Chapter Seventy-Seven: Ants
I glanced at the blind man in front of me, and sighed secretly in my heart, this blind man Liu is unknown, and he can live alone for more than 20 years in this place where he does not see the light of day, which is a shocking and strange thing, if I believe him like this, wouldn't it make people laugh off their big teeth and call me an idiot. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
But I have always had a great advantage as a person, believe in him, but don't believe it all, don't believe it, after all, I have a gun in my hand, and if something is wrong, at least one shot can result in him, and it can't make him feel better, but he is a blind man, but he can't see that we have a gun in our hands, and he has to make him aware of this, otherwise if he has a bad heart, then we will be passive.
After thinking about it, I shouted to the fat man: "Little fatty, copy the guy and try what the corpse is all about." As I spoke, I gestured with my hand again, signaling him to use the gun, and not to hurt the corpse first, just pass by and hit the wall.
The fat man understood, and before the blind man could stop him, a gunshot shook everyone's ears in the hole, and even their eardrums were a little painful. At this time, looking at Liu Blind again, his face changed greatly, although most of his face was covered by hair, but the blind tricks couldn't deceive people, and the dark eyes were wandering around in the sockets, as if he was struggling with something.
After waiting for a while, and seeing no words from him, I shouted to the fat man, motioning for him to come and help turn the two intact mercury corpses.
Just as he was about to start, Liu Blind spoke: "Slow down, I don't know if the head is a bit of a fire guy." ā
I knew that this old blind man was not at ease, and there must be something to follow, so I snorted coldly in my heart, and asked pretending to be puzzled: "What is the use of fire?" ā
Liu Blind knew that his heart was weak, and he couldn't see what my expression was at the moment, so he said for a while: "If there is fire, you can save a lot of things, and it will be more convenient to act next." If not, it doesn't matter, I should still find the torches I left behind here, and maybe they can be of some use. ā
Emma and the fat man were naturally a little suspicious of his words, and I stopped them without asking any further questions, so they answered his words, and found the torches, twenty years have passed, where can those torches still be useful, and before they can be lit in their hands, they become rotten scum when they are lightly knocked, and the four walls of the passage are covered with lime, and how dry this cave is, where can the torches be put down.
It didn't matter if there were no torches, and now the clothes on everyone's bodies were almost dry, so I took off a coat, tore it into strips of cloth, tied it to a bronze sword and a vajra umbrella, lit it, and put it into Emma's hands. Not to mention that I can't believe the blind man, I won't hand over the vajra umbrella and the bronze sword to him, so Emma followed closely behind me and the fat man with two torches in both hands.
More than 100 mercury corpses, the feet are fixed, below is an invisible disk, both feet are connected to the plate, whether from a distance or close to see are connected together, there is no clue at all, but Liu Blind said that the soles of the feet of the two remaining mercury corpses can be rotated, of course, although there is a way to live after turning, but it is not completely risk-free, what the specific risk is, he did not say, only said let us turn and see.
The metal and wooden mechanism has long been rotten in the underground palace tomb for thousands of years, not to mention what role it can play, and the prescient people will use the stone mechanism, even after tens of millions of years, the reliability is more than ten million times stronger than that of metal and wood.
The base of the mercury corpse was not so easy to turn because of the age, and the fat man and I worked together with one foot in one direction, and after a short time, the mercury corpse was turned, and the face of the portrait on the wall stopped, and the same was true of the second corpse.
As soon as the two mercury corpses turned, they felt a rumbling sound on the ground, even with vibrations, constantly shaking, and bursts of dust falling from the top of their heads, as if the cave was about to collapse at any time. Although Liu's blind eyes are blind, his heart is clear, knowing that we will be panicked, and he is also afraid that once we doubt in our hearts, we will be angry with him, so he shouted repeatedly: "Everyone, don't panic, this is the meaning of the opening of the organ, this place has gone through thousands of years, I don't know how many avenue organs are hidden..."
Before the words were finished, Liu Blind was unstable under his feet, and he stumbled and fell to the ground, at this time, looking at the place where he was standing before, I don't know when a square stone platform was raised, saying that it was a stone platform, in fact, it was a palm-sized, but about 20 centimeters protrusion, just about to come up to take a closer look, but found that the stone platform was actually hollow, hollowed out on all sides, and there seemed to be something running out inside.
