Volume 1, Ghost City of the Bone Forest _ Chapter 88, Booby-Trap
Osteobeedes feed on animal bones and suck the bone marrow in the bones to replenish their own nutrients. They are snow-white and look very dangerous but they are actually non-toxic, and of course there is still a risk of bacterial infection if bitten by them. And the most lethal thing is the pair of huge pincers that grow on the head, which can bite bones in one bite, not to mention human flesh. Fortunately, they usually don't actively attack living creatures, especially those that are large in relation to them. It's full of bones, and it's just the right place for them to live.
I heard a small noise around me again, as if something was approaching, which distracted me a little. Is the bone worm coming near me? I shone it with a flashlight, but I couldn't see anything around, the bones became the best shelter for the bone worms, and with the lack of light, it was very difficult to find anything here.
I can only lower my head and continue to watch "Strange Tales of the Mountains", there is not much introduction to bone beetles, and the pictures are very vague, but it looks similar to the one I just saw. I've been fairly composed, but I know that I read the last sentence, and at the end of the page introducing the bone beetle it says: Likes to live in groups, usually five to ten in a family.
There was more than one bone beetle here, and at this moment, the bones around me suddenly moved, and I was shocked, and I used a flashlight to light back and forth, and I could see that there were many bone worms shuttling between the bones, and each of them was very long, and the huge pincers made a terrible sound after colliding.
"!"
Such an important thing is not actually written in the first line, I put away "Strange Tales of the Mountains" and quickly retreated, even if the bone beetle does not have the habit of directly attacking living creatures, but it can't be completely according to the book, even if there are only ten bone worms here, it is enough to tear me to pieces!
The footsteps kept retreating, as if something was catching up, and with every step I took back, the bones around me shook, and those unpleasant sounds mingled with my rapid breathing, as if it had become a terrible pursuit.
"Xiaoshan, what's going on down there?"
I didn't walk deep, and after retreating more than ten steps, I could hear the fat man's voice, and hurriedly turned around and shouted: "There is a monster below, you step back first!" ”
"Good!"
The fat man immediately replied, I held the three-edged thorn and retreated faster and faster, and the bone beetles around me were chasing more and more fiercely, and the originally quiet bone forest passage made terrible noises from time to time.
After about two or three minutes, I had retreated to the top of the stairs and slowly retreated towards the wall. Under the flashlight, several white bone worms lay at the bottom of the stairs, their constantly twisted bodies and countless long legs climbing back and forth, which was disgusting and terrifying.
I retreated to the top of the stairs, and at that moment a bone worm suddenly crawled against the wall, apparently trying to kill me. I suddenly changed color, grabbed the edge of the dark passage with both hands, and then jerked upward, jumping out of the dark passage, and the bone beetle also poked its head out at this moment, and the huge pliers clamped hard, so that it didn't bite my leg, but bit through my pants, and made a big hole in the pants.
I didn't dare to stay, I turned over and jumped out of the sarcophagus, the bone beetle was so bold that it actually crawled out along the edge of the sarcophagus, looking like it was crazy and wanted to chase me.
"Damn, what a long millipede!"
The fat man called the centipede a millipede, and his face turned blue with fright when he saw the bone beetle, not to mention Shen Mengtian behind him, the girl hugged the fat man's arm tightly, and her whole body was trembling.
"It's a bone worm, big pincers that can bite human bones, and there are several more down there. Come up and this one, let's kill it! ”
I saw that the bone beetle below hadn't followed, and I was ready to kill this thing. It lay on the edge of the sarcophagus, shaking its head and constantly using its antennae to feel the changes around it, appearing cautious.
I held the triangular thorn and tried to get closer, but the osteworm was very alert, and with its sensitive antennae, it could detect it as soon as I moved it, so the two sides were at a stalemate.
"Fatty, let's cooperate, if this thing is not killed, we will never be able to get down."
