The fortune ship piled with dry firewood and gunpowder was soon surrounded by raging fire. Huge smoke rose into the sky, and the bright firelight reflected the departing figures of Han Du and others.
On the continent, more than ten miles away from the coastline, a group of thousands of people were trudging in a long line.
"Old man, look!" Someone seemed to have seen something and suddenly exclaimed.
The old man looked back and saw a thick smoke in the distance, standing like a pillar in the sky between heaven and earth. After a while, the elder showed a smile on his face and said with a chuckle: "Handu is also a timid young man. Please inform us that we don't have to rush on our way. Let's take a rest first."
"Old man, why is this? Han Du is very close. What if we stop and Han Du catches up?" someone asked.
The elder looked at him with a smile and said: "Don't worry, if Han Du wants to chase us, he won't have time to burn the boat. Since he chose to burn the boat to vent his anger, it means that he has given up chasing us."
"What the elder said makes sense," the old man surnamed Fang also stood up and said, "If Han Du wants to pursue us, then burning the boat will expose his position. There is no need at all. You can inform us and rest on the spot. But it's okay. We can’t take it lightly and rest for too long. After a good meal, we will continue our journey. We must get rid of Handu completely before we can truly settle down.”
"Yes." The man replied and immediately went down to deliver the order.
The old man surnamed Fang looked at the thick smoke in the distance, sighed slightly, and said: "Nineteen blessing ships were destroyed in ashes. It is really heartbreaking."
"Brother Fang, look at it openly. As long as we are still here, there is nothing to feel sad about." The elder comforted him and raised his eyes to look ahead. Ahead, there are still mountains and rivers rising one after another, endless as far as the eye can see.
"I don't know how big this big island is, but I can't believe it doesn't even have giant trees. As long as we find the wood, we can build as many lucky boats as we want."
The old man surnamed Fang had no choice but to nod when he heard this. In this situation, he could only think about the good.
Just when everyone was resting, suddenly a shrill scream rang out from the crowd, followed by a panicked voice, "Snake, there is a snake~"
The elder and the old man surnamed Fang heard the noise and hurried over.
"what happened?"
"Old man, a poisonous snake suddenly appeared out of nowhere and bit Brother Chen."
"Where are the people?" the old man surnamed Fang asked hurriedly.
"Over here." The visitor brought the two elders over.
The elder and the old man surnamed Fang came to the young man surnamed Chen who was bitten by the snake, and saw that his face was green and his lips were as black as if they were stained with ashes from the bottom of a pot. No matter who sees him like this, he knows that this is poisonous gas attacking his heart, and there is no way to save him.
Sure enough, just as the young man persisted until the two elders arrived, his head tilted and he completely lost his breath.
The elder looked solemn and asked, "Where is the snake?"
"After Brother Chen was bitten, he tried his best to cut the snake into several pieces, right over there." The young man pointed to a location less than ten steps away.
The elder walked over cautiously and saw several snake bodies on the ground, with black backs and red bellies. Just one look at them gave people chills. Moreover, the snake's head was cut off into a section less than a foot long, but it was still not dead. It was still opening its mouth, trying to select people to devour.
The elder and the old man surnamed Fang took a few steps back and looked at each other, feeling quite heavy in their hearts. Although the inaccessible wilderness is the best place to avoid pursuing soldiers, the venomous snakes and beasts in the wilderness are also a huge threat. Looking at the endless mountains and rivers ahead, the elders didn't know what kind of dangers were waiting for them ahead.
Suddenly, the elder felt that the reason why Han Du did not dare to rush in was not because he was a coward, but because he knew what was on this big island.
The elder didn't understand that Han Du couldn't have been here. Logically speaking, he shouldn't know about the situation on the island, but for some reason the elder just thought that Han Du knew.
"Come here, let people who know snakes explore the way ahead, and everyone will rub realgar wine to drive away snakes."
The incident of poisonous snakes biting people to death has cast a shadow on the hearts of the elderly. The road they wanted to move forward began to look less bright than they imagined, and began to become turbulent and strange.
With the alert, the elder and others encountered many venomous snakes, but fortunately no one was bitten to death again. But just as they were passing through a forest, no one expected that a thick rope would suddenly hang down from the tree trunk, and suddenly it would strangle a person's neck and hang him up.
At this time, people discovered that what kind of rope was there was clearly a huge python. By the time everyone killed the python, the man had already been strangled to death.
After coming for more than ten days, the group had been without water for two days. When they saw a river appearing in front of them, they were ecstatic and ran directly to the river to start drinking water.
The drinking water is crystal clear, as good as mountain springs.
The gloom of the past few days also receded from the elderly man's face, revealing a rare smile, and ordered everyone to go to the top of the river to start fetching water.
But not long after, someone suddenly pointed at the river and shouted in horror: "Look, everyone, what is that?"
The elder looked up and saw a huge shadow moving quickly towards the people at the bottom of the river.
"Retreat! Retreat quickly~" No matter what it is, anyway, the good will not come and the coming will be bad. The elder immediately shouted for everyone to retreat.
People also saw the black shadow and immediately retreated in horror.
The black shadows at the bottom of the river seemed to have noticed that the people were trying to escape. They suddenly accelerated and jumped up from the river and threw themselves on the bank. Running on all fours without slowing down at all, he opened his mouth and bit the person behind him.
"This is... a pig-shaped dragon? Such a big pig-shaped dragon is really unheard of and unseen." Mr. Fang was dumbfounded and murmured to himself.
"Come here, shoot the arrows, shoot the arrows~" Someone suddenly roared.
Raindrop-like arrows were shot at the Pig Dragon (also known as the crocodile). What shocked everyone was that the arrows only left a series of jingling sounds on the crocodile, and then they all fell to the ground, including the crocodile's body. The skin has not been torn.
"Form up your shield and prepare your spear."
Relying on the protection of the back, the spear finally caused damage to the crocodile. However, the injured crocodile wanted to attack the person in front of him crazily. Even when faced with a shield formation lined with spears, he rushed over without hesitation. With the crocodile's death-defying attack, it didn't take long before he was killed on the spot by everyone.
Although the crocodile was killed, it also killed several people and injured more than a dozen before dying.
The elders and others suffered heavy casualties.
