Chapter 068: Underwater Worms
In terms of size, it was an adult man, with clothes on his body, which were so tattered that he was hard to read. His hands and feet were pressed together at his sides in an irregular direction, and one of his legs was still irregularly bent.
The face has been severely deformed, and it is impossible to see the original appearance at all. The overall look gave me a particularly strange feeling, as if he had been tightly wound by a large animal such as a python, and the bones of his whole body were deformed. But if you look closely, I can't think of any force that would turn a person into this.
Bei Qixing is studying medicine, she saw the oddity at a glance, she pulled me from behind, and told me two words in sign language: "Suck!" ”
It immediately dawned on me, yes! The corpse's miserable condition did indeed seem to have been caused by the tremendous sucking and squeezing force. Could it be that there is really a giant python in this water?
However, I quickly overturned the idea of the python, because although the python will have a huge squeezing force on the prey after devouring the prey, the python does not rely on sucking, but on the digestive juices in the body to slowly corrode the prey. Seeing that this corpse showed no signs of corrosion, it should not be a python that attacked him.
I remembered that the corpse had been sprayed on our heads from underneath and immediately realized that it was most likely "spit out" after sucking the nutrients. It seems that there must be some man-eating underwater creature hiding beneath us. Nervous, I immediately beckoned my companion to swim away from the bottom of the water to avoid being attacked.
We had just moved a few meters when there was a sudden undercurrent underneath us, as if some animal had swam up from our feet. When I looked down, I saw a huge earthworm!
It was more than a man wide, seven or eight meters long, and its slender body writhed wildly in the water, moving extremely quickly and flexibly. It seemed that it had found its prey, and kept rushing through the water, and the originally calm water had been stirred up by it, and the bodies of several of us were driven back and forth.
At its speed, it won't take half a minute to find us. I think this earthworm is scurrying around, it probably has no eyesight function, and it completely relies on the fluctuations in the water to judge whether there is prey approaching around. In my quickness, I dragged the corpse and kicked my foot down in the direction of the earthworm.
Sure enough, the water waves driven by the corpse sliding down caused the big earthworm's idea, and its head twisted, and it came to the corpse in an instant, and I saw that the earthworm suddenly opened a large mouth full of barbed teeth at the top, and it seemed to have a suction force, and instantly sucked the corpse into its mouth.
Now I know it's not an earthworm at all, but a giant underwater worm.
I've heard of this invertebrate, but I've never heard it's that big. This time I've seen a lot of horror creatures that I've only seen in movies, and today I met the real thing. I don't know whether to call myself lucky or unlucky, but in the current situation, it must not be related to luck.
I beckoned everyone to keep their bodies and try not to move, this thing is very sensitive, it can detect the slightest fluctuation in the water, it is faster than a snake, we can't stop it at all.
But it seems to be a little late for me to remind, the worm has already caused a change in the water when I stepped down on the corpse, the worm has locked its direction, and it spits out the corpse and no longer runs around, but rushes at us in a straight line like a catapult. I could see it clearly, its big mouth was aimed at An Beimo next to me.
In the water, it is the absolute hegemon, and we even struggle to move our bodies, how can we have its speed. In the blink of an eye, it arrived at An Beimo's feet, and the big cracked mouth was about to swallow An Beimo in one gulp.
I was in a hurry, but I couldn't speak, and I was about to reach out and pull An Beimo away, but I saw An Beimo suddenly look up at me.
At that moment, we looked at each other, and I didn't know why I immediately understood what she meant. I quickly raised my leg and kicked at her, and An Beimo also kicked at me at the same time, and we both kicked at the bottom of each other's feet at the same time, and under the interaction force, both of them retreated back at the same time.
Because the speed of the worm was too fast, it was too late to turn halfway, and as soon as An Beimo got out of the way, the huge mouth rushed over against An Beimo's body.
With a few "smacks", the nail guns in the hands of the four of us were fired at the same time, and more than a dozen highly poisonous nails were fired into the slender body of the worm.
The poison on the nail is not an ordinary poison, it can effectively fight many aquatic beasts, even the most ferocious shark can not last more than two seconds before being paralyzed immediately.
I'm not sure if this poison is effective against animals with this spiral nerve, though.
At this time, I suddenly saw the cutter installed in my right hand, and my heart moved, and I poked out the cutter with a "swish", and as soon as I activated the switch, there was a buzzing sound in the water, accompanied by countless bubbles.
Seeing that the tail of the worm was about to pass in front of my eyes, I stabbed the cutter into the worm's body with a single blow.
This kind of soft tissue creature has sharp teeth and sharp mouth, but its body is very soft, and the cutter can cut off even metal effortlessly, not to mention this kind of bug. The worm was still swimming, and the cutter suddenly pulled a long wound on its body, and all kinds of dirty and disgusting organs flowed out of it, and the water immediately stained us with great dirt.
