The quality of the special combat team is not to say, after receiving the order, quickly formed a protective formation, protected this group of people in the center, and when the number of people was counted, it was found that there was no me and Miaoqing, Xiong vigorously and anxiously shouted: Crazy, Miaoqing, where are you?

Xin Changhai saw the spotlight above us not far away, and shouted at us: Zhang Zifeng, Miaoqing, are you over there?

I picked up Miaoqing, who was a little out of strength, and replied, "It's us, everyone is fine, right?" and then I helped Miaoqing and walked towards them.

Walking into them, Xin Changhai looked at us in surprise, have you already woken up?

I nodded slightly, and helped Miaoqing into the protective circle.

Zhou Tianzuo heard the conversation between me and Xin Changhai, walked over quickly to help me sit down with Miaoqing, and asked tentatively: Brother Zhang didn't enter the illusion?

I don't know how I got into the illusion, but in order to save you, Miaoqing spent all her spiritual power to stimulate the Spiritual Talisman. Zhou Tianzuo touched his body when he heard this, and sure enough, the condensing talisman was missing.

I said: No need to look for it, in order to save everyone, all the talismans have been used, and now they have long since turned into ashes.

Ling Youyang and Xian Yunzi also used their own means to start investigating at this time,

Ling Youyang used the Yin Detection Talisman, then shook his head and said, There is no Yin Qi nearby, and there are no ghosts to do strange things?

Nangong Xinyue walked over and said: We may have been poisoned, do you all feel uncomfortable in the illusion and want to take a bath?

We all nodded yes.

Then you touch the back of your neck, is it sticky, Nangong Xinyue continued.

I touched it with my hand, and sure enough, I felt a hand of mucus, could it be that this mucus has a hallucinogenic effect?

Nangong Xinyue said: According to legend, during the Jin Dynasty, there was an orphan named Xie Duan in Houguan County, whose parents died when he was very young, and his kind neighbors adopted him. Xie Duanzhong was honest, hardworking and thrifty, and when he was seventeen or eighteen years old, he didn't want to cause trouble to his neighbors, so he built a small house on the side of the hill and lived independently.

One day, Xie Duan picked up a particularly large snail in the field, thought it was a strange thing, took it home, put it in the water tank, and raised it for dozens of days. Xie Duan went to work in the fields every morning, but when he came home, he saw food and hot water in the house, as if someone had made it. It's been like this for a few days, Xie Duan asked the neighbors. The neighbors all said they didn't do it themselves. After that, Xie Duan went out when the rooster crowed, and came back quietly when the sun just came out, peeked outside the fence, and saw a girl coming out of the water tank and making a fire under the stove, Xie Duan saw it really clearly, and hurriedly ran into the door, and asked the young girl who was cooking on the fire to ask the truth, Shui Sunu said: "The Emperor of Heaven sent me down to earth, specially for you to cook on the fire, take care of housework, and want you to become rich within ten years, start a family, and marry a good wife, and then I will return to heaven to restore my life." But my mission has not been completed, but you have known the heavenly secret, my identity has been exposed, even if you promise not to tell it, it will inevitably be known by others, I can no longer stay here, I must return to heaven. ”

After listening to the words of the goddess, Xie Duan was very grateful, and regretted it in his heart, and repeatedly warmly retained the water girl. Before leaving, Shui Sunu said to Xie Duan: "After I leave, your life will be harder, but as long as you do good farm work, catch more fish, and chop more firewood, your life will get better day by day." I will leave you the snail shells, and you may use them to store grain, so that the rice will not be exhausted, and the rice in the shell will not be used up. As she was talking, she saw a strong wind outside the house, and then it rained heavily.

Grateful for the kindness of the goddess, I specially built a statue of the god for her, and went to burn incense and thank her every New Year's Day. And he himself relied on his hard-working hands and the help of the goddess, and his days became more and more prosperous day by day, and a few years later, he married his wife, and developed into a career, and became a county magistrate.

In order to thank the water plain girl, Xie Duan built a temple, which is today's plain girl temple.

Later, an explorer found a kind of field snail in the Yangtze River basin, their secretion has a strong hallucinogenic effect, is the main means they use to hunt, but this toxin is not fatal, poisoned people are mostly led by the illusion to commit suicide and drown.

Isn't that Xie Duan dead? He also became a big official. Someone asked.

Nangong Xinyue replied: The stories are all mythical, Xie Duan is very likely to have picked up this kind of snail, took it home and put it in the water tank to raise, but was stuck by his secretions into the illusion, and lived the life he wanted the most in the illusion.

Fortunately, it was a heavy rain that saved him, and his house may be very dilapidated, and a heavy rain directly washed away the roof, drenched him, and restored his senses. And he later became a big official, of course, he had to package a legendary story for himself to show his extraordinary.

Professor Nangong, you just mentioned that this is a kind of complementary food for them, what do they eat?

