Chapter 343: Where the Vitality Is
As Jiang Xian's words fell, the fierce shouts in the rear became closer and closer.
Everyone had no time to think, so they could only follow Jiang Xian's pace and continue to sprint forward, looking for an area where they could hide.
Hurry up, hurry up!
Jiang Xian's steps were very firm, and his ears were constantly moving, receiving feedback from a distance. However, there is a big gap between the speed of people and the monsters behind them. Even if they have taken the strength to feed, the distance between them is constantly shrinking.
With a chaotic and hurried sound, the group of monsters in hot pursuit was already less than a hundred meters, and they had not yet found a suitable place to hide.
Sweat appeared on Jiang Xian's forehead, his eyes kept scanning the surroundings, and he kept thinking about and analyzing everything around him.
There's no way to survive here, there's definitely a way to dodge!
On the way he ran, although he saw blood stains, there were not many blood stains, only scattered parts on the road and walls, indicating that there were not many dead people on the road.
"If my guess is correct, there must be some soldiers who have entered here, and their speed is definitely not comparable to ours."
Jiang Xian's eyes lit up slightly: "With our speed, we will all be caught up so quickly, then they will inevitably be caught up faster." But most of them did not die, leaving no traces of blood......"
There's definitely a way to solve the monster chase behind here!
His brain raced, his gaze scanned around him faster, and suddenly, his pupils shrank sharply.
A picture quickly flashed in his mind, and he hurriedly shouted: "Turn around and grab the weeds that come out of the eyes on the wall!" ”
As soon as the words fell, he was the first to rush over, grabbed a weed that stretched out from the corner of the wall, and pulled it out.
Ling Xiaozi and the others, who heard his words, also quickly pounced on the nearest wall, focusing on the weeds that stretched out less than two centimeters on it.
Just as they had finished all this, a raging wind rushed behind them in an instant, blowing their clothes and hunting, and along with the wind, the black and oppressive figure flashed by, like a dark cloud.
But the squeaky clouds didn't touch the bodies of a few people at all, and they didn't even get close to a three-meter area of a few people, just flapping their wings in mid-air.
Cold sweat left on his forehead, Ling Xiaozi let out a long breath, he raised his head and looked up.
He saw that under the flapping feathers, ape-like faces fell into his eyes, but the faces of these apes were not the red he had imagined, but—
A piece of white.
His face was stunned, and a few words suddenly burst out of his mouth: "Monkey-faced eagle!?? ”
Monkey-faced eagle?
Fang Yunye, Jiang Xian, and Lin Ruoxue raised their heads at this time, looking at the creatures not far away who were staring at them indifferently with their pair of pitch-black pupils.
They are flattened, heart-shaped, mostly white with dark chestnut edges on all sides. It looks like a monkey face, covered with fluff, a pair of deep round eyes, a yellowish-brown beak, a non-pointed beak, and an eagle body with eagle claws. Even in the darkness, the sharp claws still glowed with a cold light, making people not doubt their power.
And these birds, known as monkey-faced eagles, are each about one and a half meters tall, which is very different from the normal 35-centimeter monkey-faced eagle.
"I understand......" Lin Ruoxue suddenly revealed: "The apes we saw on the suspension bridge before are them." ”
"They flew and landed on both sides and swayed, creating the illusion that the ape was pulling the rope."
"Not only that, but because of the special structure of the owl feathers, the edges of the feathers are hollow and stacked in multiple layers, which constitutes a noise-reducing and sound-dampening effect. So we didn't hear them coming. ”
Ling Xiaozi on the other side also came back to his senses completely, he looked at these monkey-faced eagles and said thoughtfully: "No wonder...... No wonder when I came to Tiger Mountain before, a tour guide and a local person said that there are a lot of monkey-faced eagles here. ”
"It's a monkey-faced eagle's nest down here!"
"However, I haven't heard of any amazing discoveries of the monkey-faced eagles here......" He looked at the bizarre monkey-faced eagles in front of him with some doubts: "Could it be that only the small ones can go out, and they will fly back when they grow up?" ”
"Who can say that?"
Jiang Xian let out a sigh and looked at these creatures who were still about to move: "I only know that if these things are really attacked...... It's not a good character to be prepared for. ”
As he spoke, he looked left and right, and the number of black presses, I don't know how many: "This amount alone can make us die here." ”
Ling Xiaozi also restrained the exclamation on his face, looked at the weeds in his hand, his eyes were suddenly stunned, and he hurriedly looked at the monkey-faced eagle in front of him: "I see...... Surnamed Jiang, how did you come up with it? ”
Jiang Xian turned his head and was a little surprised: "See?" ”
"Nonsense! How many times has Dao Ye used this thing for divination before? Ling Xiaozi said disdainfully: "Even if it is still a seedling, I can recognize it." ”
Fang Yunye on the side was slightly stunned for a moment, then looked at the weeds in his hand and said, "Mr. Ling, you mean...... Is this yarrow? ”
"Of course......" Ling Xiaozi nodded: "But what kind of mutant variety should it be, normal yarrow can't grow in this underground and dark environment, but it's not ordinarily good to see yarrow grow." ”
"It just looks like it has a longer growth cycle, and it's still in juvenile form compared to the mature yarrow outside."
