Chapter 37: Watermelon
The cause of the shaman's death was not without suspicion...... On the contrary, it is simply very suspicious.
However, Song Yang didn't say it clearly, and everyone didn't pay attention to it, there were traces of sharp scratches on the shoulder and neck bones of the deceased. As he spoke, Song Yang reached out and patted the root of his neck, signaling the location of the injured corpse, and then continued: "This is the main artery. ”
After saying that, he remembered that there was no word for 'artery' in Middle-earth.
Fortunately, although Luo Guan had never heard of this term, he could understand what Song Yang meant...... Looking at the scars left by the bones, the major arteries must be cut, resulting in irrepressible hemorrhage, which is the real cause of the shaman's death.
There are two possibilities, one is that the shaman scraped the sharp stone horn on his neck when he fell, and this kind of injury was certain to die, and he died quickly, and the shaman would never have walked so far to the place where the corpse was buried, and the corpse was dragged by something else; Or, he fell from a minor injury, but after walking for a while, he was attacked and his artery ruptured.
Whatever the shaman encountered, it meant that there was something big at the bottom of the quagmire...... After walking forward for a while, Luo Guan suddenly spoke, his voice was still very low, only Song Yang could hear it: "Have you noticed?" ”
Song Yang also replied in a low voice: "It's like an earthworm." ”
Luo Guan smiled: "Very big earthworm! ”
The two people with the sharpest five senses could almost notice that something was gently following them in the depths of the muddy ground under their feet...... It feels a bit like a snake, but snakes don't burrow around in the mud.
The thing in the mud should be unusually 'slippery', and it didn't make the slightest sound from beginning to end, and Luo Guan and Song Yang could detect it, just because it caused a slight vibration when it moved.
With just one shock, the two couldn't detect each other's size, but it wasn't too small.
Nothing else had been checked, Song Yang's hand touched the handle of the spring shirt, and then frowned again, and said to Luo Guan: "The knife is too short, I'm afraid it won't be reached." Luo Guan shrugged his shoulders: "It's a pity, one more arrow is enough." ”
The other party is hiding deep in the muddy soil, and if he wants to kill it, with the guys in Song Yang and his party now, they have to dig up the ground...... Luo Guan smiled again: "It's better not to be impulsive." ”
Although careful, but not how nervous, with Song Yang and Luo Guan, with the power of tearing the lion and tiger with their bare hands, what kind of beast is not in his eyes, the great grandmaster's sentence 'It's better not to be impulsive', is purely for the sake of the 'earthworm', it doesn't move, if it really wants to rush up, it can only jump to a dead end...... It's a pity that the 'earthworm' didn't think so, and as soon as Luo Guan's words were finished, the vibration from under his feet suddenly became urgent, and it was obvious that it had launched all its strength and rushed up to kill.
'Rapid vibration' was only the perception of the two top figures, and their companions were still ignorant, Song Yang raised his voice to remind: "Everyone be careful. ”
Luo Guan calmed down, and said to Song Yang at the same time: "Leave it to me, I just want to see what it is." ”
Song Yang didn't talk nonsense, and directly handed over the 'spring shirt', Luo Guan has a bow and no arrows, and he can only fight with his bare hands, Song Yang is not afraid that he will lose, there should be no brutes in the Middle-earth world who can defeat the great grandmaster. But Song Yang was worried that the monster that was about to rush up would have poisonous scales and stingers on his body, and it would be too much of a loss to fight empty-handed.
Luo Guan shook his head with a smile at the treasure knife in front of him, but did not stretch out his hand but took it: "I said that the knife is for you to use, I don't use it." ”
Without waiting for Song Yang to say anything, Luo Guan's body shook and flew away, and the 'earthworm' had already come out of the mud...... A monster that no one had ever seen before, a swarthy and big head, and the speed was extremely fast and went straight to the person who looked the most fleshy in the team: Murong Xiaowan.
The monster is fast but Luo Guan is faster, one step to grab Xiao Wan to meet the monster, and then Luo Guan pulled out a trick with the longbow in his hand, of course, it will not be to draw the bow and shoot, but to strangle.
No one could tell how he did it, but the bowstring was clearly wrenched around the monster's neck, and then Luo Guan shook his arms and laughed, 'Come out'.
The monster was struck in the neck, and he didn't even have a chance to scream, and his body hidden in the mire was pulled out by the great grandmaster, throwing an astonishing arc in mid-air, and finally fell to the ground with a bang, causing mud to splash everywhere.
And Luo Guan shook his wrist hard at the same time, and he carried the dark energy, and the bones of the monster's whole body were dislocated and scattered by him, and he only trembled a few times after landing before he died.
