Volume 3 The Ghost Boat of the Sand Sea Chapter 69 Another Village
"After the Archer hagileus anesthetized Qi Yubao and them, they didn't feel pain. At this time, these devouring purple grass mosses would secrete an extremely corrosive digestive juice that would slowly digest Qi Yubao and them. Because they were completely anesthetized, they were unconscious until they died! ”
"But why are we still more or less conscious, and neither of them can feel anything until they die?" Ji Shanchuan also asked.
I explained, "That's because there are more mature Archer Bacterium species around the two of them!" ”
"Then why are the mature bodies of that dragon fungus concentrated around the two of them?" Luan Kun then asked.
"Hey~ this...... I haven't figured this out yet......" I said.
"I'll answer it......"
Xu Yunshu took the words: "That's because the Archer Bacterium and this purple grass moss are symbiotic!" ”
Symbiosis refers to the mutually beneficial relationship between two different organisms that are in close contact. Just like clownfish inhabit the tentacles of sea anemones, these fish can save sea anemones from being eaten by other fish, while sea anemones have tentacles of stinging cells that keep clownfish from predation, and clownfish themselves secrete a mucus on the surface of their bodies to protect themselves from being harmed by sea anemones.
Xu Yunshu said: "The grass moss will hypnotize the prey, and then the prey will be initially anesthetized after the growth of the Archer Bacterium, and then the grass moss will secrete digestive juice to digest the surface of the prey, and the corpse fluid formed will be absorbed by the grass moss and the Archer Bacterium, so that the Archer Agaricus will have sufficient nutrition to grow into a mature body, providing a more powerful anesthetic effect, until the prey is completely digested and absorbed." ”
Xu Yunshu's explanation made everyone understand.
"Therefore, the hypnosis and digestive juices of grass moss alone cannot keep the prey, and the prey will leave as soon as it feels pain, and the anesthesia of Acheria can't kill the prey, it has no strong digestive function. So they can only use each other! Xu Yunshu explained.
Although what Xu Yunshu said was just her guess, what she said was reasonable and well-analyzed, which couldn't help but be convincing.
Huo Ming smashed his palm, and said with tears in his eyes: "Lao Qi has followed us for so many years to be born and died, but I didn't expect to end up folding on two plants......" He shouted to the owner of the car: "Captain, give me the burning bomb, I will burn these harmful things!" ”
The owner did not hand it over to him, but pointed to the grass and moss all over the cave and said: "There are such man-eating grass moss everywhere here, how much can our burning bombs burn?" ”
Zhang Deming was trembling with fright over there, and said with a crying voice: "I...... I quit! I'm getting out of here! ”
"Get out of here? Where are you going? Jin Yuxiang finally spoke, and he asked Zhang Deming in a deep voice: "There are only three ways for all of us to go now, one is to go back, back to the spirit boat, but it is covered with yellow sand, how do you leave?" Isn't it just about waiting to die? The second is to go to the side hole next door, but there are monitor lizards waiting there, and if you are not careful, you will be sucked dry of blood by leeches. The third one left is the ...... we're walking on now."
"But this one is also full of death traps...... Mr. Zhang said.
"That's better than staying where you are and waiting to die!" Jin Yuxiang said loudly and angrily, "Before I came, did I tell you about the horror of Lop Nur, but for the sake of money, you all swore that you were not afraid of danger and death, and now you have really encountered something and become a bad seed?" Yes? What about the audacity to boast about before you came? What about the pride of taking money away from me in bundles? Yes? Phew~ cowardly! ”
Zhang Deming saw that Jin Yuxiang was angry, and he didn't dare to refute him anymore, but he just muttered a few words timidly and stopped talking.
"What do you have any comments now?" Jin Yuxiang yelled, "Let's go without us!" If we don't hurry up, we won't be able to hold up for too long with the water and food we bring. ”
Jin Yuxiang led us deeper into the cave. As you go along, the walls of the cave are covered with more and more grass and moss. But after about two kilometers of walking, the grass and moss suddenly disappeared, as if we had stepped out of their sphere of influence. And then the road ahead of us has come to an end.
Jin Yuxiang had planned to take us to find a way out of this cave, but he didn't expect that there would be no way out so quickly. "!" The angry Huo Ming slammed the hat on his head to the ground. Everyone sat down on the ground. The end of this path meant that we had to take the path with monitor lizards and leeches, and everyone felt the danger of death looming.
"Fuck, I'm not going that way, I'd rather die of thirst and starvation here than be eaten by monitor lizards!" Zhang Deming thought of the appearance of the monitor lizard eating people, and screamed hysterically.
Jin Yuxiang said with a dark face: "Then you can stay here and wait for death!" Let's go, let's turn back! As he spoke, he was about to turn back. At this time, Xu Yunshu, who had been checking the surroundings, stopped everyone: "Look, this is not a dead end, there is a tall stone gate on the wall!" ”
As soon as Xu Yunshu said this, everyone immediately came to their senses, and rushed over in three steps and two steps. The stone gate that Xu Yunshu said was on the innermost wall of the cave. Because I just used the light to flicker before, I found that there was no road, so everyone didn't come forward, and they didn't find this door.
This stone gate is five or six meters high and about four meters wide.
"The person who can erect a stone gate of this specification must have a lot of background!" Xu Yunshu analyzed.
The altar's eyes lit up: "You mean to say that there is a tomb here?" ”
Xu Yunshu glanced at the jar and said, "I didn't say that......"
"It doesn't matter what kind of stone gate or tomb door it is, open it first." When Jin Yuxiang saw these two stone doors, his face couldn't help but show a slight joy, I don't know if this joy is because this is a tomb or if he thinks there will be a way out. But whether it's a tomb or a way out, at least there is a glimmer of hope.
We were busy opening these two stone gates, while Xu Yunshu studied the pattern of Shimen Mountain. There are two stone doors, each carved with some patterns, which can be vaguely identified as some grass and trees, and in the middle of the door is a human face, half on the left and half on the left. And Xu Yunshu could see it in front of this human face.
The altar pushed the stone door and asked Xu Yunshu, "What?" Is this face used to prevent theft? Like some tomb beasts, tomb figurines and the like...... "The altar has followed me for a long time, and I have also mastered a lot of knowledge about tomb robbing, so I only heard him continue: "Maybe the eyes of this face are cameras, maybe someone is peeking at us from some corner!" ”