Blood tax

Chapter 179 Defensive Line Collapse
"Amber, get ready to fight!"

Although Griffith couldn't see the battle behind the city wall, the powerful coercion that caused the mutation was clearly imprinted on his mind.

The infection hidden in the body of the wounded is activated by the power of the death knight, spreading death and infection among the living.

"Won't you wait a little longer?" Amber felt that the number of living corpses on the front line was astonishing, and he was a little unsure what a few reinforcements could change.

Griffith shook his head and said:
"The line of defense is hopeless. Infection can transform humans without killing them. The speed of transmission is not at the same level as before. I don't think it is necessary to hide such a powerful force until now. If it is brought out earlier, the whole city has already fallen. The death knight should be the key to the mutation.

"The death knight and the transcendent are hard to tell the winner in a short time. However, the wounded will quickly mutate under its power. This is a situation that was completely unexpected before. It is impossible for the transcendent to block the infected while meeting the death knight. Spread. Soon, several barriers will collapse, and I will rescue my companions."

After Griffith finished speaking, he began to check the horses, lances and armor. He glanced at Amber and said, "Stay here, don't make a move, and respond to me according to the situation. Once everyone is rescued, we will take them to evacuate." Go down to the city for rectification."

"Don't you need me to cooperate with you?" The blond girl shook her head and said while spreading her gloves, "This place is two miles away from the barrier, within the range of my foot combat impact, if we encounter a strong enemy, we can still cooperate .”

"No need," Griffith had already figured it out, "My goal is to make a gap in the living corpse. I will use the speed advantage of the horse to avoid the powerful ones among them, and I don't need to compete with them."

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Thousands of living corpses are screaming and rushing towards the barrier.Some of them came from the western countryside, and some refugees who hadn't had time to escape into the city were killed and injured by the living corpses who took the back road, and turned into another terrifying wave of corpses.

Huge undead army surrounded from all sides.They squeezed each other, one stepping on waves of black corpses stacked two or three meters high, roaring towards the barricade from the streets and alleys.Whenever the living corpses in front were wiped out by rockets and repelling horses, the following zombies immediately stepped on the wreckage of the same kind to fill their positions, and continued to attack the fortifications without fear of death.

"Hold on!"

Several officers and non-commissioned officers stood on the top of the barrier, holding flags in their hands and shouting to the city defense troops around them.The tide of black corpses collided with the earthen wall and Juma under their feet, making a shrill and horrifying roar, and even a few tattered corpses were thrown into the sky.

"Drive them out!"

Soldiers who resisted the ramparts were stabbed with spears and smashed with hammers.Bursts of obscure and weird noises erupted from the dense tide of corpses, and green and black corpse fluids flew around.

The soldiers threw out jars full of kerosene, and then torches.The flames immediately exploded in the tide of corpses, forming countless sickle-like whirlwinds of death.

The locations of these attacks are all chosen in front of the barrier where the zombie tide is the most dense, and the large group of zombies will be burned into fireballs at once.The strong stench and the dense burst of corpse fluid make people sick.The fiery flames ignited from the fire oil tank raged across the battlefield, burning the living corpses under siege in pieces.

The sound of crackling and crackling rang non-stop on the street, and the turbulent tide of corpses appeared like huge holes in torn rags.

However, the undead creature almost didn't pause, and directly swept over the ground that had just been swept by the flames, once again filling the gap under the barrier.

Under the attack of thousands of living corpses, the three barriers that refused to guard the intersection began to shake again.

Attacking the shattered limbs of these death-defying undead creatures with swords and guns is not ideal, and even fire arrows often miss through the gaps in the bones.

Although the defenders of the position are very active in combat, except for a few Extraordinary among them, the lethality of the weapons in the hands of most of the city defense army and militia fighters has been weakened to an extremely low level.

The knocked down living corpses were scattered under the fortified deer village, layer upon layer, and soon became a pile of corpses with more than one person.

Human fighters were still condescending to ravage the living corpses who couldn't fight back, but it didn't take long for these monsters to grab their ankles and bite them or drag them off the fortifications.

The shield guard with the shoulder shield on his back and the steel ax in his hand swept across with his tomahawk, smashing the monster climbing up in front of him with one blow, but the second batch had already rushed up in the blink of an eye.

I don't know how many soldiers covering the side have changed.The most experienced soldiers were all injured and killed together in the accident just now. The militiamen who had just been sent to fill the front line couldn't hold on for long before being dragged down with a scream.

The tide-like living corpse stretched out countless rotting, withered arms and sharp claws, grabbed the screaming militiamen, and drowned them instantly like a deadly swamp.

"Damn it!"

The shield guard, who was too late to rescue, yelled angrily, took half a step back, tore off his helmet, and shouted towards an arrow tower in the position:

"Ophelia, the zombies are about to climb up! Use your invincible magic eyes to find a way!"

