Chapter 54: Bookworms
It's not good, it couldn't be that some kind of bug was in a hurry and bit me. I won't be killed on the spot!
Moda hurriedly took off his shirt and let Mo Dian and Liu An check it.
Liu An saw an iron-black bug on the last rib of Murda's back.
The bug was shaped like a beetle, the size of a little finger.
The tip of the mouth had a pair of teeth, which were tightly bitten into the flesh of Murda.
The worm had sharp teeth and had already cut a small hole in Murda's back.
The worm burrowed and gnawed into it, causing Murda to die.
Mo Yun reached out and dragged it, not wanting to drag the insect deeper and deeper, and it had already burrowed into Mo Da's skin.
The bugs crawled down the spine under the skin, and Meda howled in pain.
Liu An and Mo Dian also panicked, how could they get it out of the flesh?
Yanagi pulled out the dagger, ready to poke the knife into the place of the bug, stab the worm to death, and then take it out from under the skin.
I don't want to, I haven't done it yet, and the insects break out of their own skin.
Suddenly, a mixture of flesh and blood flowed out of the wound.
The insect continued to crawl down, and Mo Dian and Liu An did not dare to move it, for fear of provoking the insect to burrow back into Murda's skin.
After a while, the worm crawled into the skin on Murda's waist and burrowed headlong into it.
Seeing this, Liu An immediately untied the skin.
Murda jumped and screamed in pain, and after Mo Dian used painkillers, Moda calmed down, and his face was full of beads of sweat.
The three of them were thinking around the skin, what is this bug?
It can easily bite through people's skin, which shows the great destructive power.
Murda was very curious, and put a piece of iron under the skin.
He also asked Mo Dian to prepare the bamboo tube, and caught the insects into the bamboo tube for a while to study carefully.
The three of them carefully opened the skin, turned the mouth of the bag upside down, and poured out the contents one by one.
Inside, there are cowhides like topographic maps of the Western Regions, or silk paper with words written on them.
I flipped through these things with a dagger, but found no trace of bugs.
Moda flipped through each piece of leather and silk paper one by one, and at last only the topographical map of the Western Regions remained unopened.
Looks like this bug must be in the map.
The three of them pointed three daggers at the map and drove the worm into the bamboo tube as soon as it came out.
Meda opened a corner of the map with the tip of his knife and looked in the sunlight, but there was no trace of insects.
When the folded map was fully unfolded, I found the bug lying on the far right of the map, sucking something in its mouth.
The position where the insect was lying on its stomach was just on the word of the royal court, and I saw that the insect's mouth secreted some mucus, and this liquid touched the cowhide, and immediately melted with the ink on the cowhide.
The ink was encased in slime and immediately turned into ink and separated from the hide.
The mixture of ink and slime that had been separated was like a drop of black oil, rolling around the map and never melting into the cowhide again.
The worm sticks a straw-like mouthpiece out of its mouth and begins to suck the drop of black oil.
This worm can actually eat ink!
The three of them looked at the ink-eating insect curiously, and before they knew it, three of them had been eaten in the four words of Wang Ting.
Murda came to his senses at this time, not good!
If you eat it, you will eat up all the words on the map!
Without the map, it's too difficult to complete the mission.
Murda hurriedly used the tip of his dagger to pluck away the worms.
When the insect saw that his meal had been interrupted, he immediately put on a counterattack posture, spreading his two hard wings and holding his two huge teeth high.
Murda tried to stab the bug with a dagger, but the bug squirted a black liquid from its mouth.
The liquid seemed to be the ink that had just been sucked off the map.
Murda was curious, and used the tip of the knife to stimulate the insects, and the insects kept spitting out drops of ink.
No one dared to reach out and grab it, but the dagger could not force the worm into the prepared bamboo tube.
Liu An tried to stab it to death several times, but the sharp dagger tip was blocked back by the carapace as hard as iron each time.
The three of them were in a hurry, watching as the map was spewed by the insects spewing ink and making several black spots.
Just when everyone didn't know what to do, Confused jumped out of Murda's arms.
For several days, I was confused and unaccustomed to the desert climate, and I have been listless.
