Between mountains and seas

Chapter 102

Shao Jingxing's first reaction was to put his hand under the quicksand, trying to create another fireball to blow up the quicksand on all sides.

Fortunately, he only used a very small fireball test first.The moment the fireball exploded, it did blow up the quicksand on all sides, but the one under his feet was also blown away.And before he could pull out his leg, more quicksand filled the gap, and the flow was faster than before.So instead of getting out of trouble, he sank a little more.

what to do?Cold sweat broke out on Shao Jingxing's back, he didn't dare to move anymore, desperately recalling the methods of dealing with quicksand in the nature programs he had watched before.However, he didn't have any tools in his hand, and the only thing he could do was to lie on the sand as much as possible to increase the contact area with the quicksand, so as not to sink too quickly.

But this is only to slow down the sinking speed.Shao Jingxing tried his best to wave his limbs and moved towards the nearest bush.It took him more than ten minutes to cover the short distance of seven or eight meters.

But no matter what, if you can catch the bushes, you can pull yourself out——Shao ​​Jingxing didn't finish thinking, when he found that the branches he was holding were broken into pieces and turned into a handful of sawdust. This bush looked fine, But in fact, it has already dried up and died, but it was just placed here to deceive people!

Moreover, it was only now that Shao Jingxing discovered that the shrubs may be the center of the quicksand area, because the speed of the subsidence here is faster than before, and now, he has sunk to the waist!

It's over, it's hopeless!Shao Jingxing cast his eyes on the woods in front of him, there was still a vague shout, but now that he was getting closer, he felt that the voice was not human.

In the world of mountains and seas, there are quite a few strange beasts that can speak human words.This is not to say that they are really intelligent and able to talk to people, but that the voices they make are very similar to human voices. Maybe the one in the woods is such a strange beast.

The body was still sinking, but Shao Jingxing thought of Huo Qing's words: Strange beasts will not deviate from the laws of nature, everything has traces to follow.

Don't be nervous, don't panic, now only you can save yourself, and you still have to go back to see Huo Qing alive.

Shao Jingxing felt that his eyes were sore and uncomfortable, and tears flowed down when he blinked lightly - he didn't want to die, he wanted to live, and he still wanted to see Huo Qing!

If there were strange beasts in the woods, it must be a very cunning thing, who could think of placing dead bushes to lure people into the quicksand.But if it's a strange beast, there may be some hope - there may be no reason for people to harm others, but the strange beast must be for predation; and if it is for predation, it must be pulled out of the quicksand, otherwise, what would it eat?

There is only one chance, if his analysis is wrong...

But otherwise, what can be done?No one here will save him.While weeping, Shao Jingxing kept still and only raised his hands above his head to ensure that even if his body sank, his hands could still move freely.

He didn't even dare to cry out.If this strange beast relies on quicksand to hunt its prey, then it must not be very lethal, so it will wait until the prey loses its ability to resist before appearing.Of course, it can't be too late. If it's too late, all the prey will be swallowed up by the quicksand, and it won't be able to catch anything.So if he pretended to be dead, he might be able to trick that thing into appearing earlier...

Time passed by every minute and every second, and Shao Jingxing had already sunk into his chest.If his body hadn't been strengthened, he would almost be suffocating now.Yet he still didn't make a sound, didn't move.

A bull's head protruded from the edge of the woods.That's right, it's a cow with a shoulder height of at most 1.2 meters and a body length of no more than 1.5 meters. It looks like a very small cow.It stretched its head to look for a while, and let out a cry from its mouth, which sounded like someone shouting vaguely with a hoarse throat.

This is it!

Shao Jingxing suddenly knew where he was - Guanti Mountain!

"Shan Hai Jing" says that the mountain of Guanti has many cedars on it and quicksand on its bottom.

Chuzhe is the Ailanthus tree and Zhe tree. If he recognized these two trees, then he should have been vigilant just now.But unfortunately, when he watches nature programs, he only likes to watch animals, and he doesn't have much ability to distinguish plants.

