Chapter 28: The Centipede’s Hook (below)

But I was eager to save people, forgetting that on the slope, crotch horse front legs raised high, stirrups two hind legs lost center of gravity, the horse’s hooves fell did not according to the desire to step in centipede, on the contrary, down the slope in the direction of the staggering, this did not strangle the horse, that the horse along with me rushed down the grassy slope.

I looked back, only to see the experienced “old sheepskin” and not on the slope of the horse ran, he knew that the grassy knoll may have other rat holes, and this terrain, once a hit is not saved Ding Sis-Tian, and then turn back to the horse will have been too late, so he is slower than me and the fat man of half a step, at this time the old sheepskin has been the “Kangxi sword” from the sheath pulled out, the red sunset reflected the blade with cold light.

Said late, then fast, see the centipede will pounce on Ding Si sweet, see the old sheepskin hand knife light flash, a knife chopped in the centipede side of the foot, that centipede in the large flower of the sinus species, once the birth of the old, the shell will gradually become hard, but only to the foot of the thin and the body is not in tune with the body, and often broken, broken can be regenerated, the old sheepskin the knife swung down, brush and brush to cut off the big centipede three long feet.

Centipede pain in the long grass turned over a few times, finally failed to bite Ding Sistern, but it immediately after a twist of the body, in the grass wandering like the wind, then the power of a punch in the air jumped up, straight towards the old sheepskin pounced over, the old sheepskin see just a knife failed to centipede swung into two, the other side and come back, although he was old, but the nomadic life of the perennial makes the body is still flexible, and hastily bent down in the saddle bridge, centipede with a fishy wind from his back. With a gust of fishy wind from his back pounced, fell short.

Centipede habits peculiar, day can not see, after dusk is out, smell fishy and move, the grasslands of the black-spotted flower sinusoid toxicity is the largest, biting dead horses, cows and sheep is not surprising, only to see that the centipede fell behind the old sheepskin, not back, climbed straight to the broken leg of the date-red horse, the date-red horse is immobilized, to see a thick centipede climbed on the body, know that if it was bitten by it must be inevitable, and want to turn the horse in order to The weight of their own pressure death of this poisonous insect, but did not wait for it to act, was centipede gills feet into the nerves, in an instant the eyes of the blue, stiffly died in the grass.

Although the centipede can poison cattle and horses, but cattle and horses thick, so usually it only eats small beasts, some big centipede occasionally also eat people, herdsmen on the horses to see as if their lives, the old sheepskin see jujube red horse died, naturally very sad, in addition to the pain of the horse, and more worried about this time even with the cattle with the horse died quite a lot, back to the pastoral area can not account for it, but he then found that the yellow and green and black spots of the big centipede biting the dead horse, and then towards him and Ding Sistern pounced on the He then realized that the big centipede with green, green and black spots bit the horse, and then pounced towards him and Ding Sitian.

Emergency can not care for the date red horse sad, quickly reach out to Ding Sistern, will pull her on the mount, the two rode with the retired old army horse, feet a knock stirrups, the old army horse carrying the old sheepskin and Ding Sistern, from the grassy knoll of the slope of the tiger leaps down.

The fat man and I turned the head of the horse is about to rush back again, but see the old sheepskin with Ding Sistern has run to us, behind them in the grass rustling, the more than a meter long centipede is also followed by the big centipede to chase, I see that centipede is raging, a moment can be poisoned to death of a Mongolian horse, and also do not dare to longitudinal horse to trample on it, made a gesture to fat man once again turned the head of the horse, the people urge the horse to hide into the forest, want to borrow horse speed will be The centipede in hot pursuit to get rid of.

But just into the woods I regretted, the deeper into the depression the more dense trees, in the wide grasslands running horses, no cover is a fast thing, but there are trees where riding is really dizzy, horses in the bushes running, watching a strange shaped trees from the side of the side of the fly also like swept, feel as if at any time will be crashed in the trees.

Running not much far, my clothes have been brought by the branches of the tree with a number of mouths, dog skin hat also do not know where to fall, see the trees in the forest horizontal inverted long, the sky and the sun, and then run down the crowd must run apart, I hurriedly pull the reins, but specially trained horse can only say stop on the stop, I am not very obedient horse, not only did not stop instead of diagonally sprinted out, the fat man who rode next to the runners to be squeezed to and pushed Fatty, who was running next to me on his horse, off course.

Fatty’s mount took him to run to an old tree, the old tree has a thick branch was born very low, just across the route of the fat man, the fat man saw the situation, hurriedly came to a stirrups to hide in the body, this move he only saw the herdsmen on the prairie to make a past, not practiced at all, he pulled his legs out of the stirrups, the body awkwardly in the horse’s back to hit the slant, huddled down in the side of the mount, although the action is difficult to see, but it is just to avoid the horizontal branch.

Fatty is quite pleased with his own performance, lest the rest of the people did not see this hand, shouting to call attention to his side of the action, but his stirrups to hide in the body will only be half of the imitation of a cat drawing tiger, he is fat and heavy, and then want to turn back to the horse can be difficult, at this time, his mount is about to run to the two trees between the two, the width of two trees can be passed by a horse is no problem, the horse’s flanks plus the fat man in any case can not pass, fat man! Seeing that he was going to hit the tree, there is no way to avoid, and it is impossible to make the horse stop, simply closed his eyes and abandoned the horse rolled to the ground, fell into a mess of grass, the horse did not return to leap into the depths of the dense forest.

I focused on looking at the fat man stirrups to hide, but also by a thick hard branch from the horse hit down, depending on the clothes to wear a thick, ribs were not broken, and hands holding the branch hanging in mid-air, crotch horse running up, with the fat man’s mount a front and a back ran into the dense fog, all in a few moments ran out of sight, leaving only a string of hooves sound broken.

I hold a tree branch hanging in mid-air, not up to the sky, not down to the ground, the ribs were hit by a vague pain, just want to let go to let themselves down, but heard the foot of the grass “rustle” a few sounds, that was cut off the three to the foot of the big centipede from the grass out of the head, teeth and claws of the head up, ran to my feet is a leap, I look bad, and quickly waist and legs force, rolled over and climbed up to the ground. I see bad, quickly waist and leg force, rolled over and climbed up the tree branches.

The old sheepskin skillful horsemanship, although he and dingshi sweet and ride, and ride is an old horse, run up still in the forest than we are much faster than, into the woods after the fat man and I left behind, dingshi sweet turned back to see me and the fat man fell off the horse, will immediately tell the old sheepskin, the two of them hit the horse back, I was in the branches of the tree to avoid centipede attack.

Centipede in the ancient tree long grass see in and out like electricity, not waiting for the old sheepskin’s horse to enter the front, it will turn from the grass behind them, people stand up and open egged feet biting in the old military horse on the hindquarters, I lay on the branches of the tree to see the real, a cry of surprise, thought it is a pity that this horse can be understood retired military horse, and finally died under the mouth of the centipede.