As soon as the words fell, several living corpses had already climbed up to the deer village at the feet of the shield guard, grabbing at his ankles.More undead creatures stepped on the corpses and skeletons under their feet one after another, like a huge wave hitting the wall and the deer village.

The soldiers on the fortification uttered a cry almost at the same time, turned around and jumped off the barrier to flee backwards.Slowly escaping, he was swept away by the waves of corpses, and disappeared in a burst of gnawing.

The shield guard held up his strong shield against the four or five living corpses that rushed up, and swept the battle ax in his hand again.But this blow turned out to be irrecoverable.

More living and broken corpses swarmed from behind, hanging like clusters of grapes from his gauntlets and gauntlets.The calf was also unable to move as if it was stuck in mud.A sea of ​​monsters submerged him like a tide, fell to the ground and gnawed, not even a ray of light could penetrate.

This kind of place, is it necessary to use the hole card in this kind of place! ?The shield guard flicked the undead creature on his body in frustration, but he couldn't get rid of it anyway. The heavy helmet made him unable to see clearly, and he could only hear the sound of bumps and bites.

Suddenly, a gap was torn open in the black mass of corpses in front of him, and a bright silver light bloomed.

The pressure on the shield guard lightened, and he broke free with a single struggle.

On the low wall and deer village full of ferocious zombies, a nimble and slim figure flashed past.She walked smoothly between the uneven obstacles, and even stepped on the heads and shoulders of the zombies deftly, leaping over them before they knew it.

Ophelia arrived for reinforcements.

She pulled out three feathered arrows that shone with pale green light one after another from her quiver, and shot them in the direction of a group of soldiers surrounded by living corpses.

The first arrow pierced through the skulls of the four zombies and knocked them down.

The second arrow pierced through the spine of a huge ghoul, directly blasting it into shattered bones, and the arc-shaped spread of shock waves and debris overturned the undead creatures that rushed up.

The third arrow missed all the living and dead, and plunged into a wooden wall.This seemingly missed arrow immediately tore a wooden stake, causing half of the nearby wooden wall to topple down, directly blocking a gap where the living corpses rushed up.

Three consecutive shots, a three-shot shooting that integrates killing, blocking and blocking!
A city defense army team that was still in despair just now was rescued from the brink of death in the blink of an eye.Before they could cheer, Ophelia's agile figure had already flickered to another position, and shot an arrow at a particularly large stitch monster among the corpses.

"Oh!"

The Stitch Monster that was hit had already suffered a series of blows before that, and was shaking its head and nibbling on a corpse, trying to overwhelm the line of defense by relying on its strong vitality and recovery ability.Suddenly it received a head-on blow, and the head protected by the fat and carrion immediately burst open.

Like a flash of light, Ophelia jumped at the most dangerous position on the front that was about to collapse, shooting and killing the strongest enemies one after another, and she turned out to be able to repel the tide of corpses rushing up the barrier by herself.

At this time, the other city defense forces were not idle either, throwing torches and wooden barrels full of kerosene one after another.

In bursts of deflagration, the fortifications on the position burned, and the living corpses that followed were swept into the sea of ​​flames.

Taking advantage of the fire, the guards retreated one after another, bandaging wounds in the center of the position or drinking water and eating dry food in a hurry.

Ophelia deftly walked through the ruins and jumped back to everyone.When the soldiers who were still in shock saw her, they supported their tired bodies and stood up to pay her respects.

"43:19, I'm ahead by a wide margin!" Ophelia ignored everyone, went straight to the shield guard, took off her helmet and raised her chin proudly.She holds an exquisite light green longbow, and wears a tight black leather armor. The red crystals and decorations outline a seductive curve at just the right position.The long golden ponytail flicked cheerfully, exuding a fascinating beauty together with the different-colored eyes.

She replenished herself with arrows as she spoke.Her back was originally full of arrows, but it was exhausted within tens of seconds of fighting.

"Awesome, you are the most powerful!" Midianmeier took off his helmet, found a clean handkerchief from the small bag beside him, poured the potion on it, and handed it over, "Wipe it quickly."

"Did it flow again?"

"Ah."

"Why don't I feel it~ Sure enough, I have become stronger again!"

Ophelia's beautiful blue and red eyes were twinkling with excitement.However, the blood and tears flowing from the red eyes are simply shocking when matched with her beautiful appearance.

Midianmeier drank the water slowly, without any nervousness or optimism on his face, and calmly scanned around the position.

In the crisis just now, the officers of the city defense army who seemed to be unable to resist began to set fire to stop the enemy.This temporary fortress position built with low walls and wooden fortifications has been burned into a ring of fire by raging flames, and the guards in it can feel the heat waves on their faces.

In the flames and thick smoke, vague shadows can still be seen, staggering and throwing themselves into the fire to burn.Every time such a scene is repeated, the dense shadows behind the fire smoke will become clearer.

This position must be abandoned...

The two barriers not far away were also in the same situation. Watching the unsupported guards set fire to the fence of the camp and the deer stockade successively, they used the fire to buy themselves time to breathe.

(End of this chapter)