Chapter 41: The Nematode
With a drop of five or six meters, it was easy to go down, and for the first time it was not as watery as we imagined, there were flat stones everywhere, and the water flowed all the way to the bottom of the trees and then disappeared, and the ground was dry everywhere, and there was no water on it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The glowing tree was not tall, and in addition to the green leaves and white fruits in the green, it looked like a cold chill, and two words "ice lantern" immediately popped up in my heart.
Qimen ancient seal has a record about the ice lamp, the ice lamp is an ancient sacred tree, growing in the place of extreme yin, has a strong medicinal value, it is said that Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, accidentally ate poisonous weeds, fell into the valley, Shennong tribe sent people everywhere to find.
Shennong fell into the valley and fell into the end of a dark river, the water flowed here, and was blocked by a tree, Shennong's was born bold, and his heart said that the person who would die anyway why not try again, pick a fruit, the fruit left the tree, and melted in an instant, and there was nothing left. Shennong was shocked, so he reached out to pick the second one, and the result was the same, asking Shennong, who had tasted all the herbs, had a unique understanding of herbs in the world, but what was in front of him really surprised him.
Since he couldn't touch it with his hands, Shennong immediately plucked the glowing leaves and wrapped the white fruit with the leaves, and the fruit did not melt away after leaving the tree. After eating the fruit, Shennong's body was highly poisoned, so he named it the Ice Lantern Fruit.
The main reason is that the place where it was found was too cold, and the mountain stream and dark river disappeared directly here. Qimen ancient seal said, the ice lantern fruit to be green and white, the white fetus seems to have a baby in the image, only to show ripeness, but if you want to wait until this time, it is definitely not a year and a half to achieve things, less than half an era and more than a hundred years.
The fat man heard such a good thing, and hurriedly said to me for a while, seeing that I was confused, only then did he come back to his senses, and he said a word to emma, I thought that my ears were deaf, but it was inconvenient to hear and distinguish the position, and communication was not a problem, after all, we still know a lot of sign language ciphertext, which ever thought that this was the case.
Emma listened to the fat man's words, and also said a few words to him, and his heart was also happy, and a slight smile appeared on his face: "The fat man said, since this thing can detoxify, why don't you take one and try it." Maybe the toxin of your deafness can be cured. ”
I nodded, this is not impossible, I think that Shennong tasted herbs back then, and ate food poisoning indiscriminately, and it would be good to eat this fruit, I went into the hole, and I didn't eat anything, and my ears were deaf, which was too cost-effective.
When he walked to the Ice Lantern Tree, he reached out and prepared to pull a leaf, wrap it in the Ice Lantern Fruit and pick it off. I couldn't hear with my ears, but it didn't interfere with my sixth sense, and the hand that had just been stretched out retracted, and I hurriedly took two steps back, feeling as if something was ready to attack us at any moment.
The fat man looked at me back, at first a little confused, and then before I could speak, he looked at the ice lamp tree with a stern expression.
There is a circle of waterhole under the frozen tree, as if the tree grows out of the water, the temperature of the surrounding air is terrifying, a few of us are still wearing a few thin autumn clothes, we have long been frozen to the appearance of a human, but because there seems to be some crisis hidden under the tree opposite, the nerves are tense, and we dare not relax at all.
Emma held the Vajra umbrella in his hand, I held the bronze sword in my hand, and the fat man and An Changwei carried a small flamethrower, ready to spray flames at any time and give it a clean sweep.
The Ice Lantern Tree grows in a place of extreme shade, and has grown up in the cold for thousands of years, and has never even seen the sun, and where has it ever seen high-temperature equipment such as a flamethrower, and if you are not careful, this tree will have to be destroyed here.
The two of them had to wait patiently to see, and two bubbles gurgled in the water under the ice lamp tree, and then there was no more movement. It's as if it's just spitting two bubbles out to scare us.
Everyone was puzzled, and the fat man said to Emma: "Hurry up, pick the fruit and then run, it is not a way to go on like this." ”
I walked over with a bronze sword in one hand, and stood in front of the ice lamp tree for a long time without making a move, not because I was afraid, but my intuition told me that if I took it off with this hand, something in the water would come out and catch me off guard. After waiting for a while, he circled around the Ice Lantern Tree, and then, with lightning speed, picked a leaf and wrapped a fruit in the leaf.
In one go, I was about to withdraw and leave, when a big green grape suddenly appeared under the water, which startled me, and I was about to dodge, but it was too late, so I had to reach out to block it. The grapes went straight through my arm, into my chest, and then vanished. I didn't have time to think about it, so I hurriedly retreated to the crowd.
