Chapter 148 Clan Rat!
The loud bells echoed in the castle of the hell dwarves. Dwarves wearing heavy armor rushed towards the tunnel where the rat infestation broke out. The bald melons with inscriptions were like braised eggs just out of the pot.
They did not stay on the city wall, but opened the city gate and walked out of the granite city wall that blocked the entire tunnel.
Perhaps in order to show off his skills to his neighbors, Gronn Cyborg put on the heavy armor weighing five hundred kilograms, held an obsidian warhammer with a gold edge, and rode a porcupine into the battlefield in person.
It was a porcupine with only thorns on its face. It was bigger than a burrowing spider, like a shire horse crawling on the ground.
Luo Yan had only seen this kind of creature in textbooks before. He heard that dwarves used them to replace packhorses, serve as mounts, and occasionally raise them for meat.
In addition to the earth porcupine ridden by Goron Cyborg, Luo Yan also saw many warriors similar to those riding earth porcupines in the hell dwarf army.
Like Gronn, they wear the most expensive armor and carry the heaviest weapons, just like the knights in the human knights.
"Assemble!"
Gron Cyborg raised the war hammer in his hand high and let out a powerful roar.
Nearly two thousand hell dwarf warriors gathered at the entrance of the tunnel, looking like a city wall plated with steel!
Luo Yan had a surprised expression on his face.
This steel output is not low!
However, considering that these hell dwarves either drink, mate or forge iron every day, it is not surprising that they can assemble such a heavily armored regiment.
It was not only the heavy armored regiments that had been assembled, but also the artillery units pushing the stone cannons.
Looking at the surprised Luo Yan, a touch of pride appeared on Goron's red face, and then he ordered the drummer to beat the war drum.
"Forward!!!"
"Drink——!"
In the drums that roared like thunder, the dwarf warriors lined up in the square gave out sonorous cheers and marched forward in neat steps.
In the mine ahead, the sound of rapid footsteps was getting closer and closer, and soon hundreds of hell dwarves carrying kerosene lamps ran out.
They are the miners of Calamity Castle and the overseers of the mines. Hell dwarves rarely dig mines themselves and mainly supervise the alien slaves working in the mines.
When they saw the army assembled under the city wall, the dark faces showed expressions of salvation.
And not far behind them, dozens of rat assassins wielding long straight-edged knives were chasing after them, screaming.
The red eyes and manic appearance were like suffering from the plague.
However, with the sound of several gunshots on the city wall, the rat assassins chasing behind the miners fell into a pool of blood.
Luo Yan glanced back and saw a dozen two-meter-long gun barrels standing on the city wall, with a stern-looking dwarf gunner standing behind him.
Just like a sniper!
The miners who escaped quickly entered the castle, and at the same time, a mighty army of slave rats also appeared in front of the tunnel.
When they saw the assembled army of hell dwarves, the swarming ratmen were all dumbfounded, with expressions of fear on their faces without exception.
They are the lowest slave rats. All the equipment in their hands combined together may not be as heavy as the equipment on any one of the group of dwarves in front of them.
Faced with that invincible force, the group of half-clothed slave rats stopped in panic, making noisy noises and screaming, as if they were cursing or begging for mercy.
However——
These little mice still did not retreat in the end.
After all, they are different from the stragglers in the Beifeng Mine. Behind them stands a powerful nation of ratmen -
The Scott clan.
An armored clan rat rushed to the front of the military formation, pulled out a saber that was above his head, waved it and shouted.
—! 》
Amidst the chirping curses and shouts, the slave rats holding a variety of weapons finally overcame the fear in their hearts and launched a desperate charge carrying the flag of the Scott clan.
The black tide of rats is like a black river flowing into the tunnel. Just looking at it can make people lose their SAN value.
Oke's eyes widened.
Not only Oak, but also other goblins. Their faces also showed moved expressions, and their shoulders shook unconsciously.
"Artillery unit! Fire!" Gronn Cyborg raised the warhammer in his hand and let out a roar that penetrated the clouds and cracked the rocks.
At his order, twelve stone cannons sprayed out pungent smoke, and the flying stone bullets drew arc-shaped trajectories in the air!
The exploding rubble hit the formation of the rat-men army, instantly splitting into countless tiny fragments and spattering wantonly around!
Hit by the flying stone bullets, the unprotected slave rats were either dead or injured, and fell down like wheat in an instant!
The sound of the cannon shook the formation of the slave rats.
Facing the whistling stone bullets, the slave rats charging forward were obviously frightened, their legs felt like lead, and they refused to obey no matter how much the clan rats behind them screamed.
This is not over yet!
In the phalanx of hell dwarves advancing forward, the dwarf soldiers standing in the second row took out a wrist-thick wooden tube from behind.
