Chapter 8: The Owl
Everyone looked at each other, all confused.
Tang Linlin was surprised: "How can this be, we are obviously walking along the lake, how can we walk back to our original position?" Won't it ...... Isn't it possible that we're going to run into evil? ”
I reacted and immediately said, "Ghost hitting the wall? ”
The little ghost sat on my shoulder without weight, shook his head and said, "Xiao An didn't hit the wall." ”
Zhou Xuanye frowned slightly, and said, "It's useless to think too much now, try again." As he spoke, he pulled out the sword on his back, thrust it into the dirt on the ground with his backhand, leaving half of the sword body and standing straight.
Immediately after, he gestured and said, "Go back." Everyone understood what Zhou Xuanye meant, and they didn't care about being tired, so they immediately walked back along the lake. The lake is serpentine, we know for sure, because there are cliffs on both sides, and it is impossible for us to make a detour along the cliffs and the lake.
This time the group was in a hurry, so it only took us more than two hours to answer the beginning of the lake. I carried a powerful searchlight and hit it upward, and at the end of my sight, the sea of flowers appeared again, and what made everyone chill was that in front of the sea of flowers, there was a ghost sword!
Tan Jian gasped and muttered, "Is it really a ghost hitting the wall?" As he spoke, he looked at the imp and said, "Is there any of your kind nearby?" "According to Zhou Xuanye's previous statement, there is a sense between these mountain spirits and ghosts, if there is really something unclean in this area, then the little ghost should know.
The little ghost was a little afraid of Tan Blade, so under Tan Blade's stern expression, it shrank its neck, hid behind me, only exposed one head, and said timidly: "There is no Xiao An's kind." ”
Zhou Xuanye walked up the slope, and finally pulled out the Si Ghost Sword, and said, "There is something wrong with this place, but I don't know what is doing wrong." ”
Tang Linlin said: "Xiao An said that there are no ghosts, so it's not a ghost hitting the wall?" ”
Zhou Xuanye glanced at Xiao An and said, "Not necessarily, if the other party's Taoism is too high, it can't feel it." ”
Could it be that this is also a trap for Hamon?
How did they do it?
Could it be that like me, you are also raising ghosts?
While speaking, Zhou Xuanye and Tan Jian glanced at each other, the two were brothers from childhood to adulthood, and they had a tacit understanding, and they could understand each other's plans with one look. Before Tang Linlin and I could react, the two of them had already taken out the incense candles from the small bags they were carrying.
I've seen them use it before, and it's said to be the safest and most effective way to verify Ah Piao.
Suddenly, the incense and candles were lit, and we began to observe the movement of the incense and the beating of the candles, but until the incense was burned out, nothing was out of the ordinary.
Even Zhou Xuanye himself was a little out of shape, muttering, "How can this be? There is no yin qi and no ghost qi, but why can't we go out? ”
If it's not a ghost, then what's the reason?
Even Tan Jian and the others felt tricky, and there was nothing to be done, and I, an ordinary person, couldn't think of a way. In a hurry, I just subconsciously took a searchlight and looked around, hoping to find some clues. However, when I turned the searchlight to the right, I suddenly saw something crouching on a large rock near the edge of the cliff.
It's a bird.
An owl, to be exact.
It's a lot bigger than a normal owl, almost as big as Ann, and that's why I can see it so clearly.
The huge owl, I don't know how long it had been standing on the big rock, at this moment, two round yellow eyes, staring straight at us, as if peeping. Within two seconds of me turning the light on, the owl flapped its wings and flew off.
I know it's a bird that doesn't like light very much.
Therefore, as soon as it flew into the darkness, it immediately disappeared.
In normal times, I wouldn't pay attention to a bird for no reason. But the size of the bird, as well as the location where it appeared, seemed very strange, so I had to associate it with the strange situation at the moment.
Could it be that this owl is playing tricks?
Seeing that it's so big, maybe it's still a fine one?
The thought had just come to mind, and in the darkness, there was a sudden sound of flapping wings, as if countless birds were flying at the same time.
