Chapter 23: The Mountain Temple

As the saying goes: impulse is the devil.

I always thought that my character was bad enough, but I didn't expect this old fat character to be even worse than mine.

Although the snake people are human, they have been cursed by corpse poison, and they will be infected if they are bitten.

I hugged Lao Fei and said a mantra: "Heroes don't suffer immediate losses, let's get out of here first." ”

I saw that the snake man had already pounced on us, and I ignored the old man, and pulled him through the courtyard and out of the house.

When I went outside, I saw Yan Xiaoying and Chen Liming entangled with two snake people at this time, and Huang Yuting was running up the mountain with Xiaoya in her arms.

In the moonlight, I found that the lame old seven, who had been hit by me and fell to the ground, was gone, and several snake-man shadows appeared under the mountain, and there were three in the house.

What was even more terrifying was that I saw blades of grass scurrying under the slope of the embankment, and black snakes with thick arms swimming up.

Snakes!

I could never have imagined that they would be able to drive away snakes.

As far as the eye can see, there are hundreds or thousands of snakes under the dike? The strange swimming shadow makes people's scalp tingle to see.

Not only did I find the snakes under the mountain, but Yan Xiaoying, Chen Liming, and Lao Fei also saw them.

Chen Liming was originally from the city, and he had never even set foot in a slightly remote place, so he had never seen such a terrifying scene.

At the moment, he was so frightened that he abandoned the snake man in front of him and chased Huang Yuting to escape.

In this way, Yan Xiaoying also retreated in the face of the increase in the number of snake people.

She was already delaying time, but when she saw me and Lao Fei safely withdrawing from the house, she said anxiously: "The way down the mountain is occupied by snakes, and we can only run up the mountain." ”

"So what are you waiting for? Run! ”

The old fat nagged, and first spread his feet and ran wildly towards the mountain.

I ran for a while, and I noticed that something was wrong with Yan Xiaoying who was following behind, she was running very slowly.

When she caught up, I saw that her face was pale, and when she stopped, she couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood.

It turned out that her injuries had not healed, and she had just been entangled with the snake man, which affected the wounds. At this moment, her injured shoulder was already stained red with blood.

"How are you?"

I held her crumbling body to her face, worried.

"I ......"

Yan Xiaoying opened her mouth to say something, but I found that the snakes behind me had caught up, so I didn't have time to say more, so I helped her to flee towards the mountain.

Later, the fat man also turned back and supported Yan Xiaoying with me left and right.

I don't know how long I walked, but I couldn't hear the rustle of snakes swimming behind me. But we did not dare to rest, so we walked some more distance, rounded the hillside, and found a dilapidated temple on the hillside not far ahead.

The temple covers a small area, only half the size of a basketball court.

Although I have lived in Heaven Mountain for a while, I don't know most of the situation on the mountain, let alone such a mountain temple on the mountain.

There was no way to climb the temple, because the road had been covered by vegetation.

It seems that the mountain temple has been abandoned for quite some time.

Lao Fei and I helped Yan Xiaoying, who was injured, to pick up the grass in front, and Huang Yuting and Chen Liming followed closely with Xiaoya.

When I came to the mountain temple, I found that there was no temple gate, and there were broken tiles everywhere.

The temple is paved with bluestone floors, but there is no grass.

We were already too tired to do anything, and when we entered the temple, we all sat on the ground, panting.

Lao Fei picked up the dead branches scattered on the ground and lit a fire.

"Yuting, you are studying medicine, please help take a look at Xiaoying's injuries." Taking a few breaths, I looked at Huang Yuting and pleaded.

Huang Yuting nodded, and helped Yan Xiaoying and the two to walk under the pillar on the side.

Yan Xiaoying's sword stabbed by Lu Ji was in a lower position on the shoulder, and it was naturally inconvenient for us as men to watch it.

Lao Yajie, who is more than eight years old, is quite quiet at this time, perhaps because she was overly frightened when she was in the village before, and she didn't cry when she met the snake man again.

You must know that although children's hearts are fragile, they often have a strong ability to accept, especially children born in rural areas, who have the perseverance and hard-working spirit that urban children do not have.

It's not human, it's just environmental.

After entering the temple, she came to my side. Of all these people, I know her the best.

"Don't be afraid, with Brother Tianyan here, he will protect you."

I held Xiaoya in my arms and comforted me softly. In fact, if it is true that when it comes to seniority, she will be a generation older than me, and I have to call her sister-in-law.

"Brother Tianyan, I miss my parents."

Xiaoya looked lonely, and said to me pitifully.

I felt a pain in my heart when I heard this, and hugged her tighter: "When it is dawn, Brother Tianyan will send you down the mountain to see your parents." ”

I don't know if any of the snake people who have fallen under the venomous curse of the corpse have Xiaoya's parents, because until now, I haven't heard anything about her parents.

The little girl has an innocent personality and is best deceitful. I comforted her a few words, and then I gradually forgot my fears, and looked at everything in the temple with curiosity with a pair of big watery eyes.

I followed her gaze and began to look at the mountain temple.

The temple is not large, and you can see everything in the temple at a glance by the light of the fire.

There is a clay statue in front of the temple, carved of a big man with a fierce face holding a soldier.

He was wearing armor, and under his crotch rode an extremely strong beast, like a wolf, but it was a little different because there was a single horn on its head.

The brick wall against which the statue rests has collapsed, revealing a large hole.

"Brother Tianyan, this fairy uncle is really ugly."

