Chapter 125: Essay 4
Everyone was stunned for a moment. They only thought that there was something dangerous lurking in the fog, so they focused on the embankment, and monsters and the like would suddenly appear in the fog, but they didn't expect the danger to be the fog itself!
No wonder they didn't notice it just now, it only took a few seconds for this man-eating fog to turn a large living person into a skeleton, and it didn't make a sound. When it gathers, it kills people, and when it spreads, it naturally blends into the ubiquitous fog around it, and it is impossible to see it at all, making it impossible to prevent it.
"Close the defenses!"
Liu Fang's reaction was the fastest, and he immediately closed the gap in the defense layer with a water curtain, and at the same time, a wind stream quickly rolled towards the blood mist, forming an air bubble to wrap a small cloud of blood mist inside and collect it into the defense layer.
She wanted to see what this blood mist really was!
The blood mist wrapped in her air flow was suspended in the air, and everyone's flashlights immediately shone towards it in unison, illuminating the entire body of the blood mist. Liu Fang stared at it carefully, and finally found that this blood mist was a little abnormal, the general mist was composed of countless tiny water droplets, and it was difficult for the naked eye to identify these extremely small water droplets. And this blood mist also contains countless small red dots, but it is much larger than the water droplets that make up the mist, and in this bright light, it can be discerned from a close look.
"It's not fog, it's bugs!"
Zhang Xiaojiang was the first to blurt out. He has an eye for microscopic vision, and he can magnify tiny things like a microscope, and he can see clearly what those red dots are at once.
Liu Fang raised the control accuracy of the wind flow to the maximum, and with an extremely thin air flow, a small red dot was separated from the red mist and suspended in mid-air.
Looking at it alone, it can be seen that this is indeed a very small insect, only about two millimeters in length, and the whole body is crystal red, like a small blood crystal bead. Liu Fang took out a high-powered magnifying glass from the space, and when he took a look, he saw that it had a pair of small transparent wings on its body, and its body was only two millimeters long, smaller than an ant, but a mouthpart that was split at the front end accounted for one-third of the width.
Liu Fang controlled the airflow and gently pinched the little insect, and a small drop of red blood suddenly splashed in the air. And after the blood in the little worm's stomach was pinched out, the rest of the body was close to colorless and transparent, and it was almost impossible to notice if you didn't look closely.
Now everyone finally understands what is going on. The white mist, which was much denser than the surrounding fog, was obviously composed of countless such tiny and transparent insects, because their size was so small that they were mixed in the thick mist, and with the cover of dim twilight, they were not recognizable at all.
A small insect like this has no offensive power, and it can only bite off a little bit of the epidermis, and it may not even be able to see blood. But if hundreds of millions, billions, or even tens of billions of them are gathered together, it will become an extremely terrifying force, just like the team member just now, the whole person was submerged and buried by the insect mist, and in just three or four seconds, the flesh and blood of the whole body were gnawed away, leaving only the clothes and skeletons that they did not eat.
The insect itself is transparent and colorless, but after eating human flesh, the transparent body reveals the bright red color in the belly, so it looks like a large blood mist. If the insects no longer gather in a clump, but disperse into the real fog around them, because they themselves are so tiny, like a drop of red ink seeping through clear water, they will naturally disappear and be invisible.
"Captain Xia." Zhang Danni looked at the small red insect mist, and a pair of willow eyebrows were tightly knit, "What should we do now?" ”
These bugs are supposed to be mutated insects, but they are not particularly aggressive, they are ubiquitous and cannot be prevented. Mixed in with the dense fog around them, they couldn't see clearly, and they didn't know where they would suddenly gather and there was no way to destroy them.
With only a small percentage of the team members with protective abilities, it's hard to take care of all of them, and even if you use them to defend, your mental power won't last long. They haven't entered the depths of the real Miao Territory yet, and if they have already spent a lot of spiritual energy here, they don't have to walk the way back.
"Let's find a way to get out of this layer of defense safely." Liu Fang said, "You can't hide here all the time. ”
These insects only gnaw away the flesh and blood of people, leaving intact clothes and skeletons, looking at their little bit of large mouthparts, Liu Fang didn't believe that they could gnaw on things that were too hard and tough.
She pulled out a large roll of mylar from the space and stretched it out, covering herself like a small tent. The hardness and toughness of this plastic film are relatively high, puncture and friction resistant, and should be able to play a certain role in resisting.
In the past two days, Dango's research in space has finally yielded some results, and many useful animal and plant species have been found. One of the shrubs that can repel mosquitoes has a very strong effect, and although Liu Fang didn't know if it could work on this mutant insect, he still took it out and kneaded it into grass juice and applied it to the outside of the film.
"I'll go out and try it first." Liu put it inside the membrane and added another layer of intertwined air flow to herself as protection, and then carefully asked others to open a gap in the defense layer again, in order to prevent the insects outside from flying in, she did not open her own layer of water curtain, but directly penetrated through the water curtain.
As soon as she walked outside the water curtain, a thick white mist suddenly enveloped her, surrounding her at once. Liu placed it on the inside of the three-layer film, and the outside was a vast white, and nothing could be seen, only a faint sound like countless drizzles hitting the film.
However, the bugs didn't wrap her up like they had done to drown the team member before. Instead, it hovered beside her for a few seconds, and soon spread out again, as if a little unwillingly forming a slightly thicker white mist around her, constantly changing shapes, but not daring to approach her again.
"This insect repellent plant works!"
Liu Fang immediately returned to the defense layer, harvested a large number of shrubs from the space, and distributed them to the other team members one by one. All of them wore several layers of grass juice-stained plastic film, which was transparent and soft, and did not affect their vision and movement. Liu Fang instructed everyone to slowly remove the defensive layer, and sure enough, those insects just hovered around them and did not pounce on them.
"Now that we have a way to defend ourselves against these bugs, let's try to cross the bridge." Liu Fang said, "I don't know how big the surrounding fog is, whether we move forward or turn around and go backwards, it makes no difference, it can save a little time." ”
She put away the cars on the country road and put them in her own space first, and everyone crossed the bridge on foot. The strength of the ropeway is limited, and only a few people can walk at a time, and the whole team of about 50 people has to go through it many times.
After getting in the car, drive forward for a few more hours, and the sky is already getting brighter. As the sun rises, the surrounding fog lifts little by little, revealing the lush mountain forest.
