Chapter 52: A knife in hand

Fang Ling didn't think much about it, and it wasn't until Huang Jian and Meng Zhiyuan both jumped up that he breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, the vines were already occupied by a group of snakes, numbering in the thousands, and along the mountain wall, these snakes could chase after them at any time.

The path under the cliff was flanked by a large amount of rubble that had slid down the mountain, and in between there was a thick grass that could not be seen and where it went, but it was impossible for the people to find another way through the serpents.

After walking along the trail for a while, the road gradually widened, but the mountain walls on both sides could not be seen at all, and the top was shrouded in white mist, which showed that the cliff was deep.

At this time, Xiao Xue suddenly found that she was still in Fang Ling's arms, no matter how firm her heart was, remembering that she had been held by this young man for so long, her ears couldn't help but turn red, and she scolded lightly: "Don't let me go quickly." ”

"Do you want to hold it for a while? I think you're tired. Fang Ling was actually in a tense situation, and he forgot about it for a while, but now that she mentioned it, he couldn't help but salivate and smiled.

"You ......" Xiao Xue was really angry, and hurriedly got down from his hand and snorted heavily.

Fang Ling smiled, accustomed to "sexually" "touching" his nose with his hands, only feeling that his hands had a lingering fragrance.

The two of them continued to walk forward, and when they felt that they were far from a wide place, they sat down on the flat stone and rested.

As soon as Fang Ling sat down, Meng Zhiyuan knelt down, buried his head on the ground, and said in great fear: "The grass people have seen the King of Shicheng, and the words they boasted in the inn yesterday were all hearsay, Your Highness, don't blame me, the villain's head is not worth cutting off." ”

Huang Jian also knelt down and said respectfully: "The grass people pay a visit to the King of Shicheng." ”

Fang Ling couldn't help but smile when he heard this, and said casually: "Get up, if you want to kill your head and cut off your head for such a trivial matter, then I will not be the king of Shicheng, but the king of Hades." ”

Meng Zhiyuan raised his head and secretly glanced at Fang Ling's face, and said cautiously: "Your Highness really doesn't blame the grass people?"

Fang Ling said with a smile: "Not only do I not blame you, but I also want to thank you for promoting me so wisely and martial, so you can rest assured." ”

Meng Zhiyuan breathed a sigh of relief and stood up.

At this moment, Xiao Xue suddenly shrugged her nose, and her willow eyebrows frowned slightly, as if she smelled something.

Fang Ling sensitively noticed the change in her, so he asked, "What's wrong?"

Xiao Xue didn't answer immediately, but discerned for a moment before asking a few people, "Do you smell a fishy smell?"

"Fishy smell?" A few people were about to shake their heads, but they suddenly felt a faint smell blowing in the wind, Fang Ling looked left and right, and pointed to a large raised stone road, "Let's climb up to it and take a look." ”

The four of them climbed to the top along the piled boulders, looked towards the bend in front of them, and gasped.

In front of the bend is a rather large clearing, and the craggy rocks go up the rock wall, which is already the end of the mountain road, and then there is a huge cavern, which is as high as three adults stacked on top of each other, and it is so dark that you can't see what is inside.

However, in the open space in front of the cave, there were hundreds of snake bones, and the white snake bones were stacked one on top of the other, which immediately added an eerie feeling to the place, and there were more than a dozen snake corpses with some minced flesh on the ground, and the fishy smell was emitted by them.

After all, Huang Jian was older and quite calm, Meng Zhiyuan was almost about to scream, Xiao Xue seemed to hear something again, and hurriedly made a boo gesture, Meng Zhiyuan hurriedly covered his mouth and didn't let the sound come out.

Fang Ling also felt that something seemed to exist in the cave at this time, and his eardrums were even sensitive to the movement.

It didn't take long to see a pale red smoke drifting out of it, and when it came out of the cave, it was quite thick, and gradually dispersed.

Xiao Xue suddenly remembered something, pointed to a nearby stone and said, "Climb up quickly, this smoke can't be smelled." ”

Although Huang Jian and the others didn't know what Xiao Xue's identity was, since they were with Fang Ling, what she said was like coming out of Fang Ling's mouth, and they hurriedly climbed onto the stone.

By this time, the smoke had come, so faint that it was impossible to see or smell any peculiar smell. But the wind at the bottom of the valley blew and carried it farther away.

Then, they heard the sound of Suo Suo from the path, and when everyone looked back, they saw a "hairy" and terrifying scene.

I saw snakes scrambling along the vines and rocks towards this place, at first the speed of climbing was very fast, but after climbing for a while, the speed slowed down, and when they came to the clearing, they collapsed to the ground as if they had no strength, and even closed their eyes.

"What the hell is that smoke? Could it be ......" Fang Ling frowned slightly, although he hadn't finished speaking, he was already somewhat connected with something in his heart.

Hearing Fang Ling's question, Huang Jian and Meng Zhiyuan also hurriedly pricked up their ears.

Xiao Xue said lightly: "There should be a fierce beast in this cave, and its name is Sleeping J. ”

"Fierce beast?" Huang Jian was taken aback when he heard this, and his eyes widened.

