When the roar came, followed by the sound of gunfire, Sheng Shiyao and I rushed out. I could hear it very clearly, it was Zhou Tong's roar, even if we knew that there was danger ahead, we rushed into the darkness without hesitation.

Listening to the sound was not far away, but the heavy and chaotic footsteps made my heart extremely anxious, and I knew that not only Sheng Shiyao and I were rushing forward, but Zhuang Yu and others also caught up. When we ran more than 50 meters, we met Zhou Tongren, and when we saw the familiar figure, we breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately nothing happened.

But when they looked up and held their guns, they shouted like they were in a disordered mood, and when Sheng Shiyao shone a flashlight on it, he didn't find anything. At this time, I don't know who fired the shot, Zhou Tong shouted loudly: "Lao Tzu fought with you." He then fired several shots at the top of the head, knocking down a lot of debris. Are they evil?

"It's not an evil spirit, it's an illusion!" Sheng Shiyao whispered.

"Illusion?" I wondered, as if I had heard the term before, "Is it a hallucination that we heard the sound of birds flying and seeing an eagle falling straight down?" Judging from Sheng Shiyao's expression, this is the case, "But why are we okay now, but they are like crazy demons?" What did they see? Horned eagle? ”

Before Sheng Shiyao could answer me, I suddenly heard a long howl, which was very clear in the cave, and I turned my head to look sideways and found that it was Zhuang Yu who made the sound. And the next moment, as if they had just woken up from a nightmare, a few people with demonic diseases over there stopped their roars and looked around.

I wanted to go up to find Zhou Tong and Liuzi, but I was pulled by Sheng Shiyao, staring at that place with a cold gaze, and waited until they put down their guns, turned around, and called with a blank face: "Brother Yao, little sister, ...... just now" At this time, Sheng Shiyao slightly let go of the finger on my wrist, I knew that he was worried, so I didn't rush forward recklessly, and asked from a distance: "What happened to you just now?" ”

Zhou Tong said with a puzzled face: "I'm a little confused, obviously there are a lot of eagles and horned eagles attacking us, but all of a sudden they all disappeared, I feel pecked in the shoulder, but it doesn't seem to hurt anymore." He put his shoulder on the top of the six sons and asked, "What about you?" Have you seen many birds? Liuzi smiled bitterly and said, "I feel that my face and back of my head have been flapped by the eagle's wings several times, as if I have seen a big long-haired bird." ”

Sheng Shiyao pulled me closer to them, ripped open Zhou Tong's neckline, revealing his shoulder, and didn't see any scars there, and the same was true for the other side. Looking at Liuzi again, although his face looked a little bleak in the dark, there was no trace of the blow. Obviously, they really fell for the illusion and hallucinated. I suddenly remembered where I had first heard of the term "illusion", after returning from the Soul City, Sheng Shiyao explained the scene in the ancient castle, and after he entered the door of death, he also escaped into illusion.

Unconsciously turned my eyes to look at him, just met his eyes, and knew that he had spied on my thoughts again, and I still remember that he said that illusion needs a medium, and he smelled a strange fragrance before he could do anything, so what is the medium of the illusion they are in the next week? And it's not just them, we also seemed to be in a psychedelic before, but Sheng Shiyao and I woke up in time, otherwise we might be like these people.

Suddenly, I heard Zhuang Yu's shouting voice next to him: "Where is Uba?" He asked about the team members, and I reflexively searched the crowd, but I didn't see Uba. At that time, he was leading the team at the front, and he should be the fastest runner, could he have run deeper? Several people who had just been hit by the illusion, including Zhou Tong and Liuzi, all expressed their ignorance of Uba's whereabouts, and Zhuang Yu couldn't help but darken his face. And so on, as if I had overlooked something, and I had my mind go through what happened after I entered the hole.

Suppose you have unknowingly fallen into the illusion when you notice the sound of a bird flying overhead, then the bird falling straight down is also an illusion, but what happened when the torch suddenly dimmed? It was precisely because of the sudden change of eyes from light to darkness that they couldn't adapt to the sudden darkness, and everyone panicked, and then at this time, Uba shouted, and everyone began to run forward. It's not that I'm targeting it, it's that there is something wrong with Liuba in this matter, and now he's missing again......

But just when I was in doubt, I suddenly heard someone shouting: "Uba is there!" "When we heard the sound, we saw that the man was pointing to the place in front of him, and he looked in that direction, and there seemed to be a figure standing there in the darkness, but for some reason he did not come to us. The flashlight shone past, but it was not within the range of the beam, and it was still not clear, and several people called out Uba's name a few times, but the other party did not answer, just stood there motionless. Inexplicably, I had a weird feeling.

Obviously, this feeling was shared by other people, and no one spoke again, but they all fell silent, and the atmosphere seemed suffocating. I only heard the sound of a gun being loaded, I turned my eyes slightly, only to see Zhuang Yu squinting his eyes and aiming the gun directly in front of me, I was taken aback, he couldn't be trying to shoot Uba, right? Although I thought Uba was suspicious after the inference in my mind just now, there was no factual basis for that after all.

