Of Mountains and Rivers

But it was too late to retreat.

The moment the sound beast came ashore, it suddenly accelerated, and these beasts were obviously running towards Yuan Ping.

To humans, the stone forest by the water is like a labyrinth, but to the Yin Beast, which is about three times taller than ordinary people, this maze becomes a rough two-dimensional pattern. They are condescending and can be seen at a glance.

Yuan Ping didn't look back, when he heard the movement behind him was not right, he had already huddled himself into a ball as much as possible.

He lacked neither speed nor stamina, nor lacked experience, and skillfully avoided wave after wave of attacks by using the surrounding stones, but even so, the huge malevolence of the species gap still mercilessly blurred his face.

Yuan Ping was chased like a lost dog by those big guys.

The sharp gust of wind at the top of the head brushed past Yuan Ping's scalp several times, and the sound of the collision of large and small stones created the illusion of a hail of bullets.

Suddenly, Yin Beast Fang Bu impatiently chased after this little ant, its beam-like tail poked out, swept across the sky, and instantly swept the stone forest into flying sand and rocks.

Yuan Ping broke out in a cold sweat.

No matter how ferocious and terrifying lions and tigers are, they will never be able to bring such a great visual impact to people. Probably, the eternal fear of human beings can only be attributed to two images - reptiles with cold scales and long slime. Insects with disgusting mouthparts, especially if they are unacceptably large.

Yuan Ping felt that his adrenaline level was going to explode.

The Yin Beast opened its bloody mouth wide, and stretched out its snake-like long teeth that looked like sharp picks, and Yuan Ping's head was obviously the boundary where it was going to dig a bloody hole.

Yuan Ping has maximized his angle of view, but he still couldn't find a blind spot to dodge. The moment the sound beast bit down, he had no choice but to bite the bullet instead of retreating, and threw a big stone stuffed it into its mouth.

The Yin Beast bites right, and with a "crack" sound, the half-person-high boulder weighing more than a hundred kilograms is cut in half, and an iron tooth of the Yin Beast flies out together. Copper teeth.

Yuan Ping had a bad feeling at the time.

In fact, if you think about it in your shoes, anyone who has a big tooth knocked out by food will probably have to howl.

Sure enough, the next moment, the toothless sound beast hissed and roared, and invisible sound waves hit him in the chest. Yuan Ping had no choice but to roll sideways on the ground, put his arms around his head, and hit him hard. Not to mention that, the roar sounded like a starting gun, and the other two sound beasts opened their mouths at the same time as if they had received some kind of signal.

Chu Huan snatched the bow from Dashan's hand and jumped down from the hillside. He blew a whistle as sharp as the dawn. The sound beast was very sensitive to sound, and immediately turned its attention to Chu Huan.

Chu Huan's first arrow has already left the string.

But his hand was shaking, and the arrow missed.

His arrow hit the big nostril of the sound beast, and he missed it by a thousand miles. There was a "buzz" in Chu Huan's mind, and he was numb.

This is almost impossible to happen to Chu Huan. With the sophistication of the bow in his hand, he can shoot an arrow into the eyes of a sparrow dozens of meters away. The big eyes of the sound beast are as big as a human face. How could he Will it be crooked?

Chu Huan's hands and feet became cold uncontrollably, his joints were stiff, and the cold sweat in his palms almost made him unable to hold the bow.

Yuan Ping's intentionally or unintentionally raised middle finger, as well as the silhouette of Chu Huan who suddenly fell to the ground with unknown life and death, seemed to pull out Chu Huan's long-standing memories, and fell on him head and face, still carrying a fresh look. The smell of blood.

"What am I doing?" he thought. "What the hell am I doing, why am I making such a stupid mistake?"

Of course, even though the arrow missed, Sound Beast's attention was still distracted by him.

At this time, Nanshan had already passed through the stone forest quickly, and while the beast turned his head, he picked up Yuan Ping and retreated quickly.

The three-headed sound beast immediately realized that it was being hit, and at the same time came to its senses, and rushed towards Nanshan.

