"There is something strange about this stone tower. I vaguely saw a small door through the gaps in the grid."
"We have to go inside. There is probably no other way out of this place." Zhang Zhuoxun picked up the flashlight on the ground and took a photo of the wooden pagodas behind the stone pagoda. Then he looked at Zhang Haike and confirmed, "Then behind that is
A completely enclosed stone wall."
Zhang Haike showed a knowing smile and said at the right time: "Come with me."
After saying that, he turned around, returned from the way everyone came, and walked into the gray fog again. It seemed that he had already figured out the key to the maze the time he came in before.
Wu Xie understood, "So we have to walk again. Is there a road that can lead directly to this tower?"
Seeing Zhang Zhuoxun nodding, the fat man immediately raised his legs and said: "Then what are you waiting for? Brothers, let's go too!"
The three people turned off the flashlights, tied ropes to their arms to avoid accidents, and then walked into the fog one by one.
The journey we walked again seemed to be very long, much longer than when Zhang Zhuxun brought Wu Xie in.
After catching up with Zhang Haike in front, they walked around in the maze for nearly half an hour. They had not reached the end yet. The fat man even wondered if Zhang Haike had taken the wrong route. After all, the current environment was pitch black, and people were blurred.
You can't even see the details of the other person's face even if you stand face to face.
The total area of the stone platform where the wooden pagoda is placed is estimated to be as big as a small football field. Wu Xie made a rough estimate based on the number and length of his steps and found that they had been walking non-stop since they set off.
We have walked almost three or four kilometers.
Even when we were slowing down in the dark, we were already far beyond the distance we should have traveled.
The fat man paused for a moment, stopped Zhang Haike in front of him, and said suspiciously: "Did we bump into a ghost and hit a wall? Did that ghost come out again to distract us?"
Zhang Haike raised his hand to brush away the increasingly thick fog in front of him. No, it should be said to be smoke and dust. The feeling of the passing air coming into contact with his skin was dry, with a faint frosted feeling.
"This is the most dangerous part of this maze. This is a hidden formation. I will present it below." Zhang Haike briefly explained without saying anything more, "That is to say, there is another hidden element in the maze.
A formation."
As soon as he finished speaking, before the fat man could ask more questions, a cry like a baby's cry suddenly came into his ears, hidden in the darkness, like resentment and hatred, desolate and gloomy, and could be heard behind the person's back.
"...fuck" half of the word stuck in Fatty's throat, he stuttered, and reflexively tried to speak out.
Wuwu. Another sound. The distance was closer than before.
"Did you hear anything?" The fat man's face was tense and his voice was also tense.
"It sounds like crying." Wu Xie lowered his voice.
Zhang Zhuoxun didn't know when he had walked from the back of the team to the front. He let go of his sense of danger and felt it for a while, and affirmed: "It's not an illusion, something is coming this way from the fog."
Things in the fog silently gathered towards where they were. The strange thing was that Zhang Zhuxun could only see many vague shadows in his consciousness, and could not clearly outline the opponent's figure in his consciousness as before.
contour.
In other words, the existence of this unknown creature is different. Like the "mermaid" locked in the stone tower, they seem to be alive but not alive.
Zhang Zhuoxun "saw" that there was a long and thick tail trailing behind their bodies, like a snake's tail.
Where were they hidden before, and why did they suddenly appear?
"It's a bit troublesome." Zhang Haike also noticed something strange. Others couldn't see his expression clearly, but judging from his tone, he shouldn't be very relaxed.
Whimpering sounds sounded one after another, appearing in all directions, and the frequency of summons became more and more urgent.
It’s close, it’s close—now!
The moment the strong wind hit, Zhang Zhuxun and Zhang Haike moved at the same time, blocking Wu Xie and Wu Xie in the middle. The guns in their hands sprayed out surging sparks, crackling and directly pounced on the first to test.
The advance team dispersed.
The long-tailed creature in the fog retreated with one strike. If the test failed, it paused its attack. It seemed that it was also afraid of Zhang Zhu and the four upright creatures.
In the darkness, I could only hear the sound of breaking through the air one after another, and there were constant gray shadows moving in the wind, flickering, swishing, and the sound of sharp claws scratching the wooden tower on the stone platform was harsh and abrasive, as if it was directly grasped.
As if on the human eardrum, the breathing of a ferocious beast is close at hand.
Wu Xie threw out a cold firework, but before it hit the ground, it was knocked out by a flash of gray shadow, but the moment the arc of light was thrown out was enough for several people to see how many uninvited guests were around them.
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Densely packed, countless pairs of black eyes stared straight at this side like honeycombs.
The four of them were surrounded and faced off against the unknown beasts, but Zhang Zhuxun felt a strange aura flowing from those beasts.
He could feel that these long-tailed beasts did not seem to have a strong desire to attack. They surrounded their prey and began to wait.
wait for what?
Zhang Zhuxun had already smelled the breath of death, coming from all directions. He clearly realized that what was coming next was probably the highlight, and it was also the real cause of death of the bones in the stone room where bronze was refined outside.
