Chapter 116: Searching for the Spider (I)
Kubo Amamichi looked at the spider on the bayonet and compared it to the eye socket.
Kyoji Miyake said, "How did such a big spider get into a person's eye? ”
Tang Qianlin explained: "The hatching method of the eight-eyed puppet spider is different from other spiders, the general spider will produce an egg bag after laying eggs, waiting to hatch, while the eight-eyed puppet spider will also lay eggs, but the egg bag laid will only hatch one larva, this larva carries the egg bag that is really waiting to hatch, and then looks for the host, through the swallowing of the host's eyes and enters its brain. ”
Kyoji Miyake was a little disgusted to hear and thought it was incredible, but Kubo Tendo was very interested.
Kubo Tendo hurriedly asked, "And then?" Entering the body through the mouth, esophagus or organs? ”
Tang Qianlin pointed to the head and said: "The larvae will lay eggs for the second time on the head of the host, and then enter the chest cavity through the esophagus, eat the heart, and molt there, after this series of transformations, the larva will become a real female spider of the eight-eyed puppet spider, and after those eggs in the brain hatch and form, they will become male spiders, and then, the male spiders will begin to forage around, looking for food at the same time, they are also looking for a new host, in preparation for raising the next generation." ”
Kyoji Miyake gasped when he heard this: "So, there are at least three female spiders of the eight-eyed puppet spider and an unknown number of male spiders active in Gongei Village now?" ”
Tang Qianlin pointed to the head of the corpse: "Douse some gasoline or alcohol on the head, then split it to see if there are any remaining larvae inside, if so, immediately set it on fire." ”
Kubo Tendo beckoned the soldiers to do so, and the two soldiers took turns splitting the skull with their axes, and as soon as they split it, a number of spider larvae fell out of it.
Tang Qianlin immediately said: "Burn!" ”
Kubo Tendo immediately used the prepared torches to get up and burn the larvae that had fallen in the alcohol, and then brought the other two corpses to the courtyard to be concocted in the same way.
When everything was ready, Kubo Tendo wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked, "Will these spiders grow fast?" ”
Tang Qianlin said: "The growth rate of female spiders is very slow, but male spiders are very fast, as long as there is enough food, they can grow very huge in just a few days. ”
Kyoji Miyake worried: "The League of Nations press corps will come tomorrow afternoon, and it will be bad if something happens at that time." ”
Tang Qianlin said: "It will take a few days for the male spiders to grow, and the most troublesome thing now is the three female spiders that ran away, no matter what, you have to find a way to completely seal the tunnel in the Hexagonal Pavilion first, otherwise there will be big trouble." ”
Kubo asked, "You mean, what kind of eight-eyed puppet spiders did they run out of there?" ”
Kyoji Miyake also asked, "From underground?" ”
Tang Qianlin said: "Yes, underground." The underground world has a lot of things that the above-ground world doesn't have, and Chonghu is also very clear about this. ”
Tang Qianlin deliberately mentioned the heavy tiger, only to see Kubo Tiandao involuntarily look at Kyoji Miyake.
Kyoji Miyake diverted the subject: "Then how do you find this kind of thing?" ”
"These creatures will build nests in places where there is plenty of food, and there are so many people in Gongrong Village, people are their food, and they will not leave easily unless the people here are eaten up." Tang Qianlin looked at the Hexagonal Pavilion in the distance, "The male spider will start to feed, so as long as you find the male spider, you can find the female spider along the vine, and the female spider will look for a host to lurk in its body during the time it grows." ”
Kyoji Miyake asked, "What does it mean to lurk inside it?" ”
Tang Qianlin said: "In other words, there are now three people in Gongrong Village who have been occupied by female spiders, but they themselves don't know about it. ”
Kubo Tendo wondered: "How can such a big spider burrow into the body, how can you not know it?" ”
Tang Qianlin explained: "After the female spider has undergone molting, this metamorphosis will make it return to its original larval state, and it must go through this stage before it can really mature, but at this stage the female spider will become very fragile, so it must parasitize in the human body, or other animals, by controlling the host to eat a large number of food, to complete its own growth process." ”
Oops. Kyoji Miyake thought of the corpses of the rebels he had ordered to throw into the tunnels, and it was clear that the corpses of those rebels were the best food for the Eight-Eyed Puppet Spider.
Thinking of this, Kyoji Miyake subconsciously asked: "Does this kind of spider eat dead or alive?" ”
Tang Qianlin nodded: "Yes." ”
Kyoji Miyake's eyes were fixed on the Rokkakute, but he said, "Thank you, Mr. Tang, let us handle it next, Kubo, find someone to escort Mr. Tang back to the hotel." ”
Tang Qianlin faced the soldiers who stepped forward, looked at Kyoji Miyake and said, "Although you are outnumbered, you may not be able to deal with this creature. ”
Kyoji Miyake just said, "I'll ask you if you have any questions, so please rest in peace." ”
Tang Qianlin saw that Kyoji Miyake was so persistent, so he had to leave under the escort of the soldiers.
