The first foray into the rivers and lakes Chapter Seventy-Nine Into the Swamp
Two children, both in their teens, a boy and a girl, the male is called Maomao, and the girl is called Huahua. Maybe it was because she saw that Anna was very kind, and she was not afraid of life, so she chattered. Originally, it was called Shining Gold Town, but the town was deserted, and the people in the town moved to a nearby cave.
Driven by curiosity, the two followed the two children to what they called the cave. The entrance to the cave is not large, and the passage where two people walk side by side is zigzag, and after turning a few sharp corners, it is already pitch black. The two children seemed to be familiar with the road, and they dragged Anna's arm all the way in the dark. Fortunately, after walking for a few minutes, there was a bright light in front of me, and finally after a sharp bend, a small valley suddenly opened up in front of me. The mouth of the valley is brightly lit, and the cliffs on all sides can be faintly seen, and the flowers and plants in the valley are flourishing, and there are some thatched houses scattered around.
Walking on the path in the valley, the fragrance of flowers in the valley was refreshing, Anna took a deep breath greedily, and her face was intoxicated, "It's so fragrant!"
After a while, he came to a thatched hut on the high side, and the mayor of this shining gold town lived in it. It turned out that these two children were a pair of children and grandchildren of the mayor's family.
The mayor was an old man with white hair, a long wrinkled face, and a thin body. At this time, because strangers came, many townspeople rushed to the mayor's house, and for a while, the house was crowded with people.
Feeling the enthusiasm of the people, Anna and Jiro listened to the mayor's narration. However, listening to it, both of them fell in their moods.
The town of Shanjin was once an important coastal town, with a huge harbor, a thriving fishing industry, and people living and working in peace and contentment. Hundreds of years ago, a group of powerful men fought on the nearby sea, and the war spread to the town, and a landslide flooded most of the town. What's even more terrifying is that the battle directly led to the change of the landscape, and the evil powerhouse blew itself up, triggering an extinct volcano under the sea. Volcanic eruptions, large amounts of dust scattered, and the earth's crust uplifted, turning the once beautiful and rich harbor into a barren swamp: the Green Water Swamp.
The emergence of the green water swamp has brought the harbor fishery on which people depend for their survival to the extinction, and to add insult to injury, the swamp fish-men, an evil species that barely exists in people's understanding, have appeared in the swamp and thrived. This swamp fish-man has the head of a fish, the body of a non-human fish, and deformed limbs. Bloodthirsty and ferocious, eaters, gregarious, and numerous.
The Green Water Marsh is at the junction of three state capitals, and since that catastrophe, there have been rumors that extinct volcanoes under the sea will periodically erupt and toxic gases will spread, and the area will eventually become a hellish place. And the initiator saw the terrifying monster of the swamp fish-man and gradually spread it, and the words were scorching! For a while, no state capital was willing to take care of this place at all, and avoided drawing a line with the green water swamp.
For hundreds of years, no military or political side of the Water Moon Empire has come to manage or purge the fish-man tribe in this area. As a result, the entire swamp is full of fish-man tribes. The terrifying fish-man tribe is almost a complete human tribe within itself, and from time to time it will organize a force to sweep the human villages on the periphery. The town of Shining Gold is on the edge of the swamp, and this is the place they focus on, and the fish-people almost regard the town as their frontier.
Luckily, fish-people prefer water to dryness, and they are reluctant to leave the water source for long periods of time. For example, in the mountains, they are reluctant to go. Because of this, the residents of Shining Gold Town were unable to resist the ravages of the fish-men, so they collectively relocated to the valley high up.
Looking at this room full of young and old, all with dishes on their faces, and almost no strong men, Erlang really didn't feel good in his heart.
At this time, there were painful weepings outside the house, and the figure flashed, and the two people rushed into the hut one after the other. A village woman who is a, a man with a short stature, particularly short, one meter two or three in height.
"Mayor Town, our family Bao'er and Erleng next door were playing outside this afternoon and haven't come home yet. Listen to the pillars, they have been captured by the devil! My miserable baby!" cried the village woman.
Everyone's eyes were focused on the short man who came with him. The man said vividly: "At about four or five o'clock in the afternoon, at the entrance of the old site of the town, I happened to meet two babies. I asked them why they were running inside, saying they were playing hide and seek. I also said why don't you listen to the adults and run there, and be careful of being captured by the devil. The two bear children said that they would hide at the entrance of the town and not go in, and besides, demons usually only haunt at night, and they are not likely to encounter them during the day. I was so stupid to let them go......!
"What happened?"
"Later," the man put his head in his hands, "and then I made a mistake in collecting firewood and came back late." Passing by the entrance of the town, I happened to meet the demon patrolling the town, and by the light of the torches, I happened to see two babies tied to the flagpole from a distance. ”
"It's a pity that I'm timid and afraid, so I can only watch the baby suffer there, but I can't take a single step. It's useless!"
For a while, everyone fell silent, and no one spoke again, as if they were reminiscing about the thrilling scene that the pillar saw at that time, or asking themselves if they would rush out to rescue the two children if they were there at the time.
"Ahem, that is, the person is tied to the flagpole and is not dead for a while?" Jiro coughed in embarrassment.
