Chapter 5: The Floating Island
What woke Lin Yuanzheng up was a rapid sound of gongs. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info The sound of this gong seems to have some kind of magic, although Lin Yuanzheng is already physically and mentally exhausted at this time, but as soon as he hears this sound, he can't help but stand up and walk outside in a daze.
I don't know when the cell door has opened, and many people outside who are shackled like Lin Yuanzheng are forming a long line, slowly squirming forward along the narrow corridor.
I don't know how long I walked, but I came out of a cave and came to a large and spacious open space. I don't know when the gong stopped, Lin Yuanzheng was a little more conscious, and a misty light appeared in the sky in the distance—a good sign, indicating that he was no longer in the dungeon, but came to it.
The clearing was lined with shackled men in coarse cloth prison clothes, and not far away a row of "samurai" in armor armed with spears, shields, bows and arrows staring at them warily.
What surprised him was that these "samurai" were not people, but monsters—monsters with wolf heads and human bodies, with hideous faces and a faint light in their eyes. In front of the clearing, a small, brown-robed rat-headed monster stood on a large rock and counted with vigour, occasionally brushing its long, messy, dirty beard.
"What the hell is this place? Cosplay? Or is it deliberately dressed this way? Lin Yuanzheng couldn't help but have an illusory and absurd feeling about the scene in front of him, "What about the group of masked black-clothed men last night?" Why are they all gone? ”
“684!”
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“684!”
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The rat-headed monster shouted twice and no one answered, and the crowd was surprisingly quiet, and a sense of unease crept through. Lin Yuanzheng was still distracted, when a wolf-headed warrior walked over, and the spear in his hand swept at him. This warrior was so strong that Lin Yuanzheng bent down in pain, but finally couldn't hold back and didn't scream.
"Call you, and you will, answer! Do you know? The wolf-headed warrior said coldly, his tone very stiff and strange.
"Yes." Lin Yuanzheng gritted his teeth and replied reluctantly, but in his heart, he had already greeted all the ancestors and ancestors of the samurai.
"Don't, say yes, say, 'Understand,' know?" The wolf-headed warrior did not let go of the slightest mistake of Lin Yuanzheng.
"Yes—understood." Lin Yuanzheng replied with a snort. I secretly calculated in my heart that I had to find a way to get out of this ghost place as soon as possible no matter what, otherwise, I am afraid that I would not even know how I died!
"If you get it, you shouldn't, you will be punished for not being in the middle of the day, noon, allowed to eat, and eating." After the samurai finished mechanically, he turned back to its team, and Lin Yuanzheng realized that there was actually a big tail with mixed fur behind it.
Don't even cosplay be so realistic! Depend on! Is it a real monster or a human play?!
After the rat head was named, he divided all the "prisoners" into several groups, each group had more than a hundred people, and then assigned tasks to each group. Some are excavating stones, some are taking care of greenhouses, some are cleaning sacred trees, some are boiling slurry, etc., Lin Yuanzheng's group was arranged to collect light - Lin Yuanzheng then realized that their group of people were all working as hard laborers! But what exactly is collecting light?
Seeing that the members of the group had all started to move, Lin Yuanzheng also followed behind them. In front of the clearing was a mountain, and after a few steps along the stone steps at the bottom of the mountain, a large tree appeared in front of me.
What a big tree! Words like "Tree King" or "Dryad" immediately come to mind, and the trunk of the tree must be surrounded by at least a hundred people to hug it; It's as tall as a twenty-story building! The canopy of the trees is like a great umbrella that shades a radius of miles - no wonder the sky is bright, but it is still gloomy when it arrives; The branches of the tree were swarthy, like a winding dragon, and many vines hung down from the branches.
The prisoners grabbed the vines and climbed up, each one more agile than a monkey. This Lin Yuanzheng will be difficult, firstly, he does not have the same skills as them, and secondly, he is afraid of heights. While he was still in trouble, he was immediately whipped on his body.
"Just you! Hurriedly! Go up! "An overseer wolf-headed samurai drank.
