Chapter 205: Scorpion Nest
Tian Ji held the torch to the middle of the stone room to check the hole that suddenly opened, there were more than two meters high below, all thick yellow sand, and nothing else could be seen in the place illuminated by the firelight, Gong Jue hurriedly stepped forward to investigate the area around the cave entrance, saying that there are automatically triggered mechanisms here, but it is not clear under what circumstances these mechanisms will be opened.
Before we could react, the stone door that closed the stone cave opened automatically, and the dense crawling sound from the outside suddenly became clear, and we saw through the stone door that the outside was full of flowing fluorescence, crowded together like a starry galaxy, surging into the stone chamber one after another.
The rustling sound made people feel creepy, and we couldn't help but step back, and only in the firelight did we see clearly that it was not black gold corpse armor, but scorpions the size of fingers, but strangely, these scorpions shone with strange fluorescence.
"You said before that the bigger the scorpion, the less poisonous it is." I heard the sound of the pheasant swallowing his saliva, and asked with some trepidation. "Now, are these scorpions big or small?"
"This is a very poisonous Dementor Scorpion, once you are stung by this thing, don't even think about moving." Bu Dongyuan may have been in the Western Regions, and he recognized the species of these scorpions at a glance.
"What happens if you sting and can't move?" Ling Zhihan asked in a panic.
"A person who has been stung is like a soul being hooked away, although he is conscious, his body cannot move, and the most painful thing is that he has never been able to die." Bu Dongyuan replied in horror.
"Isn't it highly poisonous, if you are stung, you just can't move, and you can't die anyway, this thing is not as powerful as the black gold corpse armor." Tian Ji said disappreciatively.
"You haven't seen the horror of the Dementor Scorpion, compared to this thing, the black gold corpse armor can be benevolent, I would rather die in the black gold corpse armor than let the Dementor Scorpion touch it." Bu Dongyuan's voice trembled.
I also want to ask how weird this thing is, even more powerful than the black gold corpse armor we have seen, but the influx of dementor scorpions has surrounded us, Bu Dongyuan said that the dementor scorpion has lived underground for a long time, so he is afraid of light, and does not dare to approach the place where there is fire, so we hurriedly picked up the burning wood block from the bonfire, which forced back the swarm of scorpions.
Gong Jue looked at the hole exposed behind him, and said to me that the way out had been blocked, and the only way to do this was to jump down first to see if I could find a way out, I nodded, and Tian Ji jumped down first, and looked around with a torch to make sure that there was no danger before letting the others follow.
Gong Jue and I stayed at the end, and we left a wall of fire at the entrance of the cave, the dying fire didn't last long, but at least it could help us temporarily resist the scorpion swarm above and not catch up.
I didn't go far into the cave before I smelled a pungent and disgusting smell of rotting flesh, the place below was damp and dark, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.
The further I went, the more spacious I found it beneath, and gradually I realized that the space below was connected to the caves we had seen above, and after a few steps, the field chicken in front stopped and shouted to us to come.
When I got closer, I saw a dry corpse lying on the ground, from the costume, it was Dongchang Fanzi, it can be seen that hundreds of years ago, the people of Dongchang also came here, the dried corpse was very strange, not like it was dried naturally after death, and the whole body was full of dense holes, and I couldn't find a complete place at all.
The further I went, the more dried corpses I found, until I reached the most spacious place, I looked at everything in front of me in shock, at that moment, it was like someone had been kicked in the stomach, and the violent contraction kept rolling, and there were corpses as far as the eye could see, some of them fell to the ground horizontally, and some of them stood in different postures.
These corpses were wearing military uniforms, they should be from the 117th Bureau, their faces were blue and black, exactly the same as the two people on duty we found, it had been more than thirty years, their corpses had not decomposed, their hollow eyes in their sunken eye sockets stared at us without the slightest luster, and their emaciated bodies were wrapped in wide military uniforms, looking out of place.
"They seem to be moving?!" Ye Zhiqiu said in horror.
I took a step forward with the torch, not the corpses moving, but something undulating in the uniform, and every corpse was like this, Bai Jin beckoned a person to check it, and the man timidly drew his knife, approached a corpse with trepidation, and used the knife to pick open the tattered uniform.
We were horrified to see that the corpse was covered with dense flesh sacs, faintly emitting an eerie fluorescence, and the squirming of those flesh sacs one after another made people look creepy, and the man in front trembled and used a knife to pick one of the meat sacs.
I heard Bu Dongyuan's panicked sound of stopping, but it was still a step too late, and the piece of flesh sac ruptured, a dementor scorpion quickly drilled out of it, and crawled towards the person extremely quickly along the blade, and before he could react, the small scorpion tail stinged on the back of his hand.
