Chapter 22: The Hunt for the Alien Beasts
This strange beast was staring at the white tiger beast, slowly moving forward, only to see that it was shaped like a tiger, with a hideous face, but its body shape was much larger than that of the white tiger beast, with a body length of more than a zhang and a slender tail like a whip. The whole body is bronze, the reflection is shining in the sun, the whole body is covered with black markings, the limbs are extremely thick, the claws are huge and sharp, the eyes are like giant electric essence, and the two long hairy eyebrows on the eyes flutter in the wind. The mouth is incomparable, and the salivation is endless. When you walk, your front and back limbs stomp on the ground, it's very intimidating.
Xuanyuan Lie was still sitting on the white tiger beast at this time, and when he saw the white tiger beast like this, he was both angry and pitiful in his heart. With a roll of the flag in his right arm, he wrapped the flagpole around it, shouted loudly, and gathered all his strength to stab the beast in the eye with the tip of the pole.
The strange beast had been staring at the white tiger beast, opening its big mouth and preparing to bite the white tiger beast, when it saw Xuanyuan Lie stabbing at him, he opened his mouth and roared, which was deafening. The samurai bowed their heads and covered their ears.
The beast slapped the flagpole with his palm and pounced on Xuanyuan Lie. Xuanyuan Lie's flagpole propped up to the ground, bounced up three feet and seven feet high, turned around in the air, stabbed obliquely at the beast's back, and circled with the beast.
Seeing this, the samurai also came around with their swords, ready to help Xuanyuan Lie.
The beast pounced into the air, and immediately rose into the air, grabbing the top of Xuanyuan Lie's head with four claws while Xuanyuan Lie landed. Xuanyuan Lie rolled on his side, turned over and dodged, swept the moon bow back with his left hand, threw the flagpole with his right hand, and immediately squatted down and bent the bow and pulled the arrow, shooting towards the beast's head.
"Bell!" a golden moon swung out with the string, the beast's head lowered, the arrow qi almost grazed the beast's head, and the beast's sideburns had been burned black. The golden moon turned into a small golden moon and shot into the woods behind, and a large number of trees were broken by brushing.
Xuanyuan Lie immediately set up the second arrow, ready to shoot at the beast's body, the beast was extremely fast, flashed behind Xuanyuan Lie from the left, and waved his left claw towards Xuanyuan Lie's back heart.
The warriors couldn't help but scream, seeing that the beast's claw armor was as sharp as steel, about six inches long, and had almost touched Xuanyuan Lie's back, but it was too late to save him. Xuanyuan Lie felt the cold chill behind him, the wind was loud, and he couldn't turn around, and shouted: "My life is over!"
At this moment, the white tiger beast lying on the ground suddenly soared, screamed wildly, and pounced at lightning speed, swooping out Xuanyuan Lie and flying more than two feet away.
The beast's claws scratched into the air, but it caught the head of the white tiger beast. The roar of the white tiger beast stopped immediately, and suddenly the tiger's head was caught, and it fell to the ground paralyzed from the air, and it was a life!
Xuanyuan was furious, and was about to draw his bow and shoot angrily, but the strange beast opened its big mouth and grabbed the corpse of the white tiger beast on the ground, and then leaped up, and in an instant it had fled into the depths of the woods.
Unable to shoot the strange beast, and lost the white tiger beast, Xuanyuan Lie was sad and angry but helpless, so he had to return to the valley with the whole team.
Back in the valley, the more Xuanyuan Lie thought about it, the more angry he became, and the white tiger beast that had been with him for many years was eaten in vain by the strange beast, and he was really unwilling. In any case, you have to avenge the White Tiger Beast and shoot that strange beast to death.
But he also thought that the beast was extremely fast and powerful, and he was afraid that it would not be easy to kill.
I couldn't think of a good way, so I had to drink by myself in a sullen mood.
When Wei Taiqing heard the news, he ran to find Xuanyuan Lie.
He asked, "What kind of beast did the Deputy Sect Leader encounter today?"
Xuanyuan Lie told Wei Taiqing what happened on the back mountainside, and said through gritted teeth: "Tomorrow, I will mobilize all the horses in the valley to go to the back mountain to hunt for that beast, and be sure to shoot it." ”
Wei Taiqing waved his hand and said: "Deputy Sect Master, don't do it, this kind of strange beast is the kind of peace before Hong Qian, it was called a raccoon in ancient times, and now it is called an alien beast, there are not many people left, and it is rare to see it in a hundred years." ”
Xuanyuan said angrily: "So what? It ate my White Tiger Beast, I want it to pay back with blood! If you don't kill it, will you stay on the mountain and wait for it to go around killing people when it is hungry?"
Wei Taiqing said: "This alien beast only eats livestock, never humans. But when you are attacked by someone, you can also hurt someone. If people do not attack it, they will be fine. ”
Xuanyuan Lie recalled that at that time, the Alien Beast had stared at the White Tiger Beast as soon as it came, and it seemed that he didn't care about people at all. I remembered that the White Tiger Beast was usually brave and fearless, but after smelling the breath of this alien beast today, it was already lying on the ground and waiting to be killed before the battle, could it be that I already knew the origin of this alien beast?
He couldn't wait to ask Wei Taiqing: "How is that good? It's not easy to kill it." ”
Wei Taiqing stroked his beard and said with a smile: "The deputy sect leader has lost his mount now, why not capture it?"
"Catch it?" Xuanyuan Lie waved his hand and laughed repeatedly: "It's unlikely! This beast is so powerful, it's hard to shoot, don't say catch it alive!"
