Traveling back to ancient times to determine the zodiac

"For everyone's safety, how can we find it troublesome?" Xiaoxing retorted.

"Xiaoxing, are you too timid? If you are afraid, you can stay here on the shore and rest. Wait for us to swim over and kill the Nian beast, and then we can go home together." Dong said in a sarcastic tone.

"Brother Dong, who is timid?" Xiao Xing shouted unconvincedly, "I know you are a good swimmer, but if something unexpected happens, there will be a risk of drowning, right?"

"If anything happens, I'll take care of it, Brother Dong. Is that ok?" Dong patted his chest and made a bold statement.

Dong and Xiaoxing were arguing, neither of them was convinced. Xiaoxing wanted to argue, but Zhi waved his hand and interrupted, "Dong, Xing, stop arguing. Should we swim across the river or build a raft to cross the river? Let's vote together!"

Since Uncle Zhi had spoken, the two had no choice but to stop arguing. At this time, Zhi glanced at the crowd and said loudly: "Those who support swimming across the river stand on the left, and those who support building rafts stand on the right."

Dong is extremely brave and has always been the big brother followed by Xi, Bei, Zhong, the roots, leaves, etc. Xiaoxing is a rising star. Due to his smart performance in recent times, he has been praised by the cave master many times. In addition, he is considerate of others and values ​​friendship, so he is also respected by Chen, Yue, Feng, Yun, Lei, Dian, etc.

When everyone heard the line-up, they all stood to the left and right. Xiaodan, the youngest, looked to the left and then to the right, half on each side, and was hesitating. Xi shouted to him, "Xiaodan, come stand on the left!"

Being invited by Xi, Xiaodan couldn't refuse. Just as he took two steps, Chen on his right also shouted: "Xiaodan, it's safer to make a raft to cross the river. Come to the right quickly."

Seeing Chen calling out, Xiaodan felt that it made sense and turned to the right again.

"Xiaodan, making a raft requires chopping trees, aren't you afraid of being tired?" Bei on the left persuaded.

"Brother Bei is right." Xiaodan didn't want to go back to chop trees, so he apologized to Chongchen and Xiaoxing and said, "Brother Xing, Brother Chen, I think swimming is more convenient."

After saying that, he went back to the East team on the left.

Seeing that everyone had made their choice, Zhi counted the number of people on both sides and announced, "Dong's team on the left has one more person than Xing's team on the right. According to the agreement just now, we have decided to swim across the river."

Dong glanced at Xiaoxing with a triumphant smile and shouted, "Brothers, take your weapons and follow me across the river to eliminate the Nian beast."

After shouting, he led everyone and strode towards the river.

Xiaoxing was speechless and had to follow Dong to swim across the river.

Everyone took off their long clothes, wearing only underwear, took stone knives, bows and arrows and other weapons, went down the river and swam hard towards Qinwang Island.

The rooster, who was ordered to monitor the movements of humans in the sky, was so frightened when he saw the humans swimming to attack. He quickly led the chicken spirits to fly to the Bird King Island and reported to Emperor Nian in horror: "Emperor Nian, it's bad, it's bad, humans are swimming to attack us!"

"You dead chicken, didn't you just say that humans can never cross the river unless they can fly? What should we do now?" Emperor Nian was shocked and angry, and cursed angrily.

"Humans are so cunning. I don't know what to do." The rooster lowered his head and shrank his neck, feeling helpless.

"You dead chicken, quickly find a way to stop the human attack, otherwise, I will never forgive you." Emperor Nian shouted viciously.

"Yes, yes, Emperor Nian." Seeing Emperor Nian angry, the rooster was even more frightened. He quickly gathered all the birds and gave them a lecture: "All my people: The cunning humans are now swimming to attack us. You birds, walking birds, and water birds, please help us think of a plan to defeat the enemy. Otherwise, Emperor Nian will be angry, and I will be in trouble. If I am in trouble, you will suffer as well."

