Chapter XVII: Scorpion 2
In the dim cave, the sound of scorpion claws colliding with each other was heard from time to time, and the person and the scorpion who were facing each other seemed to have no time to be distracted to care about the battle situation on the other side at this time.
Although Xia Beifeng put on a provocative posture towards the scorpion, he secretly tensed his body, just waiting for the scorpion on the opposite side to move first, it was best to find the flaw of the beast in the action, and then send it to the western sky with a knife.
The scorpion had already discovered that Xia Beifeng was not a thing to be messed with, and he was shaking his body slightly, not knowing when he would strike a fatal blow.
In the end, it was Xia Beifeng who moved first, not for any reason such as making the first move, but because he felt that no one appreciated a posture after standing for a long time, and it was a little boring.
Xia Beifeng pointed his toes on the ground, turned around and kicked the air in a roundabout way away from the scorpion. The scorpion subconsciously shrank when he moved, trying to dodge the upcoming attack, but he didn't expect that Xia Beifeng was not ready to make contact with it at all, but just kicked the pile of extinguished charcoal under his feet towards it.
The charcoal that was still warm and covered the face of the scorpion smashed its head, crackling and falling on the hard shell of its back, and then bouncing down the uneven armor to the ground, scattered around it. The fire had not been extinguished for a long time, and the temperature of the charcoal in the center of the fire was not low, although it was protected from burns by a hard shell, but it also had a burning feeling.
After the scorpion was attacked, it immediately waved its pincers and pinched Xia Beifeng, Xia Beifeng did not move at his feet, but only slightly deviated his body, and dodged its first attack. But the thing didn't care about it in a rage, and waved its pliers to Xia Beifeng in an orderly manner.
Xia Beifeng dodged left and right to avoid the successive attacks, the scorpion's action was very single, the left pincer followed by the right pincer, alternating alternately, but the action was too fast, the scorpion pincer even wiped his side face several times, and if he was not careful, he would be pinched off his neck, even if he could find the law at a glance, it was not easy to deal with. In the end, he could only concentrate on dodging constantly, and he didn't have time to think about how to fight back.
After the scorpion attacked at high speed for a while, it seemed to be tired, and its movements gradually slowed down, Xia Beifeng obviously felt a lot more relaxed, and gradually became more comfortable, and even had time to raise his hand and touch it with a knife a few times. Later, the scorpion's forceful swinging of the pliers became less and less, and he simply put his free left hand into his trouser pocket and whistled easily.
He was fighting with the scorpion child, and he was very happy to come and go, and seeing that the scorpion was getting slower and slower, he suddenly stood in place, smiled at the scorpion, and then strode back when the scorpion claw swung at him again, and raised his hand to swing the knife hard behind his back.
A small scorpion tail flew high and landed on the sand, and after landing, it twitched and hooked a few times before it slowly flowed out of cyan blood.
Xia Beifeng glanced back, and behind him was the No. 2 scorpion spirit who had been fighting with the first scorpion for a long time, and at some point secretly went around his back and tried to sneak attack him. He had just slashed at the joint of its tail with a knife and cut off half of its tail, when the thing was curled up in pain and rolled on the ground.
Xia Beifeng looked at the scorpion in front of him, smiled at him very apologetically, bent his index finger close to his lips, and whistled loudly.
When the scorpion saw that its companion was cut off, he was stunned for a moment and then threw his tail at Xia Beifeng, but when he was halfway through his movements, he received a violent impact on his side and directly knocked it over.
Xia Beifeng jumped on the spot and avoided the scorpion's last tail flick. I watched the scorpion, which had its belly up, writhing the ground. And the scorpion that had just knocked it over, the first to appear, was circling around it, as if it was thinking about where to start.
Scorpion No. 1's final decision was to stretch out its tail and disembowel it, then slowly swing to the other scorpion, which was still rolling, and poke it directly into its chest.
It turned out that when the scorpion's companion detoured behind Xia Beifeng and prepared to sneak attack, the "No. 1" scorpion, which had been in a stalemate with it, also chased after it, and then went around to the back of the other scorpion after "seeing" Xia Beifeng's waving hint, ready to cooperate with Xia Beifeng to kill them at any time.
The praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch in the latter move, but you are not the only ones who can play it, even if there are racial differences, it is okay to cooperate occasionally.
Xia Beifeng took a few steps back to prevent being splashed with blood, crossed his arms and watched the two newcomers die completely, stretched out his hand to high-five "No. 1" to celebrate, but withdrew his hand after seeing the burrs on the other party's body, and only said to it: "Yo, happy cooperation." ”
Scorpion No. 1 ignored him, and after dealing with the enemy, it quickly burrowed back into the river and enjoyed its food.
"Hey!" Xia Beifeng shouted at the scorpion in the river, "Can I smoke a cigarette?" ”
The river swayed rhythmically, and it was obvious that the scorpion was eating it fragrantly, and did not make any indication of this sentence, of course, it was also possible that it could not understand human speech.
I just cooperated, why did I turn my face and don't recognize people so quickly!
Xia Beifeng saw that the scorpion ignored his existence at all, so he agreed to his request to smoke and took out the cigarette case again.
When the lighter in his hand burst out of the blue flame again, the scorpion in the river flickered and did not come ashore, but stopped quietly. Xia Beifeng looked at the scorpion that was standing still, pinching the lighter in his hand that was getting hot, but he didn't turn it off, paying attention to the scorpion's reaction.
