Chapter 785: Catch That Fat Man
Snow-white star butterfly larvae emerge from under the soil, and although there are differences in size, they are not much different, and there will not be a huge difference between one less than one meter and the other more than five meters.
As soon as he saw this, Gong Jiayue was like a hungry beast that smelled blood, the excitement in his eyes was like substance, and he couldn't wait to directly catch all the white worms that came out of his head and let them bleed, he seemed to see a golden road full of supreme glory paved in front of him.
The chance to turn over is ahead!
Zheng!
The sword was unsheathed, and Gongjia Yue rushed straight towards the nearest white worm.
"Catch them!"
Mu Yan also came back from his excitement at this time, and beckoned his subordinates to start acting, the ultimate goal of their trip was these white worms!
The sharp blade slashed at the white insect, there was no cracking sound, and the person holding the sword felt as if it had cut down a tree full of dry and hard resin, and the blade seemed to be blocked, leaving only a not deep trace on the insect skin, even Mu Yan did not directly cut off the insect's body as he expected.
Just now, he could directly cut off one of the giant eagle's toes with a single sword, but now, he couldn't even cut this little white worm.
However, although he was not able to directly cut the white worm in half, he also broke the skin of the worm.
The white liquid flows from the wounds on the white worm's body and continues to the ground, seeping into the dirt. When Mu Yan was about to continue slashing at the breach he had just chopped, the white worm quickly rolled to the side, avoiding the sword in Mu Yan's hand.
There are some white marks on the ground, which is the blood flowing from the wounds on the star butterfly larvae, but after these blood flows out, it quickly seeps into the soil, and Mu Yu, who cut the star butterfly larvae just now, found that the star butterfly larvae that rolled a few times, the wounds on the body are no longer bleeding, and they are recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye!
How fast they recover!
It is difficult to break the skin, and it recovers quickly, and the dodge action is also fast, although these star butterfly larvae do not have large mouths and sharp horns, they are very tricky.
A person not far from Mu Yan was also aware of this situation, but he was about to say something to Mu Yan when a white shadow flashed in front of him, as fast as lightning!
The star butterfly larva that he had just slashed was clinging to the ground at the front of its body, and nearly two-thirds of its body turned into a heavy white whip, and the fierce attack swept towards the man with a whirring wind.
The man didn't expect that the white bug, which didn't look aggressive, would suddenly come like this, and before he could react, the sharp pain spread from the abdomen that was swept to the brain.
The star butterfly larva, hooking the ground with three pairs of pectoral legs, twisted at an almost uncanny angle, and pulled out the blow just now.
The man who was pumped flew directly out about thirty meters away, and after landing on the ground, he slid backwards for a distance before stopping, and if it weren't for the grass and trees on the ground, he would probably fly farther.
And after hitting the ground, the man also curled up into a shrimp, spurting blood from his mouth, moaning in pain and not getting up again.
Mu Yan avoided the "white whip" that swept over, although these white insects were not easy to deal with, as long as they cut a few more times, they would definitely be hacked to death.
Gong Jiayue squatted down and touched the white marks on the ground with his hand, which were from the body of a white worm he had just slashed. His fingers crushed the soil stained with white blood, and three words suddenly popped up in his head: "I can't use it"!
Gong Jiayue suddenly shouted: "It's not blood!"
"What do you mean?" asked Mu Yan.
"It's not insect blood that can be used for forging!" said Gong Jiayue.
Mu Yan was confused by Gongjiayue's words. Isn't it blood? Didn't you say that it was good for worm blood? Teasing us?!
"It's not blood, but it's definitely related to these star butterfly insects!" Gong Jia Yue paused and said, "Use the net!
Catch the worms first, and then slowly study what these star butterfly worms are on.
Hearing Gongjiayue's words, Mu Yansheng's anger calmed down a little, as long as it was these insects, it would be fine if it was bloody, and it would be left to the people of Gongjia's family to ponder.
The net that Gongjiayue mentioned is not the kind of net made of vines or straw rope that the tribesmen often use, but the net that Gongjiayue made by himself before he came.
The thickness of the thread is less than one-tenth of the little finger, and it is lighter than the gold of the same volume!
The people of the Gongjia family, who can be called "masters", have a lot of good things hidden, but they don't show them to others on weekdays. Gongjiayue was also reluctant to take out his treasure because of the star butterfly larvae. This was invented by him, and so far no one knows the forging method of this kind of mesh, which was also the trump card that Gongjiayue planned to take out and compete with several other craftsmen for the best craftsmen of the Gongjia family when he was at the meeting of the Gongjia family!
