Chapter 34: Night Three: Swamp Shadows
If you look closely, you will find that the silt at the bottom of the pond is stirred up by something, and it seems that there is a huge thing moving under the silt, turning up the black gas that exists under the silt. The whole bottom of the pool moved, and there seemed to be an irregular whirlpool in the mud, wrapping the corpses in and spitting them out.
As the silt activity became more intense, more and more black qi turned up from below, and I no longer had any strength to feel scared at this time, but my teeth were tight, and the clockwork on my body had reached the tightest level, and it was impossible to go any further.
These black gases can be toxic gases formed by the decay of large amounts of leaves in the swampy rainforest, which is often found beneath silt deep in the swamps and rainforests, and is released if there is a large natural climate change.
Many rainforests are untouchable because the presence of this toxic gas blocks large tracts of pathways. Some poisonous gases are due to the volatilization of special minerals or volcanic gases, or the formation of highly toxic clouds and fog mixed with fog, the poison of this poisonous gas is very powerful, and there are many "death valleys" in the world that even birds can't fly over.
If it is, it's not a good thing, and I don't know if it's going to be as blind as the fog I encountered in front of the temple yesterday.
I thought about whether I could go down immediately and rush back to the ruins, but after calculating the distance and time, there was no way at this time, the black gas had already filled the tree, and I couldn't go down. And if the fog on the temple doesn't recede, it is likely that I will be poisoned and lose my eyesight, and I may be like a fat man when I encounter snakes, so I would rather cut myself off.
I prayed that the black gas would only spread under the tree and not rise to the canopy, but apparently this was impossible, and slowly, I found that the black gas seemed to be alive, rolling and beginning to fill the entire space.
I cursed in my heart, knowing that if this black gas was poisonous this time, I was afraid that it would be worse than blinding, so in a hurry, I immediately tore off one of my clothes, smeared a large piece of black mud on my body, covered my mouth and nose, and made another one for the fat man.
After that, he remembered that he was on a tree, and immediately found a vine to tie himself and hang it on the tree, in case he fell from the tree if he was poisoned and his mind was blurred.
As soon as I finished doing this, the black qi reached my feet, and when it was covered up, the speed of spread was amazing, and the shadow of the black sรจ was like a ghost, almost instantly enveloping the branches where we were sitting, and I even heard it pass by, and the trees here made a slight crackling sound, and then the places around us were enveloped by the black gas.
The thin black gas filled the surroundings at once, and I felt as if I was trapped in a house under fire, but at the same time I immediately smelled a strange smell and my throat began to itch.
An itchy throat was obviously not a good sign, and I instinctively held my breath and tried to take as few puffs as possible.
After a few seconds, I didn't kill immediately, so I breathed a sigh of relief, obviously this black gas poison is not strong, so we have a great chance, however, if you inhale too much, but how exactly, it's hard to say.
While praying that the black gas would recede on its own like the mist, I drove upwards to see if I could climb higher and reach a place where the black gas was thinner, but when I looked up at the entire canopy, it was completely covered by the black gas, and under the pillar of light of the miner's lamp, I saw that the black gas seemed to be small particles of solidity, which seemed to be smoke, not gas.
What is this? I suddenly felt like I had seen this black smoke somewhere, where was it? As I thought about it, I felt a vague sense of uneasiness in my heart, and a feeling of extreme bad luck came to me.
I suddenly remembered the stuffy oil bottle, and only greeted his ancestors in my heart, if I had listened to me just now, I wouldn't have been so embarrassed now, why didn't I insist on it, if I died here, I didn't know who to call for injustice.
Maybe I trusted him too much before, but his recent decisions have been a little abnormal, and I suddenly want to smack myself in the mouth.
However, even if I don't come, I don't know if I can come over tonight, it was my mistake not to bring a gas mask at that time, but A-Ning The gas mask they are equipped with is very large, and the fat man and Pan Zi are old military, strong but too heavy, and it is inconvenient.
It's not right to think about it, it's also a catastrophe that can't be escaped.
Continuing to look at the quagmire, I heard a series of sounds of water churning from the swamp under my feet, very heavy, not noisy, as if some behemoth was about to come out of it.
There must have been something strange under this swamp, otherwise there would be no such movement, and I wonder if the snake eggs in the stomach of the corpse hatched, or if a big snake came to eat?
I took the miner's lamp to shine it, and saw that in the black air, there was a black spot as big as a calf, which was constantly moving, and its body was larger than the one we had encountered before, but it was really impossible to tell whether it was a snake or not.
The black gas pervades the vision, and I can't see what is under the black spot, and I feel that at this time, I can only resign myself to fate, and I am all calm and calm, watching the movement of the black spot.
Under this fog is all swamps, black spots from the swamp, must not be some land creatures, looking at the shape is not the kind of giant snake I encountered before, I said in my heart that otherwise he is so big I can't have not seen it just now, could it be a big fish buried in the mud.
However, what fish in the swamp can grow so big as a calf, is it a crocodile? Think about it is unlikely, if it is a crocodile, I have already hung it just now, in this kind of quagmire, if there is a crocodile the size of a calf, I will definitely drag it in, and the crocodile will definitely not let go of anything that invades its territory.
While thinking about it, the black spot suddenly stopped near my miner's spot, and seemed to notice this point of light, and I felt a little bad, and immediately removed the point of light, and turned to the canopy to shine on the fat man.
In this photo, I found that something was wrong, the fat man's head drooped down, and black blood flowed out of his eyes, I was horrified, and I reached over to touch it, and I broke out in a cold sweat, only to feel that the fat man was cold, and only the breath came out and did not enter the air.
I secretly scolded badly, I don't know if it's the snake venom attack, or the poison of this black gas, I can't manage so much at the moment, I put the fat man right, and pinched his person hard, pinching a few times is useless, I feel nauseous, and my heart says that I have to give him artificial respiration.
However, the fat man's posture was very awkward, and there was no branch behind him, so I had to hold him with my hand to get his head upright, but this person was extremely heavy, and I stepped on the branch and crackled, and I couldn't change several positions, and I couldn't support his upper body with one hand.
In the end, I simply stepped on the branch where he was sitting and lay on his body, but in a hurry, I got on my stomach, and suddenly I heard a "click", followed by a crisp sound, and the branch he was sitting on was broken, and I suddenly felt empty under me, and before I realized what was going on, I fell down the tree and fell into the pool with the fat man in my arms.