After all, the detectives brought out by Li Binning were elite men. They remained calm in the face of danger when the enemy was approaching. They quickly shrunk their formation and put up an outward defense formation, waiting for my next order.
I roughly estimated the distance: "Rush in the direction of the bone finger."
"Retreat!" Li Binning gave the order, and the detective hands began to interlock to cover the evacuation. However, Binzi broke away from the formation at this moment: "Commander, we can't go in that direction. We are not far from the swamp, so retreat quickly." There's still time. Go in that direction, just in case you fall into a tight siege."
This time, Li Binning didn't even say a word. She directly grabbed the crossbow arrow in her companion's hand, pointed it at Binzi and pulled the spring. The other party did not expect that Li Binning would kill him, and he was immediately pierced by an arrow.
Li Binning didn't even look at the dead body. She raised her hand and threw the crossbow arrow back to her men: "Retreat immediately!"
The entire team of detectives changed their formation without saying a word and quickly evacuated towards the center of the swamp.
In less than a moment, I saw from a distance that Binzi's body floating on the ground slowly stood up, reached out to grab the crossbow arrow on his chest, pulled it out inch by inch, and pointed the bloody arrow point at Li Binning in the crowd.
Li Binning was slightly startled: "Brother Wang, lend me your gun!"
I raised my gun and stood in front of Li Bingning: "You can't stop, keep retreating, I will take the rear for you. Hurry up!"
As the detective hands passed me one by one, the swamp behind Binzi also set off waves of water, as if countless water tigers lifted up the mud on the ground and dived under the mud to break through the water.
"Bury explosives!" Li Binning ordered again. The two detectives broke away from the team and squatted in the mud to quickly bury the explosives. The rest of the men aimed their crossbows at their sides as cover and retreated continuously.
We had just pulled away a certain distance, and even the water waves that were originally advancing flatly on the ground suddenly dispersed to both sides, bypassing the two detective hands that had not completely installed the leads, and drew an arc on the ground. After taking shape, they gathered together again, followed behind the team, and quickly approached us.
The two men were slightly stunned, then stretched out their hands to pull out the explosives buried in the mud, held them in front of their chests, and rushed towards the water tiger's back.
The two men were determined to die, and they only took a few steps to pull the lead. The moment sparks flew out from their hands, the two of them stopped at the same time with their whole bodies trembling. The next moment, a bloody monkey poked out from their chests. claw.
The arm that stabbed out from behind the two men like a steel knife paused in the air for a moment, dripping with blood, and then immediately pulled back, leaving a bloody hole in the corpse.
The water tiger hiding in the mud is not only extremely ferocious, but also knows how to lure the enemy. It first bypasses the area where the explosives are buried by the detective hand, attracting the two men to turn back for reinforcements. The water tiger hiding in the distance immediately follows, and unexpectedly catches the enemy. Both men were killed in one blow.
Not long after the two corpses fell to the ground, the explosives beneath them exploded. After the fragmented corpse was lifted into the air, it was scattered on the ground in flames.
The loud explosion of explosives was like a signal for the water tigers to launch a general attack. Hundreds of monkey shadows broke out of the mud, stretched their arms, and paused high or low in the air. I just felt that the scorching sun in the sky was completely blocked by the monkey shadows covered with mud. The sky was dark and the earth was dark, and there was a smell of mud everywhere.
In just a short moment, all the water tigers in the sky had landed on the ground, and they were continuously bouncing towards us with their limbs on the ground. The detective hand simply threw off the wooden board on his feet, stepped into the mud with his feet and fired with the crossbow.
"Fire arrows, block the attacks at all levels, and retreat!" Li Binning loudly ordered the detective hand to counterattack, while she shook her gun and kept shooting at the water tigers coming from all over the place.
At first, the Detective Hand could continue to retreat calmly; soon after, large numbers of water tigers swarmed in, and the crossbow arrows fired by the Detective Hand were obviously unable to stop the water tigers from charging in groups.
A detective took off his backpack and threw it to his companions. He grabbed the explosives in the bag and said, "You go first! If you can come back alive, don't forget our agreement."
The person who took over the opponent's backpack just nodded and rushed towards Li Binning with a knife: "Commander, hurry up, he's holding a *."
After Li Binning flew away with the men and horses, the man grabbed the explosives and rushed towards the enemy group. I saw a water tiger leaping up in the air over him, gouging out the man's eyes with his hands like hooks, and clawing out two bloody eyes.
But the man clung to the explosives and staggered forward while screaming. Each water tiger also pounced on the opponent's body in an instant, waving its sharp claws to tear off the opponent's flesh and blood and threw them into the air. The man walked forward in blood amidst the flying flesh and blood, until he was exhausted, and then he knelt down on the ground holding the explosives, while the water tigers around him swarmed towards him in an instant.
