I learned from the fat guy and slammed against the wall, scraping the monkey off my back. Meanwhile, Kan Jian came down from the well I had just climbed out of, covered in blood. He came up swinging a branch wildly to drive the monkeys back, and I shot a few to push them back to the well. I asked him, “What’s wrong with you?”
“Damn it! That grenade from Fat Master fell straight into my well. If I hadn’t reacted quickly and flipped out, I would have been turned into shrimp paste. Boss, can we not go out with Fat Master in the future? He’s way more terrifying than these things.”
I was about to explode with anger, shooting down the monkeys rushing at me, and climbed back up. I saw the fat guy being grabbed in mid-air by a human-faced bird, but he was too heavy for it to lift. I raised my hand and smashed the bird’s head into a mist of blood. I shouted at the fat guy, “Can you not use explosives!!”
When I turned around, I saw that there were far fewer human-faced birds in the air, almost all of them had fallen to the ground.
The fat guy got up and shot at the bird that had just grabbed him, making a conductor’s gesture as if taking a bow. “Look at Fat Master’s efficiency in clearing the field. One grenade, and the big birds are gone. Two grenades—”
Kan Jian climbed up, “Our own people have fallen too.”
“Xiao Hua!” I yelled, hoping he wouldn’t blow up the fat guy. The human-faced birds that had been shaken down to the ground began to get back up.
I fired at a few, realizing that I couldn’t lift my gun at all, and only then did I realize my hand was injured. In the previous surge of excitement, I hadn’t even felt the pain; I could still use a knife, but I couldn’t handle the recoil of this powerful rifle. After a few shots, my whole hand had lost all sensation. I immediately pulled Kan Jian over and rested the gun on his shoulder.
Kan Jian had excellent aiming skills; as soon as he grabbed the barrel, he knew what I wanted to do. He held the barrel to help me aim, and after I finished a burst, the hair on the back of his head was scorched bald by the bullet casings.
One by one, people climbed out of the well, and our firepower grew stronger. Xiao Hua also managed to climb out again; he must have fallen back down earlier. Everyone was bloodthirsty, killing until there were no more targets in sight before finally stopping.
The sound of gunfire still rang painfully in my ears, and the air was thick with the smell of sulfur. There was nothing left in the air; the ground was covered in blood clots.
“Gun down,” I shouted with all my strength.
Countless centipedes gathered, starting to feast on the corpses of the human-faced birds, and a torrent of green fluorescence flowed on the ground.
“Let’s get out of here.” The fat guy stomped his feet. I tossed the gun to Kan Jian, and with someone supporting me, I headed out of the woods.
All the centipedes were attracted by the blood and flesh; we kept swatting at them and moved quickly. The fat guy sprayed insect repellent everywhere. Once we got out of the woods and reached the shrub area halfway up the mountain, the fat guy set the bushes on fire. After the fire went out, I lay down in the ash, and the sky began to brighten.
The ash was warm, and I wrapped myself in a waterproof cloth and fell into a deep sleep. When I woke up, the pain in my arm was unbearable. I turned over and saw the sun was already overhead. Kan Jian was curled up beside me, still fast asleep.
I got up and kicked him awake, noticing the fat guy and Xiao Hua were on one side brewing tea and cooking rice. Wang Meng and the others were also sleeping soundly nearby.
I went over, grabbed the fat guy’s foot, took off his shoe, and then went to Wang Meng, swinging the shoe down hard against the back of his head.
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