Chapter 27: The Flower of Death
"What place?!"
It's dark, you can't see your fingers, and what's even more terrifying is that it's as quiet as hell. Xu Liping's eyesight is so good that he can see what is happening nearby even in the middle of the night.
But now he can't see anything, which means that there is no light at all.
He's the only one in the whole space?
"Ahem, ahem! Gross. The unpleasant vomiting sound came into Xu Liping's ears, it was Zhao Yiqiao.
"Da!"
Xu Liping turned on the flashlight, and on the opposite side of the flashlight stood a short and sturdy man.
"I'm @¥ you...% of Xu Qi, cough cough!" Zhao Yiqiao vomited and cursed, and the rhythm echoed in the space, which looked particularly emotional......
It's so wide that neither the width nor the height can be easily measured. There is such a large closed cave under the Hongtong Cave, and the satellite can't detect it! Misguided.
Getting back to the point, Xu Liping found Zhao Yiqiao, but failed to find Li Weihai and Xu Qi. When they sank into the "swamp", they were obviously not far away, but now there are only two people in the big space.
"This place should be located under the Hongtong Cave, but I don't know when there will be an extra cave of that size here." Xu Liping's oxygen mask, like Zhao Yiqiao's, was taken away when he sank into the "swamp", and they are now equivalent to being exposed to danger.
This cave is not quite the same as what I have seen before in Tranquility, both in terms of volume and what lives here.
"Yi Qiao...... You see. Xu Liping hit the light above his head and noticed that something was falling from the sky.
A large shadow hit Zhao Yiqiao's face, making him a little shorter.
"What is this!? Where do stalactites come from? Oh no! ”
"It's the substance that just brought us down."
The black clay clumps together to form a dropper-shaped awl. The inverted awl extends from the top of the cave of unseen height, and another vesicle grows at the tip.
I only heard the sound of gas flowing in the awl, and the vesicle began to swell until it touched the ground, and it burst open with a "pop". The awl was instantly pulled back into the darkness. Leave only a familiar thing on the ground.
Zhao Yiqiao fixed his eyes.
"Huh?! My face shield? Why. ”
Xu Liping turned around, picked up the protective mask on the ground, and handed it to him.
I see.
"We weren't swallowed, we were taken down, just like we were."
"Interesting, I don't know how it works."
Zhao Yiqiao took out a collection bottle from his pocket and collected a handful of soil on the ground.
Xu Liping observed the rising and falling awls nearby, they would bring small animals, some stones, some dilapidated clay pots, but not leaves or small insects.
"If I'm not mistaken, as long as it has a certain amount of physical strength and quality, they will suck it in and bring it here."
"That's why the air here is so pure, and the dust can't get in because it's too light."
???
Now there is not so much time to explore these things, Li Weihai and their life and death are unknown, the most important thing is to find them in advance.
"Leave it alone, find them." Xu Liping no longer observed the awls falling from the sky, but turned to leave.
Zhao Yiqiao hurriedly followed Xu Liping's footsteps.
"Hey! Wait a minute, NB, why are you Xu Liping going so fast! ”
To say that he has a good brain, that's true, but once the research problem involves finding a way, his brain crashes on the spot, so he needs someone with a particularly good sense of direction to lead the way.
……
At this time, Xu Qi was already dying in a certain place in the cave.
"I went, I knew I was going to come and vomit, so I wouldn't eat so much." Xu Qi held back his curiosity and didn't look at the colors he had just discharged,
"It's so cold in here." Because he hadn't seen the sun for a long time, the whole cave was cold and biting, except that the cave was cold and biting, and these flowers, which made his stomach twitch and twitch.
He had never seen such a flower, white and black-edged, with thick and fat petals, and two on the head of each flower. The five petals stand up, gathered in the middle, like a human hand. There is also an egg the size of a quail egg in the middle of the hand, protected by a film of black dots.
Instead of one or two, there are thousands of these flowers rooted all around, so the flashlight is full of black hands dancing around, a hellish sight.
If it was okay to meet Zhao Yiqiao, they might only use these flowers for experiments, but they met Xu Qi.
The hairy boy Xu Qi is the most greedy and curious of the several people, if it weren't for the fear greater than the hunger, maybe he could eat it clean.
Hey, why does my stomach hurt a little, why don't you relax here first, no one knows anyway, but it doesn't seem to be good. Oops, it hurts!
Xu Qi moved faster than he thought in his head, turned off the flashlight, squatted on the ground with his stomach in his hands......
"Well, that's comfortable! It's time to find someone. Xu Qi, who had a big heart, pulled the belt, buckled it, and set off towards the head of the flowers.
Here, Li Weihai also woke up and made a small investigation of the nearby situation, and observed that the direction of the flowers had a certain pattern, and then guessed that Xu Liping and they might also follow this clue to find someone, so he also began to move slowly towards the direction of the flowers.
Exuberant... Exuberant... Exuberant...
It's that sound again! The sound of a heartbeat!
Just like the human heart, it hits the human body and brain, making people inexplicably excited! It's a call from the underground, it's urging!
……
"I&¥$ You" Xu Liping, why are you walking so fast, rushing to be reincarnated!"
Xu Liping, who was busy walking, didn't know if he heard the words of the long-winded man, so he really stopped, turned around faintly, and said to him.
"Did you hear anything?"
Zhao Yiqiao had been talking to himself, and suddenly got a response, but he was at a loss for a moment, and the air suddenly became quiet.
Exuberant... Exuberant... Exuberant... Exuberant...
"I heard it, that heartbeat again."
"Nope. I didn't hear my heartbeat. ”
"No? Isn't it the sound of a heartbeat that you hear? ”
Zhao Yiqiao thought that Xu Liping was talking about the rhythm of the heartbeat they had brought in before, but he said no, which made him stunned!
Xu Liping looked at the void illuminated by the flashlight. The flowers on the ground were moving, so subtle that they were almost imperceptible, and there was the sound of something gently scratching against the stone wall.
"I can't hear the heartbeat you are talking about, but the wind is coming, and it is very strong."
"Where does the wind come from in the cave? Hmm, what's going on, I stink! ”
Before he finished speaking, the wind had arrived, and a large stream of hot wind came from the void in front of him.
As soon as Zhao Yiqiao smelled the smell, he immediately put on a protective mask that he had disliked for a long time.
"Oh amazing, is this the biological weapon they sent to us!?" Zhao Yiqiao is interested, the flowers can still emit hot air by themselves, and there is still a smell in this hot air?!