Tong Yan Wuji, I couldn't help but laugh when I heard Xiaoya say such words. took Xiaoya's hand and bowed to the statue three times and said: "Uncle Fairy, that's not ugly, you see that he is destroying monsters with weapons in his hand, if he is not fierce, he is not afraid of him!" ”

No matter which immortal the statue is, if there is a temple, there must be merit and rebirth.

In fact, I have already vaguely guessed his identity, and the only person who can have a temple on this heavenly mountain can only be the eighteen mountain gods at the beginning.

"What do we do now? Will the snakes and those people chase after them? An abrupt voice interrupted my conversation with Xiaoya.

"You can only take one step at a time, in this case, if you want to catch a snake man and go back to study, I'm afraid it's impossible, and you can't even save your life."

I looked at Chen Liming and said, "I hope that after staying up until dawn, they will hide and not be so blatant." ”

"Alas! I knew it was so dangerous, so Ah Ting and I wouldn't have come up the mountain. Chen Liming looked at Huang Yuting, who was treating Yan Xiaoying's wounds on the side, with a worried face.

I smiled and didn't answer.

Where in the world is there so much early knowing?

"What are you afraid of, you are so timid, how can you catch the snake man?" Lao Fei lit a cigarette, spit out a puff of smoke, looked at Chen Liming and said contemptuously.

Chen Liming looked at Lao Fei, his face was full of disgust, and it was estimated that he remembered that Lao Fei beat him before.

Because they left in a hurry, Huang Yuting and Chen Liming's medicine boxes were left in the house on the dam of the reservoir and did not take them with them.

Huang Yuting could only simply treat Yan Xiaoying's wounds.

Several people sat around the fire, and when Lao Fei saw that the fire was weak, he stood up and looked for dead branches.

Huang Yuting and Chen Liming, a young couple, were next to each other, whispering to each other, not knowing what they were saying, and from time to time they looked at me.

I lowered my head and teased Xiaoya, ignoring them.

At this time, I felt my clothes being ripped and looked up at Yan Xiaoying.

"You and Huang Yuting have been together before?" She asked me in a whisper.

"How do you know?"

"She told me when she was helping me with my wounds."

"It was a few years ago."

I smiled and asked, "Why are you asking this all of a sudden?" ”

"No, just a little curious, your sudden departure this morning is also related to her, right?"

Yan Xiaoying saw that I didn't speak, and persuaded in a low voice: "The past is in the past, why do you bother to worry about it, you see how close the two of them are now." ”

"I don't need comfort and counselling." I looked at Yan Xiaoying and smiled bitterly: "I haven't seen you for a few years, it's normal to have such a reaction when you suddenly meet, right?" It's not that I can't let go, but I'm just unhappy. ”

Yan Xiaoying rolled her eyes at me and opened her mind to say something.

Who knew that the old fat who walked to the corner of the temple suddenly screamed at this time, and then I saw a black shadow suddenly burst out of the shadows and pounced on him.

We all thought it was the snake man who was chasing us, and we all stood up in shock.

When I looked closely, I realized that it was a wild dog that pounced on Lao Fei.

That's right, it's a ferocious wild dog, and it bit the old fat arm at this time, if he hadn't reacted quickly just now, it is estimated that this bite would have bitten on his neck.

The old fat was in pain, holding the wild dog and smashing it to the ground.

The wild dog fell to the ground, rolled several times, and then quickly rolled over and got up, baring its teeth and barking at us.

I've never seen such a ferocious dog, and if it weren't for the number of us, it would have pounced again, but even so, it was still fierce, lying on its front paws, ready to attack.

In fact, the wild dogs on the mountains are usually lost or abandoned domestic animals, they wander to the mountains, hunt and kill other animals in the mountains for food, over time they become more and more wild, compared with the wolves are not inferior.

Compared to domestic animals, wild dogs are more ferocious and aggressive.

It seems that this temple is a den of wild dogs, and when we came in just now, it was hiding in the dark and watching us.

This alone is enough to show that it is out of the category of domestic animals, because if it is a domestic dog, no matter how fierce it is, it will immediately come out to bite the person the moment it sees a living person, where does it know how to hide?

Concealment is a technique of culling prey, and only wild beasts can possess it.

Old Fat looked at his bleeding arm, and his heart was full of anger, and he borrowed a shotgun from me.

The wild dog was obviously aware of the power of the shotgun, and saw it scurrying around the temple to dodge, but it did not leave.

I was wondering when gunshots rang out.

The old fat marksman is very accurate, I have already seen this, and the wild dog fell to the ground in response. It was shot in the neck and fell to the ground struggling, and after a while it was completely silent.

"Raised by a son of a bitch, people are unlucky to be bitten by dogs in the mountains." Old Fat spat a mouthful of saliva at the dog corpse on the ground, covering the bleeding wound and cursing.

He is indeed quite unlucky, otherwise there are so many of us here, why was he bitten?

"Beware of viral infections, wounds need to be treated immediately, and vaccinations are required!" Huang Yuting, who is a doctor, opened her mouth to remind.

But here are the barren mountains and mountains, where is the vaccine dog injection for the old fat?

At this time, Yan Xiaoying took out a porcelain bottle from her arms, poured out a blue-brown pill from the bottle, crushed it, and sprinkled it on Lao Fei's wound.

"Although there is no vaccine shot, this lark can detoxify all poisons, and it is estimated that it will work." Yan Xiaoying said while treating the fat man's wounds.

"The Miao family's unique secret recipe, Bailing Pill?"

Chen Liming and Huang Yuting were surprised, and the latter said, "This Bailing Pill can only be used by their Miao people, how did you get it?" I heard that they tamed poisonous insects and poisonous snakes, relying on the lark pill, and this medicine never flowed out. ”