The moment uncontrollable fear suddenly arose in my heart, a pale human face appeared in the corner of my eye. When the other person's face was close to my ear and turned towards me, I saw a head side by side with the face also turned towards Tao Siyu's ear.
Demon servant!
My whole body was instantly chilled, and the other party's sharp claws pressed on my and Tao Siyu's shoulders at the same time. The moment the opponent's claws covered with black scales grasped my shoulders, I realized that they were not human hands, but a pair of lizard-like dragon claws.
The palm I stretched out to my waist had not yet touched the handle of the gun, but the monster crawling across from us was in front of us in an instant, and one of its faces almost touched the tip of my nose.
Although the monster's two faces were still roughly human-like, its two noses were surprisingly long, especially the tips of the two noses that stuck out a finger's length from the face. It flapped its nostrils and sniffed back and forth against my face.
I can't move now even if I want to. The monster's two front paws were pressed against the edge of the puddle. Even if Tao Siyu and I could knock each other away when the monster started to attack, the sharp claws on our shoulders would be enough to tear us apart in an instant. The bodies of the two people tore my arms off.
After the monster sniffed my face several times, it slowly withdrew its head. Only then did I see that the opponent's four eyes were all gray—it was blind. No wonder it could only use its sense of smell to identify its opponent.
I quickly looked sideways to my side and saw that the monster lying on my shoulder was also blind. No wonder they kept sniffing on both of us.
What are the two of them doing
I suddenly understood. There was a fishy smell when I fell into the puddle. That was probably because the two monsters had defecated in the water. It was the smell in the puddle that covered up our human smell, so the two monsters didn't attack immediately.
However, the continuous heavy rain is still pouring down from the sky. It won't take long for the smell on our bodies to be washed away. By then, the two monsters will rise up and hurt people.
The streams of water caused by the heavy rain were flowing down all around my head. The monster's nostrils were flapping faster and faster, and the sound of gasping came from the air. I could clearly see the water droplets falling from the sky hitting the monster. There was constant splashing on both sides of the nose.
Broken, the monster must have smelled something different from the same kind, so it kept pumping air to confirm our identity.
I couldn't help but bump into Tao Siyu. What I mean is to prepare her, in case the monster refuses to leave within a short period of time, we will have to run into each other desperately. Although I couldn't see Tao Siyu's expression, I could feel her arms moving quietly. It seemed that she was ready to fight to the death.
Just as the two of us were getting ready to go, bursts of gunfire suddenly came from outside Shimen Pass. The intensive gunshots instantly drowned out the sound of rain, but I didn't see the red light flashing across the entrance of Shimen Pass—the direction in which the disciples of the Hall of Punishment were shooting was not within Shimen Pass.
Ye Xun!
The first thing I thought of was that Ye Xun was passing the level.
I couldn't help but want to get up, but the two monsters turned around and ran towards the juncture at the same time. Only then did I see the monster in full view. The monster's two heads are connected to the body of a lizard, and its two separated lizard tails are swept by it. At first glance, it looks like two giant lizards that cut off half of their bodies and then re-sewed them together. together.
I had no time to think about how something like a demon servant could appear here, so I got up and rushed to the pass.
Tao Siyu suddenly pulled me and said: "Don't go there, over there..."
"You go first!" I threw Tao Siyu away, followed closely behind the two monsters and ran towards the pass.
When I rushed to the pass, the two monsters simultaneously pulled the boulder at the pass with their front paws and stood up. A head protruded from behind the rock and flapped its nose rapidly.
I was about to stick up and take a look at the scene outside, but I didn't expect that the two monsters let out a scream at the same time, and fell backwards to the ground. When I lowered my head and looked again, patches of blood had exploded on the monster's forehead.
"It's done, go in and collect the corpse!" Someone was surprised, and a large number of disciples from the execution hall swarmed towards Shimen Pass at the same time.
I understood that Ye Xun never came over at all. They deliberately shot in the opposite direction just to lure me out of Shimen Pass.
The Xingdian obviously did not arrange snipers outside, but only arranged a few disciples with good marksmanship to guard the pass. They could see two heads sticking out from behind the rock, but they could not see clearly whether it was me and Tao Siyu. They thought they had succeeded with one shot. He had hit his target, and he was immediately ready to rush up and snatch the body to claim credit and reward.
The two monsters that were overturned on the ground only twitched twice before they bounced back into shape and pounced fiercely outside the stone gate.
"what… "
"hiss"-
The disciples of the Punishment Hall who bore the brunt were torn in half before they could see the monster's appearance clearly. The two monsters rushed into the crowd with blood on their feet and killed them wildly. The disciples of the Punishment Palace immediately became a mess in front of Shimen Pass.
"Get out..."
"Put it up and don't let them come out."
