Chapter 6: Escape
"I see it!" I looked at the yellow-skinned demon with a weird smile and said.
"Really?" Grandma had a puzzled look on her face, as if she was a little skeptical, and looked at me and whispered. Later, my grandmother told me that once the eye of heaven is opened, it will take at least two hours to close, unless it is a person with a bad fate, this kind of person will have a lot of karma and heavy yin qi, which will lead to the early closure of the eye of heaven. But that's an afterthought, not a statement.
I hummed and nodded. At this time, I noticed that the eyes of the yellow-skinned demon hidden in the demonic qi were staring at us, and it was obvious that it could clearly see our whereabouts and every move in the demonic qi - this is also the advantage based on our disadvantage.
Grandma asked, "Where is that demon?" β
I didn't dare to point out again, because then the yellow skin would soon realize that something was wrong, but in this almost closed cave I couldn't tell the north, south, south, and west, so I pretended to rub my injured chest with my left hand, and said in a low voice, "The direction the red rope is facing." β
Grandma also understood the reason why I did this, nodded and whispered that she knew, and then the two of us deliberately didn't look in the direction where the demon was, pretending not to know it, trying to get away with it.
No matter how good the yellow-skinned demon is, it naturally can't expect this immediately, the more we pretend to be flustered and clueless, the easier it will be to take the bait. I could glimpse it out of the eye that it was already gearing up and ready to move.
The stalemate lasted only two minutes, and suddenly there was a very obvious commotion in our ears, followed by a whoosh, and I immediately saw that the yellow-skinned demon was already rushing towards us! It was almost in the air, two sharp claws slightly bent over its chest, the pair of glowing almond eyes on its ugly face facing us, and the weird grin on its mouth.
I shouted, "Here we are!" β
Grandma was ready to go, and when she heard this, she quickly turned around, pointed her gun in the direction she had predicted, and loaded her bullet with great speed. But the speed of that demon is too fast, even if you look closely, all you can see with the naked eye is a vague outline, and as soon as grandma filled the bullet, the demon has already appeared in front of our eyes! Only at the moment, whether it was me or my grandmother, we could see it clearly.
That moment was almost frozen in my eyes: the yellow-skinned demon in my eyes was in mid-air, its claws were completely open and closed, several sharp white flower nails were all displayed, and the light from the kerosene lamp in my grandmother's hand shone on it, revealing rows of eerie cold light, and then shining on my wide eyes. There are also the two eyes of the yellow-skinned demon, which glow green, and those eyes can't be accurately described in words, because although the demon has some human emotions, it is not a human after all, and it cannot be cultivated into an adult, and the emotions they reveal sometimes seem vague and clear. But at that time, I could see that there was a kind of anger and even resentment hidden in the eyes of the demon, which was not like some kind of fierce and vicious, but more like jealousy and hatred, although it was very subtle, but it seemed to show a kind of hatred for people everywhere. This unsettling feeling still impresses me to this day.
In the next fifteen years, I will always wonder, demons, must they really be evil? Does it have to be redundant and evil? It wasn't until many years later, when I was scarred and ready to wash my hands in the golden basin, that I realized that I was destined to take the path of the Demon Tomb Thief, and it was destined to be the wrong path.
But at that time, the urgency of time did not allow me to think about these things, time will not freeze and will only move forward without stagnation, and at the moment when I blinked, the yellow-skinned demon had already thrown my grandmother to the ground with a fierce son! Grandma's strength was obviously not enough to fight a demon, she could only instinctively hold the gun on her chest, and the demon's two claws clung to it, pressing down hard, but even though I could see that it was using all its strength, the weird smile on the corner of its mouth never stopped.
