CH.195 Falling into Danger
The pirate camp suffered its first fierce battle, and with the exception of the three Blind Pigs, who were killed by the artillery from a distance, the remaining nine Blind Pigs broke through the horseback defenses and began to rampage through the camp, with the natives on their backs firing with their spears.
Fearing to injure their own men, the clumsy artillery carriages could not be used in the camp, and the pirates had to fight back with muskets and bows and arrows. The Blind Pigs' attacks caused chaos in the camp, and they smashed wooden houses with their blood-stained heads, causing a mess. Several strong men in the pirate group resisted vigorously, especially Donk, who killed three blind giant pigs in a row, leaving the natives dumbfounded. In addition, the gibbon also plays a big role, basically a gibbon can defeat a blind giant pig steadily.
The battle was over in a short time, and all the blind pigs were lying in pools of blood, and a few natives were incapable of making waves. When the pirates were blushing to execute the natives, Donk stopped them a second time.
"Captain! Why can't you kill them? The gun-wielding pirate asked indignantly.
"Yes! These natives don't know whether they live or die! Let's go and raze their tribe and make them all our slaves. Another pirate said hatefully, and the others joined in a crowd, and for a moment there was a lot of noise.
Donk took the wet towel from Iona, wiped the blood off his face, and explained, "I'm not afraid of these natives, but I can't fight a war that I can't be sure of, so I decided to put them back first, and then follow them to their tribe to see how many of them there were. ”
This explanation calmed down the pirates, and everyone expressed their support.
The second time the natives were released, this time five of them survived, and the natives yelled at the natives, chanting the same word: "Sain haha!" The natives repeatedly said the word to the donk, as if it had some special meaning.
"Sain haha? What does the word mean? Donk asked to himself, knowing that no one could give an answer.
"It can't be scolding you, right?" One-Eye speculated again.
Donk shrugged, his face indifferent.
After the five natives entered the forest, they sped barefoot into the distance, at a high speed. There were not many people in the pirate group who could keep up with the natives, and Tang Ke only brought two people, One-Eye and Red Locke, and before they left, they made an agreement with the people who stayed behind that if they didn't come back for more than a day, the whole group would go into the forest to rescue them.
Tang Ke and the others followed, catching the footsteps of the natives as they ran, biting the back of the natives, but trying their best to avoid alarming the natives. The sounds in the forest are very varied, and it is not easy to distinguish the sound of footsteps in the distance. There are the cheerful cries of apes, the rustle of leaves in the wind, and the cries of many unknown birds, all of which drown out the sound of footsteps.
The natives are well aware of the flowers and trees on the island, and easily avoid the dangers in the forest and choose the best path.
The three of them chased halfway and were stopped by a foul river, the surface of the river was an opaque gray-yellow, the books on both sides of the river bank hung down vines, and there were a few pieces of black driftwood on the river surface, driftwood drifted slowly forward. Even if you are an indigenous, it is impossible to cross such a wide river. Donk looked up and saw vines at his fingertips overhead, and he guessed that the natives were leaping through the vines, like apes. Donk didn't need to do that, he flew across the river with just a jump.
One-Eye and Red Rock thought they couldn't do it, so they had to find another way. Red Locke spotted a piece of driftwood, first jumped onto it, and made a second jump before the driftwood sank to the bottom. As soon as Red Locke's front feet flew up, the "driftwood" followed with its head raised, opened its large mouth full of fangs, and bit down on Red Locke's legs. Thankfully, Red Locke was fast enough that only a piece of the fabric on his trouser leg was torn off. When Red Rock came ashore, he turned back in surprise, only to realize that the so-called driftwood was actually a hungry crocodile!
"Come on! I'm going to let you pay for my pants with your life! Red Rock defiantly said to the crocodile, his eyes as ferocious as a crocodile's.
The crocodile stared at the shore for a moment, but instead of asking for trouble, he chose to retreat into the river, again disguised as a piece of driftwood.
"Alright, you two hurry up, the natives have already run away." Donk urged, and he ran forward first.
