Chapter 9: Fighting for Life

He Ding's scalp was numb for a while, and the blood pupils in the darkness stared straight at him, as if looking at He Ding. He Ding slowly leaned against the stone wall, trying to move as far away as possible from those eyes and not to alarm them.

God forbid don't be some kind of monster...... He Ding prayed silently, but just from the blood-red eyes, he knew that it was not a good stubble.

He Ding took a cautious step, while always paying attention to the movement of those eyes.

"Squeak!" the eyes suddenly moved forward, and a high-pitched sound sounded. He Ding was startled and suddenly didn't dare to move anymore.

The eyes flickered, and He Ding saw a thick tail slowly stretching out from the darkness, the length of a man, swinging back and forth on the ground. The tail had no hair on it, and the end of the tail was pointed and thin, shaking like a snake.

"Snake?" He Ding couldn't help but think.

There are very few things that He Ding is afraid of, and snakes are counted as one. If the monster was a snake, He Ding really didn't know what to do, and as soon as he saw the snake, his legs went limp.

"Squeak!"

The monster roared without warning, and turned into a black shadow and rushed towards He Ding. He Ding's pupils shrank suddenly, and his instinctive reaction at the critical moment made him dodge to the side, and with a force of his thigh, he dodged the black shadow and fell to the ground next to him.

The black shadow, half a man tall, slammed straight into the stone door with a muffled thud.

He Ding got up from the ground, his face covered with ash, and finally saw the appearance of the monster clearly.

It was a mouse.

A very large mouse, almost as high as He Ding's waist.

Oh my god, is this still a mouse! He Ding's scalp tingled and he screamed secretly. But according to Ya Sanchi's words, this is indeed a big treasure.

"Squeak ......" The impact just now didn't seem to have any effect on the giant rat, only to see it slowly turn around, its two blood-red eyes staring at He Ding tightly, and arching its body slightly, as if it was ready for the next attack.

Is it going to attack again...... As long as I get out of the way at the right time, it shouldn't hurt me. He Ding thought, judging from the speed of the giant rat just now, it was not to the point where He Ding couldn't dodge, but the first attack seemed a little sudden, so he was so embarrassed. He didn't have a weapon in his hand, and it was obviously unwise to fight the giant rat with his fists alone.

He Ding looked at the giant rat's teeth, which were almost as long as his palm, and there seemed to be blood stains on them in the faint light of the fire. If you are bitten by that one, it is estimated that it is the same effect as being stabbed.

"As long as you dodge, you'll be fine!" He Ding said to himself. His nerves were tense to the extreme, for the giant rat was already about to attack, and his whole body leaned forward, and a low roar came out of his throat.

"Squeak!"

The giant rat bounced to its feet, its two paws reaching forward, and pounced on He Ding. He Ding was also ready, and at the same time as the giant rat pounced, he hid to the side.

Just like the first time, the giant rat pounced again, slamming its head into the stone wall with a thud.

"Very good!" He Ding said secretly with joy, just wanted to turn around, but unexpectedly, the soles of his feet seemed to be swept away by something, and the whole person lost his center of gravity, and he was about to fall to the ground.

"Oh no! I was swept by its tail!" He Ding secretly screamed, at this time he had lost his balance, and no matter what he did, he could not avoid falling.

He Ding fell heavily to the ground, raising a puff of smoke and dust. The irritant in his chest still tormented him, making him gasp for a while. He Ding held the ground with his left hand, trying to get up quickly.

"Squeak!"

As soon as the voice of the giant rat sounded, He Ding felt a flower in front of him, and the giant rat had already pounced in front of him. He Ding instinctively raised his right hand to block, and the giant rat pawed down, only to hear a soft sound, and grabbed a piece of meat from He Ding's arm with a belt.

He Ding only felt a sharp thing scraping through his hand, and he didn't feel any pain for a while, so he immediately glared at his legs, got up from under the giant rat, and formed a distance from the giant rat.

