Chapter VI: Confrontation
Xiao Lei dragged his tired body towards the top of the mountain stream. I was physically exhausted and stepped on a slippery stone, so bumping and bumping, I was almost completely skinless. The swollen left hand was no longer sensational, and he could only use his right hand, which was still moving, to hold a dead branch and move forward.
The high mountain walls on both sides of the mountain stream are only one zhang high, but now Xiao Lei's body cannot climb. The sky was already gray and I couldn't see the distant appearance, and the dry and hoarse chirping in the mountains and forests came and went, and the atmosphere was very depressing.
The wound on Xiao Lei's head had already scabbed, but the pain made his temples twitch for a while, and he felt like he could fall down at any moment. At this time, he was completely relying on perseverance and survival ** to mechanically manipulate his body.
I walked on and off until I vaguely saw that the water in the mountain stream seemed to change color. Xiao Lei squatted down, and after checking it, he found that it was blood that changed the color of the flowing water. He immediately slowed down, trying not to make a noise, and cautiously walked towards a large rock, hiding behind it.
There was a faint wail and a quick wheezing sound in front of him, Xiao Lei quietly leaned out, only to see an animal not far away, half of its body soaked in water, and a steady stream of bright red blood flowed down its body.
The dying animal not far away is Xiao Lei's relentless roe deer, but in the process of falling, the roe deer lost Xiao Lei's good luck, and a part of the body was fatally injured, resulting in the current miserable situation.
When Xiao Lei's heart was about to be put down, he heard the sound of stones rolling down and the friction of sore teeth in the distance, just by feeling the movement, he could judge that the person who came was not small.
A thought suddenly appeared in Xiao Lei's mind at this time: "There is danger!" ”
In the thought of lightning and fire, Xiao Lei didn't care about the injuries on his body, covered his nose and mouth, and quickly lay down in a shallow puddle with blood. Due to the exertion, his left hand was thrown on the hard stone again, and the injury was further increased.
Xiao Lei's nerves tensed, feeling the behemoth approaching, ignoring the pain in his left hand.
If the stone vine saw that behemoth, he would immediately recognize that it was the hooked snake he was looking for. The hooked snake was lying in the cave to rest, and after Xiao Lei broke into the territory, he immediately felt the breath of an outsider. was looking for the breath to move in the direction of Xiao Lei, but on the way, he smelled a strong smell of blood, so he found it.
The hooked snake's narrow eyes saw in the distance the roe deer lying in a pool of blood.
This adult hooked snake is more than 20 meters in size and is as thick as two water tanks. Now its body is prostrate on the ground, but it just cocks its tail high with a forked hook and does not attack.
In normal times, it would not hesitate to swallow the roe deer, but it smelled a hint of an intruder in the air, albeit very faintly.
After a stalemate like this for a long time, Xiao Lei didn't dare to breathe, and his lungs had begun to burn with burning pain. Even if you don't get eaten by monsters, you can be suffocated by yourself. The hooked snake waited quietly, and after a long time, the unfamiliar smell around it gradually faded, and then I saw the snake's tail probe and directly pass through the body of the roe deer. The roe deer let out the last of the mournful wails condensed with life, and there was no sound. The hooked snake's huge tail hooked it up, and with a flick of the whole roe deer it was into the bloody mouth. After devouring the roe deer, it did not stop and glided in the direction where Xiao Lei came.
The place where Xiao Lei was hiding was exactly the dead corner of the hooked snake's sight, but Xiao Lei's every move of the hooked snake was all in his eyes.
As the hooked snake left, the thick armor directly broke through the stone that was blocking its progress. The small stones were flying in all directions, and the broken stones immediately became extremely sharp with the strong wind, and a few pieces were smashing into Xiao Lei lying in the shallow depression.
At the moment when the hooked snake passed by, Xiao Lei's exposed hand covering his mouth and nose was immediately scratched a few times. He didn't care about the pain of falling stones and scratches, and remained motionless until the hooked snake was far away. After he couldn't hear any movement anymore, Xiao Lei exhaled deeply and put down his hand that was stiffly covering his mouth and nose.
After relieving himself, Xiao Lei found that the mountain stream at this time had lost its original appearance. The scattered rocks were almost reduced to powder and fragments under the impact of the hooked snake. The uneven appearance of the gully was replaced by a flat mess. Although it ruined the beautiful scenery, it made the road easy to walk. Xiao Lei thought so in his heart, and raised his feet to walk forward. He didn't want to encounter the terrifying strange snake again, but the thought of the giant body of the hooked snake made the chill in his heart linger.
