XXV. Arnos protozoa

Midget? It would be a dwarf. When I saw these things, I consciously thought about the atavistic phenomenon again, but why are these gnomes sealed in the walls?

"Is it quartz?" Looking at these gnomes who were sealed in transparent objects, they were originally nailed to their limbs, and then sealed with a layer of quartz, it was simply a capital punishment, and I thought to myself that I stroked this layer of material with my hand and suddenly found that there was actually a sticky surname, this is not quartz but a liquid solidified, I thought in my heart. But why are there traces of man-made here? Or is it thousands of years old? A place for primitives?

The most recent plate movement in Shennongjia was in ancient times, when the Shennongjia forest area was still a vast ocean, which was gradually upgraded into a number of landmasses through the Yanshan and Himalayan movements, and formed strata with distinctive local characteristics such as the Shennongjia group and the manger garden group. In other words, it is still possible that there are primitive human relics in this place.

But why did primitive people seal these gnomes in it? I wondered if it was all this, could it be that the thinking of primitive people was not only based on mating and eating meat? The area of the cave has gradually become smaller, probably due to the magma tributaries, which have caused the interior of the cave to steep to 45 degrees.

I struggled to go up while thinking about the meaning of the existence of these things, and after a while I suddenly felt the flow of the wind again, at that time I almost thought it was my own hallucination, but I looked left and right and found that the only vent was actually the deepest part of the cave, I jumped up excitedly, the sky paid off, I finally went out, I ran up frantically with a flashlight.

Suddenly, a little sound in the silent cave slowly remembered, at first it was still a little bit of the sound of the squirt, and gradually began to boil, like a human whisper, I closed my eyes and adjusted my thoughts to steady my breathing, and the sound in my ears was still like the sound of "is the sound of breaking out of the chrysalis." I said, trying to interrupt my scruples.

When I opened my eyes, the depths of the cave were full of brilliance, and as the sound of wings flapping became louder and louder, the spots of light rose and fell like the tide of the sea.

"Ghost phosphorus worms? This kind of insect is said to breed from generation to generation, and the dead corpse is used as a parasitic nest, wrapping the corpse with its own secretions and then laying eggs, since it is a nest on the corpse, then the body of this insect must have a common substance on the corpse, that is, phosphorus plus corpse poison, so this thing has almost become synonymous with death. "I breathe lightly, because I can't suck the stuff here, but I can't hold my breath, because I don't know how long it will take to get out of this winding cave, and if I reach my limit halfway, then I will have to inhale the gas in a big gulp, which is fatal.

But maybe I don't know that this thing that we call the ghost phosphorus worm is actually called the Arnos protozoa, this kind of insect is different from mine and very much likes cold areas, we usually look for objects that can provide parasitism in these areas in groups, if we don't find the body in a certain period of time, we will find some cliffs and rock walls to live in, but with the end of the late ice age, this creature is slowly extinct, but in recent years, the German paleontologist Arnault. Kos obtained the remains of a primitive giant deer, found this ancient parasitic protozoa from the corpse, and named me Arnos protozoa.

Unfortunately, this insect was found without signs of life, so no further research can be made, but from the eggs in the giant deer corpse, it can be seen that this insect is constantly changing its life with the change of climate, before we could only move in a small area on the ice field, if the sun comes out occasionally, they can not find parasites or ice crevices will die, but now it seems that they have wings, and with the cold wind blowing in the cave, they keep vibrating.

But gradually my head began to get a little dizzy, I looked at the phosphorus fire behind me, the secretions on the walls began to tilt to the ground, my touch just now seemed to awaken the ancient gods and demons, and we began to laugh arrogantly and surging into every corner to devour everything.

I slightly accumulated the air around me that had not been diffused by the poisonous gas into my body, slowly raised my steps, turned off the flashlight, and the sea of stars in front of me was like a sea of stars, and a cold wind blew against the wall in the station, I sensed this wind, sensed this exit, and suddenly began to run, and the light spots behind me were stirred into a nebula, and began to be chaotic, the green gas was instantly filled, the sound of wings was endless, and the silver light and stars began to surge.

