Chapter 17: Chance Encounters and Reunions
When she realizes that she is facing an alien race, Ada does not run.
For a few seconds, she could only stare at the shadows, and her mind seemed to be wooden.
With a few muffled "knocks", four or five aliens landed down the slope, their scales and abdominal armor shining slightly, and in their hissing breaths, a fishy smell filled the air.
The man who had just rolled down was not lightly injured, panting for breath "ha, ha, ha", but he couldn't support his body. He looked up, his eyes fixed on Ada, his beard trembling violently, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't say it—before she could see clearly, an alien suddenly jumped on his back, and then he was overwhelmed by the rush of alien figures.
In a sudden and inhuman scream, Ida suddenly woke up and found herself sitting on the river beach, her hands and feet weak, and Baijiu had fallen off her head at some point, and had been biting her wrist for a while—seeing that she had finally come to her senses, the white fox hurriedly screamed, "Run!"
The rebel soldier's screams stopped, and not far away, the alien gradually straightened up.
Ida sobbed softly, clutched her knife, turned and stumbled towards the river. The shallow water was already cold and urgent, and she had only taken a few steps, when suddenly there was no foot in her feet, and the river rushed over her so hard that it did not reach the little girl's chin, and her heart skipped a beat, but her toes touched the bottom of the river again—only the waves staggered her, as if she would be swept away at any moment.
She can't swim. However, if it was really swept away by the water, at least a whole corpse would remain, but Ida looked around, but did not dare to go any deeper.
The river had narrowed, and she could see on the other side of the river, stumbling and stumbling about how many aliens there were. Their shadows hissed and ran back and forth in the moonlight, seemingly restless, and downstream of her, for some reason, aliens kept jumping into the river with a "plop" and screaming and fluttering in the waves, and swimming all the way out by the waves.
Before Ada could withdraw her gaze, she heard a "bang" of water in front of her—the aliens rushed into the water in the blink of an eye, and pounced on Ada, and she let out a low scream, unable to hold her feet any longer, and fell into the water with a crooked body.
The outside world was suddenly cut off by the waves, and the screams of the aliens were vague and distant, and only the sound of gurgling water was left in my ears. Ada barely stood still underwater, and as soon as she opened her eyes, she was greeted by a shadow of a body - it turned out that an alien had come to her at some point.
Ida did not dare to stand up again, and in a panic slashed with her sword, the long knife breaking through the heavy waves of water, and the speed slowed down. But perhaps she didn't deserve to die, and when the alien reached down to grab her, the blade slashed right into its arm.
With a shriek, the arm retracted, leaving a trail of liquid floating in the water. Ada's moment was not heavy, but it enraged it, and she saw the alien scream, as if to greet the other companions, and then she kicked her feet and pounced on its belly with both hands with a long knife.
With the force of the wave in the river, even Ada herself could not have imagined that the long knife had actually eaten the belly armor of the alien race—but her strength under the water was too small, and the long knife got stuck in the shell, and she could no longer push it. The shell-like abdomen cracked, and a stream of foul-smelling mucus pounced, but the alien was not dead, it hissed, grasped the long knife in one hand, and clawed at Ada with the other.
Ada hurriedly let go of the handle of her knife and was about to kick back to the bottom of the river, but she was still grabbed by the neck, and she let out a muffled whimper in pain, and her head, heart and lungs burned in an instant.
Immediately after, a white shadow instantly covered the alien's hand.
Just as Ada was dragged out of the water, a piercing scream from the alien race pierced the air and fell into her ears, and the alien couldn't help but let go of her neck in pain—Baijiu hurriedly jumped off its hand and fell into Ada's arms, and finally one person and one spirit could no longer support it, and his feet slipped, and he was wrapped in the turbulent undercurrent, and rushed out.
The next few seconds seemed to pass in the blink of an eye, and it seemed to be pulled into a long, endless darkness.
When Ida was hit in the back and almost knocked her brain out, fragments of sound and images rushed in again—and she realized that she had just passed out for a moment.
She was swept into the middle of the river by the waves, and then thrown against a huge rock, and the dark water in front of her, like a frenzied herd of galloping horses, still pounded at her and smashed her against the rock. There was no air, but the water poured into her mouth and nose, as if it were about to fill her into a balloon of skin—and when Ada couldn't hold it anymore and was about to close her eyes, the tip of her nose suddenly hurt, reawakening her senses.
