Finale (I) Chapter 44: The Quicksand Trap
Before the sound of the sand had subsided, I suddenly heard numerous muffled noises in the darkness in the distance, as if something had fallen from the top of the cave and fallen into the quicksand.
The sound is very dense, and in the end it is almost like rain, and the amount of things falling should be quite a lot.
The fat man was rolling vigorously, and when he heard this voice, he immediately stopped, and said to himself: "I seem to hear the voice of bad luck." ”
After saying that, he immediately sat up. We didn't have anything to defend ourselves on, so the fat man took out those iron spikes.
I knew something had to happen, but I looked around. Only quicksand can be seen.
The place where the sound came from is still a certain distance from here, although the "wolf eye" can shine very far, but it is difficult to see the details clearly in the yellow sand, and it is impossible to see what is falling down.
I feel uneasy, now we have no defenses at all, and if the ground we are lying on is damaged, we will sink into the quicksand.
Although the quicksand is not deep, it will not trap us. But we have also become turtles in urns. To put it mildly, let's say we're stuck in the quicksand.
Even a few mosquitoes with good patience can bite us to death here, and I said to the fat man: "Your broken "toothpick" is useless, keep climbing, climb as far as you can, maybe let us hold on to the side." “
The fat man looked at the iron thorn in his hand and immediately nodded: "Okay, let's go." "We got down again and immediately started rolling and crawling. The fat man has obviously increased his speed, and it is clear that fear is the first productive force of human beings.
Unexpectedly, I walked for a while. Suddenly, something fell next to us, and the fat man shone it with a flashlight and saw that it was a bone.
The fat man shone a flashlight on the top of the cave again, and saw it at once. There were many corpses attached to the roof of the cave, which looked as if they had been flattened and glued to the roof of the cave.
At the same time, we noticed that the roof of the cave was shaking. The corpse that stuck to it was crumbling, and from time to time debris fell.
The sound of objects falling to the ground continued to rain down. And this time I heard it very clearly, the sound seemed to be moving, and it was rapidly approaching us.
The fat man shone his flashlight in that direction, and he could already vaguely see that the corpses were falling one after another by something. A huge shadow hung upside down on the roof of the cave, looming in the light of a flashlight.
This time it seems to be a feeding ground, and all the animals that enter the ventilation and lighting stone paths will eventually gather here. Got disposed of by something here, but I don't know what this thing is.
Bad luck for the dog day, why didn't this ghost talk to us more, you must know that there is this kind of design here, at least I won't fucking run that fast, in such a simple trap, if we were careful, maybe we would have entered the ancient building by now.
I only cursed in my heart, and for a moment I felt very desperate, looking at the situation around me and the size of this thing. Running is also unlikely.
Even if it's a flat road, we can't outrun it, so will we be flattened by this thing on the roof of the cave this time? In this state, it seems that it is impossible to have a more dignified death.
A thousand experiences tell us. Either way, I had to hold on until the last moment, and the fat man handed me an iron thorn, which was usually used by the Buddha in the past.
At most, I stabbed a widow to death or an unlucky old rich man who was awakened in the middle of the night, although this thing is not easy to sell, but it is still an antique, and I would have liked to take it back as a souvenir.
I didn't expect that what I want to fight with it now would be such a thing, and this thing is very sharp. If you greet anything, the other party will not be too happy.
The fat man didn't have a gun and coerced a lot. We stepped on the skeleton of the chassis and were half-bent. Just wait for the thing to get closer, so we can at least choose whether to jump over and dodge it or take the opportunity to fight back when it attacks for the first time.
However, we put it on the shelf for a long time, and the thing stopped when it came to us.
I said to my heart, damn it, this thing is so big, it's quite cautious, what the hell is it? Is it a living creature or a dead body?
Looking at the huge shadow on the top of the cave in the distance, the sweat in my hands squeezed out of my fingers, how could a living thing appear in such a place, I had never seen such a beast, and if a dead thing was to behave, it should not be such a cautious behavior.
At this time, the sand in front of us suddenly fluctuated, and a wave of sand rolled in front of us, and I shone my flashlight on the surface of the quicksand, just in time to see a sudden change in the bone that had just fallen in the quicksand, and the bone seemed to be alive, and it was crawling on the sand.
The bones twisted in the sand, and the wool-like stuff on them contracted and expanded, and several black tentacles could be seen poking out from under the bones.
