Chapter 573: Is it too late after all?
The strong smell of fish and blood spread into his nose. Ran Qingxuan suppressed his nausea and controlled the direction of the propeller, heading towards the other side of the river.
She thought the iron hull would not be bitten through, but she underestimated the piranhas' determination to bite them to death.
A creaking sound came from the bottom of the boat, and even many piranhas jumped out of the water, jumped into the boat and jumped to bite Gu Yanchen's legs.
After Ran Qingxuan took out a flashlight and handed it to them, he took out three Magnum sabers. Seeing Gu Yanjing was about to reach out and grab them and throw them away, Ran Qingxuan quickly stopped him.
"Third brother, no, that thing's teeth are very sharp, it can bite off a piece of meat in one bite."
It was also the first time that Gu Yanjing had seen this kind of fish. He picked up one with a knife and fork and looked at it for a few seconds.
"What kind of fish is this? It's not that big but it's chasing people and biting them."
"This is a fish called piranha. Its obvious features are its red belly and sharp teeth. If a person falls into it, he will be gnawed to the bone in a matter of moments."
Gu Yanjing and Gu Yanchen both took a deep breath and felt a little creepy in an instant.
The propeller kept turning underwater, and piranhas swam towards the boat one after another, gnawing at the broken bodies of their companions.
When they were still about ten or twenty meters away from the other side of the bank, Ran Qingxuan clearly felt the propeller under the water pause, and then a "clicking" sound came from the engine.
The speed of the boat slowed down, and at that moment Ran Qingxuan felt unwell.
The two brothers, who also felt the ship slowing down, immediately turned to look at Ran Qingxuan.
"Qingxuan, the boat seems to be slowing down?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the boat stopped steadily about seventeen or eighteen meters from the shore.
It was not like just now, when the propeller's rotation could at least help them resist for a while. Now the water surface seemed to be boiling, and those piranhas kept attacking the hull as if they were free.
Piranhas kept jumping out of the water and into the hull. The three men could only use knives to spear them out. If they were not careful, Ran Qingxuan would be bitten on the arm by a piranha that jumped out of the water.
Gu Yanchen chopped at the fish head in a hurry, but the piranha, without a body, still held on to it and refused to let go.
"Are you hurt?"
Ran Qingxuan shook his head and said, "The clothes were thick, so they didn't get bitten much."
In fact, he felt pain in his arm the moment he was bitten. In order not to make him worry, Ran Qingxuan could only pretend that he was not injured.
"What should we do? Third brother, can you and your husband use Qinggong to get through?"
Gu Yanjing shook his head in embarrassment: "If we use the boat as a fulcrum, the boat will move backwards, and the distance is too far. We can use Qinggong to move seven or eight meters at a time."
"I can only go nine meters at most."
Gu Yanchen didn't expect to be so passive. If there were enemies on the opposite side, they would have been shot into sieves long ago.
"Qingxuan, can you use gunpowder to blow up those fish?"
That kind of high-destructive weapon is best used now, but Ran Qingxuan looked up and shook his head.
"No, the shock wave from the gunpowder will collapse the roof above our heads, and then we won't be able to get out."
Having said that, Ran Qingxuan glanced at the distance to the other side and immediately thought of something. Then his consciousness entered the space and he began to search in the place where the weapons were stored.
Soon, she found a box and took it out.
"What's this?"
"It's a crossbow that drives steel cables into stone."
After installing the crossbow, Ran Qingxuan took out the gas cylinder from the box and installed it.
"The rope is so thin, will it work?"
The steel cable was only a few millimeters thick, and Gu Yanjing couldn't help but feel a little worried.
"This thing is very strong, it should work."
Ran Qingxuan stood up and half-knelt on the boat. After a shaking, he almost fell into the pile of piranhas.
Gu Yanchen approached and hugged her waist tightly. After Ran Qingxuan dodged Gu Yanjing, he no longer hesitated and pulled the trigger at the position of the eternal lamp opposite.
With a 'bang' sound, the thing almost flew out of my hand the first time I used the air crossbow.
This was a new type of weapon sent to her by her country after she entered the battlefield in her previous life. She had seen others use it and thought it was too dangerous so she kept it aside. She never expected it would come in handy now.
"Lie down with your feet against the bow of the boat. Make sure your hands are steady before pressing this spot."
Ran Qingxuan handed the things to Gu Yanchen, who lay down as she said and stretched his legs against the bow.
Just as Gu Yanchen was ready to press the switch on the air crossbow, a huge pulling force in his hand almost made him fly on the spot.
Ran Qingxuan knew this would happen, so he pounced on his chest and pinned him down. Gu Yanjing was shocked and held down his bent legs tightly.
"Hold on, it will be fine soon."
The boat was rowing towards the shore at a very fast speed. When it was still seven or eight meters away, Ran Qingxuan shouted, "Let go."
After Gu Yanchen let go of his hand, the boat continued to move forward. After it touched the stone ground, it bumped again until the bow hit the hard stone wall and stopped.
The three of them sat on the boat for a long time, unable to come back to their senses. It was not until the lake returned to calm that Gu Yanjing spoke first.
"It has to be the sixth brother's wife, otherwise I probably won't encounter such an exciting thing in my life."
Gu Yanchen's heart was pounding wildly. After Ran Qingxuan felt his chest muscles under his clothes, he couldn't help but reached out and pinched them.
Noticing Ran Qingxuan's little movement, Gu Yanchen couldn't help but hold his forehead.
"Why don't you get up first, and then you can do whatever you want when we get back..."
Gu Yanjing had already gotten off the boat and walked towards the direction of the eternal lamp as if he hadn't heard anything.
"Why, you still don't want to get up?"
Ran Qingxuan supported himself with his arms and exerted force, and the next second a trace of pain appeared on his face.
The smile disappeared instantly, and Gu Yanchen immediately helped the man up.
"Did you just hit something?"
Ran Qingxuan endured the pain, gently rolled up his sleeves and shone the flashlight. Only then did he see his clothes that were soaked in blood and his flesh that had been bitten through.
Faced with this scene, Gu Yanchen was instantly heartbroken. He took out the sterilized iodine and gauze from the cloth bag, silently opened the bottle and washed the bite wound for her.
In order not to make him worry, Ran Qingxuan gritted her teeth and dared not shout out loud. She only breathed a sigh of relief after the wound was bandaged.
As a result, when he raised his eyes, he met Gu Yanchen's somewhat resentful eyes, and Ran Qingxuan felt a little embarrassed for a moment.
"This was an emergency just now, I thought it was okay..."
"Blame me for not protecting you..."
Ran Qingxuan didn't take it seriously at all. When he was about to say something, he heard Gu Yanjing's voice calling them from a distance.
"Sixth brother, Sixth brother's wife, come here quickly, there is something going on here."
The two men walked quickly to the front and saw a lot of rags and clothes in the crevice of the stone which was as wide as a person. Without looking closely, they knew that someone once lived there.
"Where is that person? Didn't Jin Tang say he saw his father with his own eyes? Where is that person now?"
Gu Yanchen looked downcast and spoke with some disappointment.
"I'm afraid that Jin Tang's intrusion may have made the people guarding my father feel threatened, so they were temporarily transferred!"
Gu Yanjing clenched his fist and smashed it against the stone wall: "Are we one step too late after all?"
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