The action between the lightning and flint, the great grandmaster's shot was clean and neat, and everyone, including Song Yang, was dazzled and fascinated.
When he came back to his senses, Qi Shang looked at the monster and gasped: "This is... Is the loach refined? Either that's the eel monster. ”
The body of an ordinary person is as thick as a thigh, almost two Chengren's body length, some like a big snake but there are fins on the back and tail, the body is covered with mucus on the outside of tiny scales, and then look at the 'appearance', the eyes are small and the mouth is big, and there are a few long whiskers at the corners of the lips, which is really an unbelievably big loach.
But it's just similar in appearance, Song Yang broke the monster's mouth, there were no teeth, but like a locust, with three semicircular sharp jaws, you can understand by looking at the mouthparts, this is a blood-sucking monster.
Song Yang breathed a sigh of relief, the shaman corpse he encountered before should have died in the mouth of the 'loach', and he was relieved a lot by having an explanation for the cause of death, and the monsters he met were always as scary as the monsters hiding in the dark and making people guess.
Seeing strange flowers and strange fish, Qi Shang couldn't help but say something again, but this time he had just said a few words, he raised his nose and sniffed vigorously, frowning: "What taste?" ”
Unconsciously, there was a strange smell in the air, which was not smelly, but it was slightly choking, and it made people feel the urge to sneeze.
Song Yang stood up and pointed to the corpse of the 'loach': "Its smell... When you die, the smell comes out. ”
Luo Guan had nothing to be proud of when he killed the loach spirit, and waved his hand to urge everyone: "Let's hurry." ”
Everyone continued to move forward, but Song Yang was a little reluctant to give up on the monster, desperately delayed some time, took out a porcelain bottle from the satchel, emptied it, and then used the knife in his hand to untie the monster's mouthparts, collected a lot of saliva, and then got up to catch up with the team.
There didn't seem to be anything in the world that Qi Shang didn't mix, so he asked Song Yang: "What did you do just now?" ”
Song Yang felt that the harvest was good, and explained with a smile: "Blood-sucking monsters will have poisonous glands hidden in their gills, and the venom is not fatal, but it must be a good anesthetic." That loach is such a big person, if you want to suck blood unconsciously, its venom must be amazing, wait until you go back to Yanziping to study it carefully. ”
After hearing the explanation, Boss Qi nodded with satisfaction, but the porcelain doll was surprised and said: "Such a big monster still steals blood... How big does it have to be to suck it? ”
As soon as the question came out, Song Yang and Luo Guan were stunned at the same time, and after a moment of silence, Luo Guan slowly shook his head at Song Yang: "That thing... It's better not to come out. ”
A loach that is more than a foot long is nothing, but being stolen and drunk by such a big loach is really not to be provoked casually.
Qi Shang smiled from the side: "If you want me to say, it mainly depends on how many of these 'loaches' there are, if they are like locusts in groups, then needless to say, there must be real big guys nearby, otherwise they would have starved to death......;
Before he finished speaking, Luo Guan suddenly stopped, his eyes slanted, and said to Qi Shang: "Boss Qi really has a good mouth." ”
Qi Shang didn't understand what it meant, but Song Yang smiled bitterly and shouted to all his companions: "Run!" As he spoke, the cyan light flashed, and the spring shirt was unsheathed again.
And after a while, it was no longer only Song Yang and Luo Guan who could detect the 'vibration', but even the seven and eight people were also aware of it, and the entire big mud pond was agitated!
It's not the 'big guy', Song Yang and Luo Guan can clearly poke out, and they are still 'loaches', but they are definitely not one or two. How many are there, exactly? Fifty, a hundred, or two hundred? Luo Guan couldn't figure it out, all he could be sure of was that all the big loaches in this mud pond were alarmed for some reason, and they were gathering around the place where everyone was from all directions.
At this time, no one will hesitate to do anything, draw all the knives in their hands, let go of their feet and run! I don't know who it was, so I said softly: "Smell." ”
There was only one reason, the corpse of the first loach killed by Luo Guan emitted a strange smell, which alarmed the same kind in the depths of the quagmire.
You have to run, and you have to run forward...... I don't know how wide this rift is, and I have no idea how far ahead it is, but if I go back, when they climb the cliff again, the pursuers should probably arrive, and it is a dead end.
The silt was a great trouble for the intruders, but for the monsters that had grown here for generations, there was no obstacle, and the speed at which they surrounded them was far faster than Song Yang and his party!
It didn't take long for the first 'loach' to break out of the swamp, and the mouthparts opened and closed and pounced on Xiao Wan, almost at the same time, there was a loud shout, and the spring shirt burst with a knife and swept away! Song Yang took the lead and slashed at the strange fish's face. How can the flesh and blood compete with the treasure knife, the 'loach' squeaked and screamed, Dou Da's head was split in half, and the fishy juice splashed and died in the hall.
