Chapter 21 dog flying

I don't know if the thing coming over will be afraid of the ghost in the phantom of "Nie Jingtai", or maybe the thing itself is a ghost.Ghosts should not be afraid of ghosts, but Yan Luo in the illusion should be afraid. "That thing was not blocked by the 'Nie Jingtai', and its forward pace did not stop at all. It is strange, how can a person's footsteps be so light, and there is a little disorder in the steps. It is so light and chaotic that it does not look like a person walking around , it looks like a child crawling with its palm on the ground." The more Qin Shengsheng said, the more frightening he felt.But Qi Junyuan and Wang Yanba didn't believe this frightening statement, and even suspected that Qin Shengsheng was deliberately acting strangely to scare them.Because they have never seen any traces of weird things appear.

"It's close, not a few steps away." Qin Shengsheng's tone already had a hint of despair. "Something is coming, and there is a strong stench of beasts." Wang Yanba finally discovered something. "That's right, if there is anyone in the world who doesn't know hell and is not afraid of Yama, it is only a beast. And if there is anything in the world who is trapped in the palace of Yama and can follow our trail, it is only a beast that can smell." Son." Qi Junyuan came to a conclusion. Hearing what Qi Junyuan said, Wang Yanba removed the "Nie Jingtai" without even thinking about it, because the facts showed that this setting didn't work at all.But he didn't think about why this beast came here, and whether it was brought by someone.He didn't think about withdrawing the illusion himself. Although he could see the beasts behind him, the person who brought the beasts could also see them clearly.

"Ah, little tiger!" Qin Shengsheng's eyes were quick, but it didn't mean that she could recognize what was following. "No, why is the tiger so dark? It's a dog. Listen to the humming in its throat, just like a dog. It must be a tiger-headed dog, brought into Middle Earth by the Persians." The hum was used as evidence to refute Qin Shengsheng's statement, but he ignored that this kind of hum usually only appeared before the beast launched an attack. "Be careful, this thing can fly! It's Qiongqi! The beast Qiongqi!" When Qi Junyuan yelled, a pair of kun-fishing hooks had already been released.

"Shan Hai Jing · Xi Shan Jing" has "It is two hundred and sixty miles west, called Mount Zhu. There is a beast on it, which looks like a cow and a hedgehog. It is called Qiongqi, and its sound is like a dog. It is a cannibal." When Guo Pu commented, he also praised it in a poem: "The poor and strange beast has an ugly shape; it gallops to chase away evil spirits, and everyone runs around; it is named after it, and it is called a god dog." In Zhang Dai's "Night Sailing Boat" in the Ming Dynasty, Qiongqi was defined as "Qongqi, a god dog who looks like a tiger and has wings and can fly... When you meet loyal and trustworthy people, you eat them; when you meet treacherous people , then catch birds and beasts to feed them."

In addition to these three descriptions, there are other descriptions of Qiongqi in other ancient books and materials, but the descriptions are different.From the above three paragraphs, it can be seen that there are great deviations in people's identification of Qiongqi.why?Because what the author saw and heard was not the same beast.Especially with the record in "Night Sailing Ship", the biggest difference is that the former did not mention being able to fly, while the latter said it could fly.So someone later concluded that it was recorded as Qiongqi, and "Night Voyage Boat" was recorded as a god dog, but Guo Pu confused the two when annotating.

What Qi Junyuan and the others saw must not be the ancient beasts, because this kind of beasts had been extinct before Shang Zhou.However, it is possible that what they saw was a god dog, a breed made by crossing a dog with some other beast.This kind of animal that looks like a dog but not a dog appeared many times in the late Tang Dynasty. At that time, people said that the appearance of this monster was God's prediction that the Tang Dynasty would be destroyed, so the folks called this animal Qiongtang. Poor Tang doesn't look like a cow, but he does look like a tiger, but much smaller than a tiger.There is no hedgehog fur, and the skin is pitch black.There are bones protruding out of the soft ribs, and when the waist and abdomen contract when jumping vigorously, the bones will protrude more obviously.The protruding bones spread the skin on both sides, really like spreading out two wings of meat.So Qiongtang can't really fly, but its own vertical jump is extremely fast and high, and the bones stretch the outer skin, allowing it to play a short-term gliding effect during the vertical jump, which looks like it is flying.

A not-so-small beast opened its mouth wide open. After standing up straight, it volleyed and swooped down rapidly.This situation made it difficult for Qin Shengsheng and Wang Yanba to react for a while, they spread their hands and waited for Qiongtang to speak.Fortunately, there was Qi Junyuan next to him, and he had already made a double hook while warning the two of them. Qi Junyuan planned to throw a hook into the beast's open mouth, and another hook to catch the beast's soft belly.In this way, once the two hooks are inserted into the flesh, and both sides exert force at the same time, the beast can be torn in half with the hook blade.

But just after his hook flew less than three steps away, there was a "pop" sound not far away, which was like the clear and crisp sound of tendons and ropes bouncing like firecrackers.Following the sound, Qi Junyuan knew by the feeling of grasping the hook that the kun hook in front of him was hit by something and bounced back.Immediately, the two kun-fishing hooks at the front and rear made a clear sound of metal colliding with each other.And the flying poor Tang suddenly twisted his body in the air, let out a rolling muffled groan in his throat, turned back and stopped after a dozen steps, looking at the three of them with a pair of bright green eyes.

