Chapter 173: The Queen of Worms
As night fell, more than a dozen bonfires were lit in an open space in the walled city, and Lin Xi and the others heard the constant shouts of the natives in their houses. Several indigenous girls came to the house with Sang Yu and invited Lin Xi and the two to the banquet.
When I came to the clearing, I saw rows of indigenous men and women dancing around the campfires and shouting. Around the venue, elderly men are playing with homemade instruments, making the atmosphere of the whole open space very strong.
They raised their hands and cheered at the firelight, and the men jumped over the campfire from time to time to show their bravery.
Lin Ci and the two had never seen this kind of scene before, they looked at each other and smiled, and they both saw the smiles on each other's faces, and they were also infected by this atmosphere.
Lin Xi and the others were invited to sit down at a wooden table, which was made of splitting the trunk in half and there were some wooden bowls and bottles, and some kind of drink was poured into the wooden bowl, and two cyan leaves floated on it.
The two sat down, Sang Yu at another wooden table next to them, and to their right was the indigenous elder.
The old woman looked very happy and said a local word to Lin Ci and them.
Then the old woman picked up a wooden bowl and gestured to Lin Ci. Lin Ci and Xiao Jiu each picked up a bowl, the old woman took a sip of the drink first, Lin Ci and Xiao Jiu only thought these were wines and tasted them.
only felt that the mouth was sweet, Lin Ci simply drank it all in one go, and after putting down the bowl, seeing the expressions of the old woman and Sang Yu who were a little surprised, Lin Ci knew that it was going to be bad.
Sure enough, the stomach suddenly became warm, and then the warmth turned spicy, Lin Xi almost thought that he had eaten three or two catties of chili peppers in one go, his whole face turned red, and a lot of sweat appeared on his forehead.
Sang Yu smiled: "That's our own wine, which Su taught us." However, we have a lot of alcohol stamina, even if we are in the prime of life, if we drink three bowls in a row, we will get drunk to death on the spot. ”
"This kind of wine is drunk in small sips, and you can't be in a hurry."
Lin Ci smiled awkwardly, and said in his heart, you said it earlier.
Luckily, a young girl brought in to eat, and what they ate was not on a plate, but on a very thick leaf. The food is simple, it is grilled meat and grilled fish, coated with black mud.
Lin Ci tried to tear off a strip of barbecue meat and put it in his mouth, it tasted good, so he asked Sang Yu: "This is also taught by the man named Su Jinwei?" ”
Sang Yu nodded: "Su taught us a lot of things, including the practice of cooked food, as well as using bamboo tubes to put rice on the fire and roast, as well as curing diseases. ”
Xiao Jiu ate the food without saying a word, and soon the barbecue meat and fish on the two leaves were eaten, looking like he was hungry, and Lin Ci shook his head.
At this moment, a dark shadow suddenly swept down from the sky, and then grabbed an indigenous man.
Suddenly there was a change, and immediately people around shouted loudly. Only then did Lin Xi notice an unusual sound in the sky.
It was the sound of flapping wings.
He looked up and saw a man in the firelight.
Or rather, a human-like creature.
It has no clothes, and its body is covered with fluff, with a few black lines scattered in the predominantly yellow fluff.
Behind it, there were two moth wings, and its large, round compound eyes were full of Lin Xi's face.
Then it swooped down.
Sprinkle powder from your wings along the way.
Sang Yu shouted at Lin Xi: "Run, they are moth monsters!" ”
Lin Xi didn't know what the moth monster was, but he clearly saw a dense patch of moth monsters in the sky swooping down towards the square.
There was a lot of screaming in the square.
"Xiao Jiu, take them away!" Lin Xi roared, raising his left hand at the same time. At this time, his shoulders tightened, and he was already caught and lifted up by the moth monster that rushed down, and rose towards the sky.
In mid-air, Lin Ci's left hand suddenly changed, and one by one prismatic thorns emerged, and several prismatic thorns on his left shoulder pierced the palm of the moth monster.
It let out a woman-like scream and let go of the forest. Seeing that Lin Ci was about to fall, the already formed blood devouring claw grasped the right leg of the moth monster, and then both fell to the ground.
The body of the moth monster was very strong, and Lin Xi grabbed it and easily picked it up, smashed it down, and violently smashed it to the ground. Blooddevouring lifted up, and its five claws caught it like a blade, tearing the moth monster into several pieces along with its wings.
