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What do you do when you encounter an opponent you can't dodge, and you can't (probably can't) fight?

The answer is only two words: endure.

Ming Xia was wearing a uniformly issued military raincoat, with a backpack on his back, and a crossbow that never left him.

Qingqiu was still wrapped in his scarf pocket and hung under his raincoat.This little thing can't wear a raincoat by itself, and when it encounters the fishwife's high-pressure water gun, it has nothing to do except flap its wings and fly around.

After a few times, Ming Xia couldn't bear to watch it anymore, and stuffed it into her raincoat without any reason.Qingqiu was also tired from flopping around, and obediently nestled in his scarf pocket, poking his small head out from Ming Xia's neckline to look around, once he found a fishwife attacking, he immediately retracted his head.

After driving for two days under the fishwife's high-pressure shower, Ming Xia finally discovered the weirdness of this river.

It is not a river in the true sense, or it is not the kind of mighty river in nature that flows into the sea in Ming Xia's cognition.

This thing named Xixin River has no head or tail at all, or it is located on an extremely weird coordinate in the big formation, using some kind of spatial folding technique to connect the source and the end of the big river Up, forming an independent closed circulatory system.

So, in the morning, Ming Xia saw himself following the team upstream, and from time to time groups of black shadows passed by them in the distant river, swimming quickly towards the downstream.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, he would find that he was walking with the current again, and those black shadows that passed by them a few hours ago were chasing each other and swimming happily along the direction of the current. Walk.

People who walk usually use the surrounding scenery as a reference point habitually, but because this river is so strange, Ming Xia even has a feeling of confusion, as if he walks forward for a while, and walks backward for a while.Or just watched a short film, and in the blink of an eye, someone pressed the "backward" button.

So these fishwives trapped in the river repeated the process of forward, backward, forward, and backward endlessly.

He also finally understood why a river became a formation to seal monsters, because it had no entrance and exit at all, it was just a cage that could flow.

Ming Xia thought to himself, this is really a scary place.

Some people say that the memory of fish is only seven seconds.

Whether a fishwife is a fish is hard to say, but this conclusion may be true.Because the monster fishwife in the Xixin River will attack them every time they pass by, no matter whether they are swimming south or north, as if they don't remember that this group of people in raincoats have been wiped out by them. again.

At a distance of more than 60 meters, the fishwife sank in the water again. People on the shore could not see their appearance clearly. They could only infer from the black shadows they saw. This monster was close to 1.6 meters in length and was almost an adult woman. The height and figure are also similar to those of adult women.The back is blue-gray, and the head is darker in color, as if it has long hair. From a distance, it seems to have hands and feet, but it vaguely looks like a giant salamander.

The appearance of the fishwife made up by Ming Xia's brain is a fattened and enlarged salamander.

There was the sound of the river rushing in my ears, and Qingqiu, who was nestled in Ming Xia's raincoat, turned over and muttered impatiently, "Here it is again. Annoying."

Ming Xia turned his head to look, and saw waves rising from the calm river a few minutes ago, and amidst the surging waves, the direction of the river changed quietly.

Ming Xia glanced at the watch on his wrist, it was indeed three o'clock in the afternoon, it was accurate, exactly.

I don't know if there is any special emphasis on this time?

Nan Jiang also walked back from the front of the team, reminding his teammates around him, "Speed ​​up! Keep your distance...it's coming again."

The largest group of fishwives will pass by within 10 minutes after the river changes direction, which is also the most dangerous time for them.Because of the large number, the splash of the attack is also large, and you will be knocked down if you are not careful.The terrain by the river was complicated. Li Youran was knocked down by a water arrow a day ago, and nearly hit her head on a rock.

The terrain I passed in the first two days was a river beach full of reefs. Although the ground is full of stones and it is not easy to walk, the advantage is that you can find a larger reef to hide.Today they finally got out of the stone beach, but found that the change of terrain made them more troublesome.

The rocky river beach seems to have been swept again by a huge broom.The reefs were swept into a pile, and with the ups and downs, the terrain gradually became a precipitous mountain with nowhere to go.On the other hand, the side facing the river bank turned into a gentle sandy land of Yimapingchuan.

Without any cover, their presence couldn't be more conspicuous when viewed from the direction of Xixin River.

After coming out of the rocky beach, because the environment became much more open, Nanjiang adjusted the forward formation accordingly, from the original one-way formation to the rear triangle formation.

Ming Xia hangs Qingqiu and walks in the back of the middle, with Tang Xun and Bai Ying behind him.They also carried crossbows in their hands.During the vicious fight at the supply station, witnessing the terrifying scene of bullets splitting the black snake, everyone in the team formed a new habit of never leaving their crossbows.

Ming Xia heard the sound of the river water seem to be louder than before, and was about to turn his head to have a look, when he felt a push from behind with both hands.

Ming Xia was unprepared and staggered a few steps, almost falling over.But then there was a whip made of water that slapped the place where he was standing just now, and the water splashed, wetting the sand at Ming Xia's feet.

