Chapter 166 Snowy Night
Everyone gradually calmed down. They had always been aware of Li Mu's methods. They had successfully survived countless crises under Li Mu's leadership.
Because of Li Mu's existence, they saw hope again.
After seeing Tang Guoan's words calm the entire army's morale, Yu Shuaikang, who was usually rarely serious, also became extremely serious.
"Yes, just like Old Tang said, the current situation is not so optimistic, but we still have the ability to fight to the death."
Yao Chengcheng also nodded and said loudly:
"We will be in the front. As long as we don't fall, there will be hope for everyone!"
Yao Chengcheng was indeed recognized by Li Mu and the others as a man of insight. When he said this, everyone seemed to have really forgotten their fear temporarily, and only the burning adrenaline remained.
"Come on, get ready to fight!"
Li Mu suddenly shouted, then produced a wooden crutch and stomped hard on the wooden board under his feet. Suddenly, cracks appeared on the surrounding ground, and the strange beasts accidentally fell into them.
Then, before everyone had time to react, Li Mu stomped a second time, and countless vines emerged from the cracks.
This is not an ordinary vine, but a giant thorny vine. Once the strange beast falls into it, it will be immediately turned into a ball of flesh and blood.
The light in everyone's eyes became brighter and brighter, and Yu Shuaikang quickly summoned a long sword and commanded everyone to launch various attacks on the group of strange beasts.
But the vines and cracks are still limited, and many strange beasts have climbed up the wooden walls.
The soldiers, under the leadership of Tang Guoan and Yu Shuaikang, quickly formed a square formation that they had trained countless times.
Although they still had fear in their hearts, if they didn't fight, they would only die. Even if they died after fighting, they could kill a few more strange beasts and tear out a few more of their fangs!
Li Mu and others in the first wave were in high morale, and Yao Chengcheng was also cooperating on the side. Even Ye Rumeng, although her face was as pale as gold paper, still bit her pale lips tightly and continued to attack the strange beasts around her.
Just when everyone had killed hundreds of strange beasts, suddenly, a loud roar was heard again.
Immediately afterwards, there was another muffled sound of mountains collapsing and the earth splitting.
Suddenly, all the strange beasts changed their strategies and started attacking the wooden wall.
The strange beasts seemed to understand that as long as this wall fell, the humans inside would be at their mercy.
As everyone watched the number of strange beasts on the wooden wall decrease, and just when they were about to take a breath and rejoice, suddenly, the entire wooden wall began to shake violently, accompanied by the sound of gnawing.
Li Mu reacted instantly and waved his hand quickly. Several meters long cracks appeared around the wooden wall. In an instant, more than a dozen huge dark green vines rushed out of the cracks and rolled over the wooden wall. In an instant, the strange beasts that were gnawing at the wooden wall were instantly turned into a ball of blood mist.
The strange beasts turned around and looked at each other. Seeing their companions dying one after another at the hands of these tiny humans, they began to retreat in their hearts.
There were fewer and fewer charging beasts. Gradually, except for a few dozen more stubborn beasts, most of the others just surrounded them and did not attack directly.
Li Mu frowned, not quite understanding what these strange beasts were thinking.
"Ow!"
The strange beasts were communicating with each other, some were even angry and started biting each other on the spot.
"What's going on?"
Yu Shuaikang looked at the scene below in a daze.
"Boom boom boom!"
Suddenly, heavy footsteps were heard.
Li Mu looked into the distance and saw a figure nearly twenty meters tall standing behind the strange beast.
With every step it took, the ground shook.
Tang Guoan's brows were tightly knitted together, and the soldiers began to get a little restless.
"Quiet!"
Tang Guoan just shouted, but it only worked for a while, and soon the soldiers were talking again.
A fierce pressure loomed over everyone's head, and everyone understood that this giant gorilla was a true fifth-level exotic beast.
And from its blood-red, bright eyes, it can be seen that this is an extremely rare mutant species.
Its combat effectiveness can be imagined.
So the morale of the army, which had just been stabilized, began to waver again.
Li Mu looked at him with a gloomy face.
The gorilla also stared at Li Mu's eyes.
Its eyes seemed full of amusement and provocation.
But the next second, it withdrew its gaze, as if to say, wait a minute, it has more important things to do.
