Chapter 7: The Rat

I sat on the plank road, my muscles twitched, and I didn't have the strength to stand up, so I sat down and rested. The poisonous snake also burrowed into the crack and didn't know what to do, and after a while, I felt the muscles in my body completely relax, the convulsions also stopped, and the strength gradually returned to the body.

I knocked on the planks underneath me, and the muffled thump showed that they were sturdy and didn't seem to be in danger of disintegrating. I didn't dare to stay longer after resting enough, so I immediately accelerated along the plank road and walked forward, looking for a hurry to reach the foot of the mountain and join Lu Su and them, they should not die so easily, eighty percent are going upstream against the water at this time, and it is estimated that they are tired enough.

Running on the plank road for about ten minutes, the trend of the whole plank road slowly declined, the original straight and steep mountain, also began to tilt up, suddenly, I finally arrived at the end of the plank road, at the end, is a stone step carved by the mountain, after thousands of years of wind and rain, the stone steps are rough and uneven, the gaps are covered with withered grass, it is easy to slip on it. I walked cautiously down the stone steps, and after a while, I suddenly found a stone monument on the edge of the grass.

I estimated that this stele should be left by Puzhen, and I don't know what kind of fame it is, so I opened the grass vines on the surface to see the stele, only to see that on the stele, there are two rows of ancient seal characters, writing: three bends and three uniques, the living are not allowed to enter.

Three bends and three uniques?

Could it be that Pu Zhen has moved his hands and feet in these three bends?

It seems that the tomb of the Giant Ear King is not only dangerous in the tomb, but even the outside of the tomb has been artificially set up obstacles. I also know Puzhen's ability, so I am vigilant and more careful. At this moment, I suddenly noticed that there was a scratch on the stele, and after careful inspection, I found that the scratch was heavy in front and light in the back, as if it had been broken out by something. Suddenly, I thought of bullets.

Has anyone ever had a shootout here?

There are three groups of people in my mind, the flying knife Bai Laosi, Chen Ci, and later Zhao Erye, these bullet marks should be left by one of them, and I don't know why when I get to this place, there will be a shootout.

Just as I was studying the gunshot marks on the stele and reverie, all of a sudden, the grass behind the stele fluttered, and then a black head poked out of the grass. When I saw it, it turned out to be a huge rat head, and the head of the mouse was already the size of an adult's fist, so I can imagine how fat the body is. It was not afraid of people at all, two black bean-like eyes looked at me, and before I could react, it jumped up violently and pounced on my face, and a pair of mouse teeth wanted to bite me.

I only know that rats are good at burrowing and climbing high, and I never knew that rats can jump so high, and I was caught off guard by this mouse, although I didn't bite it, but my face was pulled out by the rat's claws. I didn't want to mention how disgusting I felt in my heart, when I saw the mouse fall to the ground, his whole body was black, shiny and shiny, and his mouth was full of sound, he was not afraid of people at all, and there seemed to be ridicule in his eyes, so he turned around and wanted to pounce again.

I was tired, and I dared to be so arrogant when I burst out of a mouse, and immediately came to the fire, and when I saw that it still wanted to pounce, I immediately copied a probe shovel from the hook next to the equipment bag, and slapped it directly. The rat was nimble, and he suddenly drilled into the grass behind the stone monument, and the grass shook and moved, but the black mouse was missing. I touched the blood on my face, and when I saw the blood, I was even more angry, and I chased after it, shooting it down where the grass was shaking.

The slap was right, and the mouse squeaked, and immediately stopped moving. I looked through the grass and saw that the rat had lost its breath and its head had been flattened, but at this moment, I suddenly noticed that there was something pressed under the mouse's body, which seemed to be wriggling.

I opened the corpse and found that there was a hole under the mouse's body, and there were some small mice with hair that had not yet grown and arched out. When I saw this, I said in my heart that rats, rats, I knew that you had rat cubs to raise, and I wouldn't kill you, but who let you have a good life, but if you want to provoke me, is it possible that you still want to eat human flesh?

As soon as I thought of eating human flesh, I suddenly saw that in the grass not far from the entrance of the cave, there were some white things faintly exposed, like some bones, large patches, and I don't know what they were. My curiosity was strong, and I pulled open the grass to take a look, and I gasped for a while, but I saw that in the grass, there was a white bone field, and some withered grass grew out of a few broken human heads, which looked extremely desolate.

Suddenly I realized that the rat really wanted to eat human flesh, rats generally do not grow up to be so big, it is said that human flesh is the meat of the great supplement, eating human flesh to grow up, always strong and smarter. I guess this rat hasn't eaten human flesh for too long, and when he sees me, he will be hungry, so he will make a surprise attack on me.

