Deep Sea Diary [Another World]

"This is witchcraft!" With Dennis shouting, the three finally arrived at the place where the clansmen were.

Shen Lan and Xia Chuan directly stood in front of them, stretched out their long arms, and rowed the four closest to them behind them.Then he nimbly dodged the two stone arrows that shot directly at his heart, and raised his hand to grab the two that shot to the rear.

Although the arrowheads of these stone arrows are not made of metal and are not as exquisitely crafted as those of later generations, they are very finely polished at the current level. The damage is estimated to be higher.

Although Dennis also followed, his combat power was obviously incomparable to Xia Chuan and Shenlan, so he didn't rush to the front recklessly, but went straight to the rear to see the wounded, and pulled the few tribesmen behind Get behind the tree so you don't get hurt.

However, no matter whether it was Xia Chuan, Shenlan or Dennis behind, they couldn't help but glance at the barrier-like darkness again.

Looking at the darkness from a close place feels even more eerie——

On the tribe's side, there are four or five people holding torches in their hands, and they are distributed in different positions back and forth. It is reasonable to say that the firelight should be able to illuminate a brighter place, and the range should be circular, but in fact, The left, right and the rear are very natural, only the darkness in front, which is not affected by the fire at all, just stands there so abruptly.

There is almost no transition between the bright place they are in and the darkness, or the transition is extremely short, and a very clear dividing line can almost be seen on the ground.

After that dividing line, it was really as black as ink.

All three of them knew that these stone arrows could not have been automatically produced by the darkness, there must be people behind them, and judging from the accuracy of the stone arrows, those people seemed not to be restricted by the darkness at all, and could directly see the The position of each side.

Then contact the beasts before, obviously, they have been in ambush for a long time.

They suddenly thought of what they heard from Laura before, saying that the leader and the residents of the tribe suspected that those wild beasts had been domesticated and turned into hunting tools, and the person who domesticated him was most likely the one who coveted others all day long. The tribe of the fruits of labor.

It now appears that this speculation has become true.

It's just that I didn't expect that tribe to have such an incredible trick.Thinking about this, Xia Chuan raised his hand to block two more stone arrows. He quickly lowered his body, picked up the stone arrows that fell on the ground, and at the same time pushed the few clansmen who had been drawn behind him back two steps, regardless of whether the other party could After understanding, he made a simple gesture and said, "Get out of the way!"

But just as soon as he turned around, several stone balls flew over, with tricky angles and precise targets.

Hearing a cry of "ah", two of the clansmen driven by Xia Chuan had their heads hit, and they were knocked down by the stone ball while covering their heads.The surface of those stone balls is rough, and the weight is not small, so hitting the head directly is really not a minor injury or pain.

One of them was probably hit at the temple, and immediately curled up on the ground and rolled his eyes.The other had a layer of skin rubbed off, and blood quickly seeped out of the skin, turning from blood spots into blood beads in a blink of an eye, and then getting bigger and bigger, bleeding half of his face.

The other two people ran two steps away before reacting, and quickly retreated. They saw the injury of their companions, and their faces were full of anger.

Although Xia Chuan and the others have not lived in this tribe for a long time, from many daily things, they can see that everyone in this tribe is very loyal and sincere, and they can't wait to get better when they get better. It can be downright reckless at times.

This is certainly a good thing on weekdays, but it is a bit bad right now.

Because when those tribesmen found out that their companions were injured, the first thing they thought of was not to find a place to hide, but to rush to the front to avenge their companions and relieve their hatred.

Xia Chuan stooped to pick up the stone arrows, and then simply picked up the stone balls, and without saying a word, he raised his hand and threw the stone arrows and stone balls one by one towards the darkness.

His strength was so great that he probably couldn't find another opponent besides Deep Blue.And the throwing skills are also great, whether it is the posture and angle of the arm pulling back, or the movement of the wrist, they are all very professional.

It's just that in the current situation, professional movements and great strength are not useful.

Because after those stone arrows and stone balls drew a very beautiful curve, they sank straight into the darkness without any traces to be seen.

This feeling is extremely uncomfortable, all the attacks thrown out have no echo, and it is impossible to know who those stone arrows and stone balls are heading for, in what direction they land, and whether they hit any targets.It's like hitting cotton with a fist, and the opponent is not affected at all.

At the same time, Shen Lan, who had just fended off a few stone arrows, raised her hand to catch a stone ball, turned to Xia Chuan with a frown and said, "Something is wrong!"

"What's the matter?" Xia Chuan asked with his mouth open when he saw his serious expression and irritability while fending off a stone javelin.

It seems that since seeing this darkness, the one thing they have been saying is "something is wrong".Xia Chuan really couldn't think of anything more wrong with this situation.

"Sound!" Shen Lan replied, "When you threw these stone arrows and stone balls over, I could hear the sound of the wind passing through the air, but once they entered the darkness, the sound of the wind stopped abruptly, After that, nothing was heard, as if the sound they made was eaten by the darkness."