Suddenly, the gorilla flew dozens of meters into the air, and when it landed, it had crushed the two strange tigers under it.
Yao Chengcheng noticed that these two were the first two to stop.
Could it be?
As soon as Yao Chengcheng had this thought, Li Mu turned his head, looked into his eyes, and nodded slightly.
"That's right. They are not as united as imagined. It seems more like they are forced."
"So, as long as we deal with that fifth-level gorilla, the crisis will be resolved?"
Tang Guoan also turned his head, looked at Li Mu and asked.
"Yes, this gorilla is the leader. He must have forced the other high-level beasts to attack us."
"When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter."
Yu Shuaikang suddenly said this, and just when everyone was wondering why he suddenly became so literary, Yu Shuaikang added another sentence.
"Why does this sentence sound so much like us?"
Yao Chengcheng curled his lips, and Li Mu almost wanted to hit Shuai Kang.
However, Yu Shuaikang still turned his head unconsciously, looked at Ye Rumeng lovingly, and asked.
"Ru Meng, what do you think?"
Ye Rumeng's face was already pale, and now her eyes rolled up to the sky.
Li Mu finally couldn't help it and kicked Yu Shuaikang in the calf.
"Ouch!"
Yu Shuaikang felt pain and quickly bent down to touch the place where he was kicked. If there were no strange beasts around, he almost wanted to lie on the ground and say that his leg was broken and he couldn't live anymore.
Finally, Yao Chengcheng couldn't help it and rolled his eyes.
Fortunately, after Yu Shuaikang's commotion, the atmosphere among everyone improved. Although they were still a little panicked under the pressure of this fifth-level monster, it was much better than at the beginning.
Seeing that the fifth-level gorilla had almost finished cleaning up the interior, Li Mu quickly waved his hand and began to deploy.
"With this gorilla here, we will be at a disadvantage if we are still on this wooden wall." Tang Guoan and others nodded after listening to Li Mu's words. Li Mu spoke out what was in their hearts.
"Why don't we use the new stuff we just developed to deal with it?"
Yao Chengcheng held his chin with his right hand, thought for a few seconds, and then spoke.
“Is this stable?”
After listening to this, Tang Guoan thought about it and then asked.
"Stability is not a big problem, the main problem is that we haven't tried out the effect yet."
Ye Rumeng, who had been almost silent on the side, suddenly spoke up.
At some point, she had stood beside Li Mu, and was looking at the herd of strange beasts in the distance with him.
By this time, the sky was gradually getting darker, and the setting sun was like the afterglow of residual blood, shining on the earth in an especially creepy way.
It seems that everything tells the story of the sadness of this war.
"We have no choice but to give it a try. We have no other options."
When Li Mu said this, he had already thrown the wooden stick out. In an instant, the wooden wall began to fall and everyone returned to the ground.
The wooden stick also turned into a sharp wooden sword in the process and stabbed fiercely at the fifth-level gorilla.
The fifth-level gorilla pounded his chest and roared, then quickly stretched out his hand to stop it, but the wooden sword suddenly exploded, and the sharp little pieces of wood exploded on his chest, revealing some bloody flesh.
"Ow!!"
The gorilla roared, and in an instant, the strange beast moved again.
"Prepare!"
Li Mu shouted loudly and waved his hand. In an instant, a bunch of tiny but tight and resilient vines covered everyone, like layers of tightly wrapped armor.
Except for the eyes and nose, the whole body has been tightly covered.
The soldiers collided with the strange beasts around them, and the beasts' minions, which were full of confidence, were unable to break through these defenses for a while.
Even after being scratched with great difficulty, the vines recovered in an instant.
But in just a few breaths, the soldiers' attack arrived, and the strange beast roared instantly and fell to the ground and died.
After seeing this scene, the morale of Li Mu's army instantly increased. The fifth-level gorilla also reacted and directly pulled out a tree that was almost as big as nine people could hug and threw it towards Li Mu and others.
Li Mu hurriedly summoned the wooden wall, but in just a moment, the wooden wall was pierced. Fortunately, the power of the wood was much smaller after just this one block, but it had already fallen, and many people were still unable to avoid it.
When everyone thought that these vine armors could still provide effective defense, they immediately realized that they were wrong.