Wei Taiqing said: "According to ancient legends, the tail of the raccoon can be tamed, and when the deputy gang leader encounters this alien beast again, find the right time to cut off his tail, and it will naturally be your master in the future." ”
Xuanyuan Lie was suspicious, so he ordered the warriors of the banner to take turns to investigate the nearby mountains and forests, and if they found the whereabouts of the alien beast, they would report immediately.
Two days later, Xuanyuan Lie was drinking and playing with swords in front of the palace, and a samurai Pegasus came to report.
In the mountains and forests by the sea in the back mountain of Zhaoyao Mountain, traces of alien beasts were found. Xuanyuan Lie immediately ordered someone to prepare a bow on the back of the horse, and carried the nine-hole big-headed knife left behind after Lei Duoshan's death before. Summoned the Blood Order Banner to bring a few chickens and ducks raised in the valley, and all rushed there to gather.
In less than half an hour, they rushed to the seaside mountains and forests, and Xuanyuan Lie ordered the warriors to disperse and search carefully.
Soon a samurai found footprints on the beach, Xuanyuan Lie went over to take a look, only to see that the footprints were wide, more than three feet long, and there was a long deep ditch sandwiched between the toe prints, which were indeed the footprints of the alien beast, so he ordered the samurai to retreat to the mountains and forests, and only brought a dozen people to look for the footprints.
The footprints stretched from the beach to a boulder next to the forest, and then suddenly disappeared.
Xuanyuan scolded fiercely: "This beast! If you are cunning, the footprints that you have managed to find are gone." ”
The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, so he slashed at the boulder with a nine-hole dagger.
"Boom!" there seemed to be a muffled sound behind the stone, and it was a long roar.
A samurai next to him said, "Deputy Sect Master, this stone seems to be hollow." Xuanyuan Lie knocked the stone again and listened carefully.
Sure enough, I heard some echoing sounds, but they didn't seem to come out of the stones.
Xuanyuan Lie said curiously: "Could it be that the beast ran here and escaped into the stone?"
A couple of samurai said, "Let's just push the stone over and have a look." So a dozen men worked together to knock down the boulder, which looked huge, but it fell as soon as it was pushed.
A cave emerged behind the stones, and it turned out that the echo was transmitted to the stones from the cave.
Xuanyuan Lie looked at the cave, and it was dark inside, and only one person was allowed to bend down to enter and exit. "I'm afraid the beast's nest is here." ”
He stooped into the hole, intending to go inside.
The warrior next to him persuaded: "Whoever is a beast must divide the land and dominate the territory, and the deputy sect leader must not easily enter the cave." ”
Xuanyuan Lie thought about it, so he ordered someone to bring the chickens and ducks raised in the valley, took two fat chickens, twisted the neck of the chicken with his hand, and the chicken blood shot straight out, one was thrown into the mouth of the cave, and the other was thrown outside the mouth of the cave.
Immediately a roar was heard from the cave, and everyone heard that it was indeed the voice of the beast.
The beast smelled the blood of the animals, and sure enough, it reacted.
Xuanyuan Lie waved his hand and motioned for all the warriors to retreat a few feet, then carried the nine-hole head knife, jumped onto the boulder, raised the knife and waited.
There was a sound of chewing in the cave, as if the beast was gnawing on the chicken, and after a few moments, there was no movement.
But the sound of the beast's breath was getting closer and closer, and it seemed that the beast was coveting the chicken outside the mouth of the cave, and even though it knew that there was someone outside the cave, it could not help but approach the mouth of the cave.
The beast crouched in the mouth of the cave and watched for a moment, then suddenly freed up and pounced on the chicken with lightning speed, bowing its mouth and holding it in its mouth.
Then he propped up his front hooves, turned his body upside down, turned his limbs to the sky, and flew towards the cave again, and a long tail dragged straight into the air like a long hook.
Say it's too late, then it's too soon!
Xuanyuan Lie flew down from the top of the boulder, clenched the nine-hole dagger with both hands, and slashed at the beast's tail in mid-air.
The beast's body had almost flown into the cave, only the beast's tail was exposed outside the cave, and Xuanyuan Lie slashed right at its tail with a knife.
"Bang!", the beast's tail broke in response, and the knife slashed into the stone at the mouth of the cave, and suddenly the lightning and flint, and the blade was also broken in two.
The alien beast howled, ran into the cave in pain, and never came out again.
Xuanyuan Lie also fell to the ground, and even his belt was torn due to the force he used too hard.
He stood up and patted the dust on his body, threw half of his body in his hand, bent down and lifted the beast's tail to take a closer look, only to see that the place where the knife was cut just now had healed automatically.
The tail of this beast is about three feet long, the tail hair is slender and very soft, the bones and tendons are extremely tough, and the tentacles feel extremely warm.
Xuanyuan Lie tied the beast's tail to his waist and tied it in a knot, the length was just right.
He couldn't help but be overjoyed: "I didn't come in vain today, this beast tail is just right for my belt!"
Then he jumped and flew into the cave to find the alien beast.
It was too late for the more than ten warriors to hold Xuanyuan Lie, so they hurriedly followed and flew into the cave.
The cave was dark and bottomless, and as soon as the samurai entered the hole, they kept falling, almost five or six zhang before falling to the bottom of the cave.
The samurai fell to the ground with sore backs and legs, and fell to the ground. shouted loudly for Xuanyuan Lie, but there was no response.
I didn't hear the breathing of the alien beast, and a few warriors struggled to stand up in pain, walked around in the dark, and found that they had fallen into a circular cave, about three zhang long and wide, and found no trace of Xuanyuan Lie and the alien beast.