CHAPTER XXXI

The sea beast emerged from the sea and stepped into the town, its low walls easily breaking down, and houses collapsing and streets crumbling in its path. The whole town of Pen, Fun and Pavilion www.biquge.info was completely destroyed, leaving only the ruins of the broken walls trampled by many seafarers who followed closely behind.

The town is flanked by mountains that encompass the road to and from the town on both sides, and a short distance from the town is a vast wooded area and beyond the notorious marshland. From the mouth of the forest, that is, the entrance of the swamp, the terrain suddenly opened up, and the mountains on both sides seemed to be cut by a knife, staying here and no longer meandering. The swamp is 5,000 meters wide, and its length, as far as the eye can see, is not the end of the head. The townspeople rarely go out, and this swamp alone is the one that stops many of the flightless beasts. If you don't get promoted to the knighthood, it's really difficult to get past safely.

Han Batian and the others stood on top of the flying beasts or spirit beasts, looking at the tragically destroyed town, their faces stretched one by one, without the smugness and chic of the previous few days. Han Batian summoned a few representatives from each city, his face was grim, and he said quickly, "A few of you quickly return to the city to inform your respective city lords, let them hire or levy a large amount of manpower to come to support, and then bring in the materials and resources to build a defensive line, as well as the formation mages in Pingzhou who can invite as many as they want. Go and come back quickly, don't delay the situation. 〞

After several representatives received the order, they immediately set off, and several people jumped on the spirit beasts, waved their wings lightly, and they all disappeared into the sky in a blink of an eye. Han Batian watched a few people go away, as if he had taken a reassuring pill, exhaled his breath, and then turned to the Bai family elder on the side and said, "Elder Bai, why don't we join forces to lure that sea beast into the swamp, and then trap them for the time being, and when the reinforcements arrive, they will be able to feel at ease, and then it will be easy to say whether it will be a defense or an attack?" I wonder what you think? The Bai family elder looked at the increasingly uncontrollable situation, and Han Batian's suggestion was also the only way now, so he immediately nodded in agreement, and then summoned everyone to discuss the specific plan.

One by one, the four sea beasts moved their clumsy and huge bodies out of the town and into the clearing in front of the trees. The dense sea people followed them closely and stood in a phalanx. Some strong men stood on the treetops of the woods, observing the sea people's every move. Han Batian and the others stood on top of the flying beast, with a cold light in their eyes. Han Batian let out a low roar, jumped off the beast's back, and the whole person fell freely, he took out the battle axe on his back and held it tightly in his hand. At this time, a spirit beast roared out of the woods, bringing up a piece of dead branches, and the spirit beast accurately caught Han Batian's figure, and then flew towards the four sea beasts in front of the woods.

Han Batian's spiritual power surged out, his whole body flashed with golden light, and the golden shield visible to the naked eye wrapped around his body. The battle axe in his hand was also flowing with golden light, and the spirit beast came to the sea beast, Han Batian jumped off the back of the bird, the battle axe slashed down, and the axe just swung out, and the axe was already in the way. The axe marks did not enter the body of the sea beast, like a knife cutting water, there was no earth-shattering sound, but it made the sea beast let out a painful groan. Han Batian's blow was successful, and the spirit beast had already flapped its wings and flew over, taking over his falling figure, and galloping back to the crowd. The sea beast muttered a few times, and suddenly slapped the ground violently with its thick forelimbs, and for a while the dust flew and the branches trembled, as if the earth was shaking the mountains.

The elder of the Mucheng Bai family looked at the angry sea beast, and said helplessly, "It seems that I don't need to make a move, that beast is already angry, let's retreat quickly." The crowd slowly pulled the battle line back, and the furious sea beast rushed towards the woods with its companions and many sea men, its huge body crushing over, and the bare trees fell one by one, withered branches and leaves, and sand and gravel flew wildly. The birds that inhabit it are all frightened, flutter their wings, and scatter in a hurry.

The sea beast was seduced by humans like a mad beast fluttering its clumsy body in the woods, and Han Batian and the others stood on the flying beast or spirit beast, harassing and attacking the sea beast from time to time. On both sides, you advance and retreat, gradually coming to the entrance of the swamp. The four sea beasts stopped at the exit of the woods, and the entire forest had long been unrecognizable, and there was no longer any appearance of a forest in the yellow sand smoke.

Everyone stood above the swamp and stood against the sea beast, and the sea beast flapped its front paws, and a cloud of flying sand and rocks was swaying, like a bull provoked by a matador, already in a rage, trying to kill the person in front of him. Han Batian and the Bai family elder struck a joint blow and hit the sea beast, and immediately crossed the swamp, and everyone followed one after another.

The whole swamp looks like there is not much difference between peace and earth to the naked eye, but once you step on it, it is called heaven and earth. If it weren't for winter, there would be a lot of vegetation on the swamp, and at a glance, I would think it was a green plain, demagogic, but it eats people without spitting out bones. The silt under the surface of the swamp has a strong suction, and once it sinks in, it will struggle deeper and deeper, and if it does not struggle, it will be eaten by the bone eaters in the silt and there will be no slag left. (There is a written record: there is a creature on the mainland, named the bone eater, which lives mostly in swamps, is very small, is a social creature, and is extremely aggressive.) )

The sea beast moved its clumsy body and stepped into the swamp, and as soon as one front paw entered, the whole body fell suddenly, and the huge hump fell to one side, and the sea beast's hind paws kicked the ground, and the whole beast body pounced forward, all into the swamp. Under the dual effect of its own weight and the suction of the silt, the body of the sea beast has sunk at a speed visible to the naked eye. Seeing that their companions were trapped, the other three sea beasts did not retreat, and jumped into the swamp without hesitation, and the huge volume moved with difficulty in the swamp, only the hump was still towering and difficult to swallow.

The sea people in front of the swamp jumped on the hump, and in the blink of an eye the four humps were full of people, and the sea beasts were sinking in the swamp as they advanced, and each step seemed to be extremely difficult. The people on the other side of the swamp looked at the sea beast crawling slowly in the mud, and although they breathed a sigh of relief, the sea beast and the sea man would have to cross sooner or later. When it was getting late, everyone set up camp, lit fires and cooked, set up sentry posts, and monitored the sea beasts, and took turns to rest in shifts of ten people.

The next day, the sky was blue and bright, and a layer of hoarfrost covered the earth, as if a light snow had just fallen, and the howling cold wind blew through the swamp, and it was like a low murmur all the way.

In the swamp, before the sea beast had moved half the way, the sea beast's hump sank a quarter of the way and then sank no more. The bottom of the swamp is definitely not so shallow, so it should be that the sea beast in the silt has controlled the sinking and began to walk slowly in the swamp.

This ability of the sea beast frightened everyone a lot, and they could only wait silently for reinforcements to arrive.

At dusk, the birds returned to their nests, the sky was full of golden glow, everyone stood on the shore of the swamp, looking at the sea beasts struggling in the mud, quiet, at the end of the winding swamp, a round of red sun dissipated.

A short poem, although it has nothing to do with this situation and this scene, looks the most beautiful but the twilight sky, and remembers the most unforgettable youth. I can't help but think of this little poem.

The long pavilion is dusk at sunset, and you don't see you when you remember you. The young man is already a white-headed guest, and he is lovesick with a broken branch and a goose.