"Namo, namo..." The little Stone Giant had been sound asleep, but the pain jolted him awake, and he could not help letting out a loud scream.
"Namo, namo..." The Stone Giant hurriedly hushed him in a low voice. Then, suddenly abandoning his fight with the strange bird, he took off running in another direction. On both him and the little Stone Giant, the droplets splashed by the strange bird visibly corroded thumb-sized holes.
Sure enough, the moment the Stone Giant started running, more than a dozen strange cries of "Caw, caw..." rang out from the mountainside. A flock of strange birds flew out. The largest were a hundred zhang across, while even the smallest measured several dozen zhang. Spreading their wings, they swooped toward the Stone Giant! A few of them even spotted Xiao Hua, wheeled around, and pounced at him as well.
After running a hundred-odd steps, the Stone Giant saw a huge boulder ahead. Without hesitation, he hurled the little Stone Giant into its shelter, then bent down and lifted a boulder more than ten zhang wide from the ground. Crying, "Namo..." he raised both arms, and the boulder shot toward the foremost strange bird with a howling "Whoosh..."
"Pfft..." Caught off guard, the strange bird spat out a jet-black liquid and hurriedly flapped its wings to evade. "Sizzle..." The liquid from its mouth was incredibly corrosive, boring a huge hole straight through the boulder. Yet the boulder came too fiercely for the bird to dodge. With a deafening boom, it smashed into the bird's head, sending it slanting through the air before it crashed to the ground! A mournful cry escaped its beak.
This delay allowed the dozen-odd strange birds to draw near. "Whoosh, whoosh..." As more than a dozen pairs of wings beat, droplets rained down