Mayor Mare nodded, "These demons sometimes lock people up for a while, and they are not in a hurry to ......"
"Wow!" Before she could finish speaking, Boa had already fallen to the ground in a cry.
"In other words, it is possible that people are still in the town and have not returned to their lair?" Jiro asked again.
The mayor nodded, a flash of surprise in his eyes, and then shook his head vigorously, "Impossible, that's a group of demons!"
Bao'er's mother stopped crying, looking at Jiro and Anna as if they were looking at a life-saving straw before they drowned.
The mayor gently pulled Bao Ma up, "Hey, back then, the ancestors gathered hundreds of warriors from the town, plus thirty or fifty foreign cultivated swordsmen, in order to exterminate the fishmen together, the result was that there was no survivor, and the harassment of the fishmen intensified. It's not that we don't work hard, it's that we don't have the ability!"
Looking at Bao's mother's instantly colorless face, Anna felt sad and called "second brother" softly, but she didn't know what to say.
Jiro looked at Anna and nodded firmly. Anna was taken aback, her eyes were full of incredulity, second brother, have you really decided?
Not to mention, I really don't know that there is still a passage in this small valley. What's even more interesting is that this passage actually leads to a cliff! This is nothing, the problem is that this cliff is on the edge of the swamp, and below it is a tribal nest of the Fish-Men!
Following the mayor and them all the way up, the passage was narrower and longer than the one that came in, and there were forks. Fortunately, there are torches to illuminate, otherwise in this dark night without light, Erlang would have been lost and died.
After walking for more than half an hour, I finally reached the exit.
The moon is dark and the wind is high, and the stars are sparsely dotted. Climbing the cliff and looking down, it was so foggy that I could barely tell what was going on. There were a few torches scattered at the bottom of the cliff, and it seemed that it was barely possible to tell that the height of the cliff was at least two or three hundred meters.
Anna held Erlang's hand tightly, a little nervous, a little excited, and full of happiness. Just now, her second brother said to her: "With the second brother here, you will never be hurt again!" as if to cheer her up, afraid that she would be afraid, but the strong love between her eyebrows was overflowing.
The moment Xiaobai was summoned, the mayor of the town and the people who accompanied him were in high spirits, as if there was a glimmer of hope for the success of the rescue operation.
With a clear whistle, Xiaobai carried Erlang and Anna up in front of the cliff, and disappeared into the darkness in an instant. Bao's mother's hands were tightly tugging with each other, as if Xiaobai was herself, and when Xiaobai disappeared into the vast night, the whole person fainted and fell to the ground.
Xiaobai circled down, and gradually, the torches below got closer and closer, and faint bursts of screams drifted into his ears with the wind.
In the middle of the night, with the piles of torches, trying to find two human children in the flying sky, from the crowd of fish everywhere, is tantamount to a fool's dream.
According to the clues of the pillar, Erlang locked on an area of about 100 square kilometers around. Sure enough, it is better to hear than to meet, it is such an area, almost full of fish-people bamboo houses, bonfires, and teams and clusters of fish-people. The riverside, the pond, the ditch, the lake, the road, crowded one after another, all strange-looking fishmen. There must be tens of thousands, such a fish-man tribe is not small, right? In the vast green water swamp, I don't know how many such fish-man tribes! If the poison is not removed, there will be endless troubles!
For fear of being discovered in advance, Xiaobai hovered high in the air and did not dare to get too close to the ground. I don't know how many times I flew around, but I couldn't tell the difference. In desperation, Jiro decided to lower the altitude and search at a low altitude.
The night wind was blowing, and Xiaobai flew rapidly at a low altitude, and the sound of the wind muffled its sound. But its snow-white feathers were too conspicuous in the dark, and when it passed by a three-story bamboo house, it was spotted by the fish-man guards patrolling the rooftop.
The leader of the fishmen in front of him, who was three or four times larger than the other fishmen, saw him dodge and move quickly to Xiaobai's flight path. Spreading its limbs, its huge dorsal fin stood abruptly, and in its palm was a spear.
The fish-man leader shouted, and on the roof, in the corridor, and downstairs, all the fish-man guards raised their spears. The terrible roar rose again, and the spear flew into the air like a locust.
Not good, Anna hurriedly urged Xiaobai to rise into the sky, it was too late. The overwhelming rain of spears had arrived in front of him, and Xiaobai spread his wings and protected himself and Anna Erlang in the middle. The spear was sharp, and the "poof" sound sounded, and in Anna's cry of pain, Xiaobai slowly landed on the roof.
Erlang Anna jumped down, and Anna ran to Xiaobai in distress. The defense of the two wings was strong, and the spear, which was more than two meters long, was only nailed to the wings, and did not hurt the vital parts. Although it is only a traumatic injury, the pain of skin and flesh is inevitable, although Xiaobai is a monster, he is also grinning in pain. Holding back her tears, Anna barely helped it pull out the spear nailed to its wings.
At this time, on the roof, more and more fishmen gathered, and the inner and outer three layers surrounded the two people and one beast.
The leader of the fish-people roared, and these two lowly humans actually parachuted under their noses! In the eyes of their fish-people, they were definitely tired of the weak humans daring to run in front of them, right?