Xiao Wan said angrily: "I'll come by myself next!" ”
Wan everyone clenched their fists so loudly that they only stared at the fat and bitten at the two loaches, which made her jump like thunder...... And with Song Yang's move, the killing in the depths of the rift valley also began.
Countless strange fish swarmed, Song Yang and Luo Guan respectively put down the people they were carrying behind them and handed them over to the other companions for protection, and the two of them concentrated on protecting the team that continued to move forward, and once again went on a killing spree.
Song Yang moves the knife like the wind, although the sword in his hand is not a dragon sparrow, but every slash is still as brave as thunder, the momentum is fierce, and the blade is full of strange fish and corpses; Luo Guan has a bow and no arrows, but because of this, everyone present was fortunate enough to witness with their own eyes the ancient martial art that has been lost for hundreds of years and originally only existed in the annals of history: bow killing.
Luo Guan's bow is not a mortal thing, and the bow back and bowstring that can carry the domineering strength of the great grandmaster are not a sharp weapon for killing? In Luo Guan's hand, the longbow flipped like a flower, but the action that really fell on his hand was extremely simple.
The old man, Master Ban, mixed in the team, and watched the two good men snipe the monster with all their might, and a word inexplicably floated in his mind: watermelon.
Song Yang split his head, every time he made a shot, he cut it off with a knife, and the head was halved, like cutting a watermelon; Luo Guan twisted with a bow, and repeated an action repeatedly, after the bow was retracted, a round head would fall to the ground, as if there were countless 'loaches' ...... picking watermelons, killing them endlessly, and then rushing forward for a while, Song Yang and Luo Guan alone could not completely stop their siege.
But fortunately, the vampire monsters in the mire are somewhat similar to pythons, but the structure of muscles and bones is more like eels and loaches, they can only pounce and bite, and they can't be wrapped and twisted like snakes, so their lethality is greatly reduced.
In addition, they are vampire beasts, they will not tear but only 'suck', limited by their surname, so when attacking their prey, they only make two choices, one is to rely on the supernatural sense of smell to find the most abundant blood of the prey, as in the previous attack on the shaman, and the other is to choose the largest body part of the prey, at least to make their mouthparts close and cut into.
For these two reasons, the 'loache' does not stick its mouth out of the mud to bite people's feet, but instead jumps out of the mud pond after staring at the target, or bites the neck or pounces on the chest and back.
Hidden in the silt, the loach is like a fish in the water silently and fast, flexible, but once out, their flexibility, strain and speed will be much inferior, the lethality is greatly reduced, Nan Rong, Xiao Wan, Qi Shang, Pa Xia These four people are also first-class good hands, strange fish move in the mud They have no way to explore, but when they jump out, with the reaction of these good hands, they are enough to adapt and be able to kill monsters in time.
Qi Shang and the others had the power of self-preservation in front of the loach, which undoubtedly greatly reduced the pressure on Song Yang and Luo Guan, and the group gritted their teeth and fought hard, and at the same time rushed before leaving, Xiao Wan pierced her ears with both fists, and directly exploded a strange fish head, and did not forget to smile and said: "This kind of fish looks scary, in fact, it is just like that, I think it is far worse than the strange bird raised by Liu Er." ”
It's really not a monster of the grade, those Titan birds, ordinary steel knives don't seem to be injured, and their combat power is far better than that of loaches. If Song Yang and the others were now surrounded by the same number of Liu Jiajun, there would be no need to struggle pointlessly.
The whole mud pond is in turmoil, from a bird's-eye view of the sky, the center of the flower sea is windless and automatic, the ripples are turbulent, the scenery is enchanting, and who would have thought that there is a group of human experts at the root of the flower, fighting to the death with the monsters that are unheard of in this world.
Siege, Hunting...... Break through, hurry, time has completely lost the concept, the group does not know how long to rush forward, the physical strength in the fierce fight was quickly consumed, Qi Shang gradually couldn't support it, his face was pale and his breathing was heavy, but he refused to say a word, just calculated clearly in his heart: there is nothing to entrust, if you tell your companions that you are dying, it will only make everyone worry and drag people down, and when you are really unsustainable, you will simply pounce outward and die directly, the cleanest and most trouble-free!
Ji people have their own natural appearance, Qi Shang's luck has always been good, and this time is no exception, just when he was about to give up, Luo Guan's laughter suddenly sounded in everyone's ears: "It's over, get ready to climb up." ”
Why does this sound so good? Qi Shang thought to himself, it was better than the mountain song sung by Aigo.
(To be continued)