Chapter 015: Locke
Seeing that Locke's map was so precise, our group relaxed a little and began to walk cautiously towards the other end of the canyon. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The deeper the canyon, the deeper the snow becomes. Erin had only been walking for half an hour before the snow was up to my knees, and we had to shuffle forward. A few branches protruded from the cliff next to it, and a group of vultures staring at us were parked on them, and under the branches were buried several corpses that had been eaten clean.
"Ahh
"Looks like the wolves have spotted us, let's go!" Locke reminded us in a low voice, and then quickened his pace and rushed forward, and we hurried to follow.
"Didn't your dad's map say that there would be wolves in this place?" said Thomson, still asking some wordless questions as he ran wildly.
"This—" Locke was speechless. Ahh
"Get out!" Thomson, who was pounced, grabbed the wolf's palate with his left hand, struggled to pull out the two-handed sword on his back, stabbed the wolf's big mouth hard, pierced his throat, shook the wolf away with his left hand, and slowly stood up panting, with a few more claw marks on his body.
"Holy!" more and more wolves gathered around the cliff shelf, staring at us fiercely, and occasionally let out a few terrifying growls.
"We're going to die..."Erin, who was holding me, looked at the wolves and began to tremble, and I had to hold her tightly to prevent the two of us from falling together.
"Woo!" the wolf gave the order, and after a few pops, several fierce wolves jumped off the stone frame and surrounded us.
"Roar!" Eagle Claw saw a wolf that was still falling, roared and jumped forward, wrapped his hands around the wolf's body and rolled lightly on the snow, and as soon as he turned over, he cut the wolf's throat with a backhand, a precise blow!
"There are more and more wolves, but they don't attack, they just stay where they are and stare at us cautiously. I counted them, and there were probably more than 20 of them.
"Roar!" I was startled by the cry, and when I turned around, I saw two wolves roaring and pounced. I could even see the wriggling Adam's apple in the wolf's mouth for a split second.
"Woo!" before I could react when two wolves pounced on my wounded stomach, one of them quickly tore open the linen bandage with a wave of its claws, opened its mouth and bitten, and was kicked away by Bob. The other palms pressed my shoulders against me, sharp teeth reaching down my throat.
"Hey, hey!" I had no weapon, so I grabbed its head with one hand and struck it on the left cheek with my fist, but it still wouldn't let go, but the smell of blood on my belly aroused a stronger desire to devour me, and the wolf's mouth got closer and closer.
"Poof!" Seeing that I was about to die in the wolf's mouth, the restless wolf was suddenly pierced in the back by Locke's sword that rushed over, and convulsed a few times and did not move.
"You're crazy, what if you pierce me in the stomach?... Thank you. I was lifted up by Locke and Irene, who was trembling with fear, and the former gave me a friendly smile.
No, you can't beat them if you go on like this. Bob slashed a wolf to death with a sword, gasped, turned his head to find me unarmed, and threw me one of his spare short swords.
I grabbed my sword and looked at the wolves around me, and found that they were pushing harder than before, making the encirclement smaller and smaller, and from time to time let out a low roar to intimidate us. Looks like they're going to rush up and finish us off.
"What then?" I smiled helplessly as Ireen cowered behind me, forgetting that the person who protected her was the one who needed to be protected the most.
"Locke!" Thomson called to Locke, turning his head and pointing to a wide crevice of two people high, "can I go there?"
"I don't know. Locke shook his head.
"Then take a gamble!!!" Thomson suddenly rushed towards the rock crevice with his long sword, roaring and swinging his weapon to force the wolves away.
"Quick!" Bob knew there was no other way, and roared with Thomson, grabbed me and began to run, the wound in my abdomen causing me to grin and moan, and I could only swing the sword in my hand weakly.
"With the swing of the weapon, the wolves had to make a way, and we immediately rushed out of the encirclement. At this time, the head wolf roared, and the wolves swarmed up and followed closely.
