It was really a blessing and a curse, and everyone had just experienced a panic, and after a little calm, they began to dig up the corpse and clean up the feces again, but they became nervous again with the sudden shouting of the man and bear. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The old man looked behind the man and bear, and saw that there was something faintly shaking in the hole in the abdomen of the corpse, and he was about to use a torch to insert it directly, but he didn't want the things inside to crawl out quickly, and there were more than a dozen of them.

The larvae seemed to have a division of labor after crawling out, and five or six of them crawled to the place where the membrane had been destroyed and began to secrete mucus, as if trying to repair the membrane, while the rest suddenly folded up with a bow, and the two circles were short and one foot, and they bounced in the direction of the crowd.

The surrounding townspeople were already panicking one by one, and there was chaos on the old man's side.

The larvae didn't hit anyone at all, and they quickly searched for dark corners to hide. But the old man is the most sober, and now he can't escape at all, a single corpse will run out of more than a dozen larvae, and then there are three of the rest, so that there are dozens of them, if they run away, they will crawl out and scourge the village, one person can give birth to a dozen, and the hundreds of people in the village must not become an army of insects?

"Man bear, roar everyone! Calm down, take a torch to protect yourself, the other corpses may not have been destroyed, so no bugs have escaped yet, now there are only a dozen of them, no matter what, burn them! ”

Lao Ba, Lai Yu, Short Legs and Leper Tou guarded the old man and Li Lao in the middle of the front and right, and then monitored each other's areas, while the man and bear hurried to collect those village warriors, and the one-eyed dragon held torches in both hands to exterminate insects.

This guy really had a steady intuition, and he couldn't distinguish the movement of the insects in the chaos of the crowd, and moved all the way over, with the torch in his left hand around him, and his right hand ran directly according to the insects, and in a while, he eliminated more than ten of them.

Those larvae do not yet have the wisdom of adults, and they only know how to kill blindly, so they should want to find a corpse for themselves as soon as possible.

Suddenly, the one-eyed dragon kicked a man, and the man fell to the ground, and when he looked back, he saw that two more one-eyed dragons had been burned to death on the ground.

"Are you stupid?! The bugs are crawling on your legs, don't you feel it? ”

When the man heard this, he quickly fixed his eyes, oh my God, a larva happened to be on his calf, and its head had already been drilled in, but no blood flowed out, and there was a circle of flesh spines around it, but the man shook his head and didn't feel it at all.

"Man bear, look behind me, I'll pick worms for him!"

The one-eyed dragon took out a short dagger in his right hand and was about to prick the larva in the **, but he stopped when his hand arrived, and he thought that the body fluids of the giant tick could turn an adult into white bones, and the larva didn't know if it was also secreting something similar.

"Brother, if it hurts, hold back, brother, this is for your good!"

I saw him roast the dagger on the torch and insert it deeply into the ** side, the Xiang Yong screamed and fainted in pain, it turned out that the one-eyed dragon had chopped off all the circles around the **, just like that, the larva was still drilling, he quickly pressed it with the torch, and the smell of burnt human flesh was disgusting.

"Hurry up, check your body, if there are worms, you must rip the flesh like this!"

Sure enough, when people fell and collided in a panic, they let these larvae have a chance, and when they checked, there were three villagers who were burrowed into their legs, and the man and bear didn't give those people a chance to think at all, and they were stunned when they went up with a knife handle, and the one-eyed dragon's eye quickly ripped off the flesh, which eliminated all the scourges.

However, as soon as I turned around, I saw Youxiang Yong crying bitterly at the person who fainted, and when he looked over, he was cold and breathless, Li Lao checked his pulse and found that it had stopped, and hurriedly used his skills to help return to Yang, but it was still useless, could it be that he died just like this? What kind of poison is this? There was no discoloration of the body, and no venom came out of the wound.

"Fake your death! The larvae can not feel it when it bites, it must have secreted some kind of anesthetic or other liquid, making people in a state of suspended animation, and it must have a substance similar to formic acid, which can burn the wound to death, so that they can seal the corpse membrane and burrow into the hole to slowly absorb nutrients. ”

"Could it be that those corpses are not really dead, but paralyzed?"

