Chapter 56: Otter Lake
Murda looked up, stunned by the sight in front of her.
Under the light of the moon, the surface of the lake in the semicircle during the day has changed. The surface of the lake was no longer clear, but black, and the water began to surround the middle from the two tips of the semicircle, and the water rose so fast that it was about to form a circle like a full moon, and only a fan from the tent to the edge of the circle could still expose the land.
Moda didn't have time to think about it, and quickly woke up Liu An and Mo Dian. The three men rushed out of the tent with the necessary things, grabbed the three camels and galloped out. Unexpectedly, before he ran a few hundred meters out of the road, there was no land in sight in front of him. Although the altitude of the place where they camped was relatively high, who knew how high the water would grow? If you go back and get flooded again, then you will be further from the shore. Meda simply urged the camel to go into the water. Unexpectedly, after walking a few steps, a group of small fish suddenly jumped on the water surface in front of me. As if they had been catapulted, the little fish pounced on the camel that Meda was riding.
The fish, with three rows of small sharp teeth, clung to the camel's body like pincers and began to bite the frightened camel. These fish bite and eat at a particularly fast rate, and the camels are quickly gnawed off the flesh on their front legs, chest, and neck.
Seeing that the camel could no longer support it, Meda rushed in and jumped down to make Liu An and Mo Dian retreat. The camel had not yet struggled for a few minutes before it was completely gnawed clean. The water of the lake rose faster and faster, and the small predatory fish in the water forced Meda and the others to retreat to the tent. Seeing that the lake was about to submerge the already not too high land.
The little fish in the lake jumped wildly at the smell of the bloody water, and as the land was swallowed by the lake, little by little they forced into Murda.
Meda and the others were carrying knives, ready for the last fight. The horror of the moment had left them with little hope of survival.
Just as the lake was about to swallow up the last place of the lake, a black thing of ten square meters floated in the distance. The surface of this thing was hairy, and it was impossible to see what it looked like by the moonlight. At the critical moment, Moda and the others couldn't take care of much, and jumped on the black floating object that had already come closer. When they saw Murda, they jumped up and quickly drifted away in the direction of the west.
Murda felt that the place under his feet was soft and fleshy, not like something sturdy, like he was stepping on the body of some hairy animal. But before Murdado could take a few looks, the small schools of fish in the lake had already gathered around. A small fish jumped onto the black float, bouncing and tumbling on the black fur. After a few flicks, a small mouth the size of a palm suddenly opened on the black fur, and he bit the small fish hard, and then swallowed it in one gulp, and then drowned in the black fur after swallowing.
Murda was stunned, the fangs in the small mouth gleaming in the moonlight.
The fish had surrounded the thing and began to attack continuously. Countless small mouths suddenly opened around the black floating object, holding and devouring the small fish that jumped up. The attentive Liu An found that the lake water around the black floating objects had turned blood-colored, and the concentration of blood was still deepening, and the three of them smelled the pungent smell of blood.
Murda took a closer look and finally realized that the black floating object was formed by a large number of otters clinging to each other. Otters are very watery and can float on the surface of the water, but what are these otters holding together, are they here to save them?
The fish attack is very ferocious. Although the otter is the nemesis of the fish, the red-eyed fish have been stimulated by the smell of blood from their partners to the point of losing their nature, desperately rushing and gnawing at the otter group. Many of the otters on the periphery and under the surface of the water have been bitten to death and have fallen from the pack of otters. The otters that fell were immediately bitten by the frenzied fish, leaving only a pile of bones and sinking underwater.
Murda and the others were very distressed to see it, and the three of them also waved their sabers and danced in the air, trying to block some attacks for the otter group. Seeing that the area of the otter colony has shrunk to five or six square meters, and more and more fish have landed on the otters' backs, and the backs of many otters under their feet have been torn and blurred.
There were still more than 50 meters from the shore, and suddenly more than a dozen large nets were thrown from the shore, and they landed in front and behind the otter group. The net was quickly tightened, and the attack of the fish was visibly cut down a lot. One of the large nets covered the pack of otters, and a tremendous force pulled them towards the shore.
There were dozens of figures standing on the shore, and they danced happily when they saw the group of otters carrying three people back. Liu An suddenly had an ominous premonition
"Murda, it can't be a cannibal tribe. Otherwise, how could they see us so excited? ”
Murda was also worried when Liu An said this. How can there be humans alive in this ghost place where birds don't, it must be the ghosts in the Soul Eater Desert who come to ask for their lives. But they were covered by a large net, and they couldn't move, so they could only go ashore and act at the opportunity.
