There were only three people in the underground fortress, and Yingzi and I were both sitting opposite him.
No matter how capable we two were, we couldn't drool on his head.
The three of them all felt strange and looked up at the same time to see what kind of liquid was flowing down and the fire lit by the broken wooden boards of the ammunition box illuminated the surroundings brightly.
In the distance beyond the reach of the fire, there was still a lonely darkness.
Just above our heads on the roof, where the firelight and darkness meet, a huge human face pokes out.
The face was more than twice as big as that of an ordinary person.
It was as white as if it had been smeared with flour.
It had no expression at all, and it was hard to tell whether it was happiness or anger.
It had a hooked nose and a pair of strange blood-red eyes, staring closely at the fat man's hands.
The mouth was full of roasted bat meat, and the lips were thick and big, protruding forward, with a big black mouth open, half of the blood-red tongue hanging on the side of the mouth, and the saliva was almost flowing into a river, with drops flowing down from it.
The owner of that face has a long neck and dark and hard skin.
Due to the high ceiling of the underground Gnaku, its body is hidden in the darkness where the firelight cannot reach it.
Only its face and part of its neck can be seen. .
It seemed to be very interested in the roasted bat meat we were eating and wanted to pounce down to snatch it, but it was afraid of the flames burning below and hesitated.
But it seems that the smell of barbecue is too tempting to it, and it can no longer hold back, and is about to jump off the hanging roof at any time.
Is this a human or a monster?
When the three of us raised our heads and looked at it, we were all surprised and surprised.
Although I didn’t know the origin of the thing, I could tell that it wanted to eat grilled bat meat.
We brought out a total of five big bats from the cave.
Yingzi and I each ate half of one, and Fatty ate a whole bat alone, leaving three remaining.
Fatty divided the largest king bat into three parts and divided them into three parts.
One of them was skewered with a rifle bayonet and was being roasted over the fire.
But at this moment, I couldn't think too much.
I saw the fat man was frightened by the expressionless face on his head.
I quickly snatched the bayonet with roasted bat meat in his hand, raised it and put it on the He turned half a circle in front of the strange face and threw it aside with force.
I used more strength, but it didn't throw it far away.
The bat meat was thrown away from the bayonet and landed not far behind Yingzi.
Before Yingzi could look back, a huge beast jumped down from the roof. , took the roasted bat king in his mouth and swallowed it without even chewing.
By the light of the fire, we could see clearly that the animal was not a human being.
Its face was like a baboon, resembling a human face, its neck was extremely long, and its body was similar in size and shape to a bear, but not as clumsy as a bear.
Its body is slightly flat, its hind limbs are arched, short and thick, and its forelimbs are surprisingly long.
When moving, it can grab the gap in the wall and hang from it.
Look at its movements.
It is better to crawl on the wall than on flat ground.
Come as you please.
Yingzi had never seen this kind of animal.
Fatty and I had seen pictures of it in the zoo.
As soon as it showed its full face, we immediately remembered that it was a prairie ground otter.
Yes, that was it.
Prairie ground otters live in underground caves deep in grasslands and are mainly found in the grasslands of South America, Africa, and Outer Mongolia.
It is also a ground otter, but it is different from the jungle ground otter that lives in the jungle, and even more different from its distant relative, the sloth.
The prairie ground otter has inherited more of the characteristics of the ground otter's ancestor, the glacial ground otter.
It is exceptionally large and mainly lives on carnivorous food.
It seldom moves in the sun and likes to prey on large bats, giant gophers, pythons, etc. and lives underground. animals.
The hunting method of prairie ground otters is to stay still and rarely take the initiative to attack.
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They hide quietly in the darkness and remain motionless.
Sometimes they lie dormant for several days without eating or drinking, waiting for animals to pass by. , then suddenly stretched out his big mouth like lightning and ate the other person in one bite.
When the People's Republic of China was first founded, brother African countries gave one to the Beijing Zoo, but it did not adapt to the living environment in Beijing and died soon after.
When Fatty, some classmates, and I went to Beijing to join forces, the Beijing Red Guards who joined us victoriously took us around and saw a huge cage containing a prairie ground otter at the zoo.
The prairie land otter in the cage was dead, leaving only an empty cage.
We saw a huge empty cage, which was a bit strange, so we took a closer look.
There was an introduction and pictures of it on the cage.
After many years, this incident still left a deep impression on us, but we never expected that we would encounter such a big one in the underground fortress of the Kwantung Army.
It must have followed the pig-faced giant bat here.
There are countless giant bats in this fortress.
We only saw a nest in a cave, and there were thousands of them.
The fortress is dozens of kilometers deep, maybe somewhere , there are still several nests hidden.
It has rough skin and thick flesh, and there are many small bone fragments under the skin, just like wearing armor.
