He noticed that I was looking at him and turned back to me and gave me a smile.

After a while, he asked me again, "That burden next to you should go into the tunnel." ”

I frowned before responding to him a moment, "Not so fast. ”

Wu Lin sighed helplessly, and looked at the top of the stone steps again.

At the time, I thought that he had stopped here because he sensed the dangerous aura coming from the top of the stone steps, or that he was wondering what the dangerous aura was coming from.

It wasn't until a few minutes later that I realized that the reason why he stopped and didn't move was just that he was afraid that Li Huaishan would be swept in.

The silence continued, and the dampness in the air added a bit of suffocation to the silence.

In the end, I couldn't help but speak: "What are you funeral sects for?" ”

Wu Lin said to me without replying: "If there is a person around you who keeps asking questions, will you be upset?" ”

After saying this, he turned to look at me, still with a smile on his face.

I stared at him, my brow furrowing slowly.

Wu Lin sighed from his nose and said, "In fact, in such a place, I also have a lot of unsolvable questions in my heart. If someone next to me keeps asking me questions, it's like a constant reminder that I, like him, don't know anything about what's going to happen. You know that feeling of ignorance, right? It's particularly unsettled and unsteady. ”

My brow slowly relaxed: "Do you sniper rifles like to preach?" ”

Wu Lin was stunned for a moment, then smiled again and said, "You're talking about the guy outside." He really plays with guns, and he's on par with me. ”

I also smiled helplessly: "Are you praising him, or praising yourself?" ”

"Praise him, and praise yourself by the way." Wu Lin changed his words halfway: "Li Da should have entered the tunnel." ”

After I nodded, he raised the gas lamp and climbed up the stone steps.

I wanted to walk side by side with him, but he blocked me with his hand and insisted that I follow him. I walked slowly behind him, Wu Lin was very careful with every step, he was holding a gas lamp in his left hand, and he was always holding the belt of a sniper rifle in his right hand, I was so close to him that I could clearly hear him change the normal rate of breathing.

He divided each breath into seven to complete, four inhales and three exhales, and as he adjusted his breathing, I could vaguely feel something change in him.

You ask me what happened to him? I can't answer that.

It was just a hazy feeling, and if you were standing behind Wu Lin at the time, you would also feel that he was becoming calmer and calmer, more and more vicissitudes, like an old turtle crawling on the stone steps.

After climbing more than a hundred stone steps, the ground suddenly shook slightly, and then there was a crisp sound of "bang" above the stone steps.

It was the sound of blisters popping, but this time the sound was sharper than what Li Huaishan and I had heard before, and it also caused a series of continuous echoes.

After that, I heard the sound of running water.

I remember that behind the pool there was a channel that ran diagonally downward, and the water that overflowed from the mouth of the pool flowed deep into the earth, and the sound of the water would be farther and farther away from us.

But this time, the sound of running water slowly came towards us along the top of the stone steps.

I realized something wasn't right and immediately pulled my teeth out of my pocket.

Wu Lin also picked up his sniper rifle and pointed it at the top of the stone steps where the sound of running water was heard.

"As I said, when there are two survivors in the same space at the same time, the danger index of the entire space increases dramatically, but rest assured, no matter what happens, the survivors will survive."

Just as I was staring warily at the darkness diagonally above, Wu Lin suddenly said this.

I sighed and said to him, "I found that you are not your ordinary verbose person. ”

As if he hadn't heard my words, Wu Lin continued: "I think that back then, a group of ginseng diggers in the old forest in the northeast had dug up a ginseng king tree at the foot of Changbai Mountain, guess what, what is connected under the roots of the ginseng king? ”

I don't know why he said this all of a sudden, and he didn't respond.

He didn't care if I replied or not, he still said to himself: "Under the king of ginseng, there is even yellow spring water, and the yellow spring water and the spiritual charm of the king of ginseng nourish the soil, and also give birth to a monster that does not belong to the two worlds of yin and yang. When the diggers dug out the king, the monsters suddenly came out of the soil and slaughtered everyone present......"

I interrupted him halfway: "The monster you're talking about is a green firefly, right?" ”

Wu Lin put half of his face on the back of the gun and said, "The locals call it Tuaozi." This thing is highly poisonous, and it is psychologically distorted, and likes to drill into people's brains. ”

I did see some descriptions of Tuaozi in the classics of the old family, and the book said that this kind of thing was first discovered in 1913, and the person who was lucky enough to see them was indeed the ginseng digger of Changbai Mountain.

