Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Cocoon
The anxiety in the hearts of the little Taoist priest and I is indescribable, we want to end the entanglement with the treasure as soon as possible, but it is very bad, these things are endless, like sand crabs in the mud, making that nasty sound. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The two skeletons surrounding the treasure emitted a faint phosphorescent light, withered claws holding long knives with black hair and old hair, and scattered fragments of clothes hanging from their bodies, as if they were two generals in front of them. However, their long knives are heavy, which affects their speed.
Bao Cai is a clever man, he spied on the weakness of the skeleton, and hurriedly raised the Mongolian knife to fiddle in front of him, while he took the opportunity to carefully retreat. Behind him was a crack with transparent crystals resembling "princess anemones" on both sides of the gap, and if the slow skeleton hadn't given up his broadsword, the treasure would definitely have time to hide in.
I shouted for him to prepare something to block the entrance, but he shivered and got in, and didn't do anything. In a panic, I saw the jade bottle rolling out of his waist.
"Damn!" At this time, Chen Yu also moved closer to us, he saw the treasure falling out of the treasure on the body, and scolded in his mouth: "No wonder it is so far away from us, the feeling is to take the underworld, Zhente Niang sees the money and opens her eyes, and she doesn't want her life!"
In the midst of the scuffle, I was surprised to find that the two skeletons that had begun to deal with the treasure were not moving, and strangely enough, the outer crystals of the gap where the treasure was hiding were slowly retracting, and I rubbed my eyes, and my heart seemed to be still at this moment.
"What's going on?" I muttered, incredulous, "This special lady seems to be a living creature!"
Chen Yu cut off a skeleton and said eagerly, "What's the flurry boy doing?"
I Mu Ran pointed to the location of the treasure, Chen Yu looked at it, and said in amazement: "Damn, why does it seem to be moving?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Baocai, who was hiding in the gap, suddenly screamed, and shouted, "Help......! What's in the way...... Block out the light! Inside...... It stinks inside...... Ahh......h And corpses!"
As soon as he shouted in panic, Chen Yu and I looked at each other, even more sure that we were not mistaken.
Those things are like intertwined whiskers, not some crystals, but some kind of transparent soft body! Thinking of this, my heart sank, and I said in a deep voice: "It's not that they are like chameleons, changing with the changes in the outside world." Usually it is that kind of hard solid form, but when it smells the smell of a living person, it turns into a soft body ready to forage?" I couldn't help but admire my own brain.
Hearing this, Chen Yu spat out, picked up the knife, and said, "If that's the case, then this thing is really not picky, pick Liu Baocai's thin monkey for dinner!"
"It's not ......" At this time, the little Taoist priest looked directly at the gap and said, "It's a ceremony, we are being sacrificed!"
"What?" Hearing this, Chen Yu and I exclaimed in unison, and Chen Yu frowned and asked, "Little Heavenly Master, where do you see that we are being sacrificed?"
The little Taoist priest said lightly: "The thing that surrounds Brother Liu, if I am not mistaken, is an evil plant called 'Whisker Cocoon'." It likes the breath of people, and when it eats, it will envelop its prey like a cocoon, eating their flesh and skin. I noticed just now that they were scattered on the wall of the cave in front of us, and there were more than a dozen of them, fan-shaped, which was not a coincidence, it should be a kind of blood sacrifice. These skeletons want to force us into the crevices, or kill us directly, to complete the sacrifice, this is the purpose of their existence......"
Damn, is that thing a plant? I was dumbfounded, the plant species that exist in the cave are very rare, at most there are some plants such as moss, lichens, algae, etc., I didn't expect that there are so fierce, which can't help but make me worry about the safety of the treasure.
The little priest frowned slightly, and he shouted as he dealt with the skeleton, asking Bao Cai to smear the rotten flesh of the bones inside, making them think that he was just a bloodless corpse.
Bao Cai replied with a crying voice: "Brother Bao, I am not an expert in dismemberment, what do you want me to fix with a lot of rotten meat? You still come and save me! This thing is like a sea intestine, it is too disgusting...... You guys...... Uh......" he began to retch as he spoke.
When we were in a hurry, the old ancestor rushed to the lacquered wooden bridge where we were, and now it is up to the Golden Gate to continue to be in charge of the break, and a few of our miscellaneous soldiers go to rescue the treasure trapped by the cocoon.
The light of the fire grew darker and darker, so dark that it was almost impossible to see, and as he ran over the bridge and stepped onto the corridor, he noticed that in some of the gloomy waters, there were swaying clothes and decaying corpses...... Looking at the clothes of these people, it is a kind of short jacket in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, obviously he is a gravedigger who came here like us, but unfortunately they did not go inside, but stayed here......
