Chapter 166: Into the Stone Gate
The moment the uncontrollable fear suddenly erupted in my heart, a pale face appeared in the corner of my eye. When the other party's face was close to my ear and turned in my direction, I saw a head next to the human face also turned to Tao Siyu's ear.
Demon servant!
My whole body instantly chilled, and the other party's pair of sharp claws also pressed on my and Tao Siyu's shoulders at the same time. The moment the black-scaled claws gripped my shoulder, I realized that it was not a human hand, but a pair of dragon claws that looked like lizards.
Before the palm of my hand reaching for my waist touched the hilt of the gun, the monster crawling across from us was pressed in front of us in an instant, and one of the faces almost touched the tip of my nose.
Although the two faces of the monster still looked like nine people, the two noses were surprisingly long, especially the tips of the two noses actually poked out of the faces as far as they pointed out, fanning the wings of the nose and sniffing back and forth on my face.
I can't move even if I want to. The monster's two front paws were pressed against the edge of the puddle, and even if Tao Siyu and I could knock each other out the moment the monster erupted, the claws on the shoulders of the two of us would be enough to tear apart the two of us in an instant, tearing my arms off.
The monster sniffed at my face a few times before slowly withdrawing its head. It was only then that I saw that all four of the other party's eyes were whiteโit was blind, no wonder it only used its sense of smell to distinguish its opponents.
I quickly glanced sideways to myself, and the monster lying on my shoulder was equally blind. No wonder they've been sniffing on the two of us.
What the hell are the two of them doing?
It dawned on me. I fell into the puddle and there was a fishy smell, which was probably the reason why the two monsters had defecated in the water, and it was the smell of the puddle that covered up the human smell on our bodies, so the two monsters didn't do it immediately.
However, the rain was still pouring down, and it would not be long before the smell of our bodies would be washed away, and then it would be time for the two monsters to burst out and hurt people.
The torrential rain caused the water to flow down my head, and the monster's nose flapped faster and faster, and I could clearly see the water droplets falling from the sky on both sides of the monster's nose.
Oh no, the monster must have smelled something that wasn't of its own kind, so it kept pumping to determine our identity.
I couldn't help but bump into Tao Siyu. I mean tell her to be prepared, if the monster won't leave for a short time, we'll have to run into each other desperately. Although I couldn't see Tao Siyu's expression, I could feel her arm moving quietly, and it seemed that she was ready to fight to the death.
Just as the two of us were ready to go, there were suddenly bursts of gunfire outside the stone gate. The dense gunfire overshadowed the sound of the rain in an instant, but I didn't see a red light streak across the entrance of the Stone Gate Passโthe direction in which the disciples of the Torture Hall were shooting was not inside the Stone Gate Pass.
Ye Xun!
The first thing that came to my mind was that Ye Xun was rushing through the level.
I couldn't help but get up, but the two monsters turned around at the same time and ran towards the juncture. It was only then that I got a full view of the monster. Behind the monster's two heads was the body of a lizard, and the two forked tails were swept by it, and at first glance it looked like two monitor lizards had cut off the small half of their bodies and then sewn them together again.
I didn't have time to think about how something like a demon servant could appear here, and I got up and was about to rush to the pass.
Tao Siyu suddenly grabbed me and said, "Don't go over, ...... over there."
"You go first!" I shook off Tao Siyu and chased after the two monsters towards the pass.
When I approached the pass, both monsters grabbed the boulder with their front paws at the same time, and stood up, sticking a head out from behind the rock, flapping its nose with rapid flapping.
I was about to post it to see what was going on outside, but I didn't expect the two monsters to let out a scream at the same time, and they fell to the ground backwards. By the time I looked down again, the monster's forehead had exploded with patches of blood.
"It's done, go in and collect the corpse!" Someone was surprised, and a large number of torture hall disciples flocked to Shimen Pass at the same time.
I understand, Ye Xun didn't come over at all, they deliberately shot in the opposite direction, just to lure me out of Shimenguan.
The torture hall obviously did not arrange snipers outside, but only arranged a few disciples with good marksmanship to guard the pass, they could see two heads sticking out from behind the rock, but they couldn't see whether it was me and Tao Siyu, and they thought they had hit the target with a shot, and immediately prepared to rush up and snatch the corpse to ask for merit and reward.
The two monsters that overturned to the ground only twitched twice before they bounced up and pounced fiercely towards the stone gate.
"What ......?"
"Hiss" โ
The disciples of the torture hall who bore the brunt of the attack were torn in half before they could see the appearance of the monster, and the two monsters rushed into the crowd with blood and slaughtered recklessly, and the disciples of the torture hall immediately became a mess in front of the stone gate.
"Retreat ......"
