Chapter 16: The Crisis Comes
Li Fan thought about it for a while at the entrance of the small cave, couldn't stand the foul smell coming from inside, and was about to think about countermeasures in a different place, when it suddenly occurred to him that most of the components of this foul smell were combustible gases similar to biogas!
As long as it reaches a certain concentration, a little spark can be detonated, and the power of the explosion is enough to destroy the entire cave and the nest of monsters.
After thinking of countermeasures, Li Fan began to observe the structure of the cave, and found that in addition to the five or six meters large entrance, there were only seven or eight small holes, as long as the small holes were blocked, the air could not flow, and the ventilation effect of the large caves would be greatly reduced, and the concentration of odor inside could be slowly increased.
Li Fan kept going back and forth, pulled a large pile of branches with leaves from the forest, stuffed seven or eight small holes tightly, and picked two vine fruits and stuffed them into his backpack, ready to go back and study them.
After plugging the entrance of the cave, Li Fan quietly put two gasoline bombs on the edge of the big hole, and then returned to the forest, climbed a giant tree, and observed the situation of the big hole with a telescope.
After about an hour, mothmons began to crawl out of the cave, clutching their tentacles restlessly.
Li Fan could see that these moth monsters had sensed that the air in the cave was not good, but he was not sure if the concentration of the stench was enough now, so he waited for another two hours.
Now, not only did most of the moths get tired of it and crawled out, but even the beast queens inside began to wriggle and move out of the cave.
Li Fan didn't give the beast queen a chance to crawl out, so he aimed a sniper rifle at the gasoline bomb at the entrance of the hole and hit the target with one shot.
The gasoline bomb exploded, detonating the stench in the cave at the same time, and the entire cave exploded violently.
The walls of the cave were shattered, and the entire cave collapsed in the firelight.
The white beast was covered in fuel fire from gasoline bombs, and let out a loud screech as it slid down the rock.
Most of the other mothmons were blown away, and a few who were not killed tried to crawl over to save the beast, but they were also ignited in the end.
After the loud screams in the canyon caused the mothmons to come back to their aid, hundreds of mothmons rushed to the fire and collapsed pit, only to be burned to death.
The collapse of the cave also affected the vine, and the whole vine was dragged down into the burning pit and turned into ashes by the flames.
Li Fan looked at the big pit that was on fire in front of him while running the meditation gong to resist the screams, and after a while, the beast queen stopped making a sound, and after another hour, no more moth monsters came back.
Just when Li Fan thought that he was done, a huge golden moth monster more than five meters long flew back from a distance, and after seeing the beast at the bottom of the pit, it had been burned, and instead of rushing into the fire pit, it landed on the big stone on the side and watched quietly.
This is...... Beastmaster!
Li Fan carefully examined the huge golden moth monster with a telescope and decided to kill it with a sniper rifle.
In order not to attract the attention of the Moth Monster King, Li Fan turned off the laser sight and aimed the sight at the head of the Beastmaster with the scope.
The scope of the sniper rifle is larger than the telescope, Li Fan slowly focused on the head of the beastmaster, looking for the most suitable shooting point, looking for a while, and found that the underside of the mouth of the beastmaster seemed to be a little strange, and a part of it seemed to be cut off, and the incision was very obvious.
Li Fan immediately used the scope to observe the mouths of several other moth monster corpses that had been blown away, and there was obviously more tissue than the mouth of the beastmaster.
The Golden Moth Monster King's mouth is missing, if it is a damage caused by fighting with other beasts, it should be torn, there will not be such a smooth incision, it is obviously cut off after being caught by someone!
Even the armed warriors of the local tribes are afraid of the Moth Monster, and it is too late to hide, who dares to catch the Moth Monster, and also the Beastmaster?
What is the special use of catching it and not killing it, but only cutting off part of its mouthparts?
A series of questions kept flashing in Li Fan's mind, and just as Li Fan was thinking, the golden moth monster king in the distance flew away from the big stone and landed on the corpses of several moth monsters that had fallen to the ground to check the situation.
Looking at the lonely figure of the Golden Moth Monster King, Li Fan felt pity, after all, the adult Moth Monster is a vegetarian, and it has been cut off part of its mouthparts, the nest has been destroyed, and the same kind are dead, leaving it alone.
Li Fan sighed and removed his fingers from the trigger, intending to let this Moth Monster King leave.
