Volume 2 The Stone Man of the Western Regions The Stone Man of the Western Regions Chapter Seventy-Eight: The King of the Worms
When the fat man touched the yellow bamboo-like tentacles with the hooves of a black donkey, clumps of worms emerged from the softball-sized holes!
Compared to the long tentacles, these worms are pitifully small, each one is only as long as an adult's finger, but the whiskers on their bodies are very long!
After seeing these clumps of worms coming out, my uncomfortable feeling exploded to the extreme!
This insect is called "wall skewers" in the Northeast, and they crawl very fast! I vividly remember the feeling of being crawled on my body, it was my childhood experience in the "little black house"! Compared to spiders, the beard is softer, and this creature likes to burrow into holes in the human body.
The shadows of my childhood made me terrified of this bug, and I could retreat faster than I had when I first saw the longbeard pop out of the hole.
It didn't stop until they retreated to the side of Xiaoqian and Yiyi, because the light in the ancient building was relatively poor, and the speed at which those worms crawled out was very fast. Judging from the position of Yiyi and Xiaoqian, you can't see those worms crawling out at all.
Yiyi didn't know what had just happened, so she raised her pistol and aimed at the hole in the coffin for a long time, then looked at me suspiciously and asked, "Hair ...... What happened? ”
Before I could answer, the fat man who came over said, "Yiyi, let me tell you a secret, this kid is actually afraid of worms!" If he doesn't listen to you in the future, you will scare him with worms! ”
The fat man was saying, two worms crawled over, I subconsciously went to dodge, but I didn't dodge. It is estimated that these insects have not seen humans for decades or even hundreds of years, and they were suddenly frightened by the light of our flashlight, and they were a little panicked, and climbed directly down my shoes on my body!
The reason why I am afraid of this insect is because when I was a child, I was locked in a small dark room by my father, and I used to be drilled into my ears by this kind of worm. If it hadn't been taken out by my father in time, I think I would have been deaf by now!
Although after so many years, my fear has not weakened at all, and I began to tremble a little nervously when I was suddenly crawled on my body!
Thanks to Xiao Qian, who was standing next to me, she reached out and knocked out the two worms, and I was able to be freed. When I cast a grateful eye on Xiaoqian, Yiyi's timid voice sounded in my ears: "I...... I'm afraid of this stuff too! ”
Disrupted by the sudden rush of worms, I didn't even see what was in the hole after the fat man touched the long row of whiskers.
Suppressing his nervousness, he asked the fat man, "What was in it just now, did you see it clearly?" ”
When I looked at the fat man again, I found that he had an extra crowbar and a sapper shovel in his hand, and I should have paid all my attention to the two worms just now, and I didn't notice the fat man's every move.
The fat man took these two tools, walked towards the coffin, and said to me: "Xiao Su, if nothing else, you should be able to see a good thing in a while!" ”
Grasshoppers on the ground were crawling around the small coffins, and there were many holes the size of softballs digging out. When the fat man approached the coffin, he stepped on the worms that were scurrying around, making a scalp-numbing crunch!
I suddenly knew what the fat man was going to do! He's going to open the lid of the coffin!
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Thinking of this, I yelled at the fat man, "You're crazy! Fatso! This coffin can't be opened! ”
The fat man said without looking back: "Comrade Xiao Su, who is afraid of insects, we must have the spirit of exploration, without this spirit, mankind will not progress, so we must forge ahead!" ”
As he spoke, he began to thrust a crowbar into the coffin, and a thud that made my heart beat faster rang in my ears.
I tried to stop him, but there were so many worms on the ground that I couldn't move my legs forward!
I don't know what the fat man saw just now when I was backing away, or if there was some poison in those long broken beards that caused the fat man to act now.
I also wanted to stop the fat man's movements with my voice again, because I was afraid that after the lid of the coffin was opened, something terrible would come out of it, and we would not be able to resist it.
Before he could shout, he was stopped by Yiyi.
"Su Mo, there shouldn't be anything dangerous in the coffin, otherwise Senior Brother Chief wouldn't be speaking in this tone at all!"
As soon as her words fell, the fat man had already completely opened the lid of the coffin!
Actually, what he opened could not be called a lid, but rather the side planks of the coffin.
didn't stop the fat man's movements, I had to hold the glutinous rice tightly, ready to wait for the "corpse insect donor" in the coffin to come out, so I could sprinkle it!
But when the side plank was pried open by the fat man, the situation I expected that something would come out did not happen! Except for a clump of small worms scurrying out, the location of the staircase is quiet!
