Chapter 14: The Devil's Sting
After all, the light of the campfire was limited, so I took out my flashlight and looked in the direction of the cricket, and I really noticed that there was a layer of sticky liquid that was gradually eroding its weak body.
Could it be that thing has reappeared? It seemed that things were not good, I panicked and swept the grass with a flashlight, when Wei Yin, who was beside me, suddenly shouted. My first reaction was that she was attacked by something, and I quickly turned my head and shouted "don't be afraid", but I found that her body was fine, so I asked her what was wrong, and she raised her hand in horror and pointed to my shoulder.
Shoulder? I scolded and, and looked helplessly, and sure enough, a palm-sized ghost sting was lying on my shoulder, and its black hole-like mouth kept opening and closing.
Did Lao Tzu owe you in his last life, why did he stare at me when he came back? I was so depressed that I picked up my flashlight and dialed it, hoping to get the monster down.
But the result was the same as before, the ghost thing kept sticking to my shoulder as if it had a suction, and sweat beaded on my forehead, and I hurriedly thought that Zheng Tian had cut it off with a knife last time, so I reached out to touch the knife.
What makes people feel is that I handed it over to Seventh Brother to grind when I cut it with a short knife before, and now I'm not around! asked Wei Yin if he had a knife, but Wei Yin didn't answer, but picked up a stone on the ground and said, "This one is more simple!" I suddenly had a sense of foreboding.
The next second, as if I had been torn apart, a heavy stone hit my shoulder, and the ghost sting was also squeezed by the sudden impact and splashed bodily fluids, and then Wei Yin scraped with the stone again, scraping the body of the ghost sting off my shoulder. I wanted to cry in pain, but I held back for the sake of dignity.
At this moment, several other people in the tent also came out one after another to see what was happening, Wei Yin added fuel and vinegar to describe his heroic deeds of saving people, and the seventh brother on the side looked at the corpse on the ground and suddenly frowned and said: "I stabbed a snake to death before, and later found that there was a worm in the snake corpse that seemed to be crawling out. ”
I was amazed when I heard this, and thought to myself that I had seen these ghost stings in a pile of corpse remains before, could it be that most of the animals in this mountain had become the hosts of ghost stings?
Uncle Dao also asked suspiciously: "Ghost stings are dark by nature, and generally only operate underground, Dean Wei, have you found these creatures on this Zanglong Mountain before?"
Wei Xuzhi thought for a while, shook his head and said that he had never seen it. At this moment, Zheng Tian, who had just helped me up, suddenly pointed to the root of a persimmon tree more than ten steps away from me in a panic and said, "There seems to be something there!" ”
Our eyes brushed to see where Zheng Tian was pointing, and in despair we found that dozens of ghost stings were pouring out densely under the roots of the tree, and they were crawling towards us by stepping on the rotten leaves on the ground.
Where do they come from?
In a hurry, I thought that these things seemed to be afraid of fire, so I could throw torches to burn them, but Uncle Dao said that the torches must not touch the ground and can only be held, otherwise it will cause a forest fire, and the cost is too great.
I thought to myself, my life is almost gone, who can take care of this? Uncle Dao is a very principled person with a more resolute attitude, he asked us to take the equipment and withdraw in the direction of the coffin road first, and he and Brother Qi stayed to hold the torch to resist the ghost sting for a while.
I just wanted to learn from the heroic words in the movie that I would stay together, but Uncle Dao yelled at me: "Don't be ugly!" If you don't want to be a burden, go quickly! Then he and the seventh brother picked up the torch and walked to the root of the tree. I felt a pang in my heart, and I felt like I couldn't help me except escape.
A few of us hurried into the tent and quickly picked up some important equipment. But as soon as we went out, we were immediately dumbfounded: the roots of the trees near the tent had also crawled out of many ghost stings, and they were constantly approaching us.
These ghosts come out in groups, extremely neat, as if they smell the scent of the living, do they want to treat us as hosts? I thought to myself that this is the end of the matter, and I have to rush to report to Lord Yama before I even see the shadow of the tomb, which is really embarrassing.
