Chapter 4: Black Worms
"What's wrong?"
The man with glasses put back on his camp bag, and came over to look at it with curiosity, but before he could see it clearly, he only heard him scream "oops", covered his buttocks, and kept pulling on his buttocks with his hands. I looked up at him and saw that he had also been tricked!
A hole was burned in the crotch of the glasses, and a corner of the underwear was exposed, and the root of his life almost suffered. I saw that the action of him reaching out and slapping his crotch was very funny, but before I could laugh, there was a scene in front of my eyes that made me want to cry -
I was simply stunned! The half-open mouth almost froze on the face.
Not far away, the sky and the earth were full of those small black briquettes, flying towards us like a meteor shower. Each black ball burned with golden fire, covering the sky like a downpour. Before I could react, more than a dozen black briquettes smashed on me.
The bare skin of the body was smashed, and at first it didn't feel anything, but after a few seconds, the burning pain became intense.
As soon as the black briquettes hit our clothes, the flames were extinguished, but the sparks would spread along our clothes. I was going crazy, trying to pull with my hands, trying to catch the sparks on my clothes, but it was in vain, and in a moment my clothes were full of holes.
I naively thought that this time I was fully prepared and would not be as embarrassed as last time, but it was like this not long after I came in, and it seems that I underestimated this "Tulimen".
The sparks splashed everywhere, and I saw the man in glasses screaming and rolling on the ground. In some places, the fire is bigger, and it takes several shots to extinguish it. I was worried that my hair would be burning, so I unscrewed the lid of the kettle and poured the water on my head.
The briquettes kept coming, like hailstones. My heart is finished, and if I do this again, I will be burned to death, and I can't care so much at the moment, so I grabbed my glasses and started to run wildly.
"Run!"
My glasses were pulled by me, and I couldn't care so much when I got up, and staggered forward. But the briquettes seemed to have thoughts, and they chased us all the way. I wondered if this thing was trying to kill us, or was it just trying to expel us? This meadow is empty, and if we don't find a shelter, we're really done!
I was having a headache when suddenly a briquette flew past my temples and my eyebrows were burned. I began to feel scared, thinking that if I was smashed in the eyeball, I might be blind. So I hurriedly blocked my eyes with my arm, and at this moment, with an inadvertent glance, I actually found that a hole more than a meter wide appeared on the ground not far away.
I didn't have time to look closely, but I felt that the hole seemed to be quite deep, and there seemed to be a dirt slope at the entrance of the cave. I couldn't think about it so much at the moment, so I pulled my glasses and ran over. "Get in!" I kicked him into the hole, and then threw my marching bag in it before I hurried inside.
As soon as you enter the cave, your body slides down the dirt slope all the way, dusting everywhere until you fall to the bottom of the cave. I looked back and saw that the black briquettes hadn't caught up again, and the man with glasses and I breathed a sigh of relief.
Leaning on one place, Brother Glasses and I gasped, and our whole body hurt like pins and needles. The pain is hard to describe, and although it is not particularly severe, it can make people confused, and their minds are full of nothing but pain. It took a long time for the wheezing to subside, and I struggled to get up from the ground.
Look around and wonder what this place is?
My nervousness did not go away, and I immediately turned on the flashlight to look around, only to see that this was a dirt cave, the hole was very deep, and there were several forks not far away, and I didn't know where it led. A damp and foul-smelling smell filled the air, and I couldn't help but cover my nose.
"Dude...... You okay? I looked back at Brother Glasses, and saw him leaning against the cave wall exhausted, his eyes squinting, his face pale, and his weak appearance like a mole man. Just now, his shirt was tied around his waist, and he only wore a short sleeve, and at the moment his arms and face were full of burns, and red blisters appeared in some places, which was miserable.
I hurriedly took Vaseline out of my bag and applied it to him. Although I was also tricked, the wound was still scorching, but fortunately, I tried my best to protect my face, and my handsome appearance was preserved......
