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Chapter Ninety-Five: The Guardian Rabbit

Dotted with golden light along the riverbank, Li Le and Fan Qinghui helped each other to help enter this underground brick factory hundreds of years ago. It's underground, but it's huge, and the buildings in the courtyard are tall and large. Poke at the entrance of there and open the door, and look inside at the black hole. Approaching, Fan Qinghui heard the sound of the wind, as if a ghost was crying wolf. Frightened, she subconsciously grabbed Li Le's hand.

"Don't be afraid, it's just rumors." Li Le comforted quietly.

"Didn't you say there might be danger here?" Fan Qinghui looked very weak.

Li Le shone a flashlight into the building, and his tone was solemn: "It's useless to be afraid, now it's a road from ancient Huashan, and we can only know that there are tigers in the mountains and prefer Tiger Mountain." Fan Qinghui looked in with a trembling probe, his vision was limited and he didn't see anything, and after listening for a while, he didn't hear any other movement except the sound of the wind, and couldn't help asking: "What did you find?" ”

Li Le said: "Follow me." With that, he pulled her into the building. The light of the flashlight only shone three feet in front of his feet, and he walked cautiously step by step. As he walked, he said softly: "If there is a wind flowing, it means that there is an exit, as long as we follow the direction of the wind, we probably won't be wrong." ”

Fan Qinghui looked left and right, paying attention to the movements around her all the way. Suddenly I heard a strange sound, hissing, like a broken bellows pulling. As soon as the frightened little hand tightened, he wanted to hug Li Le's arm.

"Did you hear that, too?" Li Le asked in a low voice.

"Hmm." Fan Qinghui said softly: "What a strange sound, it makes people feel uncomfortable when they listen to it. ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard the evil wind coming towards her behind her head. Fan Qinghui only had time to turn around, and vaguely saw a gray object rushing towards her. At the same time as Li Le's flashlight shone past, the injured right leg kicked out at a lightning speed, just hit the thing, snapped, and kicked several meters away. The thing let out a meow, but it turned out to be a fat, cat-like short-tailed beast.

By the light of the flashlight, the two of them saw very clearly, only to see that this object was shaped like a pig, with a round waist and a large head, a ridiculously short tail, a feline face, leeward ears, and a light in the eyes. The hair on its face and body has risen to make it look even larger.

"This guy looks so cute." Fan Qinghui has always liked cats, and when she saw that this thing was similar to a cat, she regarded it as a pet cat. Li Le disagreed with her, and said in a deep voice: "If you think of it as a cat, you are very wrong. Reminder: "Don't look at this guy who is cute on the outside, but on the inside is an out-and-out carnivore." ”

Fan Qinghui looked at the animal and said, "In addition to the outrageous fatness, I really can't see how it doesn't look like a cat." ”

Li Le is well-informed, has recognized the creature in front of him, said: "This is an atavistic beast, called the rabbit, is a highly intelligent and efficient predator, the Russian military uses animal and human genes to combine to create genetically modified people, the most used is the wolf and the genes of this thing, this thing is generally two or three kilograms, but occasionally there are special atavistic individuals will exceed 100 catties, once more than 100 catties, it is a beast more ferocious than a tiger." ”

Fan Qinghui looked at the long flat tiger and the rabbit in front of her, no matter how you look at it, it looks like the famous Garfield in the cartoon, but she was born with an angry face and a pair of peeping eyes that made people feel a little awe, and said: "I'm afraid this guy is more than two hundred pounds." ”

After the tentative pounce just now, the rabbit became much more cautious, and it stared at the two of them. There seemed to be doubt in his eyes. The body arched, as if it could pounce at any moment.

Li Le nodded, and said with concern: "It's really rare, but if it's just it, it doesn't pose a threat." ”

Fan Qinghui heard Li Le's words and was surprised: "You mean there is more than this one here?" ”

As soon as her words came out, as if in response to her, another one suddenly jumped out of the darkness, a slightly smaller, bloated but not bad rabbit. Then came the third, and the fourth jumped out a total of more than a dozen. Each one is more than two or three kilograms, and the smallest one is dozens of kilograms. Surrounded the two of them, they let out a grenade meow. It seems to be a threatening warning.

The rabbits were not in a hurry to attack, Li Le and Fan Qinghui were seriously injured, and the other was powerless, so naturally they would not take the initiative to provoke each other. After a stalemate with each other for a while, the largest rabbit suddenly began to circle around the two. I saw it striding forward, walking proudly, and its eyes always fell on Li Le, as if it was provocative.

