There are only three people in the underground fortress, and Yingzi and I are sitting opposite him, and no matter how capable the two of us are, it is impossible to put saliva on him.
All three of them felt strange, and at the same time looked up, what was the liquid flowing from something? The fire, lit by the broken wooden planks of the ammunition box, illuminated the surroundings, and in the distance, beyond the reach of the fire, it was still lonely and dark.
Right above us, on the roof, where the light of fire meets darkness, a very large human face peeks out. The face was more than twice as large as that of ordinary people, as white as if it had been smeared with flour, without the slightest expression, it was impossible to tell whether it was joy or anger, with a hooked nose, a pair of blood-red strange eyes, staring closely at the roasted bat meat in the fat man's hand, the lips were thick and large, protruding forward, with a big mouth with a black hole, half of the blood-red tongue hung on the side of the mouth, and the saliva was about to flow into a river, dripping down from above.
The owner of that face, with a long neck and dark and hard skin, was hidden in the darkness of the fire due to the high ceiling of the underground ganakul, and only its face and a neck could be seen. It seemed to be very interested in the roasted bat meat we ate, and wanted to pounce on it and grab it, but it was afraid of the flames burning below, and hesitated.
However, it seems that the smell of barbecue is too tempting for it, and it can no longer be suppressed, and it will jump off the upside-down roof at any time.
Is this a human or a monster? The three of us looked up and looked at it in amazement, and although I didn't know where it came from, I could tell that it wanted to eat roasted bat meat.
We brought out five big bats from the cave, Yingzi and I ate half of each, and the fat man ate a whole one, and there were three left, and the fat man divided the largest bat king into three parts, and skewered one of them with a rifle bayonet, and roasted it on the fire.
But at this moment, where can I think too much, I saw that the fat man was frightened by the expressionless face on his head, and hurriedly snatched the bayonet in his hand with the roasted bat meat in his hand, raised it and spun it around in front of the strange face, and threw it aside.
I made a lot of strength, but I didn't throw it far, the bat meat was thrown off the bayonet, and landed not far behind Yingzi, and before Yingzi could look back, a huge beast jumped down from the roof, took the roasted bat king in his mouth, and swallowed it without chewing.
By the light of the fire, we could see clearly that the animal was not human, but that its face was like that of a baboon, that it resembled a human face, that it had an extremely long neck, and that its body was of the size and shape of a bear, but not as clumsy as a bear. Its body is slightly flattened, its hind limbs are arched, short and thick, and its forelimbs are surprisingly long, and when it moves, it can hold on to the gaps in the wall and hang on it, and look at its movements, it is better to crawl on the flat ground than on the wall.
Yingzi had never seen this animal, and Fat Man and I had seen pictures of it at the zoo, and as soon as it was revealed, we immediately remembered that it was a steppe otter, yes, this is it.
The steppe land otter lives in underground caves deep in the grassland, mainly distributed in South America, Africa, and the steppe of Mongolia. The same is the otter, which is different from the jungle otter that lives in the jungle and is even more different from its distant cousin, the otter. The grassland land otter inherits more of the characteristics of the glacier land otter, the ancestor of the land otter, and its body is exceptionally large, mainly living on meat, rarely active in the sun, and most likes to prey on large bats, big gophers, pythons and other animals that live underground.
The hunting method of the grassland otter is to brake quietly, rarely take the initiative to attack, they hide quietly in the dark, motionless, sometimes a lurking for several days, do not drink or eat, and wait for an animal to pass by, then suddenly lightning stretched out its big mouth, one bite to eat each other.
When the People's Republic of China was first founded, African fraternal countries once gave one to the Beijing Zoo, but it did not adapt to the living environment in Beijing and died not long after. When I went to Beijing with the fat man and some of my classmates, the Beijing Red Guards, who had joined us in victory, took us around and saw a huge cage containing grassland otters in the zoo. The grassland land otter in the cage has died, only the empty cage remains, we saw a huge empty cage, and a little strange, so we deliberately took a few more looks, and the cage has its introduction and pictures.
After many years, we still have a deep impression of this incident, but we never expected that such a big one would be encountered in the underground fortress of the Kwantung Army.
Presumably it is tracking the pig-faced big bat to come here, the big bats in this fortress are difficult to count, we only see a nest in a stone cave, no less than a thousand, the fortress is dozens of kilometers deep, maybe somewhere, there are a few hidden nests.
It has thick skin and many small bone fragments under the skin, as if it were wearing armor, which is unbreakable in adulthood.
