Chapter 7: The Charging Horse
Jialan's words made Fan Li feel a burst of fear, didn't the war horse make any sound when it was fighting, just like acting in a pantomime? As he pondered, he followed behind Jialan, the buzzing in his ears became louder and louder, and he regretted a little that he was a spirit thief, and his ears had to be deafened if he continued to make such a noise.
The tunnels in front of you are getting thinner and thinner, and the content of the frescoes is getting closer and closer to court life. Fan Li felt that these smooth-skinned monsters were also cultured, and they had a gold-cast table, a jade cup, and a series of embroidered blankets, just like the ones in Jiuge's bag. The mural seems to tell the story of a white-skinned monster who is picked up by a general and is often ostracized, but he is gifted enough to lead an army to suppress the opposition around him as a minor.
At the end of the tunnel, there are two temples that are the same as just now, and there are two stone monsters standing at the entrance of each temple. Brother Jiu shook his lips, and just wanted to say something, a blue glow suddenly flashed in front of him, and then a series of footsteps came from the temple in front of him, and everyone raised their weapons in their hands and waited for them.
Sure enough, it was the war horse, but there was a knight sitting on it, and this knight was the gatekeeper of the temple before. He held the greatsword in one hand, motionless, and the blue glow came from the warhorse's eyes. It shook its neck, and puffs of smoke and dust rose around it.
"What should I do?" Brother Jiu's voice floated from the side. "I've seen a corpse, and it's fine if it's broken by a few shots, but this one in front of me doesn't seem to be afraid of our weapon."
"Your arrows are poisoned?" Fan Li ignored the ninth brother and turned to Jialan, who nodded slightly. Fan Li understood, Jialan's arrow just now carried deadly venom, and the venom entered the monster's body and worked, which showed that this monster had blood, at least he was a living body.
"Kai Crossbow and I are one left and one right to attract his attention, Jialan, you look for a chance to kill him." After Xiao Yun finished speaking, he pressed the gun in his hand, he felt the back of his hand touch a cool thing, it turned out to be the Uzi submachine gun handed over by Brother Jiu, Xiao Yun held the submachine gun tightly, and the Kai crossbow slowly moved towards the two ends, suddenly Brother Jiu raised his right hand, and two bullets flew towards the monster, the monster raised the giant sword to block the bullets, and pulled the reins, and the war horse rushed straight to this side. At this time, Xiao Yun's side fired another series of bullets, and the monster had to restrain the war horse and continue to resist the attack with a giant sword.
Fan Li saw the blue liquid on the monster's arm, and felt that this guy's blood should be blue, which means that he is still afraid of bullets.
"Don't be stunned, hurry up!" Fan Li shouted to Brother Jiu and his men. "This guy shouldn't have that god, he's still a flesh and blood!"
Brother Jiu understood what Fan Li meant, and Xiao Xiao behind him also raised his gun to shoot. There was a wolf in front and a tiger in the back, and the monster couldn't pull out the space to fight back, and the broken bones and slag kept coming out of the war horse under his crotch, and he pulled the war horse all the way back, wanting to retreat to the temple. At this time, the ninth brother quickly took the shotgun handed over by his subordinates and rushed over, and when he ran five meters away from the monster, the monster suddenly ignored his own danger and slashed horizontally with his big sword. Brother Jiu knelt on his legs, rubbed his back from the ground, dodged this deadly attack, and was about to slide under the horse, when he suddenly stood up and raised his gun with a bullet. At such a close distance, the horse's limbs were instantly blown apart by scattered bullets, and it lost its balance with the monster and fell to the ground.
Although the monster was covered in bruises, he was still unwilling to be toyed with by such small meat worms, he threw away the giant sword and pulled out his waist knife, opened the shotgun in the hand of the ninth brother with one palm, and wanted to tear his body, when his fingertips were about to touch the ninth brother's head, his body paused strangely, and then writhed for a while, and finally fell to the ground and died.
Kai Crossbow and Xiao Yun stopped attacking, and together with Brother Jiu, they turned their heads to look at Jialan, who was still in an archery posture behind her, and she nodded at them.
"Captain!" Brother Jiu's men ran over and helped Brother Jiu up. Fan Li thought to himself, this Lao Jiu has this courage, it seems that the tomb has not been in vain in the past few years, and he is afraid to be afraid, and he is still a little brave at the critical moment.
They were afraid that some monsters would come out again, so they first concentrated on a temple, and this time Brother Jiu's subordinates stared intently at the two monsters at the door, for fear that they would be resurrected and jump out. The architectural style of the two temples was exactly the same as the previous one, with some murals and an altar, and the ninth brother took the two blankets and the few people continued to walk forward. The tunnel ahead was unlike anything I'd seen before, it was a lot of dark red stones, and some dusty dust that looked like burnt pieces of paper.