Lin Yuanzheng had no choice but to climb up, but he couldn't go up halfway up, so he had to hold on to the rattan with both hands, his feet were entangled, and his body was blown by the wind, swaying back and forth in mid-air.
"Haha, idiot!"
"Waste, hahaha!"
"Brother, are you a tease invited by the monkey? Hahahaha. ”
The prisoners who had already climbed the tree also discovered Lin Yuanzheng's embarrassment, and one by one they stood on the branches of the tree and mocked loudly, and Lin Yuanzheng's face turned red when he landed.
"Whoosh!"
An arrow flew away from the back of Lin Yuanzheng's head! Obviously shot by the overseer below, Lin Yuanzheng broke out in a cold sweat, so he had to grit his teeth and continue to climb up.
"Whoosh!"
Two more arrows passed by! In the midst of laughter, Lin Yuanzheng exhausted his strength to feed, and finally climbed the lowest branch, his two arms as if they were about to be broken, and the pain was hot. When he breathed a sigh of relief, he glanced apprehensively at the ground, and was even more surprised at the sight.
It turned out that the ground on which they were located was not a continent, but an island; What's even more peculiar is that the island floats in the air or above the lake, and there is a faint layer of water vapor around it; Underneath the island is a huge lake with turquoise water that looks like a giant sapphire, and you can vaguely see some large sharks swimming back and forth below.
Great lakes, floating islands, giant trees...... Lin Yuanzheng looked a little dizzy.
And at this time, the other prisoners were also full of excitement and began to "work" under the scolding of the samurai. I saw them take out a small vial made of stone from their bodies, unscrew the bottle, and aim at some gaps between the branches and leaves that leaked sunlight, and a thin ray of light slowly flowed into the bottle along these gaps as if it were a physical object.
When the bottle began to heat up, the prisoner quickly closed the bottle, tightened it, and then replaced it with the next one. After a while, the sunlight in the gap ran out, and the prisoners jumped gently between the branches in search of a new source. The body is fast, and the movements are light, just like the light skills of flying eaves and walking on the wall in martial arts movies.
"Can sunlight be bottled? What is it used for? Lin Yuanzheng was very curious, and suddenly found that he didn't bring a bottle, and just when he was at a loss, a voice saved him.
"Run! Steller's bee! Steller's bee is coming! The voice was full of fear and urgency, and even a hint of crying.
Since he was standing on a tree, Lin Yuanzheng quickly noticed that the sound was coming from the quarry, and a person was running towards the entrance of the cave. The quarry was already in chaos, and the wolf-headed warrior who had been standing as a statue retreated to the edge of the cave in great panic.
The panic soon spread to the giant tree. Before Lin Yuanzheng could react, the prisoners in the tree and the overseers below disappeared without a trace, not knowing where to hide. Seeing that it was too late to get down from the tree and run back to the cave, Lin Yuanzheng had to carefully walk to a relatively hidden branch and lie down, not daring to move.
Sure enough, soon he heard the sound of "buzz-roar-buzz-roar-" sweeping from the quarry, Lin Yuanzheng quietly opened his eyes and took a look: he saw that the sky was full of black "wild bees", these "wild bees" were black and shiny, as if they were wearing hard armor; Each head is the size of a puppy, with some yellow stripes on its head, like a tiger of the king of the forest.
The bees circled around the flying island in swarms for a while, and then pounced on the cave entrance, where they heard heart-rending screams coming from the cave entrance, and they didn't know if the unlucky ghosts were prisoners or monster warriors.
After a while, the screams became quieter, and the tiger bee flew out of the hole, and the tide rushed towards the tree. Lin Yuanzheng hurriedly closed his eyes and hugged the branches, and recited in his heart all the relief and salvation Guanyin Bodhisattva, Taishang Laojun, Rulai, Buddha, Laozi, Jesus God, and didn't even dare to breathe.
The killer bees arrived in an instant, only to hear the sound of "oops" and "sigh" in the ears, and many people kept falling from the trees - it turned out that those prisoners were also hidden in the trees, and they didn't know how to hide, and it was difficult to find with the naked eye, but they couldn't hide from the swarms of tiger bees.
