Chapter 5: Demon Butterfly (Revision)
On the back road, Fengzi is responsible for looking for the traces left by the Chen family in the forest, and they follow the tracks, while Assi leads them around the range of aggressive animals.
"Don't move." Fengzi, who was walking in front, stopped suddenly, pulled Assi beside him with one hand, and raised his other hand to make two gestures to the people who followed him - stop and silence.
Everyone else is "old Jianghu", and when he saw Fengzi's two gestures, he immediately stopped, but Shan Ling obviously couldn't react, and the sudden "sudden brake" he almost hit Axi in front of him, and he was about to exclaim when he opened his mouth.
Fortunately, Chu Yishu and the old ghost reacted very quickly, one helped him to avoid falling, and the other raised his hand to cover his mouth, and forced his exclamation to be stopped, and the others breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.
Shan Ling knew that he was almost in trouble, his face flushed slightly, and he opened his eyes to see Chu Yishu, his eyes were full of apologies.
Chu was suddenly not angry, and patted him lightly behind his back with one hand.
The action of patting on his back was soothing, which made Shan Ling feel warm, and at the same time, he also reminded himself in his heart that he must pay attention and be careful, Uncle Su took himself to save his father, then he must not become a burden to others.
I saw Fengzi stretch out his hand and slowly push away the bushes in front of him, so that others could see clearly, Shan Ling avoided seeing something and exclaimed, and consciously raised his hand to cover his mouth, when he saw the scene behind the bushes, he only felt that the cold hairs all over his body were blown up, and his eyes widened because of fright.
The scene seen in front of him was terrifying and shocking to Shan Ling, only to see a few people on the ground behind the bushes, those people's bodies were fleshy and bloody, and there were many colorful phoenix-tailed butterflies parked, and the only thing that did not have butterflies stopped was only in the belly, and the towering belly was like a pregnant August, and there was something squirming slightly under the round belly.
Not to mention Shan Ling, a rookie, even Si'er and Ah Jun were all blue-faced, and Ah Xi's whole body trembled slightly with fright, and he almost collapsed on the ground, and was dragged by the old ghost on the side in time.
Fengzi raised his hand and gestured, telling everyone to step back, and definitely not to alarm this group of terrifying butterflies, and the hand that pushed aside the bushes slowly let go, silently.
The movement of more than a dozen people retreating was very light, silently and without making a sound, however, only ten meters away from the place, Axi's face could change, stretched out his hand, and learned what Fengzi had just cleaned up and made a move, all the people who retreated quickly stopped, and their hearts were shocked, could it be those butterflies again?
"Don't move, or you'll be in that thing's range." Assi said as he motioned for everyone to look back, his hands moving neatly with arrows.
They didn't meet those terrifying butterflies, they had something else.
Everyone slowly turned around, only to see a yellow-skinned and black-spotted animal more than a meter long behind the tree, looking at them with a fierce look.
That...... It was actually a spotted leopard, and everyone took a breath in unison, and several of them even pulled out their guns.
"Don't, don't shoot." Assi whispered, "Let me come." ”
The knife holding the butterfly-butterfly-knife beside the old ghost pulled out a short dagger from his waist, hooked his fingers around the circle on the handle and threw it up, pinched the tip with two fingers, and made a gesture to Assi with the other hand, and the dagger in his hand flew out.
The spotted leopard's reaction ability was extremely fast, and the movement was quickly dodging to the side, baring its teeth and grinning to pounce on everyone, the sound of breaking the sky suddenly sounded, and the arrow had pierced the leopard's front paws, and the wound was not deep, but the leopard's body shook and then fell.
Only then did everyone realize that Assi's arrows were stained with strong drugs.
"Let's go."
Although the movement here is small, it may alarm the butterflies, so get out of here as much as possible.
Everyone was relieved to have bypassed the place.
"Just ...... Just now, huhu...... What the hell is that butterfly, it actually stopped on the corpse, and those corpses...... Isn't it the Chen family? Shan Ling gasped heavily, his face was still pale, and he hadn't recovered from the scene he had seen before, and his body was even trembling slightly unconsciously.
"In an ancient book, it is recorded that this butterfly is another subspecies of the phoenix butterfly, known as the phoenix tail spirit butterfly, and the scale powder of this spirit butterfly has a psychedelic effect, which can make people fall into a deep sleep and indulge in the happiest dreams." aside; The old ghost said and frowned slightly, and continued: "But the one we just saw, and it's a little different, this kind of butterfly is very sensitive to the smell of blood, they have stabbing mouthparts, they can lightly pierce the skin and flesh to absorb blood, and at the same time lay eggs, just now those people in the stomach, I'm afraid all of them are eggs of these things, once they are alarmed, they will sprinkle scale powder, and their scale powder also has a psychedelic effect, which can make people see the most terrible things, so they are named 'phoenix-tailed demon butterfly'." ”
They had been preaching this thing twenty years ago.
