Chapter 280: Siege and Interception
During the day, when I passed by, I didn't find anything, and at night, a torch was lit on the side of the house for lighting, so that Feng Xiaoyue saw the clue.
Feng Xiaoyue relied on the memory of the daytime to restore the situation on the mountain wall. I just remember that there are strange pine trees in different shapes standing on it, and there are many vines winding to cover it, and at first glance it looks like another forest perpendicular to the ground.
And these houses are not particularly conspicuous even in the firelight, and it is no wonder that they cannot be found when they look at the fact that they should be just enough for people to rest in them, and they are hidden under such dense vines
Feng Xiaoyue came closer, barely seeing the house closest to the cliff where she was standing. The houses were made of simple planks and tied with some very tough bark.
Looking at the moss under the house, these families must have lived here for some years. It is amazing that such a simple and thin house can stand in the middle of a mountain cliff for so long.
Feng Xiaoyue looked at the house above it from the cliff, and couldn't help but praise their wisdom and ingenuity in her heart, but she always hesitated and didn't dare to ask them for help.
Although it should be a good thing to be able to meet local residents when encountering a desperate situation, plus these people have lived in the mountains for a long time and their temperament is also very simple, but Feng Xiaoyue has other worries in her heart
It wasn't that she was worried that the natives would be reluctant to help, but she looked at such a frightening house, and wondered if she had called for help, and would have the courage to climb the mountain wall with them.
With such hesitation, Feng Xiaoyue has been wandering around the forest and the edge of the cliff, but she has never dared to make up her mind. And just as she was hesitating, a few strange screams suddenly came from her ears.
Although this cry is not loud enough, it is very shrill and tactful, like a woman who has suppressed her emotions, constantly crying in the dark.
One after another, the terrible screams echoed and floated at the bottom of the canyon, constantly burrowing into Feng Xiaoyue's ears, and goosebumps appeared on the people who listened directly.
Feng Xiaoyue couldn't help but tremble a few times, she pulled her cloak tighter, and no matter what kind of harm the miasma in the forest might have, she only rushed to hide behind the nearest big tree to her, and at the same time poked out her eyes, trying to find out where the sound came from.
But at the very moment when she hid, the shouting outside also stopped abruptly. There was silence all around, so she could only hear her own heartbeat.
After waiting for a while, there was not the slightest movement outside, if Feng Xiaoyue could still clearly hear the sound that was still echoing in the canyon, I was afraid that she would think that she had hallucinated just now.
Now that this movement has come to an end, Feng Xiaoyue was a little relieved, and when she was about to walk out, she found that a group of rats that seemed to be on the way to the edge of the cliff ran out of the forest.
The rat is round and slender, with short limbs, it looks very cute, especially under the light of the moon, like a night elf.
It is rare to see such a rare animal in a modern city, even if it is in Yanwu City, Feng Xiaoyue was greedy for a while, for fear of disturbing
After the actions of these little ones, they sat under the tree and did not move.
But at this moment, the screams that had been noisy before rang out at the same time, and they intensified, and it didn't sound like a sound from a place.
The rats that were busy in front of them suddenly panicked, and several black shadows swept over them, and a few of them were instantly missing from the large number of rats.
The rats were frightened, and they stopped running outside, and hurried back into the woods. And because the action of the rats disturbed the rest of the other animals in the woods, many foxes and hares and other four-legged animals immediately escaped from the depths of the woods.
Feng Xiaoyue looked up and looked into the sky in the direction of those black shadows, only to find that it was a group of big birds with terrible cries shuttling back and forth in the canyon, their purpose was this group of small animals that had escaped the protection of the woods and exposed themselves.
This was originally the most normal phenomenon of the jungle in nature, and Feng Xiaoyue was not incomprehensible. Although I sympathize with the death of so many cute animals in my heart, I am not qualified to deprive that group of big birds of the chance to survive
Just when Feng Xiaoyue was thinking about the laws of nature, two or three of the big birds that were wandering around suddenly stopped flapping their wings and stood on the branches of the big tree to rest, with a pair of bulging eyes, looking straight over from such a distance, as if they had found the figure of Feng Xiaoyue hiding under the tree.
By the light of the moon, Feng Xiaoyue clearly saw the bloody feast of the big birds on the edge of the cliff. She reflexively looked up at the big bird that had stopped moving, and found that it was a huge bird, with a shiny coat, but a pointed beak that was scary to look at.
