Chapter Twenty-Three: Fighting Scalpers, Old Acquaintances Appear on the Western Slope
The moment the footsteps sounded from the door of the house, I saw that Xiaojun's face had been distorted into a strange appearance because of horror and longing for life, and I suddenly felt like one of the three heads of the idol on the shrine.
Afraid of screaming, Jun covered his mouth and trembled with his back against the stove, while I held the knife tightly, and then slowly hunched over, staring at the wooden door that I had closed, waiting for the man to come in through the door, and then swing the knife out.
I was shaking all over my body, trying to make a position that was as simple and powerful as possible.
Able to stun two people with black stars unsuspectingly, this man, at least in terms of combat, is a very powerful character; And according to the strange scene of Li Tangcheng and Xiaojun hanging upside down in the stove room, it cannot be ruled out that he is still a guy with evil arts. So, I had to be 10,000 mentally prepared for it.
In order to prevent moisture, the underground of the hall is an empty floor, because it has been too long, so it is not stable, and people will make a "squeak" sound when they walk on it. In fact, my house is also like this, and I have listened to such a sound for more than 20 years, but I have never heard it like this moment, which is creepy, and I am afraid that it will continue to come up from the bottom of my heart—especially when there is a corpse next to it, dripping with residual blood.
Li Tangcheng has been dead for a while, and the blood has almost flowed, drop by drop of residual blood, and the whereabouts are so reluctant.
The sudden sound of footsteps was heavy, without the slightest restraint, and it was obvious that this person should be the owner of this place. He seemed to come to the shrine, bowed down, then went to the cupboard next to the bed to get something, and walked straight to the kitchen. Is it coming? I held the knife tightly, feeling the handle wet, as if it was being wet with sweat from my palms.
I found that there was no miscellaneous trail, and I couldn't help but be nervous when I was facing this mountain of pressure alone.
The wooden door creaked open a little, and we stood in the doorway, quietly waiting for the door to open.
However, the man who pushed the door let out a "huh" from his mouth, as if he had some doubts, and then the sound of wooden planks in the hall sounded, and he actually turned and walked towards the door without a moment's pause. I listened to this voice, and I had a sense of déjà vu, which kept wandering in my head, but it didn't jump out. When the footsteps had disappeared for a few moments at the door of the hut, I couldn't help but go to the small window next to the stove and look out.
I saw a tall figure walking along the road I had just come, towards the hillside to the west.
This back feels really familiar to me.
But I still don't recognize who it is. However, since he is going to the slope of the forest, he will inevitably meet the monkey boy I tied to the tree, and whether he and the monkey child are friends or foes, he will definitely know that I have come to the only clear pearl in this mist, to his lair. I have a gut feeling that this place may have the biggest secret hidden in the entire Heizhugou.
I didn't dare to stare at his back for a long time, because in general, people like us, the sixth sense, which is the so-called "spiritual sense", is basically very powerful, once being stared at for a long time, there will be a sense of unease, and a slightly stronger one can even immediately judge the direction. So I withdrew my gaze, and when I turned around, there was a large wooden barrel next to me, which was full of red and black internal organs, all kinds of organs, which had been peeled off intact, I thought they should have come from Li Tangcheng's stomach, I don't know what kind of pain their owners encountered before they died?
Looking at Li Tangcheng's distorted and desperate face, I felt sorry for myself, and I didn't know what to say.
When people encounter such a situation, they always have an involuntary sense of substitution, and they feel that they are also digging out their hearts and lungs, so I am particularly disgusted with this dilapidated stove room, and I lowered my body, looked at Xiaojun, who was sitting on his knees and leaning against the earthen stove, patted his face, and saw that his eyes were stunned, so he twitched hard. With a soft snap, Xiaojun finally got rid of the terrifying state of mind, and the six gods looked at me without a master, and said Brother Lu, what should I do? Will we be able to escape? It's horrible!
My mind is also a little confused, but I also know that the most important thing at this moment is to leave this wooden house and not let the owner here find out.
I pulled him up and said can I go?
Xiaojun said yes. He did not suffer any obvious external injuries, but his waist was locked and his body hung upside down, which caused poor blood circulation and numbness all over his body. At the moment of life and death, it is natural to grit his teeth and try desperately to escape, he rubbed all over his body vigorously, and then slowly withdrew with me. We walked through the back door next to the stove, and crossed a dark corridor, and I saw a neat stack of human heads piled up in the corner, all of which were properly made of nitrate, and I didn't have time to look closely, and I don't know how long the road had been dead.
