Chapter 14: The Manure Pit
Just after discovering the totem, the old man led everyone to move in the direction of the totem on both sides, and gradually, it became more and more like a road, except for the sharp stones engraved with totems on both sides, the middle ones were artificially cut off, leaving only the raised bottom, and the one-eyed dragon repeatedly heard movement in front of him, like a worm crawling. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
But where did the others hear any strange noises, and the man-bear joked that the one-eyed dragon was too nervous and had auditory hallucinations, but the fellow was not angry, and continued to walk quietly and alone, until the rope was almost exhausted, and everyone came to another cliff, but when they looked down, their scalps stood up.
The depth of this cliff is not large, and the light of the torch is enough to illuminate the bottom, but the feeling of the one-eyed dragon is not wrong, it is indeed densely packed with insects, the old man is uncomfortable when he sees it, and he remembers the scene of the night in Lushan, and the place where the insects crawl in and out is not soil at all, it is completely a smell of sour and rotten feces.
Li Lao lay on the edge of the cliff and observed carefully, he couldn't help but be surprised, looked up at the top, and motioned for everyone to take the torches away to restore darkness here, and then the cliff and the surroundings immediately became black and rumbling, but everyone rubbed their eyes in surprise, and starlight appeared on the top of the cave, just like the Milky Way, like stars hanging on it, emitting a faint blue light.
"Owner, estimate the height, this top is much higher than the road from which it came, but what is the star? And this cliff is in a circle, but it is not very large, and you see, there is also a cave there, which is uniformly regulated, and is obviously built by man. But where did all this manure come from? ”
"Cockroaches! Owner, I can see clearly, this is so fucking disgusting, my one-eyed dragon has grown so big, the most dense things can be seen, and now it is covered with goosebumps, you see, the cockroach is estimated to be half a palm long, it is really huge, and it has no reaction to our light at all, has it been in the dark all year round and has no eyes? ”
The one-eyed dragon was right, in the circular space surrounded by the cliff, the ground was full of dung, and countless cockroaches were next to each other, or crawled on top of each other, or burrowed into the dung together, and there were many moths and other things flying on the dung, and they rushed over when they saw the firelight, and it was really a swarm.
"Oh my God, who made this? Isn't it possible to use it for manure? Laiyu, throw your torch down and see what happens. ”
As soon as the torch fell on the dung, the sound of thorns and thorns roasting insect shells was heard, and the cockroaches fled in all directions, and many of them were frightened into the dung.
"Look, the owner is not far from the torch, near the middle area, there are flowers growing there?!"
Following the direction of the eighth, everyone saw that where the torch was shining, colorful flowers bloomed there, all of them had the same shape, but they were too far away, but it felt like the image depicted on the totem.
"This flower grows in dung, but it's a natural fertilizer, but what's so special? In addition to the straight flower stem, I don't see the same round organ. ”
"Now it's troublesome, from the surroundings here, it should have been a place of human activity, those neat caves are proof of this, but now that they are occupied by other creatures, should we go down to this cesspool?"
"Huh~~~! It's disgusting, could it be that the corpse dug up the feces and buried itself in it? ”
"Isn't all this poop from bats? Now they're out foraging? ”
"Impossible, the owner, our locals are active here every day, such a scale of feces, the bats must be countless, they must be all over the world, we will not know, the bat cave in L County is like this, but the bat feces are white and light, but the feces are dark and black, and the taste is only sour and not foul, it will not be bats."
"Okay, the feces must have fallen from the top anyway, do we have any fire dragon chong or something?"
"Yes, the owner, before we entered the cave, we heard from Xiang Yong, who went back to get the rope, that this place is vast and boundless, so I was worried that we would get lost in each other, so I brought the fire dragon rush in. It's just that when I first came down, I didn't know who I was, and I was afraid of startling the snake, so I didn't report it. ”
"Thoughtful, put one in the place where there are no stars at the top, and see what the hell those things are."
I heard a boom, a firelight rushed straight up, it turned out that the top was not very high, the fire dragon rushed to the stone wall and exploded, under the firelight, I saw a transparent chain hanging down from above, very regular distribution, criss-crossing, just different lengths, the tail end of the chain was attached to the stone wall.
As soon as I exploded, I heard the sound of clattering and moving from above.
"The owner, it turned out to be a cave firefly, I didn't expect to see it here."
"Cave Firefly?"
"Yes, Zhang Jingde of the Ming Dynasty mentioned in "Insects and Agricultural Pests" that this kind of cave firefly is different from the flow firefly, their larvae are like the caterpillar, but the size is several times larger, crawling on the top of the cave, the whole body is transparent, spit out sticky silk from the mouth, and spit out a little more like a bead every little distance, which forms a curtain-like scene, and then they hide on it and emit blue light to attract moths and other insects to pass, once stuck to the silk, they will put away the sticky silk and eat the prey. It is not until they are fledgiving, before they die, that they inject their eggs into the body of the prey, and the larvae hatch from inside, and so on. ”
"Two masters, I... I didn't see the kind of long worm that Li Ye said at the top of the curtain, but... Instead, I saw something else next to it, one lump after another. ”
"Huh? Cyclops, are you sure? ”
"Sure, it's definitely a round thing, this height looks like it, if it falls, the size must be bigger than a human head, owner, what is it?"
"I don't know, the creatures in this cave are strange, and there is probably nothing outside the cave. Be careful, don't provoke if you can. ”
Who knew that as soon as the words fell, I heard a villager shouting.
Lao Ba hurriedly protected the old man and Li Lao, and the man and bear rushed over with the people, and Lai Yu was immediately frightened.
The struggling Xiang Yong had five strange insects on his body, they were all round, dull in color, covered with dense hair, and could not see the mouthparts and limbs, like a big leather ball, the Xiang Yong was completely broken, one was right on his chest, and the other four were on the abdomen and thighs.
