The Divine Hunter Chapter 27: Under the hornbeam
What is "rustle"?
It was the sound of grains of salt sliding down the fingers.
The waxing moon shines brightly on the Kadel House. Under the tall hornbeam tree in the courtyard, three figures wrapped in thick cotton clothes stand. They hid their heads in front of a hornbeam tree hugged by several people, each holding a torch, letting the white salt grains between their fingers scratch through the rough bark...
After a while, a strange crack opened in the intact bark, which quickly grew larger, and gradually became like an open vertical pupil, suddenly widening, and whoosh - the corners of the eyes opened to both sides, and the hornbeam stuck to the The position of the ground forms an oval tree hole half a person's height.
Roy shined the torch at the entrance of the cave and could see a gentle **** extending downward. The **** was covered with vines, broken leaves, dead branches and soil, and a strong earthy smell wafted from the entrance of the cave. .
"What to do next?" Roy turned around and glanced at the two ladies in pink cotton-padded clothes. He was also wearing a pink cotton-padded coat, which looked quite funny, but there was nothing he could do. There were only two women living in the whole school. It’s good that they are willing to give themselves some cotton-padded clothes.
He still had to listen to the witcher's advice.
"If you don't tell me, let me tell you! Three people can't go down at the same time..." Roy said solemnly, "One has to stay outside to take care of him, and sprinkle a circle of salt around the hornbeam tree to prevent the things inside. Run out."
"I have to go down..." Roy took a deep breath. There was a big killer hidden in his space. According to the demon hunter's notes, he had every chance of killing the monster.
"This is my territory. That **** has occupied it for so long and even stole several of my children. This account needs to be settled carefully!" The middle-aged woman said with a serious look on her face. Shortly, he slid in along the slope.
"Then you stay outside!" Roy got into the tree hole before Vivien opened her mouth, "Don't worry, Sister Vivien, I will help you bring him out!"
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Roy held a torch in one hand and pressed the soft **** with the other hand to slide through the dark corridor.
After sliding down less than ten feet (3 meters), he landed smoothly.
The next second, the short boots on my feet got wet, and there was water on the ground under the tree hole. It just submerged my ankles, but the water was cold to the bone. Roy couldn't help but gasp and tremble all over. No wonder the witcher asked him to wear more clothes. The temperature in the tree hole was seven to eight degrees lower than outside.
The torch swung around, and Roy saw Kadel not far ahead, crouching on his knees, maintaining a vigilant posture, and quietly hooking his hand.
And they were in a dark underground space. The surrounding walls were covered with sticky mud, slippery moss and vines, and the pond was filled with strange-shaped rocks.
In addition to the wider space in the center, there are several narrow holes in the corners. How narrow is it? People can only lie on the ground and crawl on their hands and knees. From time to time, weird frog calls and snake hisses came from these holes, rippled back and forth between the central stone walls.
Roy really couldn't imagine whether there was such a space under the hornbeam tree originally, or was it created by the monster called the Boy Hunter?
He waded through the dirty and cold underground water to get behind Kadel, glanced at the holes everywhere, and a terrifying thought came to his mind?
Is it possible that there is a child hunter living in every hole?
No, a witcher would not deceive his apprentice like this. If this were the case, he would definitely mention it in his notes.
So the Boyhunter is in one of the holes, suffocating his latest prey with vomit.
Roy and Kadel exchanged glances. The latter raised his chin toward the nearest hole, and silently took out a dagger from his waist. The dagger was evenly coated with tiny grains of salt, and the other Holding a torch in his hand, he ducked in.
Roy followed. The hole is a narrow tunnel, no more than two feet high. As soon as I climbed in, my calf pants were soaked with ice water. The sticky mud on the walls on both sides clung to my shoulders, making it extremely difficult to move.
The two of them cautiously crawled in with their breathing restrained. From time to time, strange "hissing" sounds and erratic airflow sounds came from the front and rear passages.
This made Roy feel terrible. His face tightened and he didn't dare to breathe. If a monster sneaked up from behind his **** in this awkward posture, how could he resist?
He could only keep looking back to avoid a ghostly face suddenly appearing in the dark tunnel.
Soon, the two climbed to the deepest part of the tunnel without any danger, into a slightly drier spherical nest covered with branches, leaves and small animal bones.
Although there is no child hunter ghost, traces of its feeding are scattered in the lair. Human bones, small skulls, leg bones, and spines are piled messily in every corner. They are much slender than adults, and the surface is stained. Strange yellowish color.
Clearly belonging to a child.
Kadel picked up a bone, with a murderous look on her face, and her teeth were about to break. She found that the school may have other purposes, but it did have no reservations about its students.
They quickly searched two more holes, and after each search, they carried the skeleton of the deceased to the entrance of the hole as a mark.
When we reached the fourth hole, we heard a clear gurgling sound halfway up, as if something was vomiting.
They held their breath, and when the firelight shone forward, a ghost figure suddenly appeared in the darkness.
A slender human figure, with skin covered with dark mud and moss, and limbs as slender as tree branches, was lying in the corner of the lair like a dog, spitting yellow liquid intermittently towards a bulging thing.
When illuminated by the fire, it immediately turned its face. The cheeks were as thin as a skeleton, the two dark nostrils were sunken inward, and the pale eyes were bloodshot, full of hostility and madness. Its mouth had its upper and lower lips removed, and its gums were exposed. It had just vomited, and its teeth were covered with translucent saliva.
It was frightened by the fire, and in the blink of an eye, it shrank back into the shadow of the nest like a spider.
The two men quickly chased after each other with torches, but failed to find the thing.
