Nothing That Can't Be Solved with One Shot
Bang bang bang!
Arrows, some good, some bad, flew out and struck the monsters, only producing sparks before being deflected. The hunters, already terrified of the Wendigo, were thrown into disarray.
On the contrary, although the soldiers were also surprised, they were trained after all. When they saw the white monsters rushing towards them, they put down their bows and arrows, drew their knight's swords, and finally saw the monsters' specific appearance.
These monsters were over three meters tall, and most of them still had remnants of grayish-white dead human flesh on their bodies. However, the skin and flesh on their chests and other parts of their bodies had all disappeared, and their ribs and the rotten, smelly, and blackened internal organs inside the ribs could be clearly seen.
Their arms grew very long; when they were hanging down normally, they could almost touch their calves. Their skin was gray and covered with disgusting downy hair. The reason they looked like white monsters from a distance was because so much of their skeleton was exposed.
Their feet and heads resemble those of deer, so in some legends, the Wendigo are also mountain gods who protect the forests, but they have been corrupted by humans who destroy the forests, resulting in a cannibalistic and negative image.
While the soldiers were on high alert, Wendigo did not attack the soldiers closer to them, but instead charged directly at the hunters.
The hunters swung their machetes in terror, hacking at Wendigo's body, but only managed to knock off chunks of rotting flesh; the blows against the bones produced only a crackling sound.
Wendigo was unharmed; instead, the hunters who were hacking at them had their hands ripped open by the impact. Then, Wendigo rushed up and slashed off half of their heads with a claw. It then tore open their clothes, searched their bodies for white bones, threw them into the deer's head, and chewed them noisily.
Just as the hunters were being attacked, the old village chief threw something at the queen, shouting for her to catch it.
They initially thought it was Tinderbox, but what fell down was a thigh bone. It turned out that Bangier had to swim across the river earlier, so he couldn't take the thigh bone with him and the old village chief had kept it. Now it had served to divert trouble.
Seeing that he was out of Wendigo's sight, the old village chief took a few quick steps and jumped into the water, rushing towards the back of the waterfall. He would only be safe once he reached the Candy House.
When the Wendigo have no shortage of people, their practice upon discovering humans is to kill them and store them as food. Although they will prioritize attacking people with skeletons, it does not mean that they will abandon other living humans.
The Wendigo are Greed; they attack all living beings. If they have enough people, they kill them; if they do, they take them back to the cannibal tribes that worship them and raise them as breeding boars. If they cannot reproduce, the cannibals eat them as part of a cannibalistic ritual.
Whether our old village chief was lucky or unlucky, decades ago he happened to encounter a shortage of people in the cannibal tribe. He escaped two months later, taking advantage of most of the Wendigo being away, and then used the power of the Tinderbox. After that, although he served as the village chief on the edge of the forest and had a lot of real power, he never touched a woman again for decades.
The old village chief leaped into the water and reached the passage behind the waterfall. He heard hurried footsteps ahead. Just as the hunters were shooting arrows at Wendigo, that kid Bangier jumped into the water with his sister. It seemed that those two brats were ahead.
The sound of splashing water came from behind again. It seemed that the people outside wouldn't be able to hold out for much longer. It would be better to hurry to the Candy House. He took out the Tinderbox he had been holding in his pocket, rubbed it, and summoned a large dog with eyes the size of a teacup. The dog's eyes, which were gleaming with an eerie light, stared at the old village chief.
The old village chief flipped over and straddled the large dog, ordering it to run forward. But after only a few steps, the dog stopped. Then the old village chief heard a voice crawling out of the water. It was the Queen, who held up a checkered apron and said, "Take me with you, or I won't take this checkered apron, and we'll all die together."
The old village chief had no choice but to take the Queen with him. After them, several more people climbed out of the water and ran frantically forward, their footsteps crunching over the white bones, which also emitted some phosphorescent light.
Normally, these people would have been terrified by the pile of bones, but now that the monster was right behind them, they didn't care about the dead bones on the ground. So they all ran towards the cave entrance with all their might.
Outside the waterfall, about twenty Wendigo collected and ate all the remaining bone fragments before rushing into the waterfall. The sound of their footsteps instilled even more fear in the people running ahead.
Lu Li held an umbrella and stood in front of the Candy House, quietly looking at the cave entrance in the distance. Because the passage was slanted upwards, the cave entrance was still some distance away from the Candy House.
The first to appear were the old village chief and the queen. He rode a big dog and came from behind, with the queen clinging tightly to his body. If people didn't know their story, they might have thought they were a loving couple.
Then it was Bangier with his sister. They were the smallest targets and the first to realize something was wrong and run away. Bangier was panting, holding his sister's hand, and wouldn't stop for a moment.
Screams echoed from the cave. Bangier's parents ran ahead, followed by soldiers in fine equipment. It was precisely because their equipment was so sophisticated and heavy that the soldiers ran rather slowly.
As Bangier's voice drew ever closer behind him, his father threw the pieces of Wendigo 'Wendigo remains that he had been clutching at the soldiers behind him, successfully causing them to freeze in their tracks.
There are some unknown reasons why Bangier's father was able to run so far with the bones. Previously, Wendigo had tried to attack him, but was intercepted by a monster that appeared out of nowhere, like a black mist.
His wife, who was running beside him, suddenly lost her footing and fell to the ground. She had been following the Queen's caravan for so long that she was already exhausted. She looked at her husband with a desperate expression, and then saw a look of cowardice in his eyes.
He was very familiar with that expression. In the past, when she advocated selling the child and they argued, he would show that cowardly look in her eyes when she berated him until he couldn't lift his head. She used to like it very much because it meant that she held the dominant position at home. But now, what could he say?
Seeing the Wendigo approaching again after killing the soldiers, Bangier's father abandoned his wife and fled.
When Bangier's father ran to the Candy House, Lu Li, thinking everyone was there, looked at the twenty-odd Wendigo running towards them and raised the umbrella in his hand towards them.
The black patterns on the umbrella changed, and some runes were revealed on the side, eventually forming a strange array. Surging magic gathered on it, and black light illuminated everything.
That concludes the fourth update. I'm requesting recommendations, monthly tickets, and donations. Thank you all for your support of Xu Ming. If there are no unforeseen circumstances, there will also be a fourth update tomorrow. Thank you again to Tian Cang Shuo Yue for the generous donation of 10,000 yuan.