Baijiu became a clammy and cold hair ball, covering Ada's face, blocking the impact of the wave for her. It bit Ada's nose and screamed indistinctly, drowned in the rushing waves.
Ada finally came back to her senses completely.
She clung to the reef, endured the suffocation and horror as if she was about to explode her heart and lungs, and dug her fingers into the crevices of the reef, and climbed up little by little. When the damp wind finally blew on his cheeks again, Hundred and Ninety-One let go of his claws and fell, falling with Ida on the rocks like two pieces of air-dried meat.
Ada coughed up a few mouthfuls of water, feeling her vision still spinning. Lying on his stomach in the depression of the reef for a while, the river breeze caused a person and a spirit to quickly start a cold shiver.
"What, what should I do......?"
She got up and hugged Baijiu tightly in her arms, her gaze constantly sweeping over the dark river. This section of the river was much wider than before, and she could no longer see the other side. The faint hiss in the wind sounded like the aliens hadn't completely dispersed yet—but Ada's problem at the moment was no longer alien.
She's trapped in the middle of the river.
Baijiu trembled softly in her arms, and she didn't make a sound for a long time. Ada hurriedly looked down at it, and found that its eyes were half-closed, as if it had only lost its strength for a while, and then she hung a heart and hugged it tightly. The soaked clothes clung heavily to her body, quickly sucking away every shred of heat she had left, and soon Ada's lips were purple from the cold.
"At least there aren't any aliens," she said to the white fox in a low voice, deliberately making her voice sound lighter.
Little did she know that as soon as she finished speaking, a shadow flew in the air from a distance—the shadow came out of nowhere, with a long thick tail behind her, and swooped down on the reef where Ada was, screaming, and she could not help but scream, and almost fell off the rock because she had retreated repeatedly.
Then, however, the shadow slammed against the edge of the rock, making a tense tearing sound of flesh, and then slid down.
"Huh?" Ida was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly put Baijiu on top of her head, climbing the rock, stretching her neck to look.
The river was so fast that as soon as the alien fell into the water, it disappeared without a trace, except for the slippery slime that remained on the edge of the reef, faintly smelling fishy.
When Ada looked up again, she saw endless waves on the river, but she couldn't think of where the alien race would come from. At this moment the silver moon faintly broke free from the clouds, and sparingly cast a thin layer of light, and she looked around in the misty light, and finally found a clue in the distance.
A shadow that looked like a raft was swimming upstream, floating and sinking in the waves—from the raft it seemed to throw a rope towards the shore, and as the rope became shorter and shorter, the raft broke through the waves and gradually approached the shore on one side.
Ada's heart jumped, and she immediately tore her throat and shouted, "Help!
Her cry was drowned out by the sound of the water, and before it could be heard far, it disappeared on the surface of the river. She was not reconciled, and screamed several times in a row, but she saw that the raft was getting closer and closer to the shore, and it was getting farther and farther away from her.
At this moment, Adaden was more anxious: "There are aliens on the shore! Don't go, there are aliens!"
She shouted hoarsely, but when the raft finally landed, Ida shivered and couldn't stop shouting. She couldn't even see the figure coming down from the raft, how could the other party hear her?
"Baijiu," after thinking about it, she woke up the white fox in her arms: "Baijiu, you have advanced the spirit weapon, and slowly ...... your physical strength."
This spiritual weapon has been hanging on her waist, and after several escapes, fortunately she did not lose it; Baijiu opened his eyes slightly, and his figure flashed and entered the spiritual weapon.
Ada hugged it tight, listening to the sound of water. Her body temperature was getting lower and lower, and she soon became groggy, and for a moment even she couldn't tell if she was still awake.
When the wind gently sent a "Miss!" into her ears, it felt like a dream.
"Miss, are you alright?"
Ada's eyelids twitched a few times, then slowly opened.
At night, the reef formed a black silhouette of high and low, and there was no one left.
In this world, the people who still call her Miss like this have long since died and dispersed...... Ida laughed at herself in her heart: Haven't you forgotten the days when you were a nobleman?
She was about to close her eyes again, but this time she heard a voice come to her ear: "Eh, you're embarrassed." Come on, let me help you—"
Adaten sat up and looked around.
"I'm here, miss," the voice beckoned, "over here!"
