Chapter 1: Half Man, Half Horse
The bitter, biting wind, wrapped in thick silvery gray clouds, covered the northern coast of the Black Sea in October over. In the cattle and sheep and their survival between the pasture, descending a symbol of the cold and death of the white frost and snow, for the world of all things cloaked in a layer of pale funeral clothes.
A few hungry vultures, desperate circling the dim sky above, trying to find some frozen creature carcasses, to cope with the sudden fall in the autumn harvest time of the bone chilling winter.
Suddenly, they found their target! Above the snow-capped mountains lay a stout white stallion. It is elegant, handsome, robust muscles in the horse's body linked into a near-perfect silver curve, slender and powerful limbs, also contains an explosive and terrifying power.
After finding their prey, the vultures made excited noises, flapping their black feathers and flying over the white horse first - they were too far away to notice, and only when they got closer did they realize that the white horse actually had no neck, and instead, it was a human adult male, with the upper half of his body unclothed, and the The world of silver is the same, in a sickly white face. The light silver shoulder-length hair, half concealed a handsome and elegant quiet face.
The vultures hovered over the half-man, half-horse monster. Cautiously judging each other's life and death, a small vulture couldn't take the hunger and recklessly descended its poor, bony body, with two brown sharp claws, landing heavily on the left arm of this human body.
"Hmm?"
First was the noisy sound of flapping wings, and then the heavy touch from the left arm. A series of disturbances, finally let Liu Yuan finally awakened in this horrible winter. The pale eye face slowly raised upward, when the scavengers that timid and cowardly eyes, revealing a pair of abyss-like dark horror of the night pupils!
Finding that the behemoth did not die, the poor vulture was frightened and wailed, and hurriedly flapped its wings and flew back to the silver-gray dome of the sky that was shrouded in overcast clouds. Followed by his companion regretfully left Liu Yuan's side. Only a few loose, fallen off black wing feathers, in the cold wind gently whirling, slowly fell on top of the white body of the centaur.
"What's the deal? Vultures? Snowfields? Where are my clothes? What the hell is happening!?" Liu Yuan looked around the snow-covered meadow in silver, beautiful but hidden death with uncertainty. The bitter cold wind was like a knife, scraping his skin pain. The horrible low temperature quickly deprived his body of heat. The centaur could not help but hold his upper body shivering because of the cold, shivering memories of what happened before he fell asleep.
Himself is one of the top horsemen on the planet. A long-standing reputation in various horse racing conferences. I just rode my favorite horse: Sukhba. He is practicing his riding skills on the vast steppes of Eastern Europe in Ukraine, preparing for the upcoming horse race in Kiev in a week. Ah, speaking of his favorite horse, Sukhba. He is a big, strong Arabian stallion. The hair is as pale as ice and as soft as silk. But he was riding and running on the road, suddenly a black eye. Then, it woke up on top of this grassland covered with ice and snow ------
"Wait, where's my horse?!"
This was Liu Yuan's first reaction.
Although they have been together for less than three years, Liu Yuan, who has a certain social aversion, has long treated this Arabian white horse, which he raised with his own hands, as a friend, or even a child.
Thinking of this, he could not care less about the bone-chilling cold that could almost freeze the blood, and hurriedly got up to look for his beloved horse.
"Hmm?"
Liu Yuan, who tried to get up, suddenly felt something extremely heavy attached to his hip, making it impossible for him to get up from the ground. Wait ------ under this horrible ice and snow, the lower half of their own body does not feel much cold. Moreover, just moving around ------ own legs probably, like, seem to have two joints??
Liu Yuan, who felt that something was wrong, slowly lowered his eyes down.
Only to see that underneath their abs are no longer two strong thighs, but instead full of white horse coat, as well as two elegant and slender stallion front hooves? The most crucial thing is that ------ the penis between the legs is gone!
No more?
Did not wait for Liu Yuan to react from the shock. He then felt the presence of flesh and blood behind his buttocks. People and horses panic to turn their heads to observe, they saw a horse with a beautiful hair color like ice and snow, muscle arc elegant and fit.
But isn't this the fucking body of Sukhba?
WTF! How did I merge with Sukhba?
What is this? Half man, half horse?
All kinds of messy information and subversive facts, constantly bombarded Liu Yuan's fragile brain and three views, a pair of black gem-like beautiful deep eyes, tiny pupils even began to enlarge, lax. A large number of often unacceptable impact of the facts, almost let him faint!
"Ka-ching."
Suddenly, Liu Yuan felt his horse body, seems to be pressing something hard. He then stopped thinking about it, learning from the memory of his beloved horse to get up, four hooves a force, at least stood up. Then turn around, slowly kneel down two long front legs, lowering the height of the body. The two hands can touch the yellow grass covered by snow and ice. Dig up the white and soft snow to see what exactly is the thing that hurts itself.
Soon, under Liu Yuan's efforts to dig, what was pressed under him gradually revealed the prototype: that, a human skeleton stained with blood. The pelvis was wide but low. It seems to be a human female. The poorly made woolen jacket she was wearing was torn by some kind of sharp instrument with multiple cracks, and the white bones were covered with gnawed and licked hideous marks. The top of the skull head, full of long blonde hair stained with a little black blood. The right cheek bone was some kind of sharp blade, carved with two rings. Between the two rings, there was a sacred totem in the shape of a cross.
Liu Yuan, who had seen a lot of wind and waves, was certainly not intimidated by a skeleton. But he found a more serious problem: this corpse, only by the snow buried a shallow layer. She was padded with even thicker snow underneath ------ the poor girl hadn't been dead long! Those brutal beasts that can leave such hideous marks on hard bones, are nearby! One may well be located within the hunting area of a group of predators!
Thinking of this, Liu Yuan face instantly frozen expression, a time, what "who I am, I am there, what I am doing. The philosophical thinking was all behind him, compared with his own life, life philosophy what is a bullshit ah!
I have to get out of here!
"I'm sorry." The centaur bowed sadly to the corpse. Then began to search for her equipment, in front of the safety of life, desecration of the dead such a great disrespectful behavior, also became meaningless. It didn't take long for Liu Yuan to turn out a storage bag from the corpse. A covered with claw marks masked wooden shield, five in the animal skin bag, about 160 cm long, the top tied with sharp stone pieces - short spear?
Hell, a stone spear tip? The primitive fur outer cover? And this barbaric environment ------ Could it be that you have traveled? And came to a primitive and barbaric stone age?
