Chapter 17: The Beast Infested
Ronin racks his brains every day in order to stay alive. - Onasha
"Don't make a fuss, move quickly, retract your legs, this is not a place to stay for long!" Onasa glared at Roche's taunt as she crushed the herbs with gravel, and since there was no water nearby, she replaced them with saliva. "A big man, I haven't even applied medicine yet, why are you crying! Roche, press him tighter and don't let him jump! ”
She stirred the herb and smeared it directly on Taujish's wound, and in the midst of the continuous screams, she quickly tore off her coat as gauze, and wrapped his leg that had shrunk into two feet, she slapped it twice, and said with a smile: "It's bandaged, don't make fun of me next time, or you will feel better!" ”
Taugish took the handkerchief from his mouth and nodded sheepishly, he tried to stand up, but his feet went limp, a feeling that accompanies every overuse of his xenoenergy "long legs".
Roche immediately went over to support him, he turned his hand and snuggled Tao Jish on his back, and said in the tone of a big brother: "You have a good rest, this time I will carry you!" ”
It was the first time that Taugish had been put on the shoulder, and this warm feeling was ...... It was as if lying in the arms of my mother. Spending time with Roche and Onasha made him feel that this was the most precious gift that Light had given back with his bad, pathetic life. He doesn't need a home, he doesn't need someone to compensate himself, as long as he stays with these two people forever, he is very satisfied, of course, there is a premise: that is, not to be a ronin.
He narrowed his eyes, adjusted his breathing, and said lifelessly: "I will rely on you this time, and the task of getting a hundred gold coins will be handed over to you!" ”
As soon as the words fell, Roche heard a snoring sound from his back, and he shook his head: "Hey, this guy, he's tired into soft mud, and he still thinks about that box of gold coins?" ”
Onasha snickered on the side: "He's like this, and the goal he has decided will not change." For now, the task of finding the wildlings is up to us! ”
"By the way, didn't you get a clue in the little blue house to prove that there are wild people?"
"I was taken away by that perverted tuxedo a long time ago, what do you remember, weren't you there at the time? That tuxedo took me to the ground when I was knocked to the ground by the strange wind, and out of nowhere, forcibly pulled my hand away, and took the mechanical bird! ”
"I forgot...... At that time, I was only thinking about how to deal with the tuxedo. If not, this forest ghost is dead, where can we go to find clues about wild people, and when the clues are not found, we will have to give the beast an early meal! ”
"Don't worry about this, I know where to start, you come with me!"
Onasha took the lead, she found a thick stick to pluck the weeds on the ground, and rows of tall and ancient trees stood in front of them like a fence, and the thick vines on the ground climbed up the trees, entwining the trees to death.
She walked forward, crouching down from time to time, grabbing a handful of dirt and rubbing it in her hands. Roche followed her, unable to understand it several times, wondering why she had done it.
Onasha explained: "I'm looking for a water source, and the wild people who live in the mountains must live on water, and as long as you find the water source and walk upstream along the water source, you can find the trail of the wild man's activities." Roche, keep an eye out for strange footprints around you, it's also an important clue. ”
Roche wears an orange telescope placed on his forehead, his eyes are not ordinary, like Taugish's feet, he has the ability to far exceed the limits of ordinary people - farsightedness. In this world, anyone who has the ability to surpass the limits of ordinary people is called a "stranger".
But Roche didn't like it, because it had threatened his life and the lives of those around him in the past. If you call him "big-eyed" or "long-faced man", he would be happy to hear it.
His eyes began to roll, and he climbed along the hillside for a long time, but he never saw a single footprint. Suddenly, he sensed that something was wrong, took off his glasses, and ordered Onasha, who was walking in front, to stop quickly, and said, "Don't you think something is wrong?" ”
Onasha looked at him with a strange expression and said, "What's wrong?" ”
Roche pointed to the ground and said, "I've walked so many places along the way, and I haven't seen any footprints that resemble those of savages. ”
"It means that the wild man does not appear in this area, I have checked the mud on the ground, there is little water, and it is very dry!" Onasha clapped her hands and yawned, it was about one o'clock in the morning, she hadn't stayed up late for a long time, and her body was a little unbearable, "There is no water source around here, let's walk in the northeast direction, it's best to leave before dawn!" ”
But Roche's hand still didn't take it away, and kept pointing to the footprints left by Onasha on the ground, and said: "I thought it was strange just now, if I didn't see the footprints of the savages, the key is that I didn't even find a footprint, such a large forest, it stands to reason that there should be active beasts, and they will leave some marks somewhat." But, Onasha you look behind me......"
