Chapter 70: Worm Valley
There is also a village in the mountains, and there must have been roads here, but it has only been two years, and the vegetation has already connected with the mountains, and the environment here is not suitable for people at all.
I didn't see the leeches, but I could see strings of grass crawlers (ticks) hanging on the backs of these weeds, and these things were everywhere, so we untied the laces of our hiking boots and tied them tightly behind them, and if we got into them, I would feel numb all over my body just thinking about them.
Luckily, we applied a thick layer of insect repellent, and the weird smell of medicine emanating from my whole body made these bugs avoid, but I still didn't want to touch the grass with my hands.
The weeds buried the road, and I could only force my hands to push it away, and the grass crawlers stuck so tightly to the grass that as soon as my hands touched the grass, they fell under the smell of insect repellent, and it was like a rain of insects in my pass.
This scene was really disgusting, I looked down, and I couldn't see anything in the wet mud under my feet, but the grass crawlers near the roots were covered in a ball, and at first glance it looked like a half/naked lump heel, and I felt my hair stand on end.
I didn't want to speak, I didn't dare to look down anymore, I could hear a slight "creaking" sound every time I landed my foot, I must have crushed a lot of bugs, I could smell the strange smell of bug bodily fluids mixed in the stuffy air.
I didn't feel that there were so many insects along the way just now, although the mountain here is extremely noisy one after another, but you can't hear the cries of animals and birds, this is simply a mountain of insects, it is really hard to imagine how these people settled here in the first place.
The valley soon came to an end, and a high mountain in the southwest blocked our way, dividing the valley in half, and the vegetation here became more abundant, and the valley was very narrow, and the vegetation on both sides of the mountains sloped down, almost covering the valley, and we had to push the branches and trample on the weeds if we wanted to advance.
Most of these branches were covered with cobwebs, and each of the colorful spiders was half the size of my fist, and it was impossible to go on this road, and although it was extremely hot and humid, I regretted not wearing a helmet.
The other valley is wider, and the trees on the mountain are not yet to the point of obscuring the sky, but they are not much stronger, if they want to build a village, normal people will definitely choose to go this way, and the village that suffered from the flash flood should be built here.
But what we are looking for is jade, Lao Huang looked at these two roads and frowned, if he had a choice, he would definitely want to go home.
"Brother God, which way to go?" I asked.
Brother Shen didn't hesitate at all, raised his hand and pointed to the one that was difficult to walk.
"You can't walk this place at all," Lao Huang looked disgusted, "The mountains here are all round chassis, we can go around this way." ”
"I don't know, it's going to be closer." Brother Shen spoke.
"There's a fart nearby, I haven't fed the spiders yet, this way."
Lao Huang said that he walked towards the road that was easy to go, and Brother Shen did not object anymore, and followed, but he didn't take a few steps before he became Brother Shen to open the way.
No matter how brave a person is, his scalp will be numb when he sees so many bugs and spiders gathered together, but Brother Shen is an exception, and he does not hesitate at all to move the weed's hand.
I was stunned when I looked at the grass in front of me, the grass crawlers were secondary, many of these messy grasses exuded a strange smell, and there were many jagged barbs and itchy fluff as soon as they were stained, my hands were not bitten by insects, but they were scratched by weeds and bloodstained, and the wounds were red, swollen and itchy and very uncomfortable.
There was a "fluttering" sound, very loud in the valley where there was no trace of wind, Brother Shen stopped, and I saw that the grass seven or eight meters in front of him was shaking violently, and there must be something hidden in it.
"What?" I asked cautiously.
Brother Shen shook his head, the thing was obviously hiding underground, and it was hidden by the grass and couldn't be seen at all.
"I'll break a branch."
I lifted my feet and walked to the side, the branches on the mountain were only two meters away from me, and I forgot the experience of walking in the wilderness, although there are many insects here, there may also be snakes.
We brought a sapper shovel, but because we had to pass through the village, it was too eye-catching to hold it, so we put it in our backpack and didn't assemble it, and now it was too cumbersome to rummage, and it was much easier to break a branch.
Lao Huang and Brother Shen were staring at the trembling weeds, I raised my hand to break the branch, but the branch that was originally no different suddenly moved, as soon as my hand approached, there were countless hair-thin things hanging down softly, and it fell coolly on my hand.
"Ahh
I screamed, and subconsciously shook my hand desperately, the ghost thing was not tightly glued, and it was easy for me to shake it off.
I looked up and made sure I didn't have anything on my hands, but I was still shocked, I looked closely at the branch, and found that the branch was covered with a layer of very fine black insects, which were motionless without being disturbed, and my hands smelled of insect medicine, and I would not fall until I got close to them.
These thin, soft insects were very disgusting, but I couldn't see what they were, and I didn't dare to break the branches anymore, and I wanted to retreat when I raised my feet.