Liu Yuan was a little chilled inside, but as he continued to search the hands of the corpse, a well-made iron short sword, knocked over his temporary arguments full of pessimism. The short sword was 60cm long, with blades on both sides, probably to add weight and power. The spine of the sword was very wide and thick. The face of the sword, also neatly carved with four sacred Latin words.
SPQR
"The Senate and the people of Rome??" Clues +1, but Liu Yuan's mind is also confused +1.
However, there was no more time to think about anything other than saving his life. So he stuck the Roman short sword back into its scabbard and tied it around his waist, along with the girl's leather belt. Then he slung the pouch of short spears across his back. With his right hand, he pulled out a short spear to defend himself, and with his left hand, he picked up the badly damaged wooden shield. Only then was the whole person armed.
"Whew--"
Another burst of bitter, biting wind, scraping across Liu Yuan's naked body without an inch of wool. Frozen he hastily picked up the piece of sheepskin outer cover with a thousand holes, tightly wrapped his upper body without hair protection. If possible, he also wanted to give himself between the two hind legs of the dick, kit pants. Although not cold - but by the cold wind, but still extreme twisted uncomfortable, but his hands enough! No! To!
"Ugh - forget it, let him be. Anyway, it's already like this, look forward, look forward." Liu Yuan sighed and learned the posture of the horse moving in his memory, practicing walking, running and jumping all over again. Sukhba's flesh and blood fused with their own at the same time, the soul, memory seems to be combined with their own soul. Not long after, a ghost-like graceful and athletic pale horse, will be in this snow-covered grassland above, transformed into a silvery bitter wind! The landscape on both sides, in the blink of an eye, disappeared behind their ears.
"So cool! Is this the legendary unity of man and horse?"
Running Liu Yuan felt a little excited, he touched his stomach and decided to find something for himself to eat first.
As for what to eat, in any case, it can not be grass is it.
Chapter 2: Winter Survival
I don't know how long I ran, the lonely and cold pale scenery on both sides of my vision, making Liu Yuan more and more chilled. This is buried by the snow-capped withered grass field, has been extended to the end of their own vision. In all directions, only the incomparable monotonous color of snow and ice remained. The soft snow, clean as a white paper. Around, there is only the sound of the arrogant and hideous whistling of the north wind.
It seems that a heavy snowfall not long ago not only buried the remains of that girl. It also covered up the tracks of all the creatures in the vicinity. If one's crossing is a damn survival game, then this opening difficulty is definitely in hell mode!
"The woods?" Suddenly, a deep green color filled with hope suddenly appeared inside this monotonous and pale world. Liu Yuan immediately turned his head to run there. With the woods, there is hope for survival! First of all, regardless of whether there are animals and plants that can be eaten inside. Can cut down some branches, fire for warmth is also good ah.
With Sukhba that can be called the world's top running speed. People and horses in a short time ran to the edge of this verdant Thuja pine forest. A thin doe, also reflected in their own like an abyss of dark eyes!
Meat!!!
Liu Yuan, whose belly has begun to emit a sad cry. Immediately braked the four running slender horse hooves. Even the atmosphere did not dare to breathe, afraid to scare away their prey. He learned from the memory of the cunning predator hunting method, first quietly around the back of the doe, in slowly to its approach. The long and robust hoof, gently landed on the soft snow above, quietly did not make a sound.
Forty feet, thirty feet, twenty feet!
Hold your breath and quietly approach the doe at the same time. Liu Yuan's right hand, also slowly from the back of the animal skin spear bag, gently pulled out a stone short spear. His extreme love for horses. Under the love of the house, the ancient cavalry skills such as archery, spear throwing and charging on horseback, also dabbled. If not an international master. At least there is a proficiency level.
Very well, let's use this short spear to pierce the head of Seitaro ------ No, that doe!
Liu Yuan's right hand obliquely grasped the center of the wooden handle of the stone spear. Flexing his arm to raise the spear above his right shoulder. At the moment the javelin came out, the wrist and fingers twisted violently, and the long wooden handle, which came out of the hand, rotated along the vertical axis in a clockwise direction! This greatly maintains the stability of the javelin flying in the air. Another high-speed rotation at the same time, also in the cold air, tearing out a beautiful curve, flying, rotating, whistling across the doe's back, high-speed rotation of the two sides of the spear blade, accompanied by a shocking swirl of blood, gouging off a large piece of flesh from its body!
"Yo!"
The wounded doe let out a wail and scattered her legs and ran deeper into the pine forest. Trying to use the complex terrain to shake off the hunters behind her!
"Damn, this stone spear is a bit roughly made! It caused my aim to be off!" Missing with one blow, Liu Yuan hurriedly drew a second short spear from his back and moved forward to chase his prey. But the moment he opened his hooves, a thought, suddenly rushed into his mind: wait, as a half-man, half-horse himself, probably, maybe, maybe ------ run faster than it?
So, you're wasting your expressions by going around the back, sneaking around, and even holding your breath!
"Yo!"
The poor doe, dragging her wounded body, ran forward with all her might! She believed that with her speed, she would be able to get rid of that horrible hunter behind her! But, after a while, running to a small stream near the doe, turned his head to look behind the situation: but found that not only did he not lose the huge pale horse, the distance between the two, but also getting closer and closer? Liu Yuan's four elegant white horse hooves, as if instinctively running in the overgrown pine forest, whether underfoot cold and stiff thorns and vines, or nearby tall dense pine beech, can not slow down the speed of the horse a minute!
The poor doe, can only watch their own behind the expressionless monster, like a symbol of the pale storm of death, easily rushed to their own body, raised a sharp short spear, along their left eye, all the way into the skull inside!
Good, the food is there.
By the way, one is too busy to save one's life and fruit. Seems to have not looked at what the girl package contained. Thinking of this, Liu Yuan also from his horse, took out, and opened the female skeleton back of the animal skin package: not much inside, a rather heavy square iron, ten rolls of cloth written with strange words. And three expensive gold coins with primitive and rough prints. The front of the gold coin is printed with the head of a man wearing a laurel crown and holding a cross. On the back, there is a human totem with two wings on its ribs. Around the round gold coins, also printed with some of their own can not read the Latin words.
