Book 2: Ba Ren Bronze Hanging Coffin Chapter 20: Dragon Lice Gu
As soon as the boatman's voice fell, I saw that on both sides of the boat, some black things suddenly poured up, and there were a lot of them, dense, innumerable, like black quicksand, constantly spreading to the boat, seeing this! I thought to myself, no matter what things were, I couldn't let them on board again, or the ship would have to sink, so I straightened Lan Xin from me when I boarded, and then picked up the ordinary shovel that the guard had prepared for us from the edge of my seat, yes! It was an ordinary shovel, and I originally designated a sapper shovel, but the officer said that it was too late to buy it, so he temporarily borrowed two ordinary shovels with long wooden sticks from a friend in the town.
Although this shovel is not comparable to the sapper shovel, but in terms of the current crisis moment, something is much better than nothing, I threw a handful to the ghost, this kid is clever, naturally understands what I mean, there is no need for me to say more, the two brothers picked up the shovel and shoveled these black things like dirt, shovel after shovel into the river, at the same time, the boatman also took out two spare wooden oars from his boat, one to Lan Xin, and the four of them worked together to remove these things that looked like bugs.
The whole worm was about four centimeters long, oval-shaped, like a bull's eye, with a prominent bulge on its back, oily black and a little dark red in it, and its hind limbs were extremely well developed and wide at the end, like an oar.
At first glance, these insects look like dragon lice, but in fact, they are bloodthirsty "dragon lice Gu".
The dragon lice Gu has been shoveled most of the dragon lice Gu with the cooperation of me and the ghost, Lan Xin and the boatman, but the dragon lice Gu that has been shoveled down has been climbing up, and it seems that there is no way to cut off the way for them to climb up, and it is only a symptom but not a cure, and it is in vain, and when the physical strength of the four of us is exhausted, it will also become the delicacy of the dragon lice Gu.
I wanted the boatman to drive the boat away, but I didn't want to control the handle of the oar has also been attacked by dragon lice Gu, and the boat can't be driven, I suddenly thought that when I just got on the boat, I saw a small barrel of spare gasoline on this speedboat, which was placed in the cockpit, and I immediately went to get it, but I never thought that the barrel of oil was already full of dragon lice Gu.
I wanted to use the soil shovel in my hand to shoot away these dragon lice Gu that made me look creepy and black, but when I was about to start, I thought about it and felt that it was impossible, if I accidentally broke the oil barrel, wouldn't it be self-defeating. It's even more impractical to shoot it with your hands, isn't this tantamount to sending your mother into the mouths of these bloodthirsty Gu worms! I, Wu Nian, am not the kind of idiot who runs out of brains when he is in a hurry.
Just when I was so anxious and didn't know what to do, I suddenly heard a short urgent sound from Lan Xin, and immediately looked back, just as I saw that there was already a dragon lice Gu crawling to her neck, oh no! Lan Xin must have been bitten by this Gu, and the ghost also saw the dragon lice Gu on Lan Xin's neck, and immediately quickly reached out and bounced the Gu worm away, but because he was also in a desperate situation, he couldn't care too much about Lan Xin, which showed that the ghost must have thought that this was just an ordinary dragon lice, and didn't know that it was a Gu, so he didn't know how powerful it was, otherwise with the ghost's temperament, he would definitely sacrifice his life and death to care about Lan Xin.
It was also out of consideration for the ghost's character that I didn't dare to tell everyone that this was Gu, for fear that the ghost would be distracted by Lan Xin's wound and make a big mess. Lan Xin had just been injured here, and the rough voice of the boatman was heard in his ears, and he only heard him scolding, "I am an ancestor of the board, what kind of worm is this, the bite is so painful." ”
Hearing the sound, I turned my head to look! There have been several dragon lice Gu crawling onto the boatman's body, on the unclothed flesh and meat up, I wanted to rush up to help, but after thinking about it, it is still the overall situation, only by cutting off the road of these dragon lice Gu who are ready to kill, can we save everyone from fire and water, after repeated hesitation, I still took off the T-shirt of my jacket and went to pat these dragon lice Gu who occupied the oil drum, in the process of slapping I already felt that I was naked, and my defenseless back had been attacked by these Gu worms, This was already something I expected, so I didn't pay much attention to it, and just randomly photographed a few.
The dragon lice Gu is not the same as the stone lice Gu, it will only attack living creatures or parts that sense body temperature, so they can't do it on parts that are covered by clothes.
As soon as my back was attacked, I was even more anxious, and randomly slapped the dragon lice Gu on the oil drum to drive them away, but after the attack was taken away, there was a substitute rushing up, these goods were like flies that could not be driven away, back and forth, endlessly, and at this time I found that my trousers were also unconscious, crawling on some dragon lice Gu, they were crawling towards my naked upper body inch by inch, seeing this, my heart was horizontal, I couldn't control so much, I reached out to grab the oil drum with a few dragon lice Gu left, and pulled out the lid, He began to pour oil on the river along the edge of the boat.
