Chapter 4: Man-eating monsters

A mysterious palace appears in Kunlun, and it is suspected that there is a huge treasure! This news circulated among the people. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

However, for us socialist people, this news has not affected the lives of ordinary people, and everyone's life is still living as usual.

In the prairie south of Kunlun, there are often wind and sand disasters, and whenever this natural disaster occurs, it will be a particularly heart-wrenching time for the herdsmen.

The people of the plateau tend to pay attention to cattle, sheep and horses, and they value these animals more than their own lives, because these are the treasures that their ancestors and grandchildren can live on. Although the country's economy is growing rapidly, many young people have gone to the cities to work. But there are still many old people guarding this grassland here, continuing the way of life of the ancestors.

On this day, a black wind suddenly blew in the sky! Whining! The ground is also full of wind and sand, and people's vision is also quite obstructed.

The sky was dark, and the sheep and cattle and horses on the grassland were neighing, all the while fearing what was in the black wind.

"Grandpa, the horses are restless!"

The grandson ran to the old man who was eating mare's milk wine and said loudly, looking panicked.

The old man hurriedly walked out of the tent, and a black and oppressive wind and sand came straight in, and the old man who was blown by the fierce wind fell to the ground.

The old man looked at the origin of the black wind.

"This strange wind is blowing from the direction of Kunlun!"

As he spoke, he patted his grandson's arm and whispered to his ear.

"Kimba, go and tie up the horses, don't let the wind monsters frighten the horses!"

Kim Ba is already in his teens and has grown into a big boy, and he can still handle this kind of thing.

The black wind comes suddenly, and it goes quickly,

The old man looked at this strange wind, took out a Tibetan tantric Buddhist artifact from his clothes, closed his eyes, and recited Amitabha Buddha in his mouth, with a pious face.

However, the wind and sand were so great that the horses were so restless that it was so dark that they couldn't see anything clearly, and Kim finally grabbed one of the horses tightly, stepped onto the horse, and let the foals run away. As soon as the yellow sand passed, when the restless horses had stopped, the old man never found Kimba again.

The search for his grandson was fruitless, and the old man wept.

The Kunlun Sea is vast and boundless, a black forest is faintly visible outside the horizon, frost, silt and unknown weeds can be seen everywhere on the ground, the ground is formed by the accumulation of cold ice and the sun and the moon, people will feel very slippery when stepping on the ground, the little Jinba cut the cloth on his body with a knife, wrapped it in the sole of his shoes, and tied the remaining cloth to the four hooves of the foal, so as to avoid slipping and falling when jumping on this piece of ice.

The sound of horses' hooves .......sounded rhythmically, and Jinba looked at the sky, the sky was hazy, and after a while, a cold wind blew through it, and the daylight had become hazy and invisible.

Three meters in front of him, a green three-leaf grass appeared on the snow, and when Jinba saw it, his face immediately appeared with a touch of joy, and he hurriedly ran over and pounced in front of him, and hurriedly threw away the soil under the grass with his hand, revealing a withered yellow thing that looked like a silkworm. This is a kind of herb that grows in the plateau area, that is, the cordyceps we often hear about, the value is high, on the plateau, many people will go over the mountains and mountains to pick this herb, to earn money for life.

I don't know why, on this uninhabited and rare glacier, rare cordyceps can be seen everywhere, and up to now, he has only found dozens of herbs, which is unbelievable to find so many herbs in such a small amount of time on weekdays.

The sky is approaching sunset, but you can't see it on this dead glacier.

When Kimba was excitedly looking for Cordyceps, the colt next to him neighed, and a horse's hoof stepped on the ground, and the snow splashed on Kimba's clothes.

"Don't play, I'll come over ........."

As Kim ran over, he saw a white bug braving the cold on a clump of frosty dead grass crawling on the branches.

"This is the Ice Silkworm! That's great. ”

Jinba was very happy, the value of the medicine of the ice silkworm was very high, and he would have to pay at least 100,000 yuan after buying it, which was told to him by his uncle, who was in business in a big city.

It is very difficult to catch this ice silkworm, because the ice silkworm itself contains methamphetamine, and once bitten by this guy, the blood of the human body will freeze, and the person will die within three moments.

Fortunately, Jinba has an iron kettle containing mare's milk wine, which is a kind of military kettle that has been circulating for decades, and it is basically impossible to find it now, although the kettle is old, but Jinba wipes it very clean, unscrews the lid, swallows the remaining mare's milk wine in the pot into his stomach, his stomach churns hotly, spit out two mouthfuls of hot air, Jinba wipes his mouth with his sleeve, and holds the iron kettle to the ice silkworm and prepares to put it in.