The misty clouds of the mountains appear bright and clean under the sunlight, and they rise and fall in the mountains, as if they are covered with a layer of looming white veil for the mountains. If it weren't for the successive deaths in the darkness last night, no one would have imagined what a terrifying killing machine was hidden in this beautiful cloud.
The traffic in Miao Autonomous Prefecture is backward, only one-third of the places are connected to roads, and the convoy drove further forward, and soon reached a fork in the road. One of them is the township road leading to the next state and county, and you can leave this mountain and walk out of Miaojiang from this side. On the other side is a narrow mountain road, leading to the depths of Miao Jiang, those remote Miao settlements in the deep mountains and old forests. The mountain road is impassable for cars and is so steep that it is difficult to drive even motorcycles and tricycles, so you have to walk.
Liu Fang stopped the car at the fork in the road and turned to the rest of the team, his face a little solemn.
"Ladies and gentlemen, you still have a way out of here. You all saw the danger of this place last night, and we have already lost four team members before we even entered the depths of Miao Jiang. Further in, it is likely that there will be even more tragic sacrifices. Because our team has a friend who has fallen into the Ghost Silkworm Gu, no matter how dangerous it is, we have to continue walking, but you can choose whether you want to give up this mission and leave Miao Jiang. ”
The three thousand squad and the people of the Wei Ni squad looked at each other. Indeed, this mission was more difficult and dangerous than the previous ones, and after the night of last night's death, there was a sense of fear and retreat in everyone's hearts. When they came here, they had already encountered such a terrible insect mist, and if they continued to walk deeper into this mountain, what else would they encounter?
Although the reward for this mission is unprecedentedly rich, it is still your own life that is more important in comparison. These two teams are not particularly short of supplies, so they have to fight for their lives and get paid. Anyway, now that the supply of materials in the Beijing base is relatively sufficient, go back and take on some relatively simple tasks, although the reward is not so much, at least there is no need to take such a big risk.
Qu Qian saw the thoughts of the team members and sighed: "I know what you guys are thinking. The reason why I and the deputy team took on this task was not entirely because of the huge pay, but to help Captain Xia. In short, you have the right to choose where you want to go, and if you are willing to stay, you will continue to go to the depths of Miaojiang with us, and if you want to go back, you can take this rural road out of Miaojiang. ”
Although Qu Qian seems to be unreliable, he is actually very popular in the team, as soon as his words came out, everyone in the 3000 team hesitated for a moment, but they still expressed their willingness to stay and advance and retreat together.
Zhang Danni over there is also of a similar nature, mainly for Qu Qian, she also gave the team members the freedom to choose, because the members of the Ni team were all her fans, and none of them left.
The team packed all the vehicles into the space and walked up the mountain road that led to the depths of Miao Jiang. This mountain road should have been opened up before the end of the world, because it had been unpassable for too long, and now it was overgrown with all kinds of tangled plants and vines, and they were about to obscure the road. The crowd could only take turns clearing the road while struggling to move forward, and the speed slowed even further, and after walking for a morning and an afternoon, they barely managed to climb over two hills.
Liu Fang originally wanted to fly over the forest, so that he could overlook the surrounding situation, and avoid trekking through a pile of vines and grass below. But the mutated trees here are too tall and dense, and when viewed from above, it is completely a dense dark green sea, and nothing can be seen below the treetops, but it is not as good as the view of walking under the trees.
Miaojiang is located in the southwest corner of China, between the junction of the tropics and subtropics, the climate is warm and humid, and the relative humidity in the air is high. In addition, there are high peaks, deep valleys, and high mountains, and there is almost no wind, even if it is only the end of April, walking through it makes people feel stuffy and hot, and breathless.
Everyone walked with sweat pouring down, and their clothes had been taken off to only one or two thin pieces, still soaked with sweat. Although the physical strength of the supernatural is much better than that of ordinary people, after this day, they are all tired and out of breath.
Only Liu Fang is a little better. She wore a jade dress given to her by Zhao Jingxing, although this is an ancient costume, and the wide robe and big sleeves are a bit strange, but the clothes are loose and soft, light and thin, and have the characteristics of being warm in winter and cool in summer, and they are as cool as water when worn on the body, and they almost don't sweat.
During the day, there was no fog in the forest, and there were no more insects in the fog, but there were still countless kinds of strange mutated insects in the bushes and grasses under your feet and on the trunks and treetops overhead. A royal blue fly the size of half a palm, a beetle that chirps like a cat, and a bells and whistles caterpillar with a needle longer than a finger on its butt......
With the previous experience, people now dare not despise any insect, because even the smallest gnats can kill people. Fortunately, the kind of insect-repellent shrubs in Liu Fang's space are effective against most insects, and she distributed some shrub branches and leaves to each team member, so that they can hang them everywhere on their bodies, and basically no one is harassed by insects.
"Zhenzhen, where have we been?"
In the evening, when it was dark, everyone stopped to rest on a hill with a higher ground and a better view. I didn't dare to build a bonfire in this forest, for fear of attracting zombie animals, so I just ate a little dry food and the like. There was no sign of the deep mountains in Miaojiang on the map, and Liu Fang couldn't tell where they had gone here, so he could only ask Long Zhenzhen, who had lived in Miaojiang.
"I'm not sure, this place has changed too much from when I came out of Miaojiang, and I don't recognize it clearly." Long Zhenzhen frowned and recalled, "Judging from the distance we have traveled today, it will probably take a few hours to walk tomorrow to reach the nearest Miao village here. That's where Miao Jiang Gu Magicians began to appear, and after we got there, we split into two paths and went in two directions to find the two largest Dark Gu sects in Miao Jiang. ”
Miao Jiang's Gu Technique is complex and profound, and it is very dangerous, so Gu Masters are rarely able to be self-taught. Some of them are inherited by blood relationship, for example, Long Zhenzhen's Gu technique was taught to her by her grandfather, and the larger-scale inheritance method is the sect's master and apprentice.
The two most famous dark Gu sects in Miao Jiang, one is Rashomon and the other is Baihuamen, both have a long history, and there are hundreds of disciples in the sect. After the end of the world comes, it is the greatest possibility that there will still be dark Gu masters left in these two major sects.
"Captains." A member of the 3,000 squad with farsightedness was looking at the surrounding situation at the top of a large tree, when he suddenly shouted from above, "There seems to be a fire in the valley opposite." ”
"Firelight?"