Because of this action, I couldn't spare my hand to take care of the dragon lice Gu that crawled on the back of my hand, so I could only grit my teeth and watch these things that were only four centimeters in size in my hands, killing unscrupulously, the ghost saw this, and immediately ran over to help me, just drove away the dragon lice Gu in my hand, and because of distraction, he let the dragon lice Gu drill into the air, and he really hit a bite.
When I saw that the oil had almost been emptied, I shook off the oil drum with one hand, took out a cigarette and lit it, and threw it into the oil-filled river. Dragon lice Gu can't escape the natural definition of creatures being afraid of fire, so they who were still staying on the river to get on the boat immediately dived into the river and didn't dare to get on the boat again.
After cutting off the reinforcements, the rest of us, including me, the ghost, and Lan Xin, saw hope, and they did their best to drive the remaining dragon lice Gu of the defeated party off the boat, as for the boatman, he had already died before he could get out of the army, and he was covered in insatiable dragon lice Gu, lying in the stern of the boat and convulsing.
Lan Xin and the ghost originally wanted to come to the rescue, but let me stop them, and I hurriedly said, "Don't go!" These are not simple dragon lice, this is dragon lice Gu, it's Gu! Did you hear me clearly? It's Gu, it's not something you can deal with, and the boatman is no longer a boatman, he's dead, and the convulsions are just a conditioned reflex of the muscles"
After hearing this, Lan Xin and the ghost were suddenly startled, and asked in unison, "Could it be that he will become a ghost?" That...... Aren't we also poisoned? ”
I said, "No! This dragon lice Gu itself does not carry contagious Gu poison, so after being bitten, it will not mutate like those ghost corpses we saw two years ago. ”
"Then why did he react the way he did?" The ghost asked me as he pointed to the boatman, who was still twitching.
"This is the scariest thing about dragon lice Gu," I asked Lan Xin and the ghost rhetorically, "How did you feel when you were bitten just now?" ”
Lan Xin grabbed ahead of the ghost and opened her mouth first, she said, "The first blow is the stinging pain of the heart, as if the skin tissue has suddenly been torn apart by something, and it seems that something has touched the blood vessels." ”
Then the ghost continued, "Then I began to feel a coldness, and then the bite was not painful, but the blood vessels around the wound seemed to start to itch slightly, but after a while, I didn't feel it anymore." ”
I said, "That's right! This is the most terrifying thing about dragon lice Gu! Just now, the ghost said that there will be a feeling of ice after being bitten, but in fact, it is a distraction. ”
"What distraction?" The ghost asked.
I lit a cigarette, and before I could take a puff, I was snatched by Lan Xin on the side and thrown directly into the fire next to the boat, "Have you forgotten what I said?" You are not allowed to smoke in front of me. ”
I nodded helplessly and smiled bitterly, "Okay, good!" I can talk without pumping. Then he looked at the ghost, "Old Wang!" Do you remember the last time you and I first came to the hydropower station, we saw Zheng Dong's bones in the ice lake and found some larvae that looked like dragon lice? ”
The ghost immediately nodded solemnly, and replied, "The memory is still fresh, the whole lake is dense, dense. ”
"That's right! It's those larvae, in fact, I knew at the time that those weren't simple dragon lice larvae, I just felt familiar, but I just didn't think about it, until I remembered it just now, those were actually the larvae of this dragon lice Gu, and you guessed it right, Zheng Dong's corpse was eaten by those larvae, but it was eaten from the inside out. ”
Lan Xin seemed to understand something when he heard this, and interrupted me to ask, "You mean that these dragon lice Gu are all implanted larvae into human bodies?" And then let the larvae eat from the human body and out when they grow? ”
I nodded, "That's right, look at the boatman, now his body is already full of dragon lice Gu larvae, this is what I just said that their wounds will freeze after biting are just to divert attention, that is, you don't know that the larvae are in your body, and each adult dragon lice Gu can produce about dozens of larvae." ”
"Then aren't we all in danger, just now we were all recruited." The ghost was immediately worried, but Lan Xin was more calm, she said unhurriedly, "I understand Wu Nian, if we have something, he would have figured out a way a long time ago, and he won't give us nonsense here, let us wait for death." ”
I looked at her and smiled, "One or two larvae are not a problem, I'll go find some herbs to get rid of them later." "In order to make the ghosts feel more at ease, I further popularized the knowledge of dragon lice Gu to the two of them" Dragon lice Gu also has another name, called "Ice Corpse Pupa", its cultivation needs to be in a sub-zero environment, so their larvae also need to be in a sub-zero environment before they begin to develop. ”
The ghost asked, "Then according to your meaning, the ice lake is the place where dragon lice Gu are cultivated." ”
When I got to this point, the dragon lice Gu on the boatman's body began to crawl one after another, spreading out in all directions, and when I saw this, I immediately picked up the soil shovel and shouted to the ghost and Lan Xin, "Quick!" They have already laid their larvae, and now they have nowhere to evacuate, so they can only come to us to settle accounts with the autumn queen. "Saying that, I will shovel and fly a batch of Gu worms, and the ghost and Lan Xin don't dare to be idle, so they immediately copy the guy to help, but fortunately, there are not many dragon lice Gu left, and they will all be solved in a few clicks without us taking a few moments.
