Chapter 47: The Bird's Nest
Gu Shenwei fell rapidly, but his will to survive did not disappear, his hands were scratching around, he couldn't see anything, he only felt that his body kept hitting obstacles, some were trees, some were half-rotten stones.
I don't know how long it took, maybe it was just a few breaths, maybe it was a long life, Gu Shenwei finally fell to the bottom, and the bones in his body seemed to have been shattered, the good thing was that he fainted immediately, and he didn't immediately feel the pain that penetrated into the bone marrow.
He didn't die, the obstacles along the way slowed the downfall, and there happened to be a pile of twigs and soft grass where he fell.
He soon regained consciousness, and the pervasive pain overwhelmed him like the sea, and for a moment he could not think or hear.
Eventually, he was able to control his body again, and he struggled to sit up and observe his surroundings, and the first thing he saw was a cloud of mist, indicating that he had not fallen to the bottom of the cliff, but was halfway up the mountain.
Then he saw a scene that was hard to believe and unacceptable, and he didn't notice it at first, because it was so unbelievable that his brain simply refused to admit its authenticity.
A few steps in front of him lay a huge python, almost as thick as an adult's thigh, which did not attack the intruder from the sky, because it had a very large egg in its mouth, like a smooth gray stone, about the size of the head of the god of big heads.
The python's upper and lower jaws were completely propped open, and its two yellow eyes could only look at the sky, which greatly interfered with its vision, which was one of the reasons why Gu Shenwei was still alive.
This scene is really weird, it is incompatible with the real world, Gu Shenwei feels that he must be in the underworld, he seems to have drunk Meng Po soup, forgot his previous life, forgot his family feud, forgot the girl who killed him, just stared at the giant python blankly, motionless.
In the end, a strong will to survive stimulated his full potential, Gu Shenwei ignored the ubiquitous pain, stood up and forcefully pulled out the dagger on his left shoulder, this murder weapon has been falling with him, not slipping and missing.
He wanted to take a few steps back to keep a safe distance, but after only half a step, he found himself again with no way back.
The place where he had fallen was a large bird's nest, like a giant bowl made of twigs and hay, which was about the size of a smaller human house, and where he stood at the edge of the nest, the branches crumbling at his feet.
The python was still trying to devour the eggs, its muscles contracted continuously, and the eggs went in a little more, and there was not much left exposed.
Gu Shenwei just watched the giant python eat, until the whole egg entered the mouth of the snake, he suddenly realized that this was the best chance to kill the giant python, and after a while, the giant python would send the bird egg to its abdomen, and then twist its body to squeeze it hard, and then, it might be willing to devour another human teenager.
Half of the python's body remained outside the nest, and in order to help swallow the eggs, it squirmed and advanced a foot, closer to Gu Shenwei.
Gu Shenwei walked to the giant python's head in a few steps, inserted the dagger between the two yellow eyes, and then bent down and walked cautiously, the tip of the knife zigzag along the python's body, sometimes shallow and sometimes deep because of the obstruction of the bone joints.
Gu Shenwei walked to the end, turned around and leaned against the cliff, the rock behind him gave him great strength and confidence.
The python's back was sliced open from head to tail, but it seemed to be unconscious, neither in pain nor in fierce resistance, still wriggling and devouring the bird's eggs, and its blood-gushing body was still writhing from side to side.
After a long while, the python gradually stopped moving, the eggs were completely exposed, and the python's blood was almost gone, revealing the flesh of the white flowers, and from between the skin and the flesh, hundreds of milky white nematodes were squeezed out, each one was one or two feet long, and the eyeless head swayed around, as if trying to find a new home.
Fear turned into disgust, Gu Shenwei leaned closer to the stone cliff, eager to turn into a stone and merge into it, he wanted to wait for the giant python to die and kick it out of the nest, but at this time he didn't want to take half a step.
The bird egg standing on the head of the giant python suddenly made a clicking sound, and Gu Shenwei did not consider the safety of the bird egg when he cut the python's body, and the tip of the knife also left a scratch on it, which seemed to directly cause the egg to break.
Even if the gods and ghosts appeared directly at this time, Gu Shenwei would not feel strange, so he watched straight as the bird's egg developed from a slight shaking to a violent shaking, accompanied by an urgent clicking sound, and finally, a chick finally broke out of its shell.
But even if the ghost really appeared, it was probably not as ugly as this chick.
It is about a foot tall, much larger than ordinary birds when it is born, it has not grown a single feather on its body, it is thin and bony, as if there is only a layer of pink skin wrapped around the skeleton, and a pair of fine yellow eyes are simply a trumpet copy of a giant python.
The chick has a long beak, does not bark or run, and holds its head high and its toes are high, not knowing that it was still a python's mouth a moment ago.
It seemed to be starving in the egg, swept the new world, and the first thing it did was to bow its head and eat the remaining mucus in the eggshell, eat a few bites, and then be attracted by the python corpse, step over, first pecked off the yellow and clear eyeballs in two bites, and then devoured the nematodes that swayed from side to side one by one, eating large pieces, eating from beginning to end, leaving no one.