"Grandma!" I shouted, now that the situation was urgent, I couldn't care about anything, so I dropped the silver mask in my hand and pounced on the demon, then grabbed its furry feet tightly, just like I usually wrestle with my friends in the field, and desperately broke it out, trying to knock it down. But the actual situation is to hit the stone with an egg, and the demon's leg is like a stone pillar hitting the ground, and no matter how you try to get it, it shows no signs of moving. This is terrible, the head of the yellow-skinned demon gradually lowered, and the two green lights were pointed at me, and the curvature of the corners of his mouth gradually became more exaggerated, as if he was laughing at my powerlessness - of course, this was obviously not just a mockery of me that I could finish the job so easily, the next second, a brown and yellow shadow came at me, my chest was stuffy and numb again, and then the whole person slid out close to the ground, and finally stopped for about two or three seconds, The clothes on his body were torn to reveal cotton wool. And the corners of my mouth felt slimy, I wiped it with my hand, it was blood.
Grandma saw that I was injured like this, and anger suddenly squeezed out of every pore on my face, and it happened that one of the claws of the yellow-skinned demon was also released at this time, and the current attention was still on my body, which relieved Grandma of a lot of burden. At this time, the grandmother took the opportunity to bend her left leg and step on the demon's abdomen, and then kicked hard, but the beast did not react and was kicked about a meter away. Taking advantage of this gap, Grandma quickly rolled around and got up, and once again quickly set up the loaded gun, and shot at the yellow-skinned demon!
According to grandma's budget, a distance of less than two meters can hit the demon no matter what, but unexpectedly, the yellow-skinned demon's reaction is unusually sensitive, and at the same time as the gun sounds, it quickly dodges, dodges the gunpowder, and jumps up to a place far away from grandma - in grandma's eyes, it is full of demonic energy, and it cannot be seen clearly. However, the eyes of heaven have closed me, and I can't see the demonic energy, only the yellow-skinned demon in my eyes, naked exposed to my vision.
"Xuan'er, where is that evil beast?" Grandma turned her head and asked at me.
I immediately said, "Just a little left in front of you!" β
Grandma didn't wait for the demon to show her feet, so she struck first, her body deviated to the left, and she pulled the trigger directly and shot it fiercely. I saw that the demon obviously didn't expect grandma to shoot directly at it, and was a little caught off guard, and the reaction was naturally a beat slower, and the gun almost hit it, almost hitting the ground next to its feet, and jumped up a shuttle of sparks.
The yellow-skinned demon then quickly jumped to another place, his eyes looking at his grandmother viciously and directly, and the curvature of the corners of his mouth suddenly dropped a lot.
"Xuan'er!"
Grandma shouted again. I know what she wants me to do. Without thinking, I immediately stretched out my hand and pointed to the position of the yellow-skinned demon now: "There it is!" β
So, my grandmother pointed in the direction of my finger, and another shot.
This sudden shot directly pierced the old wound of the yellow-skinned demon - on the muscle at the shoulder, just in the blink of an eye, there was an extra bloody bullet hole on it. I only heard the yellow-skinned demon howl, and then subconsciously covered the wound with his other hand, looking a little painful.
Just when I was about to take advantage of the victory, it suddenly raised its head and aimed that weird smile at me, two green lights flashing brightly!
I thought to myself, this guy must have noticed that something was wrong with me. I was just about to get up and run away, but it jumped in front of my eyes like an arrow from a string, and before I knew it, it was already in front of me, reached out and quickly grabbed my collar, and without much effort, lifted me up and hung in the air. It tilted its head and stared at me, its eyes shining like two bloody mouths, devouring me alive.
Grandma was near me, and she could see this, and a panicked look suddenly appeared on her face, she knew that if she shot rashly now, she would most likely hurt me. So, the grandmother turned the shotgun upside down, grasped the barrel, and exposed the handle of the gun, which was made of hard mahogany, as if she were fighting wild dogs with a wooden stick in the village, and slashed directly at the back of the yellow-skinned demon.
But this hand was caught by the yellow-skinned demon.
The other paw of the yellow-skinned demon gripped the handle of the gun firmly. Almost at the moment when my grandmother called, I immediately grabbed the gun. Before Grandma could react, she pulled the shotgun hard and threw it a few meters away. I thought I had to finish the calf, because I thought the gun was the only thing that could deal with this beast, and if I didn't have this thing in my hand, it would be difficult to pull out half of the hair of the yellow-skinned demon, and for now, the gun was still some distance from grandma.