The moonlight was dim, and Feng Xiaoyue couldn't see the color of the big birds' fur clearly, but there was a faint dark blue glow on their reflective edges.
This type of bird's head is not large, but the proportions of a pair of eyes are seriously out of proportion, and it actually occupies most of the face. As for the rest, it was all attributed to the long, thin, fanged beak.
The bird's body shape is also quite normal, and it looks no different from the size of an ordinary eagle, but there is a pair of slender black-skinned claws underneath.
Their claws are so slender that they can't hold even on such thick branches, and they are a little longer than a little longer.
Feng Xiaoyue just looked at them casually, and then wrote down their strange appearance. She and the bird looked back, doubting that the place it was looking at now was where it was. The bird's goal may be to itself.
Perhaps it was because it had lived in this forest for so long, and it was the first time he had seen an animal like a man at night, that he felt curious and turned his mind on himself.
Feng Xiaoyue guessed in her heart, and she carefully shrunk her limbs to minimize her sense of existence.
When so many big birds were hunting just now, Feng Xiaoyue saw with her own eyes that a bird's claws fell into the air, and black claws swept over a fox's back, leaving three or four deep claw marks.
The wounds were not very deep, but it didn't take long for the scratches to begin to turn black and pus, and the foxes who had narrowly escaped were suddenly poisoned to death, and died in the mouths and stomachs of the birds.
It's still a little bit from the forest
The white miasma in the forest did not spread to the edge of the cliff. At least Feng Xiaoyue felt that there was nothing unusual on her body for the time being, so she also had a reason to judge that the claws of those birds must be highly poisonous.
And those poisonous snakes and scorpions are out of self-protection, and they will have some toxins on their bodies. But this kind of bird is already fierce, and with such a sharp body structure, and a pair of claws hidden with poison, it is a little too arrogant.
Feng Xiaoyue shrank quietly in the corner, only complaining in her heart. And the big bird that stopped on the treetops seemed to be able to feel her scolding herself in her heart, so she immediately left the branch, flapped her wings and flew slowly in the direction of Feng Xiaoyue.
The bird flies so fast that it doesn't take a few snaps of its fingers to determine its direction. Seeing that the big bird kept approaching this side, Feng Xiaoyue was shocked, even if she wanted to comfort herself, she couldn't stand up to reality at all.
I thought that if I hid in the shadows, maybe I could hide from it, but since the big bird had already found out, how could Feng Xiaoyue sit still. Feng Xiaoyue hurriedly turned over and got up from the ground, and picked up a long branch from the side for self-protection.
The big bird noticed that Feng Xiaoyue was moving, and also sped up its flight. Feng Xiaoyue didn't dare to go to the edge of the empty cliff, nor did she dare to go too deep into the forest, so she only shuttled back and forth between the two or three trees on the edge.
In a few steps, the big bird caught up with Feng Xiaoyue's back. And Feng Xiaoyue fled in too much hurry, and she didn't find a stone under her feet, she stepped on the stone without noticing for a while, and the whole person fell to the ground in embarrassment.
But thanks to the timing of this fall, the big bird opened its black claws and was about to pounce on Feng Xiaoyue, but because Feng Xiaoyue fell to the ground and missed, she didn't even touch a piece of her clothes.
Feng Xiaoyue felt a stream of air passing through her head, and in shock, she raised the branch in her hand and twitched hard at the stomach and claws of the big bird.
The big bird was in pain, flapping its wings and flying high, screaming again and again, and the sound reverberated in the canyon, making the ears uncomfortable.
Large, vicious birds like this generally live in groups, and if one bird is bullied, the others will come along to help take revenge. Although Feng Xiaoyue succeeded in fighting back, she didn't dare to stay here for a long time, so she hurriedly stood up and continued to run towards the woods.
It's just that Feng Xiaoyue's dodge didn't make those big birds retreat, and in the face of the escape of their prey, they seemed to feel the pleasure of hunting more. Immediately, a large group gathered over, and they followed Feng Xiaoyue's movements alone.
Feng Xiaoyue ran for a long time in a panic, and then had to stop, it turned out that the mountain wall and the cliff were not connected, and there was a narrow crack in front of Feng Xiaoyue.
The crack wasn't wide, just enough for one person's stride. It's just that it's getting late now, and the front and back are in an unknown situation, and there is no place on the mountain wall to stay, so she can't take any risks.
Just stopped, but a large group of strange birds behind them caught up reluctantly, Feng Xiaoyue turned around in panic, thinking that she was going to die here, but suddenly heard a sound.