Chapter 29: Awakening
The eight-millimeter rope really couldn't bear the weight of three people, and with a crisp sound, the knot on the side of the copper tree broke, and we crossed a large arc like a swing, and hit the cliff on one side, and almost vomited blood.
The old itch at the bottom hit the hardest, he couldn't catch the rope for a while, and slid down, he hurriedly grabbed the gap in the stone on the side, and then stopped, Master Liang and I were not much better, my head crossed a rock ridge, grinding out a hole, and blood flowed. Master Liang hung there vertically and couldn't bear the strength, the rope slipped in the palm of his hand, and it squeaked to the end all of a sudden, but fortunately there was an old itch below, so it didn't fall.
The sound of the stalagmites continuing to crack on the top may break at any time, I quickly reached out, grabbed the bell rΗ pillar on the side, jumped over, and then pulled Master Liang over, Master Liang was frightened enough, looked up and said thank you, before he said a word, suddenly a mask jumped down from it, and grabbed his face at once.
At that moment, I seemed to see a few crab legs-like claws stretched out under the mask, and Master Liang let out a miserable "woo" and wanted to cover his face with his hands, but it was too late, and the mask had already been covered. He tried desperately to rip off the mask, but it seemed to be attached to his face, and he pulled it out several times and sucked it back. I tried to help him, but he went crazy and bumped into him, and before he could get close, he suddenly overturned out, and I pulled the rope again with one hand, and slipped to the edge of the old itch before I could barely hold on.
I looked at the abyss below my feet, and cursed in my heart, I just wanted to go up again to help Master Liang. As soon as I looked up, a black shadow like a big hand fell from the sky and grabbed my face at once, and my eyes were so black that I couldn't see anything. I just felt a few fllush stuff go straight into my mouth.
In a panic, I only grabbed the crack in the rock with one hand, and broke the mask with the other hand, and at the same time gritted my teeth to prevent the thing from entering, and then I broke it, and the mask fell off by itself, and I quickly threw it out, but unfortunately it was thrown on the old itch's buttocks, and the old itch cursed, and smashed it down with the handle of the gun.
I breathed a sigh of relief, and when I turned my head, four or five more mantis Gu jumped to the side of my head, scared me into a daze, raised my hand is four shots, but it didn't work at all, all of a sudden, more than a dozen surged over, I and the old itch retreated down, at this time I heard the scream of "woo", looked up and looked up, Master Liang had already suffered, his body was crawling with mantis Gu, he was screaming and struggling, trying to shoot the mantis Gu down, but he slapped one off, and more rushed up.
I retreated, while shooting until the bullets were finished, the form did not improve at all, chΓ‘o water-like Gu came straight from both sides of us, turned my head to see, the surrounding rock walls were already crawling with this kind of thing, touching each other, for a while my ears were full of strange and inexplicable sounds, it was a headache, a distraction, there were a few of them jumped up, straight to the face of the person, one is not careful, it may be hit.
We kept moving downward, but it was impossible to get past these things quickly, and soon we were sturdy, and almost in despair, the old itch fired, and with a loud clap, swept away a piece of the Gu on our heads, and the nearest masks were immediately shattered, and the shards fell from the top of my head like snow.
But in less than a second, a blank rock wall that was opened by the paddle was immediately covered by the mantis Gu behind, and the old itch saw that it was useless, so he quickly wrapped his head with his clothes and shouted at me: "Old Wu!" I'll cover you, you cover your mouth, and then go get the torch! β
I looked up and saw that the torch was still stuck on a protrusion that I was looking for at the time, and there were no mantis around it, obviously these things were indeed afraid of fire, but the distance between me and the torch was densely packed with mantis Gu, and it was impossible to climb up, I yelled at the old itch: "No!" Can't climb up! Too much! β
"I'm out of the way! Let's give it a go! Old Itch screamed and smashed it with a paddle, "It's fucking unlucky, why didn't you have these things last time!" β
I looked at these things, and my heart trembled, these mantis Gu, they don't have much attack power, but there are too many of them, and they are protected by hard masks, it is difficult to kill them completely, and these are only the ones that have survived thousands of years of reproduction, in order to protect this copper tree, how many of these things were made by the ancients back then, I can't imagine.
Lao Itch shook off the Gu on his body again and wanted to crawl to my side, but when he looked up at me, he suddenly froze and shouted, "Old Wu, what's the matter with you?" β
I watched there, a couple of masks on his shoulders crawling into the clothes on his face, shouting, "What's the matter! Be careful! β
Lao Itch reacted, hurriedly slapped the Gu off his shoulder, and then said to me: "Old Wu, I said you-didn't find it?" That's not right! β
"What's wrong!" I pulled him over and yelled impatiently, "When's it, there's a fart!" β
"Look at you, you don't have a mask on you! Why don't they climb on you!! Impossible! β
I looked down, I also sighed, and then looked at Master Liang and Old Itch, they were all crawling with Gu on their bodies, and they couldn't get rid of it, but there was indeed none on me.
