Chapter 31: Nine-Legged Dragon
The moment I fell into the water, I immediately panicked, thinking that it was the same thing that had been keeping a distance from me and attacked me. I struggled a few times to regain my balance, but it was harder to rebalance in the water than to climb to the sky, after all, I was a human, not a fish.
In a panic, I touched my foot and neck with my hand, only to realize that it was a cold human hand. At the same time, the human hand was trying to grab my hand and pulling me in one direction.
Everything happened too suddenly, and now I am extremely confused in my mind, and when I first entered the water, I drank a few sips of stinky water, and I couldn't feel whose hand it was at this time. I thought to myself, before I'm sure it's friend or foe, I still have to keep a certain distance from this hand, in case it's a water dumpling or a forbidden woman, I'll fucking be useless.
I kicked the hand a few times hard before I broke free, and then it surfaced, and the hand didn't come back to haunt me, but I still raised my vigilance, not daring to make any noise, and carefully tried to hear if there was any unusual noise around me.
I don't know if my ears were blocked by water, or if there was no sound around me, and all of a sudden there was silence around me, and I couldn't hear anything. The sound of hanging upside down on the wood was gone, and there was no movement in the water.
The silence of this moment made me nervous, and it was not a good thing to know that there was something else around the passage in the dark, when I could not see anything. It turned me into a deaf and blind person, and I really can't imagine how they would survive if there were such people in this world.
I slowly pulled the lighter out of my coat pocket and pinned all my hopes on it, hoping that it would bring me a moment of light, at least let me see the situation around me.
When I was ready to go to the lighter, I began to regret infinitely, regretting that I had brought two more electronic lighters, this flint lighter, which was simply annoying and infuriating. Since I was dragged into the water just now, the lighter was also soaked in water, and I hit it several times, but it didn't come out.
In the silence of darkness, to listen to the grinding wheel and flint rubbing against each other is to destroy one's will. I don't know if it's the right thing to do, maybe there is nothing around me now, but with this friction sound, something will definitely come over.
Even though I knew that doing so would put me in a more passive situation, I didn't hesitate in the slightest. Instead of waiting for your destiny in the dark, you should take control of your destiny in the light. But the lighter in his hand is really not angry, the more anxious he is, the more he can't catch fire.
Just when I was feeling mixed feelings, I felt a strong current rushing over me. This time, however, the current did not come directly at me, and seemed to abate not far away. I don't know if it's the hand just now, or if it's something else, but I have a vague premonition that it's not good, and I always feel that it's similar to me.
I instinctively took a step back in the direction of the current, trying to get away from the thing, my feet were a step out of the water, and as soon as I moved my upper body back, I felt a cold thing on the back of my neck.
Just a short contact, I was scared, the hairs on my body stood up in an instant, a cold feeling from head to toe, and my neck was suddenly wooden. I don't know what it is, but I'm sure it's something that moves, because it's elusive.
The first thing I thought of was those clawed monsters, even though it was in the dark, my eyes were still wide, people always have a fluke mentality, and I also wanted to be able to see everything in front of me, even if it was just a hint of darkness. But my vision is limited, and even if I stare down my eyes, I can't see.
Although I am a little nervous and nervous now, I am still very clear in my heart. No matter what it was, as long as it moved, it would be a threat to me, so I decided to keep the lighter in my hand on. I thought to myself, if I die, I will die, and it is better to die in the hands of something than to die in a daze.
I don't know if I moved the heavens, or if I was destined to have such a glimmer of light, and the flint was suddenly sparked, but it did not ignite the flame.
Just a flash of sparks, it also brought me a glimmer of light, and at the moment when the sparks splashed, it almost scared me out and screamed.
Around my head, there hung upside down a strange face with no facial features, each with a paw hanging down, and a claw in front of me was so close to me that it almost touched my face.
At the same time, I also saw a human head peeking out of the water less than two meters away from me, and although I didn't see who it was, I was sure that it was a living person, because the person was gasping for air. On the top of his head, there were also several claws hanging down.
I was a little overwhelmed to see so many paws hanging down. Although I was a little prepared in the darkness, I still didn't expect that there would be such a dangerous situation around me. The claws hanging down from above are the kind of claws that have the function of anesthesia, and once they are pierced into the skin, I will be sucked to death unconsciously.
I don't know if I was really scared and didn't dare to move, or if my whole body was numb, the hand holding the lighter had been kept above the water, my arm was as stiff as if it had become wood, and my fingers were still pressed on the grinding wheel, I don't know if I should start the fire again.
"Fuck, run."
With a shout in my ear, a hand grabbed me directly and pulled me into the water with all my might. I didn't react until I was in the water, and the hand that was holding me swam hard in the direction of the man's pull.
I don't know how far I've swam the road, but it feels like it's been a long time, and my lungs are a little bit suffocated. I just remember turning a corner in the water, as if swimming towards a high ground, it seems that there are more and more steps under my feet, and the water feels shallower and shallower.
When I surfaced, I took two steps forward and saw a bright light, and someone was standing less than three meters away from me with a candle in his hand.
I recognized it at a glance, it was Xiao Moyan who was holding the candle, her whole body was soaked, and her clothes were clinging to her body, revealing the woman's unique perfect curves. However, looking at Xiao Moyan's appearance, it seemed to be very cold, his face was a little pale, and his body was slightly trembling.
The water level of this tomb is much shallower, only knee-high, and the walls on both sides are made of ancient bricks, which look like they are at least a few hundred years old, and the surface of some ancient bricks has naturally fallen off.