One-Eye's last action, he opened his left eye, and the world in his eyes changed, all he saw were souls jumping like flames, no matter how disguised the animals were, he raised his gun, and with the butt of his gun, he picked a poisonous snake hidden in a rattan into the river, so that there was no threat to the nearby and opposite footholds. One-eye closed his left eye, grabbed a rattan and swung it hard across the river. He caught up with Red Rock in front of him and complained, "I really want to burn this place with a fire." ”
Red Rock smiled, "I really like the feeling of danger here. ”
The two of them didn't have much time to talk to, because they had to catch up with the Grand Master who had already run away in front of them.
The woods in front of us were thicker and more dangerous, and there were many plants whose leaves and stems were as sharp as razor blades, which could easily cut through the skin of the Tangks, and the huge and unsatisfied mosquitoes annoyed the others. Judging from this feeling of difficulty in moving forward, it is by no means the way the natives came. Donk speculated that the natives might have found themselves being followed, so they chose another difficult path to escape them.
As he ran, Donk swung his Fishy Moon Scimitar to cut off the plants that stood in his way.
The one-eyed man in the back caught up and said in a deep voice, "There seems to be danger ahead." ”
The Donk and the others all slowed down in order to talk, and on the side of their faces, various green vegetation turned into green shadows, passing by rapidly.
"But this forest is full of dangers." Red Rock said.
"By danger, I mean mortal danger." One-Eyed smashed a colored poison frog lying on a tree trunk with the butt of a gun, "not this side dish." ”
Tang Ke insisted: "We must not let go of this opportunity, next time the natives may send more people to find trouble, so we must find out their details first this time, and we must continue to chase them if there is danger." The feeling of the one-eyed has always been accurate, so let's be vigilant. ”
One-Eye makes a reloading motion, and there is a crisp crashing sound from inside the rifle. Red Locke licked his scarred lips and widened his eyes.
They walked through the woods, and suddenly there was a clear field in front of them, and there was not a single tree, but the ground was full of small flowers and vines, and the area was very large, and the natives ran in front, and the strange thing was that the natives did not follow a straight line in the clearing, but ran zigzags and turns, as if they were hiding from something, and they didn't need to think about it to know that there was something in it.
"Maybe that's what you're talking about." Donk looked at One-Eye and said, he stopped, picked up a stone on the ground, and threw it into the huge clearing, the stone fell to the ground, and bounced up several times in a row as if it were a splash, but nothing happened.
Red Locke drew a scoop with a gourd, and threw a few stones into the clearing, but nothing happened.
As a result of this delay, the natives have run out of the clearing, submerged into the forest, and gradually shrunk.
Donk couldn't let go of this opportunity, he said, "You two stay here to cover me, and I'll go after them myself." ”
"You're going alone?" One-Eye asked.
"I'm just going to explore the way this time, I won't clash with them, it's easier to go alone." Donk stared at the clearing in front of him, "I see it's weird here, you two have to help me out here." Without waiting for the two of them to make a statement, he had already broken into the clearing alone.
One-Eye and Red Locke are both straightforward people, and when they saw that Tangk had already entered, they stopped rambling and stayed where they were.
Donk walked forward lightly, landing without a sound, like a big black cat. By his touch, he judged that his feet were not soft ground, but smooth stone slabs. He tried to see the ground, but the plants everywhere blocked his view. He didn't take a few steps at first, but in his eagerness to catch up with the natives, he let go, and he stepped out, feeling as if he had stepped on something.
"Boom ......"
The vast clearing suddenly shook violently, and it seemed as if a huge machine was running underground, and the originally flat ground suddenly bulged, and several strange pillars rushed out through the weeds. The stone pillars are waist-thick and unevenly tall, and the tallest is twice as tall as Tangke.
Tang Ke looked at it and noticed that the stone pillar was made up of several sculptures of human faces, the faces on the stone pillars had different expressions, the carvings were rough and abstract, and they all opened their mouths.
In the blink of an eye, more than seventy stone pillars had been erected in the clearing, and some of the stone pillars lifted the rattan on the ground, forming a green net. The pillars spun on their own, their faces as if they were alive, their gem-encrusted eyes sparkling as they searched for an intruder, and after aiming at Donk, they opened their mouths and shot finger-length darts!
Donk couldn't dodge and was shot in the arm by a short dart, but fortunately it was only a bruise. He made a few quick rolls forward, dodging a few short darts, two of which were so powerful that they clanged at the nearby stone pillars. What made his scalp tingle even more was that these stone pillars did not give up, chasing him and firing non-stop, and several stone pillars cooperated with each other and aimed at him in unison.
One-Eye had already fired three shots at this time, each hitting the stone pillar, his magic rifle was extremely powerful, but it could only knock out the scattered fragments on the stone pillar, and could not destroy the stone pillar, which shows that the material of the stone pillar is very unusual.
Although Red Rock knew that his skills were inferior to Tang Ke, out of righteousness, he still jumped into the clearing and swung his knife to cut down the stone pillar. Although he failed to cause damage to the pillars, he did attract a group of pillars to turn towards him. He dodged through the cross-web of the dart, and within seconds of holding on to it, he was shot and plunged into his back.
As he dodged, he caught a glimpse of Red Locke breaking in and shouted, "Red Locke, get out of here!" He jumped to the top of one of the tallest pillars, thinking that there would be nothing he could do with them, but the pillars under his feet fell rapidly, retracted back into the earth, and the darts shot again from all directions.
The stone pillars are full of human faces from bottom to top, and each face can shoot darts, resulting in extremely tricky angles for short darts.
Donk was in danger for a second, wielding his sword to protect his upper body as he spotted a gap and drilled through.
On the other hand, One-Eye hurriedly opened fire, and only with his extremely accurate marksmanship did he knocked out two short darts. Red Locke endured the pain of three short darts, threw the sword in his hand, and also blocked a short dart, he was no longer strong, a backflip dodged backwards, fortunately he did not wade deep into the clearing, and he turned out of the danger zone at once, hiding behind a stone, safe.
Tonk took a step forward, his body flying, parallel to the ground, and darts scattered from above and below him. After he landed, he didn't look back, and ran to the opposite side.
"Hide to the left!" One-Eyed shouted.
Donk immediately complied, moving to the left, and dodged behind a stone pillar that he was hiding right behind the face of the stone pillar, which had taken time to turn. More than a dozen short darts hit the stone pillars one after another, clanging non-stop.
"Run!"
Out of trust in One-Eye, Donk once again followed the reminder, and since there would be an interval between the stone pillar's short darts, it was safe for him to run forward for the rest of the time. According to this routine, One-Eye reminded him in the back, while Donk acted, and after paying some price for bloodshed, he finally rushed to the end of the clearing.
The stone pillar shot a final wave of short darts, and the pitch-black short darts turned into several black lines, which flew in the direction of Tang Ke.
Donk rolled on the spot, hid behind a big tree, suddenly felt a stinging pain in his back, and looked back, it turned out that it was a short dart that shot through the trunk and stabbed him in the back, which shows the power of the short dart! This group of stone pillars is so terrifying, it must not be contemporary technology, I am afraid that it is some ancient ruin, and it must not be made by those natives. He caught the gap in the stone pillar's shot, jumped forward, flew up the tree, and leaped forward from a high place, so that the stone pillar could no longer be shot, and his pounding heart was a little calmer.
The pillar lost its target and quickly retracted into the ground, leveling the ground.
After this barrier, One-Eye and Red Rock could only stay here, unable to move forward. One-eyed loaded the gun with a cold face, obviously hating the stone pillar. Red Locke tended to his wounds and cursed, "Damn, I agree with your idea of burning this forest." ”
Donk couldn't delay any longer, so he could only pull out the two short darts on his body as he moved, and took out a bottle of missionary holy water that he had prepared before, and poured it twice into the wound. He found the natives again in the heights and continued to chase them. After what had just happened, his impression of the natives had become even worse. He chased through the dense forest for nearly an hour, and finally reached the end, where a large and prosperous indigenous cottage appeared in front of Tangk's eyes.