6. The Runaways
Qiao Mengchen's shock calmed down for a while, so much so that the bald man shouted at him several times before he woke him up from his trance. www.biquge.info With this feeling of being in a different world, Qiao Mengchen followed the back of the line, thinking hard about which link had gone wrong.
Walking to the side of the road at the entrance of the village, Qiao Mengchen suddenly found that there was a stone tablet that was almost half hidden by sand. The stele looks to be a long time ago, and some grass-yellow moss and lichens grow on the uneven surface of the stele. Through the shade of these lower plants, a few large dark brown characters can be vaguely discerned: Dongjie Boundary.
Is that the name of this little village?
Although the surrounding hills are not high, the top of the mountain is as smooth as a bald man's head, and not even a single low tree can be seen, let alone the usual birdsong in the depths of the mountain. The mist wandered among the mountains after the rain, and walking in this gloomy environment made Qiao Mengchen feel uncertain about his future and feel uneasy.
When I turned out of the path, my eyes became green. Countless huge trees, towering to the sky; These giant trees in the forest that have existed for tens of thousands of years are each thousands of meters high, and they can barely see the crown when their heads are sore, and the thick and perverted waist may require more than a dozen people to surround in a circle to barely measure it.
The eye-popping element continues......
As you walk out of the recess, the terrain gradually descends, the sky slowly becomes transparent, and the view in front of you is more open. At this time, what appeared in Qiao Mengchen's eyes was a fantastic and incomparable exotic world:
In the distant sky, an orange-yellow planet occupies most of the sky, and against its backdrop, the sky crossed by the low roar of thunderstorms and lightning is even more unpredictable. With reddish-brown and earthy yellow as the main colors, the undulating and winding continent is unusually open, full of uneven ravines, basins, deserts and craters of various sizes. As far as the eye can see, there is not a trace of greenery, and in this barren place, gravel, gravel and sand dunes are the real protagonists.
Dead silence, desolation, darkness, lifelessness, no air and no water, is the ideal alien in Qiao Mengchen's cognition.
In the clouds above them, there were occasional creatures such as giant birds, and their huge bodies cast on the ground, forming a large shadow that obscured the sky. And in the distance, where you can't see the edge at a glance, there is an earth-shattering roar from time to time, although I don't know how far away it is, but the sound is faintly recognizable! Could it be that in the darkness behind those ridges, there is some kind of desolate beast and ancient alien species that can devour the heavens and the earth?
What a vast, wild and boundless extraterrestrial world this should be!
Even though the bald man and the others who walked in front had giant-like bodies, compared to this primitive continent of ancient nature, they were only insignificant and completely negligible fine dust. At this time, only by being there can you truly feel the insignificance and humility of human beings.
Giant trees that are too tall to see, large yellow stars, wild ancient realms comparable to the surface of the moon, and unknown creatures whose voices are heard but cannot be seen...... Qiao Mengchen is really stupid, these things that only exist in fantasy are now appearing in his consciousness in an unexpected way, with an incomparably clear picture, when has he seen it?
Enter the hinterland of the continent, where the air is extremely dry. The further down he went, the dust raised by his predecessors more and more penetrated Qiao Mengchen's mouth and nose, forcing him to follow the example of the clothes given by the monkey as a mask. However, the tightness in my chest last night has been reduced a lot, and I seem to be lighter when I walk. In the past, he could only cross about seventy centimeters in one step, but now he can step a distance of about one meter with a casual kick, which greatly saves his physical strength. However, due to his limited vision, the uneven terrain and large and small stones, he staggered and almost fell countless times.
The monkey and the bald man and the others hurried away, and several times, the bald man, who had lost his patience, was ready to force Qiao Mengchen to speed up, but the monkey stopped him. If it weren't for Qiao Mengchen, it is estimated that they would have disappeared without a trace. However, Qiao Mengchen's stumbles along the way added some fun to the unsmiling team members.
"Brother Qian, are you almost at the place where the 'floating chacha' is hidden?"
There were also several strange-shaped boulders, piled up on the road led by the monkeys. Therefore, as soon as they saw similar stones, the bald man and the others couldn't help but ask. And "Brother Qian" was very serious, stretched out his hairy finger and pointed to the front of God knows where, and continued to bury his head in the road.
Qiao Mengchen secretly glanced at his watch, from the time he set off to the present, everyone had been speeding on this road that seemed to have no end in sight for more than two hours, except for peeing, no one had rested halfway. Others are fine, but Qiao Mengchen is still in the fog after suffering.