As soon as the spout of the pot touched the ice silkworm, it was frozen by the cold on its body. Seeing that this was not feasible at all, Jinba thought of another idea, and pointed the kettle at the direction of the ice silkworm to climb forward and waited for it to throw itself into the net step by step. At this moment, a two-meter-tall snow leopard appeared behind Jinba, looked at Jinba, opened his mouth and roared, and the sound sounded like thunder, ringing in Jinba's ears.

Jinba was startled, and the ice silkworm that was about to be caught also fell back into the snow.

"Where did such a big leopard come from!"

Jinba hurriedly put on his gloves, no matter how cold it was, grabbed the ice silkworm and stuffed it into the kettle and screwed the lid on. Hurriedly turned on his horse and fled quickly to the front, to avoid the pursuit of the snow leopard behind. Enduring the great pain, I took off my gloves, only to see that the index finger and thumb that had just caught the ice silkworm had been frostbitten by the cold air of the ice silkworm, and the skin had festered. Despite wearing gloves, injuries were not avoided.

The sky gradually became dark, and Jinba rode his horse and kept running ahead, the snow leopard behind him kept in hot pursuit, and beyond that was the depths of the Kunlun Sea, where unknown dangers were hidden. But the fugitive Jinba did not notice this. A forest appeared in front of him, a swamp at his feet blocked Jinba's way, and the snow leopard was approaching behind him, and the danger was behind him.

The swamp was cold, and there were bits and pieces of white bones floating on it, and the swamp seemed to be corrosive, and any animal that fell into it would turn into a pile of white bones.

In the end, it was Jinba's horse who sacrificed himself. Carrying Jinba into the swamp, he sent Jinba across the other bank, and gradually sank into the swamp, being corroded into a pile of white bones.

The snow leopard stopped in pursuit in front of the swamp on the opposite bank and roared incessantly at Jinba. Jinba looked at the snow leopard with hatred, picked up a stone from his side and threw it at it, hitting the snow leopard in the eye, bleeding blood.

Jimba didn't say a word, and ran towards the depths of the glacier, in the black woods, behind him, the snow leopard looked at the black woods where Kimba ran away, one eye was full of fear, and he opened his mouth and kept roaring.

From a distance, it looks like a mountain, but up close it is two huge thousand-year-old tree stumps, hugging each other, there is no leaf on the tree, and there is no green vitality, it looks like it is dead and I don't know how many years it is, in fact, they have become fine, together into a mountain bag, the night sky is dark, the fleeing people do not know the true appearance of the black shadow in front of them, vaguely like a mountain.

The lost Kimba ran alone in the dark with the cordyceps he had picked, and the original foal had fallen into a deep-sea swamp in order to save Kimba's life. I heard from the older generation that this land was cursed, and this place was haunted by mountain ghosts and ghosts, and it was a place where the living could not set foot in it.

Although the young Jinba has entered junior high school, he still has a childlike heart, and runs towards the mountain in the distance in the dark. The mountain could not be seen clearly in the dark night, and a man-high cave could be vaguely seen, and there was a faint light floating in the cave.

Jinba drilled into this hole, but there was a new world in the hole, green fireflies flying in the air, Jinba looked at the beautiful fireflies in front of him, chased them, ran to the depths, a shining pool appeared in front of Jinba's eyes, the shore is a vibrant green, there are many delicate flowers growing on the soil, Jinba has never seen such a beautiful flower, touch this, look at that, under the waterhole that Jinba can't see, covered with white bones, There are the fragments of animal limbs and bones, the blood of broken and old metal tools and dusty clothes, and the scattered human skeletons, which they do, in the water, under the soil, day after day, year after year, nourishing the soil, the plants, the flowers, and the environment with their own flesh and blood.

A blood-red flesh Ganoderma lucidum grows next to a stone, falling in front of Jinba's eyes, it grows red and bright like a piece of flesh and blood, the size is huge, the year is thousands of years, such a large meat Ganoderma lucidum has huge medicinal properties, and its value is also very huge, in this silent and silent, dripping water can be heard in the strange cave, find such an elixir, you can see the extraordinary here.

Somewhere in the darkness, there are many pairs of green eyes lit up, like wolves, but they are more terrible than wolves. Like a green flame burning in the dark, flickering and extinguishing, the fireflies behind Jinba slowly flew, it came in pairs, and gradually appeared a vague transparent figure, they beat happily, on the water, on the shore, in the air. The figures slowly became visible, and the fireflies turned into their eyes, turning into beautiful fireflies to attract prey, and their bodies became invisible, dancing in the air, and the fireflies that turned into their eyes seemed to be flying to confuse the living creatures.

