Chapter 11: Courage (for the "Double Gabe" Friends)
Not far from the target, the mission team stopped.
Zhang Wen looked around and said, "Set up a trap here, if you get too close, you will alarm that demonic beast." ”
The axe and the bow agreed, and they took out their tools and began to dig the pit.
Zhang Wen used activated ropes and other ropes to arrange several interlocking rope sleeves and hanging rope sleeves.
As for Yao Yao, he was ordered to rest on the spot and recover his strength as soon as possible.
After the simple trap was arranged, Yao Yao watched as the three men used nearby trees, stumps, and tenacious mountain vines to create some fetters and impact devices.
When everything was arranged, Zhang Wen looked at the sun in the sky and said, "Rest for a while, and then start fighting." ”
When Yao Yao heard this, her originally calm mood suddenly became calm, and it felt like she was playing a game to fight a vicious boss, and suddenly someone told herself, you are really fighting for life and death now, and if you can't beat the boss, you will die.
Her face was a little frighteningly white, not the beautiful whiteness of the original, but the paleness of her face.
He sat with a white face like that, and his eyes didn't even move, as if his soul had been shocked out of his body.
Zhang Wen sat beside her, and after a while, he said slowly:
"I don't remember how many battles I've been in this world anymore, but I still remember my first fight vividly. ”
"My opponent is an armored fish, a gigantic amphibian monster that has escaped the confines of the sea, its evolution is incomplete, it has no skin, it is covered with hard bone shards, it lacks pairs of thorax and fins, and especially it has no hands and feet and limbs, and it travels by wriggling tentacles under its abdomen. They have huge mouths, but they don't have teeth, and instead suck the bodily fluids of their prey with small sucker-like openings in their mouths, and in short, they look far more disgusting than you might think. ”
Yao Yao said with a white face: "Then how did you defeat it? How did you win the battle?"
Admittedly, although she was still terrified, the guide's account did succeed in piquing her curiosity.
"How do you know I've won?"
"If you hadn't won, it would have been the armored fish that appeared in front of me now, right?" Yao Yao glanced at him angrily, a little like a little woman.
Zhang Wen smiled, Yao Yao looked at him with some surprise, this cold man would also laugh, and why did he smile so well?
This was the first time Yao Yao had taken a serious look at this enigmatic man, from the side, his handsome and thin face was expressionless, like a sculpture, and his deeply sunken eye sockets made people look at him as if they were looking directly into the abyss.
Zhang Wen's smile may only exist for a second, maybe it is shorter, he quickly regained his indifference, and said lightly: "You guessed wrong, I didn't win, and in the end I was swallowed by the big fish that was about five meters long. ”
"Ahh
I held on to the fish's stomach for five or ten minutes, slowly cutting open its stomach, bones, fat, and scales with a knife, and burrowed it out. So in the end, I didn't win, but it died. ”
Yao Yao opened her mouth, not knowing what to say.
Zhang Wen patted her on the shoulder and got up to leave.
Yao Yao's eyes followed the figure of this man, and saw that he was talking to Xiao Gong over there for a while, and the two seemed to be arguing about something, and after a while, Xiao Gong walked over.
"How's it going, are you still nervous?" said Bow.
Yao Yao nodded, shook her head again, and asked irritably, "I...... Will you die?"
Xiao Gong pondered for a moment and said, "No! Actually, I didn't want to tell you now, I'm worried that it won't be good for your future growth, but depending on your state, let's say it earlier." ”
"What?"
"Actually, we all have three lives, three chances. Little Bow smiled bitterly:
"Have you ever played the game? The characters in the game have countless lives, and when they die, they can come back and start over. Soul travelers like us also have this opportunity, but only three times. ”
Yao Yao's eyes lit up, and she asked urgently, "What about after three times?"
"I don't know! I've never seen a teammate who died three times and come back again. I asked the Boss, and the answer he gave me was that he didn't know, and that those who had died three times could no longer be summoned anyway, whether they were alive or dead. ”
Speaking of this, Xiao Gong said solemnly: "So, cherish these opportunities, don't think that you are unscrupulous if you have three lives, people who have such thoughts will definitely die without even scum." ”
Yao Yao seemed to have figured out something, her pale face gradually returned to a little blood, she looked at Xiao Gong and said gratefully: "Thank you, Brother Xiao Gong." ”
"Figured it out?"
