Chapter 25 Witch Xiaopei

Xiangxi River is a small tributary of the Yangtze River, which originated from Shennongjia's cloud and fog around the mountains. Shennongjia with divine secrets gave birth to this beautiful Xiangxi River, and the beautiful Xiangxi River has nurtured the hard-working people on both sides of the river with its sweet and delicious spring water. At this moment, Zhou Xirui and A Cuo are hiking and cats. Through the dense pristine vegetation by the river.

After saying goodbye to the aunt and the uncle who sent them to the Xiangxi River in the early morning, they began to cross the no man's land. The car was temporarily left at their home and walked by the Xiangxi River. The scenery was beautiful and beautiful in nature. The river fell from the sky like a jade belt and lingered in the clouds and mountains. The trousers and feet of the two had already been wet by the dew on the branches and grass leaves, and the luggage on their backs was a little heavy. The aunt was stuffed with pickled wild pork and some rice noodles and melon vegetables. The two elders were really good. They were always afraid that they and the cats would be hungry in this primitive forest, and they were afraid that they would get lost. The uncle even wanted to take a shotgun to accompany them to travel. Dragon Frame.

But they resolutely refused. After all, the uncle is old. If something unexpected happens, how can he explain it to his aunt? Seeing that the two were resolute, the uncle had to send them to the Xiangxi River 20 miles away before going back. When he left, he did not forget to repeatedly tell them to come back early. Don't rush around the too dangerous terrain.

The two recalled their uncle's instructions and couldn't help but feel warm in their hearts. The cat is tied with tents and other luggage on its back. Although the weight is not a problem, the width is always hung by dense branches on both sides. Zhou Xirui let the cat walk behind, and he and Acuo opened the way in front with a machete.

The work of cutting branches slowed down, and I had not yet walked to the foot of the mountain in front of me until the afternoon. They were so tired that they sweated profusely. They asked the cat to stop and wash their faces by the river. The cat also lay down by the river and drank some water. Looking around, there is no longer anyone here, and there is no planted field. There are miscellaneous trees and shrubs everywhere, and the mountains in the distance are full of dense arrow bamboo forests. Zhou Xirui wanted not to see the panda. The last time he thought of the panda in Heizhugou, it made people feel frightening.

Zhou Xirui took out a piece of cooked wild boar meat from his backpack, pulled off one-third and threw it to the cat, and the rest sat on a big stone with Acuo and nibbled it. The aunt salted the wild pork, which was a little salty. Zhou Xirui took out the kettle and poured a few mouthfuls of water. He turned his head and said to Acuo, "We will walk faster later and try to camp at the foot of the mountain in front of us." "Oi, I'm fine, but the cat is dragging his back, haha!" Atso couldn't help teasing the cat. In fact, he knew that the luggage on his back was too wide and it was not easy to walk in the bushes. The cat was focused on chewing the pork, and I don't know if this guy understood. Fart, the cat drags its legs. If it hadn't been for the cat carrying his luggage, you would have walked so easily!" Zhou Xirui gently kicked Acuo. The two were used to playing. Although they spoke loudly, they were actually as good as wearing a pair of trousers.

After eating the meat, Zhou Xirui filled the kettle with water. The cat lay on the edge and drank water. It seemed that the cat also felt that the meat was too salty. Atso accelerated his pace and tried his best to cut the blocked branches. Fortunately, after cutting a few miles inside, the shrub began to become sparse, but the flat path in the middle made Zhou Xirui feel a little unknown, and he saw some scattered animal bones in a few steps.

This surprised Zhou Xirui. He remembered the snake path of the black bamboo ditch snake. Is there also a big snake here, but after thinking about it, he shook his head again. A Cuo also laughed at him for being too **. Everyone knows that there are savages in the dragon frame, but the big snake has never heard of it. Zhou Xirui felt that he seemed to have scared himself.

They and the cat quickly walked along these flat paths to the foot of the mountain, and walked further and further away from the Xiangxi River. Atso was a little worried about whether there was water in it. He walked for about half an hour and got closer and closer to the foot of the mountain. Hearing the sound of running water on the right from afar, Acuo told Zhou Xirui that he wanted to see the location of the water source first. He must bring enough water before climbing the mountain tomorrow morning.

At this time, they saw the cat smelling the flat path uneasily and seemed to have found something! At this time, in addition to the sound of running water, there suddenly came a strange "gugu"! The sound is very abrupt in the empty valley. What kind of animal is this? It's so strange.

The sound was so strange that they took off their backpacks and the cat, took out their machetes and made a forbidden gesture to the cat. They gently touched the direction of the sounding water source.

They saw a small stream in front of them through the cracks in the bushes, and there were many big stones in the stream. On a large flat stone, there seems to be a big snake coiled there. They looked closer and the two of them were almost scared to death.

The snake has a small bucket thick with black stripes, which is estimated to be seven or eight meters long. Although it is not as terrible as the snake in the black bamboo ditch, the snake has hair on its head. It only sees its back, which looks like a person's head on its body.