Liu Yuan shook his head speechlessly. Himself only some famous and common Latin words, these volumes with cloth as the material, too obscure and difficult to understand. There is also no meaning for himself. As for the gold coins ------ well, at least this neighborhood has a civilized and enlightened society. According to the Latin on it, as well as the SPQR engraved on the short sword, it is not good to say that it is a gold coin issued and circulated in some period of the Roman Empire. As for the iron block at the end. Well ------
Wait a minute, the fracture of the flint after breaking is flat and sharp. Therefore, it was often used by primitive clans as weapons such as spears and axes! The tip of the stone short spear behind yourself is also flint! Moreover, flint has another most important characteristic: that is, when it violently rubs against iron, it will burst out sparks!
FIRE!!!
Liu Yuan excitedly pulled out the Roman short sword at his waist, relying on his long and slender body of more than two hundred and thirty centimeters tall, chopped up some low branches in the woods. Soon, a large pile of firewood was collected.
Then he cleared the snow and tore at the thorns, clearing a clearing by the creek. First, he chose three long, thick branches, tied with golden hair braid, the lower end outward, to build a simple but sturdy tripod. The following is stuffed with dead branches and leaves. Liu Yuan held an iron block in one hand and a short flint spear in the other, and after a few quick rubs like scratching a match, a bit of star fire, accompanied by a wisp of smoke, burned up quietly under the tripod.
"Whew - it's great not to have to drill for fire. That method is not only inefficient as hell, but it also wears the skin off the palms of your hands." After doing a series of physical labor, Liu Yuan was already hungry and thirsty. He walked into the stream that had been frozen. Lifting his upper body, he concentrated all of his terrifying weight of nearly 2,100 pounds in his two front hooves that were raised high and trampled hard on the fragile ice surface!
"Click!"
Fragile cold ice where withstood such a terrifying trampling attack. Immediately cracked out of a spider web like a hideous small cracks. Then completely crumbled open, revealing the ice surface, not yet frozen gurgling stream.
However, the raw water in the wild must be boiled before drinking. Because you never know, it is hiding inside how much can slowly take your life of horrible bacteria!
Then the question arises. They have fire and water around them, but there is no vessel to hold water!
Liu Yuan, who is an atheist and a pragmatist, meditated for a moment. A sigh of helplessness. Using his half-man, half-horse horror of the strange force, with a sharp Roman short sword, the entire skull of the doe lifted off. As a vessel for boiling water and cooking, after rinsing off the remaining brains and blood on it with a small stream, immediately held out a bowl of clear and biting stream water, put it in a tripod on the fire, and slowly boiled it.
Seeing that the water still has to boil for a while, Liu Yuan easily let go of the doe body, began to solidify the crimson blood, skillfully dissected the deer carcass. Than the city's bustle and noise. He prefers the tranquility and seclusion of nature. The wilderness survival or whatever, is probably his third biggest hobby after horse racing, reading history books (especially cavalry warfare).
Soon, the 220-pound doe was dismembered by a sharp Roman short sword into a complete deer skin, numerous internal organs, bones. As well as a large amount of fatty venison cut into chunks, Liu Yuan quickly skewered those pieces of meat on sharpened wooden sticks and baked them on a tripod.
Seriously. Although it has been bloodletted. But this kind of roast meat without seasoning is really hard to eat. But in order to survive, Liu Yuan did not care much. After turning into a centaur, his strength, speed, weight gain a terrifying increase. But according to the law of conservation of energy. His demand for food also increased geometrically. He ate half a doe in one meal! This was something that was simply unthinkable before.
After eating and drinking, Liu Yuan waved the hilt of his short sword and broke the four leg bones of the doe. After arranging them vertically and neatly, he used the thorns and vines found everywhere on the ground to tightly tie them to the right small arm as armor. Then, he broke several ribs on the doe's spine, arranging them vertically and tying them tightly to the end of her front hooves as a stronger skeleton leg armor to prevent small and medium-sized beasts from gnawing. The teeth marks on the girl's bones were not very large. What killed her should be small and medium-sized predators such as steppe wolves or hyenas. And not some large beast that can bite at the neck two meters above the ground.
Damn, in this cold wilderness, if the leg is traumatized so that they can not move, swinging a sword to kill themselves may be the most comfortable ending. If possible, Liu Yuan would also like to tie homemade white bone armor to the hind hooves. But --- or that: their hands enough! No! To!
After all this tossing and turning. The dark sun hanging low in the southern sky dome, also slowly sank into the snow in the west. More and more dim light, lining the warm campfire, more and more bright and eye-catching.
"This opening is not just a cold, bone-chilling winter, or a dark evening before night falls? What a blessing and a curse. But ------ even in such a dim place, my vision is not affected too much, this is also the characteristics of the human horse?" Eaten and drunk Liu Yuan helplessly shook his head, ready to give himself a whole can sleep. When sleeping, human body temperature will drop rapidly, if you are still sleeping in the cold wilderness in winter, the eyes will really close without opening, and a lifetime will pass in such a confused manner.
There are no caves in this vicinity of a flat river. The wind is blowing so hard that it's not practical to build a leaf shack. Well, then learn from the Eskimos to build a snow house it!
Said to do, once ran to the Arctic Circle adventure for half a month, Liu Yuan also hand-built two such simple but sturdy temporary huts. Just as well, the snow on the ground is also thick enough. So, he first selected another flat and sunny open space by the stream. Then, with the remaining golden hair braid, tied two pieces of deerskin on the palm of the hand, as gloves to protect against the cold. Then, knead the thick, pale snow underfoot. The doe's flat and slender ribs. He was also used as a snow knife, will be a thick piece of snow, cutting into various sizes of snow bricks. Each stacked circle, to the interior shrink a little, gradually, the snow bricks stacked higher and higher, the circle is getting smaller and smaller, and finally in about two meters six height completely closed up, far from looking, as if a buckle on the ground pale bowl.
Finally, Liu Yuan in the leeward, to this humble snow house opened a large mouth. Kneel down their long and robust double hooves, low slowly moved in, and then a large snow brick as a doorway, low cover in the snow house facing the south gap.
Although, the real snow house to engage in windows, ventilation openings, high platform and other things. But running almost half an afternoon, eat and drink, and spent an hour building snow house Liu Yuan, already can not stop the onset of sleepiness. He casually deerskin mat on the ground, kneeling on all fours, slowly tilted, let down his pale body, in the warmth of the snow house, into a sweet dream.
