Chapter 4: Alien Beasts
Li Bing asked, "Is that a type of locust?"
Lao Wu said: "It is its distant relative, and it has evolved to such an extent, it is really unthinkable." He squatted on the ground, looked at the head of the blood cockroach, picked it open with a small stick, looked at the corpse again, and said, "It must have gotten in through its trouser legs, then into its buttocks, and then into its guts, and then out of its mouth."
Li Bing was nauseous for a while, and almost threw up, he said: "Hurry back, it's so terrifying, I'll die for a while!"
Lao Wu ignored him and said to everyone, "Tie the cuffs of your trouser legs tightly."
A group of people walked along the dark river, Li Bing wanted to drill back from the thief hole, but was pulled down by Yu Xiaolong, he said, "You still dare to go back?" Do you know how many blood bugs are hidden in the thief cave? Do you want to be enema too? ”
Li Bing listened to the chrysanthemum tightly, and said, "Isn't it death to keep going?"
Yu Xiaolong smiled and said, "Follow me, I will protect you." slapped on his buttocks, and Li Bing ran towards Lao Wu with a loud sound.
This is a natural underground cave, and there are yellow things scattered around the river, emitting a golden light.
Li Bing thought: It can't be gold, they all say that the big waves wash the sand, and maybe there is gold in this river. Thinking about whether the terrible blood cockroach would lurk at the bottom of the river, my heart beat for a while, and finally I walked over boldly and shone it with a miner's lamp, but it was a golden shell.
He picked it up carefully, the shell slowly opened, poked out a slimy head, glanced at Li Bing, and slowly retracted it.
Li Bing ran to Yu Xiaolong and said, "Such a strange shell, I thought it was gold."
Yu Xiaolong glanced at it and said, "We're here to rob the tomb, not to pick up shells, throw them away." ”
Li Bing snorted, and the shell bounced twice on the surface of the water and sank to the bottom of the lake.
There seemed to be a ball on the river beach in the distance that also flashed with golden light, Li Bing wanted to go over and take a look, but he didn't dare to approach, he shone it from a distance with a flashlight, and shouted in fright: "There are skeletons!"
Everyone hurriedly stepped forward to check, the skeleton was attached to half of the skeleton, there were still strands of hair stuck to the top of the head, a golden shell crawled out of the eye hole, and there were many bones scattered around it, and some carrion and black clothes were stuck to it.
Lao Wu said: "It seems that it has been eaten up, not a blood cockroach, there must be other creatures in the river." ”
He turned his head and said sharply to Li Bing: "Don't get close to the river bank again!" ”
Li Bing had to whisper yes.
Everyone continued to walk against the rock wall, and a green tent appeared in front of them, Yu Xiaolong swept around with a flashlight, got into it, and came out with two barrels of gasoline, a backpack and a flying claw rope, and there were nothing important in the backpack, just some compressed biscuits, canned food, and medical supplies.
Lao Wu said: "It must have been left by those people just now, bring all the supplies, and pay more attention to the front." ”
Li Bing thought to himself: What are you doing with canned food? Can't you stay here for long? Lao Wu is really dying! But there is no way at present, so I have to follow Yu Xiaolong, so as not to fall again.
Many green spots of light appeared on the roof of the cave, and they glowed faintly and brightly.
Li Bing asked Yu Xiaolong, what are those?
Yu Xiaolong said, "Maybe it's a cave bat."
A person raised a flashlight to shine upward, and Lao Wu hurriedly covered the flashlight and scolded: "Looking for death, did you let you shine?" These things don't see the light all year round, beware of coming down and biting your throat. ”
After walking for a while, there is no road in front of you, you must cross the dark river, go to the other side of the river, but no one dares to go into the water at this time, although the river is only ten meters wide, but the black and dark bottomless.
There were strange rocks overhead, and some unknown insects crawling under their feet. Lao Wu tried to tie a rope to a hanging stone tip and swing over, but he didn't succeed.
There was a black thing floating down upstream, Li Bing thought it was a piece of rotten wood, Lao Wu stared at it for a while, Li Bing thought: He doesn't want to climb on the wood to cross the river, isn't this looking for death?
Lao Wu said to the side: "Hook the corpse over." "Another corpse! Someone shook his claws to hook the body to the shore and dragged it for a while before putting it down.
The corpse was very complete, with a dark and blue complexion, thick lips, and a swollen abdomen.
Lao Wu said to himself: "It looks like an Indian, it seems that more than one group of people have been here." The hand wanted to press the belly, but it stopped, and the stomach heaved and rose, like a person breathing.
Li Bing wanted to say, "Trick the corpse!" But he didn't dare to say it.
Lao Wu stared at the belly, the belly was bulging bigger and bigger, as if it was about to burst, he suddenly said: "Quick, pour gasoline!"
A barrel of oil was immediately poured up, and at the moment when the stomach was about to burst, Lao Wu struck a match and threw it down, and the flames rushed up, with a crackling burning sound, and in the flames, there seemed to be countless small blood cockroaches struggling to crawl out of their stomachs, twisting and dying.
The flames rose to a height of several meters, the green glow on the roof of the cave flickered twice, and with a sharp chirp, something the size of an eagle swooped down.
Seeing that it was about to fly to Li Bing's body, Yu Xiaolong waved the shovel and slapped it, and the monster quickly turned sideways and plunged into the water, and there was a wave on the surface of the water, and it took off again and flew into the distance.