But Grandma decided to take a gamble, and she and the demon only looked at each other, then turned sharply to the side, leaned down, looked in the direction of the gun, and ran to pick it up. The yellow-skinned demon is not stupid, naturally she will not let grandma get this thing that threatens it, let go of the claw that grabbed my collar, and kicked her feet like a hurricane and rushed towards grandma!
Before grandma got close to the gun, the yellow-skinned demon had already rushed in front of grandma, raised her hand and punched grandma's position, and grandma reacted immediately, rolled again, and dodged the fist in time. I was terrified to see it, and when the demon raised its fist, I clearly saw that the exposed arm suddenly became stronger, and even the blood vessels wandering on the arm could be seen, and even the blood flowing in the blood vessels could be vaguely seen. Swinging this punch, it was like a hammer whip with iron ropes, with the strength of an overlord, and slammed towards grandma, but even if grandma dodged, the fist almost fell vertically against her face, and slammed into the ground with a muffled sound, causing the dirt and dust to splash up in large areas.
Grandma knew that this demon was not as easy to deal with as she thought, and looked up at it with a solemn look - still the same eerie smile. Grandma frowned, and then quickly kicked her heels, quickly bypassing the body of the yellow-skinned demon, trying to continue to get the gun. The yellow-skinned demon naturally didn't give up, and quickly turned around, grabbed grandma's feet, locked them tightly like anklets, and then pulled back hard, and threw grandma out violently!
"Grandma!" I immediately shouted with a panicked face. Because of the action of the yellow-skinned demon, the grandmother was directly pulled out several meters away, and she hung in the air for more than three or four seconds! Then the whole body smashed firmly to the ground! I was so frightened that I couldn't speak, after all, I was an old man, even if I often did farm work on weekdays, where were the bones so hard, I was really afraid that this fall would kill her old man.
I hurriedly ran forward to check my grandmother's injuries, fortunately, there was no sign of bleeding, and my consciousness was still quite clear, I breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to help my grandmother up, when at this juncture, the yellow-skinned demon not far away suddenly jumped and pounced on us!
My mind was blank at the time, and in the face of this terrible demon, I was obviously a little overwhelmed, and I didn't react there.
Just as the demon's bony claws were about to plunge into my face, my grandmother suddenly pushed me away, and then turned to her side, causing the demon to pounce in the air. Then he quickly slammed his hand, clenched his right hand into a fist, and slammed it on the back of the yellow-skinned demon!
Cuckoo!
The yellow-skinned demon let out a faint howl.
Soon, I immediately noticed that my grandmother's right hand was holding a dagger at some point! The blade of this dagger was all plunged deep into the flesh of the Yellow Skin's back! I have seen this dagger, and I heard my grandmother say that it was handed over from the foreigners by her ancestors when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, and it was made of steel, and it has not rusted for almost a hundred years, and it is still shiny.
The smile on the yellow-skinned demon's face suddenly retracted, revealing an expression of slightly painful hatred. It raised its hand and tried to smash it at Grandma again, but Grandma's eyes were quick, she grabbed the dagger tightly, and slashed it quickly and hard to the right! The blade that was stuck in the flesh of the back was dragged by the trend, directly cutting the protruding vertebrae of the yellow-skinned demon! A knife cut about ten centimeters long was left on the back!
Mutter!
There was another wail. I saw the wound on the back of the yellow-skinned demon begin to flow blood from both sides of the spine. Grandma's stroke really cut the demon's spine in two, and I could see a small section of the white flower in it through the bloodstains!
Grandma knew the time had come, and kicked the yellow-skinned demon in the chest with her foot, causing it to stagger back several steps. I don't know if the force of this kick is too great, and the vertebrae in the lower half of the yellow skin demon's back protrude directly from that wound! The eerie bones were mixed with slimy blood, and they were exposed straight out! Without the support of the lower half of the spine, the head of the yellow-skinned demon seemed to collapse, and it was weirdly drooping on his chest!
