Chapter 16: Death Worms
There is a bizarre legend in the Gobi Desert of Lop Nur - in the vast Gobi sand dunes, there is often a huge blood-red bug infested, they are very strangely shaped, will spray a highly corrosive and poisonous liquid, in addition, these huge bugs can also radiate a strong electric current from the eye, so that people or animals several meters away can be killed instantly, and then slowly devour the prey.
People call it the "Worm of Death".
Legend has it that the Death Worm can kill enemies from afar, will spray venom or discharge electricity at its prey, the worm lives underground, hibernates for a year at most, crawls out of the ground when the wind blows, and often feeds on live creatures and lays eggs in its intestines, its venom can corrode metal, and the larvae can also inhabit the bodies of dead animals, and it is rumored that this worm can emit lightning from the rectum.
The "Death Bug" lives beneath the deserted sand dunes or in the hot Gobi Valley, and no one has ever seen this creature in its true face, perhaps because everyone who saw it died. And when people first hear about the Mongolian legend of the "Death Bug", they think it's just a made-up joke, just like the weird bugs in science fiction movies and comic strips. However, the "Death Bug" does not seem to be an absurd legend, and many eyewitness accounts of it are surprisingly consistent: it lives under the sand dunes of the Gobi Desert, with a huge, red body and vague head organs.
It is prophesied that every appearance of the "Death Bug" will mean death and danger, as it will not only spew deadly venom, but also radiate a strong electric current from the eye to kill prey several feet away, and those who have been able to survive through the desert are lucky not to have touched it.
In 1986, a merchant army shuttling through the vast Gobi Desert, there were more than 100 people, when the sun was the hottest, Qi Qi disappeared without a trace, strange but their goods were completely preserved, and were found by the search and rescue force that went to find them later, the only strange thing is that when they were found, all the electronic products they carried were scrapped and could not recover the data.
Scientists have studied that in a few brief moments, those electronic devices were subjected to a huge shock wave of electric current, and the pressure of the pulse caused all electronic facilities to stop functioning. This represents not death, but despair.
Death is only a moment, despair requires a process, at that moment, GPS cannot be used, satellite signals cannot be sent, and people cannot tell people about the various situations that happened during this time, this experience itself has magnified the experience of that caravan at that moment to the greatest extent, leaving it to future generations to speculate.
Speaking of which, we have to mention the salamander mystery in medieval Europe, when people thought that this salamander was highly poisonous, and some people even speculated that Alexander the Great's soldiers lost their lives after drinking water from a stream where salamanders lived. But modern scientists know that salamanders are not poisonous. Similar terrifying legends exist in today's Sudan, where the python is so venomous that people can die if they touch it. The fact is that this python is not poisonous at all.
Therefore, some people do not believe in evil, and think that this monster is nothing more than a skink.
It is stated here that if this monster is a skink, although skinks like to live in sand, they cannot secrete venom. In fact, only two species of venomous lizards are known——— poisonous lizards and Mexican bearded lizards, and they have never been found in Asia. If it is not a lizard, then it may be an unknown snake species. Some zoologists say the Mongolian "death bug" fits people's descriptions of deadly venomous snakes. The long worm here is a northern dialect that means snake. Tangshan, Baoding, Shijiazhuang and Henan have many in this area, and there are also near Beijing, Tianjin and Shandong, which is an ancient saying, which is much reserved in the underdeveloped rural areas, and almost no one says so now.
The deadly viper is a highly venomous snake native to Australia. Deadly venomous snakes are closely related to cobras, while several species of cobras spew venom in self-defense. However, this venom is only dangerous if it comes into contact with the eyes, and it certainly does not possess any corrosive properties. Cobras are even less likely to release electric current. Although eels and several other species of fish can discharge electricity, they cannot live on land, and for all animals that live on land, they do not have this skill at all.
Known –
Basic Facts:
This large, muscular worm with nightmarish three rows of sharp teeth in its mouth can still grow larger as an adult, and may become smaller or larger due to food, etc. It can move underground, but can only move freely through materials such as dirt and gravel due to its ability, and it is considered difficult to enter rocks if you try to enter the rocks. It doesn't matter if you're good or evil, it consumes your life, and when you're full, it becomes a passive counterattack.
Mode of perception:
Shake. It is because of living in the earth that the eyes have degenerated, and they have been replaced by the ability to perceive vibrations. They can sense vibrations from the ground underground, and determine the size of the mob by the size of the vibration, so as to decide whether to attack the other person. This ability still works in the water. When the vibration is transmitted too strongly, it may cause special effects, such as vertigo.
Body Structure:
The Death Worm will try to devour prey that can be swallowed in one bite during combat, due to its body structure, almost no one can kill it from the inside and come out alive, its triple sharp teeth, the three rows of sharp teeth growing in its mouth, will cause three damage to the creature that is swallowed, because the sharp teeth in the mouth are smaller and smaller the further back they go, and each bite will reduce the damage by 25%.
