Chen Xing walked a few kilometers in the water, then went ashore and continued walking. The firearms, backpack, and demon girl weighed more than 150 kilograms in total, weighing him down until he could hardly breathe. But Aaliyah slept soundly on his back, nuzzling his neck from time to time like a lazy cat.
After walking more than ten kilometers, Chen Xing finally ran out of energy. He put Aaliya down and leaned against the trunk of an ancient banyan tree, then stood aside, panting.
After a while, he squatted down to check Aaliyah's wounds and found that they were all healed. The recovery ability of the Balrog bloodline is really powerful. Although the opponent was seriously injured, as the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and a rotten ship still has three thousand nails. Maybe it won't take a few days to recover and lead him out of this forest of death.
After resting for half an hour, Aaliya woke up slowly, her voice a little hoarse. Chen Xing quickly opened the kettle and fed her some water.
"Thank you," Aaliyah said weakly. Her body felt a little hot and she was already showing signs of high fever.
"It will get dark soon, and we have to spend the night here." Chen Xing raised his head, looked at the crisscrossing branches above, and asked, "Can you climb up?"
Aaliyah shook her head.
"Then just under the tree, I can't carry you up." After saying that, Chen Xing took out the blanket from his backpack and wrapped it around Aaliyah. Then he took out the kerosene lamp, filled some water with a lunch box, put in a few compressed biscuits, and started cooking.
After a while, the water heated up and the compressed biscuits turned into paste. Chen Xing took the spoon and fed it to Aaliyah. At this moment, Aaliyah was like a cute little animal, with her mouth open, looking like she was waiting for food.
The compressed biscuits turned into paste are very unpalatable. They contain wheat flour, peanuts, sugar, grease, milk powder, etc., and they look very ugly. They are a black mass and are called "shit meals" by the mercenaries.
"Is it delicious?" Chen Xing asked while feeding.
"It's delicious~" Aaliyah said, nodding. Perhaps because of hunger, she actually ate with happiness on her face.
"As long as you like it." Chen Xing happily fed her a whole lunch box of "dog shit".
After eating and drinking, Aaliya fell asleep again. Chen Xing packed his things, leaned on his backpack, closed his eyes and rested. He didn't dare to sleep too hard. There were dangers here, and he didn't know when he would be attacked by mutant creatures.
"Goofy..."
After an unknown amount of time, Chen Xing felt a stinging sensation on his scalp and woke up suddenly, and then heard a low gasp. Following the sound, a dark red creature was hovering a few meters away. After discovering that he was awake, he immediately bared his teeth at him. Transparent saliva dripped down the tooth sockets to the ground, and the fishy smell of rotting flesh filled the air, which was very disgusting.
Elite corpse-eating dog!
After checking the situation, Chen Xing quickly calmed down and slowly touched the handle of the gun on his lower back. He cannot move too fast, otherwise the opponent will mistakenly think that he is going to attack and trigger a battle in advance.
As soon as he grasped the handle of the gun, he let go again and turned to touch the handle of the knife on the other side. The sound of gunfire will attract the attention of other creatures, and the elite corpse dog is not too strong. With its 20 points of strength and 28 points of agility, it is enough to kill the opponent.
At this time, Aaliya also woke up. After seeing the corpse dog, she frowned and made no sound.
"I'll do it." Chen Xing whispered, retracted his feet, leaned forward, and slowly squatted down.
As if being stimulated, the corpse dog barked wildly, spread its legs, and rushed towards Chen Xing. Chen Xing immediately jumped up and stabbed the corpse dog with a knife.
"puff!"
The blade penetrated the corpse dog's chest, and Chen Xing kicked it out. When he pulled out the short knife, a large amount of blood came out. Then he stabbed the corpse dog's neck with a knife, pulled it sharply, and cut its throat. The corpse dog fell to the ground, struggled for a while, and then stopped moving. Even an elite corpse-eating dog only has twenty or thirty points of vitality, so it is not something to be afraid of.
