Chapter 53: The Siege
Countless human-faced strange birds surrounded us like sculptures, landing silently, standing there without making a sound. I suddenly remembered the gargoyles in foreign horror movies, the kind of monsters that are stone statues during the day and turn into animals at night, is this kind of bird the prototype? And judging from the eyes of these birds, they seem to be wise, is there any strange purpose to surround us like this?
Soon my hunch came true. Suddenly, a bird swept over us, something underground, and landed in front of us with a "bang", and suddenly blood splashed, and when I saw it, it turned out to be Ye Cheng, whose neck had been bitten off, and was coughing non-stop, but his eyes were already dilated and he was helpless.
Then another corpse was thrown down, I don't know who it was, but the head was gone, and it was covered in blood.
After Chen Pi Asi broke up with us, he rushed directly into the Imperial Tomb, obviously they were also attacked by this strange bird, Ye Cheng should have been captured by this giant bird in the center of the Imperial Tomb. Without the guidance of the third uncle's code, I really can't imagine that these people would end up in such a bleak end.
I thought that Chen Pi Ah Si would not be spared, but the next few corpses were Ah Ning's subordinates, obviously not all of them escaped just now, fortunately I didn't see the bodies of the third uncle and Pan Zi, which finally made me feel a little relieved.
The fat man was really a little scared at this time, and asked me, "What do these birds want to do with us?" β
I said to him, "It seems like they're pooling their prey, I'm not an expert on it, I don't know what they're trying to do, do you still have explosives?" We may have to learn from Dong Cunrui. β
The fat man shook his head: "The King of Ten Thousand Slaves has gone, and you didn't say that there is still a little left." β
I said in my heart that this is troublesome, I can't count it even by a thousand calculations, I Wu Xie would die like this, there are birds all around, there is no gap at all, there is no chance to run, do you really want to die here and become bird droppings?
When I was in a hurry, the fat man suddenly pulled me back: "It's too unfavorable to suffer from the enemy in this way, there is a rock crack here, we hide in it, one person blocks one side, and death can't be so cheap for these dead birds." β
When I looked back, it was the corner between two huge rocks under the rift, and there was a gap one person wide, which was open on both sides, and it might be inconvenient to move around when indented, but it was a first-class place to defend.
Die immediately and resist for a while and then die, of course, the latter is cost-effective. We immediately untied the bullet belt from the corpse, and quickly drilled into the gap, there was very little space inside, and I could still do some maneuvering, but the fat man was very reluctant, and I guess it would be enough for these birds to get in.
The fat man had experienced many scenes of life and death hanging by a thread, and at this time he was much calmer than me, and within the gap of one person, he immediately piled up a few stones as cover, and said to me: "They can only come in one by one, as long as we kill a few, we can block the entrance, and we can hold out a little longer." β
I smiled bitterly in my heart, we don't have many bullets at all, and in fact, there is no time to change bullets at all, if the bullet magazine is finished, it is equivalent to the time of death. But it's not yet time to die, and there's still a hint of luck.
My mind was still thinking wildly, and suddenly I heard the flock of birds outside start to scream, and through the gap I saw that a strange bird led by it suddenly opened its mouth disproportionately wide, revealing a mouth full of fangs, and then from its mouth, suddenly spit out a monkey-like creature, with extremely agile movements, and immediately jumped to the ground, first looked around cautiously, and then ran into the pile of corpses, and began to bite. When I looked closely, I saw that the monkey had no skin, and was covered in blood, and it seemed to be an organ of the strange bird.
Then the other strange birds also began to spit out this creature, and countless "mouth monkeys" squatted out of the flock of birds, rushing to the pile of corpses in the middle, and there seemed to be no class difference, and they came up and ate it, and in an instant there was blood and loose meat everywhere, and there were conflicts between them from time to time.
The fat man and I both frowned, a little nauseous, thinking that if we waited a little bit, we would not be able to accept it.
