Chapter 148 First Battle
Gao Fei breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the scale of the mutant rat swarm is not large enough, otherwise it is possible to form a supernatural "mother nest will", evolve to an intelligence level comparable to that of humans, and set off a catastrophe that threatens the survival of all mankind!
As a standard swarming creature, the mutant rat swarm has two special abilities.
One is "disturbing the mind".
Any creature close to the mutant rat swarm will be mentally disturbed by the squeaking screams it makes, causing restlessness. If the will is not firm enough, it will lose concentration, which is especially troublesome for the caster - once the concentration is lost, the casting ritual will be interrupted!
The second characteristic of swarming creatures is that they have no fixed form, no fatal weakness, and are not subject to pincer attack, critical hit, and sneak attack. Any single attack weapon can only kill a certain individual in the swarm, and has no hindrance to the swarm as a whole.
Witnessing the swarm of rats surging like a tide, Gao Fei immediately thought of the animal skeletons he had seen on the street before. Obviously, they were all eaten alive by this group of crazy mutant rats, leaving only pale bones, issuing a silent warning to outsiders.
Ma Tao calmed down at this time, silently extracted a star disk energy, awakened the secondary occupation "Dimos Priest", squeezed past Qi Tian with a dark face, put away the pistol, switched to the magic crystal shotgun, and fired two shots at the rats that spread like a carpet under his feet.
Bang Bang, two gunshots blasted the alley with blood and flesh flying, and the smoke was filled.
The rats were hit head-on, screaming and turning around to flee, like a retreating black tide.
Just as single attacks have little effect on clustered creatures, large-scale lethal magic and weapons can cause fatal damage to multiple vulnerable individuals in the cluster at the same time. This is reflected in the macro data, that is, group attacks can cause double damage to clustered creatures.
"Damn! You are still smart, Brother Tao! Why didn't I think of choosing a shotgun at the beginning!" Qi Tian looked at the thick barreled hunting rifle in Ma Tao's hand, his eyes full of envy.
It can only be said that they were unlucky. Gao Fei and his team encountered the most difficult clustered creatures on their first mission.
Except for Ma Tao's shotgun, the weapons equipped by other team members, including pistols, electric batons and cold weapons, are not suitable for dealing with mutant rats.
More mutant rats are gathering from both sides of the alley, and a shotgun alone is obviously not enough to stop them.
Once the mutant rats rush to their feet, climb on their bodies and bite them madly, they can't hold on for two minutes. The fate of everyone will be the same as that yak, being gnawed into a skeleton alive!
Gao Fei quickly looked around and observed the terrain in the alley. He felt confident and turned back to his companions and said:
"Brother Daqing, you protect Jiajia and pay attention to the movements around you!"
"Student Jiang, you quickly summon the sandworms and block the alley behind to prevent the rats from rushing in!"
"Got it, Student Gao!"
Jiang Feng had already locked his secondary profession on "Sandworm Knight" and immediately spent a star disk energy to summon natural allies.
A radiant summoning circle rose from the ground in front of him, and a yellowish-brown monster insect that looked like a giant python emerged. It had a pair of sharp jaws on its head, which opened and closed like scissors, making a crackling sound when they collided. At the end of its tail, a hook-shaped stinger oozing venom rose.
"Oh my god! So handsome, Xiao Feng - Nausicaa!"
Wang Daqing looked at the heroic female knight on the back of the giant insect with admiration in his eyes.
Jiang Feng thought for a while before he realized what the "Nausicaa" he was talking about was, and he couldn't help laughing immediately - I really didn't realize that Comrade Wang, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, was also a "second-rate ape"!
Li Jiajia had never seen such a terrifying giant insect in her life, and she was so scared that she almost screamed again. Suddenly, she remembered Qi Tian's warning, and quickly covered her mouth with tears in her eyes.
Seeing her frightened look about to collapse, Jiang Feng shook his head helplessly, ran to the sandworm quickly, touched its head, jumped onto its back, sat firmly on the saddle, held the spear in his right hand, grabbed the reins with his left hand, and drove the giant worm to the end of the alley to stop the swarm of mutant rats.
The chitinous exoskeleton of the sandworm is very hard, providing +5 natural defense, which is equivalent to wearing a set of armor forged with fine steel. Even if it is surrounded and bitten by the mutant rats, it will not break the defense in a short time.
What's more, the sandworm is not a docile livestock. It crawls through the rats, and the heavy body squeezes down. How can the fragile rats bear it?
Wherever the sandworm passes, there are constant squeaking screams from under it, crushing countless mutant rats to death, and bloody paste on the ground.
Jiang Feng rode on the back of the sandworm, holding up the spear but couldn't find a target worth stabbing, so he put the lance back into the storage space and freed up his hands to cast spells.
Level 1 Sandworm Knights automatically comprehend a 0-ring natural magic, and Jiang Feng chose the "Fire Spell".
He spread his right palm upwards, chanted a prayer praising the origin of nature in a low voice, and a stream of burning magic surged from his palm, transforming into a blazing fireball in midair, illuminating the dark alley.
Jiang Feng waved his hand and threw the fireball, which hit the center of the rat group with a bang, burning several rats to death on the spot, and the surrounding rats were also set on fire.
Qi Tian saw this scene from the side, and suddenly his eyes lit up. He took out a bottle of high-proof liquor that he had just "borrowed" from the storage space of the star disk, aimed at the rat on fire and threw it over.
The glass bottle hit the ground and shattered, and the splashing liquor was ignited by the flames on the rat's body. With a bang, a large piece of flames spewed out, quickly spreading to the surroundings, and in a blink of an eye, hundreds of rats were engulfed in the sea of fire.
"Xiaotian, you're quite smart!"
Jiang Feng smiled and gave Qi Tian a thumbs up, then released the "Fire Burning Technique" again, igniting the other bottle of liquor he threw out, forming two fire walls blocking the entrance to the alley.
At the same time, at the end of the alley exit, the fire burned even more vigorously.
Before the battle began, Gao Fei had already awakened the "Dragon Warrior". Facing the large group of mutant rats rushing over like a tide, he calmly turned on the rampage and transformed into a red dragon.
The rats on the opposite side felt the dragon power emanating from him, and they were all scared and turned around and fled.
Gao Fei strode to In a relatively spacious area, the dragon spread its wings and flew into the air, maintaining a low-altitude gliding posture of about 10 meters above the ground, passing directly above the rat group, and spewing flames downwards.
The hot dragon breath was like a moving wall of fire, sweeping from the back of the rat group, sweeping forward all the way, and in an instant, hundreds of mutant rats were completely submerged, burning them into charcoal on the spot.
After the flames swept through, the asphalt on the road was melted, emitting black smoke and flowing slowly.
Occasionally, a few rats that escaped the net and flowed onto the molten asphalt road surface were immediately stuck, screaming in despair.