Liu Fang was a little surprised, and also flew to the top of the treetops, looking in the direction of the team's finger from afar. Although she didn't have the ability to see her, her eyesight was much better than that of ordinary people, and sure enough, she saw a faint golden-red light in a dark valley in the distance, but it was too far away, as small as a faint twinkling star.
Liu Fang took out a telescope with the highest magnification from the space, and looked at the golden-red light, but he still didn't see a reason. The light source was blocked by the dense trees in front of it, and it was impossible to see what the light was emitting, but the light seemed to be swaying slightly, and it did look like firelight. Liu Fang looked at it for a while, and the fire did not have a tendency to expand, indicating that this should not be a natural mountain fire.
The direction of the firelight is the direction of their progress pointed by Long Zhenzhen, could it be that the place is the Miao Village she said, and this firelight is a bonfire lit by someone?
In the barren mountains and mountains deep in the Miao Territory, if there are still living people, there is a chance that the Miao people living here will be the best of ten.
Liu Fang fell to the ground and let Lin Hanzhi sense the situation in the direction of the firelight, Lin Hanzhi closed his eyes and spread his spiritual power far away, and only shook his head after a long time.
"There were no living people or zombies at the location of the firelight, but some distance from that direction, about twenty kilometers away from here, there was a reaction from the living. This distance is already the limit distance of my lifeform perception, and I can only feel that there are living people, but I can't determine how many people there are, and where they are exactly where they are. ”
It seems that there are indeed Miao people who still live in the depths of this mountain forest. As soon as everyone heard the news, hope suddenly rose in their hearts, and they couldn't take a break: "Let's rush over overnight tonight, right?" ”
"Don't worry." Liu Fang said, "It's not safe to walk in the forest at night, and since there are traces of living people have been found, it's not bad for this night." ”
"Then can we rush to that Miao village for the night first? Anyway, it's the same direction, and you have to go through there. "There are many team members who are still itching, they have trekked in this deserted deep mountain and old forest for a whole day, and now they can't wait to reach the place where they live alone, even if there is no one in the Miao Village, it is much stronger than in this black rumbling forest.
Liu Fang always felt that something was wrong. If it is really a Miao village, since there are no living people and no zombies in it, why is there still a fire?
Seeing that the other team members were all ready to move, she decided to go over first to see what was going on, anyway, this was the direction they were going to go. You can see the fire in the dark, and it is easy to identify the direction, but it is difficult to walk during the day.
The location of the firelight was about two hours away from where they were now. The group descended from the top of the hill and rounded a curved canyon, and soon the true face of the fire appeared before their eyes.
There was no seedling village at all, and it was not really a flame, but a large, beautiful mutated tree. The trees were as thick as four or five people hugging each other, and from the tops hung a thousand strands of willow-like branches, which did not have a single leaf, but were covered with long filaments like tassels, which shone a warm and bright golden red light in the dark night.
Despite the absence of a hint of wind, the branches swayed gently in the air, and countless soft filaments swayed one after another, as if the trees were burning with golden-red flames, the light was blazing and dazzling, and it seemed particularly warm, illuminating a large area of the surrounding dark woods.
"It's so beautiful...... Long Zhenzhen's eyes reflected the golden red light of the tree, and she couldn't help but want to walk towards it, but was pulled by Liu Fang: "Don't get close, the more beautiful things are, the more dangerous they are." ”
"Since this is not Miao Village, let's leave as soon as possible." Qu Qian looked at the golden-red mutant tree and frowned, "This kind of light is too conspicuous in the dark night, I don't know what will be attracted here." ”
Liu Fang also felt that it was not appropriate to stay here for a long time: "Let's go, walk forward for a while and then stop for the night......"
She was at the front of the group, with her back to the mutated tree, facing the group. As soon as she was halfway through speaking, she suddenly saw Qu Qian staring straight behind her, her eyes wide open and her mouth open, and her face was pale with horror, as if she had seen something extremely terrifying.
The rest of the team members all had the same expression as him, frozen in place, unable to speak. Zhang Xiaojiang made a white face, and squeezed out a few words from his teeth: "Sister...... ...... behind you"
Liu Fang turned his head suddenly, and suddenly saw a yellow-green face as big as a door leaf and with distinct facial features, suspended in the air behind her. A pair of surprisingly large blood-red eyes, but the eyeballs were extraordinarily small, staring at her motionlessly, with a huge purple-black mouth, grinning a hideous and weird sneer at her!
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Liu Fang's scalp exploded, the cold hairs all over his body stood up, and he reflexively suddenly took a step back from the front of that face. At this time, Qu Qian, who was closest to her, was finally the first to come back to her senses from her horror, and raised her hand to shoot a flame towards that face!
As soon as the flames came, the human face suddenly moved, and the hideous and weird sneering expression did not change, but eight long furry legs suddenly spread out behind it, and quickly rose into the air!
It turned out to be a yellow-green spider as huge as a car, with a pattern on its back resembling a sneering human face, which could clearly distinguish its facial features, and was hanging in the air behind Liu Fang with a spider silk!
The human-faced spider avoided Qu Qian's flames, and then pounced on Liu Fang below from mid-air again. On the chin of the human face on its back were eight fist-sized cyan eyes, glowing with a blue glow. A pair of sharp chelicerae on his chest are constantly waving, making a "click" sound.
Liu Fang rose into the air with the help of the air current, dodging its ferocious pounce, and several wind blades in his hand fired at it in succession. Unexpectedly, the human-faced spider suddenly spit out a large mass of white spider silk like a fiber bundle, spraying straight at Liu Fang, Liu Fang's wind blade hit the spider silk, it seemed to have extremely strong toughness, although it was pulled to an extremely long length at once, but it was not cut!
Not covered by the spider silk hit by the wind blade to Liu Fang, she raised her hand to a water curtain and blocked the spider silk with a bang. At the same time, the pupils shrank, and the spiritual power directly penetrated into the body of the human-faced spider, and there was a loud sound, and all its internal organs were frozen into ice cubes in a few seconds!
The human-faced spider fell to the ground with a thud, and its eight legs twitched a few times, and then it was motionless.
All this happened almost instantly, and the rest of the people reacted from their stunned eyes, looking at the huge human-faced spider corpse on the ground, all of them with numb scalps.
