Everyone followed Wu Xie's gaze and saw Granny Monkey staring at them with that strange look, and couldn't help but feel chills running down their spines.
Wu Xie always felt that since the Qinling Mountains, he had formed some kind of bad bond with animals like monkeys.
The fat man murmured in a low voice, "Perhaps the evil physique will also attract the evil monkeys."
Wu Xie gave him a roll of his eyes, glanced at the time on his watch, and immediately said to everyone: "Hurry up and eat. When you go to bed tonight, your ears will be perked up, and you will be ready to fight at any time."
Everyone responded immediately. Tie Tuo patted the knife on his waist and volunteered to keep vigil.
Wu Xiaoxie took his bowl of mutton soup to Granny Monkey who was squatting under the tree, and put a small white pill in it where it could not see it, and it melted when it entered the water.
Then he bent down and put the soup bowl to Granny Monkey's mouth, "Eat, I've locked you up for a day, and I'll improve your food."
Granny Monkey was so excited by the aroma lingering on her nose that she immediately grabbed the bowl and drank heavily. She grabbed the soft mutton in the bowl and ate it up.
Wu Xie went to take the bowl. Grandma Hou fiddled with the chain locked in her neck with her paws, and then looked at him intently.
Wu Xie shook his head, "It's not okay now. When we get there, I will naturally let you go."
Granny Monkey's dim eyes suddenly narrowed, and she threw the bowl with her hand.
Nie Xiaoba jumped up and cursed, "You damn monkey woman, don't be so shameless. My mistress is kind-hearted and only gave you soup. If it were me, I wouldn't even give you the urine and mud on the soles of my feet." .”
Grandma Hou bared her teeth and looked at Nie Xiaoba coldly.
"Hey, I have such a bad temper." Nie Xiaoba immediately rolled up his sleeves and wanted to come over and beat her up.
Wu Xie stopped him and advised: "Forget it, it's not necessary."
The drizzle is lingering, the breeze is slightly slanting, and I am destined to be sleepless tonight.
There was still an hour before the shift change. Tie Tuo, who was watching the night, yawned, rubbed his eyes and asked Dafu next to him for a cigarette, "Do you have any more cigarettes? Come on, have one. I really want to doze off. What do you think of this Monkey San'er?" Why aren't you here yet?"
"It would be better if you don't come." Dafu took out the cigarette case from his pocket, shook it, took one in his mouth, and with the last cigarette left, he threw the box to him, "Let's shoot birds with our hands. I don’t have any earth-fire guns, just a few fire sticks, sticks, machetes and knives, how can I fight them.”
Tie Tuo sneered, "We have their 'hostages' in our hands for fear of betrayal."
"Didn't you listen to what I said? It's not easy to kill Granny Monkey. As long as you watch Granny Monkey closely, those monkeys will beat rats and pots and pans." Tie Tuo hissed, " Hey, how did you say that word?"
While he was talking, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a person squatting beside the fire.
"That's called a rat-throwing weapon, you idiot." Dafu lowered his head and used his hand to cover the lighter to light a cigarette, mocking him rudely for his lack of education.
After waiting for a long time, no one responded, and I wondered when this kid had changed his personality. When he turned around, he found that there was no one around him.
Dafu was stunned for a moment, and immediately turned his head to look around, but only saw dazzling firelight and a few tents. The camp was as quiet as death.
"Tie Tuo! Tie Tuo! You idiot, why don't you go and talk somewhere? Why don't you make a sound?" He lowered his voice and shouted several times for fear of waking up the people in the tent, but he didn't hear any response.
"Mai Maibisa!" He immediately understood that something was wrong, and hurriedly wanted to return to the tent to call the mistress and the others.
"Little Third Master, Fat Master, it's not good... uh..." Just after running two steps, he suddenly felt a pinch on his neck, and his unfinished words were instantly stuck in his throat.
The next moment, he was pulled up on the spot and hung up in the air. The machete in his hand fell into the grass with a clang, making a slight sound.
The panic of suffocation filled his mind. He kicked his legs desperately and struggled to pull the vines tied to his neck. However, no matter how hard he struggled, the life-threatening vines kept getting tighter and tighter.
Dafu's face had turned from red to blue, white and purple. He stretched his head high, his tongue spasmed, and his eyesight turned black.
At the critical moment, a wisp of cold light came through the sky and cut off the vines tied to his head.
Dafu fell from mid-air and collapsed on the ground, covering his neck and gasping for air, sweating all over his body.