"Go up on top, don't let them out. โ
Some people want to retreat and lead the monster to the open area to surround it, while others want to use firepower to force the monster back into place and block it in the stone gate.
Without unified command, the disciples of the Torture Hall not only did not organize an effective counterattack, but were killed and injured by the two monsters. The backup disciples kept shouting with their weapons, but no one dared to shoot at the crowd that was fighting endlessly.
I was staring at the crowd when Tao Siyu quickly caught up from behind me, pulled out a grenade and threw it into the crowd close to the ground. I watched as Hand * Lei rolled into the crowd from between the chaotic footsteps of the disciples of the Torture Palace, and immediately fell to the ground with his head in his hands.
As soon as my body fell, the thunder exploded, and the crowd surrounding the monster was suddenly torn apart. The two monsters were also scarred and furious by the explosion, and no matter how far they were from Shimen Pass, they roared angrily and rushed towards the disciples of the torture hall in the distance, and in an instant, they killed each other again.
As I hurried to the edge of the rock where I had been hiding, I saw a figure carrying a man approaching me silently. The blood stains on the other party's body have not dried, as if they have just experienced a big battle.
Ye Xun!
I didn't see his face, but I recognized his identity at a glance.
Ye Xun is this from the siege?
I didn't have time to think about how Ye Xun escaped the pursuit of the master of the torture hall, so I quickly squatted down and slipped out against the rock, and grabbed Ye Xun's side. When the latter saw me, he was obviously stunned: "Are you okay? Carry Enron on your back and leave quickly." โ
I took An Ran, who had passed out from Ye Xun, and quickly rushed into the stone gate.
Although it was still foggy in Shimenguan, I could still see the mountain road on the ground through the flashlight.
There are only a few mountain paths, either they are artificially excavated or the result of long-term trampling, and of course, there are also mountain roads that are naturally formed after the rainy season after the rainy season by the waterways that have been washed away by the mountains.
There are no traces of people in Shimen Pass all year round, and only those few monsters can step out of the mountain road on the ground. However, not long after we rushed into Shimen Pass, the mountain road began to divide in two, one side was full of paw prints stepped on by monsters, and the other side was full of mud more than an inch thick, and there was no trace of anyone walking.
Tao Siyu squatted down and shook a few times in the mud: "Someone has walked this road, let's go this way." โ
Tao Siyu was just about to get up when Ye Xun stopped him: "How do you know that someone has walked here?"
Tao Siyu said coldly: "If you are also a thief, you know how to hide your footprints." โ
I frowned and said, "Let's not go either way, go that way." โ
I raised my hand to remove the weeds, and there was a path under the grass not far away, which had been washed by the mountains and water. You can even see rainwater flowing along that stretch of road, but it's not big enough to form a mountain stream.
Tao Siyu flatly refused: "No! There are no traces of people on the road you are looking for, which means that no one has walked it, and it is too dangerous." โ
Tao Siyu's theory is not necessarily unreasonable. A Japanese veteran who participated in the retreat from the jungle in the Philippines during World War II once recalled: In the jungle, the most afraid of not seeing the corpses of our companions can only mean that no one has walked on this road we walked, and we do not know what kind of danger will be hidden; when we see a corpse on the side of the road, we will feel a lot more relieved, at least the corpse can prove that someone has walked on this road alive.
Although the disciples of the Torture Hall who came in before us were all wiped out, we found the corpses of the disciples of the Torture Temple, and at least we could see why they died, which was much easier than wandering through the mountains unsuspectingly.
I shook my head and said, "We have all rushed into the Stone Gate Pass, and the disciples of the Torture Hall will soon chase after us." You can think of anything, they will think of it, and it won't be long before we're going to have to catch up. With a siege in front and a pursuer in the back, do you think our situation is wonderful?"
I pointed to the waterway where the mountains and rivers flowed, and said, "If you go up from here, you can at least cover up some of the traces." Moreover, the beasts only guard the streams and rarely take root near the waterways, which are at least safer than the other two roads. โ
Tao Siyu gritted his teeth and pondered for a long time before nodding and said, "Then go as you say." โ
I stepped into the water with An Ran on my back and walked along the waterway into the depths of Shimen Pass. But what makes me strange is that the terrain in Shimen Pass is not going lower and lower, but higher and higher, as if you are climbing up the hillside.
Tao Siyu finally couldn't help but say: "Wang Huan, don't you think it's wrong? This place is obviously called 'Heizhugou', how can the terrain go higher and higher? Shouldn't we go all the way down? Do you want to go out from the top of the mountain?"
"Don't talk!" I shone a flashlight in one hand into the stream, but I saw patches of red thread-like insects floating in the water, and as soon as I stopped, the water worms around my feet would drill into my shoes along the gaps in the upper of my shoes, as if they wanted to burrow into my flesh through hiking boots.