chewing dragon

Chapter 308 Big Yue
The five so-called mountaineers walked very fast, but the blood-eyed bat that came after them did not rush to catch up. Instead, it screamed strangely and swooped down.

It passed over the faceless head of the young watchman and easily peeled off the poor man's scalp, lifting the black-green bun on his scalp into the air.

The bun was torn apart by the blood-eyed bat, and the messy long hair was scattered in the night wind. From a distance, it looked like a strange human head.

"Whoosh!"

A crudely made feather arrow suddenly shot out from a dark alley below, accurately nailing the blood-eyed bat's throat.

The beast fell down from the air without saying a word, and the young watchman's scalp and hair were thrown into the dust together.

"Lao Zhang Qi's arrow skills are so handsome!"

As the words fell, a strong young man ran out of the dark alley.

He was in his early twenties, with a simple and honest face, but he was holding a big, bright ax in his hand, which looked like a good murder weapon.

The young man ran up to the blood-eyed bat, and without saying a word, he slashed the beast with several axes. After cutting the beast into several pieces, he cursed bitterly: "How come you can't kill all of these ghosts?" ?”

"You also said they are ghosts, so how can you kill them so easily?"

A slightly older voice sounded, and then an old man walked slowly out of the dark alley, followed by a sleepy old yellow dog.

Most of the old man's temples have turned white, but he has a tall figure and a straight back. Not only does he not look rickety at all, but his face is rosy.

He was dressed like a hunter in the mountains, with a hunting knife hanging on his waist, a wooden bow in his hand, and a quiver on his back. His clothes were even thinner than those of the young man carrying the axe, and it was obvious that he had extremely strong blood in his body.

The old man muttered as he walked: "Yu Daring, how many times have I said this to you? If I tell you to move, then move again! These beasts are so cunning, they will pretend to be dead and fight back not once or twice!"

"Oh, how many times have I told Mr. Qi? Don't always follow their example and call me Yu Daer! I have a serious name!"

The young man shouted, proudly raising the big ax in his hand: "The scholar in my village said that the small one is called axe, and the big one is called yue... My name is Yu Dayue! Yu Dayue!"

Old man Qi snorted and said in disgust: "What are you calling blindly? My old man is not deaf, so you don't need to say it twice!"

"There are only wrong names and no wrong nicknames in this world, and your bad name is far worse than my grandson. What's there to be proud of?"

Yu Dayue quit and muttered dissatisfied: "I always talk about your grandson, your grandson, what is your grandson's name?"

Old Man Qi ignored him, squatted in front of the two corpses, looked at them, shook his head and sighed: "Those monsters who wiped their faces really deserve to be killed, but they always come in groups and are never alone. They can't even find a chance to kill them." !”

Yu Dayue knelt down beside him, scratched his head and said: "These are government affairs. We can take care of them if we can. If we can't, there's nothing we can do. It's more important to find a way to cross the forbidden water quickly. The bones of my father and second uncle are very important." He's still lying in Quzhou Village, north of Forbidden Water!"

"What do you know?"

Old Man Qi glared, and Yu Daguer immediately shrank his neck in fright: "Although we have many people gathered this time, I see that most of them are ordinary and kind people. They have heard and seen many evil sects in the past two months. I have long been afraid of this, even if the forbidden water is really opened, not many people may dare to risk crossing the river."

Yu Dajue was stunned for a moment, but he quickly came to his senses and said excitedly: "I'm telling you! Mr. Qi has only been willing to take me, Yu Daj...yue out for the past few days. It turns out he doesn't look down on those wimps!"

"What are you talking about! They have traveled thousands of miles to find relatives. They are all good children who are very filial and can endure hardships. Don't bully them again!"

Old Man Qi scolded Yu Daring'er just like he treated his own grandson, and then he sighed quietly: "Now that things have come to this, it doesn't hurt to tell you some things. These are all things I have learned from many sources over the past ten years." information."

"When the water ban was about to be opened, from Yongchang County to Dai County, and then to the entire Yuzhou, monsters were already everywhere, causing countless deaths and injuries!"

"Later, there was a legend that a demon made a blood sacrifice to the forbidden water, which completely opened the way to cross the river. After the imperial court calmed down the chaos, they took advantage of the situation and sent troops to build a pass in the north of the forbidden water. Jiuzhaigou also buried our relatives there... …”

Old Man Qi shook his head sadly, and then continued: "In the demon chaos back then, there were demons like this who could use the magic of wiping their faces!"

"Whether it's in the city or in the wild, whether it's on the streets with pedestrians or in secret rooms with closed doors and windows, there are people who are harmed by them. It is said that thousands of people were wiped out in the entire Yuzhou, and those demons have been wreaking havoc for several months. He disappeared until the eve of the Forbidden Water Cave’s opening!”