Although, has become a centaur. But Liu Yuan is still accustomed to the human sleeping position.
Chapter 3: Fierce battle with the wolves
The cold bone-chilling pale storm, wrapped in countless pieces of skeleton-shaped death frost and snow, swept through a beautiful human town. The horrible storm uprooted the trees. Heavy snow crushed one sturdy beam after another. The bone-chilling cold was as pervasive as mercury, with deadly cold, causing everyone to die slowly in despair. In a few moments, another lively and bustling bustling city, turned into a dead and silent cold wasteland ------
"What a strange dream." Liu Yuan stretched his back and woke up quietly from the dream that was as absurd as the ice age. He put on that deer skin, gently pushed away the snow bricks blocking the doorway, and burrowed out of this humble snow house. If there is anything wrong with the centaur, it is too large.
Liu Yuan, who got out of the snow house, took out a short spear and an iron weapon and lit the campfire that had been extinguished long ago. After eating a deer leg haphazardly, he moved downstream along the creek. Trying to find the civilized smoke and fire that could forge those three gold coins. It didn't take long before the sound of a tidal wave clamor came from the front. The centaur quickened his pace, and when he burrowed out of the woods, a dark sea, was exposed to his eyes!
Under the silver-gray dome of the sky, the dim waters stretch to the end of the view, the original calm water, but also by the whistling north wind, lifting one after another enough to cover the sky with shocking waves! A row of dark sea tide like a cloak of steel cavalry, emitting a horrific roar like thunder, angrily washing the hard reefs on the shore. Then turned around and rushed back to the home front, leaving countless poor fish fluttering on the cold beach.
Wait a minute, this sight seems to have seen itself!
A little bit to organize the clues so far well. The [blonde] girl who had died, she had huge bones and was visually estimated at one hundred and eighty centimeters tall. Well ------ blonde hair and tall body type. Typical characteristics of the Germanic race. However, she was carrying cloth with a large number of Latin characters written on it, an iron cast short sword engraved with SPQR, and three gold coins of the Roman Empire. This indicates that one has traveled to a time when Romans dominated. The blond Germanic people were still in a kind of primitive and backward clan society. They did not even have their own writing and monetary system. By the way, the simple stone short spear on her body can also provide a strong argument for this point.
Well, and then study the currency of the era. Crosses, angels. Have abandoned the belief in multiple gods and worshiped Jesus Christ instead? There is only one gold coin that fits this profile. That is the gold coin of Sodus, minted and issued by the Roman Empire in the fourth century AD! One has probably traveled to the middle of 300 AD - 400 AD!
Very well, Roman Empire, Germanic people. This would still be Earth if we didn't consider the fantastical half-man, half-horse look of ourselves! Instead, it's in the northern hemisphere, on the continent of Europe!
If the south is the sea, the Mediterranean coast of the warm and wet winters, it can not be cold as this hell. So, yourself in the Scandinavian Peninsula of the Vikings, or the southern coast of Britain, looking south to the North Sea?
No, that's not right either. Those two places are too high latitude. Here the temperature is low. But it is not as exaggerated as minus 30 or 40 degrees. And the North Sea is a haunting azure color. The sea in front of you is unusually dark. Thinking more carefully, what other places meet the above conditions?
Black Sea.
Yes, the dim sea, the heaving waves, I told you how this image is so familiar! I myself was traveling and sightseeing in the Kherson district of Ukraine before, practicing my riding skills on the side. Everything matched up! It seems that he and Sukhba have somehow merged together and traveled back to the steppes of Eastern Europe about sixteen hundred years ago!
"Very well! Go back and get the rest of the venison and supplies. Then head southeast along the coastline. With one's current speed, if one runs at full speed, I'm afraid it will only take two days, no, a day and a half to reach the Crimean Peninsula!"
The Crimean Peninsula, a diamond-shaped piece of land located in the middle of the Black Sea. Surrounded by sea on three sides, only the north is connected to the steppes of Eastern Europe. Since ancient times, it has been a place where soldiers must compete. Who controls the Crimea, who can control the entire Black Sea to the greatest extent!
However, these are currently unimportant to Liu Yuan! The Crimean Peninsula, which is surrounded by sea on three sides, is a warm and humid Mediterranean climate! Not the cold and dry temperate continental climate of the Eastern European steppe! As long as one arrives there, one can get rid of this cold and pale death zone!!!"
Liu Yuan deftly turned his huge body, excitedly ran to his temporary snow house, but, slowly, he found a fatal problem: when he bleeds the doe, he forgot to deal with the puddle of bloody hoopoe. The pungent smell of blood has long attracted predators from the neighborhood!
"Pfft."
A black wolf king with a body length of nearly two meters and a huge size, surrounded by two dire wolves that were one size smaller, slowly appeared within Liu Yuan's line of sight. Their almond-yellow beast pupils, which were filled with tyranny, greed, cunning and other negative emotions, stared closely at the delicious flesh and blood on their bodies. The black lips of the head wolf grinned slightly, revealing four razor-like sharp and slender hideous canine teeth, as well as a horrible and creepy death smile.
Liu Yuan clenched the stone short spear and masked wooden shield in his hand. A pair of dark eyes like black gemstones are dark and deep. Without fear, he faced the horrible beast pupils of the steppe wolves that chose people to devour. The previous wilderness survival so many times, encountering dangerous beasts is not once or twice. He understood that he absolutely could not expose his back to these greedy and cunning predators.
On the other side, seeing his fangs intimidating, he was unable to scare off the prey in front of him so that his compatriots could attack his defenseless back. The wolves also cautiously spread out. To them, a 230 cm tall centaur is definitely considered a monster of enormous size! If not for this sudden snowstorm, which made the grassland go from the warm and pleasant early autumn of October to the horrible and severe winter with a strange lack of prey, the wolf king did not even want to provoke such a horrible behemoth. But... Forget it, for the sake of survival, it is good to be careful.
"Roar!"
Under the low and sinister growl of the black head wolf, the two strong grassland wolves with tawny fur slowly moved their sturdy limbs, leaving two strings of nice plum paw prints on the snow, and meandered back to Liu Yuan's two sides, left and right. The huge black wolf king also showed two rows of sharp fangs and let out that frightening low roar, with a sense of oppression full of blood, slowly forced Liu Yuan from the front!
Under the three-sided attack, the centaur pretended to move his tall body, first to the defenseless back, deliberately exposed to the dire wolf around the left!
