Between mountains and seas

Chapter 57 Mutated Yellowfish

The atmosphere around the fire was tense.

The iron tower and the mouse have not been cured yet, and another person was bitten off a foot.If the iron tower and the rat were self-inflicted, then the injured man made the glasses man a little unbearable: "Mr. He, you said the water is safe."

He Maochuan grimaced and did not speak.This is really too embarrassing.In just 24 hours, he first misidentified Fuli Mountain, and now he misjudged the form. It can be said that he has no prestige in the current team.

From this point of view, these people are unreliable.He Maochuan glanced at the face of the man with glasses, and said flatly: "Let's give the Zhenyu to the two of them first."

He hired these people mainly because he needed manpower to capture a Pihan rhinoceros alive, but if it really didn't work, it didn't matter whether he lived or died, as long as he could get the rhinoceros horn.In this case, it would be fine without these people, as long as he brought Shao Jingxing with him, it would be easier to say, anyway, he had always acted alone, so he was more used to it.

As for whether these people can find a door to leave the world of mountains and seas after being left behind, then He Maochuan doesn't care at all.Anyway, the identities of these people are not visible in the first place. Is there anyone who will pursue it?

The man with glasses didn't know that He Maochuan was planning to abandon them, but he keenly saw something in He Maochuan's eyes, and he swallowed his words abruptly, and turned around to ask someone to cut up the fish that he caught. Feed to the Tower and the Rat.

"Boss, is that the end?" Fu Rong asked in a low voice while stopping the bleeding of the injured person.

The bitten off foot was found in the mouth of that strange fish, but now there is no condition to put it back in its original place, so this person's leg is considered useless, and can only be amputated after going out and then fitted with a prosthetic.For people like them, this is tantamount to smashing the guy who eats, and Furong really can't swallow this breath.

What's more, it was a little bit unlucky. Up to now, the injured were all their people, but the four wastes on Brother Shi's side were doing well, which made Fu Rong feel even more angry.

"Heal the iron tower and the rat first." Looking at the bloody wound, the man with glasses said slowly, "We can't turn our backs now, I'm afraid we have to rely on him to get out."

Fu Rong raised her chin slightly: "Where's that kid? I think he knows how to do it."

She was talking about Shao Jingxing, who was preparing to cook fish soup by the fire.

Glasses didn't answer, just nodded slightly.He had already got Shao Jingxing's background out of Brother Shi, although he looked terribly cowardly, but since he was able to enter the door and saw Pi Hanxi, it proved that he was in this industry.Moreover, Glasses observed that Shao Jingxing backed away when he was catching fish just now, and thinking about the question he raised in front of Long Nephew's nest, Glasses felt that this person was not as simple as he appeared on the surface, and it was very likely that he was just pretending!

Even if he wasn't pretending, Shao Jingxing must know something about the world of mountains and seas, and he was far inferior to He Maochuan in terms of combat effectiveness. When necessary, it might be better to take him with him than to follow He Maochuan.

"Keep an eye on him." Glasses simply ordered.They have been partners for six or seven years, and Fu Rong can understand without saying much, and nodded silently.

The Zhu fish meat was quickly fed into the mouths of the iron tower and the rats who were about to faint.This time He Maochuan was not mistaken, he only ate a piece of meat, and the black spots that had spread to his face dissipated a little, and the mouse didn't vomit - before, he would spit it out even if he was fed a sip of water.

"It works!" Fu Rong breathed a sigh of relief, "Quickly, feed them more!"

Seeing the effect of the medicine, other people who were not yet on the verge of getting sick also came over and cut up fish to eat, and Shao Jingxing also followed the crowd and got a piece.As soon as he put it in his mouth, he couldn't help but think of the phrase "good medicine tastes bitter and is good for the disease".

This fish meat - in my conscience, it is much tastier than that of Chiqi, at least it does not have that bitter taste that turns my stomach, but it has a strong earthy smell, as if the fish is full of fishy Glandular, equally provocative.