Roy kept scanning vigilantly, while Kadel frantically dug at the vomit. He actually dug out a little head with golden hair,
"Hey, kid, can you hear me?" Kadel wiped the dirt on his face with his hand, revealing a thin and delicate face. The boy's eyelids moved twice.
When Roy looked at this face, the fog in his mind was instantly lifted... A dust-laden memory became vivid again.
He suddenly realized,
"I remembered, it was you, little Tom, who was missing!"
The little boy who greeted him on the first day, the orphan with a bright smile who liked to show his two front teeth and lived in the school.
For more than half a month at Kadell House, this guy would review with me after school every day, and the two of them had a little friendship... "I almost forgot about you completely."
He rubbed the child's head, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up. The previous nervousness and fear suddenly disappeared, and his mood was uplifted. "Fortunately, I arrived in time this time! How do you feel, little Tom?"
"Roy? Principal Caddell? What's wrong with me?" Tom opened his eyes drowsily, his voice weak and feeble, "Little..."
"What did you say?"
"Little... my heart is high!"
Poof——
A ghost figure fell from the ceiling without warning, threw Roy down, crumpled him into a ball, and rolled to the side twice.
One and the other.
It gained the upper hand, sat on Roy and raised its right paw. Under the firelight, the slender and sharp nails, like awls, flashed with cold light and suddenly slashed towards the neck——
The other hand stopped its wrist halfway.
Roy's left hand with protruding veins caught the oncoming claw, and his right hand grabbed a loaded crossbow arrow out of thin air. He clenched his fingers tightly and poked the arrow into its eye socket.
"Woo——Woo——"
The child hunter ghost made a strange cry like a baby crying. White smoke billowed out of its eyes and dark green blood flowed. It suddenly burst out with a huge force, broke away from Roy's hand, and rushed forward screaming crazily. Drilled into the tunnel to the side.
It squirmed in the tunnel in an extremely awkward posture, like a slippery loach, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"Roy, take Tom out first and leave this thing to me!"
Kadel dropped his words and chased after him along the blood trail with a dagger and a torch.
"Huh...it was so dangerous, I almost capsized in the gutter!" Roy breathed a sigh of relief. Just now, the sharp claws almost cut his own throat. Then everything would be meaningless.
"Are you...injured?" came a weak greeting from the side.
"Tom, don't worry, I'm fine." Roy wiped the cold sweat from his face and quickly rescued the boy from the sticky vomit. He didn't know what the vomit was about. , the taste and appearance are a bit like boiled cheese. Roy casually kneaded a ball as big as his fist and stuffed it into the space.
Then he climbed out of the tunnel carrying Tom on his back. There were no setbacks along the way, and the child hunter ghost was driven into an unknown tunnel by Kadel.
Roy rushed to the entrance of the tree hole smoothly, climbed up the **** by the vines, and handed Tom over to Vivien outside.
The woman was surprised and happy, and quickly put a coat on the shivering boy.
"Roy, you found..."
"There's no time to explain now. The monster hasn't been solved yet. I have to help Kadel and take care of him!" Without waiting for her to ask any more questions, Roy returned to the tree hole.
Following the blood stains, he found the two opposing sides in the deepest part of the fifth cave. Both Kadel and the Boy Hunter were injured. The former covered his bleeding abdomen with one hand and shook the torch to protect himself. His face was pale, and it was obvious that he couldn't hold on for long.
The Child Hunter also felt uncomfortable. He was blind in one eye and had dozens of fine wounds cut by Kadel with a dagger, but these wounds did not bleed anymore.
Obviously the salt on the weapon is far from enough to cause death.
Roy thought thoughtfully and summoned the hand crossbow.
"Whoosh——" A cold arrow hit the Child Hunter's knee. It trembled, half-bowed, opened its **** mouth at the sneak attack Roy, let out a threatening growl, and was ready to pounce. .
Roy ignored it, pulled the string and placed the arrow, and another arrow hit its other knee.
In a few seconds, the Child Hunter became a cripple. Even if it could heal itself, it would take time, at least it would not be able to move faster in a short period of time.
"Principal Cardell, get behind me!" Roy retreated while continuing to shoot the monster's legs. ~IndoMTL.com~ Kadel looked confused when he heard this, but still obeyed Roy's words, maintained a defensive posture, and slowly retreated with him.
The scene now is that of two people retreating into the tunnel, while the child hunter ghost is hiding in the innermost part of the lair. Twenty feet away, the ugly skeleton-like face keeps grinning at the two people, like an evil ghost. His black claws were waving frantically in the air, making a threatening gesture.
It is like a mad dog provoked by humans. Even though it is full of anger, it is afraid of the weapons and torches in human hands and never dares to rush over.
When the distance between the two parties reached thirty feet, a green glass jar suddenly appeared in Roy's hand. He gathered some strength and threw it forward. The glass jar drew a straight line in mid-air and hit the Boy Hunter. .
"Bang——"
The glass shattered, and there was a short and violent explosion. The entire lair burst into brilliant fire. The fire snakes jumped and twisted wantonly. The air seemed to be ignited, and the temperature rose several degrees.
The child hunter in the center turned directly into a human-shaped torch, with astonishing heat and light. It walked towards Roy and Kadel step by step in pain and wailing. However, most of its legs had been lost, and it was completely He couldn't catch up with the retreating speed of the two men.
The power of the Dancing Star is so amazing that even the sparks falling from it will quickly ignite the surrounding dead branches and leaves.
The fire became more and more intense, and behind the tunnel, the entire nest burned.
It walked in the nest of flames for about two minutes, exhausted all its strength and fell to the ground, turning into a pile of coke.
"Kill the child hunter.
Gain 100 experience points. ”
Having retreated to the entrance of the tree hole, Roy breathed a sigh of relief,
"We have to hurry up and take out the bones of those poor children!"