Chapter 48: Fat and Gluttonous Old Mouse's Gourd

  Liu Yiduan walked at the forefront, cautiously advancing forward. The flashlight on his arm emitted a white beam of light. When he reached the entrance to the cave where the monster had run in, the beam shone into the cave, scanning up and down and left and right. He found that the inside of the cave was very deep and round, about two meters high.

  After everyone looked around and checked, it seemed that the mouse hole in front of them was the only entrance to move forward. Liu Yi didn't hesitate at all, took the lead and walked in first, Lu Zonghan followed closely behind, tightly gripping his gun, walking side by side with Liu Yi.

  They walked straight for about half a mile, then turned right and went forward for about 200 meters, then turned left and proceeded for 250 steps. They saw an exit but didn't find a big rat.

  However, as they proceeded, they kept hearing a complex and intertwined "squeak" sound, like the cry of mice, or the sound of mice grinding their teeth.

  "Looks like these big rats are sharpening their teeth and waiting for us!"

  Lu Zonghan snorted and pulled out his last grenade: "One more awesome move, one blast to take them down!"

  The voice had just fallen when a loud shout came: "You beast, don't come any closer!"

  A loud shout startled Lu Zonghan and he immediately stopped in his tracks.

  Kirkston suddenly bumped into his back and said discontentedly: "No one called you, why are you walking?"

  Lu Zonghan turned around, covering his mouth and whispered: "Someone!"

  "Hmm... have... hmm... people, what's there to be afraid of!" Koxi was very dissatisfied.

  The rest of them exchanged a glance, and were shocked beyond measure. They all thought the same thing in their minds: "Could it be that besides the Ma family army and foreign witches, there is another group of people who have also arrived here?"

  They were so shocked and frightened all the way, and with their minds full of thoughts about the enemy Ma Jiajun, they forgot what Da Hu Zi had entrusted them to do, which was to find the dumb calabash that followed Huang Houzi into the Death Valley.

  The person who let out a loud roar was none other than Xiao Hei, the humble gourd.

  。

  On that day, he followed the Yellow Monkey and his men as they crossed rivers, climbed mountains, and traversed swamps to arrive at this sacrificial site. In the process of avenging his deceased comrades, he killed several members of the Ma family army, creating the illusion that the victims had been bitten to death by wolves or snakes, without arousing the suspicion of the Ma family army. However, the Ma family army later increased their vigilance, and in order not to expose himself, he did not make another move, continuing to follow them like this because the murderer who killed his wife, Yellow Monkey, was still alive.

  After entering the Goat Jade Palace, he followed the foreign witches behind them. The route they took was consistent with Liu Yi's route. When crossing the "Sheep Intestine Black Hole", he secretly followed behind Ma Jiajun's army. In fact, most of the dead Ma Jiajun soldiers that Liu Yi saw on the road were killed by him.

  Ma Jiajun and his men had vastly different physical abilities, with some crawling out a thousand meters away, while others wandered around two hundred meters away, the distance was quite far, which is why they were able to take advantage of the situation and kill them off one by one like killing chickens.

  He cleared one obstacle after another, and quietly followed the yellow monkey. After climbing for a while, he found that the yellow monkey was actually "crawling backwards" towards him.

  It turned out that this yellow monkey was a coward, who came here for wealth, but on the way, he saw so many strange phenomena and saw many people die in front of him. He got scared and thought it would be better to call his companions behind and turn back to go to the temple, steal some jewels from the wall, and then return by the original route, no longer getting involved in this mess.

  He didn't crawl for long before he felt something was tangled around his ankle, and at first, he thought it was one of his companions behind him. He said "stop messing around" and then stopped to whisper his plan, but after waiting for a while, no one responded, nor could he hear the heartbeat or breathing sound from behind. Suddenly, he was scared out of his wits, thinking that ghosts must have appeared and killed all his companions, and now they were teasing him. So he crawled forward desperately.

  The suffocated gourd is very stuffy and doesn't make a sound. Moreover, he's thinking of teasing the yellow monkey, if it were just a twist of the neck to let him die quickly, it would really be unfair to his deceased fiancée.

  So he just kept following behind, when the yellow monkey felt that the thing behind him was very far away and was about to let out a sigh of relief, the ghost hand began to touch his ankle again, so he continued to climb frantically.

  In this way, crawling and stopping, the yellow monkey unexpectedly discovered a small door, just like Liu Yi and others. The door he found was a wooden door, which he burst open with his head and rushed in. Of course, the gourd followed closely behind him, pursuing relentlessly.

  The yellow monkey climbed into the cave, accelerating forward, and the gourd behind also chased after it. However, it heard the yellow monkey let out a miserable cry as it was bitten by a strange creature that suddenly rushed out at an angle, instantly biting off half of its skull, and rolled around on the ground with a shrill cry.

  I rubbed my eyes and took a closer look, and oh my god, it was actually just a big old mouse with only four large front teeth.

  Only the old mouse was seen, gnawing at the bitten half of its face, eating with relish, and its beady eyes gleaming with malice as it sized up the gourd.

  He was suddenly frightened, thinking that the skull was extremely hard, but this mouse had bitten it with a crisp sound without any effort. He didn't even bother to chop up the yellow monkey's corpse and turned around to escape. At this time, another big mouse rushed out, biting off the remaining half of the yellow monkey's skull, then looked at the gourd.

  He thought to himself: "If I retreat, behind me is a narrow path, if I go back there, behind me will be a big rat again, and I'll definitely die." Thinking of this, he steeled himself, waving his Mongolian curved knife in front of his chest, and charged forward between the two rats, maybe there's a way out ahead.

