Chapter 40: Into the Rainforest (1)
"Okay, don't make trouble, it's okay for you to fight, it's always me who is injured, let's see how to go, and hurry up." Zhu Beichen's smile was a little miserable, among the four, he was the weakest, the crazy girl and the seven were all extraordinary masters, and three thousand did not seem to be as simple as his appearance suggested.
"I'll go with you." Shichima speaks in a deep range, and his magnetic voice has a strong charm. His tone is stiff, and the temperament shown in his expression cannot be refused.
And the three thousand originally came from the Heishui River, and they also wanted to go back. The four of them now have to decide whether to take a detour around the rainforest or traverse the mysterious, hot and dry rainforest hinterland. The three of them focused their eyes on Sanqian's body.
"He's coming from the banks of the Blackwater River, so it's best for him to lead the way." Han Qingxin couldn't let go of his hostility towards Sanqian, who had pretended not to understand Chinese before.
"Let's go."
Sanqian stood up with a cower, his expression still stuck in the scene of the two fighting, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time. Three thousand gestured for the three of them to follow him into the rainforest.
Han Qingxin stared at him hesitantly, the cold light in his eyes was like a thorn, and he stared at the bottom of Sanqian's heart, and it took a while to let down his guard and beckoned Sanqian to go on the road.
The lush greenery of the tropical rainforest is full of life, and the characteristic humidity and sweltering heat have shown everyone that the rainforest is complex and changeable. The sound of beasts and birds is endless. The only thing that hasn't changed is Shichima's face, which is always calm. Even if he has crossed the rainforest many times, every trip will make him afraid.
The trees in the forest are towering, and the shrubs are at the bottom, and the unknown insects make a characteristic chirping sound, and the road is difficult. One by one, the four of them had to split the bushes in front of them to make a path for walking.
After leaving the valley, the magnetic field between the geomagnetic fields tended to stabilize, and the electronic equipment carried by Han Qingxin returned to normal, and the direction was also determined for the four of them. The rainforest is extremely oxygen-rich and the air you breathe is refreshing.
The agitation in the bushes came from far and near, and the sound of sparse small creatures crawling through the woodland stimulated the nerves of the four people, who had just experienced a night in the valley, and the nerves of the four were extremely unbearable, and as soon as the pressure was released, they watched the changes in the forest with a tense heart.
"It's bugs, and there are a lot of them." Shichima's sense of hearing was keen, but he couldn't tell what kind of insect it was, but he heard the sounds, this kind of insect was very irritable at the moment, and it was moving very fast, and it wouldn't take long. The four of them will be surrounded by these little insects.
"Why is there everything in this rainforest, such a loud sound, how many insects must there be, eat people or not." There were still blood stains on the corners of Zhu Beichen's mouth.
"Shut up." Han Qingxin's cold expression frightened him a little, and he didn't dare to speak.
"Three thousand, what are these things?" She coldly turned her head to Sanqian and asked, the situation here was only relatively familiar to him.
Three thousand hurriedly made sign language, indicating that he didn't know either, and under the honest skin, there didn't seem to be anything.
The creature hiding in the bushes finally revealed its unbearable appearance, a brownish-green insect with two sets of wings, and they were flying insects.
"Mayfly!" Even the seven who were not happy and angry suddenly became sad. Everyone was puzzled by this kind of insect, but Zhu Beichen had heard of this word, "the feathers of mayflies, the clothes are beautiful, and they die at dawn and evening", this is an insect with a very short survival period, and when the sun sets, it is their death period, and a day is their life.
However, what Zhu Beichen didn't know was that this was not just a mayfly, but a variant of a mayfly, and their life was only one day, but when they died, they would take away the people who accompanied the burial.
This is not an ordinary mayfly, this is a ghost mayfly unique to the banks of the Blackwater River, or it can be called a Gu mayfly. It is a breed of mayflies that are artificially bred and mutated, each generation of mayflies are raised with fresh human blood, dozens of generations later, the innate bloodthirsty characteristics are deeply engraved in the bones of these ghost mayflies with the continuation of genetic inheritance, and the life of generations is falling day by day, only this characteristic can be retained.
At the beginning of the sun, the larvae of the mayfly break out of the pupae, and within two to three hours, the larvae will grow two pairs of wings, and after the first meal has been fed, they can spread their wings and fly, mate and lay eggs before sunset, and then end the short journey of life and return to dust.
And their food is fresh blood, especially the blood of people with vitality. The eggs they leave behind hatch and then grow larvae after a week, and the cycle continues for generations.
In order to hunt and replenish enough energy for mating, before sunset, the ferocity of these ghost mayflies is extremely great, especially in the rainforest, and in the case of limited mobility, it is undoubtedly sad for people who encounter ghost mayflies.
"What, what to do?" Zhu Beichen's question was worried. Even the three thousand experienced in the rainforest were also in a cold sweat, he knew better than everyone else the temperament of this ghost mayfly, this was a Gu mayfly cultivated by their Gu master in the seedling land with a secret method, he understood their terrifyingness.
Zhu Beichen and Han Qingxin lost most of their luggage in the valley, and even the two Yunnan donkeys didn't have time to take them out. Han Qingxin could only helplessly unload his backpack and rummage through the equipment that could deal with these insects.
She took out the alcohol cotton for disinfection, rolled the cotton into a ball with medical gauze and fixed it on the body of the scimitar, sprinkled with alcohol and ignited it. The blazing flames emitted blazing heat, and she held the hilt of her knife in a circle to drive away the mayflies that were close to the four, and with the sound of crackling flames burning the mayflies' bodies, a strong and pungent mushy smell filled the air around her.
The army of mayflies seemed to be endless, surging from behind the bushes in patches, and their green bodies mingled into the woodland, and the scene was striking. Han Qingxin was carrying a limited amount of alcohol, and the fire was getting stronger and stronger, and it would be extinguished in a short time, while the number of mayflies was increasing, and it was surrounded and closed in all directions. Sanqian's legs trembled, and it was the first time he had seen such a ferocious mayfly.
In the mayfly team in the rear, one or two green figures occasionally rose into the air and flew towards the figures in the encirclement.
"Didn't you say that these disgusting things can't fly, and they're starting to learn how to pounce?" Zhu Beichen, who was already upset, couldn't help but curse when he saw those few insects flying in the air.
More and more mayflies flew into the sky, and this ghost mayfly subverted their perceptions, and before the sun, they already had the ability to fly.
"This is a variant, a step up from the original Ghost Mayfly." Nanama noticed the wings on the backs of these ghost mayflies, which were four pairs of 8 wings, they could fly, and their ferocity was more cruel and bloodthirsty than their predecessors, and Hei Miao's biological Gu cultivation technology had made great progress.