There were a large number of "monkeys in the mouth", and soon the corpses outside were eaten cleanly, and the bloody obscurity in the air reached an unacceptable level. The fat man's eyes were blood-red, and he knew that it would be our turn next, so he took a sip of white wine and said, "He***, I want to eat the fat man, see if you have this iron plate." β
I shivered a little in anger, and I took his wine and drank most of it, and my throat was on fire. Wine is indeed a good thing, and it feels really different when a man has wine and when he doesn't.
Outside, the "mouth monkeys" searched around the wreckage, and suddenly one of them noticed us in the crack and let out a strange scream, and then the other "monkeys" surrounded us curiously, leaning out one by one and looking at us.
Only then can I see clearly that the "monkey" has no lips, no wonder the ape's teeth are so sharp and hideous. The most strange thing for me is that all the "mouth monkeys" have a bronze hexagonal bell hanging around their necks, some of them are still intact, and some of them are only half of them. But these bells follow the monkey's movements, and do not make a sound at all.
I was so scared at the time that I didn't think about what that meant, but in hindsight it occurred to me that these bronze bells must have a lot to do with the whole mystery, even though it seemed that they didn't belong to the same culture.
The "Monkey in the Mouth" was still very cautious at first, and surrounded the entrance of the cave for a long time, and the fat man and I did not dare to come out, waiting for them to come in with guns. After a while, a few of them couldn't hold it anymore, and suddenly hung down from the top of the gap, jumped into the gap, and pounced tentatively at the fat man.
The fat man was caught off guard, and almost shot the monkey's head, and at the same time the bullet went through, he also took the corpse out and fell into the pile of corpses. Then his gun went off, the bullets swept away, and the monkeys screamed in terror, and several monkeys were immediately beaten to pieces.
Suddenly all the monkeys noticed us in the gap, and the scene got out of control, and the "monkey in the mouth" at the head let out a sharp cry, and all the monkeys began to burrow into the gap. I swallowed, knowing my nightmare was coming.
Before I could pray, the two monkeys jumped into the gap like lightning, and hung on the top of the crack and opened their huge mouths at me, five or six were too long to smash with the butt of a gun, so I had to fly up and kick one out, and then two shots killed the other, and immediately the blood burst out and blew me up. Then another one rushed in, and I wasn't mentally prepared to go for another shè, so I picked up my gun and started sweeping.
For five or six minutes, I didn't know what I had done, but I saw one after another hideous monkeys rushing there, and I swept them out, and there was blood splashing everywhere, and the monkeys went crazy without any fear at all, and sometimes several of them even squeezed into the gap together, and they stuck themselves, and I kicked them out with my feet. However, more monkeys rushed over like chΓ‘o water. The bullet swept by, even if only half of the body was left, as long as it could move, it would still drill straight into the gap, which was extremely vicious.
Soon the bullets ran out, and I thought it would be okay to hold on for an hour, but in reality, the consumption of bullets is not something you can control. I still have a lot of bullet belts, but as long as the monkeys don't stop charging, we don't have a chance to change them.
The fat man's M16 was the first to get stuck, he was already red-eyed, scolded and threw away his gun, took out his saber and wanted to go out to fight, but he didn't give him this opportunity at all, and in an instant five or six monkeys had already jumped on him and opened their mouths to bite. The fat man screamed in pain, knocking two of them to death, but four more of them fell on his face at once.
Immediately after my five or six bullets, I pressed the trigger "click", "click" several times, my heart suddenly cooled, and then a few red lights rushed to my front in an instant, I didn't have time to draw the knife, the shoulder and inner thigh were hit, subconsciously I used my injured hand to scare it, but it was useless, I only had one thought left in my mind during the struggle: I Wu Xie and Wang Fatzi, I'm afraid I will never be able to get out of the secret realm of Changbai Mountain, life is as hard as us, and there will be a day of death.