Chapter 14: White Worms
Lin Ling touched her face in embarrassment, and then her face was covered with blood.
"......" stared at the blood-stained palm, and Lin Ling was a little silent.
He simply ignored it, and fixed the new bait again with a long rope with a hook and threw it again.
The bloody flesh fell to the edge of the rock under her deliberate manipulation, which was both good for vision and a clever way to prevent the monster from dragging the bait away so that it didn't catch a single one.
Tying the rope to the heretic in the tunnel, Lin Ling began to wait quietly for the results to be reported.
As the minutes passed, and when the system was about to open, the long rope was slightly displaced.
But when I looked closely, there was nothing near the bait.
When the system was still a little hesitant, the long rope was suddenly pulled forward, directly breaking the stone pillar and bouncing towards the rock.
Then he was stepped on by Lin Ling.
As soon as Lin Ling stepped down, the ground covered with gravel was a little dented, but she didn't care about this, but stared straight at the long rope stretched into a straight shape.
"You're here to help!" Lin Ling felt the strange force coming from under her feet, turned her head and shouted at the system and Xia Xiaoyu at the same time, she pulled the long rope on her hand and turned it around, and her right leg across the ground sank deep into the ground.
The force coming from the other end of the rope also made her slightly startled, considering that according to the normal range, the power she now burst out through the mechanical arm was at least ten times more than that of an adult human male, and the creature on the other side of the rope could compete with each other...... What kind of creature is that?
Between the turns of her mind, Lin Ling saw the system and Xia Xiaoyu rushing towards this side, one grabbed the rope in front of her, and the other used particles to condense a deputy and grabbed her in front of her.
Finally, under the joint force of the three, the rope was pulled back little by little.
But there was still no sign of the bait.
Suddenly, Lin Ling noticed that the colored light above the piece of meat was slightly distorted, and she kicked a stone in that direction with the idea of trying it out.
The small stone leaped into the air, but in the process of sprinting, it seemed to hit something, and it shattered, and a drop of liquid like a clear spring suddenly flew out of the air.
There was also a movement on the rope that seemed to be a struggle.
And Lin Ling also took advantage of this opportunity to pull the bait back to the tunnel with the unknown creature, and at the moment when it was about to land, she hugged the system and rolled backwards.
Smoke and dust rose everywhere, and transparent creatures were constantly knocked down from the rock wall at any time, but fortunately, the tunnel was far stronger than the rift in front of it, and there was no trace of collapse in this violent impact.
But if left unchecked, it can easily cause danger.
Lin Ling threw the system backwards, and a roll picked up the bone spear on the ground and stabbed forward.
A bright wail came from the empty front.
Feeling the tremor coming from her subordinates, Lin Ling didn't take a second break, but stabbed forward fiercely, submerging most of the bone spears in front of her.
A liquid like a clear spring gushes out of it, and it is exactly the same as the stream water in the cave at the beginning, clear and tasteless.
Lin Ling still didn't stop, relying on instinct to keep dodging and attacking.
Eventually, after several blows, the transparent creature's body was covered with small holes like a sieve, and finally collapsed weakly.
As the creature dies, its body is gradually revealed, and the mimic color fades from above, eventually revealing a white and tender epidermis.
"Silkworms?" The creature that appeared in front of Lin Ling was very similar to the silkworm she had ever seen, but it was much larger, and its body was shorter, and there were several tentacle-like mouthparts that grew on the head, one of which was wrapped around the bait on the rope and did not let go until she died.
Transparent bodily fluids also flowed out of the creature's body, spilling all over the ground.
The shadow under Linling's feet moved slightly, and the liquid on the ground was slightly concave.
Savoring the information coming from the body, Lin Ling showed an obvious expression of disgust.
"What the hell does this smell like?" Thinking in her heart, Lin Ling restrained her urge to blast this thing up, and turned her head to look at the system that was still in a daze.
"System, you're going to help analyze the composition of this thing."
Knowing from the body's eating that there was an element with a certain concentration of abnormal factors, Lin Ling pointed at the puddle on the ground with a bone spear and called the system to analyze it.
After all, she couldn't detect any ingredients other than abnormal factors.
The anomalous factor, which is normally called "abnormal level distortion phenomenon" in her world, is quite complicated to explain, anyway, every anomalous creature in this world can be regarded as a carrier.
"Ahem...... Oh my god, it's dangerous. ”
The voice that she didn't really want to hear appeared in her ears again, Lin Ling rolled her eyes and turned her head to look at Xia Xiaoyu who crawled out of the small hole.
The female high school student looked embarrassed, her originally neat school uniform had become gray, and her long hair tied up in a ponytail was a little scattered.