Before I had time to take a closer look, some ants the size of fingernails rushed out of it, much smaller than the size of the desert marching ants, but the color made people shudder, and the snow-white body, with two fiery red whiskers, looked indescribably terrifying.
Where have everyone seen this thing, the fat man is holding a sapper shovel in his hand, picking it up and slapping it down, scolding while patting: "****, what the fuck is this?" ā
Every time the sapper shovel in the fat man's hand slapped a shovel, the ants on the ground exploded a pile of white liquid, and the liquid soaked in bursts of white smoke on the ground, as if corroded by sulfuric acid. The blind man Liu's ears were sensitive, and after listening to the fat man's scolding, he knew the problem, and hurriedly said something to stop it: "This thing is afraid of fire, so use the torch in your hand to drive it away." ā
After listening, I ended up shaking the torch in Emma's hand on the ground, and those red and white ants saw that the fire really seemed to spread around, and they didn't dare to come closer half a step, and everyone also understood, Liu Blind asked us to prepare the torch's intention, but at this moment, although the ants were temporarily driven away, it seemed a drop in the bucket, and it was useless at all, and more and more ants came out of the stone platform.
Fortunately, these ants did not take us as prey, and rushed straight from the stone platform like us, with torches in front of them, but they only bypassed us, and did not turn back to outflank us, as if we had become their barricades, blocking their way.
The ants in the stone platform kept rushing out, and our torches gradually became a little dim, so I don't know how long it took, I couldn't help it anymore, and asked Liu Blind again: "Old man Liu, you don't plan to let us just keep waiting, we will be finished in a short time." ā
Liu Blind Man hid behind Emma, seeing that my tone was not good, for fear that I would pull out a gun and kill him at this time, he hurriedly explained: "Don't be in a hurry, and wait first, this thing is specialized in eating mercury corpses, and its own corrosiveness is strong enough, and when they have eaten enough, they will naturally go back." ā
The fat man was furious when he heard this: "**** Your grandmother's, blind, you are fucking crazy, where does this thing look like it is going to be full, and the queue has not finished yet, and when they finish eating, we will have to go under the knife." ā
In fact, what the fat man said is not unreasonable, but the strangeness of this ant is indeed a little frightened, their food is not a delicious thing, but the mercury corpse, I glanced at the sapper shovel in the fat man's hand, but found that the sapper shovel did not know when there was a hole, thinking that the ant was shot to death and flowed out of the white liquid, fell to the ground bursts of white smoke, most of the sapper shovel in his hand was also corroded by that thing.
I hurriedly let the fat man throw the sapper shovel, although the fire in front of the bronze sword is getting weaker and weaker, and we are trapped here but unable to move, not daring to move half a step to the side, I secretly think in my heart that this old thing is our army, forcing us not to do anything to him at the moment, after all, I don't know what will happen next, it seems too unwise to kill him at this moment.
Seeing that the fire is getting smaller and smaller, I reached out to find something on my body to continue to light it, and suddenly thought that An Changwei was still lying at the entrance of the cave, and my heart was suddenly shocked, we have a torch in our hands to block those ants, but An Changwei is indeed unconscious at the moment, although these ants are happy with mercury corpses, but we know very little about this thing, and we can't rule out that it will eat living people, so we can't help but have some worries about An Changwei.
Although I don't like a profiteer like An Changwei, he may find this place and find two broken tiger talismans, he has made great contributions, and no matter what kind of intentions he had in the first place when he followed us here, this love really can't run away.
Immediately, I handed the sword in my hand to the fat man, and told him the idea that I would save An Changwei, and the fat man's head shook like a rattle: "If you want to go, let's go together, just such a torch, and you don't have a guy in your hand who can stop these disgusting things, just going like this is equivalent to sending you to death." ā
At this moment, I don't allow me to think about it anymore, one more minute of delay, An Changwei will be more dangerous, as soon as the fat man finished speaking, I patted him on the shoulder, motioned for him to follow behind me with a torch, and I walked towards An Changwei in front.
