Chapter 27 Centipede Hook (above)

Grassland sky, as if there is a shadowless and invisible ghost, although our eyes can not recognize it, but those wild geese and cattle devoured by the sky, as well as panic mounts, all indicate that in the netherworld, there is really a kind of unknown horrible things, in the absence of the truth, we are forced to choose to avoid.

At first no one noticed that the retired military horse ridden by “Old Sheepskin” had led us into the nightmare of the grassland herdsmen, the “Hundred Eyes Cave”, a hilly area known as the “Hundred Eyes Cave”. This hilly area called “Hundred Eyes Cave”, is located in the grasslands and desert junction, we came to the east is the vast sea of grass, and then to the west is the endless Mongolian desert, the center is a hilly undulating mountains, forming a typical desertification of the grassland vegetation zone.

The depression in front of us is overgrown with weeds and ancient trees, and if you look down from a high place, this place may look like a huge black and green trap. Although the weather was clear, but the terrain is low-lying, the wind does not blow in, only to see waist-deep grass floating between a wisp of fog, which also emits a burst of rotten smell, the old sheepskin pointing to the depths of the depression to tell us that the “hundred-eyed cave” the exact location, in fact, is in the bushes of the depression, when his brother was coerced by the bandits into this The road of no return.

I asked the old sheepskin where he saw the demon dragon decades ago. Is it over this mountain pass? The old sheepskin said at that time did not see so much fog, the depression is a dense forest, but now I do not know how to have so much water fog, look at the depths of the grass and trees, fog is almost too thick to melt, last time I saw the dragon’s place is now all to the fog cover up.

We on the horse to look into the forest a few eyes, the deeper the fog is more dense, in this case, if there is really hidden inside what, not to touch the front simply can not see. The old sheepskin urged us to leave while we can, stay too long in this ghost place, if something unexpected, I’m afraid I want to go too late, right now the cow is not found back, go back to the fight or to be punished are also recognized, don’t stay here to give away your life better.

Although the fat man and I can not help but want to go into the forest to see what is inside, but taking into account the personal safety of Ding Sisiang and the old sheepskin, only had to dismiss the idea, and then turned the horse to leave, the old sheepskin is not want to delay here for half a moment more, and want to pick up a shortcut to play the horse over a grassy knoll, I did not expect that the slope of the lower part of a number of hidden rat holes, usually the holes are covered by the grass, can not see the pastoralists are afraid of the most things. The biggest fear of the herdsmen is to sink the horse’s legs into the rat holes, which can easily cause the horse’s leg bones to break.

Ding Sisiang’s mount jujube red horse just stepped into such a rat hole, the hole are grass roots sand soil, coupled with a steep slope, the horse’s own weight is not light, stepping on the collapse of the rat hole after the horse’s feet fall, jujube red horse carrying Ding Sisiang immediately planted to the side of the crooked a little bit, only to hear the horse a sad hissing, the front leg of the bone was suddenly folded.

Fortunately, ding sis sweet body light, was lost center of gravity jujube red horse flung, rolled down to the long grass did not get hurt, forgive me, but also shocked the color, her body is thin, if carried down the horse pressure at least will be seriously injured.

We see the companion fell off the horse, all ate a shock, immediately with the horse to stop, see ding sisian just fell all over the yellow grass clippings, only then put the heart down, I just want to turn over and get off the horse, but a glimpse of the date red horse trampled down the mouse hole, there is a frightened gray and white wild mouse leaped out, the wild mouse triangular head on the two small eyes flashing with fear of light, it is probably resting in the hole, by the sudden hooves of the horse shocked lightly, fleeing in a panic! The wild mouse was probably resting in its hole, and was shocked by the sudden hooves of the horse, and fled in a panic, not caring about the direction of the horse, and “swished” past Ding Sistian.

Dingsi sweet from the horse landing, is still stunned, see suddenly have a big furry rat ran from the eyes, this wild rat and fat and big, are catching up with the small one cat, and so close, the rat hair are almost rubbing face, scared her shouted, and hastily shrink head to avoid.

According to my understanding of her, Ding Sisui sweet courage is not small, in the female youths is considered outstanding characters, but just now the incident suddenly, her cry of alarm is also considered outstanding, even the wild rat was scared by her, the whole body of a do abet in situ jumped up high, the wild rat body in the air has not yet fallen, Ding Sisui sweet behind the bushes in the grass, a point of grass, from which to explore a long to see the head of the tail of a missing “The centipede looks like a large centipede, the centipede’s body is dark yellow and green, due to live for a long time, all the body is black esoteric, the mouth of the gills and feet of the hooks and claws are very sharp, a mouth will leap in the mid-air of the wild mouse to hold, the gills and feet of the hooks and claws on the small holes through the poisonous glands, once the capture of the living things will be injected into the venom, the wild mouse did not have the time to struggle even to the end of the life! The wild mouse died before it could even struggle.

This centipede may usually ambush in the grass to prey, Ding Sistern fell to the horse rolled to its body, is intended to come out to bite, but the unlucky rat first bumped into the muzzle, which saved Ding Sistern’s life, otherwise it has long been silent bite Ding Sistern, all of this happened in an instant, I and the fat man, the old sheepskin trio to the moment to react to the beginning of the monster so much feet, thought it was a large centipede, but the Fixed eyes, pairs of feet than compared to the centipede is much less, only ten pairs, the length of pairs of feet is amazing, much wider than its body, the last pair of especially long, which is only then know that it is a centipede, and shouted in unison to urge the horse to save Ding Sistian.

The centipede swallowed a mouthful of rats, the wild rats are big but where to fill its appetite, claws scratching, turn their heads and go to bite Ding Si-Tian, Ding Si-Tian, after all, when the Red Guards, the storms of the big series and the world in the wide world experienced a few years, this time facing a crisis, although the heart is very panicked, but the hands and feet are still able to move, to see that the centipede stretched the palate of feet bite, and hurriedly with the hands to support the ground, to the body to the outside of the roll to dodge.

At this time, the rest of our three have rushed to the front of the reception, the centipede completely from the grass climbed out, its body is more than a meter long, messy claws, depending on the toxicity of the fierce and vicious walking quickly, in the face of the people and horses without fear, sticking to the surface of the grass to send out a “shasha shasha …… The sound of “rustle rustle rustle” was made on the surface of the grass, and once again pounced on Ding Sistian.

The fat man on the horse lifted the hunting cannon to fight, but this old-fashioned weapon even at the critical moment mute fire, although the gun did not ring, but the horse has leaped over the head, bringing up a burst of loess ran to the bottom of the slope, the fat man just to bring the horse to live. I see that the centipede action quickly, in the grass surface sliding quickly, simply let the horse trampled to death it is the best policy, so drive the horse forward, violently pull the reins, want to let the horse’s hooves will be this centipede trampled into the mud.