Nanshan let out a low cry, and with him as the center, a hurricane-like airflow swept out. He almost erupted. In a short time, all the boulders within two meters around him were displaced, and the black dragon swung its tail and swept towards the giant in front of him. beast.

The toothless sound beast in the middle probably felt the impact, and was knocked three or four meters down the middle. Its heavy body fell on its companion on one side, and the two sound beasts rolled into a ball.

Nanshan didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately pulled Yuan Ping back from the hurricane. Yuan Ping's gatekeeper showed his physical fitness. After a while, he had already regained consciousness, but was dragged by Nanshan, and his feet were still slightly staggering.

Nanshan: "Chu Huan, let's go!"

Chu Huan's complexion was as pale as his joints, and his bony fingers rested on the bowstring. His eyes flashed across Yuan Ping's face, and he turned sideways to pass them: "I'm broken."

Hearing this, Nanshan didn't stop at his feet. He ran up a few steps and picked up Yuan Ping on the spot like pulling a carrot. He grabbed Yuan Ping's two hands and hoisted him up as if performing acrobatics.

Before Yuan Ping could stand on his feet, his body had already leaned out, and he shouted at Nanshan: "You can't control him! If you don't get used to him, he will be useless. He would rather let him stand and die here than live in a puddle. Slime is strong!"

Nanshan turned a deaf ear: "Go downstream, we'll follow right away."

Dashan: "Patriarch!"

The patriarch didn't respond anymore, and Nanshan ran towards Chu Huan without looking back.

With the departure of Nanshan himself, the airflow in place immediately began to dissipate, and he no longer had the ability to fly sand and rocks. The roar of the sound beast echoed around, even if he was not facing him directly, Chu Huan could still feel the roaring shock.

His chest seemed to be hit by an invisible sledgehammer, but he didn't do any protection, but once again, meticulously drew the simple bow in his hand that could be listed in a museum.

He is not deaf, of course he heard what Yuan Ping said.

Once again, he thought Yuan Ping was right.

A sound beast escaped from the range of the hurricane at an extremely fast speed from bottom to top, and rushed towards Chu Huan, but Chu Huan's feet seemed to have taken root, and he didn't move until the animal was very close to him. The fierce wind even infected his temples, and he saw his own embarrassed reflection in the brown pupils of the sound beast.

The bowstring had been drawn too tightly, and when it left the string, it let out an almost shrill scream, and the melted air was filled with a desperate killing intent, the huge muzzle of the sound beast passed by Chu Huan, and the huge , Snake-like and lizard-like heads suddenly raised up.

Chu Huan knew that it would call out instinctively.

The moment it opened its mouth, before it could make a sound wave, he had a chance.

And this opportunity is fleeting, even half a second of procrastination will cause the sound wave to hit him directly. Chu Huan does not have the strong body of Yuan Ping's gatekeeper. A big guy of this tonnage is likely to shatter his sternum on the spot and offal.

The three arrows were already on the bowstring, but the sound beast suddenly raised its head ninety degrees.

Chu Huan frowned, this angle was very unfavorable to him.

But he has no choice.

In a blink of an eye, Chu Huan jumped up from the boulder with his strength. At this moment, he suddenly felt a gust of air flow under his feet, and he gave him a weak hand. Said to be insignificant, like a gentle comfort.

But Chu Huan was shocked.

Nanshan?

The cognition of "Nanshan is here" almost gave him some kind of strength. The next moment, when the sound beast opened its mouth wide, Chu Huan crossed one leg and stuck it on the sound beast's jaw. Standing in front of its bloody mouth, it used gravity to push down the sound beast's head.

As soon as he touched it, he already felt the terrible bite force. Chu Huan could almost hear his bones trembling. He didn't dare to hesitate, and suddenly let go of the bowstring during the rapid fall, and the three sharp arrows mercilessly shot Poked into the sound beast's throat.

Then he heard Nanshan's voice: "Jump down!"

Without thinking, Chu Huan curled up and jumped down. The huge and gentle air current caught him in the middle when he fell into the air, and then a naked arm tightly wrapped around his waist.

