, and emitting the last heat.
Tony, who was on the last shift, walked back gently from outside the camp, sat down next to a pile of ashes in the middle, and covered the cloak that had fallen from the sleeping Arthur again.
The residual heat from the pile of ashes made people feel sleepy soon. Tony couldn't help but yawn. He was trying to stop his eyelids from closing completely.
"Don't sleep, you must not sleep, the boss finds out that he will kill you!"
"Let's take a moment, and it'll be bright soon, and there will be no danger."
The two thoughts kept fighting back and forth in Tony's mind, but the two eyelids gradually closed together in the battle.
As if half-dream and half awake, a scream suddenly rang out. Tony jumped up from the ground with a shiver.
The scream in the night was too abrupt. Not only did Tony wake up, but Cairns, Adeline and others also stood up from the ground almost at the same time, and all the mercenaries got up.
"Where did the sound?" Cairns asked Tony anxiously.
"It seems to be outside the camp." Tony, who had been completely awake, tried hard to recall the direction of the screams, "No, it's our periphery!" Tony's face changed and rushed out of the camp first.
"Everyone is on guard and protect the goods!" Cairns ordered and rushed out after following Tony.
Arthur also got up from the ground, hesitated for a moment, and then rushed out of the camp.
Tony and Cairns stopped in front of a low bush about seventy or eighty meters outside the camp. There was a small pit slightly sunken at his feet, and there was a mercenary on the ground beside him, but the mercenary in charge of the guard was gone.
"It's Nathaniel, he is responsible for the last shift of this position." Tony said with a frown.
"Is it done by humans or monsters?"
"It should be a monster. The attack was initiated from the ground, and it seemed to swallow the whole person in one bite." Angus squatted down and touched the soft gravel on the edge of the pit and said thoughtfully.
"Get out of the way!" Cairnsqing shouted and rose into the air, and his giant swords with both hands spiraled towards the ground.
The rapid rotation of the sword body drove the Dou Qi to rotate rapidly, like a wind dragon entering the sea and drilling towards the earth pit on the ground.
The full-strength attack of the powerful man in the level 8 battle school is naturally extraordinary, accompanied by a loud bang, and gravel and mud flew around.
When the soil fell, a large pit more than two meters deep was blasted out on the ground, and a dark and bottomless hole was exposed in the middle of the pit.
"What kind of monster is left behind? Rock Python or mountain-piercing beast?" Cairns asked pointing to the entrance of the cave.
"None of them are like that." Angus shook his head gently.
At this moment, a burst of exclamations suddenly sounded in the camp.
"No, please lure the tiger away from the mountain!" Almost everyone had the same idea and turned around and turned back into the camp.
Dozens of mercenaries in the camp were forming a circle, and several mercenaries near the inner circle were hitting the ground desperately with their swords in their hands.
“What’s the situation?”
Seeing the regiment leader coming back, the mercenaries in the outer circle automatically made way for a gap, and the mercenaries in the inner circle still did not stop attacking. They were hitting or digging a pit like outside the camp.
"A monster suddenly emerged from the ground, swallowed one of our brothers in one bite, and then went back." A mercenary on the side reported hurriedly.
"Did anyone see what the attacked monster looks like?" Angus asked, looking around.
"I vaguely saw it as a long-body monster."
“Its head is as big as its body.”
"The monster's mouth grew over the top of his head, and his whole head was cracked as soon as it opened."
Several mercenaries who saw the situation at that time described it in a verbal way.
"Like a big earthworm." A mercenary added.
"No, it's the Demon-Eating Worm!" Angus's face suddenly changed drastically.
As a hunter, Angus is the one who knows the monsters that are the Demon-Devouring Worm best. They are a level 3 earth-type monster living underground, and look like an earthworm that has magnified countless times. The Demon-Devouring Worm has no head or eyes. The key is in the heart in the middle of the body. Both ends of the body are mouthparts that devour prey. As long as the mouthparts can accommodate them, they can swallow any creature in an instant. This is a monster that has no wisdom and is almost hunting by instinct.
"Impossible. I've checked it out before. This is definitely not the territory of the Demon-Eating Worm." Tony immediately questioned.
The Demon-Devouring Worm is a kind of monster that lives in groups and has a strong sense of territory. As long as a demon-Devouring Worm is found, hundreds or even thousands of demon-Devouring Worm will be found within a radius of more than ten miles or even hundreds of miles. The territory they hunt is the forbidden area of life.
"No, Tony, you ignored a little bit. The territory of the Demon Eater also moved. When they could not get enough food in one place, they would switch to the next place. The Demon Eater Eater does not move fast underground. The attack starts from dawn, which means that their territory has just been moved or is still looking for a new territory." Cairns said with a frown.
Just as the few people were talking, the screams rang out again.
A collapsed hole appeared on a ground near the edge of the camp without any warning. A gray giant insect jumped out of the ground like lightning, emitting a huge suction force from the cracked mouth above the head.
A mercenary closest to the entrance of the cave was instantly pulled by the suction force. He had no time to scream and was swallowed by the Demon-Devouring Worm in one bite.
All this happened almost in the flash. When everyone heard the screams, the Demon-Devouring Worm was dragging the mercenary whose body was exposed outside and was drilling into the hole.
The nearby mercenaries watched helplessly but had no time to rescue.
A white light flashed, and the giant sword that had not yet been sheathed in Cairns's hand flew out.
A wonderful arc passed by the ground at the entrance of the hole, and a yellow-brown blood splattered. The upper half of the Demon-Eating Worm remained softly on the ground, while the other half fell into the hole.
Several mercenaries who were close to rushed over quickly, and used the sword in their hands to cut open the body of the Demon-Devouring Worm and pulled out the mercenary who had just been swallowed.
From being swallowed to being rescued, there was only a moment of delay, but the mercenary had no breath. The bones of the mercenary's body were squeezed and deformed by the abdomen of the Demon-Devouring Worm. The skin exposed outside the leather armor had been corroded by the body fluids of the Demon-Devouring Worm to the point of blood. It was terrible. Even the mercenary who was used to death could not bear to look at it anymore, and forced her to hold back her tears and turned her head.
This is the terrifying thing about the third-level monster such as the Demon-Devouring Worm. The sudden attack from the underground and the terrifying devouring ability. The human warriors at the same level are even one or two levels higher than their level. The magicians are their prey! Moreover, this kind of attack is unpredictable. As long as it does not show its head underground, no one can do anything about it except the earth-type magician!
The Demon-Eating Worm's Predation Territory is a death trap!
"Retreat, evacuate immediately!" Cairns almost shouted...
Chapter completed!