"How so?" "What the hell is that?" "It looks like a fish worm that has become thicker!"

I looked at Master Liang, since he could discover this secret, he should know something about this thing.

"Mr. Liang, this ...... What exactly are these red bugs? Mo Ji asked first.

"Corpse beetle!" Master Liang slashed away the insects that had been connected with each other, and said intently. The insects, which had been cut in two, immediately danced again, and began to collude, connect, and straighten with each other again.

"Beetle?" The people had never heard of the name, so they had to repeat it over and over again.

"I've only heard of silverfish, what kind of worm is this beetle?" Professor Jin also asked.

"The corpse beetle, also known as the corpse beetle...... began to explain, "the corpse beetle feeds on meat, and its eggs will hatch and burrow into the body immediately after touching a living thing, and reproduce rapidly in the living thing, resulting in the death of the living thing...... You can also see, the three of them have only been dead for a few minutes, and there are already so many corpse beetles in their bodies, and their fecundity can be imagined. ”

"The most peculiar thing about the beetle is that it not only eats the flesh and blood of the food body, but also maintains the form of the food. As they did earlier, whenever food is damaged, they will do their best to repair it and keep it in its original form. "Now there are not many beetles in the three corpses of them, and in a few hours, their corpses will be hollowed out by the corpse beetles, and then there will be wounds that may recover in a few minutes." The eggs of the beetle are very small, and they can easily penetrate into living objects through their hair, and as long as the eggs of the corpse beetle do not hatch, they can live for thousands of years......"

"That's amazing!" Tanzi whispered to me, "You said that if you plant this corpse beetle in your body and find a way to prevent it from killing people, then this person will not become immortal?" ”

I whispered back: "No need for corpse beetles, according to legend, the ancient Miao people have a kind of Gu worm, called Lotus Gu, which means that the lotus root is broken, and it can do this." No matter what injuries you have, it will recover for you, similar to the corpse beetle, but at the cost of having to eat the whole body of this Gu worm. If you want to try it, we can find it when we have time! ”

"I'm not interested, I'm not interested, I'm not interested in this kind of at all!" The altar shook his head busily and said.

Liang continued: "Although the beetles will multiply quickly in the corpse, they will not leave, and even if the food is eaten, they will not escape from the ......."

"Second uncle, then they are left to wait in place to die?" Liang Youcai asked.

"No!" "They have their own way of survival......

"When there is no food, the beetle will expel the water from its body, become shriveled, enter a state of suspended animation, and will revive and swell again after encountering objects containing water......

"Then this corpse beetle will become a dry corpse!" Jar said.

Master Liang looked at the jar and said, "Something similar! ”

As we spoke, there were a lot more corpse beetles on the wound on Xiao Chu's calf, and the deep wound seemed to have really healed a lot.

"All of you go to the ramp first!" Lu Daxun suddenly came out with such a sentence, and we all heard it a little clueless, and we didn't know what he meant.

I saw Lu Daxun scoop up a bunch of blood thistle seeds from the ground and put them under a blood thistle. Then, he pulled out a lighter and lit the pile of fluffy seeds. The seeds of those blood thistles, when they saw the open flame, instantly burned, like oil. The flames immediately enveloped the bloodthistle.

"Daxun, ...... are you" "Captain Lu, are you crazy?"

Lu Daxun's face was gloomy, and he said hatefully: "The lives of my six brothers were thrown here like this in these blood thistles...... Although these blood thistles are just plants, if they are not burned, it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my heart...... This can be regarded as revenge for those brothers......"

Seeing the fire growing in front of us, we had no choice but to quickly retreat to the ramp.

There were blood thistles everywhere, and with those flammable fluffy seeds, the fire soon spread throughout the playground, and the corpses of Xiao Chu and the six of them fell into flames.

It wasn't until the flames had died out and the temperature had cooled down that we stepped out of the ramp. The entire blood-thistle had been reduced to nothing, leaving only ashes all over the ground. Although the fire was burned, the skulls in the ground had not yet been dug up, and there may have been remnants of blood-sucking seeds, and it was possible that in a few years there would be blood-sucking thistles......

"There are a few bones there!" "There are a few corpses lying over there, too!" "Why are there so many corpses here?"

The thistle was burned to the ground, and the entire playground became visible. The bones of those who were originally hidden in the sea of blood thistles also revealed their shapes.

Most of these bones are scattered not far on both sides of the stone road, but some are relatively far away. These corpses have been reduced to white bones, and after the fire just now, the clothes on their bodies have been burned. But we still found clues in the unburned pieces of clothing.

"These people should all be Cao Xuan's subordinates!" Professor Jin held a piece of yellow cloth and said, "It's the same as the corpse we saw at the earliest, it's also made of burlap." ”

If we roughly counted, there were about 130 corpses scattered here.

"How could Cao Xuan have so many people dying here?" Someone asked.

Seeing the current scene, we can also guess roughly: it should be Cao Xuan who led his troops into the ramp, but more than 100 people were injured by crossbow arrows, and of course some people must have been shot on the spot. So, they dragged the body of the deceased here. That's why there were so many bolts scattered on the ground at the ramp, but not a single body was seen. And when they entered the playground, they were attacked by the seeds of the thistle, just like us. Those who were injured in the ramp must have died here.

"Now we know the whereabouts of Cao Xuan's troops!" Jar said.

Liang Youcai said: "I heard that he only brought less than 400 people into the mountains in total, and I don't know if there are really so many. However, if not all of Cao Xuan's troops here, at least half of them must be there. ”

"I didn't expect that not long after I came in, Cao Xuan had already lost his troops to this extent......" Professor Jin sighed.