Chapter 10: Iron Fire and Thunder
In a short time, the number of people who died directly in Liejia Village had reached more than 2,000, and more than 1,000 people were seriously injured on the ground, and there were less than 1,000 people with mobility or archery ability.
The hunting dragon couldn't sit still, although the arrow could be stronger and farther with his feet, the accuracy was too poor, and the angle that could be changed was very small, and it was even more difficult to shoot the giant beast that suddenly became like a ghost.
The giant beast obviously also found that although the arrows of the two super hunters of Hunting Xiaolong and Yuan Fei were strong, they had weaknesses in changing their movements, and almost when they were about to take aim, they had already moved dozens of feet away, and in a few breaths, Yuan Fei, the hunting dragon, sat on the ground and spun almost several times, and he couldn't lock the giant beast.
There was a feeling of being played by a giant beast, the hunting dragon turned over, abandoned the bow and pulled the knife and said angrily: "The demon hunting team follows me, even if you fight with your life, don't trap it, don't worry about anything else, even if you shoot us, you will shoot it to death!"
Yuan Fei and other members of the demon hunting team responded in unison, abandoning the bow and pulling the knife, they want to use their own flesh and blood to slow down the rapid drift of the giant beast, so that other hunters can shoot the giant beast smoothly, you must know that the giant beast is now almost full of new skin and new flesh all over its body, as long as it can be shot, even ordinary hunters can shoot in it and cause damage.
The giant beast has lost the ability of the demon pill to hurt the enemy's body, and most of the fur that is difficult to hurt the blade of the whole body has become new skin and new meat, which can be regarded as the weakest state.
Therefore, the action of the stagnant giant beast now is the most critical.
Seeing so many brothers and sisters and elders who laughed together and loved each other in the past, Xiaohu endured his sorrow, swallowed tears in his stomach, gritted his teeth and kept shooting arrows in his hand.
It's a pity that the drift of the giant beast is too fast and too illusory, it can't be predicted and can't be locked, with Xiaohu's archery skills, racking his brains and only shooting two arrows, because the giant beast moves too fast, even if it barely hits, it is also unloaded with most of its strength, and it is only more than an inch into the flesh, and it can't cause too much damage.
Hearing the words of hunting Xiaolong, Xiaohu couldn't help but fall in the middle of it, and set aside a short blade to follow his brother to kill the general, only by hunting the giant beast with the blade in his hand can he slightly reduce the hatred in his heart.
Hunting Xiaolong's body suddenly blocked in front of him, and he stood with a horizontal sword. Xiaohu was stunned for a moment, he strongly felt his brother's intention to not allow him to besiege and kill him closely, and was about to refute it, even if it was his most beloved brother, he couldn't stop his determination to kill the demon and take revenge, he didn't want to and wouldn't be an escaped hunter.
Hunting Xiaolong turned his head and stared at Xiaohu, as if to see him more clearly, his always calm face became serious, and he said in a deep voice: "Tiger boy, you remember, if the giant beast does not die today, you are the last hope of the Hunter Village!"
Xiaohu was stunned, "Tiger Boy" was his milk name, but since he became a hunter, at his strong request, his brother and sister stopped calling him, and only called him Xiaohu.
Now it is not only because his brother called out his milk name, but also because his brother's expression and tone revealed that there were too many and too strong factors of inexplicability, which made him feel an uneasy throbbing from the bottom of his heart!
In the next moment, the little tiger who was still in a daze was slapped on the neck by his brother and flew into the big pit! At this time, the big pit was the safest, and the grease at the bottom of the pit was almost burned out, and it was all soft mud and grease, and even if he fell, he couldn't hurt anything.
Xiaohu had fallen into a coma in mid-air, and the last thought that flashed through his mind was: If he is the last hope of the Hunter Village, what about his brother himself, who is ten times stronger than him?
"No!" the little tiger roared and woke up, bursting into tears!
