Cui Zuojing immediately rolled on the spot, but the axe did not slash down as expected.
The arrow of the crossbow shot out of its chest, and blood dripped from the arrow along the blood tank.
The axe let go, it looked down at the arrow that pierced it from the back in disbelief, and there were a few vague dull sounds in its chest, which turned into a black mist and dissipated.
Cui Zuojing got up from the ground, a man with blond hair and gray eyes was standing opposite him, holding a bow and crossbow, his face indifferent.
Domingo and Cui Zuojing looked at each other, took out another crossbow bolt from their waists, wound it, turned sideways, raised his hand, aimed, and pulled the trigger.
The arrow made of metal seemed to carry a stream of light, and with the sound of "whoosh", it accurately pierced the other who had just jumped to the upper pipe, intending to knock down Captain Xiacha and bite off his neck. The head of a cat and dog.
The monster died on the spot.
Dong Zheng, who was raising his hand to poke it away with a stick, was dumbfounded.
Domingo slowly withdrew his hand, his gray eyes like the temporary sky in the extreme night. He is tall and straight, and his whole person is like a tall and straight cedar in the Nordic ice and snow. Even if the sky falls, it will not damage his cold and lonely aura.
Not at all Spanish.
Dong Zheng frowned.
He stood beside Cui Zuojing, couldn't hold back, and whispered to the young man, "I could have killed it right away."
Cui Zuojing waved his hand, Dong Zheng has no ability bonus, and no suitable weapon, it is already very good to be able to do this: "Are you injured?"
Dong Zheng showed Cui Zuojing a bleeding scratch on the back of his right hand: "It was only scratched."
Cui Zuojing sighed: "Idiot."
Domingo hung the crossbow on his waist, walked over and crouched down beside the cat-headed dog, fiddled with the extra lush hair around the monster's neck, and said, "This is a legendary monster from Scandinavia. , the Latin name is Gulon, which means gluttonous beast.
"They are greedy by nature. When they find food, they will try their best to swallow it until they can't swallow it. At that time, it will get stuck between the narrow branches and squeeze its abdomen desperately, so that all the food in the abdomen will be excreted into feces, and then continue to eat. , until the prey is left with only a pair of bones.
"And when hunting, they used to hide in tall branches and suddenly jumped down to attack." ※
Cui Zuojing also remembered when he heard it. He took out a piece of paper from his pocket, cut off one of Gulon's front paws and put it in Dong Zheng's pocket: "The paw of this thing can treat dizziness and tinnitus. It should work for you."
Dong Zheng accepted it silently. He stared at Domingo and put a hand on Cui Zuojing's shoulder.
As if announcing something.
Domingo didn't feel very good for Dong Zheng. To be precise, it was a strong sense of crisis.
He is more knowledgeable than him, and can play better than him. At a critical moment, he even saved Cui Zuojing.
"Thank you very much for saving me." Cui Zuojing said, "But why are you here? Didn't you team up with Dong Linhai?"
Domingo said succinctly: "Lost on the road."
Bullshit. Cui Zuojing rolled his eyes in his heart. The central garden is on the deck. Can you get lost all the way to the engine room
Anyone with a discerning eye can tell that Domingo is lying, but since the person involved is reluctant to say more, it is not good to ask him to tear his face, after all, they have just rescued him.
"Okay, I can't see that you're still a lunatic." Cui Zuojing smiled, no matter how much he thought behind his back and how much bad water was in his stomach, Cui Zuojing looked like a simple teenager when he smiled. , harmless to humans and animals, it is easy to let people relax their vigilance.
"What was it that attacked me just now? You are so knowledgeable, you should know it."
"Iblis, Iblis, created from the smokeless flame, refused to kneel to the ancestor Adam because he did not want to bow down to the human beings made of black mud, and accepted the sentence of being banished to hell before the final judgment. For revenge , they swore that they would do everything possible to lead all mankind astray."*
The three crew members only recovered at this time. They did not expect that these guests who took the initiative to apply to join the search would be so powerful, and they suddenly changed from protectors to protectees.
"Stowaways are these things? Aren't they supposed to be mythical monsters? How can they really exist?"
Cui Zuojing shrugged, and he couldn't explain to the crew that this was not the real world, so he could only be silent.
At this time, the other teams that received the signal from the search captain also rushed over. When they saw the two monsters on the ground, everyone couldn't help exclaiming.
Gulon, who was knocked unconscious by Cui Zuojing, was still alive, and the crew tied it and the corpses of his companions to long sticks with ropes, just like people carried pigs in ancient times, carrying these two ferocious monsters to report.
Cui Zuojing originally planned to leave, but according to the lack of food on board, there were only three stowaways, exactly two Gulons and one Ibles.
But Domingo turned his head to look in a certain direction and frowned slightly.
This success made Cui Zuojing stop.
Seeing this, Dong Zheng also looked in that direction, and suddenly there was a trace of abnormal fluctuations in the program kernel that was calm after entering the box.
It was a utterly chaotic, chaotic fluctuation.
"What's wrong?" Cui Zuojing asked in a low voice.
"There seems to be something." Dong Zheng replied, "Go and see."