However, even if the eyes are poor and the appearance is ruined...... didn't eat breakfast, but Qiao Mengchen's physical strength was excellent, and a ninety-minute ball game could be nailed, and just walking a little was nothing. What's more, he unfortunately became a "hostage" of Brother Qian, and the watch on his wrist and the pen on his chest were fortunately kept. What's even more fortunate is that although I don't know where I live for the time being, this stall watch that was exchanged for dozens of yuan is still going smoothly and is not affected by the change of time and space at all.
These are the driving forces that support Qiao Mengchen to keep up with the team without saying a word.
On the way, from a brief conversation between the four monkeys, Qiao Mengchen learned that Brother Qian was the boss of this team, and everyone else had to listen to him; The bald man's name is Shi Zhongkui, who is the village chief of Dongjiejie and the most powerful assistant in Brother Qian's trip; The remaining young ones are all surnamed Meng, Meng Da Meng Er Meng San, and the brothers are all helpers found by Shi Zhongkui from elsewhere.
Similar to Shi Zhongkui's body that can carry the tripod, the three brothers of the Meng family can also be regarded as sturdy men with big shoulders and round waists, and the huge axe and mallet they carry behind them alone is enough to explain everything. Wait a minute...... Why do these monkeys, people, and all that carry weapons with them? Thinking of those terrifying roars and shadows cast on the ground from the sky, Qiao Mengchen shivered a few times, they wouldn't be going...... Fight monsters and level up, right?
Strange things are really one after another! He once again fell into the endless cycle of doubts and couldn't help himself, and suddenly heard a thunderous cry in the stone: "Be careful, everyone, there are some strange things nearby!" ”
They had marched into a canyon with two rows of petrified trees at the entrance, gray and white from top to bottom due to the wind and rain of age. Walking between two rows of ancient trees, you will find a strange phenomenon: the distance between trees is almost equal; Moreover, the two symmetrical trees that stand opposite each other are inclined to the middle at the same time, and if the canopy is higher, the two trees will inevitably cross.
After listening to Shi Zhongkui's warning and looking at these unusual ancient trees, Qiao Mengchen was naturally more cautious, and his pace slowed down a lot. After such a delay, Brother Qian and the others had already walked to the middle of the ancient forest, and he had fallen behind for a long time. Since he didn't hear Qiao Mengchen's footsteps, Meng Er, who was in charge of the palace, turned his head impatiently and urged.
At this moment, there was a slight tremor under his feet, and countless rubble fell from the rock wall, and several cracks in the ground cracked down the valley floor to the rock wall. Qiao Mengchen somehow, hurriedly hugged an ancient tree nearby and didn't let go.
Just as he was in a daze, like a blast of rock, there was a loud "bang" on the left side of the rock wall, and at the same time as more rocks rushed down, a large black snake covered with round spots broke through the wall. His feet shook very much, and in an instant, Qiao Mengchen couldn't see it very clearly, and he only felt that compared to the thick body of the snake, the pointed head of this snake was so small that it was wicked.
What kind of evil is this?
Before he could figure it out, another identical serpent appeared, followed by the third and fourth...... Oh my God, these creatures that inhabit the cracks in the stones are not strange snakes at all, but long wrists and feet covered with suckers. The owner of the brachiopod is a giant octopus with a foot of more than 20 meters!
"It's an Eastern Regions Ground Oyster!" Shi Zhongkui shouted, "Meng Er went over and looked at that kid, and the others followed me!" Be careful...... Don't get sprayed by its venom! ”
Under the strong light, the big wheeled eyes of the Eastern Regions Earth Oyster were half-closed and half-closed, and their pupils emitted a terrifying yellow light. Supported by tentacles, it crouched down the mountain wall like a spider, and its massive body landed at the dusty valley floor, stirring up a choking cloud of smoke.
"You dare to come out and do evil things, and see that I have descended on you today." With a clear roar from Qi Changyu, Brother Qian, who was originally at the front of the team, had risen from the ground. It pulled out the stick-like creature and swept it into the wind, and what had been inconspicuous became a thick, long iron rod. The body of the stick glowed with purple light, and it poked straight at the squid on the ground. At the upper and lower ends of the stick, there are two or three slender green leeches attached to it and swirling and swimming.
The ground worm is huge, and its movement speed is not slow, and when it sees that the green mantle iron rod is about to poke at the front door, the monster makes a ho-ho cry, and turns its eight wrists and feet to entangle the brother who rushed in front of it; At the same time, a huge mouth full of white teeth opened, and a stream of phosphorescent black liquid erupted from the mouth, and it was about to splash on Brother Qian's body.