Li Bing said: "Look at that look, it's not a bat!" ”
Yu Xiaolong said: "It seems to be, it seems to be a fish!"
Lao Wu gasped, raised his eyes and saw that the little green light on the top of the cave was all extinguished, and the flames on the corpse were gradually extinguished.
Lao Wu shouted: "Quick, pour out all the gasoline and form a ring of fire!" It's not a bat or a fish, it's a fish! ”
Li Bing said: "The Yingyu in the Classic of Mountains and Seas?"
As he spoke, there was a storm-like flapping of wings, and the overwhelming number of fish flew over from all directions. Everyone waved the guy in their hands and danced wildly. Li Bing didn't have a weapon, he picked up a bucket of gasoline and poured it on the ground, a fish had already pounced down and bit his back, he grabbed the tail of the fish with his backhand, pulled it hard, and even the belt meat was torn off
Li Bing shouted in pain: "I'm your mother!" Pressed the fish to the ground and beat it with his hand, Yu Xiaolong inserted a knife into it, pulled it away from the abdomen, and the fish fluttered a few times and then didn't move. Someone had already lit a fire, and in an instant a ring of fire surrounded everyone in the middle. The other fish did not dare to approach, and only circled overhead.
Li Bing observed carefully, the body of the fish was gray-brown, the fins at the gills stretched out half a meter long, forming a pair of wings, and the fins on the tail evolved into two claws. The head of the fish shows sharp teeth, which is very terrifying.
He stepped on it twice more, kicked the fish into the fire, and said, "Let you bite me, roast you first!"
Yu Xiaolong said: "Look at your weakness, you can't help it, it's so fierce."
Li Bing endured the pain and said, "The rabbit is in a hurry and bites." Stop the bleeding and bandage me. ”
Yu Xiaolong said: "Do you still need to bandage this?" A little flesh wound. ”
Li Bing said: "The flesh wound is also an injury."
Yu Xiaolong took a sip of wine, sprayed it on the wound, and put a few more band-aids.
Li Bing said, "Can this work?"
Yu Xiaolong said: "Don't worry, you can't die."
Li Bing scolded: "Fuck, of course I can't die, why don't you curse me?"
Lao Wu said: "When is it, can you still talk about it?"
I saw that the fish above my head were gathering more and more, and the black pressure was overwhelming, and the gasoline was about to burn out. Lao Wu swept around with a flashlight and found a crack in the gable not far away. He shouted, "If you go on like this, you will die!" Undress with a shovel and a hoe! ”
Everyone still didn't understand why, Lao Wu had already taken off his coat, tied it to the head of a shovel, poured gasoline, and lit it into a torch. The others did the same, and the eight of them were divided into two groups, the inner four huddled together, and the outer four raised torches and waved them, and moved towards the crack together.
The fish never dared to come closer, and the group finally retreated into the crack and lit the last fire at the entrance. They all turned sideways and walked deeper into the crack. This fault zone is sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, and the narrow place cannot be passed, so someone takes a hoe and chisels the stone.
There were many small streams of water cascading down the rock face, and some of the smooth stone surfaces seemed to have moss.
Lao Wu asked Li Bing: "Have you studied those Yingyu just now?"
Li Bing said: "I have seen the mountains and seas, and the West Mountains have carried them, and the mountains and mountains are full of fish, and the sound is like mandarin ducks, and the water is big when I see it." I thought it was a myth and legend, but it really existed! ”
Lao Wu said: "I don't understand classical Chinese, but I know that this kind of fish indicates a flood, recently the Qinling Mountains have been raining heavily, there must have been no water in the river here before, and the recent rainstorm has formed a river, so that Indian will be washed down by the water, do you know what the shell you just picked up is called??"
Li Bing said, "Golden Bei."
Lao Wu said: "That's right, this kind of shell is called yellow shell, blood beetles feed on yellow shells, and Yingyu eats blood beetles." The bloodworm adheres to the damp rock wall when the water is not rising, and the yellow shellfish grows in the silt. ”
Li Bing looked around at the rock wall, and sure enough, there was a blood cockroach crawling again, and he said, "Hurry up, the wall is full of that thing."
These blood cockroaches seemed to smell the breath of a human being, converging from all directions. Everyone quickened their pace, and there were blood cockroaches falling from the top of their heads to the ground, and the road ahead was gradually opening up, Li Bing ran up with his head stuffy, and he felt that one fell on his head, sticky and greasy, and he wanted to drill into his clothes, so he pulled it out and pulled it in two.
There was another scream behind him, and when Li Bing turned around, several blood cockroaches had already fallen through his collar, and the man knelt on the ground in pain, and after a short time, he had fallen to the ground unconscious.
Li Bing's heart tightened, and he ran desperately, he grabbed the collar with one hand, and kept playing with the other, and finally saw the exit, he rushed out with all his might, and he didn't know how many blood cockroaches he had stepped on under his feet.
He finally ran out, almost collapsed on the ground. After brushing twice, he felt a chill on his back, Yu Xiaolong had already collected the knife, and the two blood cockroaches fell down in four sections. His clothes were not scratched at all.
At this time, there were only six people left, and Li Bing glanced into the crack again, and the two people inside were already crawling with blood, like two grave bags made of blood. He pointed to the blood bag and was speechless in horror, when Lao Wu came over and patted him on the shoulder.