Behind Roche, on a slope of about thirty degrees, there was one last crucial thing missing, except for fallen leaves, dead branches, and broken stones. Onatha's face changed drastically, she had already noticed that what was missing on the ground was the "footprints"!
She immediately crouched down to the footprint pointed by Roche, staring at the place she had just stepped on, and stopped moving, her mind full of doubts, thinking how could such a big mark disappear out of thin air?
But five minutes later, something strange happened, the ground was originally concave five centimeters of clods, as if inflated, slowly bulging, returning to its original state at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Onasha was dumbfounded, how could this be? Is this still land? She pulled out the dagger at her waist and thrust it down, but the tip of the knife did not feel hard as it collided with the gravel, but accompanied by a sharp scream, purple slime gushed out from the edge of the knife.
She reacted and immediately shouted at Roche, "Hurry up!" There's a monster underground! ”
Needless to say, no one said the word "escape", Roche had already reacted instinctively two seconds ago, and after following Taogish for so long, his ability to poke out the breath of death from his nose has also improved. He leaned down and lunged forward, snatching Onasha away before the purple slime could be sprinkled.
The slime fell to the ground, and even the stones were melted.
A few droplets of liquid splashed in the air on the surface of Onasha's thin pale yellow shirt, directly burning several holes, and the white skin exposed in the holes was almost affected.
Onasha scolded in her mouth, she felt sorry for this dress, when she arrived in the village of Atulel yesterday, it was rare to get together with friends, and the meeting gift from others was heavy in less than a day after she wore it, can she not be angry?
At the same time, the ground cracked, and in the cracks moved an olive-colored snake, which writhed its black-streaked body and rushed out of the earth, its mouth biting the hilt of the knife stuck in its back, pulling out its dagger and throwing it at the two who fled.
Roche squatted, stepped on the sturdy roots, and leaped forward with the help of his strength, quickly dodging it. He glanced back at the snake, broke out in a cold sweat, and shouted, "How can there be a Serehongsis in this place?" ”
Serethunsis is the name of the snake, and it also has a bad name that has been passed down by the villagers of Atuliel - the Titan Python! The Titan Python is about fifteen meters long and about one meter four wide, and has a pair of unusually sharp teeth.
Before deciding to come to Ganshan, Onasha spoke with the old hunters in the village of Atuliel, and heard about several strange beasts that needed to be watched out for, the "wolves" in the woods, the "tyrant fish" that eaten, and the "frightened birds" who were aerial hunters, but no one mentioned Serehongsis.
Because titan pythons generally live underground at the junction of waterways, they move flexibly and find a living space underground. They don't see light all year round and rarely show up, so Onasha didn't expect that it would be Serehonsis who caused them trouble along the way.
Onasha slapped Roche on the back and shouted, "Hurry up, you're going to be overtaken!" ”
"I've done my best, and you don't want to think about how heavy you are!"
"What do you say? You actually say I'm heavy? Do you say it again? Isn't it because you've always relied on Taugish that you're as slow as a rabbit now? "Onasha is extremely disgusted that people comment on her weight, let alone at such a life-and-death situation.
"Do you have any misconceptions about the speed of rabbits? Can that be slow? ”
"I don't have time to talk to you now, if you can't run fast, we'll all die!"
Serehongsis may have moved at a great speed in the ground and in the water, but on land, especially in the dense trees that surrounded it, it struggled to move, and the wound on its back was constantly leaking mucus, which limited its speed of movement, and it was barely able to keep up with the two cunning prey in front of it.
The two fled in a northeasterly direction. Onasha rolled over and sat on Roche's shoulder, digging her hand into the equipment bag on his back, trying to find a weapon, but felt a square face. It turned out that Roche had put Taugish in his backpack so that he could save himself with his free hands.
"You run a little steady, I'm going to give it some color and see!" She searched for a while before she found a double-shot crossbow, put incendiary poison on the arrow arrow, and lit the arrow with a match, she aimed at the snake's eye to make a shot, but the fire was only shining before Serehongs's temper exploded.
It opened its mouth and roared, and the snake letter it spat out kept shaking, it was taboo against anything with fire, and swept away with a fierce flick of its tail, and the tall trees were cut in half, the power of this attack, as long as it hit the two of them, it was guaranteed not to die or be crippled!
"Wait a minute!" Onasha's vision was blocked by the oncoming giant tail, she was looking for an opportunity, her hands remained steady, the air exuded the smell of death, the trees on the side collapsed, Roche did not look back, he was waiting for Onasha's instructions, life and death were in her hands.