"These ugly monsters are angry, run!" Rogge couldn't help shouting when he saw the hammers flying down from the sky. The four of them hurriedly ran, and the hammers behind them dropped a rain of iron balls on the ground, smashing everything that could be smashed. Smash them all.
The angry goblins on the hillside saw the four people escaping from the attack range and refused to give up easily. They jumped down the hillside and picked up the hammer balls on the ground and continued to pursue them. The whistling iron balls kept banging on the ground behind the four people.
Accidentally, Catherine slipped and fell to the ground. She struggled to get up from the ground, and suddenly heard the rapid sound of wind behind her, and saw a hammer hitting her head.
The frightened girl closed her eyes and held her head in her hands, screaming. She saw a figure appear beside her like lightning, dragging her back and kicking away the dropped hammer.
Rogge kicked the hammer away and pulled out the silver gun from Catherine's waist. He raised the gun and hit the goblin who threw the hammer from the top of the slope until his brains exploded and the body fell backwards.
"Keep walking, don't stop!" Rogge said through gritted teeth. He pulled the trembling Catherine back and turned around to shoot a goblin who was about to throw a hammer to death.
"When you are faced with a desperate situation, offense is the best defense. Never sit still and wait for death!"
As Rogge spoke, he fired eight shots with the silver gun in his hand. The bullets were all missed. The eight goblins fell to the ground one after another. He returned the silver gun in his hand to Catherine, turned around and passed through the three people and continued to attack. March forward.
Murphy and Tully supported Catherine and rushed forward to catch up. However, the goblins behind were hesitant due to the attack just now. By the time they mustered up the courage to come back, the four of them had already escaped without a trace.
Seeing that the goblins were not chasing them, the panting four people gradually slowed down their pace. Rogge was still walking in front, his eyes searching the cliffs on both sides. At this time, they were in a valley, and the road under their feet was still moving. Extending into the valley, the cliffs on both sides are not too steep, but they are not easy to climb either.
"I'm afraid we have lost track." Rogge said to Murphy, who was following him: "There is a fork in the road next to the road we took just now. Alice must have gone away from there, otherwise she would definitely stay. Make footprints."
The adventurer lowered his head and glanced at the road ahead. There were indeed no traces of footprints. He frowned and turned back to ask Rogge: "What are you going to do? Are we going back?"
"That's not a good idea. Maybe we will be attacked head-on by goblins. I don't want to have my head smashed by a sudden flying iron ball again!" Rogge said while shaking his head.
He pointed to the road ahead and said to Murphy: "This road is not straight. It keeps winding to the west. The road Alice took seems to also extend to the west. Maybe we will meet her just in time."
The adventurer agreed to his plan and told Tully and Catherine of his decision. Neither girl wanted to go back to face the goblin's iron ball, so they both agreed with Rogge's decision. The four of them speeded up and meandered along the valley. Go forward along the winding road, hoping to meet Alice at the corner ahead.
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After turning a big bend, an empty land suddenly appeared in front of it. In the center of the open space, there were more than a dozen huge boulders of four to five meters high distributed in a ring. Inside each boulder stood a humanoid statue with different postures. , looks like a soldier wearing armor.
"What is this?" Seeing this scene, the four of them were very surprised. Murphy glanced at the boulders and stone statues in the open space and said, "It looks like relics left by an ancient country."
"Could it be the ruins of the Kingdom of Atis?" Rogge turned around and asked Tali. The mermaid guardian suddenly nodded and said: "You are right. It is very possible that Ice and Snow Island was once the territory of the Kingdom of Atis. This is very unlikely. It may be left behind by the ancient kingdom!”
"The Kingdom of Artis? I heard that it suddenly disappeared two centuries ago. If it is really the relics left behind by it, I would like to study it carefully!"
After hearing the words of the two men, the adventurer became excited. He walked quickly towards the boulder. Rogge and others followed closely. They saw him stop in front of a boulder and stretched out his hand towards an unknown symbol carved on the surface of the boulder. .