"Whether it's juvenile or grown-up, it seems that it can force these monkey-faced eagles back at the moment." Jiang Xian's expression was straight: "Everyone is more prepared, and there may not be any more encounters with this monkey-faced eagle below." ”
"As for how I can see it, because there is less blood in the passage, and the walls here are only more in the crevices than before, small sections of weeds."
Although Jiang Xian said a word, everyone present understood.
Ling Xiaozi nodded, took two steps forward with the yarrow, and saw the monkey-faced eagles above changing positions following his movements, and immediately smiled.
"This is good, this is good! If we hold yarrow, it's equivalent to an extra group of bodyguards! I'll see what other monsters will dare to come next! ”
Jiang Xian glanced at him: "When the yarrow deterrence against them is reduced, or they suddenly become irritable, everyone will wait for death...... Let's go inside as soon as possible and find a solution. ”
"It's not a conflict." Ling Xiaozi raised his eyebrows, put the dust in his hand to the side, and reached out to pick the yarrow on the wall to reveal his figure: "Take advantage of this opportunity, we can explore quickly." ”
Jiang Xian nodded: "Rest for a while, and then set off immediately." ”
His gaze passed through the gaps in the monkey-faced eagle figures one after another, and he vaguely saw the layers of obstacles behind the road, and kept thinking about the next road in his heart.
After three or five minutes, everyone regained their strength, Jiang Xian turned his head, glanced at everyone, and then took a step forward.
The monkey-faced eagles that had been hovering around them, or landing on the walls, and hanging from the ceiling of the cave, also moved.
Only at this time, they did not chirp again, but followed silently.
In the dark cave, under the strong light of several flashlights, the group was wrapped in a large group of monkey-faced eagles and moved forward silently, as if walking in a dark cloud. An oppressive atmosphere continued to surge towards them from all around.
Leng Buding looked up and saw the white monkey face that seemed to be expressionless, even Fang Yunye and Ling Xiaozi couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts, and the hand holding the yarrow couldn't help but tighten.
As time passed, several people slowly adapted to this atmosphere, and the nerves that had been tense were also slightly relaxed.
Jiang Xian walked against the wall, his gaze constantly sweeping over the ground and the wall.
The traces on it are not obvious, and the masonry looks like ordinary and normal masonry, without the skeleton arrangement of the road ahead, as if it has re-entered a corner of civilization from the barbaric era.
In the soil at the edges of these walls, there were occasional sporadic yarrow growths, and Jiang Xian and the others pulled the grass down with their hands.
Suddenly, Jiang Xian's footsteps stopped suddenly, his eyes contracted instantly, and his gaze was firmly fixed on a position around the corner.
Lin Ruoxue, who was next to her, also looked over when she saw this, only to see that there was an extremely shallow trace on the wall in the corner.
A trace of a lotus flower.
A lotus flower with a swastika in the middle and a blue, red and white sun around!
Jiang Xian walked over quickly, his eyes carefully inspected the lotus for a week, and slowly exhaled: "It's the mark of the White Lotus Sect...... However, it is not the seal of the White Lotus Sect that we imagined. ”
Well?
Ling Xiaozi on the side couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly walked over, seeing the traces on the white lotus, his expression was also stunned: "This ...... This white lotus imprint...... It's weird......"
When Fang Yunye next to him heard this, he immediately wondered, "Mr. Ling, what's so strange about this?" It's a little different from what we saw below in Zhouhu Village, but Sanyang, White Lotus, and Swastika together are not the representatives of the White Lotus Sect? ”
"It's different." Ling Xiaozi shook his head, and his eyes became serious when he looked at the wall: "You should know that in the teachings of the White Lotus Sect, the world is divided into three periods, and they generally believe that it comes from the era of Sakyamuni in the red sun. ”
"The angle of the swastika mark in this does refer to the time of Shakyamuni."
"But look closely at this swastika imprint."
Hearing Ling Xiaozi's words, Fang Yunye immediately leaned over, his eyes carefully looked at the swastika, and then his face also showed a look of astonishment.
The swastika mark seems to be just a swastika from a distance, but when you look at it closely, you can find that it is a large swastika that is a collection of small swastikas.
And the direction indicated by those small swastikas, and the location that was formulated, were not in the era of Sakyamuni in the red sun.
They go in different directions, but all the swastikas point to Sanyang.
Qingyang, Hongyang, Baiyang, none of them is bad!