Chapter 146: Parasitic Aquatic Plants
As soon as they landed on the island, they encountered such strange plants, and everyone's vigilance increased, in fact, they didn't know that these aquatic plants only absorbed a little bit of dead qi mutation.
The closer you get to the 'core', the more dangerous the plants and animals that have mutated under the influence of death qi, and this island is no ordinary holy relic.
The path 005 chose was indeed relatively flat and easy to navigate, but the ground was slippery, and the speed at which we traveled was affected.
"Don't you think... Someone watching us? Zhao Ning looked around nervously and said.
"Anyone?" Song Hu looked left and right, and then said, "No, you're too nervous." β
Zhao Ning was very unhappy when he heard this: "No, there are really people who have been following us!" β
"14, you go and scout around." 005 called 014, who had never spoken.
The others naturally rested in place, 014 was short in stature, but athletic, and there were no particularly high obstacles around the road we walked, and the terrain was basically clear at a glance.
It didn't take long for 014 to come back and shake his head at 005 gently, 005 turned to Zhao Ning and said, "Miss Zhao, don't worry, there must be no one nearby, if there is, 14 will find out." β
Zhao Ning said unconvinced: "Is it necessary for me to lie to you?" Someone is really following us! β
The argument would not lead to any result, both sides had their own opinions, and I couldn't stand them wasting my time, so I offered to go around the neighborhood again.
Song Hu refused to let me go alone, so he had to follow me, so he had to let him search all the corals around me that were half a person high.
Tibetans at this height are so easy to spot that unless the person following us is lying on the ground and walking like a lizard, they can see the top of their brains even when they are crouching.
Moreover, after the island surfaced, due to the cloudy cover, the sun could not reach the ground, causing the road on the island to be wet and slippery, and no trace could be hidden whether it was footprints or handprints stepping on it.
005 was right, there was really no one around. But...... There is something else!
"Eldest sister, what did you find?" Song Hu saw me squatting behind a coral group and touching it, so he couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Xiaohu, come and take a look here." I beckoned him over. He crouched down beside me and fixed his gaze on a piece of coral.
"Thisβthis isn't that, the ...... we met at the bottom of the canyon."
"Lice on the white-haired banshee!"
"Yes!"
Song Hu slapped his thigh, making the sound a little loud, causing everyone not far away to look at this side.
He also realized that he was a little surprised. Hurriedly lowered his voice and said, "Is there anything else on the island?" β
I nodded slightly, stood up and walked towards the group, Song Hu followed closely behind, 005 asked me what I had found, I told them the truth, telling them that there might be monsters nearby, telling them to be careful.
Song Hu's huge body was close to the side of my arm, of course I knew that he was not rubbing oil, but that he had seen me deal with this kind of monster with his own eyes, and knew the benefits of clinging to me.
It took about ten minutes to walk. 005 made a gesture to stop moving forward, as all members of the team were given hot weapons in consideration of the danger of the operation.
005's gesture made all the team members except me raise their weapons, and Zhao Ning also took out his pistol, but his arm trembled badly, once he shot, maybe it would be his own people who were killed or injured.
005 tells everyone to stay where they are, and he and 009 step forward to check the situation, which turns out to be under a coral tree in the distance. A man leaned against the trunk of a tree, with his back to our direction, motionless.
The coral trees are very tall, nearly two meters tall and half a meter thick. The colors are bright and colorful, which reminds me of the texts that Li Miaoxue has studied, the one who fights for wealth with that one, and there is a paragraph about coral trees.
Two-foot-tall is rare, three- or four-foot-tall is rare, and I don't know how much such a plant is worth. I was weighing the value of the coral tree, and 005 and 009 had already walked under the tree.
They took their guns and turned the man around, and the man lowered his head and turned a deaf ear to their shouts.
005 shouted in English, but the man still didn't respond, and 009 stabbed the man in the body with the muzzle of the gun, and the man lay straight down.
When we saw the person's face clearly, Zhao Ning didn't scream, but let out a low 'Mom', and hurriedly covered his mouth with his hand and retched.
On the ground was a corpse, judging from the reddish-brown hair, it should be a foreigner, an adult male, but his skin was covered with aquatic plants, and his original appearance was completely invisible.
005's face changed drastically, he pulled 009 back, and turned to us and said, "Who of you was directly exposed to skin by aquatic plants?" Check it out for yourself! β
The members of the daredevils wore long military boots with trouser legs tucked into the boots, tactical gloves on their hands, and were not touched by aquatic plants.
But our group of members of the civilian expedition was different, although they also wore high military boots and trousers, but they did not wear gloves on their hands.
After the leg was entangled in the aquatic weed, the instinctive reaction of the person was to pull it with his hands, and several people except me and Wu Nian had touched the aquatic weed with their skin.
Wu Nian not only wrapped his face tightly, every part of his body was covered tightly, but he was wearing leather gloves that reached to the elbows on his hands, and it was even more difficult for the aquatic plants to touch him than to ascend to the sky!
Song Hu rolled up his cuffs, and above his wrist, a small patch of aquatic grass grew, and he wanted to pull it out directly, but 005 stopped him.
I said, "Let me try." β
Saying that, he grabbed Song Hu's wrist, sucked the dead qi in the aquatic weed, made it wither and disappear, and dealt with Song Hu, as well as Zhao Ning and Hua Zeng, Zhao Ning's situation was not serious, and Hua Zeng was more miserable.
Because he protected Zhao Ning, even his neck was wrapped around aquatic plants, and fine hairy aquatic grass sprouts grew in several places on his body.
Fortunately, 005 reminded that otherwise, once the aquatic plants grow, they will penetrate deep into the blood vessels and flow into the heart, and by the time they are discovered, they will have no surgery.
After dealing with the aquatic plants on Hua Zeng's body, I could see that he wanted to say thank you, but because Zhao Ning was staring at the side, he couldn't exit.
I gave him an understanding look, and he was able to sneak a hint on the boat that it wasn't what he wanted to do, especially after hearing his story.
"Someone!" Zhao Ning was glaring at me and Hua Zeng, as if he was afraid that we would say one more word, but he jumped up from the ground and shouted.
"Where?" 005 asked.
Zhao Ning pointed to his feet in shock and said, "Down, there are people below!" β
005's face became very serious when he heard this, the place Zhao Ning was pointing to was a relatively flat coral reef, where was there room for Tibetans?
Zhao Ning knew that he didn't believe it, so he hurriedly said: "Really, just now, just now, under my feet, there was a human face!" β
Out of the habit of safety and prudence, although he didn't believe Zhao Ning's words, he still squatted down, used a dagger to clear the mud and sand on the surface of the coral reef, and confirmed that there was only a reef below, before getting up and saying:
"There's no one to hide down there, don't be nervous." (To be continued.) )