The sky is completely dark now, and it is difficult to see some details clearly with the help of skylight.So Qi Junyuan infers what happened based on the sound and feeling. The sound of "snap" was someone shooting something with the tendons of the bow frame, but that thing was not used to attack them, but knocked away the hook that was attacking the soft belly of the beast.Being able to distinguish a flying hook in the dark and hit it with a bow weapon, this is already a rare master in the Jianghu.But what was even more powerful was that he not only hit the hook in front of him, but also hit the hook back and used it to hit another hook. Even rare masters could do this skill.But the magic didn't end there, the person who used the bow to shoot the hooks was able to properly control the position of the two hooks at the moment of impact.This position happened to be right next to the ear of the flying monster, so the crisp metal impact and a few bursting sparks stimulated the monster's sensitive hearing and soft ears.This is both a signal and an order, telling the monster to turn back immediately.

"The archer's bow shooting skills have reached the point where it is impossible to judge." This is Qi Junyuan's final judgment from the three levels of hook shooting, hook hitting, and hook sound.And this final judgment made Qi Junyuan say with certainty: "The dumb is here!" The mute really arrived, with a bow and a crossbow hanging on his back.But he didn't use a crossbow to deal with Qi Junyuan's hook, what he used was only a slingshot made of black iron wood and old tendon. Qi Junyuan took two steps forward, protecting the two young children behind his back.At the same time, these two steps are also to understand what kind of marble the mute used just now, and why there was no sound when he hit the kun hook in front of him.

The thin-soled shoes stepped on the ground two steps away, and immediately knew that there was a piece of fine sand scattered on the ground.It turned out that the dumb guy was made out of moist fine sand and shot out with a slingshot.In other words, it was a ball of sand that slammed into his hook and flew upside down, no wonder there was no sound.However, it can also be seen how much force the sand ball put in when it was shot, and it was able to calmly hit back the hook that Qi Junyuan threw eagerly.The same should be true of the wild game that the mute brought to the market, which was shot with sand and mud balls.So those game meats didn't have any scars or bloodstains on the outside, but after cutting them open, it was found that the hearts of the game meats had all been ruptured by the strong shock. When Qi Junyuan saw the uninjured game of the mute at the door of the tea house, he thought that it should have been caught with clever tools, or it must have been shaken to death.Whether it is cleverness or strength, it shows that the mute is not an ordinary person.From this, it can be inferred that the mute is probably the person Gu Li arranged to wait for him here.Because apart from masters of Gongjin or Gongqi, there are very few people in the world who can possess such strength and skills, and even if there are, they will not be so coincidentally allowed to meet in this Xiuwanji.Furthermore, apart from the assassins trained strictly in Lihen Valley, how many masters with unique skills are so tolerant when being bullied by hooligans?Maybe even being dumb is pretending, but pretending to be dumb is actually an excellent exercise for a person's endurance, tolerance, and control. "Are you really dumb?" Qi Junyuan asked directly, not shying away from other people's disabilities. To prove that he was a real dumb, the dumb opened his mouth.There is no tongue in the mouth, only the root of the tongue.This shows that the mute was not born dumb, and his tongue was cut off later.Without a tongue one cannot speak, without a tongue one cannot taste.That's why people in the world say that dumb people with severed tongues are the most miserable. They can hear but can't speak.Their tongues only have the root of the tongue, and the tip of the tongue can taste sweet and fresh, while the root of the tongue can only taste bitter and spicy.It's not surprising that the mute would exchange wild game for wine at the tea house. Since he can only taste bitter and spicy, it's better to choose spicy in comparison. Qi Junyuan knew that it was difficult to understand too many things from a mute, but there were some things that had to be asked, even if the object of the inquiry was a mute. "Are you a Guke?" Hearing this question, the mute shook his head. "Then you are Gu Sheng?" Qi Junyuan was a little skeptical when he asked this question, because he knew that Gu Sheng in Lihen Valley should at least be healthy.People with physical disabilities are easy to be noticed, and being noticed means that there will be loopholes in the process of stabbing. Unexpectedly, the mute nodded repeatedly this time, and then wrote a few words crookedly on the ground with a branch.It took Qin Shengsheng a while to recognize these words: "He wrote about Niu King Kong and Flying Star." "Niu King Kong is your name? Flying Star is your hidden name?" The mute nodded and grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. "You can write?" The mute nodded, then pointed to the words on the ground and stretched out a palm towards Qi Junyuan, which meant to tell him that he knew these five. "So which genus are you in?" The dumb clenched his fists and raised his arms, showing a very strong look.No need to ask carefully, this posture can be seen at a glance to represent "Li Ji Tang". "You are Gu Sheng, why are you here and not in Lihen Valley? Did you receive some order to wait for us here?" The mute was babbling and making gestures, but the three of them couldn't understand them. "I only know five characters, so how do you understand the 'Lumang Jian' that came out of the valley?" Qi Junyuan was suddenly puzzled. The mute babbled and made several gestures again, this time Qin Shengsheng seemed to see something. "Brother Qi, the gesture he made seems to be a bird." The mute nodded quickly after hearing Qin Shengsheng's words. "What's the matter with the birds, the 'Lumang Jian' passed down in Lihen Valley is all birds. The 'Lumang Jian' I received is the arrow pigeon (a breed of pigeon, it is said that it flies very fast, it is the arrow that shoots Can’t even catch up.) Teleported.” Qi Junyuan didn’t turn the corner for a while. "His birds must be different from ours. They should be parrots and starlings." After Qin Shengsheng said this, the mute immediately gave a thumbs up. "However, it's still very strange. Why did Gu Li let him wait for us here? He can't say anything clearly, and he can't write, so how can he convey the next instruction." Hearing this, the mute gestured again.Seeing that everyone was looking at him blankly, unable to understand the meaning of the gesture, the mute slapped his forehead, turned around and whistled a few times towards the river.As soon as the whistle stopped, a light black figure flew out from the reeds, circled around and finally landed on the mute's shoulder.