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"Earth Tiger? Earth Tiger! Are you up there? Squeak OK? ”

The leopard shouted a few more times, visibly uneasy.

"I'll go up and have a look, you bastard!"

Seeing that there was still no one answering above, the leopard cleaned up, hung the machete on his waist, and climbed up along the stone nail that the earth tiger had climbed up just now.

This time, not only Poison Eye, but Professor Cheng Wanlu, Sagir and Xiaoyu in white all took out their tactical flashlights and shone upwards, paying attention to the figure of the leopard.

At a distance of five meters, the vines blocking the way had been cut off by the ground tiger, so it only took dozens of seconds for the leopard to climb to the top of the "steps", and he was still very cautious, and did not climb up immediately, but poked his upper body to the top of the "steps" and looked around.

"What's the situation?" Poison Eye asked loudly.

"It's clean up there and there is a road...... Did this guy go inside to explore the way by himself? ”

The leopard took out his flashlight, shone it forward, turned back to the bottom and said, "I'll hang the rope first, and let's go up and find him together, I guess this fool will go forward by himself." ”

As he spoke, he climbed up the "steps", nailed into the steel drill, hung up the safety rope and threw it down, and then turned around, held up the flashlight, and took a few steps forward.

Suddenly, the leopard felt a wheezing sound above his head, he looked up, and suddenly, an extremely ugly face, less than ten centimeters away from him, stared at him from top to bottom!

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The third one to come up was Xiao Yu.

After he came up, he did not look for the tiger and the leopard, but immediately took out the "sickle" and stood guard on the edge of the cliff, and at the same time, every two seconds, he used the long handle of the "sickle" to strike on the stone to convey the message of "safety" to the bottom.

Next up was Professor Cheng. She also sensed the aura of danger at this time, so as soon as she came up, she stood back to back with Xiao Yu, and at the same time, with extremely skillful techniques, she equipped a miniature Shou crossbow on her right arm.

Soon, Poison Eye and Sajir also climbed up.

"I'll go! What about them? When Sagil came up, he looked around and put his hand on his waist with some uneasiness.

Poison Eye took a very short time to inspect the road a few meters ahead, and then said gloomily: "There are no traces on the ground in front, they have not gone inside." ”

The four of them raised their heads in unison.

Overhead, the dry vines crisscrossed the city blocked out the already small amount of light, and even if it was illuminated by a tactical flashlight, the line of sight was only within a few meters.

"How?" Sagir looked around uneasily: "People are just silently gone? Who knows who will be our turn next? ”

"Don't separate."

Poison Eye is still that gloomy calm: "They disappeared when they were alone." ”

"Go on, and don't go up at the end."

Xiao Yu squatted down at this time, checked the traces on the ground, and said without raising his head.

"Didn't you just say that? You can't be alone......" Sajir suddenly realized what the other party meant, and his expression froze for a moment: "You don't mean it...... I'll go! Ruthless enough! ”

Professor Cheng was very calm about this, she nodded, reached out and patted Xiao Yu's shoulder: "Be careful." ”

Then, she shook her head at Poison Eye and Sagir and said, "Come closer, go on!" ”

Soon, on the edge of the cliff, only Xiao Yu was left, half-kneeling on the ground, with his head down, as if thinking about something.

Above his head, among the vines, a blue-gray figure slowly approached silently.

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The Sky Ladder Canyon is not a straight line, the interior is very tortuous, and the vines are overgrown, so the air flow is very slow. In addition, it was the middle of winter at this time, and the insects did not grow, so when the footsteps of Professor Cheng and the three of them were far away, there was a quiet place here.

After the leaves are gone, the withered vines lose their lifelike green and take on a brownish-gray hue, and most of the surrounding stone walls are bluestone, because of the dark and damp three seasons, the moss that grows out also shows a rusty color at this time. Therefore, the blue-gray figure naturally has a protective color here. Coupled with its flexible body, it is interspersed with the small space between the vines, but it can do it without touching a single bit. Approaching almost completely silently from above, downward, and again.

Soon, its fusiform body hung upside down and fell, little by little approaching Xiao Yu who was squatting on the ground. And the other party still hung his head, as if he was thinking about something.

Finally, the figure was not allowed to be a foot away from Xiao Yu, its back slowly opened, and a pair of bat-like meat wings were spread out, and at both ends of the meat wings, each had a seven-finger claw, which slowly closed from both sides, and then suddenly retracted, to wrap Xiao Yu's body in!

At the same time as it attacked, it seemed to let out a scream from its mouth, but the audio of the scream was beyond the range of human hearing, so although it screamed, it was silent in human ears.

At this moment, Xiao Yu's body, as if a spring was installed, fell backwards, and at the same time slid backwards for nearly two meters!

At the same time, the "sickle" in Xiao Yu's hand swung diagonally, and the sharp blade cut one side of the gray monster's fleshy wings into two pieces!

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"Hiss......"

