Between mountains and seas

Chapter 157: Four Violent Gatherings

Regarding the Taotie, the records in the books are quite confusing. It has all kinds of shapes, and some even confuse it with the roe owl.But one thing is consistent, that is: this thing is good at devouring!Therefore, the Taotie pattern on the bronze ware simply has only a devouring head, not even a body.

But now Shao Jingxing has seen Taotie, and he found that the Taotie pattern on the bronze ware is the most expressive, because the whole body of this thing is hidden in the darkness, and what can be seen clearly is a huge head, and A mouth that is even bigger!

Shao Jingxing didn't even know what kind of species Taotie was. The protruding head was a beast's head with a few tufts of lion-like mane, but the mouth stretched to the ear, and the upper and lower jaws stretched out like a snake. 180 degrees, the opening is actually bigger than the head, and when it is sucked hard, it creates a tornado, which sucks Ji Yan and Zhang Sheng into the air.

Du Weiping yelled loudly, shook his arms, a mountain seemed to suddenly float up from the ground, and a large group of tree roots and grass roots were entrained by stones and soil clods, all of which were thrown into Taotie's mouth, finally temporarily blocking the black hole.

The tornado disappeared, and Ji Yan almost fell to the ground. Shao Jingxing rushed to catch him, and saw that his face was pale, and he looked like a living person when reflected by the twilight of the magnolia flowers, and he couldn't stand firmly on his feet. Still in a hurry: "It's a space formation, it's too bad!"

"What space formation?" Zhang Sheng was the one who looked at it most carefully just now, "You are the door to enter Zhongshan?" What's wrong with the space formation? Isn't it just a maze?

Ji Yan shook his head again and again: "That's not it!" He couldn't explain it to the two people who didn't understand the talisman array, "I need a key, otherwise the door won't open, and the wrong door will be opened!" Qi and Taotie were actually locked in the door, and they were released because they opened the wrong door.

"The door, didn't you just open it once?" Zhang Sheng half understood, but the situation in front of him made him a little impatient, "If you don't have a key, just open the door! Was it here just now?"

"No!" Ji Yan quickly grabbed the stunned green hand, preventing him from striking a bolt of lightning, "I've tried it just now!" Otherwise, what was he doing just now?Isn't it just putting all your heart and soul into trying to open that door by force?As a result, the correct door opened a crack, and the wrong door had already let Taotie out.

Ji Yan can assure you that if he opens it again—no, maybe there is no need to force it open, after all, he doesn't know when he touched the closed door in front of Wuwu and Qiongqi!So as long as there is one improper operation, chaos among the four evils will definitely emerge.

If it was only one more beast that appeared, Ji Yan would not be very afraid. After all, although there were three beasts, there were still people in the team who hadn't made a move. One more beast would be enough to deal with it.

But when King Wen made the Book of Changes, Ji Jiarao seemed to have the inherited predictive ability in his blood. Even if Ji Yan didn't study the Book of Changes intensively, he still had a feeling that the four evils together were not just three plus one. The beast is so simple, it is likely to touch something again, causing the level of danger to rise exponentially!

What's worse, you don't even know that what you do will touch the key point. The safest way is to do nothing!

"Don't do anything, how do you get in?" Shao Jingxing was also dizzy, mainly because his ears were listening to Ji Yan's words, and his eyes were busy looking at Huo Qing.

Huo Qing meets Qiongqi.

Although Qiongqi can fly, in the dense forest, the overly large body and wings are somewhat difficult to use, especially Zhuang Juan is still constantly directing the plants to wrap around it.And Huo Qing took out the method that Lian Chu used to deal with the mountain spiders, and jumped around while climbing on the vines, but instead led Qiongqi into the most densely forested place, making him even more unable to get away.

Qiongqi was held hostage by Huo Qing's arrow, and kept chasing him with red eyes, until then he realized that he was in danger of being stuck, and was about to turn around, when the branches on both sides suddenly grew, intertwined like a net He's stuck in the middle.

Caught off guard, Qiongqi sensed the danger, but just as it stretched its limbs to get rid of the big net, the monkey-like flexible target just now came back to the vicinity at some point, and then swung on a vine to jump onto the net. its back.