"OW!!!"
The greedy steppe wolf really fell for it! After it saw Liu Yuan's back, its four paws fiercely stomped on the soft snow, and its 150 cm long brown-black body, like a sharp arrow, instantly cut an elegant curve in the cold air and viciously pounced on the fresh flesh in front of it!
"It's now!!!" After hearing the sound of breaking air, Liu Yuan, who understood that he had succeeded in his plan, fiercely turned around, and his eyes, which were as terrifying as an abyss, instantly predicted the flying trajectory of the evil wolf. At the same time, his right hand also raised the stone spear high above his shoulder, and with all his strength, he viciously threw it into the grassland wolf's hideous bloody mouth!
The dire wolf, whose whole body was in the air and could not dodge at all, revealed a desperate look of panic and fear as it watched the sharp short spear, while rotating its own sharp tip, draw a beautiful arc in the sky and pierce into its own throat with incomparable precision! It was like two cars colliding head-on on the road. If the flying vicious wolf was a small car, then the short spear that carried the natural strange power of the centaur was a huge heavy pickup truck! The moment it hit the steppe wolf. The moment it hit the steppe wolf, the spear sent the wolf flying backwards! It fell heavily on the snowfield ten feet away!
The incomparably sharp stone blades on both sides of the short spear, in the process of rotation and flight, easily cut through the blood vessels and trachea in the neck of the wolf, and deeply penetrated into its chest cavity, tearing a hideous and horrible death scar on some important organs! The poor guy rolled dozens of circles in pain on the cold snow, coughing out four or five puddles of crimson blood before slowly losing his voice.
"OW!!!" The grassland wolf that had circled to the right also took advantage of the man and horse throwing spears to dart forward. But Liu Yuan's reaction speed was even faster! His right arm, strapped with bone armor, crossed in front of his neck with lightning speed, precisely blocking the vicious wolf's tearing bite!
"Click!"
Four razor-sharp teeth, fiercely nailed on top of the white bone armor of the centaur. Terrifying bite force, even let pick up the human skeleton, crumbling out like a spider web of hideous cracks! Seeing that his armor was going to be shredded, Liu Yuan waved the wooden shield in his left hand and smashed the steppe wolf's warm and wet nose with its hard shield brim! The force of this shield strike was so great that even the simple and broken shield could not withstand the corresponding reaction force. It instantly shattered into a small piece of wooden board. Tiny sharp wood chips flew all over the sky.
"BANG!!!"
"Woo!!!" The second wolf nose sore, painfully loosened his mouth, dragging two lines of scarlet nosebleeds, as well as a large number of white bone fragments, whimpered and fell on top of the snow. Liu Yuan almost instinctively lifted up his past with the huge front body of the man and horse, put the terrifying weight of his whole body close to 2100 pounds, the terrifying pressure from it, all gathered in the right front hoof that was raised high in the air, and trampled viciously on top of that vicious wolf's head!!!
"Pfft!!!"
The fragile skull of the prairie wolf, like a ripe watermelon, was trampled by the hard hoof and broken into pieces. Scalding blood, mixed with yellow brains, splashed all over Liu Yuan's sheepskin coat, cloaking him with a layer of hideous killing paint like a bloody hell.
The wolf king did not expect the huge half-man, half-horse creature in front of him to instantly kill two of his own men. But now it was too late to stop, it had to stiffen its head, like a terrifying black lightning, and pounce on Liu Yuan's head with the speed of lightning. Attempting to bite off the fragile neck of this behemoth. Its speed is so fast that Liu Yuan did not have time to pull out the short sword at his waist, or the stone spear behind him. Even the wooden shield of the left arm, just now shattered into pieces of wood!
"Damn it!!!" Looking at the black-headed wolf's hideous and gruesome bloody mouth, as well as the four drops of sharp fangs dripping with fishy saliva. Liu Yuan raised his right arm in despair, trying to abandon the car to protect the marshal. But at that moment, countless clusters of ghostly blue horrible steam, from Liu Yuan's left hand in every pore floating out. Like countless ethereal ghostly snakes, deftly wrapped around the small arm of his right hand, as well as each pale finger above!
At this moment, the horrible fangs of the black-headed wolf also bit hard on top of the right arm of the centaur filled with negative energy!
"Whew--"
Another gust of bitter wind blew across the scarlet hunting ground where the weak and the strong are eaten. The black fur on the head wolf's muzzle suddenly loosened and fell off under the cold wind, falling all over the ground! Exposing a large area of dried, aging, loose flesh-colored skin full of folds. The original sharp fangs could not pierce the white bone armor of the opponent, which had long been riddled with holes - the jaw muscles, which had lost their vitality, simply could not provide enough biting force to let their mouth full of sharp fangs bite through Liu Yuan's right arm!
The giant black wolf reluctantly continued to exert its strength, but this futile struggle only caused its own toothbed to resound with an unsettling sound of disintegration! Under the merciless destruction of the negative energy, the ends of the two canine teeth oozed out sweet red blood and wavered slightly for two times, surprisingly, they fell off directly from its aging and necrotic tooth bed!
"Ow!" After feeling the horrible negative energy in his body, emitting an appalling feeling that could almost suffocate another wolf. The black wolf king's battle intent was completely destroyed by Liu Yuan! It panicked and jumped off the tall body of the centaur, turned around and ran.
No, this half-man, half-horse monster in front of me is too scary! Powerful, fast, and even plays with some intimidating sorcery!
"Wdnmd attempted murder and still want to run? Vile and shameless beast!!!" After walking on the road to the Yellow Springs, the shocked Liu Yuan, spitting out a large mouthful of countless flowery white mist. Just as he did not have time to think about why he became a centaur, time did not allow him to think about that like a blossom, suddenly wrapped around his right arm of the ghostly blue cloud, in the end what is something. Only to see, the sturdy and robust right hand of the centaur pulled out a short stone spear from behind. Threw it hard at the huge black back!
The frantically rotating sharp spear tip impartially pierced into the wolf king's hindquarters, cut through its tender intestines, pierced and tore through countless extremely fragile flesh and blood internal organs, and finally, from its aging lips, poked out the bloody spear tip that was hung with fragments of internal organs! The head wolf shook its huge body twice, and this time, it really fell on top of the white snow of the bitter winter.
