Chapter 2: Elven Revenge: VII. Pursuit
I threw the shotgun back to Li Lili, hung the long knife around my waist, and put on my backpack. Ah Mei wanted to get her own backpack back, but I resolutely refused.
Everyone grabbed their backpacks and started running again. In a few moments, the team of the expedition team pulled out again. Xiao Xiao and Xiao Yu are still in the lead, and Lao Pao and Li Lili and I naturally leaned together. This time, Wakayu joined us as well. We are still focused on maintaining physical strength, and we are not deliberately pursuing speed. We all knew that since that thing was on the side, we couldn't outrun it no matter how fast we ran. We just have to keep our stamina abundant, and once it appears, at least we have the ability to fight. Only by fighting to the death can we have a chance of survival. We don't want to be lucky anymore, the spirit of the mountain has already made a move, and we will never stop automatically. Huangfu is its first revenge, and there will be a second and a third ...... to follow. And this second, third...... Who could it be?
We walked briskly as we surveyed our surroundings. Ah Mei walked ahead of me and asked me, "What the hell is going on?" What happened to Huangfu? I said, "The emperor is dead!" ”
Although Ah Mei and Ruoyu had already guessed the result, they were still taken aback when they came out of my mouth. Even the old cannon and the old gray felt that it was too sudden, too cruel, and too difficult to accept.
Ah Mei said, "Huangfu is really dead? ”
I said, "Li Lili and Najie and I have all seen Huangfu's body. At that time, Najie found the traces of the mountain elf, and we didn't have time to deal with the aftermath of the emperor, so we hurried back. ”
"No wonder you came out of the forest in such a posture as if you were facing a great enemy." ”
Li Lili said, "You didn't see it, the emperor died too miserably." His entire head was a blur of flesh and blood, and he was smashed to pieces by something, his whole body was bloody, and something had punched a big hole in his chest. It's almost unrecognizable. We only recognized it from the clothes and backpacks that it was Huangfu. ”
Li Lili's words made everyone feel sad in their hearts.
Ruoyu said, "How did Huangfu die?" ”
Li Lili said, "Judging from the traces left at the scene, it should be that the emperor came from the forest and found a large stone suitable for sitting and resting." At that time, Huangfu must have been exhausted, and there was no danger along the way, so he also relaxed his vigilance. When the emperor saw the stone, he sat down on it and rested. Just as the emperor was resting, he was attacked from behind. The strength of the attacker was amazing, and the first attack made Huangfu lose even the ability to struggle. The attacker grabbed Huangfu and threw him directly to the ground a few meters away. Then the attacker pounced, dragged Huangfu for a few steps, and then lifted Huangfu on his shoulders or threw him into a bush more than a dozen meters away. That's about how it happened. ”
Ah Mei turned her head to look at me. I nodded, indicating that this is what Li Lili said.
"It looks like we're in danger this time." It's just a pity that my good youth is coming to an end here. ”
Lao Cannon said, "There is no need to be so pessimistic, with the strength of our people, it is not that we are without the power to resist." Perhaps by God's grace, we can achieve a victorious escape. ”
Ah Mei turned her head to look at me again. I smiled and said, "You can rest assured that with me, nothing will happen to you." ”
Ruoyu said, "It's so warm, even I'm almost moved." ”
Li Lili said, "It's so numb, goosebumps that fall on the ground, be careful to trip people." ”
Ah Mei said, "You should be envious, jealous and hateful!" ”
At this time, the old gray, who had been walking and looking around, noticed that there was something unusual in the bushes under the hillside we had just walked behind us. She nervously told everyone to take a look!
We stopped and stood on a high spot looking at the trees below the hillside behind us. In the depths of the trees, one of them was shaking violently, splashing the branches and leaves of a tree. The tide shook wildly for a while and then suddenly stopped, and then we saw a wave that ran like an arrow through the trees, shooting swiftly in the direction in which everyone was standing. Everyone said in their hearts, what should have come has come after all.
We know that it is the mountain elves who are chasing. At its speed, it's useless for us to run as fast as we can. Even if it is the cost of us running at the expense of one person at the back, it is useless, this elf will not spare the others. It will only tail and tail, and will hunt the person left behind as a prey until it kills us all. Only when we get together and fight against this elf can we have any hope of survival. At this moment, Li Lili and Lao Pao and I had the same heart, not only did not run, but stopped. We let the three girls go first, and we decided to fight the elf for our lives.
Ah Mei categorically rejected my proposal with Lao Pao and Li Lili, saying that at such a time, she would not leave alone, she had to be with me, even if it was death, we would die together. Old Ash refused to leave, saying that everyone thought of her as whom? She would never leave her teammates behind to escape on her own. Only Ruoyu didn't say a word, but she didn't move her feet.
Lao Pao and I drew their machetes, I asked Lao Pao to guard in front of everyone, Li Lili held a shotgun in the middle, and I stayed at the back of the line. Although the elf is chasing from behind, with the terrain here and its speed, it can also run ahead of us and attack us from the front. I arranged it this way just to ensure a space for Li Lili to shoot. Once that elf appeared, whether it was in the front or in the rear, the old cannon and I would at most play a role in blocking for a moment, but it was Li Lili who really attacked. But Li Lili was armed with that old-fashioned single-shot shotgun, so he only had one chance. If he misses, the old cannon and I will have to fight the elf hand-to-hand.
But Lao Shen didn't listen to my arrangement, and stood aside with Ah Mei and Ruoyu, but pulled out the machete on Li Lili's waist and stood side by side with Lao Cannon.
We looked intently at the bushes of trees not far below our feet. The arrow-like wave suddenly stopped when it reached the end of the trees, and disappeared in an instant. When everyone looked at the trees again, they saw that the trees under the blue sky were quiet, and even the mountain breeze did not sway. It seems that nothing has appeared just now, and everything is just a collective illusion of everyone.
But we knew that it was the elf that was dormant, watching us, looking for a flaw in us, or trying to launch a surprise attack after we had slackened.