There are mainly two kinds of strange beasts in Guanti Mountain, one is a female pheasant with a human face, named Yusi; the other is this kind of cow-like thing, named Nafu.

But the book only said that the father's cry was like a human shouting, but it didn't say that it used this human-like voice to lure its prey into quicksand...

And he fell off the cliff of Cabinet Mountain, why did he fall to Guanti Mountain?Guanti Mountain belongs to the Beishan family, while Guishan belongs to the Nanshan family, which is far from it!

It wasn't that Shao Jingxing could think so much when his life was at stake, but he was afraid that if he didn't think about it, he would cry out of fear. If his father found out that he was still alive, he might not come here.

The quicksand was about to cover his shoulders, and the father finally moved.

This thing looks like a calf, but the hooves at the ends of the limbs are disproportionately huge, and the hooves are not a single piece of horny, but are divided into five pieces when stepped on, with duck-like webs in the middle .The father stepped on the quicksand with his strange feet, and ran towards Shao Jingxing like flying.

Shao Jingxing squinted his eyes, and when the father opened his mouth to bite off his neck, he suddenly tilted his head, held the father's mouth with one hand, and grabbed the horns on its head with the other hand.

That father's quicksand trap can be said to be omnipotent. The reason why there is no record in the "Shan Hai Jing" that it uses quicksand to trap people is because all those who have been tricked have died.That father doesn't have any strong abilities, but has evolved the ability to walk freely in quicksand.But just relying on this move, it is trapping everyone to death, trapping beasts to death, and only Song Si, who can fly and jump, can escape the quicksand in the entire mountain of Guanti.

Of course, it was also because of the quicksand that Nafu and Songsi survived, otherwise these two beasts would have been eaten up by other strange beasts.

But because it went so smoothly, the father also lost his vigilance, and never thought that Shao Jingxing would actually be pretending to be dead.Now that the dead prey suddenly came back to life, the father panicked and turned around to run away.

However, the horns on his head were grabbed, and the father encountered resistance as soon as he turned around, and suddenly felt that his body was also sinking into the quicksand, he couldn't help being shocked, and desperately paddled his four hooves to run.

Shao Jingxing clung to the father's horn and refused to let go, feeling that his body was pulled up inch by inch from the quicksand. Finally, the father felt the resistance lightened, and quickly spread his hooves and ran wildly into the woods, holding Shao Jingxing all the way. Drag out of the quicksand zone.

This is called a narrow escape.Shao Jingxing let go of the bull's horns, and immediately hugged a Zhe tree next to him, almost wanting to cry.To be honest, even if it was the first time he saw the mountain spider peeking out the window in the car, he was not so scared.But this feeling of being gradually swallowed up and having no one around you to share with you, he really never wants to experience it again!

I wonder if Huo Qing had such an experience?He is often alone in the world of mountains and seas, right?No matter what danger you encounter, you can only bear it by yourself.But he is so powerful, he shouldn't fall into any particularly dangerous and helpless situation, right?

Shao Jingxing wiped his tears with the back of his hand, feeling that he missed Huo Qing even more.Suddenly he remembered something, quickly took out his pocket, and took out a piece of round talisman paper the size of an apricot stone.

This is the Qingfu Blood Talisman, which he had quietly prepared since he was about to form a team to enter the Linghai Gate.He and Huo Qing each have one card, and it really comes in handy now!

Uncovering the talisman paper and pasting it on his wrist, the bright red talisman pattern turned into a cinnabar mole, and Shao Jingxing immediately felt it.

I feel a little... It seems that Huo Qing must be like him, and immediately pasted the talisman paper as soon as they separated.Shao Jingxing thought about it for a while, and then he had a bitter face - the feeling was extremely weak. If he hadn't confirmed the quality of the talisman paper, he would have suspected that the talisman paper had expired.

