Chapter Twenty-Five: The Hunter in the Fog
Explosives, neither I nor the stallions are very proficient, you want me to blow up the fish, open the grave? Forget it.
The old man wanted to go down, but I stopped him, I said that you old man should be leisurely, these stupid physical work will be left to the young people, and the grandfather is still needed to preside over the overall situation at the critical moment, no one can live without the old man in this operation.
In the end, Ah Xi went down to install explosives, and when the cottage was building roads, Ah Xi was the foreman of the mountain opening team. I've read too many novels.
Soon, Ah Xi disappeared into the darkness of the thief hole with bundles of explosives and chisels, and he needed to place the explosives in the corresponding places according to certain rules, and then ignite the explosives.
It's easy to say, but you have to control the amount of explosives placed very appropriately, if you have more, it will blow up and block the hole, and no one can get in, if you don't blow it up, you can't blow it up once, and if you want to blow it up again, the difficulty will increase exponentially.
It seems that I will have to find a bomb expert to join my team in the future, by the way, that Wu Tianliang has been staying with Pug since I choked on him and has not spoken, very good, just keep silent and don't make trouble for us, I am bored and thinking nonsense.
"Woo~~!" There was a sound similar to a human cry coming from the thick fog, this time so clear that everyone could hear it.
Don't let people fight well? The people seated in the mule team stood up one after another, and everyone looked around, trying to find out the source of the sound, but it was all in vain, and now the fog was as thick as sheep fat jade in our position, and visibility of 100 meters was almost the limit.
"The ghost on the male and female lake came out to ask for his life?" "The little dragon king's drone was eaten by it, right?" There was a murmur in the mule team.
"There's a fart ghost, Lao Tzu smells so strong blood, it must be some kind of animal!" The stallion said loudly.
I was about to ask him what kind of animal it might be, "Be careful, everybody lie down and don't move!" "Grandpa's warning came.
"Woo~~", a huge figure sprang out of the dense fog and flew over our heads.
I'm now sure that the cry of the legendary male and female lake was made by this thing, could it be a big bird? It has eaten all the people who have broken into "Hey Zu Lada" for so many years? So how many years did it live?
"Damn! What the hell is this mourning thing, and what does it look like? Come out and give me a smile! The stallion shouted.
As if he understood what the stallion was shouting, "Woo~!" When the voice reappeared, a huge black shadow flashed rapidly in the thick fog, and a poor mule was instantly picked up, and this time we could see what it looked like.
At first I thought I was wrong, but after checking with the people around me who were lying on the ground with their heads in their hands, I was sure it was a big black snake with wings!
The snake body can't see how long it is in the fog, but it can be clearly seen that its snake head looks extremely vicious, there is a huge scale on the top of the head covering the whole seven inches, and the rest of the place is wrapped in countless fine scales, the fishy smell in the mouth can be smelled from afar, the body in the fog looms, emitting a little phosphorus fire-like flash, its head is the size of a truck head, and after easily taking a few hundred catties of mules into the sky, it burrows into the dense fog again.
After waiting for a while, seeing that there was no movement, everyone stood up and put their weapons on their bodies, and the stallion and I hurried to pull Ah Xi up, after the noisy time of the strange snake, Ah Xi had already placed the explosives, just now he heard the movement outside in the cave, and he did not act indiscriminately.
This time, the people of the mule team were not as busy calming the frightened mules as they were when they were attacked by the "pinching Yi", because the mules behaved like a domestic puppy when they saw a tiger when the flying snake appeared, and they were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and did not dare to move, and the condition of the hounds was not much better than that of the mules, and they also did not dare to roar when they were prostrate on the ground.
What this flying snake is, I probably have a spectrum in my heart.
Everyone looked at Grandpa, but Grandpa said that he and the stallions should be on guard, let me tell you, hey, this old man.
