Book 1: Snow Ridge Maze Chapter 62: Bone Sea Ghost Ginseng
During the break, the fat man kept looking at my eyes, and was about to touch it, but I blocked it and asked urgently, "What do you want to do?" ”
"Ngawang, I suspect you have a problem with your eyes, did you not sleep well last night when you visited the monuments? So dazzling, I mistakenly look at the palace? As he spoke, the fat man took a sip of the Red Star* Erguotou we had prepared earlier.
I took the second pot head in the fat man's hand, poured it violently, choked his teeth and grinned, "Get out of the calf!" I slept well last night, my eyes were fine, I really saw a vague palace, and something that looked like a human figure. ”
The fat man said, "Then the fuck is evil, you see this is empty, how can there be any palace and the figure you say?" The fat man was silent for a moment, and then said, "Could it be a ghost tomb?" Then he looked at me blankly.
The devil knows what the situation is, I don't think I will be fat, so I use the scimitar that I broke earlier to clean the mud on my shoes, and just when I was still depressed where the sludge came, the fat man suddenly scolded "I grass!" Which turtle son stole Lao Tzu's second pot head? ”
After listening to the fat man's scolding, I realized that the two pots we had just drunk were really gone.
After the fat man scolded, he was silent for a moment, and his eyes rolled as if he thought of something, so he looked at the group of people sitting next to us.
The first thing the fat man suspected was Lao Jin, so he pointed the finger at Lao Jin, who was also cleaning up the sludge on his shoes, and when he saw the fat man looking at him with the eyes of a thief, he stood up excitedly, "Hey! Dead fatty, what do you think I'm doing? I don't drink, what are you doing with your worthless second pot. ”
"You know it yourself, you don't need me to say it." The fat man pushed back angrily.
Lao Jin was not happy to say anything when he heard this, his sleeves rolled up, and he was not to be outdone, and said, "What's the matter, it's okay to find fault, right?" If you haven't played enough just now, Jin Ye will accompany me to the end now, no need to make excuses, come happily, and don't fuck like a girl. With that, he was ready to fight with the fat man.
When the fat man and Lao Jin were arguing, I found that there was one person missing from Shanzi's team, and it was the one who scolded Sichuan dialect during our group fight just now, and I immediately stopped the two of them, "Don't quarrel, we have one less person." ”
As soon as Lao Jin and the fat man heard what I said, they stopped, and after Shanzi counted them, they were indeed missing the Sichuan boy.
It was too weird to disappear without a sound and a person, and everyone suddenly became uneasy.
At this moment, a wine bottle fell from the top of my head, and the wine bottle shattered in front of me, and I saw that it was the fat man's second pot.
In an instant, everyone with a flashlight reacted instinctively, and hit the light on the top of their heads, only to see a dark green vine crawling crookedly on the rock overhead, and the vine was like a snake moving slowly on the rock wall, and our flashlight pillar was looking for it in the direction of the vine
Suddenly, I found a puddle of sludge under the rock wall not far ahead, and there was a piece of clothing on the sludge, and the clothes were still faintly emitting a puff of green smoke.
Everyone approached, and after Shanzi confirmed, they found that this dress was the clothes of the Sichuan boy who disappeared in their team, and there was a skull on the clothes that had not been completely corrupted.
This scene made everyone look frightened, talking about the tiger changing color, my scalp was tingling, it seemed that we had been targeted by the mysterious murderer in the dark, and then there was a rush of friction on the ground that we had heard earlier.
When everyone's flashlights shone away, we saw a dark green vine quickly rushing towards us, and the first vine to approach was a man standing in front of Shanzi and their team.
When the man saw this, he kicked at the vine, but when the vine was attacked, instead of retreating, he took the initiative to attack.
I saw that the vines were like pythons, and instantly circled and wrapped the man's entire legs.
The man who was entangled in his leg had just pulled the knife, and at the same time, the dark green vines secreted some dark green liquid, and then the man's entire leg was wrapped in green smoke in an instant, and a pungent sour smell came to his nose, and after a while, a pool of blood flowed out from under the man's trousers and dripped on the sludge on the ground.