I shouted, and the fat man nodded at once, walked to my side, and then suddenly shouted, holding the three-edged thorn and slashing straight over. Feeling the danger, the bone beetle immediately retreated, and at this time, I had rushed up from the other side, raised the triangular thorn and stabbed down, the tip of the triangular thorn was just this insect bone beetle's body, only to hear the sound of "bell", the bone beetle's body was really as hard as the bone, but fortunately, I used enough strength to hurt the triangular thorn is strong enough, this time the bone worm's body has been pierced entirely, nailed to the bottom of the sarcophagus.
"Squeak ......"
The pierced bone beetle was bleeding thick blood from its body, its mouth was screaming miserably, its upper body was still trying to attack me, the huge pincers kept biting together, but I didn't let go, its upper body was not enough to attack me and the fat man.
"Good fellow, is this thing worth anything?"
The fat man is really in the eyes of money, and he mentioned money in three sentences, and I glanced at him and said: "You know the money, and there are several below, why don't you go down and catch them yourself." ”
The fat man was speechless, scratched his head, and looked at me with some embarrassment.
The bone beetle was extremely tenacious, and its body twisted and struggled for a while before it stopped moving, and when I saw that it was completely dead, I pulled out the three-edged thorn.
"What's going on?"
The fat man asked curiously.
"I'm not there, but it's not far off. There are also nearly ten bone beetles entrenched underneath, each with this head. And beneath the tunnel is a terrible road paved with white bones, which should be the only way to the deeper part of this stronghold. As for whether I can get out, I don't know. ”
My words caused a moment of silence, and the beads they didn't open the mechanism for a long time, was it because the mechanism was broken or they didn't want to open it? The former and the latter have completely different meanings.
"We ......" Shen Mengtian, who was teary-eyed on the side, broke the silence, "Can we just stay here and wait until someone comes to save us?" ”
She was indeed frightened, at least it was safe for the time being, and there was me and the fat man by her side, it was indeed a way to stay, but I shook my head and said: "No, I have a brother who has been captured, I have to save him anyway, there may be other mechanisms in this room, but now we can't find it, that secret passage is the only way to continue going." I'm definitely going down. ”
The fat man didn't speak, Shen Mengtian clasped his hands in front of his chest, shook his head and said, "But you can't go down now, didn't you say that there are a lot of these white centipedes down there?" ”
I looked back at the dark passage, pondered for a moment, and then said, "Let's find a way to get rid of these bone beetles one by one." ”
"How?"
The fat man asked suspiciously.
I looked at the sarcophagus, and after a moment said, "Fatty, you take care of it, and I will go down first to lure them into attacking me." If we do one at a time, we will kill you. If they come up with several at once, we'll use this up-and-down mechanism! ”
Shen Mengtian didn't understand what I meant, but I have been friends with the fat man for many years, and he nodded to me immediately after hearing this, obviously having a tacit understanding.
Jumping into the sarcophagus, I looked down the tunnel, shone a flashlight, and slowly walked down. Halfway through, you can hear the sound of bone beetles crawling, and these earth beasts are obviously still there!
I looked down and finally saw the bone worms entrenched at the top of the stairs, they looked a little cramped, but they never climbed the stairs. It was as if the staircase was a thunder pool, and these bone beetles did not dare to cross it, even though they were terrible earth beasts.
"Interesting."
I whispered, and then slowly approached, and the bone beetles came to me, and there were about ten centimeters between us, shaking our arms, and constantly luring the bone beetles below, but they just didn't dare to come up.
"You don't come up, do you? Okay, if you don't come up, I'll do it! ”
Moved a little further distance, at this time I was closer to the bone worm, and then suddenly raised the triangular spine and stabbed it hard, a bone pede that could not dodge was pierced by me on the spot, and frantically coiled on the triangular thorn and screamed, the other bone beetles were frightened, and retreated frantically, I held the triangular thorn and retreated at the same time, retreated to the top of the stairs, and stepped on the head of the bone beetle.
"Since you don't dare to come up, then I will kill you one by one!"
I left a harsh remark.