There were a lot of corpses, and it was a bit eerie in the water, and I didn't dare to look at it more, for fear of thinking of my own fate, so I quickened my pace.
At this time, the wheezing sound of treasure is like the bellows in the blacksmith's hand, especially obvious. Soon, though, his breathing turned into a terrible scream, and the calluses wriggled and poked inside, giving goosebumps all over his body.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the little Taoist priest asked Bao Cai to hide the bones of his body and not make a sound, because in the dark environment, although the vision of animals and plants is degraded, they have a good sense of hearing, and for cave plants such as cocoons, they may be more sensitive in perception.
Perhaps it was the little Taoist's kind hint that worked, but I couldn't hear Baocai's panicked breathing, thinking that he had begun to regulate himself and hid in the pile of corpses. I breathed a sigh of relief, in times of crisis, it is a time to be able to hide for a while, and if you always work hard, no one has the physical strength.
The three of us slowly approached, I vaguely heard some kind of sound similar to the rotation of gears, this sound was very muffled, I stopped and looked around suspiciously, but except for the skeleton that made a gurgling sound, there was no movement, I gave up my vigilance, and asked the little Taoist priest if this plant had any nemesis.
The little Taoist priest said that he had only seen a cocoon once in his life, and that was in a large canyon, when he and his master accidentally fell into the crack. There are exactly this kind of plants there, and they like to eat fresh life, and they are not interested in rotten meat, unlike vultures and the like, which eat as long as it is meat. And at that time, they were the people who had been dead for a long time, and he and the master wiped a lot of scraps of dead people's flesh, and finally the two of them endured their disgust and dared to escape from it.
Don't say that the timid treasure is reluctant to smear rotten meat, and today it is estimated that Chen Yu and I don't have the courage to do it, and I don't even dare to think about it.
The closer I got, a fishy smell came out, I couldn't help but feel sick to my stomach, and the sour water in my stomach churned, and at this moment I especially admired Baocai, who could hide in it for so long......
The skeleton in front of me is not less at all, we have more wounds than before, I realized for the first time how hard my life is, I used to have a little illness and pain, my grandmother always dragged me to the hospital, which made me think that I was a medicine jar, but I didn't expect that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, I was reborn, which is a fact and environment to stimulate people's inner potential.
I wielded the Mongolian sword, painful and happy, the short knife was suitable for melee combat, and created a sense of blood, when a skeleton rushed straight at me, I raised the knife and slashed at the top of its head, the head of the thing instantly became in half, but it did not use the talisman paper to save the soul, its claws were still moving on the ground, making a clicking sound, very terrifying.
"That's right, Merry Boy, the knives are all in full swing!" Chen Yu couldn't help but praise, I said that I had been playing books every day for the past few days and had practiced some skills in making knives.
Without saying a few words, the ancestors had advanced to our side, and with their escort, we took advantage of this to run in front of the cocoon, and after the thing felt us approaching, all the transparent whiskers pushed out in one direction, and then like sea anemones swinging in the water, they seemed to be very excited, and they made a sound of knowing the rope, and collectively rejoiced.
"It's so good, see if grandpa doesn't cut it down!" Chen Yu couldn't get used to such a demonic plant, and he raised his knife to start, but the little Taoist priest hurriedly stopped it, saying that this large piece of it had been cut off a few roots, and if it was wrapped in other attacks, it would be difficult to break free at that time.
But I know Chen Yu, his murderous intent is rising, who can stop him. And he and Baocai are iron buddies, although the two love to talk about each other on weekdays, but once the other party is in danger, his anxiety will burn his brain. I know that very well, because so do I.
Chen Yu and I shouted, the knives fell on the beard that was provoking us, and as soon as we cut off a few, the thing spilled transparent juice, so it was not disgusting. And the few severed ones on the ground churned like caterpillars, and I especially didn't like the feeling, and I lifted my legs a few times, and as I crushed them, I heard a sound similar to the pinching of tomatoes.
The sound was refreshing, and I looked up, and was about to turn around, when I suddenly saw a dark shadow in the dark part of the cave, and I gasped. This time I looked closely, and I only saw that they were wearing black and purple robes, and the patterns on the robes were not clear, but I could be sure that they were all different.
I stared, and the shadows didn't move, just stood there, like human statues in stone, but even more eerie than that, because they were real people. It's just that the light of the fire is too dim, I can't see their expressions and cheeks clearly, the only thing I can feel is the cold, they stand cold, like the kind of people who watch death row prisoners receive criminal punishment. And we are indeed facing death, thinking of this, my head suddenly felt pain, as if it was about to crack, I slapped my head, it clattered, tighter and tighter, I bared my teeth, eager to cut the scalp with a knife, the moment I raised the knife, I suddenly heard a scream, and then someone scolded: "Damn, seal the stream, what are you doing!"