The moment Murphy's hand touched the symbol, the ground suddenly shook violently. Everyone was startled and hurriedly retreated. They saw huge rocks retreating into the ground with a deafening roar. When they appeared again At that time, a five-meter-high solid rock wall had been built around the four people.
"It seems that one of us stepped on the trap!" Rogge shrugged at Murphy, who was beside him with a face full of surprise.
Suddenly, his ears keenly picked up the "click" sound of rocks breaking, and his eyes couldn't help but focus on the surrounding stone statues, and saw that all the statues were moving.
These soldiers, whose entire bodies were made of rocks, gathered in the center of the open space with heavy steps. They turned their angular faces to the four of them. A cold black light flashed from the eye sockets of the full-face helmets. The four of them felt something bad.
"I think I've seen these things before..." Murphy slowly moved his hand to the scimitar at his waist and said to his companions: "These are rock puppets, they are stone warriors infused with magic. , has a pure stone body and is usually used for area defense.”
"If I guess correctly, they won't come home until they kill us all." Rogge said with a calm smile.
He lit a cigar and bit it in his mouth, reached out and took out the silver sword from his back, glanced at the stone statues in front of him, and said: "There are eighteen in total, there are five of us, four for each person is not enough! "
"Five people?" Murphy couldn't help being stunned when he heard this. Before he could figure out who the fifth person in Rogge's mouth was, Rogge had already rushed towards the rock puppet.
The stone soldiers saw Rogge rushing forward, and the hands made of rock turned into a long sword and shield in the brown light. The long sword made of marble collided heavily with Rogge's blade.
Rogge only felt a strong tremor from the tiger's mouth. He gritted his teeth and shouted, pushed away the stone man's sword, raised his sword and smashed its head.
The other seven stone men pounced on Rogge from the left and right sides, and the remaining stone men jumped over Rogge and pounced on Murphy, Tully and Catherine. The running speed of these guys made of rocks was not inferior to that of humans, and they were as fast as flying. He rushed in front of Murphy, swung his stone sword and struck it down on his head.
The adventurer nimbly avoided the stone man's chop. The scimitar was unsheathed in the cold light. The blade drew a shining arc in the air and struck the stone man's body. The broken earth and stone suddenly fell from the stone man's body. Scattered down.
However, this casual sword failed to cause serious damage to the stone man. The stone man retracted his sword in his right hand and slammed the stone shield in his left hand fiercely at Murphy. The adventurer jumped back, and unexpectedly another stone man leaned over and charged. When he got closer, he protected his body with a stone shield in his left hand, and the tip of the stone sword in his right hand stabbed towards Murphy.
The adventurer had not stabilized his body at this time and could not change his posture to avoid the attack of the stone man. He had to use the scimitar in his hand to forcefully block it. However, the stone man seemed to be on guard. The sword edge moved down to avoid the scimitar blade and pressed against the curved sword. The back of the knife stabbed Murphy in the abdomen.
It was too late, but soon, there was a gunshot, and a sharp silver bullet hit the stone man's neck without hesitation. The strong explosive force of the silver bullet destroyed the stone man's neck, causing the stone man's head to "click" It separated from the body and fell to the ground at the same time as the crooked body.
Murphy, who broke out in a cold sweat, looked back gratefully at Catherine, who was holding a silver gun. Although the girl's hands were shaking violently, her face showed unusual determination. Roger had just rescued him. The words he said when he shot her touched her, causing her to grit her teeth and pull the trigger again.
With the second gunshot, another stone soldier's neck was shattered and he collapsed on the ground. Catherine was about to raise her gun and shoot again when the surrounding stone men suddenly stopped attacking and disappeared in a burst of brown light. trace.
The four people in Stonehenge looked around in surprise. Before they could figure out what was going on, the unknown spells carved on the surface of the surrounding stone walls suddenly lit up together, and eighteen dazzling beams of light were shot at the four people intensively.