Chapter 4: The Kingdom of the Barbarians
After the bloody battle, Liu Yuan could not catch his breath before he seized the opportunity to prepare the supplies for this expedition to Crimea. He skilfully peeled off the wolf skins of three dire wolves. The largest black wolf skin was draped over the head. One was padded on the back of the horse. The last one was wrapped in a large bundle of dry branches, knowing that there were no woods ahead. In case there was another large expanse of endless pale pasture. You can't even make a fire!
Then came the food. Liu Yuan threw the three wolf carcasses with bare pink muscles on top of the horse padded with wolf skin. With the cold weather, there was no need to worry about the rottenness of the meat.
"Very well, all things are ready. Let's go! Target Crimea!"
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Isthmus of Pelekop
The Perekop Isthmus is a narrow strip of land connecting the steppes of Eastern Europe with Gredinian (the old name for the Crimean peninsula). At its narrowest point, it is only five kilometers long. It's really a one-way street. And that pale cold wave has long been raging for seven or eight years in the barbaric land beyond the northeastern border line of the Roman Empire. Not only is there no sign of stopping, but it's getting worse! This year, as early as October in the golden autumn, will turn the grassland into a pale, cold death look! A large number of human barbarians, monster groups, originally living in the north, have moved south. Some of these tribes came to the small, warm Gredinian Peninsula, and in order to survive and territory, a desperate battle to the death.
That terrible battle lasted for half a year. In the end, the Eastern Goths who migrated from Northern Europe. Standing on top of the mountain of blood piled up by the bones of countless monsters such as bear goblins, jackals and trolls, they became the final victors! Subsequently, these powerful and brave barbarians used only a year to control the entire Gredinian Peninsula.
In order to prevent more monsters, who had come south to escape the cold, from flooding into their new homeland, the king of the Eastern Goths, even ordered his most trusted general to build a huge wooden fortress in the narrow Perekop Isthmus, completely cutting off the connection between Gredinian and the Eastern European steppe.
And the humble castle that was built in haste was named [Vesimiris Fortress] after the former king of the Eastern Goths. It signifies that their former king who died bravely in the battle of Gredinian will continue to guard his beloved people of the Eastern Goths even after his death.
"Whew--"
A warm breeze blew across the charred northern walls of Vichy Myris. Raising a choking gray smoke, and the incomparably strong smell of blood. The snow outside the wall was thickly covered with hundreds of half-human, half-horse corpses, shot by sharp arrows into a hedgehog!
"Ahem! Cough! These damned men and horses, how dare they use rockets to shoot at the old man's wooden walls?! Damn it!" A tall and robust Tungot male, opened the northern gate of the castle and slowly walked from each part of the fortress, above the bloody battlefield in the north. He was one hundred and ninety centimeters tall, with a large waist. Under the brilliant golden hair braid, a pair of blue eyes pupils, like a winter lake as cold and relentless. The sturdy body is clad in a brown leather armor. The iron hand axe is straddling the waist. The left arm is strapped with a leather-covered wooden shield.
Leather armor, hand axes, wooden shields, this is all the equipment of an Eastern Gothic soldier.
The soldier complained about the enemy's cunning while recovering arrows from the gradually cold corpses of the men and horses. Each iron arrow cluster, as it broke away from that soft flesh of blood, brought up a radiant and dazzling wave of sweet red.
Centaurs originally lived in the rich grasslands of Asia and Europe. They lived a free and nomadic life. Men grazed sheep and cattle outside and hunted wild animals. Women home to grow wheat and manage the clan. However, the cold winds, which have become more and more horrible in the past few years, have also destroyed their fragile social structure. Ears of wheat are buried by snow. Livestock died from the cold, and the clansmen were starving and cold. They had no choice but to move south in a hurry. Only to crash in front of the Eastern Gothic fortress!
"It's okay, thanks to General Asana, who ordered us to prepare sufficient seawater in advance! It was only then that the fortress was prevented from being destroyed by the fire arrows of the centaurs." Another Donggoth soldier, also recovering the feathered arrows on the battlefield while flatteringly patting his superior's ass.
"Hmph." Listening to the complimentary words of her men, Asana gave a light hum without denying it. She was a beautiful young barbarian girl. She had long orange-red hair that looked like a gorgeous evening sunset. The bright and moving apricot-yellow pupils are as bright and dazzling as gold. Above the full and attractive body, covered with an iron lock armor. Numerous interconnected iron rings, along with her long and strong legs, the light steps taken, clattering.
What a beautiful and powerful warrior. The beauty is that her blown-out white cheeks are precisely carved with a double-ringed cross-shaped hideous scar by some kind of sharp instrument.
"Retrieve the arrows quickly, hell knows how many more monsters are to the north, coveting our new territory! It's not safe north of Fort Vehirimis." Asana wielded a heavy hard-headed hammer stained with blood and scraps of flesh, urging the Tungote soldiers before her. "I have made the most sacred vow before Saint Cuthbert, who wields the rod of punishment, that I will guard the new home of the Tungots with my life! I will not let any alien, monster's firm hoof and claw trample on our sacred territory! I will not allow my people to live a life of displacement once again! Gredinian belongs to the Ostrogoths! Long live the God of Punishment!!!"
"Gredinian belongs to the Ostrogoths!!!"
The barbarian soldiers who had won the battle, accompanied by their general's words, shouted out wildly! At this time of group excitement, suddenly, another pale horse and man appeared at the end of their vision?
"Ah! A wooden castle! Although it's quite rudimentary, it's still full of civilization when compared to the wasteland!" Liu Yuan excitedly set foot on the land of Pilekop Isthmus. After two days of rushing, he was exhausted. There were three gold coins in his pocket. Should be able to exchange here for a lot of seasoned delicious food, aromatic and delicious ale, warm and comfortable beds, and perhaps, soft and sweet girls ----- wait, why outside that castle, there are so many corpses of people and horses? Does it mean that ------
"Huzzah!!!"
Liu Yuan's cheerful smile immediately turned incomparably iron blue! At that moment, the wooden walls suddenly erupted with a horrifying sound of thundering bowstring collapse! Hundreds and thousands of sharp iron feathered arrows, like a huge black wave, high up in the dim sky, swept towards him! The hideous and horrible sound of the arrows breaking through the air, just like a banshee in the gloomy sky, issued a heartbreaking and horrible whistle!