The wooden stick did not break the vine armor when it fell, but at that moment, the person who was hit began to vomit blood.
Their internal organs were shattered instantly.
The strange beasts immediately noticed this situation, and after a quick communication between the two sides, they came up with a new strategy.
There is no need to tear the armor apart, just hitting these people hard seems to be successful.
Thinking of this, the strange beasts rushed up and started smashing the people they grabbed.
Before these soldiers could react, they were already shaken to death by the monsters' stones or their sharp claws.
As soon as the soldier died, the vine armor would fall apart, and in an instant, the bloody scene appeared before everyone's eyes.
Li Mu quickly counterattacked, but he forgot that there was another fifth-level alien beast that was eyeing him covetously, a gorilla with blood-red eyes!
Just as Li Mu was about to go to the rescue, he was immediately stopped by the gorilla's attack.
Li Mu summoned various things, but he was always on a 50-50 level with the gorilla.
"Don't wait, use that move now!"
Yu Shuaikang, who was still trying hard to lead everyone in defense, suddenly roared. Li Mu frowned, but decided to summon that skill.
A group of plants that looked very much like humans appeared out of nowhere. Li Mu hurriedly controlled this force, and a steady stream of vegetative people appeared.
These vegetative people were also covered with the same armor, and for a moment the strange beasts could not tell which were real humans and which were vegetative people.
What's more terrifying about these vegetative people is that when they are defeated, they will burst out with power in an instant, and the sharp branches and leaves inside will shoot forwards. Countless strange beasts have died at the hands of a few people.
However, the disadvantage is that these branches and leaves are too sharp and their energy is too strong, which can easily hurt one's own members.
But now, Li Mu and others can't care about so many things.
At this moment, there were fewer strange beasts around Li Mu, and the gorilla was facing him alone.
Suddenly, Li Mu summoned vines in front and behind it. The gorilla was about to jump out, but did not notice that dozens of tree people appeared around it.
The gorilla had already gone berserk, and at the same time as the tree man was smashed to pieces, the sobering wine was turned into bloody and fleshy residue.
After the battle, everyone counted the wounded and hurried out of the forest and back to the city.
After dealing with this problem, I believe this side will be able to have peace for a while.
Tang Guoan and others also thanked Li Mu one after another, saying that if it weren't for him, they would have become food for the strange beasts long ago.
After finally returning to the city, Li Mu and others were just preparing to rest and recuperate for a while. After all, this battle had made them extremely tired, and they also had to find time to continue to perfect the two newly researched attack skills.
However, he only had half a day of leisure. From the next day onwards, the place where Li Mu lived was almost always quiet.
All the forces had been observing the battle situation on Li Mu's side. When they learned that Li Mu and his men had returned victoriously, they immediately began to prepare gifts and waited to present them to Li Mu early the next morning.
However, these various forces also had good plans. They made two plans. If Li Mu and others won, they would receive gifts. If they lost, the forces they previously belonged to would have to wait to be divided up.
The law of the jungle also exists among humans, but humans are more hypocritical and less direct than the alien beasts.
Fortunately, Li Mu did not have to go in person to receive the gifts, so the burden naturally fell on Ye Rumeng and Yu Shuaikang.
However, Li Mu was also secretly using plants that could identify people's hearts to determine who was sincere and who had ulterior motives.
Sure enough, when the tenth person arrived with a gift, Li Mu discovered the situation.
Forces that had no ulterior motives were naturally taken over by Li Mu and others. If they were powerful forces, they would be treated as equals, but if they had ulterior motives, they would just be treated with a few polite words.
After finally getting through these few days, nearby cities sent messages asking for help one after another, many of which came from forces willing to belong to Li Mu and others.
Li Mu and others had no choice but to set out to these cities to help.
After experiencing this wave of gorillas, the groups of strange beasts in other cities seemed as easy to cut as leeks in the eyes of Li Mu and others.
It seems that it only takes a flick of the hand to kill them.
Within a few days, these cities successfully regained the lost territories. They were all amazed at the abilities of Li Mu and others. At the same time, they were secretly glad that they were able to seize the opportunity and hold on to Li Mu's thigh. Now, not only did they conquer the territories, but they also gained the opportunity for a long period of stable development.
