Time passed by minute by minute, and the surrounding forest became silent from some point on. At midnight, the exhausted people finally fell asleep under the invasion of sleepiness.
Blake held a huge round shield and lay on his side behind a fallen tree. It was already the second half of the night, and it should have been Drax's turn to keep watch, but he did not wake up Drax immediately, and of course he did not want to wake him up.
Because Blake knew very well that Drax was definitely the most injured and the most tired among the people. He needed to rest now. Apart from him, no one had enough ability to lead this group of people to survive the forest.
There were five other people keeping watch together, and three or four of them fell asleep unconsciously, but Blake did not blame them and let them sleep.
He still held the big shield, tried harder to cheer up, held his breath and listened to the movements around him, not daring to slack off in the slightest.
The forest was a little cold under the darkness. A full moon hung high in the night sky, casting a faint cold light and bringing a thin layer of light. When the wind blew, the branches and leaves swayed, and the ground was mottled with light and shadow.
Unconsciously, Blake's consciousness began to waver a little. He found it in time and immediately pinched himself hard to stay awake enough.
At this time, a person sitting next to him who was keeping watch slowly stood up from his squatting body, habitually poked his head out and glanced out to confirm whether there was any abnormality. But when he moved his head out of the cover, an unexpected change happened.
Without any warning!
Puff!
A pink object covered with barbs shot straight into the eye socket, blood burst out, and the huge penetrating power made a small hole in the back of the head.
The unlucky man didn't even hum a sound, and he spasmed slightly for a few times and then stopped moving.
Blake, who was half lying down, happened to see the head being pierced, and the scene of red and white objects flying all over the sky. The thick blood even splashed all over his face. The warm liquid full of blood instantly made him sleepy. He widened his eyes and roared hysterically.
"There are monsters--!"
This is a group of ugly monsters, a group of gray lizards, each of which is the size of a wolfhound.
One of the lizards spit out a two-meter-long, pink tongue full of barbs. It was it that pierced the man's eye socket and smashed his skull.
Whoosh!
As Blake sounded the alarm, the tongue suddenly contracted and brought the lifeless body over. The giant lizard opened its bloody mouth, revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth, and easily bit the entire skull in one bite. Several lizards around also quickly surrounded it, desperately snatching food.
Blake's thunderous voice had exploded in the woods. No one was sleeping soundly, and they woke up immediately after hearing the cry. They hurriedly picked up their weapons and stood up, taking a defensive posture.
Blake turned over and jumped, stepping on the fallen tree trunk with both feet. He felt a flash in front of his eyes, and two shadows shot at him like lightning.
Blake reacted in time, raised the Goblin Shield and blocked the two tongues that shot over with two "clangs", then roared and leaped towards the lizards. The wandering lizards saw him and immediately fled in a hurry.
A rocky right arm fell heavily and hit a gray lizard. Under the huge force, the ground shook, and a depression was pressed out of the mud. The lizard's internal organs were squeezed out and smashed into a meat pie.
"They are not very powerful!"
Blake felt relieved, but when the next scene came into his eyes, the newly generated fluke was instantly destroyed. In the dark forest, countless red lights appeared, one pair, two pairs, ten pairs, a hundred pairs... In the blink of an eye, patches of scarlet eyes lit up.
Extremely dense, distributed over a wide area, roughly estimated to be hundreds, even thousands... Such a scene makes people feel numb.
Others were holding short spears and wooden shields and were ready to fight, but when they saw the surrounding situation clearly, they were immediately stunned, and without exception, they took a breath of cold air and suddenly felt desperate.
With so many people, how can they fight?
"Fatty, Stone, help me build a barrier." Drax picked up a huge tree trunk that was more than 20 meters long and could only be held by two people with both hands, and swept away several leaping lizards.
Ophelia's voice rang out, "We can't stop them, let's kill them!"
"There are too many of them, there is no way to break through, we can only defend." Drax waved the huge tree trunk and retreated quickly, "Don't panic, these lizards are just numerous, they are not difficult to deal with. Block them, don't let them get close!"
Cassius and Blake quickly retreated back, each of them picked up a tree more than 20 meters long, swept it several times, and slapped away the lizards that tried to approach. At this time, everyone gathered together.
Drax swung his knife to cut the tree, and used the three largest broken wood to form a triangle. More than 20 people stood back to back in the middle of the triangle.
Drax looked at the lizards coming from all directions like a tide, and ordered loudly: "Stand in two circles, the people outside half squat, the people inside stand, hold your shields tightly, and be sure to defend!"
