272. Night bugs
The eyes that were closed by the cold wind finally opened after getting used to it.
In a bumpy, even a woman's brain, which had become sluggish from hunger, sensed the slightest mistake at this moment.
But her head was dizzy, and her brain felt like it was stuffed with fluffy cotton, so she didn't know where the anomaly came from. Thinking about it, the woman began to look around with her eyes, but except for the sound of the beast's hooves stepping on the grass as it ran, it was like a roar in her ears. Surrounded by rolling grasslands, there seemed to be nothing else around.
In the midst of a jolt, the woman raised her right hand sunken in the thick snow-white fur, but the inside of her mouth was low and gasping for cold damage.
Suddenly she said "hey," and she was full of energy! Supporting the palm of his right hand on the neck of the giant beast, and at the same time exerting force on his hand, he directly supported his body, and his upper body stood up, revealing a pair of proud twin peaks that were difficult to hide from rags.
When the side face no longer leans against the behemoth, there is no sense of distortion. The woman suddenly realized what the surrounding anomaly she had sensed in front of her was.
ββIn this epic vast grassland, at this moment, I only heard the sound of insects that had died down on the grassland at some point.
Bug sounds!
Realization flashed in the woman's eyes. Audiblely, this voice accompanied her all the way, almost as if it was surrounded by herself and the "blunt" beast. And not only that, this very short and bright voice, as if it was still being stretched, suddenly became subdued when it reached the woman's ears, and it sounded a little scrambling.
And not only that, when the woman realizes that there is a sound of insects, the sound of insects has gradually been raised since when. And as the blunt beast advanced, it even became a little noisy.
"What's going on?"
Rubbing his ears, which were already a little hairy, it was only four or five breaths since the woman's ears left the hair on the neck of the giant beast. The woman dared to conclude that she had not heard it wrong, and the meaning in this voice could no longer be hidden in the undisguised deliberate pull out of high school at this moment.
"You ...... Want to leave? The woman didn't think for a moment why she understood the worm language.
With her right hand clenched into a fist in front of her, the woman dared to swear by her life, this was the insect chirp she had heard in the middle of the night before!
But this only frightened the woman even more, after all, she had only heard these sounds before, thinking they were ordinary bugs. And because of hunger, the woman once tried in vain to find these insects, but even if they were close to the source of the sound, they seemed to be close at hand, so that she found nothing.
The woman bit her lower lip, and her mind naturally fell into thought. All the things before were connected by her, and the things that were exposed made her heart fluctuate. Now that I think about it, the woman finally feels that something is wrong. This meadow, if it is really a Jedi as the blunt beast said. Then it doesn't make sense that some fragile bugs would have an advantage, or rather a privilege, over other creatures to survive here.
"Maybe these bugs are like this giant beast, and they have an extraordinary origin." The woman's facial features were tangled together, just because the sound of insects was so loud that it seemed to be close to her ears.
The woman opened her mouth, but she was silent again, with some fear in her heart, and she felt deceitful, and she didn't know how to speak for a while. And almost the next moment, there was a beast cry ahead.
"Blunt!" The blunt beasts in the front line had already noticed the anomaly, but it seemed that for some unknown reason, it had not flare-up. At this moment, the pace of the giant beast's progress did not change in the slightest, and after its mouth opened and let out a roar, and then all the night insects disappeared.
The sound of insects is really loud thunder and small raindrops.
"What are those?" The woman couldn't help but ask, but she didn't want to hear the answer. When she asked, she knew there was little hope of getting an answer. Her voice was a little sharper at the moment because of the rapid running tone. The woman's intuition made her feel that the blunt beast was making a sound to stop it, not because of the noise of the insects, but because of some other reason.
"These are echo worms," said the running whisper without looking back, startling the woman who was thinking.
"Oh," the woman replied with a nonchalant response, hiding her panic. But the blunt beast seems to be able to peek into the heart of man. In her mind, a creature with such an ordinary name is probably not too powerful, and the number of voices she hears is not small, but she doesn't know what is special.
Seeing the woman's thoughts, Blunt warned at this time: "Don't underestimate them, these guys are from the same region as these grasses." Before they were imprisoned here, they all possessed the terrifying ability to reflect the greatest thoughts in the hearts of every living being. In this way, it seduces the owner of the mind to destroy it. And eventually devoured the other party and replaced it.,It's a very terrifying and cruel creature.γ β
The blunt beast described it as terrifying, but the woman who listened to the worm all night did not feel anything unusual. If the blunt beast did not deceive itself. And in her daze, she must have walked on the grassland for a night, but she unconsciously walked to the center of the endless grassland, and there were too many doubts.
Capture the word "imprisoned" in the other person's mouth. The woman even had a guess that she was quietly brought to the blunt beast by these swarms. Thinking of this, she felt a chill in her heart. So will they be in league with the blunt beasts?
So, whether you have fallen into the calculation. The woman's heart beats the drum.
He buried his face again in the soft fur on the blunt beast's erect neck, staring at the vertical rows of irregularly edged inky fins no more than a little finger away from the tip of his delicate nose. The woman didn't want to think about it anymore, she knew that it was useless for her to struggle, but it was better to take one step at a time, and not know what the blunt beast was planning. The woman slowly closed her eyes at this moment.
"May all be safe." Inexplicably, she recited this sentence back and forth silently as if she was chanting a mantra in her heart.