He struggled to wake up from a boundless nightmare, in which his companions, brothers and sisters, and amiable elders, bleeding one after another, died in front of his eyes, and he could not move, but could only watch helplessly.
In the end, his most beloved brother and sister also came, as if to say something to him, as if he was going back to a few years ago or ten years ago, before the elder sister went out hunting, he told him to take a good look at the house, but Xiaohu felt very wrong, and the number of people was not right, as if there were two other vague figures telling the elder sister to hurry up, these two figures were very kind, like his father and mother who had no impression in his mind for a long time, as if this time hunting, the elder sister will encounter life danger, and the same as his parents, he will not come back! He wanted his brother and sister not to go, but he couldn't open his mouth, so he yelled out the word "no" with all his strength, and his whole body was sweating profusely.
finally escaped from the nightmare, the tragic and miserable in reality, and returned to Xiaohu's mind, where is the giant beast?
"Brother Xiaohu, you're awake!" Yin Xiaoqing's surprised voice came, Xiaohu looked up blankly, Yin Xiaoqing was like a flower and jade in his eyes, except for the red and swollen eyes, it was still so perfect, so that Xiaohu never got tired of looking at it.
In a trance, his big head was hugged into Yin Xiaoqing's arms, and Xiaoqing's soft chest and moving body fragrance finally relaxed his tense nerves a little.
Xiaohu took a deep breath, as if he wanted to keep the taste of Xiaoqing's body firmly in his heart, and slowly exhaled a breath of stuffy breath in his body, but he suddenly became nervous again, grabbed Xiaoqing's hand and asked: "Xiaoqing, how long have I been asleep, the giant beast is dead, what about the master, what about the brother, and the sister ......" He had too many questions in his heart to know.
Yin Xiaoqing stroked Xiaohu's big head and said softly: "You have been asleep for about two hours, your father is treating the clansmen, and my sister has suffered four arrow wounds, but fortunately she didn't hit the vital point, just lie on your left hand side and haven't woken up yet!"
Xiaohu turned his head to look and saw his well-bandaged sister Hunt Xiaofeng lying on the left hand side, although she was unconscious, she was breathing normally, and she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
The previous life-and-death battle with the giant beast was too chaotic and intense, he never noticed his sister's situation, more than fifty percent of the clansmen who fought out of the battle died, he had long been secretly worried about his sister's life and death, but he didn't care about it, and he didn't even find out where Bai Zi went.
"Sister is fine, this is great!" Xiaohu let go of some of his worries, and seeing that Xiaoqing didn't continue, he couldn't help but get nervous again, and asked in a condensed voice: "What about my brother......?"
"Brother Xiaolong, Brother Yuan Fei, and four other people chased out, saying yes, saying yes, saying yes, if ......" Yin Xiaoqing hesitated, not daring to say it.
"What are you talking about?" Xiaohu was even more anxious, he touched the bow and arrow with both hands, but he felt empty, he couldn't wait to help his brothers.
Yin Xiaoqing finally made up her mind, first hugged Xiaohu and didn't let go, lest Xiaohu get up and run away impulsively, looked at Xiaohu seriously, and said: "Brother Xiaohu, listen to me, don't worry, my father said, your bow and arrow are useless, you have to wait until the right time to go to Tiger Mountain to hunt demons." After a pause, seeing that Xiaohu's mood was stable and somewhat settled, Fang continued: "Brother Xiaolong, they have caught up, no, they are not catching up, they are fighting with giant beasts...... Alas, I'll tell you from the beginning! This is also what I heard from the injured clansmen intermittently when I first treated the wounds of my clansmen!" Xiaoqing also learned some medical skills from his father, which came in handy today.