(End of this chapter)
Everyone gradually calmed down. They had always been aware of Li Mu's methods. They had successfully survived countless crises under Li Mu's leadership.
Because of Li Mu's existence, they saw hope again.
After seeing Tang Guoan's words calm the entire army's morale, Yu Shuaikang, who was usually rarely serious, also became extremely serious.
"Yes, just like Old Tang said, the current situation is not so optimistic, but we still have the ability to fight to the death."
Yao Chengcheng also nodded and said loudly:
"We will be in the front. As long as we don't fall, there will be hope for everyone!"
Yao Chengcheng was indeed recognized by Li Mu and the others as a man of insight. When he said this, everyone seemed to have really forgotten their fear temporarily, and only the burning adrenaline remained.
"Come on, get ready to fight!"
Li Mu suddenly shouted, then produced a wooden crutch and stomped hard on the wooden board under his feet. Suddenly, cracks appeared on the surrounding ground, and the strange beasts accidentally fell into them.
Then, before everyone had time to react, Li Mu stomped a second time, and countless vines emerged from the cracks.
This is not an ordinary vine, but a giant thorny vine. Once the strange beast falls into it, it will be immediately turned into a ball of flesh and blood.
The light in everyone's eyes became brighter and brighter, and Yu Shuaikang quickly summoned a long sword and commanded everyone to launch various attacks on the group of strange beasts.
But the vines and cracks are still limited, and many strange beasts have climbed up the wooden walls.
The soldiers, under the leadership of Tang Guoan and Yu Shuaikang, quickly formed a square formation that they had trained countless times.
Although they still had fear in their hearts, if they didn't fight, they would only die. Even if they died after fighting, they could kill a few more strange beasts and tear out a few more of their fangs!
Li Mu and others in the first wave were in high morale, and Yao Chengcheng was also cooperating on the side. Even Ye Rumeng, although her face was as pale as gold paper, still bit her pale lips tightly and continued to attack the strange beasts around her.
Just when everyone had killed hundreds of strange beasts, suddenly, a loud roar was heard again.
Immediately afterwards, there was another muffled sound of mountains collapsing and the earth splitting.
Suddenly, all the strange beasts changed their strategies and started attacking the wooden wall.
The strange beasts seemed to understand that as long as this wall fell, the humans inside would be at their mercy.
As everyone watched the number of strange beasts on the wooden wall decrease, and just when they were about to take a breath and rejoice, suddenly, the entire wooden wall began to shake violently, accompanied by the sound of gnawing.
Li Mu reacted instantly and waved his hand quickly. Several meters long cracks appeared around the wooden wall. In an instant, more than a dozen huge dark green vines rushed out of the cracks and rolled over the wooden wall. In an instant, the strange beasts that were gnawing at the wooden wall were instantly turned into a ball of blood mist.
The strange beasts turned around and looked at each other. Seeing their companions dying one after another at the hands of these tiny humans, they began to retreat in their hearts.
There were fewer and fewer charging beasts. Gradually, except for a few dozen more stubborn beasts, most of the others just surrounded them and did not attack directly.
Li Mu frowned, not quite understanding what these strange beasts were thinking.
"Ow!"
The strange beasts were communicating with each other, some were even angry and started biting each other on the spot.
"What's going on?"
Yu Shuaikang looked at the scene below in a daze.
"Boom boom boom!"
Suddenly, heavy footsteps were heard.
Li Mu looked into the distance and saw a figure nearly twenty meters tall standing behind the strange beast.
With every step it took, the ground shook.
Tang Guoan's brows were tightly knitted together, and the soldiers began to get a little restless.
"Quiet!"
Tang Guoan just shouted, but it only worked for a while, and soon the soldiers were talking again.
A fierce pressure loomed over everyone's head, and everyone understood that this giant gorilla was a true fifth-level exotic beast.
And from its blood-red, bright eyes, it can be seen that this is an extremely rare mutant species.
Its combat effectiveness can be imagined.
So the morale of the army, which had just been stabilized, began to waver again.
Li Mu looked at him with a gloomy face.
The gorilla also stared at Li Mu's eyes.
Its eyes seemed full of amusement and provocation.
But the next second, it withdrew its gaze, as if to say, wait a minute, it has more important things to do.