Li Le looked at it intently, thinking to himself that the entire southern foothill area was sparsely vegetated and lacked species, which was not suitable for carnivores to survive here. This place is even more desperate, and these rabbits are clearly sitting on the ground, where do they come from?

I also secretly guessed that this animal had a long history of being domesticated and used for hunting on the Mongolian plateau, and maybe these guys were brought here. Judging from the number and size, it is likely that the ancestors of these rabbits were domesticated for hunting, and were brought here at that time for guarding. It seems that this is mostly the case, but I don't know if they are here to defend against people or something else?

Rabbits are not social animals, but these creatures are not ordinary rabbits, they are trapped in this dark world, and they have been breeding for generations, and they have very limited space to move around relatively outside. Judging from their size, it is not difficult to see that they are not short of food when they stay here, otherwise it would never be possible for each of them to grow so fat.

Animals hunt instinctively to survive, and although these guys have bad intentions, they are not extremely vicious and hungry. Looking at this posture, it looks like a group of defenders are examining the incoming enemy.

This guy turned around three times and stopped in front of Li Le, let out a meow sound, raised his front paws and gently scratched the ground, bowed his waist and raised his short tail, his round ears were pressed back against his head, and his eyes were shining, and suddenly, he jumped up, moving fast like a gray lightning.

Li Le was mentally prepared, reacted quickly, and at the same time reached sideways and grabbed the back of this guy's neck. Press down with the force of its pounce, and press the big rabbit to the ground and can't move.

Seeing this, the rest of the rabbits immediately became confused, and one by one bared their teeth and glared at Li Le angrily, letting out a low roaring sound. But none of them pounced, and those low roars and roars seemed to warn Li Le not to act rashly. These rabbits look majestic and not angry, this anger is even more extraordinary, more than a dozen of them surrounded the two, and the huge pressure brought by them is not something that anyone can bear. Fan Qinghui, as a girl, although she has some insight and courage, but after all, she is a flower in a city greenhouse, where has she ever understood such a formation, and she has already been frightened at a loss at this time.

Li Le pressed the big rabbit led by the big rabbit, turned his head and smiled at Fan Qinghui, trying to relieve her nervousness, and comforted: "Don't be afraid, these guys are full of brains and intestines, and they are not interested in our meat, they are like the guardians here, I guess as long as we don't move the gold here, they won't play with us." ”

Fan Qinghui said: "You guess, you are not a roundworm in their stomach, how do you know what they think?" And he said, "And you have caught their boss, and you have already them off, and these fellows may pounce at any moment, and you see their fangs and claws, and if you scratch my face, you will be fully responsible." ”

Charge? What is the responsibility? This sounds a little ambiguous. If he misses this moment, Li Le will definitely have to talk about it, but now is not the time. Holding a fierce beast in his hand, the strength needs to be just right, not to hurt it, but also to control this guy, but it is not so easy. Li Le's hand grabbed the back of the big rabbit's neck and slowly stood up, like a dog.

This rabbit tried to break free from Li Le's control, but Li Le's luck was ingenious, and he took advantage of the situation to dissolve this guy's ability to break free several times. It was as if something in the blood of the distant ancestor had been awakened, and it did not continue to struggle. Obediently stayed under Li Le's hands.

Fan Qinghui looked at it in amazement and asked, "Why didn't it run away?" Have you domesticated this? ”

"Of course not." Li Le said: "The rabbit is one of the smartest animals, and it knows that it can't run away now, so it leaves its strength and waits for the opportunity." ”

Fan Qinghui was surprised: "Really? This guy still has such wisdom, and he knows how to endure and wait for it? ”

Li Le didn't answer her words, just nodded silently.

When the rabbits around saw that their boss straightened up and seemed to be fine, they stopped roaring and roaring, and the atmosphere suddenly eased up a lot. Li Le firmly grasped the leader of the rabbit and did not dare to relax at all. This thing seems harmless, but in fact it is more sensitive and ferocious than the tiger and leopard, and people in ancient times called it tengu, but they were bred to kill evil spirits.

The construction project of Chengling is huge, and it takes countless manpower and material resources, take this place as an example, such a closed environment, coupled with crude smelting technology, it must be not easy for the craftsmen who worked here to live, death may be commonplace, these craftsmen die here, the yin spirit does not disperse, and the supernatural events continue. Because this animal has a fierce temperament, it can suppress evil spirits. That's why the supervisors at that time brought the rabbit to ward off evil spirits.

