Before the words were spoken, these chicken-footed Taoists had already begun to take action, placing the earthen explosives they carried in their backpacks on the goose nest in rows left and right at intervals.
After finishing all this, Yue Guanchao and the others rowed the canoe and slid back to a safe distance. Just waiting for the ignition signal, the bamboo tube explosives exploded outward with a loud bang, blasting a two-meter wide hole in the mud nest of wild goose nests, like mud. There was an irregular hole in the wall.
The broken mud nest debris fell into the river, making the clear river water turbid and ugly, like yellow soup and black porridge.
"Okay, this hole is big enough for the boat to pass through. As long as the boat can pass through, you can continue going down." Sun Tianqi looked at the opened mud nest and immediately showed a satisfied look. 33
"No, why are there strange sounds?"
Just as they were about to paddle into the mud nest, they could clearly hear the buzzing and thumping sounds from deep inside the mud nest. Yue Guanchao's ears were agitated, and his face immediately darkened: "Everyone, be careful, something is coming out from the depths of the mud nest." "
Wow!
Before he finished speaking, countless gray and black geese were seen flying out of the mud nest and flying straight towards the chicken-foot Taoist. Their sharp claws like chicken feet directly scratched the skin and flesh, and blood oozed immediately.
"What's going on? These wild geese are not even afraid of people."
When Sun Tianqi spoke, several Taoists had already been scratched by the geese. It turned out that they were indeed the four people who had just sent the explosives. No matter how these people moved their arms, the geese were flapping their wings like crazy and attacking them.
When these Taoists were beating around, they were inevitably scratched by wild geese all over their bodies. Wild geese are really thirsty for blood and eat meat. When they saw the smell of blood, they not only did not leave, but instead, like chickens and ducks seeing blood, they kept pecking at the bleeding wounds. He ate and scratched the wound that was just bleeding and became more and more serious.
In this way, a vicious cycle has been formed. The more they scratch, the more geese they attract to peck at them. When the wounds tear and bleed more, they attract more geese to attack them. In just one breath, these The people were already surrounded by wild geese.
Even if other Taoists hit them with their staffs, they would only temporarily scatter them. If there is a little slack, the geese will immediately come back, lingering around like locusts.
Some Taiping Taoists were evasive and were rushed into the water by the wild geese. They kept pecking at the skin of these people with their sharp beaks until the skin was broken and bloodshot. The wild geese would go crazy and peck at the living people. Eat all the food.
In less than a moment, the young Taoist was seen being pecked into a skeleton. Even so, he kept flopping in the river because he was still breathing.
"Ah ah ah! Taoist help me, Taoist help me."
Seeing that he was in too much pain, Sun Tianqi was afraid that the young Taoists might leak the truth in their haste, so he had to use the silver dart to cut the person's throat with a few whirls, which relieved his pain.
"No, these geese are coming towards us."
When the Taoist was fluttering, it was inevitable that the dirty smell would be splashed onto other boats, and the people in these canoes would inevitably be contaminated. After the young Taoist died, the wild geese obviously had not let them go, and attacked everyone again.
They had already seen the tragic situation of being attacked by a flock of wild geese, and of course they did not dare to take it lightly again. Yue Guanchao picked up the shotgun and fired it.
However, these gunshots could only frighten them. It was extremely difficult to hit the wild geese that were spinning unsteadily. On the contrary, they were so angry that they dared to hit the muzzle of the gun.
Seeing the geese flying more and more, Yue Guanchao was inevitably scratched, and other companions were even scratched and beaten around.
"It won't work. If this continues, I will be chewed into a skeleton."
Yue Guanchao lowered his head to look at the water, and saw wild geese skimming the water, then raising their wings and flying upwards. When he saw this scene, his eyes lit up: "I know, let's jump into the water quickly. These wild geese have very heavy feathers, and once they enter the water It won’t be able to fly.”
After saying that, he jumped into the pool first, and then everyone else got off the boat and lay down on the boat.
In this way, even though most of the body had entered the water, the upper body was still left outside and was attacked. In order not to sink, they could only hold on to the rope on the boat, which gave the geese a chance to peck at it.
Song Siyuan looked at the boat floating on the water and immediately came up with an idea: "Let's turn the boat upside down on the water and hide in the cabin. This way we don't have to dive or worry about being attacked by the wild goose boat."
Seeing that this was possible, Yue Guanchao and Xu Xiake immediately opened the boat and asked everyone to hide in the cabin. With the buoyancy of the cabin, part of the cabin leaked out of the water, like a box covering the water, and everyone's Half of the body is covered in it.
Seeing that this plan was feasible, Sun Tianqi also asked these young Taoists to flip the cabin and cover it on the water like Yue Guanchao, and all the masters and disciples were covered in it.
Snap! Click! pimple!
The wild geese couldn't catch any living people, so they began to attack the wooden boats. Their legs and feet scratched the bottom of the boats, making a constant crackling sound. Wild geese hit the hulls from all directions at any time, just like a summer rainstorm falling on the eaves, making a loud splash.