Some people want to retreat and lead the monsters into the open area to surround them; others want to use firepower to force the monsters back to their original positions and block them in Shimen Pass.
With no one under unified command, not only did the disciples of the Hall of Punishments fail to organize an effective counterattack, but they were killed by two monsters. The backup disciples were holding weapons and shouting, but no one dared to shoot at the melee crowd.
While I was staring at the crowd, Tao Siyu quickly caught up with me from behind, pulled out a grenade and threw it close to the ground into the crowd. I saw the grenade rolling into the crowd from the chaotic footsteps of the disciples in the execution hall, and I immediately fell to the ground with my head in my hands.
As soon as I fell, a grenade exploded into the sky, and a gap was immediately opened in the crowd surrounding the monster. The two monsters were also bruised and furious. Regardless of how far away they were from Shimen Pass, they roared and rushed towards the disciples of the Hall of Punishment in the distance, and in the blink of an eye they started fighting with each other again. group.
When I quickly rushed to the edge of the rock where I was hiding, I saw a figure carrying a person quietly approaching me quickly. The blood on the opponent's body was still wet, as if he had just experienced a big battle.
Ye Xun!
Although I didn't see his face clearly, I recognized the other person's identity at a glance.
Is Ye Xun fighting his way out of the siege
I didn't have time to think about how Ye Xun escaped the pursuit of the masters of the execution hall, so I quickly crouched down and slipped out against the rock, grabbing Ye Xun's side. The latter was obviously startled when he saw me: "Are you okay? Carry An Ran on your back and leave quickly."
I took the unconscious An Ran from Ye Xun and quickly rushed into Shimen Pass.
Although it was still foggy in Shimen Pass, I could still see the mountain roads on the ground through the flashlight.
There are only a few types of mountain roads, either man-made or the result of people trampling on them for a long time. Of course, there are also mountain roads formed naturally after the rainy season by waterways washed away by mountains and rivers.
Shimenguan has been deserted all year round, and the only ones that can walk on the mountain path are those monsters. But not long after we rushed into Shimen Pass, the mountain road began to split into two. One side was covered with claw marks stepped by monsters, and the other side was covered with mud more than an inch thick. There were no traces of human walking at all.
Tao Siyu knelt down and moved in the mud a few times: "Someone has walked on this road, let's go this way."
Tao Siyu was about to get up when he was stopped by Ye Xun: "How do you know someone has passed by here?"
Tao Siyu said coldly: "If you were also a thief, you would know how to cover your tracks."
I frowned and said, "Let's go either way, let's go over there."
I raised my hand to push aside the weeds, and sure enough, there was a path formed by the mountains and rivers under the grass not far away. You can even see rainwater flowing along that section of the road, but it has not yet reached a scale that can form a mountain stream.
Tao Siyu flatly refused: "No! There are no traces of people on the road you are looking for, which means no one has walked on it. It is too dangerous."
Tao Siyu's theory may not be unreasonable. A Japanese veteran who participated in the Philippine jungle retreat during World War II once recalled: In the jungle, the most fearful thing is not to see the bodies of our companions. That only means that no one has walked on this road we are taking, and we don’t know what kind of things may be hidden there. Dangerous; when you see a corpse on the roadside, you will feel relieved. At least the corpse can prove that someone walked this road alive.
Although the disciples of the Xing Palace who came in before us were all wiped out, we found the corpses of the Xing Palace disciples. At least we can see why they died, which is much easier than running into the mountains without any defense.
I shook my head and said: "We have all rushed into Shimen Pass, and the disciples of the Hall of Punishment will soon chase us in. They will think of everything you can think of. It won't take long before we are overtaken. There is a siege in front of us. There are pursuers behind us, do you think our situation is wonderful?"
I pointed to the waterway where the mountain water flows and said: "Going up from here, at least part of the traces can be covered up. Moreover, wild beasts will only guard the stream and rarely take root near the waterway. This is at least safer than the other two roads."
Tao Siyu gritted his teeth and thought for a long time before nodding and saying, "Then I'll do as you say."
Carrying An Ran on my back, I stepped into the water and followed the waterway into the depths of Shimenguan. But what makes me strange is that the terrain in Shimen Pass does not get lower as we go, but gets higher and higher as we go, as if we are climbing up the hillside.
Tao Siyu finally couldn't help but said: "Wang Huan, don't you think something is wrong? This place is obviously called 'Heizhugou', why does the terrain get higher and higher? Shouldn't we go all the way down? Do you want to get out from the top of the mountain? ?"
"Stop talking!" I shined a flashlight into the stream with one hand, only to see patches of red thread-like insects floating in the water. As long as I stopped, the water bugs surrounding my feet would follow me. The gaps in the uppers were digging into the shoes, as if they were eager to penetrate my flesh through the hiking boots.