They are hideous and terrible, unclothed, with old, wrinkled skin, fangs in their mouths, and red hairs in their ears. It's just a wide animal skin around his waist. In a remote place in this cave, there was a firewood burning and an iron pot was erected, and the smoke in the pot was hot, but the ground was full of white bones and skeletons. Next to the oil pan, there are two imps holding spoons and stirring in the oil pan.

In another part of the cave, Jinba carefully packed the meat lingzhi into a small bag, and a group of monsters behind him looked at Jinbad's movements as if they were laughing.

"People who are greedy for money, especially children's meat, are the best to eat, and children take more, take more." In the darkness, a pair of eyes looked at Jinba, and the green demon fire flickered.

A youkai took out a golden ring with green jade on it and bounced it at Kimbad's feet.

Jinba felt something roll down to his feet, and when he looked up, he saw a beautiful golden ring at his feet, and great wealth was in front of his eyes. Jinba wanted to take it, but remembered that his grandfather had taught him not to take ill-gotten gains, otherwise disaster would befall him.

So Kim gave up the gold ring in front of him, raised his foot and kicked it into the pool.

The monsters in the darkness seemed to have seen a nightmare, and kept talking; "Why doesn't he want a gold ring, doesn't he love wealth?"

Jinba patted the soil on his body, looked at the full harvest in the bag, and smiled happily: "With these medicinal materials, I can buy money to let my sister go to school, and Abba and Aunt's illness will have money to cure, and grandpa doesn't have to work hard." ”

Whining...... a strange cry sounded, and it was extremely terrifying in this inexplicable cave.

The demons wept: "This is a child who is a filial son, we can't eat his flesh, otherwise we will be poisoned." ”

"Get rid of him!"

"Yes, get rid of him!"

“………..”

Jinba suddenly felt that the hill began to shake, and in the darkness, a pair of wolf-like green eyes stared at him, and Jinba's whole body broke out in a cold sweat, and he pulled his legs and ran towards the outside of the cave.

After a fall, Jinba got up and continued to run out, and a strange sound = ghost crying wolf howled behind him chased him.

Kim Ba cried as he ran, and his cries were unusually loud in this dark and silent forest.

When he ran out of the hill, Jinba looked back, and the hill opened from the middle of the wind, turning into two huge dead trees, and the green demon fire above swam, and the two tall, hundred-meter dead trees shook the branch like a ghost, dancing the trunk. Jinba a breath of cold air rushed from the top of his head to the soles of his feet, where did he enter just now, what kind of ordinary cave, it turned out to be a monster cannibalistic cave.

Kim kept running out of the woods, fell on the way, broke his knee, and was still running for his life. Suddenly, a black wind blew in the sky, and Jinba disappeared.

When they saw him again, the black wind had cleared, and Jinba had appeared unconscious in the snow on the other side of the swamp. The original snow leopard next to it still did not retreat, lying on the ground and sleeping. Hearing the movement, he opened the only one that was still intact, and the other eye, which had been injured by Jinba with a stone before, was still bleeding, but the blood had slowly begun to coagulate.

The snow leopard walked to Jinba's side, bit Jinba's clothes and put Jinba on his body, and carried the unconscious Jinba snow leopard to run away outside the glacier of the Kunlun Sea.

The snow leopard carried Jinba to the gathering place of human beings on the plateau, which is the territory of herdsmen, gathering so many cattle, horses and sheep, the snow leopard put the unconscious Jinba on the ground and lowered his head on his face and licked it with a moist tongue, waking up the unconscious Jinba, looking at the sleeping horses not far away, he opened his mouth and roared, and the roar of the beast frightened the horses, cattle and sheep, and the livestock began to be restless, and the screams continued.

The commotion woke up the sleeping herdsmen, who turned on their lights and got up, and the snow leopard saw that it had alarmed the herdsmen, so they turned and ran away towards the horizon of the distant grassland.

When Jinba woke up, he saw the figure of the snow leopard that was chasing and chasing before in a daze in front of him, and he was about to scream, and found that he was actually near his home on the grassland, and then when he looked at the figure of the snow leopard that could no longer see the figure in front of him, Jinba realized that he had misunderstood the snow leopard from the very beginning, and at this moment, something fell out of his pocket, and Jinba looked at it through the light, and it was actually the gold ring that he had kicked into the pool in the monster cave before.

"Jinba, my grandson ......" Behind him, there was the shouting of grandpa.

"Grandpa......."

Kim Ba pocketed the ring and walked towards his grandfather.