Chapter Twenty-Five: Three Elephants

Zhang Tianye, who was walking in front, did not have a very thorough vision, so he could only follow Dewey's instructions and walk in the direction when he came and went, and there was a lot of mucus on the clothes of the three people in the dense mushroom forest.

The slime was translucent, and there was a faint smell of blood, which was just a good explanation for this mushroom forest, the blood-red color and the smell of blood were like hell on earth.

Qi Xin, who has always had a habit of cleanliness, had a hard time tolerating the mucus, complaining along the way, and then as the mushroom forest became more and more dense, the mucus rubbed everywhere on his body, and Qi Xin finally couldn't bear it anymore.

Stopping the two of them, he took out a large bag of toilet paper from his bag and wiped it himself, mainly because the mucus on it dripped directly onto his face when he passed a large mushroom.

After wiping the mucus on his face, Qi Xin suddenly screamed, looked at the mucus on the tissue in his hand, and handed it to Zhang Tianye with some trembling, Dewey also stepped forward to take a look, and Zhang Tianye threw it directly on the ground after seeing the mucus.

Said loudly to the two people: "Run", every time they heard this word, the two of them knew very well in their hearts that something must have happened, this time Qi Xin did not stop Dewey, he cut off the mushroom in front of him with a knife in his hand.

Sure enough, as Zhang Tianye guessed, these mushrooms were hollow, full of mucus, and the mushrooms that were cut in half quickly dried up and blackened after being nourished by the mucus, turning into a puddle of black water, bulging up a big bag, and the taste became unpleasant.

The three of them couldn't help but speed up, because the danger was imminent, and at this time, they finally figured out the origin of the flower spider and the ten-legged scorpion!

After tossing for half an hour, the three people finally ran out, and when they looked back, the endless mushroom forest, the hearts of the three people were full of shock.

Qi Xin hurriedly said: "If I give my master a ton of gasoline now, I can't wait to burn these harmful things."

Dewey also nodded resentfully, after the mushroom forest, the relationship between the three of them became more intimate.

Zhang Tianye urged the two of them, took off the clothes on their bodies, changed into clean clothes, and said: "There is something wrong with this mucus, you take a closer look at whether there are still some small black spots on the clothes."

The two of them involuntarily observed on the clothes they took off, and indeed there were many small black spots as Zhang Tianye said, but Dewey asked Zhang Tianye before he could understand the reason: "What are those black spots"?

Qi Xin blurted out: "Brother Du, why are you so stupid, it's obvious that those black spots are insect eggs!"

Zhang Tianye nodded in agreement and continued: "Those mushrooms should be containers for insect eggs, and the mucus is their nourishment, and when these eggs continue to grow, the mucus will be diluted, without these special mucus, the mushrooms will lose their vitality and turn into the black things we saw before.

After listening to Zhang Tianye's explanation, Dewey casually took out a woodcutter and cut it vigorously in the nearby mushroom forest, because this matter was not less squeezed by Qi Xin, not to mention that it almost killed everyone!

This move made the three people in danger relax a lot, Qi Xin hugged his shoulders and stood aside and smirked, Zhang Tianye took this opportunity to take out his camera and take some photos as materials for future research.

After venting, Dewey walked up to the two of them and asked, "Next, what do we do"?

Zhang Tianye relaxed his vigilance at the moment, asked for a cigarette from Qi Xin, lit it and said: "Don't worry, the growth cycle of these insects is very slow, and it is impossible for them to appear in a few months"?

"Why", the two of them said in unison again, Zhang Tianye patted Qi Xin's shoulder and said, "Monkey, you should be able to think of it", and pointed to the mushroom forest again.

Qi Xin, who was still confused at first, suddenly said with an idea: "Is it parasitic to each other"?

Dewey didn't know anything about archaeology and biology, but it was a normal thing for two high-achieving students who graduated from prestigious foreign universities.

Qi Xin rubbed his hand on his nose, made a very disdainful expression and said, "Brother Du, you can understand it this way, you just cut both mushrooms and those poisonous insects"?

Dewey, who was stunned on the side, had a hard time understanding what he meant by this, which made Qi Xin a little embarrassed and continued: "Nature, there are many magical species, some are like viviparous mammals that we know, and some are not, just like these poisonous insects in front of them, the way they reproduce is to plant themselves in the soil, and after being watered by rain, they become big mushrooms in front of them."

After finishing speaking, Qi Xin lit a cigarette, took a leisurely puff and continued: "After turning into this mutated mushroom, they frantically absorb the water in the ground, form mucus, and turn it into nutrients.

Halfway through the conversation, Qi Xin took it back, threw the cigarette in his pocket to Dewey, and after taking the cigarette, Dewey also lit one for himself, and said easily: "Then I should be clear about the rest of the matter."