I cleared my throat and said, "If I'm not mistaken, it's a beetle snake." ”
"Beetle? What is that? Everyone asked with a puzzled face, and I continued: "The snake has been cultivated for thousands of years, and it is a legendary divine object similar to the dragon, which can raise clouds and control fog and good water, and its ability is not worse than that of the heavenly dragon, and the dragon should fly straight if it can survive the catastrophe." At the same time, the beetle snake is also one of the eight gods of Qimen, and the eight gods are Zhifu, beetle snake, Taiyin, Liuhe, Gou Chen (there is a white tiger below), Vermilion Bird (there is Xuanwu below), nine earths, and nine heavens. ”
I explain this way everyone understands, but I haven't said it completely, in Qimen Dunjia, the beetle snake has another explanation: the beetle, its divinity is soft and the mouth is poisonous, and it is firelight, weird, frightened, dreamy, demonic, and bewitching. In the palace where he is coming, the lord has strange things, the horror of fire thieves, the mutual birth is the benefit of yin selfishness, and the mutual restraint is the harm of yin selfishness, but these explanations are too complicated, and the time is urgent, so it is not good not to say.
"A thousand-year-old snake demon? Isn't this the White Lady? "The stallion comes up with a different opinion.
"Giggles, Brother Dumas, a thousand years is true, but this snake is black!" Lian Rui makes a point that the stallion can't refute.
Ah Xi said: "It's really like what the little dragon king said, the owner of the ancient tomb here is really too powerful, he can let this beast-like existence guard the tomb for him!" ”
Someone in the mule team spoke up: "Little Dragon King, are we going to fight with this dragon god-like thing?" ”
"No, we're fighting to get back alive! If you don't fight it, it won't necessarily let you go. "I spoke my mind.
The fear of ancestral legends and totemic beasts polarized the people in the mule team, some of them fought the main battle, and some wanted to withdraw from here to return to the "ghost push mill" and then walk out of the primeval forest and return to the Maji cottage, never to set foot in this terrible forbidden land again.
It's human nature that Ah Xi didn't stop the escapers, and if I hadn't carried so many things on my body, I might not even have the idea of coming.
I didn't stop these people who ran away, everyone has the right to choose life and death, and I don't have the right to ask others to go to a place where they may die at any time for me.
I have no intention of running at all, and there is another reason that is a bit absurd to say, that is, since I was a child, in the horror movies I watched, most of the people who thought about escaping would be tricked.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for a "whine" sound to be heard in the direction of their escape, and then one of the people who had just escaped fled back in embarrassment on a mule.
"That beetle snake, when we were about to run out of 'Hey Zulada', suddenly flew over and threw us out with its tail for a long distance, I got up and ran back desperately, everyone else must have suffered!" The man gasped.
There were unknown monsters in the lake, and there was also a mythical beast in the fog, and they couldn't run away if they wanted to, and everyone began to stir.
"Okay, don't forget the purpose of Master Soma sending us out with the Dragon King this time, it's really dangerous here, but isn't Senior Sister Lianrui, the daughter of Master and his old man, also with us? Besides, even if we die, we can't lose the face of Yi Zhai! Now listen to what the Dragon King has to say," Ah Xi spoke.
"Hehe, I won't say more nonsense, the beetle snake is indeed a very tricky thing, invincible, Axi, are the explosives all loaded?" Grandpa asked.
"It's all right!" Ah Xi replied.
"Then light the fuse directly, and we will enter the graveyard to avoid the beetle." This is grandpa's tactic.
Ah Xi said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I was in too much of a hurry to go down just now, I forgot to bring the lead, and I have to go down again and pull it again." ”
I smiled bitterly, this is really a twist and turn, and the stallion is talking and gesturing in front of Lian Rui, probably seizing this opportunity to say bad things about Ah Xi.
Oh, by the way, that Wu Tianliang and Pu Ge, when the beetle snake appeared just now, they lay down faster than anyone else, these two goods have a good ability to escape, no wonder they can become survivors in the missing donkey team.
After we watched Ah Xi go down the cave for the second time, we were expecting him to quickly arrange the lead and quickly blow up the ancient tomb knot point, regardless of whether there were big zongzi or three-faced zongzi in the tomb, then at least it could be a fight, no normal person would be willing to face the monster of the beetle snake, and he was even more reluctant to enter the male and mother lake to fight, fight, and startle a pool of monsters.
We are now equivalent to infantry, and in the face of a bug-level air attack like a beetle, it is more reliable to escape.
Everyone is still in reverie about how they will show their skills after entering the tomb, "Woo~Woo~!" The beetle snake's mournful note came again.
