Chapter 128: Batman
After listening for a few more moments, Tojima noticed that the sound was coming from the front right.
However, he was much calmer than when he first heard it. For he heard some clues from the two different sounds: if the dull sound was a quadruped, there would be no more than two, that is, even if it was a biped, there would be four at most!
And the shrill and chaotic voices, although it is difficult to judge the number, will not exceed four again.
Except for the dead Chiba Masao, Tojima and the others had never encountered such a situation, and in the country Z, they were not prepared to prepare weapons except for being able to carry tools such as trekking poles and daggers with them.
The situation is urgent, and the animals that make the sound are in the dark, so whether they are aggressive or not, they must be prepared for anything, and Tojima certainly understands this.
He knew that the creatures living in this environment certainly did not rely on their sight to move, and should have evolved other tactile organs to be quite developed. And most likely, if they are carnivorous creatures, then there is a good chance that they will have the ability to resemble infrared heat sensing!
Of course, Tojima was able to be chosen as the leader, and of course he had his merits, so he immediately made a judgment and issued an order.
Despite the urgency of the situation, Toshima had no intention of revealing his identity.
"Xiao Wang, Xiao Zhou, Xiao Li, prepare to retreat, prepare for cold fireworks, remember to distance a certain distance, throw one every ten meters back!"
Hearing this, Chiba reacted the fastest, he immediately lit one and threw it to the right front, and the cold fireworks soon illuminated the situation within more than ten meters.
As they retreated, the cold fireworks tore a long and narrow opening in the pitch-black cave hall, illuminating a range of more than fifty meters long and more than ten meters wide.
"Turn off the flashlight, don't act rashly, and see the situation!" Tojima said in a deep voice.
As soon as the flashlight is turned off, the situation within the range of the cold fireworks can be seen more clearly.
"Professor, what if they're not afraid of fire?" Shimizu asked.
"The professor's purpose is not to verify that they are afraid of fire. First, the visual systems of the creatures in the underground are generally weak and have basically degenerated, and they rely on the ability to sense touch and infrared heat! "Chiba thinks it's a little funny." Second, he wanted to see what kind of creatures they were! ”
"Shut up, the creatures here are equally sensitive to sound!" Tojima immediately scolded again in a low voice.
As soon as Tojima's words fell, he noticed that a few things flashed by at the front of the cold fireworks!
It was so fast that a few people didn't even see what it was. However, judging by the sound, it is these things that make that kind of shrill sound.
And that dull sound seems to be still in the distance, moving quite slowly.
At this moment, Tojima's heart is mixed. The good thing is that the dull sound is still far away, and the sad thing is that the thing that makes the shrill sound does not appear in the firelight again!
However, before he could react, he suddenly heard an even stranger sound, like something moving in the sky around them.
Tojima reacted immediately, secretly screaming that it was not good, and immediately wanted to remind everyone, but he was still a step too late.
A powerful air stream swept past Tojima's head, and almost at the same time, he heard Nasu let out a scream: Ah——!
It stands to reason that even if a person is suddenly attacked, he will never let out a scream, but Nasu only screamed and then there was no more sound!
This kind of common-sense question is understood by everyone, so the other five immediately broke out in a cold sweat.
"Turn on the flashlight!" In a hurry, Tojima didn't care too much about it, so he immediately shouted, turned on the flashlight in his hand, and shone it on Nasu's location.
But then, Tojima saw something he had never seen in his life, and almost made him pee his pants right away!
I saw that a huge humanoid creature with wings was grabbing the whisker and flying into the air, and when it was more than ten meters above the ground, it also turned in a circle. Now, Tojima and the others took a clear look at it:
The basketball-sized head has no hair, and its ears are unusually long, erect on either side of the head, and the tips of the ears extend a lot beyond the top of the head, much like the ears of a wolf.
A pair of round eyes almost as big as a baseball, dark green and dark green, glowing with a strange light under the light of the flashlight.
Underneath the eyes, a fist away, were a pair of flat noses, much like a flattened bull's nose, clinging tightly to the face, almost the same plane as the face!
Under the nose, the half-open mouth protrudes forward, revealing two rows of fine and sharp teeth, and a slender tongue, the front end is forked, stretching and shrinking in the mouth, like a poisonous snake spitting letters, looking hideous and terrifying!
But the neck under its head is completely different from that of a human, except for the middle neck, and on each side there is a flesh-winged thing attached to the shoulder.
The torso is two meters long, with a pair of fleshy wings and a wingspan of almost four meters. Near the end of the wings, there are also a pair of extra-long claws.
Only three toes have claws more than twice as long as human fingers, and the tips of the toes are sharper than eagle talons.
A pair of bird-like lower limbs are even more exaggerated, not only are they much longer than human legs, but the foot parts are exactly the same as the legendary dragon claws!
In addition, it has a long tail behind it, and a spine of different lengths on the tail ridge extends to its back, and the length of the tail is almost two meters.
When he looked at Nasu again, Tojima was even more shocked: although Nasu's body showed no signs of bleeding, his neck hung limply down to his shoulders - he was dead!
The dead Nasu, a pair of eyes stared at the boss, and his frightened eyes had already frozen, looking unwilling to die.
It was clear that he had his neck broken the moment he was caught!
It happened so suddenly, and before a few people could come back to their senses, another similar monster flew into the air, and with a strange cry, it swooped down in the air and went directly to grab Nasu's body.
In the blink of an eye, two more joined the scramble, each of them grabbed a part of Nasu's corpse, and with a little more ruthlessness, the blood immediately raised the heads and faces of Tojima's people - Nasu was torn into four pieces in an instant, and the blood and internal organs were immediately sprinkled on the ground, and a pungent smell of blood and the stench of internal organs immediately diffused.
As soon as they grabbed the corpses, they folded their wings and landed on the ground.
Immediately after, an even bloodier scene appeared: they grabbed the corpse with their claws, stretched out the claws on their wings, and tore the corpse directly like human hands, and stuffed the ripped things into the bloody mouth, and began to bite hard.
At this moment, for Tojima and the others, that kind of biting sound is the most terrifying sound in the world, it is like a clarion call from hell, which makes everyone present shudder!
"Oh my mother, are they bats or people!" The iron pillar immediately let out a strange scream.
"No...... No...... I don't know......" Uncle Shuan was like sifting chaff, and he couldn't even speak.
Chiba was the fastest to react, and he immediately shouted: "This thing looks similar to a bat, it may be located by ultrasound, don't move!" ”
"Don't move?! Do you want to die? Qing Shui was already frightened, and rushed out to the side with his legs.
For the Tojima people, Nasu was supposed to be at the back, and while these batmen grabbed him, they actually cut off their retreat, while the muffled voice in front of them was still slowly approaching step by step.
Therefore, logically speaking, in the case of blocking in front and chasing soldiers in the back, Qing Shui's decision should be correct!
However, there are no absolutes in this world!