It's just that with the woman's eyes closed, the magnificent river of life is still quietly pushing her due trajectory.
Thousands of miles away, in a meadow, a sound insect was silently planted on the ground, and it was evident that it had lost the battle with its kind.
And the victor rested proudly on the tip of a blade of grass almost perpendicular to the ground. It's a soundworm that's half a circle larger than it, the size of a child's big fingernail!
This guy's gray-black back armor is covered with thick black spots, the color is far more intense than similar to that of its kind, and it also flashes with a rare simple and mysterious brilliance. Despite a fight, the guy didn't look like he had much damage.
Its body is fat and round, and its carapace is smooth. The tentacles on the top of its head are golden, like glass, and you can vaguely see a snow-white bulge like a jade bone inside. At this moment, it is dancing triumphantly with this pair of "drumsticks"-like tentacles.
After showing off for a while, the echo worm spread its four claws. When it came to the loser, it did not hide its domineering at all, and poked out its mouthparts, which were organs hidden in its abdomen like a coil of incense, and when opened, it was far longer than its body.
It seems that he hesitated to pick the weak points on his body. It then pierced the loser's wings with a sharp breath, then lifted him up, scurried through his stout limbs, crawled over the blades of grass, and delivered it to a female echoworm perched on a tall branch, watching the whole process from beginning to end like a spectator.
The body of the loser is the only and most precious and luxurious wedding gift on this grassland.
And in the face of the rough treatment of the victor, this echo worm could only resist twitching the remaining limbs and tentacles. It looked awkward, and its body was broken in many places, revealing the white tender flesh inside. It looks almost indistinguishable from being dead.
Seeing this, the Ci Ying Sound Worm did not feel the slightest discomfort, and even waved its forelimbs with the same excitement. Perhaps in her mind, this is no longer the same kind, but just a delicious food.
In response, the victor was a little dazed and quickened his pace. The distance between the two bugs is not far, that is, the distance between two blades of grass.
At this moment, the victor opened the wide wings that were as thin as cicada wings under the carapace, and with a few slight shakes, he had already crossed the distance between the blades of grass. It can be seen that the body of the loser does not cause much burden on him, this is a real young and strong male, a good mate and father.
And the female echoworm seems to have taken a fancy to this, and with the arrival of the victor, the forelimbs dance more frequently. A gesture of wanting to refuse and welcome.
"Squeak squeak...... The vocal organ in the winner's abdomen made a long chirp, and as if offering a treasure, he carefully placed the loser on an inky blade of grass that grew horizontally in front of the insect. The loser, who realized that he was about to face a situation, trembled, but could not even move at the moment. Especially when the female worm's amber-like eyes look at her, she can't help but chirp too. But it was a short voice, and it sounded like a pleading.
But it is impossible for the worm to pay attention, even if he looks at this loser, but his eyes are actually on the victor all the time. Or rather, on its delicate tentacles and armor-like belly. Just when the victor, who had already carried away, impatiently crawled towards the female insect, suddenly, this ci worm like a young girl in spring suddenly turned into a black widow!
Swish!
The victor's agitated movements came to an abrupt halt, and the battle genes inherited from the ancestors were activated, but it could only see a dark shadow attack on itself, and a warning suddenly appeared in its heart.
But even though the victor was alert, he was knocked to the ground by a surprise whip, fell off the blades of grass, and smashed into the earth with all his strength.
"Tsk," the worm roared, flapping its wings and flying down. It seems that Ciying Worm doesn't seem to want to reproduce yet, and she wants to eat two full meals.
With mental calculations or unintentional, the victor who was smashed into the dirt by the mouthparts of the worm seemed to be seriously injured and did not crawl out in the first place.
After all, it had been slightly wounded in the previous battle.
After this guy crawled out, an angry roar came out of his mouth, and a short voice kept ringing out, and if there was a mortal here, his eardrums would definitely bleed from the sound of this sound.
At this moment, there is a trace of pity in the eyes of the loser. Yes, mercy to the two of the same kind in front of them. Immediately, while the two of its kind were at a loss, the only two hind legs in its body that were still intact burst out with an astonishing force.
This loser also has some means, otherwise he would not dare to challenge another person of his kind who is much bigger than himself. At this moment, it is being carried out for the purpose of saving life. I saw a black dot that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, rising into the sky at dusk, and disappearing in the next moment, until it reached an altitude of thousands of meters, it seemed to have touched some kind of limit, and the echo insect fell violently.
At this moment, a pair of wings that shone with a misty pale blue glow were broken, but they still opened like sails, allowing it to stumble and glide. I don't know where it falls.
But it's good to be able to escape with one life, but I don't know if this echo worm with two big holes in its wings can land safely after falling from such a high altitude.
But I don't know if it's a coincidence or not, this echo worm that has fainted in the past, coincidentally, just landed on the back of the woman lying on the back of the blunt beast, and rolled down the skin to the waist according to inertia. The woman's back has many abrasions, and the grass juice was not evenly applied because of the reason that she couldn't see it before, and even because of improper treatment, it was inevitable that some places would suppurate at this time.
The echo worm just rolled on top of one of the woman's wounds and stopped the fall. Even the highly alert blunt beast only felt a slight abnormality, but the unconscious echo worm was instantly wrapped in pus and turned into an "amber", and the liquid was blown by the wind and gradually scarred. The already faint vitality was immediately sealed, and there was no leakage at all.
*To be continued *