Chapter 45: Lightning strikes wood
On the first day of entering the Great Khing'an Mountains, we came to a basin with green mountains and clear waters, and found a Milky Way Waterfall. And in the extremely beautiful waterfall pool, there are several fairies playing and playing.
Seeing the woman who looks like a fairy, but faintly exudes a foxy atmosphere, I know that the people in the pool are not fairies, and when I look closely, I find that they are dressed in red and willow green clothes, which seem to be entangled with a trace of black gas, and the enchanting and moving appearance is even more vulgar.
However, my body was completely out of the control of my brain, and my legs involuntarily moved forward step by step. In the blink of an eye, I came to the middle of the waterhole unconsciously.
I was physically and mentally inconsistent, my body was as stiff as dead wood, and I wanted to get out of the pool, but I struggled to no avail.
Suddenly, behind me, someone pounced on the fairy beside him, but unfortunately failed. At the same time, the fairies in the waterhole suddenly turned into a puddle of mud. The waterfall in front of us disappeared in an instant, leaving only a gray rock wall covered with moss. And the puddle below me has also become a waist-length quagmire, and my body, in the black quagmire, is constantly sinking downward, unable to escape.
I was not the only one who was trapped in the quagmire because of my lack of concentration, and only three of the ten-person team were standing on the shore, and the other one was a monkey who was tied to a tree because of evil spirits.
Zha Qiye folded his hands and kept closing his eyes and chanting, Zha Ling'er was standing on the shore at a loss, only the smoke man was alone, still very sober, and he was already using his inconvenient hands to form a rope sleeve. In an instant, he lassoed me closest to him, and then used one hand. And he pulled me ashore.
Zha Ling'er immediately pounced on me with tears in her eyes, and Seventh Master Zha also regained her will at this time. Start helping right away.
I was covered in foul-smelling mud, and when I saw a man with a cigarette pulling a rope in his hand, the bruises on his neck were bursting, and he immediately got up from the ground and went over to help.
Some of the people who were trapped in the swamp quagmire were already deep in their chests, and even worse, they were up to their necks. Fortunately, the rescue was timely, and all of them were rescued without danger. At this time. It was already dark, and you could see the stinking swamp mire, with blue ghost fires flickering everywhere, and the waterfall and the waterhole played by the fairies at the beginning, which was completely different, it was simply a contrast between heaven and hell.
I plucked a handful of grass from the ground as the people who had escaped from the quagmire lay on the damp grass with a foul stench. Start wiping the black mud off your clothes. The fresh aroma of herbs gradually covered up the stench of the silt, and the anger in my heart could not be extinguished lightly no matter what.
I cursed in my heart: It's a damn tanuki again. Otherwise, on the quagmire, there will be no phantom for no reason, and everyone will be killed here.
Suddenly. The monkey, which had been tied to the tree, seemed to have come to its senses. yelling for someone to untie him.
I watched the monkeys who had suffered a lot of sins in the past few days, and had lost a lot of weight with hunger. I was distressed and gave him canned meat, and told him to rest early and get a good night's sleep.
The monkey woke up, which did not mean that the tanuki spirit had stopped, but that it had spent a lot of mana to create this large-scale illusion, and it had no time to take care of overtaking the monkey.
Everyone once again succeeded in escaping, but they were physically and mentally exhausted, and their anger was nowhere to vent, and they all hated the tanuki spirit, eager to eat its flesh, drink its blood, and sleep its skin.
After dinner, everyone did not sleep, and gathered around to discuss the best way to deal with the tanuki.
As the brainchild in the team, I and the seventh master who knew some spells, expressed their powerlessness, and the fat man looked at the smoke man, seeing that he looked out of his face, and was about to get angry, I immediately dissuaded the fat man from being impatient, and said in my heart: At this moment, what is the time to discuss countermeasures. In today's team, there may be members transformed into raccoon cats, and now everyone is discussing countermeasures together, which is completely in vain, and there will be no results at all. However, it is not appropriate to break down this matter, so as not to startle the snake.
After a few days of observation, I didn't see anything wrong with any of the members, and I could only admire the tanuki's ability to transform into a human form, which was becoming more and more superb.
This tanuki demon observes everyone around us every day, and must have figured out everyone's temperament and temperament, so it is natural to follow suit, and it will not be detected and recognized.
If you want to deal with the treacherous tanuki spirit, it is impossible to know where it is hiding, I once secretly asked Duan Erye, and he said that he did not find any trace of the tanuki. It can be seen that this tanuki is very deeply hidden, and it is difficult to find out.
The tanuki matter could not be resolved, but the journey could not be stopped, and the anxious people, in a bad mood, passed through the mountain basin and began to climb the mountains again.
The day was uneventful, and soon it quietly disappeared in the constant flow of sweat.