Immediately afterwards, countless water arrows shot up from the river, lashing towards the direction where they were standing.The sound of surging water boomed, suppressing their shouts to each other for a moment.

Ming Xia bent down to protect Qingqiu in front of his chest, and trotted after his teammates in front of him.

Nanjiang said that when being attacked by a fishwife, the only way to do it is to run away, and when they get out of the range that the fishwife can attack, they will give up chasing and look for easier targets.

But the number of this group of fishwives seems to be more than the previous ones, and they seem to interact with each other. One starts to attack the shore, and the rest join the attack, as if they have discussed it Yes, the dense water arrows rushed to the shore, and those who rushed could not stand still.

Ming Xia couldn't open her eyes.He held Qingqiu in the raincoat on his chest with one hand, and tightly held the bow and crossbow with the other hand.He is not a battle-hardened combatant like Nanjiang, he will be nervous and flustered when he encounters an attack, and he will only feel confident in his heart if he holds his weapon tightly.

Just as he was bending over and running forward with all his strength, he heard someone behind him yell "Ah", followed by a plop, as if someone fell down.

Ming Xia turned around and saw that Bai Ying, who was pushing him from behind just now, had fallen to the ground and was getting up with her hands on the ground.Seeing that Ming Xia was going to turn around to pull him, she waved her hand to signal him not to come, and continued to run forward.

Ming Xia knew that his mobility was not as good as these people, and he never tried to be brave, so he continued to run according to his instructions, but he didn't expect to hear the sound of Bai Ying following after he ran for two steps.Turning around, he saw that Bai Ying was still lying on the ground struggling - it wasn't that he fell so badly that he couldn't get up, but that his legs, feet and arms were tightly entangled.

Ming Xia's hairs stood on end. He always thought that the tentacles made of river water could only be used as high-pressure water guns, but he never thought they could be used as tentacles.

This strange function once again refreshed his three views - the abilities of monsters are so fucking incredible.

Ming Xia didn't care about being afraid anymore, rushed forward in three steps, grabbed Bai Ying's shoulder and began to pull back.

The owner of the tentacle seemed unprepared and someone came to snatch its prey, so Ming Xia dragged it back two meters away.Then he was furious, stretched out his tentacles again, and entangled Bai Ying tightly.

Ming Xia didn't expect this thing to be so powerful, and the sand under his feet was slippery.He didn't put much effort into holding Baiying's shoulders, but the speed of dragging him to the river was obviously accelerated.

Bai Ying was so strangled by the tentacles that she rolled her eyes, Ming Xia couldn't care less about obeying Nan Jiang's words that she couldn't take the initiative to attack, so she took out the dagger from her boot and stabbed it into the tentacles.

The tentacles exploded with a bang, splashing water all over his face.

But then several tentacles stretched out from the river, and two of them were still about to move towards Ming Xia.

Perhaps Ming Xia's act of snatching prey with it made it a little confused and a little afraid. For a while, it didn't classify Ming Xia as its prey, but instead regarded him as its opponent to snatch its prey, and secretly became wary.

Several tentacles pulled hard together, and Bai Ying was dragged towards the river at almost the speed of skating.

Ming Xia refused to let go, and was dragged so that she sat on the ground and slid forward, feeling that her pants were going to be torn.Seeing that the river was getting closer, Ming Xia knew that if he didn't do anything, both of them would be dragged into the river in less than 2 minutes.

Ming Xia gritted his teeth and let go of Bai Ying's hands, ignoring the two pairs of tentacles above his head that were ready to move, and turned around and ran back.He remembered that his crossbow was thrown where Baiying fell.

Ming Xia ran back while wading through the splashes of water all over the ground.Qingqiu sensed that there was danger outside, and was about to go out when Ming Xia slapped him back.

"Don't move."

Qingqiu obediently nestled still.

When Ming Xia grabbed the crossbow on the ground, he was really relieved.He wiped the water off his face and set up the crossbow towards Baiying.In such a short time, Baiying was less than 20 meters away from the river.

The target was too big, Ming Xia almost didn't need to deliberately aim, and the tentacle wrapped around Baiying's leg was broken with one arrow.

In the spray of water, another arrow shot out, and from Ming Xia's perspective, the two tentacles that were almost overlapping broke off at the same time.Bai Ying struggled to let go of her hands and feet, and scrambled back toward Ming Xia.

Ming Xia stood still, but arrow after arrow shot under his hand, knocking back all the tentacles shot out from behind Baiying.

The owner of the tentacles seemed to have finally realized that it was a tough guy who was snatching food from it, and quickly took all the tentacles back.

Panting, Bai Ying ran to Ming Xia's side, and almost yelled into his ear, "Hurry up, they will come out again!"

Ming Xia quickly replaced the arrow box with a new one, fixed her eyes on the back of him, and replied silently, "I can't go anymore."

Bai Ying turned her head and opened her mouth wide in shock.

The river parted on both sides, and a huge monster was slowly crawling out of the water waving its transparent tentacles.