The vicious pig-faced big bat has sharp claws, although it can easily tear the belly of cattle and sheep, but it can't hurt the grassland otter, even if it is scratched a few times, it is not painful or itchy, there is no natural enemy here, and there are countless pig-faced big bats to hunt, which is exactly what it is.
However, I don't know how the steppe land otter got into the fortress with such a large size, it is possible that an earthquake or a landslide caused some large cracks in the underground fortress, and it is from there that it crawls into the fortress to feed, and if we find that entrance, we should be able to get out from there as well.
The steppe otter who jumped down from the roof ate ate the roasted bat meat, stretched out its long tongue and licked the side of its mouth a few times, obviously such a piece of meat could not satisfy its appetite, and aroused its strong appetite, staring at the three of us, not knowing what to think. In the underworld, it's the king.
At this moment of confrontation between the two sides, my mind turned a few times, the terrain of the underground fortress and dealing with wild beasts, these things are a little unfamiliar to me, should I strike first? The submachine gun is at hand, but the lethality of the 100-type submachine gun is very limited, and the bone skin of the steppe land otter is enough to resist, so don't fight the snake anymore and be bitten by the snake, which will make it angry, but I am not sure that I can get out.
The Japanese Ariyaka-style rifles are very penetrating and should be able to take out the steppe otters, but we only took a few bayonets, first
The two rifles loaded in front of them were placed twenty or thirty meters away, and someone had to distract the steppe otter before I could run over to get the rifles, and it took a short time to go back and forth, and the steppe otter was too close to our position...
I couldn't even think of a few thoughts, but I wasn't sure, then the fat man stood in place and whispered to me: "Old Hu, I remember that this thing only eats warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals, not people, so I think it's fine." After saying that, he gently kicked the dead bat at the grassland land otter with his foot, which means, this is all for you, hurry up and eat it, don't trouble us.
Who knew that the grassland otter didn't even look at the dead bat, but kept drooling at us.
The fat man turned his head to me and asked, "Why doesn't it eat bats, and always stares at us, as if it has bad intentions?" "
I didn't dare to talk to the fat man distractedly, and watched the steppe otter's every move, as long as it had any intention of attacking, then I could only rush ahead of it, pick up the submachine gun on the ground, and give it a shuttle.
Yingzi said: "We all ate a lot of roasted bat meat, it is probably ... Treat us like bats..."
Before her words fell, the steppe otter could no longer stand the smell of roasted bat meat, and forced us step by step, all wild animals feed on raw meat, because they have never eaten cooked meat by nature, and once they have eaten a bite, the taste of cooked meat is the greatest temptation for them.
I noticed that it was sluggish, and I didn't think I had to fight it, so I might as well run. I beckoned to the other two, and the three of them turned around and ran, just two steps away, but at this moment, I tripped over a hard object under my feet, and this kick knocked me down, and my knee almost shattered, and even the fat Yingzi fell to the ground at the same time.
I wondered to myself, what stumbled over me? At the same time as he fell to the ground, he glanced at the ground, the ground was flat, where was there anything that could trip over people, and his heart moved: "Just thinking about escaping, but the corpses of the pair of virgins and men forgot to bring them, isn't it a ghost stumbling?" "
The steppe otter has probably never seen a human walking animal on two legs, it smells the fragrance of roasted bat meat on three people, and has regarded us as bats, but it can't accept it to grow into such a bat for the time being, and it is also afraid of fire, and does not dare to move forward easily, is thinking about how to swallow these delicious foods to the mouth, and when it saw the three of us fall to the ground, it jumped over.
Its hind limbs were thick and strong, and it jumped in front of the fat man in one leap, and probably thought that this one had a lot of meat, so it was ready to beat the fat man first.
Seeing this, the fat man had to struggle desperately, and his hands were scratching on the ground, trying to find a weapon, and there happened to be a bayonet for roasting bats on the ground, and the fat man copied it and stabbed it in the arm of the steppe land otter, straight to the handle.
The knife had been roasted for a long time, like a red iron bar, and after stabbing the grassland land otter, only a scorched stench could be smelled in the nose. The steppe otter was invincible in the underground cave, how could he have suffered such a loss, it was painful and angry, but he didn't dare to bite the fat man again, and slowly took a few steps back, waiting for the opportunity to move again.
After the scorching bayonet stabbed him, the temperature immediately decreased, and the blood of the steppe otter made the body of the knife sizzle white gas, and the fat man had just hit it, all by the temperature of the bayonet, otherwise it would not have been able to pierce it at all.