I chuckled in my heart, and immediately remembered that from just now to now, except for the one that flew to my face, I really hadn't climbed up on my body. Just now, I was chaotic all the way, I didn't find it, and I thought I was lucky, but now it seems that something is wrong. I hurriedly looked around, and found that although those mantis were also crawling towards me, as soon as they approached me, they suddenly changed direction and crawled elsewhere, as if they were tabooing me like torches.
"What's going on?" I wondered in my heart, and quickly raised my hand tentatively to grab the nearest mask, but before my hand touched it, the Gu had already stepped back violently.
I looked at the old itch, and the old itch also looked at me, the two basic points were inexplicable, and the old itch called: "My grandfather, this trick is cool, are you not careless with something on your hands, take a look!" β
I immediately saw that there was nothing special on my hands except for the blood and dirt that I had removed after the collision.
It's weird, what are they afraid of me?? Do they still have a choice for parasitism?
When I saw the retreat of these Gu Gus, I remembered the scene when the stuffy oil bottle shook the corpse, and a question mark popped up in my heart.
Wait, is it ...... Blood?
How is it possible, how can these vicious things be afraid of the blood of me, an ordinary human?
I looked at my hands suspiciously, my mind was a mess, and I couldn't think of anything.
The old itch on this side couldn't resist it, I reversed, tentatively stretched out my hand to the old itch, and something that made me dumbfounded, the mantis Gu attached to his body retreated like a cockroach seeing the insecticidal water, and the situation was exactly the same as the corpse seeing the blood of the stuffy oil bottle.
"Isn't it!" My jaw dropped to the ground, and I said I don't need to give me face like this.
The old itch still didn't understand what was going on, and screamed to climb up and get the torch, and I patted him and said to him, "Wait, look, something is wrong." β
After saying that, I raised my hand upwards and climbed a few steps towards Master Liang, who was already twitching, and after a few steps, the Gu chΓ‘o in those places retreated like water, and the sound of those neat masks touching just now suddenly became a mess, and was suppressed by a frightened squeak.
The old itch looked at me dumbfounded, as if he was looking at some monster, I ignored him, climbed on it, put my hand on Master Liang's face, the mask suddenly arched, I immediately grabbed it, pulled it hard, ripped off the mask, and by the way pulled out a "tongue" full of mucus, Master Liang was already in a semi-comatose state, as soon as the "tongue" pulled out of his throat, he immediately vomited and sprayed himself.
The Gu in my hand struggled violently, I could barely grasp it, and the tongue-like thing was too disgusting, so I had to smash it the stone, smashing out the green juice in my hand.
The Gu beside him retreated, but they didn't go far, forming a huge encirclement around us, constantly shrinking, and the old itch quickly pulled the torch back, swept it around, and forced them a little farther away. At this time, Master Liang coughed twice, and seemed to have regained consciousness, and Lao Itch went to get the kettle again and recovered the remaining rope. It's a pity that the rest of our equipment and food are still on the tree, and I don't know if there is a way to get it back.
I poured the water in my hand and moistened Master Liang's lips, he finally eased up, and when he saw me, two lines of tears flowed down, I was dumbfounded, and quickly threw him aside. The old itch nerves had been tense for too long, and he was a little nervous, and I told him that there were torches, and they would definitely not come, so let him relax, or he would go crazy.
He was relieved to see that the Gu was no longer close, and he inserted the torch into a place among us, and immediately asked me, "Old Wu, what's going on, when did you become so good?" I didn't do it sooner, and we were so embarrassed. β
I looked at my hands, shook my head, and said, "I don't fucking know about it, I thought it was a dream." β
The old itch looked at the blood on my hand, stained it a little, smelled it, and didn't believe that I was so powerful, and asked me, "When you came here just now, did you get anything special on the way?" Think about it carefully~ Maybe you ran into some of these mask-breaking nemesis, you don't know.?
I thought about it, the things I have touched, they have all touched, to say that they have not touched, only my blood, but it is really impossible, if my blood is so strong, I will be powerful in the Lu Palace, how can it be so wasteful, then~ Could it be that it was stained with his blood at that time, and it is still useful now, isn't it-
I shook my head, saying yes to myself.
Master Liang heard us tell us what happened just now, so he asked us what was going on, he covered his eyes with a mask, and he didn't see anything, and he said to him; "You don't know, our old Wu just now, but he is majestic, that's such a thing."
When Master Liang heard what he said, he snorted and said, "Little Angkor, have you ever eaten a thing, it is black sè, so big-"