Chapter 8: The Gold Eater
The guard shook his head, indicating that he wasn't sure either. Although we urgently need to adjust now www.biquge.info because we can't stay in this place for long, Master let us rest for half an hour. In this way, the guards were guarding the door, and a few of us hurried to rest.
Due to the fatigue of the body, and the fact that it was the second half of the night, several people were exhausted and soon fell asleep. This sleep was very heavy, but what we didn't expect was that just as soon as we fell asleep, there were quiet changes around us.
At first I slept very deeply, oblivious to everything that was happening around me. But it wasn't long before I heard a very strange sound all around me. The movement is very subtle, if there is nothing. I was so sleepy that I thought it was a dream, so I didn't plan to pay attention to it. But before the movement could stop, I felt my nose start to itch.
I believe that many people have this experience. When you're sleeping, if someone scratches your nose with their hair or something. No matter how dead you sleep, the unbearable itching will wake you up instantly.
I reluctantly moved my nose, but it didn't work. My nose was getting more and more itchy, and I couldn't help but want to scratch it. What left me completely unprepared was that as soon as I tried my strength, suddenly I was stung by something in the nose. Immediately I was sober and sat up from the ground.
But when I opened my eyes, what I didn't expect was that it was pitch black and there was no fire. I couldn't see anything, and my heart suddenly rose to my throat. For a moment, I couldn't figure out what was going on. Aren't the guards keeping vigil? I sat still, not daring to move, and shouted softly, but there was no response.
I couldn't help but feel furious from the darkness all around, and I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on. Because even I knew very well that I didn't sleep long at all. But it wasn't a way to stay up like this, so I just wanted to stand up and quietly go outside to have a look. But as soon as I pressed my hand, I knew something was wrong. Something was squirming under my hand, and some were crawling up the back of my hand along the gap between my nails and fingers.
The hairy and slightly itchy feeling gave me goosebumps all over my body, and I reflexively withdrew my hand, realizing that something was probably really wrong this time, and hurriedly went to push Cassia off.
Cassia slept next to me at this time. I nudged him a few times and found that he didn't respond at all, and for some reason he was sweating profusely. I was in a hurry, I couldn't wake up, I could only pinch others.
At this moment, Cassia finally woke up. He sat up from the ground and began to gasp for air. Before I could speak, I heard him gasp in shock: "What the hell, I just dreamed that there was a snake in my crotch, and I couldn't wake up." Thankfully, it's a dream. ”
I said you don't talk about this nonsense, we're in for a big disaster!
As soon as Cassia heard what I said, his panting movements froze.
"Disaster is coming? What do you mean? ”
I said, don't you feel something around? Cassia muttered, although I couldn't see his expression, but the next moment, he jumped up from the ground all of a sudden, and exclaimed: "****, something is biting my ass!" He kept jumping and slapping his ass indiscriminately. But it was pitch black in front of them, and both of them had black eyes, like blind people, and they couldn't see anything.
At this time, Cassia hurriedly took out a fire fold from his arms, blew it in one breath, and threw it on the ground.
At that moment, I saw a scene that stunned me. I saw that the ground of the entire ear chamber was densely covered with a layer of golden objects similar to "golden sand". But for now, they are clearly a living thing. As soon as the fire breakers were thrown down, they quickly vacated a blank space around the fire breakers. And their movement, at first glance, looks like flowing gold sand, a piece of gold.
Cassia clearly recognized this thing at a glance. At this time, his face was as if he had seen Hades, white without a trace of blood. And just after the fire fold was lit, I noticed that there was no Master and the guard around. Before I knew it, there were only two people left in the ear room, Cassia and me.
I knew in my heart that we were doomed this time. Cassia saw that I was stunned, and said hurriedly: "What are you still doing in a daze?" If we don't run, we'll both die here!" This beast eats people and doesn't spit out bones! He cried out, and took out of his bosom two fiery folds, one at his feet, and the other at the door of the chamber.
The things on the ground seemed to be very afraid of fire, and as soon as the fire broke down, they quickly spread out an encirclement. And at this time, I also noticed that the funeral goods that were originally piled up in the corner had been eaten in less than half an hour. The four-foot dragon bronze sword that Cassia was very obsessed with, I didn't even find its shadow.