These armors are unbreakable when it reaches adulthood.
The vicious pig-faced bat has sharp claws.
Although it can easily tear the belly of cattle and sheep, it cannot hurt the prairie ground otter.
Even if it is scratched a few times, it will not hurt or itch it.
There are no natural enemies here. , and there are countless large pig-faced bats to hunt and kill, which is exactly what they are for.
However, I don’t know how such a large prairie land otter entered the fortress.
It is possible that earthquakes or mountain landslides caused some large cracks in the underground fortress, from which it crawled into the fortress to feed.
If it finds that entrance , we should be able to get out from there too.
The prairie land otter jumped down from the roof and ate the roasted bat meat.
He stretched out his long tongue and licked the sides of his mouth several times.
Obviously, such a piece of meat was not enough to satisfy his appetite, and it aroused his strong appetite.
He stared at it.
Looking at the three of us, we don’t know what we are planning.
In the underworld, it is king.
At the moment of the confrontation between the two sides, my mind turned several times.
The terrain of the underground fortress and dealing with wild beasts were a bit unfamiliar to me.
Should I strike first?
The submachine gun was at hand, but the Baishi submachine gun The destructive power of the snake is very limited, and the bones and skin of the prairie land otter are enough to withstand it.
Don't be bitten by the snake instead of hitting it, making it angry, but you are not sure you can escape.
The Japanese Arisaka rifle has strong penetrating power and should be able to kill prairie ground otters.
However, we only took a few bayonets.
First The two rifles loaded with bullets were placed twenty or thirty meters away.
Someone had to distract the prairie otter's attention before I could run over to get the rifle.
It would take a short time to go back and forth like this.
The otter is too close to our location Even after thinking a few thoughts, I was not sure.
At this time, the fat man stood on the spot and whispered to me: "Old Hu, I remember that this thing only eats warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals, not humans, so I think it's fine."
After that, he gently kicked the dead bat towards the prairie ground otter with his feet.
That means, this is all for you, eat it quickly and don't cause trouble to us.
Unexpectedly, the prairie land otter didn't even look at the dead bat, but instead kept drooling at us.
The fat man turned around and asked me: "Why doesn't it eat bats?
It always stares at us, as if it has ill intentions."
I didn't dare to be distracted by talking to the fat man, and kept a close eye on every move of the prairie otter.
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As long as it attempted to attack, I could only get ahead of it, pick up the submachine gun on the ground, and give it a shot.
Yingzi said: "We all ate a lot of roasted bat meat.
It probably thinks of us as bats."
Before she finished speaking, the prairie land otter couldn't stand the smell of roasted bat meat and came towards us step by step.
All wild animals feed on raw meat because they have never eaten cooked meat by nature.
Once they eat it, After one bite, the taste of cooked meat is the biggest temptation for them.
I noticed that it was moving slowly, so I felt that I might as well run away instead of fighting it.
I called out to the other two people, and the three of them turned around and ran.
As soon as they took two steps, they tripped over a hard object under their feet.
This kick caused me to fall, and my knees almost broke.
Even the fat man Yingzi He also fell to the ground at the same time.
I secretly wondered, what tripped me and fell to the ground.
At the same time, I glanced at the ground.
The ground was flat.
There was nothing that could trip people up.
I thought: "Just thinking about running away, the bodies of the boy and girl."
But I forgot to bring it with me.
Could it be that someone tripped me up?"
The prairie ground otter has probably never seen an animal that walks on two legs like humans.
It smelled the aroma of roasted bat meat on the bodies of the three people, and it has already mistook us for bats, but it cannot accept the fact that we look like bats yet. , and it was also afraid of the fire and did not dare to move forward easily.
It was thinking about how to swallow the delicious food that came to its mouth.
When it saw the three of us falling to the ground, it jumped over with a "pop".
Its hind limbs were thick and strong, and it jumped in front of the fat man in one leap.
Maybe it thought this one had more meat, so it was going to beat the fat man with it first.
Seeing this, the fat man had no choice but to struggle desperately.
He scratched on the ground with his hands, trying to find a weapon.
There happened to be a bayonet for roasting bats on the ground.
The fat man picked it up and stabbed the prairie land otter's arm, straight to the handle.
The knife had been roasted for a long time, and it was like a red iron bar.
After it stabbed the prairie otter, there was only a burning stench in the nose.
The prairie otter was running rampant in the underground cave and was invincible.
It had never suffered such a loss.
It was hurt and angry, but it did not dare to bite the fat man again.
It slowly took a few steps back, waiting for an opportunity to make another move.
After the scorching bayonet stabbed him, the temperature immediately dropped.
The blood of the prairie otter made the blade of the blade sizzle with white air.