An Changwei was lying against the wall at the entrance of the passage when we came, the connection between the passage and the mercury corpse mound, that is, the mouth of the wall, those ants stopped when they arrived here, no longer moving forward, and the distance from An Changwei was only more than ten centimeters.
As soon as I saw this, I was a little surprised, this thing was too orderly, as if it had been rehearsed before. Before I got closer, I reached out and grabbed the unconscious An Changwei, took off his coat again, tore it into strips of cloth with a dagger, wrapped one on the bronze sword torch that was about to be extinguished, and handed the rest into the fat man's hands.
The fat man squatted on the ground and pulled the strip of cloth, thrust the dagger into the ground, and then stabbed the dagger back to the ankle after putting the strip of cloth away. The moment the fat man pulled out his dagger, a burst of white came out of the ground, I reached out and touched it, put it to my nose and sniffed it, and smiled again.
It is also said that An Changwei has a big life, this passage is full of lime, even on the ground, no wonder these ants are only more than ten centimeters away from him, but they just stop there and don't take half a step forward. Rao is that no matter how corrosive these ants are, they can't get rid of the water in their bodies, and the lime will be burned when it gets wet, and it can burn the poisonous insects and beasts dry in an instant, presumably this step is also in the calculation of the builder.
Obviously, all this is not as easy as Liu Blind said, waiting for them to finish eating is natural, I am afraid that when everything we can burn is burned out, there will be no change, after all, these ants will not obediently leave the same way, the only clear road that can go is covered with lime, and they will not go there.
I secretly scolded this old blind man in my heart, who had been trapped for more than 20 years, and when I first saw a living person, the first thing that came to mind was how to calculate us, really his grandmother's dog bit Lu Dongbin.
Although he thought so in his heart, he couldn't say it, Liu Blind's ears here are not much worse than emma, besides, emma is facing away from him at the moment, if he takes emma as a hostage, and refuses to tell us how to get out, it will be even more doomed.
With that, I gestured to the fat man, motioning for him to lean over to Emma with his torch.
Blind Liu heard the footsteps of us coming, the corners of his eyes moved slightly, and he was about to speak, so we came to the front, handed An Changwei behind him to the fat man, and gestured to Emma, and the two exchanged positions, all these movements Liu Blind Man listened to in his ears, and then Huoguang saw that his face was slightly ugly, but he didn't dare to speak.
I said to the fat man: "Little fatty, you carry Mr. An on your back and take Miss Duan to go first, this little strip of cloth will be gone after it is burned, and it is estimated that it will not be able to carry it for two minutes." After saying this, I glanced at the blind man Liu beside me again and asked, "Senior Liu, are you waiting here, or are you going to run out the same way with us?" ā
Liu Blind was stunned for a moment, unable to figure out what I was thinking at the moment, let alone what I found, but when I was blowing him up, he said: "Don't be in a hurry, wait a while, after these things are eaten, we can find the baby, wouldn't it be better to go out with the baby, so empty-handed, it is not the style of touching the Kinmen people." ā
I sneered in my heart, and said: "Since Senior Liu wants to wait, then we won't accompany him, Captain Touching Jin has always believed that if you can take it, you can take it, and if you can't take it, don't force it, sometimes the hit must be there, look at this formation, we can't have the hit." Good things are still left to the predecessors, we don't turn around, there will be a period in the future. ā
After speaking, before the blind man Liu could react, I raised my leg and was about to leave, he didn't have a torch in his hand, where was he willing to let us go easily, but I didn't give him a chance to think about it at all. This blind man has not seen a living person for 20 years, and he probably doesn't know that it is not so easy to deceive people, so he was a little panicked for a while, and hurriedly grabbed me and said, "Hey... Slow down, there is a way to get past it, and you don't have to wait for those things to be eaten. ā
I had expected him to make this move, but where could he let go so easily, and clasped his veins with his backhand and said with a smile: "Seniors can keep it for themselves, even if we take these things, we won't be able to take them out at that time, since the seniors are recruiting again, let's take it yourself." (To be continued.) )