Yunzhou Volume Chapter 4 Young Beasts
As when he came, those men who were sitting or squatting all stared at Su Jingchen, but this time he was much more natural, but he still couldn't guess the reason why they were staring at him.
I would have figured it out if I had been a good-looking girl, but I'm also a man......
Zhao Feng walked in front to lead the way, he smiled hesitantly, but didn't say much, only occasionally raised his hand, signaling Su Jingchen to go in the direction he pointed. The road that the old man said was indeed not long, even shorter than he said, Su Jingchen and Zhao Feng only walked out of half a mile, and then disappeared from the road, looking around, it was all tall trees that were enough to support the canopy, and the rootless vines were wrapped around the branches and low leaves of those trees and shrubs, and it was they who blocked the road to the mirage.
Zhao Feng's face was a little ugly, and he scolded in a low voice, saying How did these things grow so fast? Obviously he didn't have it a month ago, it's not that he can't find the way, it's that he doesn't want to get into those dense plants that don't know what to hide, luck, when you finish this journey, maybe there are only a few leeches stuck to your body, and if you're unlucky, maybe your life will be gone.
Seeing Zhao Feng standing still, Su Jingchen stepped forward and asked, "Zhao Gongzi, are you ...... Can't find your way? ”
Zhao Feng turned his head, pointed to the rainforest in front of him, and said with a wry smile, "That road is right in front of you, but these plants are growing too fast and obscuring the road." ”
Su Jingchen was stunned, thinking that since it was still a big road here some time ago, it shouldn't be in the way, right? Should...... Can you just go over there? He was about to speak, but Zhao Feng suddenly spoke, he still smiled, and his tone didn't change, but his eyebrows and eyes had been twisted together, and it looked more ugly than crying, "That's it!" Brother Su saved my life, if I am cowardly here, then I am really sorry for you, I will open the way in front, Brother Su follows me closely behind me, don't lose it, get lost in the rainforest, but it is a fatal thing. ”
After all, in the next half month, I have to rely on Su Jingchen to live.
Su Jingchen nodded, and Zhao Feng stepped aside, picked up an arm-thick branch as a tool to open the way, and then walked to the direction of the rugged path in his memory, and vigorously waved away the lush plants around him......
Zhao Feng walked forward for a while, and suddenly exclaimed, Su Jingchen's face sank, and he couldn't care about the stick, so he stepped forward quickly and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Zhao Feng turned his head, but his face was happy, he pointed to the distance with the branch, and said with a smile, "Brother Su!" You see! That path wasn't obscured by those things! ”
Su Jingchen looked up, a path about five feet wide winded in the dense forest, extending to the extension of the forest, and the tall plants above their heads seemed to take the initiative to make a gap for the path below, and the sunlight flowed down from that gap, illuminating the way forward for pedestrians. Su Jingchen frowned, only felt a little strange, there was not a single plant on that path at all, and the plants naturally retreated here, and between them and the road, there seemed to be an invisible barrier.
Su Jingchen didn't dare to go any further, he grabbed Zhao Feng's collar and hurriedly said, "The road ahead is a little weird, otherwise...... Shall we take a detour? ”
Zhao Feng was caught by Su Jingchen and was almost thrown to the ground, while shocking Su Jingchen's strength, he still patiently explained to Su Jingchen, "I remember that people from the mirage side will regularly come to this road to sprinkle a special medicinal powder, and after sprinkling it, no grass will grow, but it is harmless to people." ”
"Really?" Su Jingchen hesitated a little, let go of the hand that grabbed Zhao Feng, everyone said that Yunzhou wanted people's lives, and he didn't dare to take it lightly.
Zhao Feng smiled bitterly and said, "Then I'll go ahead, you follow me, just don't lose it." ”
"Then let's go together," Su Jingchen stepped forward and stood beside Zhao Feng, "I have no reason for you to go ahead." ”
Aren't you scared just now? Why is this not afraid again, he is really a weirdo, Zhao Feng thought to himself.
As Zhao Feng said, there is indeed no problem with the path, the road is unimpeded, Zhao Feng simply threw away the stick in his hand, his hands were empty, and he talked with Su Jingchen all the way.
An hour later, the two finally reached the foot of the mirage.
Zhao Feng patted Su Jingchen's shoulder and pointed to a towering stone mountain in the distance that went straight into the sky, "That's the mirage." ”
Because of those dense plants that obscured the sight, this stone mountain known as the mirage seemed to appear out of thin air, standing in front of Su Jingchen, he raised his head, the stone mountain was surrounded by clouds and mist, and the height was not high, just like the abode of the legendary immortals.
When he got closer, Su Jingchen found that the "stone mountain" just now was actually two cliffs thousands of feet high, the plank stone stairs on the cliff were staggered, winding all the way up, Yunzhou people built their houses on these two cliffs in a wonderful way, most of these houses were built of bamboo, a small number of them were wooden, and fewer were directly carved out of a space on the cliff, and then pressed a delicate wooden door, and these stone rooms were mostly used to store something because they were dry and cold.
The rows of bamboo houses are built one by one, each row is separated by some distance, and they are connected by staggered plank roads, and every third row, the spacing between them will be more obvious, probably because the people who built them deliberately layered in this way.
The first floor is built on the ground, the highest building is only ten feet above the ground, and in the middle of these buildings, there is only one plank road leading to the upper floor. This floor is also mostly filled with liquor stores, inns, and shops selling all kinds of gadgets, and if you look closely, you can also find the shadow of a casino.
Su Jingchen even saw a few coolly dressed Yunzhou women on several of the bamboo buildings, they leaned out and gently waved the various brocade handkerchiefs in their hands, which was regarded as attracting guests, and most of the foreigners who came here were probably going for them.
