The fat man poked the body of the giant monster with the muzzle of the gun a few times: "Just now it was as hard as a steel plate, and a bullet could not shoot through, but now it is as soft as a pine caterpillar, and it seems that it is not completely dead. ”

Shirley Yang said: "I'm afraid it's not that simple, with our equipment, it is impossible to completely kill it at the moment, but fortunately, it is no longer a threat, this is a long worm that only has a rare wheel-like neural structure similar to the sun goddess snail, except for changing the oxygen content in the air, it is difficult to find a way to kill it." ”

The ancestors of this kind of longworm can be traced back to hundreds of millions of years ago in the "Cambrian", when the invertebrate originated when the rest of the animals except insects were still in a low-level evolutionary stage, the original form of the longworm, with its tenacious vitality, escaped countless earth-shaking species destruction, and has survived until the Triassic period tens of millions of years ago, and has gradually evolved into the largest insect in history.

Different from the common central nervous system, there are dendritic nerves, with a wheel-shaped nerve tissue, and with a complex cell structure of the organism, so far, there are only two kinds of organisms in the world, the first is the mysterious creature hundreds of millions of years ago "Sun Goddess Snail", and its existence is too early, human understanding of it is only some fragments, the rota-shaped nerve tissue has no nerve center, that is to say, the body and nerves of this animal are separated, after the flesh tissue necrosis, the rota-shaped nerve will still continue to speak, and" The "Sun Goddess Snail" is hermaphroditic. There is no need to mate, and the new life produced will replace the dead body outside the body, although this property limits its number, but as long as the living environment allows, its rotalike nerves and network cell structure will continue to reproduce endlessly in the shell.

"Worm" name "Huo's undead worm", the name is named in honor of the British biologist who found its fossils, this strange creature of the reticular nerve, between the invertebrate and the semivertebrae, and has a protective shell similar to the "sun goddess snail", the hard shell is formed by its internal secretions, in nature, there is no natural enemy, unless it can be eaten whole, completely digested with gastric juice, otherwise as long as a part of the neural network is left, it can still survive, its final extinction, Like the huge insects, it is due to a jump-and-jump change in the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere.

"One of the things that is very strange is the overlap and conflict between archaeology and biology," Shirley Young said. Scholars who study ancient Egyptian civilization believe that the scarab beetle that appears in the pharaoh's coat of arms is the worm of the gods, and its original form is a longworm, so they disagree with the view of biologists that this giant hard-shelled insect became extinct as early as the end of the Triassic period, and they believe that at least in the era of ancient Egyptian civilization, there are still such huge insects left in the world, which has always been debated. ”

At that time, all the animals in the world were massive. This is related to the local plants and geological structure at that time, and the environment with high oxygen content led to the unlimited growth of insect shapes, and the Triassic mosquito fossils found now have an estimated wingspan length of more than 100 centimeters.

Insects use the trachea to breathe, but the speed of oxygen entering the tissues will slow down with the size of the insect, when the body of the insect exceeds a certain length, the concentration of oxygen in the air can not meet the requirements of the insect, this objective factor is also the main reason for limiting the size of the insect and leading to the extinction of the large insect.

The rock structure of the "gourd cave" where we are currently located is very special, it is an archaean superimpositant rock, red translucent crystals can be seen everywhere, and a large number of ancient fossil forests, these are the products of the Triassic, through those fossils formed at a certain moment in ancient times, we can know that at that moment, the lava of the volcano and the mudslide that engulfed everything covered the forest almost at the same time, and it cooled down quickly after high temperatures.

The expansion of the ground gas formed the special terrain of the "gourd cave", a part of the body of this "snake worm" was swallowed by lava and debris flow, and the magma was extinguished by the subsequent debris flow before it had time to melt its hard and heavy shell, so part of the insect body and the cave grew into one, and could no longer be separated.

I don't know how many generations this "snake worm" has been breeding in this shell, and its respiratory system has adapted to the current concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere, maybe it is related to the unique structure in this "gourd hole", maybe there is some kind of special plant or food here.

When we think of food, we suddenly think of the countless "dead drifts" in the water, and we wanted to leave this place immediately, but now it seems that it is necessary to investigate more carefully, because this big insect should have a great relationship with the "Tomb of the King".

Why did this "snake worm" wear a golden mask in the shape of a priest offering to the king and be artificially put on a layer of dragon scale demon armor, is it the source of the poisonous fog near the tomb of the king in the "Worm Valley"*?

I have told Shirley Yang about some of the ideas I can think of, but we still know very little about the "Evil Technique", only know that the "Evil Technique", one of the three great evil techniques of the ancient and evil Nanyang, is a kind of evil art that converts the resentment of the soul of the dead into an invisible poison, and the more miserable the dead person, the more violent the poison.

The shell of this strange insect was originally red, and the red mist continued to spew out from its body, and we began to mistake it for poisonous, but later it was found that these bright red gases, as the insect body was constantly hit, and the color gradually faded, and finally after its head was blown up with explosives, the red mist gas was all dispersed, and this guy completely lost its ability to resist, and the poisonous mist produced in its body must be related to the "dead drift" in the water it swallowed all year round.