The fat man's successful attack just now relied solely on the temperature of the bayonet, otherwise he would not be able to pierce it at all.
I took advantage of the fat man's time to fight off the prairie otters, and Yingzi and I carried the military coat packages containing the boys and girls on our backs, hoping that these two brats would stop causing trouble.
With the corpse of the child buried on my back, I bent down and took the submachine gun in my hand.
I knew that the lethality of this type of submachine gun was far from enough to kill the prairie ground otter, but I still expected to use it to fend off one or two at the critical moment.
Before I could pull the bolt, a claw suddenly poked out from the wall behind me and struck directly over my head.
The claw came so fast and with so much force that I had no time to lower my head, so I had to use the submachine gun in my hand to cover it.
Being swept away by the claw, unable to hold it, the submachine gun flew out of his hand and landed far away in the darkness where the firelight could not reach.
Unknowingly, four more prairie otters climbed down from the wall, two large and two small.
The smallest one was about the size of an adult.
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Obviously, like the previous one, they were also affected by the smell of roasted bat meat.
Attracted to prey.
Five prairie otters surrounded the three of us.
As long as one of them took the lead to pounce, the rest would follow and swarm us to pieces and eat us.
Our only support was the fire.
The three of us were stuck together back to back.
The fat man had a bayonet, Yingzi had a submachine gun, and I was the only one with bare hands.
The fire lit by wood chips is getting darker and darker, and will be extinguished in a few moments.
If we wait until then, we will be the prairie ground otter's meal.
Thinking of this, I can't help but secretly cry: "One is enough for his mother."
It was difficult to deal with it, but now it is good.
The whole family has mobilized to fight against the prairie land otters entrenched in this fortress.
They are in a desperate situation.
How can we fight a way out?"
There was no other way to waste it any more.
I grabbed a burning stick from the fire and swung it at the smallest of the prairie otters blocking the way.
As expected, it was frightened and cowered aside in fear from the torch.
There was a gap in the encirclement.
The flames of the wooden sticks were not very big, and they almost went out when we waved them.
We didn't dare to wait any longer, and rushed out together.
Several drooling prairie otters hesitated for a moment, and then pounced on us together.
The submachine gun in Yingzi's hand fired a string of bullets.
The prairie land otter at the head was hit by the bullets, and blood spattered on its body.
However, their bodies were covered with thick calluses.
Although the bullets penetrated the body, they could not penetrate the body.
The bone armor made them angry, and they pressed forward step by step, insisting on eating these three people into their mouths.
Only Yingzi among the three of us had a submachine gun.
Whenever she changed the magazine, Fatty and I would wave burning sticks to block the prairie ground otters, preventing them from getting close.
Fighting and retreating, because the direction of the breakout was relatively blind, the distance from where the weapons were placed was getting farther and farther, and instead they retreated to the large iron gate of Gnaku.
Outside the iron gate is the red otter.
We wanted to make careful plans after eating and drinking, and then find a way to get out through the passage outside the iron gate.
However, the sudden attack of the prairie land otter caught us off guard, and we retreated hastily.
At this point, the flames of the wooden sticks became weaker and weaker, and finally only the blackened wooden sticks were left, with only a few sparks on the head and not many bullets left.
Prairie ground otters are huge.
A few of them are crowded together, like an insurmountable wall.
A slap from their paws can cause even bones and tendons to break.
The encirclement of the prairie ground otters gradually narrowed, and we were all suppressed in front of the iron gate, with no room for retreat or retreat.
Now we have to risk our lives.
The fat man and I threw wooden sticks with sparks in our hands at the prairie otters.
Yingzi fired with a hundred-type submachine gun and used the last fighting power to force these prairie otters to take a few steps back. , the fat man turned around and pushed open the iron door that was originally closed behind him.
I took out the black donkey's hoof and smashed it outward.
Unexpectedly, the red otter was not in front of the door.
We had no time to think about it and retreated into the passage behind the iron door one after another.
The fat man was just about to close the big iron door when a huge force slammed into the iron door.
The prairie land otter's brutal The strength is no small matter.
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The three of them tried their best to push the iron door open, but they couldn't do anything.
Suddenly a gust of wind blew towards my face, and I hurriedly dodged.
It turned out that the red cat had been wandering around here.
The red cat doesn't have a very high IQ, it just bites every living thing it sees.
The red cat came as soon as it came, and was as silent as the wind and lightning.
If I hadn't been through hundreds of battles and had a lot of experience in facing enemies, I would have been knocked down by it long ago.
I rolled to the ground, and just as I was about to get up to dodge, the iron door was knocked open, and the largest prairie otter jumped out first.
The prairie land otter used its thick hind limbs, like a big frog, to jump out of the door, just in time to knock down the red cat.