The scorpion finally began to move again, and seemed to acquiesce to the fact that Xia Beifeng was lighting a fire around it. Xia Beifeng breathed a sigh of relief, quickly lit the cigarette that had been in his mouth, let go and threw away the lighter. He glanced down at the hand that had been holding the lighter, and it was already hot and red.
After a while, Xia Beifeng estimated that the temperature should be dissipated, so he picked up the lighter from the ground and put it in his pocket, exhaled a breath, and felt a lot more comfortable.
He crouched down and began to rummage over the dead bodies of the two scorpions on the ground, trying to find something useful from them that would make him understand what had happened in this place, or prove that they could be roasted and eaten.
Scorpions are a great supplement, and scorpion essence is even more ...... Xia Beifeng had already begun to think about how to eat these two things for a while.
The shell on the scorpion's back was so hard that it couldn't even be poked with a steel knife, and its abdomen was soft like an ordinary scorpion, and it could press down a depression with a little force with your fingers. Xia Beifeng inserted the knife from a position close to the head, slashed the abdomen of the scorpion in the direction of the tail, and picked out the internal organs. It wasn't until he was close to the bottom of the scorpion's tail that he drew his knife and stared at the small part.
Looks like this thing is inedible.
At the place where the scorpion's tail was connected to the body, Xia Beifeng saw a vague pattern, which looked like a shape similar to a human face, and the facial features were not very distinct, but for some reason, the moment he saw the pattern, he would subconsciously feel that the owner of this face must be very painful.
Xia Beifeng stretched out his hand and touched the human face, and the moment his fingers touched the pattern, there was a certain bone-penetrating chill that spread from his fingers to his heart, but from the touch, he could only feel the smooth scorpion shell. He turned on the lighter once more, and looked closely at the face by the light of the fire.
The man's face was blurry no matter how he looked at it, as if it was separated by a layer of translucent glass, and inside the light-colored scorpion shell, it made the shape of a painful roar. He turned to look at another dead scorpion, and saw a similar face in the same place, but with a different expression. This one here looks a little more angry.
Xia Beifeng turned to look at the scorpion that was eating, and considered whether he should sneak a look at whether there was such a pattern on this person for a while.
Forget it, these two groups should not be the same breed. Xia Beifeng thought like this, and sat on the ground again and swallowed the clouds and mist.
The scorpion ate in the water for more than half an hour, presumably full, turned around and dived into the water, shaking its tail, and after a few clicks, there was no shadow, leaving only the quivering water to show that something had once stayed here.
It stands to reason that scorpions can't swim, but the scorpions here are good, and they swim more happily than fish, is it because of the species - are they actually primitive species that have not yet evolved, or is there some other reason?
Xia Beifeng re-examined the corpse of the scorpion on one side, and once again determined that the scorpion here was not much different from the scorpion outside, except that it was larger.
Then there is only one possibility, there is a problem with the water here.
Xia Beifeng walked to the river and looked at the place where the scorpion had eaten just now, the corpse had already been eaten only the bones, and at this time the pile of bones was sinking to the bottom of the water that was not too deep, and it was completely impossible to see that he was still a human a few days ago.
"You're miserable enough, just leave if you can, don't stay here." Xia Beifeng said as he gathered up the pile of bones and piled them on the riverbank, "There's nothing to dig a pit to bury you, so you can just take it." ”
Do you want to give it a try?
He finished collecting his bones, squatted on the bank of the river, held a little water in his hands, and watched quietly as the water flowed through his fingers, and made a pleasant sound when it fell into the river.
Forget it, this water has just soaked the corpse, and I always feel bad. Xia Beifeng and the others ran out of water in their hands, but they still gave up the idea of taking a sip. He stood up, shook the drops of water from his hands, and turned to the two dead scorpions.
He clasped his palms together at the human face on the scorpion, which was still intact, and said, "Brother, I'm sorry," and began to use the knife to cut off the poison sac on the scorpion's tail.
He put the two poison sacs together, lit a cigarette again, and stared at them in a daze.
Just now, I just thought that this thing might be a little useful, so I cut it off on a whim, but now that I think about it, it doesn't seem to be of much use, even if I want to quench the knife, I don't need to cut both of them, it's a waste of time.
"Hey, what do you think these two things should do?" Xia Beifeng shouted loudly into the air on one side. However, no one answered him, and he was the only one in the empty cavern whose shouts echoed.
Seeing that no one answered, he shouted loudly again.
"I mean, the one over there, you don't want to come out and say hello to me after watching it for so long?" The end of Xia Beifeng's speech kept echoing in the cave, and this time, something finally appeared in his sight.
Little by little, a figure appeared in the darkness of the lower reaches of the river, vaguely a woman, walking slowly towards him.
"Hey, beauty." Xia Beifeng waited for the man to walk in, and showed a smile that seemed just right at this time. Greet the girl, "You look much more beautiful than the photo, do you want to get acquainted?" My name is Xia Beifeng. ”
Xia Beifeng stretched out a hand to the girl standing in front of him.
The author has gone out to wave the dividing line that everyone should not miss*********************
The much-anticipated heroine of this volume finally appeared.,Sprinkle flowers [just this volume.]
For various reasons, I didn't write anything yesterday and went out to play today, but it doesn't matter
Speaking of how to count member clicks, every time I see that the member clicks of the shelf are different from other data, I feel so magical, hahaha