"There is such a big spider ......" Lin Hanzhi was most afraid of this kind of fluffy insect, not to mention that it was countless times larger than usual, his face was pale, his voice trembled, and he didn't dare to look at the eight long legs covered with black hair of the human-faced spider
。
"It's a mutant spider." Liu Fang checked the body of the human-faced spider, and it was not rotten, "Fortunately, there is only one ......"
Before she finished speaking, her face changed suddenly, because she heard that there was a sudden sound of rustling in all directions, accompanied by a "click" sound!
Everyone turned to look around in horror, and goosebumps all over their bodies at a glance: through the golden-red glow of the mutated tree and their own flashlights, they could see countless human-faced spiders crawling towards them from the surrounding ground and trees, and in the blink of an eye, they were all surrounded by water, and they were all surrounded by water!
The largest of these spiders was about the size of a big truck, and the smallest was the size of a table and of different colors, but all of them had human face-like patterns on their backs, and they all had that hideous sneering expression. Countless long furry legs danced in mid-air, and in the half-light and half-dark woods, rows of blue and blue light dots flashed everywhere, which were their eyes, dense, and it was impossible to count how many there were.
"I'm afraid this is the nest of these human spiders." Liu Fang took a step back, approached Gu Liushen, the weakest in the group, and protected him behind, "The light emitted by this mutated tree can attract the animals of the forest, and they are here to catch their prey. ”
Their first glance had been drawn to the mutated tree's beautiful golden-red glow, but now they could barely make out the messy grass beneath it, which contained a lot of animal bones.
This mutated tree and these humanoid spiders should be in a common symbiotic relationship in nature. Mutated trees lure their prey with their light, and the human-faced spiders, after eating their prey, spit out their indigestible bones and the like under the trees to become their nourishment.
Their group of more than fifty people is estimated to be a very fat meal in the eyes of these face spiders, which is why so many spiders are dispatched.
"Be ready for battle." Liu Fang pulled out a gun in one hand, "Be careful of the spider silk of these face spiders." ”
"Click-click-click......"
The largest human-faced spider at the front of the swarm, wielding a pair of its venomous claws, pounced on them first. Everyone opened fire, but the back shells of their smooth faces seemed to be so hard that the bullets hit them and could not penetrate completely, leaving a small pit on them at most.
"Don't hit these face spiders on their backs, attack their eyes and abdomen!"
Zhang Danni brushed a row of crystal clusters and shot over, shattering all eight eyes on the human-faced spider's head to pieces, and Qu Qian followed behind it with a ball of fire enveloping its whole body. The human-faced spider struggled frantically through the fire, retreating and emitting a foul-smelling scorching smell, before being swallowed up by more spiders rushing up below.
The overwhelming swarm of human-faced spiders slammed up, and even if there were more than fifty people in the team, it seemed extremely small in the middle. The sound of gunfire, explosions, and the "click" of the spiders' claws filled the forest with the light of fire and abilities, and the forest was soon shattered by the fierce fighting, and the earth and rocks were scattered, leaving a large mess of messy places, and the trees were covered with a mess of spider silk.
The last time the 3,000 team was in distress in the depths of Qingling, it was when they encountered a large group of strange insects that came out of the stones, those insects had no defense and were relatively weak in attack, which had already caused the 3,000 team to lose nearly half of their number.
And these spiders are far more powerful than those monster insects. Most of their bodies are covered with a hard shell that cannot be penetrated by ordinary bullets, except for a small soft area under the abdomen that is fatal. The spider silk is more tricky, extremely tough and sticky, and it can't be destroyed by fire. It erupts from the spider's spinner, and as soon as it falls on a person's body, it can entangle the person and immobilize.
Once they catch or entangle a person with spider silk, they will stab the human body with a poisonous claw, inject venom, and the whole body will be dissolved into a puddle of liquid in a matter of seconds, and they will all be sucked into the abdomen, leaving only white bones that cannot be melted.
In just a few minutes, the forest was littered with human-faced spiders, either broken or charred, and countless long furry legs stretched out into the air
。 But several people in the team also died in the spider's belly, the white bones on the ground were strewn, and the golden-red light on the mutated tree not far away was a little brighter, and the branches and filaments swayed more happily.
The soft place under the abdomen of the human-faced spider was too difficult to aim, and Liu Fang no longer wasted bullets and wind blades and water blades to hit them directly, but used all his spiritual power to directly penetrate into the spider's body and freeze their internal organs. One by one, the human-faced spiders pounced on her, and there was a rattle in mid-air, and then they fell straight down, and they were all killed after seeing it on the surface.
A large number of black spider corpses like a hill were quickly piled up around Liu Fang, almost drowning her and Gu Liushen who followed her. She flew out of the pile of corpses, her eyes constricted, and with a wave of her hand, a huge water dragon surged in the direction of the least number of spiders.
Countless human-faced spiders were knocked over on their backs, and a gap opened in the encirclement, Liu Fang pulled Gu Liushen up and flew over first: "Everyone escape!" ”
Suddenly there was a flash of silver light in front of her, and she realized that something was wrong, and she stopped in mid-air, almost hitting a dense huge spider web in front of her. The spider silk of this spider web is extremely thin, transparent and colorless, and it is impossible to see in the dark.
Liu Fang looked around, and between the trees in the forest, this huge spider web was woven everywhere, overlapping and heavy, covering the sky, and the spider silk was glowing with subtle silver streamers.
These spiders have laid a web around them, trapping them inside!
The fierce battle they had just had caused so much movement and light that more human-faced spiders were attracted by the disturbance and gathered from the depths of the forest. The darkness was endless, full of dense cyan points of light like an ocean, and the "click" of their poisonous claws echoed throughout the forest.
Liu Fang frowned. She can fly herself, and she can escape as long as she rises into the sky, and no amount of spiders can trap her, but she can't take so many other team members with her. Going head-to-head with such a large swarm of spiders, sooner or later they will all be consumed here.
"Stream deep, open the space passage to the place where we stopped and rested three hours ago!"
This distance is more than ten kilometers, and it must take at least twenty minutes for Gu Liushen to open the space passage. And the most important thing is that he must concentrate for these twenty minutes and not be disturbed in any way, otherwise the space he opened will be distorted or even torn, which will be an extremely dangerous thing.