"Don't move!"
Brother Shen and Lao Huang shouted at the same time, and I could hear a little panic in Lao Huang's voice.
"What's wrong?"
I didn't dare to get out of the atmosphere, and turned my head little by little.
"Don't look back!"
Lao Huang shouted again, but it was too late, and I had already seen the thing that was about to touch the tip of my nose.
It was a very large spider with legs and feet spread wider than my face, and it was black all over its body, covered with black fluff.
It hung right in front of me, its red-black fangs two centimeters long, and its eight eyes clearly marked my look of horror.
I didn't dare to move, I didn't dare to scream, I was afraid that I would suck a mouthful of fluff as soon as I opened my mouth, my eyes were full of it, and Brother Shen and Lao Huang in the back became blurred.
Brother Shen took off his hat, he suddenly moved, he moved very fast, he suddenly stepped forward and slapped the spider away with his hat, I only saw a black shadow flashing in front of me, the spider was gone, and the cool breeze brought by the hat swept across my face.
Brother Shen pulled me back, and I felt my heart beating so fast that it seemed to jump out of my chest, these branches were so quiet and beautiful in the sun, who would have thought that there were so many terrifying things hidden underneath.
It was still so hot and humid, but I was in a cold sweat, I could feel goosebumps all over my arms, I rubbed my arms, and the spider's abdomen was still stretched and shrunk in front of me.
The weeds were no longer moving, and Lao Huang's expression was very stiff: "What did you call the ghost just now, you scared Lao Tzu to death." ”
My voice trembled: "That tree is full of insects, and it fell on my hand." ”
Lao Huang frowned and looked: "Where are there any insects?" ”
"It's all bugs! Don't you claim to be 2.0 in both eyes, and you can't even see a single bug. ”
Lao Huang surprisingly didn't refute me, his face was ugly, but he didn't mean to take a closer look at all, but Brother Shen stepped forward and took a closer look.
"It's a leech."
"How is it possible, I've seen leeches, how can they be so fine." I can't believe that those hair-like things are leeches, leeches are not like this at all.
"Leeches are not the same as leeches." Brother Shen didn't explain, and said lightly and walked forward.
My steps became cautious, we were simply crossing the threshold of death, I didn't dare to imagine what would be waiting for us in the mountains, I felt that I was really shaking my physique, knowing that I was going to suffer, and I still wanted to come.
Maybe it's fate.
We walked to the shaking weed, and Brother Shen pushed aside the grass to look at it, and I couldn't help but stick my head out to take a look.
It was supposed to be a magpie, and I saw that the grass nest was full of messy feathers, but it was barely a bird now, and it was covered in black leeches with orange stripes, and they had enclosed it all over it, and they were firmly attached to it, and their bodies were swollen to the thickness of their little fingers, and they looked like they were full of blood.
This scene is really disgusting, I feel that my stomach is turning over, don't look over my head and dare not look at it again, the corners of Lao Huang's eyes are frowning, he turned his head and began to rummage my backpack.
He took out the insect repellent and applied it desperately on his hair, it was really not easy for Lao Huang, who was a little clean, to do this, I looked at Brother Shen's hat and was a little envious, I knew that I would buy one by one.
My worm medicine has been diluted by sweat, and I have reapplied it, and the smell of worm medicine is nothing compared to these bugs.
Now there is no need to worry about snakes, this is a worm valley at all, no wonder there are no animals and birds, as long as the living creatures enter this valley will become a meal for insects, the magpie may only stay in the tree for a few seconds and never fly again.
These leeches are so thin that they can rise to the thickness of the little finger when they suck up the blood, if they are the thickness of the little finger, what should they become when they suck the blood?
I didn't dare to think about it anymore, I didn't dare to try it again, and we honestly followed Brother Shen and marched deeper into the valley.
The equipment was heavy, but I didn't feel it anymore, my mind was all on the bugs, but fortunately there were no more forks in the back, and we walked through this valley, and there was a fork in the road ahead.
A cool breeze rushed in my face, and I saw a stream flowing in front of me, very shallow and clear, the upstream of the stream was biased to the southwest, and the downstream turned a bend along the mountain, and flowed to the southeast, and the valley where we stood was facing south.
The direction of the jade is in the southwest, and we should go upstream to the stream.
The sun had risen to mid-heaven, shining hotly overhead, and my sweat was like a river that opened the floodgates, and it didn't stop flowing, and we each took two bottles of water with us when we set off, and now we have drunk them all.
I really wanted to take off my clothes and jump into the stream to take a shower, but the water was too shallow, and the deepest point was almost 20 centimeters.
There was bare/exposed gravel by the stream, I stepped out of the weeds and stood by the stream, feeling refreshed, the gravel looked very clean, and there was no trace of insects at all.