They are scavengers who have no set recipes, and as long as their slime psychedelic creatures sink to the bottom and drown, they wait for their prey to slowly decay and climb up to suck the juice.

I suddenly felt very anxious, and asked nervously: Then they can only live in the water? The heavy rain can make Xie Duan regain his senses, and if a lot of water can make people sober, won't they be sober after falling into the water? You can swim back to the shore by yourself, unless you can't swim.

They could go ashore, and the explorer also found that the snail had some special cavities, and when the water passed through, it could produce an infrasound wave that paralyzed the motor nerves, and the explorer guessed that if dozens or hundreds of them were gathered together, it would be enough to paralyze human-sized creatures and not move, so they could only watch themselves drowned, but fortunately there were only three or two at the time, otherwise he would have died.

The explorer gave them a very beautiful name – the Phantom Snail. However, after the explorer's expedition diary was published, the state sent a biologist to the place where he had found the phantom snail to search for it, and wanted to bring back a sample for study, but found nothing.

Ling Youyang said: It must have been made up by that explorer, in order to attract the reader's attention.

Nangong Xinyue shook her head firmly and said: Every one of his expedition diaries is true, because he is my father - Nangong Qiudong, I believe him. I studied history and archaeology to follow in his footsteps.

Suddenly, a member of the special combat team on the perimeter left the team and walked towards the underground river, and the team member next to him hurriedly called him: Wang Li, why are you going? But he turned a deaf ear.

It's not good, Wang Li has entered the illusion again, Xin Changhai shouted loudly.

The two of you held him down, and we all looked around and saw drops of slime falling from the sky, spreading from the hole in our direction.

The roof of the cave was too high to see what was there, but the entrance and the surrounding walls were densely packed with snails, wriggling and soft, and surrounded us. They would leave a line of slime on the ground they crawled on, and under the illumination of the spotlights, it would envelop us in a web of thousands of spider silks.

There must be their cave on the bronze gate, maybe we were hit as soon as we entered the door, there is no such long tunnel at all, but there is a long dark passage in my imagination, I don't know why Miaoqing has nothing to do, but if it weren't for Miaoqing, we people might have become the food of these phantom snails like the two groups of people who came before.

What should I do? Xiong Dali was a little panicked and asked me nervously.

Let's run in the direction of the underground river, although the special combat suits we wear are not afraid of venom infection, but our heads cannot be sealed, this group of phantom snails is outflanking us from the top, bottom, left and right at the same time, we can only run that way.

Zhou Tianzuo's analysis was the same as mine, telling everyone to move in the direction of the lake, and we quickly ran in the direction of the underground river under the protection of the special combat team.

In fact, this underground river is not very far from us, about thirty or forty meters away, but this is the only way we can go.

Now there is a problem in front of us, the snail is slowly approaching us, if we build a wall of fire with gasoline, we can block the snail in front of us, but we will inevitably be hit by their slime when the surrounding and the roof of the cave falls, and we will only have a dead end when we enter the illusion.

We had two road options, one was Zhou Tianzuo with an inflatable raft, and we drifted forward along the underground river on an inflatable raft, and the other was to rush back to the bronze gate with the encirclement of the phantom snail.

What danger would there be in the water? But if we don't get into the water, the phantom snails behind us will arrive, and the ubiquitous infrasound waves can wipe us out.

After a while, the phantom snail advanced for more than ten meters, everyone went into the water first, the formation remained the same, the first team and the second team opened the road in front, the third team was on guard next to it, and the fourth team was pressed behind. We opened the inflatable raft as we swam, or else we ran out of time. With Zhou Tianzuo's order, everyone quickly went into the water.

Xiong vigorously stood in front of the water and grinded, I knew that he couldn't swim, so I patted him on the shoulder and said: Dali, hold my shoulder, now is not the time to hesitate, hurry up and get into the water.

Xiong vigorously followed me into the water slowly, the groundwater was cold and biting, fortunately our special combat suit was kept warm from the water, otherwise we would have cramps when we went into the water, and more than 70 people went into the water at the same time, causing ripples on the water surface.

When we had only swam a few tens of meters, we heard the sound of plopping, as dense as if there were dozens of people, each grabbing a handful of stones and throwing them into the water together.

Hearing my shout, everyone began to increase their strength and swam forward, and the team member in charge of carrying the inflatable raft was also quickly opening the inflatable raft.

I didn't expect the snail to crawl very slowly on the ground, but when it got into the water, it moved forward with the help of the jet of water, and it shot at us like a bullet.

And when they flew over, there was a low buzzing sound, hearing this sound made us feel like blood clotting and numbness in our hands and feet, which should be the infrasonic waves that Nangong Xinyue said.

I saw a few bright lights sink to the bottom of the lake behind me, and I knew they were sleeping forever at the bottom of this cold underground river.