The time and place are favorable, and none of them are in the hands of officers and soldiers. Shen Gu knew that the next battle would not be easy to fight.

Sure enough, half an hour later, the county soldier who was walking on the outermost part fell firmly. He thought he had tripped over the roots of the tree again, got up and patted the p-shares, and was just about to curse a swear word, when the roots that tripped him suddenly moved!

It even wrapped itself around him like a snake, strangled his waist, and dragged him more than a dozen feet away!

The man let out a long scream, and his companions around him shouted:

"Be careful, there's something on the ground!"

"There's an ambush!"

"Don't get caught up in it!"

Shen Gu naturally also noticed the abnormality on the ground, and immediately ordered: "Clean it up, quickly." ”

"It's not a monster, it's a tree!" Mr. Zuo beside him said in a deep voice, "The tree here takes the initiative to attack people, so it is advisable to attack it with fire!"

His eyesight was far better than ordinary people, and it was clear that it was not a giant python or other monster that was dragging the officers and soldiers, but the long branches like weeping willows around him. The branches are soft and resilient, much like the legendary man-eating willow.

It feeds on the flesh and blood of living creatures, and the branches secrete toxins that slow down the prey.

Mr. Zuo did not expect that this kind of Western Xinjiang monster would appear in the mountains of Liang Kingdom.

The officers and soldiers quickly lit torches in their hands, and the ghosts around them quickly shrank back.

But at this moment, a long arrow whizzed in with the wind and nailed directly to the chest of a county soldier.

In the dark forest, other uninvited guests appeared.

"Enemy attack!"

As soon as the words fell, the arrows rained down, and the enemy remained hidden in the dense forest.

Shen Gu knew that the mountain bandits had arrived.

Zuo Shen lowered his voice and shouted: "Protect your lord!" In such a dense forest, danger could come from any corner, and the surrounding soldiers immediately surrounded Shen Gu.

"Rush over!" Shen Gu ordered, "Kill!"

If he doesn't rush out of here, he can't even touch the shadow of the little beggar.

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After Granny Mu and the two left, a man and a rider appeared on the edge of the valley, rushing towards the medicine field.

The white cat was lying on the edge of the bamboo basket, and seemed to be able to smell the aroma of herbs in the medicine field, and his eyes lit up: "Hurry, hurry!"

The boy's face was expressionless, but his jaw muscles were tense.

He was gritting his teeth. The inside of the leg was medicated for a short time, and it would not heal in a short time, and now he rode a fast horse, and once again grinded his skin and flesh open, and blood was dripping. However, the most critical moment of this trip has come, and no matter how bitter and painful it is, it can only be forcibly endured.

The vision was even better than he and Chitose had expected:

The precious medicine field is unattended!

Running to the edge of the medicine field, he jumped down without waiting for the horse to stop, took the bamboo basket in his hand, and strode into the field.

"Here and here!" the white cat had already found its location, and at this time kept circling around the two young leaves, "This is a five-hundred-year-old ginseng, dig it quickly!"

Five hundred years? The boy's eyes lit up. Chitose only needed a hundred years of ginseng to make medicine for him, and if he used five hundred years of ginseng, would the effect of the medicine be several times greater? Without saying a word, he pulled out the sentinel's long knife and went to dig up the soil.

"Hey, you dug up the beard!" Seeing his action like a fire stick, Chitose just wanted to raise his claws to cover his face, "Be careful, you are digging the most precious medicinal herbs, not cabbage!

The tree has many old roots, and so does ginseng. The boy was not a professional herb picker, and the sky was dark, and he couldn't see clearly in the dark light.

Besides, time is tight, and there is no room for slow work.

In the sigh of Chitose's violent destruction of the heavens, he had to quickly gouge up this ginseng plant, and countless roots fell in the middle.

The boy's heart is also dripping blood, this is 500 years of ginseng, and each whisker is worth a lot of silver!

In order to speed up the progress, Chitose found a medicine hoe from the ridge for him. This thing is shaped like a crane's beak, and it is much easier to dig up herbs than a long knife.

"Dig up the yellow essence plant on the side!" After saying this, the white cat went to look for other medicinal herbs.

Time was tight, the task was heavy, and the boy had to walk over and do it.

As soon as he got off the hoe, he felt the sound of wind behind him, like a heavy object breaking through the air.

He was experienced in escaping for his life, and immediately knew that something was wrong, so he rolled over and rolled to the side.

Sure enough, there was a muffled sound of "porphyry", and the ridge where he was squatting was smashed into a dent.

The boy looked closely, and there was a brown monster more than a man tall standing behind him. It has a head, limbs, and torso like an ape, but it does not grow hair, and its body is covered with rough and cracked ...... Bark?

If he read it right, there was a little grass growing on the monster's head.

The boy took two steps back, turned and ran, and the monster chased after him. It is on all fours, and it runs like an ape, but its body is light.

It had no eyes, but two crimson flames burned in the orbits.

I don't know if it's an illusion, the boy always feels that this guy's eyes on him are bitter and hateful.

He took it around the field for most of the time.

It's also thanks to his nimble skills and surprisingly accurate intuition, and he temporarily changes direction every time he is about to be knocked down by the wooden ape. If you were someone else, you would have been knocked down seven or eight times.

But even so, he was repeatedly in danger and embarrassed.

Just as he was running to the door of the farm, there was a wheelbarrow with a long grass rake beside it.

It is very common to harrow grass farm implements, made of iron, with a long rake ridge.

The boy's eyes flashed when he saw it. Chitose didn't know where she had gone, and besides, she was a cat now and couldn't help.

The wind in the back of his head indicates that the monster has rushed closer, and he must save himself.

In the next second, he stopped jumping forward, squatted down, and stepped on the tooth comb of the grass rake!

The rake, which had been leaning on the wheelbarrow, turned one hundred and twenty degrees and slammed into the boy's head.

But as soon as he fell to the ground, the rake spine didn't hit him, but just stabbed straight behind him.

With a "thud", it struck something.

The boy jumped forward quickly, and when he turned back, he saw the iron rake spine entering and coming out from the front chest and back of the wooden monster, and stabbed in pairs!

He should be safe, and the boy breathed a sigh of relief.

But the creature staggered to its feet again, turned and walked towards him.

He suddenly felt his scalp tingle.

If you get poked in the spot, won't this thing die?

However, with such a long grass rake on his body, the monster's mobility was greatly reduced, and it was much easier for the boy to avoid it.

At this moment, a white shadow flashed nearby, and a cat appeared with something in its mouth.

Without waiting for the boy to react, she jumped on the bamboo basket, threw something into the basket, closed the lid, and then looked at the approaching monster: "Huh, wood ape?"

The boy could feel something moving in the basket, but he didn't have time to distract himself. The long grass rake tied to the wooden ape is very conspicuous, and it is impossible for Chitose not to see it, and secretly praises this kid for being a little anxious.