The wooden tube was followed by a hose made of animal intestines, connected to the "wine barrel" carried on the back of the third row of dwarf soldiers.
The wine barrel contained obviously not wine.
Following the frontline commander's order, the wooden tube held in the arms of the dwarf soldier suddenly sprayed thick and long liquid columns forward!
Before the running slave rats could realize what was happening, the oil falling from the sky turned into flaming dragons!
The clan rats standing in the military formation also showed frightened expressions, fearing that they would be overtaken by the fireballs and flames that were flying around, so they fled towards the rear first.
The ratmen's formation was completely in disarray. Some of them rushed to the other end of the tunnel, and some of them crashed into the phalanx of the dwarves.
The dwarf standing in the first row took out the shield in his hand and chopped it heavily on the ground, forming an indestructible shield wall.
They are not afraid of fire.
Their hands can even reach into a stove with a temperature of thousands of degrees to take out hot coals, let alone this temperature, which is like scratching an itch for them.
However, the rat people couldn't bear it.
Faced with the tunnel that suddenly rose by more than ten degrees, even if they were not directly burned to death, they were burned to the point of screaming or suffocated in the fire.
"Hahaha! So happy!"
Gron Cyborg laughed, took out the wine bottle from his waist and took a sip, feeding at least half of it to the thick beard.
Now Luo Yan finally understood why they didn't get sick without taking a shower. Instead, they used alcohol to disinfect them all day long...
"It seems it's over." Luo Yan, who was standing next to him, said.
"The end? This is just the beginning, my friend, the fun is yet to come!"
Gronn laughed and handed the wine bottle out. Seeing that Luo Yan did not reach out to take it, he hung it back on his waist in frustration.
Luo Yan raised his eyebrows slightly.
In his opinion, this was a one-sided massacre, and the rat men on the opposite side had no room to fight back.
"You mean those rats have other trump cards?"
Gron grinned.
"They are not ordinary rat people, but belong to the Scott clan, a branch of the Council of Thirteen Teeth in the Wanren Mountains. These cunning and cruel things are the most difficult to deal with. They not only steal technology from us, but also listen to the whispers of chaos... although they call them trick rats."
The trick rat Sylvette, one of the three rat gods.
The mainstream view in the academia of hell is that it is a god belonging to this world. On the one hand, it is in opposition to Saint Sith, who is sending foreigners everywhere, and on the other hand, it is the political purpose of the top management of the magic city to win over the rat people to deal with the humans on the surface.
But some scholars believe that it is the vest of the strange mist "Novel". It and the rat people who believe in it are both dirty things. After all, the two gods are really similar. Discrimination against the rat people is the "mainstream public opinion" in hell society.
Calamity Castle is the border of hell, so naturally the mainstream public opinion prevails.
But Luo Yan has met Nowell. Those rat men are obviously not mad whisperers, they are just relatively crazy.
While the two were talking, a deafening roar suddenly came from the distance, and a whooshing sound flew over their heads.
Luo Yan had already pinched the wand and silently recited the incantation for passive defense against flying props, but Goron was so nervous that he did not dodge at all, but showed an excited expression on his face.
"Ratman Gun Team! Hahaha! It is indeed a thing of the Scott clan!"
At the end of the tunnel in the distance, a strong ratman was carrying a gun barrel more than one meter long, firing and loading in an orderly manner under the command of a ratman officer wielding a saber.
It was not a gun powered by gunpowder, but more like a stone bullet activated by magic energy, so there were obvious green lights trailing behind the bullet.
Luo Yan glanced at Goron next to him and wondered what this guy was excited about.
Oke, who was standing next to Luo Yan, was trembling and said in a stuttering voice.
"Master Demon King, the sword has no eyes, let's, let's stop at the back, Ork is worried about your safety!"
This guy is obviously afraid of death, but he uses loyalty as a cover.
Luo Yan rolled his eyes in his heart, but did not complain about him, just said a few words.
inttainous
Looking at this embarrassing goblin thing, Goron let out a heroic laugh and said comfortingly.
"Hahahaha! Don't panic! We have been fighting these rats for hundreds of years, and they have never won!"
This group of hell dwarves does have something to be proud of.
Their skin itself is as thick as a city wall, and they are also covered with steel plates thicker than a palm!
The rat infantry in the distance fired randomly, and the output was like scraping. None of the hell dwarves in the front row fell. On the contrary, on the rat man's own position, many of the rat officers who were directing the battle were shot dead by the dwarf snipers on the city wall.
Seeing that the formation of the ratmen carrying gunners was about to collapse, a deafening roar suddenly came from the end of the tunnel, and then a huge black shadow appeared on the battlefield.
It was a five-meter-tall giant beast. Its head was like a half-eaten duck neck, its asymmetrical eyes exuded a turbid and fierce light, and its open mouth was like a rotten dead wood.
