Chapter 32: Traces of Gnawing
The sudden appearance of the arm ended my conversation with Yao Qianwen.
There are other people in this stone tower! Before Yao Qianwen and me, I came to this place! But there is no road above the stone tower, and below this is a terrifying sea of insects, if it is besieged, there will be no corpse. If we hadn't happened to seal the hole, we wouldn't have been able to get to this level.
So, who exactly is that?
Looking at the arm alone, it was the arm of an adult man, very thick. It's not rotting, and it still seems to be swaying back and forth with frequency, is it a living person?
"Who?" I asked tentatively.
But there was no response.
I looked at Yao Qianwen, and she pointed to the dagger on my waist, "It doesn't have to be alive, a little, touch ......"
"Hmm," I pulled out my dagger and handed the flashlight to Yao Qianwen, then slowly approached the hanging arm, "If it's a living person, say something?" I slapped the back of the dagger on my arm three times, but there was still no response.
Close enough, I noticed that there were dense red spots on the flesh of this arm, like mosquito bite wounds......
At the same time, a pungent smell crept into my nostrils.
The smell came from inside the door overhead.
"What is this?"
Rustling!
A strange sound, suddenly appeared, right overhead!
It seems like something is rubbing against each other!
Slipped!
I immediately realized what might happen, and I felt uneasy, and quickly retreated, yelling at Yao Qianwen, who was guarding behind: "Quick! Hurry up and close the door, close the ...... Oops! ”
Unfortunately, before I could finish my sentence, the mechanism did not have time to close, and clusters of black bugs began to fall from inside the door, like a clogged hourglass, suddenly opened!
Overwhelming, dense black beetles, quickly filling the entire space!
My heart sank.
At times like these, there should be despair. Because that black worm is the strange worm that besieged us before, the sea of worms that devoured people!
The previous short contact had already caused Yao Qianwen and I to be bruised all over our bodies, and even after being infected by insect poison, our physique that was not easy to die would never be able to withstand the devouring of this insect swarm.
And now, the small space does not allow us to continue to escape, and the only thing that awaits us is death......
However, the imaginary pain has not appeared for a long time.
Fear and despair gradually became doubts. Yao Qianwen, who was screaming, also began to come back to her senses, and we stood in the swarm of insects that gradually subsided, panting heavily, looking at each other with confused eyes.
"How...... What's going on, why...... These things don't bite anymore? Yao Qianwen's hand holding the flashlight was still trembling, and the light flickered, shining on the swarm of insects that had flooded half of our bodies.
"I don't know, but ...... Isn't it the strangest thing that they don't bite, and what's even stranger is that they don't even seem to move? I reached out and grabbed a handful of black beetles, which lay in the palm of my hand, and the cold touch told me that these things were real, but lifeless.
They're dead worms!
"Dead ......" I was surprised, surprised, and looked at Yao Qianwen with three points of horror.
"What's going on? It's really all dead...... Are we poisoned, is this an illusion? She looked at me in disbelief.
But I was thinking clearly, and there was no sign of poisoning.
These worms are indeed dead, but why do they die? The arm of the previous person was full of red spots, as if he had been eaten by insects, who was he?
Wait a minute! That man!
Thinking of this, I quickly looked up, but the arm was no longer visible at the entrance.
The swarm had just fallen, and the huge force of the wash had probably pushed the corpse into the space we were.
"Find that arm!" I lay down the swarm, came to the idea of the entrance, and groped with Yao Qianwen in the swarm of death. I quickly caught him, but not just with hands, but with a whole human being.
I dragged the man out of the sea of worms, and the next, compared to the scars on his body, surprised me even more than the face!
"It's not ...... Uncle your friend? ”
It's Cheng Haidong!
Yao Qianwen pointed to his face and asked me, "How did he end up here?" ”
"I want to know ...... too"
But my surprise is no less than Yao Qianwen.
Now Cheng Haidong's clothes are seriously damaged, and he can barely cover his body, judging from the degree of damage, it is those strange insects that eat it. His body was also covered with red blood spots, and if you looked closely, you could see that they were the traces left by the sea of insects.
But he did not die, he was not eaten or devoured.
This doesn't seem to be a simple fate, I have also been gnawed, but my wounds are much more terrifying than those on Cheng Haidong's body. So I suspect that there is only one possibility, those insects, who are willing to break a little bit of their skin, are suddenly irritated, and they understand that this thing cannot be eaten!
If it weren't for that, I really can't think of any explanation for the corpses that littered the ground.
"Uncle, how do I think your friend poisoned me...... They? Yao Qianwen is in line with my guess.
"I don't know, but he doesn't seem to be dead."
Cheng Haidong is still breathing, and his breathing is surprisingly smooth.
Not like an injury, not like a poison, more like a sleeping human.
"Cheng Haidong! Wake up!! "I tried to wake him up, but as before, he was in a coma like death, completely cut off from the outside world, and no matter what I called, he didn't give me any response.
"What are you doing?" Yao Qianwen asked me.
"You say, of course, to wake him up."
She pushed me away, "You call him like that, he won't wake up for twelve hours, I'll come!" ”
I thought Yao Qianwen would have some special way, but I didn't expect that this woman actually grabbed Cheng Haidong's collar and slapped her twice!
She is indeed very powerful, as you can see from all the things that have happened before.
And now, with just two slaps, Cheng Haidong's cheeks have turned purple.
"Wait, you want to kill him?" I grabbed Yao Qianwen's wrist.
"Ahem...... Ahem...... Hehe, who, who touched my face......" But who admitted, at this time, I heard Cheng Haidong's voice, he woke up in a daze, and the hands covering his cheeks were already trembling with pain, but he still kept giggling.
"The first time I saw him, I should have slapped him twice." Yao Qianwen let go, and Cheng Haidong fell into the swarm.
I can't understand this girl more and more, from the first time I met, to now, her personality is getting bigger and bigger. But no matter what, the method worked, and Cheng Haidong did wake up.
I picked up Cheng Haidong in the pile of insects and asked, "Do you know me?" ”
Cheng Haidong smirked and pointed at me: "Brother Zuo, haha...... Brother Zuo, I've found you...... I found it...... Hahaha......"
"Why are you here? What just happened? ”
"Huh? I ......"
Cheng Haidong's eyes suddenly became dazed, looking at me, a little overwhelmed, "I, why did I come here?" Ye Tianze, that person said his name was Ye Tianze...... He...... He's going to kill me, he's changed...... His skin was cracked...... A big bug! Bugger...... Yes! But...... But the eldest sister saved me, and there was an eldest sister...... Haha, I'm saved, saved......"
My question seemed to make Cheng Haidong think of something.
He began to tell intermittently, but his language was vague and he said a lot, and the only valuable information he could capture was: He secretly followed me up the mountain, met Ye Tianze, was chased and killed by Ye Tianze, and was rescued by others!
Speaking of that person, Cheng Haidong's expression was very strange.
I began to wonder, who was the person who saved him?