"If I hadn't heard about the strange movement in the forbidden water and the reoccurrence of the demonic disaster, there wouldn't be so many people gathering here all the way. You just don't understand anything!"

Although Yu Dajue is brave, he is not a simple-minded fool. After hearing this, he understood it after thinking about it for a while, and a pair of tricks suddenly became astonishing: "Old man Qi, are you saying that these face-wiping monsters know how to cross the forbidden water?"

He stood up quickly: "Then what are we waiting for? Hurry up and catch up with a few of them?"

"So what if they have the magic of wiping their faces? Mr. Qi, you are shooting from far behind with a bow and arrow, and I am wielding a big ax in front of you. Don't teach them how to get close!"

Old Man Qi felt a little helpless when he heard the words, and stood up: "Why are you here again? Everything must be planned before taking action. Even if you really have to go all out, you should make preparations in advance, choose a good place, and set up ambushes and traps, otherwise It just depends on whose fate is tougher."

"Just like us, it's not a question of whether our lives are tough or not. Our legs and feet are not as nimble as other people's, so why should we chase them?"

After saying that, Old Man Qi walked away neatly: "Let's leave this place of right and wrong first. If someone sees us, we won't be able to explain it clearly in front of the official!"

He took a few steps in stride, and when he turned around, he saw Yu Dayue still standing there with a look of dissatisfaction on his face. He immediately said angrily: "You, you are far worse than my grandson! He killed that one back then..."

He suddenly stopped talking and refused to continue.

Yu Dayue pricked his ears and blinked his eyes, but his interest was obviously aroused by Old Man Qi's words.

He stopped nagging and trotted after him, asking curiously: "Listen to what Mr. Qi said, my little brother who I have never met is not a coward. Why don't you come with me this time?"

Old Man Qi was furious: "You are hoping that my old Qi family will die!"

Seeing the old man's beard and hair spread out, his energy and blood surging, as if he was glaring like a tiger, Yu Dadaner was really scared this time.

He raised his left hand and slapped himself hard on the face. His eyes were also red: "Don't be upset! I, Yu Daer, said the wrong thing. I have to apologize to you!"

When Old Man Qi heard the words "Grandpa" and saw the appearance of this child who was only a few years older than his grandson, his heart suddenly softened and the faint tiger power that emanated from his body also disappeared.

"Hey, my old man is half dead. What's there to be upset about? I just feel sorry for you, a good boy. If you die here in the north, my relatives in Quzhou will not know how to be sad..."

Yu Dajue breathed a sigh of relief, and then grinned: "My mother died of illness the year before last, and my sister got married. The remaining relatives have lost contact with each other for a long time, and they all want me to die quickly so that my family's house and belongings can be divided up. Here!" "My father and second uncle died in the North, and my aunt abandoned my daughter and ran away with others. But my mother was a fool, and she struggled to hold my sister and me together."

"She was too weak to get off the ground, so she washed clothes for others during the day and did needlework under the moon at night. She cried and cried for a while, and finally she went blind, and she didn't see any relatives to help her!"

Hearing this, Old Man Qi couldn't help but ask: "Then how did your family of three survive?"

"I had no choice but to sell all the land in the family without telling my mother, and then I went to work as an apprentice in a shipyard. Although I couldn't make much money at first, I was in charge of the food! The family managed to survive."

When Yu Dayue talked about these past events, he smiled, but his eyes became redder and redder.

"What a poor child! Speaking of which, although my grandson is protected by me and has never been hungry since he was a child, he has no mother to love him..."

Old Man Qi sighed with emotion and walked forward again. As he walked, he asked: "The shipyard is full of physical work on wood. Even if you want to learn a craft, you have to be able to swing an ax or pull a big saw. You are helpless." You are willing to accept me even though you are a middle-aged man?"

Yu Dayue was aroused, and the conversation was very lively. He also answered while walking: "You don't know something. Our Yu family in Quzhou all have the same ancestor. Hundreds and thousands of years ago, it is said that he was a shipbuilder who specialized in building ships for the king." The officials of the car are called 'Boat Festival', 'Car Festival', and 'Jiedushi'... In short, the Yu family's aura in carpentry work is unparalleled!"

"I know you are always literate. Do you think my word 'Yu' looks like a canoe made of hollowed-out tree trunks?"

Yu Dayue said, proudly raising the big ax in his hand again: "I'm not bragging to you, I was born to be an axe, I am strong, smart and clever, but I have learned from a master for three years. , I have mastered the unique skill of making seals with one hand!"