Lin Yuanzheng felt that countless tiger wasps flew on his back, neck, legs, arms, and head, but it was very strange that these tiger bees did not attack, but only lingered a few times and flew away. But he still didn't dare to open his eyes to look at it, almost thinking that he was dying.
At the critical moment, there was a sound of trumpets on the other side of the cave, and to the rhythm of the horns, a strange procession of people dressed in iron armor with two small slits open only at the eyes came out of the cave, each of them holding a torch with thick red or yellow smoke in their hands.
Strange to say, the invincible killer bees seemed to be extremely disgusted or afraid of the red or yellow smoke, and before the team could get closer, they flew away as fast as they could, and when the team walked around the island with their cigarette handles, the swarm of tiger wasps was immediately dispersed!
"Alright, let's all come down." Someone shouted loudly below.
Only then did Lin Yuanzheng open his eyes and slide down the vines. Except for a few lucky ones, most of the prisoners hiding in the trees were attacked, either stung or bitten, and in addition to the fall injuries, they lay on the ground and groaned, the situation was really terrible.
"Give it all, I'll get up, don't come, play dead!" A wolf-headed monster crackled with a whip in his hand, and the surrounding prisoners and samurai all looked at him indifferently. At this time, the rat-headed monster came, although it was short in stature, only as tall as the wolf-headed monster's thighs, but as soon as it came, all the monsters and prisoners immediately bowed their heads, and they didn't even dare to come out.
"The collection team is seriously damaged, and if you don't treat it, I'm afraid it will affect your progress." The rat-headed monster dragged his chin thoughtfully, and then took out a few bottles of medicine from a bag and handed them to the wolf-headed monster, and a wolf-headed monster hesitated: "Zishen, these, unworthy, medicine, dead, dead, ......."
The rat-headed monster coldly asked, "Are these medicines important or are they important?" The wolf-headed monster stammered and replied, "Of course, it is a task, a task, a must." The rat-headed monster snorted coldly: "Then cure the gathering team quickly." He turned around with his hands behind his back and left.
The wolf-headed monster had no choice but to hand over the medicine bottles to a few prisoners and let the prisoners apply the medicine. The medicine did have some benefits, and the moaning soon subsided. The wolf-headed monster immediately urged the prisoner to go to work, and one prisoner said, "This medicine is only a temporary relief of pain, and in the past, I needed to use the water of Tianhu Lake to treat the stinging of the tiger bee." The wolf-headed monster whipped his whip: "Trouble! But he said no more.
The prisoner picked up a branch from the ground, broke it into many small pieces, and asked the surrounding prisoners to draw lots. There were a total of seven members of the collection team who were not injured, and Lin Yuanzheng also drew it, and he was very lucky, he drew neither the longest nor the shortest. The most ugly of all was a tall, red-haired, dark-skinned man with an eye patch, who held the longest one in his hand.
"I'm not going! Last time, the shark swallowed the copper head before it got close to the lake! I'm not going! He hissed and shouted in protest.
"War punishment days, this is our practice here. Do you want to go against the norm and go against everyone? The prisoner next to him said coldly.
"Phew! Who contributed the most in the last group fight with the quarry?! If it weren't for me, hehe, Mu Liufeng, would your right hand still be saved? Remnant Fire, do you dare to say that you can still stand and talk? And you, Meimu Chuanqin, without me, your eyes may be the same as mine! "As the day of the war punishment was famous, many people lowered their heads and stopped talking.
"It's just to go down to the lake to get some water, if I have an accident, it's not good for you and everyone! Hum! The war torture weather said angrily, and suddenly turned his head and pointed at Lin Yuanzheng: "If you want to go, let this waste go!" ”
Lin Yuanzheng was taken aback, stammered: "I, I, I ......" but he couldn't say anything, and the battle torture day proudly announced his discovery: "This waste goes, I promise it's okay!" Just now I saw a lot of tiger bees crawling over him without stinging him, this person must have opened the hanging, and the management will not have an accident. ”
Lin Yuanzheng tried his best to protest, but soon he found that protesting was useless, and a prisoner came up and said that he took a thick rope and tied it around his waist, tied a dead knot, and then took out a large scoop and stuffed it into his hand.