Between mountains and seas

The fire flashed suddenly, and a ball of sparks exploded from Shao Jingxing's tightly clenched fist, burning third brother's hair.

If it was really a spider, maybe the light would make it back off.But the third brother is human after all, and he doesn't have the instinct of a beast to fear fire.Although he was taken aback by the heat on his head, he immediately realized that the sparks Shao Jingxing fired were not very powerful, and they only exploded for a while, then immediately shrank back into a flame the size of a candle.

"Crack, crack, crack --" the third brother let out a weird laugh, and puffed out another ball of glue, which accurately covered Shao Jingxing's flame, and immediately extinguished it.With his head covered in ashes, he got back into the car window and opened his mouth to Shao Jingxing.

The car suddenly shook violently, and then made a 90-degree left turn for no reason.Shao Jingxing, who was lying on the car seat, felt suddenly weightless - the car brought him down with a whimper, as if the garage floor had suddenly cracked.

But this weightless time was only a few seconds, and with a muffled impact, the car fell to the ground again.This shock almost threw Shao Jingxing up from the car seat, and also threw the third brother out of the car window.

Chance!Shao Jingxing tore off the spider silk that stuck him to the seat with all his strength, kicked the car door, and ran out of the car scrambling.

But as soon as he came out, he was stunned—he was too nervous just now, and he didn’t notice the changes inside and outside the car—he was no longer in the garage, and there was a wind-fallen tree outside the door of the car. It hit the tree trunk.

Here, it looks like—the dense forest they came to before!

A sound of rustling suddenly pulled back Shao Jingxing's thoughts. As soon as he turned his head, he saw the third brother get up from the grass - a spider's thread stuck to the door handle on his body, so although he was thrown out, he still Still here together.

For the dense forest that suddenly appeared all around, the third brother was obviously a little scared, but as soon as his eyes fell on Shao Jingxing, he immediately showed a look of resentment, as if he couldn't even care about the fear: "It's all you, it's all you— —”

His voice was slurred, as if his tongue was not very flexible.Even though he had already reached the flat ground, he still got on all fours and stared fiercely at Shao Jingxing: "It's because you didn't save me!"

Shao Jingxing wanted to throw up on his third brother's face!He was kidnapped back then!And it's as if swapping the third brother will save people!I've never seen such a shameless person.

But before Shao Jingxing could refute, the third brother kicked his legs and jumped onto the roof of the car with a whoosh, then kicked his legs again and rushed towards Shao Jingxing.

But this pounce was interrupted halfway, and there was a sharp sound of breaking the wind, and the third brother's body just left the roof of the car, and he leaned back, letting out a tragic howl——his left eye exploded. up.

Shao Jingxing only felt a chill on his face. The third brother's eyeballs, which were almost the size of apricots, were nailed straight by a black crossbow arrow. It was like a watermelon falling on the ground. The juice splashed everywhere, and a few drops even splashed on his face. With a foul smell.

If it was someone else, I'm afraid it's over for this one, but the third brother can still get up, staggering and trying to run.However, he only ran two steps before another arrow pierced through the air, this time it shot from his left back, pierced straight into his heart, and nailed his whole body to the ground.

Shao Jingxing desperately wiped his face with his sleeve.The third brother's eyeballs almost exploded right in front of his eyes, the impact was so great that he almost didn't spit it out.And what splashed out of his eyeballs was not blood, but yellowish mucus. Who knows what would happen if it got on the skin?

He wiped it a few times, and found that the liquid that stuck to his sleeve did not seem to be corrosive, so he was relieved, and finally thought of going to see who saved him, but when he turned around, he found a man not far away. A familiar figure was standing against a tree, holding a bow in his hand.

"Huo, Huo Qing?"

Huo Qing was still wearing the same clothes he saw in the hospital, but it was a bit torn now.As soon as Shao Jingxing saw him, his legs moved forward a little bit against his command: "Why are you here?"