Taking advantage of the chaos of the crew studying Gulon, Cui Zuojing and Dong Zheng sneaked away together. Dong Zheng could only vaguely perceive the general orientation. The layout of the power compartment was very complicated. He took Cui Zuojing around left and right. Finally gradually approached the source of the fluctuation.
Domingo followed silently, without asking or saying a word.
They found a small box in a very secretive space that was almost completely surrounded by pipes. The box was the size of a palm and was closed on all sides. Dong Zheng looked at it carefully several times, but couldn't find where it should be opened.
That chaotic energy fluctuation is coming from the box.
On the small piece of ground where the box was placed, there was a black six-pointed star.
Dong Zheng: "Solomon seal?"
The Seal of Solomon, also known as the hexagram, the great satellite, was placed on the flag of Israel as a symbol of Jewish culture.
According to legend, King Solomon had a Lord of the Rings, which was engraved with a six-pointed star that drives the power of the ring, and the king of the devil, Asmodeus, was sealed inside, so Solomon could "hold the son of heaven and command the princes" and let other devils work for him.
"Is it the one that sealed this box?" Cui Zuojing flicked the box, he could only weigh what was inside, but could not judge the specific situation.
Judging from the two monsters that appeared just now, Dusk Island and mysticism have a certain relationship with the monsters. It is very unfortunate that Cui Zuojing doesn't know much about these things.
If Fu Zhe was there, with the breadth of his knowledge, it would definitely be much smoother.
But... Domingo seems to know a lot? Even an image like Ibles from Islam can speak righteously.
Cui Zuojing was a little puzzled. If Dong Zheng can feel the seal of the hexagram because his ability belongs to the spiritual realm, and he is a brain and developer, why does Domingo do
He found it even earlier than Dong Zheng. If it wasn't for him, he and Dong Zheng wouldn't have noticed it.
He turned his head to look at Domingo. The man stood behind them. The silver-white crossbow arrow was hanging around his waist. The pattern was complicated, the structure was smooth and tense, and it glowed with a cold silver light.
Cui Zuojing saw it at first glance and saw that it was an excellent weapon, so good that it made him feel a little itchy.
Domingo's lips twitched, as if he wanted to smile at him, but he was quickly restrained and said, "You can do whatever you want, don't worry about me."
This sentence just touched Cui Zuojing's heart. He was afraid that Domingo would compete with him and Dong Zheng for the ownership of the box. After all, this must be an important clearance item.
"Then we're welcome." Without unnecessary disputes, Cui Zuojing was overjoyed, put the box away, and didn't forget to say, "Thank you, brother."
Domingo: "It's fine."
Dong Zheng: …
He was getting more and more uncomfortable.
The three of them were about to leave the power cabin. This time, Domingo walked in the front. Cui Zuojing looked at his back thoughtfully.
Has he seen this man somewhere? Always feel... a little familiar
Domingo took them on the nearest road, and Cui Zuojing didn't know how he was so familiar with the structure of the engine compartment.
They were walking on the plank road, their footsteps stepping on the iron plate making a clattering sound, Cui Zuojing glanced down, and suddenly his eyes froze.
"What is that?" He grabbed Dong Zheng's cuff and asked, pointing to the row of pipes below.
Dong Zheng looked over with his fingers, and there were countless bones scattered on the pipe, and the cavity structure of the ribs obviously belonged to a single person.
"Anyone else was eaten?" Dong Zheng muttered.
Indeed, nearly 50 hours have passed since the food was strictly controlled. The previous crew members were only partially eaten, which may not be enough for the three monsters.
And according to Gulon's hunting style, it does look like they eat it.
Domingo seemed to think of something, frowned, and a rare expression other than a blank face appeared on his face.
Dong Zheng: "Let's go, tell the captain first, if this person has been missing for a long time, it is impossible that no one will find out."
They went to the deck, where all the search teams were gathered, two Gulons at the captain's feet, the one who had been knocked out had woken up and was howling.
No matter the crew or the program crew, there are quite a few afraid to hide behind, only the pilgrims are indifferent.
The captain asked the program team to borrow the microphone and said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, as you can see, these two monsters are the stowaways who have killed two of our compatriots and made everyone panic. Now they are the two monsters. I have been caught, and nothing dangerous will happen again, please rest assured."
"Please come here because I want you to be a witness. From today onwards, there will be no more creatures that came to the boat without permission to disturb us."
Four able-bodied crew members stepped forward, lifted the two Gulons separately, and threw them into the sea while everyone watched.
The wide sea engulfed these two monsters in an instant, and the splashed water quickly calmed down.
People cheered and clapped. Cui Zuojing and Dong Zheng stood at the back of the crowd and gave a symbolic clapping a few times.
Domingo didn't know where he went. This man was like a ghost, and his trail was a mystery.
Cui Zuojing looked around and gave up without seeing him.
It has nothing to do with him anyway.
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Note: The explanation about monsters in the marked part of the text comes from "Amazing and Weird: History of Monsters in the Outer World", author Liu Xing.
Most of the monsters in this volume are derived from myths and religious legends in various places. If the book is quoted again in the following text, it will be directly marked * and will not be repeated.