Chapter 35: It's Too Late
After hearing the old cat's words, the bald boy also wanted to retract his hand, with an embarrassed expression on his face, but the current situation is that the inertial action of the bald head is completely out of his control, and I watched the bald hand about to touch the white lantern, and the body had no time to react, at the same time, the bright light in the white lantern actually moved to the place where the bald hand was about to touch!
Just when the bald hand was about to touch the lantern, Lin Xihui, who was in front of us before, reacted quickly and turned around, her body was swept backwards at the moment of turning, and this kick directly swept the bald head to the ground, and the fingertips of the bald head will be wiped next to the white lantern, and with the naked eye, the two may be only a few millimeters apart.
I let out a sigh of relief, and although I didn't know what terrible things would happen when my bald head touched the white lantern, I didn't even want to think about what might have happened when I saw the old cat's nervous expression. I have to sigh again about Lin Xihui's vigorous skills and quick response. I may be less than half a body away from the bald head, but I didn't react, but Lin Xihui, who was about a position in front of the bald head, reacted quickly and swept the bald head to the ground.
"Lin Nuxia, you kicked too hard." The bald head slowly stood up while sweeping the dust off his body, and his mouth kept complaining.
"Did you know that you almost killed us all!" Lin Xihui rarely said angrily.
After Lin Xihui finished speaking, he immediately turned on the flashlight and shone on the white lantern, with the flashlight turned on, the white lantern turned transparent in an instant, and I could clearly see that the "flame" in this transparent lantern was actually not a real flame, but an insect about the size of a fly. The insect was flapping its wings and flying through the lantern, and its whole body glowed with that eerie light.
"Fuck, it's just a big firefly. You see you guys nervous. The bald head said disdainfully.
Lin Xihui didn't speak, just sneered, and then asked Team Zhang to take out a bullet from the magazine and give it to her. After getting the bullet, she stood on tiptoe and threw it very carefully through the mouth above the lantern.
At the same time as the bullet fell, the insect flying in the lantern, like a moth to a fire, "pounced" on the bullet at a very fast speed. Less than a second before the bullet fell into the lantern, after the insect came into contact with the bullet, a purple-red flame suddenly appeared in the lantern with a "poof", and after the flame flashed, the bullet actually disappeared, leaving only the insect still flying around in the lantern.
I was puzzled and asked, "Where did the bullets go?" What was the firelight just now? ”
Lin Xihui said calmly that the moment the bullet came into contact with the insect, it was burned by the "fierce fire" generated by the insect.
"What?!" I exclaimed in unison with the bald head, indeed, it was strange that a bug could send flames from its body, and that the flames could burn a bullet to ashes and the bug would be unharmed.
Seeing our surprised expressions, Lin Xihui glanced at us before explaining to us that the insects in the white lantern were not ordinary insects, but "diquqi insects", which were legendary magic insects!
The Diquqi Demon Worm is a small, bizarre-shaped, transparent insect that resembles a seven-star ladybug, and its body changes according to the light around them. When it comes into contact with anything lower than its own temperature, it emits a "fierce fire", which is extremely hot, and it is said that it can even burn out the soul. The temperature of the Di Qu Qi Demon Worm itself is very high, which means that when it touches almost any object, the Di Qu Qi Demon Worm will emit a fierce fire. If it is under extremely strong light, the Di Quqi Demon Insect will turn into a kind of blue flame ladybug, its whole body is like a light blue transparent crystal, and its wings are even more crystal clear, and through its transparent carapace, you can vaguely see the translucent internal organs inside, in which there is a faint blue flame flowing in its body.
If it weren't for Lin Xihui's behavior just now, even if he stopped the bald head's behavior, once the bald head's hand touched the white lantern, then Di Quqi's demon insect would fly directly to the bald head's hand through temperature perception, and the bald head would definitely die. And after getting rid of the lantern, the Di Quqi Demon Worm will be close to us with the bald head, and the fierce fire is basically incomprehensible to us. We will all be burned to ashes.
The white lantern was not simple, it must have used some method to "trap" the Di Quqi Demon Worm in it, so that it could not escape from anywhere. Once the worm escapes the lantern, everything here will be burned to the ground.
Maybe it was because he saw the scene where Di Quqi Demon Worm burned out of bullets just now, his bald head let out a sigh, reached out and wiped a cold sweat from his forehead, and didn't dare to say anything more.
"What the hell is this place? When will we leave here" I rubbed my head with my hands, and the "things" we encountered refreshed my worldview again and again.
No one answered my question, the old cat just turned around and told us not to touch anything here, and said meaningfully, "The world you are in now is no longer the world you are familiar with." ”
In the hours that followed, it was already completely dark, and we walked down the street, looking at almost every room, similar to the first room we had entered, with simple furniture, a pot of hot roast meat boiling on the stove, and an identical human skin under the bed. It's as if every room here has been copied, and there is no noticeable difference at all.
From time to time, I asked Lin Xihui about the Yin soldier just now, and Lin Xihui didn't bother to talk to me, just told me not to worry, now I can only take one step at a time, after all, there is no other way.
We were doing the inspection mechanically, but it seemed to me that there was nothing to check, and before I knew it, we had come to the end of the street, and in front of us was a fork in the road at the east and west ends, and there were a few houses on both sides of the fork, the shape of the houses was the same as before, but the houses here were much larger than before.
For us, the more immediate question is, what should we do now in the face of this fork in the road? Is it left or right? What awaits us?