"After you fell unconscious, Brother Xiaolong eight or nine people, trying their best to entangle the giant beast to fight, it is some effect, this period of time, shot a lot of arrows against the giant beast, but also paid a very painful price, was hit by the giant demon and killed three brothers, it seems that he will not be able to sleep, Daddy also joined the siege, but still can't be trapped, and finally the iron master appeared, the iron master is amazing, with a big hammer with fire fell from the sky, a hammer will beat the giant beast This big scourge to the point of bleeding, can only flee in the wilderness!"
"Alas......" A heavy sigh came from the side: "It's good that the contemptible person is so powerful!"
Xiaohu looked up in response, and then he found that he was lying in the drying field, and there were at least a thousand injured clansmen lying around him, these clansmen were still relatively lightly injured, and there was no danger to their lives, and there was a faint sound of pain and crying in the ancestral hall, obviously the seriously injured had been concentrated in it for treatment, and Yin Xiaoqing, who had poor medical skills, and other uninjured huntress came to take care of the drying field.
The person who spoke out was a stout old man with bronzed skin, his appearance was clumsy, his red hair hung down on his shoulders, and he was half-lying not far from Xiaohu, very unfamiliar, Xiaohu was stunned, there should be no one in the hunter village that he didn't know......!
"Master Tie, it's really good that you're awake too. Yin Xiaoqing revealed that the identity of this old man was the mysterious Iron Master.
Master Tie smiled bitterly: "This trick of contemptible iron fire and thunder, on the surface, it seems to have injured the giant demon, and even forced it back, but why didn't it take the opportunity to retreat, it should have sucked enough essence blood, there is no need to fight to the death with us, as long as it achieves the real demon pill and cultivates into a demon body, it can easily destroy us when it turns back." This evil has become a spirit, and his wisdom is even higher than ours. ”
Yin Xiaoqing hurriedly said: "But Master, your move of Iron Fire and Thunder really hurt it, Daddy said that your move has reached the peak and reached the realm of the Grandmaster, if it weren't for you hurting its internal organs, so that it had to retreat, I'm afraid it would hurt many more clansmen." ”
Master Tie shook his head and smiled, first looked at Xiaohu staring at him and said, "You are the younger brother of the first hunter Xiaolong Hunting Xiaohu?" Seeing Xiaohu nodded stunned, he continued to explain: "The so-called Iron Fire Thunder is a technique of striking with all his strength, this kind of all-out blow is not what is usually said, Xiaohu, after you hit with all your strength, how long will it take to strike with all your strength, and will the strength be weakened?"
Xiaohu thought for a while, shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be long, I can continue to hit with all my strength for a short period of time, and the strength should not weaken much at the beginning." Master, what's the difference between your full blow, is it, after a blow, you have to rest for a few hours!"
Master Tie nodded with satisfaction and said: "My son can be taught, my iron fire and thunder will squeeze all the qi, blood and vitality of the whole body, so one blow will be hit, once it misses, the whole body will be full of strength, and I can only sit and wait for death." Today I was watching in the dark for a long time, hiding my breath from the giant beast, and finally hit the giant beast in the short time that Xiaolong trapped the giant beast, but unfortunately, even so, it was still unloaded by the giant beast for nearly half of its strength. But I have to rest until now, before I can speak, and I have to work with people, but I am afraid that I will have to rest for half a month! ”
Xiaohu listened to it with fascination, there is such a strange thing in the world, the consumption of an attack, it takes four or five days or even half a month to recover, so how powerful should this be, the iron master is as mysterious as a master, not an ordinary blacksmith.
"Xiaohu, do you want to learn this trick of Iron Fire and Thunder?"
With such a magical skill, Xiaohu had already been moved, and when he heard Master Tie asking, he happily agreed: "Of course I am willing to learn, but what is the use of this trick? Moreover, I don't seem to have time to learn it." ”
"What's the use?" Master Tie said angrily and funny: "I don't know how many people knocked their heads and wanted to learn back then, what is the use of you asking? Well, this trick can make powerful enemies have concerns, and if you use it at the right time, you can defeat opponents who are many times stronger than yourself." ”
Xiaohu faintly felt that this trick seemed to be helpful for hunting giant beasts, if he could learn it, he could at least kill and injure giant beasts, but at the moment of life and death in the catastrophe of the hunter village, do you have time to learn!
