Chapter 20: Engaging in Battle
At this time, Zhou Yue turned his head to take a look, but found that the silly woman actually didn't escape, still staring at him foolishly, suddenly making him angry enough to choke. How can there be such a freak in this world?
"You fool, what are you looking at? I have flowers on me! Hurry up and escape! I've made it clear to you, yesterday when I rescued you from the city, I already returned your luck. Now we're even, understand? Hurry up and leave!"
But I guess that woman was scared silly, didn't react at all, just stared at Zhou Yue, if not for the terrifying wound on her face, those eyes were still quite watery.
But Zhou Yue wouldn't waste his extra saliva, anyway he had reminded her, that stupid woman didn't leave then she just wouldn't, even if she got killed it was fine, at least it would save him the trouble of looking at her.
But at this moment, a loud and mournful howling sound suddenly came from the Black Castle in the center of Red Mountain City. Then, a vast black wind swept over, with countless yellow talismans mixed within it.
This gust of wind was all too familiar to Zhou Yue and his companions. Wasn't this the start of yesterday's nightmare?!
Before they could react, the black storm swept past them at an extremely fast speed. In an instant, a chill ran through their bodies as a yellow talisman appeared on each of their foreheads. Immediately after, a message emerged in everyone's mind.
"You have been infected with the plague spread by the Yellow Turban Army, your HP has decreased by 3 points, all attributes have decreased by 1 point, lasting for 10 minutes!"
Upon seeing this information, Zhou Yue and others couldn't help but curse loudly. How despicable! How shameless! How abhorrent is this?! These people were originally weak in strength, now they've been weakened even further. How can they still face those 5,600 level-2 evil spirits?
However, at this time Zhou Yue suddenly thought of that silly woman who refused to leave. She turned her head and looked back, and immediately felt relieved. She had not been infected into an evil spirit, but some of the foolish brave people in the small town on the bridge who had not yet evacuated were infected with evil spirits, and then they were killed by the soldiers of the guard squad with bayonets, because now everyone knew that only cold weapons could gain experience.
At that time when the black storm was blowing, those five or six thousand 2nd-level evil spirits also let out a shrill cry and rushed over from three kilometers away. Their agility was all at 12 points, so under full force, they would probably only need seven or eight minutes to reach the bridgehead position. And by that time, the plague effect on Zhou Yue and the others had not yet dissipated!
Everyone's breathing began to quicken, tense emotions spreading, a mix of excitement and apprehension, because apart from Zhou Yue, among the crowd, almost everyone only needed to kill four or five 2nd-level evil spirits to upgrade to level 3, which was an even more powerful force!
But those five or six thousand evil spirits, each over two meters tall, were indeed shocking, far surpassing any commercial blockbuster. From a distance, they looked like a black tide, sweeping in and even making the ground tremble slightly. The pressure was like a great mountain, leaving everyone breathless.
Time slowly passed, and when the two-second evil spirits rushed to a distance of about 1.5 kilometers, Tang Kun ordered the ten heavy machine guns within the front and rear defensive lines to open fire with all their might. Suddenly, ten tongues of flame spewed out, which was truly an eye-opener for Zhou Yue and others who had never seen such a scene before.
However, due to the effect of that Heavenly Master halo, coupled with the distance factor, these heavy machine guns had little effect on those 2nd-level evil spirits. At least a dozen bullets were needed to take down one, and for that dense mass of five or six thousand 2nd-level evil spirits, it was just a gentle sprinkle.
When these evil spirits finally rushed into a kilometer range, the killing power of the heavy machine guns gradually emerged, almost in pieces of killings. At Tang Kun's special request, all the heavy and light machine guns were used to attack the more numerous evil spirits, while those scattered evil spirits were completely let go.
Just a distance of 500 meters, the original 50,000 to 60,000 evil spirits were left with only about half, from which we can know that the power of modernized weapons is also very terrifying. If this were 5,000 ordinary people, I'm afraid they would have been annihilated long ago.
As those evil spirits entered the 500-meter range, all the rifles also opened fire. Similarly, the scattered evil spirits at the very front were left behind, and they would be eliminated by bayonets by the four special squads of one, two, three, and four.
At this moment, Zhou Yue's slightly tense mood also gradually calmed down. Although the roar of the heavy machine guns beside him was deafening, he seemed to have not heard it at all. His gaze was tightly fixed on the scattered evil spirits hundreds of meters ahead. Due to prior arrangements, the two heavy machine guns at the bridgehead were only responsible for attacking the middle, while the sides had a gap of about 20 meters wide. This area would be their attack zone.