The men dragged them to the shore, and the leader took torches and shone them on the faces of the three men. Through the firelight, Murda also saw the man's appearance clearly. The man's long hair was scattered over his shoulders, his cheeks were thin, his beard was white, his eyes were like electricity, and he was looking up and down at Murda, as if he hadn't seen a living person for a long time. Looking at this person, he was almost like a beggar, his clothes were in tatters, and if he sat on the ground, he would be like a dry corpse. However, judging from the remaining intact costumes, this should be the costume of a steppe people.
Murda glanced at the person in front of him, and the two of them looked at each other without speaking.
When Medda's gaze swept over the man's waist, he suddenly found that there was a very unique copper ring on the buckle of the man's belt, on which was engraved a totem of a wolf's head. Murda's mind quickly flashed out of Big Brother Maoton's belt, and the totem on it was exactly the same as the totem on Big Brother's belt. He had heard Maudun say that it was the hallmark of the Huns.
Meda stared at the man and said in the Hun language
"This brother, are you a Hun?"
The man was stunned for a moment, as if he had been stabbed, and immediately jumped away. He yelled at the heavens, and then ran around like a convulsive, beating his chest as he ran. The people around him who were dressed in the same costume also felt the same way when they saw the leader's appearance, and they screamed and jumped wildly together, like a group of wild people who had not yet been opened.
"Murda, these people can't be man-eating savages."
Liu An was very worried, so he whispered to Moda beside him
"No, I look like a Huns, you see that person has a Hun totem on his belt"
Before Murda could finish speaking, Liu An interjected
"Couldn't it be that these savages ate those Hun soldiers and wore their clothes? You see, they don't even speak, they just howl. ”
Murda didn't speak, but she was worried. The group finished tossing, and suddenly fell to their knees towards the east, making the leader kowtow continuously.
"It's over! Tatsuko, I think these savages are going to sacrifice us to the sky, or make a ritual and eat us first. ”
Mo Dian muttered. The group kowtowed and rushed towards Murda, their scimitars flashing in their hands. Mo Da thought, it's bad, it really made Mo Dian's right, this is a driving to be disemboweled.
Unexpectedly, the group ran to the front and cut the fishing nets on the three of them with knives. This leader may not have spoken Xiongnu for a long time, and said stumblingly
"The gods must have sent you! The Great Huns have finally sent you to save us! After all, the Yan clan has not forgotten our subordinates! ”
At this time, Meda was stunned, it seems that he is really a Hun. It's just that this person mentioned the Yan clan, could it be Haba's cronies? The man looked very close and asked Murda
"Brother, did the Yan clan send you to us?"
After speaking, his eyes were full of gratitude, joy and anticipation. Murda didn't dare to reveal the truth now, so she said tentatively
"We are indeed the Huns, because Maudun is going to cross the Soul Eater Desert."
Murda didn't say that it was because of something, only that it was because of Maudun. If this gang is Haba's lackeys, then he is here to deliver a letter to the Yueshi to deal with Maudun, and he has Haba's handwritten letter anyway.
"Maudun? You say the little prince of Maudun!? The prince of the Yan clan was born safely!? Thank you, my God, for bless our clan and our prince! ”
After saying that, after a while, the man knelt down again and bowed to the east.
Moda now understood that the Yan clan that this group of people was referring to Lao Shan Yu's original Yan clan, the mother of Mao Dun's eldest brother. Seeing their pious appearance, they should be of the same mind as themselves, so they simply told a brief account of what happened to Mao Dun, and also told them the ins and outs of their own journey to the desert. The gang gritted their teeth as they listened, and as they listened, they cried out for revenge. The leader patted Murda on the shoulder
"Murda, you are willing to take on a mission for the sake of brotherhood, and you are a role model and hero for our Huns. Since you are the brother of our prince Maudun, you are also our young master. To tell you the truth, we are the survivors of the 3,000 Hun cavalry sent to attack the Yue Clan thirty years ago. My name is Si Buliao, and we are all from the tribe of the Yan clan, so it can be said that we are from the Yan family. When the Yan clan was pregnant with the prince, we, the people, wanted to do a miracle for the master, so that after the birth of Prince Maodun, he could successfully ascend the throne with the merits of the family and the blood of the royal family. Unexpectedly, this is the Soul Eater Desert, which is really terrifying, and there are only more than 300 of our 3,000 people who are tortured by this terrible desert. Thanks to this otter lake, we survived. ”
The three of them finally understood the origin of these people. Liu An asked curiously
"Uncle, how have you survived all these years? The fish in this otter lake are too treacherous. Besides, why don't you go back to the Huns? ”