Thinking about the gunshot marks on the stone tablet again, I estimated that these scattered white bones, Bacheng was the victim of that shootout. Thinking so, he pulled the grass and inspected the pile of bones to see if he could get some clues earlier. That's when something half-buried in the dirt caught my eye.

It was a half-lost white bone, which should belong to a human rib, but there was a deep mark on this bone, and the bone was almost broken. I searched again, and found that there were a lot of wounds on these bones, and I don't know if they were suffered before I was alive or if they were gnawed by rats after death.

Didn't these people die in a shootout?

Could it be that they were in some danger?

I counted, and there were at least five skulls, that is, at least five people died in this place.

Chen Ci came alone, and Bai Laosi didn't bring too many helpers at the beginning, the only one who brought a large number of people was Old Man Zhao, it seems that these bullet marks were left by Old Man Zhao's people. When they first came here, eighty percent of them were in distress.

I looked around, and there was no danger except for the rat that had grown up eating human flesh just now, so I didn't plan to stay longer, so I hurried on my way out of the grass. I was so shocked that when I looked back, my scalp was numb for a while, but I saw that in the grass behind me, somehow, a large number of black rats appeared, all of which were as big as basketballs.

The next moment, these mice all pounced on me, where people ran past the mice, I panicked forward, but was still scratched by a few mice, in a hurry, the foot stepped on the air, the whole person fell to the ground, along the steep slope gurgling down, in a hurry I can only hold my head, to prevent the head from being bruised, not to mention how much pain in the body. Suddenly, I only felt that as soon as my body was vacated, the whole person was planted into the water with a pop, and the cold river water immediately wrapped me.

Fortunately, the rats could not swim, and as soon as I entered the water, they stopped chasing them, and after a few moments they were gone.

At this time, it was a countercurrent, I grabbed a rock and barely maintained my shape, and some small fish by the river gathered and pecked me as a large earthworm, so that it didn't hurt, and it was quite comfortable. I stepped on the water with my feet in the water, looked around, and didn't see the shadow of Lu Su and the others, so I could only sigh and continue to swim forward resignedly.

When I got into the water, I remembered the old turtle before, and said that the old turtle had no conscience, and said that it would repay me, why didn't I see it to repay me? I would have dived and walked away, and I would have destroyed the plank road, otherwise I would not have been separated from the team.

Just as I was thinking about it, something hard suddenly appeared under my feet and pushed it up, and I looked down in shock, and couldn't help but be shocked: "Old turtle, it's you." โ€

On the top of it, I sat on the back of the turtle, this old turtle is very large, otherwise it would be impossible to carry a stone tablet. I sat on the back of the turtle, and the old turtle turned its head to look at me with the face of an old man, and then went up the river all the way upstream.

I was overjoyed, touched its old glans, and said, "I was thinking of you, and you came." The old turtle shook his head and continued to swim forward, not diving into the water, clearly wanting to carry me across the river. In this way, I remembered the scene of Tang Seng riding a turtle across the river in Journey to the West, and I felt novel for a while, so I sat on the back of the turtle and looked at the two banks.

Dogs have been raised for a long time to listen to human language, animals have lived for a long time, and naturally understand human nature, this old turtle said to repay me, now it seems, is to take me upstream, far away, you can see the cliff to close, expose the river bank, farther away, the Nu River water and around the cliff turned a bend, that is, the second bend.

I couldn't help but take out the binoculars to inspect the river, trying to see if I could find the traces of Lu Su and others. Except for the messenger Li Fat, who was tireless, the rest of the people were wolf-bรจi, and now I was holding a telescope, and I could see them, and they could not see me. I said to the old turtle: "Seeing that there are no people in front of you, slow down and follow them, and when they are tired, let's keep up." Do you understand what I'm saying? The old turtle turned his head, nodded his head twice, and on a face that resembled a human, the turtle's mouth was bent, and the wrinkles were frowned, revealing a smile that seemed to be in agreement.

I looked at Daqi and said, "Old turtle, old turtle, you are really a sperm." I heard that spirits have three tribulations of heaven, earth and man, first through the human tribulation, then through the earth tribulation, and finally through the heavenly tribulation. You were captured by Puzhen for a thousand years, and it is estimated that it is your human robbery, and you want to cross the earth to rob Ming'er, just learn from those foxes and snakes, and find someone to avoid the robbery, if you find me, I will never shirk. โ€

The old turtle nodded again, slowing down sharply, and then, I sat on the turtle's back and looked at Lu Su and the others from a distance with a telescope. The worst thing is to cut the chicken in vain, old and frail, but he has to toss, although he has a messenger to take care of him, he still shrugs his head, as if he is going to hang up.

Suddenly, several people stopped, probably unable to swim anymore, and huddled under the cliff in a group, holding on to some vines to stabilize their figures. I felt that the time was almost up, and said to the old turtle, "Speed up." โ€