Chapter 11: Encountering a Strange Beast at the End of the Road

The cool breeze hit, the cold Li Jian shivered, he coughed a few times in a row, he really had no strength, and he was walking to the foot of the mountain, not far away there was an old banyan tree, intertwined roots, luxuriant leaves, side branches to the ground, a single tree into a forest.

Li Barrier staggered over, and saw that the aerial roots of the banyan tree were intertwined and dense, just like the beard of the banyan tree, which was a natural thatched hut, and climbed through the gap, came to the main trunk, and found that the main trunk was vacant for a person's wide space, just enough for Li Barrier to rest.

Li Shu couldn't hold on any longer, he had already walked a long way in order not to freeze to death, and all the tiredness, pain, and sadness in his body hit him, and he fell asleep like a fainting.

Although the banyan tree blocks most of the cold wind, but the moisture and shade cooling have not attenuated much, Li Barrier is wearing a brocade dress sewn by Nalan Xue, after blisters, it has faded, and many places have been cut, in such a cold night, how can it resist the wet cold.

Li Barrier curled up his body, still trembling all over, after coughing violently, Li Barrier had to wake up, feeling that the corners of his mouth were full of blood, Li Barrier said in his heart: "Is it about to die, if you die here, it is also a good result." Then the cold pierced the weakened body, and consciousness gradually faded.

He smelled the fragrance of orchids on his mother's body, his ears were wrapped around her soft piano sound, and he could even feel the warmth in her arms, he thought that he would see his mother soon, and tried to find those beautiful eyes, but he couldn't do anything but keep the warmth of his mother.

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The sunlight shone in through the gaps, Li Jian slowly opened his eyes, looked up at the banyan tree with flourishing branches and leaves, "Live another day!" I wanted to get up, and found that there was a fluffy, warm, and slippery thing in my arms, and when I looked down, my heart was startled, and I don't know when a white fox was curled up in my arms.

This white fox was snow-white and flawless, and it actually had three tails, and it felt that Li Ji's body had moved, and then pasted it towards Li Ji's body.

Li Jian secretly smiled bitterly: "It turns out that the warmth is the body temperature of this white fox, if it weren't for it, the sunshine today would not be visible!" The hand stroked the smooth fluff of the white fox, and said to himself: "I am desperate and chose this banyan tree, are you the same as me, also fancy this banyan tree, if you fancy it, I will give it to you, and I will find another place." ”

Picked up the white fox and put it on the ground, about to leave, the white fox raised his head and looked at Li Barrier with his eyes open, there seemed to be reluctance in his eyes, Li Barrier smiled: "Don't you want me to leave?"

The white fox nodded slightly, Li Jian glared, and opened his mouth wide, "Can you understand me?"

The white fox nodded again, which surprised Li Shu, he never expected that the fox could really understand human language, and he didn't know what tone to treat this fox for a while, treat it as a fox, or treat it as a human.

Li Jian asked: "Why don't you let me go, do you want to leave me and suck my yang qi away?" Li Jian has read a lot of strange ancient books, recording the story of the fox demon, "Tell you, I am not the king of Xu, and besides, my yang life is only a few days away, and it is useless for you to suck it up!" Seeing a trace of disdain in his reluctant eyes, Wu Jian also felt funny.

Then carefully observed the white fox like snow, and found that there were blood marks on the left hind foot, and said in my heart: "It turns out that it is injured!"

Li Jian smiled bitterly: "It turns out that you are really the same as me, at the end of the road, disabled and powerless, but I can't help you, you can't help me, okay, let's see who dies first here?"

After hearing Li Xuan's words, the white fox pillowed his head on his front paws, his eyes narrowed into a slit, as if to say, "I'm too lazy to pay attention to you!"

After a period of silence, Li Jian felt empty in his stomach, and hurriedly looked for the two strings of dried fish, but he only found one string of fish, and the other string only had branches left, and said in his heart: "Could it be that I accidentally dropped it, can't, I remember that I still had it when I came in." Looking at the white fox lying on the ground, he immediately understood, and said with a smile: "It must be you, the little demon, who stole my dried fish last night, or not, if you weren't by my side last night, it is estimated that my dried fish would have to be wasted, so eat it." ”

The white fox lay on the ground and flattened his ears, closed his eyes and recuperated, ignoring what Li Barrier said, as if he was very arrogant.

Li Jian didn't talk much, but for some reason, under such a banyan tree, he was talkative, probably because he was too lonely.

