Volume 1 The Human World Chapter 181 The Narrow Road
By the afternoon of the fourth day, the river was getting wider and wider, the ice floes were decreasing, and the snow on the shore was getting thinner, revealing a slightly mottled yellow-green color. The peaks on the south side are shaped like monsters and stretch for miles. According to the map of Suligo, it should not be far from the "Swan Village".
Xu Xuan's spirits were greatly lifted, and he was about to eat some pickled fish and continue to move forward, when Hai Dongqing suddenly screamed and jumped on his shoulder, extremely irritable. Then I heard a few strange screams in the air, looked up, and my heart shook. I saw a few ugly giant birds grabbing a few bloody things and flying quickly from the east, and when I looked closely, I was even more hairy.
What those strange birds caught was several torn and broken corpses, one of which was a human head that had been split in half, the left side of the face was gone, and the right side of the face was staring, as if it was condensed with horror and sorrow, and it was dead without blinking its eyes.
When the strange birds caught a glimpse of him, their eyes blazing with fierce light, they immediately threw down their corpses and swooped down on him with a scream. Xu Xuan's "One Yang Finger" has already begun to have a small success, and the air arrows are fast, and the "poof" sound makes the birds cry and dance in pain, and they fly up to the sky, hovering above his head for a moment, and then turning around and flying eastward.
Hai Dongqing kept wandering and jumping on the side of the ship, flapping his wings and screaming, and he still seemed quite uneasy.
Xu Xuan scooped up half of the short limb from the river, looked at it intently, his heart suddenly jumped, and he secretly thought: "If the map is correct, the distance between here and the 'Swan Village' is only ten miles at most." These corpses are bloody and bloody, and they have been dead for only an hour, could it be that 'Swan Village, what upheaval has happened?' ”
However, at this time, there was no way out, even if the front was really a mountain of fire and swords, he could only rush over with a hard head. At that moment, I simply had a full meal, and lay down in the canopy and slept for two hours, recuperating my spirits. In the evening, the boat was rowed at full speed.
The twilight was dreary, the wind was cold, and beyond the continuous peaks in front of you, you could faintly see the indigo sky shining red and the birds circling. Listening attentively, in addition to the crisp sounds of birds, cheers and flames, it seems to be mixed with screams and cries, which makes people shudder.
The river gradually slowed down, meandering and whirling, but Hai Dongqing became more and more irritable, his sharp beak grabbed Xu Xuanyi's horns, and he was about to fly, as if signaling him to turn around as soon as possible. Xu Xuan made up his mind at this time, gently stroking its feathers, while running his true qi and concentrating on vigilance.
Skirting the majestic and steep snow-capped peaks on the south bank, the birds in front of me were crying like a tide, the noise was boiling, and the wind blowing in front of me was filled with the pungent stench of burning corpses and the smell of blood. After two more turns downstream, a scene as tragic as hell suddenly came into view.
I saw the flames soaring into the sky, and countless strange birds dancing all over the sky. The fire spread along the woods along the river, all the way to the middle of the mountain, burning the rock walls red, and staining the river.
At the foot of the South Bank Mountain, the bustling and lively "Swan Village" has completely disappeared, leaving only hundreds of charred towers and wooden houses, with ruins and thick smoke. By the light of the fire, as far as the eye could see, there were charred corpses everywhere, some of them with several arrows; Some have swords and axes to add to the body, and the body head is separated; Some were torn open by birds and beasts, and their intestines were dragged to the ground......
The hundreds of strange birds were constantly circling and rushing down, or fluttering in a ball, pecking and tearing at the corpse; Or strut through the ruins in search of fresh, uncharred flesh. The fierce blue eyes were like a little ghost fire, flickering chaotically in the twilight and firelight.
Although Xu Xuan had been prepared, seeing this, he couldn't help but feel a pang of disgust in his chest. But what shocked him even more was the scene in front of the river on the left.
There is a three-masted ship moored there, the length of the ship is more than 100 zhang, the widest part is close to 40 zhang, the building cabin is four stories high, magnificent and wide, and the stern cabin is more majestic like a city tower. The canvas has all been lowered, and the green flag hunting on the mainmast is depicted, drawing a blood-red strange bird, with blue eyes and white claws, hideous and ferocious, very similar to the fierce birds circling around.
There was a lot of noise on the cabin and deck, and there were hundreds of big men, some singing and drinking, chasing the disheveled women, holding them down and insulting them wantonly; Others tied the women to the masts and bulkheads, and bent their bows and arrows to deliberately shoot them at the edge, causing them to scream and cry, and laugh incessantly.
If a woman resists desperately, she is immediately tied to a rope by them and hangs down the side of the boat. After a few counts, there were nearly 100 long ropes hanging around the side of the ship, and two or three naked women were tied to each rope, and they were bruised all over their bodies, crying and struggling, and they were miserable.
The big men on the boat scrambled to lean out and whipped the women fiercely. The women could not avoid it, and in an instant, they were beaten to the point that their skin was open, and they were drenched in blood, some fainted immediately, and some were angry.
Smelling the smell of blood on the women's bodies, the strange birds rushed down and pecked at the wounds violently, and from time to time the women were torn apart by their claws, screaming to death. The men laughed obscenely, or whipped away, or simply cut the rope with a knife, and watched the woman fall into the water, causing the birds to peck.
