The Harpy at the Gas Station (Seeking Favorites)

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"Tidy up your gear, let's go take a look."

Gu Su was silent for a moment, his gaze swept over the skeleton squad beside him, and he finally gave a deep command.

As soon as the skeletons heard him, they sprang into action, quickly modifying and organizing their equipment.

The skeletons assigned the fan blades squatted down and repeatedly polished them against stones, grinding one side of the blades into a sharp edge.

They then found a thick wooden stick and firmly attached it to the end of the blade as a handle, forming a simple yet deadly bone-and-iron saber.

The skeletons assigned the angle iron from the shelf carefully wrapped the middle section of the angle iron with tattered cloth strips, making it non-slip and easy to grip. They then sharpened the other end into a sharp cone, and a handy spear was quickly prepared.

Compared to their previous disheveled state of merely clutching stones and wielding crude maces, the skeleton squad's combat power had significantly increased after their equipment upgrade.

Gu Su nodded with satisfaction, no longer delaying. He raised his hand to signal the start, leading the entire skeleton squad to quickly leave the graveyard demon.

The moment he turned to leave, the strange tree in the corner of the graveyard suddenly rustled its new leaves, and countless paper-money-like seeds sprayed out, drifting in the direction the team was heading in the breeze, as if silently bidding them farewell.

With the scouts at the front, the team's progress was extremely fast, without any delay.

Gu Su observed his surroundings as he walked.

However, he was completely unaware that as he left the graveyard demon, at the other end of the graveyard, several shopping carts covered in white corrupted mycelium suddenly shot out from underground, rushing into the distance with strong inertia.

The ground where the shopping carts rolled over left a faint white trail of mycelium.

In just a moment, these mycelia quietly disappeared, and the soil that had been contaminated by them slowly became more and more turbid, faintly exuding a rich aura of corruption.

No one cared what these shopping carts would hit or where they would stop.

In short, this bizarre method successfully sent the corrupted mycelium out of the graveyard demon's existing territory and spread it far away.

Since the graveyard demon could not move on its own, this was its best way to expand its territory and infect the surrounding land, silent yet highly penetrating.

After following the skeleton squad for more than a thousand meters, Gu Su's gaze passed through the gaps in the sparse forest and he saw the abandoned gas station in the distance.

Before he even got close, a sense of unease crept into his heart, and the surrounding atmosphere felt inexplicably strange and eerie.

The trunks of the trees on both sides of the road were densely hung with the corpses of small animals, mostly rabbits, squirrels, and mice.

These corpses were all hung upside down, some already dried and shriveled into hard jerky, while others had completely rotted away, leaving only incomplete skeletons, chilling and terrifying.

Those who knew the inside story would understand that this was the harpy's stored food for the winter.

Those who didn't know the inside story might think that some kind of bizarre and terrifying sacrificial ritual was being held here.

At this moment, the leading skeleton stopped and pointed to a place where tree shadows intertwined, indicating to Gu Su that the harpy was over there.

Gu Su looked in the direction the skeleton pointed and indeed saw a harpy standing on a thick branch in the distance.

Human torso, eagle wings, scarlet eyes scanning the surroundings vigilantly, sharp claws tightly gripping the branch.

Further away was the abandoned gas station. A huge bird's nest was built on the roof of the gas station, mixed with grass and feathers. Movement could be vaguely seen inside the nest, indicating it was a gathering place for harpies.

Gu Su glanced at the position where the harpy was standing, then turned to the skeleton beside him, a hint of curiosity arising in his heart, and asked, "How did you kill the harpy?"

The skeleton had no extra words and immediately stepped forward to demonstrate.

It raised its weapon and smashed it heavily onto the large tree beside it.

With a dull thud, it instantly startled the harpy on the branch.

The harpy suddenly turned its head. Upon seeing the skeleton, it let out a sharp, piercing shriek, flapped its wide wings, opened its sharp claws, and swooped down aggressively, its target aimed directly at the skeleton's head.

Just as the harpy's claws were about to grasp the skeleton's bones, the skeleton suddenly raised its hand and firmly gripped the harpy's legs with its bone claws. No matter how it struggled and shrieked, it refused to let go.

Seeing this, another skeleton hidden behind the tree quickly stepped forward. It raised the saber in its hand high and, taking advantage of the harpy's inability to break free, fiercely chopped down on its neck. A cold light flashed, and blood gushed out.

The two skeletons cooperated tacitly, one restraining and one killing. In just a few seconds, they easily dealt with this agile flying creature. The harpy's corpse fell heavily to the ground, twitched a few times, and then lay still.

[Skeleton (Summon) killed Harpy (Level 1), you gained 2 experience points, Summon gained 4 experience points.]

Seeing the demonstration before him, a gleam flashed in Gu Su's eyes. He decisively ordered, "Good, let's do it this way!

You two form a group and act separately. Approach quietly, kill as many as you can, and try not to alarm the main force in the nest on the roof!"

The skeleton squad immediately dispersed, forming groups of two, using the trees as cover, and silently crept towards the harpies on the surrounding trees.

Gu Su himself was not idle. He beckoned to the magic-using skeleton not far away, and the two of them followed behind the team, joining the hunt.

However, it was always the magic-using skeleton, not Gu Su holding the plague cutter, that was responsible for attracting the harpies' attention.

In just a moment, sharp shrieks of harpies echoed through the forest one after another.

More than a dozen lone harpies fell to Gu Su and his skeleton subordinates, their corpses scattered everywhere, blood staining the fallen leaves and soil underfoot.

The skeleton squad became more adept at fighting. Initially, there was some chaos, but later the entire hunting process was orderly. Not only did the speed increase, but the commotion also decreased significantly.

But at this moment, a dense and sharp series of shrieks suddenly came from the huge bird's nest on the roof of the gas station.

Clearly, the harpies in the nest had finally discovered something was wrong.

The continuous disappearance of their companions, the shrieks in the forest, and the smell of blood could no longer be concealed.

The next second, a rustling sound of countless wings beating filled the air as the harpies in the nest simultaneously took flight.

Approximately thirteen harpies, brimming with boundless rage, swooped directly towards the front of this forest.

Their sharp talons glinted coldly under the sunlight, and their piercing shrieks made the leaves in the forest tremble.

Gu Su's heart tightened, and he immediately stopped his actions, his gaze locked onto the approaching harpy flock.

He quickly noticed that at the very front of the flock, the leader was significantly larger than the other harpies.

The feathers on its wings shimmered with a faint blue-black hue, and its body was entwined with fine, pale blue currents that crackled and occasionally sparked with arcs of electricity.

It was clear at a glance that this was no ordinary harpy, but a spellcasting harpy specializing in lightning magic, its strength far surpassing that of its kin.