Chapter 6: Humanoid Flames
Due to walking too much during the day, the pain in his left leg intensified, Wu Dongfang did not sleep well at night, and was awakened by a strange sound from outside at three o'clock in the morning.
When he woke up, the strange noise continued, it was supposed to be made by some large animal, some like a cow's bark, but heavier and more harsh than the cow's scream, and it was supposed to be somewhere downstream of the river bank to the southeast, where he had been recuperating earlier.
Wu Dongfang had never heard this kind of sound before, and judging by the sound, the animal's size should be very large, and the sound was mixed with pain and anger, indicating that it was fighting something.
Curious, Wu Dongfang walked out of the cave with a branch, today is the beginning of the month, there is no moon in the sky, it is very dark outside, and there is a faint fire in the river valley in the southeast direction, flickering and dimming, and uncertain.
Groping his way to the top of the cave, he saw a terrifying and strange scene, in the valley more than ten miles away from here, a huge serpentine animal was climbing the cliff on the east side of the valley and moving up quickly, the body of this animal was more than twenty meters long, and the body width was more than one meter, and the body shape was somewhat similar to the giant python, but it was by no means a python, because its head was different from the python, although it could not see the details due to the distance, it could be seen that its head was much wider than the python, more like a bull's head. In addition, by the way it moves over the cliffs, it can be seen that the big guy is likely to have claws.
The unknown behemoth was certainly terrifying, but what really frightened Wu Dongfang was the monster's opponent, a red flame that resembled a humanoid quickly repeated in the air and in the river valley, and from time to time sent out circular fireballs to attack the minotaur monster on the cliff, trying to force it back to the bottom.
The monster was hit by the fireball and let out a terrible scream, but it did not turn back to the bottom, but sped up and climbed desperately, just as it was about to climb to the top of the cliff, the humanoid flame quickly approached it, what happened He didn't see clearly, only saw that after the humanoid flame approached the monster, the monster screamed and fell back to the bottom.
The humanoid flame followed and fell into the valley, the light vanished, and the valley was plunged into darkness.
It was only then that Wu Dongfang came back to his senses, he could be sure that the scene he had seen earlier was definitely not his hallucination, the monster with the body of the bullhead and snake did exist, and it was indeed defeated by the humanoid flame. At this time, it was the Xia Dynasty 4,000 years ago, and it was normal to have large unknown creatures, but what was not normal was the humanoid flame, which resembled a humanoid shape, and also had an obvious strategy when attacking monsters.
Just when he was puzzled, the light appeared in the valley again, this time the light did not rise into the air, but moved quickly upstream along the valley, and after a few minutes left the valley and came to a large area, where it stopped for a short time and then quickly rose into the air and galloped away towards the east.
Due to the shortening of the distance, Wu Dongfang clearly saw that there was a person inside the flame, although he couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman, old or young, but he could be sure that there was definitely a person inside the flame.
The unbelievable scene made Wu Dongfang completely sleepy, sitting on the top of the mountain in a daze, he thought that the Xia Dynasty and modern times were nothing more than the difference in science and technology and civilization, but now he found that he had thought about the problem simply. In addition, his self-confidence was also greatly damaged, and if the person in the flame attacked him earlier, it would not be more difficult than stepping on an ant.
At five o'clock in the morning, it rained lightly again in the mountains, and it often rained here, sometimes four or five times a day, but each time the rain was not heavy and did not last long.
As soon as the sky was bright, Wu Dongfang left the cave, and on the way, he sharpened two Y-shaped branches with a dagger to act as a crutch, went down to the Dongfang River Valley, and walked downstream along the river bank, he wanted to go to the place where the monster and the humanoid flame fought last night to have a look.
He walked very slowly, because of the wound on his leg, and it was only two hours later that he came to the valley downstream, and after a long distance he saw the corpse of the monster lying on its belly up on the beach on the east side of the river, and he had guessed correctly the previous night, the monster did have four claws, somewhat similar to the claws of a crocodile. There are many obvious burns on the body, the places that are not burned are covered with black scales the size of a palm, and the head has been split in half, and the red and white ** is shocking.
The behemoth's belly was also opened, and the foul-smelling stomach was exposed, and a pile of miserable bones corroded by gastric juice was mixed with the pile of internal organs.
