Chapter Twenty-Three: The Hades Leech
The man in black has already walked to our side, and he doesn't dare to expect to share the same hatred with such a person, but now if he wants to save his life, one more person will also have one more strength, although the female corpse is strange and terrifying, but it has always stopped in front of us and stopped moving.
I suddenly realized that the female corpse's head was shifting from side to side, avoiding the glow of the flashlight.
"This female corpse seems to be afraid of light." The palace lord also noticed it.
I tried to turn the flashlight off and on again, and sure enough, the female corpse began to move forward again, and when the light came on, I was finally relieved that I still had something in my hand that could restrain her.
Suddenly, his temples felt the coldness of the metal, and he turned his head slightly to see the gun of the man in black against it: "Give me the flashlight." ”
Tian Ji and Gong Jue probably didn't expect that at this time, the man in black would do whatever it took to protect himself, and the two of them were resentful and looked at the posture to be desperate, I waved my hand to stop it, with the marksmanship of the man in black, the result of our recklessness was nothing more than three more corpses in this tomb.
I handed the flashlight to the man in black, and he began to retreat next to us, his eyes searching the tomb, presumably to find out if there was a place to escape.
Without the control of the flashlight, the female corpse was no longer afraid, her bloated body suddenly began to swell, the red dress on her body slowly bulged, and we were horrified to see dozens of thick blood-red, snake-like tentacles, slowly rising from behind the female corpse, the front end of each tentacle was in the shape of a zigzag mouth open, and the inside was full of sharp teeth from the outside to the inside.
With the long skirt lifted by these tentacles, we saw in silence that a white thing was squirming attached to the body of the female corpse, the body was huge, the dorsal and ventral flattened, and the whole body was composed of many ring-shaped body segments, except for the head and limbs of the female corpse, the rest of the place was completely wrapped by this thing, and each body segment had a flexible tentacle on both sides.
The body and limbs of the female corpse were pierced by a tentacle, which was previously covered by the long skirt, so we didn't see it, it was not the female corpse resurrected, but the thing attached to the corpse and manipulated.
"Hades leech?!" I couldn't believe my eyes and blurted out in shock.
Gongjue and Tian Ji asked what it was, and I haven't seen it either, but I've seen this thing in the ancient book of Feng Cheng, and I felt very scary at the time and asked about the origin of Feng Cheng.
Feng Cheng told me that this thing is called the Hades leech, which is an evil and terrible and long-ago blood-sucking monster, Feng Cheng said that he has not seen it, but he has heard the older generation of tomb robbers mention that in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Hades leeches were generally fed by wizards and lived by sucking the rotten blood of the dead, so they were raised by wizards with dead people, and even killed the living directly for them to suck, so they were regarded as evil things in the folk.
In the Han Dynasty, witches were banned, and those who were still witches were punished, and with a large number of wizards being killed, the Yama leeches also disappeared, but a few Yama leeches that were kept in the tomb by the wizards survived.
The teeth in these tentacles of the Hades leech are sharp and sharp, which can easily bite off human bones, and like poisonous snakes, those tiny teeth are filled with venom that seals the throat with blood, and once bitten, it will stick to the body like a sucker, and before it can react, the person has been poisoned and died.
It is rumored in the industry that there were once tomb robbers who saw it, and no one survived, only one person escaped by cutting off the leg bitten by the Hades leech, and the man drew the appearance of the Hades leech with his memory, which I saw from the ancient book of the seal, and it is exactly the same as the one attached to the female corpse now.
"The lifespan of the Hades leech is extremely long, and it can survive for hundreds of years after sucking a rotten blood, except that it is basically in a state of suspended animation like reproduction and hibernation, this thing has an innate perception of human blood, and once it detects human blood, it will wake up immediately." I told them as I stepped back.
"Reproduction? Didn't you say there was only a handful of Hades leeches left? Tian Ji subconsciously looked at the top of the tomb covered by tentacles and asked in surprise.
"We deserve to be unlucky, the Yama leeches raised here by the tomb owner are definitely male and female, and they have been breeding for thousands of years, so there are so many." I replied worriedly.
"That'...... Is the female corpse male or female? "The palace lord is a little flustered now.