Su Jingchen was slightly surprised, the Yunzhou in his heart was probably trees, flowers, birds, beasts, insects and snakes, but he didn't expect that there was such a prosperous place here.
This is the mirage, the gentle township of Yunzhou, the golden cave of Yunzhou.
When the sunlight on his body disappeared, Su Jingchen realized that the sky had changed again, he slowly raised his head, the dark clouds in the sky rolled, the thunder roared, the sharp lightning pierced the sky, the crowds on the ground surged, noisy and noisy, coupled with the shaking torches, it formed a good contrast.
"Let's go," Su Jingchen looked up at the bottom of the mirage, "It looks like it's going to rain." ”
Zhao Feng nodded, the two of them had just taken two steps, and there was a sudden sound of rustling in the bushes next to Su Jingchen, and the thing was still approaching, Su Jingchen immediately jumped back, pulled off the bow on his back, and pulled it away with all his might.
Zhao Feng also broke off a useless branch and stood horizontally on his chest in the posture of holding a sword.
Seeing that thing shuttling among the grass and trees, getting closer and closer to them, Zhao Feng suddenly became a little timid, looking at the shaking of the bushes, it should not be a fierce beast, but in Yunzhou, it is those who are smaller and more terrifying.
The smaller they are, the more likely they are to be poisonous, and the more poisonous they are.
Eventually, the young beast emerged from the bushes.
It's actually a little leopard!
Zhao Feng breathed a sigh of relief, but Su Jingchen didn't hold the bow, and the arrow left the string at the moment when the little leopard burst out of the bushes, and he was about to shoot the little leopard to death on the spot, but the little leopard tripped over the dead branch under his claws, fell to the ground and rolled a few times, so the arrow did not hit it.
Su Jingchen kept sending out arrows, each arrow almost had to stick to the body of the little leopard, and in the time that the little leopard was rolling, Su Jingchen made three arrows in a row, but each arrow did not hit it.
Zhao Feng couldn't help but cover his eyes, and said in his heart, isn't it just a little leopard? A little leopard who is only a little bigger than your palm, you are like this, even if you miss one arrow, you have to shoot three arrows in a row? As for it? Yunzhou is not so scary, such a cute little leopard can be lost to you...... Because in his eyes, Su Jingchen's arrow is just fast, and the accuracy is a little ...... Don't dare to compliment anymore.
Seeing that Su Jingchen was about to shoot an arrow, Zhao Feng couldn't help but open his mouth to persuade, "Brother Su......"
But then, when the little leopard finally stabilized its body, it immediately got up and roared lowly, and it stood up all the hair on its body, and its eyes were full of hideousness, and it looked like it was on guard.
But not at Su Jingchen, but at the bushes behind him, obviously, there was something else in it.
Zhao Feng immediately reacted, it turned out that Su Jingchen shot something behind the little leopard!
A large gray-black snake with a body as thick as a man suddenly raised its head, exposing its front half of its body to Su Jingchen and Zhao Feng's field of vision, it hissed and spat scarlet snake letters, even if they were separated by a zhang, the two of them could still vaguely smell the disgusting fishy smell. There was an arrow in the right eye of the big snake, and a large piece of skin was lifted off by one of Su Jingchen's arrows on the top of his head, and it was constantly oozing blood, and the strange and frightening golden one-eyed eye of the big snake kept staying on Su Jingchen's body, as if he was looking at this human who had disturbed his eating.
In the next moment, it suddenly opened its bloody mouth, revealing two terrifying fangs, and slammed into Su Jingchen.
Su Jingchen raised his bow slightly, and shot an arrow, along with the scarlet snake letter, and shot the upper half of the big snake's head through.
But the big snake only postponed its attack, although the arrow hurt it, it was not fatal, it continued to pounce forward with residual power, wanting to swallow Su Jingchen into its stomach in one bite.
"Not good!" Zhao Feng stretched out his hand in vain, wanting to drag Su Jingchen back.
Su Jingchen jumped sideways, and at the same time pulled out an arrow from the quiver, buckled it on the bowstring, and then pulled the Xiliang hard bow, the short and clear arrow whistled away, and when Zhao Feng looked at the big snake again, its left eye was also pierced by Su Jingchen's arrow.
The power of Su Jingchen's arrow was so great that it almost overturned the big snake that was at least more than 100 catties!
Su Jingchen staggered after landing on the ground, and was helped by Zhao Feng to stand firm in front of him, he thanked him, and pulled out another arrow and buckled the bowstring.
Zhao Feng was stunned, and he didn't dare to step forward, but he still held the branch and didn't want to put it down, holding this branch, compared to not taking anything, at least it could make him feel a little more at ease.
But the big snake didn't move for a long time, and the little leopard was also slowly retreating, as if it was letting down its guard.
"It's ...... Dead? Zhao Feng hesitated to speak.
"Be careful." Su Jingchen didn't put down the bow, he thought about it, and made up another arrow on the head of the big snake, and then slowly squatted down, while being wary of the big snake, and beckoned lightly to the little leopard.
Zhao Feng laughed at him, "This wild thing in Yunzhou is not close to people, especially these leopards, they are even more vigilant, you don't even have a piece of meat in your hand, do you want it to be close to you?" ”
I saw that the little leopard really ran towards Su Jingchen, it stopped at Su Jingchen's hand, stretched out its pale pink little tongue and licked Su Jingchen's palm, and then raised its little head, like a kitten, and barked twice.
"This ......" The corners of Zhao Feng's eyes twitched slightly, and he said in his heart, don't hit this face so quickly, you can refuse and welcome it.
Su Jingchen gently grabbed the little leopard, put it on his shoulder, stood up straight, and said to Zhao Feng, "Let's go, let's go to the mirage." ”