Squinting her eyes, it took Ada a few seconds to make out a round shadow from a crack in the reef rock. She approached and saw that it was a chubby blue man with a snow-white beard, and when she found herself, the old man-like falling spirit suddenly became even more excited: "You can be regarded as seeing me!"
"You...... Who are you?" Ida asked in a hoarse voice, "Where's your host?"
As if to answer her, as soon as her voice fell, a shout rang out from the far riverbank: "Have you found anyone, come back to me quickly!" - the man was half a big river, and his voice was still powerful and broke through the night sky, making Ida stunned.
Old Man Lan shrugged his non-existent shoulders: "The host is that." He can't compare to you, he's a poor man. ”
Ida stared blankly, "Are you—are you here to save us?"
"Yes, yes," the old man Lan jumped up enthusiastically, like a big flea: "Now the situation is urgent, we can't talk more, wait until I rescue you to the shore!"
"How do you get ashore?"
Old Man Lan's voice suddenly lowered a little: "I can stretch." ”
"Elongation?"
"You use me as a rope. You will get out of the water in a moment, and drag my body in the water to the shore. ”
"But there are a lot of aliens on the shore," Ida was so slow to react from the cold that she remembered: "Tell your host quickly and let him escape!"
There were a few lip smacks from the snow-white beard, and the old man said, "You don't have to worry about this, that poor man is useful for this point...... Eh, he's urging again, it's time for us to go. ”
Ida replied, staggering up to the edge of the reef, and the little blue man had an almost strange enthusiasm for her, even though it was stretched out into a thin rope, he continued to talk to her—in compliments such as "Oh, your golden stud earrings are so good" and "This is the legendary spirit stone", she fastened the spirit weapon and jumped down the river with a grunt.
The body of the fallen spirit was slippery, and Ada clung to it, for fear that it would be accidentally swept out by the waves. She gritted her teeth and endured the biting cold water, feeling as if a lifetime had passed before she finally reached the bottom of the river under her feet.
When she collapsed panting on the riverbank, the blue rope "horned" back, and soon the fallen spirit was bouncing up and down from the river behind her.
Bai Jiu also showed his head from the spirit weapon at this time, staring at it silently. The little blue old man was not interested in it, and only circled around Ada, until the roar of the man just now was heard again in the distance, and it said a little reluctantly: "Miss, you first find a place to hide, don't lose the earrings, Lingshi, your good leather boots or something...... I'll come as long as I go, you have to wait for me!"
As soon as the words fell, it jumped quickly and disappeared into the moonlight.
Ida scrambled to her feet, gasping for breath, and dragged her body forward a few steps. She didn't know where she had come, the trees here were sparse, and as far as the eye could see, there was only an endless grassland like the sea.
A distant cry was faintly carried by a gust of wind, and Ada, with some uneasiness, hurried towards the nearest tree, and when she reached the bottom of the tree, another gust of wind lowered the grass, revealing the flocks of aliens in the distance, and their dense scales and spears.
She was startled, and then realized that the aliens were not coming for her. Standing in front of them was a tall man with braided hair and a machete—just one.
Far away, Ada could only see that most of his skin was bare in the moonlight, forming a smooth line of bright edges along his muscles. With each roar of the man, one of the aliens who pounced on him was thrown out, and Ida immediately understood where the alien on the river had come from. I don't know how much strength he has, but the alien race who was hit by him with a knife in the face actually cracked half of his head, leaving a deep hole.
Compared to this man, the blue falling spirit seemed to be of little use. It jumped up and down between battles, cheering loudly, but as soon as an alien approached, it jumped long to the host's scolding.
"Warriors of the Fang Country?" Ida just breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but lift her heart.
Even though the Fangguo warriors have always been brave and good at fighting, but in the face of such an overwhelming number, I am afraid that he will not be able to hold out for long alone-Ida was injured and couldn't run far, so he hurriedly climbed the tree in pain, and asked Bai Jiu softly, "How much of your physical strength has recovered?"
"Not much. The white fox spat out a few words and stopped talking.
Ida gritted her teeth secretly, and one of her hands clutching wet clothes turned white. She watched the battle situation for a while, and saw that more and more blood was splattering out of the warrior of the Fang Country, and her movements gradually slowed down, and she couldn't help but say to herself anxiously: "Why didn't he call people?