"Don't paint it, it's useless." The man with glasses stretched out his hand to stop me, "The heat on this wound can't be dissipated, and it will fester." ”
"What then?" I hurriedly stopped what I was doing.
"I still have some water here, let's take a show."
I nodded yes, took the water bottle from the marching bag on the back of my glasses, and carefully rinsed his arm with water. The man with glasses endured the pain, and his facial features were distorted. After a while, the cool water must have worked on the wound, and I saw him slowly relax. I saw that there was not much water left in the kettle, and I was reluctant to flush it for myself, so I closed the lid and put it back in my glasses bag.
"Thank you." I shook my head. I saw him lean over, tear an adhesive black briquette from his trouser leg, and look at it. At this time, the fire on the black briquette had been extinguished, and it seemed to be dead. I could tell that it had six long, slender feet with spikes, and a round body. If you look closely, it turns out to be a black bug.
"This thing is called the Golden Flame Worm." "They have fire on them, and they like to haunt them in the evening." Legend has it that during the Great Wilderness, this thing was particularly rampant near Baoluo Mountain. When the Yellow Emperor sent people to visit there, he found that the local villages, vegetation, animals, and buildings were all on fire, and there was no grass on the ground, and people and animals had become dried corpses...... It's all this thing. ”
"Good boy!" I sighed.
"This thing is divided into male and female. The male and female are not the same. "The male has a hook on his foot, and when he touches other animals, his foot hooks their fur and ignites the flames." Because these things attack in groups, the animals attacked by them are often powerless to resist and can only be burned alive. At this time, the female will appear, and then the eggs will be laid into the charred carrion. Scorched corpses lay eggs, which is a characteristic of this animal. ”
"Huh?! So they attack us in an attempt to use our corpses to lay eggs? I responded, and the glasses nodded. I imagined myself dead, my body full of eggs, and I felt uncomfortable all over my body, and I felt a chill down my spine.
"It should be." The glasses nodded.
"I didn't expect it, you still know a lot." I smiled wryly at him.
"Hey, I learned it all from Uncle Meng." Brother Glasses also gave me a smile in return.
"Uncle Meng, he ...... "I wanted to say something more, but I don't know if it was my illusion, as I spoke, I actually smelled a strange smell, as if it was wafting from the mouth of the cave." The smell was getting stronger and stronger, and I became nervous all of a sudden, and hurriedly looked at the entrance of the cave with a flashlight.
I don't know when the weeds at the entrance of the cave actually burned, the fire splashed everywhere, although the white smoke could not enter the hole, but the fire was fierce, and the golden tongue of fire was scurrying at the entrance of the cave, illuminating that side very brightly.
"Oh no, those bugs are making a big move!" I retreated from the dirt slope under the entrance of the cave, scratching my head in a hurry, "How can I get out now?!" ”
"I have no choice but to wait for the fire to get smaller." Brother Glasses shook his head lightly, as if he didn't take it seriously. When I heard this, I was depressed. I originally planned to find the millet orchard within two days and save my parents from it within three days. Every minute and second is precious, but to waste time here, it is like killing me!
I looked at Brother Glasses to ask if he had any other way, when I suddenly found him staring at me. He didn't speak, his body didn't move, and there was no emotion in his eyes. I was a little hairy by his staring, so I asked him what he was looking at?
"There's something I didn't tell you." Brother glasses pursed his lips, and his expression suddenly looked anxious, "Actually, when I came down just now, I saw a figure in the cave over there, and suddenly flashed and disappeared. ”
When I heard this, the hairs on my body stood on end. I said don't scare people, you still have the heart to joke at this time, you don't have the heart to look at it!
"I'm serious." His glasses tightened, and his hand slowly lifted up, pointing to one of the forks in the hole, "...... Right there! He said.
"Are you sure you read that right?"
"100 percent right!" Brother glasses looked at me and asked, "What should I do?" ”
I thought about it for a moment and swallowed dryly. "Okay...... I'll take a look, you wait. ”