When we looked at the roof of the cave again, we were even more stunned, and all the bones stuck to the roof of the cave moved, and a large number of black, toothpick-thick tentacles stretched out.
The tentacles trembled, as if the entire roof of the cave had suddenly grown thorns, and soon, many insects fell from the roof of the cave.
All are black, and the nails are the size of the same size; After falling, he climbed directly into the quicksand and disappeared, and the fat man reacted quickly, and immediately picked up another piece of turf as an umbrella to block our heads, so that we did not get a full head by insects.
I knew right away what it was, it was a stone silkworm, a very common aquatic pest.
I don't know why it can survive on land here, this insect will use the liquid it secretes to stick a lot of stones and bones into a cocoon, and hide itself in it.
This thing bites very painfully, but it is not very mobile, and it usually escapes from its cocoon only when it is violated.
The fat man's hand was bitten several times because he was grasping on the "umbrella", and it quickly swollen.
I asked him to use iron spikes instead of his hands to carry the umbrella, and I calmed him down: "This bug is not an aggressive bug".
"I don't think so," said the fat man, "if we tumble into the quicksand, it will become the best delicacy for these bugs, and they will surely gnaw us clean."
Soon, most of the stone silkworms on the roof of the cave fell into the quicksand. The fat man hurriedly put down the "umbrella", I suddenly understood, these bones on it were probably not flattened as we thought, but these insects were transported up and glued up piece by piece, the fat man used the "umbrella" as a shovel to shovel the sand, and found that the surface of the sand was almost all covered with stone silkworms.
The fat man scolded: "Fuck, I'm not afraid that we'll starve to death anymore, these things must be super high in protein, let's eat this thing cleaner and more nutritious than what we eat in the city."
I looked at the dark figure crouching in the distance, and said to myself, this thing is probably the same thing as we thought: I don't have to worry about starving to death anymore, these two things seem to be very nutritious.
I said to the fat man: "If you want to eat you, the better the nutrition you eat, the more fragrant it will be when others eat you." While that big guy is still pretending to be literary and artistic, let's continue to withdraw. It didn't react to any of the movements, and maybe it didn't pay attention to us at all.
The fat man said, "No way, it's in the direction we're going, we'll have to pass under it." No way. I don't really have that kind of fun. ”
I said, "So what do you say?" Wait for it to change its attention and destroy us all. Or wait for him to die of boredom? ”
"It's going to attack us, we don't have anything to do, it's useless to think about it" The fat man kept moving forward while changing the chassis with the patch in his hand. There are a lot of places on one side. "The best thing to do is to find a place to hide, this place is too big, let's use a flashlight as bait."
"Is it attracted to the light?" I was suspicious, "The sika deer that fell here didn't have a flashlight." I think it's probably the smell and the sound. ”
"Which one is it?"
"The smell could be a little bigger." I said. The fat man immediately pulled out a bottle from his bosom.
"What is this?"
"Huoxiang Zhengqi water, help. Quick" The fat man took off his socks, put the bottle inside, and then shook it as a meteor hammer, and when it was thrown the fastest, the bar bottle was thrown out, and the bottle flew in an arc and hit the pillar on the side, and the sound of the bottle breaking could be heard.
"This one has a very strong taste, and if it's attracted to the smell, maybe it can lead it over."
The shadow didn't react.
"Maybe your socks are so stinky that they mask the smell of Huoxiang Zhengqi water." I said.
Could it be the sound? I said to myself, too many things fell from it just now, so this black shadow stopped, to wait for the sound to subside?
There was also the sound of falling insects all around, but the sound was getting softer. I became uneasy, looked at the shadow, and suddenly let out a loud roar.
The black shadow was indeed eastward, and the fat man immediately covered my mouth and asked me softly what I was doing.
I said, "This thing seems to be judging our position by sound."
And it doesn't have a particularly good ability to discriminate sounds, and with a little interference, it can't tell where we are.
Let's be prepared that when the sound is all quiet, we will not make any sound. ”
After hearing this, the fat man became excited: "This is too passive, if this is the case, we should take this opportunity to kill it." ”
I said in my heart that even if you could touch it, with our current situation, it would be too difficult to touch the top of the cave, and as I spoke, the black shadow suddenly shrank back.
We were startled and saw the shadow slowly retreat into the darkness. (To be continued)