I took advantage of the gap between the fat man and the steppe otter to repel the otters, and one by one with Yingzi, wrapped the military coat containing the virgin men and women on his back, and I hope that these two little imps will not make trouble again.
Carrying the corpse of the child on my back, I bent down and held the submachine gun in my hand, knowing that the lethality of this hundred-style submachine gun was far from enough to kill the grassland land otter, but I also counted on using it to resist one or two at the critical moment.
Before I could pull the bolt, on the wall behind me, a claw suddenly poked out and slapped straight at the top of my head, the claw came so fast and so fast that I didn't have time to bow my head, so I had to cover it with the submachine gun in my hand, and I was swept away by the claw, and I couldn't hold it, and the submachine gun flew out of my hand, and fell far away in the darkness where the fire could not shine.
It turned out that unconsciously, four prairie otters climbed down the wall, two large and two small, the smallest of which was about the size of an adult, and it was evident that they were also attracted by the smell of roasted bat meat and came to hunt for food.
Five prairie otters surrounded the three of us, and if one of them took the lead, the rest would rush up and tear us to pieces and eat us.
The only thing we had to rely on was the fire, and the three of them were stuck back to back, the fat man with a bayonet, the young man with a submachine gun, and only me with my bare hands.
The fire lit by the wood chips is getting darker and darker, and it will be extinguished in a while, and it will be extinguished in a few moments, and we really have to wait until then, we are the grassland otter's meal, thinking of this, I can't help but secretly cry: "One is enough to fuck the bad, but now it's good, the grassland otter in this fortress, the whole family is dispatched, and they are in a desperate situation, how can we fight a bloody way?" "
I grabbed a flaming stick of wood from the fire and swung it at the smallest of the steppe otters blocking the way, and it was so frightened that it shrank aside from the torch, and a gap appeared in the encirclement.
The flame of the wooden strip was not large, and it was almost extinguished when we waved, but we didn't dare to stay longer, so we rushed out together, and several drooling grassland otters pounced on them after a little hesitation.
The submachine gun in Yingzi's hand shot a string of bullets, and the grassland otter in the head was hit by the bullet, and blood splashed on the body, but they were covered with thick skin calluses, although the bullets entered the body, they could not shoot into the bone armor inside the body, but they angered them, and they pressed step by step, and they had to eat these three people in their mouths before they stopped.
Yingzi was the only one of the three of us who had a submachine gun, and whenever she changed magazines, Fat Man and I would wave a fire-burning wooden stick to block the steppe otters and prevent them from approaching. After fighting and retreating, due to the blind direction of the breakthrough, it was getting farther and farther away from the place where the weapons were placed, but retreated to the edge of the large iron gate of Gnaku.
Outside the iron gate is the red lion, we wanted to eat and drink enough, carefully plan and then find a way to get out of the passage outside the iron gate, but the sudden attack of the grassland otter caught us off guard, and we retreated here in a hurry, the flame of the wooden strip became weaker and weaker, and finally only the blackened wooden strip remained, with only a few sparks on the head, and there were not many bullets.
The steppe land otter is huge, several of them are huddled together, like an impenetrable city wall, and when they are slapped by their claws, the lightest is broken bones and tendons. The encirclement of the steppe land otter gradually narrowed, and we were all pinned down in front of the iron gate, with no room to advance or retreat.
Now we have to get out of the way, the fat man and I threw the wooden strip with Mars in our hands to the grassland otter, Yingzi fired with a hundred submachine guns, and forced these grassland otters to take a few steps back with the last combat effectiveness, the fat man turned around and pushed open the iron door behind him, and I took out the black donkey's hooves and smashed it outward.
Unexpectedly, the red fox was not in front of the door, we had no time to think about it, and retreated into the passage behind the iron gate one after another, the fat man just wanted to close the big iron door, a huge force slammed into the iron gate, the brute force of the grassland otter was extraordinary, and the three of them tried their best to push the iron door up, but they said that they couldn't do anything.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew in my face, and I hurriedly dodged, and it turned out that the red fox had been wandering around here all along. The red does not have a high IQ, and just blindly bites when he sees a living thing.
The red sling came as soon as it was said, and it was silent like a storm and lightning, if it weren't for the fact that I had been in a hundred battles and had a lot of experience in facing the enemy, I would have been defeated by it. I rolled to the ground, and was about to get up to dodge, when the iron door had been knocked open, and one of the largest steppe otters sprang out.
The steppe otter used its thick hind limbs, like a big frog, to leap out of the door, just to knock the red otter down, the red fox fell to the ground, its body could not bend, and then it bounced up, and ten fingers like steel knives were inserted into the chest of the steppe land otter.
