Chapter 8 bird fish fight

All the people were stunned, they had never seen such a fish.Although these fish are not big, there are many, and the number should far exceed the number of birds.The appearance of the fish is ugly: a big head, a big mouth, full of sharp teeth; the fish has no scales, and the tail is forked and horizontal.Judging from these two characteristics, these are less like fish and more like dolphins. All the people were shocked, they had never seen such a scene.This is a fight between birds and fish, but it is no less fierce and tragic than a bloody battle. The flock of birds attacked first, heading straight for the water.The strange fish in the water move faster, the last strikes first, and the number of jumping out of the water is much more than the flock of birds.This is because the monster fishes are small in size and dense in groups. Not only can they jump up with the help of splashing water, but they can also use their bodies to borrow strength from each other.In addition, it is also because this place is not a large water surface, but a narrow and winding trail of accumulated water, so the birds cannot jump down together.At the same time, their flight is also affected by the reeds and the curvature of the path, so they can only take turns to sweep down.

Although there are many strange fish jumping out of the water, they may not be able to return to the water after jumping out.The black crow can use its swift and dexterous beak and claws to catch the strange fish jumping in mid-air directly during the flight, and some can even catch two or more at once. Most of the black crows who caught the strange fish in the air immediately pecked and clawed the strange fish to shreds, and then quickly flew out of the water with the dead fish. However, due to the poor position of the claws, some black crows could not kill the strange fish in time and flew away in a hurry under the vigorous struggle of the strange fish, so as to avoid being attacked by other strange fish in the water.And those black ravens who caught two or more fish at once had even less chance to kill the strange fish they had already caught.

Many black crows that didn't kill the strange fish they caught in time didn't fly too high or too far. They saw that they flapped their wings a few times before falling back down again, without even a sign of gliding. The one planted among the reeds became motionless after breaking a reed tip.If it falls directly on the water, it will cause a bigger splash.Then the bird's body disappeared instantly in the splash, not even a single feather was left, only adding some red to the turbid gray-yellow water surface.It was as if there was a pair of sharp-edged meat reamers under the splash of water.

As for the fishes that fell down with the black ravens, no matter whether the birds finally landed in the water or on the reeds, they could bounce back to the water. "Ah, that strange fish killed the black poya in the air." Zhang Jin'ao's best skill is hitting locust rocks, and his eyesight is different from that of ordinary people, so he can clearly see some details of what happened in the air. "The fins on both sides of that strange fish are in the shape of curved thorns. After being caught by the black crow, it struggles and twists, and the curved thorns may penetrate into the bird's body. As soon as it penetrates, the black crow will immediately fall down. .”

"What? Could this be 'Tiger Teeth Poisonous Sting'?" Zhao Kuangyin gasped and broke out in a cold sweat. "Tiger teeth with poisonous thorns", a rare freshwater fish, has been completely extinct since the Yuan Dynasty. Modern popular science books such as "Huaxia Fish Species" and "Fishes with Complete Records of Extinct Species" all say that this fish was a species brought in by tribute from foreign domains during the Tang Dynasty.The tiger-tooth venomous thorn is a gregarious fish with no scales on its body and looks like a dolphin. It reproduces quickly, is vicious, bloodthirsty, and likes to eat meat.Judging from various characteristics, this should be the earliest piranha in China.There is a story about "noisy water swallows people" in "The Handbook of Anecdotes of Murder" written by Pan Lishu, a native of Wu during the Five Dynasties of the Later Liang Dynasty. Leaving blood and bones.The noisy water in this story is likely to be a large group of "tiger teeth and thorns".

"Attention, although the monster fish has a big mouth and sharp teeth, the real damage is not in the tiger teeth, but in the stinger. You can see clearly that it is the fin spines on both sides of the body. The poison on the spines is the fish's own liver. The secreted 'liver attacks the brain'. The toxicity can make big animals like cows and horses fall to the ground and die instantly." Zhao Kuangyin knows this fish very well, because his younger brother Zhao Kuangyi was once poisoned by this fish.Zhao Kuangyi was rescued by the master of the axe, so he did not die from poisoning, but more than a dozen tooth holes were left on his body.

"The characteristic of the strange fish is that it only moves its mouth and does not move its stinger when it is not being attacked. Once it is attacked, the stinger will unfold and secrete venom." Zhao Kuangyin added, but this seems to be nonsense.Could it be that they just stood there motionless and let the strange fish bite them until they turned into red soup and white bones?If this is the case, it would be better to be stabbed by a poisonous thorn and die happily. "Master Zhao means that if those strange fish don't attack us, then we must not take the initiative to provoke them." Zhang Jin'ao added, in fact, he himself didn't know whether this could explain Zhao Kuangyin's real intention.

The battle between the black crow and the tiger-toothed stinger turned from fierce and tragic to bloody.At the beginning, the black crow grabbed the tiger-tooth venomous thorn to kill and flew aside to devour it, but later it became a direct kill.After catching, pecking, biting and tearing, they throw it away directly, and then fly around and turn around to catch and kill again.This kind of killing without follow-up purpose made the black crow's attack simpler and more direct, and it was precisely because of this change that fewer and fewer birds were stabbed to death by the tiger-toothed stinger.

But this situation didn't last long, and the tiger-tooth poisonous thorn Ang immediately changed his state.Their swimming has obviously slowed down, and the splashes on the water surface are not as violent as before.And there are always some tiger-toothed poisonous thorns floating on the water surface, and the water birds don't jump up when they jump down, as if they are waiting to be caught and killed.But if this fish does not jump up, it does not mean that other fish will not jump up. When the black crow aims at the tiger-toothed stinger floating on the water surface, other tiger-toothed stingers will suddenly jump out. , stabbing the black raven that skimmed close to the surface of the water.