"Hurry, hurry!" and the group of us squeezed into the rock crevice, and before Talon could rush in, he kicked vigorously on the stone wall outside the rock crevice, and the ice and stone collapsed with a bang, and the eagle talon immediately jumped into the rock crevice, and as soon as he stood firm, the stone and ice blocked the rock crevice.
"Roar!" the cranky wolf howls outside the crevices were still distinct, with the occasional dull sound of the wolf angrily patting the stones blocking their path. The wolves outside pounced for a moment, and then left the crevice with a roar of disappointment, and we all breathed a sigh of relief.
"We're safe for now, but is there a way out here. Talon gasped and sat down on the ground.
"I don't know," Thomson shook his head, and looked around at the gloomy cave, and I followed his gaze at the cave.
In the darkness, this secret place emitted a faint blue light, and the gray hard ice below could be faintly seen under the deep blue ice, and the ice edges hanging from the top of the rock seemed to have a tendency to fall down, piercing my tattered belly.
"Before we go, we need fire!" said Locke, pulling a stick of wood from his backpack, grabbing two flints that he had with him and striking them a few times, splashing sparks and igniting the stick, as if his habit of being prepared for everything had not changed.
"You've got all of them. The sloppy Thomson sighed as he looked at his bloated backpack.
"Otherwise, I would have died outside. Locke led the way ahead of us with a torch, and the dim light of the fire gave the gloomy cavern a sense of security. My father's profession has already been told to you, he is a smuggler," said Locke as he groped his way forward, "and he had to be prepared for everything he needed on his way: guards, food, water, clothing, and a pass to travel unhindered on the continent of Calradia, the dinar, all to protect him from this treacherous world." And I was nurtured by my father, and I was used to being ready for everything, otherwise I would have to die outside. ”
"It was all taught to you by your father. Talon looked at the sudden appearance on the ground of a corpse in the costume of a Vekia soldier, but not yet decomposing in the cold.
"That's right. But two years ago my father suddenly disappeared..."Locke turned his head at the sound of Talon flipping the corpse, but his face became inexplicably horrified at the sight of the corpse. "What's wrong?" Bob saw that his face was wrong and patted him on the shoulder, and as soon as Locke reacted, he shook his head, squatted on the ground with his head covered, and kept muttering, "This can't be... It can't be..."
"What's going on?" everyone immediately gathered around to shush and ask for warmth, but Locke was surrounded by the crowd, still holding his head and muttering. It was a long time before he staggered to his feet.
"Who is this man?" Talon saw that he had gone insane when he saw the corpse.
"Alas," said Locke, picking his face with a pained face, "this soldier was recruited two years ago when my father was preparing to go to Salander to resell ironware. To this day, I still remember that he stood in front of my father and asked to see his wife and children first, but he did not expect to die here, in case my father also..." I patted him on the shoulder and comforted.
Locke stopped crying when he heard this, wiped away the tears that crisscrossed his face, raised his head, and his face became firm again: "Follow me! As long as we keep going forward and don't see my father, then my father will definitely survive!"
"No problem!"
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An hour later, Locke was still trotting in the gloomy cave and leading the way, and Talon, Thomson, and Bob were still running effortlessly after him, but I and I, who were covered in injuries, and I, who was weak, couldn't keep up, and after a few steps I had to stop to catch my breath, and I almost fell to my knees.
"Stop! stop! we can't keep up!" I cried out in the pain in my stomach, but they didn't hear me, and the figure was gradually engulfed in darkness.
"Crap!" I slammed my fist into the ground in exasperation, and after a few moments, the echo disappeared, and Erin caught up and helped me up, and the two of us had to walk forward with each other's supporters. I could feel the slight tremor of Erin's delicate body in my arms.
"Scared?" I asked casually.
"Hmm...," Erin nodded slightly, turning to look at me with her big bright eyes, "Does the wound still hurt?"
"Of course, I don't know how long I'll last. As I answered, I noticed that the blue-blue ice above my head was slowly becoming transparent, and a faint ray of sunlight was shining on my body, but I didn't feel the slightest warmth, but even cooler.