The man let out an earth-shattering scream, and after falling to the ground, he was dragged into the darkness by the dark green vines, and only then did everyone react from the panic, but it was too late for the man to disappear into the darkness.
"Grass!" After Shanzi scolded, he immediately chased in the direction where the man disappeared, and the rest of us immediately followed.
Under the shaky flashlight, we saw that the man had been disappearing into the darkness, and everyone followed the mountain to speed up the pace, and when we arrived in the darkness, we found a ditch, and the edge of the ditch was full of piles of white bones, and the white bones were the same as the previous burial pit, all of which were animal, and it seemed that the burial pit we found earlier was connected to the one in front of us.
When the flashlights of several of us shone into the ditch, I was dumbfounded, and suddenly a shiver did not stop, and the whole body could be described as creepy, only to see that the burial pit was densely packed with white bones, and more than twice as many as the previous one, and its number was so large that it was outrageous, and the mountains of piles of white bones had been piled up like a sea of bones as far as the eye could see.
What shocked me even more was that there was a figure about 1.6 meters tall in the dark part of the burial pit, and it was the figure pulling the rattan that entangled the man in the dark.
The wolf-eyed flashlight in my hand immediately shone in the direction of the figure, and when the pillar of light broke through the darkness and projected on the figure, I saw that the figure that seemed to be one meter six turned out to be a huge ginseng, and the dark green vine was its rhizome.
I saw that the ginseng grows in a pool of black sludge covered with white bones and skeletons, its rhizome is dark green, the ginseng body is light yellow, the whole shape is close to the person, the ginseng head has two bright leaves, its leaves are huge, the leaves are divided into two layers, the leaf color of the lower half of the layer is crystal clear, showing light blue, the leaves of the upper half of the layer are the opposite, like this dark gray rock, the leaves are divided into four, the leaves are wrapped up with ginseng like this rock, people at first glance can not distinguish a huge ginseng.
In addition to the sludge on the side of the ginseng, there is a pile of white bones that make people have to gasp when they look at it, and most of the white bones are the bones of livestock.
"I'm grass! Is this ginseng a good one? The fat man exclaimed.
"That's not ginseng, it must be the so-called ghost ginseng of the tomb keeper," Shanzi blurted out in amazement.
Looking at Shanzi's white-washed face, I thought of a different plant called ghost ginseng in the book "Hundred Ghosts and Evil Arts", which recorded in the heterogeneous chapter.
As mentioned in the book, ghost ginseng also has a terrifying name, that is, cannibal ginseng, which is a plant that grows in graves, this thing is extremely poisonous, the whole body resembles a human shape, a bit like an unusually large ginseng, the name of cannibal ginseng comes from the fact that all living creatures that come into contact with its venom instantly decay into white bones.
It has nothing to do with ginseng itself, and prefers to grow in dark and rancid sludge, especially in damp-eroded tombs, or in ancient riverbeds where sludge accumulates.
The rhizome of the ghost ginseng can penetrate several feet deep into the ground, saying that it is a plant, but it can stretch the rhizome, secrete venom to kill people and animals, and feed on it, and is regarded as a sacred tomb keeper by some mysterious and ancient dynasties.
At this moment, the rhizome of the ghost ginseng has wrapped the man's whole body to the point that I can only see an extremely painful and distorted face, and the venom has almost corrupted the man's lower body.
Shanzi didn't know where he got the courage, so he suddenly took out the sapper shovel from his waist and jumped down the ditch.
I didn't have time to stop him, and when Shanzi went down, another rhizome of ghost ginseng slowly stretched out from his side, and the rhizome went straight to Shanzi.
Looked at! I was in a hurry and my mind was disturbed, and as soon as my brain was hot, the heroism came flooding up, so I immediately took out the sapper shovel and jumped down without regard to the consequences.
As soon as I went there, I cut off the rhizome of the ghost ginseng that was about to sneak up on the mountain with a few shovels, and as soon as the rhizome was broken, a puddle of venom oozed out, and I panicked to avoid it.
