Chapter 30: The Dinner Storm
An hour later, on an unknown small tree in the Xuanyin Mountains, a pheasant with a long tail, a red crown and brightly colored fur was flapping its wings in the setting sun that was half of the horizon, and from time to time turned its head to insert its beak into the feathers on its body to comb it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Whoosh...."A thing flew through thin air, hitting the head of the pheasant, the pheasant didn't even have time to make a cry, it fell from the tree, the white shadow under the tree flashed, and the pheasant was firmly grasped by the white shadow before it landed.
Because there are too many tall trees canopy to obscure it, the afterglow of the setting sun cannot shoot into the mountain, the visibility in the mountain is already very low, whether it is in the trees, in the bushes, or in the grass, in the crevices of the rocks, there are all kinds of insect chirping and crawling sounds from the distance, and occasionally there are all kinds of terrifying beast roars in the distance, and from time to time there are a few sharp whistles mixed in, making the mountains and forests that seem quite quiet and peaceful during the day become eerie and terrifying.
"Xuanyin Mountain is really different from other places, it is so warm in March, no wonder the trees and grass on the mountain are full of green grass, and there are so many rare insects and beasts, the two pheasants caught should be enough to eat tonight and tomorrow, and now it is dark, it is estimated that no one will risk rushing at night, and it is unlikely that they will meet other people, as long as they find a safe place to spend the night." Zhao Lengfei shook the pheasant in his hand and said to himself.
He originally thought that he would have to ambush three or four times to get all the daggers, but he didn't expect things to go surprisingly well, and he got the other two daggers in one shot, Zhao Lengfei shook off the three people who were robbed of the daggers, first ate the two fruits on his body, and then used enough strength to hurry, and finally climbed to a quarter of the height of Xuanyin Mountain before dark.
When he was in a hurry, he met Gong Yeya, a girl who ranked twelfth in the first assessment, when Gong Yeya was hiding in a tree, and Zhao Lengfei was attacked by Gong Yeya when he passed by.
However, Gongyeya's level of concealment was much worse than Zhao Lengyan's, and she wanted to rely on the lush foliage to cover her figure, but she didn't notice that the scattered white spots of light in the shadows of the canopy on the ground would be dimmed because of her.
When Zhao Lengfei hurried away, he watched the six roads and listened to the eight directions, it was close to evening, the sun was setting, and the shadow of the canopy was stretched very long, so the area of the light spots in the shadow of the canopy that was darkened because of Gongye Ya's hiding was also several times larger, ordinary people rarely paid attention to these details, but Zhao Lengfei had learned from his father since he was a child to listen to the wind and recognize the sound, and to see the yin and distinguish the shape, how could he ignore these details, he saw through the light spots that the shadow of the canopy had dimmed, and he could see that there were people hiding in the trees from a distance, Zhao Lengfei slowed down when he saw this, As he walked, he observed the dimmed spots of light in the shade of the tree, and even saw that there was a girl hidden in the tree.
The girls who can walk in front of themselves are only Xia Yun'er, Bai Fu and Gongyeya, who are ranked higher in the first assessment, Bai Fu will definitely be with Bai Feng, Xia Yun'er is so strong, she must be from the Xiuzhen family, no matter how you look at her, she is a tsundere daughter, such a woman should disdain to hide in the tree and sneak attack others, so the person on the tree must be Gongyeya.
Before he got to the bottom of the tree, Zhao Lengfei knew who was above, and he didn't want to conflict with the opponent who ranked twelfth in the first assessment, but he had come here, and he couldn't turn back.
He felt that Gongyeya's idea of ambushing here should be the same as himself, and the other party must have noticed that he also knew himself during the first assessment, and he would be a little jealous of himself in his heart, and it was more likely that he would not make a move on himself, if Gongyeya didn't take the initiative to shoot at him, then he would pretend not to find out and walk over directly.
It backfired, and Gong Yeya confirmed Zhao Lenghai, but I don't know if she felt that her sneak attack was seamless, or because she was overtaken by Zhao Lengfei at the last moment of the first assessment and hated, she actually shot at Zhao Lengfei at the first time, and five dark crossbow arrows shot at Zhao Lengfei's vital point, which had the meaning of causing Zhao Lengfei to die.
Since Zhao Lengfei discovered Gongyeya in advance, why was he afraid of her sneak attack, he had already prepared, the dark crossbow was shot, he didn't dodge, and when he turned around, seven or eight four-cornered hidden weapons were shot out, these hidden weapons not only intercepted all Gongyeya's arrows, but also forced him to jump off the tree.