The branches and vines couldn't help Qiongqi to struggle with all his strength, and suddenly the sound of branches breaking and vines breaking was heard, but such a noisy sound could not suppress Qiongqi's roar——Huo Qing's saber had been deeply inserted into its back.

The fur on Qiongqi's body looks soft, but when it is angry, it will stand up like steel needles, and its hardness is almost the same as that of a porcupine hedgehog.Huo Qing used the strength of his jump to put his weight on the handle of the knife. When the whole sharp blade penetrated into the flesh, his knees and legs when he knelt down were also stained with blood by Qiongqi's needles. If it weren't for the fact that the skin of the supernatural beings is tougher than ordinary people, they might be pierced through those hairs.

But Qiong Qi was more serious. Huo Qing's blow was both ruthless and accurate, and the blade of the knife was inserted hard from the back of its neck. Although it failed to cut off the cervical spine, it blocked a large blood vessel, and blood gushed out like a fountain.

It was really a spring, and before Huo Qing could even pull out his saber, the bloody arrow shot out from the wound, clinging to the blade, soaking the clothes on his entire right arm.

Qiongqi howled and fell from the sky.Huo Qing chose an extremely tricky position, in front of the two wings, close to the back of Qiongqi's head, which was a blind spot that Qiongqi could not attack by himself.But once it landed, there was no need to fly anymore, Qiongqi's two wings immediately drooped to both sides, exposing Huo Qing to the attack of that long tail.

The saber in Huo Qing's hand suddenly disappeared, and Qiongqi's tightly gripped muscles suddenly felt empty. The person on his back had rolled over to its side, and a new short knife pierced into the flesh again——Huo Qing Using this action, he made a cushion for himself to land safely, and at the same time cut another wound on Qiongqi's flank.

This wound severed the muscle fibers supporting one wing, and Qiongqi's wing was completely unable to use any more force, but the ancient fierce beast really lived up to its reputation. Even at Shan's level, it still tightened the wound to slow down the blood flow, while waving its tail to continue. Attacking Huo Qing, he broke a nearby tree in one blow.

However, after an effective attack, Qiong Qi, who had lost most of his martial arts, was no longer to be feared. On the other hand, Taotie finally emerged from the dark woods after swallowing the dirt hill raised by Du Weiping.

This thing looks like the Komodo dragon is magnified several times. The thick, scaled skin is full of muscles, and the tail drags across the ground, leaving deep marks.It looks very bulky, but it is as strong as a tank!

Su was standing with his back against a tree, just now he took advantage of the time when Taotie was swallowing the earth and rocks, he stepped forward to attack, but only made two bloody holes on Taotie's body, but he was caught by Taotie's body. The tail twitched, the transformed metal armor was dented, and his blood was surging, his throat was a little sweet.

Du Weiping murmured: "It's troublesome—" Stamping his foot, the soil under Taotie's body suddenly turned into quicksand, sucking that huge body downward.

It's a pity that Taotie is not the same as Wuwu, it doesn't even struggle, it just stretches its limbs, the whole body spreads out flat, and it can't sink at all for a while.And Taotie's crocodile-like tail swung like a paddle, pushing it out of the range of quicksand with a few strokes.

If this is a sandy land, then Du Weiping has the confidence to use quicksand to trap Taotie, but here is a forest, with countless tree roots and grass roots intertwined in the soil, just like a solid foundation. Du Weiping has been able to create this piece of quicksand already It would take too much effort to expand the area by using this open space in the woods.

But this moment was enough for Su Zheng to calm down a bit, and quickly backed away.

At this time, the buried 梼杌 finally crawled out, shaking his head in a dazed way, bursts of black air from his mouth, and let out a low growl, obviously ready to attack.

"These beasts!" Zhang Sheng's hands flickered with lightning, twisting out an electric whip, but Gu Rong, who hadn't made a move all this time, suddenly said, "Don't attack!"

"What?" Zhang Sheng squinted at him, "You what?" During the battle just now, Gu Rong had never made a move.

"If you shoot again, more alien beasts will be attracted." Gu Rong held the gun in both hands, but even the special guns made by the special affairs department are useless when confronting alien beasts like Taotie. Going out is probably the same as tickling it.But he who didn't make a move, now his complexion is not much better than that of Ji Yan who just vomited blood, and even cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"What's the matter with you?" Zhang Sheng felt that something was wrong even though he wanted to sarcastically say, "The special forces came back after all, so it won't scare you?" Isn't it?Is this frightened into a cold sweat?