"Are you injured?" Huo Qing looked a little tired, and looked at Shao Jingxing, "What's going on with that thing?"

When Shao Jingxing was reminded by him, he remembered the close-knit crisis just now, and his legs became weak again: "It's the third brother, it's the gangster who kidnapped the child! I clearly saw him being caught by a spider!"

Huo Qing nodded: "He should have been assimilated by the mountain spider."

"Same, assimilation? What do you mean?" Shao Jingxing only felt the hair on the back of his neck, and instantly filled his brain with at least five thousand words of horror scenes.

"It's just what you think." Huo Qing said simply, standing up straight, "Take a sample and take it back for research."

"Take, sample?" Shao Jingxing felt that he had become a repeater.What kind?Is that what he thought?

But as soon as Huo Qing moved around, Shao Jingxing couldn't care less about taking samples: "Are you injured?" Huo Qing's right leg was obviously inconvenient.

"Yeah." Huo Qing walked slowly to the third brother, collected some of his exploded eyeball tissue, put it into a sealed test tube, and stuffed it into his backpack.

Shao Jingxing didn't dare to look at the third brother's face from the beginning to the end, and said a little tremblingly: "Is your injury serious or not? Will this door take 24 hours to open again?" In the world of mountains and seas, Huo Qing was his My protector, if he gets hurt——Shao ​​Jingxing doesn't dare to think about it.

Huo Qing hesitated for a moment, and then said: "This is not a door that opens naturally, I'm afraid it won't work within 24 hours."

"What?" Shao Jingxing couldn't understand.Not a door that opens naturally?Is that artificial?Who opened it?Was he so unlucky that he fell through the door again?

Oh, that's not right, if he hadn't fallen into the door and met Huo Qing, then he must have been killed by the third brother...

Before Shao Jingxing could finish thinking, Huo Qing said, "I opened it." He glanced at Shao Jingxing's wrist, "Just now I felt you were in danger, so I forcibly pulled you in."

Shao Jingxing was dumbfounded, and then he remembered that when the car was turning around in the garage strangely, he had indeed felt a burning sensation on his wrist, but at that time he was so focused on how to escape that he didn't notice it at all.

"So..." Shao Jingxing looked down at his wrist, and saw that the red mole had become very pale, and it couldn't be seen unless he looked carefully.At the same time, the faint feeling disappeared, even though Huo Qing was standing in front of him now...

Oh, that's not right, when he saw Huo Qing just now, his legs were still moving forward involuntarily, why can't he feel anyone now?

Huo Qing obviously didn't understand what he was thinking, and explained: "Last time I said that the blood taken temporarily has not been refined, and it will lose its effect after a few times of use. This time, it may not be effective anymore. .”

"Oh——" Shao Jingxing nodded indiscriminately, and suddenly thought of another thing, "Then how did you pull me in? You can—— open the door casually?" In this case, open another door Why don't they go out?

Huo Qing shook his head: "There is a limit to opening the door. I can only open it once within 48 hours."

As he said, he gently pressed his leg with his right hand, "Find a place to settle down first, don't be too nervous, this is still the territory of the mountain spider, and the situation is fairly familiar."

Don't you need to be nervous about the territory of the mountain spider?Shao Jingxing felt that he did not understand this logic.But the third brother's body was really disgusting, and he was eager to stay away, so he hurried up to help Huo Qing: "Let me hold this for you, what's the matter with your legs? This——you use a knife, don't you?" ?”

The bow in Huo Qing's hand looked like it was newly made. The body of the bow seemed to be made from some kind of tough branch—Shao ​​Jingxing didn't know what kind of tree it was—the back of the bow was embedded with iron bars to increase the tension; Yes——Shao ​​Jingxing took a closer look and found that it seemed to be made of some kind of plant fiber mixed with spider silk. He secretly pulled it, but found that it couldn't be pulled at all.