Obviously Shao Jingxing wasn't the only one who thought this way, the rest of the people also looked a little disgusted after eating the fish meat, but they didn't say anything because it was a good medicine to prevent the disease.

"Is this thing really useful?" The driver escaped, and now he would not go to the water's edge again, preferring to help Shao Jingxing light a fire and cook soup.

"Is it useful, as long as we don't get infected." Shao Jingxing added the seasoning cubes they carried into the water, and glanced at the bighead carp floating on the water on the shore, "I don't know the meat of that Is it yummy."

The driver shivered: "I think you are really brave, and you still want to eat that..."

Shao Jingxing was taken aback for a moment.This was the first time he was called brave.However, thinking about the previous few times he entered the world of mountains and seas, a mallard scared him to jump on Huo Qing, and now, a monster jumped up from the water and bit off a human leg, he was just scared For a moment, everything is fine now.

Of course, it may also be because he didn't bite his leg...

Shao Jingxing touched his leg subconsciously: "What the hell is that?"

"I look like a salamander." The driver said with lingering fear, "it's so many times bigger than the salamander!" That thing was three meters long from head to tail. How can a salamander grow so big!

"Baby fish?" The driver reminded Shao Jingxing with one word.Indeed, if you look closely, the pointed round head, smooth skin, and flat tail really look like a mutated giant salamander.

Mutated, mutated... Shao Jingxing murmured, thinking of those strange frogs that jumped out when the gate of the cemetery opened.Huo Qing said that they are also mutated.

"Shiyu!" Shao Jingxing suddenly slapped his thigh and blurted out.

"What?" The driver was taken aback by him, "Lion? Where is it, where is it!"

Shao Jingxing quickly pressed him down: "No, I mean that thing, is it a fish?"

The driver was taken aback by him, and said angrily, "It's none of your business whether it's a fish or not, what's the matter with howling, I almost frightened you to death!" Angrily got up and left.

Shao Jingxing didn't care what he said, he dropped the spoon and ran to the strange fish.

"What are you here for?" He Maochuan was inspecting the strange fish, and when he saw Shao Jingxing approaching, he frowned even deeper.

"I, I remembered that I saw this kind of fish by the river at Jiemen before, but it didn't seem to be this big, so I came here and took a closer look..." Shao Jingxing opened his eyes and spoke nonsense, carefully sizing up this strange fish.

In the "Shan Hai Jing" records, in addition to camels and owls, Rao Mountain also has aquatic products.

Salamander is a salamander.According to Shao Jingxing's understanding, it should be a mutated salamander with toxins in its body, no matter if it is a human or an animal, it will die if eaten.So although this kind of yellowtail has no attack power and its reproductive ability is not particularly strong, it can still live well in the rivers of Raoshan.

If the one in front of me is really a yellowtail, then it is a second mutation, so what is the reason for the mutation?Will it be the same as those strange frogs before?

"Have you ever seen this kind of fish?" Shao Jingxing threw the bait very poorly, but He Maochuan had to bite the bait again, "Are you sure?" If you add this one, then the scope can be narrowed down a lot.

"It looks a bit similar, that is, the one is only this big..." Shao Jingxing made a gesture casually, "This one is... too big, how did it grow so big?" Can you dissect it and see.

Ka Maochuan also wanted to know this question, so he was silent for a while, and then gestured to the bride, a spider leg protruded from under the thing's skirt, and its sharp claws slashed along the belly of the mutated salmon down.

Faster than a knife.Shao Jingxing's back couldn't help but feel a chill, and he stared at the spider leg of Mrs. Luo twice more.

"It can easily open your chest." He Maochuan said coolly, "So don't make any plans, be honest."

"Look at what you said, how dare I make any plans..." Shao Jingxing said with a wry smile, "If I run into this thing myself, will I still survive?"

He Maochuan seemed to be quite satisfied with his attitude, and he also lowered his head to watch the dissection of the bride, and asked, "You said the fish you saw was similar to this one?"

The belly of the mutated grayling was cut open, revealing a whole smaller bighead carp, which was obviously swallowed just now.