Suddenly, the gorilla flew dozens of meters into the air, and when it landed, it had crushed the two strange tigers under it.
Yao Chengcheng noticed that these two were the first two to stop.
Could it be?
As soon as Yao Chengcheng had this thought, Li Mu turned his head, looked into his eyes, and nodded slightly.
"That's right. They are not as united as imagined. It seems more like they are forced."
"So, as long as we deal with that fifth-level gorilla, the crisis will be resolved?"
Tang Guoan also turned his head, looked at Li Mu and asked.
"Yes, this gorilla is the leader. He must have forced the other high-level beasts to attack us."
"When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter."
Yu Shuaikang suddenly said this, and just when everyone was wondering why he suddenly became so literary, Yu Shuaikang added another sentence.
"Why does this sentence sound so much like us?"
Yao Chengcheng curled his lips, and Li Mu almost wanted to hit Shuai Kang.
However, Yu Shuaikang still turned his head unconsciously, looked at Ye Rumeng lovingly, and asked.
"Ru Meng, what do you think?"
Ye Rumeng's face was already pale, and now her eyes rolled up to the sky.
Li Mu finally couldn't help it and kicked Yu Shuaikang in the calf.
"Ouch!"
Yu Shuaikang felt pain and quickly bent down to touch the place where he was kicked. If there were no strange beasts around, he almost wanted to lie on the ground and say that his leg was broken and he couldn't live anymore.
Finally, Yao Chengcheng couldn't help it and rolled his eyes.
Fortunately, after Yu Shuaikang's commotion, the atmosphere among everyone improved. Although they were still a little panicked under the pressure of this fifth-level monster, it was much better than at the beginning.
Seeing that the fifth-level gorilla had almost finished cleaning up the interior, Li Mu quickly waved his hand and began to deploy.
"With this gorilla here, we will be at a disadvantage if we are still on this wooden wall." Tang Guoan and others nodded after listening to Li Mu's words. Li Mu spoke out what was in their hearts.
"Why don't we use the new stuff we just developed to deal with it?"
Yao Chengcheng held his chin with his right hand, thought for a few seconds, and then spoke.
“Is this stable?”
After listening to this, Tang Guoan thought about it and then asked.
"Stability is not a big problem, the main problem is that we haven't tried out the effect yet."
Ye Rumeng, who had been almost silent on the side, suddenly spoke up.
At some point, she had stood beside Li Mu, and was looking at the herd of strange beasts in the distance with him.
By this time, the sky was gradually getting darker, and the setting sun was like the afterglow of residual blood, shining on the earth in an especially creepy way.
It seems that everything tells the story of the sadness of this war.
"We have no choice but to give it a try. We have no other options."
When Li Mu said this, he had already thrown the wooden stick out. In an instant, the wooden wall began to fall and everyone returned to the ground.
The wooden stick also turned into a sharp wooden sword in the process and stabbed fiercely at the fifth-level gorilla.
The fifth-level gorilla pounded his chest and roared, then quickly stretched out his hand to stop it, but the wooden sword suddenly exploded, and the sharp little pieces of wood exploded on his chest, revealing some bloody flesh.
"Ow!!"
The gorilla roared, and in an instant, the strange beast moved again.
"Prepare!"
Li Mu shouted loudly and waved his hand. In an instant, a bunch of tiny but tight and resilient vines covered everyone, like layers of tightly wrapped armor.
Except for the eyes and nose, the whole body has been tightly covered.
The soldiers collided with the strange beasts around them, and the beasts' minions, which were full of confidence, were unable to break through these defenses for a while.
Even after being scratched with great difficulty, the vines recovered in an instant.
But in just a few breaths, the soldiers' attack arrived, and the strange beast roared instantly and fell to the ground and died.
After seeing this scene, the morale of Li Mu's army instantly increased. The fifth-level gorilla also reacted and directly pulled out a tree that was almost as big as nine people could hug and threw it towards Li Mu and others.
Li Mu hurriedly summoned the wooden wall, but in just a moment, the wooden wall was pierced. Fortunately, the power of the wood was much smaller after just this one block, but it had already fallen, and many people were still unable to avoid it.
When everyone thought that these vine armors could still provide effective defense, they immediately realized that they were wrong.
