I suspect that the king-footed worms are catching up, and that they are the ones who have bitten through the giant water ball. But no, because I didn't hear the dense crawling of the swarm.

No matter what the reason is, one thing I can be sure of is that what happened unusually, it must have come for me and An Beimo. I saw that An Beimo was running a little hard, so I grabbed her back and dragged her forward.

didn't run a few steps, there was another "bang", as if a big water balloon had been broken.

I was shocked, and before I could react from the second crack, the third and fourth sounds came one after the other.

I gasped and said to An Beimo: "We didn't do anything, what's wrong?" Could it be that there are still some monsters hidden in this place? ”

An Beimo took a breath and said, "It's not like it! It sounds like something is coming out of these spheres. ”

I said, "Are these really eggs?" ”

An Beimo said: "I just said it, you don't believe it!" ”

In order to make An Beimo run faster, I asked her sniper rifle to carry it for her. Even so, under the rush, An Beimo was already a little out of breath.

After running for so long, I never saw the end in front of me, let alone a way out. An Beimo was panting so badly that I had to stop and let her rest. In the past two days, An Beimo's physical strength has been consumed too much. It is estimated that if she continues to run like this, she will not even be able to hold the gun for a while.

A "bang" suddenly sounded near us, startling me and An Beimo.

An Beimo took the sniper rifle from behind me and immediately aimed at the surrounding water balloon.

I turned the flashlight into a spotlight mode and shone it into the distance. After the beam was refracted back and forth in the water balloon, I could get a glimpse of what was going on around me.

I don't know which water balloon just broke, but the sound was so close to us that it meant that something that had burst the water balloon was nearby.

I couldn't run anymore, so I just waited where I was, and I wanted to see what it was.

However, after a long time, nothing appeared. I was afraid that I wouldn't find out, so I looked at An Beimo, she shook her head at me slightly, and she didn't see anything.

I just wanted to beckon An Beimo to leave here and continue to walk forward, when I suddenly noticed that something was slowly climbing up on a big water balloon thirty meters away from us.

An Beimo also saw it, she pulled the bolt of the gun to load the bullet, and waited for the thing to expose its entire body, and immediately shot the other party through.

The thing was slow, and the beam of my flashlight could only make out its faint outline. It looks like a round thing, and it's a little transparent.

At this time, An Beimo suddenly put down the gun, rushed to me in one step, and covered the flashlight in my hand, and at the same time she turned off her own flashlight. All of a sudden, I was plunged into darkness, and it was as if I had suddenly become blind, and I couldn't see anything.

"What are you doing?" I exclaimed. An Beimo's sudden strange behavior surprised me.

"Don't shine a flashlight on it!" An Beimo's voice said next to me: "That's a horseshoe crab!" ”

I was stunned for a moment, thinking that I had misheard, and blurted out a rhetorical question, "What did you say?" Monkey? ”

An Beimo turned off my flashlight, and then said to me: "It's a horseshoe crab!" It is known as the 'living fossil of the sea'. What we just saw was a horseshoe crab larvae! ”

I hurriedly said, "No matter what it is, why did you turn off our flashlights?" It's dark and sloppy, we don't even know they're coming! ”

An Beimo said: "They are very sensitive to light, if you don't use a flashlight to shine on them, they may not come." ”

I listened to An Beimo's firm tone, so I asked her, "How do you know it's a horseshoe crab larvae?" ”

An Beimo replied: "Not only do I know now that it is a horseshoe crab larvae, but I also know the true face of this island. Everything was the same as I had speculated, except I didn't expect it to be a horseshoe crab! ”

I don't know what a horseshoe crab is, listening to An Beimo's tone of sudden realization, I should have figured out something.

But now there is no light and we can't move an inch, so I said to her, "How are we going to get out of here now?" ”

An Beimo didn't answer, I heard that she knew that Suo Suo didn't know what she was doing, and after a while, a faint light suddenly lit up. It turned out that An Beimo covered the flashlight with a layer of cloth, and then turned it on.

With this bit of light, we could barely see the road under our feet, and An Beimo pulled me to continue walking. I learned from her to cover her flashlight with a cloth and open it to shine under her feet.

The light is dim, and we dare not go fast. I was a little worried that the horseshoe crabs would attack us. Several times I almost lifted the flashlight and shone it into the water balloon, but I held back.

While walking forward cautiously, I asked An Beimo what she had just figured out.

An Beimo said that according to her speculation, this is not a desert island emerging from the sea at all, but a super huge horseshoe crab, and the place we are now in is the body of this giant horseshoe crab.

I was surprised and said that it was impossible, we all saw it clearly before we went to the island, this is clearly an island, how could it become a horseshoe crab all of a sudden?

An Beimo said that the part we saw exposed on the sea was actually just a part of the horseshoe crab's back. Most of its body is still hidden in the sea.

It was even more incredible to me when I heard it, and it was so wicked that we had fallen not in a cave, but in the belly of a sea creature. And such a large island is only a part, so how big does this horseshoe crab have to be?

In fact, adult horseshoe crabs are generally around forty or fifty centimeters in size, and this marine creature is very common, and it is still an occasional delicacy on the table.