Yue Guanchao and the others hid in the boat, holding on to the ropes on both sides and floating on the river. They listened to the scratching claws coming from all directions and felt extremely scared. Without the canoe as a shield, they would have been eaten alive by the geese. No.
Yue Guanchao asked: "How can these wild geese be so powerful? Logically speaking, they can only move corpses, how can they attack living people? This kind of bird is most afraid of humans."
"Since these wild geese can eat corpses and build corpses into their nests, they have probably formed the habit of eating corpses. In fact, they have already developed an appetite for corpses and will attack living people when they see them. But I think the biggest One reason is because their nest was destroyed."
Speaking of this, Song Siyuan obviously thought it was very possible, and continued to explain: "The wild geese breed in spring and summer and migrate in autumn and winter. Even if the wild geese here don't migrate, they definitely breed in spring and summer. Wild geese often build nests in reed swamps. In order to prevent some wild animals from harming the young geese, they will deliberately set up several false nests in the wild geese or in the bushes. When the animals really come, they will attack and drive them away to protect the young geese in the real nests."
"This kind of behavior of protecting the nest is completely normal. Just now, after the nests of these wild geese were bombed, they went crazy and pecked the person who bombed the nest to death immediately. It can be seen that there is an injustice and a debtor. It was probably the smell of these people's blood that hurt us."
"Then these wild geese are so fierce. Ordinary birds will flutter away when they see people. Have they become bolder?"
Although geese are not very afraid of people, they are definitely not ferocious birds. It is indeed rare to actively attack people like this.
Song Siyuan considered it and explained: "I think it is probably related to the long-term use of human flesh and blood. People who encounter flesh and blood want to eat it into their bodies. At the same time, I suspect that they also have a cluster effect."
"Group, then Miss Song needs to explain!"
Everyone grabbed the rope and listened very curiously.
"Yes, do you know about the locusts crossing the border?"
Everyone nodded at these words. What people in Zhuangtian hate most are locusts. Once these locusts become the climate, they will inevitably lead to locust plagues wherever they pass. All the trees and food will be gnawed away. There are few people who want to scatter the harvest and live alive. starve.
Song Siyuan continued: "As individuals, locusts are just ordinary grasshoppers. They have little lethality and will not actively attack people. They are extremely docile and timid. They will fly away when they encounter people. However, if they are large-scale grasshoppers, , it will cause a clustering effect due to quantitative changes.”
She paused and her tone became mysterious: "Once grasshoppers swarm, a very strange smell will be produced in the group. First, the appearance will change from cyan to brown and black mottled, and the temperament will also become extremely violent, and they will gather in groups. When the team sets off, they often have to eat up the surrounding food crops. If they encounter smaller humans and animals, they are likely to attack people directly. Even their own flesh and blood will be slightly toxic. As long as a bird eats too many locusts, it will directly attack them. Poisoned to death.”
Song Siyuan's words made Yue Qingshan suddenly realize: "My daughter's words reminded me of Dingwu Qihuang. At that time, the locusts in the north were really powerful, just like the dark clouds that covered the sky and the sun. After passing through the fields and ridges, they ate The grain poles are several inches shorter, and there isn’t much left.”
"I heard that some people saw locusts and tried to drive them away with rakes, but half of their lives were almost eaten away. When these locusts have nothing to eat, they are really like wolves and lambs, and they dare to lay down anything. Mouth."
Song Siyuan nodded and said: "Actually, there are locusts in foreign countries. After their research, they found that a single grasshopper is an ordinary insect. When they gather together, a large amount of hormones spread inside the locusts, which continuously strengthens and mutates the individual temperament and habits, and finally forms the habit of eating. People, animals, and hairless locusts passing through.”
"Individuals are relatively normal, but when they gather together, their habits change. This is called the swarm effect. I think birds that migrate in groups like geese will have such a mechanism to protect the individuals among them through the power of the group. , their brains are probably also affected by certain hormones, and they have long been completely different from ordinary geese. They have become bloodthirsty and aggressive, which is normal."
"Now, it depends on how we solve it?"
When Song Siyuan was talking, the snapping sounds outside the cabin never stopped, which showed that these birds were very vindictive. Yue Guanchao swam to the bow of the boat and opened a gap away from the water.
Through the gaps and reflections in the water surface, it can be clearly seen that many wild geese have landed on the river bank, holding wet mud and dry grass in their mouths. They continue to gather at the gap, smearing the wet mud on the gap, and repairing the damage caused by the explosives. Mud nest.
Tens of thousands of wild geese all built their nests in the mud like this. In just one stick of incense, they had already repaired the gap smaller and smaller, until only the space about the size of their heads was left, and their speed slowed down.
Song Siyuan grabbed the rope, swam to the gap and stared ahead. The geese had already begun to return to their nests and got into different gaps in the mud nest.
Now, the problem everyone faces is to pass through the mud wall full of swallow's nests and enter the last section of the cave without angering the geese.
Some people died, but not completely...