Lin Xi looked up, and there were countless moth monsters in the sky, just like the moths that poured out of their nests in the summer rainy season, densely spread all over the sky.
The natives are constantly being caught by the moth monsters, and after being caught, they do not directly devour the natives like the beetle people before, but take them away, and they don't know where to go.
After the initial panic, the natives reacted quickly, and it was clear that this was not the first time they had encountered a Mothron attack.
Some of the indigenous men brought piles of sand and gravel and poured them all on the campfire. The sand and gravel suppressed the bonfire, and soon the light of the fire in the square began to wane, until it was finally extinguished.
More of the indigenous men, after guiding the women away, took out special shields and spears with rows of sharp wooden nails embedded in the surface. The shield is meters long and requires excellent arm strength to lift, but it is not difficult for an adult man.
They raised this special shield to protect themselves. The Mothmonster swooped down from a great height, reaching out to catch the natives of the ground, but there was nowhere to do it because of the shield. The natives would throw wooden spears from behind their shields and aim them at the wings behind the Mothcubes.
Their wings are fragile, easily pierced by wooden spears, and even the entire wing is torn off.
But all the while, the natives hid behind their shields and didn't dare to show up. Lin Xi didn't know why at first, but later realized that it was to prevent the dust from sticking to the wings of the moth monster.
He stuck to himself a little, and the dust seemed nothing special at first, but suddenly it would burn on its own. Fortunately, Lin Ci was very resistant to the flames, and the temperature of the flames ignited by the dust of the Moth Monster was not enough to burn him.
It didn't take long for the dust to burn after it fell on the shields, but the shields didn't know how to use them, so they didn't catch fire. The flames only burned on the surface, but could not spread behind the shield.
This instead allowed the natives to have another weapon, and the burning flames on the shield were also a threat to the mothmons themselves, and many mothmons who had lost their wings and could not be released had the natives use the flames on their shields to burn into a fireball.
It's just that the fire on the moth's body was originally orange-red, but it soon turned dark blue, like a scale fire.
Lin Xi began to discover that these moths were actually much more fragile than the previous beetle people, and they did not have an advantage in strength. Their real advantage is in flight, as well as in the flammable powder that is sprinkled from their wings.
As long as they fight back against these two points, even the natives can defeat them.
It's just that there are a little more of them.
Lin Xi had already activated the blood-devouring predator stance, and the centipede-like whip flew in the sky, and he strangled the moth monsters in patches. As for their fire powder, the native of Lin Qixue took a shield to block it.
The exposed blood devourer was not afraid of this flame at all, so the long whip flew and fell, clearing a space for him above Lin Xi's head.
He saw that there was a larger figure behind the big moths in the sky.
It was a woman with an upper body similar to a woman, but a fat bug with six pairs of wings flapping on its back. The two long tentacles on its insect head shook from time to time, and each time it did, a group of Mothmonsters rushed down.
Lin Xi thought to himself, that should be the queen of the moth monster.
The so-called capture of the thief first captures the king, since the insect queen is here, Lin Xi has no reason to let it go in person. At the moment, the mind moved, and the blood phagophage tissue separated, and the body was reconstructed. In the blink of an eye, the shield-like piercing appeared in the air.
As soon as the Impaler appeared, the queen seemed to instinctively sense the threat, and let out a rapid low sound from its mouthparts, and the six pairs of insect wings behind it flapped desperately, and its bloated body began to rise into the sky.
The space between it and Lin Xi was occupied by a large number of moth monsters. They flew down in droves towards the forest shrine, intending to use their numerical superiority to pile up the forest shrine.
Countless fire powders were sprinkled in the air, and the dust was so dense that a yellow mist floated above Lin Xi's head.
Lin Xi lifted the piercing.
The cone began to spin, sending the air current, creating a spiral ripple.
Suddenly, this circle of ripples exploded!
The conone gun was gone.
I saw that the moth monsters above Lin Xi's head suddenly exploded one by one, and their wings, hands and feet, internal organs, and blood were sprinkled all over the sky.
A red light was thousands of miles away.
In the place where this red light passed, the solar term wave exploded, and the bodies of countless heavenly moth monsters were torn apart, exploding into countless fragments and falling towards the square.
The bloated worm froze in mid-air, a cavity the size of a human head in its chest.
