Chapter 7: The Line Between Life and Death
At this moment, Zhang Lisheng had never been so close to death, but he didn't know if Lu Dao was born with the nature of being calmer when encountering desperate situations, or if it became the fighting instinct that came with the first witch, but his brain was not panicked at all, but broke free from the illusory feeling of controlling everything just now, and was surprisingly sober.
He instinctively began to block the black spotted leopard's big mouth with both hands, and at the same time, his mouth kept chanting witch spells, driving the witch insects to counterattack.
It's a pity that the human movement is far less agile than the black spotted leopard, and Zhang Lisheng's hands haven't blocked his throat yet, as if he feels the black spotted leopard's sharp teeth piercing his flesh and blood.
But at this moment, the witch insect Qinghong's thousands of limbs suddenly stretched out on the forest floor, and it had already taken the first step into the mouth of the black spotted leopard.
Bite her tongue with her fangs, the spotted leopard immediately gave up continuing to attack its prey, roaring and struggling in the woodland, constantly biting at the half of the poisonous insect's exposed body.
However, the adult black spotted leopard weighs only about 30 kilograms, and once the head is poisoned, the resistance is not even comparable to that of captive domestic animals.
Four or five seconds later, the terrible jungle hunter lost its life with black blood flowing from the corners of its mouth, and the body of the witch worm that killed it was almost cut in two by the sharp teeth of the forest leopard.
Fortunately, the wild beast was full of blood, and after the death of the black spotted leopard, Qinghong swayed its long body and crawled into its mouth, and then the leopard corpse began to slowly dent, and soon only the withered fur and rotten bones remained.
When the skin emerged from the corpse of the black spotted leopard, the cracks on the witch worm's body had disappeared, but the crawling movement was slightly slower than before.
The attack of the spotted leopard lasted less than ten seconds from start to finish, but it gave Zhang Lisheng a more intuitive judgment of the abilities he currently mastered.
One is that only insects and reptiles can be deterred by witch spells, at least the ability of witch spells is limited to this, when they just enter the jungle and chant witch spells, they can only drive small beasts to scatter and flee, it should only be because they are alarmed by poisonous insects;
The second is the ability of the low-level witch worm, or the first witch, which is more reflected in the insidious raid, controlling two highly poisonous witch worms, Zhang Lisheng can completely slaughter a village by surprise and quietly, but when it comes to an open duel, his witch worm may not be stronger than a large beast;
The third is that the breeding and promotion of witch insects are obviously not enough to rely on their own scattered magic power, and blood food is still a necessity for witch insects.
When Zhang Lisheng summed up his way of witchcraft, the spirit of the attacked traveler who was not far from him had already begun to collapse, and he could only let out a painful wail in his mouth, and he didn't even call for help.
Guided by the sound of wailing, Zhang Lisheng got up from the woodland, carefully bypassed a grove of tangled branches, and saw a young woman with blond hair covered in mud, lying next to a swampy pond with a radius of more than ten square meters and covered with dark green moss, with a nervous face and howling loudly.
ZHANG LISHENG COULDN'T SEE THAT THE BLONDE WOMAN'S DIRTY BROWN JACKET UNDER THE CLAWS OF THE BLACK SPOTTED LEOPARD, BARELY SAVING THE OWNER'S LIFE, WAS THE CUSTOMIZED EQUIPMENT OF THE WORLD'S TOP OUTDOOR SPORTS BRAND ARC'TERYX, AND THE PRICE OF THE WHOLE BODY WAS ENOUGH FOR HIM TO LIVE A COMFORTABLE LIFE IN A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE FOR TEN YEARS, BUT HE KNEW WHAT A POND MEANT IN THE DEEP MOUNTAINS AND OLD FORESTS.
Water represents life, but also endless danger.
Only the most experienced hunters have the courage to hunt by the pools of the dense forest, where the roles of hunter and prey are always reversed, although there is an endless amount of prey that can be hunted without much effort.
Sighing, Zhang Lisheng cursed the ignorance of the woman in his heart while chanting a witch spell in his mouth, and approached the pond step by step.
With every step he moved, hundreds of strange insects crawled away in the shadows, the sound and the terrifying shadows that kept stirring in the darkness made the meaningless cries of the already mentally broken blonde woman even louder.
"I've killed the leopard, its corpse is on the other side of the bushes, you're safe. Coming to the blonde woman's side, Zhang Lisheng whispered in a calm voice, and no longer made superfluous explanations, but cautiously re-whispered the witch spell, and his head turned around regularly to be vigilant.
He knew that the hunting activities of forest leopards may be carried out alone or in groups, and before the situation is still unclear, no one can take it lightly, not to mention that next to the dense forest pond, no one knows what else Lu Dao will encounter!