"My god, Xiao Qi, what's going on in your fucking head? Let you play cold fireworks, why don't you fight? ”
As soon as I heard this sentence, I felt a blow on the back of the head, and when I looked back, it was the old prostitute who beat me, and he had just come out of the water, and his body was still dripping with water droplets. I looked around to see that there was no one else, and it seemed that the old prostitute had just swam me in the water.
I didn't pay attention to what the old prostitute said, nor did I care that he hit me on the back of the head, but turned to look in the direction where I was swimming.
"Damn, don't look at it, they won't get by."
"How do you know the way?" I looked at the old prostitute and asked suspiciously.
The old prostitute pointed to the direction we had just swam and replied, "There are sharp knives hanging above this graveyard." Before the old prostitute could finish speaking, she looked at me very strangely, as if she had thought of something, and then she circled around me before she asked, "Where is the dagger?" ”
I heard the old prostitute ask about the dagger, and quickly looked at my hand, and saw that it was a lighter in my hand, and then looked at my body, only to find that the dagger was missing.
The old prostitute looked at me with a blank expression, and knew that the dagger was gone, and it seemed that he wanted to say something to me, which was probably an ugly word, but he didn't say it, or he held it back, just looked at me, showing a very helpless expression.
The three of them didn't speak at this time, standing in different directions, you look at me, I look at you, all with tired faces.
I touched my neck with my hand, and the claws I had cut were still wrapped around my neck, but I didn't pull them off after a few pulls, and the claws seemed to grow on my neck, and when I pulled it, it would bring up the epidermis on my neck, and the skin on my neck hurt.
"Don't move, this thing isn't hard to pull."
After the old prostitute finished speaking, she came over and helped me pull the claw wrapped around my neck, and while helping me pull it down, she muttered in her mouth: "Fuck it, let's point it right, it's a juvenile that you encounter, if you meet a blood-sucking one, then you kid will have to live with it for the rest of your life." ”
As soon as I heard the old prostitute say this, it seemed that I had a certain understanding of the monster with no facial features, and quickly asked, "Old prostitute, do you know that faceless monster?" ”
"My god, if you don't know it, say you don't know, don't fucking mess with names. That thing is called the Nine-Legged Dragon, not the Faceless. ”
"Let's hear if you've seen it before." I asked with interest.
"I've seen it, but it's a dead one, this thing is very rare, and it is said that it has long been extinct." The old prostitute told me some information about the nine-legged dragon kui.
It turned out that a few years ago, the old prostitute saw a nine-legged dragon kui who had died on the molt of a python.
It is said that the nine-legged dragon kui is the longest-surviving parasite in the world, and it does not have its own nutrient supply system and no specific living environment. Although it is a parasite, the vitality of the nine-legged dragon kui is quite tenacious, and it is said that as long as this thing has a life source to lodge, it can live for hundreds or even thousands of years.
The nine-legged dragon kui appears to have nine claws on the surface, but eight of them have the same function, only one claw is really aggressive, because that claw contains a large amount of anesthetic, and that claw bears the burden of nutrient delivery, that is, it is responsible for absorbing nutrients to supply its own body.
When the claw that is responsible for nutrient delivery successfully finds the parasitic source, the other eight claws will be firmly fixed to the parasitic source, and these eight claws have soft flesh needles like inverted spear thorns, which can unconsciously penetrate into the skin of the parasitic source, so that the parasitic source cannot escape.
The old prostitute said that it was only a young body that was pierced into my skin, so it only anesthetized one of my arms, and if it was a nine-legged dragon kui who had parasitized a few times, then I would not only be anesthetized with one arm, but my whole body would have to be anesthetized.
Although the old prostitute said it was a little simpler, it sounded like these nine-legged dragon kui were also quite terrifying. I really can't imagine what I would have become if I had been controlled by this nine-legged dragon kui, it is estimated that I will die miserably, and the blood and nutrients of my whole body will have to be absorbed by them.
To be honest, this is the first time I have seen such a large parasite, and I may not be surprised if I see it in the sea, after all, there are many parasites in the sea, and maybe I will think that such a big thing is a creature parasitic on a shark, and there is no fuss. But this is not the sea, it is an ancient tomb, and those nine-legged dragons came out of the coffin, so I have to guess the intention of the tomb owner.
"Damn, I'm glad you cut off this claw in the back, otherwise, you wouldn't be able to run if you want to." As she spoke, the old prostitute handed me a paw from behind me.
I looked sideways, good fellow, there were really claws more than a meter long, hanging low behind me, and at one end of the claw, there were obvious marks of being cut. I don't have to think about it, this claw must be the one that wanted to hang me up at that time.
Looking at this claw, I also thoughtfully understood one thing, it turns out that there is not something in the water that always keeps a certain distance from me, presumably it should be this claw that I cut off, and it has been carried by me to run, I accelerated, it also accelerated, I slowed down, it also slowed down, so there was the sound of water behind me. It's ridiculous to think about it, and my heart said, damn it, I was scared of myself, which made me so nervous at the time.
"Old prostitute, what did you mean by what you just said that the top of this tomb is full of sharp knives?" I asked the old prostitute.
"It should be to stop those nine-legged dragons from coming."
"You mean to say that if there are sharp knives at the top of the tomb, those nine-legged dragons won't be able to come over?" I asked, confused.
"My god, I don't know how to go, I fucking guessed, you see that the claws of the nine-legged dragon kui are so soft, it is estimated that he can only hang and walk, and he should not be able to stand up from the ground."
Although the old prostitute was guessing, I think what he said also seemed to have some truth, and the claws I held in my hand were indeed very soft, as soft as ripe noodles. Don't say that it supports its body to stand up, but it is difficult to make it stretch out its paws.
Looking at the claws of the nine-legged dragon kui in my hand, I suddenly realized a very serious problem, my forehead instantly became numb, and I shouted at the two of them: "It's not right. ”