Just as I was about to call the mountain up, the fat man and the rest of the others also jumped down.
"What are you doing down? Don't fucking think that's messy enough, right? "When I saw the fat man, I was in a hurry, and I blamed the fat man when I opened my mouth.
After the fat man stabilized his footsteps, he responded, "Do you think I want to come down, it's densely packed with the roots of ghost ginseng, and if you don't come down, you'll be waiting for your mother to die on it." ”
After the fat man finished speaking, I glanced up, and as he said, I saw that at the edge of the grave where we had just stood, there were already a few dark green roots that began to approach us little by little.
Scared me and the fat man hurriedly took two steps back, because we are standing on the white bones, so the action is not convenient, the fat man retreated and accidentally fell, it happened that at this time a ghost ginseng root whiskers under the fat man's back, the fat man should have felt it, and shouted "I grass" and then the whole person bounced up, and a shovel shoveled the root whiskers far away.
Fortunately, the fat man reacted quickly, otherwise it is estimated that the fat man would have become a nutrient solution for ghost ginseng.
When the fat man just got up, I saw that the down jacket on his back was burnt a lot, and after I told the fat man, the fat man was babbling, took off the down jacket in seconds, and then asked me nervously, "Ah Wang, let's see if the tender meat on my back has been burned?" ”
"Are you scared silly? Don't you feel it yourself? I patted the fat man's back and answered, and then ran to help Shanzi save the man, but it was too late, at this moment, I saw that the man's originally complete upper body was only a white bone and slowly flowing blood, and his head was already bloody and blurred, only to see two rows of blood-stained teeth and the jawbone with carrion, the whole head has been white foam, and there is a sour smell wafting faintly, basically rotten.
Shanzi was furious when he saw this, and he was about to cut the ghost ginseng hiding in the dark with the sapper shovel, but I stopped it in time and said, "Shanzi, don't go, I'm afraid you will just die in vain, and there is no need to make senseless sacrifices." ”
Shanzi didn't lose his mind when he heard me say this, but gritted his teeth angrily.
I looked around, this bone sea burial pit is unobstructed, and all of them are full of Bai Sensen's bones, in the direction in front of us, I estimate that it is the burial pit where the fat man and Lao Jin fell before, so it is a dead end in front, once you enter, it is a sheep into the tiger's mouth, and it will be surrounded by the roots of the ghost ginseng, and at that time it will really be a catastrophe, and the Daluo Immortal will not be able to save it.
The two sides of the pit ditch are about two meters high, and it was a piece of cake to climb up, but now the two sides have been occupied by the root of the ginseng, and the fat man said that it has been crawling with the roots of the corpse ginseng, and climbing up is also a way to kill himself.
When we retreated into the darkness, I realized that I had made a foolish decision, for the darkness of the ditch was a black mud pool, and it was like a swamp, and people kept sinking down.
One of the members of Shanzi's team, probably out of fear, ran first, but he was caught in the mire at once, and in less than a minute, his whole body was swallowed up by the mud puddle to the bone, and we didn't even have time to save him, but we watched him be swallowed up in the swamp.
There was a field on the edge of the mud pool, less than three points of land, but it was the only place we could stand at the moment, because at this time we were full of terrible ginseng roots in front of us, and behind us was a swamp that eats people and does not spit out bones.
Seeing that the roots of the ghost ginseng had gradually narrowed, and all of us were standing more and more crowded, especially the fat man's body, he could top the body of two women with one person, but he was next to me, squeezing me uncomfortably, I instinctively pushed him out of the crowd.
"I'm grass! Dead Ngawang, don't push it, you want me to die, didn't you see this cannibalistic ghost ginseng root whisker touching me fucking soon? As he spoke, the fat man shoveled away a few of the tendrils that were close to him.
Strange to say, as soon as the fat man said this, I realized that basically most of the roots are close to the fat man's side, and once there are roots moved in front of them, the fat man will shovel them away with a sapper shovel.