A savior with a strong will, a calm attitude, and methodical action is more convincing to a desperate person than any words of comfort, even if the savior is less than a hundred and sixty centimeters tall in the dim light.
After Zhang Lisheng appeared, the blonde woman's wail gradually became lower, and finally disappeared after more than twenty seconds, and then she gasped in horror for a while, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Sir, was you the one who shouted just now?"
You say the devil is dead?"
"Yes, I heard your cry for help just now and responded with a few words, was it a leopard that attacked you or a group?" Seeing the woman calm down, Zhang Lisheng asked rhetorically.
"Only one, God, one such devil would have turned this forest into hell, and if there were several, I would have been torn to shreds. The blonde woman exclaimed.
Her countenance was no longer distorted, and she was very young, and her countenance was good-looking, with features that were characteristic of Western beauties, but not the slightly rougher skin of their Eastern counterparts.
The woman's answer to the attacker eased Zhang Lisheng's nervousness a little, and he recited a witch spell to drive Qinghong to his side and said, "If there is only one leopard, it is really dead."
The pond is dangerous in the dense forest, and we must leave immediately. ”
But Zhang Lisheng's words did not relax the blonde woman who was almost alive, after all, seeing a huge centipede nearly one meter long approaching her in the dense forest was no more reassuring than encountering a forest leopard attack.
"Oh God, that, that, what's that at your feet, hell, that's, that's, what kind of viper with so many toes," the woman cried out incoherently.
"Miss, I really admire you for daring to come to the primeval jungle without even knowing leopards and centipedes. The woman's ignorance made Zhang Lisheng helplessly explained.
"That's a centipede, how can there be such a big centipede. ”
"It's a special breed that has been domesticated, I'm a hunter born and raised in western Sichuan, and this centipede is like a hunting dog raised by Western hunters to hunt foxes, wild ducks, and elk, but it's a little different. ”
Cultural differences between countries can sometimes lead to a ridiculous-sounding misunderstanding, such as the belief that almost all Indians know a form of breathing jiu-jitsu called 'yoga', just as the Chinese and Indians think that everyone in China knows a fighting technique called 'kung fu'.
In the same way, Zhang Lisheng's absurd explanation of using centipedes as hunting dogs may not convince any Chinese people, but for the blonde woman, there is no other feeling except that the Chinese people with thousands of years of civilization are mysterious and unpredictable.
When she finally relaxed, she suddenly thought of her boyfriend, whose fate was uncertain, and immediately exclaimed, "God, by the way, Harrick, Harrick is still there, I hope he is okay, no, no, he must still be alive."
Although I have just cursed him to die immediately because he had brought me to this dangerous place, but I was angry and unintentional, my Lord in heaven, that is not my true new life...", and ran to the foot of a huge cedar tree beside the waterhole, and threw himself on a pile of rotten earth.
Zhang Lisheng took a closer look and found that the mound turned out to be a young man lying motionless on the ground, but he was wearing clothes that were completely integrated with the jungle, which looked very hidden.
Seeing the blonde woman's rudeness, intending to make her boyfriend sober 'rescue', Zhang Lisheng, who finally saved two lives, didn't want to become one after escaping, so he walked to the woman, smiled wryly and whispered: "Miss, you shake your boyfriend's body like this, if he has internal bleeding, maybe..."
"You, you can save him, yes, yes, you're a forest hunter, you will definitely have first aid, please save him, please. ”
In ancient times, the original ruler of any civilization actually had the role of a doctor, from the priest of the primitive Indian civilization to the shaman of Mesobinia, to the voodoo witch doctor of the general civilization of Heifeizhou, and the 'witch' of Huaguo was no exception.
It's a pity that a novice like Zhang Lisheng has not yet had the ability to solve the danger and crowd the difficulties, and the medical skills he has mastered are very realistic only dietary therapy, which is to use various spices and herbs to stew a large tonic soup, or use special methods to barbecue meat, nourishing people's essence and blood that are deficient for various reasons.
However, Zhang Lisheng will not save people, but he can call the travelers in distress to rescue themselves, pointing to the huge travel backpack carried by the sturdy 'mound man' and the same color as his clothes, he said: "Such a big backpack, there will be nothing useful in it."
I've heard that well-equipped donkey riders carry first-aid medicines and even emergency injections. ”
"God, I'm so stupid, yes, we have everything in our backpacks. ”
Reminded by Zhang Lisheng, the blonde woman began to hurriedly take off the backpack from her boyfriend's back, and after calling, she rummaged around and found a small black leather first-aid kit.