Immediately afterwards, several sounds of breaking through the air were heard. Wu Xie and Fatty rushed out of the tent fully armed, and the crossbow arrows in their hands kept shooting at the surrounding tree crowns.
The screams pierced the night sky, and several big monkeys fell from the trees.
The monkey group hidden in the canopy did not expect that Wu Xie and the others had prepared an ambush in advance, and they were caught off guard. After an unpleasant scream, the monkey group's attack paused.
There were ghosts in the trees, and there were huge black shadows jumping everywhere.
The fat man took out his flare gun and fired into the sky, and the whole space suddenly became bright as day.
Wu Xie and the others also saw clearly that on the branch facing them, surrounded by a group of monkeys, stood a two-meter-tall one-armed black-haired giant monkey.
The face of the giant monkey is also covered with a ferocious human-like bird face. Its huge body is three times the size of other monkeys around it. Its black hair is as thick as steel needles, its pointed ears are angry, and its eyes are staring at the person with vicious eyes. Everyone in the scene.
Facing those blood-red eyes, Nie Xiaoba's lips trembled uncontrollably, "Little... mistress... what... what should I do? We can't seem to beat him."
Wu Xie secretly cursed, what a fool, he thought that the ones who came were at most ordinary monkeys, but he never expected that the leader of the monkey group would be a mandrill.
The mandrill is a ghostly and evil creature in folklore that makes people talk about it. It is more difficult to deal with than the ordinary rice dumpling. It is a very troublesome and terrifying existence.
It is written in "The Book of Mountains and Seas" that the mandrill is a monster with a human face and a monkey body. Its legs are in the palm of the hand. It likes to imitate human behavior and makes a very charming sound when it laughs.
There are also legends about the "great achievements" of mandrills, such as being able to tear apart a tiger with one hand, being able to lift half a mountain with one foot, being as long as the sky, and being able to revive after death.
Of course this is an exaggeration, but with the huge size of the mandrill in front of him, once it goes crazy, Wu Xie has no doubt that it can tear apart all the living people present.
The mandrill bared his teeth sarcastically at them, reached out and grabbed a man covered in blood from the bushes behind him, stepped on it, grabbed his arm and twisted it, making the sound of cracking bones and snapping joints and ligaments. It was horrifying to hear, and then he let go and threw it under the tree without any care.
Wu Xie took a closer look and suddenly gasped. That person was Tie Tuo who suddenly disappeared just now.
Tie Tuo was already dead, lying on the ground like a rag. His neck was twisted abnormally, most of his face was peeled off, his head was turned over like a twist, and his eyes had turned into blood holes. , the eyeballs inside were missing.
There was also a big black hole in his stomach. The flesh and blood near the hole was an abnormal black and blue color, and the intestines and internal organs were gone.
Perhaps it was torn out and eaten. Wu Xie saw that there was still some bloodshot residue in the gap between the mandrill's bared teeth.
As if sensing what Wu Xie was thinking, the mandrill pinched the arm in his hand, opened his big mouth and tore off a large piece of meat from the fracture, chewing it with relish, as if to demonstrate.
There were muffled sounds of retching from the side. Even though I had witnessed many scenes of internal strife in the tomb over the treasure, the scene in front of me was still brutal and bloody.
Luo Wenbing, who was forced to participate, had fainted on the spot and fell unconscious.
Wu Xie looked at more flickering shadows in the darkness and realized that he and Fatty were really going to fall here this time.
The fat man gritted his teeth, clasped the crossbow in his hand, and lowered his voice: "Zhenzhen, I will hit this ghost in the heart later. You hurry up and run, run as fast as you can."
Wu Xiexin said what the hell are you talking about? Let’s not talk about whether he can run out from being surrounded by hundreds of monkeys. He just said that the piece of black iron embedded in the fur and glowing coldly on the mandrill’s chest is natural armor. , with just the few small crossbow arrows in their hands, it is impossible to shoot through them even if they smoke.
However, before he could react, the fat man rushed forward and fired the crossbow, shouting, "Run!"
The few guys who were frightened by the sight of the mandrill eating people were awakened by the loud shout. They immediately picked up their crossbows and followed the fat man and shot them. The arrows flew across the night sky.
However, these monkeys were smarter than they thought. The fat man's crossbow hit the mandrill in the chest, and as expected, it was stopped, with only a few small sparks grazing out.
The other monkeys jumped quickly through the trees, and quickly jumped out of the limited attack range of the crossbows. With the branches blocking them, their attacks were not effective at all, and a lot of arrows were consumed.
