Chapter 39: The Punishment for Recklessness
Bats are the only species of mammals that have evolved to be truly capable of flying, and there are more than 900 species in existence. Most of them also have a keen auditory orientation (or echolocation) system, and most bats feed on insects, but there are also outliers, such as the vampire flying fox in front of them, which Chen Yun says eats meat and feeds on blood.
I didn't know what kind of bat was overhead, but I felt that it was extraordinarily large, so I was a little frightened, so I quickly turned off the searchlight and replaced it with an ordinary flashlight that was not so strong.
At this time, I heard Lu Chuan, who was walking beside Chen Yun, sneering, saying that you are too timid, the vampire flying fox is not as terrifying as the legend, and can only suck the blood of ordinary animal husbandry, we are big living people, what are we afraid of?
Chen Yun said that it is better to be careful in everything, these bats were not alarmed by me, this is the best result, let's go quickly, leave this place first.
As soon as Chen Yun finished speaking, a black shadow the size of a bird's egg fell above his head, Lu Chuan was startled, jumped out half a meter away, saw that there was no reaction behind him, turned around and touched it with his foot, and said with a smile Could this be a bat's corrupted egg?
"Bats are mammals, how can they have eggs?" Chen Yun had a headache with this young master, and asked him not to mess with the things here. Lu Chuan said Of course I know that bats are mammals, but where did these eggs come from, genetic mutations?
Chen Yun said that it should be the prey they caught from the outside, don't move, the beasts are very protective of food, and if you step on these eggs, you may anger them.
It's just that Lu Chuan is not a master who is afraid of things, what are you afraid of, let's bring equipment? I heard that bats can be eaten when they are roasted, and it is said that they taste good, Ah Yun, are you hungry, or I will catch a few for you and go out to roast? Several meals were canned beef, and I was tired of eating them.
As he spoke, he stepped on the bird's eggs on the ground, and with a "click", the bird's eggs broke, splashing out a lot of yellow pulp, flowing along the bluestone steps, forming a pool of rivers and lakes.
Almost as soon as it stepped on the bird's egg, we heard the flapping of wings overhead, and a few bats were startled and flew towards Lu Chuan with their wings fluttering.
"How dare you come!"
The movement on his head not only did not scare Lu Chuan, but the kid pulled out his saber and stabbed him, Chen Yun exclaimed "Don't", but it was too late to shout, the wingspan of the vampire flying fox exceeded half a meter, it was estimated that it was just to grab the bird eggs on the ground, but it was stunned and crashed into the military thorn in Lu Chuan's hand, and with a tear, a cut in the abdomen was cut, and then Lu Chuan threw the big bat to the ground and proudly asked Chen Yun for credit,
"Look, isn't that all right?"
My face stiffened, and I took a cautious step back, and my intuition told me that this boy must be unlucky, and that it would be better to stay away from him.
Sure enough, I don't know if it was because of the stimulation of the smell of blood, the big bats that were still hanging quietly upside down on the wall just now opened their eyes one after another, shooting out a green light, and several large bats took the lead in pounced, making a turn in the passage, and then pounced on the same kind of body very ferociously, frantically tearing the bats.
The bats on the ground had not yet died, and had already torn their companions to pieces, and fell to the ground tumbling and hissing, desperately fluttering the pair of fleshy wings.
"it!" This movement did not stop, which startled Lu Chuan, this kid was frightened and not only did not run, but stepped on the big bat on the ground with his foot, and then I heard the sound of wings flapping more and more densely, densely transmitted, and the glowing eyes of the vampire fox all turned to us.
There are almost no less than 100 eyes, which are transferred to us at the same time.
"Run!" Chen Yun's face changed greatly, and after shouting, she hurriedly stretched out her hand to the luggage bag, and before she could take out the equipment of the duffel bag, the big bat like a cloud above her head was fluttering, frantically fluttering its wings and flying.
"Come on, guy!"
Ge Zhuang was so frightened that his hands trembled, and he couldn't even grasp the shotgun steadily, after all, Lao Zhong was a person who had seen the world, much calmer than him, and when he shook his hand, he raised his hand to shoot a few shots, sweeping down the big bats that pounced on us first.
The sound of gunfire disturbed more large bats, and the black pressed a large area of vampire flying foxes like raindrops, opening their fangs and biting at us.
This beast is big and small, the small one is only the size of a palm, and it is still in its infancy, but the posture is so fierce that it bites when it stares at the crowd. I couldn't see what the vampire foxes looked like until the distance was closer, and I didn't know why Chen Yun was so afraid of these flat-haired beasts.
The shuttle-shaped long ears, the face plate is round, with a pig's nose, a long mouth, and what is even more bizarre is the two fangs under the corners of the mouth, which are completely disproportionate to the body, the forelimbs are developed and barb-shaped, and there are gray-white spots on the brown epidermis, and the tip part is very similar to a hook for catching fish, the claws and teeth are sharp, and the bony fingers are particularly slender.