How could this little trick get the monkey, it didn't bother to hide at all, turned its mouth and blew gently, and a pure Gang Qi shot out of its body, forming an air shield outside its body. After hitting the air shield, the venom bounced back and landed on the ground oyster. As soon as the venom sticks to the skin of the ground worm, it "hisses" and smokes, burning its wrists and feet and screaming.
It's strange, self-produced and self-sold are not adapted, but are injured by their own body fluids?
After such a small episode, the tension of Shi Zhongkui and the others was eliminated by more than half, and Meng Da and Meng San stepped forward to beat him with his blade. The two brothers one of them shook the mountain axe and the other shook the ground mallet, these weapons are big and wide, each piece looks like the weight of five or six hundred catties on the front foot, it is unimaginable for ordinary people, but they are tall and big, and the giant axe and mallet are like toys in their hands.
At this moment, there was another jolt, and more cracks came out from under his feet, and after a few loud noises, an even more terrifying situation appeared, and on the sloped wall, a larger, dark red ground oacock arched out of the rock with its teeth and claws.
"It's just right, you can use these ugly monsters to practice your hands and see if there is any progress during this time!"
Anyway, no matter how many people can deal with it or not, Qian Qian grabbed Qiao Mengchen and went to a safe place to get it. Its strength was so great that Qiao Mengchen jumped with it to the opposite slope with almost no effort, watching the bustle from a distance.
Climb high and look into the distance, and the valley scenery is in full view. The battle of the oysters, the rocks, the sloping ancient trees...... Wait a minute, it's not an ancient tree, Qiao Mengchen can see that something is wrong despite his poor eyes. How can there be such a strange bend, an ancient tree that grows so tall and short, and has the same shape, they are clearly the bones of some kind of dead animal, the bones of the ribs!
Isn't it? A little further away, a bottle of what may have been a primate skull can be seen. After a long time, the hair and muscles of the skull were corroded, and the hollow eye sockets on it looked at Qiao Mengchen's location, which made him break out in a cold sweat, and he felt even more weird: the skull as big as a boulder, the spine connecting the ribs was buried deep in the ground, and the ribs exposed to the ground stood towering, how big an orangutan must be?
Qiao Mengchen glanced at Brother Qian, who was frowning, and stopped talking. Brother Qian didn't look at him squarely: "That pair of skins was left by a mandrill that had been dead for thousands of years!" Hmph, the mandrill with brute force has nothing to do with me. ”
In the distance, Meng Er hammered and killed the ground worm that had been teased by Brother Qian, while Shi Zhongkui, Meng Da and Meng San were working hard to deal with the red ground worm like a hill. The murder of his own children and grandchildren fully angered the red oysters. It shook its wrists and feet, full of suckers, and its mouth spewed poisonous mist. Although it made a miasma everywhere, Shi Zhongkui and others couldn't help it.
When the red cockroach was furious, Meng Da Meng San jumped from side to side, babbling and humming a little song in his mouth. Avoiding the first three axes, and when its momentum decreased slightly, the two big men stopped chanting like monks, and boldly approached, swinging their blades and slashing at the red oyster. Immediately, several intermittent and seemingly nonexistent axe shadow mallet lights came out of the weapon in his hand and flew towards the red oyster.
This kind of attack may not be able to withstand by humans, but the red oyster is too big, and its whole body is covered with a thick cuticle of cowhide, and these lights and shadows only pierce its eye sockets and other weak points, and the little blood that flows out is nothing to it at all. The enraged red oysters were even more arrogant, twisting their wrists and feet to stir up stone chips, which was terrifying.
I was almost stung by a sucker several times, but fortunately, although the two brothers were tall and big, they were not clumsy, and they all avoided without danger. Shi Zhongkui couldn't stand it anymore, he cursed, raised his big scimitar and rushed to the red oyster, and he didn't see him pretending to be a ghost like the Meng brothers, and a few fiery real flames were on the red oyster's body.
It turns out that no matter how big a monster you are, you can only do anything if you get angry. Surrounded by fire, the red oysters had nothing to hide, desperately trying to get out of the scorching fire. It let out a few hoarse wails, jumped and jumped and sprayed poisonous mist, and smashed its wrists and feet against the stone wall on the ground, causing dust to fly and rubble into the sky, making a mess all around.
Although it was burned by the real fire, the red oyster has survived for hundreds of years, otherwise where did it come from such a large body? Its head was engulfed by fire, but its brachial feet with suction cups were thick and stiff, and mossy in places. Kui Ishinaka's abilities are limited, and the real fire released can no longer completely subdue this mutant octopus that has emerged from the ground.
Fortunately, the eyes that grew on the back of the head were burned blind, and the blind red oysters could not find the target at all.