Chapter 6: : Wendigo
Quietness is the first impression you get from this forest. There is no chirping of birds and insects, and no hissing of beasts.
This is not normal. Even in the cold winter, the forest shouldn't be so quiet, let alone it's autumn, and it's not that quiet season.
The unusual silence proves that Matthew is not lying, there is indeed a group of Wendigos hidden in this forest.
These supernatural creatures mutated because of cannibalism, while gaining power, they also bear a curse. Their stomachs are like a bottomless pit, so that they can never be satisfied and suffer from hunger all the time.
Hungry, they will devour all living things within the range of the nest, even small bugs like ants and crickets.
Therefore, the forest where Wendigo is entrenched is extremely quiet. The living creatures in the forest are either eaten up by them, or they feel their breath migrate out of this area.
In such a dead forest, any kind of sound is abrupt, and Luo Ning's footsteps are no exception. position.
But Ronin didn't take it lightly because it was useless. The forest is the home of the Wendigos. It is almost impossible to sneak attack on them in the forest. Come.
It's a pity that Luo Ning is far less attractive than the search and rescue team in front of him, so...
"Help!"
Luo Ning stopped and listened to the faint sounds coming from the depths of the jungle, without the slightest wave in his eyes.
Monsters like Wendigo have a considerable degree of intelligence, so they are very cunning. They can even imitate human voices to attract people into their traps.
It's like now, because of the large number of search and rescue teams, those Wendigos are not sure to eat them all. In order to avoid the search and rescue team from being attacked and fleeing the forest, they imitated the victims' cry for help and prepared to search and rescue them. The team was introduced into the depths of the jungle, and then launched an attack.
Although this method is old-fashioned, it works well, especially for ordinary people who don't know anything about it.
Sure enough, after a while, the search and rescue team was attacked, and the piercing gunshots were accompanied by screams of horror. The movement was quite intense, but Luo Ning remained unmoved, and did not mean to step forward to help.
Just kidding, in this situation, the shotguns in those hands were definitely more dangerous than Wendigo's claws. Although Ronin was wearing a double-layer body armor, he didn't want to taste stray bullets.
…
The search and rescue team was small, with only six members, including Sheriff Terry. Facing the hordes of Wendigos, they had no resistance at all. It was only a matter of time before they were destroyed.
Sure enough, with a low roar, the gunshots and screams in the deep forest soon subsided, everything returned to silence, and no sound could be heard.
Ronin stayed where he was, waiting for the end of the battle in the deep forest, while counting the number of Wendigos he would face later.
It is now late autumn, and the harsh winter is coming. Many creatures are stocking up food for the winter, and Wendigo is no exception. They not only need food to survive the winter, but also to nurture new members.
Therefore, when winter is approaching, Wendigo will leave the forest, attack nearby villages or towns, capture humans and other living creatures, and bring them back to their nests as food reserves for winter.
The search and rescue team has a total of six members. If you want to transport them all back to the lair, at least three Wendigos are needed, and the number of Wendigos in a clan is basically no more than ten, including the elders left behind in the lair. With the guards, what Ronin needs to face later should be...
"Two to three, maybe five at most."
With the result in his heart, Luo Ning didn't stop there, carrying the weapon case and walking towards the direction where the search and rescue team was attacked just now.
It is only early in the morning, and the sunlight in autumn is not as fierce as in summer, and it cannot penetrate the dense branches and leaves at all, so the light in the forest is not enough and it is very dim.
Luo Ning went deep into it, and there was no road to walk under his feet. He could only step on low shrubs and lichens, and his vision was limited, so his speed was not fast, and it took a while to get close to the attack site.
Suddenly, Luo Ning stopped his steps and stopped in front of a pine tree. It can be seen that the thick trunk is full of traces left by sharp claws. Pine resin overflows from it, like condensed blood. It seems that Extra scary.
This is the trace left by Wendigo. Their hands and feet have powerful hooks that allow them to easily climb the trees, and even launch sneak attacks to attack humans who strayed into the forest from a height. just like…
"Ho!"
A huge shadow suddenly fell from the dense canopy branches and leaves, carrying a gust of wind straight to the back of Ronin's head, but he didn't want to, Ronin moved faster, and the moment the shadow fell, he turned around. The weapon box held in the left hand swung up and smashed heavily towards the shadow.
This weapon box is also from the hands of Luo Ning's father. The main material is steel, mixed with silver and some metals that act in the mysterious field. It weighs 35 kilograms. It is an uncompromising melee weapon and has shock resistance The explosion effect ensures that it will not cause damage to the items in the weapon box.
Using Ronin's power to lift this weapon box, the lethality can only be described as amazing. The Wendigo didn't even have time to react, so he smashed the box on Ronin's face, and a cloud of blood burst out. Come on, I was pumped out on the spot.
This time, if you change to a human, you will lose half your life if you don't die, but Wendigo is Wendigo after all. As a supernatural creature, its body is not only strong, agile, but also has mysterious characteristics.
In legends, this evil monster is a symbol of cold and famine. They are not only invulnerable to anything other than fire, but also have eternal life and power.
Although the legends are all exaggerated, they are not all false. For monsters like Wendigo, their mysterious characteristic is that they are afraid of flames, and have strong resistance and even immunity to damage outside of flames.
Therefore, Ronin's attack was not fatal to this Wendigo, not even a serious injury, and it climbed up in a blink of an eye.
