Chapter 900: Mother Worm
Chen Taiyuan felt that he should have gone back immediately to tell the Great Elder and the others about his poisoning experience, but after thinking about it, even if he said it, it would be useless. There is not even a rabies vaccine or snake venom here, and how to treat this symptom of my own is only to add to my troubles.
So it's better to ask Wu Xinying or Yuan Qing after they go out, maybe there are other solutions. Of course, maybe your poisoning symptoms will be healed by then.
Now, the hordes of ghouls have slowly dispersed because they can't find food, and some have even run to the river to eat the fish that have been poisoned and floated to the shore. It's good, but after eating it, they fall to the ground and die - they can't stand it, even though there are toxins in it.
"Good fellow, even the ghouls who are used to eating carrion can't stand this, and this poison is also extinct. Chen Taiyuan waited in the boat until the insects finally left, and then he quietly jumped ashore and followed.
It's far away, so that these guys don't smell themselves. In fact, they are accurate at smelling blood or corpse gas, but they don't have the same ability to locate living people. Chen Taiyuan only tracked 100 meters away, but he needed to lift his ears with all his strength, because sometimes when he couldn't see because of the blocking, he needed to rely on his hearing.
Even so, I lost it once along the way. Fortunately, it didn't take long for them to appear on the bridge from Xuandao to Huangdao, and a large layer of black insects spread out on the white bridge deck.
And this smallest Huangdao should be the nest of insects.
The main body of Huangdao is a small forest, which is about the same size as a medium-sized park in the outside world, with more than 100 acres. In the middle is a mound with a diameter of 100 meters and a height of about 10 floors. Everything here is natural, though.
I think that this place was also equivalent to the back garden in the Yingzhou space, where scientific researchers and security personnel would take a walk after work. And now, it's a world of ghouls.
Tens of thousands of corpse-eating insects swept by like wind and fire, heading straight for the back of the middle dirt mountain. Chen Taiyuan followed up after a while and found that behind the earth mountain was a natural soil cave. The size of the cave is about one person tall, but since it is not an important area, there is not much mention of it in the original report.
However, Chen Taiyuan learned from Dr. Shacht's records that the ghoul worm was originally a burrowing animal, brought in by Shacht from the outside world. At the beginning, the insects lived in the burrows like ants.
And now the corpse eater has become a cow, and the mother worm is the "mother queen" with an army of tens of thousands, so although she still likes to maintain the nature of burrowing, this earth cave has become much larger, and in the eyes of the insects, this soil cave can be regarded as magnificent and tall.
Therefore, Chen Taiyuan felt that it was very likely that the worm mother was in this.
At this time, his state has also improved a lot, and his mind and physical strength are not bad. Quickly ran to the water's edge and got a few fish that fell to their deaths in three places, and he immediately returned to the back of a rock dozens of meters away on the opposite side of the dirt pit and waited quietly.
Sure enough, those stupid bugs are out again!
It swept like a great army, and in a short time the earth cave was much empty. But if Chen Taiyuan listened carefully, he could still hear some movement inside. Obviously, some of the bugs had to stay in the burrow, perhaps to provide protection for the mother, which was normal anyway.
Can't wait, now is a good opportunity. Chen Taiyuan rushed over with a few brisk steps and rushed straight into the hole. Although the flashlight was damaged by the blister, fortunately it was dusk, and the entrance of the earth cave was hard and shiny, so the hole more than ten meters deep could still be seen clearly.
Once inside, a foul smell rushed in, which was the putrid smell of the corpses of corpses, and it was not unexpected. And then Chen Taiyuan's eyes lit up, but at the same time, his scalp was numb-
In the deepest part of the cave is an earthen platform about half a meter high and about one square meter in size, which is as high as the throne of a human emperor. In the center of the platform, there is a small earthen platform one foot square and half a foot high, and on the earthen platform lies quietly a giant insect with a bowl mouth - the mother worm!
Sure enough, here, Chen Taiyuan was overjoyed.
The color of the mother worm seems to have some yellowish tinges, and the carapace has a dark metallic luster, and even some beautiful textures like brushing, which is different.
As for the numbness of the scalp, it is because there are many small corpse eaters next to the mother worm. There were no less than 100 of them on that big platform alone, and they were all very large. These guys seem to have broken through the size limit of the average corpse eater, about the size of half a small apple, and a circle larger than the average corpse eater.
These hundreds of fierce corpse-eating insects should be the "strong men" selected from the swarm, specially providing protection for the mother worm. And the combat power of these more than 100 corpse eaters is probably equivalent to hundreds of others.
