Chapter 14: Stumps
"Be careful! It's an evil crow! Hurry back!! When my father saw the crow's appearance, his face tightened and he shouted to us.
Evil crows? What is this?
Before we could come to our senses, the crow on the branch hissed: "Gah! ”
"Gah! Ga! "As the crows crowed, more crows flew out of the jungle than they could count, hovering over us, and the crows looked at us as if we were just meat on the chopping block.
"GI! You resist first! Wait for me! Dad took out a few pieces of yellow paper from his backpack and put them on the ground, squatted down and bit his fingers and drew a talisman on the charm: "Xiao Song! Hurry up and give me your seven-star sword!! When Lao Song heard this, he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately took out the seven-star sword from his bag and handed it to his father.
"Today's disciples are in trouble, I hope the ancestor will bless him! There are three strange suns, moons and stars in the sky, and the rune paper is psychic and terrifying! Hand leads the Big Dipper to gather, and the ancestor gives the law to break all souls! The Divine Soldier is as urgent as the law! ”
As soon as the words fell, the rune paper on the ground lit a spark, and flew towards the evil crow hovering in the air, when it first touched the crow, it was like fire meeting gasoline, and with the evil crow howling in pain, the entire crow flock ignited a fire through the sky, illuminating the jungle under the night clearly, like day.
"Backwards! Backwards! Don't go over! Dad shouted loudly, stretched out his hand and grabbed me and Lao Song and quickly retreated.
"Ahh My hand! Seeing that the crow flock was burning, the soldier thought that it had been solved, and his heart was relieved and he just put down the gun in his hand, but one of the evil crows in the crow flock ignored the burning flames on his body and flew towards the soldier's head.
"Bump Bump!!" The soldier stood up in a rage and took his gun and shot at the crow, but the crow was half dead from the fire, and had no strength to escape, so he could only let the soldier's bullets hit him and open a hole in his body.
"Damn, this brute!" Seeing that the evil crow had been beaten to pieces by his own bullets, the soldier rushed forward and stepped on the corpse of the evil crow to vent his anger, and kept shouting and scolding in his mouth: "Damn, Lao Tzu has been a soldier for decades, and now he is made red by a brute,!" ”
The evil crow hovering in the air was burned clean by Dad's talisman fire, and when the last evil crow could not support it and fell, the forest returned to its former calm, and darkness once again shrouded this dead jungle, as if nothing had happened before. If it weren't for the smell of burnt meat in the air, I would have thought that everything that had happened was just an illusion.
"GI, endure the pain." Dad walked up to the GI and grabbed the GI's hand, took out his saber from his vest and said to the GI.
"Little things, no problem, Brother Qi, you can do it." The soldier is also a tough guy, probably thinking about what his father was going to do, he smiled and said calmly. Dad nodded, plunged the knife into his wounded area, and with a flick of it, a piece of meat rolled from the wound to the ground.
"The crow has poison on its claws, and if you don't deal with it as soon as possible, the poison will spread from the wound to the whole body, and although you can't die, you will become a piece of rotten meat, like a vegetative person. This is how they hunt, grabbing and biting their prey, waiting for the poison to evaporate, and then slowly eating it bite by bite. When the prey is eaten, it is still alive, but it cannot move. ”
Dad took out the alcohol and bandages, helped the GI treat the wounds, and explained to us with a calm face: "The evil crow seems to belong to the category of monsters, but it is not a living creature, it is like a zombie, it only relies on instinct to manipulate its body to hunt. In simple terms, it is a kind of thing that wanders between youkai and evil spirits, and its body has no pain, and it cannot be destroyed by ordinary methods, so it can only be set on fire by spells and burned its body to ashes. ”
Helping the soldier bandage the wound, Dad stood up and walked to the campfire and lit a cigarette, looked at the jungle who couldn't see his fingers and muttered: "It seems that we can't have an easy time these days, everyone be careful." ”
The next morning, when the sun came out, a little bit of sunlight spilled down on us through the cracks in the woods, making us feel that little bit of warmth.
None of us slept last night, frightened by the sneak attack of the evil crows, and feeling the warmth of the sun couldn't help but relax a little and make us feel a lot less stressed.
"Uncle, these grandsons are really obscene enough to play sneak attacks, and they have the ability to come out during the day!" Lao Song walked behind me with dark circles under his eyes, and kept whispering in his mouth. I threw a cigarette to Lao Song, took out a lighter to light the cigarette, turned my face to him and whispered: "Don't nag, these things can play cards according to common sense?" Let's just be careful, don't you say a word, don't you see that Dad's face is almost black? ”
Lao Song looked at his father's gloomy face, and his head shrank and he didn't dare to say anything.
In fact, I know what my dad is thinking, but I am afraid that I will have an accident with Lao Song, after all, it is too dangerous here.
I walked up to my dad in a few steps and patted my dad on the shoulder: "Dad, it's okay, don't worry, Lao Song and I are not children anymore." Hearing me call him, Dad turned his head to look at me and said helplessly: "I knew I wouldn't let you two rabbit cubs come, it's too dangerous here." ”
"Come here, everyone!" Six Fingers yelled, "There are a few corpses here!" ”
We followed the sound and looked over, and cold sweat began to break out on our heads, what is the situation?
In a thicket, several corpses lay in a row.
The flesh on the face is almost rotten, the eyeballs are gone, the original position of the eyes is only two empty holes, white maggots crawl out and crawl in it, and the corpses continue to flow out some yellow liquid, these corpses are all missing arms and legs, smelling the putrid smell from the corpses, I almost didn't vomit.
When the third son and Lao Song saw the corpse, their faces changed, but we all looked at the corpse, and no one noticed their changes.
"These corpses should have only been dead for a short time, judging from the scars of the severed limbs, they should have been bitten by wild beasts, but why is there a hole here?" The soldier crouched down and kept looking at the corpse, and said with a puzzled expression.
Hole? How can there be a hole in the corpse?
Lao Song and I stretched out our heads to see that there was a hole in the left chest and heart of the corpse, which was very round as if it had been artificially made, and it was more regular than the circle drawn by the teacher when I was in junior high school math class.
Dad walked over, took a branch and kept turning the corpse, the expression on his face gradually became suspicious, I watched Dad's face gradually become ugly, and asked in a low voice, "Dad, what did you find?" ”
Dad shook his head and said to us, "Be careful, everyone, don't walk around in the jungle." ”
Seeing that Dad didn't want to say more, we didn't continue to ask, so we could only raise our vigilance and continue to walk in the jungle towards our destination.