Chapter 105: The Scourge of the Village
Xiaolai originally wanted to go to the bushes to collect berries, but he didn't expect to step on the air under his feet, and almost fell into a big pit. Yuan Tai was the closest to him, and the figure immediately shot out, and pulled Xiao Lai up with one hand.
Standing next to the big pit, Xiao Lai still had palpitations, looking towards the big pit, and there were several bright sharp blades stuck at the bottom. If he fell just now, it is estimated that he will be killed immediately. Who set this trap here, it's going to kill people. Yuan Cheng and they all gathered around the big pit and watched, Xiao Lai just called out a few words, Yuan Sheng and Yuan Tai smiled, pointed not far away, and asked Xiao Lai to take a closer look.
Xiaolai followed the hands of the two of them, looked carefully for a while, and didn't see any clues. Yuan Sheng smiled and shouted, "Hey, I said you all come out." ”
After Yuan Sheng shouted, Xiao Lai looked again, and sure enough, he saw movement in the grass, and suddenly two people came out, all of them were decorated with some weeds, and they were very well camouflaged, and the two people were mixed in the grass It was seamless, no wonder Xiao Lai didn't see it just now.
The two men came over, and when they saw them, they were also very surprised, and said, "Hey, how can it be a man, we thought it was a beast." ”
Listening to the words of the two of them, Xiao Lai suddenly laughed angrily, and the emotional family took him as a prey, and said: "A few of us are big living people, don't you see it?"
"I'm so sorry, just now we looked from afar, but we only saw a group of lions. We thought that there would be animals being chased by the lions, so we just lay on our stomachs in the grass and watched, really not seeing you clearly. After one of them finished speaking, the other quickly apologized and asked if they were not injured.
Xiao said, "I almost fell in, but it scared me." How can you set such a dangerous trap here, if people fall into it, it will be over. ”
"This is the edge of the lion colony's territory, so there are often bison, antelopes and other places that are driven here by the lions," said the two hunters. Therefore, it is very easy to set a trap here, and it is very rewarding. As for the people you're talking about, you're really the first we've seen here. The two hunters kept looking at them, and then said, "Where did you come from, and how did you come from the depths of the steppe?"
Yuan Cheng and they laughed when they thought about it, in such a deserted place, it was indeed strange that they suddenly appeared here. Yuan Cheng said: "We came from a foreign country and got lost here, so you can take us to a nearby village or town." "They had been on a journey for a day, and it was already a little close to night, so they went to the nearest village to make a point and stay for the night.
The two hunters said yes in unison, and while resetting the trap, they set off towards their village with Ming Lingzi.
The brothers are hunters from a nearby village, surnamed Mao, and the countrymen don't have a serious name, so they are called Mao Da and Mao Er. Their village is also very small, with only a few dozen families, all of whom live by hunting. In the village, the two brothers were the most courageous and dared to go deep into the grassland, so their hunt was the most lucrative, and they could be regarded as well-fed people in the village. Today, the two brothers got nothing, and they couldn't help but feel a little depressed.
Yuan Cheng and the others also made up some nonsense, saying that they were the children of a rich family in the city, and they accidentally got lost when they came out to play. The Mao brothers may have not dealt with the outside world for a long time, and they are also convinced of their words.
As they spoke, a small village came into their sight, and the village was even smaller than their smaller village. Since most of the villagers in the village are surnamed Mao, it is called Maojia Village. When they entered the village, the villagers all greeted the Mao brothers, and at the same time stared at Ming Lingzi and the six of them, as if they had seen something strange. At a glance, I knew that there had been no strangers in this village for a long time, which made Yuancheng, Yuansheng and Xiaolai think of their village.
The Mao brothers also led them into the village chief's house, and the village chief's family was just as hospitable, greeting Ming Lingzi and them to eat. Xiaolai and Yuanqing ate a lot of berries along the way, but they were not full, and they looked at the food prepared by the village chief's family, and they had already eaten it.
Ming Lingzi and the others only ate a little, and a large group of villagers gathered at the village chief's house, talking about these strangers who were strangers. Ming Lingzi didn't care about them, they just kept chatting with the village chief about some customs.
This is a very small village, and the villagers are not rich, even the village chief's family only has an empty house, but fortunately, the weather is hot now, and Ming Lingzi and their cultivators don't need too thick bedding, so they spread a layer of thatch and a few straw mats on the ground of the empty room, and Yuan Cheng and they rested on it, and the only bed was naturally left for Ming Lingzi. It is said to be a bed, but in fact, it is a few pieces of formwork built on stones, and a layer of thatch.
As usual, it is the time of evening classes, and the place is sparsely populated, and the aura is relatively abundant. Yuan Qing and Xiaolai will not have any results in their cultivation, but they still draw scoops according to the gourd and sit in a decent manner.
After doing the evening class, Ming Lingzi and the others chatted for a while, and then they all rested. In the middle of the night, the noise outside had already woken up Ming Lingzi and them. Yuan Qing and Xiaolai slept soundly, and Ming Lingzi asked Yuan Cheng to go out to see what was going on, only to see that the courtyard was brightly lit.