I thought I would have such a peaceful day, but something happened in the middle of the night. I woke up in a noisy shout, thinking that the tanuki demon couldn't help but appear, but it turned out that Duan Erye was possessed by the tanuki.
Duan Erye, who didn't know how to be leaned over by the tanuki, actually ran to attack the smoke man in the middle of the night, and as a result, he fought with the smoke man, and the night owl who was on guard immediately participated in the fight, but fortunately, the seventh master and the fat man woke up one after another, and subdued the second master of Duan who was controlled by the demon cat.
When I learned of this, I was immediately scared out of a cold sweat, and said in my heart: That is, this raccoon cat with no eyes ran to provoke the smoke man, and if it was replaced by a sneak attack on others, the others would have been asleep and unconsciously in a different place.
Perhaps the tanuki was clever enough to let the best assassin in the team kill the best teammate in the team, and he could lose both, or even die. But it underestimates the smoke man's ability, although the smoke man has not yet noticed where the tanuki is, but as long as the tanuki demon dares to show his head, the smoke man can definitely beat him to death with a stick in the blink of an eye.
Duan Erye, who has first-class assassination skills in the team, was controlled by the tanuki, which undoubtedly hung a sharp blade above everyone's heads, and if he was not careful, there would be fratricide among teammates. Nowadays, it is particularly important to take care of Duan Erye, who is fascinated by monsters, and I really don't feel at ease when I hand it over to others, but I'm afraid that my energy will be a little insufficient. The fat man is not suitable for thick branches and leaves, the cigarette man's arm is seriously injured, I don't want him to be too tired, the two junior disciples of the cigarette man are often responsible for the vigil, and they are already tired, among the remaining people, only the seventh master can still do it, but when I am tired, he has to preside over the overall situation, it is really difficult to separate, and in the end, I have measured it for a long time, and I will take care of the second master of Duan with me, and hand it over to the Zhuge locksmith king, whom I don't trust very much. And told him that he only needs to take care of Duan Erye, who goes crazy from time to time, occasionally for me when I don't have time, Zhuge Locksmith King nodded very happily.
The raccoon cat's dangerous move to overtake Duan Erye effectively added the greatest difficulty and burden to our team, and it was slowly consuming our energy, which had to be said to be a good trick to drag down the team. At the beginning, the fat man, Zha Ling'er, and the monkey were all pretended or overtaken by the tanuki demon successively, and at that time, I didn't feel so difficult to deal with as it is now.
The tanuki's treacherous tricks are constantly being staged, and everyone is miserable, and they suddenly feel that the future is bleak.
As a result, on the way through the woods, they encountered a "lightning strike wood", which frightened everyone to lie on the ground and did not dare to move.
The fat man pressed Duan Er Ye under his body to prevent him from moving, and asked me very uneasily: "Lao Zheng, it's not raining, how can you encounter lightning strikes." ”
Although it did not rain at this time, the sky was as dark as the bottom of a black pot, and it was estimated that it would not be long before a heavy downpour would fall.
Thunder and lightning flashed in the air, hitting the towering ancient trees in the distant woods one after another, and sparks flew in all directions.
I lay on the ground and said to the fat man, "There are often lightning strikes in the forest, so don't get up." Then he immediately said to the people around him, "Don't get up when it thunders, and when it rains and doesn't thunder, you will get up again." ”
Everyone nodded one after another, and Duan Erye, who was pressed under him by the fat man, was suddenly woken up by the thunder of the bombing, and asked the fat man to untie him.
The fat man said to me in a good mood while untying Duan Erye: "Lao Zheng, do you remember, when I was a child, I heard the old man say that the thunder split the wood because there was a demonic spirit near the trees, I think it must be the tanuki monster who attracted the thunder god, and was split by the thunder, and all the second masters will come to their senses." Now it's good that we don't have to suffer from tanuki tricks anymore. ”
When I was a child, I did hear the old man say that lightning strikes wood because the trees become spirits, or there are monsters hiding in the trees, all of which will attract lightning strikes.
But from the thunder that sounded just now, it was one after another, one after another, and it was enough to sound seven or eight times before it stopped, could it be that there were seven or eight monsters in the vicinity?
It was a long time after the thunder to get up from the ground, and by this time it was already like night, and the raindrops were falling down. The people hurried through the woods, looking for shelter from the rain.
I remember when I was a child, I heard the old man say that when it rains, don't hide under a tree to avoid being struck by lightning.
But now that there are trees all around, everyone has to brave the rain and keep walking forward, looking for a place to hide from the rain, such as a rock wall.
Everyone walked quickly for a short time, and then they all stopped, only to see that the woods in front of them were in a mess, black smoke was everywhere, and sparks were swirling. In the woods in front of everyone, there were seven towering ancient trees struck by lightning, the bark of the trees was scorched black and smoking, some even broke branches and broken poles, and even more were split into two, unrecognizable, miserable. (To be continued......)