Cave Refuge-Chapter 308 - 288 Giant Scorpion Attacks the Camp_2

Chapter 308: Chapter 288 Giant Scorpion Attacks the Camp_2

Giant scorpions approaching the camp, isn’t that better? It saves the hunting team from having to travel so far for hunting.

Furthermore, even though there are quite a few giant scorpions this time, they don’t really scare the members of the special combat team that much.

After all, it had been so long since Robinson William had established the rotation system, and the members of the special combat team had basically all joined the hunting team and participated in hunting giant scorpions.

At the moment, if, as Zachary said, there were many giant scorpions attacking the camp from around,

there were so many members of the special combat team in the camp, who could strike hard at the giant scorpions attacking them. After all, this was different from going out to hunt, where a third of the special combat team was assigned, while now the camp’s team was at full strength.

However, to be safe, Troy still arranged for drivers to park the vehicles scattered around the camp together, creating a temporary safety zone for the ordinary survivors.

Just as Troy was methodically assigning tasks to the members of the special combat team in the camp, the sentry perched atop a vehicle suddenly sounded the alarm. Just like Zachary said, many giant scorpions had suddenly appeared around the camp and were sprinting towards it.

Hearing the sentry’s alert, Zachary said to the others in the vehicle, "You guys stay in the car and don’t ever open the door to leave."

After speaking, Zachary unclasped his mother’s grip on his hand, "Mom, I need to go out now."

Seeing Mrs. Thompson’s actions, Mr. Thompson directly scolded her, "What are you doing? Our son has important things to do, we just need to stay put in the car and not cause him any trouble."

Zachary had already observed in detail the giant scorpions outside the camp through his Divine Sense and found that aside from their number, they were actually the same as the game often brought back by the hunting team, with no elite monsters appearing.

Taking advantage of others’ inattention, Zachary took out a watermelon knife from his storage space.

After many attempts by the hunting team, the best weapon against giant scorpions was found to be a hard sword with blades on both sides, followed by the watermelon knife with a very long blade.

The hard sword is not the kind of sword carried by heroes in movies and TV shows, but similar to the Profound Iron Greatsword used by Yang Guo, only much smaller in size.

Not to mention Zachary didn’t have one, there were only two hard swords in the entire camp, and even some were flexible swords.

However, even without a hard sword, the watermelon knife was also quite good, and many people found it more convenient to use than the hard sword.

After all, the hard sword has blades on both sides, with only the handle allowing for force to be applied, unlike the watermelon knife, which allows for increased slashing strength through the spine of the blade.

By the time Zachary had arrived at Troy’s location, the special combat team members there had already begun clashing with the giant scorpions attacking the camp.

Although Troy himself hadn’t taken to the field, the increasing appearance of giant scorpions forced him to focus on the battlefield so that he could arrange in time for injured special combat team members to be safely brought back if necessary.

"Troy, it looks like there’s no major problem here, I’m going to go and support the other sides directly."

Hearing Zachary’s statement, Troy, without turning his head, simply agreed, "Do as you wish. For a martial artist who has reached the Inner Breath Realm, I believe even if more giant scorpions appear, they can handle..."

Before Troy could finish speaking, Zachary immediately covered his mouth, hoping Troy would stop there.

Troy’s action was clearly jinxing, though there had been no issues initially, but with Troy’s "cursed mouth", good situations could turn bad, so Zachary quickly covered his mouth, not letting him finish his words.

When Zachary heard Troy agree to allow him to act freely, he quickly left the contentious spot.

Even though Zachary had begun his cultivation journey, he didn’t want to engage in those seemingly predestined fatal actions common in movies and television dramas.

Arriving outside the camp and seeing the ground bubbling like boiling water, with mounds splitting open and giant scorpions crawling out, Zachary shook his head in resignation.

He then charged directly towards the giant scorpions that had just crawled out of the earth, his watermelon knife boosted by spirit power, making each attack seem so forceful.

Even if the knife didn’t hit the juncture of the carapace directly, it could still split the targeted part in two.

Unlike the heavy and forceful attacks, Dong Tianyu’s movements were extremely nimble.

Although Dong Tianyu had never learned light body techniques, with his cultivation level at the Foundation Building Stage, imitating martial arts experts was a simple task for him.

In the fields near the camp, Dong Tianyu’s figure would appear now and then.

Each time, he precisely stepped on the back of a giant scorpion and, before the scorpion could attack, he would slice the scorpion beneath his feet into three parts and then gracefully move on to seek the next target.

Dong Tianyu’s performance around the camp wasn’t particularly conspicuous; the combat effectiveness of the other Inner Breath Realm Martial Artists remaining in the camp was also similar, as their actions in killing the giant scorpions were equally crisp and decisive.

Although Robinson William had taken more than half of the Inner Breath Realm Martial Artists away from the camp when he left, Troy had gathered the survivors in the camp ahead of time, so the area the special forces team needed to defend was not very large.

Furthermore, since the ordinary martial artists were also capable of inflicting effective damage on the giant scorpions, no survivors in the camp had been injured or killed yet.

It might seem like Dong Tianyu and the other Inner Breath Realm Martial Artists were performing brilliantly, but there was a constant stream of giant scorpions burrowing out of the fertile fields.

To the Inner Breath Realm Martial Artists, this wasn’t too much of an issue, but to those martial artists who had not reached the Inner Breath Realm, exhaustion was setting in.

Although they were temporarily unharmed, the endless appearance of giant scorpions was wearing them down.

Even though Dong Tianyu and the other Inner Breath Realm Martial Artists had slain the majority of the giant scorpions, quite a few had still managed to rush into the camp.

Before these giant scorpions could get close to the ordinary survivors, the ordinary martial artists in the special forces team intercepted the scorpions that had breached the camp.

Initially, not many giant scorpions had penetrated the camp; with eight or nine martial artists surrounding one scorpion, members of the special forces team could easily kill it.

However, as the number of giant scorpions steadily increased, more and more breached the camp, swiftly changing the advantageous eight-on-one situation.

The ratio of special forces team members to scorpions in combat rapidly declined from eight-on-one, reaching the perilous point of one-on-one at its most dangerous.

Honestly speaking, the members of the special forces team had rich combat experience, and fighting one-on-one against a giant scorpion was not without the hope of winning.

Yet at that moment, the camp was swarming with giant scorpions, and behind them to defend were only ordinary survivors without any combat ability, leaving no room for the special forces members to maneuver.

With no space to evade, the ordinary special forces martial artists could only meet the scorpion attacks head-on, and as a result, the majority of the team members in the camp started to accumulate injuries.

Noticing the situation inside the camp, the Inner Breath Realm Martial Artists who were fending off giant scorpions outside the camp unconsciously sped up their attacks, aiming to kill as many scorpions as possible to reduce the number entering the camp.

These giant scorpions were different from those encountered previously; the hunting teams had usually faced three to five giant scorpions in the wild, never encountering more than a dozen at a time.

The number of giant scorpions attacking the camp this time not only surpassed a dozen but even reached into the hundreds.

The insect sea tactic, which they thought was unique to the Bug Nest in Pengcheng, had unexpectedly also confronted them in Saxon County.

As time went on, the number of giant scorpions attacking the camp did not diminish but seemed to be gradually increasing.