The most tragic were the six or seven women who were hung on the mast beams, each with dozens of arrows in their bodies, their bodies were incomplete, and their intestines were swaying and their flesh was blurred under the constant swirling and swooping of the strange birds, and some of them even showed their white bones.
Although Xu Xuan didn't know the ins and outs, he could guess that these villains must be the most murderous pirates, raising hundreds of fierce birds and attacking the "Swan Village". After burning, killing, and plundering, all the women in the village were caught on the boat for sexual pleasure, and if they did not comply, they were immediately tortured to death.
Seeing this, he was furious, and his clenched fists trembled slightly, and he couldn't wait to immediately kill and kill all the thieves.
At this time, the canoe was going down the river, and it was only about thirty feet away from the big ship. One of the pirates on the helm was the first to catch a glimpse, pointing at him and shouting.
Everyone turned their heads to look over, and when they saw the pure white sea Dongqing standing on his shoulder, they all showed a look of greed and surprise, and cheered in unison. Several men raised their horns and raised their heads to blow long.
"Yahhhh
Haidong's green feathers stand on end, fluttering their wings and screaming towards the flocks of birds. Xu Xuan's chest was full of blood, and at this time, even if he wanted to stay out of the matter, it was impossible to touch Hai Dongqing's head and neck, and said loudly: "Brother Bird, you go quickly, fly back to the side of the county lord of Sulige" and threw it out towards the rear.
Then he slapped his left palm, and suddenly pulled it up to the sky, and waved the wooden oar with his right hand, and swept the two strange birds that rushed down from above with a "bang", and hit them with blood and flesh when they landed, screaming and flying.
He recuperated in the Jurchen village for more than half a month, taking strange fruit herbs such as "Fire Baby Fruit" every day, and the meridians and bone injuries had been healed, and he slaughtered wolves and tigers, and after a life-and-death battle, he gradually became accustomed to the fierce fighting method without legs. At this moment, with both hands, he flew into the air, and easily killed four or five strange birds, and with the force of the counterattack, he rushed forward and rushed out more than three feet before falling into the river.
With a bang, the waves splashed, and he swung his right hand to beat the oar on the surface of the river, and flew up again and wet, and swept towards the big boat with a shout. swept the momentum, and split the feathers of several strange birds that rushed in front of him, and fell with a sad cry.
The pirates didn't seem to expect him to have such ability, and after a few ups and downs, he had already broken through the encirclement of the birds, and rushed to a dozen feet away with his oars.
Suddenly, someone shouted: "his grandmother, whoever can shoot this kid first, the money that Lao Tzu robbed today will all belong to him."
Xu Xuanyi, this person's voice is actually the standard Lin'an official dialect, could it be that these pirates are actually from the Great Song Dynasty? Without waiting to think about it, the sound of "whooshing" was loud, and the thieves rushed to shoot at him with their bows. He was in mid-air, with nowhere to hide, and in a hurry, he instinctively pinched his fingers to change the trick, and with a "fire and water are not healed", he swept forward with a paddle.
"Water and fire are not helped", the upper hexagram is separation, and separation is fire; The next hexagram is Kan, and Kan is water. The fire is on the water, and the water potential fails to overwhelm the fire, which is "unrelieved". At this time, the ice water in the river is surging, and the fire on the shore is soaring, which is exactly the same thing. The sense of true qi inside and outside suddenly rushed out from the "departure door" and "kanmen" of the "eight poles", turning into a fierce sword.
"Boom" sounded, the waves danced wildly into the sky, and the dozens of arrows were thrown and broken when they landed, and even the fire on the shore seemed to rise in an instant. The air waves shook, and the strange birds around them screamed and flew one after another.
Xu Xuan's breath was suffocated, and the whole person seemed to be swept up by the cyclone of his right arm, the sky was spinning, and he rushed out eight or nine zhang away like a spinning top, waved the wooden oar, and slammed it to the lake below, rebounding into the sky, and jumped high on the deck.
There was an uproar all around, shocked by the incomparable momentum of his "oar" tyrant, and this group of vicious pirates were all shocked and frightened, and retreated like a tide, bending their bows and arrows, but they did not dare to shoot them easily.
Suddenly, I heard a "sonorous" sound, the sound of the zither suddenly started, and then the pipa, guqin, flute, and sheng pipe sounded one after another, which was poignant and gloomy, and made people feel creepy.
Xu Xuan was stunned, feeling that he had heard this music somewhere, and looked up, only to see seven young beauties sitting on the top floor of the stern cabin, playing the piano and pipes expressionlessly. In the middle sat a thin and small old man, holding a green nine-foot knife in his right hand, and a huge blue-eyed strange bird in his left hand, with a nose like a sharp beak and eyes as sharp as an eagle, looking at him coldly, and the distorted scar on his face looked particularly hideous and terrifying under the light of the fire.
The Wolf Eagle Ancestor's heart sank suddenly, and he almost screamed.
This scar-faced old man was one of the "Ten Ancestors of the Demon Gate" An Yuchen who had seen on Mount Emei that day, and he was shocked and angry, daring to love this group of fierce and cold-blooded pirates, these hundreds of wolf eagles, and the old devil who burned and plundered along the coast. But this devil has only been making trouble in the East China Sea, why did he travel thousands of miles today to this extremely cold and desolate North Sea?