Ophelia quickly organized: "No, they are coming! Do what Drax said, quickly! Cassius, Blake, you retreat, Seraphina, you stand inside."
Under Ophelia's organization, the crowd quickly divided into two groups. The first group held wooden shields and short spears and half squatted in front of the broken wood, with the wooden shields on the wood, and the second group stood behind, also holding spears and making a defensive posture.
In the triangle formed by three broken woods that several people hugged, more than 20 people used wooden shields to form an iron-like defense. Drax, Cassius, and Blake stood in each corner.
Hundreds of lizards emerged from all directions, surrounding the crowd. They did not choose to attack directly, but circled around the triangular position, as if looking for the best attack point, but the defense of the group of people in front of them was very tight, and everyone hid in the wooden shield.
"Hiss!"
A dozen lizards could not help but pounce on them first, spitting out their long tongues with strong piercing power in the air. The people hiding in the wooden shields moved their bodies the moment the lizards jumped up. The lizards' tongues fell on the wooden shields, making a few muffled sounds, but they were successfully resisted. Sharp short spears rushed out from the gaps in the shields and instantly pierced through the lizard corpses in the air.
These gray lizards are a very powerful zero-level monster. The strength of an individual is several times stronger than that of a goblin slave, but it is not strong. However, they are numerous, cunning by nature, organized, and very difficult to deal with.
The lizards roared in anger and stopped their wandering steps. Hundreds of gray lizards did not retreat, but suddenly stopped.
This was the calm before the storm... The atmosphere froze in an instant, which was suffocating.
Hundreds of lizards lined up in an orderly manner, staring at the humans who numbered only more than 20 with their scarlet eyes, and their long tails swung and slapped the ground regularly. "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" The orderly and dull sound shook off a large piece of dead leaves, just like beating a war drum, the momentum was terrifying.
Blake asked, "Fuck, what does this mean? What are they doing?"
Drax said calmly, "They want to overwhelm us in momentum, intending to make us collapse before the battle, or to have a flaw in our defense, so that they can take advantage of it."
Cassius cursed, "Fuck it, it can even use psychological tactics!"
Hundreds of wolf-dog-sized gray lizards kept swinging their tails and slapping the ground, making a series of rhythmic dull noises, but the more than 20 people gathered in a group were unmoved.
The gray monitor lizards seemed to be a little impatient, and the sound of their tails slapping the ground changed from slow to rapid, and from rhythmic to messy.
Drax held the long knife in one hand and warned: "Get ready, they are going to attack!"
"Hiss--!"
Accompanied by a series of hisses, the gray lizards that had stopped moving came like a tide, and the huge force hit the wooden shield, making a dull sound. However, none of the people present had been strengthened, and their strength was several times stronger than that of ordinary people, so they could barely resist.
The short spear stabbed out from the gap of the shield, killing more than a dozen gray lizards at once.
All the gray lizards that were stabbed to death were immediately bitten by the tail by the companions behind them and dragged back. Then seven or eight of the same kind surrounded them and gnawed their bodies into pieces in a blink of an eye.
Seraphina was shocked when she saw this scene, "They are actually eating their injured counterparts!"
Drax answered loudly: "It's normal. This kind of lizard has a very strong reproductive ability. Dozens of lizards can multiply to thousands in just a few years. The strong reproductive ability leads to very cruel competition within the species. The weak, seriously injured or dead counterparts will be devoured by the strong counterparts without exception.
They will never stop hunting until they are full. So we must continue to hold on. As long as most of the lizards are full, they will naturally retreat, and we will be safe!"
Ophelia: "What a terrible species!"
Drax said lightly: "No, everything is for survival!"
More than a dozen lizards were submerged in the surging lizard group in a blink of an eye. In a blink of an eye, they were bitten to the point that even the residue was left. The lizard group launched a fierce attack again, and dozens or hundreds of lizards rushed up fearlessly.
The wooden shield made a series of thunderous noises under the violent impact, and the tongue arrows, which were as powerful as bullets, attacked continuously, and some of them penetrated the gaps in the wooden shield and attacked the people inside.
Ophelia pierced a lizard with a goblin short spear, and immediately used blood sacrifice to suck it dry. The confused red mist covered the surroundings, allowing the wounds of several people to heal quickly.
The lizards that failed to attack and were stabbed were instantly dragged and captured by their own kind. Some of them that were not yet dead made bursts of desperate hisses, but their companions did not care about this. They opened their big mouths and bit the loser mercilessly. The sound of "crackling" was heard, which was the sound of bones being gnawed.