The mandrill blew out two streams of white air from its wide nostrils, as if to express its disdain for the little humans below. Then it raised its one arm and let out a piercing scream. The monkeys behind it suddenly jumped towards the camp with joy. come over.
Seeing that the crossbows had no effect, Fatty and the others had already pulled out the machetes stuck in their waists and decided to fight to the death with the monkeys.
At this moment, Clinker saw the dozen or so big monkeys rushing to the front brake suddenly and stop, staring angrily behind them.
The fat man subconsciously turned around and saw Wu Xie carrying Granny Monkey, who had been chained in the tent and sleeping unconsciously. The knife in his hand was placed on Granny Monkey's neck. The monkeys stopped.
Everyone was overjoyed when they saw this and immediately retreated to Wu Xie.
The mandrill made a few strange sounds in his throat, as if he was asking anxiously.
Grandma Monkey raised her head excitedly and wanted to respond. Wu Xie pressed the blade a little tighter and said in its ear: "I know you can understand human language, so tell your monkeys to retreat immediately. Also, take my subordinates." Throw your arm back, otherwise I will send you to see the King of Hell immediately."
Grandma Monkey sensed Wu Xie's undisguised murderous intent towards her, and her desire to survive forced her to immediately cry like a baby at the mandrill standing on the tree.
The mandrill stared at Wu Xie coldly, as if to remember his face, then dropped the arm that had been eaten to pieces in his hand, howling in his mouth, while raising his single hand and raising his hand. The index finger pointed at Granny Monkey, and then the wrist drooped and crossed across the abdomen from right to left, and then moved back, but when it moved back, its five fingers were stretched out.
The fat man and the others looked confused and beeped in a low voice, "What does this big black guy mean? Oh, does he tell Grandma Monkey to come over quickly, otherwise she will commit seppuku?"
Wu Xie's face looked a little strange at the moment. He stared at the mandrill with some uncertainty, and saw it impatiently repeated the gesture just now, and followed it with a gesture of covering its ears.
Only then did he come back to his senses and said to the fat man: "It said in exchange that if we let Granny Monkey go, they would retreat immediately."
The fat man frowned and asked, "How did you know?"
Wu Xie himself found it very strange, "It's signing to us."
"What?" The fat man was startled and stared at the mandrill for a few times with an expression as if he had seen a ghost. "Are the wild monkeys in the mountains so damn advanced these days?"
Wu Xie had a vague guess in his mind. He handed the monkey granny in his hand to the fat man to look at, and then he alternated his hands and signed to the mandrill, "I don't believe you."
The mandrill let out an angry breath and waved one hand back. The monkeys immediately retreated obediently, and the leaves made a frightening swishing sound. In an instant, all the monkeys on the surrounding trees disappeared.
Immediately, the mandrill issued an ultimatum to Wu Xie, warning him to release the monkey granny immediately, so that it could forget the blame for the human injury to its men.
Wu Xie already had an idea in mind. He made an OK gesture and then said to the fat man: "Let it go."
The fat man disagreed, "No, this is the only trump card in our hand. If we let it go, those monkeys will come back, and we two brothers will have to answer here today."
Wu Xie took out a small remote control from his pocket and said to the fat man and Granny Monkey at the same time, "The bowl of mutton I gave you at dinner had a miniature time bomb left for me by the wooden fish. , was eaten into the stomach by Granny Monkey."
"As long as they dare to come, I will press the remote control, and any living or dead creature within a radius of ten meters will be blown to pieces."
Wu Xie admitted that he was betting on how much the sign language mandrill knew about humans and the origin of the sign language it made.
After hearing what he just said, the mandrill immediately started gesticulating more anxiously, urging the other party to exchange immediately.
Wu Xie nodded, and the fat man pushed Granny Monkey out. At the same time, he took out a pistol from his waistband and aimed it at the back of Granny Monkey's head.
Granny Monkey staggered towards the bottom of the tree. The mandrill completely ignored the human weapons aimed at it. It turned over and hooked its hind legs on the tree trunk to hang upside down. Then it grabbed Granny Monkey and turned it back, jumping around among the trees without looking back. , the figure disappeared in the dense canopy of trees in an instant.
At the same time, the surrounding treetops shook violently, and one monkey after another appeared and followed the mandrill away.
Everyone was alert for half an hour, and after confirming that there was no trace of the monkeys around, the tight strings relaxed.
Thanks to the boss [Zhang Qijun—zi Zaiye] for the reward. I appreciate it.
(End of chapter)