The organs were gone, and thin wounds spread from the hole to all sides, and a moment later the queen's body shattered like broken porcelain, and shards, wings, and blood fell one after another.
There was a rain of blood in the whole square, not only Lin Ci was drenched, but even many natives in the vicinity were also drenched in blood.
It is worth mentioning that whether it is a moth monster or a queen worm, their blood is actually red.
As soon as the queen died, the moths flew around like headless flies, and some of them even bumped into each other. It can be seen that the queen is not only their commander, but also able to coordinate their movements. Without the queen of worms, the Mothmonster is a larger moth.
The moths quickly walked away, like a yellow cloud, drifting towards the far end of the island.
The corpses of the moths in the square, and even the blood and internal organs, began to turn into black fluorescent light. They flew into the air and converged, forming a blood cell. The blood cell further coagulated, turning into a fingernail-sized blood crystal.
The blood eater that had returned to normal opened its mouthparts, and the blood crystal floated in, and it swallowed it in one gulp.
Lin Xi frowned, blood devouring and preying on them, doesn't that mean that these moth monsters are also aliens, or new aliens?
After the moths left, the natives began to clean the square. Those moth monsters that weren't killed by Lin Xi, their corpses were piled up, and the last fire was burned. Lin Ci was sitting in a corner of the square, and two women were bandaging his wounds.
Most of those wounds were burned by the Moth's powder, and they were very minor, and they would heal quickly even if they were left alone.
They used certain ground herbs to put on the leaves and then pasted them on the wounds of the Lin Ci. Lin Xi only felt cool, but there was a fire in his stomach.
After the wound felt a little better, he returned to the big house in the walled city with Sang Yu, where the old woman was sitting on the ground, and Xiao Jiu next to him jumped up and asked, "How is it, have you driven away those things?" ”
"If they run away, as soon as the queen dies, they will disperse."
Lin Ci looked at Sang Yu: "What's the matter with those moth monsters?" ”
Sang Yu sighed and said, "They and the other insect people and spider people are all demons that ran out of the Hell Mountain. All this stems from the disaster of that year. ”
"Other wormmen, spider-men? Hell Mountain? Lin Ci looked at Sang Yu in surprise: "So, there are other monsters on the island?" ”
Sang Yu nodded and said, "Everyone is tired tonight, you guys rest early, and I'll talk to you in detail tomorrow." ”
Lin Ci and Xiao Jiu returned to the wooden house, there was no light in the house, but when they opened the doors and windows, the moonlight was bright outside the window, and the moonlight could still be seen in the house.
There were no beds in the room, only two thin blankets sewn from animal skins.
Lin Ci saw that Xiao Jiu's face was strange, so he simply lay on the floor, looked at the roof, and it didn't take long for him to fall asleep again.
The next day's breakfast was enjoyed in the big house in the walled city, and a group of children in the open space in front of the house were curious about Lin Ci, apparently Lin Ci's deeds of beating the moth monster and the insect queen last night had spread among the natives, and these children looked at him with admiration in their eyes.
In the end, it was Sang Yu who broke the child away, and Lin Xi could enter the big house.
On the sand of the big house sat the indigenous elder, Xiao Jiu arrived one step ahead of him, and sat there angrily, mouthing at the food brought by an indigenous girl.
Lin Xi sat down, and an indigenous girl brought over several wooden bowls. The bowl contained the same black paste he had eaten yesterday, as well as a few pieces of dried meat, and a bowl of water.
The old woman smiled and motioned to Lin Ci to drink water first, then eat black paste, and finally dry meat.
Lin Ci nodded, drew the gourd in the same way, and learned from the old woman to eat all the things in the bowl in turn.
Sang Yu said a few words to the elder, the elder nodded, and Sang Yu stood up and said, "You come with me." ”
Lin Ci stood up and asked Xiao Jiu, "Are you coming?" ”
"Of course it's here, don't want to leave me." Suddenly, she stood up,
There is a door at the back of the wooden house, and when you push the door open, there is a cave behind the door. Sang Yu took a torch, walked in, lit the two braziers in the cave, and the cave lit up.
The cave is very high and has a shimmer on it, and when you go into the depths of the cave, you can see some frescoes in the cave walls.
"These are painted by Momo."
"She is the longest-lived person we have here, and she remembers the disaster most clearly," Sang Yu said. ”
"She said our children and grandchildren must remember that catastrophe and never set foot in Hell Mountain, where the devil's portal is located."