Chapter 38: Familiar "Food"
Have you ever experienced death? Do you know what it's like to die?
I passed, so I knew.
She was already dead, but she could still feel the chill of the cold blade cutting through her skin, and the man made a cross cut on the top of her head, and then poured cold liquid into the mouth, as if she was molting, and her skin peeled off little by little under his knife, from the top of her head to her cheeks to her neck.
In just one hour, the man took her skin and left as if he had found a treasure, and the remaining crimson corpse was swept away by the white snake that smelled blood.
Unable to see, hear, or smell, all the senses seem to disappear with it. The only thing she was glad about was that she could still touch a slippery "wall", and this moving wall also let Xiang Qingwu know that perhaps, she was still alive.
A person who was skinned could still survive, Xiang Qingwu sneered in his heart, "Xiang Wantong, my good sister, if you know this, do you regret leaving too early." Because she was afraid of pain, Xiang Wantong disappeared when Qi Shuhang stabbed her third time, and she was never the one who suffered from pain since she was a child.
But why?
Why should I bear all the misfortune and pain? And you can enjoy all the protection I have given you with peace of mind? Why is it that it is also consciousness, your existence is justified, and I, heaven and earth do not tolerate it?!
Xiang Qingwu doesn't understand and is not convinced! All she knew was that the more people tried to take her life, the more she had to live. She believes that as long as she stays alive, she will find the answer one day!
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There is no sun and moon, no time, no life and death.
Xiang Qingwu fainted in the pain of being skinned, and then regained consciousness in a hazy way, but soon continued to faint and regained consciousness. It's like falling into the eighteen layers of hell, and the king of Hades wants you to live and die, and the pain will never end.
But do you just accept your fate? Will you just fall into hell from which you will never recover?
No, Xiang Qingwu doesn't admit his fate!
She wants to live, she wants to live more than anyone else! So every time she regains consciousness, no matter how painful it is, she will grit her teeth and persevere, even if she tries her best in the end, she can only recover a little bit of internal strength.
Dripping water pierces stones, ropes and saws wood breaks.
Finally, Xiang Qingwu recovered one percent of her internal strength, and the range of arms raised became larger and larger, she even touched a slippery "wall", gradually, she could open her mouth, raise her head, and sit up straight until she could stand up.
She was secretly happy about these changes, but she never thought of stepping out of this "wall", she still meditated quietly every day, the time she was awake became longer and longer, and her perception of the outside world became clearer and clearer, she could hear something make a slight explosion sound, and she could also hear the threatening sound of "hissing" from animals; She could feel the wind blowing through her skin, and she could feel something crawling over her arm; She could smell the rotting stench and the damp musty stench.
Eventually, her eyes were able to see her surroundings clearly after a meditation.
This is a huge swamp, surrounded by black muddy water constantly bubbling out, the bubble will "pop" as soon as the water bursts, every time the bubble bursts, there will be a white snake out of it, probe probe to look around. The wind in the swamp came one after another, and they always poked out their long bodies, swaying with them when the wind caught them, like algae in a river. Wherever the wind blows, a white snake will emerge, and after the wind passes, they will continue to burrow back, and the scene looks very strange.
Just as Xiang Qingwu looked around, a familiar feeling appeared again, she looked down, and saw a thumb-thick insect crawling down her calf to her thigh, and then opened her mouth and bit off a piece of meat on her thigh.
At this time, Xiang Qingwu finally saw his body clearly, this was a body that was far more terrifying than he imagined!
There is no skin, the whole body is covered with red flesh and blood, the two thighs are gnawed so that you can almost see the white bones, a pair of arms are even bitten pitted, the ten fingers are still well preserved, and there is even white skin remaining, as for the cheeks, Xiang Qingwu dare not touch them, let alone have a mirror to check.
She reached out and picked up the white worm that was eating joyfully, and suddenly hung in the air, and the white worm struggled in panic, revealing a mouth full of broken teeth and two sesame seed-sized eyes.
Xiang Qingwu originally wanted to pinch this thing to death with one palm, but then he stopped when he saw the bubbles wrapped around him, countless egg-like bubbles were densely arranged in the innermost part of the swamp, the bubbles were transparent, and each bubble was filled with different things, there were rotting corpses, dying animals, and even leftover contractors. The initiators were the white bugs that were eating on top of them, but strangely enough, the white bugs in the other blisters seemed to be bigger than the one in her hand, and the largest was the size of a baby's arm.
However, Xiang Qingwu soon discovered the clues, all of those thick insects grow relatively quickly, and the "food" in their blisters is also more scarce than others, maybe they will soon undergo a metamorphosis.
Xiang Qingwu tried to tear open the bubble, but found that this thing seemed soft, but in fact it was extremely tough and very lubricated, even if she used her nails, she might not be able to puncture it.
Just when Xiang Qingwu was studying the blisters, the insect in her hand twisted her body, tilted her head and tore off the only remaining flesh and blood on her fingers, if it weren't for the fact that her eyes were already healed, she wouldn't even notice it, as if her body had completely lost its pain.