This voice startled everyone, Zhou Xuanye immediately looked at the direction where the sound appeared, and I also took advantage of the situation to hit the light into the sky, and in an instant, countless brown birds appeared in our sight.
It was a flock of owls, big and small, with yellow eyes, staring at us as if they were prey, and flying towards us at a rapid pace.
Tan Jian burst into a foul mouth: "Damn it!" ”
Tang Linlin reacted quickly, and immediately pulled out the dagger, in the past six months, my reaction ability has also been trained, so when I saw these menacing owls, I also pulled out the dagger and planned to defend. And at this moment, Zhou Xuanye returned the sword of the ghost sword into the sheath, and said urgently: "Don't use the knife, killing birds in the chassis of the feather gate is a big crime!" ”
As we spoke, the owls had rushed towards us, with their hard beaks and sharp claws, trying to catch us, but when they pecked us, they immediately bled out. After listening to Zhou Xuanye's words, we remembered the perverted Yumen, and we didn't dare to use daggers for a while, so we could only wave them with flashlights, trying to drive them away.
But there are so many of these things that they are all over the sky at a glance, and from time to time bird feathers fall off.
It didn't take long for a few of us to be almost caught and pecked. At the last moment, I saw a lake not far away, and suddenly thought of a solution, and immediately shouted: "They are afraid of water, let's run to the lake." ”
With the exception of waterfowl, most birds don't like water because it makes their wings heavy and not conducive to flight.
Owls don't like water either, so I think they can be attacked so that they don't hurt the birds and can drive them away.
The other three were not stupid, and when they heard me shout, they immediately understood what I meant, and at that moment the four of them stood and retreated, stumbling all the way to the edge of the lake.
I immediately took out the handle of the portable hand used for camping, used it as a water scoop, scooped the water and splashed it at the owl. These things flew very low in order to peck us, so the water that was splashed out was not wasted at all, and it was all splashed on the birds.
This frightened the big birds and scattered in all directions. But before giving us a chance, they gathered together again, and even became more fierce. But this time, Tan Jian and the others also began to splash water, and the amount of water splashed out by the four of them was quite large, and these owls finally couldn't stand it, gradually dispersed, and finally disappeared into the night sky.
At this time, the four of us were already soaked and embarrassed.
Even though it is as warm as spring in this valley, the clothes are attached to the body, and when the night wind blows like this, I feel a chill.
Tang Linlin couldn't help but sneez, panting for breath, with a bird feather stuck in her head: "I swear, I really hate owls, does it treat us like mice?" ”
I said, "How can there be a rat as big as us." Don't you think it's strange that this owl is too big. You say, don't you become a spirit? If we can't get out now, will it have something to do with owls? ”
Zhou Xuanye took off his coat, threw it on the ground, and said, "Where are there so many mountain spirits and ghosts." If the owl had become a spirit, how could we repel it with water? I think that these owls, like they were raised, are not social animals, and they do not actively attack people. ”
I immediately understood what he meant, and said, "You mean, someone was manipulating them to attack us?" ”
Zhou Xuanye nodded, and then Langsheng shouted: "The four of us, it is really not appropriate to break in rashly, just because we have something to ask for." The friend who has been staring at us will show up for a while! ”
The starry area is open, and Zhou Xuanye's voice is clear and spreads far away.
Combined with what Xiao An said before, someone fed us the antidote, and the suspicion that someone commanded the owl just now, it is obvious that there has always been a mysterious person who has been observing our every move and trying to stop us.
After Zhou Xuanye finished speaking, there was no movement or response around, only the sound of the night wind whirring, and the occasional unknown insect chirping in the grass.
After waiting for a moment to no avail, he shook his head and said, "It seems that the other party is not going to show up." ”
Tang Linlin said: "The enemy is in the dark, I am in the light, she wants to yin us, it's too easy." ”
Tan Jian said lightly: "These are small problems, important things, we are here to ask people to do things, and many methods cannot be used." "Just like the owls just now, to be honest, those owls are big and fly low, if Zhou Xuanye makes a killing move, it is very easy for the Si Ghost Sword in his hand to level them. It's just that we have to restrain ourselves in many ways. In such an environment, we really suffer.