"It's no wonder that bighead carp and bighead carp appear here. They escaped along the waterway because they were hunted, so this kind of fish is not a local creature..." He Mochuan murmured, and his fingers lightly traced the mutation master on the hem of his clothes. The shape of the fish suddenly brightened his eyes, "This is a giant salamander!"

He seemed to have caught an important clue, and he was so excited that he swiped his fingers so fast: "Newt, owl, well, judging from the direction, bighead and bighead carp came from the north, so this fish also came from the north—Beishan Is it? Yes, owls, owls! The only owl-like birds in the Beishan family are owls!"

Damn, this bastard's brain reacts really fast!Shao Jingxing immediately regretted that he shouldn't have said that he had seen a tiger fish just now, so why not just make up some random reason?

But it's too late for him to regret it now, He Maochuan has already made up his mind: "There are many birds in the water, there are graylings in the water, it is Rao Mountain!"

It's over, what if he figured it out?Shao Jingxing was dumbfounded, and could only comfort himself, there were still a group of monsters in Raoshan, and when He Maochuan went, he would fall into the pile of monsters - but, he also wanted to go with him...

I don't know if he can use the blood of the green clam to summon the rhinoceros horn through the barrier?Shao Jingxing touched the faint scarlet marks on his wrist, feeling completely clueless.Although it is refined green clam blood, after all, it has been used once, and its strength has been lost a lot...

He Maochuan didn't care what he was thinking, got up and walked to the edge of the fire, and announced loudly: "Pack up your things, let's go to Raoshan!"

When he got up together, the bride of the network ignored the corpse of the strange fish on the ground, pulled out the spider legs that were still inserted in the stomach of the strange fish, and followed He Maochuan closely.The fish carcasses on the ground were turned over with its movements, and when the complete bighead and bighead carp rolled out, Shao Jingxing suddenly saw a slightly shiny hard thing on the exposed stomach wall, which looked like an amber bead , I don't know why it looks a little familiar.

What's this?Shao Jingxing carefully stretched out his hand to pick it, and found that the thing seemed to have grown together with the stomach wall of the mutated salmon, and a small half had melted away, leaving most of it exposed.

This, this thing - there was a sudden ding in Shao Jingxing's head, this thing was like the relic he saw in the Antique Street that time!

There was a layer of transparent gastric juice of the yellowtail on the outside of the bead, but under the direct sunlight at noon, Shao Jingxing could still see the hole inside, and it was not straight like ordinary holes made by hand, but curved, very weird .

Nine curved holes!

If this bead had nothing to do with the one he saw in Antique Street, even if Shao Jingxing was killed, he wouldn't believe it!Which family is so good at playing with nine-curved holes with beads?Figure what!If it wasn't for the difference in color, Shao Jingxing almost thought it was the one from Antique Street. After all, Xiao Zheng's wife fell ill on the spot, and the bead rolled out of her hand. I don't know which corner it fell off, maybe it fell into the crack It is also unknown.Huo Qing said that the Antique Street has cracks dug by those mountain spiders.

However, the color is indeed different.The one on Antique Street tends to be reddish brown, while this one is more yellowish.Of course, it may also be corroded by stomach acid?But Shao Jingxing saw that the surface of the bead was still smooth, and it didn't look like it was corroded.

Could it be that this thing caused the yellowtail to mutate?

Thinking about the possibility that the relic in Antique Street might be the source of the curse that caused the deaths of the two, Shao Jingxing felt that it was very possible!But is this really a yellowtail?If it is true, does it mean that there are such beads in Rao Mountain, and does it mean that those strange frogs are also mutated because of this?

While thinking, Shao Jingxing used force subconsciously, and suddenly lightened his hand, half a bead was torn off by him with a piece of fish.From the torn gap, it can be seen that there are dark yellow spider web-like lines extending from the joint between the bead and the stomach wall.

Is this fine line a variant line?Did it spread all over the fish?Shao Jingxing was about to observe again, but there was an argument over the fire.

"Mr. He, the current situation is that my brother needs surgery, and we have to go back quickly!" The man with glasses looked at He Maochuan indifferently, "Since you have determined that the target is in Raoshan, then send my brother out first, we Come in and catch that rhino for you, how about it?"