In such a terrifying number of spider swarms, Liu Fang didn't dare to guarantee that he would be able to hold on for twenty minutes without letting Gu Liushen be disturbed at all, but now there was no other way but to fight.
"Okay." Gu Liushen never had any objections or doubts about Liu Fang's words, and immediately gathered his spiritual power and prepared to start connecting the spatial passages.
Liu Fang was about to stretch out the defensive layer, but suddenly found that there seemed to be something wrong with the human-faced spider group around him. No longer rushing at them with the same ferocity as before, but all of them stopped at once, restlessly moving their eight long legs in place, as if they had touched something that made them fearful.
The human-faced spiders stopped wielding their claws, and as soon as the clicking sound disappeared, there was an eerie silence around them. The surviving members of the team also involuntarily stopped, inexplicably standing in the encirclement of the human-faced spider, not knowing what was happening.
Immediately after, Liu Fang heard a faint "hissing" sound in this strange dead silence, and it became clearer and clearer, obviously approaching them.
The human-faced spiders looked even more uneasy and frightened, as if they wanted to escape, but none of them dared to move. The eight legs that were still fangs and claws just now are all shrunk, as if a person has been so frightened that he even forgot to dodge when he encountered great danger, and only knew to subconsciously hold his head and shrink into a ball.
"Hiss...... Hiss ......"
The strange sound was getting closer, not very loud, but with a palpitating feeling, and an empty and vague echo
。 It was as if as soon as it sounded, it could fill the entire heaven and earth, and only this one kind of sound could be heard in people's ears.
As the hissing sound became clearer, a snake slowly swam out of a patch of grass in front of it, illuminated by the light of mutated trees.
The snake's body is only two fingers thick, three feet long, and the whole body is full of gorgeous and almost demonic crystal purple, which is highly poisonous at a glance, and hisses and swallows its blood-red forked snake letter. The posture that slowly winds is completely different from that of ordinary snakes, and it is full of noble and arrogant bearing.
Everywhere it swam, the weeds and shrubs that had flourished around it withered and turned to charred blackness. As soon as the venom dripping from the snake hyacinth fell to the ground, a small purple toadstool immediately grew on the ground, and then immediately dried up and shriveled, turning into powder, and it turned out to be born and destroyed. The venom of this snake is so strong that it is simply incredible.
The purple snake swam in front of the nearest human-faced spider, stopped, and raised its neck high. It was only two fingers thick and thin, and it was insignificant in front of the huge human-faced spider like a car, but the human-faced spider seemed to have encountered something extremely terrifying, and it prostrated its body in front of the purple snake, almost completely attached to the ground, trembling slightly, and did not dare to move.
The purple snake raised its head gracefully, and its eyes shining with strange golden light in the darkness slowly scanned the surrounding human-faced spider group. Wherever its head turned, the human-faced spiders trembled and prostrate one after another, and in the blink of an eye a large area fell in front of it.
"Hiss ......"
The purple snake slowly swam one step further, and its momentum was like that of a high king king in the territory, looking down on the ants and mustard beings below.
It seemed to have a coercion on its body that even humans could feel, and everyone was stunned for a while, staring blankly at the arrogant purple snake, with only eight words left in their minds:
As soon as the poison king comes out, ten thousand insects surrender!
The human-faced spiders trembled more and more, and their eight legs shrank tighter and tighter, as if they were waiting with fear for the king in front of them to pronounce them to death. The purple snake slowly glanced at the spider swarm again, but did not continue to make any movements, but moved his head slightly, and the powerful sense of oppression was slightly relaxed.
If it could speak, the line at this time would have been: "I'm in a good mood today, Rao Er wait for a dog's life, get out." ”
Those human-faced spiders were amnesty, and they rolled and crawled, and they retreated like a tide. Thousands of huge spiders in the woods disappeared into the darkness in just a few seconds, leaving not a single one behind.
In a messy clearing, there were only three squads of more than forty people left, looking at the purple snake.
Although the human-faced spiders were all withdrawn, no one dared to breathe a sigh of relief, but their whole body tensed even more, and their hearts beat wildly. This purple snake can make so many human-faced spiders surrender in front of it and flee in fright just by appearing, which can only show one point: it is countless times more terrifying and more dangerous than all these spiders combined!
They had just experienced a fierce battle, and it was when they were tired, even if they were at the pinnacle, they couldn't even solve those spiders, how could they deal with this strange and rebellious king of poison?
However, the purple snake didn't seem to pay attention to them, and swam straight past the group of people, nostrils facing the sky, just glancing at them lightly out of the corner of his eye. Everyone never thought that the gaze of a snake could express such contempt and coldness, and even if it didn't speak, it seemed to be able to hear it throw down a sentence full of disdain: "Stupid human!" ”
Everyone watched in a daze as the purple snake disappeared into the dark woods, unable to speak for a long time. Should they be glad they had escaped, or should they be angry that they were despised by a snake? =""""Gu Snake? Everyone was stunned for a moment, "There are snakes in the Gu?" ”
"There are many types of Gu." Long Zhenzhen's tone was a little eager to explain, "Snake Gu is one of the most difficult to raise among them, most of them belong to dark Gu, which is highly venomous, and its poison is much stronger than that of ordinary snakes. Gu snakes have been cultivated with them for a long time, and they often understand human nature, the more powerful the Gu snake is, the more poisonous it is, and the higher its spirituality, the more it can make other poisons fear and surrender. The purple snake just now is in the snake Gu, and it definitely belongs to the level of the king of Gu, and the dark Gu master who can raise it should be one of the top levels, I'm afraid that only the masters or elders of the two major dark Gu sects can do it! ”
Everyone immediately chased in the direction that the purple snake had left. Living creatures Gu generally can't leave their master's side for too long, as long as they follow the trail of the purple snake, sooner or later they can find the dark Gu master who raised it, and there is hope for the solution of the ghost silkworm Gu.
They didn't dare to follow too closely, for fear that the wild and cold purple snake would find someone following behind it, and one would turn around and bite all the stupid humans to death. However, this snake king was very high-profile, swimming all the way through the forest, and everywhere he went, all the grass and trees withered and scorched, leaving a black trace like a fire, but it was easy to follow.
The king is basically unusual, the purple snake swam through several mountains in this deep mountain and old forest, picking any cliffs, deep ravines, swamps and waterfalls, etc., where it is difficult to walk. Although it was not moving fast, everyone still followed behind with great pain, and suspected that the master had already known that they were following behind, and deliberately made them suffer.