The fat man saw me... Her jaw was almost on the ground, and she was smacking at me again, and Emma asked me with the same stunned expression, "Didn't you see a child who just ran on you?" ”
Child? I can think about my current expression, it must be very funny, where did the child come from, I clearly saw a big grape, how did it become a child. While being surprised in my heart, I lowered my head and rummaged around my body to check, a child, I can't just disappear out of thin air.
After not finding anything useful for a long time, Emma hurriedly grabbed me and said, "Eat the fruit you have picked first, and then look for it later." ”
I saw that I couldn't find anything, so I had to nod my head and agree to what Emma said, and opened the fruit wrapped in the ice lamp leaf in the palm of my hand, and the green leaf was wrapped in a green and white fruit, and through the white fruit I could vaguely see a fetus curled up inside, a small umbilical cord from the navel to the root of the fruit, the whole fruit, all of which were spiritual.
Everyone understood these big mouths of surprise, and no one said anything for a long time, if it were normal, I really couldn't speak, after all, the fetus in it was too realistic, and it would always make people feel strange.
I didn't have time to think about it at this time, and the ice lantern fruit holding the leaf was wrapped in my mouth in one bite, and before I could react, it disappeared, as if this thing never existed.
I smacked my tongue and tried to taste something, but I didn't feel anything for a long time. Suddenly, I felt an itch in my ears, as if I had entered something, and I was about to reach for it.
Emma quickly took my hand, took out a clip from her bag, and tinkered with it in my ears, both sides seemed to be pulled out by her, and I hurriedly asked her, "What is it?" ”
Emma didn't think about it and said, "It's supposed to be something that makes you deaf, and the effect of the Ice Lantern Fruit makes it impossible to hide, so it comes out." ”
I looked at the things on the ground, a transparent long worm, red and white, with no feet on its body, and the things pulled out of the two ears were each more than 20 centimeters long, and they were still squirming on the ground, looking as if they had been stimulated by something.
It was unimaginable that such a big thing didn't feel in my ears, and the fat man suddenly said: "Hey, I said Commander Duan, you should ask him, his ears are still deaf." Don't eat his brain, everyone is stupid now. ”
I scolded: "Chubby, I see that your brain has been eaten by worms in ******, why don't you try it in your ears." ”
The fat man looked at me with a blanket look and said, "I'll go, Lao Zou, I really didn't expect you to be so scheming, I really misjudged you, your ears are already good, do you want to eavesdrop on something?" ”
I said, "I just want to hear that some pigs are saying bad things behind my back..."
The fat man was about to retort, but Emma said angrily: "Okay, when are you still playing poor, let's see what this thing is." ”
The three of them hurriedly came up, only to see that the long red and white worm that was still writhing was already lying on the ground and could not move at the moment, and Emma clamped it with the clamp in his hand, but there was no reaction.
Seeing this, the fat man reached out to pick up the insect on the ground, and before everyone could react, the insect was already in his hand, I kicked off the insect in the fat man's hand, and scolded: "You fucking looking for death, this thing can kill you at any time." ”
The fat man waved his hand speechlessly: "It's all frozen, and you can't eat people..."
After saying that, the fat man's mouth movements suddenly became extremely slow, as if I was watching a VCD being slowed down, I was shocked, and was about to step forward, Emma stopped me and said, "Don't go over, beware of you being the same as him." ”
I said, "You can't let him do that." As he spoke, the fat man was walking towards us step by step, but the movement seemed to be slowed down hundreds of times, and it took more than a minute before taking the next step, I pointed to the fat man and said to Emma: "Look at him like this, even if he goes back, I am afraid that he will not be able to get out of the cave tomorrow." ”
Emma looked at the bug and asked me, "Have you ever heard of a bug that changes its properties as the environment changes?" When I was studying in England, I heard about a bug that could parasitize on the bodies of living creatures and live alone in the water to hunt plankton. ”
I thought about it for a moment, since it is a prey on plankton, it should also be something that lives in water, but why is it such a thing that lives on land?
Emma continued: "You can think of it as a kind of parasite, but after it destroys the various sensory organs of the host, the host will fall into a state of madness, and in the end, it will naturally be inseparable from the word death. ”
I was puzzled and asked, "Commander Duan, since it's a parasite, how did this thing make the fat man like this?" He looks like he can still hear us. ”
Emma groaned for a moment and said to me, "Have you ever heard of a nematode?" This insect reproduces asexually, and when it encounters fire, it fires, and when it encounters ice, it freezes. (To be continued.) )