The sudden intimate contact made Chu Huan's senses suddenly amplified, and immediately, he found that Nanshan's elbow stuck on him had a tendency to break his ribs.

However, before he could remind him, Nanshan let him go.

Chu Huan came back to his senses: "Go separately, I will lead these two mutated crocodiles to the hinterland of the valley, and you go downstream to chase them first."

Nanshan was gloomy all over his body, he didn't say a word, neither agreed nor opposed, he glanced at Chu Huan expressionlessly, took the lead to pass through the stone forest, and went straight to the direction of the hinterland of the valley.

Chu Huan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly followed.

At this time, he has basically killed one of the three sound beasts, and there are two left. One of them, whose teeth were broken by Yuan Ping, was exceptionally brave for some reason, and the speed was exceptionally fast. If this continues, Chu Huan estimates that the two of them will not be able to reach the hinterland of the valley. , will be caught up.

Chu Huan climbed to a higher place after several ups and downs, and turned around with an arrow. This time, he was not out of order, and the screaming arrow hit the sound beast's eyes accurately. After losing the die, he lost an eye, and his entire face was asymmetrical.

When not to roar now?

Chu Huan was ready to experience the feeling of being hit by a car accident and having a concussion again. Suddenly, Nanshan appeared out of nowhere, pressed him behind the stone forest, raised his hand to press down his neck, and forcibly squeezed his neck. Pressing his head into his arms, he directly used his body to carry it for him.

Chu Huan only felt that Nanshan staggered a few steps forward involuntarily, he heard the chaotic and rapid heartbeat in Nanshan's chest, and smelled the sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance that was always elusive at the ends of his hair.

Nanshan seemed to snort, and then pushed Chu Huan forward vigorously: "Go, don't look back, they will definitely follow when they smell people."

Chu Huan seemed to sense a special meaning, but at this time it was too late to talk nonsense, let alone think about it.

The two quickly crossed the continuous sea of ​​stones, and ran towards the hinterland of the valley with incomparable speed.

The movement of the two sound beasts several meters high is not trivial, and Chu Huan will deliberately make noise while walking. Soon, the flat film people hidden in the hinterland learned of the existence of natural enemies, and the sharp horn sounds became a film.

With the sensitivity of the sound beast to sound, it suddenly fell into this noisy environment, and suddenly became more and more anxious.

Although there are more flat-film people here, they are not scaled, clueless, and their quality is uneven. Some run fast and some run slowly.

The soldiers who ran fast were divided into two groups, and those who ran towards the sound beast ran towards the sound beast shouting and killing. At a loss, I don't know what to do.

The two monsters became a mess.

A flat-faced man saw two humans fishing in troubled waters, and immediately prepared to sound the alarm, but the horn was only raised halfway, and an arrow had already pierced its dry throat.

As soon as it came into contact, Yin Beast fell into a sea of ​​flat people and "mad dogs", and even Chu Huan and Nanshan were washed away.

Nanshan twisted the neck of Mutai, who was standing in front of him, and when he turned around, Chu Huan was nowhere to be seen. He panicked and didn't care that he was still angry and didn't want to talk to him.

He suddenly resented himself for no reason, Nanshan thought, if he hadn't brought Chu Huan in, if he hadn't been at the gate of the mountain, he hadn't been selfish and wanted to keep him for a few more days, keeping him until the shock period , even... If you are in a county on the border, if you don't know that you have misunderstood the person, you will insist on bringing the person back...

Nanshan unknowingly retreated to the edge of the hinterland. In order to find Chu Huan, he did not hesitate to stand on a high place and turn himself into a target.

At this moment, his ankle was hit by a small stone.Chu Huan suddenly appeared from the nearby mountain stream: "Hurry up, hurry up, what are you doing climbing so high, come down, don't hurry up!"

The two of them dived into the stream to hide their scent, wading in the shallow place with their waists bent, and swimming in the deep place, like two slippery water mice.

However, despite this, the waterway is not easy.Every ten steps away, they could hear a "plop" sound, a flat person or a mad dog fell into the water, let it be dead, sometimes they encountered half-dead ones, they had to fight, and often met half a dog Mutai, if one fell, the whole stream would turn red.