He now has the heart to learn the skills, and he can't wait to rush to Tiger Mountain and hunt giant beasts with his brother and them. It's been two hours, I don't know if my brother killed the giant beast! The giant beast was so seriously injured, with my brother's ability, I should be able to kill it, I don't know how my brother's hand hurts, will it be affected......
Xiaohu's thoughts were chaotic, and all kinds of speculations and worries followed! With his temperament, if Xiaoqing hadn't been holding him to death, and his sister was also injured and unconscious, he would have taken his brother a long time ago.
Master Tie saw the change in Xiaohu's mind and sighed, "Xiaohu, do you know what your brother said to me when he left?"
Xiaohu was shocked, and said in horror: "What did my brother tell you?" I wondered in my heart, my brother should not be familiar with Master Tie, why should he say anything to Master Tie when he is fighting for life and death!
"Alas, Xiaolong is indeed an extraordinary person, he seems to see something! or think of something, although it is a life and death struggle, he still finds an opportunity to ask me, if they can't come back, let me teach you this trick of iron fire and thunder. The Iron Master sighed as he recalled.
Xiaohu was stunned, only then did he know why Master Tie actually took the initiative to teach him this trick Iron Fire Thunder, it turned out to be the eldest brother's request, why is this? Also, the eldest brother was worried that he would not be able to come back, could it be that the giant beast was injured to this extent, and the elder brother was still not an opponent?
"By the way, Xiaoqing, you didn't seem to finish talking just now, did you have another explanation when your brother left? ”
Xiaohu suddenly remembered that Xiaoqing seemed to have something to say in front of him.
"It was Brother Yuan Fei and Brother Ah Hai who said that at the end of the two walks, if they didn't come back within three days, let the whole village flee, and it was best to move to the other side of the desert!" Xiao Qing said gloomily, it is not enough that the beautiful and comfortable home has been broken to such a miserable level, do they have to flee from the village in the end?
Xiaohu obviously had expected it in his heart, and after a moment of silence, he asked, "What about the patriarch grandfather?
Xiaoqing finally couldn't help it, hid his head in Xiaohu's arms, choked and cried: "The patriarch grandpa is also dead, his blood is all spit on the drum, even if he dies, grandpa is also dead on the drum, dad said that grandpa he didn't stop beating the drum until the blood is exhausted, he is an iron-clad hero!"
When Xiaohu heard this, he was as strong as he didn't stop his tears, big tears dripped down his cheeks and landed on Xiaoqing's head, his facial expression was surprisingly unchanging but there was no change, like a carved stone that existed since ancient times.
Master Tie sighed helplessly: "There are countless dead and injured in Hunter Village, more than 1,000 people are seriously injured or incapacitated, and there are more than 1,000 old and young people who are sick and disabled, and the whole village is young and strong enough to move, including young women, there are less than 1,000 people, and there is no old patriarch to lead the command, even if it is migrated, if you don't walk a hundred miles, you will die most of it, if you want to jump over the Hundred Beast Mountain Range and the Great Desert, I'm afraid ...... It's hard to make the trip!" As a bystander or an outsider, Master Tie can see very clearly that the relocation of the whole village is also a dead end.
"So, we have only, and we must, hunt the giant beast!" Xiaohu suddenly said firmly, the last four words were extremely heavy, after saying this, all the worries, fears and sorrows were put down by Xiaohu, he felt like he had suddenly grown up, thousands of burdens on his shoulders, he could bear it, and had the ability to solve it, because his brother said that he was the last hope of the Hunter Village! He would never give up.