When I was done, I launched the boat and fled, and the ghost asked me, "Wang! Why do you keep the boatman's body? Isn't he already a Gu man, forget it. ”
As I drove the boat, I said to the ghost, "O old king! You're so wise, and I'm not going to tell you now, but you'll know what I'm doing with him later. ”
When I moved the corpse, the ghost suddenly found that the wounds on my hands and back that had just been bitten by the dragon lice Gu were inexplicably oozing some small yellow filaments, and after I checked, I found that it was actually a small larva that had not yet formed the dragon lice Gu.
Odd! Why does my body still expel the worms on its own? Lan Xin was surprised and immediately thought of something, and clapped his hands, "I understand, could it be that your blood is different from ours?" Two years ago, Uncle Nine couldn't see that your blood was extraordinary, didn't the fat man joke that you were a demon man? ”
Although I don't really want to mention those things again, but they have actually existed, whether it is from the time when the ancient tomb blood sacrifice coffin, or the time when I was safe and sound, and now this time, and when Mount Everest came back, Uncle Rong said in the dream, it seems that he didn't choose the wrong person, what does it mean? What does this have to do with my blood? It's also a knot that I can't let go.
The ghost also agreed with Lan Xin's statement, and also gave an example: "I used to have a comrade-in-arms when I was in the army, his blood cells are different from ordinary people, he has his own antibodies, and he will not be able to be infected with many diseases, so maybe your blood cells are a little more advanced than him, and you can expel Gu poison." ”
This kind of thing is not something we can guess by guessing, let's put it aside, the top priority is still this dragon lice Gu.
After removing the boatman's body, I began to examine the boatman's body, and sure enough, all his features made me expect, his face was full of horror, his eyes were full of fear, and more importantly, although he was dead, although he was not breathing, he had a faint pulse, and the boatman's death was the same as that of the undercover visitor and Zheng Dong.
Now my mystery has been solved, it turns out that the faint pulse of the undercover visitor after death is caused by the larvae of the dragon lice Gu, the larvae of the dragon lice Gu grow extremely fast, basically they can eat for a week, and during this period, they will move in the veins of the corpse from time to time to cause me to mistake it for a pulse.
After hearing this, the ghost and Lan Xin agreed with my analysis, and because of this, I got an important clue, that is, Zheng Dong and the undercover interviewer were tricked before they died.
When I said this, the ghost said, "Could it be the murderer's Gu?" ”
"It's unlikely." Lan Xin answered the ghost's suspicions before I did. I continued with her words, "Yes! I also don't think it's very likely, because if the murderer will do Gu, then why should he take the trouble to kill them, just use Gu directly. ”
Lan Xin said, "There is one key point, that is, where are Zheng Dong and the secret visitor? Maybe it will help us solve the case. ”
"This kind of Gu is also from the ancient sect of the tomb of the Miao Girl, so this kind of Gu often appears in the tomb." Speaking of this, I suddenly opened my mouth, and said with joy, "I thought about it, it is estimated that Zheng Dong and the secret visitor have been to the tomb, I am afraid that their Gu is in the tomb." ”
This time I am more sure that there is an ancient tomb under this hydropower station, and it is not an ordinary ancient tomb, how big it is, and how many secrets are hidden, so I can only go down to the tomb to find out, and the ghost agrees and says, "Mao * Lord * Xi said that practice is the only criterion for testing the truth, Wang!" When are we going to do it? I'll leave it up to you this time, after all, you're the most experienced in this area. ”
Lan Xin continued the ghost's words and said, "Tonight is definitely not good, we have no preparation, I don't like to fight unprepared, according to me, Wu Nian, you first survey the terrain at night to confirm the location, anyway, you know the feng shui." ”
I saw that Lan Xin and the ghost were full of interest, and it was inevitable that I was inexplicably excited, and I wanted to show off my skills, but now there were more important things, so I had to force down my adventurous energy and say to them, "No hurry!" There's more important things to do in the evening, wait for the two of you to burn the boatman's body, and then find a way to find out if the body of the disappeared covert visitor is in the ice lake? If so, then I guess there must be only bones left. ”
I love to be the captain of the old mistake, and when I make a mistake, I arrange the work of Lan Xin and the ghost in a good way.