The Golden Moth Monster King checked the corpses of his kind on the ground for a while, without making any sound, flapping his wings and flying high into the air, hovering over the stone pit where the fire was burning, just when Li Fan thought it would leave, the Golden Moth Monster King suddenly plunged into the fire pit below from a high altitude, and was silent and motionless in the fire, slowly turning into a pile of ashes.
It actually committed suicide!
The moth monster, which seems to be much lower than humans, actually committed suicide, and it seems that because of the decision made after seeing the tragic death of the beast queen and the same kind, Li Fan was shocked, and he didn't move his body for a long time, just thinking quietly, and the cognition of animals and people in his mind was rewritten.
After sighing for a while, Li Fan came down from the giant tree, came to the side of the fire pit, found two moth monster corpses with relatively intact mouths, cut off the same part of the beastmaster with a dagger, packed it in a plastic bag and put it in his backpack, and then threw the corpses of the moth monster scattered around him into the fire pit one by one.
After waiting for a long time, the fire in the fire pit slowly extinguished, and the ashes became cold, Li Fan took a wooden stick and jumped down the huge pit, fiddling around in the burned corpse of the moth monster, and sure enough, he found the kind of blue beads that were similar to those burned by flowers and insects.
The Beastmaster and Queen are the size of a walnut, and the average Moth Monster is about the size of a cherry. Li Fan packed all the more than 100 blue beads he found in plastic bags and put them in his backpack, preparing to go back and study the use of these beads.
Returning from the giant pit to the tree hole where Lu Zhong was, he found that Lu Zhong was only a little awake and still couldn't get up, Li Fan found a few more pills for him to take, and after waiting for more than an hour, Lu Zhong was finally able to get up and barely walk.
At noon the next day, it was overcast and it rained lightly.
Chen Meili stood on a big stone at the entrance of the village, looking at the path where Li Fan had left from time to time, because tonight was the last time Li Fan had agreed, and if he didn't come back, it was likely that he would never come back.
Although most of the Chen family did not have a very good attitude towards Chen Meili, an orphan without a parent, she has always felt that she is also a member of the family, with a worry-free life and a sense of security.
Since Li Fan took out the registration book, Chen Meimei's mood has completely changed.
She found that this family member was either used as a tool to seduce men or a meat animal that provided organs in the family, except for the third uncle who was dedicated to studying medicine and the sixth uncle who raised herself, the only one who was really good to herself and willing to take the risk to save herself was Li Fan.
After waiting for a long time, I didn't wait for Li Fan, but waited for a militiaman to report the news.
Chen Meili watched him run past him quickly, without the slightest interest in the news he brought, she had only one thought in her heart, wait for Li Fan to come back, and leave the country quickly.
After waiting for a while, Li Fan didn't come, and Danya came out of the village with a large number of people.
Chen Meili turned to look at them curiously and asked, "Danya, it's raining, where are you going?"
Tanya sighed and said, "I just received the news that the matter of the farm has angered the patriarch of the Hpakant tribe, and he has gathered several thousand people to attack our tribe's territory, and the vanguard is only two or three kilometers away from the village. ”
Chen Meili's face changed greatly after hearing this, and she said, "You mean there is going to be a war here? Li Fan hasn't come back yet! What if he encounters the militia of the Hpakant tribe halfway?"
Danya said helplessly: "I can only send a few people to look for him in the direction of the Mist Forest, whether I can find it depends on his luck." After saying that, he designated a few people who knew Li Fan to find someone, and then began to deploy the soldiers in the village to meet the enemy.
Everyone began to get busy, some led the elderly, women and children into the mountains to hide, some carried ammunition, and some built fortifications.
After thinking about it, Chen Meili decided to stay near the village and wait for Li Fan, but Danya had already guessed her decision, gave her a set of guns and ammunition equipment, and sent two more people to protect her.
The people in the village were busy preparing to defend against the enemy, and Li Fan accompanied Lu Zhong to slowly walk through the misty forest. Because there were no moth monsters, the two were more relaxed, talking and laughing as they walked.
Just then, the silence was broken by a crisp gunshot in the distance.
Li Fan judged the direction, the gunfire came from the area on the outskirts of the village near the edge of the fog forest, and the two of them had to pass through that area if they wanted to return to the village.
How could there be gunshots? Remnants of moths? Probably not, they wouldn't fly outside the Misty Forest......