Now it seems that it is because the distance is too far, right?Huo Qing was still in Cabinet Mountain, but he had already gone to Guanti Mountain.With such a long distance, can Huo Qing find him?Even if you can feel it, so far away, how do you come here?

Or can Huo Qing find that crack?

no!The crack was outside the cliff, if found, wouldn't it mean that Huo Qing would also fall from it, and then fall into the middle of the quicksand?

This can't work, it's too dangerous!

Shao Jingxing suddenly became nervous, and began to think about how to circle this quicksand field as a warning.

But that simply can't be done.From the outside of the forest, a large area of ​​terrain looks the same. Guanti Mountain is "a lot of quicksand". Maybe this large area is full of it. How to circle it?It's better to get some branches or something to spread on it, so that even if people step on it, they won't sink so quickly, and if they sink, the branches will sink first, and people will have a chance to save themselves if they find it early.

Shao Jingxing figured it out and acted immediately.With his current strength, it is still very easy to break a few branches, and if they are too thick, they can be broken without breaking.So in a short while he destroyed several trees, and the branch road from the forest was also paved for more than ten meters.

As the floor was being laid, Shao Jingxing became a little suspicious again—could Huo Qing really find that crack?If he can't find it, crack, can it still find him?If Huo Qing can't find him, can he go out by himself?

Of course, there are fixed gates in the Beishan series, but there is no one in Guantishan.The closest place Shao Jingxing could think of was Beidan Mountain. It was said that there were no other vegetation growing there, and it was specialized in green onions and leeks, and there were no ferocious beasts. It was more suitable for building a fixed gate.

However, between Beidan Mountain and Guanti Mountain—although Shao Jingxing didn't remember clearly, he knew that there were at least seven or eight mountains separated by them!

For example, there is a small Xianshan Mountain, where no vegetation grows, and it is snow all year round.For example, there is a Daxian Mountain next to it. The mountain is square and straight and cannot be climbed. There are very long snakes in the mountain.Another example is the Mountain of Prison Law. The mountain ash that ran out of Rao Mountain last time should have been in the Mountain of Prison Law.

In short, relying on him to walk over with his feet, I am afraid he can write a book of "Survival Notes in the Mountain and Sea World".

And there was one more question: could he really walk through it?

Shao Jingxing couldn't help thinking of what Huang Yu said - the world of mountains and seas is a ball, layer by layer, well, it's better to say it's an onion.

But now, the layers of onion skins are no longer so clearly separated. He can see the problem when he can fall from the cabinet mountain to the Guanti mountain.So, if he walks towards Beidan Mountain in the same direction now, can he reach it?

Shao Jingxing sat down holding a few branches.In fact, when Huang Yu said that there are no different beasts between the two mountains, he felt very strange.For example, when Jiao Jiao appeared in Cabinet Mountain, didn't he walk slowly along the road between the two mountains?If there is no space between the two mountains, are they space shifted?

If it is said that the strange beast is a direct space transfer, then why can these people travel along the road between the two mountains?Could it be that these roads were specially built for humans, and that strange beasts can't use them?

The more Shao Jingxing thought about it, the more questions he had, but he felt that if he could understand this question, he might be able to understand how Pangu Nuwa and the others established the barrier.If they understand the principle, maybe they can build the enchantment themselves, and they don't have to find the original formation.

But he couldn't figure it out now... A gust of wind blew over, and Shao Jingxing's sweat-soaked shirt was stuck to his back, and it was icy cold when the wind blew.He is alone now, and he can't even get out of Guanti Mountain, so what's the point of building an enchantment?Woohoo, he misses Huo Qing.

Shao Jingxing couldn't help wiping away tears again, and just as he was about to get up, suddenly something cold and hard was pushed on the back of his head: "Don't move!"

There are only three kinds of people in the world of mountains and seas.

The first type is ordinary people who have strayed into the world of mountains and seas, and of course they don't behave like this.