"According to what I saw in the book, this head is not big, it should be male, after completing mating and breeding, the Yama leeches will begin to shrink and feign their death, and the bred ones are called rot leeches, they will stay by the side of the Yama leeches and be silent, the main responsibility is to wake up the Yama leeches, and when they detect the invaders, they will launch an attack and use the blood they have sucked to feed the Yama leeches." We have retreated to the tomb wall, and there is no way to retreat, and the Hades leeche in front of us is driving the female corpse to press on step by step. "The Yama leech will wake up when it encounters rotten blood, which is why the tomb owner puts an uncovered coffin here, in order to prevent someone from breaking in, lead people to the coffin, so that the rotten leech can attack and wake up the Yama leech."
"This tomb owner is too much to afford tomb robbers, and those rotten leeches on the top are enough to deal with the intruders, so why wake up the Hades leeches." Tian Ji's back leaned against the tomb wall and said weakly.
"The reason why this thing is an evil thing, it's not as simple as you think, they each have their own division of labor, and the main reason for awakening the Hades leech is that it will do its best to protect the ghost leech queen."
"Leech Queen?!" The palace lord was stunned and asked in fear. "How can there still be a queen?"
"Didn't I say it just now, the tomb owner raised two males and females here, the male is the Hades leech, and the female is the ghost leech queen."
"What does the mother look like?" Tian Ji asked.
I shook my head, in this evil and ancient system of creatures, the leech queen is the real ruler, and no one has ever seen what the leech queen is like, because no one can escape from the attack of the Hades leech alive.
"Thief, your mother, both horizontal and vertical are dead, it's better to have some fun." Tian Ji was probably completely desperate when he heard me say this, and asked with the dagger in his hand. "What has this monster been crawling out of for so long? Why don't you do it yet? ”
"This thing is very evil, especially this Hades leech, in addition to sucking rotten blood, it must also be attached to the body of the dead to live, this female corpse is dead and does not rot is also this reason, the Hades leech has been nourishing the dead by sucking rotten blood, making it look lifelike, which is also the main reason why wizards raise it." Cold sweat was already pouring from my back, and I was shivering against the tomb wall. "The Hades leech does not have the ability to move, and needs to move with the help of the dead, so it has the ability to manipulate the dead, so the Hades leech also has a name, ghost pet."
"This name is really apt, it is estimated that only Hades imps would have such pets." Gong Jue smiled weakly and bitterly.
"No, it's it that treats dead people as its own pets, the Hades leech is very evil, it wants to choose a satisfactory person, and then control it after killing, this female corpse's face has begun to decay, it seems that this Hades leech is now going to choose a new pet...... "I took a deep breath and picked up a torch from the ground, which was discarded by the tomb robbers when they robbed the coffin of the burial goods." For the Hades leech, the dead person attached to it is very important, but the process is very long, from selection to killing, and then the tentacles are pierced into the corpse and attached to the muscles and bones to manipulate, the whole process lasts for several hours, in this process, the Hades leeches will not take the initiative to attack, and the other rot leeches are only responsible for protecting the Hades leeches, the two have the same mind, and will not leave their duties to attack others before the Hades leeches are completed, and the rumored tomb robber who escaped survived for this reason. ”
"This thing is still going to pick people before killing people and sucking blood?" Tian Ji suddenly realized something in the middle of speaking. "There are only a few of us left, who will this thing pick?"
I paused for a moment without answering, and slowly turned my head to look at the field chicken, the female corpse began to crawl out of the coffin, and the tentacles of the Hades leech were directed at the field chicken from beginning to end.
Tian Ji's mouth slowly opened, I should understand what I meant to see him, it is obvious that the Hades leech chose him as his next pet, I estimate that it is because, among our few people, the body of the Tian Chicken is the best, and it can be attached to control for a long time, as for how the Hades leech is judged, I don't know, so this thing is evil.
"Lao Tzu is here to dig a grave, not to raise a baby for your dog day." Tian Ji immediately scolded, and the gold weapon in his hand that he had not been willing to put down slammed into the female corpse.
Suddenly, the light of the flashlight on the black-clothed man's side disappeared, and the entire eerie and terrifying tomb of a Hades leech fell into darkness in an instant.