Ghost Blowing Lamp II

Chapter 29
In the sky of the prairie, there seems to be a shadowless and invisible ghost. Although our eyes cannot recognize it, the wild geese and cows swallowed by the sky, as well as the panicked mounts, all show that there is something real in the dark. There is a terrible unknown thing in the earth, and we are forced to choose to avoid it when we don't know the truth.

At the beginning, no one noticed that the retired army horse that "Lao Yangpi" was riding took us into the "Hundred Eyes Cave", the nightmare of the prairie herdsmen, this hilly area called "Hundred Eyes Cave". , is located at the junction of grassland and desert. To the east of where we came is the vast sea of ​​grass, and to the west is the endless Mongolian desert, which is separated by a hilly mountain in the middle, forming a typical desertified grassland vegetation zone.

In the mountain depression in front of you, weeds are overgrown and old trees are intertwined. If you look down from a height, this place may look like a huge black and green trap.Although the weather was sunny at that time, the terrain was low-lying, and the wind could not blow in. We saw wisps of mist floating among the waist-deep grass, and there were bursts of rancid smell inside. Lao Yangpi pointed to the depths of the mountain and told us, "Baiyan Cave "The exact location is actually in the bushes of the col. His brother was coerced by the bandits and walked into this road of no return.

I asked Lao Yangpi where the demon dragon he saw with his own eyes decades ago?Is it above this mountain depression?Lao Yangpi said that he had never seen so much fog at that time, and there was a dense forest in the mountain depression, but now he didn’t know why there was such a large amount of water fog. Looking at the depths where the vegetation was dense, the fog was so thick that it could hardly melt away. The place where the dragon was first seen was now covered by fog.

We glanced into the forest immediately, and the fog became thicker as we went deeper. In this case, if there is really something hidden there, we can't see it unless we touch it.Lao Yangpi urges us to leave as soon as we can. If we stay in this ghost place for too long, if something happens, I’m afraid it’s too late to leave. We can’t find the cattle right now. Will we be beaten or punished when we go back? I also admit it, it would be better not to stay here and die.

Although the fat man and I couldn't help but want to go into the woods to see what's in it, but considering the personal safety of Ding Sitian and Lao Yangpi, we had to give up this idea, and immediately turned the horse's head and were about to leave. I didn't want to stay here any longer, I wanted to take a shortcut and hit a horse to turn over a grassy hill. Unexpectedly, there were many hidden mouse holes in the lower part of the slope. Usually, the hole entrances were covered with weeds, so I couldn't see it at all. The thing that the herdsmen feared most, It is to sink the horse's legs into the rat hole, which can easily cause the horse's leg fractures.

Ding Sitian's bay red horse just stepped into such a rat hole. The hole is full of grass roots and sandy soil, and there is a steep slope. The horse's own weight is not light. Immediately, he fell to the side, only to hear the horse neighing sadly, and the front leg bone was broken immediately.

Fortunately, Ding Sitian was light, and she was thrown by the bay red horse that lost her center of gravity, and rolled onto the long grass without being injured. will be seriously injured.

We were all startled when we saw our companion fell off the horse, and immediately stopped the horse. Seeing that Ding Sitian was only covered in loess and grass clippings, we were relieved. From the mouse hole, a frightened gray-white vole jumped out. The two small eyes on the triangular head of the vole were shining with fear. It was probably resting in the hole with its eyes closed. It was startled and flustered by the sudden horseshoe. When he jumped up, he didn't care about the direction at all, and jumped past Ding Sitian with a "swoosh".

Ding Sitian, who landed from the horse, was still in shock. Suddenly, a big furry mouse ran past. The hair was almost touching her face, so she yelled in fright, and hurriedly shrank her head to avoid it.

According to what I know about her, Ding Sitian is quite courageous, and she is considered an outstanding figure among female educated youths, but when the incident happened suddenly just now, her exclamation was considered outstanding, even the field mouse was scared by her With a jump, the whole body trembled and jumped up on the spot, the wild mouse was still in the air, the grass behind Ding Sitian was scattered, and a "black-spotted gnat" protruded out of it. , that gnat is shaped like a giant centipede, its whole body is dark yellow and green, and because it has lived for a long time, it is covered with black spots all over its body. The small holes on the claws lead to the poisonous glands, and once the living thing is caught, the venom will be injected immediately, and the wild mouse died before it even had time to struggle.

This gnat might usually lie down in the grass to prey. Ding Sitian fell off the horse and rolled in front of it, planning to come out to bite people, but the unlucky big mouse ran into the muzzle of the gun first, which saved Ding Sitian's life. Otherwise, it would have already bit Ding Sitian silently. All this happened in an instant. Fatty, Lao Yangpi and I only realized it at this moment. At the beginning, when we saw this monster with so many legs, we thought it was a monster. The big centipede, if you take a closer look, there are only a dozen or so pairs of opposing legs. The length of the opposing legs is astonishing, much wider than its body, and the last pair is especially long. Shouting and urging the horse to rescue Ding Sitian.

The wild rat swallowed the big rat in one gulp. Although the wild rat was big, it couldn't fill its appetite. It scratched its claws and turned to bite Ding Sitian. After all, Ding Sitian had been a Red Guard before. After a few years of experience, when faced with a crisis, although I was very panicked, I could still move my hands and feet. When I saw the scorpion stretching out its jaws and feet to bite, I quickly put my hands on the ground and rolled my body away to avoid it.

At this time, the other three of us had already rushed to meet them. The gnat crawled out of the grass. It was more than one meter long, with scrambling claws. It walked quickly with its poison and fierceness, and it had no fear of people and horses. , sticking to the grass surface, making a "rustling, rustling..." sound, and pounced on Ding Sitian again.

The fat man raised his shotgun on the horse and wanted to shoot, but the old weapon went silent at a critical moment. Although the gun didn't go off, the horse had already jumped over its head and rushed to the bottom of the slope with a burst of loess. take hold.I saw that the snake was moving quickly, sliding quickly on the grass, and it would be better to let the horse trample it to death, so I drove the horse forward and pulled the rein violently, hoping that the horse's hoof would trample the snake into mud.

(End of this chapter)