Yuan Cheng came to the courtyard and saw that all the main male laborers in the village were concentrated. The village chief and a few old men didn't say a word, and stood there solemnly. "What happened to the village chief?" Yuan Cheng saw that everyone in the village looked like they were facing a great enemy, and he didn't know what was going on.
"Honorable guest, we were also trying to wake you up. Maybe you can help a little, and the evil has come. The village chief looked at Yuan Cheng with an anxious face.
"What scourge? Why did it come suddenly?" Yuan Cheng was also anxious.
"There is an earth dragon living under the grassland in front of the village, which comes out every once in a while to plague it. This scourge had just come once, stealing a few livestock, but I don't know why it came again in such a short time. Several hunters in our village spotted it. Therefore, the villagers gathered and prepared to fight this scourge, or the livestock in the village would suffer again. In the past, this scourge was only stealing some domestic animals on the outskirts of the village, but this scourge seems to be getting stronger and stronger, and this time it even broke into the village and killed two villagers. The old village chief was heartbroken, and he obviously remembered the damage caused by the earth dragon in the past.
The two villagers who were killed by the earth dragon looked like they had deeply pierced the nerves of the villagers, and one of the villagers was holding a weapon in his hand, and the crowd was excited, thinking that he must kill this earth dragon this time.
What kind of thing is the earth dragon, Zhang Yuancheng has never heard of it. At this time, a man ran in from outside the door, panting and said, "The scourge has entered the village, and it is in the cattle pen at the west end of the village." ”
A large group of people had already grabbed hunting forks, bows and arrows, and long knives, and ran to the west of the village. Zhang Yuancheng returned to the room and said to Ming Lingzi and them: "There seems to be a monster in the village, the villagers have gone to deal with the monster, I will also go and see." After saying that, he went out again and followed the villagers to the west side of the village.
The villagers are all hunters, and this is the edge of the grassland, so in order to protect from wild beasts, the villagers naturally set a lot of traps near the head of the village. But these traps obviously don't do anything for the Earth Dragon. The traps were all destroyed in a mess, and some bamboo thorns and iron blades were broken in a large way, all of which were destroyed by huge brute force.
Following the screams of the cows, a large crowd soon surrounded a bullpen. Under the reflection of the torches, Yuan Cheng finally saw the so-called earth dragon clearly.
It turned out to be a lizard, but this lizard is unusually huge, more than two feet long, a huge head, two big eyes on it emitting a terrible red light, and it looks even more blood-red at night, a big tail flicks around, no wonder it is called an earth dragon.
There were dead cows lying on the ground, and the terrifying mouth of the earth dragon was gnawing, and the bright red tongue kept sticking out, and the front end of the tongue was still divided into two sharp horns.
The villagers were all frightened by the Earth Dragon, because just last time, this Earth Dragon did not have such a large size, and it had only taken a long time before it suddenly nearly doubled.
The villagers are all hunters, and they are all experienced in hunting, so they took out their bows and arrows and shot at the earth dragon. But the power of the bow and arrow is too small, and it can only be an itch in the boots for the rough-skinned and thick-skinned earth dragon. The earth dragon was completely dismissive of bows and arrows, and still buried his head in gnawing.
Several villagers threw the steel forks in their hands again, but it still had no effect. Zhang Yuancheng knew that it would be difficult for these villagers to cause harm to this earth dragon.
Yuan Cheng picked up a stone on the ground, shook it, and then threw the stone out hard. The stone immediately flew forward like a meteor, and instantly hit the earth dragon's body.
I only heard a bang, and the stone actually smashed into pieces, and countless sparks splashed out from the collision with the earth dragon, which showed the strength of this impact. The earth dragon also screamed in pain, and when he turned around, his eyes that were still glowing faintly red just now turned out to be red Dasheng, staring at several villagers who couldn't stand and sat on the ground.
The strength of the earth dragon's ability to resist attacks was also beyond Zhang Yuancheng's expectations, he thought that he would definitely be able to kill the earth dragon with this blow, but he didn't expect that it would not break through its defenses at all.
That moment had obviously made the earth dragon fall into madness, and with a sweep of its big tail, it began to gallop on all four legs, rampage.
Seeing that the villagers were in a dangerous situation, Yuan Cheng didn't care much, snatched the steel fork of a villager next to him, and then jumped out, his movements were extremely fast.
The villagers who had just been stared at by the earth dragon, and the villagers who were paralyzed on the ground did not react at all, and when they saw the earth dragon rushing over, they all thought that they were definitely going to die. Unexpectedly, he was pulled aside at once.
It was naturally Yuan Cheng who pulled away the villagers, he jumped up again, held the steel fork and inserted it into the head of the earth dragon, only to see that the steel fork hit the head of the ground dragon and there was a burst of fire, and it was not inserted at all, and the steel fork was bent at that time.
But the huge earth dragon's head was also smashed into the soil by the impact, and Yuan Cheng didn't react yet, just about to carry out an attack, then a huge earth dragon disappeared.