Chapter 17: Strange Birds
When we entered the room, we did not encounter the strange bird mentioned in the diary, but there were many black feathers on the ground, which were about a palm long, and the glass of the window against the street was all shattered, and the broken glass was scattered all over the ground, exactly like what was written in the diary.
It seemed that the strange birds had flown away, and we all breathed a sigh of relief and leaned in front of the window. The sound of slamming the door downstairs continued, and the Taoist priest turned the flashlight downstairs, and I leaned in to take a look, and suddenly felt bad. There are more and more people blocking the door, although the iron gate is very thick, but it has been smashed by them with a firewood knife and an iron rod, and it has been obviously sunken a lot at this time, and it seems that it can't last long.
I was anxious and hurriedly asked the priest, "Hurry up, do you see clearly?" ”
The Taoist priest pondered for a while, scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "I haven't seen this thing before, but they look like fresh walking corpses, but they don't have corpse gas, so they shouldn't be a kind of corpse!" ”
I sighed, since the Taoist priest has not seen it, then I can't count on him, seeing that the door can't last long, this house is not safe, and I must find a way to get out of here.
Just pondering, I saw the Taoist priest suddenly touch his neck and asked suspiciously, "Eh! Why is this house still leaking? Damn, this fucking house hasn't been cleaned in years, why is this water so disgusting? ”
I was thinking about something, so I said to him, "Don't talk nonsense, it's not raining, where is the water?" ”
"Damn, when did Lao Tzu lie to you, I don't believe it!" As he spoke, he reached out to me, and I turned my head to see a drop, a viscous, green, disgusting liquid sticking to his hand.
I quickly pushed his hand away, saying that maybe the drainage pipe was leaking, but at this moment, I also felt a drop of something fall on my head, I wiped it with my hand, and leaned under the lamp to see that it was exactly the same as the liquid dripping on the Taoist priest's neck.
"Damn, why are you so disgusting?" I cursed and hurriedly rubbed the liquid on the curtain. At this time, the Taoist priest subconsciously raised the flashlight and shone it on the top of his head, and we were all stunned.
No one could have imagined that there were four or five huge birds hanging upside down from the ceiling, and as described in the diary, they were strange birds that I had never seen before. They were all black, even shiny in the light of lamps and flashlights, and a pair of sharp claws were even bigger than our palms, with sharp barbs, and they clung deep into the concrete ceiling. The most terrifying thing is its beak, which is almost half the length of its body, more than 30 centimeters, and has sharp serrations on its lower beak.
I swallowed, almost peeing. The strange birds hung upside down on the ceiling of the room, their eyes closed, their beaks as sharp as sickles half-open, as if asleep, and the green slime was their saliva.
The three of them just watched blankly, and no one dared to move, for fear of accidentally alarming these strange birds. After a stalemate for a moment, the Taoist priest reacted first, pointed at me, and then at Lin Qiao'er, and snorted towards the door, meaning to let us go out first.
I saw that he was holding a flashlight and shining on those strange birds, and knew that he was afraid that the sudden change in light would wake up those strange birds, so I glanced at Lin Qiao'er. She was closest to the door, and after understanding what I meant with the Taoist priest, she held the lamp to keep the light unchanged, and then tiptoed to the door and beckoned to us.
I looked back at the Taoist priest, and he waved his hand at me, telling me to leave him alone and go out first. I tiptoed slowly towards the door, nervous to the extreme, like a thief.
Soon, I also reached the door, and there was only a Taoist priest left. I looked at the ceiling and found that those strange birds had no intention of waking up, so I breathed a sigh of relief, took the lamp in Lin Qiaoer's hand, and slowly turned the direction of the light to the ceiling, until the light of the lamp completely covered the flashlight, and the Taoist priest slowly moved the flashlight and made an OK gesture at me.
The strange birds still didn't move, and the Taoist priest began to walk towards the door, and everything went well, but when the Taoist priest was halfway through, his foot accidentally stepped on the broken glass shard, and suddenly slipped, and he saw his whole person fall backwards.
Our attention was all on the strange bird, and no one expected him to drop his chain at this time. But this Taoist priest is really not simple, when he was about to slip, he saw his right hand quickly propped up to the ground, kicked the ground with both feet, and the lower body came to a 180-degree rotation, and then the whole person fell to the ground steadily.
I was dumbfounded, I really didn't expect this guy to be so good, it seems that in the future, when he encounters hard stubble, he will have to be in front. I was amazed in my heart, perhaps under the influence of the wind brought by the Taoist priest when he turned his head, when I saw seven or eight green lights suddenly light up on the ceiling, and all those strange birds opened their eyes.
Seeing this, I said that it was not good, and hurriedly called the Taoist priest to come over, and at the same time that the Taoist priest was running wildly, those strange birds shook their wings and made a strange sound like a baby's howl, and instantly pounced on the Taoist priest.
It only took two or three steps for the Taoist priest to step over to us, and just as he was about to leave the room, a strange bird had already pecked at the back of his head with its sharp beak.