The second type is people from the special affairs department. This kind... shouldn't be so rude, and the attack was so ruthless that it hurt the back of his head.

Then there is only the third type - poachers!That is to say, people who are the same as Ka Maochuan, the man with glasses, and Brother Shi!

Shao Jingxing had already had many thoughts in his mind, but on the surface he was trembling: "Who, who?"

"What do you do?" The people behind heard him crying, and their tone was a little impatient, "Why are you here?"

"I, I don't know..." Shao Jingxing pretended to be stupid, "My friend and I were climbing the mountain, and somehow got lost in the woods, and then we couldn't find the way..."

As he spoke, he shrunk his head like a quail, and turned his head carefully behind his back.Probably because he looked too cowardly, the person behind him didn't stop him, so he turned his head away.

Seeing this person, Shao Jingxing's heart skipped a beat.It wasn't because of how tall and powerful this man was or with his face full of flesh, but because there was a black thing squatting on his shoulders, which looked like a puppy.

If it was in the past, Shao Jingxing might have thought that this man really brought an ugly little black dog, but now he doesn't think so. Although the little dog obediently lay on the man's shoulder, he yawned casually, That mouth stretches all the way to the ears!

This is not a black dog, but a scourge, right?

Misfortune, seen in "Shan Hai Jing · Overseas South Classics", it is said that "there are people who hate fire in the south, and beasts that eat fire".In the commentary, it is also said: Humans can eat fire coals, and fire-eating beasts are also called Huo Dou.

And in "Chi Ya", it is also said: fighting against disasters, like a dog eating dog dung, spewing fire to cause disaster.

About eating dog dung or something, Shao Jingxing suspected that the person who wrote the book made a slip of the tongue and made a mistake, and spread the rumors later.After all, eating shit or something, probably no one is interested in it, except for Shikbeet. As a fire-breathing beast, Fudou should not have such a taste for novelty.

But no matter what, Fudou is a kind of fire-type beast, so he didn't run away.

With a fire-type beast on his body and jungle camouflage, Shao Jingxing hoped that this person was from the special affairs department.But if he remembered correctly, there were not many people in the special affairs department with strange beasts, and none of them kept Fudou.If this style is not from the special affairs department, then I am afraid that he is a poacher, and it is still a professional one.

He is really unlucky, how come he ran into poachers again?And it seems that they are even more difficult to deal with than the glasses man last time!I don't know if this person is alone or has accomplices.If he is alone, maybe he still has a chance...

Before Shao Jingxing finished thinking, someone shouted in the distance: "Huidou, what's wrong?"

"Here's someone who's scared." The man with Fudou lying on his shoulders put away the dagger in his hand with a half-smile - that's right, it wasn't a gun he used to hit the back of Shao Jingxing's head just now, but a dagger handle.Shao Jingxing still remembered Ji Yan once said that in the world of mountains and seas, those who use hot weapons are inferior, and those who don't use guns are more difficult to deal with...

Moreover, he has accomplices... Shao Jingxing felt that God was trying to make things difficult for him.But it's useless to scold God now, he can only continue to pretend to be scared, and look in the direction of the sound.

The one who came out was a thin and small man, his eyes sharply sized Shao Jingxing a few times, and he frowned: "Did he fall in?"

"It should be." Fu Dou said indifferently, "I just saw this kid sitting there crying."

"You, you—" Shao Jingxing stammered, "Brother, who are you?"

No one paid him any attention.The little man only talked to Fudou: "I looked around just now, and the boss and the others are not there. This place seems to be wrong."

Fu Dou frowned: "What's the matter with the surname He, let alone the wrong place, where did the others go?"

Hey?As soon as Shao Jingxing heard this word, he couldn't help pricking up his ears—it couldn't be such a coincidence, could it?They were talking about that bastard He Maochuan, right?Don't be so, if he bumps into He Maochuan, he will be in big trouble!