"Do you think it's so easy to go in and out once?" He Maochuan didn't expect the man with glasses to propose to leave now, and his face suddenly became gloomy, "Pi Hanxi's whereabouts are unpredictable. If you miss the time and can't find it, will you compensate me? Don't forget, you After taking my deposit, are you going to go back on your word now?"

When he said the last sentence, he suddenly raised his voice, and his voice became stern: "Five-step snake, don't forget what you said when you took my money. What kind of place is this? After you come in, you will live and die at your own risk. It's not all yours." Is it a rule? If you break this rule, are you still going to hang around in this business?"

When it comes to rules, the man with glasses is a little weak.Indeed, according to the rules of their business, the commission is actually money for life, especially He Maochuan's move is considered generous, and he has already said that there are many dangers here, but they still accept this business, which is tantamount to admitting that life and death are at their own risk .

If the change was something else, the man with glasses wouldn't back down at this time.They all rolled over in the hail of bullets, no matter whether they were facing people or beasts, they would not back down in the slightest, but this time - it was different.

He Maochuan saw that the man with glasses was being pushed down by him, so he accepted it as soon as he saw it was good: "Aren't your two brothers already healed? This one—even if he is sent out now, his legs will be finished."

"If you hadn't said that in this lake—" Fu Rong turned her head angrily in the middle of her sentence.Speaking of which, they didn't fully believe what Ka Mochuan said, and they were also on guard, but who would have thought that the strange fish would bury itself in the mud without showing any traces, and then wait until they had finished catching the fish and turned around before launching an attack. It's almost like having an intelligence quotient.

"I can basically determine the target now." He Maochuan ignored Fu Rong and only talked to the man with glasses, "It's in the Rao Mountain area. As long as we catch Pihanxi, we can go back immediately, and the remaining half of the money will be paid by me." I'll call you right away." Looking at the pale-faced injured man, who was missing a foot, he added, "I can add another [-]% to this brother's surgery fee."

The man with glasses pursed his lips tightly, and after a while he said: "My two brothers need to rest." Tieta and Mouse are indeed getting better after eating the fish meat, but their bodies are still weak, especially The mouse who vomited and diarrhea all night now has weak legs and cannot even stand up.He didn't intend to leave him behind, and seeing He Maochuan's appearance, he wouldn't come back specifically to pick him up.

"After dinner, let's go." He Maochuan looked at the three people lying on the ground, and he also let go, "The meat of bighead carp and bighead carp is edible. Let's eat a full meal, and then go to catch the cold rhinoceros. After that, you can go back with the money and enjoy whatever you want.”

Actually compromised?Shao Jingxing was somewhat disappointed standing aside.He really hoped that the man with glasses would fight He Maochuan, but unfortunately, it seemed that the man with glasses obviously lacked confidence in the world of mountains and seas, so he didn't dare to fight He Maochuan hard.

"Then let's eat." He Maochuan regained his amiable appearance, and directed the bride to go into the water to drag the bighead and bighead carp that was killed by Fu Rong to ashore.Although a lot of blood has been sucked by the Pro fish, a lot of meat can still be cut off, "The Pro fish can also be cooked in soup, which is much better than eating it raw."

The soup that was boiled before was hung on the fire, and someone kicked it over. Brother Shi stuffed the pot into Shao Jingxing's hand: "Get water!" Now no one wants to go to the lake.

your sister!Shao Jingxing reluctantly took the pot, looked left and right, and walked towards the river that flows into the small lake—this small river is clear and shallow, and there is no way to hide big things in it, it is better than fetching water from the lake Much safer.Moreover, he also wanted to see if there was a chance to escape.If he followed He Maochuan to Rao Mountain, he would either be gnawed by hordes of strange beasts, or He Maochuan would find out that he was lying and let that bridal woman fill his hunger with him, so he couldn't follow him to his death!

Alas, Huo Qing hasn't come yet. Could it be that he can only find a way to save himself?