And at the place where she drilled, Lin Ling clearly remembered that there was no small hole there before.
"Are you alright?" Xia Xiaoyu didn't care about the scratches on her body when she saw Lin Ling, but ran in front of Lin Ling and tried to hold the latter's hand.
After that, he was deftly dodged by Lin Ling.
"It's fine." Pretending to be unintentional to avoid Xia Xiaoyu, Lin Ling walked to the side of the system.
Compared to the crystal fragments eaten by Lin Ling, the blood of this creature not only tasted extremely bad, but also the concentration of abnormal factors was also terrifyingly low, which made Lin Ling a little puzzled, "Has it been analyzed?" ”
The system shook its body up and down, indicating that it was affirmative, [Most of these liquids are composed of mineral water, mixed with the cells of the creature, but the minerals in them cannot support the survival of the creature...... I don't know how I survived. 】
"It's all monsters, why are you still bothered with these?"
[That's what you said.] The system used the mechanical arm to scratch the spherical body very humanely, and with the expression at the moment, it was a bit similar to a human.
But thinking about the fact that this system is originally very emotionally biased towards humans, Lin Ling doesn't think it's so strange.
Led by the system to the corpse of the white worm, Lin Ling looked at it, and with an inadvertent glance, a black object came into her field of vision.
The blade popped out of her wrist.
[Wait!] Don't host it! When the system turned around, he saw Lin Ling's actions, and immediately understood what the latter wanted to do.
It doesn't know what it is, but judging by its age checks on the creature, if it is taken out without protection, it is likely to be quickly corroded by the current air, or release dangerous substances.
But it was still a step too late to stop it.
As soon as the words fell, Lin Ling cut open the layer of flesh.
The black object slid down the clear liquid inside to the ground, and the outer layer was covered with a sealed plastic film.
Lin Ling tore open the film without listening to the system, and saw the book that had not been soaked in liquid, and the moment the object came into contact with the air, it quickly turned yellow, wrinkled, and was about to turn into powder.
After that, it was picked up by Lin Ling.
The system saw with its own eyes that when the book that was about to be powdered was held by Lin Ling in her hand, time seemed to stop on it, frozen at the moment when it was about to dissipate.
"What's wrong?" Lin Ling turned her head, noticed the look in the system's eyes, and pretended to be puzzled to look at it.
The two looked at each other, and in the end, it was Xia Xiaoyu who broke the silence.
Sticking out her head, with curious eyes, Xia Xiaoyu came to Lin Ling's side and looked at the cover with the words "diary" written on it, "This is a diary?" Is anyone still using a diary? How many years has it been? Anyone else keeps a diary? Isn't that too down...... After a little ......"
As she spoke, it occurred to her that she seemed to have arrived in a completely unfamiliar world, and her open mouth gradually closed, and there was no sound.
There was a sense of loss on that childish little face.
The silence continued.
"Let's take a look." In the end, it was Lin Ling who took the initiative to speak, put the diary on her lap, and turned the first page.
This thing is very likely to be a clue, so the hunt for monsters in the rift can also be put aside for the time being, and Lin Ling is still quite curious about the specific background of this world.
Maybe there's some information in this diary.
The system glanced at Xia Xiaoyu and then at Linling.
It always felt that not only this Xia Xiaoyu had a problem now, but even the problem of its own host was quite big.
And when you think about it, it doesn't know anything about the host, which is a non-human race of shadow monsters, a cleaner by profession, a modified body, and the ability to change arms at will.
I really don't know if this should be worried.
However, it still sat on Lin Ling's right hand, and did not disarm the mechanical arm, just blocking the weak point of Lin Ling's defense.
This made Lin Ling can't help but look at the system.
Xia Xiaoyu could only choose to sit on Lin Ling's left, and rarely fell into a quiet state.
The state of these two made Lin Ling feel strange.
Lin Ling was also a little surprised that the system was so persistent in blocking her when she noticed her abnormality.
Her fingers landed on the book cover, feeling the roughness coming from it, the faint smell of ink coming from it, probably because of time, almost dissipating.
Lin Ling turned the first page, and the sight was a few square and square characters, which were originally called Chinese in the Lin Ling world a long, long time ago.
She had learned a lot of these words in the past, but unfortunately, with the passage of time and various disasters, she had learned quite few of them in her original world, and now they were replaced by a text called "Sutan" invented by a winged alien race.
Now seeing this familiar text, Lin Ling's heart is also quite complicated.
She looked at the large letters on the title page.
On the slightly yellowed paper was the words, "May we find rest in death." ”