Chapter Forty-Six: Scattered Gold Bars
This thing hung on my chest, and that strange face full of wrinkles actually squeezed a sneer at me, as if it could read my thoughts, and the picture was really weird. www.biquge.info I don't know if this thing can understand human nature, but judging by its expression, it seems to have seen everything, and for my resistance and struggle, it seems to be just a joke.
I was about to take the pickaxe and knock it down, but the creature's claws immediately loosened, and with a kick of my legs on my chest, the whole body bounced out in an instant, rolled twice on the ground, regained its momentum, and half stood up, glaring at me with fierce eyes, and pacing in place from time to time, as if it was at ease.
I thought to myself, it was strange, this thing had taken me for a monster, trying to subdue me with its agility. Looking at its series of movements and expressions, its IQ is almost as high as that of a human.
At this moment, Yang Xue had already greeted me, standing side by side with me, confronting the monster. That thing was not afraid, a pair of deeply sunken eyeballs glowed with a burst of green light under the illumination of the light, looking at me and Yang Xue with a hideous face, twisting the facial muscles from time to time, squeezing out a sneer, and occasionally emitting a strange grunt from the depths of the throat, still playing in circles, refusing to leave, not attacking rashly, as if waiting for something.
On the whole, this guy does look like a monkey that has lost its hair, and he looks very old, but he is not sluggish after aging, but is extremely agile. It seems that the creature itself has such a strange appearance, the wrinkled skin is its normal external feature, and the bare triangular head is a bit like an alien.
"What the hell is this?"
Yang Xue muttered in surprise.
"I don't know," I said uncertainly, "I haven't seen this creature, I've never even heard of it, it looks like a monkey and a human, its deformed head is more like an alien creature, but its mouthparts without lips are like worms......"
The monster heard us speak, and moved its slightly pointed ears in alarm, and from its chaotic eyes, its vision seemed to have deteriorated, perhaps not severely, and it could still see us. It continued to walk on the ground two or three meters away from us, with small steps but very fast.
I gave Yang Xue a look, suggesting that she slowly approached the thing, whatever it was, it was at least a threat to us, and we should use a pickaxe to deal with it first.
As soon as we tried to get closer, the monster suddenly convulsed, like a spring, and jumped up in place, its barbed mouthparts opening in a terrible way, and from it a continuous hiss. The cry was quite high-pitched, almost like a sound weapon, piercing our ears and making us involuntarily cover them, and our eardrums were torn apart by its screams.
It was only a minute, and when the monster stopped shouting, Yang Xue and I both had varying degrees of tinnitus. I saw Yang Xue's mouth move and say something, but when it reached my ears, it turned into a mess of chaos or a low howl, and I couldn't tell what she was talking about. At the same time, I also shouted at Yang Xue, but looking at her confused appearance, it seemed that I couldn't hear what I said. The monster in front of us was so weird that it was fully aware that it was causing our ears to ring because of its roar, and it jumped up and down in a schadenfreude look. I was so deceitful that I roared angrily, waved my pickaxe and threw myself at it. Before I could get close, the creature swooped to the top of the cave and hung upside down on the rock wall and crawled rapidly on top of the rock wall like a spider.
The thing retreated a few distances, and began to shake its mouthparts again, making a trembling sound. This voice was different from Fang Cai's shrill roar, and the way it was uttered had changed. Thankfully, the vibratos didn't sound like they could affect my hearing, and my tinnitus gradually recovered.
I was about to hold the pickaxe and continue the pursuit, but I was pulled by Yang Xue from behind, only to see her look panicked and pointed to the road we came, in those small branch holes, suddenly there was a sound of running, like a horse's hooves falling to the ground, clattering.
"Not good!" I exclaimed, "Looks like it's not just a monster here!" ”
Before I could finish speaking, the sound of the fierce running like a tide was close at hand. And the monster that had been hanging upside down on the top of the cave fell to the ground and stood up in front of us in a twisted way, like a mad monkey, dancing and stomping and screaming in great excitement. At the same time, the sound was already approaching, and several white shadows, like lightning, flashed in the darkness, and in the distance, countless green lights could be seen jumping in the darkness, and dozens of the same monsters, like a flood, poured out from all sides of the cave!
"Run!"
I screamed, grabbed Yang Xue's hand and ran towards the depths of the cave. We can't have the upper hand in the fight with that monster, and besides, there are dozens of them at once, and if we are surrounded by them, we will have to be torn to pieces in an instant!
The sound of thunder rolling behind him is getting closer and closer, even though Yang Xue and I are running at the limit of speed, but those monsters are like fish in water in this cave, and although their steps are small, the frequency of their actions is far higher than that of humans, and if this continues, we will become each other's food in a short time.
We gradually expanded along the cave where we were running, and after we had not gone far, we found some old tin chests scattered on the ground, the opening of which was also open, and a few gold bar-shaped items scattered around, but I did not dare to stop to take a closer look, and suddenly skipped as I ran. After a few steps, more scattered gold bars and discarded chests appeared, and those valuable gold bars glowed with charming brilliance in the light. In this case, because of the threat to my life, so that many treasures scattered on the ground could be ignored, I finally understood why the treasure bearers had just thrown these things here.
Through the scattered gold bars, the deeper cave extended down a gentle slope, I took Yang Xue's hand, made the fastest speed in my life, leaned down and rushed down, running less than fifty meters away, the cave in front of me suddenly shrunk sharply, and finally, in front of us, there was an impassable cliff, as if the cave was cut off by a stone wall, there was no other way.
I didn't have to look back, I already knew that dozens of humanoid monsters with sharp teeth and claws behind me had suddenly arrived, and Yang Xue and I had no way to escape, and this time we were finally going to die in the mouth of the monster. (To be continued.) )
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