The whole look is terrifying and disgusting! When I saw it, I felt my stomach churning, and I felt the urge to vomit.
"Guns!" Grandma said to me in a trembling voice, her voice sounding a little shaky - her energy had not yet recovered in time. I froze, reacted quickly, staggered towards the gun's position, grabbed it, and scrambled to my chest. At this time, the bullets of this gun were already loaded.
I secretly played with her shotgun a few times when my grandmother wasn't home, and I was fairly familiar with how to use it, but there was no gunpowder in the tube at the time, and it was the first time I tried to actually shoot. I took aim at the demon like my grandmother, and I don't know if I was nervous or scared, my hands were shaking uncontrollably.
The demon wasn't exhausted at this point, but the fracture of its vertebrae made it move much slower than before. When my gun was aimed at it, it realized its situation, and slammed onto the stone wall above its head, clinging to it, and struggling to move.
"Feng Shui takes turns, and this year comes to my house." That's when this sentence popped into my head. I put my finger on the trigger - the demon had no way to escape.
Rumble!
I pulled the trigger.
A burst of gunpowder hit the yellow-skinned demon in the head impartially. Suddenly, the blood and brains that exploded, mixed with dust, burst out on the top of the stone hall. I suddenly remembered a sentence in "Pipa Xing": "The silver bottle bursts with water slurry", maybe that's it.
The demon's corpse fell heavily to the ground, perhaps by coincidence or predestined, the face blackened by gunpowder was aimed at me, and the strange smile was aimed at me. Its eyes were wide open, and I saw in them grief, hatred, misanthropy, I saw many, but I didn't see the green lightβit was dead.
Before I could recover from the yellow-skinned demon's gloomy eyes, I suddenly heard a rumbling sound in my ears. When I looked up, I saw that the stone wall above my head was constantly falling stones and dirt, and I secretly said that this stone hall was about to collapse!
I hurriedly ran to my grandmother's side, and at this time my grandmother's energy was almost recovered. I helped her up, but it was probably twisted to her waist, and she had a hard time walking, barely able to stand on her feet.
"Xuan'er, you hurry up! Leave me alone! Grandma said to me through gritted teeth and endured the pain in her body.
I didn't answer, just shook my head desperately. Seeing that the stones falling above my head are getting bigger and bigger, the situation is urgent. I picked up the silver mask that I had thrown on the ground, put it in my arms, then squatted down, took off the cotton wool clothes on my body, draped it over my grandmother's body, covered my head, and then directly carried my grandmother and carried her on my back. Although I am a small body, others catch me as simple as catching chickens, and I am tired and panting when I carry a bag of food on weekdays, but I don't know what happened at this time, I didn't have any difficulty when I carried my grandmother, and it was no exaggeration to say, even the slightest feeling of heaviness at that time, at that time I didn't think of anything else in my head, just one sentence: escape!
We weren't very far from the passage where the stone hall was connected, only about twenty paces, and as long as we reached the passage, we were safe.
But the truth was much more complicated than I thought, more and more stones fell overhead, almost as violent and dense as hail! Soon, the stone wall above began to crack in a large area, clicking, like the skin is frozen and cracked in winter, and a large piece of it fell down!
I have to protect not only myself at this time, but also my grandmother who is hunched on her back. But the falling rocks made it hard for me to dodge, and if I wasn't careful, my grandmother and I would be buried here. At the time, I didn't know what I was thinking, maybe I didn't even have time to think about it, like a blind fly running around. Half a fist-sized rock kept falling on my body, and I didn't have time to think about the pain or anything at that time, but I could still hear my grandmother calling me in my ears.
I kept running, running towards the passage.
Finally, when I carried my grandmother into the passage, I collapsed to the ground, and I sat on the ground, watching the stone hall outside the passage continue to be buried by stones......