Chapter 1 Tiger Jiao Rumors(1/2)
"It is rumored that all creatures like Tiger Dragon live in the water at the foot of Prayer Mountain. I have never heard of any other place."
"Who said no? I don't know what crazy the county magistrate suddenly sucked, and insisted that we look for this strange thing on Zhongwu Mountain."
"Hey, I want to say, it's better not to have it. That's a legendary species, ancient beasts, can we mortals covet?"
"Hmph, I'm not afraid, I've said that the tiger dragon that appears here is still a newly born baby. What can I be afraid of? I've really caught it and rewarded with a thousand gold medals, enough for me to marry a few big-butt daughters-in-law."
"No matter how much money you give this reward, you have to be able to get it..."
Two tall young hunters, wrapped in animal skins, carrying arrows and holding spears, were searching for the prey along the mountain stream, led by an elderly hunter.
This is an old hunter with wrinkles and dark skin on his face. Three scratches on his left eye made his face that should have looked wide and thicker.
Although the eyes are turbid, they are always vigilant and sharp. Just from these eyes, people can understand that this is a weather-beaten and experienced hunter.
His eyes were not only staring at the stream beneath his feet, but also at the dense forest beside him, always alerting to possible dangers.
"Uncle Li, we're tired after leaving for so long. Why don't we find a place to take a rest first."
A man with dark skin but fat body among the young hunters, big and round waist, wiped the sweat from his forehead and suggested.
"Yes, Uncle Li, what if you encounter a wild beast if you are in poor physical strength in this deep mountain forest?"
Another young hunter with a tall figure also agreed. Although he was not sweating on his face, he was out of breath and walked frivolously.
The old hunter, known as Uncle Li, glanced at the tall and thin hunter beside him, "I understand Dachun can't walk, I can't walk, Toyama, you can't walk, I'm afraid you've been tormenting your wife a lot yesterday, right?"
"Hehe, isn't this because we're going to stay in the mountains for a while? The one in the family was tightly entangled yesterday."
Toyama scratched his head, feeling quite embarrassed.
"Hmph, look at you, old man, I am almost in my sixties. I had a fight last night. Let's see how it is today? I'm still alive."
Uncle Li snorted, with disdain in his tone.
"No, Uncle Li, you are at your age, that thing is working well."
Toyama immediately gave a thumbs up, leaving only Otaka on the side to watch the two of them talking with some envy.
"Don't think I'm older, but this gun..."
"...I've never been soft when I should stand up!" With a stoop, the spear in Uncle Li's hand suddenly pierced out, hitting a long strip at the foot of Toy Mountain.
The two young hunters quickly looked at it and found that it was a colorful long worm, a triangular head, and two slender fangs. It was obvious that it was highly toxic at first glance.
Toyama originally wanted to ask Uncle Li if he had any secrets for maintenance, but when he saw the worm's appearance, he was immediately scared and sweated.
Fortunately, Uncle Li's spear was pierced at the edge of the worm's head, so that he could not make any progress.
"It's a water drill. If you get bitten, one of your legs will be considered useless."
Uncle Li used a spear to move the long worm closer, squinted his eyes and observed that the water drill was a poisonous snake unique to Zhongwu Mountain, semi-aquatic and highly toxic.
"This time, thanks to Uncle Li, who is carrying this insect. This long insect is still hidden secretly. How did you discover it?"
Toyama wiped the sweat that did not exist on his forehead and asked curiously.
Those who rely on their own to make a living often have to deal with these poisonous snakes and beasts. Although he was chatting just now, he did not completely relax his vigilance, so why did he let the worm get close to him?
"Old man, I spent most of my life on the mountain, and I have seen a lot of this thing." Uncle Li didn't hide anything.
"Look at the stream next to it, the water drills are strong. Where it lives, other fish and shrimp will not exist."
The two looked up the stream and found that they could not even see the fish in the stream.
"It can be observed that Uncle Li, you are so amazing." Dachun exclaimed.
"Okay, take out the bag and put this worm in it."
Every time they go up the mountain, they walk on the tip of a knife. It is natural that they can't keep an eye on the tiger dragon beast that the county magistrate said.
"Okay."
Dachun untied a tied burlap bag from his body. At this time, Uncle Li had pulled out his spear from the poisonous snake that was constantly twisting his body and stabbed it on his head.