While Li Fan was thinking, several more gunshots came from the same direction.
Li Fan took Lu Zhong and ran in the direction of the gunshot, and immediately climbed a giant tree when he got out of the fog area, and used a telescope to observe the situation outside.
Seeing that there were many militiamen marching in the direction of the village in the forest in the distance, Li Fan carefully observed their clothes and behind their ears, and found that they were not from the Longken tribe.
Several foreign militiamen searched the woods, seemingly looking for something.
After a while, the soldiers found a wounded man in a bush and, instead of killing him immediately, they continued to torture him, as if to ask something.
Li Fan looked at the tortured person with a telescope, he was a little familiar, and there was a spider tattoo behind his ear, which should be from the Longken tribe.
At this time, several of his torturers seemed to have lost their patience, drew their pistols, and prepared to be executed.
The wounded man of the Dragonken tribe on the ground was also a tough guy, and he still didn't say a word in the face of the muzzle.
Li Fan couldn't stand it any longer, aimed his sniper rifle at the man with the pistol, and shot him in the chest before he pulled the trigger.
Several other foreign militiamen saw that the man had been shot and fell, and knowing that there were snipers, they scattered and fled into the dense forest.
Seeing that someone had saved him, the wounded Longken militia on the ground immediately rolled on the ground a few times, came to the body of the foreigner who had just been killed, took the weapons and ammunition, and then hid behind the large rocks next to him.
Seeing that the militia of the Longken tribe had already hidden, Li Fan did not rush down, but continued to use a silenced sniper rifle to target other foreigners in the distant forest, and only hit those who looked like officials.
After inexplicably killing seven or eight officers, the foreign troops marching in the woods lay dormant, and after a while began to slowly retreat, moving towards a mountain col.
Seeing this, Li Fan and Lu Zhong got off the tree and came to the vicinity of the injured Longken tribesmen militia, and asked in Huanglong language: "I am the sniper who saved you just now, who are you?"
A somewhat familiar voice came from behind the big boulder: "Brother Fan, I'm Wu Wei who took you to the ammunition depot that day!
When Li Fan heard it, he remembered this voice, it was indeed the young man who took him to choose ammunition, and said: "Wu Wei, I remember your voice, now it's over!"
After saying hello, Li Fan took Lu Zhong to Wu Wei's side and checked his injuries first.
Wu Wei was shot in the shoulder, but he didn't hurt the bones, the bullet fired quickly and penetrated, leaving no bullets, and the others were all minor injuries that had just been tortured.
Li Fan took out some anti-inflammatory and hemostatic medicine from the farm infirmary from his backpack and helped Wu Wei treat his wounds.
While Li Fan was tending to his wounds, Wu Wei said in the not-so-proficient Huanglong dialect: "Those are the militia units of the Hpakant tribe, and because the matter of the farm has angered the patriarch of their tribe, they have sent thousands of people to clear our village. ”
Li Fan frowned, and while continuing to deal with Wu Wei's wounds, he asked, "How many thousands of people, how many people are there in your village?"
Wu Wei said with a sad face: "The inner line of Hpakant's side said that there were about 8,000 people, and there were only more than 100 militiamen in our own village. ”
"Tanya has already called Longken Town, the stronghold of the Longken clan, to ask Dantuo for help, and I don't know if he will send rescuers. Dan Tuo has completely changed in the past few years, and the two of them were judged before, the last time he refused to send rescue troops, and as a result, Princess Tanya was captured by the Pakang tribe, thanks to you for saving her back!"
Li Fan looked at the Longken militia in front of him, who was loyal to Danya, nodded, and continued to ask: "If Longken Town sends out rescue troops, how long will it take to reach the village?
Wu Wei replied: "If Longken sends rescue troops, even if he does not rest, he will not be able to reach the village until early the morning after tomorrow at the earliest, and the large army of Hpakant will be able to gather at noon tomorrow to launch an attack, and the old and weak in the village have begun to move in the direction of Longken Town, but the speed is too slow, and a thousand people will not be able to withstand it for long, it is estimated that before the rescue arrives, those villagers can be caught up......" Wu Wei said and shed two lines of tears.
Li Fan tied the gauze tightly, patted Wu Wei's shoulder, and said, "Don't worry, I have thought of a way, not so pessimistic!"
After speaking, Lu Zhong helped Wu Wei up, and the three of them walked in the direction of the village.