Chapter 28: The Worm Lair
In the mountains and forests, using the brainwave ability, Li Mo always kept a safe distance from the tentacle worms and quietly followed.
It took more than half an hour for a cave with a diameter of several meters to appear in Li Mo's sight.
Those tentacle worms burrowed into this hole, but Li Mo did not rush to follow up, but chose a giant tree to hide.
A tentacle monster that has not completed its parasitism and does not like sunlight. Therefore, it is frequently active in the middle of the night to hunt parasites. But during the day, it goes into hibernation, like human sleep.
So if you want to enter the cave, you naturally have to wait until dawn.
Completely hiding himself in the lush foliage, through the bright moonlight, Li Mo soon made a new discovery.
It seems that in the territory of the tentacle worms, they are not the only ones who are being targeted. He could see it now, a few worms dragging their prey, flying back from a distance.
Those prey are all humans like themselves, and they should also be survivors of passing by.
It's just unfortunate that they don't have Li Mo's aura of rebirth, so they naturally fall in love with the way of tentacle monsters.
But Li Mo knew that these survivors were still alive.
It takes time for the tentacle worm to complete parasitism, and it will inevitably bring the prey back to the nest first.
As a result, the survivors were simply paralyzed by a neurotoxin and lost consciousness. Of course, once the worms have finished parasitizing, it means their death.
However, that kind of death was not physical, but a bit like a vegetative existence, the result of some kind of damage to the brain by worms. The body that is still functioning normally will be taken over by worms.
The way tentacle worms hunt is actually very simple. They make their bodies transparent. And hide yourself with the help of the night.
When you have your eyes on your prey, you won't rush to attack. Through a special sense, it will tell whether the prey is asleep or not.
And in deep sleep. If you are attacked by a tentacle worm, the results can be imagined.
If he hadn't taken precautions and laid down an airflow barrier before, if he hadn't noticed it at all, even if Li Mo had spent the night in the territory of the tentacle worm, it would have been quite dangerous.
His airflow barrier, although it only served to slightly block the worm's attack, was enough for him, who has super reflexes.
Of course. Tentacle worms attack, and they don't necessarily have to wait for their prey to fall asleep.
At least when confronted by the Nightpost survivors, they will force their way on.
It's just that the current human beings are still very unfamiliar with tentacle worms, so they are naturally unable to prevent it.
And their attack method is somewhat like the face-hugging insects in the alien movie. When attacking, it's extremely fast. Once the face is held, the tentacles will play the role of tightening the head of the prey.
At the same time, hidden in the mouth on its body. It also sticks out of a soft body like a tongue covered with barbs.
The tentacle worm will quickly open the mouth of the prey through its tentacles at the moment of hugging its face, and put this barbed soft body into the prey's mouth.
The soft body is covered with their saliva. Saliva contains a very powerful neuroparalytic toxin. Whether it's a human or a beast, whether it's an evolution or a mutant, it only takes a few seconds. You will be paralyzed by this toxin and lose consciousness.
And they also secrete this toxic saliva continuously. It serves the purpose of always controlling the prey. Until the prey is dragged back to the cave and the parasitism is completed.
But tentacle worms. Although the altitude at which it can fly is limited, it has a lot of explosive power and strength when attacking.
Just like what Li Mo saw now, a tentacle worm can completely lift a big living person and float off the ground.
And that's why, in the two camps that Li Mo found, no trace of survivors leaving was found.
And the tentacle worm also has a certain mindset and knows how to work together. When encountering large prey, they will not only choose to attack them in groups, but also transport them together.
Looking at Li Mo again, at this time, he watched the worms hanging those unconscious survivors and burrowing into the hole, but he didn't mean to save people at all.
Being able to go on this trip to eradicate the worm matrix, Li Mo felt that he was already very selfless.
As for saving people, he really doesn't have that idleness.
This is the nest of worms, even if you rescue those people, but if you want them to regain consciousness, it will take at least a few hours, what is the use of saving them?
In his opinion, this is not saving people at all, but making trouble for himself, and it is self-abuse.
So all he had to do now was wait for the dawn. However, to be on the safe side, he also laid down the airflow barrier again. Then he leaned against the trunk of the tree and closed his eyes.
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Early the next morning, Li Mo, who woke up, took a hard breath of the fresh morning air and stood up from the branch.
The first sun shines into the cave. If you look at it, you can roughly tell that this hole must be extremely deep.
Jumping off the tree, pulling a full 92 from his waist, he headed for the cave.
Walking into the hole, the nest during the day is much calmer than in the middle of the night, and there are no tentacle worms that come and go frequently.
Facing the pitch-black hole, Li Mo turned on the brainwave ability. As the hole behind him slowly disappeared, he gradually fell into the darkness where he could not see his fingers.
However, another benefit of brainwave power is that it can completely replace vision. Through the stereoscopic imaging of brain wave feedback, Li Mo knows the structure of the cave within 100 meters of his surroundings.
But although she knows something about tentacle worms, Li Mo is actually the first time that a big girl has been in a sedan chair when she goes deep into the nest.
As a result, as he went deeper, he realized that the cave was simply a huge labyrinth. And after one fork in the road, I was stunned to find that I was actually lost.
No way! Li Mo cursed in his heart. I didn't want to fail to find the mother, but I trapped myself here.
It seems that the hero is really not easy to be, he smiled self-deprecatingly, but he did not panic.
After thinking about half of the salary, I had to communicate with the super brain worm: "Worm, I'm in a little trouble now." ”
"I'll do my best to help you out of any trouble." Having been summoned, the superbrain worm maintained its humility as always, as a servant of the worm.
But because it has been locked in the brain domain by Li Mo all the time, it doesn't know anything about the outside world.
So Li Mo simply told the situation he encountered to the super brain worm, and at the same time opened up sensory sharing.
In this way, the superbrain worm is able to share everything the brain can receive with it through all of his senses.
However, even in the dangerous worm nest, Li Mo still has the leisure to fart with the super brain worm: "Worm, you said that these parasitic insects are not your close relatives?" ”
It's just that this seems to be a joke, but Li Mo has always had this kind of doubt. (To be continued......)