"Damn it!" Liu Yuan was scared by the rain of arrows in the sky and turned around and ran. Fortunately, the speed of his Mercedes was fast enough. The range of the rough short bow was also relatively limited. Hundreds of sharp arrows fell unwillingly on top of the snow behind the men and horses.
"Orgas! Take your cavalry out and attack! Kill it! There are other colonies of men and horses around here! We can't let him bring back information about this place!" Asana roared grumpily. "First a large group of goblins, then a centaur ------ old woman needs time to repair the fortress and mobilize military supplies from the rear! In a short period of time, we can't let another group of centaurs storm the [Vichy Myris Fortress]! Quickly! Hurry! Quickly!"
"As ordered!" Under General Asana's order, more than eighty Donggoths, who were relatively slender and thin (barbarian standard), lightly jumped onto the backs of the light steppe horses. In order to reduce the burden of the horses under their hips and increase the galloping speed of the steeds. These barbarian light cavalrymen, not even wearing any armor. They only wore a tan wolf skin to protect them from the cold. The weapons in their hands are only three iron spears with wooden handles that are one meter long and can be used for thrusting as well as throwing.
At the same time, the cavalry leader: Augus also walked slowly out of the scarred wooden castle, barefoot, surrounded by eighty light cavalrymen, his huge head draped with a complete piece of white wolf fur. Two long, sharp, hideous antlers entwined with dead thorns were glued to the sides of his white wolf skin head with some kind of adhesive. The broad and sturdy left shoulder is perched on a female white-headed eagle about three feet tall.
"Go on, baby. The hunt is on."
Ogles dotingly gazed at the hideous eagle with white head and black feathers on his left shoulder. Stretch out a rough finger, as if caressing a lover's graceful body, like, lovingly stroking the eagle's pale head. The other comfortable squinted dark yellow eyes, and then fluttered a pair of seven-foot-wide black wings, instantly rushed up to the dim sky!
At the same time, the sturdy body of Orgas began to twist and deform. The clothes instantly dissolved in his flesh and blood. A large nest of black feathers, also from the Ogles all over the body in every pore stretch out. The robust legs shriveled up and became slimmer and slimmer. The bare feet were torn into sharp eagle claws. Thirty-two teeth contracted back inside the dental bed and disappeared. But the upper and lower jaws instantly protruded, turning into a solid sharp beak look!
His entire person, actually instantly turned into a pitch-black male eagle?
"Whew--"
Transformed into an eagle, Augus fluttered up a pair of huge wings eight feet long, and his animal companion, turning into two black lightning bolts. One step ahead of the light cavalry under him, viciously flew in the direction of the fleeing men and horses!
Chapter 5: The Rouge Blazing Horse
Liu Yuan ran forward in a panic. The clattering hoofbeats of the Donggoth light cavalry behind him sounded like a burst of dull thunder, exploding one after another in the rear. The neighing of the horses, the roar of the barbarians, and the whistling of the north wind were mixed together, offering a cheerful and pale grassland music for this savage hunt.
"They can't run as fast as me! I can get away, I can get away!" Looking at the aggressive barbarian cavalry riding on light war horses, Liu Yuan immediately threw away the firewood and wolf corpses carried on his horse and raised his running speed to the extreme!
Indeed, the speed of the barbarian light cavalry was still slower than Sukhba's monster-like bodily functions. Liu Yuan got rid of the pursuers from behind him three times in a row. But three times in a row, the Donggoths re-locked their coordinates and surrounded them from both sides, forcing him not to rest for a moment, so he continued to run north!
"Damn it! How did they know I was there!" The centaur exhaled a good-sized breath of white mist and wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead in fatigue when suddenly, two tiny black dots flying above the dimly lit sky dome attracted his full attention.
So it was a barbarian tamed eagle that was constantly reporting to their masters! This kind of lofty and powerful beast, he himself had raised one before. Their flight speed far exceeds the running limit of horses. A pair of terrifying dark yellow eyes, but also to accurately capture the precise view of several kilometers away. It is the best choice for grazing and hunting.
This is a great joy, the four hooves of the stallion can not run the wings of the eagle. Sharp short spear, but also can not reach the high sky!
On the other hand, the Eastern Goths prepared three consecutive and foolproof siege plans. Three times! The result was that the pale horse, which was as swift as the north wind, ran away in a flash. Under successive failures, also let Ogles also some distraction. So, when he locked Liu Yuan's position for the fourth time, directly ordered his animal companion to contract his wings, like a black meteor, vicious dive to the head of the centaur!
As for the other fellow cavalrymen? Forget it, let them go. You're a level 6 druid! To take down a centaur that looks frightened and uninterested in fighting? Shouldn't be a problem!
"Here it comes!" Hearing the harsh breaking sound behind his head, Liu Yuan, who was familiar with the eagle's hunting habits, immediately stopped running, turned his head and assumed the standard spear-throwing posture, took a deep breath, and threw a wildly rotating short spear viciously at the majestic eagle that was swooping down at high speed!
"Newsflash!"
The white-headed eagle cawed contemptuously. With the eagle's terrifying dynamic vision, the flying spear was as sluggish as a turtle. It slightly unfolded a pair of wide wings, with the cold airflow re-elevated his body, easily dodged the incoming sharp blade before diving once again towards Liu Yuan's head! A pair of deadly hook claws, stabbed straight to the centaur like an abyss of dark pupils!
"Bare it!"
"Little guy, I know your habits very well. In the face of large-sized prey, the eagle will give priority to attack the enemy's eyes, blind and weaken the prey before launching a fatal strike!" Liu Yuan, who knew well the characteristics of the eagle, immediately put the sharp Roman short sword across his eyes. The sharp eagle claws, on the iron sword surface, struck a sharp and piercing sound of friction. Just then, the centaur violently swung the short sword, sharp blade, immediately cut the eagle's sharp claws! Splashed out two lines of shocking crimson blood!
"Newsflash!!!"
Seeing his companion injured, the second pure black eagle, in the dim dome of the sky issued a mournful scream, contracted a pair of huge wings, like lightning swooped down! This time, Liu Yuan learned a lesson. No rash throwing, wasting the number of short spears. Only to see, he held the right hand of the spear like the neck of a viper curled backwards, robust body, also like a bow string drawn into a full moon. Secretly accumulate power, ready to fall in the opponent's moment, stabbing hands sharp stone blade!
Thirty feet! Twenty feet! Ten feet!