The steppe otter screamed, opened its mouth and bitten, and several other large and small steppe otters also hugged out of the gnaku, and when they saw that their companions were injured, they went to bite the red reel.
One of the smallest grassland land otters was torn off the head alive by the red marl, and the red marsh was also bitten by two prairie land otters, and the two sides were on par with each other, for a while, they were actually entangled together, and in an instant, the walls, the ground, and the iron gate were splashed with large pieces of blood from the prairie land otters, and the broken flesh flew sideways, and at the same time, the arms of the red marsh were bitten off.
When we saw this thrilling scene in front of us, we were all secretly frightened, if the red lion and the grassland land otter attacked back and forth, then the three of us would inevitably die without a place to be buried. We accidentally stumbled into a situation that led to the two tigers fighting, which was really a fluke.
We carried the bodies of the boy and the girl on our backs, and fled towards the hole in the wall of the back room of the ancient tomb, only hating our father and mother for missing two legs, anxious like a lost dog, busy like a fish that slipped through the net, such an embarrassing situation, there is no need to go into detail.
The big hole in the collapsed wall of the tomb is still the same as when we escaped before, we escaped from here before, and this time we escaped again, and we went around in a big circle, and we didn't get anything of value, and we got into so much trouble in vain, and we added these two children corpses filled with mercury, which really makes people laugh and cry. However, although the underground fortress has nothing of value, it has a lot of clothing and equipment, and there may be a few simple generators in a certain place, which can tell the people in the tunzi about this, and it is not in vain that we have spent so much time in the underground fortress.
As long as you can climb out of the shaft outside the thief hole, at this time everyone's mental and physical strength has reached the limit, but people are desperate, dogs are eager to jump over the wall, and when facing a desperate situation, it can often stimulate the potential of human beings. Yingzi used a submachine gun to strafe the coffin board that sealed the thief hole, a whole two shuttles, and the sawdust flew sideways, the coffin lid was originally embedded in the wall, and the bullet smashed the middle to rot, the fat man ran up, and smashed the coffin board into two sections with his shoulder, and the thief hole was exposed again. I first pushed Yingzi up the shaft, and then I and the fat man lifted the corpses of the virgins and men on their backs, and Yingzi caught them on the top, and reached out to pull me up.
In the end, the fat man was left, because we both had to pull him up the shaft before he could climb up. The fat man was about to climb up, and two steppe otters covered in blood had already rushed into the tomb, they became crazy, roaring like thunder, maybe the rest of their family members were all killed by the red marl, even if the red marsh was powerful, most of them could not withstand the group beating of the prairie otters, and were bitten to pieces.
The remaining two grassland otters with red eyes and fierce pursuit, followed us all the way into the tomb, the fat man looked back, and hurriedly climbed up the shaft, the more anxious he was, the more he could not climb up. The steppe otters had rushed to the cave, but fortunately the hole was too narrow for them to get out, so they kept digging the earth with their big claws, trying to enlarge the hole so that they could crawl out of it. Seeing that the situation was urgent, I picked up Yingzi's submachine gun and threw it to the fat man, the fat man understood, and fired a few shots to force back the grassland land otter crowded at the entrance of the thief hole, and immediately aimed at the Tianbao Dragon Fire glazed roof on the top of the tomb and fired at it, the glazed tiles on the top were broken, and bags of Western Regions dragon oil were splashed down, and the entire tomb, including two grassland land otters, was engulfed in the fire ignited by the dragon oil.
At the same time, Yingzi and I used our last strength to pull the fat man out of the shaft, and that's it, the fat man's pants were also burned by the flames that erupted from the thief hole, and he kept slapping the flames on his buttocks, screaming in pain like a pig, Yingzi quickly took a kettle to extinguish the fire on his buttocks, and his pants were already burned to the bare cheeks.
The hounds crouched faithfully beside them, looking at the three masters who had climbed up from the cave, it was noon, the sun was shining, I rubbed my eyes, compared to the gloomy underground fortress, it was really like a world away.
The fat man covered his buttocks with one hand, and raised the two pieces of jade obtained from the tomb with the other hand to look at them, and couldn't help but be poetic again, reciting a few famous sentences from the long poem of the World War:
The flames of war have been extinguished, and the smoke has dispersed.
The sun has never been so warm;
The sky has never been so blue;
The smiles on the children's faces have never been so sweet.
Yingzi and I couldn't help but laugh, have you ever seen a poet reciting with his butt covered? But something happened suddenly that made our smiles freeze quickly...