However, this horseshoe crab is different, with its size, it has lived for hundreds of millions of years, even if it is not an exaggeration to call it the ancestor of horseshoe crabs. It must have lived on the deep seafloor before and was never known. This time, it is estimated that it was because it was about to lay eggs, which caused it to emerge from the bottom of the sea.

According to An Beimo's conservative estimate, the full picture of this horseshoe crab ancestor is at least four or five times larger than what we see. If you put it on land, it's a small mountain.

About horseshoe crabs, An Beimo doesn't know much. It is only known that the characteristic of the horseshoe crab is that the component in the blood is hemocyanin, so its blood is blue.

It is said that horseshoe crabs are quite valuable in medicine, and people can extract a "horseshoe crab reagent" from the blue blood of horseshoe crabs, which can accurately and quickly detect whether the internal tissues of the human body are caused by bacterial infection.

In addition, the heavy metal copper contained in the flesh and blood of horseshoe crabs is said to accumulate in the liver and kidneys with the blood circulation after entering the human body, which will cause great harm to the human body, so eating horseshoe crabs is not recommended and promoted.

Speaking of the fact that horseshoe crab blood contains heavy metal elements, I can't help but think of the statement that Haruko Sakai mentioned that the demon concubine wants to get the metal minerals here.

If the so-called metal element detected in the first place was the heavy metal copper in the horseshoe crab, then Haruko Sakai did not lie to us.

It's just that I don't know if the metal in the blood of living organisms can be extracted. And even if so, how many? This reason sounds reasonable, but I feel reluctant. Or is there any other precious resource in this horseshoe crab ancestor? I can't guess that.

An Beimo also said that these transparent water balls we saw were actually the eggs of this horseshoe crab ancestor, and as for why those horseshoe crab larvae rushed out of the ovaries, it was probably related to the direct irradiation we just used a flashlight.

Horseshoe crabs have four eyes, two single eyes and two compound eyes. Those two monocular eyes are specially used to perceive brightness. It is estimated that we used a flashlight just now to irradiate them, and inadvertently attracted their attention, so this egg broke out and followed the light.

Knowing this, I suddenly became more desperate to go out, and even wanted to leave the island immediately, or rather away from this horseshoe crab.

I don't think the prehistoric creatures that have lived for so many years are something we can afford to mess with.

It's not just me who thinks so, I think An Beimo also has the idea of retreating. Since it is certain that this is not an island, but a sea creature that has come to lay eggs, then the Demon Princess's plan to gain control of this island may also be in vain. Bring this result back, even if the Demon Concubine plan can't be realized, it can't be regarded as a breach of contract.

With this clear, we now only have one goal left, which is to leave, and there is no time to delay!

Just when An Beimo and I were looking for a way out, we suddenly heard a rapid crawling sound behind us. I glanced at An Beimo in surprise, this voice was obviously chasing us.

As soon as I tore off the cloth cover from my flashlight, I looked back and saw a translucent tadpole-like strange insect crawling towards us.

It turned out to be the larva of the horseshoe crab, with several pairs of short legs under the round shell, and a long tail dragging behind it. At a cold glance, it looks like a tadpole and a scorpion, and it looks ugly and ugly.

I asked An Beimo puzzled: "Didn't you say that this thing wouldn't come to us without light?" Why did it go all the way to us? ”

An Beimo had already raised the gun, and replied angrily: "How do I know? ”

When we were still about ten meters away, the horseshoe crab larva suddenly stopped. I saw that it had four eyes on its translucent shell, and I don't know if it was my illusion, but there was a feeling that it was staring at me.

My muzzle is pointed at it, and as soon as it gets one step closer, I will shoot without hesitation. But this guy seems to know that the weapon in my hand is a threat to it, and it is no longer half a step closer after a long stalemate.

After a few more confrontations, the horseshoe crab slowly lifted its carapace and revealed the mouth hidden in the middle of its steps. An Beimo and I could see clearly that the mouth that looked like a crack was full of fine fangs.

It's provoking us!

"How so?" An Beimo suddenly burst out, "I've never heard that horseshoe crabs still have teeth in their mouths!" ”

I tightened my grip on the gun and said, "Looks like it's ...... It's just that the horseshoe crab ancestor has lived for too long, and the organ has evolved! Even its cubs have evolved. ”

I'm just talking nonsense, who knows if the horseshoe crab in front of me has evolved or what special breed it is. But looking at its aggressive stance, it's certainly not a vegan creature.

Its current size is only a newborn larva, but it is already more than a meter long, and it is definitely not small when it grows up.

I didn't have time to spend time with it here, and seeing that it was still there, I aimed it at its mouth and pulled the trigger.

"Bang", the gunfire here is unexpectedly a little muffled. The bullet flew through the horseshoe crab's mouth, passed through the shell of its back, and burrowed into the ground behind.

The horseshoe crab larvae flipped backwards, then writhed violently, bleeding pale blue blood from both of its wounds.

"Twitter~" The horseshoe crab larvae that suddenly writhed made a strange sound, which was harsh and unpleasant. An Beimo and I looked at each other, and then I immediately understood, and exclaimed: "Damn, this thing can still be called!" ”

[Note: horseshoe crab, pronounced hòu, with the same posterior.] 】