At this time, several ghost stings had already crawled under my feet, trying to spray the strong acid in their bodies on me, and if they were sprayed, the flesh would melt immediately! I immediately took off my coat and put it firmly on them, hoping to resist them for a while. Unfortunately, they are of no use at all, and the corrosive nature of the strong acids in their bodies is too strong. I watched as five or six corroded holes appeared in my coat, and one by one the ghost stings emerged from them, shaking their tentacles as if they were provocatively at me.
At the moment of crisis, Zheng Tian brought a torch from the fire and threw it to me, and I kept reaching forward to take the torch, intimidating the ghosts that sprung up. The power of the torch really worked, and the few ghost stings around me retreated.
“give·me·a·five!” Zheng Tian, who had arrived in the city, clapped me with a high-five, and then raised his middle finger in disdain at the fleeing ghosts. Then the two of us gathered a few torches around our bodies, hoping to use the fire to give him a Jedi breakout.
But the good times didn't last long, and what made people feel extremely painful was that at this time, there was a light rain in the sky, and after a while, the rain swelled, and under a burst of lightning and thunder, it turned into a dripping rain. The rain hit the torches and quickly extinguished the torches in Zheng Tian's hands and me.
We were momentarily confused, because God had extinguished not the torches this time, but the hope of our escape. Seeing that the threat of fire is gone, more ghost stings are already crawling towards us. It didn't take long for hundreds of ghost stings to form a circle around Zheng Tian and me, and just like that, we became lambs to the slaughter in an instant.
The Wei family's father and daughter were no better, and the dense ghost stinging carnival seemed to be squirming in the heavy rain, completely blocking their way. And the situation of Uncle Dao and Seventh Brother over there is still unclear, and it is estimated that there will be more luck and less luck.
In the midst of my grief, I seemed to smell something strange like gasoline. The smell was gradually filling the air, and it was getting stronger and stronger, so I quickly covered my nose.
When did these ghost stings learn to spray poison gas? Could it be that it has been mutated?
At this moment, a man wearing a gas mask suddenly appeared from behind the persimmon tree, carrying a small jet box on his back, spraying some strange gas everywhere, and approaching us as he sprayed. When we were four or five meters away, he took out a few masks from his pocket and threw them at us, motioning for us to put them on quickly.
At this time, I was pleasantly surprised to find that the twisted and crawling ghost stings on the ground were gradually inactive in the encirclement of this gas, and many of them were even motionless.
At this time, Uncle Dao and Brother Qi also ran over and asked if we were injured. Actually, we are okay, but Uncle Dao and Seventh Brother themselves are already scarred, and a lot of skin and flesh on their faces and arms have been corroded.
The man made a gesture toward us to run east, and to the east was the coffin road we had to pass. We braved the wind and rain and ran for about twenty minutes in one breath until we reached the edge of the cliff on the coffin road, and we were sure that we were out of danger.
It was only then that I took a closer look at the man who was wearing a gas mask to save us: he was overweight, wearing a leather jacket and an exaggerated back...... There was a faint sense of déjà vu.
Soon the man took off his mask and greeted us with a smile on his face, and I looked,! Isn't this the fat bear who cheated Lao Tzu out of money before? How could he be here?
"Those qi just now can only temporarily paralyze the ghost sting, so let's take a break and then we have to continue to move forward." The fat bear sat on the ground and gasped as he spoke, obviously the amount of exercise just now was no longer what his size could handle.
"Thank you brother for helping, but I don't know why my brother appeared in this barren mountain?" Uncle Dao was very cautious, the road we took was not an ordinary tourist route at all, and the appearance of this fat bear here was probably also for the tomb of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and nine times out of ten it was following us all the way.
But the fat bear was more cunning, he pointed to the jet box on his back with a hippie smile and said: "I am a volunteer, for the great cause of communism, specially came to the mountains to remove insects, I don't know why you are here?" ”
We were choked by rhetorical questions, and we said that we were here for tourism. The fat bear is really not a good bird, and he smiled after listening to it: "There is a monument in front of the coffin road, I heard that it is from the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and it is definitely a good place for tourism. ”
A grave was torn up by him into a tourist resort, which is indeed shameless enough. I didn't even think about it, and let him play by himself. Who knew that my uncle stopped me, and agreed to the fat man's request with a smile.