The monster let out a shrill scream, lost its balance, and fell to the ground. However, its reaction speed was extremely fast, and the other meat wing slapped on the ground, and its body turned around, turning its head into a back foot in front, and its feet grabbed towards the small Yu Mian door!

The two "feet" of this monster are actually a pair of shapes that look like chicken claws, but they have three fingers more than the claws, and the nails at the front end are sharp and sharp, and in such a hurry, they even grabbed Xiao Yu's eyes very accurately!

It's just that Xiaoyu's body is faster than it!

He fell backwards again, avoiding the attack of those two claws, and at the same time the scythe in his hand slashed back in a very strange posture, and the tip of the scythe, with its curved and sharp edge, broke the monster's back and cut a scar more than a foot long!

"Squeak—"

The monster chirped again, and its body jumped to a vine more than three meters high, its wings retracted, and its body contracted into a fusiform again, facing Xiao Yu on the ground.

At this time, Xiao Yu saw the monster's appearance clearly for the first time.

Its facial features resemble those between humans and dogs, with protruding eyebrow bones, a pair of round eyes with almost no whites in the eye sockets, an upturned nose, nostrils facing the sky, two fangs protruding from the corners of the mouth, a layer of rich fluff on the whole face, and a pair of pointed ears that are higher than humans.

Its upper limbs and arms are combined with fleshy wings, and at the end of the fleshy wings are a pair of seven-fingered claws, the back of which has a layer of scales like eagle talons, and the nails are as sharp as eagle talons.

Its lower limbs are very short, and at the end it is a pair of "feet" with seven fingers like chicken feet.

This guy was blue-gray all over, and the flesh wings on his back at this time were pulled out like rags because one side had been cut by a sickle, but no blood flowed out. At this time, it hung upside down on the vines on the side of the cliff, glaring angrily at Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu adjusted his posture slightly, and at the same time pressed the mechanism on the handle of the sickle in his hand, and at the handle of the knife, a small crescent-shaped blade popped out again. If you look closely, you can find that whether it is the big sickle on the top or the small crescent knife on the bottom, there is a layer of complex runes of other materials on the surface.

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The confrontation was not long, and the monster seemed to feel that it had no chance of winning against the white guy below, so it grinned at Xiao Yu, and suddenly it turned around and was about to escape deeper through the vines.

At the moment when it turned around, Xiao Yu's scythe that was originally pointing at it suddenly shot out a short arrow with a barb at the top!

With a "duh", the short arrow pierced through one of the monster's fleshy wings and nailed into the cliff!

Between the short arrow and the sickle, a black steel wire is attached. Xiao Yu's body barely paused, and flew up along the tightrope.

The monster let out a strange scream, and as soon as its body struggled, it tore its flesh wings, and grabbed Xiao Yu with one claw!

Xiao Yu was in the air, as if he had already estimated this grab, and with a backhand swing of the scythe, it intersected with the monster's claws, and with the piercing sound of scratching, it actually rubbed out a spark!

Then, this person and a monster climbed on the cliff, and it only took ten seconds for him to disappear into the dark and dense vines.

It was only at this time that the three of Sagir, who rushed back when they heard the voice, ran to the edge of the cliff where Xiao Yu was fighting with the monster just now.

Overhead, the sound of monsters neighing and the claws and weapons still clashing in the distance, but even under the light of the three tactical flashlights, the specific situation was still not visible.

It lasted for about three minutes, and above his head, Xiao Yu's shout came from afar: "Be careful, stay out of the way!" ”

Then, a dark gray shadow fell from the vines overhead. The three of them hurriedly dodged away, and with a "bang", the body of a monster fell to the ground, shaking a layer of dust and smoke.

6

"W-What the is this?"

Sagir's eyes widened, staring at the monster that had fallen at his feet, his face full of horror.

"It's—Blue Nakshatra!"

Rao is poisonous eyes are well-informed, and his expression has changed greatly when he sees the appearance of this monster, he squatted down, pulled out a dagger from his boots, played with the monster's body, and said in shock:

"I've seen this thing in the murals of the ancient tombs, and legend has it that it is the Blue Yaksha who protects the tomb. But they all thought that this thing was a legend, how could it appear in this canyon? ”

Professor Cheng did not crouch down, but maintained a standing posture, also so that he could see the whole picture of the monster. She first took out her mobile phone, took two photos of the monster, and then supported her chin with the back of one hand, bit her lower lip with her white teeth, tilted her head to look at it, and asked:

"Sagil, do you think this guy looks like a gargoylee in Western mythology?"

"Huh? When you say that, it's a bit like that! ”

Professor Cheng looked at the corpse of this monster on the ground and whispered:

"There were gargoyle sculptures in ancient Egypt and Greece, and they were all found in Pompeii. St. Romanus, Bishop of Rouen, a minister of Clothar II of the Merovingian dynasty, once told how he captured alive a monster called Gargouille with the help of a freed prisoner. According to the legend, it is very similar to this guy! ”