"Let's go! It's a fucking gold-eater. As soon as the fire is extinguished, the unlucky ones are the two of us! Cassia picked me up and ran out.
The two of them took advantage of the fire and rushed out of the door. However, it was still pitch black in the corridor, and the gold-devouring ants chased after them from behind like life-threatening quicksand! Cassia blew the last of the fire, and the two men began to run frantically along the stone wall.
We ran wildly until the fire fold in our hands was almost extinguished, and we dared to stop and catch our breath. Running down the way, I saw Venus in front of me. Looking back, those gold-eating ants seem to have been thrown off by us, and they haven't caught up yet. The two of them breathed a long sigh of relief, and it was the first time I experienced the feeling of escaping death. And after I stopped, I realized that the nostril that had been bitten just now hurt badly, and the whole nose was hot, and it felt like a piece of meat had been cut. When I touched my hand, I realized that the whole nose was already swollen, and I could only breathe in one nostril now, and the other could not feel it at all. And coupled with the fact that I had been running wildly for so long just now, my whole brain is now starting to get a little dizzy.
Cassia's situation is not optimistic, just from the outside, you can see that his ass is almost bitten and fat. You can imagine what kind of scene it will be in the clothes. Although our lives are not in danger for the time being, in the current situation, the two of us are simply worse than dead.
I rubbed my nose and rummaged through my baggage, hoping to find some antidote to my symptoms. Cassia advised me not to waste my efforts, at this time, the acid poison of the gold eating ants, ordinary drugs did not work at all.
"What then? Master is not around now, and I feel like half of my face is swollen. ”
Cassia is also a bitter face, obviously at this time, the two of them are also uncomfortable.
"How are you? Can it hold on? "I saw that Cassia was uncomfortable and could not stand still, so I hurried over to help him.
Cassia carefully held his buttocks, and as soon as his hand was on it, I saw him with his eyes closed and gasped a few times.
"It's not a way to go on like this, those brutes will catch up sooner or later." He paused and continued: "There is a way to alleviate this acid poison, but I don't know what the effect is? ”
When I heard this, I hurriedly asked him what to do?
Cassia rubbed his ass lightly and grinned, "I've heard those experienced people say that saliva seems to have some effect on this acid, I don't know if it's true or not. ”
I sighed and said when is this all this, can you say something reliable? This is clearly a fool of the eight elements, can you believe this?
Cassia waved his hand, indicating that there was no other way to do it anyway, it was better to be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, what if it worked? Although this method is simple, I always feel that it is not like that, and my situation is easy to handle, but the thought of Cassia smearing saliva on his ass immediately conjures up an unsightly picture in my mind.
Cassia was also a little embarrassed, and the two of them had to turn their backs to each other and deal with it separately. Whether it works or not, it is a psychological comfort. As for the origin of the gold-eating ants, according to Cassia Ming, they were passed down from the Western Regions in the early years. Gold-eating ants have few natural predators, and in fact most animals will take a detour when they see them, with the exception of some types of stones, which can quickly devour anything they see. The acid poison secreted from their bodies can corrode most objects, including gold. So as long as it is a place where the gold devouring ants exist, there are almost no other things except stones, let alone living creatures, they can be said to be emperor-level existences.
Hearing this, I remembered the pile of funerary goods in the ear chamber. In less than half an hour, there was not much left of the burial goods, and I couldn't help but rejoice that I had escaped from their mouths alive.
As for why the gold-eating ants appear in the dungeon? I think that should be a very effective anti-theft measure, and the two of us are proof of that. But Cassia said that it didn't make sense. Because the gold-eating ant can be said to be the terminator of all buildings without modesty, even if the main structure of the dungeon is made of stone, but other things in the dungeon, including burial goods, coffins, and even the body of the tomb owner will be destroyed by the gold-eating ants, which is absolutely undoubted. The owner of the tomb will not fail to understand this truth. Unless these gold-eating ants are restricted to a certain location, the entire dungeon will not exist for more than twenty years.
I said, could it be that these gold-eating ants also have natural predators? There are things in the dungeon that they are afraid of.
Cassia thought for a long time, but finally shook his head.