The ground began to tremble slightly, and all the wooden towers were swaying, making tooth-aching creaking sounds. Something seemed to be coming out under their feet.
Zhang Zhu and others suddenly realized that the explosive mechanism on the wooden tower was not prepared for them, but for this unknown behemoth sealed under the stone platform.
Cracks appeared on the floor under your feet, the shadows in the fog began to retreat, and streams of black smoke emerged from the gaps, scrambling to disperse to the surrounding areas.
Needless to say, Zhang Zhu and others had already made a tacit decision in their hearts.
"Everyone return to the stone tower!" After Zhang Haike finished speaking, he turned around and rushed towards the rear.
"Okay!" The fat man shouted low, and in conjunction with his momentum, he raised his hand and threw out two detonators with a blast range of five meters, blasting away all the dozen long-tailed beasts blocking the retreat.
It smashed into the distance.
Boom - the strings around the wooden tower were touched, making an imperceptible hum.
With a shrill scream, the long-tailed beasts swarmed towards Zhang Zhu and the four men in order to prevent them from escaping. With a squeaking sound, strings were constantly being broken, and the fat man seemed to have heard the fuse being lit in his ears.
The sizzling sound.
Zhang Haike took the lead and jumped up, knocking over two long-tailed beasts with one kick, then turned around and used the momentum to knock another one away.
Feeling the hard scales covering the bones of his skull, Zhang Haike had an idea in his mind. He raised his hand and fired several shots in succession.
With keen intuition, the slightly silvery bullet pierced the air, shot straight into the long-tailed beast's dark eye socket, and then pierced the armor from the back of the head.
Those long-tailed beasts fell to the ground with a crash, and then their bodies were trampled and submerged by the influx of fellow beasts.
Fatty and Wu Xie, one throwing a grenade and the other firing a cold gun, both tried their best to keep up with Zhang Haike in front.
The Zhang family can really run at an extremely fast speed, two or three times as fast as a normal person, and can be compared to teleporting.
Zhang Shuxun was responsible for breaking off the attack and finishing the attack, using bullets to target the long-tailed beasts that were constantly chasing after them one by one.
Rumbling, long-tailed beasts continued to fall to the ground, and the wooden tower was knocked to pieces and shattered. The detonator placed on the wooden tower finally burned out, and it headed towards the end under the guidance of the fuse, towards its demise.
The scorching air waves roared like thunder, carrying a vast wave of smoke, and countless exploding wood fragments were comparable to bullets, shooting in all directions.
The behavior of Zhang Zhuoxun and the others was like jumping on the forehead of the god of death. They were mercilessly thrown away by the air waves. They flew more than ten meters away as lightly as the autumn wind swept fallen leaves, and fell to the ground one after another.
The fragments of the wooden pagoda directly buried the four people. Zhang Zhuxun recovered from his dizziness. His whole body was numb, and his limbs could not feel whether they were still there.
He took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, and propped up an arm. The next second, he was overcome with pain and fell back.
This movement seemed to open up the whole body's senses of sight, hearing, touch and smell. Explosive pain swept from the body to the internal organs. All the organs in the body seemed to have been twisted 360 degrees. The pain was so painful that he did not dare to take another breath.
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Fortunately, a few seconds later, a warm current surged from his heart. Perhaps the injury was too severe and the system could no longer hide it, so it took the initiative to physically repair him.
After more than ten breaths, Zhang Zhu stood up raggedly, turned around and looked at the group of long-tailed beasts behind him. The smoke was dispersed by the explosion, and almost all the long-tailed beasts were wiped out.
This incident can be said to have resulted in 900 injuries to the enemy and 850 self-inflicted losses.
Zhang Zhuxun took out a new gun from the space and killed the long-tailed beasts that were still twitching and moving wherever he looked.
The spread of cracks under his feet had also stopped. After Zhang Zhuxun eliminated the potential danger, he immediately turned around to look for Wu Xie and the others.
Zhang Zhuoxun recalled where Wu Xie and Fatty were at the moment he was blown away. Because he was the first to fly out, and received the largest shock wave, he also flew the farthest, so Wu Xie and the others
It should be not far from me.
Zhang Zhuxun closed his eyes and sensed again, and soon found a squirming orange-red figure in the deep pit under the fragments of the wooden tower. Judging from the figure, he should be a fat man. Another thinner shadow was further below the fat man. The two of them
They were all seriously injured, but luckily their lives were saved.
Zhang Haike was blown to nowhere, and there was no trace of him within the range of perception.
He didn't think Zhang Haike would die easily. Maybe there was another explosion when he was buried underneath and fainted, causing Zhang Haike to fly farther away.
Shaking his head, Zhang Zhuxun no longer wasted time, took out his tools and started digging people.
The fat man was not buried deeply, and he was still trying to dig out the hole after he woke up.
When he met Zhang Zhuxun's gaze at first sight of the sky, the fat man made two squeaking sounds in his throat, vomited a mouthful of blood, then tilted his head and passed out completely.