Gongye Ya saw that Zhao Lengfei could intercept all his arrows with a hidden weapon, and knew that she was not an opponent at all, she was horrified in her heart, and after landing on the ground, without saying a word, she raised her hand and threw her dagger at Zhao Lenghai, and then turned around and ran.
Gongyeya's strength is not bad, but it is still far inferior to Zhao Lenghai, Zhao Lenghai's strength is not bad at this time, not to mention that he intercepted it, it is not difficult to knock it down directly, he easily caught the dagger thrown by Gongyeya with two fingers, and sensed that Gongyeya did not use much force when he threw the dagger, and it was taken to give it to himself, Zhao Lengfei is not the master who is unforgiving, since the other party took the initiative to hand over the dagger, he no longer cares whether the other party's sneak attack just now has murderous intentions, and let Gongyeya leave.
It wasn't until Gong Yeya's figure disappeared that Zhao Lengfei let down his guard, he pinned the newly acquired dagger in his hand to his waist, and took back the hidden weapons he shot one by one, and then continued on the road.
In the next time, he didn't meet anyone else, Zhao Lengfei felt that even if other people were the same as he planned, it was impossible for them to be as lucky as himself to get together three daggers at one time, he should have thrown off most of his opponents and was in the front, and the chance of meeting others on the back journey was very small, and the assessment of the second item should be able to achieve better results than the first item.
Before it was completely dark, Zhao Lengfei found a relatively empty and flat place, he took off the two pheasants on his body, and cleaned them up while paying attention to the movements around him.
After a while, the two pheasants were defeathered and plucked by him, disemboweled, washed and peeled clean, and took out a few large leaves that he had just picked on the road, Zhao Lengfei wrapped the two processed pheasants and put them into a cloth bag.
After washing the blood stains on his hands with the water in the water bag, he looked at the small pile of internal organs and feathers on the ground, and couldn't help but secretly say in his heart: "There are many poisonous insects and beasts in this mountain, and I don't know what beasts will be attracted by the bloody smell of pheasants, so I must find another place to make a fire." ”
However, before Zhao Lengfei could take a few steps, there was a sound of grass falling and trees breaking behind him, "It's not good, it's a big guy." Zhao Lengfei didn't have time to look back, stomped on the ground with his feet, and rushed towards the big tree not far in front of him.
When he reached the bottom of the tree, he leaped forward, and counted his feet on the trunk of the tree, and jumped on one of the thicker branches, and he squatted on the branch, and carefully sensed the movement around him with his ears pricked up, and only then did he look down the tree when he was sure that there was no sign of other animal activity in the tree.
It was now the beginning of the month, there was no moon in the sky, only sparse stars twinkling, Zhao Lengfei didn't have much light to rely on, he could only vaguely distinguish the general outline of the beast, judging from the yellow and black spots on the beast's body and the pair of shining green eyes, it should be a leopard.
The leopard sniffed the entrails of the pheasant on the ground, and then raised its head to look at Zhao Lengfei in the tree.
Being stared at by those eyes that shone with green faint light, Zhao Lengfei felt a chill in his heart, and with a flick of his right hand, three four-cornered hidden weapons shot out, and the leopard also ran towards the big tree where he lived at the same time.
Zhao Lengfei obviously underestimated the speed of the leopard, "Bell! Clang! Clang! "All three of them hit the rocks on the ground, splashing sparks.
The leopard ran under the tree almost instantly, and after climbing three or four meters with its limbs grasping the trunk of the tree, it jumped up sharply, and its two front paws grabbed at the branch where Zhao Lengfei was.
Zhao Lengfei jumped upward, reached out and grabbed a higher branch, dodging one of the leopard's claws, and was about to shake his body up, when he felt a sharp pain in his left hand that grabbed the branch.
"Ahh Zhao Lengfei screamed in pain, and as soon as he let go of his hand, he couldn't hold on to the branch anymore, and fell straight down.
At this time, the leopard below grabbed the branch with its two front paws, and before the hind paws could climb up, it was trampled on the top of the head by the fallen Zhao Lengfei, and the leopard's front paws couldn't bear the weight of the two, so he tore off a large piece of bark and fell from the air with Zhao Lengfei.
After Zhao Lengfei stepped on the leopard's head in mid-air, he kicked hard, and used a somersault to stop his downward trend, halfway through the flip, he bent his calf, and just hooked the branch he was standing on.
He hung himself upside down on a branch like a pendulum, stretched out his right hand and grabbed a crossbow from his calf, Zhao Lengfei shook the crossbow in front of his face, and then buckled the string with his teeth, he didn't look at it, and shot it in the direction where the leopard landed.