We had to lie down again, hiding our bodies as much as possible in the knee-high grass, the big head of the beetle snake sticking out of the thick fog, and this time we made another discovery, it had claws, and it seemed that it was about to become a Jiao? It swooped down on the mule team with its huge wings, and a strong wind blew, and with a cry of exclamation and the neighing of the mule, it took its claws out of its mouth, and one man and one mule were taken up into the sky.
I'm wondering how big is its belly? Aren't you afraid of eating so much in a short period of time? With a "poof", it threw a man and a mule into the male and female lake, and there was a sound of surging water on the surface of the lake, and the miserable cries of a man and a mule quickly disappeared, needless to say, it must have become a snack for the monsters in the lake.
"Damn, I also said that we would wait for this big snake zongzi to eat and sleep when everyone slipped away, but I didn't expect it to be a part-time nanny, and it also had to feed the things in the lake? It's over! The stallion screamed with his head in his hands.
"My day, even if we can't kill this guy, we have to let it suffer heavy damage, and there is no way to interfere with our entry into the tomb of the Changshou!" Made, not only has this snake broken my drone, but it's also an obstacle in our plan to do it this time, and we must do everything we can to get rid of it!
"The old man once said that I should try my best to think when I encounter difficulties, carefully analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy and myself, and use all the resources available around me as a weapon of battle." I thought to myself, and at the same time my brain was racing, thinking of ways to focus on creating beetles.
Our disadvantage is that there are no weapons of mass destruction, and it is okay for gunpowder guns to hit the "pinch Yi" with low defensive power, and it is okay to deal with the old demons of thousands of years ago, such as corpse marrow motherworms and beetle snakes.
What about our advantages? Gasoline? No, it's too dangerous to play with fire, although the beetle snake is also very large, but the key to agility is to fly, in the face of such an opponent, children should not play with fire easily.
But we now have nothing but gasoline, and if we can get it up to the sky and hang it on the body of the snake, preferably at a scale of seven inches, and then detonate it, that's our only chance.
But how do you shoot the explosives and hang them on the snake? Hey, wait, shoot, shoot! Isn't Lian Rui a marksman?
There is still a lack of something that can be nailed to the snake's body as an arrow, and ordinary things can't be driven into the snake's scales, but isn't there something in the stallion's hand that might be able to do it?
Thinking of this, I looked at the stallion with bad intentions, and when the grandson saw that I was looking at him, he was furious by my gaze, and called out: "I already have a lotus stamen, don't think anything wrong about me!" ”
I ignored the stallion's noise, because there was one more thing I hadn't figured out what to do, the shooter and the arrow, and the bow and strings.
My eyes swept to the thief hole, and I don't know if Ah Xi is lucky or not, every time the beetle snake comes out, he is just in the thief hole, although he has avoided the beetle snake, but it is too cold down there, and he can't move freely there, and it is very bad for the body to stay for a long time.
Well, wait, when I glanced at the cave where Ah Xi was, I saw a thing, this thing made my eyes shine: it was a belt-driven winch matched with the electric Luoyang shovel, I was curious to study its internal structure when assembling, but I was not impressed, at this time I needed a bowstring, I remembered, just thought that this thing can be used!
"Good grandson, will Ji An's out?" Grandpa's voice came, and the old man kept silent, just to see if I had anything to do?
We were all lying in the deep grass, we couldn't see anyone, and we all relied on roaring, so it was too tiring to communicate, but the beetle snake kept spinning around its head, and every now and then swooped down to feed the fish, and it was so fucking annoying! Who knows if it will make a big move to take us off after getting the mule.
"Stallion, where are you?" "Your direction at nine o'clock!" After getting a reply, I quickly crawled towards the stallion's place.
"No! This is my last baby, Lao Tzu's nail corpse needle has been lost, this thing is lost again, I will really be peeled off by my old man! "The stallion's head shook like a rattle.
"Oh?" I saw that the stallion was unwilling, so I asked for the direction of the lotus stamen and crawled over to the lotus stamen.
"Is there only one chance? But I'm confident, I'm pretty good at moving targets! Lian Rui rubbed the grass roots in front of her with her snow-white little hands and said affirmatively.
"That's great, but you'll have to convince someone for me, Sister Lianrui." Hehe, big stallion, you just refused, someone will make you willing!
After I loudly informed everyone hiding in the grass of the plan, I, the stallion and the lotus slid in the direction of the winch.
As soon as we stood up and began to unpack the belt of the winch, "Woo~! "The beetle snake is here again.