It didn't seem to have eaten enough, and it picked out the tender python meat and swallowed a few large pieces, and finally came to an end, raised its head, and stared at the humans on the cliff outside the nest with yellow eyes, as if trying to distinguish whether it was food, an enemy, or a friend.
When the chick was finished, Gu Shenwei kept looking at it, he was still holding a dagger in his hand, and he wanted to rush up and stab the monster to death several times, but he was blocked by the disgusting python corpse, his feet seemed to have taken root, and he couldn't move an inch.
The ugly fledgling stared at Gu Shenwei, although it was not as high as his knees, his eyes were as evil as if the devil had been reincarnated, he felt that he was intimidated, and he had no confidence to defeat it at all.
The chick suddenly spread its two bare wings and flew all the way to the front of the human, and before Gu Shenwei could react, the chick had already pecked his legs endlessly with its sharp beak.
It hurts, Gu Shen moved left and right, but in this square inch, he couldn't avoid the raindrop-like pecking at all, but the chick didn't seem to have malicious intent, just pecked, didn't open its mouth to bite, with the posture of swallowing the python meat just now, if it really had to be forced, it was estimated that it could bite a large piece from his leg in one bite.
Even so, Gu Shenwei still couldn't stand it, so he raised his dagger and threatened it, "Go away, go away, I have a knife." ”
Gu Shenwei dangled the dagger and kicked it with his foot, but the chick was not interested, thinking that it was an after-dinner game, and pecked more happily, and his eyesight was extremely accurate, and he would definitely be able to hit the foot he stretched out.
If it goes on like this, his legs and feet will have to be scrapped, Gu Shenwei decided that he couldn't be more merciful, raised his dagger, and was just about to stab it, when he felt that the sky suddenly darkened.
There were clouds and mist near the bird's nest, but there was also sunlight penetrating, and the darkness was like a large dark cloud, blocking all the sunlight at once.
Gu Shenwei unconsciously glanced up, and immediately glad that he didn't do anything to the chicks, he should have thought of it a long time ago, since there were such big bird eggs, how could there be no bigger parents?
A large bird, standing taller than an adult, flew in, its wings spread out almost obscuring half of the sky.
The big bird quickly landed on the nest, it had a pure black feather, only a pinch of golden feathers stood on the top of its head, like a small crown, the long iron-gray peck was like two sharp blades together, and the eyes were the same as the fledglings, yellow, but a little less innate evil, more haughty, contemplative and stoic.
When the big bird landed, it let go of its claws and released a living little beast, which curled up in a ball and whined and whined, without the slightest intention of escaping.
Gu Shenwei was stunned, and he was ten, twelve points sure that he was not the opponent of this beast.
The big bird took one look at the chicks, then at the humans, and finally at the dagger held up in the air.
Gu Shenwei hurriedly put down his hand, he subconsciously wanted to throw the dagger away, but immediately felt that this was too deliberate, somehow, he believed that the big bird in front of him was human and could see through all tricks.
He took the dagger into his arms and pointed at the python corpse with one hand and the chick with the other, "I killed it and saved it." ”
The big bird was hesitating, but the chicks were not interested in the new kind, and were still pecking at the legs and feet of humans with great interest.
The big bird took a step in the nest, and its gaze suddenly became fierce.
Gu Shenwei screamed in his heart, and suddenly it was dark in the air, and the second big bird came back.
This big bird was taller than the previous one, and the golden feathers on the top were more eye-catching, Gu Shenwei had to look up to see clearly, and he guessed that the male bird came later, and the female bird came first.
The male also grabbed a small beast, and after putting it down, he did not fold his wings, but pounced directly on the invading humans.
The female bird also spread her wings, not attacking together, but blocking the front, the beak of the bird pointed to the eggshell of the head of the python corpse, it turned out that it had no malice, and the fierceness in her eyes was just a misunderstanding of Gu Shenwei.
The two large birds gently bump into each other with their beaks, which is how they communicate, and neither of the birds here seems to chirp.
Gu Shen waited tremblingly.
Soon, the male and female birds reached a consensus, folded their wings together, and nodded at the humans.
Gu Shenwei let out a sigh of relief, since the moment Shangguan Yushi stabbed the dagger at him, he felt a little safe for the first time, his heart hung for too long, and he was almost never able to return to his original position.
The chick always got no response from Gu Shenwei, which made it finally notice the two big birds behind it, and it tilted its head, a little confused.
The female lowered her head and pecked at the head of the little beast she caught, and the little beast let out a terrible cry, and died in a few moments, and the female did not pay any attention to this, and looked at the chick expectantly with bloody eyes.
Only then did Gu Shenwei realize that it was not a small beast, but an adult gray wolf, and the cry of the gray wolf before dying sounded similar to the strange sound he heard in the ghost screaming cliff.
The chick immediately understood who its parents were, and rushed over, first taking the beast's eye from its mother's mouth, swallowing it on its neck, and then happily pecking at the claws of the big bird.
The claws of the big bird are wrapped in thick crust and calluses, and it is not only able to tolerate the sharp beak of the chicks, but also to feel a lot of fun in it.
Falling from the top of the cliff seemed to dull Gu Shenwei's mind, and after so long, he suddenly realized that what he saw was the Dapeng Bird, and Jinpeng Fort was named after them.