These speculations flashed in Li Le's heart, but he didn't want to say them to increase Fan Qinghui's fear. suppressed the rabbit raccoon led by one hand, and led Fan Qinghui with the other hand to continue walking inside, and the rest of the rabbits followed unhurriedly.

The interior of the building is very large, and after walking two or three hundred meters inside, it is still pitch black in the distance. The wind grew louder and louder, the cold wind seemed to become a yin wind, blowing people's hearts and hairs, the smell of the air became more and more unpleasant, the road under their feet became more and more muddy, and the terrain developed downward, as if it were a passage to hell. Along the way, the number of rabbits has increased, and there are no less than 100 of them here. Although they are just blindly following and have no intention of attacking, the night eyes of these guys are shining with green light, and they look like ghosts, which can't help but make people feel huge psychological pressure.

The further you go in, the softer the geological structure becomes. Fan Qinghui said: "Will we go the wrong way? This seems to be the place where the ancestors burned bricks and made mud? You see that the soil is delicate, and there are traces of artificial excavation everywhere, so let's go back and change the route. She was obviously a little scared and wanted to retreat.

The girl is naturally timid and cautious, and it is actually good that she can have the performance she has now. Li Le said: "I can only follow the direction of the wind, there is no other choice, and don't you see it?" The structure of this building is very simple, it is a whole Chase Hall, and there is nothing else to see on the way except for the brick kiln where the rabbits are accommodated. ”

Fan Qinghui said: "But why do I always feel as if I am being stared at by something? ”

Li Le summed up her doubts as psychological. With her own perceptual ability, it is impossible for her to feel herself and not perceive it. So I ignored it and continued to move forward. The yin wind was compassionate, and the voice drilled into his ears with a tactful and strange tune, Fan Qinghui was so frightened that she could barely move her legs without saying anything.

"There must have been a lot of deaths in this place in the past, and those brick kilns can burn bricks, and it's probably not bad to burn corpses, do you think these dead people will still be here?" She shrunk her neck, and her little palms were covered with cold sweat.

Li Le said: "Don't scare yourself at this time, if you go back, you will wait for death, only if you find an exit as soon as possible and go out, don't forget, your brother and Shi and they may still be waiting for us to rescue them." ”

Speaking of the three of Fan Taohua, Fan Qinghui really perked up, and said worriedly: "Patronizing and scared, I threw everything behind my head, yes, they don't know what to do now." ”

Li Le said: "You have to believe my judgment, this place must have an exit, and it must be in this direction, you look at these rabbits, one by one eat fat heads, big ears and belly rolling waist round, if you can't catch animals from the outside world, how can you feed them so fat?" ”

As he spoke, he walked hundreds of meters, and finally walked out of the range of this ancient brick factory, and the sound of flowing water in front of him re-entered his ears, and the underground river flowed into a dark hole, and the yin wind whistled out of the hole. At the entrance of the underground river into the black hole, there is a small artificially built dock, where several small boats are docked, and the decks are flat, which is more suitable for transporting goods, which means that it is used to transport gold bricks into the hole.

"Looks like this is the exit." Fan Qinghui said excitedly, and was about to go to the dock.

Li Le grabbed him and said, "What's the hurry." ”

Fan Qinghui was surprised: "What? What are you holding me for? As he spoke, he looked left and right, but he didn't find anything unusual.

Li Le said, "Look at these rabbits. ”

Fan Qinghui looked at it, and then noticed that the rabbits who had been following her before stopped behind them one by one, with hair all over their bodies, their eyes widened, their front legs erected, their hind legs arched, and their muscles tense as if they were facing a great enemy.

"What's up ahead?" Fan Qinghui subconsciously looked forward, only the black hole and the rushing river.

"Rabbits are very agile, and when they grow so big, even tigers, leopards, and bears can hardly hurt them, and it must be scary to make them so nervous, no matter what it is." While speaking, Li Le let go of Fan Qinghui's little hand, showed his snowy knife, and ordered: "Shine the flashlight on the stone wall in the cave." ”

Fan Qinghui did as she was told, and the light of the flashlight focused on the stone wall of the black hole.

An astonishing scene appeared, and everywhere the light reached, there were dense objects moving rapidly, making a palpitating grinding sound, squeaking, squeaking, getting louder and louder, and gradually overpowering the sound of the wind and water.

"What a big gecko!" Fan Qinghui looked at a long head with a sharp mouth sticking out of the mouth of the black hole in horror, and shouted in a lost voice.

The incandescent light of the flashlight shone clearly, and it could be seen clearly from this distance, the thing was covered in patterns, with a wide mouth full of fangs, and two eyes like black beans flashing with a silent dead light. The half of the body exposed from the hole is as thick as a human leg, and the probe shrinks its head very quickly.

