Chapter 10: The Plague of Piano Worms

In a daze, Qi Lu seemed to hear an unusual bird call, and the others immediately came to their senses, and when he opened his heavy eyes, he saw that the sun was shining on his face through the mist.

He struggled to sit up from the ground and found himself lying in a soft grass, with the unconscious Ding Xiaolan lying beside him.

Qi Lu looked up at the top of the mountain hidden in the clouds, and wondered in his heart: "Could it be that we really fell from such a high place?" Hehe, I'm really auspicious, I actually fell from such a high place and didn't fall to my death. He subconsciously looked at the cross-like ornament hanging on his chest, and stood up with a wry smile.

At this time, Ding Xiaolan, who was beside her, also woke up from her coma, and Qi Lu hurriedly helped her sit up.

"We're not dead?"

"Yes, I went to the underworld just now, and the king of Hades said that you still have eighty years of life, and you refuse to take us in."

"When is it, you still have a poor heart." Ding Xiaolan said weakly.

At this time, Qi Lu heard a rumbling in his stomach, and then he remembered that he hadn't eaten for most of the day. So he began to dig through the backpack he was carrying on his back, and found that the rifle had fallen somewhere, but the pistol that Seret had given him was still in the bag.

Qi Lu took the pistol in his hand and stood up and said to Ding Xiaolan, "You take a rest here first." ”

"What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to grab some game, and we'll have a barbecue later."

As they spoke, a ghostly figure flashed out of the fog in front of them. When this terrifying figure walked towards them, Ding Xiaolan couldn't help but exclaim softly, and even Qi Lu jumped up in fright.

The figure was getting closer and closer, and Qi Lu could gradually see his face clearly.

"Sailei!" Qi Lu shouted happily and walked quickly towards him. Just as the two of them were about to come together, they saw Sai Lei tilt his head, and his body fell softly on Qi Lu's shoulder.

Qi Lu exclaimed: "Sailei, are you okay?" ”

"I said we'd meet." Sai Lei barely squeezed out a smile, took out a wad of banknotes from his arms and handed it to Qi Lu, "I have a younger brother named Saiang, if you can go back alive, give it to my younger brother." Tell him to go back to his hometown and farm in peace and stop fighting. ”

"You'll be fine, you'll go back to Kokang with me." Qi Lu choked up, and his voice was hoarse. But Selei could no longer hear what Qi Lu was saying, because his eyes were permanently closed.

Qi Lu gently lowered Sai Lei to the ground, only to see that he had a fatal gunshot wound in the chest.

"Don't worry, I will bring your words to your brother word for word." Qi Lu said lightly, holding back his tears and not flowing out. Ding Xiaolan saw this bleak scene on the side, and she couldn't stop sobbing.

The fog gradually dissipated, Qi Lu found a secluded place at the bottom of the valley, buried Sailei, bowed a few times, and wished: "Brother Sailei, if you remember my feelings for burying you today, the spirit of heaven will surely bless me to return to the country safely." ”

Qi Lu shot a few hares with a gun, lit a fire and roasted them indiscriminately, and then ate them with Ding Xiaolan, and then walked all the way straight out of the mountain, hoping to get out of this mountain forest before the sun set. Otherwise, when night falls, they will still be in danger, and if they don't do well, they will become the belly of the beast.

There was still no road in the mountains, and Qi Lu's hunting knife had long been lost in the battlefield where he had just exchanged fire with the Rohingya, so he had to find two dead branches nearby, which could be used as crutches and scare snakes to prevent snakes and insects from biting himself and Ding Xiaolan.

Qi Lu was afraid that the Rohingya would find out, so he could only find a place with many trees and grass to drill, although it was safe, but the skin and flesh suffered a lot, and the sharp weeds and shrubs scratched the calf everywhere, which was painful and itchy. Ding Xiaolan followed behind and panted continuously, complaining that Qi Lu was leading the way.

Fortunately, God forbids the wishes, and at four o'clock in the afternoon they walked out of the mountain and came to a flat valley. Qi Lu saw that the time was still early and wanted to continue the journey, but Ding Xiaolan was already physically exhausted and couldn't bear it, she sat on a rock, panting and said to Qi Lu: "I'm too tired, let's rest." ”

Qi Lu knew that she was a girl, and it was not easy to grit her teeth and walk with him so many miles along the way, so she nodded in agreement, and then took out Yang Peng's rough map and compass from her bag, and began to determine the direction to Guta Village.

Ding Xiaolan suddenly saw something under the black stone where she was sitting, so she curiously pulled out the grass and looked, it turned out that there was a raised oval mound on the ground, the size of a hornet's nest, and there were many small holes in it.

Ding Xiaolan was surprised and poked down the mound with the wooden stick in her hand, and easily stabbed it to the ground, revealing a hole the size of a bowl, which seemed to be flickering with a fluctuating green light.

Ding Xiaolan's face turned white with fright, and she hurriedly beckoned Qi Lu to come and check.

Qi Lu looked at this small hole and hesitated for a moment, then raised the wooden stick and inserted it into the hole like lightning, only to feel that his hand sank, he quickly pulled the wooden stick back, and the two of them saw a cyan animal less than half a foot long like a snake and not a snake lying on the stick, and two triangular eyes shining green were looking at them.

