Chapter 5 The Reeds Swing
Liu Juntao trotted all the way, and it didn't take long for him to come to the outside of the reeds, and when he looked back, he saw that Zhang Xiaojun also followed with everyone, and his heart was a little more steady, after all, he still had backup.
When he ran over just now, Liu Juntao also took the opportunity to take a look, only to see that this reed swing could not be seen at a glance, covering an extremely wide area, and the reeds inside grew very well, all of them grew tall and dense, and when they swayed with the wind, they were like a huge military array, impermeable! This has brought great difficulties to Liu Juntao's search, not only can he not find a trace of Jinggu if he is not careful, but even Liu Juntao himself will get lost in it!
The reason why the reeds in this area are so prosperous is that there are more water sources here, and the growth conditions of the reeds are very good; Moreover, the government issued a strict order not to allow the people to destroy the reeds here, because the reeds in the reeds are the fuel for the government to boil official salt!
"This reed swing is growing so well, even if there are bandits hiding nearby, they may not be able to find it, this is trouble!"
However, thinking about it and worrying about it, Liu Juntao shook the long knife in his hand, and his heart was still much more steady.
"Death is death, no matter what, we must find Jinggu's whereabouts today! Only by going back with Jinggu can I integrate into Yushanji, otherwise how can I survive in this strange Daming alone! ”
Liu Juntao's heart was crossed, and he rushed into the reeds with a long knife, and disappeared into the dense reeds after a while.
Zhang Xiaojun and the others who came later looked at the sea of reeds swaying in the wind, where could they still see the slightest trace of Liu Juntao? The crowd had to wait patiently outside the reeds.
It is said that after Liu Juntao got into the reeds alone, he used the long knife in his hand to slam the reeds in front of him back and forth to open the way for himself, otherwise it would be really difficult to move an inch.
After walking for about a stick of incense, Liu Juntao walked out of the densely reed area and came to a small pond that was not too large.
However, before Liu Juntao could take a breath, he found that this reed swing was far bigger than he expected, and the reed swing stretched all the way to the foot of the mountain in the distance!
And the mountain peak in the distance should be the fish mountain that Zhang Xiaojun said.
"Oh my God! Shouldn't this reed swing be bigger than Liangshanbo? It's really a needle in a haystack! ”
Liu Juntao sighed, but also wailed in his heart, if he just relied on himself to explore the way, let alone an hour, even three or five days would not be finished!
"This reed swing is so big, I guess even if there are bandits coming in, they won't be so unlucky to be met by me, right?"
Liu Juntao comforted himself while continuing to walk into the depths.
However, before he could go far, Liu Juntao heard the sound of the reeds being knocked down behind him, and something was rushing towards him! Liu Juntao was suddenly shocked in his heart, suddenly pulled out the long knife in his hand, and turned around and crossed his chest.
Before Liu Juntao could gain a firm foothold, he saw a silver-gray tidal flat wolf rushing out of the reeds and pounced on Liu Juntao's head, Liu Juntao had even seen the sharp fangs in the wolf's mouth!
"Damn!"
Liu Juntao roared, but his body did not retreat but advanced, and the whole person sank suddenly in the process, and escaped the attack of the tidal wolf with one dodge.
At the same time, the long knife in Liu Juntao's hand slashed towards the lower abdomen of the tidal flat wolf, and immediately took away a touch of bright red, and a long and deep wound was cut by the long knife in the lower abdomen of the tidal flat wolf, and the intestines were mixed with blood and flowed all over the ground.
"Woo~~"
Liu Juntao put away the knife and was on guard, his heart was still beating.
I saw that the tidal flat wolf was already paralyzed on the ground, with only breath coming out of his mouth but no breath entering, and from the long mouth on his stomach gushed out a large stream of colorful intestines and internal organs, mixed with blood all over the ground, and the pungent bloody qi came to his face, spreading away with the breeze to the surroundings.
"It's broken!"
Liu Juntao suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly dragged the tidal flat wolf that had already swallowed his breath into the small pond, wanting to use the clear water in the pond to cover up the bloody gas.
But it was still too late, and there was a sudden wolf howl one after another around him, which made Liu Juntao's heartstrings tight, and he judged that there were tidal wolves around him who were constantly approaching rapidly.
Liu Juntao gritted his teeth, clenched the long knife with both hands, and stood on the edge of the pond with his back to the pond on full guard. After a while, I saw that large and small mudflat wolves were constantly jumping out of the reeds around them.
Liu Juntao observed while being vigilant, and saw that the eyes of these tidal flat wolves were all blood-red without exception, which made people extremely frightened when they saw it. Liu Juntao knew in his heart that these tidal flat wolves were used to eating human flesh, so their eyes were so abnormally blood-red!
"No wonder Zhang Xiaojun said that the bandits on Yushan would come here to bury the corpses, it turned out that they were all fed to the tidal wolves here!"
Just thinking about it, a not too big tidal flat wolf couldn't wait to rush up first, Liu Juntao saw this and suddenly raised the long knife in front of him, and his feet were steady, and when the tidal flat wolf came closer, Liu Juntao suddenly roared, and the long knife in his hand smashed down like a meteor, and immediately split the tidal flat wolf in half, and the blood and the corpse of the two halves splashed on the ground, which stimulated the rest of the tidal flat wolves to be more excited and bloodthirsty, and howled towards Liu Juntao.
Liu Juntao understands that at this moment, he can only fight and must not run, in this reed swing, a two-legged person will definitely not be able to run a group of tidal flat wolves, and if he escapes now, there is only a dead end!
So Liu Juntao was also ruthless, and rushed forward, the long knife in his hand flew up and down to completely protect himself, and the lightning-like blade continued to slash around the wolves, making several tidal flat wolves dodge.