The wooden stick did not break the vine armor when it fell, but at that moment, the person who was hit began to vomit blood.
Their internal organs were shattered instantly.
The strange beasts immediately noticed this situation, and after a quick communication between the two sides, they came up with a new strategy.
There is no need to tear the armor apart, just hitting these people hard seems to be successful.
Thinking of this, the strange beasts rushed up and started smashing the people they grabbed.
Before these soldiers could react, they were already shaken to death by the monsters' stones or their sharp claws.
As soon as the soldier died, the vine armor would fall apart, and in an instant, the bloody scene appeared before everyone's eyes.
Li Mu quickly counterattacked, but he forgot that there was another fifth-level alien beast that was eyeing him covetously, a gorilla with blood-red eyes!
Just as Li Mu was about to go to the rescue, he was immediately stopped by the gorilla's attack.
Li Mu summoned various things, but he was always on a 50-50 level with the gorilla.
"Don't wait, use that move now!"
Yu Shuaikang, who was still trying hard to lead everyone in defense, suddenly roared. Li Mu frowned, but decided to summon that skill.
A group of plants that looked very much like humans appeared out of nowhere. Li Mu hurriedly controlled this force, and a steady stream of vegetative people appeared.
These vegetative people were also covered with the same armor, and for a moment the strange beasts could not tell which were real humans and which were vegetative people.
What's more terrifying about these vegetative people is that when they are defeated, they will burst out with power in an instant, and the sharp branches and leaves inside will shoot forwards. Countless strange beasts have died at the hands of a few people.
However, the disadvantage is that these branches and leaves are too sharp and their energy is too strong, which can easily hurt one's own members.
But now, Li Mu and others can't care about so many things.
At this moment, there were fewer strange beasts around Li Mu, and the gorilla was facing him alone.
Suddenly, Li Mu summoned vines in front and behind it. The gorilla was about to jump out, but did not notice that dozens of tree people appeared around it.
The gorilla had already gone berserk, and at the same time as the tree man was smashed to pieces, the sobering wine was turned into bloody and fleshy residue.
After the battle, everyone counted the wounded and hurried out of the forest and back to the city.
After dealing with this problem, I believe this side will be able to have peace for a while.
Tang Guoan and others also thanked Li Mu one after another, saying that if it weren't for him, they would have become food for the strange beasts long ago.
After finally returning to the city, Li Mu and others were just preparing to rest and recuperate for a while. After all, this battle had made them extremely tired, and they also had to find time to continue to perfect the two newly researched attack skills.
However, he only had half a day of leisure. From the next day onwards, the place where Li Mu lived was almost always quiet.
All the forces had been observing the battle situation on Li Mu's side. When they learned that Li Mu and his men had returned victoriously, they immediately began to prepare gifts and waited to present them to Li Mu early the next morning.
However, these various forces also had good plans. They made two plans. If Li Mu and others won, they would receive gifts. If they lost, the forces they previously belonged to would have to wait to be divided up.
The law of the jungle also exists among humans, but humans are more hypocritical and less direct than the alien beasts.
Fortunately, Li Mu did not have to go in person to receive the gifts, so the burden naturally fell on Ye Rumeng and Yu Shuaikang.
However, Li Mu was also secretly using plants that could identify people's hearts to determine who was sincere and who had ulterior motives.
Sure enough, when the tenth person arrived with a gift, Li Mu discovered the situation.
Forces that had no ulterior motives were naturally taken over by Li Mu and others. If they were powerful forces, they would be treated as equals, but if they had ulterior motives, they would just be treated with a few polite words.
After finally getting through these few days, nearby cities sent messages asking for help one after another, many of which came from forces willing to belong to Li Mu and others.
Li Mu and others had no choice but to set out to these cities to help.
After experiencing this wave of gorillas, the groups of strange beasts in other cities seemed as easy to cut as leeks in the eyes of Li Mu and others.
It seems that it only takes a flick of the hand to kill them.
Within a few days, these cities successfully regained the lost territories. They were all amazed at the abilities of Li Mu and others. At the same time, they were secretly glad that they were able to seize the opportunity and hold on to Li Mu's thigh. Now, not only did they conquer the territories, but they also gained the opportunity for a long period of stable development.
(End of this chapter)
