Chapter 022: Horseshoe Crab
The master pouted, thought for a while, shook his head and said, "You guys, none of you are good people, let alone normal, marry you, then I won't be like the crazy woman just now." ”
The God of Wealth sighed: "It's not that we are not good enough, but that your vision is too high!" Otherwise, with your conditions, find someone who wants to marry you for a minute, how can you still be single at the age of 25. ”
The master was a little lost, so he didn't say anything anymore and continued to drink to kill his sorrows.
By the time we reached the waters where the three rivers converged, it was already completely dark, and everything had to wait until dawn.
After dinner, four men sat around a flat stone to play cards, a ten, an hour, the God of Wealth and Liu Jingao lost no less than two thousand, and Huzi and I couldn't close our mouths together.
"Mom. Bazi, Lao Tzu's luck today was really eaten by dogs. The God of Wealth suddenly found himself sitting with Liu Jingao and complained: "It must be you, you are small and timid, and you are full of mildew." Huzi, you two change positions. ”
At this time, the master stood behind me with clothes and toiletries and said, "You accompany me to take a bath." ”
My luck is also good and bad, the master just gave me a chance not to worry about losing back, I threw the cards, said with a smile: "The master has a life, in the next retirement, the money owed to me is remembered, go back must give." ”
"Go ahead." The God of Wealth casually perfunctory to me, and said to Huzi depressedly: "If the three of us continue, I don't believe that I can't win you." ”
This is actually an old habit, and every time my master takes a bath outside, I accompany him. Although the master sometimes says that I am a lustful heart, she also knows that I have a lot of respect for her. But, to be honest, I sometimes want to peek at her, but what can I see when she takes a shower and picks out the dark night and can't see her fingers? On the contrary, it took half an hour for her to wash, and I could feed dozens of mosquitoes while sitting next to me.
"I don't know if the water is deep, don't go too in."
"I know."
Listening to the master go into the water, I looked intently at the mountain that I would explore tomorrow.
"Oops." Suddenly, the master was frightened in the water, and as if he was injured, he quickly climbed ashore. Anyway, the master was wearing a shirt in the bath, so I didn't hesitate to run to her and ask, "What's wrong?" ”
She sat on the ground, turned on the flashlight and shone on her left calf, her face faintly painful: "Something just swam past me and made contact with me. ”
Master's calf has been cut by something sharp, and although it is very shallow, it still bleeds.
"Does it hurt?"
"It's fine."
I took a flashlight and took a picture on the surface of the water, and found that there was a small black shadow swimming towards the center of the river in the distance, which seemed to have an oval body and a fishtail-like tail.
"Is it a fish? Was it the shark's fin that scratched the master's leg? ”
This alerted me, and if nothing else, I would have to go into the water tomorrow, and if there were hurting creatures underwater, it would be troublesome.
My master changed her clothes, and I helped her back to the camp. Then, a few people picked up branches and burned a bunch of raging fires to threaten possible beasts, especially the thing that had just been seen faintly, and I wondered if it would climb ashore at night to attack humans.
I didn't sleep well that night, and I got up again in the early morning to change Huzi's shift, and the next morning, my eyes were bloodshot.
Before breakfast, my master and I rode around the river, carefully observing the movement in the water. It's the dry season, and the current isn't as deep as I thought, and it's not very fast. It's just that because the three rivers are confluence, a lot of debris floating down from the upstream covers a thick layer on the surface of the calm water, and it is impossible to see what is hidden underwater.
Then look at the mountain where the river flows after the confluence. The water flows in from a natural arched cave at the bottom of the mountain, and then flows out through the entire mountain to the waterfall that Song Xiaoqin said. Due to the dry season, the water level did not completely submerge the entrance of the cave, but was two or three meters high to the top of the cave. If the depth of the water in the cave is not more than our height, we can simply go into the water without diving equipment and use a flashlight.
The question is whether or not there are any hurting creatures in there. For the sake of safety, after breakfast, the five of them decided to go around the mountain first, first, to understand the environment, and second, to find out if there was a land path to the bottom of the mountain.
As we walked, a hint of rancid smell led us to another cave in the mountain. This cave is not deep, on the side of the mountain, but it communicates with the water flow that runs through the bottom of the mountain, and it is full of water. The source of the rancid smell is a piece of rotten flesh floating on the surface of the water.
The God of Wealth used a branch to pick up the meat to his side, and Diao (described as using a branch or stick to get something out of the water) to put it on the ground.
Liu Jingao vomited after just one look, and the master also turned his back...... This is not ordinary meat, but half of a person's face, and an eyeball is still attached to it, which is really a bit depressing.
Although we knew that there would be many people who would not be able to get out of the mountain this time, we never thought that someone would die so miserably.
The God of Wealth looked suspicious: "There is only half of the face, what about the other parts?"
The master said: "At a glance, you can tell what kind of creature was bitten like this, and other parts may have been eaten." Thinking of the attack on his calf last night, the master was a little afraid: "There must be some kind of terrible creature in this water." ”
At this time, we heard the sound of water, and when we looked over, it was Huzi who was half-kneeling at the water's edge and suddenly plunged into the water with a knife. Then, his hand shook a few times in the water, and when he took it out, a bowl-sized insect was inserted into his back and lifted out. The tiger threw the worm ashore and told us that it might be the worm that had eaten the rest of the man's part.
The worm was pierced by a knife and was not dead, and it flipped up on the ground, squeaking and trying to escape back into the water.
The God of Wealth is fast, hurry up and step on its tail. However, not only did it have a rough shell, eight bamboo-like chelicerae, a pair of large jagged pincers, and two convex eyes the size of black beans, but it was also so ferocious that it wanted to bite the God of Wealth's shoes as soon as it turned its head. The God of Wealth was startled, shrunk his feet to avoid the attack of the insects, and then stepped back on. With this kick, the God of Wealth moved seriously, and directly trampled the insects to death with a "squeak", and the internal organs burst out.
I've seen this thing in a book, and I said, "This is a horseshoe crab, right?" ”
The master is more professional than me in this regard, and said, "This should be a Rhinejek horseshoe crab." However, in terms of size, it is either a larva or a cousin of the Rhinejek horseshoe crab, a smaller kind. ”
The God of Wealth asked in surprise: "Is this still called small?" Not to mention a man-eating bug, even such a big crab is scary enough, and I am most annoyed by this kind of legged thing. ”
"The Rhinejek horseshoe crab lived in the Early Devonian period 390 million years ago and is the largest plate-footed horseshoe crab ever built, with a body length of up to 2.5 meters. ”
The God of Wealth kicked the dead horseshoe crab and said, "Shouldn't this thing have been extinct long ago?" ”
The master shook his head and said, "This is difficult to explain. Or maybe it just looks like it, and it's not really a Rhinejerk horseshoe crab. ”
I was a little convinced, "Not necessarily, but there are few things that go against nature in this mountain?" In this land, any living thing can exist. "Presumably someone entered the interior of this mountain before us, but they just couldn't guard against these bugs and died."