"Close your eyes!" At the last moment, he heard Lin Qiao'er scream, and the Taoist priest subconsciously closed his eyes, and then a dazzling camera flash lit up, reflecting the entire room as if it were day. The strange bird closed its eyes at the flash, and suddenly turned a little off, and pecked at the wooden door with its beak.
I was suddenly frightened into a cold sweat, only to see that the solid wooden door that was two fingers thick had been poked in half, and most of the beaks pierced deeply into the wall after passing through the wooden door.
If you get pecked, I'm afraid you'll burp right away! The Taoist priest's face turned green, and he shouted to run, and then rushed downstairs, because the door was nailed to the wall with the strange bird, we couldn't close the door, and there were at least three strange birds behind him, and now we could only run.
The role of flash is limited, we just arrived downstairs, we saw that the remaining three strange birds have chased down, the Taoist priest wanted to open the door, I hurriedly stopped him and scolded: "You are crazy, there are so many monsters outside, you open the door Isn't this looking for death?" ”
The Taoist priest was obviously also in a daze, and after reacting, he looked at the strange birds hovering in the room, and shouted at me anxiously: "Little reporter, think of a way, otherwise this will be really over." ”
As soon as he had finished speaking, two strange birds pounced on him, and he picked up a wooden stool, and smashed it away, but the one that had been smashed first flew back intact, and pecked at the wooden stool he had used as a weapon.
At this time, another strange bird also pounced on me, and while I dodged, I cursed in my heart, saying that I want to be a fart, there is a blockade in front and a chasing soldier in the back, unless there is a sudden crack in the ground for us to get into...... Wait, I suddenly thought of the tunnel, and hurriedly beckoned to the Taoist priest: "Stop fighting, let's enter the tunnel"
The Taoist priest picked up the coffee table again at some point, and when I called him, he hurriedly picked up the two birds on the coffee table, and shouted: "Didn't you say that the little girl's skin might be ambushed below, if it goes on like this, won't you send it to the door yourself?" ”
I tripped over one of them, just in time to dodge the blow of the strange bird that rushed at me, and scolded: "I can't care so much, it's better to go down and be knocked out of the stick than to be disemboweled, go quickly!" ”
With that, I got up and beckoned Lin Qiao'er to run to the foot of the stairs. At this moment, the iron door clanged, and it collapsed, and more than a dozen monsters rushed in. Seeing this, I couldn't take care of it anymore, and jumped down the tunnel, but fortunately it was not deep, only about two meters.
After I jumped down, I hurriedly caught Lin Qiao'er, and then the Taoist priest. After the Taoist priest was in charge of the break, I saw him smashing a few strange birds below, and then he was suddenly pulled by those monsters and couldn't jump off at all.
I was anxious and wanted to go up to help, but I couldn't lift my arms, and I couldn't climb up at all. At this moment, I saw a white light suddenly flashing on the Taoist priest's body, and then he suddenly burst into a rage, and broke free from the pull of those monsters in a few strokes, and the half-human-high coffee table was lifted by him, and more than a dozen monsters were smashed in a row, until the tempered glass of the coffee table was completely shattered, and he jumped down.
There is an iron chain under the tunnel, I guess it should be the switch to turn off the tunnel entrance, as soon as the Taoist priest jumped, I immediately pulled down the iron chain, and I heard a rumbling sound of the machine turning, and then the two steel plates above my head slammed together.
The Taoist priest gasped for breath, and it took a while to recover, I looked at him and sighed sincerely: "I knew that you were so fierce, I should have rushed out directly just now, maybe I could kill you directly, but it's a pity!" ”
"You don't fucking talk cool, do you really think that Dao Ye is a machine that doesn't need to rest? Damn, that state consumes a lot of vitality every moment you use it, and it hurts your body if you use too much time! ”
When I saw that his face was pale and he was covered in cold sweat, I knew that he was not lying, and I hurriedly asked him to sit down and rest. The footsteps of those monsters came from the steel plate overhead, and I don't know why, but they didn't smash the steel plate like they did before, and we were a lot more relieved.
The crisis passed, and the pain in the shoulder began to become noticeable. The Taoist priest asked me what was going on, and I told him that he was beaten by a monster when he saved him, and I didn't expect him to know how to connect bones, and he grabbed my hand and pulled it, only to hear a rattle, and it was so connected.
I tried to move a little, and found that it was still a little difficult, but at least I could move, and it didn't hurt as much as just now, and now I really admired the Taoist priest.
Taking advantage of the Taoist priest's rest, I turned on my flashlight to check the surroundings and found that this tunnel was very complicated. The place where we are is is an iron platform, which seems to be specially used to connect to the houses above, and there are many such iron platforms around, and it seems that this tunnel should be connected to all the buildings in the town.
Underneath the iron frame was a one-man deep tunnel, winding and twisting, with many forks, I didn't know how to go, so I turned around and went back, waiting for the Taoist priest to recover.