Chapter 29: Wire worms
Shen Dali and I were both taken aback by such a strange scene, but the man in black seemed to have expected it a long time ago, his expression did not change in the slightest, and his round eyes stared at the wound of the big gecko without blinking.
The wound was getting bigger and bigger, the blood was coming out more and more, and the strange thing was that the belly of the giant gecko was getting bigger and bigger.
I whispered to Shen Dali: "The situation doesn't seem to be good, it seems that something is really coming out, and if you find that it is not good, you should run back quickly." ”
Shen Dali muttered: "I'm afraid of hanging, is it possible that a monster will really pop up?" ”
I shook my head helplessly, too lazy to say anything more.
At this time, the body of the big gecko changed again, and its limbs, which were already soft on its side, suddenly moved.
Its limbs moved strangely, like twisted aquatic plants, twisting upward, as if being blown by the wind, swaying slightly.
With such a strange movement, blood gushed out from its wound and flowed into the calm surface of the lake, making everything uncalm.
The man in black still maintained his previous posture in the face of the strange appearance of the big gecko, not moving, not even his eyelashes trembling.
"Here we are."
I don't know why I said these two words all of a sudden, but I had a subconscious feeling that something was going to happen.
Shen Dali asked suspiciously, "What's coming?" ”
"Bang!"
As if in response to Shen Dali's question, with a sudden muffled sound, the body of the big gecko exploded in the part that came into contact with the ground, and the internal organs and blood splattered out in all directions.
Almost at the same time, the man in black had already made a move.
Seeing that he was ready, the man had already jumped high, and half-turned ninety degrees in the air, quickly stretched out the two iron pipes in his hand, and clamped down towards the big gecko.
Shen Dali exclaimed, turned around and ran, ran for less than two steps, saw that I didn't follow, came back again, and asked in a low voice: "Fifth brother, didn't you just say that you would run back if you found something bad?" ”
"Shh
I asked Shen Dali not to make a sound, and my eyes were glued to the man in black, wondering what he wanted to do and what happened to the big gecko.
Soon, I got my answer.
At the same time as the tip of the iron pipe of the man in black quickly stretched out, several black lines several meters long suddenly ejected from the wound of the big gecko, but it was not shot towards the man in black as I imagined, but towards the lake.
The man in black was extremely fast, and he had a prediction in advance, so he accurately caught a black line.
The rest of the black lines, like life, "swished" into the surface of the lake and disappeared from my sight in the blink of an eye.
The black-clothed body was in the air, his waist slammed into force, and his body rushed forward for a short distance, as if he didn't want to step on the filthy gecko entrails on the ground.
I don't know if he can really handle it so accurately, when he landed, his heel just stepped on the edge of the blood, and he didn't touch it at all.
The black thread between the iron pipe in his hand seemed to be in pain, writhing like a snake like a snake, and almost swept the man in black several times.
The man in black shook his wrist slightly, and flung the black line towards me.
Shen Dali exclaimed, pulled me back.
I didn't expect the man in black to suddenly come to such a hand, and I was shocked.
The black line struggled to draw a parabola in the air, and fell to the ground with a "pop", three or four meters away from where I was just standing, and it seemed that the man in black was not trying to attack me.
I looked down at the black line on the ground and saw that it was an insect similar in thickness to an earthworm, with thin ends that made it difficult to tell which end was the head and which end was the tail.
The bug doesn't seem to be very good at crawling, just tossing and turning all over the ground, and seems to be in great pain.
I frowned at it as if I thought about what it was, but it felt incredible, and I thought my idea was a little outrageous.
The man in black took out a handkerchief, carefully wiped the ends of the two iron pipes, put away the iron pipes, and walked slowly towards me.
Shen Dali scolded a few swear words angrily, and was about to rush up to beat the man in black, but I hurriedly stopped him.
The man in black walked up to the bug, stared down at the bug, and asked coldly, "Do you know?" ”
Shen Dali thought that the other party was provoking, and shouted: "I know your grandma...... Fifth brother, don't stop me, let me beat him! ”
It took me a lot of effort to persuade Shen Dali, turned my head to look at the man in black, frowned and asked, "Wire worms?" ”
The man in black looked up at me, the corners of his mouth slightly curled, not knowing whether his attitude was appreciative or sarcastic.
He turned away, leaving only two words behind - "yes".
I was stunned for a moment, and then I looked at the churning wireworm, and realized that the danger hidden in this dungeon seemed to have far exceeded my expectations.
The nematode, also known as the copper wire snake, is like a wire in terms of thickness and toughness.
The bug is a parasite when it is larvae and is transmitted to the animal through a water source.
Normally, when the nematode infects arthropods such as praying mantises, it will control the body of the infected animal, turn it into a walking corpse, and unconsciously frantically search for water.
After that, the mature nematode crawls out of the carcass, burrows into the water source, and multiples......
Normally, large animals can also get nematoasis from drinking unclean water, and at most they can get urological diseases.
However, if you think about the performance of the big gecko just now, it is clear that the body is controlled by the wire worm.
From the time it appeared to the time it died tragically, it was like a zombie.
Could it be that these nematodes are an enhanced version? Can even large animals be infected? Could that also infect humans?
My heart shuddered when I thought of the dry bones by the lake, and the corpses in tweed coats.
Perhaps, those people were infected by the nematode and died here, not as we expected, they were not trapped here at all.
I thought about it, and I suddenly felt even more uneasy.
I'm really worried: Liu Fatzi has such a performance, could it not be smoked by wine, but caused by wire worm infection?
Shen Dali saw that I was speechless, pushed me a little worriedly, and asked in a low voice, "Fifth brother, what's wrong with you?" You can't fall for evil, right? The guy is gone. ”
I was stunned, and hurriedly raised my flashlight to look around, and sure enough, I couldn't find the man in black anymore.
The man in black came and went without a trace, fast and soft, like a ghost.
As long as he doesn't do anything to hurt us, I don't want to provoke him for the time being, after all, he helped us once before.
I said to Shen Dali: "Let's go around this lake to see if there is any body of Liu Fatzi, I hope not." ”
Shen Dali asked me with a trembling voice: "Fifth brother, you don't doubt that Liu Fatzi will end up like that big gecko, right?" ”
I nodded, then quickly shook my head again and said, "I hope not." ”