"Hey, my hand!" It took two or three seconds for He Ding to notice the sharp pain in his arm, he looked at his arm, and couldn't help but gasp.

He Ding had a shocking wound on his arm, he was grabbed by the giant rat and had a large piece of flesh cut off from it, and at this moment his arm was dripping with blood, and even white arm bones could be faintly seen in the depths of the wound. The worst thing is that the wound kept bleeding out, and He Ding's right palm had been stained red with blood.

He Ding panicked, and his first thought was to stop the bleeding. But the wound was so big and he had no experience, He Ding didn't know how to stop the bleeding at all. And in this situation, there is still a giant rat that is ready to attack him at any time, and it is impossible to find time to stop the bleeding.

The giant rat sniffed a piece of flesh hanging from its paws, and then brought it to its mouth and nibbled it quickly.

"Is this a respite for me......" He Ding gritted his teeth, the constant tingling sensation from his arm hitting his brain, and he needed to concentrate highly to not make himself unconscious.

"Hiss......" He Ding bit off a piece of cloth from his hand and covered the wound with severe pain. The wound was still bleeding, but much slower than before.

"The form is too bad for me, and if I continue to consume it like this, even if I am not attacked, I will bleed to death. He Ding looked at the giant rat that was gnawing on his own flesh and thought.

"I have to think of a way!" He Ding's mind was racing rapidly, but at this time, his lips had slowly lost their blood, and more and more sweat was breaking out on his forehead, and the feeling of weakness continued to impact his body.

"Squeak!!"

The giant rat finished eating, and it turned to He Ding. I saw that its teeth were stained with its own blood, and those blood-red eyes became more and more aggressive. The giant rat arched itself, and He Ding knew that it was about to attack again.

"Roar!"

With a low roar, the giant rat pounced on He Ding. He Ding didn't have the slightest strength to parry, and rolled to the ground on the side, but he was still scratched by the giant rat's claw, and blood flowed immediately.

"You brute!" He Ding gritted his teeth and shouted, he already had a solution in his mind at the moment, but with his remaining physical strength, he could only fight to the death before he was scratched in the leg, and the chance of success was much smaller.

"Success or failure is here, let's see if today is your animal life or death, or my He Ding's life!" He Ding bent down, ignoring the injury on his leg, ready to dodge the next attack of the giant rat.

The giant rat licked the blood from its paws, and the increasingly dense smell of blood in the air made its spirit also in a state of excitement. In this case, its thirst for blood grows stronger. I saw the giant rat prostrate its upper body, and then its hind limbs exerted its strength and pounced on He Ding again.

He Ding's pupils contracted to a point, and the blood flowed to the brain in the whole body under the condition of high concentration, just so that he could see the movements of the giant rat clearly at this moment. The moment the giant rat pounced, He Ding took a big step to the right, completely avoiding the giant rat's claw attack.

However, after dodging the attack of the giant rat, it was He Ding's counterattack time!

"It's now!"

He Ding's left hand grabbed the fur of the giant rat's jaw, and he spun around in the air with the help of inertia, and jumped onto the back of the giant rat! He Ding's right hand was powerless, so he could only hold on to the hair of the giant rat with his left hand, and no matter how much the giant rat shook its body, he could not fall He Ding down.

He Ding's pale face finally showed a miserable smile, he knew that he couldn't waste time. So he used the last strength of his body, endured the sharp pain in his right arm, raised his right hand high, and then poked the giant rat's right eye fiercely.

There was a thud, as if it had burst a water balloon, and a stream of liquid squirted out of the giant rat's eye socket and splashed He Ding's face. The giant rat's eyeballs suddenly deflated, and after the transparent liquid flowed, blood slowly flowed out.

"Squeak !!"

The giant rat screamed, and its body shook even more violently.