The red cat fell to the ground, unable to bend its body, and then bounced up, ten steel knives The same fingers inserted into the prairie otter's chest.
The prairie land otter made a strange cry and opened its mouth to bite.
Several other large and small prairie land otters also rushed out of the Gnaku.
When they saw that their companions were injured, they started to bite the red cat one after another.
The smallest prairie land otter was torn off its head by a red cat.
The red cat was also bitten by two prairie land otters.
Both sides were equally powerful.
For a moment, they were entangled together.
In an instant, the walls and the ground were covered. , and the iron gate were all splattered with large tracts of blood from the prairie land otter, and pieces of meat flew everywhere.
At the same time, one of Hong Ma's arms was bitten off.
Seeing this thrilling scene in front of us, we were all secretly frightened.
If the red fox and the prairie otter attacked from behind, then the three of us would inevitably die without a burial place.
We accidentally collided with each other and inadvertently played a role in causing the two tigers to fight.
It was really a fluke.
We couldn't miss the opportunity.
We carried the corpses of the boy and girl on our backs and fled towards the hole in the wall of the back room of the ancient tomb.
We only regretted that our parents had lost two legs.
We were as anxious as a bereaved dog and as busy as a fish that slipped through the net. , there is no need to describe this embarrassing situation in detail.
The big hole in the collapsed tomb wall is still the same as when we escaped from it before.
We escaped from here before, and escaped back this time.
We went in a big circle and didn't get anything valuable.
We got into all this for nothing.
Trouble, but also added these two child corpses filled with mercury, which is really dumbfounding.
However, although there is nothing valuable in the underground fortress, it does have a lot of clothing and equipment, and maybe a few simple generators can be found somewhere.
We can tell people in the village about this, and it will be in vain for us to live and die in the underground fortress.
It took a lot of time.
As long as they can climb out of the shaft outside the thief's cave, everyone's mental and physical strength has reached their limit at this time, but when people are desperate and dogs are desperate, human potential can often be stimulated when faced with desperate situations.
Yingzi fired a submachine gun at the coffin board that sealed the hole, two full shots, sending sawdust flying everywhere.
The coffin lid was originally embedded in the wall, and the bullets ripped open the middle.
The fat man ran up and lifted the coffin with his shoulders.
The board crashed into two pieces, and the hole was exposed again.
I first pushed Yingzi up the shaft, and then the fat man and I lifted up the bodies of the boy and girl on our backs.
Yingzi caught the body from above, and then stretched out his hand to pull me up.
Fatty was left in the end because we both had to pull him up the shaft so he could climb up.
Just as the fat man was about to climb up, two prairie otters covered in blood had already rushed into the tomb.
They became extremely crazy and roared like thunder.
Maybe the rest of their family members were killed by the red tiger.
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Even though the red tiger was powerful, Most of them couldn't withstand the group attacks of prairie land otters and were bitten to pieces.
The remaining two prairie otters, whose whole bodies were covered with injuries, had red eyes and chased us fiercely.
They followed us all the way into the tomb.
The fat man looked back and hurriedly climbed up the shaft.
The faster he hurried, the harder it was to climb up.
The prairie ground otters have already rushed to the burrow.
Fortunately, the burrow is too narrow for them to get out.
They keep digging at the soil with their big paws, trying to enlarge the burrow so they can crawl out.
Seeing that the situation was urgent, I picked up Yingzi's submachine gun and threw it to the fat man.
The fat man understood and fired a few shots to force back the grassland otters crowded at the entrance of the thief's cave.
The glazed tiles on the tomb cracked, and bags of fire dragon oil from the Western Regions poured down.
The entire tomb, including the two prairie otters, was engulfed in the fire ignited by the dragon oil.
At the same time, Yingzi and I used our last strength to pull the fat man out of the shaft.
Just like that, the fat man's pants were burned to a large extent by the flames ejected from the robbery hole.
He kept slapping the flames on his buttocks, which hurt.
Yingzi screamed like a pig, and Yingzi quickly used a kettle to put out the fire on his buttocks, and his pants were burned to the point where his buttocks were exposed.
The hunting dogs squatted beside them faithfully, watching the three owners climbing up from the cave.
It was already noon, and the sun was shining brightly.
I rubbed my eyes.
Compared with the dark underground fortress, it felt like a world away.
The fat man covered his buttocks with one hand and raised the two jade pieces obtained from the tomb with the other hand and looked at them.
He couldn't help but get excited about poetry and recited a few famous lines from the long poem about the World War: The flames of war have been extinguished and the smoke has dispersed.
The sun has never been so warm; The sky has never been so blue; The smiles on the children's faces have never been so sweet.
Eiko and I couldn't help laughing.
Have you ever seen a poet covering his buttocks and reciting?
But something unexpected happened, and our smiles quickly froze: