Chapter 23: The Reappearance of the Shadows (3)
When Luo Yin and Lu Tieshou rushed to the entrance of the village, they were just about to enter the village to go to Liu Changsheng's house, when they suddenly heard a huge rumbling sound, and then felt a strong wind coming from their backs, making people unable to stand, and the ground under their feet also trembled.
"What's going on?" Luo Yin barely stood still, still questioning, and looked at Lu Tieshou face to face.
As soon as the words fell, Luo Yin seemed to hear the sound of rising waves again, and hurriedly looked back, and the tumbling sea water was surging in front of him.
"Is this the rising tide?" Luo Yin was puzzled.
Seeing Lu Tie's hands frowning, his expression was very nervous, he looked at the sea water that had begun to reach their ankles, and said slowly: "I'm afraid it's not the high tide, but the tsunami is coming." ”
"Tsunami?"
"Yes. As soon as Lu Tieshou finished speaking, the waves in the distance were like dragons out of the sea, suddenly rising high, jumping up about a few feet, and then fiercely attacking in the direction of the fishing village, its momentum was extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye it had crossed the original beach area.
Seeing this, Lu Tieshou was shocked, shouted "Run!" and took Luo Yin's hand and ran towards the road up the mountain outside the village.
Luo Yin dragged him and refused to go, but ran to the village.
"No, there are more than 100 people in the village, I'm going to wake everyone up and run for their lives!" Luo Yin said loudly in a panic, and the first thing that came to his mind at this moment was Aunt Lu and Yu Bao'er from the next house.
"It's too late, kid, if you don't run you will die in this sea. Lu Tieshou followed closely behind him and said.
The sea was menacing, and they were chasing after the two of them, and as they were talking, a huge wave came and swept them both into the turbulent undercurrent. Luo Yin was stunned by the huge waves that fell from the sky, his head buzzed, and he was drowned in the sea, not knowing the direction, only feeling that there was a dark blue chaos up and down, left and right. And the tide kept rolling, no matter how hard Luo Yin swung his hands and feet, he couldn't surface, Luo Yin struggled desperately, and gradually felt that the breath in his chest was insufficient, and a huge sense of oppression had hit.
Suddenly, a strong hand grabbed Hidein's arm and lifted him out of the water and onto his back. Luo Yin choked on a mouthful of water in a panic, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was Lu Tieshou. At this time, Lu Tieshou was urging the method, using the technique of resisting water, and leaping and gliding on the sea like a barracuda. The waves behind him were one layer higher than one layer, chasing after him, and several times he almost got involved in it again and again.
The raging waters soon swept through the fishing village, and some low-lying houses near the coast were already in ruins by the rushing waves. Lu Tieshou finally climbed up the mountainside in one breath with Luo Yin on his back, stopped and looked back, and found that the entire fishing village had been submerged in a vast sea, and the huge waves of the sea with the strong wind were raging the entire Jialan Coast.
"It's over!" Luo Yin knelt down sadly towards the fishing village at the bottom of the mountain, and tears suddenly welled up.
"They must all be dead, dead......" Luo Yin looked at the tumbling sea, muttered to himself, as if he suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly turned back to Lu Tieshou and said: "Qin'er! Uncle Tieshou, have you seen Qin'er and them." They went back to the village before us, and they should have found the tsunami. ”
Lu Tieshou looked around, at this time this half of the mountainside was quiet, there were bamboo forests in front and back, and there was no figure in sight, he shook his head and said: "Maybe they also escaped, maybe on the other side of the mountain." ”
"yes, let's go find it. With that, Luo Yin wiped his tears, got up and walked deep into the forest.
After walking for about half an hour, in an open area of sparse forest, Luo Yin noticed a faint light in front of him, like a bonfire. Lu Tieshou followed closely behind, and also noticed the light.
"Maybe someone. Lu Tieshou looked at Luo Yin and said a little excitedly.
"Hmm!" Luo Yin also nodded a little excitedly.
