Chapter 21: Monsters
Yi Chen planned to take a rest, so he asked the horses to find grass to eat, and sat on the ground and took out dry food to eat. After eating, Yi Chen lay on the ground and prepared to sleep for a while. In broad daylight, there are no ghosts to disturb you.
I don't know how long I slept, but I was woken up by a noisy sound, and listened carefully, crying and footsteps.
Yi Chen sat up and saw that there was a group of people running towards this side at the foot of the mountain, and some of them had already arrived in front of him. Some of these people were holding the old man, some were holding children, and some were pushing a small cart full of burdens, and they ran towards this side as if they were running for their lives.
Yi Chen quickly got up from the ground, stepped aside, and looked in the direction they were running. Only then did he discover that there was a small mountain village at the foot of the mountain, and it was from this mountain village that these people had run out.
"Boy, run!" shouted to Yi Chen, and ran over.
Seeing that there were still many people running behind him, Yi Chen whistled, called the horse, and then jumped on the horse and ran towards the direction of the mountain village.
There were fewer and fewer villagers in the back, until they came to the entrance of the village, and they only saw a village woman pulling a five or six-year-old child limping in the direction of the crowd. And there was a terrifying beast roar in the village, and the heavens and the earth seemed to tremble.
The child immediately began to cry in fright, and the village woman could only drag him forward.
Yi Chen dismounted, picked the child on the horse's back, helped the village woman up, asked her to grasp the reins, and then patted the horse's back, and the horse carried the mother and son galloping away in the direction of the crowd.
When Yi Chen looked back in the direction of the village, he took a sharp breath. He saw a huge monster striding out of the village, its big feet landing on the ground with a dull but loud thud.
The monster was more than ten meters tall, its exposed fangs were red with blood, its orange-red eyes were the size of a basin, and it looked down on the creatures on the ground.
There was only one thought in his mind now: "Run!" He turned and ran in the direction of the crowd.
The monster let out a low roar and strode after it.
Yi Chen ran for a while, feeling a little difficult to breathe, and stopped to look back, the monster actually sped up and came this way. Yi Chen was a little surprised: What's the situation? This guy is so fat that he can still run!
Without thinking too much, Yi Chen quickly changed direction and continued to run forward. He couldn't take the monster in the direction of the crowd.
The monster trotted in the direction he was running.
After running for a while, Yi Chen couldn't breathe anymore, so he had to stop again, propping his hands on his knees, and breathing with his mouth wide open.
"You can't even run yourself, and you give your horse to someone else?" said a girl's voice.
Yi Chen looked up and saw a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl in front of her, very handsome, thin and tall, with two strands of hair tied into horns on her head, and an old man with gray hair and beard beside her, who looked in good spirits. This old and young are none other than Nan Ao, the sect leader of the Medical Sect, and Nan Ye, his granddaughter.
At this moment, Nan Ye was looking at Yi Chen with mocking eyes.
"If you have this time to laugh at me, you might as well run away with your grandfather!" Yi Chen thought that the two of them also ran out of the mountain village.
"Why should I run?" Nan Ye said indifferently, "I'm not afraid of that thing!"
After saying that, Nan Ye grimaced at the monster running towards this side, and stuck out his tongue.
Yi Chen looked stunned, but when he saw that the old man next to him had been smiling and not speaking, he was relieved.
"Cover your mouth and nose!" Seeing that the monster was almost here, Nan Ye suddenly shouted to Yi Chen. Then he took out a packet of medicinal powder from his body and threw it in the direction of the monster.
The strong smell of medicine permeated, and Yi Chen hurriedly covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves.
Nan Ao also waved his sleeves lightly to cover his mouth and nose. But this seems to be a similar action to Yi Chen, but it has a different effect. When Nan Ao waved his sleeves lightly, a strong wind blew towards the medicinal powder, quickly blowing the medicinal powder in the direction of the monster.
The monster had already opened its mind, and when it smelled the medicine, it felt bad and stopped urgently, and only a small part of the powder fell on its head. Due to inertia, the monster glided on the ground for a while, and finally stopped when its big thick feet were less than a foot away from Yu Chen. After stopping, the monster turned and ran in the direction of the mountain.
"Want to escape?" Nan Yejiao shouted, flew up, chased after it, and landed on the monster's back.
Yi Chen was a little dumbfounded, this was the first time he had seen a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl chasing a monster and fighting.
Seeing that something had fallen on its back, the monster stopped and twisted its body constantly, trying to throw Nanye off. But Nanye's feet seemed to be glued to its back, and no matter how it writhed, it could stand firmly.
Yi Chen saw that Nan Ye didn't know when he had an extra dagger more than a foot long in his hand, and the old man who came with the girl had already walked towards the monster.
"One foot back, another three feet. Nan Ao shouted to Nan Ye.
Nan Ye's toes touched the beast's back, jumped up, stepped back, and then rolled over and plunged the dagger into it three feet below.
The monster roared in pain and ran wildly. Nanye grabbed the dagger tightly and hung it on the monster's waist, swinging like a swing in the wind as the monster's body jumped, but it never fell.
The monster's huge body tossed for a while, and it seemed to be a little tired, and its movements gradually slowed down. Nan Ye took the opportunity to slap the monster's waist with a palm, and with the help of his strength, he pulled out the dagger and flew down, and a pillar of blood sprayed out from the monster's waist.
At the same time as Nan Ye's flying body fell, a long rope flew out of Nan Ye's other hand, straight into the blood hole that had just been pierced by the dagger.
The monster roared again and ran wildly again. Nanye pulled the long rope back and fell back to the ground, not chasing it again this time.
After seeing the long rope pulled out of the monster's body, Yi Chen grabbed a bloody thing at the end, looking very disgusting.
Nan Ye threw the bloody thing to Yi Chen's side and said, "You take it off?"
Although this girl looks young, she has first-class skills, and Yi Chen felt that it was not to provoke her, so he had to squat down and take the disgusting thing. After taking it off, Yi Chen saw clearly that the place where there was no blood was green, and it should be the beast gall.
"You're so powerful, why don't you kill it, lest you come out and harm the villagers in the future." Yi Chen handed the beast gall to Nan Ye and said.
Nan Ye didn't pick it up, but threw out a piece of cloth, motioned for Yi Chen to pick it up, and then said, "Don't worry, it can't run, I'll have to get the beast's heart later!"
Yi Chen was relieved at this time, and presented the wrapped beast gall to Nan Ye and said, "Thank you girl for saving your life!"
"You're welcome, I'm not here to save you, I'm just trying to get the guts and hearts of beasts. Nan Ye took the beast gall and said to Yi Chen, and then looked at Nan Ao, "Grandpa, let's go!"
Nanao walked over with a smile.