"I hurt my leg, so I made a temporary bow and arrow, which is more convenient." Huo Qing said simply, glanced at Shao Jingxing, and handed him a dagger, "You can't use that, use this."

Shao Jingxing took the dagger awkwardly: "I'm just looking at this bow...well, are you on a mission again? How did you get injured?" This bow was made temporarily, Huo Qing is too capable, right?

"I just came in not long ago." Huo Qing replied simply, "I came to check the enchantment, but I met a group of poachers."

"Poachers?" Shao Jingxing was confused, "What are you hunting for?" Mountain spiders?Don't be kidding, who wants this kind of thing!

But Huo Qing really nodded: "Yes."

Shao Jingxing opened his mouth wide: "Yes, why do you want that thing? Going out for an exhibition?"

Huo Qing looked at him helplessly: "These things have the power of mountains and seas in their bodies." Did Shao Jingxing figure out the situation? Did he think it was the Discovery Channel?Found a rare species, and then caught one and went out for exhibition...

"You said it was poaching..." Shao Jingxing snorted.This cannot be blamed on him. Anyone who hears about poaching will think of rare wild animals first...

"Then do they want to awaken their abilities?" Shao Jingxing couldn't help shivering when he thought of his third brother's half-human, half-spider appearance, "It became that strange appearance..."

"That's a special situation." Huo Qing really couldn't get used to Shao Jingxing's way of thinking. Did he forget that he himself is also an awakened superhuman?

Shao Jingxing also looked at Huo Qing eagerly.To be honest, it is difficult for Huo Qing to adapt to this way of speaking that cherishes words like gold, so can't he say a few more words?He used to gossip with people, even if the truth is only one word, everyone can say ten words, unlike Huo Qing, it seems that he should know if he doesn't tell...

The two looked at each other for a while, and Shao Jingxing finally remembered that the two people standing now were normal supernatural beings, so he couldn't help but laugh a couple of times in embarrassment - this is indeed something that should be known without saying anything.only……

"Ability...is it really that useful?" Of course Huo Qing's kind is very useful, but what else can he do besides being a lighter?Besides, even if there are supernatural powers, so what?If you fight monsters every day like Huo Qing, it's better if you don't have supernatural powers, right?

Shao Jingxing swallowed the last words under Huo Qing's gaze, but it was already too late.

"The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility." Huo Qing said in a low voice, "I have already said this truth last time. I thought you should be able to understand."

He didn't say much, but with that tone... Anyway, Shao Jingxing felt a little ashamed, so he quickly changed the subject: "Then what, how is your injury?" Seeing that Huo Qing pressed his hand on his leg just now, it was obviously very uncomfortable. uncomfortable.

Huo Qing knew that he was changing the subject, so he frowned slightly and glanced at him.Shao Jingxing quickly put on a smiling face: "Did you take the medicine?"

He didn't hit the smiling face with his hand, so Huo Qing could only follow him and change the subject: "It's not an injury. Medicine doesn't help either."

"Ah?" Shao Jingxing watched Huo Qing sit down on the rock, rolled up his trouser legs, and gasped suddenly, "Hey, what's going on?"

On Huo Qing's slender and sturdy calf, there was a sore the size of a fava bean. It was red all around, but the middle had turned purple-black, still oozing pus, especially obvious on the wheat-colored skin.But this was nothing, the scary thing was that the sore looked like it was alive, Huo Qing obviously sat still, but the pus kept coming out one after another, as if the sore was breathing.

Shao Jingxing's scalp exploded when he saw it: "This thing seems to be moving! Can't it be gouged out?" How can this not be called trauma?

Huo Qing said simply: "I gouged out it once, and it was only the size of a grain of rice at first."

Shao Jingxing thought for a while before he understood what he meant—the sore at the beginning was only the size of a grain of rice. Huo Qing gouged out the skin and flesh attached to it, but the wound festered again and turned into a sore, which had grown to the size of a broad bean.