The two of them brushed aside the branches and leaves of the bamboo forest, trotted all the way, and ran towards the light.
In front of him, there were indeed several bonfires, and there were many people sitting around the fire. Luo Yin saw at a glance the pile of bonfires closest to him, and it was Liu Qin'er who was sitting, and she was surrounded by cold smoke in the night. It's just that Liu Qin'er is sitting on her knees, burying her face in her knees, sobbing constantly, her body trembling slightly, and she seems to be in great grief.
Beside the fire, there were a few young guards and fishermen, who must have escaped by patrolling the sea tonight. A little farther away, there were still three or four fires, each surrounded by a dozen people, and it seemed that the situation was not as bad as Luo Yin expected, and about sixty percent of the villagers still escaped. Seeing this situation, Luo Yin and Lu Tieshou suddenly felt a lot more relieved, and they breathed a sigh of relief.
Luo Yin saw Liu Lingkong in the crowd, he was walking back and forth between several bonfires, counting the number of people and calming everyone's emotions, while Liu Qin'er's mother, Nalan, was taking care of a few injured people. He also saw his uncle Mingshi, who lived in the east of the village, and Dr. Zhang Nanzhu, who lived in the west of the village. And the figure of the village chief Liu Changsheng didn't seem to be seen.
He glanced back at Liu Qin'er, who was sitting silently by the fire, and immediately understood something.
Luo Yin slowly walked past the campfires, surveying every face here, searching for people he knew. Fortunately, on the farthest side of the bonfire, Luo Yin saw Yu Bao'er and his family of three, but he didn't see Aunt Lu's figure, and he couldn't help but feel a sinking in his heart. And among the remaining faces, he also didn't see his father Luo Shuihan and Uncle Song. Luo Yin's heart tightened immediately, and a bad premonition came to his heart, but he didn't dare to think about it, as if a heavy hammer was about to hit his heart, but it didn't fall.
"Did you see my father?Did you see the falling water?" Luo Yin was a little flustered and asked one by one.
But after asking everyone, all he responded to was to shake his head helplessly.
Liu Lingkong saw him at this time and felt a little surprised, so he asked, "Luoyin, why did you come back to the village?"
"Uncle Liu, it was Zhang Musha who sent me back to deliver Xiao Hei's funeral letter. Luo Yin replied, and hurriedly asked, "Have you seen my father?"
Liu Lingkong shook his head, squinted and pondered for a moment, and then said: "Before the evening came, I saw him, he and Lao Song Tou were rushing out to sea, saying that they were going to catch a fish that would only appear at night. ”
"Oh. Luo Yin nodded thoughtfully, thinking to himself, maybe Luo Shui Han and Uncle Song are still in a certain sea area.
Lu Tieshou came over at this time, patted Luo Yin's shoulder silently, and pulled him to sit down by the fire, which happened to sit next to Liu Qin'er.
Liu Qin'er raised her eyes and looked at Luo Yin, the corners of her mouth trembled slightly, and there were faint tears in the corners of her eyes.
"Luoyin, my grandfather he, he ......"
"Qin'er, you...... Don't be too upset......" Luo Yin hesitated, not knowing how to comfort him.
Hearing this, Liu Qin'er felt as if she had been pricked by a needle suddenly, and hugged Luoyin's strong arm and cried. The tears that had been stored for a long time could no longer be held back, and the spring flowed like a spring.
Luo Yin didn't dare to move, so he had to sit up straight and let Liu Qin'er lean on. While feeling the tremor from Liu Qin'er's body, he stared blankly at the bonfire in front of him. And beside the campfire, in the flickering firelight, another pair of calm eyes were quietly watching him.
At this moment, at the foot of the mountain, it is already an ocean. The fierce waves were still rolling, the wind was churning the whole sea, and a few lightning bolts were strikingly in the dark night sky. The color of the sea is strange and heavy, as if there are thousands of cuttlefish draining their juice into the sea.