Attack methods:
Acid spitting out in a linear pattern, the distance is generally 3 times the length of the body, because the acid needs to be refilled after spitting. Lightning Ray, which drills out of the dirt and completes a pre-action, the Death Worm can spit out a bolt of lightning from its mouth, the lightning is in a straight line, the flight speed is extremely fast, and it triggers an additional effect, the ability only consumes stamina.
Protection:
The blood of the Death Worm is capable of corroding metal. If a Death Worm is impaled or slashed with a metal weapon, its blood will corrode the metal weapon, and the wielder of the weapon can halve this damage with a quick reaction. Corrosive elements in the blood will dissipate after 5 minutes of leaving the worm's body or after the worm dies.
Venom produces:
The skin and sharp teeth of dead worms secrete a toxic waxy substance. When a creature touches a Death Worm, or strikes with bare hands, attacking with an Innate Weapon, the contact strike will take toxin damage. When touching a dead Dead Worm, it will also take toxin damage. The toxin is highly toxic and can develop rapidly.
To sum up–
Therefore, the do-good person doubted: even if the death worm really existed, it should not be called a worm. It is supposed to be a snake-like reptile or a crustacean creature. First of all, to be able to have such a rapid attack speed, which is impossible for invertebrate worms. Given that there is a lot of "evidence" that it appears that they have shells, it is speculated that this may be something somewhere between snakes and primitive mammals.
All of this is based on what is known above. There seem to be quite a few contradictions in this creature.
There's a saying in biology that says, "To exist is to be reasonable." "Well, in all known animals there will be places close to them, and from an evolutionary point of view, it is impossible for the species to exist be absolutely isolated, and they must be able to deduce their unknown habits from known organisms.
The two weapons of the Death Blood Worm are puzzling. First of all, using air as the medium to transmit electricity, then to kill or stun a creature the size of a human requires at least 1 to 20,000 volts, to generate such a large voltage requires a lot of energy, which is why no terrestrial organisms have been found to use electricity as a weapon, for example, the fish that produce electricity in the water need to generate a much lower voltage to meet their needs. If the Deathworm can indeed discharge, then it should have a strong muscular system, so it is even less likely to be a rumored worm-like creature.
Another weapon of the Death Blood Bug is the spewing slime. Using the above logic to make a similar reasoning, it is known that animals also spew consumable liquid for hunting, but the people who spray consumable liquid are generally crustaceans, such as spiders.
Of course, it seems that some amphibians can also spew digestive juices, but that is far less powerful than blood bugs. The question then arises, if the dead blood worm is a lost link in the evolution of a living organism, and there is no living creature close to it, then what ecological niche should it play?
Judging from the available information, it should be a top-level creature, so what creature is it limited by and so rare? In addition, the two weapons are not related to each other, which means that the Dead Blood Worm actually uses a very uneconomical way of surviving - two energy-intensive weapons. If we add to this the hypothesis that they are only active for a few months in the summer, then their energy is definitely not enough to maintain these two weapons.
Although the cries of suspicion are high, there is evidence that there is actually a very special elemental substance, uranium, in large quantities just below Lop Nur. Uranium is an extremely radioactive element, and its radiation and energy can have irreversible and severe effects on the plants and animals that exist in the surrounding area. There are also a number of insects living around these shaft mines, including a creature that is likely to be the prototype of the Death Worm.
Also known as millipedes, they mostly live in crevices or clods of soil, and are not only quite toxic, but can also spray venom at their targets, which are exactly the same characteristics as death worms. In Africa, giant horses can grow up to half a meter long, so some people believe that the death worm is likely to be a horse that has mutated due to radiation. Not only did it become huge, but it also mutated into corrosive bodily fluids that it attacked people and animals to survive.
Researchers have also found an even more bizarre theory, because it is very interesting and imaginative. First of all, we have to mention another strange creature that exists in the area, the blood bug.
This creature is also poisonous, and in both form and the shape of its mouthparts it is almost a miniature version of a death worm. But this kind of blood is really just a larvae of some kind of gnat, if the death worm is a mutated and gigantic blood worm, then it should actually have a more terrifying stage of growth, so what does this form look like? Where are they living?
According to the sightings of the Death Worms, all of their activities revolve around a very dangerous place, so some speculate that this place is the mysterious tomb of Genghis Khan.
Genghis Khan, as a generation of heavenly pride, was beautiful during his lifetime, and his tomb after his death should naturally be extremely magnificent, but why has his tomb not been discovered so far? In addition to the special burial site, in fact, it is more likely that all the people who found the tomb died in the dangerous mechanism in the tomb, and there is no living mouth, and the secret is naturally unknown to anyone. According to many people, the Death Worm is a kind of Gu worm raised in the tomb of Genghis Khan, and their adults live in the tomb to guard the secrets of the catacombs. And all the death worms we've seen since then have been just extended variants.