"Although I didn't look closer, those corpses definitely belonged to the Chen family." Si'er Dao on the side.
Listening to the words of the old ghost and Si'er, Shan Ling's heart jumped, and his face became even paler, and said, "Uncle Su, when they encounter that 'demon butterfly', will Dad be in danger?" ”
Assi couldn't help but cast his eyes here, and his eyes were also deeply worried about his father.
"Those are all the little scum of the Chen family, before leaning forward, I saw that they all had deep scars on their necks, they should have suddenly encountered that group of butterflies, and in order to escape, they directly killed a few as bait." Fengzi said.
"If they want to go into the mountains, they need to have guides, and your father will be fine for the time being, on the contrary, you will try your best to protect them." Ah Jun said, reaching out and patting Shan Ling's shoulder.
Shan Ling nodded gently, then took a deep breath to calm himself down.
Since he came with him, he can't be afraid, otherwise he won't be able to save his father, and he will become a burden to others.
Continuing to move towards the mountain, along the way, Assi led everyone to bypass the danger several times, and also used his drugged arrows to release a few, but he didn't encounter those phoenix-tailed demon butterflies again.
"It's around here." Chu said suddenly, then took out a piece of paper folded into a square, and then spread it out, drawing a lot of boxy lines with red and blue pens, like a map.
Si'er glanced at the paper and said, "Master, Chen Xiaogou's people didn't see it, they should have entered from the other side." ”
"Hmm." Chu nodded suddenly, and then said, "Axi, just stop here, the others prepare the peppers." ”
All of them who went into the mountain together had a bag of millet peppers in their equipment, including Axi, who was also given a share, and when he heard Chu Yishu's words, Shan Ling took out the bag of red things.
"This ...... What is cayenne pepper used for? ”
Chu suddenly took out a millet pepper, put it directly in his mouth, and said: "From now on, no matter at any time, you must hold the pepper in your mouth, otherwise, you will definitely not see the sun tomorrow." ”
Shan Ling didn't understand very much, and he also held a millet pepper in his mouth, feeling a little apprehensive, and then watched Chu Yishu take out the tools with others and start to get busy on the ground.
"What are they doing?" Assi on the side came over, obviously having a good impression of the "sympathetic" Shan Ling.
"I don't quite understand either."
"The entrance to the cemetery collapsed twenty years ago, and now they're going to find the weakest spot and make a hole in it." Si'er came over and stood by Shan Ling's side, long before entering the mountain, he had received Chu Yishu's order, this time, his task was to follow Shan Ling's side to protect him.
"You ...... Going into the cemetery? Assi was taken aback, and his whole body exploded, and his face was very ugly.
"Shhhhhh Si'er looked like "we are all good people", and then dragged Shan Ling into the water without hesitation, and said: "I don't believe you ask Little Bell, his father is a top student of the Department of Archaeology of the first university in Beijing, many years ago in the capital organized an archaeological field exploration, it was here, which is why the Chen family captured his father, because his father once entered this tomb." ”
The corners of Shan Ling's mouth on the side couldn't help twitching a few times, what the hell is the little bell? Who are you calling, and then feeling the gaze of Assi on the side, he nodded.
"Well, my dad used to be in the archaeology department."
However, he did not do archaeological work later, and took him back to a remote mountain village to work as an accountant in a small company in the town.
Hearing this, Assi's face finally improved, and he felt that this group of people was not bad people, they were really just here to save people.
"You two will follow me after you enter, don't get separated, there are a lot of traps inside, very dangerous, as long as we find someone, we will leave." Si'er patted the two of them on the shoulder.
It's true that they are tomb robbers, but this time the operation is more special, the purpose is not to go down to the tomb to find the Ming weapon, but to help their boss find a senior.
"Hmm." Assi nodded, clenching the iron bow in his hand, nervous.
"Brother Si'er, there is another question, why do we have millet pepper in our mouths?" Shan Ling said, moved his mouth, and the tip of the millet pepper was exposed between his pale lips, then he sucked it and put it away.
Shan Ling is a Cantonese person, not used to eating spicy, although he went to school in Sichuan, but he usually buys his own materials to cook, so he eats light, and now he has a millet pepper in his mouth, and he is really afraid of biting the skin, and he has always been careful, like holding a pepper in his mouth is not a bomb.
"The scale powder of the butterfly is hallucinogenic and makes people hallucinate, but the spicy taste of millet pepper can relieve this illusion, so when you enter here, you have to hold the millet pepper, once you get hit, bite through the millet pepper in your mouth, hehe......"
The last two "hehe" sounds made the corners of Axi and Shan Ling's mouths hot and painful.