Chapter 169: Death Express
Deep down, I desperately told myself that I must take the "dust beads" out unless I had to. Then he and the fat man took turns to carry Shirley Yang on his back to escape, the fat man's body suddenly lost its center of gravity, fell to the ground, as if stepping on something and tripped over it, relying on the thick skin and thick flesh is not a big problem, he scolded and was about to get up, I found dozens of "lepers" crawling down from the dark rock top, they obviously sensed our presence, did not want to compete with their own kind to bite the giant worm, but quietly surrounded us.
All the bullets have been exhausted, and the "Chicago typewriter" has been thrown on the road by us, leaving only a set of Shirley Young's mountaineering pickaxe and sapper shovel, and the fat man and I each hold one of them, and a small-caliber 64-style pistol in my hand, how can these things resist so many lepers, I have heard that when people die in water, they will not die in fire, it seems that we are destined to be bitten to death by insects.
At this time, the fat man found that the thing that tripped him just now was the bronze box that we called "Pandora's Box", and there were some things scattered on the ground, all of which were the artifacts of the local Yi people that had been turned out of it before, the bones of the mandrill, the bottle containing the jade fetus, and the exquisite and gorgeous "Toad Palace".
I remembered that this ghost toad was a bane, so I first got rid of it, and then used explosives to lure away those scabs, so I immediately raised my foot and kicked the lid of the "Toad Palace", raised the 64-style punch, and fired five bullets in a row, smashing the blue and faint three-legged monster toad inside. As soon as this ancient meteorite, which affected the concentration of the air, shattered, the air in the entire "gourd cave" seemed to tremble.
The people panicked inexplicably, they seemed to know the importance of the "Toad Palace", and felt that the catastrophe was coming, they were extremely sensitive to changes in the air, although they were not dead on the spot for the time being, but they all became uneasy, and suddenly they were confused, not caring about the three of us, each of them jumped around, and some jumped into the "corpse hole" in a daze.
The fat man said to me, "This is really crooked, let's get out of the way as soon as possible." As he spoke, he picked up the jade bottle on the ground and threw it into the broken backpack. When I saw that there was a gap, I carried Shirley Yang with the fat man, grabbed my backpack, and fled.
The ground is full of corpses of women who are the body of the hemale egg, layer upon layer, incalculable, a distorted face, and a strange number, making people feel disgusting, we step on the layers of female corpses, climb to the gap in the middle of the "gourd hole", and fish into it.
On the other side of the "gourd cave" is a fossil forest swallowed by groundwater, where the water level remains the same and has not changed. We ran here, all the way non-stop, and also carried a big living person, thanks to eating most of the wood essence in the valley, the formed 10,000-year-old wood root, after all, is not a vulgar thing, after eating it feels like it has endless strength and energy, but now it is beginning to be unbearable.
The fat man and I are out of breath, Shirley Yang's consciousness has been completely awake, and his strength has recovered some, I hurried up to give Shirley Yang the place where the corpse poison was on his leg, replaced with some new glutinous rice and wood lotus dress, the replaced glutinous rice has become as dry and black as black carbon, it seems that it can really pull out the corpse poison, mixed with wood lotus root seems to have a miraculous effect.
Taking the opportunity of changing the dressing, I took a breath for a while, and was about to leave to go into the water, when in the hole behind me, a dragon-like multi-legged meat worm suddenly burst out, this worm was a few circles thicker than the big water tank, nearly ten meters long, and the fat man and I immediately woke up, this is the old insect wearing dragon scales and copper armor, it was gnawed in half by the scab, and was sucked by the aconitum meat coffin, and swallowed up the copper armor of the whole body, revealing the naked insect body inside, it jumped here, as if it was also in a hurry to escape.
I saw that there were a few white flowers on its body biting and devouring, so I hurriedly said to the fat man: "Commander Wang, let's just take a ride, and if you run down the, you have to vomit blood from exhaustion!" ”
The fat man said yes, and he had already pulled out the pickaxe, and a pickaxe was chiseled into the body of the insect, and I asked Shirley Yang to hug me tightly, and locked all the fast hangers on our load-bearing belts, and followed the fat man, and at the moment when the giant insect passed in front of me, he stabbed down with a sapper shovel and a paratrooper knife, and a huge forward momentum pulled us up.
"Huo's undead insects" roared into the water, splashing countless splashes, startling all kinds of giant insects in the fossil forest to flee, I only heard the sound of the wind whirring in my ears, I couldn't see exactly where I was, Shirley Yang hugged me tightly behind my back, and didn't dare to relax at all. I secretly prayed in my heart that I would touch the blessings of the Golden Ancestors and never let us bump into the fossil tree. As soon as I thought of this, I felt a chill all over my body, and my body sank into the water with the giant worm. I was shocked, the portable oxygen cylinder had long been lost, and if it went on, we had to swim on the water, and I felt Shirley Yang pinch my shoulder with her hand, knowing that her body was weak after being poisoned, and it was inconvenient to stay under the water for a long time, so I was ready to let go, but the giant insect bent its body and swam to the surface, and I immediately realized that it needed oxygen more than us.