Just when Liu Yuan was ready to stab the short spear in his hand, the eagle's black feathers ------ suddenly all shrunk back inside his body! The whole eagle instantly turned into a two-meter tall brawny man! Liu Yuan was stunned by this fantastical sight, watching the sturdy druid, with the force of the eagle dive, kicked his right shoulder!
"BANG!!!"
The centaur was kicked backwards several feet by this kick, and it took a lot of effort to barely keep his balance and not fall to the ground. However, his right shoulder also came with an unexplained sound of fracture, and a sharp pain deep into the bone marrow!
The Ogres, who had reverted to human form, opened his arms towards the sky reverently, chanting a strange language that Liu Yuan could not understand. Only to see, in his words and posture under the precise cooperation, countless roots buried by the ice and snow dried up grass, suddenly broke through the thick snow, like countless dancing yellow python, dead wrapped around Liu Yuan pale handsome body above!
"Magic! It's the same as the ethereal blue smoke that came out of my left hand back then!" The centaur fought to tear at the withered yellow grazing grass that was wrapped around his body. The right arm was kicked by the flying kick from the sky just now, which hurt to the point of losing consciousness. The left arm was also entangled in the yellow grass. This greatly interfered with his speed to get out of the trap!
"Good, I've forced this mindless centaur to the brink! The strength and agility of these monsters far exceeds that of normal people ------ All things are better to seek a stable word."
"Praise be to the god of nature, Obai Oi! Please give me brute strength enough to rival that of a bull!" Seeing that the centaur could not get out of the trap for a while, Ogus pulled out a strand of brown bull hair from the package at his waist. He placed it gently on his arms and saw that his already terrifying muscles had swollen by a large margin! The surface of the skin, also burst out abnormally hideous green veins!
"Praise be to the god of nature, Obai Oi! Please give me the agility to run with black cats!" The druid, whose nose was like a bull and who kept spitting out thick white mist, pulled out another handful of black cat hair from the package at his waist. Sprinkled on top of the back of his feet. Instantly, the whole of Ogles looks unreal for a few minutes, and even brought a burst of black residue between the hands and feet!
"Praise be to the god of nature, Obai Oi! Grant me the fortitude to rival the giant bear!" The last spell. It didn't require any material. But it made the druid's whole body bigger! A good cloth coat, by his overly large body to split in half. A hazy illusion of a brown bear seemed to be wrapped around his body!!!
Before the battle even started, Ogres, who was a level 6 druid, had cast three druid's second ring spells on himself! Strength, agility, constitution, a set of three buffs smashed, already lanky and masculine East Gothic barbarians, compared to humans, now more like a hideous and huge monster!
"Go to hell! Half-human, half-horse monster! Gredinian belongs to Tungoth!!!" The druid pulled out the thick wooden stick tied to his waist. Under the addition of the cat's agility, it was like a deadly thunderbolt that instantly exploded in front of Liu Yuan. Like a child's head like a sturdy arm, wielding the oak club in his hand, viciously smashed into the head of the centaur!
"Hell! The hell! Hell!!!" If one could use the same ghostly blue spell that he used two days ago to fight the black wolf, he might still be able to get rid of these withered pastures. However, one was completely unable to command that power! In the face of his desperate summons, the terrifying negative energy was like a stone sinking into the sea with no news. At this moment, can only watch the iron axe, closer and closer to their necks!
"Pfft!!!"
Suddenly, a sharp wooden spear, like a meteor, with its owner's incomparably terrifying killing intent, precisely penetrated Ogus' right hand! Crimson blood, moistened the wooden handle of the stick. The intense pain, also let the druid's body tremble, the wooden stick out of hand, grazing Liu Yuan shoulder flew out!
"What the hell ------" see their aim of a blow actually fell short, Ogus annoyed to look in the direction of the feather arrow shot: a bloody phantom, quietly appeared in the east of the edge of the woods.
She has a long red hair that is as passionate and beautiful as fire. Above the charming face, set with two ruby-like bright and magnificent crimson eyes. The graceful soft body, overflowing with a sense of wild beauty. The waist is gently twisted. The two arrogant snow peaks in front of the chest, rippling out of the flesh-colored ripples that make people think.
The druid's eyes moved slowly downward. The lower half of this redheaded beauty ------ was a divinely handsome mare. The body is covered with bewitching blood-colored hair. Four elegant and slender hoof end, but is like the night sky as dim as the pitch black face.
Centaurs!
Druid gritted his teeth and pulled out the wooden spear that ran through his entire hand, all right, the duration of the three BUFFs is still long, a pair of two is not unable to fight ------
But his desire to fight ended here - more and more tall, sturdy men and horses, accompanied by the Scarlet Mare, revealed their unbelievably large bodies from the middle of that pale wood! Armed with crude bows and arrows of various sizes and materials, they drew a terrifying full moon shape at the druid's head!
"Newsflash!!!"
The druid saw the situation, directly into an eagle scampered up the dim sky, deftly dodged hundreds of flint and white bone forged sharp feather arrows after, with their wounded animal companions, without looking back and flew away.
"Cut, count him lucky." Bloody filly: Christina regretfully withdrew the wooden spear in her hand. Concernedly, she ran to Liu Yuan's side. With her beautiful singing voice like a nightingale, she gently spoke the language of the Wooden Race. "Is everything okay, fellow countryman? Which clan are you from? Why are you being human ------"
Saying that, Christina's voice slowly lowered down. A pair of blood-colored eyes containing concern, suddenly filled with a look of surprise, a pair of white and soft small hands, slowly stroking Liu Yuan like a satin-like soft pale fluff. Druid entanglement binding strange spell has not been lifted. Liu Yuan at the moment had to be embarrassed to let it touch! The other side that seems to pick goods, incomparable fanatical eyes, look at his heart hairy.
"Tsk tsk, pale and silky fur, athletic and elegant hooves, and this perfect muscle curve on the back ------ Oh, this is so beautiful!" The female centaur excitedly ran around Liu Yuan and re-ran back in front of him. A pair of soft jade hands gently cupped the male centaur's elegant and handsome face. Forced his dark and deep eyes, looking directly at their own like a flame like passionate and brilliant ruddy eyes. Sexy lips, proud and flirtatious, spoke the language of the wood clan. "Skerritt on top, your fur is so beautiful! My name is Christina, I'm the chief of the Blood Fury clan! Nah, are you interested, to be my spouse ah?"
Liu Yuan: "????"