Slowly, neither of us spoke, for we saw several wolf corpses appear on the ice overhead, one of which was facing Irene and me, staring at us with blank eyes and the claws of the forefoot exposed. I couldn't help but shudder.
The further you went, the more corpses appeared, and even the corpses of snow leopards and white bears appeared, so it seemed that the danger above the ice was unimaginable, perhaps an avalanche buried them in this thick ice.
"Don't you think this place is getting scary?" Erin looked up cautiously at the corpse and lowered her head in panic, something she couldn't bear.
"Of course, but not being able to get out at the end is the most terrible. ”
"Don't scare me. Erin shrunk her neck in horror.
"Haha... Ouch..."I just laughed a few times and my stomach hurt, Erin hurriedly helped me hold my stomach and rub it for a while, but it didn't get better, "You better take a break." Erin said as she helped me to sit down on the floor, and I let out a long breath.
Now it's just the two of us... I deliberately pretended to be a pervert and reached out to caress her cheek, trying to make her less afraid, but her hand blocked it.
"Are you kidding, this kind of time, this kind of place?" Erin counted me down, "it's time to go!" and pulled me up to keep walking.
"Wait for me—" I braced myself against the wall and stood up with all my might.
"Kara!" The customer in the nest turned around and found that there was a crack in the place where he had just been propped up, and with the continuous "Kara-Kara" sound, it quickly extended to the ice above, and in an instant, a two-foot-long hole was cracked.
"The ice here... It's so crisp—" Erin said in a daze.
"Run!" I reacted quickly, took Erin's hand and ran frantically forward, so can we escape?" Erin threw out another question with a clear answer, causing me to stumble under my feet and almost fall.
"Is it possible? But anyway, please throw off your legs and run now!" I yelled. It's a habit I've cultivated on the battlefield for many years, and I'm disgusted with people who still chatter in the face of an emergency, because they tend to cause unexpected, sometimes fatal trouble.
Erin was visibly frightened, as he didn't seem to be aware of her husband's image on the battlefield.
I realized that I had said the wrong thing, but I didn't bother to care, after all, now is not the time for children to grow up, and whether I can escape the clutches of this thing behind me is the most important thing.
We continued to run for our lives, the ice slag formed by the crumbling ice behind us continued to attack us, and the seemingly hard rock that we had just run under our feet was quickly collapsed after being hit by a heavy object, and fell into the abyss hidden in the cave with a roar.
"Damn!" a bowl of ice flew over my head with a strong wind, reminding me that I had now stepped into Satan's realm with one foot, but the sharp pain in my abdomen obviously couldn't sustain me from escaping the place, and I could only draw a cross in this place where the sun couldn't reach.
God willing!It seems my prayers are useful!" I grabbed a huge block of ice that had fallen, pulled Erin to the crevasse, and jumped into the crevice, holding up the ice with both hands to block the crack, trying not to let the ice from being swept away by the current.
After ten minutes, the noise outside the crack gradually subsided. I took the ice away and looked at it, and after making sure there was no danger, I took Erin and walked cautiously along the little rocks that were left after the rock formation collapsed. After confirming that I had stepped on the hard rock, I sat down on my butt despite the danger of collapsing again, rubbing my aching legs and gasping for air.
"Woo... I'm scared to death..."Irene came up to me at some point, and fell into my arms and cried bitterly.
Erin and I sat on the ground like this, and it was a long time before we broke free from the situation of escaping death and slowly got up.
"Thomson, where the hell have they gone—" We looked around, but there weren't even a human figure here, not even an animal.
I had no choice but to continue walking with Erin, hoping to find the few people who had acted on their own.
"Click... Click... Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps, and I could hear a pair of leather boots walking cautiously forward.
"Who!" I immediately drew my dagger from my waist and shouted and pointed to the place where the footsteps had come from.
"Oh my God, I've found you at last, where have you gone? "The man who came out of the darkness with blonde hair that was still shiny in the darkness turned out to be Bob.
"Say... I knew I was wounded and I ran so fast. After confirming that it was Bob, I shoved my sword back, "Locke, where are the three of them?"