Chapter 703: Tongue Lice
"Gollum!"
Baker Bloodhoof looked at Pang Xiaodou's expression, swallowed his saliva unconsciously, and then said with some embarrassment, "My lord, are you going to sacrifice that magical night pot again?" But I don't want to pee at all now, and if I have so much, I'm afraid I won't have enough pee......"
This thing obviously thought of the drought fish that he encountered in the sun tomb before, so he thought that these corpses that were also not decomposed might have also become drought fish, and Pang Xiaodou's so-called "magical night pot" was actually the [Engineering Brainwashing Hat]. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
“……”
Pang Xiaodou was almost amused by this guy's words, but he finally held back, turned around and picked up a small stone from the nearby ground, and said with a smile, "What's so strange, let's try it." ”
As he spoke, Pang Xiaodou threw the stone into the lake.
"Bang, bang......"
The lake was littered with floating corpses, and instead of falling directly into the water, the stone fell on the body of a floating corpse, bouncing twice on the chest of the still soft floating corpse, making a dull sound similar to the beating of a drum.
It was at this time.
"Phew!"
The floating corpse's throat immediately surged again, and the mouth that had been opened into an "O" shape suddenly doubled, and then a "tongue" that was at least a foot long suddenly burst out of the floating corpse's mouth and rushed towards the stone with lightning speed.
The shape of this "tongue" is very strange, the bare head looks like some kind of beetle, but it has a body like a "worm", and you can see that its body is covered with arthropod-like feet neatly arranged, and it is impossible to count how many there are.
As he approached the small stone, the mouth above the head of the "tongue" suddenly opened, revealing two rows of sharp teeth.
Just listen, there is a crisp sound of "click".
The stone was crushed into powder in an instant by the sharp teeth!
"What is this!?"
Bakr Bloodhoof screamed in fright.
“……”
Pang Xiaodou is reminded of an old movie - "Alien" through this picture, the monsters in it also have such a mouth, their tongues are such "mouths", a small head suddenly sticks out of the mouth, and the power is enough to penetrate people's heads or chests.
However, the image of the monster in "Alien" is not just made up out of thin air, at least Pang Xiaodou knows that this is another creature that existed in ancient times, called the shrinking head ghost lice, which is a creature similar to a parasite, but a hundred times more intelligent than a parasite!
Because of their special way of living, people call them "tongue-eating insects" or "tongue-eating lice".
They will enter the mouths of other animals when they are larvae, suck blood through the tongues of other animals, until the tongues of other animals atrophy, and they also grow to a certain extent, and then connect their tails with the tongues that have atrophied to work instead of the tongue, and finally turn from original parasitism to symbiosis.
This is the most clever part of the "tongue louse", and the parasitic relationship is to put it bluntly, the host can continue to live without the parasite; Symbiotic relationships, on the other hand, are in which once they are killed, the host loses an organ and can only wait for death.
According to historical records, the "tongue-eating lice" was first used by humans as a Gu worm.
Once it has developed, it can turn a person or animal into a bloodthirsty monster without realizing it, because in most cases, humans or animals are not able to control the "tongue lice" very well, although it has become part of the host's body, it still has a separate brain.
No one knows when it will attack, perhaps when the host is kissing someone closest to them, or when the host is "pronouncing the words separately" to someone...... It's a joke, but it's really not a good thing to have such a tongue with such a strong attack and doesn't listen to his own commands!
What did you say?
Just dig it out, or bite it off when it comes out, and be a dumb person?
If you think too much, the "tongue eater" is hermaphroditic and begins to lay eggs once it is formed, and while it is still in your body, most of the time it will feed on some eggs that are about to hatch, so as to prevent other eggs from growing and destroying the relationship between it and the host, after all, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain.
Even if the host dies, as long as the corpse does not decompose, it will still be able to survive on its eggs.
But once it dies, without its restraint, many eggs will hatch at the same time, a large number of eggs in the process of growth because of the need for a large amount of blood, will suck all the blood in the host's body, the host can only eventually become a stiff dry corpse, this is the real symbiotic relationship, do not seek to be born in the same year and month, but to die in the same year and month!
However, later, due to the proliferation of the "tongue-eating lice" at a certain stage, some drugs that can effectively kill parasites in the body appeared, and finally drove it out of the body of humans and most mammals.
But until now, there is one animal in the world that still suffers from it - fish.
Therefore, the name of the "shrinking head ghost lice" has been changed to "shrinking head fish lice", although their size has become much smaller than before, and they have degenerated to the point that they are no longer a threat to humans and most mammals, but they still follow the previous survival habits.
And now scientists' research, in most cases, can only be through this kind of "shrinking head fish lice" that has degenerated.
Studies have shown that they have a high degree of specificity for the host and the location of the parasite, and their damage to the host is obvious. Other harms include tissue damage, anemia, weight loss, slow growth, and increased mortality, and it is unclear to what extent these injuries can be achieved.
However, in the process of degradation, they also have a certain degree of essence, the most noteworthy is that the "shrinking head fish lice" do not rely entirely on parasitic life, they also have a certain ability to swim and feed, and change hosts in unfavorable environments also occur from time to time.
It is by far the only known organism in the world that completely replaces the parasitism of the host organ.
"Whatever it is, we'd better stay away from them."
Faced with the question of Bakir Bloody Hoof, Pang Xiaodou said vaguely.
These floating corpses and tongue lice obviously did not exist to protect the owner of the tomb, and for a moment he could not understand what the meaning of the existence of these things was.
It was at this time.
"Ah!!h
Suddenly, a piercing scream rang out in the hall, it was a woman's voice.