Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Night Terror
By the faint moonlight, Gu Jianqiu looked sideways, and was suddenly taken aback, under the tree in a bush only three zhang away from him, a monster shaped like a tiger was staring at him with a tiger's eye, ready to attack, as if it would pounce on him in an instant. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In an instant, Gu Jianqiu's scalp couldn't help but tingle, his mind was blank, since he was a child, he had often heard many legends and interesting stories about all kinds of strange beasts, but when he encountered this unknown monster in person, it made him shudder and heartbreak.
Gu Jianqiu is also well-informed, he clearly knows that he is now on the line between life and death, the so-called wise wins, and the fool dies, if he messes up, he will definitely die.
He thought quickly of what to do, and his eyes were wide open on the monster.
Slowly, the smell of the fishy monster was strong, and the monster slowly paced, out of the bushes, and made a "poof" sound step by step...... The sound of "poof".
Gu Jianqiu saw that the body of this monster was extremely similar to the tiger, but it was by no means a tiger, the body was close to a zhang, the pattern on its body was not like the black horizontal stripes and black rings like the tiger, but the longitudinal lines of yellow and white, and there was no "king" pattern on its forehead, compared to the tiger, the biggest difference was the head, the mouth of this monster was long and wide, far from the tiger's mouth, and the whole head was like a dog's head, but it was more huge.
The kobold lowered its body, approached Gu Jianqiu step by step, opened its bloody mouth, revealing its long, sharp teeth, round eyes, and roared in a low voice, like a dragon's voice.
What made Gu Jianqiu even more desperate was that with a "whew" on the other side, a slightly smaller ko-headed beast came out, presumably a male and a female, and the two ko-headed beasts were approaching him in a combined circle.
Gu Jianqiu also slowly stood up, holding a dagger in his hand, and stepped back step by step, after this kobold beast appeared and revealed its full appearance, Gu Jianqiu was not as frightened as before, although this kobold beast was indeed terrifying, but he already had a plan in his heart, that is, the cave at the source of the stream, although he didn't know the situation in the cave, no matter what, it was better than facing these two bloodthirsty monsters below.
He slowly retreated in the direction of the cave, and when he took a few steps back, the larger ko-headed beast that appeared first roared, jumped up, and pounced on Gu Jianqiu, but he never thought that as soon as the ko-headed beast jumped over, it landed on the ground and was just pierced by those sharp branches of Gu Jianqiu's white cloth, and suddenly jumped back and let out a low roar, and the other smaller ko-headed beast heard the sound and stopped moving.
Gu Jianqiu saw that the opportunity could not be missed, he took advantage of the hesitation and confusion of the two ko-headed beasts in front of him, turned around and rushed towards the entrance of the cave, he knew that these sharp branches could not stop the two ko-headed beasts at all, and his only hope was to hide in the cave.
Saying that it was too late, it was too fast, and he didn't know where he got the strength, Gu Jianqiu jumped into the stream at the entrance of the cave, and the stream was waist-deep, which also hindered his forward speed.
Gu Jianqiu knew that the two ko-headed beasts must have also gone into the water, he didn't dare to look back, he only ran desperately into the hole, and there was a sound of breaking water behind him, as well as the heavy exhalation of the two ko-headed beasts, and similarly, the water flow also blocked the ko-headed beasts, and they couldn't jump up in the water at all.
The more you go into the hole, the darker it is, you can't see your fingers, the stream suddenly becomes shallow, only knee-deep, Gu Jianqiu used the dagger to sweep the left and right molds forward to explore the way, and when he ran for more than ten steps, he found that the cave wall was narrower, the dagger could jingle the wall left and right, and even his hands hurt, his heart was overjoyed, there must be a narrow pass, he jumped forward sideways desperately, and then heard a "boom" behind him A sound of gravel falling into the water, followed by a low roar, it turned out that the kobold beast pounced and hit the pass.
Gu Jianqiu was frightened, panting, happy in his heart, and said in his heart: "Fortunately, there is this pass, so that you can escape from death like this." ”
The kobold beast that hit the wall of the cave let out an angry roar at Gu Jianqiu in the cave, and the roar was like thunder, deafening, so frightened that Gu Jianqiu's eyes were closed and his legs were weak.
After another moment, Gu Jianqiu heard a "bang, bang, bang", thinking that the two ko-headed beasts were heading out of the cave.
Out of the cave, the kobold beast seemed to be very unwilling, and let out an earth-shattering roar, which made Gu Jianqiu break his heart and secretly said that this kobold beast was as fierce as this, if he hadn't hid in this cave, he was afraid that he would have been torn apart by these two beasts.
He groped a few steps forward with both hands, felt that he had entered a large space, and suddenly his feet were empty, his body sank, and he fell into a chest-deep pool, he hurriedly changed directions, and after a few strokes, he touched the edge, and hurriedly went ashore, feeling that his feet were a dense small stone and soft mud, his heart suddenly relaxed, his body was soft, and he sat down.
Gu Jianqiu had been hit by that strange man before, the cold aura of the zombie skill had not been removed, and the poison of the white snake had been hit, the night in this forest was already cold, and he was soaked at this time, which made it even worse, until the roots of his teeth trembled, and he shivered all over, sitting on the ground, his hands clasped his knees, but it did not get better.
At this time, he felt that the cold air invaded his heart and spleen and entered the bone marrow, and then slowly spread to all parts of his body, as if the blood was about to coagulate, and the whole person seemed to be about to turn into ice cubes.