It's a pity that he couldn't wait for the rally, but he waited for the situation in Wangcheng to change, and the Gongjia family was divided into several factions, and he was squeezed out.
Hearing this, one of his slaves opened the large wooden box behind him, took out a roll of things wrapped in animal skins, and opened the skins, revealing a net that emitted a silvery white light.
Mu Ya also wasted no time and threw the net to others.
Unlike those fishing nets, these nets are made to catch insects, eliminating many unnecessary parts and saving transportation space and load.
The open net covers the front end of the white worm's body, and the net mouth is tightened, and the head and a raised part behind the head are enclosed, and a wire connecting the net mouth is extended, and it is held in the hands of the person who casts the net, and they hold the elastic of the net.
The white worm that was hovered did not stop moving forward, and after a few rolls, it still climbed to the side of the mountain wall.
One person can't pull the white worm at all, so six or seven or more people pull each net together, or tie the net wire to a nearby tree or stone, which can save a lot of effort.
"Hurry up, hurry, there are others, catch as many as you want!" shouted Gong Jia Yue anxiously. Because he found that the white insects that came out of the ground had no intention of fighting with them at all, but went straight to the side of the mountain wall, and even many white insects had already climbed the mountain wall and crawled up quickly.
Although Gongjiayue doesn't know about insects, the behavior of such a scale of Star Butterfly is obviously not accidental, there must be some reason!
They didn't come here to see things go wrong!
Seven star butterfly larvae have been caught, and some of them go to find vines or something, and after the star butterfly larvae are tired of struggling with metal mesh, they replace them with vines, so that they can free up metal mesh to catch more insects.
Some people also want to attract the attention of the star butterfly larvae, so that the person holding the net can get off the net, otherwise they don't want to get up immediately if they are pulled by the tail, and they may never even get up.
In this way, the number of people who can use it is limited, Gong Jiayue turned to look at Yi Qi and Yi Cong who were far away from the battlefield, they were all followed by four or five slaves, Gong Jiayue wanted them to free up a few slaves to help, but looking at the two people who were not interested in catching insects at all, both of them frowned and stared at the square plate in their hands, ignoring the battle situation here. Seeing this situation, Gong Jiayue swallowed back the words he was about to blurt out, forget it, don't count on them.
Wasn't the people of the Yi family also very anxious to find more powerful weapons before they came here?
"There are still too few people!"
But before, because I wasn't sure if I could really find what I was looking for this trip, and in order to avoid the sight of others, I didn't bring too many people, I thought that I would only find one or two, but now Gongjia regrets it, I knew that I would encounter so many star butterfly larvae, he should have brought an army!
Although there are many star butterfly larvae that come out, they are not all in the same place and are relatively scattered, which is one of the reasons why they are not very efficient in catching insects.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"
Seeing that all the white insects that came out ran to the mountain wall, Gong Jiayue couldn't stand anymore, put his sword into the sheath, and followed him to climb the steep mountain wall.
Mu Yan and the others did the same, they planned to get down the white worms that climbed up, and then let the people with the nets below trap the worms.
However, they soon found that the walls here were not so easy to climb, that they were colder and harder than those in other places, and, as if there was a force that would push back any creature that climbed up.
However, those white insects that climb up the mountain wall, as if they can't feel that kind of pressure, arch their bodies back into "Ξ©", climb up, pull into "one", and then arch into "Ξ©", with three pairs of feet on the chest, abdomen, and tail, and those insect feet with hooks can make these bulky white insects crawl firmly against the mountain wall.
In contrast, Mu Yan and the others, who were chasing and climbing up behind, were much inferior.
This will not work!
Those worms crawl faster than them, and if they continue to chase like this, they will still be thrown away.
Gongjiayue was also aware of such a problem, and looked at the mountain walls on both sides, and his eyes were fixed on one place.
"The fat one!"
Mu Yan looked over, there was a white worm not far away, although the body length was about the same, but it was obviously thicker than other insects, and the other insects arched up into a circle, and it arched into a ball. The flesh is thick and the blood is abundant, and it crawls slower than other insects, so who can catch it if you don't catch it? Maybe you can make it roll off the mountain wall with a single pick with a sword!
That's it!
"Catch that fat man!"
There are too many targets, they have limited manpower, and these star butterfly larvae are not so easy to catch, so they can only come one by one.
I don't know if they were aware of Mu Yan's intentions, the fat worm that was targeted arched upwards at an accelerated speed, so that Mu Yan and his party were stunned and couldn't catch up.
