Before the words fell, these chicken-footed Taoists had already begun to act, opening the earthen explosives they were holding in their backpacks on the left and right rows on the goose's nest according to the distance between them.

After doing all this, Yue Guanchao and the others rowed their canoe and slid backwards to a safe distance, just waiting for the ignition to ignite the letter, and the bamboo tube explosives burst outward with a bang, blowing up a two-meter-wide hole in the mud nest goose nest, as if an irregular hole had been broken in the mud wall.

The crumbling mud nest soil chips fell into the river, staining the clear river water turbid and ugly, like yellow soup and black porridge.

"It's done, this opening is enough for the boat to pass through, as long as you can cross the boat, you can continue to go down." Sun Tianqi looked at the mud nest that had been opened, and immediately showed a satisfied look. 33

"No, how can there be a strange sound?"

As soon as they wanted to paddle into the mud nest, they could obviously hear the buzzing sound in the depths of the mud nest, and Yue Guanchao's ears moved, and his face immediately sank: "Everyone be careful, something has come out of the depths of the mud nest." ”

Crash!

Before the words fell, countless gray and black geese had already been seen flying out of the mud nest and flying straight towards the chicken foot Taoist, and the chicken's foot-like claws directly scratched through the skin and flesh, and immediately oozed blood.

"What's the matter, these geese are not even afraid of people."

When Sun Tianqi spoke, there were already several Taoists who were scratched by the wild goose, and the identity was indeed the four people who went to deliver explosives just now, no matter how these people shook their arms, they saw the wild goose fluttering its wings like crazy to attack them.

When these Taoists beat left and right, they were inevitably scratched by geese everywhere on their bodies, and the geese were really bloodthirsty and ate meat, and when they saw the smell of blood, not only did they not leave, but they were like chickens and ducks that saw blood, constantly pecking at the bleeding wounds, and the wounds that were originally just bleeding became more and more serious.

In this way, a vicious circle has been formed, the more they scratch, the more they attract geese to peck at them, and when the wound is torn and more blood is shed, more geese and birds will come to besiege them, and this is just a breath, and these people are already surrounded by geese.

Even if the other Taoists used their staffs to beat them, they only temporarily scattered them, but whenever there was a little slack, the geese immediately made a comeback and surrounded their bodies like locusts.

Some Taiping Daoists swaggered and dodged, and were directly washed into the water by the geese, and they kept pecking at the skin of these people with their sharp beaks, until they saw that the skin was broken and bloodshot, and the geese would peck at the living person like crazy.

In less than a moment, he had already seen the young Taoist being pecked into a skeleton, and even so, because he had not yet lost his breath, he was constantly fluttering in the river.

"Ahhhh The Taoist saves me, and the Taoist saves me. ”

Sun Tianqi saw that he was in too much pain, and he was afraid that these young Taoists would leak the stuffing in a hurry, so he had to fly the silver dart, slam it a few times, and cut people's throats, which could be regarded as relieving his pain.

"Oh no, these geese are coming at us."

When the Daoist was fluttering, it was inevitable that the bloody gas would be splashed on other boats, and the people on these canoes would inevitably be contaminated with some of them, and after the young Daoist died, the geese obviously did not let them go, and attacked everyone again.

They had already seen the tragic situation of being attacked by a flock of geese, of course, they didn't dare to take it lightly, Yue Guanchao picked up the shotgun and slammed it upwards.

However, these gunshots can only serve as a fright, and it is very difficult to hit the whirling geese, but they are so angry that they dare to hit the muzzle of the gun.

Seeing that the geese were flying more and more, Yue Guanchao was inevitably scratched, and the other companions were even more scratched, and they were beaten back and forth in embarrassment.

"No, if you continue like this, you have to be gnawed into a skeleton."

Yue Guanchao looked down at the water, only to see the wild geese skimming the water, and then raised his wings and flew away, he saw this scene: "I know, into the water, let's quickly dive into the water, these wild geese are very heavy feathers, once they enter the water, they can't fly." ”

After saying that, he jumped into the pool first, and then everyone else also got off the boat and lay on the hull.

In this way, although most of the body has entered the water, there is still the upper body left outside to be attacked, and in order not to sink, they can only hold on to the rope on the hull of the boat, but give the geese a chance to peck at it.

Song Siyuan looked at the boat floating on the surface of the water at hand, and immediately had an idea: "Let's turn the boat upside down on the water and hide in the cabin bucket, so that we don't have to dive or worry about being attacked by the goose boat." ”

Yue Guanchao saw that this was feasible, and immediately turned over the boat with Xu Xiake, and told everyone to hide in the cabin bucket, relying on the buoyancy of the cabin bucket, a part of the cabin really leaked out of the water, like a box covering the water, covering half of everyone's body in it.

Seeing that this plan was feasible, Sun Tianqi also asked these young Taoists to turn over and cover the water according to Yue Guanchao's appearance, and the master and apprentice were all covered in it.