Judging from this, it is not surprising that a certain part of the body of this giant insect is connected to a certain place on the upper part of the "Worm Valley", and according to its characteristics, the body of the worm is nearly 100 meters long, and it is not surprising that even the rhizomes of plants can penetrate due to the extremely low terrain in the valley. It is possible that the insect mouth swallows the floating corpse in the water, and the resentment of thousands of female corpses will be transformed into a white "mist" that pervades the valley through the insect body, blocking the only way to enter the "Tomb of the Sacrifice King" from the outside world.

The "human skin map" records that the "mist" around the "tomb of the king" is in a ring shape, which may be the person who drew the "human skin map" does not know the details, after our field investigation outside, the terrain of this valley, there can be no circle of mountain miasma poisonous fog, both sides and behind are thousands of cliffs, and there is only a ray of sky light when you look up. As long as the poisonous fog blocks the road in the valley, there will be no other way to enter the "Tomb of the King".

At this time, Shirley Yang found that the surface of the dragon scale bronze armor outside the insect was engraved with many inscriptions, and it was very badly worn. Only a small part can still be seen, but all of them are so strange that they are unrecognizable. It suddenly occurred to us that such a symbol had also been seen in the "Stone Tablet Shop", in the vaat where the dead man was filled and sunk into the pool with chains. At that time, Professor Sun said that this was a long-lost spell in the "Soul Poking Talisman", which was used to block the poisonous evil art of the dead soul, which showed that this layer of bronze demon armor had similarities with the copper skin wrapped outside the water tank.

It seems that as we expected, this special dragon scale demon armor, as well as the golden mask that combines the characteristics of the six demon beasts of the king, are all installed on this giant insect through some kind of "scab technique" ritual.

Probably before the construction of the "Tomb of the King of Sacrifice", the old man of the mountain god only eats the big toad toad produced in the water, because those foods contain poisonous glands in the body, so this giant insect is also poisonous, until this place is found by the king of Xian, then the use of the ancient Yi people handed down the local method, put out its toxicity, and then brew it at will according to the wishes, so that this insect is half dead, and it has become the source of the poisonous mist in the tomb of the Gongwei King in the valley, and the infinite hatred of the dead is repeatedly transformed through its body, no wonder it will scream so badly, so it seems to be quite pitiful, like those human chrysalis, they are all victims of the "sacrifice of the king's tomb".

If you speculate like this, a large number of female corpses in the water are set up to create a "mist", but in the past two thousand years, according to the speed at which this insect eats, the population of the entire Han Dynasty combined cannot be filled today, it seems that it is necessary to get a "dead drift" from the water to analyze it, and you have to find a way to break the barrier in the valley, so that you may be able to use it when you leave.

The fat man was afraid that I and Shirley Yang would propose to set off immediately, because he also planned to collect the gold fragments scattered on the ground, as well as the parts on the heads of the insects, all one by one, which was very considerable.

I patronized with Shirley Yang with a pickaxe, to salvage the "dead drift" at the water's edge, I didn't notice what the fat man was doing, I suddenly heard him shout behind him, we hurriedly turned back, only to see the giant insect that had been blown up on the head, the head suddenly lifted, the mouthparts outside have been completely broken, at this time the mouth, I don't know when, has become several times larger than before, constantly making a "cooing" sound.

I thought to myself, this guy is too sturdy, and he can still do such a big move when he is blown up like this, but is it really immortal? Hurriedly picked up the "Chicago Typewriter" and prepared to give it another shuttle, only to find that it was not trying to attack us, look at it like that...... It was as if I was going to vomit.

As soon as I thought of this, I didn't have time to remind the fat man to dodge, and I saw a huge insect mouth, wah-la-wow-la, spitting out a large number of female corpses, which were swallowed by it in the water before, and at this time they had all turned black-brown, and also lost the cold and cold light on the surface, and the corpse was still stained with a lot of red, green, and yellow viscous liquids of several colors, all of which were sprayed on the fat man, and I was about seven or eight meters away from him, and I almost fainted from the stench.

I immediately used the pickaxe in my hand to hook the fat man's carrying bag, and together with Shirley Yang, I struggled to pull him out of the corpse pile, but fortunately, the poisonous "mist" was discharged into the valley, these liquids should be gastric juice, although it may be a little acidic, as long as it is washed immediately, even if it sticks to some of the body, it is fine.

The huge "Huo's Immortal Worm" seems to have been beaten hard by us, and it can't stop when it vomits, and after spitting out more than 100 black female corpses, it makes a violent "Gulu" sound again, this time it seems to be very painful, spit out a huge square object, and it fell heavily to the ground, the surface of the thing is dripping with juice, and there are many large copper nail caps that are concave and convex, which seem to be a bronze box, or a large copper coffin.

I was surprised, I didn't expect it to have such a big piece in its belly, fortunately I pulled the fat man back in advance, otherwise I would have to smash him into a thin man, I glanced at Shirley Yang, Shirley Yang was also surprised: "This is just like the Pandora's box hidden in the belly of the ancient dragon in Western legends." ”