The spear tip rotated left and right, and the poisonous snake soon disappeared.
Dachun squatted down and was about to pretend to be the dead snake corpse.
A black shadow swooped down from the sky in an instant and grabbed the snake corpse.
Dachun was startled at first, but then furious, lifting the spear in his hand and about to stab it.
"Stop, are you crazy?"
A slightly thin but extremely powerful hand stopped him.
"But..." Dachun looked at Uncle Li's serious and ugly face, and then looked at the black eagle with an adult's chest that was pecking at the worm as if nothing had happened. A trace of unwillingness flashed in his eyes.
But he finally put down the spear in his hand and lowered his head in a bit frustrated.
"I have said the rules of Zhongwu Mountain so many times, can't you remember it? Do you believe it or not, if you stabbed it just now, all of us on this mountain will suffer."
Facing the silent touch of the poisonous snake in front of him, Uncle Li, who was chatting and laughing, became angry and scolded him sternly.
Da Chun lowered her head and did not refute.
Uncle Li was even more angry, but he was worried about something and forced his anger to suppress his anger.
He bowed to the position of the goshawk and said guilty.
I took out a palm-long ginseng from my body and placed it next to the goshawk.
Dachun wanted to say something when he saw Uncle Li's actions, but his mouth opened, but he didn't say it after all.
The goshawk, who was originally pecking at the snake's flesh, then turned around and walked up to grab the ginseng without panic, then turned his head to peck at the remaining snake's flesh.
Seeing the goshawk accepting ginseng, Uncle Li sighed and left with two young hunters.
Only the black goshawk was still standing by the stream and pecking at it as if nothing had happened. Apart from receiving the ginseng offered by the hunter, it did not care about the few humans in front of it throughout the whole process.
It seemed that they would not do anything, but they just treated a few people as air or plants in the mountains.
Suddenly, the goshawk turned his head in confusion and looked at the stream behind him.
Just now, it seemed that it heard something coming from behind.
Looking back, I found nothing, and I felt that the stream behind me seemed to be bulging.
After all, it is not a creature with wisdom like humans, although its long life span makes it more spiritual than ordinary beasts.
But many questions are still hard to understand.
But it wasn't ready to stay because it felt like it was a little too quiet around it.
And it always exudes a faint breath that makes it palpitations.
The intuition about danger made it peck at the snake corpse at an extremely fast speed, flapping its wings and preparing to fly away.
Bang!
At this moment, the water in the stream suddenly splashed everywhere, and a yellow figure suddenly jumped up from it, biting the wings of the goshawk.
cry...
The goshawk made a sharp cry, but before the scream was fully released, it was pressed down on the eagle's beak by a thick claw.
A sudden tear!
The part of the head and mouth of the goshawk was torn off a large piece with the flesh.
Its struggle suddenly became much less, and it was thrown to the ground by the yellow figure, twitching in pain.
This creature that emerged from the stream was completely exposed.
The tiger's head, fish body, snake tail, like a salamander, has limbs, fish-like scales on its skin, black and yellow patterns on its body, and a dorsal fin like a sharp arrow on its back.
It looks very much like a legendary dragon, but it is a bit more ferocious than a dragon.
It just stands there and does not move, and can feel the ferocity and majesty emitted from it.
Perhaps even Uncle Li never thought that the reason why this stream had no fish and shrimp was not because of the poisonous insects, but because of their target of the trip, the legendary creature - the tiger dragon.
The tiger dragon slowly lowered its head and looked at its prey.
The goshawk's vitality is extremely tenacious. Even though his brain has been torn off for half, it still has not completely died, just twitching.
But it doesn't look like that, it won't last long.
The tiger dragon shook his body and threw the mud off his body.
He looked in the direction where the three hunters left again, and a trace of memories flashed in his eyes.
In his previous life, he was also a member of human beings. It was just a death caused by an accident that forced him to say goodbye to the world briefly.
Yes, I will give a brief confession to others rather than a long time.
Because he witnessed the underworld with his own eyes, he clearly remembered that he walked up to the Naihe Bridge and also met the judge of the underworld.
But what he didn't expect was that his accidental death was misjudged as suicide and he also went to a radio station.
Everyone makes gold, and three people become tigers. If you talk too much, you will also have more marks on your soul.
So he fell into the underworld with the name of suicide.
To be continued...