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The crocodile that Xiaobai transformed into yawned loudly, and several unknown birds landed on the edge of her mouth and began to peck at the crumbs between her teeth. However, since Xiaobai had just transformed into a crocodile, she did not have time to accumulate the crumbs in the gaps between her teeth.
The bird pecked a few times and realized something was wrong, so it made a chirping sound, but Xiaobai ignored it.
At this time, Flint was standing on the shore of the swamp, and he was in trouble with the crocodile. His legs were too short and he couldn't step onto the crocodile's back in one step.
Seeing this, Gaotrik picked up the dwarf and stepped onto the crocodile's back.
The weight of the two of them pushed the crocodile down, but the crocodile still relied on its huge ground contact area to withstand the impact and did not sink into the mud of the swamp.
The last one to get on the boat was Nini, who landed lightly on the crocodile's back.
Xiaobai probably didn't feel the elf landing, and turned back curiously to see what was going on, only to find that only the gnolls were left on the shore.
She then stretched her arms and legs and swam towards the big tree deep in the swamp.
Elizabeth looked back at the kobolds on the shore. "It's a pity that we didn't fight, otherwise I could try the fireball spell. In the past, I could only let the scorching ray move horizontally and try to hit as many kobolds as possible."
The duration of the scorching ray is very short, and even if it is swept, it can only cover a small area.
King: "It is impossible that only kobolds are guarding the dragon's lair. The dragon will command many creatures to be the guardians of its lair. You have plenty of opportunities to cast fireballs."
Elizabeth was about to answer when Nini suddenly shushed her.
Elizabeth immediately shut up and nervously scanned the surroundings. There were a lot of waist-high water plants growing in the surrounding swamps, and with her observation ability, she could not see anything unusual.
But it was impossible for Nini to make such a sound out of thin air.
Even Xiaobai stopped paddling temporarily and let himself slide on the surface of the swamp by inertia.
Wang asked quietly, "What's wrong?"
While drawing her bow, Nini whispered, "Something is watching us, hiding in the nearby water plants."
Suddenly, Nini pulled the bow and shot an arrow. The moment the arrow sank into the grass, an angry roar tore everyone's eardrums.
A huge neck was swung up from the water plants, with an arrow stuck in the head at the front of the neck, and the arrow head was completely embedded in the bleeding eye.
The long neck roared again, and its huge body hidden in the water plants stood up.
King: "Swamp Longneck!"
Flint: "Is this a buffalo with a plesiosaur's head attached to it?"
Wang: "Nini, shoot its other eye! Its eye can use the death stare!"
As she finished speaking, Nini had already shot the arrow, but the monster dodged it by shaking its neck.
Wang: "Are you all wearing anti-death headbands? The death stare is coming! If you don't have a headband, just close your eyes!"
As soon as the words fell, the monster's eyes burst into red light, and the focus of its sight was - the king with the loudest voice!
Although the anti-death headband resisted the instant death effect, Wang still staggered!
Elizabeth reached out to pull him back, but Gotrek had already taken action and caught him.
The savage stood on the crocodile's back like an iron tower, motionless.
Seeing that his tried-and-true death stare had failed to kill the tiny human, the swamp longnecked beast let out an angry roar, and its only remaining eye glowed red, spreading death everywhere.
However, the salvation team had already obtained a lot of anti-death headbands from the team of the Arctic Union, and were basically immune to instant death effects, so the red light shooting everywhere only shot down a few birds that were startled by the noise of the battle.
Nini shot two consecutive arrows at the long-necked beast's neck, and a large amount of blood spurted out from the place where the arrows were inserted - in order to pump blood into the head at the top of the neck, the blood pressure in the neck area of the long-necked beast was very high.
But before Nini could fire another arrow, the long-necked beast retracted its entire neck into its body, and the blood spurting was immediately controlled.
Then its huge body rushed towards Xiaobai.
Wang: "He's going to clean up!"
Elizabeth: "Scorching ray!"
The blazing rays hit the long-necked beast's body, causing the monster to roar in anger.
Because its right foot was hit by the ray, the long-necked beast's body slid to the right while running, and fell into the mud, stirring up dark "water". Its entire body turned around its right foot, and its tail with a bone pendulum just swung past everyone.
There is no doubt that if it moves one more step forward, all the members of the rescue team on Xiaobai's back except Flint will be seriously injured.
Nini ignored the attack that almost hit her and continued shooting arrows.
Wang: "Xiaobai, hurry up! We are all on your back and it is difficult to spread out. There should be flat ground at the entrance to the black dragon's lair!"
Upon hearing this, Xiaobai paddled hard with all four legs and plowed the water with his mouth like the bow of a boat.
The fallen long-necked beast stood up again, this time he was even more angry, and howled to the sky!
Flint exclaimed, "Why does it look like he's calling for his companions?"
Wang: "Don't be afraid. Long-necked beasts live alone. You can usually only see one. If you see two, you'll win a prize!"
Just as he finished speaking, a huge neck suddenly stretched out from the water plants in front of Xiaobai, and the two healthy eyes on the top of the neck emitted red light.
Dwarf: "We hit the jackpot!"
Wang: "The black dragon must have used them to defend its nest and deliberately kept them here!"
Elizabeth: "Should I use Fireball?"
Wang: "Keep firing the scorching ray! Don't aim at the head, hit the body!"