"Then what should we do?" Shao Jingxing panicked, "What on earth is this?" It's nothing to have a sore, but a living sore will grow by itself, which is very scary.Is it because of entering the world of mountains and seas that the sores will mutate?

"I don't know either." Huo Qing glanced down.Shao Jingxing only saw the terrible sores, but he could feel the numb tingling pain had spread to the whole calf, and it was still expanding.

At that time, he found the poachers he was following in the antique street, and the two sides started fighting.But these people look like a rabble, few can fight.He was sure that he was not injured at all when he fought with them, but just after entering the world of mountains and seas, he felt uncomfortable in his legs.

At that time, the sore was just a black spot the size of a grain of rice, with bouts of inconspicuous itching.But he immediately discovered that this thing could move, so he made a decisive decision, gouged out a piece of flesh the size of a soybean with the tip of a knife, and only applied medicine to bandage it after making sure that the flesh and blood of the wound were normal.But about an hour later, the fresh wound turned into a sore again, and the anti-inflammatory and bactericidal drugs had no effect on it at all.

"You don't know either?" Shao Jingxing was a little panicked.In his opinion, Huo Qing knows everything about these weird things, if he doesn't even know, then this thing...

"Then what should we do now?" In just a short while, Shao Jingxing felt that the red edge of the sore seemed to expand a circle, which was really frightening.

Huo Qing hesitated for a moment: "I remember that there may be Chiqi near here—" He glanced at Shao Jingxing who was full of bewilderment, and had to explain, "The Yingshui comes from the mountains of Qingqiu, and the Nanliu flows into the wings. Zhize, there are so many red chickens in the lake..." Looking at Shao Jingxing's mosquito-repellent eyes again, he had to speak more vernacularly, "The red chicken has a body like a fish, a face like a man, and its sound is like a mandarin duck. Eating its meat can For scabies."

Shao Jingxing's eyes lit up involuntarily: "Mermaids?" Are there mermaids in the world of mountains and seas?

Huo Qing was silent for a few seconds: "...not beautiful."

"Oh..." Shao Jingxing couldn't help being a little disappointed.But he still remembers the key point of this matter, "What is this red meat, can eating it heal your wounds?"

Huo Qing had to explain again: "The wound on my leg looks like a sore now." Chi Chi can cure all scabies, and if his own wound is also a sore, then it should be curable.Now he is not sure, and Chiqi may be the easiest medicine to find, so he can only try it temporarily.

"Oh--" as long as it works.Shao Jingxing heaved a sigh of relief, "Then where are we going?" He didn't know where the water or lake was.

Huo Qing hesitated.Yingshui comes from Qingqiu Mountain, which is the territory of Qingqiu Fox, which is very dangerous.Fortunately, this area belongs to the edge of the Wing Ze, and several tributaries extend over and enter the territory of the mountain spider.

Although Shao Jingxing was terrified of the mountain spider, Huo Qing didn't pay much attention to it—as long as he didn't encounter groups of them, this thing was just an enlarged version of an ordinary spider, and it didn't mutate into any special abilities, which is fine. deal with.And due to the habits of spiders themselves, it is difficult to form a group, so there is no need to worry too much about being besieged.

Moreover, just because they are still low-level beasts with little intelligence, Qingqiu Fox's ability to confuse them has little effect on them.On the contrary, the mountain spider's huge web can even catch tigers and leopards, and the Qingqiu fox has some scruples, so it doesn't come here much, which is relatively safer.

Although it is a tributary, there are a lot of Chiqi in the Zeyi Ze, and some of them will inevitably enter the tributary life. If you are lucky, you may be able to find one without entering the range of Qingqiu Mountain.And if he didn't encounter anything else, just the mountain spider, he should still be able to keep Shao Jingxing safe.

"Spray this on." Huo Qing took out a small bottle of spray from his backpack, "This can cover people's smell to a certain extent." It smells like grass and mud, at least it won't attract the attention of strange animals .