What surprised Chen Taiyuan even more, but at the same time, suddenly realized that next to the insect mother and these corpse eater guards, there were still some shells of ordinary corpse eaters, but the internal organs had been eaten. This is where the strong rancid smell in the cave comes from.
In other words, the insect mother's nourishment and food come from the corpses of their children!
There is a saying that tiger poison does not eat children, and the insect mother can be regarded as the peak. However, this also answers Chen Taiyuan's doubts, why don't you see corpse eaters hunting for the mother worm, because the corpse eater itself is the food of the mother worm. One by one, they eat fat and fat outside, and then come back and let the mother worm eat the best.
It can be said that the mother worm is the emperor in the corpse-eating insect society, and those guards are the privileged class who are full of people's fat and ointment.
But even if you have to feed your mother, those ordinary corpse-eating insects don't dare not come back, which shows how strict the mother worm is to control those ordinary insects.
Now that Chen Taiyuan, an uninvited guest, broke in, the insect mother who had been lazily asleep suddenly woke up, and those sturdy "guards" pounced with their teeth and claws. They are like agile rats, extremely fast and regardless of terrain - some on the ground, some on the walls of caves, and some climbing to the top of the cave.
Even if Chen Taiyuan had six arms like Nezha, it would not be enough, and a large number of insects had already pounced in front of him.
There were a lot of hands that were slapped to death, but after all, a few still fell on him. These guys are also quick enough to bite when they open their mouths, even through clothing. The one with the fastest bite had already taken a bite on Chen Taiyuan's back shoulder. It jumped from the top of the cave and was difficult to guard against.
Immediately after that, a few more bugs got their hands on it.
But then a surprising scene happened, the corpse eater guard who took the lead in biting Chen Taiyuan actually fell to the ground with a snap, and the speed was amazing!
Subsequently, all the insects that bit Chen Taiyuan fell down, like pine cones shaking off a pine tree.
Poisoned!
Chen Taiyuan suddenly realized that he had such a benefit from poisoning, otherwise he might have been bitten by insects. If you wait until the army of tens of thousands of ghouls returns, you may even be planted here. Therefore, blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, and poisoning is not necessarily all bad.
Of course, this also shows how terrible the toxins in Chen Taiyuan's body are. The ghoul insect is a highly poisonous thing, but it only bites him slightly, and before he can get angry, he is all poisoned.
Moreover, when Chen Taiyuan's blood qi gushed out along with several wounds, the rest of the corpse eater guards didn't dare to approach. Since this poisonous blood can poison the species of hundreds of acres of water, then this poisonous gas alone in a small area is enough to make the corpse-eating insect guards frightened.
"I'll take it, it seems that I have become a big demon king, and I am afraid to avoid it. Chen Taiyuan was a little happy and strode towards the worm mother. Not to mention, after these few steps, not a single corpse insect guard dared to approach.
The mother worm seemed stunned, and immediately stood up to resist, and it also knew that the enemy would definitely be mainly aimed at it if it struck. But its luck is not so good, because it is now at its weakest time - about to give birth!
As a "pregnant woman" in labor, she couldn't even reach a quarter of her usual speed, twisting her ass and shaking it backwards. Even so, it is half as fast as a normal corpse eater, which shows how amazing its usual speed is.
In front of Chen Taiyuan, this speed is funny. Taking a big step forward and pressing it to the ground, Chen Taiyuan took out two well-sealed special elixirs. He decided to use both at once, as both potions had become nearly half smaller as the space had collapsed.
And he also noticed at this time that the small eyes of the struggling insect mother kept flickering, as if showing great reluctance.
It was wise! It remembered the effect of the potion, and it knew to be afraid.
The agent is well sealed, and the bottle itself is a stainless steel syringe, which only takes up one-third of the syringe's volume. According to the method described by Dr. Schacht, Chen Taiyuan stabbed both syringes into the veins in his arm and drew out a large tube of blood, both of which were the same.
Then he lifted the mother's hard, golden armor and found the upper point of the center, where the mother's heart was.
The mother worm began to struggle violently, but could not break free at all. Chen Taiyuan used a syringe to pierce the muscles under its back armor - it was as tough as cowhide, and it was difficult for an ordinary old man in Shacht to pierce it. Of course, at that time, the mother worm was not as big as it is now, and perhaps the hardness was not so high.
Of course, in Chen Taiyuan's reluctance, this hardness is not a problem at all, and it is pierced like a hot knife cutting butter. Two in a row, with his blood and the liquid of the special potion, were all injected into the body of the worm mother.
Obviously, this mixed liquid should be highly poisonous, and I don't know if the mother worm will die.