I was confused, and slowly put down the knife I had raised, and when I turned around, it was misty and I couldn't see anything clearly, but I could faintly see a blue lake and a moving figure playing the piano......
The witch of the Chu Kingdom?
My heart tightened, stretched out my hand, slowly approached, wanted to see her face clearly, this will suddenly appear in the mist a figure in a white robe, he has a bamboo hairpin on his head, half-draped long hair with the peach blossoms flying in the wind - it is a little Taoist, he is holding a peach wood sword in his hand, his body is as light as a swallow to jump to my side, take my hand, with a wooden cone pierced my ring finger, blood beads gushed out, I looked at him silently, he said to me: "Brother Feng, wake up!"
His voice was slow and slow, like spring rain, but it could still water the earth, and at this time, the pain in his fingers gradually became clear, just like my vision. I felt like I had just finished a dream, and after I got out of it, the little Taoist priest looked at me worriedly, and I didn't have the chic just now. On the other side, Chen Yu's knife-wielding hand was entangled in a calloon, and I could see that the thing's transparent whiskers were gradually turning red, like the kind of blood vessels that are pumped in a hospital.
At this moment, I suddenly woke up, although I didn't know what had just happened, but now it was important to save people. I raised my Mongolian knife and flew over, gritting my teeth and cutting off a few cocoons, but the thing couldn't cut it at all, and as soon as I removed some of it, more came out, which made me very irritable and more and more chaotic.
Fortunately, the little Taoist priest was quick in his eyes, and before they could grow out, he pulled Chen Yu away, but Chen Yu had a lot of whiskers wrapped around his hands, and although those things were not so active after leaving the body, there were still signs of life. They drilled into the fat on his arm, that kind of vicious appearance was like a bloodthirsty leech, Chen Yu grinned in pain, I and the little Taoist priest saw this and immediately helped him to pull, he held back his face was red, the green tendons were bursting, and he couldn't stop squirting a few drops of saliva from his mouth, looking very hideous and terrifying.
Ancestors, they have already killed us, but apparently they are too tired to do it. These three people are going to fight a hundred skeletons, and it really makes it difficult for them. No, at this time he was covered with wounds, tattered clothes and blood mixed together, and I could vaguely see the tattoos on his flesh, the scales of some kind of fetish, but I couldn't see what they were......
Grandpa didn't tell me about the patterns on the ancestor's body, and I didn't have time to ask, Liang Jiu's body was the most seriously injured, but he still gave Chen Yu medicine first, and when Chen Jiu got up, he kept chattering: "Revenge, I want revenge, I sucked so much blood from my grandfather......" He said weakly, his right hand holding the knife couldn't help trembling, and the blood was constantly pouring out.
I asked him to leave revenge alone, now the treasure is still inside, and I don't know if the situation is good or bad, this said, everyone began to discuss countermeasures, now there are skeletons behind him that are not easy to deal with, and they have to save people in the cocoon pile, the old ancestor combined the opinions of all of us, and asked Chu Ba and the little Taoist priest to go to the waterhole to get a few corpses up, and he and Chen Yu took torches.
He said that fire is gold, gold is wood, wood makes fire, plants belong to wood, his red copper and fire are the most compatible, the combination of the two, must be the nemesis of this plant, if it is not good, chop up those rotten corpses, and then wipe them on themselves, and rush in to save the treasure.
I can accept the former, the latter is really a bit scary for me, but there is no way, if the situation is not extreme, there will be no breakthrough.
After deciding, the ancestor took a sip of the wine bag from his waist and poured it, and then sprayed it on the red copper scimitar, and the eighth day of the first month tacitly ignited the red copper, and the old ancestor took the opportunity to sweep the right hand towards the root of the cocoon against the cave......
All things are mutually reinforcing, the cocoon encounters the burning red copper and loses its demonic nature, it is suddenly cut off, and it no longer grows, where the knife is cut, they curl up and fall to the ground, emitting a foul smell similar to chemical industry.
Everyone covered their noses, although this action had a great effect, but the cocoons were very large, not a handful. No matter how fast the ancestor is, he will inevitably be attacked.
The old man couldn't hold it back, he shouted and rushed over, we guarded them to deal with the skeletons, and for a while everyone fell into a bitter battle, but as long as there was still a breath, there was no compromise. However, we have too few men, and no matter how brave we are, we can't resist the group attack, and just when we are tired and a little desperate, we suddenly hear a loud and excited voice, shouting: "Brothers, there is a road inside!"