The deeper they walked into the mountains, the taller and denser the trees grew above, and the thick canopy of them obscured the sky and the sun, weaving into countless dense dark green canopies above their heads. It's been a whole night's walk, and the sky outside has long been bright, but there is no light in the forest, and it is still dim.
By noon, the weather became even hotter and hotter, and the air was damp and heavy, as if water could drip out at any time, making people breathless = "r". The leaden-gray clouds in the sky were thickly piled up in clumps, pressed very low, and rolled and tumbled. It was not at all the time at noon, but like a large vat of ink had been poured on the sky, and it was so black that it made my heart palpitate.
"Boom!"
As a bright white lightning bolt cut through the sky, a deafening thunderclap exploded, and a torrential rain poured down in an instant. This side of southern Xinjiang was already hot and humid and rainy, and this torrential rain was menacing, with a ferocious momentum that seemed to pour down the entire sky, and smashed overwhelmingly into the mountains below.
The team was under the dense woods, and at first the dense canopy of trees blocked the rain, and there was no feeling yet. But as the rain gradually seeped down from the treetops, like thousands of long chains strung with white beads densely hanging to the ground, the space under the trees soon rained heavily, and the team members were drenched one by one in an instant.
It is too inconvenient to hold an umbrella in the forest, and it is too luxurious to spend mental power to block the rain with special abilities, so everyone can only walk in raincoats. Liu Fang's jade coat has a hood on the back, this dress does not stick to water and fire, and the water droplets touch the clothes and leave, and it can also be used as a raincoat at this time.
I don't know if the purple snake did it on purpose, but after the rainstorm came, it turned onto a bare mountain. It is probably a forest fire not long ago, and it has not yet recovered, with only a few sparse weeds and shrubs, and no tall and dense trees. Without the treetops above to block the rain, the torrential rain fell directly on them even more violently, as if they had been whipped by countless whips, and it was difficult to stand firmly.
The black clouds rolled overhead, the sky and the earth were white, and the bright lightning pierced the sky like a huge crack in the sky, and the rolling thunder came one after another. The rainwater, which could not penetrate the ground, soon pooled into muddy streams and rushed down the mountain, and the water became more and more turbulent, and the team had to wade through the water again and again.
In the roar of the torrential rain and the roar of thunder, the other sounds were almost inaudible, but Liu Fang was still keenly aware that there seemed to be something wrong with the mountain they were on.
"Wait." She stretched out her hand to stop the group and motioned for them to stop first, while she listened carefully to the movement in the rainstorm. A faint dull rumble came from the depths of the earth from far and near, and the ground seemed to tremble slightly. It was as if something extremely huge was rolling over the mountains and rolling in from afar.
Liu Fang stretched out his hand to block the rain on his face, squinted his eyes, and looked into the distance through a gray and white rain curtain. Between the hazy mountains in the torrential rain, a little higher than their terrain, a large murky gray-yellow wave soon appeared, like thousands of wild horses that had escaped from the wild, with a huge roar, rushing down towards them!
"It's a flash flood!" Liu Fang shouted, "Everyone's little ......"
She didn't finish a sentence before her feet suddenly emptied, and the ground collapsed in an instant. With a series of loud bangs, the side of this bare hillside began to move down and slide down in its entirety!
The top of the mountain, which does not grow tall trees, does not have enough plant roots to maintain water and soil, and under this sudden rainstorm, there is a landslide!
A group of people in the team were all on this sliding hillside, and a large amount of earth and rocks carried rain and plants rushed down the hillside. Liu Fang suddenly rose into the air and reached out to pull Gu Liushen, who was closest to her, but the ground under Gu Liushen's feet collapsed too quickly, and she still didn't have time to catch it, and he was also swept into the sliding earthslide along with the others.
To make matters worse, the torrent rushing from the other direction had reached the bottom of their mountain, and the water was surging and turbid waves were rising into the sky. The mountain that slipped down was in the direction of the torrent!
Liu Fang swooped down, thinking that he could pull out one and count one, but suddenly a strong gust of wind came overhead = "r". Instinctively, she dodged sideways with great speed, dodging a huge rock the size of a house that almost grazed the way down beside her.
In just a moment's delay, the hillside where the team was located had slid into the rolling flood, and the turbulent water swallowed up the earth and rocks that had fallen in an instant, splashing the sky. In this turbulent torrent, the figures of all the people were as small as mustard, and they disappeared without a trace in a flash.
Although most of the people in the group were superpowers, even the level of Liu Fang's double and third-level abilities could not resist the power of this landslide and flooding earth, let alone others. In the entire team, only one Liu Fang, who had the ability to fly, was suspended in mid-air, and none of the remaining forty or so people escaped.
"Zhang Xiaojiang! Lin Hanzhi! Long Zhenzhen! Xu Tiancheng! Leaf yarn! Qu Qian! Cheng Jun! ……”
Liu Fang flew back and forth in the sky in the direction of the torrent, shouting the names of everyone in the group, but the sound of torrential rain and thunder drowned out her voice. Below, I saw a gray-yellow stormy wave, rolling and tumbling among the mountains, and the turbid flood was mixed with all kinds of stones, tree trunks, dead branches, and fallen leaves...... There wasn't a single figure in sight.
Liu Fang gritted his teeth and continued to fly over the flood to look for it. Most of the members of their team have been through battles, experienced dangers, and have a high ability to survive, and she does not believe that a flood and landslide can wipe out the entire team in the blink of an eye.
But she flew for hours, and still did not find a single person, no matter how loudly she shouted, and all that answered her was the roar of the torrential rain and the gushing of the flood. The torrent split into three streams in a canyon and rushed in different directions, and although the water was reduced by the dispersion, it made it even more unclear which direction the team members were rushing into.
The rain came and went as fast as it came, and by the afternoon it had finally begun to slow down, but it still hadn't stopped. The valley was steeply sloping, and the torrent poured downward, gradually receding, and the water became smaller and smaller, and soon became a murky stream that was only slightly wider.
Liu Fang's wind ability maintained flying for a long time, which required a lot of mental power, and after flying non-stop for several hours, he finally couldn't bear it anymore, and had to land on the top of a big tree on the edge of the stream to rest for a while.