Now we are standing in too small a position for the venom-laden roots to be cut off, lest the venomous and horrible venom splash upon us.
Helpless! can only do this for the time being, shovel all the roots close to the fat man one by one, the fat man also found that the roots are biased towards his position, the depressed fat man just shoveled a root whisker and scolded, "I grass, brother is not a star, why do these ghosts always choose me first?" Do you love me so much? ”
After Shanzi hurriedly cleaned up the roots close to him, he replied, "Ghost ginseng has a great appetite, and it lives in this kind of hidden underground, so naturally there is not much food, so they should choose foods with a lot of fat first." ”
The fat man became even more depressed when he heard this, and complained dissatisfiedly, "I'll go to its grandma's, am I still wrong to be fat?" ”
At this time, all the roots seemed to be so hungry and thirsty that they wanted to blow up all the fat of the fat man at once, and all of them sped up, and the fat man was startled when he saw this, and a natural reaction moved behind me.
"I'm grass!" After I scolded, I immediately shoveled a few shovels to fly the roots, and then dragged the fat man out from behind me, "Xu Fatty, you are fucking lacking in morality, if you don't want to die, hurry up and help!" ”
"Ahh - "After the fat man screamed, he waved one shovel after another as if he were hanging (a game word), and saw that all the whiskers flew forward under his flying shovel.
Everyone saw that the effect was not bad, so they followed suit one by one, but everyone knew that this was just a delaying tactic, and the roots that were shoveled and flew were approaching one by one, and if it continued like this, sooner or later our physical strength would have to be exhausted, and then it would still be a result, a dead end.
"Ah...... Ngawang! You're not usually a ghost, how can you ...... Why is your brain bad now, is rust funny? Lan Xin shovel was tired, panting, and said intermittently.
"I ...... I....... I, "I" was stunned for a long time, but I didn't hold back a word, and what I said was also, isn't it common to say that wisdom arises in a hurry, but I am in a hurry at this time except for sweating on my forehead, why didn't I give birth to anything?
As we spoke, another wave of whiskers poured in, and the area that had been expanded by our sappers and shovels was forced to gradually shrink down, and the big guys were crowded together again.
Seeing that his life was hanging by a thread, the fat man's last words were, "I knew that I was going to die under the roots of this monster, it was better to drink and die suddenly than to drink just now, then I could be a drunkard who dreamed of death, which is also better than not being able to recognize anyone after death." ”
"Chubby! Don't crow's mouth, hurry up and find a way to be real! Xiao Jing said a little dissatisfied when she heard the fat man say "death".
As soon as the fat man talked about wine, I was in a hurry, and immediately went to grab the fat man's backpack, and said, "Fatty, didn't you buy a lot of two-pot heads before, quick!" Take it all out. ”
The fat man replied with a disgusted expression, "Ah Wang, are you so good, this is all fucking death, why are you still in the mood to worry about my little wine?" ”
"I'm worried about your uncle, don't you know that liquor above 45 degrees can be ignited." I replied to the fat man and hurriedly rummaged through the fat man's backpack.
The ghost immediately understood my intentions, and cooperated with me, saying "Yes!" to the crowd. But all living creatures are basically afraid of fire, so everyone quickly takes off their coats and wraps them around the sapper's shovel. ”
By the time I pulled out the second pot, the fat man had already wrapped his shirt around the sapper shovel, because all he had left was his shirt.
I poured the second pot head on his sapper shovel wrapped in his clothes, and the fat man immediately lit the fire with the zippo lighter he carried with him, and then used the burning sapper shovel to take the lead and buy time for the rest of us to ignite the fire.
I also quickly took off my coat and wrapped it around the sapper shovel, sprinkled the second pot head and lit the fire, and then gave the remaining three or four bottles of the second pot head to Uncle Nine next to me.
As we expected, even the terrifying ghost ginseng, known as the tomb keeper, could not escape the natural law that living creatures are afraid of fire, as soon as our torches are close to its roots, the roots will retreat, and all of them will be far away.