As the words fell, another ray hit the long-necked beast's body, but it hit the mud on its body and a cloud of steam came out.
Elizabeth: "It's covered in mud!"
"It will be fine if it rushes up and shakes off the mud!"
Seeing that staring was useless, the "tiger" blocking the road in front began to charge.
Xiaobai turned around and squeezed past it, and the huge tail hammer just happened to swing over and swept over everyone's heads, directly hitting the tallest one, Gao Chuik.
Gao Chuik crossed his hands in front of him, barely blocking the tail hammer, but his whole body flew up and fell into the mud!
Dwarf: "Gotrik!"
The king grabbed the short man who was trying to pull the barbarian away, "If you fall in, you'll sink to the bottom! This is a swamp!"
At this time, Xiaobai finally rushed onto the land. She swung her tail and threw everyone to the ground, then turned into a bird and rushed towards Gaotrik!
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Xiaobai grabbed the belt holding the axe on Gaotrik's body and tried to pull him up.
But the long-necked beast aimed directly at Xiaobai and swept its tail, leaving only a pile of bird feathers at the place where it hit, and a column of mud and water spurted out not far away.
Wang didn't see what happened in the blink of an eye, but he guessed that Xiaobai was beaten back to his original form, and then his original form fell into the swamp and created so much water.
The next moment, the crocodile that Xiaobai transformed into appeared in the water and rushed towards the long-necked beast quickly.
The long-necked beast wanted to attack Xiaobai, but found that it couldn't move its tail.
Gao Cuik held the long-necked beast's tail tightly with one hand, and with his free hand he pulled out the axe and chopped it on the tail - unfortunately, this posture did not allow him to exert force from his waist and legs, so he could only use the strength of his hand muscles. After one blow, the axe blade only penetrated the long-necked beast's skin by a few centimeters.
The long-necked beast stretched out its neck and bit the barbarian's neck, but the barbarian showed no fear at all. He coordinated his upper body and neck and blocked the long-necked beast's mouth with his hardest skull!
Yes, the mouth of the long-necked beast is not big enough, so it is OK to bite the neck, but it is embarrassing to be stuck in the head. Its sharp teeth pierced into the barbarian's scalp, but it was stuck on the anti-death headband, and there was nothing it could do.
On the shore, Flint finally got up and immediately cast a spell: "Calm your mind!"
The long-necked beast, which was struggling violently to bite off the anti-death headband, suddenly slowed down.
Dwarf: "Caris Newman! The effect is great, isn't it?"
King: "Because the intelligence of the long-necked beasts is very low, they are stupid to begin with, so most of the spells that use the mind are very effective."
Flint: "Carlis Newman's horns, you should have told me earlier! I'll give you another one to calm my nerves!"
Wang: "Your oral habit has gone back to the past!"
"What? Oh, Kailyn's belly button!"
Come to think of it, this was the first time Flint had entered into a tense battle since he changed his mouth habit, and his brain went into reverse in a hurry.
Nini: "The other one is coming towards us!"
Elizabeth: "Can I throw a fireball now?"
Wang: "No, save your spells. I never used the Phantom Killer either. Flint!"
"Calm your mind!"
The furious one-eyed long-necked beast immediately slowed down.
Dwarf: "They were just appeased. Kill them now!"
At this time, the crocodile transformed by Xiaobai jumped out of the water, and with its big mouth, it bit off the fragile neck of the long-necked beast.
The long-necked beast's buffalo-like body fell to the ground with a loud bang.
The other one-eyed long-necked beast saw this and seemed to suddenly realize the current situation, and its movements suddenly accelerated! However, because its IQ was not high, its first choice after realizing the threat was to use the death stare.
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While it was using its gaze, Nini shot an arrow into its remaining eye.
The blind long-necked beast circled madly in the mire, trying to drive the threat away with continuous sweeps of its tail.
Gotrick climbed onto the back of the crocodile that Xiaobai had transformed into, looked at the struggling long-necked beast, then looked up at the scavenging birds of prey that had gathered in the sky, and said, "Let's go. It can't survive."
Xiaobai then slid towards the Tree Root Island where the rest of the team was.
When Gaotrik came ashore, Nini reported: "The scavengers in the water have gathered. These two long-necked beasts will soon join the natural cycle. My advice is to ignore them."
Wang: "Very good, only two of Flint's second-level spells were used. By the way, why did you bring this spell?"
Flint curled his lips and said, "Because I think we will encounter more beast enemies today. A very experienced ranger once told me that you don't have to kill a beast to deal with it. Soothing its mind is also very useful. Many beasts don't hunt human adventurers because they are hungry, but because their territory has been invaded. They are angry and attack because of this."
Xiaobai: "That makes sense. Unfortunately, I only have healing spells like rejuvenation."
Elizabeth suddenly exclaimed: "What is that?"
Everyone turned their heads and looked in the direction she pointed, and found that a giant worm-like thing had appeared on the body of the fallen long-necked beast.
Flint: "It's the scavengers, don't worry. If you die in the swamp, if you don't reclaim your body quickly, they will come and digest you like this. So don't die in the swamp. If you die accidentally, it's best to have a kind teammate reclaim your body."
Elizabeth covered her mouth and watched the giant worm use its mouthparts with a circle of teeth to gnaw on the corpse of the once-invincible overlord, the long-necked beast.
At this time, Marika appeared: "I explored the cave. At least there are no traps or forks in the first two hundred meters."