On the walls hung many sleek headless corpses, which had the oily texture of bacon through the dim light.
Xiao Jun trembled with fear, and the sound of his teeth chattering could be heard from far away, and we pushed open the back door, and there was a verdant meadow on the opposite side. The breeze blew the smell of the grass and trees in the mountains, and cleared away some of the strange smells, and on the grass diagonally opposite, there were three adult cattle with thick limbs and brown fur grazing with their heads down, and when they saw us, they couldn't help but "moo".
Xiaojun couldn't stand the terrifying scene in the side corridor of the stove room, and was the first to grab the door, but because the wooden threshold was too high, he almost fell.
I looked over the ridges and towards the western hillside, and saw that the tall black shadow had disappeared into the forest, so I quickly helped Xiaojun up, and then ran towards the dense forest in front of the side of the house. As soon as we cross that large meadow and enter the forest, we should be able to observe it from a distance, and we will be far from danger, and we can advance or retreat.
This grass is about 300 meters long, and it doesn't take me a minute to run at full speed, but Xiaojun is a little reluctant. So when I ran a hundred meters, I found that Xiao Juncai was staggering and trying to keep up. Since I met, I naturally wanted to go together, I turned around and was about to pull Xiaojun, but I heard Xiaojun shouting nervously at me: "Brother Lu, be careful......"
I was a little stunned, turned my head to look to the side, and saw that the three oxen, who were still grazing leisurely just now and seemed docile and harmless, actually pulled their hooves and galloped towards me.
In my hometown, the Miao Jiang generation, because there are few mountains and fields, human farming is not easy, so the cow is the best of the villagers, but also the most loyal partners and friends, work together, go home together, almost many villagers are herding cattle babies when they are young, and have a very deep affection for this simple and kind animal, and the legend that the cow's tears can distinguish yin and yang, making it more mysterious. "Cow God Festival", "Cow King Bodhisattva Festival", "Cow King Festival" ...... It will even be associated with primitive religion and our folk customs, such as life and death.
I never thought I'd be attacked by three crazy scalpers - was it because of my blood?
I have never seen a scalper as vicious as this now. Because in an instant, the soft parts of these scalpers' faces actually showed hard skin like scales, and their eyes turned blood-red, and the white gas in their noses was steaming.
The closest one to me was only six meters away.
Six meters away...... This distance is simply a matter of blink of an eye for a scalper running at full speed.
In that moment, my long-held early workouts and the instincts honed by hovering on the brink of life and death saved me. Almost a second after the break, I ran two meters to the left and then in the other direction. A scalper passed by me, and with a "whew", the sound was like a rushing train flying by; The second, the third, in just a few seconds, I almost avoided the three crazy scalpers, and the last one, the tail even twitched like a whip.
"Smack......
A red mark immediately appeared on my left arm. Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and these three extraordinary oxen are really more terrible than the vicious wolves in the mountains and forests before. Of course, at the same time as I was struck by the whip, the mountain knife in my right hand also drew a deep cut on the hind leg of the ox - man is the head of all souls after all, although we have no claws, but we have the same sharp tools.
When the knife went down, the scalper immediately fell, and followed his momentum, and rolled a few times in a row, and the grass juice splashed.
Xiao Jun showed great endurance at this moment, he didn't care, and ran towards the end of the meadow, and the hatred of the three scalpers was held back by me, and instead of chasing, they rushed towards me again. I have always had the consciousness of being a "Gu cultivator", eating with strength is always rough work, and if you can take advantage of it, naturally don't work too hard. So I slapped my chest with both hands, and the Duoduo hidden in the Huaimu card and the golden silkworm Gu in my body immediately appeared, flying towards the two fierce oxen.
And my attention was already focused on the scalper on the ground who was panting and standing up.
It shouldn't take much effort to deal with it, right?
I ran continuously, avoiding the two scalpers that were rushing towards me, and then pounced on the one that Huo Ran was standing up. I felt the warm fur, and its sweaty skin, with a lot of scars on it, and leech wounds. The head of the knife is not sharp, so I only have two cross-cuts, I used two knives, on the left and right sides of the neck of this ox each pulled a bloody wound, a large stream of blood shot out, and the ox was struggling, "moo" bark, this sound, let me move my heart soft.
And at this moment, a man ran down from the mountains and forests to the west, and I happened to turn my head to meet his gaze.
My heart shook—how could it be him?
How could it be him?!