"I don't know, if it's fake death, how can it be possible to produce corpse spots and corpse water, unless... Unless... ”

"Unless these phenomena are caused by bugs, maybe just a symptom of an infection, but they are similar to the characteristics of a corpse."

As soon as everyone heard this, they quickly lined up the few people who faked their deaths, tore off the strips of cloth to stop the bleeding, and the eighth came over to ask for instructions, what to do with the three corpses buried in the soft dung? There won't be another wave of bug cubs.

"Do we have enough oil?"

"Not much, didn't you say you had to leave some to kill those ticks? But now they haven't climbed back yet, and they may have moved their nests. ”

"Alas, if it weren't for this, those ticks would have stayed in their holes, eating swarms of moths every day, and cockroaches living in their droppings, and it's ironic to think about it, who bothered whom?!"

"Old eight, it's better to peel off the soft manure and pour it with oil, otherwise I'm worried that it won't burn through, be careful."

"Owner, in my opinion, this place should have reached the end stage, now two people are dead, four are unconscious, and the wounds of those four are still bleeding, this environment will be troublesome if it is infected. Simply, let Xiang Yong send them out first, which can be regarded as an explanation in advance. ”

"Okay, then let's volunteer, four wounded people with eight people will be sent back first, plus us, there are fourteen people, it's enough."

"Boss, come and see, the corpse membranes on these three corpses are not broken."

The old man and Li Lao looked over and looked at it, it was really strange, it had been more than half a year since the first corpse was lost, but except for the blue color, there were no corpse spots, and it was like falling asleep at first glance.

"After pouring it and then burning it, it seems that these ** will not disturb the larvae, it must be that the adult worm secreted mucus when he fled and the hole was repaired, what a terrible species."

From morning to now, I don't know how many hours have passed, after a burst of panic and danger, everyone is really tired, although they don't want to sleep, but they can't take care of the sleepiness at all.

The man and bear slapped himself twice, and stood there to give everyone the wind, while the old man and Li Lao watched the firelight and chatted, waiting for the eighth child to clean up the remaining area.

"Brother, you said, those people must not have been here before, how can they be infected by worm eggs?"

"I probably guessed it, but it still needs to be verified, and I'm thinking about it now, the biggest flower painted on the slate, no, it's the biggest insect, why is it gone, is it ruined? It's weird. ”

"Boss, it's cleaned up, it's a pile of bones again, come and see!"

Sure enough, in the end, there were two pictures left, and in a clockwise progression, several old men lying side by side, with flowers growing on their bodies, and the last one was of people offering livestock and beasts to the largest flower.

And the eighth they also cleaned out the area in the middle, and found that there was a circular circle built with stones, which was more than one person deep, and a stone bed was built at the edge of the circle facing the entrance of the cave, which should be the place where the old man and the woman ** were painted.

The old man speculated that this is the most important burial ground of a certain tribe's sacrifice and chief, because the black stone mountain area is difficult to enter the earth, so the ancients are also looking for a way to preserve the corpse and even seek eternal life, they found this creature that looks like a flower but is actually a strange insect, and at the same time uses its characteristics, that is, it can make people die peacefully in the climax, and the insect flowers will use mucus to form a corpse membrane on the surface of the corpse, and finally protect the corpse for a long time.

The ancients worshipped the forces of nature not only for heaven and earth, but also for these strange creatures, and they did not grasp the secret of reproduction, so they believed that this was a kind of transformation of life, and after their own death, life could be reborn in the form of flowers and insects.

And those pictures record the life of the warrior or leader of the tribe, even when they are old and dying, they can feel the sexual energy again and give birth again, probably because the insects think that such a debilitating death can better protect the quality of the body.

At the same time, the old man symbolized wisdom and history for the tribe in ancient times, so the women would dress up and accept the old man's ** to pray for the newborn to obtain their inheritance, and most importantly, the ** in a row can increase the probability of multiple people getting pregnant, which will also increase the population of the tribe, and the population represents the strength of the tribe at that time.