When Murda saw that it couldn't eat the dried milk, he put the dried milk in a water bag and shook it into milk to feed it to the mud, so that this little thing could last until today.
Confused crawled off Murda's body and rushed to the map to bare his teeth at the bugs, revealing a fierce look.
The bug was immediately stopped, lying on the ground and turning its stomach over and pretending to be dead.
Ignoring it, he walked over and put one foot on the bug.
Croaking at the bug, the bug honestly turned over and lay on the map and never dared to move again.
Confused turned his head to look at the three of them triumphantly, then jumped onto the sand and began to write.
Murda realized that this insect used to like to eat dried ink.
Confused, he motioned to Murda and them to see how they tamed the insects.
Seeing that he was confused, he pointed at the insect with his hand, and made a few sounds in his mouth.
The insect actually returned to its original position of only four characters in the royal court, and began to write the words that it had eaten before, and the writing was the same as the original.
The three of them were amazed, this insect still remembered the position and appearance of the words.
Seeing that everyone was stunned, he was very proud, and continued to make a few gestures, and this insect actually continued a few words behind Shan Yu Wangting.
Confused and smart, the first in the world.
The three of them looked at the triumphant muddle and laughed.
Murda thought that this little thing was really narcissistic.
While laughing, Moda looked at these words and found that the handwriting of these words was exactly the same as the handwriting of the four words just in the royal court.
This insect has such a talent for imitating human handwriting.
Mo Daru got the treasure, patted the confused head, and said, "What is written is right, my precious fool is the smartest in the world, and it will be even smarter." ”
Confused enjoyed the praise very much, and jumped up and down happily.
However, the hot weather really made the little thing unbearable, and it wilted after a few jumps.
Moda took advantage of the confusion and still had some energy, and hurriedly let it command the insects to obediently climb into the bamboo tube, and then carried the confusion into his arms again.
I thought to myself, even if I was blown to this hellish place by a sandstorm, I could still get such a precious bug, maybe it could come in handy in the future.
He was pleasantly surprised that his fool was so capable of subduing bugs.
Then he gave the bug an elegant name: the bookworm.
Now, Murda was staring at the map again, and began to wonder where to go.
Since there are bookworms that can survive, it means that there will be no frequent and fierce sandstorms in this sandy area.
If you follow the map all the way to the west, you should be able to reach the Otsuki clan as well.
Moda had an idea, maybe the bookworm would know the way to Lu.
So I opened the bamboo tube and asked the confused people again.
Confused wrote to tell Moda that he could reach a place with water in the west by following the worm, and the worm didn't know what the big moon was.
Mo Da thought about it, how big the survival range of a worm can be, and how could it know what the Great Moon Clan is.
Anyway, it's always good to have water to drink, so let the foolish command the bugs to lead the way in front.
It's an interesting scene, with a bug being driven away by a small furball in front and a herd of camels behind it.
The speed was slow, but the bookworms were familiar with the terrain and took Meda and them around all the quicksand.
The procession of people, insects, fools, and camels stopped and walked for three days until they finally came to a lake.
The bookworm walked to the lake and said that he would not leave, and after asking in a confused way, he realized that this was the most marginal place that the bookworm had ever visited.
The lake is semi-circular and the water area is the size of a dozen football fields.
Being able to see such a large expanse of water in the desert is the greatest blessing for desert walkers.
They walked to the lake and tasted the water.
It was found to be a freshwater lake, and the water was crystal clear and the water was extremely sweet.
It was evening, and the setting sun was slanting on the lake, and a brilliant afterglow was reflected on the faces of the three people.
Evening, like early morning, is the best time of the day.
Pleasant temperatures, clear and sweet waters, and gorgeous sunsets.
The three of them were very happy and pitched their tents by the water.
Not to mention how happy I slept this night.
In the middle of the night, Moda got up easily, went out of the tent door, and walked sleepily towards the shore of the lake.
Just after taking a few steps, I stepped into the water.
Murda woke up in a flash.
Obviously, there is still a distance of about 50 meters from the shore, how can I walk to the water's edge in a few steps?