Li Barrier ate two dried fish, felt very thirsty, got up and climbed out of the banyan tree, to find the water source, walked not far away, found a clear spring, the spring water is clear, Li Barrier took a sip of water, drank into the mouth, felt that the water was sweet and refreshing, after drinking a few more sips, found a big leaf, rolled some water, returned to the banyan tree, handed it to the white fox and said: "You have eaten too much fish, I guess you are almost thirsty." ”

Who knew that the fox didn't look at it, just lay on the ground to recuperate, Li Barrier said: "It seems that you still don't drink." After saying that, he poured out the water, and wanted to be angry, but then he thought, "It's not worth getting angry with a fox." ”

Walking out of the banyan tree, he collected the nearby hay and leaves, spread them under the banyan tree, and it took half a day to lay them out, and he lay down on them and said, "It won't be wet if you sleep here this time." As soon as the words fell, I heard a thunderclap, and it rained in the sky, and the rain became heavier and heavier, and the water droplets kept slipping from the leaves and falling under the banyan tree, and the hay was wet with rain, and Li Shu lamented: "God is always against me." ”

Fortunately, the rain was not too long, and the sunset soon came out again, Li Zhan sat under the banyan tree and said the old-fashioned words, "An autumn rain, a cool!"

The day passed like this, the autumn wind was colder at night, and the white fox got into Li Barrier's arms again, and the night was spent in hardship.

When he woke up early in the morning, Li Jian looked at the white fox in his arms and muttered, "I should give you a name, it's always unpleasant to call you the white fox." ”

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"Wanjiao, what do you think?"

When the white fox heard the name of "Wanjiao", he raised his head, glanced at Li Barrier, and continued to curl lazily.

There are still two dried fish left, and Li Jian smiled bitterly: "We won't starve to death here in the end, I need to find some food today, I don't know if there will be some wild fruits on this mountain." He said that he wanted to get up.

Suddenly, outside the banyan tree, there was a sound of 'swish' in the grass, the white fox in his arms was immediately alert, his ears were erected, his body trembled slightly, Li Jian also felt that the sound was strange, it seemed that an animal crawled over, and looked out, but did not find anything abnormal, and said in his heart: "I'm not afraid of death, and I'm worried about what's the use of these!" was about to retract his gaze, and suddenly felt the leaves on his head "rustle" , looked up, shocked, only to see a centipede half a foot thick, slowly crawling towards him along the trunk of the tree, a pair of antennae, like a long snake spitting letters, the fangs under the red head flowed out of slimy saliva, dense steps like sharp knives.

Li Barrier hurriedly picked up the white fox and stumbled out of the banyan tree, the huge centipede flew down the trunk of the tree violently, pounced in the air, did not stop, "swish" drilled out, and chased Li Barrier.

Where can Li Barrier run past the hundred-legged centipede, looking back, the tentacles are about to touch the buttocks, in a hurry, hold on to a tree trunk, come to a big reversal, the centipede only cares about chasing, I didn't expect Li Barrier to suddenly come out like this, slid out five or six zhang out, only to turn around and chase back.

Li Barrier hurriedly drilled back under the banyan tree, wanting to use the banyan tree's air roots to block, so that its speed could not be used, this trick really worked, Li Barrier got in, and after the centipede was more than a zhang long came in, he hugged the white fox and went out from the other side, and after the centipede came out, he got into it from the other side, back and forth I don't know how many times, Li Barrier became more and more tired, and he even wanted to give up.

This centipede is also persistent, constantly chasing, probably trying to exhaust Li Barrier's physical strength, a few times I saw Li Barrier come out, it still chose to drill in, maybe it is used to this kind of chasing.

Li Barrier really couldn't run, coughed non-stop, his cuffs were bloody, he tripped over the roots of the tree, fell to the ground, the white fox fell off from his arms, and the centipede was close at hand, slowly crawling towards him, Li Barrier sat on the ground, gasping for breath.

Stretched out his hand to break off the dead tree trunk beside him and duel with the centipede, but his strength was too small, and he kept breaking it after breaking it several times.

The white fox limped to his feet, his eyes widened, his fangs bared, and he made a "snort" sound, and all three tails stood up.

The centipede erected its red antennae, fangs and fangs, aimed at the white fox, and wanted to attack, Li Jian only understood at this time that it turned out that the centipede was chasing the white fox, not him, "Could it be that the white fox's injuries were caused by this centipede?" Looking at the carapace on the top of the centipede's head, there are many scratches, and the judgment is certain.