"And ...... One eye. He Ding thought through gritted teeth. However, at this moment, the feeling of weakness caused by the loss of too much blood spread throughout his body, and he could no longer lift his right hand, and his left hand also lost the strength to grasp the giant rat. The giant rat shook itself violently, and He Ding flew out of the giant rat's back and slammed into the stone wall.

"Poof!" He Ding fell to the ground, spurting out a mouthful of blood, and almost fainted.

He Ding gasped for breath, and he saw that the giant rat was still in place, and it had lost one of its eyes, and it was clawed in the air like a raging monster, roaring in pain.

"Squeak!!"

The giant rat gradually calmed down, and after judging the direction of He Ding, it rushed towards He Ding frantically. At this time, He Ding leaned against the stone wall, and he no longer had the strength to dodge. He could only close his eyes and wait for death to come.

"Boom!"

Hearing only a muffled sound, He Ding felt the vibration of the stone wall around him, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that the giant rat had actually hit the stone wall beside him. The giant rat shook its head and stepped back.

"Does being blind in one eye affect the judgment of the position...... I still can't see with the other eye. He Ding guessed that no matter which one it was, it would be beneficial to him.

The giant rat seemed to enter a hysterical state, biting the entire stone chamber. Although it didn't attack He Ding directly, some claw blows still affected him, and He Ding added a lot of wounds to his body, but none of them were fatal.

"Although it is no longer visible, it feels like I'm going to bleed to death...... He Ding said to himself, the bleeding caused a huge feeling of fatigue that made his eyelids so heavy that he could fall into a coma at any moment.

"I can't fall asleep...... The book says that when you fall asleep, you can't wake up. He Ding bit his pale lip and thought.

Half of the ground of the entire stone chamber was covered with He Ding's blood, so it can be seen how much blood He Ding had shed. The giant rat also temporarily lost its sensitive sense of smell due to the excessive smell of blood in the air, and could only keep circling in the stone chamber.

"What is this beast gnawing on?" He Ding said secretly with his eyes half-open.

Under the dim candle flame, the giant rat seemed to be holding something and gnawing at this time, because it was too dark, He Ding couldn't see what it was.

"Squeak!"

The giant rat took a few steps forward, closer to He Ding, who could now see what was on its paws.

It was Qiu Shiyue who gave him the little wooden tripod!

"You brute!" anger filled He Ding's chest, he knew that this wooden ding should have fallen out of his body when he was thrown into the air just now, and was actually picked up and gnawed by this giant rat! This is what Qiu Shiyue cried and wanted to stuff into his hand, how could he let a beast destroy it?

Seeing that Mu Ding was about to be gnawed beyond recognition by the giant rat, He Ding was anxious at this time, but he knew that he couldn't do anything in his current state, and he just went up to die.

"Did you just watch Mu Ding be gnawed away by it?"

He Ding suddenly remembered that when he was on the boat before, Zhou Lu gave everyone a jade sword, and he said that it could be used to save his life if it was broken at a critical moment, but He Ding didn't expect this stubble because he was nervous! The jade sword was put in his coat pocket by He Ding, and he didn't know if it was still there.

He Ding used all his strength to stretch out his left hand and touch the clothes on his chest. After a moment of fumbling, his fingers touched something cold.

"The jade sword is still there!" He Ding secretly rejoiced, he took out the jade sword, only to find that he no longer had the strength to smash it. He Ding's hand was soft, and he couldn't exert any strength at all, so he had to stuff the jade sword into his mouth, and used his strength to bite the jade sword.

With a "bang", the jade sword shattered in He Ding's mouth, and the fragments cut open He Ding's mouth, and He Ding only felt a frenzied qi burst out of his mouth.

"I hope it helps. He Ding was so tired that he slowly closed his eyes.

The moment before closing his eyes, he vaguely saw a stream of white gas turning into a cluster of sword qi in the air, hovering above the giant rat's head for a moment, and then passing through the giant rat's head with a thunderous pop, red blood mixed with white brains scattered in all directions, the giant rat screamed, and its body fell to the ground softly.