Meng Zhiyuan was puzzled, and asked in a low voice, "Brother Huang, what is this fierce beast?"

Huang Jian took a deep breath, and then explained to him: "The so-called fierce beasts are monsters that are hundreds of times more ferocious than ordinary fierce beasts, and I heard that they can live for hundreds or thousands of years. I've only heard from my elders in the past, and it's said that these beasts live in places that are rarely inhabited. More than 30 years ago, my uncle and the hunters of the same county went hunting in the mountains, and because they were chasing an elk, they got "lost" and came to the depths of the mountains, where they encountered a fierce beast that looked like a tiger, but was several times larger than a tiger. ”

Meng Zhiyuan sighed lightly when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Then what?"

Huang Jian sighed and said: "As a result, more than a dozen hunters did not hurt the beast at all, all died under the minions, my uncle because of his fast running, but he chose a life, but after returning home, he had a serious illness, and even his feet were paralyzed, although he was thin, but he couldn't walk." ”

Meng Zhiyuan heard something a little numb, several times bigger than a tiger, don't say it, I've never heard of it.

At this time, there were already fifty or sixty snakes in front of the clearing, the small ones were no more than the thickness of a finger, but the large ones were as thick as the mouth of a bowl, and they were all piled up limp together.

Then, there was finally a sound in the cave, and then I saw a silver-backed big J with a height of more than four meters walking out, this beast was shaped like an ape, but the ears were long, the eyes were round and red, and two white fangs were born on the mouth, and the whole body was covered with short silver "hair", the arms and legs were as thick as iron, and sharp fingertips were born on the open ten fingers.

Huang Jian took a quick breath to calm down, while Meng Zhiyuan directly lost his blood.

Fang Ling had already fought the Fire Pattern Beast alone in the Underground Imperial Tomb, and he was much calmer than Huang Jian and the others, but the Fire Pattern Beast was obviously one size smaller than this sleeping j, but he didn't know which one was more powerful.

Thinking of this, he looked towards Xiao Xue.

Xiao Xue naturally understood what he meant, so she explained in a low voice: "The growth period of fierce beasts is divided into three stages, namely young beasts, semi-adult beasts and adult beasts. Judging from the size and "hair" of this sleeping J, I am afraid that it has entered the stage of semi-adult beasts. ”

Fang Ling nodded and asked, "Then this sleeping J has a fire pattern beast?"

Xiao Xue said solemnly: "Although Sleeping J is not a fierce beast that has entered the top 100 of the mortal beast list, it is also very close to the position of the top 100, so this half-adult beast must be more powerful than that young beast." And the great thing about this sleeping j, in addition to the strong body like iron, the speed of a monkey, and the smoke he spits out is like wine, after smelling it, it will get drunk and let it be slaughtered, and the most important thing is that it has the wisdom of a human and knows how to protect its weaknesses. ”

Huang Jian and Meng Zhiyuan listened carefully on the side, and vaguely heard that Fang Ling seemed to have fought with the young beast, and secretly surprised, Meng Zhiyuan said with a little disbelief: "This fierce beast still has human wisdom?"

Xiao Xue didn't speak, but just nodded towards the clearing, and everyone looked at the fierce beast.

Silverback had already walked to the clearing, he squatted down, picked up the largest poisonous snake and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it with bone and skin, and then picked up a small one and threw it out of the path.

"This is ......," Meng Zhiyuan said in surprise.

Xiao Xue said: "It's not that you don't eat it, but you dislike it because it's too small, and you can eat it when it grows up." Moreover, it was not just poisonous snakes that the sleeping j's food was eaten, it deliberately ate some of the snakes to the leftovers, waited for the birds to come down, and then spewed out the sleeping mist and poisoned them. ”

Fang Ling frowned when he heard this: "I know how to eat big and let go of small, and I also know how to cast bait, and I am really much smarter than ordinary beasts." ”

After eating a dozen bowl-sized snakes, the silverback slept until he felt full, patted his stomach, and then sat on the ground, squinting and dozing.

Meng Zhiyuan couldn't help but smile bitterly: "It is said that if you don't die in a big disaster, you will have a blessing, but you don't die when you fall down, but you encounter a fierce beast, and there is only one exit, if you go back and find your way again, you will encounter so many poisonous snakes, what can you do now?"

Fang Ling smiled faintly and said, "What else can I do, isn't there a way to kill this fierce beast?"

"Kill...... Kill it, Your Highness, this is no joke. Meng Zhiyuan was taken aback and said.

Fang Ling didn't speak again, just slowly took off the fire pattern beast horn on his back, now there is no way to turn back and find his way again, if he delays here, he will miss the time to meet his mother.

Thinking of the wedding day, the farewell eyes of her mother, the look of her mother standing outside the palace looking forward to it, and the joy on her face when she was free when she left the palace now, even death in this world could not stop her and her mother.

Not to mention a mere beast, even ten, hundred, and ten million, don't want to block your own way forward, with a knife in hand, the Buddha blocks and kills the Buddha, and the demon blocks and kills the demon!