Only then did Luo Ning see its appearance clearly, just as Matthew had described before. It had a roughly human shape with a huge skeleton and a thin body. It seemed that only a layer of dead gray skin was close to the bones. Without the existence of any flesh and blood, the whole body exudes an extremely strong smell of blood and rancidity, like a living corpse that has just crawled out of the tomb.
Its face is even more frightening. The shriveled skin tightly wraps the face, the eye sockets are deeply sunken, and the yellow-gray pupils in the inner part show a turbid texture, as if there will be pus overflowing at any time. When he came out, the lower half of his face was covered with bright red blood stains, highlighting the extreme terror of the **** mouth that crisscrossed his teeth.
Of course, for Ronin, the monster's limbs are the focus, especially the pair of arms, which are as thick and long as a giant ape, their feet drop to their knees, and their ten fingers are deformed into curved hook claws, which are full of flesh and blood. The debris and mud of unknown composition are known to be extremely lethal at a glance.
Ronin's attack just now left a sunken mark on the Wendigo's face, and thick blood and turbid juice overflowed from it, making people feel nauseated.
This injury is not serious for Wendigo, but it deeply stimulates it. I saw this terrifying monster half-bent, roaring like a wolf, and its gray-yellow pupils stared at him. Looking at Luo Ning, his eyes were filled with indescribable hunger and greed.
The instinct of the body is telling it that the human being in front of him is more delicious than all the food it has eaten before. As long as he eats him, he will be satisfied and become stronger.
Eat him!
Eat him!
Eat him!
Driven by hunger and instinctual pursuit, this Wendigo launched an attack brazenly, and the thin and withered body burst out with powerful strength, like a cheetah rushing towards Ronin fiercely.
With Wendigo's physique and strength, it is basically difficult for the prey to be knocked down by it to resist effectively. Even an adult grizzly bear with rough skin and thick flesh can't resist its sharp and powerful teeth. It bites off its neck and dies quickly from blood loss and suffocation.
However…
"boom!"
A loud bang shook in this quiet dense forest, and Wendigo, who was flying in, was blasted out at a faster speed and crashed into a bush behind.
"Crack!"
Luo Ning put down the weapon case with one hand and probed towards his waist. With the other hand, he swung the shotgun, which was still smoking wisps of blue smoke, and spun it, and pulled out the silver eagle when the loading was completed.
Ronin's speed was extremely fast, but the Wendigo's movements were also not slow. With a roar, he rushed out of the bushes and rushed towards Ronin again.
At this time, if someone freezes the time and observes carefully, they will definitely find that there is an extra scar covering a large area on Wendigo's chest, which is the damage caused by the shotgun.
It's a pity that the damage was not serious, and it didn't even penetrate its outer skin defense. A large number of projectiles were embedded in the dead gray skin, and were slowly squeezed out under the action of a force.
This is the mysterious quality. Under the influence of supernatural mysterious power, Wendigo's body has super toughness. Even if the modified and strengthened Winchester M1887 in Ronin's hand is powerful enough to kill an adult brown bear, Can't deal effective damage to it.
Fortunately, Ronin had already anticipated this, so he was not surprised by the result of this shot, and his position was not at all chaotic. Facing the crazy rushing Wendigo, he pulled the trigger of Silver Eagle.
"boom!"
The roar of this gun was even more intense than before, like the roar of a giant beast, penetrating an unparalleled sense of power, and even bright red flames poured out from the muzzle, illuminating the dark forest instantly.
"Clap!"
As the gun flame poured out, a dark red light exploded, and Wendigo, who was flying over, instantly fell to the ground. Like an injured beast, he howled in pain.
It can be seen that on its left calf, there is a wound caused by a bullet, and the skin with super toughness has been broken through.
Magic Shot
Level: LV1+1=LV2 (style core skills, no style skill level can exceed this skill level)
Introduction: Stimulate magic, UU reading www. uukanshu.com injects firearms, improves the performance of firearms, enhances the power of firearms, and adds magic damage to bullets, so that it ignores the effects of extraordinary power and mysterious characteristics to a certain extent (depending on the firearm, the consumption of magic power will increase or decrease accordingly)
Magic shooting, the core skill of the gun **** style, is also the only skill that Luo Ning has learned so far. It can inject magic power into the firearm, improve the performance of the firearm, and give the bullet magic damage effect. While increasing the damage, it can also increase the damage. Ignore the role of mystical traits.
Just like the Wendigo in front of me, its mysterious qualities endow it with resistance to all damage other than flames, so that Ronin's shotgun can't even penetrate its skin until it uses magic power to shoot. It deals effective damage.
In Luo Ning's view, ignoring the mysterious qualities is the core of this skill. Other performance improvements and increased power are just the icing on the cake, because in this world, the power of many extraordinary creatures is not strong, but the mysterious qualities Existence makes them extremely dangerous.
Vampires are an example. Except for some ancient bloodlines, most vampires are not much stronger than ordinary people. In theory, Ronin can kill ten of such vampires with one hand, but in actual combat, if There is no weapon for his characteristics, and he is the one who finally flees in the face of ten fully armed vampire soldiers.
There's no way to do it. If you fight, you won't die. If you waste it, but you can't escape, what else can you do?
Therefore, magic shooting ignores the role of mysterious characteristics, which is of great significance, especially for a lone ranger like Luo Ning, who has no team backup or organizational help, no matter what the situation is, he can only rely on himself. What is needed is this comprehensive capability.