Chapter Twenty-Three: The Latent Creature
Li You didn't care about the loud sound of stepping on the dead branches now, just following the fast Sister Hua and chasing the huge creature.
"Do you see the monster?" Jiaojiao, who caught up behind her, asked Li You.
Li You was still wondering why this woman ran so fast, and hurriedly said: "I don't know, I didn't see it clearly, I accidentally touched the thermal imaging just now and found out." ”
Before Li You came back to his senses, Jiaojiao took a big stride to overtake him.
"Brother, do you see what it is?"
"yes, I think I see its long tongue, so long!"
If he hadn't heard the voice, Li You almost didn't see the black brothers who had caught up with him, and he said in his heart, why did these people run so fast? Good guys, I'm already at the limit of my speed, and they're like professional athletes, one by one, surpassing him.
"I didn't see it clearly, you guys can't just catch up by running so fast!" Seeing that Li Yu finished speaking breathlessly, the two black brothers rushed out.
It didn't take long for Li You to be completely thrown off, and there was nothing around him except the same trees and grass, and he couldn't even hear the slightest terrifying roar. Finally, he stopped in a hurry, gasping for breath while carefully remembering whether he had deviated from the direction he had just run.
"You ...... You're so funny, don't you ...... Wait for me. Eh, I'm tired! He muttered, and lay on the ground without even thinking about it.
A few of the pine needles scattered on the ground were stuck in his clothes, and the crispy ground was quite comfortable. Still with his eyes closed, enjoying the massage nature gave him, he was startled by the warm liquid dripping on his face.
He wiped his face, his hands felt slimy, and blood immediately came to mind. Hurriedly looked towards the tree, but after a dazzling beam of light passed, he was blinded and hurriedly reached out to turn off the night vision device.
"Come here!" While Sister Hua shouted at Li You, she was still shooting at the top of the tree with the ion gun in her hand. Li You stood up and turned on his headlamp, intending to see what was on it.
"Come here, don't look at it!" After Sister Hua finished speaking, she spat at the mouth and shouted at the tree: "You brute, I want to avenge the elephant!" Yes! ”
Dense bullets shot towards the trees, and it didn't take long for the ion gun in Sister Hua's hand to be overloaded. The sharp firing sound in his ears, mixed with the roar of the monster, reached Li You's ears, and he hurriedly adjusted the goggles to the thermal imaging and looked up.
The first thing you see is a human-shaped red light, hanging from a tree branch, and through thermal imaging, the temperature is gradually decreasing. Li You thought that this might be an elephant, and he felt a little uncomfortable.
Looking up again, the huge red light was dodging the shots of the black brothers who had returned to the team, but the trees in this valley were too dense and there was not much room for movement, so they could only stand up to the crazy shots of the black brothers.
Sister Hua strode in front of Li You, snatched the ion gun, and shouted, "Why are you stunned, give it to me if you don't know how to use it!" After snatching the gun, he shot at the tree like crazy.
The pair of black brothers also walked to each side of Sister Hua, and under this overwhelming firepower, finally after the full weapon load, the monster fell from the tree, and the dust it brought up drilled towards their mouths and noses.
Still in a daze, Li You watched the giant thing fall without saying a word, as if he had lost his soul, and he didn't know what was going on, so he uncontrollably pulled up the mask that had slipped under his face.
"Sister Hua, did you say it was dead?" After a black brother finished speaking, he wanted to come forward to take a look, but was stopped by Sister Hua.
"Wait until the weapon cools down, I don't think this thing dies so easily."
The other black man said nonchalantly, "What are you afraid of, I'll go over and see what kind of species it is!" He had only taken two steps before a tongue-like thing poked out from the monster's feet and wrapped around the black man's calf.
Li You watched here for a long time, and he already felt that something was wrong. If it was really dead, the color on the thermal image should be yellow, but it hasn't changed after so long, which means that it is very likely to be playing dead, or just fainting.
When he saw it stick out of its tongue, it confirmed his suspicions. He drew his scimitar, which he had prepared, and without saying a word, rushed to the negro, slashed the writhing tongue with one blow, and pulled him back.
Sister Hua lifted the goggles and picked up the cooled ion gun and shot it at the monster's head-like position, finally ending its life when the weapon was loaded for the second time.
The black brother who came back to his senses raised his head and looked at Li You and said, "Thank you, if it weren't for you." I'll just ......"
"Don't talk about this uselessness, you two go and remove the elephant's carcass." After Sister Hua finished speaking, she was going to take off the headscarf around her face, but Li You quickly pressed her hand and said:
"Don't take it off, I think there's something wrong here." After speaking, Li You turned on his headlamp and looked into the grass where the monster had fallen.
The two black brothers who had already walked over turned around and said after seeing the monster: "Sister Hua, come and see, the blood of this monster is green." ”
Li You was relieved when he heard that the blood was green, and followed Sister Hua to inspect it. In the dark green grass, there was a large pink ball of flesh with open skin, which made Li You almost vomit.
Especially in the position of its mouth, it seems to have eaten a giant octopus, but the tentacles are not swallowed, and it hangs down on its head with its teeth and claws; Three pairs of stout limbs, arranged symmetrically on either side of the body, sometimes twitching a few times.
But the strange thing is that they searched for a long time and did not see where the monster's eyes were, and one of the black men said in horror that this thing should not be looking for prey through its eyes, and I am afraid that it has already degenerated.
"It's possible, I remember Peng Lao said that the environment will have a great impact on living things. It's so dark that you may not be able to use it if you have eyes. After Sister Hua finished speaking, she looked up at the elephant hanging on the tree, and then turned back to Li You and said, "You avoid it first, we have to get the elephant's carcass down." ”
They were busy, and Li You himself was not idle, picking up the branches that had just been shot down on the ground, and rummaging in the monster's cracked belly.
"What are you looking for?"
After covering the elephant's carcass with a plastic bag, Sister Hua asked the two negroes to mark down the seats and bring the elephant's carcass back if they could return to the camp alive. Instead, he found that Li You was sneaking around the monster and didn't know what he was doing.
"I want to see if there's anything else in his stomach." Li You didn't stop the movements of his hands, and sweat flowed out of his helmet.
"For example?"
After Li You rummaged to no avail, he left the branches, straightened up, turned his head and said, "For example, Jiaojiao." ”
Hearing him say this, Sister Hua realized that there was one person missing from the team, and hurriedly asked the black brother if he saw the woman who came with her. Seeing that the two of them shook their heads like rattles, they anxiously pulled their legs and left, wanting to find her traces.
Li You grabbed her and said, "Are you going to go to her like this?" I don't know how many monsters like this there are, but I have to say that we should keep going, or we might not make it out alive! ”
"Yes, this brother is right, let's go out first, that woman ran so fast, maybe she has already gone out."
Under the persuasion of everyone, Sister Hua lowered her head and did not speak for a long time.
"Sister Hua, it's still important to focus on the overall situation." After Li You finished speaking, he distributed the few wild fruits left in his arms to everyone. Just now in a hurry, everyone's backpacks were lost while running. "That's all we need to eat now, if we get stuck here, we'll starve to death."
Seeing that everyone wanted to leave here quickly, Sister Hua was no longer obsessed, tidied up her bags and turned around and said, "Let's go, I hope Jiaojiao has gone out alive." ”