As for the appearance of the soil turtle, I really don't know how to describe it, so I can only copy the text in the classics: "The shape of the body is like a shrimp crawler, but the volume is two or three times larger than the largest shrimp crawler...... In an ethnic group, there are often green and red pincer insects mixed, so it is roughly called green fireworms. ”

It can be seen that the person who sorted out this text should be at least a person from the Republic of China, and the whole text is almost all vernacular. And in his opinion, the so-called soil crow is a kind of long worm with a box similar to a shrimp crawl and a pair of tongs on its body.

This depiction is actually accurate, although the shape of the crow is like a prawn, but when they move, they do wriggle like caterpillars.

Speaking of which, when I first saw this kind of thing in the book, it left a deep impression on me, but I don't understand why Wu Lin suddenly mentioned it.

Without me asking, Wu Lin said to me: "In such a broken space, basically as long as there is a little stagnant water, there will definitely be a few soil crows hidden. ”

As he spoke, the icy water was already flowing down the stone steps, and the sound of running water was incessant, and beyond the sound of the running water, I heard a very noisy noise, as if something was crawling out of the pool.

"Let's see what the hell is coming down."

Wu Lin let out a loud shout, and then pressed the trigger.

There was a bang, and the muzzle fire did not disappear, and another flame burst out on the stone steps in the distance.

Through the brief appearance of the spark, I could vaguely see shadows rushing towards us along the current.

But the fire went out too quickly, and I didn't see what those things were, so I asked Wu Lin: "Is it Tuaozi?" ”

Wu Lin: "What else can it be if it's not Tuaozi?" I knew that the belt should rush in, and the frequency of sniper rifle attacks was too low. Be careful, don't let them open the scoop for you. ”

As he spoke, he put the sniper rifle back on his shoulder and pulled the dagger from his waist.

I took two steps forward and stood beside Wu Lin as the noise above the stone steps became more intense, and I could hear that something from above was speeding up towards us.

Wu Lin bent his knees and waist slightly, and said to me: "Tuaozi are afraid of strong lights and loud noises, as long as we hold up until their large army rushes over, I will have a way to deal with them." ”

I slapped the light diagonally upward, and in the white beam of the flashlight, there were already a lot of squirming earth crows.

I don't know how big the largest shrimp is, and I'm not quite sure what two or three measurements mean, I just know that a single crow is as long as my whole arm and half a thigh.

The pair of pliers that spread out on either side of their bodies were larger than the iron pliers used to wring the water pump.

If you are caught by this guy, you will probably even break your bones.

I said to Wu Lin at the time, "Withdraw to the stone platform, this place is too narrow, and it is easy to be caught by them." ”

Wu Lin: "No, the stone platform is too close to the tunnel, and the burden you brought may also suffer." Hehe, with his little ability, if he really touches the soil, he will only be opened...... It's coming! ”

Before I could hear a word, I heard a long "woo-" sound, and a clay crow leaped up from the stone steps with the strength of its tail, and flew towards me like a galloping crossbow arrow.

I had planned to deal with them with my fangs before, but these earth crows were not evil corpses or ghosts, except for a little evil qi on their bodies, there was neither yin qi nor other evil qi, and the fangs were just an ordinary blunt knife in front of them.

Wu Lin held the dagger in his hand, but he watched as the earthen claw aimed the tongs at my forehead, and he had no intention of helping at all.

Seeing that the pair of pliers was almost in front of my eyes, I could only hurriedly slap my hand and slap it on the abdomen of Tuaozi.

As soon as the shock came out, Tu Aozi first shook violently in mid-air, and then fell to the ground like a rag.

Wu Lin smacked his tongue beside me: "I slapped it to death with one palm!" ”

As soon as he spoke, another clay crow flew over, and as he spoke, he lightly flashed his waist and drew a dagger while avoiding it.

The sharp dagger blade slashed through the tail from the top of the head of the earth crow, so that when the earth cao flew over the top of Wu Lin's head, it turned into two halves.

I narrowed my eyes: "What a delicate technique." ”

Wu Lin smiled at me: "It's fine, but the efficiency is not as high as yours." It seems that if I have the opportunity, I should also steal a teacher from Yu Dong. ”

While dealing with Tuaozi, I tried to make myself look less nervous, while Wu Lin seemed to really put life and death out of the way, and there was no contrived element in his carefree temperament.

But soon, neither I nor he could get away with it, the first two soil crows just died, and a large number of earth crows followed behind, and for a while, the arms of the crows began to fly all over the sky, and Wu Lin and I could only quickly retreat.

As he retreated, he shouted at me, "You hold on a little longer, and their large forces will soon come over." ”

(End of chapter)