Just when the centipede was about to bite the white fox, Li Barrier raised a handful of mud and sand, the centipede couldn't hold back, and ate a mouth full of sand, Li Barrier took this opportunity to pick up the white fox and continue to climb a few steps.

The centipede ate a mouthful of mud and sand, was angry to the extreme, jumped to Li Barrier, knocked Li Barrier down, opened his mouth, raised his head, and bit Li Barrier, Li Barrier hurriedly blocked it with his hand, and his arm was immediately bitten by the centipede in his mouth, Li Barrier immediately felt the pain in his right arm, and Li Barrier used his other hand to beat the carapace of the centipede's head, wanting to break free.

But the centipede's bite was too dead, and the centipede didn't feel pain at all.

Just when there was no hope, the centipede miraculously opened its mouth, and Li Jian immediately retracted his arm that was about to be broken, and saw the centipede "snort!" and spit out the blood flowing from Li Shuan's arm.

Li Wei covered his bleeding arm, gritted his teeth and sneered: "The poison I eat is more poisonous than your poison, if you suck my blood, I promise to poison you!"

Seeing that the white fox was still around, Li Jian shouted to the white fox: "I don't have a few days left, you run away, I'll drag it, if you are alive, just remember to come back and bury me." Seeing that the white fox did not leave, he said: "Without you, I would have frozen to death, this is also to repay your life-saving grace, I am also a waste person alive, run away, it can't turn back, as long as I block here, I can block it for a while, I am more poisonous than it, maybe it doesn't dare to eat me, run away, otherwise it will be too late!" The white fox stared at Li Shu for a moment, the corners of his eyes were moist, he limped, turned back step by step, and reluctantly left.

The centipede finally vomited Li Barrier's blood clean, as Li Barrier said, due to the narrow space, there are air roots on the left and right, this centipede really can't turn back, the centipede hissed urgently, and when it was ready to attack, Li Barrier shook his injured wrist hard, so that the blood splashed on the centipede, the centipede seemed to be very jealous of Li Barrier's blood, and quickly closed the huge mouth, avoiding the flying blood droplets, Li Barrier secretly relieved, "When my blood is dry, it is estimated that the fox should also go away, and it is not in vain to save a fox before he dies." ”

Due to Li Barrier's blocking, the centipede was manic, stretched out its sharp forefeet, and swung towards Li Barrier, Li Barrier hurriedly retreated backwards to dodge, almost being hit, and hurriedly threw out blood and splashed on the centipede's skull, the centipede hurriedly retracted his head, rubbed repeatedly on the ground, wiped off the bloodstains, and then pounced on Li Barrier, Li Barrier threw out the blood at the same time, but retreated, the calf was scratched, the trousers were cut, and the blood flowed out.

There was a heart-piercing pain in his leg again, Li Jian gritted his teeth, and when he turned around, he saw that there were still a few steps to get out of the banyan tree, and he said in his heart: "It can't retreat anymore, it shouldn't go too far, and it will be chased soon." ”

This centipede will soon become a sperm, in the transformation stage, the body is also in a weak state, I wanted to suck the white fox's essence blood, quickly improve the skill, but accidentally ran away by the white fox, searched for two days to find here, not to mention that a weak child actually blocked it here, and the child's blood restrained its toxicity, so that its venom glands have no effect, how can you not be in a hurry.

Li Barrier suddenly coughed violently a few times, slowly wiped the blood stains on the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, his eyes began to blur, and Li Barrier said in his heart: "It seems that it is about to fail, so I can only come here." ”

When the centipede saw Li Barrier trembling in a daze, his body bowed, and with a sound of 'Teng', he crashed into Li Barrier, Li Barrier wanted to throw out the blood, but it was too late, and he raised his arms to protect his chest, and with a 'bang', Li Barrier was knocked out, and as soon as he landed, Li Barrier felt that the world was spinning, and the centipede also rushed out.

The centipede didn't chase the white fox either, but erected a half-zhang tall body, screaming 'hiss', and dancing with more than a dozen steps, wanting to kill Li Jian to vent his anger.

Li Zhan leaned on the ground, saw the centipede stand up, and was stunned, "Am I about to leave? In this world, there is nothing nostalgic? Maybe I really shouldn't have come to this world, go through this experience, why did I suffer so much, and leave, just live one day less, I will bear one less day of pain, mother......