Chapter 23: The Ghost Monkey
"What is this?" We stared at the big 'egg' in front of us, and we didn't dare to move for a while. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info looked at the fifth uncle who stopped us inexplicably, if you don't hurry up and run at the moment, what are you waiting for.
"Can't move, if we move again, more boulders will fall from above." The fifth uncle calmed us down and couldn't panic.
Boulder, isn't it an 'egg'?
I looked closely at the 'egg' in front of me, it was more than a meter high, oval in shape, with dust on it, and long cracks that seemed to break open at any moment. If you look closely, you will find that this is indeed not an animal egg, but a rock. It's just that the stone is hand-carved, and the surface is smooth and smooth, like fired ceramics.
The monk took out the lighting tool from his bag, which was a strong light searchlight with a long illumination distance. I don't know where the fifth uncle got such advanced equipment, compared to the battery-based flashlight we use, it is indeed a world of difference.
The monk's searchlight shone over the banyan tree, and the scene in front of us really scared all of us.
Huge stone eggs are hung on the banyan tree, entangled in the air by kudzu vines and shrubs, densely packed. If we were to fall them all, we would all have nowhere to hide.
To our horror, next to each egg, there was a man dressed in white and hanging from a tree. Slightly swaying in the air, like a hanged man.
I don't know if it's a set of clothes, but someone is really hanging from it. As soon as the monk took a random photo, we found no less than 100 people hanging above our heads. And the banyan tree covers such a wide area, how many boulder eggs and hanged people must there be?
Thinking that we were still resting and eating here just now, and there was such a scene on our heads, it really made us sweat.
"Senior brother, what are we going to do now?" The monk hurriedly turned off the spotlight and swallowed his saliva, it seemed that he was also overwhelmed by the scene in front of him.
Before the fifth uncle could speak, Ouyang Chengrui next to him began to go crazy again, and finally broke away from Atai and ran towards the depths of the banyan tree alone.
We wanted to chase after us, but we were afraid of alarming something. Only by scolding Ouyang, why does this guy always like to cause trouble so much, he can't be a little more stable.
But no matter how much we scold, it won't help. It didn't take long for Ouyang Chengrui to disappear from our sight.
We waited for a while and found that nothing had happened and nothing had happened. I'm going to go back to Ouyang Chengrui, otherwise I won't be able to find it if I run away when the time comes.
"Click..."
There was a soft sound, but once again it made all of us dare not move.
I saw that the huge stone egg in front of me began to crack, and a black liquid flowed out of it, like thick ink. A foul smell came to the face, mixed with a fishy stench and a pungent sour smell, which made people sick. The boulder began to shake, and it seemed as if something was about to crawl out of it.
The ruptures are getting bigger and bigger, and the more black liquid comes out. And we can only watch, we can't do anything, and we are all dumbfounded.
"Click!"
The boulder egg finally broke open completely, and a black creature appeared inside the egg. The whole body was covered with black liquid, and a pair of sharp giant claws kept rubbing the liquid on its body, and when the liquid all over its body was dry, we finally saw its face clearly.
It is not tall, like a monkey, and the horror is that it has a human face, a pair of demonic red eyes, and black hair all over its body. It looked at us, let out a baby's cry, and smiled weirdly at us. instantly bared his teeth and grinned, and his appearance looked extremely fierce.
"Mandrill!"
The fifth uncle was very calm, looking at the monster in front of him, a little hesitant, and he was not sure what it was. I've heard of mandrills, but they're all legends.
I have read the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", which has a record of the mandrill: "There are Gan giants in the south, with a human face and long arms, a black body with hair, and a heel..." They live in groups, primate apes, know how to charm people's hearts and tricks such as tricks, there was an old saying 'rather meet a jackal than a mandrill', which shows the horror of mandrills.
"It's a ghost monkey." Chu Chu's face was rarely heavy, as if he had seen this kind of monster, and his tone was very sure.
"You've seen it?" The fifth uncle turned his head and looked at Chu Chu.
"Nope." Chu Chu shook his head and said softly: "They were indeed mandrills before, but now they are no longer mandrills, if you really want to talk about their differences, then ghost monkeys are more difficult to deal with than mandrills." ā
Chu Chu once looked through some ancient books of the ancient Yelang Kingdom, and it was recorded that after the mandrill was captured, it was sealed in a container, fed on human corpses, and cultivated human scabies. Raising mandrills with human sorcery is not only controllable, but also more terrifying than mandrills.