I saw that several tidal flat wolves around me kept roaring in a low voice, but they were never able to bite Liu Juntao. The two anxious tidal flat wolves wanted to pounce, and then they were all directly hacked to death by Liu Juntao wielding a long knife.
In this way, Liu Juntao brandished a long knife and stalemate with the remaining four tidal flat wolves for a while, and suddenly found that he was gradually a little exhausted.
And the four tidal flat wolves all became extremely cautious, constantly barking their teeth and roaring around Liu Juntao, but they refused to come forward to attack. But once Liu Juntao's long knife revealed a flaw, the four tidal wolves would rush up and test it, so shocked that Liu Juntao hurriedly swung the long knife more intensively, accelerating the consumption of his strength.
"Grandma's! These brutes have learned so well that they don't let people live! ”
Liu Juntao didn't dare to slack off, and understood that if he continued to consume like this, he would become the food on the plate and mouth of these tidal flat wolves!
So, Liu Juntao tried his best to take the initiative to attack, and saw a small tidal flat wolf rushing over, and the long knife in his hand swept out like lightning, splitting half of the wolf head of this tidal flat wolf in an instant.
"Ahh
Before Liu Juntao could stand firm and turn back to defend himself, he felt a sharp pain in his back, and couldn't help but yell. It turned out that Liu Juntao's back made several blood marks on the claws of a tidal flat wolf, and for a while, blood flowed sideways, staining Liu Juntao's shirt red.
"Brute!"
The severe pain stimulated Liu Juntao's nerves, and he forgot his fear for a while, and rushed towards the remaining three tidal wolves with a long knife.
Seeing that the crisis was temporarily lifted, Liu Juntao suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and the whole person was so tired that he sat on the ground covered with blood, panting heavily, the clothes on his body were already soaked, and he was extremely cold and uncomfortable by the breeze.
Liu Juntao looked around, knowing that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time, and if a few more tidal wolves appeared in a while, he was afraid that he would really have to explain here.
So, Liu Juntao endured the pain and stood up and slowly returned along the same road.
After walking through the dense reeds for a long time, Liu Juntao suddenly noticed a trace of abnormality: the surrounding scenery seemed to be somewhat familiar, as if he had passed through here!
"Oops! I'm afraid I'm lost. ”
Liu Juntao looked around and realized that he was probably going around in circles, and he couldn't tell the difference between the southeast and the northwest after looking around, so he simply sat on the ground to rest for a while, thinking about waiting for a while before continuing to hurry.
Suddenly, there was a sound from the reeds behind Liu Juntao, as if something was leaning towards him.
Liu Juntao was shocked, hurriedly picked up the long knife and flashed to the side, holding the long knife and lying in the reeds, not even daring to gasp, his eyes were fixed on the direction from which the sound came.
After a while, I saw three sturdy men with gangsters walking out of the reeds, all three of them had sharp blades on their bodies, and one of them even had a double insert! (Bow and quiver)
"What the hell, several tidal wolves died over there, who did it? It's really extraordinary! ”
"Humph! Anyway, it's not our own people, if we let our brothers bump into each other, they will be stabbed to death directly. ”
"That's it, it's impatient to dare to wander around in our reeds! Don't look at what this place is! ”
As he spoke, the three men walked towards the west, and in a short time they disappeared without a trace, disappearing into the dense reeds.
At this time, Liu Juntao breathed a sigh of relief, and a dense layer of cold sweat had already appeared on his forehead.
Liu Juntao knew very well in his heart that most of those three people were bandits in the reeds, and with his current state against the three bandits, especially one of them was still an archer, the chance of surviving would be infinitely close to zero!
"It's better to hurry up and find Aunt Jing, it's better to have more than one thing, and it's better not to alarm those bandits!"
Liu Juntao thought in his heart, slowly crawled to the side, did not stop under his feet, and hurriedly ran towards the east, wanting to turn around for a while, so he hurriedly returned to join Zhang Xiaojun and the others.
Unexpectedly, after a while, Liu Juntao found a silver hairpin in the reeds.
Liu Juntao knew that whether women in the Ming Dynasty were rich or poor, they had to have more or less silver jewelry, which was also the custom of the people of the Ming Dynasty.
Looking at the silver hairpin in his hand, Liu Juntao felt very familiar, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that it was the hairpin that Jing Gu was wearing on her head when she saw Aunt Jing yesterday.
So, Liu Juntao didn't care about converging Zhang Xiaojun and the others at this time, and continued to search forward. Who knew that the dense reeds interfered with Liu Juntao's vision, and once again made him completely disoriented, and after turning for a long time, he turned to the west of the reeds!
"Huh!"
Suddenly, Liu Juntao found that there were some traces of drag on the ground, and hurriedly squatted down to take a closer look, and he was sure that the traces on the ground were drawn by dragging the human body, and looking at the range and depth of the marks on the ground, Liu Juntao could judge that it should be a woman who was dragged away!
"More than half of them are Aunt Jing!"
Liu Juntao stood up abruptly and looked around, and found that he was too far away from the edge of the reeds where Zhang Xiaojun and the others were in the north, and it would be too much delay if he went to call someone first. It's not possible to wait for Liu Juntao to call someone back, and it is not certain that Jinggu has already been killed.
So, Liu Juntao took a deep breath, rushed over with a long knife, and quickly walked through the reeds chasing the traces on the ground, ready to save Jinggu by himself.
"If the other party is not numerous, I should be able to save Jinggu with a sudden attack! When the time comes, this reed can be hidden everywhere, and I will be able to take the opportunity to escape with Jinggu! Whether it's dead or alive, you have to fight it! ”