The snake "gull" again and turned around. This look was really scary. This is not a snake. It's obviously a snake demon. Those hairs are covered with a pale "human face", and the narrow eyes on the face are small and the pupils are very ferocious. The mouth is very open, the snake teeth stick out, the mouth is a little protruding, and the forked snake tongue comes out from time to time. It stands flat like a cobra below the neck, making people feel unprecedentedly strange.

For good, they and the cat lay in the bushes and didn't move, and the thing didn't see them. But its strange cry suddenly accelerated "Gugua, Gugua..." With the rapid sound of drumming, Zhou Xirui and Acuo felt dizzy and impetuous. After a while, their blood vessels seemed to burst, and the cat next to them also trembled all over. It could be seen that they were also trying to endure the pain.

Soon endured to the limit, and they all shouted and rolled on the ground in pain. The sound shocked the demon snake, and it rushed over like lightning, just when their lives were in danger. A beautiful flute sounded, which made people drowsy, and the snake also stopped its strange cry and waved its head with the sound of the flute. After the snake did not shout, Zhou Xirui and others also felt that their whole body's qi and blood gradually stopped rolling. After the breath calmed down, they looked curiously along the sound of the flute. It turned out that a Miao girl was standing opposite the stream and was playing a three-inch long flute. The girl looked at them and waved to them to pass.

They quickly bypassed the sleepy demon snake with the cat and walked across the stream to the girl, as if they felt that as long as they stood beside her, they would be safe. The girl took them to climb the mountain while playing the flute and climbed halfway up the mountain before the girl stopped playing the flute. What are you doing in the deep mountains? Are you going to die? The human-faced snake just now is very poisonous. If I bite you, the immortals can't be saved!" The girl stared at the apricot's eyes and scolded them fiercely.

They were saved this time, and the other party was a girl. Of course, they could only be submissively reprimanded. The girl was very sweet and handsome. The two couldn't help looking at her a few more times and were roaring fiercely by the girl, "What are you looking at? Haven't you seen a beautiful woman?" They think this girl is good-looking, but it's too fierce.

Zhou Xirui asked the girl curiously, "Is that thing called a human-faced snake just now?" Why does it have a human-like face? And its cry, why can it be so painful? The girl glanced at him and said, "This kind of thing is cultivated by a poisonous snake. Every night, it stands on the stone of the stream to absorb the essence of the sun and the moon. Its cry can be demagogic, confuses people, and finally becomes the prey in its mouth."

A Cuo asked her, "Why didn't you attack us when you played the flute just now? Do you live near here? The girl said impatiently, "Why do you have so many questions? My name is Xiaopei and I live in Stone House Village far away from here. My grandfather is a famous local witch doctor. I came to the mountains to pick herbs. The flute played just now is called Requiem, and all animals will be hypnotized soon after listening to it! So that human-faced snake did not attack you," said that Grandpa was a witch doctor, and the girl raised her head proudly. Here, the witch doctor is the most respected by the locals.

It turned out that the two boys decided to go to Stone House Village with Xiaopei. It was getting dark, and the three decided to camp on the spot. They tied up the tent and dragged some dead bamboo to light the bonfire. The cat also lay on the edge of the bonfire and squinted his eyes to rest, but when they lay down and heard a sound, they quickly stood up vigilantly to listen. Zhou Xirui looked at the cat sympathetically. This guy was a little nervous when the snake scared by the face snake.

Sitting by the bright bonfire, the warm fire light dispersed the chill on their bodies and made them feel more at ease. Animals are afraid of fire. With this fire, at least it is safe now. Zhou Xirui took out a large piece of wild pork and a few sweet potatoes in the bag, put them on a branch and roasted them on the fire. This was the dinner of the three of them. Xiaopei asked them, "What are you doing here? This dragon frame is not a place to travel. There are many monsters!" They said that they wanted to explore through no man's land and go on expeditions around the world in the future. Men were always eloquent in front of girls, blowing their plans to go, which made Xiaopei begin to be fascinated.

At night, there was a girl in the tent, which made the two bloody young men a little uncomfortable. They tossed over and over until midnight did they fall asleep. Xiaopei slept strangely at night. She did not lie down, but sat cross-legged and sat like an old monk.

When they woke up in the morning, the three of them had been climbing up the arrow bamboo forest. The arrow bamboo grew slenderly and densely, and once they entered, they would be submerged in the bamboo bushes. You must lower your head to protect your face from being scratched by bamboo. With the rise of altitude, Shennongjia, alpine meadows and arrow bamboo forests continue to appear alternately. The elastic alpine meadows are enough to support a person's weight. In the case of heavy burdens, it is easy to sprain ankles if one foot is not stable. Climbing the slope during the march was very exhausting. They soon felt the hardship of the journey, but Xiaopei walked lightly in front of him without even breathing.

Sometimes the sun shines on the mountains, and sometimes a dark cloud floats by. When the sun is covered by clouds, the temperature quickly drops, making Zhou Xirui and Acuo feel the changeable climate in the mountains. They forced through an arrow bamboo forest and a bush, cut to a landslide, and then climbed up the stone, so that they were so fast that they had time to eat something and then continued to climb up.