All the birds were frightened when they heard this, but they had no idea what to do. At this time, the Goose King raised his head and said to the Rooster: "My Lord Rooster, don't be afraid. Humans may be strong on land, but not necessarily in water. I will stop them and defeat them right away."

"Brother Goose is right. Aren't humans only powerful in weapons? Now they have to paddle while fighting us, so they are definitely going to lose." The Duck King continued to analyze the situation and came to a conclusion.

"King Goose and King Duck, it's great that you dare to challenge humans. However, I advise you to be cautious. If you are caught by them, you will become roast duck and roast goose." The rooster was overjoyed to see the King Goose and King Duck going to meet the enemy.

"Chicken King, don't always boost others' morale and destroy your own prestige. We are the best in water battles." After the Goose King said this, he flapped his wings and led the geese, ducks, cormorants and tens of thousands of other waterfowl down the river to greet the humans.

The rooster led the chicken spirits to fly up, watching from the sky and helping in the battle.

In the middle of the Bijiang River, Dong led Xi, Xiaoxing and more than 400 other warriors to swim forward. Just after swimming more than ten feet, they suddenly found that there were countless geese, ducks and other waterfowl swimming towards them. Judging from their posture, they must be here to stop their attack.

"There are many waterfowl ahead. Stop and prepare for battle!" Dong shouted loudly to everyone, while treading water and taking out the stone axe he was wearing.

"Cuckoo, cluck!" A rooster crowed suddenly from the sky: "Listen, you monkey-like humans, retreat quickly and roll back to Hongmeng, otherwise, you will never return and will be buried at the bottom of the river one by one."

"Damn rooster, you geese and ducks think you can defeat us?" Dong replied contemptuously, "If you know what's good for you, surrender quickly and hand over the Nian beast. Otherwise, it will be too late to regret when we capture the Bird King Island."

"Hmph! You monkey-like human, you want to make me surrender? If you have the guts, attack the Bird King Island first." The rooster said, and turned to the Goose King and the Duck King behind him and shouted: "Goose King, Duck King, lead your waterfowl army and charge!"

"Charge! Defeat the humans!" The Goose King and the Duck King received the order and took the lead in rushing quickly across the water towards the east and the others.

Dong kept treading water, standing in the water. When he saw the Goose King attacking him, he swung his stone axe and chopped at it.

The goose king quickly retracted his neck to avoid the attack, then dived into the water and disappeared.

Dong was shocked and waved his stone axe in the water. Suddenly, one of his calves was twisted by the goose king's mouth. He screamed in pain and hurriedly chopped with the axe.

Waterfowl such as geese and ducks are more agile in water than on land. When they saw the axe coming, they let go of Dong's calf and moved to his back to bite it again. Dong screamed in pain and swung his knife to chop at his back again. The goose king then dived deeper and attacked Dong's ankle.

After a few chops with his axe, he didn't hit a single goose feather. He was so angry that he yelled madly: "You dead goose, do you think I can't do anything to you in the water?" After saying that, he took a deep breath and dived into the water, looking for the Goose King to fight a decisive battle.

The goose king knew that human weapons were powerful, so he let go of his mouth and turned around to escape. Dong followed closely, but how could his diving speed compare to the goose king? In an instant, the goose king had swam four or five meters away. Dong chased for a while, but he couldn't hold it any longer, so he surfaced and took a deep breath.

The Goose King also emerged from the water, looking eastward and yelling, "Monkey-like humans, do you know how powerful this Goose King is? If you know what's good for you, retreat quickly and go back to Hongmeng!"

Although Dong was attacked by the Goose King in several places and bled a lot, they were only superficial injuries. He laughed at the sky without caring and said, "You little beasts think we should retreat? Don't run away if you have the guts!"

"Humph! Arrogant humans really look down on us!" The Goose King stretched his neck and shouted angrily: "Duck King, Cormorant, everyone, charge!"

After saying that, the Goose King led the way and attacked humans again. Tens of thousands of waterfowl followed suit, either diving or swimming, and rushed forward.

Dong, Xiaoxing and the others stood up on the water, stared at the ducks and geese rushing towards them, and killed them with knives.

