Chapter 70 Counterattack Reversal
The cave was a narrow and long tunnel, the first half still had some water, which could be swum through, the second half slowly retreated, only allowing one person to crawl forward. The mermaid arrived at the place without water, her tail turned into two legs, and the four of us crawled on all fours in the narrow tunnel.
After climbing for about ten minutes, Wang Jue and I were already out of breath, the tunnel was filled with our gasping sounds, but Hou Dayong and Mermaid seemed to have no signs of fatigue. Since ancient times, secret places are always connected by tunnels, it seems that only in this way can they not be easily discovered, but climbing like this is indeed difficult.
Finally, the tunnel came to an end, and I saw Hou Dàyǒng and the mermaid, one after another crawling out of the cave entrance, standing up straight on flat ground. Just as I was about to exit with half my head out, something else happened between them.
The mermaid suddenly produced a dagger from somewhere and stabbed it into Hou Dajun's left chest. Hou Dajun was completely unguarded and was stabbed by this sudden attack, spitting out black blood. I was shocked in my heart and hurriedly crawled to the ground, punching the mermaid on the back of her head with one fist through the bottle tied to my right wrist. It is said that the weakest part of a person's body is the back of the head, where the medulla oblongata is located. When encountering danger, people will naturally cover the back of their head when squatting in an emergency, and from this emergency reaction, it can be seen that the back of the head is a very important position.
However, the mermaid's occipital region seemed to be less fragile than a human's. I punched her through the bottle, and she turned around to look at me without any sign of pain or suffering. She was only clenching the dagger, taking one step after another towards me. Hou Dàyǒng seemed to have been seriously injured, half-sitting on the ground with his hand covering his chest, black blood flowing out from between his fingers.
I slowly backed away, retreating to the edge of the wall. I reached out with my hand and felt that the wall was covered in a fine layer of lime powder. I thought about grabbing some and smearing it on her face when she pounced, then counterattacking while she couldn't see. Just as I was thinking this, Wang Jue appeared behind her, grasping another dagger, and stabbed it into her left lower back.
The doctor was indeed a doctor, and this one knife stabbed extremely accurately. The mermaid's eyes widened, and bright red foam spewed out of her mouth as she fell forward to the ground.
It turned out that this room was an armory, and on the wall to the left of the entrance, a wooden rack was placed, with various blades neatly arranged on it. The mermaid was the first to climb out of the cave, had the opportunity to get the blade first, she hid the dagger behind her back, waiting for Da Yong to come out, preparing to win with one blow. As a result, after my sneak attack failed, I was counterattacked by Wang Jue and succeeded.
After picking up the mermaid, Wang Jue and I rushed to Hou Dàyǒng's side. He was half-closing his eyes, with black blood filling his mouth, and the wound was still bleeding non-stop. Although Wang Jue is a doctor, it's hard to cook without rice, the three of us were all wearing tight-fitting clothes, the mermaid had no clothes, and there wasn't even a piece of cloth in the room that could be used to stop Hou Dàyǒng's bleeding.
"What should I do now?" I asked anxiously.
Hou Dàyǒng grasped my wrist with one hand and said weakly: "Do you still remember the last time we used you for sacrifice?"
As soon as he said that, the unpleasant memories flashed back in my mind. I frowned: "What?"
"Stab your palm with a dagger... let the blood drip onto... my wound." Hou Dàyǒng used all his strength to finish this sentence, it seems he didn't have much energy left.