At this point, all one conclusion has been reached: whatever this thing is, it must not be touched in the slightest, not even approached.
In this bottomless cave of Lop Nur, there is a special race, which has always worshipped this kind of insect that can destroy a caravan as a living creature, and often seeks living people as food for this creature, tied to the rolling cart and sent into the mouth of the death worm.
Without daring to disturb the gods, he risked his life to enter the cave inhabited by the death worms, just to prevent a few people from stepping into the lair of the so-called gods and invading the sleep of the gods.
This death worm is not a god at all, it is a perverted and mutated super coelenterate!!
Li Luant had already reluctantly connected the relationship between this race and this coelenterate from the intermittent exchanges between the few people who came in before, and couldn't help but slander in his heart: Did he fight with the insects? The first time I went to the tomb of King Guangling, I met the super leech or something, and there were those human-faced spider brides behind me who also had bad intentions, and then went to the Fan Li Golden Collection, those things were also like puppets parasitized by insects, and now there is another coelenterate? Does this still make people live?
Although all known species on Earth have evolved from single-celled organisms such as paramecium, there is no need to reminisce about the bittersweet memories here and let yourself feel the fear of being dominated by insects, right?
I'll be a dog in my next life, I'm so tired of being a human. Don't be anything else, it's enough to be a stupid dog.
Jing Qiongshuang and Wogua reacted at the same time and were about to leave, but in the direction where the mummies left just now, there were three screams of different degrees again, almost instantaneously, and then there was no more sound.
Those three mummies, dead?!
After looking at each other, it is even more unknowable and terrifying, which shows that not only here, but also there is something there, as long as it shows up, it can immediately kill people?
Jing Qiongshuang's eyelashes trembled slightly: her hearing was unusual for ordinary people, and in those three screams, she seemed to hear something else, as if it was a buzzing sound, but it was too light, and she was not sure of it.
The two people who were in a hurry were frightened and hurriedly about to come down, but at this time, the thing seemed to have been digested, and there was some movement in the sand, ready to break out of the shell again, although this movement was small, but it was enough to make the two people who were about to leave motionless, they didn't forget that the first thing to eat just now was the person who talked the most and moved the most.
This time, there was a roaring inhalation sound in the sand, this voice was not unfamiliar, it was the voice that the three of Li Green Ants heard before, and their scalps suddenly tingled - that's right, this is the voice!
"Tuft-"
But seeing in front of everyone's eyes, a jumping red lightning bolt, with a pungent fishy wind jumped out of the sand, just for a moment, seeing that it was about to bite Jing Qiongshuang and Wogua hanging in mid-air, Li Green Ant at this moment his heart was mentioned in his throat, or Jing Qiongshuang's eyes were fast, and he pulled out a pistol from his waist and aimed at the face of the insect body "Ping" fired four or five shots, only to hear two "snorts", a blood line flew out sideways, and fell into the sand, like two drops of water dripping on a sponge, quickly disappeared without a trace.
But this move effectively prevented the two from being digested, and the giant worm's head shrank violently because of this shock wave, and its body also rolled out, avoiding the angle where the two were well, and rolled back into the sand again.
"Quick!"
Take advantage of this time to act quickly.
Wogua was so frightened that his legs were weak, and he was about to flee for his life in a panic, that thing was so disgusting that he even had to vomit out dinner, and the moment he saw it, he didn't even want to eat tomorrow's meal, Jing Qiongshuang's face also changed a few times, and he took the lead in leaving, but at this moment, the sound like inhaling came out of the sand pit again.
Li Luant has understood it now, the voice is not untargeted, it is either a clarion call for attack, or a sign of anger, just now Jing Qiongshuang put people's eyes? Nose? Mouth? …… Forget it, I don't know where the insect that didn't even have a face was injured, but it really hit it solidly, such a big one, it definitely can't die, but it will make us die.
Before, it was Wogua who went out first, and then Jing Qiongshuang, so when he came back, it was naturally Jing Qiongshuang who came back first, and then Wogua, which is the same as the concept of first-in-first-out in computer programming.
Processing a program work requirement from a queue or stack so that its earliest requirements are processed first, and as a result, last-in-first-out is also the result, so that the newest requirements are processed first, and the oldest requirements are not processed until there is only one requirement in the queue or stack. While LIFO may seem unfair, it is much more efficient. A stack that is processed last-in-first-out is sometimes referred to as a push-down or push-down pop-up stack or list.
Jing Qiongshuang had just landed on one foot, and the nest melon was only an arm's length away from the platform, but at that moment, the arm's length was magnified countless times, and the giant insect bounced up from the sand like a hibiscus out of the water: the jump height was 10; Pressure splash 9.9, difficulty coefficient 10, beautiful action -10000, overall score - no eyes.