I don't know how long it took, but this thrilling express death train finally began to slow down gradually, and finally stopped. Since the Toad Palace was destroyed by me, this half of the old worm has lost the foundation on which it depends, and it can no longer move in the burial pit covered with elephant bones on both sides. When we entered the valley, it was beaten wildly, causing it to vomit out the red mist in its body, and it did not recover until we withdrew, at this time it was exhausted, and the reticular nerve was gradually stiffening and necrosis, although it was not completely dead, but it could not last for a long time, and when the corpse cave behind it followed, it would be completely devoured.
I hugged Shirley Yang from the back of the "Huo's Undead Worm", and I felt relieved to see that the corpse qi on her face had receded a little. At this time, we were already exhausted, and it had been less than three days since we entered Shalong Mountain, but it felt like it was even longer than three years.
I reckon that although the aconitum coffin behind it is still in hot pursuit, it should have been thrown off by us for some distance, and the corpse hole attached to it will gradually expand, and its speed will also decrease; The giant worm in the burial ditch could also slow it down any longer, so he and the fat man carried Shirley Yang together, climbed back to the entrance of the secret passage in front of the mountain temple, rested for five minutes, and then had to continue running.
The fat man rubbed the bruises and purple scars on his body, and asked me, "Old Hu, when do we have to run to finish?" Now both legs are like they have been filled with lead, and there is no place on my body that does not hurt, and if I run down, I am afraid that I will have to give my life here. ”
I gasped and said to the fat man: "That *** corpse hole is probably a kind of rotten gas attached to the meat coffin, forming a turbid and indistinguishable evil pot, and it will rot away with whatever it touches." I think that only by leading it to Taniguchi will there be a chance to solve it. ”
The entrance of this "worm valley" is where the terrain is undulating and symmetrical, in feng shui it is called the place where the green dragon is dunpen, the left is the cow run, the right is like the elephant dance, the middle situation is like the hanging bell star gate, it is a division of turbidity, distinguish yin and yang, wipe the fierce sand of the "slash city position", once the corpse hole moves there, the chaotic gas in it will be disintegrated, but whether this theory can work, I am not sure at all, I have to take a risk, anyway, there is no good solution.
I briefly told the fat man my plan, picked up the kettle, drank the rest of the water to a trickle, and then threw the kettle aside, at this time I had to pack as lightly as possible, there was still a little explosive left, let the fat man blow up the entrance in front of the mountain temple, and do everything possible to buy a little more time, I went to the mountain temple and took some food, batteries, flashlights and other emergency things that we had left there beforehand.
After a few minutes of rest, I set off in a hurry, the mountain temple is not far from the valley mouth, but the forest is dense and difficult to walk, the slopes on both sides are steep, the terrain is difficult, it can be said that the line is divided into a line to make a trench, the two mountains and gorges are the door, a large number of dense plants in the valley, plus the intricate waterway at the bottom of the valley, the stream and rocks are rugged, as soon as we enter the valley, the speed of our march will immediately slow down.
Now the only advantage is the mastery of the terrain, when we enter the "Tomb of the King" from the outside in, everything inside is unknown, so we must take it step by step, at this time return the same way, find out the details, there are not so many worries.
This plant layer in the worm valley can be described as a "green hell", and the most headache is the countless poisonous insects that breed in it. The fat man suddenly stopped, picked up the sapper shovel and cut off the head of a flower snake coiled on the tree, the snake body shook twice, and fell off from the branch, the fat man reached out to catch it, and turned back to me: "Go out in a while, see the commander show you a hand, make a shovel to turn over the roast snake meat section, this is still the craft learned when I was in Inner Mongolia." ”
I urged the fat man, "When is it now, and I'm still thinking about eating snake meat!" You go forward, and when you get out of the valley, you can eat whatever you want! ”
We were about to move forward when we saw a large flock of frightened birds passing overhead, and the sound of a large number of trees falling in the distance behind us. I hurriedly asked the fat man to hold Shirley Yang first, and I climbed an old tree nearby to look forward, not far from the valley mouth, but the aconitum meat coffin behind had also caught up.
I shouted to the fat man, "Hurry up!" You'll be caught up in minutes! Then he jumped off the tree, and the fat man lifted Shirley Yang horizontally, and ran to his heart's content. Turning around the two dense red oaks, the two boulders with eyes painted on Taniguchi came into view. The trees behind him rattled violently, and listening to the sound, the distance between the corpse cave and us was no more than twenty meters.
It occurred to me that if I went straight out of the valley, I would not be able to resist it if there was a mistake, so I stopped, let the fat man carry the shirley poplar, and folded towards the slope on the side of the valley, the slope at the mouth of the valley was not as steep as the depths, but we were exhausted, and our heads hurt as if there were countless small insects gnawing, and the tinnitus buzzed, barely supporting the climb halfway, I took out the head of the king from the carrying bag, and the vague and distorted facial features of the human head also made people feel so uncomfortable during the day, And this human head seems to have undergone some changes, and I don't have time to look at it again, grabbing the head of the king with the claws of the flying tiger, preparing to use centrifugal force to throw it out of the valley, whether I can get rid of the endless pursuit of the corpse cave, whether I can bring this important head back, all in one move.