Her voice was low, not thinking that anyone would hear it. However, unexpectedly, a tall voice immediately sounded in the distance: "Miss, wait a minute, I'll tell you what's going on!"
This time, even the Fang Nation warrior didn't drink and ordered Old Man Lan not to leave—perhaps because it didn't help the battle in the slightest.
"Miss, that poor man told his friend to call someone, and he had to stay to block the aliens. He said, block it for a while, and when the clansmen come, these aliens will not be a problem. "Old man Lan can't fight, but he is fast up the tree, and in a blink of an eye, he has jumped to the feet of Ada, full of sorrow: "That kid is also the first time to walk that road, if you don't catch up, what can you do if you can't hold out at that time......"
"Why don't you help him?"
"I ...... I'm okay with falling spirits, but there's nothing I can do about dealing with such a weird big bug. ”
Ida bit her lip and glanced into the distance again—the shadow of the Fang Nation warrior was almost invisible, and there were layers of insect heads around him.
"What's his name?"
"Stuka," the old man sighed, "is poor when he hears it." ”
Ada was ruthless, holding on to the branch and shouting, "Stuka, Stuka, come here, hurry!"
She shouted a few times in a row, and just as she was feeling worried, several aliens were thrown into the air, and then the shadow of the warrior of the fang country broke through the encirclement and ran towards this direction. The insect tide behind him suddenly surged, but he didn't realize it, and asked as he ran, "Is there danger on your side?"
"No, you lean against the tree, I'll watch for you, so that you won't be attacked on your back!" Ida shouted, and hurriedly pushed the old man Lan, "You stretch out!"
As Stuka approached, he was lit up by the moonlight, but Ida couldn't make out what he looked like: it was alien slime or his own blood, black enough to soak half of his body. Something slashed open on his waist, and every time he raised his hand, Stuka would pause with difficulty.
"The one on the right!" Ida grabbed the old man's leg tightly, raised his hand, and threw it out like a rope: "Pull out its spear and give it to me!"
The old man blue cried out "ahh It waved its hands wildly, and finally grabbed the tip of the spear, and Ada hurriedly shouted, "Hurry back!" - the alien was startled, and immediately stretched out a hand to grab the old man blue, but before it could wait, the falling spirit had already retreated far back into the tree. It was taken away with it, as well as the spear that the alien race had not grasped for a while.
The surprise on the pointed head and face had not yet faded, and a crescent-like sword light from Stuka was ushered in.
"Well done!" said Ada, who complimented the old man, clenched her spear and lay on the branch, stabbing down like a fish. She knew that she was not strong enough to be greedy, and she often looked at Stuka, and when a foreign race approached him, and he was not prepared for a moment, she stabbed coldly, and when she struck a blow, she immediately retracted into the branches.
It was a small gesture, but it helped Stuka a lot - he knocked out several aliens in a row and never took a sneak attack. It's just that although the two of them cooperate well, such a high-intensity wheel battle is too consuming for people, and Ida couldn't help but shout after a while: "When will your friend come back?"
Stuka slashed off the shoulder of an alien, and when he pulled it out, the blade was already curled. His eyes swept over the scimitar, and suddenly he laughed: "It's here!"
Ida was stunned, and then she felt that the branches and leaves around her and the grass under her feet were trembling slightly. She hurriedly turned her head, and in the distant dust and mist and broken grass blades, she happened to see a herd of war horses, their iron hooves constantly trampling the earth, and rushing straight in this direction.
Running at the front was a large, panther-like fallen spirit. Every time it leaped into the air, it felt as if it was about to be swept by the wind, its long black tail piercing the moonlight and spreading smoke in the air.
"Nagarjuna!" Ida almost suspected that she was hallucinating, and she pulled away the branches, leaned out and shouted, "Lin Yuqing, I'm here!"
By the time she realized that her body had leaned too far, it was too late. The fishy breath of the alien hissed and slammed into her nose for a moment, and Ida turned her head in a daze, and the shadow cast by an alien jumped up and covered her face.
Unexpectedly, after going through so many hardships and dangers, she would die temporarily in Hope.
Time seems to have been slowed down. Ada calmly looked at the short knife in the alien's hand and the fangs in her mouth, which shook into a cold light, getting closer and closer to her.
A white shadow leaped into the air, and as soon as it stood in front of Ada, a cloud of blood mist suddenly splashed in the air.