Li Le had already discovered the clue, and said in a deep voice: "That thing looks like a scorpion, belonging to the ancient species of geckos, I have seen similar pictures in the wild survival subject, but I have never heard of such a large individual, it is really unheard of and unseen, I think this is the ration of rabbits." He added: "These rabbits are so big, maybe it's not all because of the breed, maybe it's related to eating this thing." ”

Fan Qinghui said: "Since it's food, why are these cats so nervous?" Along the way, she found that the rabbits were not very aggressive towards people, and her heart became more and more relaxed, and she began to think of the beast as a domestic cat again.

In fact, the ancestors of these rabbits were domesticated, and their genetic inheritance included the factor of kindness to people. The presence of the two awakens their instinct in this regard. The girl's spiritual sense is sensitive, and she feels this invisible and shadowless thought of good and evil more clearly.

There was a snap in front of me, and a large gecko jumped into the water, bobbing its head and tail and swimming towards the small pier. This is followed by the second, and the third finally develops into a large herd of hula lala.

The rabbits began to retreat, and the leader who was held down by Li Le let out a low meow, raised his head and stared at Li Le with a pleading gaze, and the intention of retreat was obvious.

Fan Qinghui relied on a woman's intuition and said to Li Le: "Quickly let it go, they don't mean to hurt us." ”

The geckos swam ashore and raced on the mudflats. Li Le's gaze on the leader of the rabbit fox became more and more anxious and longing. Li Le finally nodded slowly and let go of this guy. Unexpectedly, although the rabbit raccoon was eager to retreat, it was retreating but not chaotic, and the king of the rabbit raccoon did not even forget to remind Li Fan and the two to evacuate together. took the initiative to grab the corner of Fan Qinghui's clothes and pulled her back. The rest of the rabbits immediately rushed forward in formation, forming a barrier, baring their teeth and roaring at the big geckos, and fought and retreated.

Li Le also saw that the rabbits had no malicious intentions, and they also retreated together. It was found that these rabbits were not retreating blindly, but were leading the geckos to a place with a clear purpose.

In one breath, they withdrew to a huge kiln, and the strong smell of sulfur entered their noses, and the great geckos that were approaching suddenly stopped. Instead, it was the rabbits who launched a counterattack. Several large rabbits pounced on the retreating geckos, biting their target's neck, holding their claws against their body, tilting their heads and pulling them off. Despite their size, these geckos alone are no match for rabbits. After a while, several corpses were left to flee in panic. In this extremely short biting process, there was a rabbit that moved a little slowly, and was attacked by two or three large geckos at the same time, and the hind legs were bitten with blood.

After a big battle, the mood of the rabbits was unexpectedly stable, one by one squatting there in a regular manner, the rabbit raccoon king who had been captured by Li Le walked slowly to a few dead big geckos, stretched out his sharp claws and grabbed the stomach of each big gecko, and pulled out a bloody ball from it and swallowed it in one bite. Then it was signaled that all rabbits could eat.

Li Fan and the two watched silently from the side as if they were completely outsiders, Fan Qinghui took out the gauze from the backpack and tried to get close to the injured rabbit, Li Le had the heart to stop it, but found that when Fan Qinghui walked over, the rabbits who were eating didn't seem to be disgusted. And the bitten rabbit even seemed to be able to see Fan Qinghui's kindness, licking his wound and meowing.

"Ahh The wound is so deep. Fan Qinghui handed the flashlight to Li Le, bandaged the rabbit, and said with a heartache: "This cat was bitten very badly, if there is an exit, how are we going to pass it?" ”

Li Le is also using his brain to think about this problem, these big geckos are fierce by nature and surprisingly numerous, and they act as a team, and even the rabbits that feed on them dare not take their edge head-on. They occupy the only exit at the moment, and the only way to get through is to outwit them. It seems that these guys are afraid of the smell of sulfur, which is why they stopped when they chased here, and were counterattacked by the rabbits.

Fan Qinghui took care of the injured rabbit raccoon, and after the other rabbits ate the big gecko, the rabbit raccoon king squatted there one by one, staring at the two with suspicion and vigilance. Fan Qinghui showed her hands and slowly approached it, slowly rubbing it on its head and back a few times, this guy squinted, proudly holding his head high and motionless. There seems to be some kind of tacit understanding between humans and rabbits.

Li Le took the flashlight and looked around, originally trying to find sulfur to deal with the big gecko, ()