But just as one foot was about to take a step, he found that a pair of cold eyes seemed to be staring at him behind him, cold and fierce, and Xiao Lei froze in place, unable to move.
After a moment of stiffness, there is a cold touch on the neck, sticky and elastic. Xiao Lei's eyes squinted at the shoulders and neck, a black and long, bifurcated letter with a tentative twist from the back of the neck to the shoulder. The terrifying thing is that the letter is as thick as Xiao Lei's small arm, which can show the size of its owner.
Xiao Lei felt like a prey being targeted, and he believed that as long as he moved, the other party would definitely attack without hesitation. He didn't know why the hooked snake came back to go, until the black letter of the hooked snake touched the wound on the back of Xiao Lei's hand, and he suddenly realized.
At this moment, the hooked snake is not calm in his heart, and it can already be sure that Xiao Lei is a human in the temptation. It didn't know how a human entered Kunlun, but what it knew was one thing that had been passed down by word of mouth among the demons for thousands of years: devouring the essence and blood of humans was equivalent to burying one's head in penance for a hundred years. Although it was only a rumor, it was enough to make it interested, but for a completely unfamiliar creature, the cunning hooked snake chose a cautious temptation.
Xiao Lei was stared at by the breath of the hooked snake, and the blood in his body seemed to be about to flow backwards, his whole body was cold and numb, and he was in a cold sweat. Just when the black letter was about to reach his chest, Xiao Lei only felt a slight warmth in his chest. With his chest as the center, a warm current gradually spread to the limbs. I saw a faint fluorescence under the animal skin clothes, flickering brightly and darkly.
Xiao Lei's body was surrounded by this warm current, and most of the fear dissipated. The hooked snake was stimulated by the sudden light, and immediately retracted Nobuko into his mouth and assumed a defensive posture. Coiled up and bowed his neck.
The stone vines at the other end, under the guidance of the little hooked snake, quickly headed for the hooked snake's cave. She stopped outside a natural mountain that seemed to have been carved out horizontally, with a large cavern embedded in the mountain. The spring water in the mountains slowly penetrates the entire rock wall through the cracks, and the cold and damp environment is undoubtedly the favorite environment of the hooked snake. The stone vines watched the cave except for the strong smell left by the hooked snake, and the cave was empty.
"What about your mother?" The stone vine raised the hand wrapped around the little hooked snake and snapped his fingers at the head of the little hooked snake.
The little hooked snake had tears in pain, and said, "Bad goblin! If I knew where my mother was, I would have taken you over and let her eat you! ”
Seeing that the little hooked snake did not know the whereabouts of its mother, Shi Manman's heart was anxious, and his face became more and more cold. The little hooked snake saw that Shi Manman's face was gloomy, and the coercion fluctuations of the other party's years of cultivation overflowed, and he was stunned.
Shi Manman didn't care about the fainting little hooked snake, she was so anxious that she suddenly thought of the stone pendant that was given to Xiao Lei at the beginning. The stone was the medium through which the stone vine was originally conceived, and after it took on a human form, the stone changed to the size of a thumb, and the stone vine wore it on its body all year round.
The stone pendant is inextricably linked with himself, and if you go to induction, I don't know if you can find the direction of Xiao Lei. Thinking about it, he closed his eyes and stared, and after opening his eyes for a moment, he immediately flew away in a certain direction.
When the stone vines arrived, they saw the inconspicuous figure of the huge hooked snake in the distance, and the hooked snake was assuming a posture of attacking at any time.
"Xiao Lei!" The cold female voice Xiao Lei now sounds like heaven.
"Looks like this goblin hasn't given up on me." Xiao Lei, whose nerves were tense at the edge, fell forward as soon as he heard the familiar voice.
Shi Manman didn't understand why Xiao Lei suddenly fell, but seeing that he was covered in blood, he thought that the hooked snake had done the poison. Anger made her throw regardless of the force, and after the unconscious little hooked snake in her hand was awakened by the force of this forward rush, she only felt her body flying forward in the air. There was a "snap", and it seemed to hit a hard and cold wall, and he fainted again.
The hooked snake only felt a killing intent attacking, and saw the stone vine throwing a "hidden weapon" at him. The huge tail was blocked, and after the "hidden weapon" was blocked, he looked down and saw that it was his only son.
The little hooked snake fell to the ground as soft as a bone, because it had shrunk in size under the pressure of the stone vines, and was knotted into a twisted shape. The Hooked Snake believes that the little Hooked Snake has been beaten back to its original form by the poisonous hands of the stone vines, and has been abused. The shame and indignation in his heart suddenly pounced on the stone vines in mid-air.
The angry two demons were at arm's edge.