Besides, if they don't attack, will Taotie and Zhuwu on the opposite side stop fighting?

That is obviously impossible.Taotie had already swam out of the quicksand, raised its head and stared at Du Weiping who was closest to it, and suddenly opened its huge mouth again, but this time instead of inhaling, countless earth bombs spewed out from its mouth, with sand and stones mixed in. , as if the bullets were strafing the head and covering the face, and it also brought a stench.

With a lift of Du Weiping's hands, an earthen wall rose from the ground to block the crowd, those earth bombs hit the earthen wall with a puff, a cloud of dust flew up, and the stench became heavier.

"Toxic!" Bai Xin saw with sharp eyes that the blades of grass in the earth wall turned yellow after being hit by earth bombs, and his complexion suddenly changed.These soil bombs are the clods that Taotie swallowed just now. Of course they were not poisonous when Du Weiping lifted them up, but now they are wetted by its saliva and stick to each other, and they are actually poisonous—— The saliva that has never been mentioned in the classics is actually poisonous!

"It's a good thing to go to Lixun Mountain first..." Shao Jingxing frowned at the bad breath of Taotie, and felt that the piece of ear rat meat was worth eating, so it was impossible to guard against the strong poisonous gas of Taotie. Can you still hold your breath in the midst of the battle?

"Don't—" Gu Rong saw that Du Weiping had built an earthen wall, and it was too late to stop him, "Heart!"

With a muffled bang, half of Du Weiping's earthen wall collapsed, and a vague shadow suddenly appeared beside him.Fortunately, Gu Rong made a quick noise, Zhuang Juan stretched out a cane from under his armpit, wrapped Du Weiping's waist and pulled him abruptly to his side, and then the remaining half of the earthen wall also collapsed, and the shadow fell on the The place where Du Weiping stood just now gradually revealed its outline.

It's hard to describe the shape of this sudden shadow, because it looks like a bag full of things, divided into six pieces in the lower half, wriggling from time to time, it seems to function as a foot.

The color of the bag is red, but it is reddish with black in the night, and the edges are still a little fuzzy. It doesn’t look like a living thing at all, but it has four wings—yes, it’s four instead of Two pairs, because from the point of view of position, there is no regularity at all.But the wings are really clear, and have very obvious bird wing characteristics, and they can flap - so this thing looks even weirder, like a few chicken feathers are randomly inserted on a ball of plasticine , No matter how you look at it, it is not coordinated.

"What is this?" Tang Jia had been hiding for a while in fear, but when she saw this strange thing that couldn't be described, she finally couldn't help asking.

The place she was in was actually the farthest from the battlefield, but at this time the woods were quiet, and she could hear her muttering clearly, and the next moment, Shao Jingxing, who was next to her, felt the pressure coming towards him, almost instinctively Just throw a fireball.

With a bang, the fireball exploded, Shao Jingxing pulled Tang Jia, and was sent flying backwards by the force of the explosion, and was caught in mid-air by a few vines, and the strange thing that suddenly appeared at the place where they stayed just now seemed to be Feeling a little uncomfortable being burned by the fireball, he fluttered his wings and twisted his body a few times, making a gurgling sound like squeezing a hot water bag from inside.

Tang Jia was so frightened that she covered her mouth and dared to ask Shao Jingxing with her eyes, but Shao Jingxing made a mouth gesture to her.

Sing?It took Tang Jia a few seconds to understand what Shao Jingxing meant, and she shook her head frantically.She doesn't want it!Obviously, this black shadow-like thing is very good at "listening to the sound". She was almost killed just now with only four words. It's over first!

Shao Jingxing stared at her vigorously, and gestured with his hands like a knife on her neck, and finally pointed to the black figure that had stopped again, and swayed twice as if intoxicated.Then I saw Tang Jia staring at her like a fool, and immediately wanted to hit someone——This Tang Jia, the training before coming out was for nothing, this weird black shadow with wings that came out last, thought with his knees You should also know, isn't it just chaos?