The worm failed to hit a blow, and came back again in a circle. I cut the back half of it, and it was like a rag hanging on the tail.
However, this did not stop the worm from moving in the slightest, and it did not feel any pain at all, just blindly finding the target and launching continuous attacks. This time, it's clearly aimed at me.
Looking at the worms that were about to rush at me, I turned on the thrusters to keep myself away from everyone, and then swung the cutter in my hand to stir up the water to attract the worms' attention.
Seeing that I had to fight against such a fast worm, Shen Hao wanted to rush over to help, but was grabbed by An Beimo from behind.
Don't look at the speed of the worm, but it also has weaknesses. When I saw it lock onto me, I immediately kept my body still, except for the arm with the cutter still stirring in the water.
Looking at the worm scurrying back and forth like an arrow in the water, my heart lifted, whether I could clean it up all at once depends on this time.
The worm grinned wide, fanged, and aimed at my arm. I watched its movements, and just as its fangs were about to bite into my arm, I jerked backwards for a buzzing cutter to face the worm's fangs.
A tremendous force swept me up, and I could feel the cutter on my arm colliding with the worm's fangs. But in an instant, the division was differentiated, and the cutter once again descended down the worm's body.
I was sprayed all over my face with the internal organs that came out of the worm's body, and even if I couldn't smell it, I was almost vomiting, but I held on to the cutter in my hand until I dissected the thing completely.
No matter how complex its spiral nerve is, it has been completely cut off by me from beginning to end. Although it is not dead, it has also lost its bodily functions, and can no longer move in the water as fast as just now, it can only twitch and writhe in the water, and then slowly sink to the bottom. Maybe it won't be long before it becomes a meal for other creatures.
At this time, the surrounding water was already cloudy and invisible, and there were worm minced flesh floating everywhere, and I swam a few meters out of the filthy core, and I saw the three of Seven Stars swimming quickly towards me.
Even though I was covered in dirt now, I still had no heart to make a triumphant gesture to them. At this time, the oncoming Seven Stars gestured to me, which meant "Hurry up!" ”
I wondered what was wrong with them, but I looked behind them and knew why.
Behind them I saw two worms swam around, as if they were eating the worm I had cut open, and one sucking on minced meat floating in the water. They're a lot smaller than the previous one, but it's not a problem for us to swallow them in one gulp.
I nervously swam behind the others, thrusters on my arms at maximum power. If this is entangled by those worms, it is estimated that you will not be able to run away if you want to.
Thankfully, the mud in the water helped, and the worms that reappeared were only interested in competing for food, and did not notice our existence for the time being.
Luckily, the four of us swam forward quickly, and I looked back from time to time to see more worms coming up from the bottom of the water, and the wriggling that twisted and wound everywhere made me feel only a burst of discomfort in my stomach. I don't know how many of these worms are still hiding under the water, but luckily they didn't have a swarm of bees just now, otherwise the four of us wouldn't have enough for them.
Far from the area, the water was cleaner again, and we didn't dare to delay our rapid progress, hoping to reach the end of the underground waterway as soon as possible. Who knows if those worms will catch up after they eat their companions, and my scalp tingles just thinking about being surrounded by a swarm of worms.
After swimming forward for about two or three hundred meters, the terrain began to slowly rise, and just as I was glad to be about to reach the exit, the water behind me suddenly began to surge wildly. I was shocked, it seemed that what I feared had finally happened, and the worms were chasing after me.
I pushed Shen Hao and told them to go quickly, but if it didn't work, I would break off and stop those monsters. I don't know how long it will last, but hopefully enough will be enough for them to get out of the water.
Seeing that I wanted to do it again, Shen Hao said nothing this time, and had to stay for me. I didn't have time to fight with him, and when I saw that the worm hadn't come behind me, I dragged him and swam up, and I wouldn't die in vain until the last moment.
No matter how fast we were, we couldn't catch up with the creatures in the water, and it wasn't long before I saw worms tumbling under our feet with their huge mouths wide open and chasing after them.
I was about to push Shen Hao away from my side, but I saw Qixing suddenly turn around and come back. I'm secretly anxious, what kind of fun is she joining in at this time!
With a flick of Qixing's hand, a bunch of small metal balls like marbles were thrown out, and then he gestured upwards to me. I didn't know what she was doing just now, so I pulled Shen Hao and followed Qixing upstream.
"Poof, poof, poof" a few strange sounds, like firecrackers exploding in the water, I looked down curiously, only to see that countless worms were blown into two, and the worms chasing us immediately changed direction and turned to nibble on the blown up companions, buying us some time.
It turned out that what Qixing threw down just now was a small bomb/bomb, I didn't expect Qixing to have such a hand, and immediately used this time to exert force upstream.