Smack! Click! Pimple!

The geese could not catch the living, and began to attack these wooden boats, scratching the bottom of the boat with their legs and feet, and the crackling sound was non-stop, and at any time the geese hit the hull from all directions, like a summer rainstorm falling on the eaves, and the sound was like a piece.

Yue Guanchao and they hid in the boat, holding the ropes on both sides and floating on the river, listening to the claws coming from all directions, they only felt terrified, if there was no canoe as a cover, they would have to be eaten alive by the geese.

Yue Guanchao asked: "These geese, how can they be so powerful, it stands to reason that they can only move corpses, how can they attack living people, this kind of bird flock is the most afraid of humans." ”

"Since these geese can devour corpses and build corpses into their nests, most of them have formed the habit of eating corpses, and they have even been raised by corpses for a long time, and they will attack when they see living people, but I think the biggest reason is that their nests have been destroyed."

Speaking of this, Song Siyuan obviously felt that it was very possible, and continued to explain: "The geese reproduce in spring and summer, migrate in autumn and winter, even if the geese here do not migrate, they definitely reproduce in spring and summer, and the geese nest often in the reeds or in the bushes, in order to prevent some wild beasts from harming the young geese, they will deliberately set up several fake nests, and when the animals really come, they will launch attacks to drive them away, so as to protect the young birds in the real goose nest." ”

"This kind of behavior of protecting the nest is completely normal, just now, it was after these goose nests were bombed that they went crazy, and pecked the people who blew up the nest to death at the first time, it can be seen that there are unjust debtors, and it is likely that we are hurt because we have the smell of these people's blood."

"Then these geese are so fierce that ordinary birds have to flutter away when they see people, do they become bolder?"

Although geese are not very afraid of people, they are by no means not fierce birds, and this kind of active attack on people is indeed rare.

Song Siyuan explained thoughtfully: "I think it is probably related to the long-term use of human flesh and blood, and they want to eat flesh and blood when they encounter it, and at the same time, I suspect that they also have a swarming effect. ”

"Gather, then Miss Song has to explain!"

The crowd grabbed the rope and listened curiously.

"Yes, do you know about the passage of locusts?"

This made everyone nod their heads, the most hated thing by the people of Zhuangtian is locusts, once these locusts become the climate, every place will inevitably cause locust plagues, trees and grain are gnawed clean, and few people will scatter the harvest and starve to death.

Song Siyuan continued: "As an individual, locusts are just ordinary grasshoppers, they have no lethality, and they will not take the initiative to attack people, their personalities are extremely gentle and timid, and they have to fly away when they encounter people, but if they are grasshoppers on a large scale, they will cause a swarming effect because of quantitative changes. ”

She paused, and her tone became mysterious: "Once the grasshoppers gather, there will be a very strange smell in the group, first of all, the appearance will change from cyan to brown and black mottled, and the temperament will become extremely violent. ”

Song Siyuan's words made Yue Qingshan suddenly realize: "My daughter's words reminded me of the Ding Wuqi famine, back then, the locusts in the north were really powerful, just like the dark clouds that covered the sky and the sun, after crossing the ridges, the grain poles to eat were a few inches shorter, and there was not much left behind." ”

"I heard that some people saw locusts and wanted to use a nail rake to drive them away, but half of their lives were almost gone, and when these locusts had nothing to eat, they were indeed like lambs, and they dared to eat anything."

Song Siyuan nodded and said: "Actually, there are locusts in foreign countries, and after they researched, they found that a single grasshopper is an ordinary insect, and after gathering, a large number of hormones spread inside the locust, and the individual's temperament habits are constantly strengthened and mutated, and finally formed a locust that eats humans and animals and transits hairless." ”

"The individual is quite normal, and the habits of gathering have changed, which is called the swarm effect, I think that birds like geese that want to migrate collectively will have such a mechanism, so as to protect the individuals through the power of the group, and their brains are likely to be affected by certain hormones, which are completely different from ordinary geese, and become bloodthirsty and aggressive, but it is normal."

"Now, it's up to us to figure it out?"

When Song Siyuan spoke, the snapping sound outside the cabin never stopped, which showed that these birds were very vindictive, and Yue Guanchao swam to the bow of the boat and lifted a gap away from the water.

Through the gaps and reflections on the surface of the water, it is clear that many geese have fallen on the riverbank, with wet mud and dead grass in their mouths, constantly collecting towards the gaps, smearing the wet mud on the gaps, and repairing the mud nests that have been blown off by explosives.

Tens of thousands of geese, all of them build their nests in this way, and in just a stick of incense, they have already repaired the gap smaller and smaller, until only the space the size of a skull remains, and their speed slows down.

Song Siyuan grabbed the rope and swam to the gap to stare ahead, the geese had already begun to return to the nest and burrow into different mud nest gaps.

Now, the problem is to pass through the mud walls full of swallow's nests and enter the last part of the cave without angering the geese.

Some people died, but not completely......