On the way, they unfortunately saw the footprints of a huge fresh bear. At that time, their speed was very slow. They looked at the six roads, listened to all directions, and slowly had to climb up the beast path. Fortunately, at a certain time, there were only the footprints of wild boars, not the footprints of the bears that Zhou Xirui was most afraid of. Xiaopei did not wait for them and walked far ahead with the cat alone.

After 2 p.m., they felt that they were very close to the top of the mountain. When they climbed to the big stone, they found that the top of the mountain was still on it. After a painful rest, he continued to go to the top of the mountain and finally reached the higher big stone. Zhou Xirui and Acuo screamed, and the top of TMD was still on it. ... Finally, they climbed to the top of the mountain at dusk before they were paralyzed, but Xiaopei and Maozai easily climbed to the top of the mountain and waited there for a long time, which made them feel that Xiaopei was simply a god and not a human being.

It is possible to camp on the top of the mountain, but Xiaopei wanted to walk more to relax tomorrow, so he continued to walk forward. This direction was extremely painful. Zhou Xirui and A Cuo climbed down a few cliffs, and then passed through the arrow bamboo forest. Finally, he saw a relatively large shelter rock in front of him. Xiaopei had been waiting Well, she decided to camp there.

When they camped, they got something to eat together. Xiaopei went into the tent and crossed their breath. At this time, Zhou Xirui and Acuo found that the scenery on the edge of the cliff in the east was very beautiful, with clear mountains, clouds and fog, and a picture of a fairy mirror. They stayed on the edge of the cliff and forgot everything...

The cat came over, lay at their feet, and looked at him silently. Zhou Xirui gently touched the cat's head, then squatted down, put his arms around his neck, and leaned his face against its huge head. Suddenly, there was a sound in the bamboo forest behind, and the cat stood up alertly. A creature covered with long red hair came out and walked upright to them like a human.

Zhou Xirui instinctively retreated, but he forgot that there was a bottomless cliff behind him, and this retreat stepped into the air. He reached out to catch the cat next to him, but he didn't have time to catch it. Acuo stretched out his hand to pull him, but it was a step late. He was so anxious that he climbed down the steep slope next to him and thought of saving Zhou Xirui at the bottom of the cliff.

Watching that its owner fell down, the cat was furious and vented his breath on the monster. It turned its head and glared at the monster that came by. The monster probably didn't expect that the prey would fall off the cliff. He was stunned and saw the animal in front of him glare at him, showing a posture to attack. It did not dare to take it lightly. With its height, the monster rushed to the cat with a very fast figure.

Although the cat escaped the monster's attack, the monster's sharp claws still left bloody scratches when they scratched the cat. The cat quickly jumped up and bit the monster's throat. The monster was extremely fast and quickly avoided the cat's deadly attack, but its shoulder was still bitten by the cat. The monster was in pain and desperately wanted to break free, but the cat bit very tightly. The cat vented all his anger on the monster.

The monster is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Because it was not bitten to a fatal place, the monster's sharp claws grabbed the cat hard, and the wound was very deep. The cat had to relax for the time being. The monster can't take advantage of it when it sees that it is evenly matched. Quickly climbed up the cliff and disappeared into the dense bamboo forest with several dexterous ups and downs like apes on the treetops.

The cat quickly ran down the place where Acso went down, and it also went to the bottom of the cliff to find its owner. Zhou Xirui fell from above, not falling rapidly. In a trance, he saw a lake below. There were some gray stones on the lake. He tried to adjust the drop point in the air to fall to one of the stones.

However, at the moment of falling, it was a stone that did not foresee, which seemed to fall on a soft and elastic thing. Then I felt that there was cold water around me, and something was slippery under my feet, soft and slippery. He rose to the surface desperately and reached out to grab some "hair". Is it "hair"?

At this time, he saw something floating in front of him, which was really a strange thing. The skin of this thing is gray, and its head is like a huge toad. Its round eyes are bigger than a rice bowl. Its nostrils are like two big black holes. Its mouth is very open, with developed forelimbs, and its arms are thick and full of yellow hair. Zhou Xirui found that what he grabbed was its yellow hair. He took a closer look at the five thick fingers on his forelimbs. There are wee and claws, and the upper body floats on the water and keeps struggling. Its lower body is invisible and not in the water.

Seeing this clearly, Zhou Xirui was scared and trembled again. Toad had never seen such an ugly "toad" monster. And he also found several such things in the distance waving his forelimbs towards him in the water. It seems that the huge sound of falling down scared these things away, and I don't know if this thing can eat people. Anyway, this huge mouth looks very scary. Zhou Xirui quickly swam to the shore. Fortunately, those things did not follow him, and he struggled to swim to the shore.

The wet body made him very uncomfortable. He took a rest by the pool and saw a stream flowing into the pool in the distance. Seeing the stream reminded Zhou Xirui of the human-faced snake. Now that they are not around, he dares not walk along the stream alone. He looked at the cliff, which was covered with clouds and fog, which made him unable to believe that he had fallen from such a high place.