At this time, the rain was still falling, but it was much lighter than before, and the vision was a little clearer, and it was no longer just a white patch. Liu Fang stood on the treetops, and just took a breath, when he suddenly saw that there seemed to be a person in the grass next to the stream in the distance.
She wiped the rain from her face and stared. The distance was too far, coupled with the barrier of the rain curtain, I could barely see that the person was wearing a khaki T-shirt and blue jeans, which were Zhang Xiaojiang's clothes, and his body shape was exactly the same as him.
He was lying face up in the grass, motionless, unable to see what was going on, whether he was hurt or not. When Liu Fang saw it, he was surprised and delighted, he didn't care about anything, and flew straight towards him.
“…… Zhang Xiaojiang! ”
Liu Fang had just taken off, and Zhang Xiaojiang's body suddenly moved, indicating that he was still alive. But before she could be happy, she saw that Zhang Xiaojiang was still facing up, but he began to crawl forward in an extremely strange and awkward posture.
Ordinary people climb face down, not on their backs at all, the kind of movement is indescribably weird, like the whole body and limbs are twisting together, but the speed is surprisingly fast. Before Liu Fang flew closer, Zhang Xiaojiang's figure flickered quickly and disappeared into the grass.
"Zhang Xiaojiang!"
Liu Fang shouted Zhang Xiaojiang's name loudly, and in the blink of an eye, he had already swooped to the side of the stream, but Zhang Xiaojiang did not stop at all. She only had time to see a slight shaking in the dense grass, and the sound of rustling flew away, and when she chased after it, she couldn't see Zhang Xiaojiang's figure at all.
There was a clear trail of crawling in the verdant grass, only a short section, and then it was on the waterlogged ground in the forest, where the traces disappeared, and it was impossible to see which direction Zhang Xiaojiang was taking
。 Liu Fang shouted as he searched around the surrounding woods, but he didn't even see a single figure, and Zhang Xiaojiang seemed to disappear into the forest out of thin air in an instant.
Liu Fang stood in place, gasping slightly, only to feel his heart pounding wildly, his whole body was cold, and even his breathing became unsmooth.
What the hell is going on with Zhang Xiaojiang?
Since he can move and crawl, it means that he should be awake, and she is screaming so loudly that it is impossible for him not to hear her, so why not respond to her at all?
Also, why does he crawl in such a weird position? Even if they are injured and can't walk, how can anyone crawl on the ground face up? And it's still that fast!
Liu Fang looked back at the crawling trail in the grass, and suddenly found that something was wrong. The trail was wide, and the grass growing on the ground was completely broken and fell down, clinging to the ground. She compared herself and found that a person of normal size could not climb such a wide trace at all, and with Zhang Xiaojiang's weight, he would not be able to crush those grasses so flat.
However, the figure just now was clearly Zhang Xiaojiang, such a familiar person, Liu Fang could not be mistaken.
Could it be, what strange Gu trick did he fall into, that's why he became like this?
But I haven't heard Long Zhenzhen say that there are any Gu techniques that can increase the volume and weight of people, and when she just looked down from the sky, Zhang Xiaojiang's body shape was clearly completely normal.
In the deep mountains of Miaojiang, strange things have happened far beyond Liu Fang's imagination. She took a few deep breaths and forced herself to suppress the anxiety, panic and uneasiness in her heart, and try to stabilize her mind. Now that she has been separated from the rest of her teammates and is left alone, it is even more important to maintain absolute calm.
The rain was already much lighter than before, and only a drizzle remained. The sky was still very overcast, and although it was only past four o'clock, it was already dark and hazy all around.
Zhang Xiaojiang disappeared into the forest inexplicably, and there was no way to tell which direction he was going, and looking for him aimlessly in the vast mountains was tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack. No matter how worried and anxious Liu Fang was, he could only continue to walk downstream of the stream, trying to see if he could find his luck and find the rest of the team. If you are lucky, find Lin Hanzhi first, and rely on his lifeform perception ability, it is easy to find the team members who are still alive.
Until the sky was about to darken, Liu Fang still didn't even meet anyone, and he didn't know how far they were washed away by the torrent. She flew up to the sky again and again to look down, and all she saw was a dark green mountain forest in the drizzle, with clouds and mist, spreading out endlessly into the distance, and finally disappeared at the end of the gray world.
Flying over several mountains, when Liu Fang rose into the air again, he finally barely saw that in a slightly sparse place with trees, a few corners of broken eaves were faintly exposed, and it seemed that someone was underneath.
Liu Fang swooped down, and sure enough, there was a small village that was almost buried by grass and trees. There are about twenty or thirty households, and the style of the building is a stilted wooden building, with the characteristics of the Miao people, which should be the Miao village that Long Zhenzhen said.
However, this Miao village seems to have been abandoned for a long time. It was empty, and the open space between the wooden buildings and on the roofs were covered with lush vegetation. The vines climbed densely on the dilapidated wooden buildings, showing their teeth and claws, as if covering them with a dark green net, covering the wooden buildings almost out of sight.
In this kind of deep mountain forest, there are many more dangers at night than during the day, because many mutated animals only come out at night. On the first night when the team arrived in Miaojiang, they encountered those insects in the mist, and on the second night, they encountered human-faced spiders and purple Gu snakes. This third night is only Liu Fanggu Wang Sifan Wang Sifan alone, even if she has a big heart and high ability, she can't go out in the forest at night, it is better to spend the night in this Miao Village, and continue to search tomorrow at dawn.
Found a relatively intact wooden building in Miao Village, Liu Fang used his water ability to evaporate the wet water all over the ground, made a dry place, lit a bonfire, and hastily ate a little something.
But even in this wooden building inhabited by humans, she didn't feel that she could add much security, except that the wooden building could keep out the rain, and it was even worse than the forest
。 Because this abandoned and dilapidated deserted village in the deep mountains is too gloomy, there is a little bit of wind and grass, and it sounds particularly terrifying in the darkness and rain, so that she can't help but think of the scene in the horror film "The Old Corpse of the Mountain Village" series in her mind, and she always feels that when she turns around, she can see a pale human hand in the darkness reaching towards her out of thin air.
Liu Fang didn't sleep last night, and she flew for a long time today, and her mental power was too much, no matter whether she was in the mood to sleep now, she had to rest well at night and nourish her spirit for tomorrow.