Soon, about thirty or more evil spirits rushed into the 100-meter range. At this time, Zhou Yue didn't wait for Tang Kun's order and suddenly darted out.
"Zhou Yue, what are you doing? Heavy machine gun, be careful not to hurt anyone by mistake!" Tang Kun was furious, but he couldn't do anything about it. After all, Zhou Yue was the only one who had leveled up to level 3 among everyone. Moreover, engaging the enemy from a hundred meters away would also help delay time. To know that there were still two minutes until the plague state ended, and if they waited for the plague state to be lifted, many of them would have a high chance of survival.
Zhou Yue is now shrouded in a plague state, but his attributes are still high, with strength at 11 points, agility at 17 points, attack at 1 point, and life value at 13 points, which is still enough to suppress those level 2 evil spirits.
Those scattered thirty or so evil spirits immediately rushed towards Zhou Yue as soon as they saw him, but because they were too dispersed, they couldn't form a siege. Of course, this was only relative to Zhou Yue; if it were someone else, they would be surrounded in just five seconds.
At this moment, everyone's eyes are on Zhou Yue, whether it's jealousy or admiration, deep down, they still hope that Zhou Yue can temporarily hold off these evil spirits.
Within a hundred meters, at the speed of Feng Yue, it didn't take long. In the blink of an eye, he had already charged to the front of a fierce ghost. However, he did not use the kite-flying tactic like yesterday, but instead leaped into the air to the left. After barely avoiding the claws of that 2nd-level fierce ghost, his entire body miraculously rotated another half degree to the right. As a result, the left side of that 2nd-level fierce ghost was completely exposed in front of him in mid-air. In an instant, the Ghost Tooth in his hand flashed out like lightning and stabbed three times into the weakest part of the ghost's neck!
These three attacks took away 8, 5 and 3 points of life from the evil spirit respectively. The first attack had the highest damage because it was a concentrated blow with all of Zhou Yue's strength, plus it hit a vital spot, resulting in a critical hit. The damage of the latter two attacks decreased because they lacked power, and the final 3-point attack was almost as much as the original damage of the evil spirit's fang.
It should be noted that the 2-point attack damage of Evil Ghost Tooth is only the basic damage of this dagger, just like a kitchen knife. Assuming the attack damage is 1 point, if a child who can barely hold it uses it, the damage will be at most 1 point, but if Zhao Dashan takes it over, the damage may reach more than 10 points, which is caused by external factors.
Zhou Yue's strength is his shortcoming, so he can only rely on agility and then concentrate all his power to attack the weak angle in order to deal high damage. If it were Zhao Dashan, under the same conditions, he would at least be able to deal 15 points of damage. Of course, Zhao Dashan wouldn't be able to directly hurt the evil spirit's neck, this is the difference between strength and agility attributes.
At this time, the three attacks of Evil Spirit's Tooth immediately triggered the paralysis effect, and the movement of that evil spirit slowed down for a moment, seemingly without much effect, as the paralysis effect only lasted for one second.
But this second was enough for Zhou Yue, and in the moment he landed, he rushed into the evil spirit's arms like a fish, then the evil spirit's fangs suddenly wiped past its weakest throat!
This blow was absolutely fatal, directly wiping out the remaining 8 points of the evil spirit's life value, thoroughly killing it. From the moment Zhou Yue started attacking to now, it wasn't even three seconds! Those people far away, Tang Kun, Zhao Dashan, Qin Lang, didn't even have time to see what happened, and the entire battle was already over.
Quickly picking up the dropped items on the ground, Zhou Yue turned around and retreated immediately, because at this moment two more evil spirits rushed up. If he continued to fight in the original place, he might be surrounded by the evil spirits behind him, which was inconsistent with his attacking tactics.
He retreated about 15 meters, but Zhou Yue seized the opportunity to launch another fierce attack, using his overwhelming speed to kill the second evil spirit. He then continued to retreat without any intention of engaging in a prolonged battle.
At the moment when Zhou Yue killed two evil spirits with this method, his position was less than thirty meters away from Tang Kun and others. His killing, like cutting melons and vegetables, also stirred up everyone's blood. With a loud order from Tang Kun, four teams of more than sixty people rushed out!