Regarding Chaos, there are also monsters with the same name and surname, such as a dog-like beast recorded in "Shen Yi Jing", also called Chaos.But Ji Jiu told him that the original meaning of the word Chaos refers to the blurred state of the earth before Pangu opened up the land, so the real chaos is named after this, and it must have something to do with the blurred mass, so "Shen Yi Jing" The chaos in the book is just an ordinary ferocious beast with the same name occasionally, it's okay: the similarity of the name is purely coincidental.

In fact, among the four ancient beasts, Wuwu because of its evil, Taotie because of its greed, and Qiongqi because of its fierceness, only Chaos is ranked among the ancient beasts because of its "unknown chaos".

Because of its ignorance, Chaos can't distinguish between good and evil, and it can't even distinguish between friend and foe. It has no eyes and cannot see, and it has no ears and cannot hear. The only thing it can receive is the pressure felt by the skin and vibration, and then go after this feeling.In fact, it didn't make any attacking movements just now, it just appeared following the sound, but its appearance is dangerous enough, anyone who is crushed by it or just collided with it will die

But Chaos has a very interesting characteristic, that is, he likes music.When it hears the music, it will dance in sync with the rhythm, and it is completely different from that famous beast, so that people who see it really regard them as different creatures, and it will give Chaos who listens to the music a sense of wonder. It was named Pao Di Jiang".

Of course, this is all the content taught by Ji Jiu's "Monster Common Knowledge Class", and it is not clearly stated in any textbook-to be blunt, this is Ji Jiu's original analysis, but Shao Jingxing has always listened carefully , because he felt that Ji Jiu knew a lot, and his analysis was very reasonable, but there were some things that no one had seen before, so there was no way to verify it.

No, now the facts have proved Ji Jiu's correctness, because the "Chaos" that appeared in front of everyone has the same appearance as the "Dijiang" described in the book: it is shaped like a yellow sac, and its color is like a red fire. With six legs and four wings, Hundun has no face.

Since the former is accurate, then the latter must also be accurate - Di Jiang, only knowledge singing and dancing.

According to Ji Jiu's method, in fact, Dijiang—uh, that is chaos, can't really appreciate music, but music is also a kind of vibration. The vibration of harmonious music will make it feel comfortable, while the irregular sound will only make it feel uncomfortable. It tracks the past, and even noises or sudden bangs startle it, making its actions even more violent.

So at this time, it was Tang Jia's turn to play.

Tang Jia didn't understand what Shao Jingxing thought of at all, just covered his mouth and shook his head frantically.In the silence, Ji Yan suddenly couldn't help coughing twice, and his chaotic body moved—Shao ​​Jingxing didn't care about anything else, so he sang first: "Sayyou, sayme..."

The first reaction of Tang Jia who was dragged by him was to run for his life, but the next moment she found that Chaos not only didn't attack Shao Jingxing, but didn't even respond to Ji Yan, but swayed his body in place, with four wings. Waving it again and again, unexpectedly—is it quite in rhythm?

While singing, Shao Jingxing shook Tang Jia vigorously.In fact, he is not very interested in singing, only this song is practiced, in order to pretend to be B outside, but he hasn't sung it for a long time, and he can't remember the lyrics clearly...

Fortunately, Tang Jia finally understood, and soon, a real voice resounded in the woods: "Ihadadream..."

Chaos's four wings waved rhythmically, and its huge body swayed back and forth. It really looked like a dance.

The other three beasts didn't have this characteristic, but Shouqian Qiongqi couldn't resist Miaoyinniao's ability at first, and slowly lowered his head, appearing drowsy.But Wuwu was stronger than it, shaking his head and still walking forward.

Only Taotie didn't seem to be affected by the singing, completely ignoring the surrounding situation, walked on all fours, opened his mouth and rushed over.

The earthen wall rose, and Taotie knocked down the wall, but when his footsteps stopped, Su Zheng had already fallen from the air, and his fist was inserted between Taotie's eyes.

"Oops—" Before Gu Rong could finish his sentence, the forest in the night suddenly twisted, as if some scissors were cutting the scene in front of them, and the others just watched Taotie disappear in front of them, together Su Zheng, who had just landed on its back, and Du Weiping, who had used his ability, also disappeared...