After Tang Qianlin left the An family's mansion, Kyoji Miyake immediately ordered: "Dispatch a team from Kenji Ishihara's army and send them into the tunnel to check." ”
Kubo Tendo said, "General, this matter is very troublesome, and I am afraid that these ordinary soldiers alone will not be able to solve it. ”
"Of course I know that." Kyoji Miyake walked to the Rokagonal Pavilion, stood at the door and said, "You can't just send the Mikawa team down at the beginning, we don't even know the specific situation below." ”
While Kubo Tendo was gathering the team, Tang Qianlin returned to the hotel and told the others about the eight-eyed puppet spider.
After listening to this, Li Yunfan said: "Is that spider really that terrifying? ”
Tang Qianlin said: "That's right, in ancient times, this creature was regarded as a monster, and the way of attack was based on the village, and if a village was eaten by them, they would find the next village." ”
An Ran asked, "Then how to deal with it?" ”
Tang Qianlin said: "The growth cycle of this spider is almost a month, that is, it is necessary to kill all the spiders within a month, but the key is the female spider, as long as the female spider dies, the male spider is easy to deal with, the female spider does not die, after growing and mature, it will lay more eggs, once the nest is not found, the number of eight-eyed puppet spiders will increase exponentially." ”
Qian Sinian listened from the sidelines and said, "The Japanese army far outnumbered the spiders, and there was an elite Mikawa team under Kyoji Miyake, so it shouldn't be a problem to deal with these creatures, right?" ”
Tang Qianlin said: "Under the powerful firepower, these spiders are indeed vulnerable, but the key is, how to find the three female spiders that have been lurking in the human body, you can't kill all the people here, right?" ”
Li Yunfan worried: "I'm afraid the Japanese army will do that, because they originally wanted to kill people after the League of Nations press corps left." ”
Ni Xiaowan looked out the window: "But now that we are being watched by the Japanese army, we can't do anything?" ”
Tang Qianlin looked at Ye Da: "What about your opinion?" ”
Ye Dadao: "My opinion, is to take advantage of the League of Nations press corps to come, ask them to take all the people here, as long as the matter is exposed, the Japanese army will not dare to do anything to the people here, the Japanese army will not dare to kill all the press corps of the League of Nations, right?" Isn't that tantamount to declaring war on other countries? ”
Tang Qianlin said: "This is indeed a good idea, but I still have to think of other plans." ”
An Ran looked at Tang Qianlin: "If those spiders really came out of the Hexagonal Pavilion, I wondered, how did they pass through that bronze statue?" ”
Ni Xiaowan said: "Perhaps, you have to unlock the mechanism when you go in, but you don't need it when you come out?" ”
An Ran worried: "If this is really the case, what if something escapes from that place?" ”
Tang Qianlin also looked worried: "I don't know, you also heard what Hu Shuntang said when you were on the bridge?" Even he couldn't figure out how that space came into being, and how could we answer that question? ”
A room full of people fell silent, and the experience made it clear to them all that their knowledge of the world was only scratching the surface. Coupled with Hu Shuntang's explanation, Tang Qianlin's concept for decades has also been shaken.
In the Anjia mansion, Kubo Tendo has gathered a force of Kenji Ishihara, a total of ten people, all of whom are composed of the captains of each team, which can barely be regarded as elite.
It is a pity that the combat effectiveness of the Second Division of the Kwantung Army was not too strong, and it was barely a second-line unit, and the quality of individual soldiers was far inferior to the first-line combat units of the Kwantung Army, not to mention that compared with the Mikawa team.
"You ten people are improvised advance teams!" Kyoji Miyake spoke, then pointed to the Rokkakute, "Your task is to figure out what happened inside the tunnel. ”
The soldiers replied in unison and lined up towards the hexagonal pavilion.
Maeda Masaji, who was standing in the distance, looked at the faces of these soldiers, and felt that Kyoji Miyake was a little cruel and unreasonable, the so-called advance team was just a nice statement, and to put it bluntly, it was cannon fodder, just like the entire Japanese army thought that dying in battle was an extremely glorious thing, and it was not death, but loyalty to the emperor.
Fighting for the Emperor? Isn't that ridiculous? When Maeda Masaji was in China, he learned a saying, that is, the world is not a one-man world.
But this sentence does not apply in today's Japan, where everyone thinks that everything they have is not their own, but the emperor's, and without the emperor, there is nothing.
Paradoxically, if the emperor is really a god, and the gods have infinite power, then why do they need to take up swords and guns to fight?
This question exists in the minds of most people, but no one dares to raise it.
When a lie is told to one person, that person can question it, but when the lie is packaged and told to a thousand people, the lie becomes some kind of wise saying.
When the last soldier entered the tunnel, Kyoji Miyake ordered the soldiers of the Mikawa team to surround the Rokkaku Pavilion and sent someone to listen to the movement below at the entrance of the tunnel.
The 10 soldiers were given walkie-talkies, but they were afraid of communication problems, so they had to resort to this primitive method.
Another reason is that barely only one of the 10 soldiers is proficient in using walkie-talkies. The reason for this situation is that although the entire Japanese army was equipped with this most advanced communication equipment at that time, which was convenient for direct communication and command, and the equipment requirements reached the brigade level, and the division commander could directly command the brigade to fight with the help of walkie-talkies, but it was only limited to the main divisions of the Japanese army, and the second-line troops were far from reaching this standard, so most soldiers in second-line troops like the second division had never seen walkie-talkies.
In addition, the communication distance of walkie-talkie is limited, and when the communication demand exceeds the range of walkie-talkie, telegram communication is still required.