It is really rare for him to utter such a long sentence. What happens in ordinary times, he only needs to point out a few key words, and Xia Chuan can understand his meaning tacitly.But this time, if he didn't describe it, Xia Chuan really couldn't understand what he meant.

What does it mean that the darkness swallows all the sound?

Xia Chuan frowned tightly, and while resisting the attack, he focused most of his attention on the sound that came into his ears.

He listened carefully for a while, and finally understood what Shen Lan meant.I didn't notice it when I wasn't paying attention, but when I paid attention, I felt that it was very strange—there seemed to be no sound in the darkness, whether it was a human voice or an attack sound, but all the movements that should be under normal circumstances, there were no sounds in the darkness. Where there is darkness, nothing can be heard.

All movement starts from the dividing line between darkness and light, and from there there is sound.

"What's going on?!" Xia Chuan subconsciously raised his hand again to counter a few stone arrows.

He spotted the direction the two stone arrows came from this time, and threw them back at the same place, but he still couldn't get any feedback.I couldn't hear the sound of stone arrows hitting people, and I couldn't hear if anyone was screaming because of injuries.

At that moment, Xia Chuan only felt that they were not fighting the same human beings, but fighting against darkness and nothingness.

Attacking against nothingness, what can be hit?When does it count?

Xia Chuan just felt that this kind of behavior was simply absurd.But he couldn't let go, because they couldn't attack the darkness and nothingness, but they could attack him.

He was neither stupid nor reckless, he stopped throwing the stone arrows and stone balls back after two attempts, which was of no use other than adding weapons to the opponent.

And Deep Blue obviously had the same thoughts as him.

It's just that they don't represent all of them.After all, the ones who really take the lead here, or the ones the other side really wants to attack, are the clansmen around Xia Chuan and Shenlan.But with the participation of Xia Chuan and Deep Blue, the opponent's attack encountered obstacles. The stone arrow that should have been able to hit was partly blocked by the two of them, and then directly grabbed part of it. The stone ball was deflected by them. At least, the javelin was directly intercepted...

The opponent's weapons are quite a lot, besides these, there are also things similar to stone axes that spin and fly out.It was a place far away from both Xia Chuan and Shen Lan, and they both ignored it, so a clansman who was bending over to support the wounded with his back turned to the darkness was hit directly in the neck and passed out immediately.

In just a few minutes, two of Xia Chuan's people on his side had passed out, two were seriously injured and could not continue to participate in the battle, seven were bleeding and injured, and the remaining ones were all Protected by Xia Chuan and Shenlan during the attack.

As for the casualties of the other party, it is impossible to count them. There may be serious injuries, or they may be just some minor flesh wounds, or they may not even lose a single hair.

This completely unequal battle made Xia Chuan and Shen Lan feel extremely irritated.

Under normal circumstances, the more difficult the opponent is to deal with, the more interested Deep Blue is, and the more she wants to impress the opponent.But he is just competitive, not really reckless.

At least in the current situation, his thinking was the same as Xia Chuan's, and he felt that there was no need to continue the battle at all, and it was reasonable to retreat back to the slope while the loss was still controllable.

But obviously those clansmen didn't think so.

Every time an additional person was injured, their fighting spirit increased by one point with their anger, and they could almost see the raging fire burning on the top of their heads.

Dennis in the rear saw more and more wounded, so many that he could hardly take care of them, and he was very anxious. Finally, he couldn't help poking his head from behind the tree, and yelled directly in the direction of Xia Chuan and the others: "What are you fighting for?" Ah?! Hurry up and go back!"

While shouting, he also climbed up physically, raised his arms and directly hugged the two tribesmen and dragged them towards the back of the tree.

It's a pity that although he is taller than those two clansmen, his strength is no match for them.Seeing the two clansmen break free without saying a word, staring at a certain place in the darkness opposite with an angry face, without even moving their attention to Dennis, they raised their hands and drew a full bow, The stone arrows in his hand shot out one by one.

Xia Chuan and Shen Lan had tried it twice before, and they both felt that attacking without purpose was just sending more weapons to the other party, and it was a loss.So when they turned around and saw that the clansmen around them were still shooting arrows and throwing guns at the opposite side, they were very helpless and wanted to raise their hands to stop them.

But soon, they raised their hands to block those tribesmen and dropped them again.

Because they found that the facts seemed to be somewhat different from what they thought.

They found that the tribesmen around them didn't seem to be aimless when they were shooting arrows and guns.Generally, when they are confused about where the other party is located, most people will use two methods——

One is to shoot indiscriminately, from left to right or from right to left, and directly shoot a row in turn.

The other is to remember the direction where the opponent's stone arrow was shot, as Xia Chuan did before, pinpoint a certain point, and then focus on that point to attack.

But the clansmen around them were obviously not any of them.

Xia Chuan found that each of their arrows seemed to have a purpose. Sometimes they would immediately turn around to shoot another place after shooting one arrow, and sometimes they would stare at one place and shoot two or even three arrows in a row, and they would switch directions. It's not in any order from left to right or from right to left, but a typical east-to-west and west-to-left sequence, with no rules at all.

