Chapter 252: Ants Dig Their Nests
The two looked at each other, immediately moved their hands and feet, and began to climb the tree.
The trees here are relatively easy to climb, and there are many landing spots, but you need to be careful because the trunks are covered with moss and other plant mud, and if you don't settle on your feet, you can easily slide sideways, and if you slide for the first time, you may fall all the way.
The place where Li Mowu is located is under the top of the canopy, where the branches are relatively sparse, the fog is lighter, this tree is very high, and the moon is revealed in the fog above his head, probably because this is a plateau, the moon is particularly bright, and it can shine so much light through the mist, but the fusion of moonlight and fog still gives people a feeling of hair. In the obscure white light, you can see the trees around you, but you can't see clearly, everything is ambiguous in the fog.
Qiu Yan went up and asked Li Mowu in a low voice what was going on, and he said in an extremely low voice. "There seems to be a man in the tree over there. ”
"Which side?" Qiu Yan asked softly, Li Mowu pointed in one direction and made a gesture. "At three o'clock, about 20 meters or so, on the branches. ”
"How do you see it when it's so dark?
"I couldn't see it at first, but I didn't find out when he moved just now. Li Mowu frowned and made another gesture to silence him. "There's leaves in the way, it doesn't look clear, but it shouldn't be the Lejin guy. ”
"Are you sure it's a person?
"I can tell you, the master's eyes are not blown, they are almost green at night, I don't believe you can see for yourself!" Saying that, Li Mowu pushed aside the dense branches, and pointed to the canopy in the distance for the two of them to see.
At first glance, I only saw a large dense canopy, although Qiu Yan's eyes were not as sharp as Li Mowu's, but it was easy to be dazzled in such an ambiguous light, so I couldn't see anything after looking for a long time, Xijiang's eyes were sharp, and he saw it at once, and said softly. "Hey, there's a real person. ”
Li Mowu handed the telescope to Qiu Yan, Qiu Yan looked in the direction, and sure enough, he saw a shape similar to a human figure in the gap in the canopy, which seemed to be peeping at something, the body shrunk in the canopy, and he couldn't see clearly, but he could clearly see that the person's hands were full of sludge, and they looked like animal claws in the misty moonlight.
Who is this? Could it be that there are other teams in this barren valley ruin?
Qiu Yan pondered for a moment and said. "Could it be the guy we saw in the swamp last night, didn't Lejin catch him up yesterday?"
Li Mowu nodded and said. "It's possible, that's why I asked you to be quiet, if it's really him, he heard the voice and ran away again. ”
Qiu Yan handed the telescope to Xijiang and said to Li Mowu. "If he's really the guy from last night, then what about Lejin? Why not be together?"
"You have to catch him to ask clearly, think about it, in this place where birds don't, in addition to us, there are humans don't you think it's very abnormal... If you find this place, you can find it."
Qiu Yan looked at the surrounding terrain and nodded. "But it's a little difficult, it's more than 20 meters from here to there, if he hears the sound like last night and runs, we can't catch up in this environment, he can't see anyone after a few runs, the best way is to sneak under the tree and block him in the tree, and we have to get there as soon as possible.." Qiu Yan looked at the sea of trees on the side. "Now that the fog is about to clear, we can't afford to delay too much time, and we can only understand the reason after we catch him. ”
Li Mowu thought about it and said yes, and he didn't have time to hesitate, so he had to do it first and then speak. Thinking about patting Xijiang on the shoulder, he wanted to pull him down the tree to plan the arrest operation, but Xijiang didn't wave his hand back. "Blah blah. ”
"Don't look at it, catch him and let you see enough. Li Mowu shouted softly.
Xijiang was still watching, moving while watching, Li Mowu was so anxious that he went up to grab Xijiang's telescope. "You old man."
But Xijiang pushed him away, and his voice was a little eager. "Wait a minute!
The two were stunned for a moment, everyone in Xijiang knew that he suddenly said this, he definitely couldn't take it seriously, Qiu Yan and Li Mowu exchanged glances. At this time, I heard Xijiang gasp, put down the telescope and scolded in a low voice, and immediately gave the telescope to Qiu Yan. "Sure enough, look closely, look at the hand. ”
Qiu Yan raised his glasses to look carefully, and Xijiang was on the side. "Look at the hands, behind the leaves, look carefully. ”
Qiu Yan squinted his eyes, looked at the man's wrist, exhausted his eyesight, and sure enough, he saw something, and the moment he saw it, Qiu Yan sighed in his heart and seemed to realize something, and he understood in the next second.
This is the hand of the descendants of the dead Miao Jiang!
Because of his previous experience in the cave, Qiu Yan was extremely impressed by the physical appearance of the Miao Jiang people, with a deformed body and short hands and feet, so even in such a light, Qiu Yan could be sure that he would never be wrong.
"His grandmother's!" Qiu Yan also took a breath of cool air. In this way, this "person" in the tree in the distance turned out to be the corpse of a Miao Jiang person, and those snakes transported his body here?
Li Mowu saw that Qiu Yan's face had changed, and immediately took the telescope over, he was not impressed by the Miao Jiang people, and after Qiu Yan reminded him, he frowned and tilted his head thoughtfully.
"It's a marathon to drag from the entrance through a dense swamp and move to such a tall tree, and these snakes are really good. Li Mowu leaned on the branch on the side, chewed his mouth, and pondered. "Why do these snakes seem to be like ants, do you think they are social animals like ants, and they have a snake queen hidden in their nest, and these corpses are transported to the snake queen to eat. ”
"What snake queen?" Qiu Yan didn't understand for a moment.
Li Mo martial arts. "Haven't you ever dug out the ant nest? The queen ant is responsible for laying eggs, and the ant is responsible for feeding the queen, I think that's right, it must be so, the cockscomb snake here may have the same food chain as the ant bee, and there must be a big snake with a different kind of snake in this forest, and these small snakes are born to it. ”
Qiu Yan became more and more confused. "Logically, there shouldn't be such a food chain, snakes are not social animals, but the behavior of these snakes is incomprehensible, but it must be unreasonable for you to guess so, snakes and insects are completely different species, this possibility is very rare. ”
"There are so many wonders in the world, I think that's a good guess. ”
Qiu Yan was noncommittal, he didn't want to continue to discuss this issue, and when he saw the corpse of Miao Jiang again, it was such a scene, which made people very uncomfortable, Qiu Yan didn't dare to imagine what the part hidden in the canopy looked like now, although Li Mowu expressed his attitude towards life and death, but what he said at this time still made Qiu Yan feel a little depressed.
The three of them were silent for a while, and Xijiang said. "Fuck it doesn't matter what they're doing here, apparently the corpses are here, there must be a lot of snakes around, and we'd better get out of here right now. ”