I didn't have time to look at the front paws to see if the front paws were sharp, because the vampire flying fox jumped on the head of one of the expedition members, and with a pull of the front paws, it removed half of his scalp!
The scratched scalp was oozing blood, the little comrade screamed, and hurriedly slapped it with his hand, and the small vampire flying fox slapped it down with his hand, but it attracted a larger, almost a meter long wing, the black fleshy wings covered his face from behind, and the bat's huge round face plate also came to his wound.
Damn it!
I reached out to grab the folding crossbow and pulled the trigger on the back of the vampire fox, the slender crossbow arrow straightened into a black line in the air, shot through the back of the big bat, and exploded the dark green plasma, the big bat let go of the little comrade's head in pain, and the man also stopped wailing and fell, and when I rushed up to check, I found that his head was actually deflated and became a triangle!
Not only was the cerebral marrow sucked, but his skull was melting, and the flesh on his chin was still intact, but his nose was up, and most of his facial muscles were missing, as if they had been washed by a high concentration of strong acid, and I could even see his white bones blackening at a visible rate under the action of strong acid.
"This thing can be sucked*, beware, they're not ordinary bats, saliva is highly corrosive!" I broke out in a cold sweat and shouted.
Bang!
At this moment, I heard the sound of a gunshot, and the bullet slashed against my scalp, and I shrank my neck in fright, and when I looked back, I saw a vampire flying fox falling from my head, and a dark green slurry exploded from its chest, and it also emitted a strong fishy smell.
"Little pumpkin, come to me!"
Ge Zhuang and Lao Zhong raised their guns at the same time, cross-shooting, the muzzle of the gun was aimed at the top of their heads, and after a sweep, the fallen blood-sucking flying fox was like a ripe persimmon, a lump of black shadows fell to the ground, the empty bullet casings jumped on the steps, and the bat corpses piled up on the ground slowly covered the entire steps.
Crossfire didn't solve all the troubles, and more vampire flying foxes pounced on the crowd.
The passage was in chaos, with the crashing of bats falling to the ground, screams, and the screams of the crowd, filled with screaming figures and a dense crowd of vampire flying foxes that had been forced to scurry overhead.
"Don't run around, get behind me!"
Chen Yun held a small flamethrower in his hand, went around to the most densely populated place, pressed the button, and the flamethrower ejected a pillar of fire, and the pillar formed by the fierce fire shot out three meters away, sweeping down a large piece of the blood-sucking flying fox above his head.
"They're afraid of fire, fast, use flamethrowers!" Seeing that the flamethrower was useful, Lao Zhong also quickly put away the shotgun and shouted to Ge Qiang, who was still pulling the trigger, "Stop fighting, save bullets, and attack with fire!" ”
I threw myself on the ground, rolled to Chen Yun's feet, tore the zipper on the duffel bag, took out the small *, opened the safety and jumped forward, gathered the flamethrower over my head, and "swept wildly" at the dense big bats.
Flamethrowers are more effective than bullets, the air is mixed with a rancid smell of burning, beasts are naturally afraid of fire, and when the flamethrower's tongue of fire burns fiercely, most of the vampire flying foxes run towards the other side of the passage, and the sound of their wings stirring is like a tide rolling.
The crisis was temporarily lifted, and I heard Chen Yun shouting, telling the crowd to hurry up and approach her, and get together first and not get separated.
The crowd quickly approached her, fortunately, we reacted quickly enough, but it didn't cause too many casualties, but Lu Chuan's face was ugly, in the final analysis, this accident was because he was too reckless, so he set himself on fire, this kid gritted his teeth, I don't know what he was thinking.
"The surname is Lu, your special mother's monkey? When you get off the tomb, you will be the happiest! Ge Zhuang scratched the bat's back, gritted his teeth in anger, and held on until the vampire foxes retreated, and then turned around and scolded Lu Chuan.
Lu Chuan's face turned pale for a while, and he moved his mouth, probably planning to return the favor, but when he looked at the member of the scientific expedition team who fell to the ground and his brain was fused by the vampire fox, he couldn't speak.
Another one died.
I grabbed the flamethrower to clean up the battlefield, and burned the vampire flying fox on the ground that was not yet dead, and before I could burn the bat, I suddenly heard a large "hulala" wing flapping sound, and hurriedly looked up, but saw that the vampire flying fox that jumped out actually turned back in a group!
Their wings were connected to each other, forming a dense black cloud, which was overwhelmingly connected into a single one, black and oppressive, and there were glowing eyes everywhere in their sight.
I'll fuck you, I'll be back so soon!
My eyes bulged out, the flamethrower in my hand had run out, the flames were fading, I quickly lost the flamethrower and retreated, shouting to the crowd, "Run, they're back!" ”
"Damn, isn't this thing afraid of death?"
No one expected the vampire fox to be so ferocious all of a sudden, and it went and returned in less than two minutes, so frightened that the team screamed incessantly, and ran down with their duffel bags, gradually discovering that there was light in front of them.
Chen Yun shouted, "Run to the front, the front is the end of the passage, and when you get to an open place, find a way to avoid them!" ”