After looking at it for a while, he raised his eyes, and happened to meet Shenlan.

The deep blue eyes clearly had the same doubts as him, and the two probably thought about the same.

"Why do I feel..." Shen Lan asked Xia Chuan speculatively, "They don't seem to have no purpose?"

Xia Chuan nodded, apparently agreeing with him.

The archery methods of these tribesmen are obviously not aimless shooting, nor are they staring at one place like a bet. Their archery method is a bit special in this situation, but in normal circumstances, It couldn't be more ordinary.

Because that is the most common way of archery, aim at one and shoot one, change if you hit, and take a few more shots if you miss.

"What's going on?" Xia Chuan frowned, looking back and forth between the clansmen and the darkness several times, his expression full of surprise.

The wind passing through the forest was getting stronger and stronger, but unsatisfactorily, it was in the opposite direction to them. For those guys hiding in the dark, it was a tailwind.

As the wind fell, there were still a few muffled thunders, rumbling far away in the sky.

The weather here seems to want to carry forward the self-willedness and non-cooperation to the end. It has been gloomy for several days, and finally at the most inappropriate time, it reacted as it should, and it started to rain.

No matter if it was Deep Blue, Xia Chuan or Dennis, they could hear the sound of heavy rain rushing quickly from the thunderous sky, as if the curtain was drawn instantly.The forest they were facing was not spared either. The dense heavy rain could not be blocked by the branches and leaves at all, and the rainwater with the smell of vegetation and mud quickly passed through the canopy of the forest and poured down everywhere.

The rain followed the direction of the wind, and it was not only unstoppable, but also slanted, hitting Xia Chuan and the others directly in the face, and soon it was hard to keep their eyes open.

"How the hell are you going to fight?! Let's go back! Pull them back!" Dennis shouted at them from behind the tree.

The pouring rain hit the branches and leaves like the densest drumbeat, extremely noisy, and became the biggest barrier, because Deep Blue was disturbed by this sound so much that his ears ached. The sound of the wind was covered under the sound of the rain, and could no longer be heard clearly.

For others, the inability to hear and the eyes to see.But for Deep Blue, if you can't hear clearly, you can rest, and there is nothing to look forward to in your eyes.

He and Xia Chuan each made a prediction before going to bed, one said "either tonight or tomorrow, it will definitely rain", and the other said "I always feel that something will happen tonight".How lucky, Crow's mouth made a pair together, and both of them hit the mark.

It's so terrifying!

When the rain came, the two felt that it was the wisest choice to stop fighting. Everyone was in such a mess, what else could they fight?

Shen Lan and Xia Chuan couldn't help but grab the clansmen around them, dragged them and pushed them in the direction they came from, their intentions couldn't have been more obvious.This time these ancestors finally gave some face, and they were no longer so reckless.

They simply shot off the stone arrows in their hands, and after throwing a few stone balls, with lingering anger and resentment on their faces, they grabbed their bows and followed Xia Chuan and the others to retreat under the cover of trees.

But when they took the wounded in twos and threes and were about to leave the woods, the last person felt something rushing past him out of the corner of his eye. Because the torches were off and there was no skylight, they couldn't see the details clearly. .

In the next second, he heard a few screams.

Xia Chuan and Shen Lan, who were caught in the crowd, suddenly looked towards the place where the screams came from. Shen Lan couldn't see clearly, but Xia Chuan's eyesight was surprisingly good. He could distinguish several extremely fast figures in the darkness.

"The beast from before!" Xia Chuan blurted out.

Shen Lan frowned when she heard this.

Such an environment is naturally not suitable for attacking with weapons such as stone balls and stone arrows. Although these weapons have been extremely advanced in this primitive environment, objectively speaking, they are still not sophisticated, and they are not good enough to fight. With unshakable clumsiness.

So Xia Chuan and the others gave up the fight and retreated first with self-knowledge.

But they almost forgot that in addition to these clumsy weapons, the opponent has also domesticated a group of extremely agile and cunning beasts. Even in rainy days, their attack power will not weaken much, and they can also distinguish the target's location by smell and other movements , in such an environment, it is simply a big killer.

Now it was too late for them to withdraw.

When Shen Lan and Xia Chuan realized this, they had already made a move and fought with the group of beasts.

They who were just about to leave were fighting, and unknowingly shifted their position. When they realized it, they had already reached the edge of the darkness, and they were about to go in with the beast.

"Be careful!" Xia Chuan immediately reminded Deep Blue when he found out, then twisted the head of the beast held under his knees, raised his hand to pick up the body, and threw it into the darkness.

He threw away the beast and raised his hand to grab Deep Blue, pulling him towards him.

It was obviously impossible for those loyal clansmen to just sit back and watch the two of them wrestle with the beast before withdrawing by themselves.So he picked up the guy and joined the battle again.

Only this time, Xia Chuan watched them rush straight into the darkness angrily, without even blinking.