It wasn't until the sun set that day that the two of them got rid of the monsters in their stomachs.

The mountain stream reached the lower reaches and was about to flow into the turbulent river. The two of them dared not walk in the water. Once the water was deep, there might not be anything in it. Busy chasing people, rest on the spot first, dry the clothes before talking.

Chu Huan peeled off the soaked rag-like shirt, bent down again, wrung out his trouser legs too carefully, took off his shoes and threw them aside, and posed them one by one from left to right, and finished all this , He finally had nothing to do, so he carefully wiped off the water on the glasses, put them in front of his eyes that were not nearsighted at all, as if wearing a pair of invulnerable armor, and came to Nanshan slowly.

Nanshan glanced at him, saw the unwiped water drops dripping from his hair, flowing down his collarbone and chest, making people think about slipping past his waistline and getting into his pants, and he immediately felt scalded. Look away.

Nanshan's heart was like a pot of chaos, embarrassment, unreasonable anger, inexplicable remorse, and boundless melancholy, mixed indiscriminately in one place, glued his fist-sized heart Twisted into a mess.

When he didn't speak, Chu Huan felt a little anxious. He stood still beside Nanshan, inexplicably remembering the moment when Nanshan held him in his arms to block the attack of the sound beast, his face changed a few times, and Chu Huan finally squatted slowly. Come down, speak with difficulty: "I'm not in good shape today, I'm sorry for the trouble."

His apology was jerky and unskilled, a clear lack of practice.

Chu Huan was originally a narcissistic person, and narcissistic people would most likely magnify their own strengths to appreciate them. Even if they occasionally make small mistakes, they are caused by the objective environment or other people. An innocent self can be forgiven. What is an apology?

Of course, it's much better now, because he has long turned against himself, love and hatred.There is always a sense of indebtedness in his heart for no reason, and he can't tell who he owes, but he just feels uneasy.

It seems that only by letting him give his life back to someone can he go to the ground with peace of mind.

He couldn't help being caught in this morbid perspective, feeling that everything was his problem.

When seeing the sound beasts, why couldn't they immediately predict that they were coming for people?

What reason did the arrow miss?

Why can't he be stronger, so that Nanshan doesn't feel so insecure about him and thinks he's weak at any time?

Nanshan finally raised his head from the state of looking at his nose and mouth, and opened his eyes to look at Chu Huan. He didn't know the cause and effect, and it was difficult to figure out the deep meaning of Chu Huan's words and body language. He followed his instinct.

Nanshan grabbed Chu Huan's arm, the skin was as cold as water, he tentatively moved forward, quickly embraced Chu Huan's back, gave him a hug that was ready to be released, and then secretly thanked himself for being soaked into a ball His long hair was tangled and hung down on the side of his head, like a door curtain that could block the blush that appeared where he shouldn't be.

Chu Huan froze, he didn't expect the Nanshan patriarch to be so informal in broad daylight, but now his clothes are thin and his trousers are sticking to his body with wetness, he can't cover anything at all, his every move is exposed to Nanshan's eyes, He had no choice but to forcefully suppress his imagination, and coughed dryly, pretending to be upright: "You...where will they wait for us tomorrow?"

Hearing his dry cough, Nanshan's throat was a little itchy, so he said dryly, "It's near the middle reaches. I'll let them go downstream. It's about a day's journey."

Chu Huan nodded—they originally ran in the direction of the upper reaches of the river, and then temporarily changed their course to go downstream, which was equivalent to a big circle, and it might take a few days longer to travel.

The shallow average water depth in the upper reaches can't support such a huge beast. They must have just migrated here for some reason, and they have to go downstream to see what happened there.

Chu Huan knew these reasons without asking, so for a while, there was nothing to say between the two of them. Suddenly, they both stood up at the same time and said in unison: "I'm going to light the fire."

As soon as the voice collided, they shut their mouths together in embarrassment.

Chu Huan felt that this time it was really not his imagination, he really felt some kind of ambiguous atmosphere.