  。

  Those two old mice were busy enjoying the delicious human bones, too busy to bother with him, and didn't launch an attack on him. They had a calm demeanor, perhaps they knew that this guy was definitely not going to escape their grasp.

  The gourd burst out of the cave with a thrilling but harmless crash, only to find itself on a protruding platform. Under the moonlight, it could be seen that beneath the platform was dark and murky water, leaving no room for escape.

  When he decided to retreat and fight the two big rats again, after killing them, he returned from the narrow path, but when he turned back, he found that four more rats were already staring at him with their beady eyes in the moonlight. He let out a sharp cry, trying to scare them away first. People often say that mice are timid, but it seems that these rats were not scared, instead, they startled Ruzong Han.

  The cave that came out of the gourd is different from Liu Yi's cave, but their destinations are the same.

  Liu Yi and others heard his cry and cautiously exited the cave with their guns.

  "Gourd!" Liu Yi exclaimed in surprise and delight.

  The suffocated gourd heard the shouting, was shocked at first, saw Liu Yi, and was overjoyed, saying: "Shoot them to death, these sons of bitches!"

  The four old mice besieging the gourd looked at Liu Yi and others, but they were not afraid. Instead, they flicked their tails and let out a series of squeaks.

  "It's quite big, but I don't know if it can withstand a fight!" Liu Yi let out a cold hum, and the rifle in his hand spat out flames, bullets whizzing towards a rat.

  The old mouse rolled on the ground and dodged the bullet, but since it was close to the edge of the platform, it fell down with a thud, followed by a splashing sound.

  Liu Yi's shot opened the first round of the human-mouse war.

  "Bang, bang, bang..." The bullets whizzed into the bodies of the three giant rats, producing a dull thud. But to their surprise, the three giant rats dodged and weaved on the platform, avoiding the bullets as they charged towards Liu Yi and his companions.

  Liu Yi and his group were in a precarious situation. Although they held hot weapons, their situation was also very tense.

  These rats are not only large, but also very fat, with a lot of fatty tissue. Bullets enter their bodies like peanuts, and they don't feel any pain at all, but it thoroughly enrages them.

  In an instant, a big rat rushed in front of Liu Yi and bit him with its open mouth.

  Liu Yi's eyes lit up, and with a swift motion, he flipped the rifle over and swung the stock at the large rat's front teeth. Although he hit his mark, the rat's incisors were incredibly hard, not only did they not injure it, but also sent shockwaves through Liu Yi's arm, numbing his hand and causing his wrist to ache.

  "Crack!" After a single sound, the rifle was actually bitten off by that mouse.

  Then the old mouse, smack smack mouth, front paw stood up, and it actually got up, then its paws were extremely sharp, under the moonlight they flashed a cold light.

  "I'm going!" Liu Yi drew out his black jade sword from his waist.

  At this time, the mouse waved its right paw and swiped at Liu Yi.

  。

  Liu Yi hadn't even had time to react when a flash of cold light streaked across his field of vision, and then he saw the old mouse's paw fall off, with fresh blood spurting out. It turned out that the nearby Muffled Gourd had seen Liu Yi in danger and timely lent a hand to assist him.

  He held a Mongolian curved knife in his hand, and with one slash, he cut off the mouse's paw. Instantly, his confidence surged, and then he saw the gourd bottle. The knife in his hand made a horizontal cut, slicing open the mouse's belly.

  The mouse, injured, spun around in a circle on the ground, and then saw its uninjured left paw slap towards the muzzle of the rifle. This muzzle had long been stationed in a protected area, patrolling the wilderness for years, fighting wolves and dancing with eagles - how could it let a single mouse succeed?

  Perhaps with one slash, he gained confidence and saw that he had grabbed the mouse's paw with his left hand and did an over-the-shoulder throw.

  "Bang! Zip, zip......"

  The rat's belly was facing upwards, and it was heavily slammed onto the platform. Then, with a swift motion, a knife was inserted into the rat's lower jaw, and with a quick withdrawal of the hand, the rat's abdomen was ripped open, causing blood to flow all over the ground, and its intestines spilled out.

  "Haha! Not bad for someone of your age!"

  *Applause*

  Liu Yi clapped his hands decisively and said: "Good skills!"

  If four mice attack a gourd, they can't take care of both sides at the same time and may not kill one mouse quickly. However, in a solo fight, it's still a sure win with full marks.

  ……

  At this time, Professor Zhou Tao and Ke Kexi had already retreated into the cave to hide. Lu Zonghan and Ma Liujia were fighting fiercely with two other rats, holding knives in their hands. The two men were riding on the backs of the rats, one hand tightly grasping the rat's neck to prevent being thrown off. The hand holding the knife continuously chopped at the rat's face, producing a "crackling" sound of cutting bone.

  The mouse was in agony, seemingly frantic, spinning around on the spot, seeing that it couldn't shake off the two men, becoming extremely anxious, and suddenly came up with a plan, swiftly using its back to collide into the nearby mountain wall.

  "Ah!" Malacca was chopping vigorously without defense, and was suddenly knocked against the mountain wall, with fresh blood flowing from the corner of his mouth and stars in his eyes.

  Lu Zonghan reacted quickly and landed steadily on the platform with a backflip. Seeing Malacca injured and falling to the ground, he didn't think much and rushed forward to assist with his knife.

  At this time, Liu Yi and Mèn Hú Lù who were flattering each other on the other side also flew over to lend a hand.

  Under the coordination of the three, they fought bloody battles and dug out the eyes of the remaining two old mice and opened their bellies.

  As they applauded, in the dark and narrow path they had gone through, a person who was killed by a dumbbell actually moved, touched his face with one hand, looked down at the fresh blood on the other hand, then remained bowed and slowly backed away...

  Who is he?

  Where is he going?

  All is unknown!