Chapter 43: The Brahmin's Laboratory
When Stern was being dragged into the hole by Donnie, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his calf, and he couldn't help but let out a low roar. He looked down www.biquge.info and saw a huge black shadow lying on his lap, it turned out that the female tarantula had jumped on the small platform at some point, and was clamping his legs with its thick two chelicera, and the fangs hidden under the chelicerae bit his calf and injected a large amount of venom into it.
When Stern saw this, he was immediately angry, and he couldn't be afraid, and endured the severe pain, struggling to free Donnie's hand that was dragging him. Then he took out the dagger from his waist and stabbed the female tarantula, the female tarantula was in pain, and then pulled out its fangs, and then Stern kicked the female tarantula hard, and the female tarantula immediately fell off the stone platform, and Stern saw this, and quickly let Donnie drag him into the depths of the hole.
Along the way, Stern felt unusually swollen and painful in his legs, chills all over, and his limbs were weak, and by the time Downey dragged him out of the dark, narrow cavern, Stern was already delirious, and then dimly saw several stone statues dangling in front of him. Then Anne appeared in front of him with ghosted faces, her mouth closed and she was talking anxiously, but he couldn't hear it clearly, and then slowly lost consciousness......
"Miss Anne, think of a way! This stone chamber seems to be completely enclosed, and we can't get out. ”
"Miss Anne, stop looking at those reliefs, if you don't find a way out, we're all going to die here!"
"And the sergeant, I don't know if he can live, he is in a coma now, his breathing is so weak, if he can't find a way out, he will die here at any time!"
"Kansa, what do you say? I don't understand, Miss Anne, do you understand Khmer? ”
"Have we been drinking and eating for a long time? We're out of water, and if we run out of water to drink, we'll probably be dehydrated. ”
"I knew that I shouldn't have followed the professor to participate in this expedition, how good it is to stay in the academy, eat and drink, and not have to face so many terrifying creatures and bugs. Alas! Sure enough, the sergeant was right, this is simply a life-and-death adventure......"
"Donnie, be quiet, I'm looking for a way to crack this secret room, don't forget to loosen his leg every half hour, and squeeze the poisonous blood around his wound from time to time."
"I know, didn't I stay next to him all the time and get it for him!"
Stern didn't know when he started hearing the sounds around him, but his eyes were still hazy, he couldn't open his eyes, his hands and feet could barely move, and although his throat couldn't make a sound, he felt that his consciousness was regaining little by little, so he kept trying to move the joints of his body.
"Donnie......" Stern finally squeezed the first word out of his throat after two hours or so of that lucid state.
"Oh! Sergeant, have you woken up? Great, I thought I'd have to carry you out of the stone chamber at the end, God forbid! ”
When Anne heard Donnie say that the sergeant was awake, she immediately came over to check on him, and greeted with joy in her eyes: "Great! Sergeant, you're finally awake! It really scared us just now, how are you feeling now? ”
Stern leaned down slightly, and immediately felt a hot pain all over his body, and he took a breath: "Actually, I woke up early, but I couldn't open my eyes, I couldn't move, and my mouth couldn't make a sound." ”
"Of course, this she-tarantula has injected a lot of venom into your body, but fortunately, its venom can only paralyze the muscle nerves of the prey for a short time, otherwise we really can't save you."
"But why can't I see things with my eyes now? It's still hot."
"Of course, if I'm not mistaken, you're allergic to the tarantula's venom, and you're swollen all over your body now, and your skin is swollen."
"Oh, I see, so where are we now?" Stern anxiously asked, "Is this place safe?" Did the tarantula chase it?? ”
"We're in a stone room underground, and I accidentally broke into a secret room while hiding from the tarantula, and I'm trying to get out of here now."
"What about Kansa? Where did he go? Stern hadn't heard Canza's voice since he regained consciousness, so he asked.
"Oh, that's right, he's looking for exits from the stone chamber one by one."
"Oh, is this a big stone chamber?" Stern suddenly felt a little pain lying like this all the time: "Donnie, you help me up and sit down for a while." ”
"Okay." Donnie immediately helped Stern to sit up, he still couldn't see anything in front of him, but he could feel that it didn't seem to be dark here, and there seemed to be a faint scent of sandalwood in the air.
"Annie, what's going on with this stone chamber? Why can't you get out? ”
"This stone chamber is too big and very dark, and we have been fumbling for a long time. Only then did we find this small stone room, which was equipped with a copper lamp for lighting, so we lit it and stayed here for the time being. Then Anne said: "Based on the reliefs carved into this stone chamber, I suspect that this chamber is in fact a Brahmin laboratory!" ”
"Yes, yes, yes! Do you know where those big tarantulas came about? Donnie mysteriously pretended to be in front of Anne and told Stern: "It's exactly like what you say, it's the work of these brahmins!" They were bred from living people! ”
"Really?" Stern was shocked, thinking that he was just guessing at the time, but he didn't expect it to be true: "So they only grew so big after eating human flesh?" ”
"Not really, the reliefs are just carvings of other strange creatures they raised, including tarantulas." Anne said calmly: "However, most of the contents engraved on the reliefs are incredible, and it remains to be verified whether they are real." ”
"Are there other creatures in this chamber as well? Aren't we dangerous? As soon as Stern heard that there were other creatures in the stone chamber, he became worried, and thought to himself that now not only himself, but everyone was more or less injured, and there was no weapon, so he could not encounter any more danger.
"You don't have to worry about this, we have already checked, and we have found no other creatures, or that all the strange creatures that were previously raised in this area have fled, and many of the feeders of the next stone chamber that are used as nests like tarantulas have been opened, and we have all gone to see, and they are all empty. Then the entrance to the stone chamber where the tarantula was kept was sealed by us, and it shouldn't be dangerous, but we still haven't found out where the exit from this stone chamber is. ”
Stern was a little relieved to hear what Anne had said, but he felt that it was not a solution to be trapped here now, especially now that he had run out of ammunition.
So he asked, "Since this is a place where Brahmins keep strange creatures, there must always be an exit, why haven't you ever found an exit?" ”
"That's what we couldn't figure out, it stands to reason that there was always a place to get in and out, but we couldn't find it for a long time. Each passage here leads to the next stone chamber where the strange creatures are kept. ”
Before Anne could finish speaking, Stern heard footsteps from far and near, echoing in his direction.