"What does "marking" mean? It means patching the ship! First, we need to remove the damaged parts of the ship, and then we have to fill in the strange-shaped holes that were removed."

"I, Yu Dayue, never measure the dimensions when repairing holes in ships. I just rely on our skills to look at them a few times and find suitable wood to chop with an axe. Moreover, it can be done with just one cut, and it will be a perfect fit once placed!"

"With this skill, I buried my mother in glory and collected a generous dowry for my sister, so that she could straighten her waist in front of her parents-in-law and husband!"

Seeing the young man talking happily and dancing with joy, old man Qi couldn't help but smile and said, "I didn't expect you to be a master carpenter. I'm so disrespectful, old man!"

Yu Dayue chuckled, and immediately hit the snake and followed it with the stick: "Can you please be more polite to me in the future? Especially don't stare at me! You are so scary when you keep staring, just like a big insect in the mountains... "

"Hey! Speaking of this, it was my good grandson and your brother who I have never met who hunted a tiger from the mountains and brought it home, and kept using the tiger meat and bones to nourish my old man's body... …”

Regarding Yu Dajue's quietly changed title, Old Man Qi accepted it calmly, and couldn't help but curiously asked: "You are a carpenter who repairs ships, but you have also gone into the mountains and seen big insects?"

Yu Dayue immediately smiled and nodded: "No! To build a ship and repair it, you have to go to the mountains to find wood. The most famous mountain in our Quzhou is called Lanke Mountain. I heard people say that the word Lanke means rotten ax handle..."

The young man said while holding the big ax in his hand tightly.

Old Man Qi didn't pay attention to his subtle movements, but suddenly raised his head and looked at the southern sky.

I don't know when a black wind blew up there. The wind was densely packed with blood-eyed bats, large and small, and there were always hundreds of them.

Many bats hold long human hair under their claws, spreading and fluttering in the wind, which looks extremely terrifying.

Immediately afterwards, a colorful rainbow rose from the south and crashed into the night sky. Its long tail snaked for more than ten feet, and a ferocious tiger's head seemed to grow in front of it, heading straight into the black wind.

Almost at the same time, a loud thunderclap sounded in the distance, like the roar of a tiger in the mountains, shaking the sky and shaking the soul.

The black wind was pierced by the rainbow, and the body of the blood-eyed bat fell down with a rustle. The tangled hair was broken countless times, revealing the figure of a huge bat inside, which was as big as a calf.

The big bat's pair of bloody eyes were like lanterns, and it opened its mouth and roared loudly towards the south, showing its ferocious power.

The next moment, there was a continuous sound of bowstrings ringing, and hundreds of black arrows rushed into the air, killing countless people immediately.

The remaining little blood-eyed bats screamed, abandoned their leader and fled madly. In the blink of an eye, they passed over the south gate of the small town and passed through the city to the north.

Yu Dajue was stunned for a moment: "The ones who shot the arrows were the newly arrived troops from outside the city? They are so powerful!"

Hearing this, Old Man Qi suddenly came to his senses, grabbed the young man's arm and ran away: "Don't look at it! That army will definitely enter the city to chase them. We were wandering around on the street in the middle of the night, and we were hit by a lot of people. It’s better not to fall behind!”

Yu Dayue woke up from a dream and quickly started running.

"Wang Wang!"

The old yellow dog, who had been silent and following slowly, finally regained his energy and regained the feeling of walking in Xiaosong Mountain.

The two men and the dog did not stay on the street for long, so they chose a narrow alley and went into it. Before they ran far, they could already hear the rumble of horse hooves from the south, which was also mixed with the sound of bowstrings and arrows. null.

The old man and the young man looked at each other, and their pace suddenly quickened.

"The imperial court responded much faster this time than it did more than ten years ago. It sent a strong army before the demonic disaster spread!"

Old Man Qi sighed while running: "The people of Yuzhou are very lucky, but I don't know how many of the soldiers who came to quell the chaos will die in the North, leaving behind orphans and widows with no one to take care of them..."

"Hey, grandpa, it's better not to worry about others, just look at what's in front of us first!"

Yu Dayue suddenly let out a strange cry, raised his ax and pointed forward.

Old Man Qi slowed down his pace a little, raised his eyes, and saw many ghostly figures appearing in front of him, blocking the alley completely!

These ghosts did not pay attention to the two of them, but faintly divided into two groups. They seemed to have some kind of dispute, and they were yelling at each other.

"This……"

The old man and the young man stopped and looked back subconsciously. They saw that there was a faint light on the long street behind them, and the sound of people shouting and horses neighing gradually became louder.

Seeing this, Yu Dayue hesitated and asked: "Master, do you think it is humans or ghosts who are more terrifying in this world?"

(End of this chapter)