What is even more frightening is that its body is as burly as a giant elephant, as if the flesh, flesh and fat of dozens of monsters are wrapped in animal skins of different materials. Under the rough hair, you can see shocking sutures and black lines as thick as an index finger, just like scars left by surgery!
This is...
Stitch Beast?
Luo Yan was stunned the moment he saw it.
Not only Luo Yan was stunned, but Gron, who was laughing a second ago, was also stunned on the spot. He couldn't figure out what it was and muttered with his mouth covered by his beard.
"What is that..."
Before he could finish his words, the huge suture monster had already rushed to the hell dwarf's position on all fours. It raised its arms and waved them wide and wide. In an instant, more than a dozen hell dwarf warriors were thrown away and fell to the ground.
Those dwarf warriors were indeed meaty enough. They flew more than ten meters away and fell to the ground but did not die. They could even pick up the ax and stand up while cursing.
Seeing that there was a gap in the position, Gronn no longer cared about showing off, and quickly ordered the stone cannon to aim at the giant beast.
With another round of roaring cannons, several stone bullets flew past the shoulders of the suture monster and hit the heads of the rat-men gunmen. Several stone bullets also directly hit the target, hitting the head and shoulders of the suture monster respectively.
intung in the roar of pain , its huge body staggered backwards , and then lost its center of gravity and fell to the ground .
Boom——!
The boiling dust instantly rose up, causing the entire tunnel to shake unbearably, as if hundreds of kilograms of explosives had been detonated.
"Chop it into pieces!"
Gron roared at the top of his lungs, and the nearest dwarf formation immediately launched a charge, drowning the giant who fell to the ground like a rolling torrent of steel.
Hundreds of axes were clattering indiscriminately, just like the flying blades in a meat grinder. In a moment, the giant suture beast was chopped into bloody pieces.
The angry roar gradually turned into a feeble wail. The suture beast struggled for a long time, but finally failed to stand up. Its throat was cut open by a hell dwarf who climbed onto its chest holding a two-handed axe.
The bloody hell dwarf let out an excited roar and raised his battle ax above his head to show off.
However, before he could be proud for two seconds, the giant suture beast under his feet suddenly trembled, and then, like a hippopotamus lying dead by the river, it instantly exploded into a sky full of pieces of flesh and blood!
The hell dwarf standing on his chest was blown away in an instant, and the surrounding dwarf warriors also rolled away like potatoes dug out of the ground.
Looking at the miserable situation of the hell dwarves, the ratmen in the distance suddenly laughed and laughed, completely ignoring that they were beaten even worse.
Seeing that an entire 100-man squadron was almost completely wiped out, Gronn Cyborg, who was riding on the back of a porcupine, instantly turned red, and his eyes seemed to burst out of fire.
"Damn it!"
He picked up the warhammer in his hand and was about to lead the charge of the hell dwarf knights under his command, but was stopped by Luo Yan on the side.
"Wait, there is movement ahead."
Gron was slightly startled, and was about to ask what the movement was, but the trembling footsteps already answered his question.
On the opposite side of the tunnel, I saw a dozen stitch beasts lined up in a row, like a torrent of flesh and blood, pressing forward menacingly towards the dwarves' position!
Seeing this scene, Goron's expression changed instantly, as gloomy as coal.
Seeing this scene, Luo Yan no longer held back his hand, took out the wand from his sleeve, and pointed it at the advancing suture beast.
"The dead are resurrected!"
The emerald-green light crossed the battlefield and hit the synthetic stitching beast directly in front of him.
At first, the ratmen around the suture beast were startled and thought it was some incredible magic. It was not until they found that nothing happened that they calmed down and laughed wildly.
However, they did not remain complacent for long.
The shoulder blade of the suture monster suddenly twisted, and a twisted arm and hand stretched out from the sutured fat pile.
That arm was like a chicken breaking out of its shell, tearing at the flesh and animal skin that bound it, trying hard to get out of the body of the stitched giant beast.
The giant suture beast let out a roar of pain, and suddenly knelt on one knee on the ground, reaching his hands behind his back in an attempt to press the suddenly resurrected corpse back into his body.
However, its struggle is in vain——
Because the resurrected corpse is not just one, but almost all the corpses in its body!
In just a few breaths, the suture giant began to inflate like an inflated balloon, and finally exploded into a sky full of corpses with a loud bang!
The shock wave of the explosion not only knocked down a group of rat soldiers, but also shook the bodies of several other behemoths.
Luo Yan did not stop there, but continued to recite the incantation non-stop, and threw several green lights towards the battlefield.
The giant stitched beasts that were revived from the dead fell to the ground one after another, and then their bodies began to swell in exactly the same way, and then exploded like a blown balloon!