As soon as the war horse died, the sound in his ears disappeared, Fan Li was much quieter, he continued to look at the nearby murals, and found that there was no longer the shadow of a monster on the mural, but a group of escape pictures chased by flames. It's also strange to say that the people on the picture did not show the action of fighting the fire, but raised their swords and hoes one by one to face the flames, and Fan Li took a closer look, the flame was wrong, it was different from the usual flames, but the flames converged into a human body, and there were two black dots on the top of the head that looked like eyes.
"Stop!" Jialan's voice came, and everyone stopped, and they all stepped forward to look at what Jialan was staring at. The tunnel split into three sub-tunnels where they stopped, each pitch black, with the same murals visible only in the flashlight, surrounded by dark red stones.
"Is this a problem for us?" Brother Jiu sneered, he hit two fire folds, and threw them into the two tunnels respectively, the first fire fold touched the rock wall of the tunnel and turned, everyone took this opportunity to look at the scene inside, nothing special, the second fire fold was immediately extinguished as soon as it was thrown inside, and everyone didn't have time to see the scene when it landed.
Brother Jiu once again raised the third fire fold, facing the third tunnel. When he raised his hand, there was a gust of wind, and the wind blew on Fan Li's face, and a noisy sound came, which Fan Li felt strange, and then the sound sounded again, higher than the previous decibels, louder, and terrifying, with a little familiar taste.
Fan Li found that the others were still staring at the fire fold, as if they hadn't noticed the strangeness of the voice at all, and then he suddenly understood something, and he couldn't help but scream.
"Run!" At the same time, there was already the sound of horses' hooves hitting the stone slab behind him, and the three people under Brother Jiu immediately turned around and swept the dark tunnel behind him, Xiao Yun raised the Uzi submachine gun that had been loaded with ammunition, and paid attention to the movement inside.
"Ahh Suddenly, there was a scream from a person next to him, it was Brother Jiu's subordinate, he fell to the ground holding his shoulder, and a short dagger was stuck in his shoulder. Then a strong wind struck, almost blowing down the people in the front row, blowing their line of fire away from the overhead, at this time a war horse came on, and was crashing into Xiao Yun, who was closest to it, Xiao Yun was knocked to the ground by the war horse, and the war horse raised its front legs, at this time, the short axe of the crossbow chopped off its two thin legs, and its whole body was lying on Xiao Yun's body because of its loss of balance.
"Withdraw! Evacuate! Brother Jiu grabbed his subordinates on one side, and even took Xiao Xiao with him, and pushed them into the third tunnel in a hurry, Kai crossbow pulled Xiao Yun up, and ran towards that side with Fan Li, Jia Lan shot a few arrows, and the sharp arrows flew into the darkness, and there was a roar, and then a shiny thing fell from the sky, Fan Li subconsciously fell to the ground, and when he reacted, the thing had been inserted in the stone slab between his legs.
Mom, it's a spear, and if this spear goes any further, it's going to be a bit of a lifeline. However, this spear is exquisitely made, the silver head is dark, and the wooden handle is polished to be extremely bright, as if it has been waxed, and it should be a valuable thing.
"Let's go!" Jialan stomped his feet, pulling Fan Li back to reality, he got up and continued to pull Xiao Yun up with Kai Xuan, and when he was about to enter the tunnel, he inadvertently glanced behind him, that is, this glance, so that his feet seemed to be rooted, and he couldn't take a single step.
He didn't seem to be able to see Jialan, nor the monster rushing towards him, but only saw a tall and thin figure standing in the tunnel ten meters away in front of him, the man was glowing blue, wearing gold silk armor, no weapon in his hand, only a stone dagger ornament. His brain couldn't help buzzing, wasn't that the strange artifact that his grandfather had mentioned that he had seen in Youdu? Fan Li seemed to have obtained the art of clairvoyance, and he could see the appearance of the dagger clearly from such a distance, but at this time he couldn't care about his own changes. It was indeed a beautifully carved work of art, and novices would never have thought that this thing would be related to the distant era, but it was so charming that Fan Li actually shook off Xiao Yun's hand and walked straight over there.
Walking about five meters away from the man, he found that the man had the same smooth and pale skin as the other monsters, except for long hair with a shawl, and he could see the eyeballs, which were blue and shining like sapphires.
"Fan Li!" He heard Jialan's roar, but the sound became extremely faint in his ears, and he didn't want to care about the things around him, so he stretched out his hand to the man, and the man also stretched out his hand, and the stone dagger in his other hand suddenly glowed with a blue light, so that he almost blinded Fan Li's eyes. He tried to open his eyes, and saw a monster on a war horse rushing out from behind the man, waving his spear at him, and just as he saw that the spear was about to pierce his chest, a strong wind blew from the man's side, and the strong force dragged him back and blew him away fiercely. Only then did he see what was going on, and Jialan reached out at the mouth of the third tunnel to grab him, but the distance between them was so far that she could only watch Fan Li disappear into the darkness of the second tunnel.