The arrows were several times faster than the leopard's falling speed, and as soon as the leopard's limbs touched the ground, three or four two-finger crossbow arrows were shot at its back, "Roar! The leopard screamed in pain, looked up at the trees in fear, turned and ran into the bushes beside it, and fled as fast as it could.
"Bang!" As soon as the leopard escaped, Zhao Lengfei fell from the tree, his back and neck hit the ground first, this fall was not light, but he didn't care about these, he hurriedly raised his left hand, only to see a big ant with four wings on its back, completely black, not much smaller than his fist, biting his palm, the two huge pincers of the ant's head have been deeply embedded in the flesh of his palm.
"Hiss...," Zhao Lengfei gasped, "It's actually a bird-eating ant." ”
Ornivorous ants are a very rare insect, one of the only three known non-social ants, the probability of evolving into a spirit insect is extremely high, bird-eating ants are cold and afraid of fire, with two pairs of wings and a pair of large pincer jaw-like mouthparts, it is also very poisonous, after being bitten by it, the wound is painful, and then it will cause syncope due to the spread of the poison.
Bird-eating ants do not move at all whether they fly or crawl, feed on all kinds of birds, once they bite their prey, even if their bodies are pulled off, they will never let go, and it is said that burning them with fire is the only way to let them loosen their mouths.
Zhao Lengfei hurriedly took out a small piece of velvet from his arms with his right hand and wiped it on the ground, he burned the burning velvet on the bird-eating ant on his left hand for a few seconds, and the bird-eating ant really let go of its pair of huge pincers and fell to the ground.
Throwing away the velvet in his hand, Zhao Lengfei took out a dagger pinned to his waist and slashed at the part where the bird-eating ant's head and torso were connected.
"Humph!" Zhao Lengfei endured the pain, and took out the ancient dagger splitting peak in his sleeve with his left hand, the ancient dagger with its own sword, ordinary swords can be easily cut into two, Zhao Lengfei grabbed the ancient dagger with his left hand, and also slashed at the connection between the head and torso of the bird-eating ant, and the bird-eating ant was cut into two pieces at once.
After the bird-eating ant was cut in two, its head and jaws were still opening and closing, and its headless torso was flapping its wings wildly and spinning in place.
Zhao Lengfei dropped the dagger and immediately squeezed the venom and poisonous blood from the wound, and then he took out a small bottle on his body, poured out two pills from the bottle, he threw one of them into his mouth and swallowed it directly, and one was crushed and applied to the wound on his left hand, and the powder was evenly applied, Zhao Lengfei took out a piece of gauze from his body and wrapped the wound, after doing this, he breathed a sigh of relief, compared with the three-color spotted phosphorus snake, the bird-eating ants are unguardable, more dangerous, and it seems that they must not go up the tree at night.
"The vitality of the bird-eating ant is really tenacious, it hasn't died for so long, I don't know if this one has evolved into a spirit worm, but even if it evolves into a spirit worm, this one should be the lowest order, and it has no value." Zhao Lengfei picked up the few hidden weapons scattered on the ground, looked at the carcass of bird-eating ants that were still moving on the ground, dispelled the idea of putting it away, and said to himself.
"The leopard should not be able to run far after being hit by the snake venom on the arrow, and I have suffered so much, it is too cheap to let it go like this, the leopard lives alone, if you can follow it and find its nest, you should be able to stay safely all night." Thinking of this, Zhao Lengfei jumped into the bushes where the leopard had fled.
Zhao Lengfei easily found the bloodstains left by the leopard when he fled, and chased all the way along the bloodstains on the ground, and he found the target in just ten minutes.
At this time, the leopard staggered, the speed was very slow, and it would fall every time it ran a while, it seemed that the snake venom on the arrow had spread in the leopard's body, and Zhao Lengfei hid his figure behind him, and followed unhurriedly.
After running for another ten minutes, the leopard stumbled to a small cave, and was about to get into it, but as if it suddenly sensed something, it immediately stopped, and it turned around and began to roar at the woods in front of it.
A small black shadow jumped out of the woods and stood more than twenty steps away from the leopard, the black shadow was Zhao Lengfei who had been tracking all the way, Zhao Lengfei saw that the leopard had no strength to pounce, so he didn't care about the leopard's hostile roar at all, he took out a dagger pinned to his waist, and walked forward step by step.
The snake venom of the three-color spotted phosphorus snake can not quickly poison the prey, but this snake venom has a strong paralyzing effect, most of the prey is paralyzed by the three-color spotted phosphorus snake after poisoning or swallowed alive, Zhao Lenghai's several crossbow arrows smeared with snake venom are limited, it is impossible to kill this leopard, but it is no problem to paralyze its whole body in a short period of time and lose its strength.