Seeing that the torrent of flesh and blood exploded into a giant scene before it reached the other side, the mice who were shouting and laughing a second ago suddenly panicked, dropped their weapons and morale, and fled backwards in collapse.
Such a bloody and cruel scene, even many hell dwarves could not help but vomit on the armor of the soldiers in the front row.
Seeing that the opponent was no longer able to fight, Goron finally gave the order to charge, and this time Luo Yan did not stop him.
Charge!”
Hundreds of dwarf knights riding porcupines rushed out of the position and caught up with the fleeing rat men like raging tanks, chopping at them like watermelons and vegetables.
At the same time, the dwarf heavy infantry in square formations also moved forward, cooperating with the cavalry to capture the rat people who had lost their weapons.
In just a few minutes, more than two thousand dwarf warriors captured more than five thousand rat slaves, and each of them gained a lot.
The experienced hell dwarf miners poured out of the castle one after another, stringing the ratmen together with chains as thick as their little fingers.
· These rat people who have been tied up will be sent back to the mines of Calamity Keep to be used as new fuel, and will work until death in the coal mines that will never see the light of day.
Looking at the victorious battlefield, Gronn Cyborg, who was triumphant from the front, looked happy. He turned over and hugged Luo Yan's shoulders.
"Hahahaha, Demon King of the Necropolis! Thank you for your help! I, Gronn Cyborg, have recorded this favor!"
Although the dwarf does not like undead magic, he is not a dwarf in the traditional sense after all, not to mention that Luo Yan just did him a big favor.
If those giant stitched beasts, which can not only fight but also self-destruct, rush to his position, the consequences will be unimaginable!
"You're welcome," Luo Yan said with a smile, "I didn't bring you any gifts when I came from Shanghai, so I'll just treat this as my meeting gift."
"Then this gift is too expensive!" Gronn laughed, and suddenly changed to a serious expression, and continued, "Another code is a code. According to our tradition, if any warrior does not return empty-handed, you will have a share of these trophies! How about a thousand slave rats? We can tie them up for you and deliver them to your door!"
In normal times, Luo Yan might have agreed, but now the necropolis is facing the threat of Chaos invasion, and he has no time to take care of these slaves for the time being.
… We have just eliminated the rat problem there, and I don't want to see these ugly little rats for the time being, but their weapons are quite interesting, and I want to take them back to study."
"You mean those iron pipes that shoot stones? No problem! Whatever you have on the battlefield is yours!" Goron waved his hand and said generously.
The inscriptions in Calamity Castle are much more advanced than those gadgets, and they also have more powerful firearms. He really doesn't like those scratchy things.
In fact, Luo Yan also felt that the iron pipes that fired the stones were a little weak and the exit speed was too low, so they were only a little stronger than the slings of the slave rats.
However, as long as the mind is open, there are always more solutions than problems.
Although this thing cannot replace a musket, it should still be very useful when converted into a grenade launcher.
Looking at the generous Lord of Calamity Castle, Luo Yan said with a smile.
"Then I won't be polite to you."
As he finished speaking, he looked at Ork who was stuck to his heels and ordered.
ifies.
"As you command! Lord Demon King."
After saying that, Ork immediately ran back to the castle, captured the Goblins who were hiding on the city wall watching the show, and urged them to go to the battlefield to collect the spoils.
The Goblins were still very interested in cleaning up the battlefield. Under Ork's urging, they all swarmed forward. Before long, each of them was carrying more than a dozen iron pipe guns on their backs, and their bodies were stuffed to the brim.
The joy of victory filled the entire Calamity Castle, and the already hospitable hell dwarves became even more hospitable after Luo Yan came to help.
Golon took Luo Yan back to the banquet hall. The originally interrupted banquet continued, and there was one more reason to celebrate.
Looking at the hell dwarves whose beards were covered with blood and continued to drink and have fun like nothing happened, Luo Yan was unknowingly influenced by them and felt that the wine in the cup was not so hard to swallow.
Compared with the scheming demons in the magic city, being friends with these guys is not bad at all.
Although they are cruel, vulgar, and barbaric, they are not so thoughtful, and they have nothing to say to their friends.
After drinking for a while, Goron stood at the banquet table with a belch, raised his glass and said loudly.
"From now on... the Necropolis is the ally of Calamity Keep! The enemies of the Necropolis are the enemies of our Calamity Keep!"
"Ouch!" A group of hell dwarves also shouted excitedly, whistling towards their leader.
Seeing that the atmosphere was getting heated, Luo Yan was too embarrassed to continue sitting reservedly, so he also stood up from his chair and raised his glass.
"May our friendship last forever! Cheers!"
Looking at the Demon King who drank the wine in one gulp, Goron burst out with a burst of heroic laughter and drank the wine in the cup.
「To friendship! Cheers!!!」