Chapter 6: Deserters(1/2)
On the 31st day after leaving the village and the 21st day after entering the desert, a different scenery finally emerged in the sky.
It was a vast white cloud.
When everyone saw this scene, they couldn't help but be stunned.
Yes, it is not the expected woods, nor the green grasslands, but the clouds and mists.
Until they approached, they found that what was crossing in front of them was a huge canyon.
On this side of the canyon is a bare desert with layers of dead grass at the bottom, and on the other side of the canyon is a vast white mist.
Through the canyon, they could vaguely see a lush forest in the fog. The point is that the other side of the canyon is completely covered by fog, but the other side of the canyon is clear... dozens of feet away, as if two worlds were two.
This is a magical scene that I have never seen before. Facing this strange scene, everyone couldn't help but be confused.
“Where is this?”
"Do you think... there seems to be an invisible wall that traps all the fog there?" After saying that, the monkey turned around and looked at his friends.
Everyone looked at each other.
This question is destined to be no one can answer. For such a group of little demons living at the bottom, there are too many things in this world that they cannot explain.
In the distance, the monkey saw a cable bridge across both sides of the canyon swaying in the wind, and a stone tablet stood beside the bridge.
Pull away the dead grass and reveal the words on it.
The monkey looked at the somewhat dilapidated black stone tablet, and for a long time, frowned and read, "What mountain?"
"Wanshou Mountain." Bai Shuang corrected.
"Wanshou Mountain? Is this mountain?" The monkey's brows frowned even more.
There was a vast white area in front of me, and what I could vaguely see was just some grass and trees growing on the edge of the cliff. Behind these fog is a mountain?
"Has anyone ever heard of Wanshou Mountain?"
"No."
"I haven't heard of it."
The demons shook their heads one by one.
If it was just a mountain shrouded in the fog, it would be nothing, but this was obviously not in front of me.
These fogs are like being trapped by some kind of spell, or they are simply mists generated by spells. This means that there should be a special place inside the fog, and someone wants to protect it?
There is a bridge that can be walked over at any time, but I just rushed into a "protected place" in this way, okay?
The long-term wandering experience made the monkey unable to help but feel a little confused.
"What should I do now? Will I go?" Dahong asked in a low voice.
"What about it? Looking back?" Niu Tou asked.
Hearing the word "turn back", Feichan immediately started yelling: "If you don't reply, you won't reply even if you beat him to death! Even if you are beaten to death, it's better than starving to death!"
"Eat, you know how to eat all day!"
"You don't eat?"
"You dare to talk back on you? You eat the most, and you won't do anything!"
Dahong raised the stick in his hand angrily and wanted to beat him. He ran away with his fat intestine and rushed behind the bull's head. He continued to shout: "I don't care, I won't go back! I won't go back! I won't go back if I beat him to death!"
From beginning to end, the monkey's eyes were always on the iron chain bridge, as if the things around him had nothing to do with him.
Dahong became even more angry when he was yelling at Fat Intestine. He waved his stick and insisted on hitting Fat Intestine. Helplessly, Niuta, Black Tail, and Bai Shuang had to come forward to stop him and push him for a while.
At this moment, the monkey suddenly raised his foot and stepped on the first wooden board of the iron chain bridge with a "bang".
"Hello!"
With a shout, everyone suddenly became quiet and looked at the monkey.
Pointing at his feet on the wooden board, the monkey said leisurely: "If, if we can go to the opposite side, it should mean that we can enter the place. This is the first foot. If we can do such a big battle, there is no reason not to know that we are here."
He looked around and after confirming that nothing had happened, the monkey raised his legs again. As everyone was watching, he slowly took the second step and stepped firmly on the second pedal of the iron chain bridge.
Everyone held their breath.
Or nothing happened.
The monkey breathed a sigh of relief.
"So... can you pass?" The demons looked at each other.
"Of course, right?" As he said, the monkey slowly grinned and shouted, "Brothers, the hard days have passed!"
Suddenly, everyone cheered.
However, at this moment, with a "swoosh" sound, an arrow fell from the sky and landed accurately at the monkey's feet!
The arrow feather was still vibrating, making a "buzzing" sound.
For a moment, the cheers seemed to be cut off, and everyone's eyes widened.
"Gao—!" A shout came.
Looking up, they saw a chariot galloping towards this place along the canyon!