With a bang, the man seemed to have been hooked, the knife in his hand fell to the ground, and he stood motionless with wide eyes, and with the rupture of the flesh sac, the corpse also fell to the ground, and the flesh sac on the corpse split in an instant, and the dense dementor scorpion crawled out of the corpse, quickly attacking the person who had been poisoned and sluggish.
Tian Ji still wanted to save, but was pulled by Bu Dongyuan, shook his head and said that the poison of the dementor scorpion was powerless to return to the sky, we could only retreat powerlessly, watching those dementor scorpions climb up the body of the person, but did not bite but directly pierced the scorpion tail under the skin, and in the transparent scorpion tail in the fluorescence, I saw countless thin round eggs piled up like grapes being injected into the person's body.
"Although the poison of the dementor scorpion is domineering, it is not fatal, but it is precisely because it does not cause death that it is the most terrifying thing about this thing, they will lay scorpion eggs in the body of a living person, and these eggs will be embedded in the flesh and blood of a living person, and they will be sustained by sucking food, but because the scorpion eggs must suck the flesh and blood of a living person, so in the whole process, they will let the parasitic person survive until the last drop of blood is squeezed out, which is a very long process, and can last up to several decades without interference." Bu Dongyuan took a deep breath and said with palpitations. "These parasitic people, although their bodies are stiff, their consciousness is clear, that is to say, they have to endure the torment of pain every day that is worse than death, and they cannot speak or move, and no one wants to try that kind of pain."
After Bu Dongyuan finished speaking, he raised his gun and pointed it at the man's head, and then lit the man's clothes with a torch, looking at the dementor scorpion that was burned to death in the fire, Bu Dongyuan said worriedly: "When you meet a dementor scorpion, it becomes a benevolent charity to die happily." ”
This is the dementor scorpion on a corpse, after listening to Bu Dongyuan's words, I looked around in a panic, in the huge cave, there are hundreds of such corpses, this is completely a scorpion nest, now we have no way to retreat into it, once all the dementors in the corpse are released, the rest of us can only sit and wait for death.
Gong Jue squatted on the ground to check the viscous liquid, and when he avoided the fire, countless traces of fluorescence appeared on the ground, and if the fire was blocked, the entire cave where we were standing was full of such fluorescent lines.
"Don't wait for the Dementor Scorpion in the corpse to come out, we're all in the thick of it." When the palace lord stood up from the ground, his expression was terrified.
"What's wrong?" Bai Jin asked.
Gong Jue said that this is a scorpion nest, and before we arrived at the cave, countless dementor scorpions had been lurking underneath, and this scorpion nest happened to be connected to the stone caves above, which was also one of the mechanisms designed by Ling Xuan.
It's just that when we are on it, we can't see the setting of these mechanisms clearly, when we enter the stone cave to rest, with the sealing of the stone gate, this means that someone has entered, in Ling Xuan's initial setting, all those who come here are intruders, since someone closed the stone gate, it means that the Vientiane Divine Palace has been broken into.
Therefore, it was at that time that the mechanism here had been activated, but we didn't realize that the stone sealing stone was opened one after another in the stone chamber to release the dormant dementor scorpion below.
This is the Scorpion Nest, and it is where the Dementors hoard their prey, and it will not be long before the Dementors above return to the Scorpion Nest, and we will soon be a parasitic living dead in this rotting nest.
"If that's the case, then who else dares to come to this Vientiane Divine Palace, it's a death." Tian Ji said.
"Only God can enter!" I shook my head and remembered the stone monument I had seen at the bridge. "The Vientiane Divine Palace has never been left for us to open, only those who Ling Xuan is waiting for can enter, only gods can enter...... I guess only God is not afraid of these things. ”
As soon as I finished speaking, there was a loud bang, and from the open openings of the caves, dense dementor scorpions poured in like a waterfall, and in the dim light, the flowing fluorescence shone with a seductive light.
We were in such a hurry that we didn't have time to pick up the torches, we used wood from the campfire, and now the fire is getting smaller and smaller, and what it means to be extinguished, everyone must know it, and we huddle together, with the help of the faint light of the fire to resist the approaching Dementor Scorpions, the darker the fire, the closer they are to us.
Just as the fire was about to be extinguished, there was a roar overhead, and another sealing stone slowly opened, and I looked up in amazement, and there was a person standing on it, holding a torch to illuminate his face, it was a person I almost forgot.
Zhuo Mingfeng's face was always full of indifference, he looked at us condescendingly, and then a rope was thrown down from above......