"Man-bear! Quick, peel off with a knife against your body, don't cut or burn, I guess this thing is poisonous! ”
Short-legged hurriedly gave the bear paw a torch, and sure enough, this thing did not react to the light at all, and that Xiangyong simply held the strange insect with both hands and pulled it up, but as soon as he used force, his expression was distorted together, and the man and bear saw that this strange insect had definitely burrowed into his chest, so he laid the steel knife flat along the neck and slashed it against the skin, and listened to a few stings, and the strange insect's round body fell.
But the chest had turned into a pile of white meat sauce, and there was a worm head the size of half a fist drilled into it, and not only did it not die because of the loss of its body, but it desperately drilled into it, and there was a circle of small limbs left next to the wound, all of which were buckled in the flesh.
"Good fellow, this thing is so powerful, it can melt all the meat so quickly?"
The man and bear hurriedly peeled off the remaining four with a knife, those bodies were simple, and they didn't move when they fell to the ground, but these heads were still drilling in, and it was completely useless to pick them with the tip of the knife, and that Xiangyong had already foamed at the mouth, and the wound was melting faster and faster, and he was no longer breathing in a blink of an eye.
The old man walked over and squatted down to take a look, it was so miserable, so quickly, his body was eaten by five insects the size of a human head, the intestines that were melted in the abdomen flowed out, and the bones of the two thighs were exposed.
Lai Yu is the most afraid of insects in this group of people, and now his legs are trembling, and he is blushing vigorously, and he is the most courageous to kill the man, but he is almost so frightened that he can't walk, in order to strengthen his courage, he turned the strange insect over with one foot, this look, it's really evil.
The thing was still covered with thick hairs after it was turned over, if it wasn't flat underneath, it was really unclear what to tell from top to bottom, left and right, and the thick hairs were peeled off with a knife, and inside was a concave and surrounded by a circle of limb remains, among which was a broken worm neck, and it seemed that these organs were usually hidden in the recesses under the thick hairs.
"Owner, let's see if we withdraw first and then make plans."
"Everyone, Zhou thought that there would be an end when he arrived here, not like such a tragedy happened, blame me for not thinking about it, now this brother has died tragically, there is this monster that looks like a tick on top of our heads, and there are cockroaches and feces below, let's simply retreat today, but this brother's wound is still expanding, and I am worried that if I forcibly carry it back, it will hurt people." It's not that I, Zhou, am not righteous, this evil land will definitely be bulldozed, if the villagers are afraid, it doesn't matter, I will take my own brothers to do it. ”
"Boss, what are you talking about, such a terrible thing happened in our village, thanks to the owner and all the righteous people who found out the truth, and now they are risking their lives to go deep into the tiger's den, are we cowards who are afraid of things? Will follow the owner to level this place! ”
"Okay, let's stop for the time being, now that the terrain is clear, go back first, I already have a plan in my heart, but, I'm afraid there are not enough people, so I have to ask you."
"Then I have wronged this dead brother, and I will park it here for the time being, and come and take it away tomorrow."
The way back was not as tense and slow as when they came, the speed was much faster, everyone was already very tired, and it was only half an hour to return to the first cliff, and the torches that had been placed in the cave before were about to burn out, and out of the hole, the villagers guarding the entrance of the cave breathed a long sigh of relief, but an old man was stunned and counted the number of people, and then he burst into tears.
It turned out that the dead villager was his son, and the old man told everyone about the situation in the cave one by one, and then told his plan.
"Today, the situation we are facing is very complicated, the area under the cliff is likely to be a man-made site in the past, but it has long been the world of these strange insects and cockroaches, but there are swarms of moths there, and there must be an exit to the cave below to connect with the outside world."
"We also saw the flowers depicted in the totem, but we didn't know what they were, and we didn't see any corpses, so we had to go down to the big pit of the cliff to remove the feces to see the original appearance, but the feces were full of cockroaches, and there were huge strange insects shaped like ticks on the top of our heads."
"Zhou's idea is that we originally planned to eliminate those rats last time, but they are still in cages, so you can put the rats into the big pit first and let them drive away cockroaches, rats are omnivorous, and they will be even more hungry tomorrow, cockroaches are sensitive, and if they find danger, they will scatter and flee. Then use the rat to lure the big tick on the top of the head down, and finally we throw the torch, and kill as many as we can, and those who escape, if you want to get back to the top, you have to climb up again along the cave wall, where the space is vast, and this time must be very long, enough for us to do things. ”
"So, I need the brave townsman to go in with us tomorrow and bring a hoe and other tools, the pit is not huge, and it is all excrement and easy to dig, we must clean it up before we can see what it is for. Moreover, I feel that those flowers are not simple and need to be treated with care. ”
The old village chief stood up and said loudly to the villagers.
"Fellow villagers, if it weren't for the Zhou Dongjia to help us this time, maybe we would have a lot of deaths here, don't forget the past of Longmen Cave back then, and now the owner has personally discovered the last place, will I stand by and watch as a group of cowards? I'm old, but let my family Ji Bin follow me into the cave tomorrow, I will definitely destroy the evil land, to ensure the safety of my children and grandchildren, if you are not afraid of it, if you are bold enough, then the heirs of the family will not be able to do their best, three out of one, five out of two, all understand? ”
"Don't worry, village chief, damn, these families where we lost their bodies will definitely not be left behind, we must see what kind of hell place it is, forget about the people who are isolated at home, and we will all enter the cave tomorrow."
This agitation will be used out, the villagers suddenly boiled their blood, one by one rubbed their hands and gritted their teeth, agreed to go home to prepare digging tools and ropes and baskets, and enter the cave at dawn tomorrow to clear the field!