"Boom" - the fire caused by the explosives finally shot up into the sky, and countless monkey shadows danced in the sky. The monkeys that were running around just now were suddenly cleared away. The water tiger group that was about to encircle us was finally disrupted after the detective paid the price of losing his body.
When the smell of burned flesh from the fire came with the wind, Li Binning and I finally rushed out of the area surrounded by water tigers with our remaining magic hands, and an altar made of rocks also appeared in our sights. .
"Go to the altar!" Although I don't know if the altar can block the water tiger's attack, it is the only place we can find to "defend according to danger". If we keep running around in the swamp, even if we are not surrounded by water tigers, we will still get stuck in the mud.
The detectives who reloaded their crossbows immediately formed a semicircle, constantly blocking the incoming water tigers and began to retreat in twos and twos.
After Li Binning and I rushed to the altar, we immediately turned around to reinforce our companions. Unexpectedly, the two detectives in charge of the rear had been thrown to the ground by water tigers. Li Binning closed her eyes slightly and took a step back, as if she couldn't bear to see the tragic death of her companion.
However, the water tiger under the altar had no intention of letting him go. After a moment, he threw two bloody human heads onto the altar. The two bloody heads were already beyond recognition, with most of the flesh and skin on them torn off, leaving bloody bones exposed everywhere.
One of the detectives lost control on the spot: "Damn it! I'll go down and fight them!"
"Stop!" Li Binning raised her hand and slapped the other party, "Hold the altar, no one is allowed to move."
From the moment we stepped onto the altar, the group of water tigers stopped outside the altar. Now it seems that we are safe for the time being, but if we stick to it, the consequences will be unpredictable.
In just a short moment, more and more water tigers gathered around the altar. Wherever you looked, there were monkey-shaped figures. No matter where you turned your eyes, you would see red light floating like water waves.
Li Binning stepped on the edge of the altar and said: "The legendary water tiger is a ghost made of the resentment of a drowning person. Most ghosts and monsters are afraid of the sun. If we stay here until noon, we may be able to wait until the other party goes dormant."
I looked at the large and small monkey shadows in the distance: "Are these things really water tigers?"
The water tiger is actually the legendary kappa. Legends about the water tiger are generally concentrated in the upper reaches of the Yellow River and the Jianghuai generation. The images of the monkeys below are only three-thirds similar to water tigers. In addition to having a monkey-like body, there is no tortoise shell on the back, no beak on the face, and there is no translucent saucer-shaped membrane on the top of the head. What's more important is that once a water tiger comes out of the water, its whole body will be weak, but the monkeys below are capable of tearing people into pieces. These are not characteristics of kappa.
Li Binning said solemnly: "I don't think it's like it either. But now we can only make a bet on whether they are afraid of the sun."
We fought fiercely in the Gu pit for midnight last night, and only started to cross the swamp in the early morning. Now there are only a few hours before noon. Whether it is a water tiger or not, we will soon know.
The scorching sun in the sky gradually rose, and the water tigers on the ground began to gradually become restless. After a while, there were water tigers digging through the mud on the ground, diving into the soil, and burying themselves in the mud.
The ground covering the water tiger soon turned into a shallow puddle, with a few bubbles popping up occasionally. If you didn't look carefully, you would just mistake it for a grass carp lurking in the puddle.
In less than half an hour, more and more water tigers dived into the mud one after another. When the sun was shining brightly, there were no shadows of water tigers on the ground, and the only ones left were one next to another. of puddles.
Li Binning waved her hand and said: "Explore the path!"
A detective put down his equipment and carefully walked down the altar, walking slowly around the puddle on the ground into the distance. He was very careful every step he took, for fear of disturbing the monsters lurking in the water.
But after he walked more than ten meters, he accidentally slipped into a puddle and stepped one foot into the puddle until his calf went up. The opponent suddenly jerked his feet out of the water, drew his sword and pointed it at the ground.
At the same time, Li Binning led others to form a circle around the edge of the altar with guns in hand, pointing their arrows directly at the water, in order to cover the opponent's timely retreat.
The man held up the long knife and waited for a long time, but there was no movement under the water, as if no monster had ever submerged.
The detective breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards the outskirts of the monkey group again. The other party walked until they were outside the encirclement, then quickly turned back. When they reached the edge of the altar, they were still worried, so they turned around again and walked out of the encirclement...
After the man walked back and forth twice, he said with confidence: "Commander, there is no danger down there."
Li Binning also breathed a sigh of relief: "Cover each other and pass through the siege as soon as possible. Bring the plank with you. We have to cross the swamp as soon as possible."
Just as the remaining detective hands were about to leave the altar, I waved my hand to stop them: "Don't move at all. I think something is wrong."
The man who was exploring the road just now said displeasedly: "What's the problem? I've already walked twice, and nothing happened? If you're scared, I'll carry you there, don't waste time."
Li Binning's face darkened: "Why are you talking?"