Yao Yao shook her hair and said fiercely: "To tell the truth, the old lady is beautiful and beautiful, she lives a very chic life, and she will never die in this ghost place, the old lady fights!"
Xiao Gong nodded: "It is necessary to have this kind of courage to break the boat, here, cowardice and fear are useless, they will only die faster." If you fight hard, you will survive in the end, and I hope you have good luck. ”
Yao Yao stood up fiercely, patted the dirt on her skin strands, and strode in front of Zhang Wen.
"I'm ready, how do I get started?"
Zhang Wen looked at her, there was a hint of appreciation in his scrutinizing eyes, and said: "About a thousand meters ahead is the nest of the demonic beast, I will take you there, and the rest is up to you." ”
Yao Yao nodded, and there was a kind of tragedy in her heart that a strong man would never return.
The two split the thorns and walked all the way, walking and suddenly feeling the light brightening, Yao Yao looked forward and couldn't help but be surprised by what he saw.
In front of it was a large open field, with only a giant tree growing in the center.
This giant tree resembles the Earth's banyan tree, but is much larger. It is not that it is huge, not that it is very tall, but that its lateral branches and lateral roots are very developed, hanging downward, like a handful of beards, and these aerial roots grow downward into the soil and continue to thicken and become pillar roots, and the pillar roots continue to invade the surroundings, squeezing other plants.
The result is what Yao Yao sees now: the giant banyan tree occupies a radius of several kilometers with just one tree, and the other plants have dried up and died due to lack of nutrients.
Lacking the tall trees, sunlight could finally shine in, and the area was unusually bright in the dark forest.
"Get down!"
Zhang Wen gave a short reminder, and while he bent down, he also pressed Yao Yao down.
The two of them hid in the grass and looked, only to see a huge hole in the foot of the giant banyan tree, and a bright green monster was emerging from the hole at this moment.
Yao Yao's eyes widened suddenly, the tree spirits and saber-toothed tigers in front of them were terrifying enough, but their appearance was still within the scope of human imagination, but what the hell was this green monster, how could it look so outrageous?
As for the specific appearance, if you have to describe it, Yao Yao feels that those three words are really appropriate.
Praying mantis scorpion!
Even if the guide around her didn't explain, Yao Yao dared to be sure that this monster was the target of her trip, the old friend of the axe in the small bow's mouth - the mantis scorpion.
Mamma Mia, she has seen praying mantises, and scorpions have also trampled to death when climbing mountains, but several organs of the praying mantis and the body of the scorpion are randomly pinched together like mud, and then magnified dozens of times, and then with a tired bright green, I jumped in front of you with a plop, and asked if you were afraid!
"This little thing is a praying mantis scorpion. Zhang Wen didn't seem to see the paleness on Yao Yao's face, and said unhurriedly:
"They're about a meter long, and they have a decent bounce, but apart from their size, they're not as good as their planetary mantises, they don't have those two overbearing broadswords, only some hard serrations on their forelimbs, just be careful not to get caught by them. They also have poor eyesight, only one eye, and they also have a long abdomen, and their vision angle is very poor, which is easy for opponents to dodge. ”
Yao Yaoming knew that he was letting himself relax, but he still didn't want to be angry and said: "Since they are so weak, then don't attract blame, how good it would be for you to kill them directly!"
Zhang Wen was not angry, and said lightly: "Remember, there are no idlers here, and everyone has to prove their worth." ”
Yao Yao stopped talking.
Zhang Wen continued: "In addition to the serrations on their legs, they also have a weapon, and the most lethal weapon, which is the stinger in the mouthparts.
When hunting, they use the unique physiology of their mouths to shoot the stinger like a compressed high-pressure spring, a distance that can threaten targets more than a meter in front of them. So when you run to dodge, make sure to keep at least two meters away from it, otherwise it will pop out of the spike and pierce your body at any time. ”
Yao Yao listened in horror, and this feeling reminded her of the little brother of the neighbor who told her a story about an evil Little Red Riding Hood when she was five or six years old, which scared her for days and nightmares.
And now the scene is even more nightmare than a nightmare.
What made Yao Yao admire herself was that she was not only not intimidated, but also asked a question logically and clearly: "Since you call it a praying mantis scorpion, and it has a very hideous tail, is this tail also threatening?"
Zhang Wen: "Yes, but that's none of your business, when the praying mantis scorpion pursues you, your forelimbs are your biggest threat, if you let it get close enough to use its tail, you're already dead." ”
Yao Yao: "......"