The feeling of the wind is weak and powerful, but it still comes from time to time, the scene in front of me is rapidly retreating, the mind is chaotic, there are auditory hallucinations in the ears, the scene in front of me is changing, I know that this is the tendency of poisoning, although I blushed and ran fast, but it still can't compare to the speed of the air poisoning fog.

After a while, the corpses had all collapsed from the analyte to the ground, and the pungent smell of the sky permeated this small space, and I looked at the corpses of the gnomes, and suddenly understood why the entrance to this cave was round, but the inside was different, because those were the arms, legs, and feet of the gnomes, but because there were too many layers of analyte, there was no transparent barrier, so it looked like stone. Some of the wrist-sized adults on the dwarf's body also began to agitate, and we squirmed and crawled out of the bones, swaying our tails disproportionate to our bodies, and raised our somewhat weird diamond-shaped head to look at the outsider, as if we were hungry, and we followed the larvae we had laid and flew up, and for a moment it was like a bright light.

"Time is running out." I thought about the wind feeling getting stronger and stronger, and I don't remember how many detours I had bypassed, how many corpses I had stepped on, and my eyes had almost lost their purpose. "I can't hold it anymore, it's the limit."

Suddenly, the wind became stronger, blowing in my face, my hazy eyes had a trace of feeling, I tried to open my eyes, the scene in front of me was no longer starlight, the end of the steep road uphill was boundless darkness but the space was indeed very large, as long as I was given a little more time, I could climb over, there were more and more insects behind me, and it seemed that some kind of breath in my body drove us.

"What exactly does this stuff like? They like the cold but like to cling to the human body, which is not logical! I'm a living person, and the heat from my body should keep them away. A thought occasionally flashed through my mind, and the rest was just blank: "No, I'm going to die here, and when I'm dead, someone will come in and collect my body?" That girl, I thought of her again, what would she think if she could really escape from here and see my body? Maybe it's just disgust? Will you step on my bones a few more times to vent your anger? ”

Don't be like this, as if I saw the end, I can't let such a thing find out, I collapsed on the ground and muttered. Don't be like this, a voice in my heart roared in a childish tone, like the dawn of the gloomy sky of the flood century, I slowly stood up against the wall, it was her voice I didn't even want to face for a while, it was her shadow and countless people I had seen superimposed on each other. I walked slowly, "I can't let me die here. ”

There will be no more hatred, she will be able to understand me, and maybe she won't want me to die either. Not knowing where the momentum came from, he began to run, the wind brushing against his eardrums, and the air stirred up as he ran formed an opposition to the biting wind, and exploded with me as the center, one step, two steps, three steps. Wind, space, river, light.

The cold wind gradually removed the poison from my body and began to wash my brain, and I forcibly woke myself up in the chaos for a long time, and saw those insects flying past me like a galaxy, pointing to the sky. "It turned out to be in the cold air flowing on the sea." I touched my chest and looked around to see that it was already a cliff, a lake was quietly rippling below me, the sun had set, and the afterglow of the setting sun fell on the surface of the lake reflecting golden scales.

Watching those ghost phosphorus insects sink into the sky one by one, I staggered up and looked at this place, but it was a long time before I realized that this place was actually a dead end.

A strong wind was blowing in mid-air, and I took a look at the sunset and realized that time was running out, and I had to find a way to get out of here, or I would freeze to death at night. After moving for a while, I looked at the rocks below, took a breath, and decided to climb down. The shape of the rock here is not very regular, and as such, it has a large convex area, and there are several places where there are large platforms for me to rest.

I looked at my palm, spread it out and clenched the wound, and it wasn't bleeding anymore. I could climb down, and I told myself again that if I didn't go down before dark, I would die. (To be continued.) )