A subtle "click" sound came from the middle of the blister.
Xiang Qingwu followed the prestige, only to see one of the blisters was bitten out of a gap by the insect attached to it, the insect tried to squeeze out of the gap, but its body was twice as thick as the gap, it desperately squeezed out, in the process of squeezing, it slowly faded off the bloated layer of skin and flesh on its body, and a two-finger-thick white snake came out of it, and the white snake dived into the swamp along the gap, and the bubble burst and quickly went down, and then merged into the mire.
In the next few hours, Xiang Qingwu saw insects bite bubbles one after another, turning into white snakes and drilling out. And the one in her hand is getting smaller and smaller because she can't eat her meat, and it looks like it is stunted, and as soon as it seizes the opportunity, it will turn around and bite off a piece of Xiang Qingwu's meat.
There are fewer and fewer bubbles in the swamp, and finally only three bubbles are left that are still stubbornly floating on the swamp, one is close to the innermost wall, which is black and dark, and it is not clear to see the situation, and the other is less than five meters away from Xiang Qingwu, most of the bubbles are sunk in the mire, and only one-third can be seen, and the last one is the one that Xiang Qingwu is now in, because the white worm has not been able to eat, so the volume is not only long but shrinking smaller and smaller.
The three abnormal bubbles quickly attracted the attention of the white snakes, at first only four or five white snakes swam over to check, but then there were hundreds, they spit out black letters and approached the bubbles, staring inside with vertical pupils, trying to find out the reason why the white worms had not been able to evolve for a long time.
Xiang Qingwu lay motionless sideways in the bubble, and finally seized the opportunity of the white worm frantically gnawed on Xiang Qingwu's thigh, like a hungry ghost who hadn't eaten for a hundred years.
Maybe it was because they saw that the white worms were no different, the white snakes quickly dispersed, and as soon as they left, Xiang Qingwu immediately pinched the white worms that were eating, looking at the large piece of meat on the thighs that was eaten again, although Xiang Qingwu did not feel pain, but still felt diaphragm. The most important thing is that she realizes that she can't stay here any longer, those white snakes are not stupid, they will soon find out that something is wrong, and it will not be so easy for her to get out of here then.
But this layer of bubbles can only be bitten by white worms, and she must find a way to let the white worms bite through the bubbles themselves.
Xiang Qingwu looked at the white insect writhing in her hand because of hunger, she looked at the bubble in the corner, hoping that there was still "food" in it.
After this period of cultivation, Xiang Qingwu's internal strength has recovered fifty or sixty percent, and since she can't feel pain, she even feels that she may be able to exert seventy or eighty percent of her strength at a critical time. Xiang Qingwu hit the internal force on the bubble, and the bubble slid up in the swamp due to the vibration, and then Xiang Qingwu slapped a few more palms, and finally approached the bubble in the corner.
But when Xiang Qingwu saw the "food" in the bubble clearly, his pupils suddenly constricted. I saw that in addition to a shriveled white worm in the bubble, there was also a little monk who didn't know life and death, this little monk was not an outsider, it was Xulin who had been separated from him for a long time!
How did he end up here? Xiang Qingwu swept over his body, and only found a small scab on his arm, and the white worm died next to him.
Xiang Qingwusi and Xu Lin once said that his blood was highly poisonous, and when he knew it, he was afraid that the white worm would bite him, but before he could eat the meat, he was poisoned by Xu Lin's blood.
Xiang Qingwu thought about this, put the white worm in his hand on the bubble, and then put the two bubbles close together, because the bubble is transparent, you can clearly see the continuation of the forest from this side. The white worm couldn't bargain on Xiang Qingwu's side, and when he saw that there was leftover food next door, he suddenly twisted his body excitedly and tried to drill over, but when he found that he couldn't get through, he began to bite the bubbles with his mouth.
Soon, the bubble was bitten out by the white worm, and it poked out half of its body and continued to bite through the bubble on the opposite side.
Xiang Qingwu was not worried about continuing the forest, but concentrated on pulling the gap bitten by the white worm and trying to tear it up, because once the bubble bursts, it will quickly wither, and there is a swamp below, and she will soon sink without the support of the bubble.
When Xiang Qingwu came out of the bubble, the mire had already overflowed her calves, she picked up the continuation of the forest casually, transported the internal force to the center of her feet, and her body quickly stepped over the mire and flew to the shore like electricity, seeing that Xiang Qingwu was about to return to the shore, suddenly a palm stretched out from the mire and grabbed her ankle.
Xiang Qingwu was shocked, slapped it down, "click", it was only a mechanical palm that was smashed, and there was a wire tightly wrapped around her feet, unless she cut the wire immediately, it would be impossible to get rid of this guy!
"Damn it!" Xiang Qingwu's chest rose with anger, seeing that her body was about to sink again, she had to carry enough internal force to sweep the person in the mire to the shore.