"At least eighty percent of our judgment is accurate, but this unique way of reproduction is really appalling", Zhang Tianye threw down the cigarette butt in his hand and continued to the two people: "Maybe our luck is not very good, we didn't pick the right time to enter the mountain, just in time for this batch of poisonous insects to prepare to reproduce, but fortunately, that black thing is their real supply center."

"That's right", at this time Qi Xin continued: "That day, you broke the black thing, and the smell was the reason why they attacked us, at that time, we fled all the way, I don't know how many of those things we stepped on the road, the smell on the body was heavy, fortunately, Zhang Shao was clever and made us throw away our shoes."

Speaking of this, Dewey still asked with a puzzled face: "Then why, will you chase us later"?

At this time, Qi Xin had lost the patience to explain, and said secretly in his heart: "Brother Du, you have such a handsome face, why is your IQ so low?"

Zhang Tianye said patiently: "Because there is our smell on the shoes, but the life cycle of these poisonous insects is very short, it should not exceed three months, and if you want to maintain life, you can't leave that black thing."

Explaining this, Dewey also understood the whole situation, that is to say, so far, these poisonous insects have entered a cycle of life, and it is impossible to attack them.

After everything was reasonable, the three of them rested for a moment, ready to go, and walked in the direction they had been coming, but they didn't go far before a new situation occurred, things were not as simple as they thought, and there was a dense black forest everywhere, and there was not the slightest sign that they had been to this place.

At this time, a word suddenly popped up in Zhang Tian's ambition: "Over Sanyue", the direction of the Black Forest in front of him was obviously not the place they had entered before, but it was very likely to be connected as a whole.

"This is the 'second mountain'", Zhang Tianye secretly finished speaking, and then read the passage of "Miscellaneous Talks at the End of the Drama" together, but he still didn't understand the mystery, but he understood the meaning of the first keyword, that is, Sixiangsheng.

If according to Zhang Tianye's speculation, he can conclude that the four elephants should not be the four dangers that he had previously determined, but should be the four signs, namely "mutated mushrooms and palm-sized caterpillars", and what the other two signs would be, he still can't be sure for a while.

In the past two days, Zhang Tianye has slowly become the core leader of this small team, after losing his way, Qi Xin and Dewey are still waiting for Zhang Tianye's solution, but they didn't expect him to fall into contemplation alone.

Qi Xin has changed since yesterday, he has become extremely anxious, he must be holding something in his heart, and he can't open his mouth to mention it, seeing that Zhang Tianye didn't speak for a long time, he put his arm on his body, hinting at his next move.

It just so happened that this action also pulled Zhang Tianye back from his thoughts, and he didn't have any good way for a while, and he didn't want to hit the momentum that everyone had so hard to get back.

I had to turn around, avoiding everyone's eyes, and just when I was about to speak, my eyes suddenly lit up, and I said to Dewey: "Brother Du, what do you see hanging on the tree in front of you"?

Looking for the direction pointed by Zhang Tianye, the two also looked over, and before Dewey could speak, Qi Xin rushed to say again: "Look, it's a white cloth", and then immediately changed his words and said: "No, it's snakeskin, you should be familiar with the rest of the things"!

Dewey looked at the hope in Qi Xin's eyes, and when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them back again, and nodded at Qi Xin, meaning that there was no problem.

Zhang Tianye grasped Dewey's subtle change, walked up, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Brother Du, for the rest of the way, I will hand over my life to you with the monkey"!

Dewey was a little excited about such a heavy trust, he knew in his heart that not anyone could casually hand over his life to others, and naturally he also felt the pressure on his body.

Fortunately, in the mushroom forest before, there was not much delay, it was only more than nine o'clock in the morning, and when the three of them were about to go on the road, Qi Xin turned around and took Dewey's woodcutter and cut it on the last giant mushroom nearby.

This sudden move made Zhang Tianye and Dewey feel inconceivable, and after Qi Xin cut off the big mushroom with a horizontal knife, it was not only the mushroom that only halved that fell to the ground, but also a peculiar purple-red long snake that was cut in two.

The snake looked to be a meter long, as thick as an adult's wrist, and the snake that fell to the ground had not yet lost its breath, but was frightened, and its two bodies quickly crawled into the mushroom forest.

When the eyes of the three people swept over the mushroom forest again, this time they were really dumbfounded, most of the mushroom heads were half eaten, which is enough to prove a problem, not only the overwhelming poisonous insects, but also the swarms of strange snakes that can kill people!

At this moment, Zhang Tianye finally had another problem in his heart, and the third elephant among the four elephants was the "Purple Strange Snake"!