Seeing Zhao Lengfei walking forward without fear, the leopard's shining green eyes began to show fear, it looked back at the cave behind it, roared, and fled to the side with all its might, but it fell down after not running a few steps.
The snake venom made the leopard lose control of its body, and it could only crawl forward little by little, and it turned its head and roared at Zhao Lengfei as it crawled back.
When Zhao Lengfei just tracked the leopard, most of the anger in his heart had disappeared, unless it was really necessary, he was unwilling to take the lives of other animals at will, and finding the leopard's burrow was his goal, and now Zhao Lengfei didn't want to kill the leopard, but hoped that it would run away like this.
Just when Zhao Lengfei was still four or five steps away from the cave, the leopard unexpectedly turned around and rushed towards him, but unfortunately, the leopard fell again a few steps away from Zhao Lenghai.
The fall was worse than just now, the leopard's head hit the ground first, its two front paws were pressed under its body and could not move, it seemed that it did not even have the strength to raise its head, but just rested its chin on the ground, stretched its neck and roared desperately, looking very pitiful.
Zhao Lengfei carefully looked at the leopard in front of him, it was much bigger than the leopard he had seen in the zoo on earth, a few points bigger than the tigers he had ever seen, the head was small and round, the trunk lines were very graceful, the fur covered with black spots the size of copper coins could not cover its toned muscle lines, and the eyes that shone with green and faint phosphorescence matched with the pair of developed canine teeth, indescribably powerful and beautiful.
"I, a person who used to have a heartbeat when I saw a dog, didn't even feel a trace of nervousness in the face of such a giant leopard, have I really changed, and become completely different from me in my previous life?" Zhao Lengfei suddenly remembered that when he was so old in his previous life, he was chased by a neighbor's native dog and ran home, and a rare smile appeared on his face.
At this moment, two leopards the size of a house cat ran out of the cave, they were next to the big leopard, and roared towards Zhao Lengfei, and the big leopard's eyes were full of more fear at the moment, and its roar became much lower, as if it had changed from a threat just now to a plea.
Seeing this scene, Zhao Lengfei was stunned, his heart was touched, no wonder the big leopard first wanted to escape and then ran back, it turned out that he wanted to lead away to protect the child, thinking of this, Zhao Lengfei was completely angry in his heart, put away the dagger and walked towards the big leopard.
As soon as he took a step forward, the two little leopards rushed over together, one on each side, each biting one of his trouser corners, but Zhao Lengfei didn't mean to stop, so he dragged the two little leopards a few steps to the big leopard, at this time the big leopard didn't even have the strength to roar, so he could only try to keep his eyes open and look at Zhao Lengfei and his child.
Zhao Lengfei looked at the several crossbow arrows inserted in the leopard's back, perhaps because the leopard's skin was thick and strong enough, or maybe his hand crossbow strength was too small, the arrows of these crossbow arrows were not deep into the flesh, and he easily pulled out a few crossbow arrows on the leopard's body.
Taking out the small bottle of antidote that he had just used, Zhao Lengfei first poured two grains and crushed them, and then sprinkled the medicine on the wound on the back of the big leopard, looking at the big leopard whose eyes were a little sluggish at this time, he gently broke the leopard's mouth with his hand and flicked a few antidotes into it.
After doing this, Zhao Lengfei picked up the two little leopards who were biting the corners of their pants one by one, "These two little guys look quite similar to Banban, I don't know how Banban is doing now." In his previous life, Zhao Lengfei liked small animals very much, and he also had several pets, and the pet cat in his hometown was full of spots, and the pet cat called Spotted was brought by him from a neighbor's house, and it was also his favorite pet.
In the last period of time on the earth, because of the relationship of working in a different place, Zhao Lengfei has not seen the spots for a long time, as soon as he recalls the past of the earth, he seems to be out of control, the whole person is stunned there, until Zhao Lengfei feels a pain in his chest, and he comes back to his senses.
It turned out that the two little guys in his hands scratched him with their claws, and Zhao Lengfei shook his head so that he would not continue to remember.
Gently put the two little ones back to the big leopard, Zhao Lengfei took out a pheasant from the cloth bag and put it on the ground, and then he turned around and walked away without looking back.
"Now I'm still the same me as before, but I'm stronger than before, I don't think about it anymore, just find a place nearby to make a fire, quickly roast the remaining pheasant, my stomach is hungry, and I will continue to rush tomorrow morning." Zhao Lengfei thought as he walked.
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