A few hundred meters below at the bottom of the cliff was a dark hole, half of which was submerged in water, and it was not difficult to tell from the messy paw prints left outside the cave that the monster was probably hiding there before.
Wu Dongfang didn't stay here for too long, and when he returned, he was secretly afraid, the humanoid flame last night was probably a cleric of the Fire Clan, and he came here to find the three Fire Clan people who were killed by him yesterday morning, if it weren't for this monster that devoured their corpses as a shield and a substitute for the dead ghost, the other party would soon be able to find the real murderer, that is, him.
Back in the upper flat area, an anxious face ran towards him, talking anxiously.
Wu Dongfang smiled at the other party, Ming Wan probably found that he was no longer in the cave, so he came here to look for it.
The words were incomprehensible, and the two could not communicate, so Ming Wan helped Wu Dongfang back to the cave and handed over a small clay pot, Wu Dongfang reached out to take it, and found that it was half a jar of corn porridge.
"I've eaten it, take it back to your child. Wu Dongfang put down the clay pot.
Shen Wan didn't know why he delivered it again, Wu Dongfang carefully caught it and put it on the ground, raised his hand and pointed to his mouth, "I've eaten it." ”
Mingwan stared at Wu Dongfang suspiciously, and Wu Dongfang smiled at her.
Ming Wan didn't insist any longer, walked out of the cave with the clay pot, and pointed to Wu Dongfang's leg very seriously when he left, and then pointed to the cave, meaning that he had an injury on his leg, don't run around.
Wu Dongfang smiled and agreed, watching Ming Wan leave, he never saw Ming Wan's husband, Ming Wan's house was the most dilapidated in the village, and she would risk going to the river to find food, all of which showed that her husband was likely to have an accident, to put it bluntly, Ming Wan might be a widow.
Sending away Mingwan, Wu Dongfang remembered last night's incident again, the person who can fly with the help of flames is a clergyman of the Fire Clan, he is not completely sure, but he can be sure that this person must be a master of qi training, and there are also qi practitioners in modern times, although he can't fly with the help of flames, hard qigong kills a cow, and it is still okay to fly on the wall with light skills.
He is a soldier, and a soldier is a materialist, but this does not affect his belief in the existence of qi, and the special forces must practice hard qigong, and if they don't believe in the existence of qi, they will practice chicken feathers.
After sitting for a while, Wu Dongfang left the cave again, he can't walk fast now, the only prey he can catch is snakes, on the west side of the ridge, there is a small stream between the cave and the village, and he drank water by the stream, Wu Dongfang took two sections of cleaned snake meat back to the cave, he prefers this place compared to the riverside, although he drinks water a little farther, but here can shelter from the rain, and the terrain is higher and relatively cool, there are not so many mosquitoes by the river.
This time he was eating roasted snake meat, and the people in the village already knew about his existence, so there was no need to hide his whereabouts.
Snake meat is fishy, and eat too much and dry, as the saying goes, it takes a hundred days to hurt the muscles and bones, and the leg injury is not good for three months, so you can't eat this thing all the time.
You can use the dagger as a flying knife, but the dagger can't be thrown too far, and if you throw it out and can't kill the prey, you may be taken away by the prey, after thinking about it carefully, Wu Dongfang decided to make a bow and arrow.
It is not difficult for him to make bows and arrows, bamboo can be seen everywhere here, the arc of the bow, the length of the arrow, and the placement of feathers, these are the training subjects for the special team members to survive in the wild, and they found the materials they need, and then they remembered that there was no bowstring, and the first thing he thought of was the monster's big tendon, but although the tendons of animals have been used to make bowstrings for a long time, the production process is very complicated, and it also needs to be soaked in oil for a long time in the early stage.
When he was at a loss, Wu Dongfang had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and took off the body armor on his body, the bulletproof layer of the body armor is a multi-layer fabric made of special fibers, which has strong toughness and elasticity, but because it is a staggered weaving, there is no way to remove a layer alone, so he can only use a dagger to slowly cut a strip.
He also makes the best use of everything, although the body armor can block bullets, it does not have much protection against sharp stabs, simply put, body armor cannot be used as a stab-proof clothing, and this kind of thing is not of much use.
The cut fiber fabric is no different from ordinary silk in appearance, and cutting some does not damage the main body of the body armor, and the body armor is put on again, Wu Dongfang began to bend the bamboo bow on fire and make arrows.