Yes, a chariot, a silver-white chariot. The two white horses in front of the chariot had a pair of white wings, four hooves, dragging the chariot behind them to fly in the air. In a blink of an eye, they were only a hundred feet apart from them.
There were three people standing in the car, two of whom were wearing silver armor, one was pulling the reins to control the direction, and the other was holding a longbow, looking coldly at Monkey and others. The blue flag hanging behind the car was pierced with the word "Sky Survey".
As for the last person in the car, the Taoist priest who was chasing Bai Shuang...
The moment he saw him, Bai Shuang's heart suddenly became cold.
"He has attracted all the heavenly troops..."
This is probably the worst case.
There is a wish tree in the heavenly court. Through the wish tree, gods and immortals can learn about the wishes made by humans in the mortal world through temples and various magical instruments. It is simply an ubiquitous intelligence network. In cooperation with it are the chariots of the Heavenly Palace, who can quickly rush to every corner of the mortal world.
This is also the reason why ordinary little monsters walk around human settlements. Where there are people, there are temples, and there is also information network of heaven. Before they are powerful enough, exposing their identity is equivalent to death.
"It's her! It's that woman, she's the White Bone Spirit!" The Taoist priest pointed at Bai Shuang and shouted.
When his eyes fell on the monkey, the bow-holding general hesitated for a moment: "Two spiritual races?"
"Two? It seems that the military achievements this time are quite good!" The general who was driving suddenly activated the horse whip and accelerated wildly.
With this acceleration, the Taoist priest was so scared that he quickly grabbed the general's hand and cried: "Slow down! Slow down!"
At this moment of hesitation, the chariot had already arrived in the middle of the iron chain bridge. The general holding the reins quickly waved his horse whip and rushed towards the monkey with a sharp turn.
"Run quickly! Why are you still stunned?" The monkey pulled Bai Shuang, who was still in shock, and turned around and ran towards the desert. The other friends quickly followed one by one and ran wildly. Even the fat intestines, which had wounds on their bodies, seemed to be healed instantly, and they walked as fast as if they were flying.
However, with the strength of his feet, how can he escape the Tianjun chariot? In this empty desert, there is not even a place to hide.
In a blink of an eye, the chariot had flew over their heads and reached dozens of feet in front of them.
"Slow down! Slow down!"
The Taoist priest was still crying, and the general who had been impatient had swung it directly and drove it away.
"It's over, this time it's over, we're out of help!" Dahong couldn't help crying.
Everyone looked at the chariot floating in the distance in the air, turning the front of the car.
The bow-holding general had already drawn a second arrow from the arrow bag and placed it on the bowstring.
This arrow may not be able to escape.
Suddenly, just when everyone was completely lost, no reason, an iron chain suddenly rose up from the ground a hundred feet away, hooking the wheels of the chariot.
Everyone just watched helplessly, watching the chariot being torn from the sky without warning and landed behind the hillside. The Taoist priest fell in front of the monkey and fell to dust.
The Taoist struggled to get up and found that a group of monsters were looking at him. He was so scared that he limped towards the back of the small hill behind him. However, soon... he ran back.
Just under the astonished gaze of monkey and others, he passed by them in shame and ran to the iron chain bridge.
"What's going on?" Before the tears could fall, Dahong couldn't react a little.
Not only Dahong, but the others were also confused at this time.
The monkey tiptoed forward, carefully climbed up the hillside, and poked his head out.
About a hundred feet behind the hillside, the Tianjun's chariot had been smashed into a pile of broken copper and iron, and the Tianma was wrapped in ropes and could not be broken. Not far from the chariot, fierce battle had begun.
The harsh sound of weapons collisions, shouts of killing, and roars. The meteor hammers thrown out in the air lifted up sand and dust everywhere. In the hazy, the monkeys could only vaguely see a few figures wearing brown armor passing through them. Some of them used scimitars, some used maces, and some used giant axes. Various weapons were varied. The two besieged generals were obviously at a disadvantage.
"Who is it?" Bai Shuang asked in a low voice.
"I don't know, it seems to be... a demon." The monkey replied casually.
The little demons all widened their eyes and held their breath.
One of the generals soared into the air and broke through the battlefield covered with sand and dust. However, before he could completely escape, he was hooked by the flying claws thrown from below. With a scream, he was dragged back.
"I'm going to win?" Bai Shuang asked hurriedly.
"Don't talk, don't talk... Just look at it carefully." From beginning to end, the monkey's eyes never left the dust.
To be continued...