Although these waterfowls look clumsy on land, they are extremely agile in the water. Sometimes they flap their wings to soar above the water, and sometimes they dive into the water, attacking humans from top to bottom.

After fighting for a long time, they didn't kill any ducks or geese. Instead, they were bitten and bruised all over, bleeding everywhere. Xi saw that the situation was not favorable, so he suggested to Dong: "Brother Dong, these waterfowl always dive to attack us. We can't deal with them at all. Why don't we retreat to the shore first!"

"Yes! Brother Dong, although these waterfowl cannot kill us, their bites are extremely painful. Let's retreat!" Tree roots, leaves and others also echoed.

"These damn geese and ducks will one day turn you into roast ducks and roast geese." Dong cursed and then ordered everyone to retreat.

The crowd turned around and swam back to the shore, with the Goose King and the Duck King chasing them closely. The rooster flew over and ordered the Goose King and the Duck King to stop chasing them, then shouted at the humans: "Monkey-like humans, now you know how powerful I am! I advise you to get out of here and go back to Hongmeng! Oh oh oh..."

"Haha..." The waterfowl laughed triumphantly and then returned to the Bird King Continent to report their achievement to Emperor Nian.

When Emperor Nian saw the rooster coming back, he couldn't wait to ask, "Damn rooster, how was the battle? Did the humans get back to the river?"

"Report to the Emperor Nian," the rooster said proudly, "Those monkey-like humans were defeated by the waterfowl army led by the Goose King and the Duck King. They fled in disgrace and never dared to cross the river again."

"That's good, that's good." Upon hearing this, Emperor Nian felt relieved and praised the Goose King and the Duck King, "I never thought that the Goose King and the Duck King, who have little attack power, could actually defeat such a powerful human. This really makes me look at them with new eyes!"

"Emperor Nian, in the water, we waterfowl are the most powerful." The Goose King was praised and felt complacent.

"Emperor Nian, the Goose King is right. Humans' combat effectiveness in the water is greatly reduced, so we were defeated. Now we can hide here safely." The Dog-Headed Military Advisor shook his head and analyzed the reasons for the victory.

"Emperor Nian, I'm so tired after running around for these days. Now that humans have been defeated, let's go to sleep." The pig head said with a grunt, found a grass nest and fell asleep.

Emperor Nian was also very tired, so he ordered the rooster: "Rooster, fly across the river and find out what the human race is doing and whether they have returned to Hongmeng."

"Yes, sir." The rooster received the order, flapped its wings, and flew to the west bank.

As for the humans, they were attacked by geese and ducks and had no chance to fight back. They hurriedly fled to the shore. After checking the number of people, fortunately, they only had minor injuries and no one drowned.

"I didn't expect that we old hunters would be defeated by these geese and ducks!" Xi spat angrily.

"In fact, these waterfowl are only powerful in water. If they are on land, I will kill them one by one with my axe without leaving a single hair." Dong said hatefully, waving the axe.

"Dong, Xing, you're back? How did the attack go?" Zhi on the shore saw everyone cursing and returning in a panic, so he hurried forward to ask.

"Uncle Zhi," Dong replied, "At first, our attack went smoothly, but when we were about to reach the middle of the river, the damn rooster sent many geese and ducks to stop us. Those waterfowl swam or dived, and were very agile. We fought with them with knives for a while, but not only did we not kill any of them, but we were wounded by them in many places, so we had to retreat back to the shore."

"It is better to be bitten by a dog than to be twisted by a goose. Although these waterfowl are not ferocious beasts, it is indeed difficult to deal with them. Alas, these hateful waterfowl are the accomplices of the Nian beast." Zhi cursed, and then frowned, and continued: "Based on my hunting experience of more than 50 years, if I deal with those geese and ducks on land, I can sweep a large area with one stick, which can be said to be easy. But in the water, it is extremely difficult, because they can drill into the water and are as flexible as fish, so they are difficult to fight. Alas."

"Uncle Zhi, since we can't defeat those waterfowl and our swimming attack has failed, what should we do now?" Xi asked.