In the evening, the bow and arrow were made, and because he was now in an unstable position, he could only shoot more than 100 meters, and the effective range was only forty or fifty meters, which was unsatisfactory.
The next morning, when Mingwan arrived, she was shocked by the situation inside the cave, there were bird feathers everywhere inside and outside the cave, and Wu Dongfang was polishing a bird's leg bone on the stone outside the cave.
Seeing that Ming Wan was coming, Wu Dongfang pointed to a few water birds outside the cave, this is a big bird that lives by the water, the reason why he hunted them first was because he needed to use their leg bones to polish the arrows, the bird bones were very hard, and the holes inside could be quickly blooded through the bamboo poles at the back, and they could only be replaced by them in the absence of metal arrows.
Shen Wan was very happy to see the water bird, put down the clay pot, picked up the bow and arrow outside the cave and looked up and down.
Wu Dongfang temporarily stopped what he was doing and tilted his head to look at Ming Wan, judging from Ming Wan's actions, she was no stranger to bows and arrows, but I don't know why, the people who live here rarely hunt.
The man of the village would go to the northern mountains every day to dig in the mountains, and if he was not mistaken, it should be a small open-pit copper mine, and mining was the job of the men of the village.
The main labor force is mining all day long, where does the food in the village come from, where does the food come from, women alone will definitely not work, the biggest possibility is that this village is not completely independent, it is just one of the many villages of the Jin people, they dig ore for the Jin people, and the Jin people regularly provide them with food and food.
But he was not sure if this was the case, because of the language barrier, he could not ask and confirm.
"Come here, come here. Wu Dongfang beckoned to Mingwan.
Stygian put down his bow and arrows, turned and walked over.
Wu Dongfang picked up the stone and drew a square and four circles on the ground, then stretched out his hand and pointed at Mingwan and said, "Mingwan." After speaking, he pointed at himself again, "Wu Dongfang". Finally, he pointed to the stone in his hand.
"West. Ming Wan said.
Wu Dongfang frowned, and then put the stone into the small circle on the south side.
Ming Wan didn't understand what Wu Dongfang meant, and the language barrier made it difficult for the two to communicate, and many times they could only rely on gestures, and the end result was that both sides looked like fools.
Wu Dongfang was helpless, so he had to pick up another stone, and Ming Wan said again, "West." ”
Wu Dongfang put the stone in the small circle on the south side again, imitating the pronunciation of Ming Wan but adding a questioning tone, "West?"
This time, Ming Wan understood, picked up one of the stones and put them one by one in the east, north and center, "West, west, west." ”
After speaking, he pinched a branch and put it in five directions one by one, "Moli, Moli, Moli, Moli, Moli."
Wu Dongfang was completely relieved when he saw this, and the immediate priority was to learn the language of the Xia Dynasty, but before that, he had to make sure that the language used by Ming Wan was common to the other four clans, and only after determining this point did he dare to start learning. This is like a foreigner going to China, to learn Chinese, you must be sure to learn Mandarin, hard work to learn a foreign language, and finally find that learning the dialect of ethnic minorities is over.
determined that the language was universal, Wu Dongfang immediately began to learn, and Ming Wan also taught him wholeheartedly, Ming Wan would return to the village every day when it was almost noon, probably to cook and deliver food to the men in the mine, she would have nothing to do in the afternoon, Wu Dongfang was very good at hunting, and there was prey to bring back to Ming Wan every day, and there was no need to find additional food for his two children, and Ming Wan would have more time to teach Wu Dongfang to speak.
The world generally believes that in order to be a special soldier, you must be tall and strong. In fact, this understanding is wrong, special forces have to learn shooting, fighting, assassination, explosives, photography, eavesdropping, swimming, skiing, climbing, parachuting, vigilance, reconnaissance, search and rescue and other tactical skills, but also to master the prevention and control of diseases, wildlife related knowledge, to learn such a large list of things is not an easy thing, so when the troops pick up troops, the first consideration is not appearance and physique, but IQ, stupid people can never take back.
Wu Dongfang is very smart, in the process of learning, he does not memorize, but tries to find the similarities and differences between the Xia Dynasty language and the modern language, more than 4,000 years, the language must have changed a lot, but after all, there are still some similarities or similarities......
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