Resonated somewhere in the body, as if to support and appreciate Xiaohu's decision, in the sound of "click", the giant force point that had not been broken through last night's desperate work naturally opened, as if it was a matter of course.
After last night's life and death line, the clan was ruined, and now the breakthrough did not make Xiaohu have any excitement, as if the breakthrough is a natural thing, and this is far from enough, he has to become stronger!
Xiaohu's temperament and the double changes in his body, Master Tie was secretly surprised when he was all in his eyes, and suddenly understood his brother's intention to ask him to teach Iron Fire Thunder, and secretly thought, maybe this son is the savior of the catastrophe in Hunter Village, this son has extraordinary potential, and it is his instinct to create miracles!
Xiao Qing, who was choking in Xiaohu's arms, heard the words, but understood the wrong meaning of Xiaohu's words, wiped his tears and said: "Yes, Brother Xiaolong, they will definitely be able to hunt the giant beast back, so we won't leave the village to go somewhere else! Ah, Brother Xiaohu, has your wound worsened? Why is it a little foul!" Xiaohu's whole body is fine, only a few wounds with abrasions and scratches, which have already been wrapped by Xiaoqing's dressing.
As soon as the juli acupoint was opened, the impurities on the body were discharged with sweat, which was indeed a little unpleasant, Xiaohu scratched his head in embarrassment, recovered some of his agile nature, and said embarrassedly: "That, this, maybe I rolled in the mud yesterday, and I got a stinky sweat, I'll go wash and go back!"
As he spoke, he wanted to get up, but saw that Xiaoqing was still holding on to his arm, and Yin Xiaoqing, who obviously knew him the most, mistakenly thought that he wanted to take the opportunity to run to Tiger Mountain.
Xiaohu patted Xiaoqing's hand, squeezed out an ugly smile, and said softly: "Don't worry, I won't go to Tiger Mountain, at least, I won't go now!" "Indeed, as soon as the giant force acupoint is opened, his strength is increased several times, but he knows the strength of his brothers, if his brother can't do it, he will go the same, only by surpassing his brother, and then learning the iron master's killing moves, iron fire and thunder, he can have the capital to deal with the giant beast.
Master Tie is an extremely withdrawn and difficult person to get along, and he has never thought about others, otherwise he would not live alone, but at this time, he suddenly felt that he knew the two brothers of Hunting Xiaolong and Hunting Xiaohu very well, like two younger generations who he watched grow up, these two talented boys trust each other, have the spiritual sense of insight into the essence of the problem, and have a rare and valuable spiritual belief that will never give up.
It was precisely because he was infected by the essence of Hunting Xiaolong's temperament and personality charm that he took the initiative to teach Xiaohu his tricks, and now he is even more determined to teach, and said: "Xiaoqing, you let him go." By the way, help me after washing, find a remote place, and let's have a good chat!"
Xiaohu nodded in agreement, his eyes flashed with a light, he took Xiaoqing's hand and took two steps, and said strangely: "Where is Baizi, this timid guy disappeared as soon as he started fighting, it's really useless, and he still claims to be the fourth hunter in Hunter's Village." ”
Seeing that Xiaohu was back to normal, Xiaoqing pursed his lips and said angrily: "No, Baizi is the bravest, it broke many bones all over its body, and was shot with two arrows by stray arrows, and hit a wooden shelf to make it lie in the nest, and it couldn't move for several days! Also, the fourth hunter, it doesn't have a claim, you forcibly gave it to it, you don't remember." ”
Xiaohu vaguely remembered that Bai Zi was going to stop the giant beast with him, he turned over on the top of the giant beast's head, but Bai Zi was gone, could it be that he was knocked out by the giant beast at some time? ”
Somewhere in the creek, Xiaohu was holding water in the waist-length stream to wash his face, and suddenly used his newborn giant force to punch the stream, venting the grief and anger in his heart. Suddenly, I remembered the responsibility on my shoulders and practiced the starting method in the water!