Later, they stopped chasing the fat bug anymore, and when they found a suitable place to rest, they stopped to rest for a while, replenished some food and water, recovered their strength, and then continued to climb the mountain. From time to time, the steep slope encounters a cliff-like mountain wall, and if you can, you can climb it directly, and if you can't climb it, you can take a detour to find a place that is not so steep.
Mu Yan looked up, they had already climbed a long distance, and further up, the mountain wall began to be covered with ice and snow, and there was no green to be seen, and the mountain was still not topped, and only clouds and mist could be seen above.
A sudden puff of cold air poured into his lungs, almost choking the person. The wind is stronger and colder, but it's not even a mountainside here, and if you continue to chase up, you'll encounter even colder conditions.
Mu Yan looked at Gongjiayue and knew that Gongjiayue would not give up, and he didn't want to. It's rare to come once, and if you encounter such a situation, even if you can't catch more star butterfly insects, but if you can know the reason why these star butterfly insects climb up, maybe you can find more secrets, find some treasures, and so on, then it's worth it! Isn't it said that there are more treasures in this mysterious and dangerous place?
Thinking about it like this, Mu Yan's heart was hot. Of course, the other people who followed Mu Yan also thought of this, and no one complained, although it was cold, but the eyes looking up were eager.
Treasure?
What kind of treasures will there be?
On the way here, they hunted many fierce beasts, and the hides they wore were the furs of those prey, but gradually, the thick skins on their bodies began to be covered with hoarfrost, and the higher they climbed, the more frost covered the area would continue to expand, and their hair and beards were not spared.
"How tall is the top?"
Mu Yan sighed.
Just thinking about it, Mu Yan suddenly felt a strong gaze, and looked sideways, and on the mountain wall nearly a hundred meters away from him, there was an eagle resting, which was the one he had cut on the ground.
However, now Mu Yan's target is those white worms, he is not interested in the eagle for the time being, he glanced over there, and continued to climb up, but the eagle's gaze was too strong, and Mu Yan's eyes were too strong.
"Look at what, look at it, and cut off your eagle's head!" Mu Yan yelled over there.
The words were closed, and the eagle's gaze at Mu Yan became sharper.
Mu Yan held back the anger in his stomach and jumped up, just as they were all hungry, it was better to kill an eagle in the middle of the way, eat something and then continue to climb up.
He was about to order his men to act, when he suddenly heard an eagle chirping in the air.
Whewββ
A strong gust of wind blew down from above, knocking down some small gravel from the mountain wall.
Mu Yan and the others were blown to squint, and when they looked up, they saw an eagle stopping on the mountain wall not far above them, firmly grasping the mountain wall, the size was much smaller than that eagle, but compared to people, it was still very large. It wasn't an eagle, it looked young, its beak wasn't as curved as the eagle's, and its talons were sharp and powerful.
However, Mu Yan's attention was not on the eagle, he looked at a rock protruding from the mountain wall above, where a man stood.
"Tribal people?!" Mu Yan asked.
"Yanjiao people?" Gongjia felt that the people above were a little familiar.
Thinking of what the Yi family said, a bright light flashed in Mu Yan's eyes, "You are Shao Xuan of the Yanjiao Tribe?!"
When he was chasing and killing the Yanjiao tribe back then, Mu Yan was not in the main army, so he didn't see Shao Xuan's appearance, he just speculated based on the Yi family's statement. Yi Qi and Yi Cong said that someone was following them, and Yi Cong also said with certainty that the person who chased them was Shao Xuan from Yanjiao.
Shao Xuan didn't answer them directly, but said, "You are so bold that you dare to use a knife here." β
Mu Yan, who was guarding against Shao Xuan, shook his eyebrows, "Can't you?"
Shao Xuan glanced at Mu Yan and his party, "This is the 'Land of Faith' of the Giant Eagle. β
Mu Yan and the others who heard this answer looked confused, looking at Shao Xuan, it didn't look like they were lying to them with nonsense.
Giant Eagle?
What the hell is the Land of Faith?
Isn't it the territory of the Star Butterfly Worm? It's a giant eagle? How old is it called a giant eagle? It's the same as the one just now?
As soon as he thought of the eagle, Mu Yan found that the eagle resting on the mountain wall, vibrating its wings and flying up, before flying up, he deliberately looked at Mu Yan's side, and the eagle's claws with two broken toes still moved, and then he retracted his gaze and looked up, without looking down again.
Mu Yan felt that the moment he met the eagle's gaze just now, he seemed to understand the eagle's eyes, and it was saying: You are waiting for Lao Tzu! )