Looking at the beam of the flashlight, I gasped! I found that inside the coffin opened by the fat man, there was a big worm lying horizontally!
This is the largest worm I've ever seen in my life, and from my vantage point, it's almost a meter long! Covered with yellow bamboo-like whiskers! The whiskers we first saw popping out of a softball-sized borehole were from this worm!
My heart almost jumped out of the coffin as this giant worm emerged!
Seeing the fat man waving at us, I reacted, it turned out that the worm spirit lying in the coffin was a worm corpse!
When we got closer, we heard the fat man boasting, "It's not me bragging to you!" Don't look at my Lao Zhang is the "gold" master of the northern faction, but after so many years of going south and north, heaven and earth, the four methods of "looking, smelling, asking, and cutting" of the tomb robbers in the southern faction have been thoroughly touched by us! The old man of the master looked down on the Tufu of the Southern School, but we are not, no, the hope and smell of the Southern School just now made it beautiful? As soon as I looked at it, I didn't know that this thing was dead, and it was impossible to deceive the corpse, and it was impossible to bite people! ”
I said in my heart, this braggadocio doesn't have to be taxed, I don't know who just told me that this is a "corpse insect donor", which hurt my imagination for a while! It turned out that there were only worms, no corpses!
Every part of the corpse of this big worm was very clear under the trance of the flashlight. The grasshopper in my impression belongs to a type of centipede and is an arthropod. It is also smaller than a centipede, with a standard tentacle-like foot of fifteen pairs.
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When my father removed the remains of worms from my ears when I was a child, he told me that this centipede is actually a beneficial insect. In the shady areas of the field, it will prey on small insects on vegetarian vegetables, which is good for farming. Although they look scary and have the habit of living in damp places, they are usually very timid, and as long as you don't take the initiative to attack them, they will definitely bypass you first!
And the corpse of the worm in front of him is completely a mutated hundred-legged worm. I roughly counted its tentacles, and there were more than thirty pairs of tentacles, and each pair of tentacles was frighteningly long! Compared with the lobster, it is not inferior! On top of that, it's covered in fluff!
Yiyi should have been afraid of worms, so she only hid behind me, lowered her head, and didn't dare to look! When she saw the corpse of the worm clearly, she let out a questioning voice: "Huh? Senior brother, didn't you just say that this is a "corpse insect community"? This...... It should be a worm king! ”
The fat man was thick-skinned, and he didn't explain his misjudgment just now, so he deliberately diverted the topic and said to us: "This ...... Yiyi makes sense, this is a worm king! And it's also a female worm king, otherwise how could there be so many little worms crawling out from here! ”
From the time the fat man drills the hole to the time the coffin lid is opened, the time we spend before and after is actually very short. The determination of the corpse of the worm made my hanging heart calm down a little.
The fat man reached out to pull the corpse out, and I pointed to the broken whisker on the ground and said to him, "This thing is no match for a human corpse." Human corpses have bones, flesh and blood, and will turn into dry bones after thousands of years, and this kind of insect has been rotten after so many years, if you want to pull it out, it is estimated that you can only pull out a pile of insect ashes! ”
The fat man's hand had already stretched out, and as soon as he heard me say it, he immediately stopped in mid-air, turned it back, held his chin and nodded:
"Well, you're right! This thing can only be seen from a distance, not blasphemed! Xiao Su grows up, and my old Zhang is ashamed of himself! ”
I said, "Shut up!" He replied to me, yes!
Yiyi saw that the two of us were talking endlessly, and immediately stopped us from continuing, let us save some energy, analyze and analyze the current situation, how to continue!
After listening to Yiyi's words, I looked at the fat man, and the fat man also looked at me, and then tacitly dragged down the two coffins from the stacked coffins and placed them side by side.
I quickly stepped back, and the fat man rushed forward and used the crowbar in his hand to pry open the two coffins we had dragged down! This time the part he pried open was the coffin lid in the real sense!
Sure enough, as the fat man and I expected, the contents of these two coffins were the same as the coffin that was opened by the fat man from the side, which was the corpse of the big worm!
We then opened five more coffins, and the result was the same, full of giant worm corpses!
In the whole room, the number of coffins of the same size is not a hundred but eighty! We didn't open all the coffins, but this kind of scientific random selection and uncovering is enough to show that this room full of wooden coffins should be full of such snakey corpses!
This discovery made all of us fall silent, the fat man touched his chin, pouted his teeth and said: "It seems that this is not a "geocentric country", this should be a worm country!" ”
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