"Lord Volley, no, something strange seems to be floating in the sea!" Suddenly, a young escort who was on the side of the mountain turned his head and shouted to Liu Lingkong.
Liu Lingkong hurriedly walked to the side of the mountain and looked for it. When everyone heard this, they were all curious and looked towards the sea.
I saw that in the midst of the vicious waves, two domes like mounds appeared, and something really big was emerging from the water. Liu Lingkong's heart couldn't help but tighten, staring intently at the changes on the surface of the sea. Luo Yin, Liu Qin'er, and Ye Lengyan couldn't stand their curiosity, and crouched beside the small tree on the side of the mountain, carefully observing the movement of the sea.
Soon, the domes came out of the water, and they turned out to be huge sea monsters with dark green bodies, two in all, and half of their bodies were already exposed to the sea. The sea monster was about three feet tall, larger than a fishing boat, with a huge forehead resembling an island-shaped dome, and under the dome were eyes larger than a goose egg. What's even more terrifying is that the two sea monsters each carry a huge iron anchor in their hands, as if they were torn from an ancient warship, and the tail of the iron anchor is still dragging half of the iron cable.
Everyone was frightened, and they all retreated and huddled together. The two sea monsters were slowly stepping towards the shore, and although the water surging ashore flooded the village houses, it could not drown the huge and towering body of the sea monster. The floating fragments of the doors and windows of the house rolled around the two sea monsters.
"Is this ...... Tide hunter?" Liu Lingkong thought with a frown.
"Yes, it's the Tide Hunter!" said the deer iron hand on the side with a solemn expression.
"Isn't the tide hunter the ancient monster that is said to live on the tidal island in the heart of the Great Dawn Sea? It is rumored that the tidal island is located 100,000 miles away, and no one has ever seen it, only recorded in ancient books. I didn't expect there to be such a monster. Liu Lingkong was shocked, a little incredulous.
"But legend has it that the Tide Hunter never came into contact with the Human Continent, only because of a pact with the God of Dawn. But today, this demon beast actually traveled 100,000 miles away and invaded my Jialan Peninsula, what is going on?" Lu Tieshou was also puzzled.
"This tsunami must be the method of the tide hunter, that is, I am afraid that the comer is not good. Liu Lingkong frowned and said.
He then looked back at the surviving people at this time, and there were only a dozen people who knew how to practice the Fa or punch and kick. Among these people, except for the deer iron hand and the hidden man, the rest are all warlocks or samurai below the second class, not to mention that they can compete with this tide hunter, but I am afraid that they may not even have the ability to resist the blow of the huge iron anchor.
At this moment, the two tide hunters were already standing near the foot of the mountain, and they saw the one who was the leader raise their heads in the air and roared, and the mountain shook suddenly. After the roar, the waves gradually subsided, the tide slowly receded below the original coastline, the dark clouds in the night sky also dispersed, and a cold bright moon hung high in the sky.
The crowd then witnessed the devastation of the village, with few houses crumbling and scattered belongings and the corpses of the villagers who had not escaped.
The tide hunter stood on the side of the mountain, looking up at Liu Lingkong and the others who were halfway up the mountain, and after a while, he suddenly jumped up high, about ten feet above the ground, picked up the iron anchor in his hand, and struck hard at the mountain. The iron anchor fell, and the mountain trembled violently, and the surrounding rocks rolled down one after another. They all sat down on the ground, terrified. The tide hunter landed, and the mountains shook again.
"Hand it over!" the tidehunter drank in a hoarse voice.
Liu Lingkong and Lu Tieshou looked at each other, not knowing what it meant, and everyone was even more puzzled, not knowing what this tide hunter wanted.
"Hand it over!" roared the tidehunter again.