In the end, in order to maintain this symbiotic relationship, people used animals to feed the largest strange insect so that it could continue to lay eggs and hatch larvae, but I don't know if it was due to human destruction or ecological disaster, and the place was finally abandoned, and the biggest strange insect did not know how it ended, whether it was left to fend for itself, or the intruder also discovered the secret and took it away.

It's just that why there are still people here who continue to come in for the strange insects to multiply, everyone can't figure out for the time being.

"Owner, this place has also burned down, and those giant ticks haven't crawled back yet, are we still waiting? Why don't you withdraw? ”

"Okay, take the rest of the fire oil away, Li Ye said that there is still one last place to verify, but now let's go in from that artificial cave and see where it leads."

Since the proprietor had spoken, it seemed that the contents of the cave must be thoroughly investigated, so everyone took up their weapons and torches and walked into the cave.

"One-eyed dragon, the water that flowed from the pit just now is gathered here, can you listen to it now, but there is still a strange noise?"

"Back to Master Li, the flow of water has stopped now, and there is no other sound in it, can you be particular?"

"Hahaha, it's really a coincidence, I'll talk about it later, now concentrate on going up with the owner."

Walking past the place where the water disappeared, the trend in the cave rose rapidly, and it took a lot of effort for everyone to climb up the steps to the top, and after a smooth tunnel came to the end, there was a faint cold light penetrating in, which should be an exit, but it had collapsed, and several layers of gravel were blocked here, except for some gaps that allowed the moths to enter and exit, and had long been overgrown with plants over the years.

The man and bear took the village warrior to move away the big and small stones, and finally, widened a small opening that could allow people to bow in and out, and when they went out, it turned out that this place was halfway up the crater, which used to be a clearing, but now it has long been shaded by towering trees, and through the woods is the cliff, and below is the bottom of the crater.

The old man looked up at the sky, the full moon was already high, and he felt the soil on the ground and found that it was very wet, it seemed that it had rained before, and there might be cracks or gaps in the hole, so the rain seeped in.

"Boss, there's a fallen stone tablet here, take a look."

I saw that this stele was almost exactly the same as the one in the cave, but the moss on it was peeled off, and the three words 'fairy cave' written in the script could be vaguely recognized.

The old man and Li Lao looked at each other, and suddenly laughed, and the others felt inexplicable.

"It's really a sentence of immortality like bait, I don't know that the ghost door is in front of me!"

"What the old brother said is very much, it seems that the strange insect flowers in here have been multiplying, and they are all made of fertilizer by the people who enter the cave to seek immortals, people and bears, you either smash this stone monument, or simply push it off the cliff, so that this immortal cave is completely wasted!"

"Alas, nine deaths and one life, fortunately, the mystery has finally been solved, but there is still one place that needs to be destroyed, and the few corpses in the village are not here to seek immortals, but those insects want to go home."

With the rest of the oil, everyone dragged their tired bodies out of the pit and finally returned to the cave where they entered, but the old man let the bear lead the way, to the small lake they found, and when they walked to take a look, the man and bear finally knew where the last place to be cleaned up, and the water level here was obviously much higher than when they were first discovered.

"If that's the case, the structure of the hole has undergone some changes, so the rain or other water lines flow into the big pit, and I don't want to pass through the area where the insect flowers are located, those rice-sized insects are estimated to have just hatched, and they will definitely not be washed away with the mucus protection of the adults, but those eggs are not necessarily, the insects like to expand the population by spreading the eggs, so these waters must carry the eggs."

"The lowest point of the cave is connected to this place, and during this period of heavy rain, it finally merged into a small lake, but the surface of the volcanic area could not hold water, so the small lake was always in a state of seeping and replenishing, or simply dried up. But the volcanic rock filtered water source is the purest, and the people here like to drink the water from the mountains, so the four dead people in the back probably drank water with insect eggs in the lake and became infected. ”

"Now we have eliminated the source, poured all the remaining fire oil, boiled all the eggs, and then told the old village chief to fill in the entrance to this stone tablet cave, what is connected to the fairy world, it is obviously a vicious means to attract people into the urn to help raise insects, I really don't know who this wicked person is!"

"Order! Brothers, work harder, and go back to drink and eat meat and sleep well when you're done! ”