Sheng Shiyao's whisper suddenly came from his ear: "Look at the ground." A flashlight shone obliquely more than 20 meters in front of him, and he could vaguely see a person lying on the ground, who was very similar to Uba from his body shape to his clothes. I looked up in horror, and if the man who fell to the ground was Uba, who was the figure in the darkness? Looking back left and right and counting, there were thirteen people in total, not one missing, which means that it could not be one of us standing there.

The beam shone upward, obviously they all began to be surprised, judging from the angle, the height of this figure was slightly short, only about one meter and a half, but the body was very wide, it should be a fat man, so it was very sure that he was not Uba. In order to be able to see clearly, we decided to take a few steps forward, and when the outline appeared within the range of the flashlight, we all froze.

After a long while, Sheng Shiyao was heard to say in a voice that couldn't be lighter: "A legend about the horned eagle: it is said that the origin of the horned eagle's name is related to a monster called Harpia, that monster is very ugly, with a woman's head, but with the body, wings and claws of a vulture, and has a cruel and vicious personality, which is commonly known as the human-faced eagle body, which is responsible for bringing the dead to the Hades. Some say that the horned eagle is a continuation of this monster, and others say that all the actions of the horned eagle are to worship their god, that is, the Harpia monster, and they hunt food to worship it. ”

Chest suffocated only to realize that he forgot to breathe the reason why sheng shiyao suddenly told this legend was because the figure who had just been mistaken for uba was actually ...... It was not a man, but a large bird, with long feathers hanging down from its head, like a woman's long hair, covering its face, and it was impossible to see whether it was a human face or a bird's face, but it was clearly the body of an eagle below its half-body, and its claws were clasped to the ground. Judging from its apparently undulating body, it was alive, and Uba was lying on her stomach five feet away from it.

Sheng Shiyao's meaning is very clear, that is, we fell for the plan of the group of horned eagles, and the reason why the eagles did not attack us just now was to drive us into this bird's nest, and to pay tribute to this monster that looked like a man and a ghost. Extrapolating forward, the blackbird who harassed us actually wanted to drive us here, and we thought we were out of the predicament, but in the end, we came here by mistake because of the search for the Gu Cultivation Pool.

"Harpia? That's a foreign legend. Zhuang Yu spoke in a low voice and gestured to everyone to raise their guns on guard, "I do know a legend of our China, and I have told Cheng Xiao about this legend." ”

I couldn't help but be startled when he suddenly mentioned me, and when I turned my eyes to look at him, I suddenly understood what he meant. Sure enough, he paused and said, "According to legend, the true body of the Nine Heavens Xuannu is a Xuanniao, and it is also the body of this kind of human head bird. But the meaning is very different from that of Harpia. ”

I couldn't help but feel chills when I listened to it, when Zhuang Yu told me those two stories, it meant that Ying Ning two thousand years ago was the incarnation or reincarnation of Xuannu, so he could know the destiny of heaven and talk about the future generations. But I know where the prophet Ying Ning came from, and it has nothing to do with the Nine Heavens Xuannu, but despite this, how can I say that the Nine Heavens Xuannu is also the fairy Niangniang in our ancient mythology, it should be the kind that is as beautiful as a fairy, how can it be comparable to this ugly monster in front of me? It's really ruining the image of mythical characters.

Zhou Tong was anxious, and there were still remnants of his impetuous mood after the previous hallucination, so he couldn't help but say loudly when he heard this: "It doesn't matter what kind of har butt it is or the Nine Heavens Xuannu, let's shoot it a few times first!" But just as the words fell, the monster that had been motionless suddenly moved, as if its size had grown infinitely like an inflatable size, and when I looked closely, I realized that it was it that slowly opened its wings, and then a night cry as sharp as a woman's cry pierced the eardrums, it was it! I heard it again and again while I was half asleep and half awake!

A strong sense of foreboding floated in my heart, and all the warnings were pointing to this moment. Zhuang Yushen ordered the shooting, no one hesitated, they all pulled the trigger one after another, but they only heard the sound of bullets jamming one after another, and not a single bullet could be fired. But in the blink of an eye, the monster was already soaring and rushing towards us, and the terrible wail continued, as if it had been scraped with a blade in the heart.

Almost instantly, I was in front of me, and my instinct dodged to the side, and a strong risk slapped over my face, and the people behind us were not spared, and several people were thrown to the ground with a single slap. I couldn't shoot, so I could only use the butt of the gun to hit hand-to-hand combat, but the metal firearm was like brittle wood, and the monster opened its mouth and bit it, and it was instantly broken in two. In the next moment, someone was grabbed by its claws on both shoulder blades, and in the midst of a scream, the person was lifted into the air by the monster and retreated.

This is a common hunting technique used by eagles, and the screams cease in its rapid retreat, and everyone stares in horror at the figure of the bird monster flying in mid-air, needless to say, the person who was captured is more than lucky.