After waiting for a moment, seeing that no one was squeaking, the two tide hunters became a little impatient, and flew up one after the other, picked up the iron anchor high, and slammed it halfway up the mountain. This time, two huge iron anchors slammed into the forest where everyone was resting halfway up the mountain, only to feel a gust of wind, the earth cracked and landslided, like an earthquake, and everyone was injured by the earth and rocks. And the three of Luo Yin, Liu Qin'er and Ye Lengyan happened to be on the side of the mountain, the mountain shook suddenly, and a boulder under the foot of Ye Lengyan happened to fall off, she didn't have time to react, she just screamed, and fell down with the boulder.
Luo Yin and Liu Qin'er were shocked, and their hearts trembled. This halfway up the mountainside is also fourteen or fifteen zhang high, and if a person falls, his bones will be shattered.
In a panic, a figure suddenly jumped out of the air, grabbed Ye Lengyan with one hand, and urged the method to conjure up a few thick vines and lock them on the body of a thousand-year-old tree on the side of the mountain.
That figure turned out to be Lu Tieshou. The thick rattan binding method is the art of the earth gate in the winding technique, it is one of the deer iron hand hand manipulation door, in the past the deer iron hand is the best at grasping the technique, so this trick is named by him said that the old vine is entangled, if it is used against the enemy, it can firmly bind and lock the enemy, no matter how powerful it is, it is difficult to break the entanglement of these old vines. Lu Tie's right foot tapped the cliff wall, and with a swing, he threw her back to the flat ground on the mountainside with the cold smoke of the night.
Luo Yin hurriedly caught the cold smoke of the night and helped her to stand still. Liu Qin'er was also frightened into a cold sweat, and when she saw that the night was safe and sound, she hurriedly pulled her over and sat down under an old tree. The cold smoke of that night was also frightened, and he was holding his chest and slowly breathing and exhaling.
But he said that this deer was bent on saving people, and he didn't notice that the tide hunter under him had attacked again. He had barely sent the night smoke back to the mountainside, and he was still hanging in mid-air, when an anchor strike from the tide hunter had struck. He hurriedly dodged, dodging the fatal blow of the huge iron, his hand grabbed the old vine and floated in the air, and his back accidentally hit the cliff wall, causing him to grit his teeth in pain.
Seeing this, the tide hunter simply closed the anchor, and with a wave of his giant hand, a torrent burst out and hit the deer iron hand. Lu Tie's hand hung in the air, unable to dodge, and was hit in the chest by this torrent, as if he had been beaten in the chest by a boulder, only to feel that his bones were broken and his eyes were black. A mouthful of blood spurted out suddenly. When the tide hunter saw this, he grinned, and then struck an iron anchor, and smashed the iron hand of the deer into the cliff wall several feet deep, and shattered his bones and bones.
As soon as the injury was severe, the method also failed, the old vine broke, and Lu Tieshou lost consciousness and fell down in a hurry.
"Uncle Deer!" Luo was hiding on the edge of the cliff, and when he saw this tragic situation, he couldn't help but shout loudly. Liu Qin'er on the side was also shocked with tears on her face and was in pain. And Ye Lengyan was even more shocked, and sat there stunned, obviously not expecting the tide hunter to be so cruel, shocked and angry, but he couldn't reveal his identity, and his fists trembled with anger.
The willow volley on the side had already flown down and rushed towards the falling deer iron hand.
Liu Lingkong stretched out his hand, and was about to grab Lu Tie's hand, but he was suddenly stopped by an anchor flying in the sky, so startled that he tightened his waist a little, stepped on the iron anchor with both feet, and retreated far away with a somersault. It turned out that the tide hunter knew that he was going to save people, so he deliberately obstructed it. With this obstruction, Lu Tieshou had already fallen down and fell heavily at the foot of the mountain, unconscious. And the tide hunter still did not stop, grabbed the deer iron hand with his huge hand, stuck his neck and twisted it, only to hear a snap, the deer iron hand completely lost his breath, and his head hung down on his chest.
"Drink!" the Tide Hunter at the head shouted, as if to intimidate the crowd, and then the triumphant monster threw himself into the sea, throwing the dead iron hand of the deer into the depths of the ocean.