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After a long time, Gu Jianqiu was awakened by a strange scream, he seemed to hear bursts of baby's cry in this cave, faint and uncertain, and it was even more strange and gloomy in this dark cave/cave.
Gu Jianqiu's soul suddenly scattered, and his heart said Could it be that there is a ghost in this cave? He trembled and struggled to get up and wanted to leave, only to remember that there were two ko-headed beasts outside that might be waiting for him, how could he dare to go out again, how could this be good?
Thinking of this, he felt much calmer in his heart, and shouted hard: "In the ancient sword autumn, I trespassed into the treasure land, unintentionally offended, and was sick and crippled, so I just took it." ”
The strange screams stopped abruptly, and suddenly there was only the sound of gurgling water and the sound of dripping water, Gu Jianqiu shouted again, no matter what kind of ghost it is, you just show up and take my life.
At the moment, he didn't care about it, knowing in his heart that in this dark black hole, he was no different from a blind man, and no matter how dangerous it was, he had no other way but to wait for death.
After more than an hour, the strange scream started again, Gu Jianqiu shouted again, the cry stopped again, and so on and so on twice, which suddenly made Gu Jianqiu restless, and the hysteria in his heart surged up, and suddenly, he roared like thunder in the direction of the strange scream: "Where did the lonely soul and wild ghost come from, it appeared, what kind of sneaky is it, my Gu Jianqiu is here, come out...... Come out...... Come out. The shouts echoed through the cavern, lingering.
"Come out...... Come out ......" Gu Jianqiu shouted and threw the dagger in his hand, grabbed the large and small stones on the ground and smashed them violently, but only the sound of the stones falling into the water was heard.
After a frenzied smash, the strange scream disappeared, and he gasped violently, his strength could no longer be supported, and he collapsed to the ground, but his mind slowly returned to calm.
At this moment, Gu Jianqiu was calling the heavens and the earth to be spiritual, but he thought of Xiu'er, if he hadn't gone crazy by himself, he wouldn't have fallen into such a situation of immortality, and then he thought of the loving mother-in-law of Longsu Village, as well as the brother-like Broken Cloud Tie, tears flowed down his eyes, and then he thought of his bloody revenge for destroying the door, and he couldn't help but feel exhausted, his headache was splitting, and after a while of dazzling, he was already unconscious.
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A glimmer of light came in from the direction of the cave entrance, it turned out to be early morning, Gu Jianqiu was lying on his back on the ground, and opened his eyes with difficulty, and what caught his eyes were rows of sharp and upside-down bamboo shoot stones.
He struggled to sit up, only to feel weak and sore, and secretly said I'm still alive?
He looked at the cave carefully, and saw that there was a waterhole in front of him, but the waterhole had no source of flow, thinking that it was the spring water that came out of the ground, the deepest waterhole was not chest high, and the shallow was only to the thighs, and the whole cave was only two or three zhang wide, and the walls of the cave around were crawling with green vines, and the vines were bearing some bright red fruits.
Gu Jianqiu was already hungry and thirsty, got up to drink some spring water in the pool, walked to the edge of the pool, bent down and was about to drink water, suddenly was startled by a thing, it turned out that there was a three-foot-long big fish, turning over the golden belly leaning on the edge of this pool, through the light to take a closer look, it was already a dead thing, it must have been killed by the stones thrown by himself last night, I couldn't help but smile bitterly, and the heart said that this fish also suffered from this unwarranted disaster in vain, and it can be regarded as a soul, and then look at this small pool, it turns out that in this clear pool, there are a lot of such fish hiding under the stones at the bottom of the water。
He didn't think much about it, just drank a few sips of spring water, returned to the same place, swept his eyes, and caught a glimpse of this dead fish, suddenly a flash of inspiration, patted his head and said: "Ah, why don't I go outside the cave and move those dead branches and rotten leaves from yesterday into this cave, and then use this pebble to make a fire, can't I roast this fish and eat it?"
Thinking of going outside the cave, I panicked, and I didn't know that the two ko-headed beasts were still there yesterday, and I thought about it, I can't spend the day in this cave all the time, why not take advantage of this broad daylight, collect more firewood, and have so many fish, and I am not afraid of starvation, and I will rest for a few days, heal my injuries, and recover my strength before making another plan.
Gu Jianqiu took off his coat, first picked up the dagger he had lost last night from the waterhole, and then cautiously went to the entrance of the cave, leaning against the cave wall and looking outward, in addition to the murmuring of water and the rustling of leaves, there were also a few "chirping" bird calls from time to time, but he didn't hear any movement of beasts.
He was bold, tiptoeing and looking around out of the cave, and saw that the ground was full of the messy footprints left by the two ko-headed beasts, which were the size of his own palms, and even though it was broad daylight, he could see that he was breaking out in a cold sweat.
I didn't see the two ko-headed beasts, Gu Jianqiu felt a lot more at ease, harvested the dead branches and rotten leaves he picked up yesterday, and collected the dozens of sharp branches that were inserted around the boulder, cut a few vines, tied up these many branches and leaves, and carried them into the hole, and then went out of the hole again, cut a lot of firewood with a dagger, and went in and out several times, and a corner of the cave was already full of firewood.
Next, it was time to make a fire, Gu Jianqiu picked a few hard pebbles, and "snapped" a fire against a pile of drier leaves, but no matter how he tinkered, there were also sparks of foam coming out, but he couldn't ignite the leaves, and he was angry and threw those few river pebbles on the ground.