Originally, she wanted to hide in the space to sleep, it was safe and comfortable, and no demons and monsters could hurt her. But on second thought, there was a bonfire lit here, and if any surviving team member followed the fire and didn't see where she was, they would have to miss it. After thinking about it, she could only sleep outside, called out the dumplings in the space, and kept vigil for her.
"Danzi, help me watch for a few hours, I'll sleep, and if there's any danger around, wake me up immediately, you know?"
As soon as the dumplings came out of the space, they just saw the dark and eerie dilapidated wooden buildings around them, and the fluffy white hair on their bodies exploded from bottom to top. trembling with his small body, his teeth chattering, but he still stiffly stretched out a heroic and fearless posture, jumped in front of Liu Fang, and squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "Lord...... Rest assured! The Lun family will definitely protect the main silver! ”
Before it could finish speaking, a wooden beam on the roof with holes in the back, which had been soaked and rotted by the rain, suddenly snapped and broke and smashed into the ground with a loud thud. Tuanzi's whole body shook suddenly, he screamed, threw himself into Liu Fang's arms, hugged her and refused to come out, and burst into tears: "...... Main Silver! There are monsters! ”
Liu Fang: "......"
After the group eased up and repeatedly promised that it would be brave, strong and conscientious, although Liu Fang was full of doubts about it, he still reluctantly went to sleep. In this high-risk environment, her sleep can become very light, and she will wake up immediately at the slightest movement. Even if the dumplings are unreliable, when they encounter something terrible, they will always scream.
Now there is no need to sleep on any bedding, Liu Fang slept directly against the wall of the wooden building, feeling that he only squinted in a daze for a short while, and was woken up by the dumplings.
"Lord Yin......" Although the group communicated with Liu Fang with spiritual power, they still subconsciously leaned into her ear and lowered their voices to a very low level, "...... The Lun family saw a man in the woods outside, a bit like your brother, but he looked very ...... It's ......" It seems to be entangled for a long time, not knowing how to express it.
“…… Zhang Xiaojiang? Liu Fang suddenly came to his senses, jumped up suddenly, and suddenly came up with the strange scene of Zhang Xiaojiang crawling face up in the grass before.
Last time, Zhang Xiaojiang disappeared in the grass for a while, and she couldn't catch up, this time she must stop him anyway and find out what happened to him!
Liu Fang rushed out of the front door of the wooden building without thinking, the ball was on her shoulder, and the little paw pointed to the right side of the wooden building, and said in a low voice: "...... Over there! ”
The rain outside had stopped, and there were still large clouds piling up in the sky, but they were no longer as invisible as they had been when it rained. Relying on this extremely faint light, Liu Fang saw from afar that there was really a vague figure in the woods in the distance. Still wearing a khaki T-shirt and blue jeans, with his face facing her, he seemed to be looking at her, it was Zhang Xiaojiang.
The distance was too far and the light was too dim, Liu Fang couldn't see what kind of expression Zhang Xiaojiang was now, and could only see that his limbs and body were showing a slightly distorted posture. The most bizarre thing was that he was not standing on the ground, but with his back on the trunk of a huge tree, two or three meters above the ground.
The trunk of that towering tree is as thick as five or six people hugging each other, Zhang Xiaojiang is obviously facing Liu Fang's side, his hands and feet are not holding the trunk, but he can stick to it so high from the ground, it can't be that he has a suction cup on his back?
Moreover, he should have also seen Liu Fangcai, why didn't he even react at all? Doesn't he have a consciousness of his own now?
Immediately, Zhang Xiaojiang reacted
。 Still in that weirdly twisted posture, his body and limbs squirming together, his back against the trunk of the tree, and he quickly climbed down from the tree. When he reached the ground, he was still on his back, and his crawling speed became faster, and in a blink of an eye, he disappeared into the bushes next to him.
Liu Fang was about to rush over desperately as soon as he saw Zhang Xiaojiang, but now he involuntarily froze in place, unable to take a step, and watched him disappear into the dark woods again. An inexplicable chill rose up her spine, spreading to her limbs, her throat was so dry that she couldn't even make a sound, and her whole body was chilling for a while.
There seemed to be a feeling in her subconscious that told her that the weird figure was not the real Zhang Xiaojiang, not her younger brother!
However, "it" clearly has the same body shape and dress as Zhang Xiaojiang, what is going on?
If "it" is not Zhang Xiaojiang, then where is the real Zhang Xiaojiang now? How did "it" have the appearance of Zhang Xiaojiang?
If it is said that a person with the same ability as Wang Sifan has become Zhang Xiaojiang, why would he crawl around in the grass and on the trunk of a tree like this, and still use such a strange posture?
Or, he is really Zhang Xiaojiang himself, but how did Zhang Xiaojiang become like that? …… What the hell has become of him?
Liu Fang couldn't imagine what happened to Zhang Xiaojiang. If it were another strange figure, she probably wouldn't be so afraid, but the person she knew most and loved one was now a ghostly figure in the dark barren mountains, which made her feel extremely creepy.
Just as she was standing in place and feeling chills all over her body, there was a sudden slight sound of grass and trees rubbing behind her.
"Booming ......"
Liu Fang turned around suddenly, and suddenly saw a figure on the outer wall of a dilapidated wooden building in the distance, and once again saw a figure stuck to the wall a few meters above the ground. This time the figure was not Zhang Xiaojiang, but a young woman, facing the wall with her back to Liu Fang, but maintaining a natural standing posture, and I don't know how it was pasted to the wall.
Liu Fang didn't know this female figure, but he always felt an inexplicable familiarity, like he had seen it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while. Until the sound of a dango trembling with fear came from his shoulder, his teeth chattered, and a small paw trembled and pointed at the figure.
"Lord...... Lord Silver, how could you be there......"
Liu Fang took a closer look at the female figure, and suddenly a burst of cool air rushed from his feet to the top of his head, and the cold hairs on his whole body stood up.
The figure was wearing the same white jade clothes as her, with the same gray-black jeans underneath her, and the same half-length black hair as her......
…… That's her own back!
The goosebumps on Liu Fang's body were layer after layer, one after another, and his back was full of cold sweat. In the dark middle of the night, in this barren and dilapidated gloomy village, watching the back of a "self" stick to the wall a few meters above the ground, there is nothing more weird and terrifying.
If she had guessed that the strange shadow might be Zhang Xiaojiang himself, then now even her own back has appeared, which means that the one just now is not Zhang Xiaojiang.
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