Chapter 21: Escape
Ryuji was the first to rush to the shore, and after getting ashore, Ryuji did not stop, he quickly found a boulder to hide, and then dared to poke his head out and look outside.
By this time, York, a jungle survival expert, had also swam to the shore, and was more careful than Ryuji, who could rush directly to shore.
He found a root in the water, grasped it tightly with his hand, and did not go ashore at once, but carefully observed the situation around him.
At this point, the serpent apparently had no intention of sparing the ship's members, and the serpent burrowed into the sailors, quickly swam under the men who had not yet fled to the shore, and swallowed them with one mouth.
The first to be swallowed was the boat boss, although he jumped into the river relatively early and swam faster, but his movements were too big, and the giant snake immediately targeted him.
The boat boss was already close to the riverbank, but the serpent sprang out from behind him, opened its mouth and swallowed the boat boss from behind.
In a panic, the boss of the ship grabbed the scimitar that Ryuji had stuck in the tongue of the giant serpent and pulled it out.
The boat boss's actions not only did not bring more harm to the giant snake, but liberated the tongue of the giant snake, and Liu Zhi, who was on the shore, saw the giant snake roll the boat boss with his tongue and swallow it into his throat.
This time was even more terrifying than the previous situation where the giant snake was entwined and directly crushed several people, and Liu Zhi, who was hiding behind the boulder, even held down the thin stabbing sword in his hand, thinking about whether to leave directly.
At that moment York forcibly pulled up, and climbed to the shore along the roots, and somewhere he found a long branch, and struck the water with a heavy blow, and cried out loudly, "What are you still watching, learn from me, and lure the snake away." ”
When Liu Zhi heard this, he hurriedly ran to the nearby jungle, and found a long branch, and was about to knock on the water, when York shouted loudly: "You don't want to die, the long roots are longer, at least three meters or more, and then keep hitting the water, remember, no matter how loud the water is, don't move your body." ”
Ryuji listened to York's words, found a long branch, and learned to tap the water without stopping.
Ryuji noticed that as they tapped on the water, the serpent seemed to hesitate there, as if it were there considering which side to go first.
York waved his hand to Ryuji, "You go over there, keep this frequency, don't go near the water, don't be afraid ......"
While the serpent hesitated, the others also secretly leaned towards the shore.
The first to reach the shore was Perkin, who jumped into the river first, in fact, if he hadn't been frightened one after another just now, he would have reached the shore by now.
Climbing ashore, Perkin didn't find a place to hide like Ryuji, but asked York, "Is there anything I can do?" ”
"Follow our example and hit the water with a long branch, so that more people can be saved."
As soon as Perkin heard this, he quickly moved into action, and the rest of the people swam towards the shore in twos and threes.
At this time, York controlled the rhythm of the percussion, and explained to the people who climbed up, "Everyone learn to be a little bit, when misleading snakes with percussion sounds, you must pay attention to the underwater, if you find something like wood floating past, you must stop tapping, it is likely to be a crocodile, and the percussion speed should not be too fast, you must maintain a certain frequency, and when the inferior people come up, don't stop all of them, stop ......one by one."
All those who climbed to the shore did as York said, tapping the water with branches there, all the while keeping their eyes fixed on the serpent that was sticking out its tongue there to perceive everything.
As York had said, the serpent's gaze became more and more hesitant as more and more people tapped on the water, and now it was only a little closer to the shore, and it kept swimming, as if considering whether it could swallow the creature that made the sound.
At this time, there were only two people left in the river, the mercenary leader and the musketeer, both of whom had seen the movement of the men climbing up before, and they knew that they should not be in a hurry at this time.
So both of them swam forward cautiously, and at this moment, the female knifeman seemed to have noticed something, and cried out loudly: "No, it's a crocodile." ”
After saying that, the female knifeman pulled out the throwing knife, and York turned his head to look over there, and loudly stopped, "Don't." ”
But it was too late, and the female knifeman was notoriously quick and accurate, and the two short knives were already stuck in the crocodile's body when York screamed.
The attacked crocodile was not injured heavily, the crocodile kept writhing and rolling in the water, trying to shake off the throwing knife on its body.
When York saw this, he hurriedly shouted to the mercenary leader and the musketeer who were still in the water: "Come up quickly, if you don't come up, you won't be in a hurry." ”
However, at this time, the giant snake had already determined what the prey in the water was, and the frequency of rolling in the water was crocodiles.
The crocodile is edible, and the giant snake instantly judged the size of the crocodile rolling in the water, and then opened its mouth to bite that side.
Since the crocodile was relatively close to the mercenary leader and the musketeer, the serpent pounced like this, and the two of them could not stand it even if they were in a hundred battles, so they did not care about their caution and swam quickly towards the shore.
At this time, the giant snake also sensed the two of them from the chaotic sound, and after swallowing the crocodile in one bite, the giant snake opened its mouth and bit the mercenary leader.
At this time, the musketeer had already grasped the root of the tree on the shore and was about to climb up, when he suddenly saw the situation behind him, and he actually raised his hand and shot at the open mouth of the giant snake.
Then the musketeer pulled himself up with his left hand and changed his gun with his right hand, not knowing how he kept it, because the gunpowder in the gun had been soaked in water for so long that it could still ring.
With each shot, the musketeer threw his gun ashore, and as you could tell, he was thinking about picking it up when he got to the shore.
However, he didn't see York's face, and at this time York kept reading: "Crazy, it's all a bunch of crazy people, why don't they listen to me." ”
Ryuji also saw that the situation was not quite right, don't look at the musketeer who is quite confident now, but after the smoke of gunpowder, it was the enraged giant snake, and Ryuji had even seen that the giant snake's pupils were erected.
This was also noticed by York, who shouted loudly: "Run, run into the woods, don't run in a straight line, run around the trees, run now!" ”
As he spoke, York tossed the branch from his hand and ran before the serpent could bite it down.
When Liu Zhi and the others heard this, they all instantly understood what was happening, they didn't think about it, they threw down the branch in their hands, and ran towards the jungle without looking back.