This strangely shaped creature is covered in snake-like scales, with a mouse-like head and two bird-like claws around its neck. At this time, it was crawling quickly along the wooden stick with its claws, Qi Lu hurriedly discarded the wooden stick, raised his right foot and trampled the animal to the ground.

"Oops, it's a piano bug!"

"Piano worms?" Ding Xiaolan wondered that this ugly-looking little animal had such a nice name.

"This kind of thing has been extinct since ancient times, but I didn't expect it to exist in a small place like Myanmar." Qi Lu took Ding Xiaolan's hand and motioned for her to leave quickly.

"It's all dead, what are you afraid of?"

Qi Lu said coldly: "Don't be deceived by its thin appearance, this is a greedy creature that will swallow its prey desperately when it sees it, even the corpses of its kind." ”

Suddenly, the birds perched on the nearby trees flew away in terror, and a gust of wind blew out of the hole, and Qi Lu saw many insects gushing out of it, and they quickly climbed onto the corpse of the same kind, but in a second, the insect was gnawed only the skeleton.

"Run!" Qi Lu pulled Ding Xiaolan and ran away. Ding Xiaolan realized that she had accidentally stabbed the worm's nest, and hurriedly followed Qi Lu to run wildly. And those lyreworms have been dormant in the cave for a long time, and when they see the food in their mouths running away, how can they miss it, and they are all following closely behind.

The panicked running sound of Qi Lu and the others startled a wild boar hiding nearby, and as soon as it poked its head out to see who had disturbed its rest, it was pounced on by a group of piano insects. Qi Lu saw that they launched a tidal wave of attacks on the wild boar, and the wild boar only struggled a few times before falling to the ground.

The smell of blood was in the air, and some of the insects had already gotten into the boar's mouth, and they began to bite the pig with their fangs like vices, and the boar twisted desperately in pain, and in less than two minutes it was dead. On its corpse, there are countless piano insects, which seem to be covered with a green film from a distance, and from time to time a few piano worms burst out of the belly of the pig carcass and burrow into it to chew and swallow.

A large number of piano insects were gnawing on the wild boar, and several other piano insects were still chasing Qi Lu, and in a blink of an eye, they came to him and climbed up along their trouser legs. Qi Lu felt a heart-wrenching pain in his leg, it was a piano worm biting the flesh on his thigh.

Qi Lu picked up his hands, grabbed the few piano insects that had climbed on his legs and threw them on the ground to crush them to death, and kicked their corpses next to the pig corpses to prevent the piano insects from harassing him again when they came to eat the corpses of their companions.

At this time, the wild boar had been eaten by most of the piano insects, Qi Lu saw a rare opportunity, so he took out the lighter in his pocket, took out a towel and a bottle of medical alcohol from his backpack, and poured all the alcohol on the towel, it seemed that he was going to set fire to the grass and burn these piano insects.

"You're crazy, even if you burn the piano worms, it will cause a forest fire, and we will be burned to death!"

Ding Xiaolan reminded Qi Lu that this kind of lose-lose method would indeed kill himself, and just as he was thinking about how to escape, he heard the sound of water not far away, and hurriedly said to Ding Xiaolan: "You listen to the sound of this water flow so loudly, there should be a river nearby." The insects are afraid of both fire and water, so we hurried to the river to get rid of them. ”

It was too late, and dozens of piano insects had already left the boar's carcass and crawled towards them, and the two of them were desperate for survival, running desperately towards the roar of the water.

Listening to the sound of the water, Qi Lu judged that it was only a few dozen meters away from them at most, and the two ran for less than a minute, turned a corner to the left, and a small waterfall appeared in front of them, and there was a small river under the waterfall.

It turned out that this was the end of the river where Qi Lu and the Rohingya had fought fiercely just now, and before they could take a closer look, Qi Lu felt that his left leg was bitten by a piano worm again, and it hurt like a cone, and Qi Lu didn't want to jump into the river.

Qi Lu sneaked in the water for a minute before poking out of the water to ventilate, but suddenly found that there was no trace of Ding Xiaolan on the surface of the river, presumably she did not know water sex and drowned in the river.

Qi Lu suddenly panicked, and hurriedly dived into the river, and saw her struggling desperately not far away, so he swam over and helped her float up from the river, and the two pulled each other and swam to the other side.

Ding Xiaolan, who was lying on the bank, spit out a few mouthfuls of river water, took a few breaths, and helped Qi Lu pack his backpack together and take out the things that were soaked in the river water to dry. The two were busy face to face, and Qi Lu suddenly laughed.

Ding Xiaolan looked at him with ill intentions on his face, and asked, "What are you laughing at?" ”

Qi Lu looked at her wet body, and said with a wicked smile: "I'm wondering if to raise a fire and roast the wet clothes on your body." ”

"Smack!" Qi Lu suddenly felt a hot pain on his face, and he had already received a slap on his face from Ding Xiaolan.

"Why are you hitting me!" Qi Lu shouted.

"You kid knows when his stomach is bad," Ding Xiaolan didn't finish speaking, her eyes stared straight ahead and stopped talking.