Mandrills do not easily come out of their containers, except in exceptional circumstances. In this way, mandrills can survive for hundreds of years without dying. The same human witchcraft can also be used to store corpses, which can keep the corpse from decaying for thousands of years, and even resurrect it with its eyes open.
Of course, all of this is just a few words on the record, and the credibility is extremely low, and even a bit like a legend or mythology, after all, no one has really seen it.
However, the ghost monkey in front of him is the mandrill that has been tricked by people, and it is unknown how powerful it is.
"I'll know right away if it's powerful, look at this formation, this ugly monster doesn't mean to let us go." The monk snorted coldly. He took out his powder gun and quietly loaded it, really preparing to start a war with this ghost monkey.
The ghost monkey was not afraid of us at all, just now he was just looking at us as a stranger, and now he seems to find that we are no threat. Slowly crawling up, sticking out its long lizard-like tongue, it actually treats us as lunch, ready to feast.
"Tsk..".
As soon as it was too late, the ghost monkey let out a piercing scream, jumped up, and pounced directly on the nearest Atai, whose sharp claws were like steel knives, as if they could easily tear our bodies apart.
"Jump!"
The monk pulled the powder gun and hit the ghost monkey, and the huge impact force made the ghost monkey fall directly to the ground from mid-air. I thought that the ghost monkey would not be able to continue to move if he did not die after being shot, but this monster actually got up quickly and did not have anything to do at all. The wound that had been shot was not blood, but a foul-smelling black thick liquid, which had just flowed out and quickly coagulated the wound, and it didn't take long for the wound to disappear.
We were amazed by such a magical scene, and it seemed that we had really encountered invulnerable monsters.
"Run." The fifth uncle yelled, and we picked up all the packages and ran away, without looking back.
The ghost monkey was completely enraged, and made a sound like a baby crying, the voice was sharp and unpleasant, but it had a magical power, making people's heads dizzy, like drunken people, and all of us slowed down inexplicably.
"This ghost monkey voice has illusions, don't listen to it deliberately, otherwise you will fall deeper and deeper." The fifth uncle reminded loudly, and at the same time knocked Uncle Li's head, which suddenly made Uncle Li, who was standing in place demented, wake up.
"Jump... Jump... Jump. ā
A huge stone egg fell from the banyan tree, like a big hailstone, and the ground trembled. We flashed left and right, but the banyan tree covered too wide a wide area for us to run out for a while. I don't know how many of these boulders are on the banyan tree, and how we can dodge them all if they all fall.
The thought of a ghost monkey in every boulder made my heart feel terrified. I've seen the ghost monkey's body that isn't even afraid of guns, but if it's a group of such ghost monkeys, how can we deal with it? Just thinking about it makes people feel powerless and hopeless.
"Be careful!"
When I was distracted, I felt a hard push from behind, and I instantly lost my balance and threw myself to the ground. Behind him was followed by a gust of wind, which blew quickly from top to bottom, with a whistling sound, brushing his back, and finally making a loud noise.
A boulder egg fell behind me, and I was numb from the shock.
I lay on the ground and hurriedly turned around, only to find that the stone was not far from my feet. Looking at the fifth uncle beside me, I was afraid for a while, if the fifth uncle hadn't pushed me in time, I would have been smashed into meat sauce at this moment.
"What do you think?"
The fifth uncle smiled and pulled me up from the ground, with a relaxed expression on his face, which eased my tense heart slightly, as if I had taken a reassuring pill. It seems that as long as the fifth uncle is there, I am not afraid, after all, the fifth uncle has been in the wind and rain for so many years, and I have never encountered any dangers and strangeness, and he will definitely take me out of the predicament.
After a slight pause, we found that we were surrounded by more than a dozen ghost monkeys, which also kept rotating around us, and their mouths let out bursts of excited screams.
Although no boulders fell from the banyan tree, in the blink of an eye, at least fifty or sixty stone eggs had fallen. The stone eggs are constantly cracking, and the ghost monkey is struggling to break out of its shell.
Seeing the speed of the ghost monkey, we know that it is useless to run, and now the two sides are only hand-to-hand.