Chapter 34: Escape

(Update delivered, continued on Thursday)

If the locusts in front of us are not mollusks, but can stand up and walk like vertebrates, then the locust frenzy in front of us can at least create the effect of a tsunami three or four meters high.

Just as the fat man and I were in a defensive posture and ready to face the onslaught of the locusts, the locusts in front of us automatically split into two groups to avoid us, and rushed past us on the left and right. The fat man and I waited in place for a long time with our heads in our hands, but we didn't feel any leeches attacking us.

The fat man snorted, let go of the hand protecting his head, and found that there was not even a locust in front of him. "Hey, the locusts are gone." The fat man patted me and said.

I put down my hand and looked at the water, there were really no locusts, and the swarm of insects that were originally flying on my head didn't know when they flew away, so I couldn't help but be stunned and asked the fat man: "What's the situation?" There can't really be an ancestor of locusts hiding underneath this, right? ”

"What's down there, it's not a good thing anyway, let's go." After the fat man finished speaking, he turned around and swam towards the stone gate.

"Didn't you say you wanted to go back, you swam in the wrong direction." I remind the fat man.

"While we have time now, we still have a chance." The fat man didn't look at me, but just swam towards the stone gate on his own. When I looked at it, I shook my head and said that this fat man must be crazy about money, and then swam behind the fat man.

The previous swarm of locusts swam past us and came to a halt on the edge of the quagmire near the stone gate. A thick layer of grasshoppers tumbled and wriggled on the surface of the mud pool, reminding me of the large patches of milky maggots in rural manure pits. The thought of this hit my throat and almost threw it up.

The fat man began to hesitate when he swam to the periphery of the locust swarm. The locusts have completely blocked the way. This means that if the fat man wants to go over, he must swim over the locust, which has been stacked on top of an unknown number of layers.

"Let's go back." I said, "How much blood can you feed them with these hundreds of pounds of meat?" ”

"No, I'll have to try." As he spoke, the fat man threw his clothes at the locust. The moment my clothes touched the locust, I saw the locust flee in panic.

"Look." The fat man said, "Let's go over." Without waiting for me to refute him, he cautiously swam towards the locust.

Finally got out of the locust frenzy, and now not only does he not hide far away, but he also sticks into the locust pile, this fat man's fucking head was caught in the door or kicked by a donkey? I hesitated, stayed where I was, and watched the fat man swim forward.

I can see that the pressure in the fat man's heart is also very high. After all, whoever is going to be put on this kind of thing to stick to the leech pile will be frightened. But the strange thing is that the fat man seems to have trained the golden bell jar, and when approaching the locust, the locusts automatically disperse around the fat man, so that there is a "vacuum zone" about half a meter around the fat man.

"It's okay, come here!" The fat man shouted at me after climbing up to the stone platform at the stone gate.

I was about to say nothing, when there was another vibration in the mud beneath me. This time the shaking was even more violent than the previous two. The fat man seemed to feel the tremors and waved at me to hurry up.

I looked down at the quagmire, and I couldn't see anything in the blackened mire, but my instinct told me that the invincible locusts in the quagmire had begun to flee for their lives, and that there must be something more terrifying than the locusts down there.

than a locust with something terrifying. I can't think of what it was, but my body's reaction had made me swim towards the swarm of locusts, and it was still swimming very fast.

Like the fat man, the locusts disperse as soon as they touch me. I swam up to the fat man, who reached out and pulled me up, then turned back to find the mechanism of the stone gate.

I sat on the ground panting and looked down at the rolling locusts on the surface of the loaded mire beneath the stone platform, imagining what could make the locusts so panicked.

"No way," said the fat man. As he spoke, I saw him pick up the backpack on the ground and open it, and said as he opened it, "It's good that I didn't jump off with it on my back just now." ”

I watched the fat man start to take things out of his bag again, and combined with the tone of his voice, I knew almost instantly what he was going to do. "Damn, there's nowhere to hide!" I shouted.

"Hide?" The fat man was stunned, "Don't hide, watch the fat man come to a directional blast." As he spoke, the fat man took out another wad of things. However, this time the dose looks much smaller than the last one.

The fat man walked up to the stone gate and loaded the explosives, then beckoned me to pass. I walked over to him, and the fat man pointed to him and said, "You stand here with your mouth open. ”

"Can you do it? I'm a little scared. I asked the fat man.

"Trust the organization." The fat man shook his bangs at me, handsome my face was muddy.

"Get ready, stand against the wall." The fat man screamed and ran back. As soon as I heard this, I quickly hid behind the fat man, intending to use him as a shield.

The dynamite exploded, but not as loudly as expected, and the vibration was not as strong. It's like setting off a firecracker four or five meters away.

The fat man turned around and patted me, signaling that I could let go of him. I stuck out my head to see that it was okay, got off his back a little embarrassed, and coughed twice to explain, but I didn't expect the fat man to wave his hand, point behind me, and say, "Trouble is coming." ”

"Trouble?" I was stunned for a moment, and when I saw that the place where the fat man was pointing was a quagmire, I immediately thought of the locusts in the quagmire. The heart said that the locusts should not grow their feet and climb up, right? Thinking about it, I went back and looked. I was so frightened that I almost collapsed on the ground.

At some point, a huge head floated up in the mire, and two bulls'-eyed eyes were staring at us motionlessly.

"Water monsters?" I asked, stunned. That was my first reaction.

"Do you guess it eats meat or not?" The fat man asked.

"I don't know if it's meat or not, but I'm sure it's not a vegetarian with such a big size."

"Coincidentally, I'm not a vegetarian either." The fat man said. At the same time, I noticed that the fat man had two more balls of explosives in his hand. "Looks like we don't have to wait outside to fry fish." The fat man said again.

"Do you have to kill it? Maybe the old man just came up to breathe, just like the old man went out for a walk at night, and went back after a walk. I said.

"Your old man walks with red eyes?" The fat man asked rhetorically.

I subconsciously looked at the eyes of the water monster, and at some point they had turned blood-red. I don't know if it's a psychological effect or a real existence, but I actually saw that pair of eyes emitting red light.

"I'll run inside when I'll let you run, and don't stop until I tell you to. Did You Know? The fat man asked me.

"Oh-oh." I groaned.

"I hope this monster doesn't come ashore - run!" The fat man screamed, and a ball of explosives was thrown out of his hand, and then he pulled me up and turned around and ran into the stone door.

Before I could come to my senses, I heard a loud bang, followed by a terrible hissing sound coming from behind me.

It wasn't long before I heard movement behind me again. It's a bit like a stone being struck away by brute force by something, and a loud rumbling sound is coming close to us behind us.

The fireflies flying in the sky are swimming in the grasshoppers, and now there is a big water monster chasing behind.