But not long after, there were rustling sounds from the surrounding bushes, branches and leaves swaying, accompanied by waves of deep breathing.
Chen Xing turned his head and glanced at Aaliyah, who immediately stood up holding the trunk of the tree. Immediately afterwards, corpse dogs emerged from the bushes and surrounded them.
Looking around, there are at least thirty or forty of them. Chen Xing had heard in his previous life that the corpse-eating dogs in the Black Stone Forest all moved in groups. They live on the corpses of other creatures, and occasionally attack creatures weaker than themselves.
Chen Xing retracted his dagger and picked up his assault rifle. He was confident that he could deal with a few elite corpse-eating dogs, but he was unable to deal with an entire group. The current situation is very bad, and we can only hope that Aaliya still has some fighting strength.
Suddenly, Chen Xing had a flash of inspiration, thought of something, and immediately took it out. It was the little bag containing the dragon's excrement. He reached in, grabbed a handful, and threw it towards the corpse dog in front of him.
"Woo..."
The corpse dogs whined and retreated.
it works!
Chen Xing was immediately overjoyed. He grabbed another handful and threw them to the rear. The group of corpse-eating dogs retreated again.
"This thing is okay." Chen Xing turned to Aaliya and said, looking very excited. The latter looked confused and seemed a little surprised. Her expression immediately gave Chen Xing a bad feeling.
Sure enough, the retreating corpse dog sniffed the ground, then let out a low growl and pounced on the two of them.
"Da da da da da da da!"
Upon seeing this, Chen Xing immediately pulled the trigger. Tongues of fire spurted out, sending the corpse dogs rushing to the front rolling all over the ground. The remaining corpse dogs were frightened and retreated one after another, keeping a distance of twenty to thirty meters and surrounding the two people.
"Up the tree!"
While the group of corpse-eating dogs did not dare to rush over, Chen Xing shouldered his assault rifle and shouted to Aaliyah.
Aaliyah turned around, lay on the tree trunk, and tried to climb up. But before he could climb two meters, he fell to the ground, crying in pain. Chen Xing helped her up and saw a bulging old tree root on the ground. Then he thought of her posture just now and felt happy.
When she fell down, she happened to get stuck on the root of the tree, just like the ancient "Trojan horse torture", which was really painful. If he hadn't been in danger now and was afraid that Aaliyah would get angry and stab him, he would probably have laughed out loud.
"I hate you!" Aaliyah said through gritted teeth with tears on her face.
"I'll climb up first, and then use the rope to pull you up." Chen Xing avoided her gaze, took out the climbing rope from his backpack, tied it around her waist, and then flew up the tree.
Just as they were climbing the tree, the group of corpse-eating dogs came over again, their mouths drooling, and they stared eagerly. Chen Xing made a "click" sound, pulled the bolt of the gun, and swept towards them.
"Da da da da da da da!"
The crisp sound of gunfire resounded through the forest, causing the group of corpse-eating dogs to roll and flee. Chen Xing picked up the assault rifle on his back, held the climbing rope with both hands, and finally pulled Aaliya up the tree.
"It's okay, they can't climb trees." Chen Xing said. Aaliyah looked at him with a look of resentment, as if what happened just now was caused by him.
"Roar!"
Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, a beast roar suddenly came from the distance. The sound was like a loud bell, piercing the clouds and cracking rocks, causing the birds to scatter in all directions.
The group of corpse-eating dogs under the tree whimpered, hung their tails, and fled in all directions.
Chen Xing quickly climbed up to the tree crown and saw hundreds of meters away, the trees were spreading to both sides, as if something huge was rushing towards them. Painful pains came from the scalp, indicating that danger was coming.
"There's something, run!"
Chen Xing climbed back to Shuya twice, put Aaliya down with a climbing rope, and then jumped down.
"I, I can't run." Aaliyah fell to the ground as soon as she took two steps, extremely weak. Chen Xing had no choice but to put her on his back and escape in the opposite direction of the monster.