The desperate battle continued, and the scope of the battle was getting closer and closer to where Zhao Kuangyin and the others were.And before the tiger-toothed thorns in the water swam up to them, the flight range of the black crow had already enveloped them. There was a sound of "crack", something fell from the sky and landed on a tiger guard's bamboo hat. "What?!" The sudden sound frightened the extremely nervous Tiger Guard under the bamboo hat, and scared him out of his wits. "It's all right." On the contrary, Hu Wei, who was splashed on his face by falling objects, comforted him. "It's nothing, it's just some bird droppings. Birds often use bird droppings as weapons when they are angry and attack, and they fly down and pull the bird droppings... Ah! No, what happened to my eyes? I can't see my eyes! My face I don’t even feel it anymore! Ah! Ah!” The tiger guard got into trouble before he finished speaking, he scratched his face with his hands, and finally couldn’t even speak because his face was completely numb.

"Grab his hand and don't let him touch his mouth. The black crow preyed on the venomous thorns of the tiger's teeth, so the feces are highly poisonous." Zhao Kuangyin rolled his eyes and immediately thought that this should be the case.But it was too late for him to stop, the hand of the tiger guard who wiped his eyes with some bird droppings had already wiped his lips.So before the people next to him grabbed his arm, the Tiger Guard fell straight down, his body twitched violently a few times and then stopped moving. "Ah, I'm dead, I'm going to die!" "We can't escape, we all have to die!" Zhao Kuangyin's dozen or so subordinates were on the verge of collapse.The poisonous sticklebacks that eat human flesh underwater have already made them feel that there is no way to escape, and now there are more birds dropping poisonous dung in the sky. "Shut up, you're so noisy, aren't you afraid of bird droppings falling into your mouth?" Zhang Jin'ao stopped the wailing of his subordinates with a loud yell. "I told you, now whether we are bitten to death by fish in the water or poisoned by bird droppings in the sky, we have to use our bodies to pave the way for Mr. Zhao to go out safely." "Don't say that, as long as everyone works together, there will be no disasters that cannot be escaped!" Zhao Kuangyin poked the dragon stick in his hand down heavily, and said with pride.But these words are purely meant to encourage everyone's courage.Facing the death situation in front of him, he could only pray for God's blessing. The coiling dragon stick stuck in the water and penetrated into the sand, making a strange sound.It wasn't the sound of splashing water, nor the muffled sound of sticks sinking into the soil, but the sound of continuous metal collisions.No!To be more precise, it should be like the sound of a stringed plectrum for playing a piano lightly scratching across the steel scale armor. "Ah, Panlong Shulin! Could it be that God really came to help me?" Zhao Kuangyin raised his eyebrows, his eyes shone brightly, his chest and courage rose again, and his momentum penetrated his body like flames. This Zhao Kuangyin was the founding emperor of a generation, and countless strange things happened to him.Among the folk classics that we are familiar with in history, there are two things related to him that are ranked first.One is that the surname Zhao is ranked first because it was compiled in the early Northern Song Dynasty.The other one is "Tian Qi", which ranks the rare and rare wares from the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Song Dynasty.Among them, the Panlong stick in the hands of Zhao Kuangyin, the ancestor of the Song Dynasty, was listed as the first among them, above the nine sun and moon seals, the official kiln porcelain from Kaipian, the Fenglai instrument flute, and the Jizhou convex porcelain and other wonderful utensils. It is different from the fact that the Panlong stick can rank the first among all the ancient utensils and that the surname Zhao ranks the first among the hundreds of surnames. It is not entirely because of Zhao Kuangyin, but because of its own magic. First of all, the material used to make this plate of dragon sticks is unique in the world, with many magical qualities, and its origin is extremely extraordinary.In the Jin Dynasty, the King of Sanjiang in Wudi set up a copper-iron mixed-cast dragon column on the north bank of Qiantang in order to suppress the disaster caused by the water monsters in the Qiantang River and drive the tide to the shore, and named it "Breaking the Tide Pestle".In order to increase the deterrence and spirituality of the "tide-breaking pestle", local beheading of prisoners is also carried out here, and the empty blood after the beheading of prisoners is sprayed on the tide-locking pillar. The "Breaking Chaos Pestle" was pulled down by reckless bandits at the end of the Sui Dynasty and used to forge weapons.However, the "breaking tide pestle" that was pulled down left a pillar root under the cornerstone. The shape of the "tide pestle" was further improved and beautified, and finally made into a gold-plated panlong stick. This Coiling Dragon Stick is very exquisitely made. Its whole body is a dragon coiled on the stick. The head of the stick is the head of the dragon, and the tail of the stick is the tail of the dragon.This is just the appearance, what's more ingenious is that this dragon is a living dragon.As long as the machine is opened, the coiled dragon body can be separated from the stick immediately, and all the scales on the dragon's body stand upside down, turning into countless small sharp blades, only the dragon's tail is always connected to the stick.In this way, the coiling dragon stick becomes a long soft whip, the stick body is the whip shaft, the long dragon body is the whip body, and the dragon head is the whip head.When it is swung, not only the dragon head can hit the opponent hard like a meteor hammer, but also the erected scales are sharp. As long as it touches the body, the skin will be ripped apart, and the bones will be broken. Because this dragon stick is made from the pillar root of the "Chaochao Pestle", it has accumulated all the essence and spirituality absorbed from the "Chaochao Pestle".When the sun and the moon change, its color will change.When in danger, it will issue a dragon-like "buzz" sound to warn.And when there is an opportunity to borrow power, which indicates that you can fight bravely, the dragon body will shake its scales from the beginning to the end as if excited.

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