Chapter 61: The Golden Toad Swallows the Moon
The sound of grimace tree frogs bouncing on the wet dirt was sticky all around, and I got goosebumps all over my body.
But I care more about the thing that crawls out of the mouth of the three-legged golden toad.
It was a man dressed in a tulle robe that was rotting all over his body, and the robe, which was supposed to be white, was now covered with the thick slime from the mouth of the three-legged golden toad, glowing a disgusting dark yellow.
As soon as the hit the ground, it started crawling towards us desperately, and it was unbelievably fast.
The three of us circled around the Moon Lake and the white-clothed carrion, and the three-legged golden toad was much less of a threat to us in comparison.
Although its large, frightening eyes were staring at us all the time, it didn't do much other than open its mouth wide.
After a small half circle around Yuetan Lake, the strange screams around him are getting closer and closer, which also means that the encirclement of the grimace tree frog is getting smaller and smaller.
Gangzi rounded the wooden stick and smashed a tree frog that pounced on him, "What should I do?" It's not an option! ”
Of course, I know that it is useless to run like this, and if we go around the Moon Lake again, we will run to the side of the three-legged golden toad, and if the big toad makes any moves, we will not be able to do anything.
The carrion on the other side of Moonlake was still approaching us in circles, but a somewhat adventurous idea popped into my head.
Now that all three of us are holding sticks, the rotting corpse looks weak, so we might as well wait for it to come and smash it directly, so that at least we can face one less enemy.
After listening to my suggestion, Gangzi's head lit like pounding garlic, "Okay!" It was so decided, it was at best a living bone shelf, and Lao Tzu was confident that he would directly smash it into ashes with a stick. ”
So the three of us stopped with the courage and confidence that I don't know where it came from, and looked back side by side and waited for the carrion.
As it approached, my heart gradually rose to my throat.
Just when the carrion was less than five meters away from us, it suddenly opened its mouth wide and let out a deafening scream, and then the arms of the two skeletons with minced flesh pulled violently, and the whole body rose from the ground and flew directly over.
I'd been in a whack-a-mole position, trying to ram a stick on top of its head while it crawled over, but I never thought it would fly.
At this time, Gangzi reacted quickly, and he stepped forward and slammed the rotting corpse in mid-air with a wooden stick.
Gangzi roared, and the wooden stick drew an arc from top to bottom with the sound of the wind.
But I didn't hear the expected crunch of wood hitting the skull, and then the white-clothed carrion fell heavily behind Gangzi, just one step away from me.
It doesn't seem to be hit!
Gangzi shouted, "Run!" Then he dragged me and Ah Jin and rushed out.
I just wanted to ask him what was going on, but I found that the wooden stick in Gangzi's hand had been broken, and the fracture was very smooth, and it was estimated that even with a saw, I might not be able to see this effect.
"Why did the stick break?" I asked.
I was standing behind Gangzi and didn't even see what was going on.
Gangzi looked at me with a pale face, "It has two big pincers in its mouth......"
"How can there be pliers in a person's mouth?!"
Thinking about it, this thing as a human being is just our preconceived notion, this thing does look like a human being, but who stipulates that if it looks like a human being, it must be a human being, and this is a burial hall.
We finally shook off the white-clothed carrion, and the big golden toad on the opposite side of Yuetan grew its mouth again.
The golden toad's stomach first felt a "gurgling-" nausea, and then it spit out a rotting corpse in a white robe on the top of its tongue.
The carrion was wrapped in sauce-yellow mucus and slid into the moonlake, but what made us feel strange was that the white-clothed carrion corpse at the beginning actually gave up on us and took the initiative to climb into the moonlake.
In addition, all the grimace tree frogs around us also rushed to jump into the moon pool, and as soon as they fell into the water, they emitted a foul white smoke, and then turned into small frog skeletons in a moment.
"! Fortunately, Lao Tzu couldn't help but drink the water at that time! ”
I was afraid for a while, if I had buried my face in it and drank a bitter drink, then I would be the third rotting corpse now!
Gradually, all the grimace frogs died like moths to a fire in the moonlake, and this deep and dim grotto was quiet for the first time in a long time.
"That's it?" Gangzi shook half of the wooden stick and said easily.
Ah Jin touched his brother's bald head, "It's not over." ”
I had always believed in Ah Jin's hunch, and almost at the same time as she finished speaking, two carrion corpses suddenly floated up from the bottom of the water.
We hurriedly took a few steps back to start a battle, but the two carrion bodies slowly slid on the surface of the water, and the reason why they didn't say "swimming" was because they didn't move their limbs, just lay on the surface of the water and slowly rotated in a clockwise circle.
They floated in the moonpool relatively clockwise, their gauzy white robes dragging long on the water.
After looking at it for a long time, there is an illusion that the celestial maiden in the mural is dancing in the air.
Gangzi should have felt the same way as me, he scratched his bald head and said, "Chang'e running to the moon?" ”
I was itchy to see, "Don't say it, it's still the feeling of the fairy flying in the sky in the Dunhuang murals, if you don't look at the face, it's good to look." ”
Ah Jin came over and helped me pull out the fangs on my face, and then Gangzi and I actually leisurely lit a cigarette and looked at the fairy.
The main thing is that we don't know what to do now, and the run just now is really tiring, so it's not bad to take advantage of this time to take a break and rest, after all, no one knows what will happen next.
After resting for a few minutes, the three-legged golden toad closed its mouth and walked to the edge of the moon lake and lay down, and then soaked its mouth and nose in the water.
"Look at it! I was right! Toads eat the moon! Gangzi's bald head glowed with excitement.
I laughed at him when he didn't show any interest, "Okay, don't you just guess that a toad eats the moon, you see that you are as excited as a big bald toad." ”
Ah Jin suddenly asked, "What about the head at the beginning?" ”
As soon as she said this, I remembered that there was indeed a human head floating up in the water before, and we were too far away to see it at the time, and it sank again not long after.
Gangzi said what to do with that, just wait for the toad to drink the water, and then we can see clearly even if there are a hundred corpses lying in the water.
Before he finished speaking, the belly of the three-legged golden toad suddenly bulged, and the two white-clothed carrion corpses in the water were suddenly pumped into its stomach by it.
The toad's mouth was like a water pump, and it drank all the water in the moon lake in less than a minute, and as far as the eye could see, the bottom of the moon lake was full of dense grimace tree frogs with teeth and white skeletons.
And right in the middle of the bottom of the pool, there is an ancient well.