Forty-seven, monsters
"Those who have gone away will never return, and the souls of the dead will not return, just like the waters of the Tarim River that sweep away history and dust. Finally the white clouds in the sky accompanied Allah. "When I heard this voice, my mind exploded, I was very familiar with it, and I knew very well that this voice was the old man on a donkey that I met when I entered the ghost village at night with the fat man.
"Who's that voice? It seems to have come out of that tower. Xie Chenhui said with some trembling.
"It's an acquaintance." As I spoke, my mind flashed through the previous image, what's going on? Could it be that we have already reached the Taklamakan Desert? Unlikely! The time of the journey is wrong! "Old Xie, how long have we been walking in this desert below?"
"Half a month." Soon, Xie Chenhui gave me a definite answer.
"Half a month." I thought about it for a while, but why did that person go underground? Or is that old man actually looking for this underground ancient city?
"What's wrong with you?" Xie Chenhui interrupted my train of thought. I suddenly woke up from my contemplation, and the sound in my ears grew louder and louder, and the collapse of each house was accompanied by a hissing sound. That's right! We were running out of time, I couldn't hesitate, I slapped my mask hard and shouted, "Lao Xie, come with me." ”
The surrounding sounds gradually changed from rumbling to clattering, like a collapsing pillar, countless huge stones fell from the sky, like cannonballs slashing, as long as they fell on the ground, huge debris and dust would be splattered, but not only that, in the place where the stones landed, within a few seconds there would be a stabbing sound grinding your ears, and then overwhelming sand came out of that place. Xie Chenhui and I ran desperately, and saw that houses were constantly being smashed on both sides of the street, covered by sand, and dead people crawling out of the dirt.
This is hell, and yes, this is hell.
"Run!" The extreme fear in my heart made me involuntarily roar out of madness.
Finally, in the process of almost being buried in the sand, Xie Chenhui and I still ran in front of this tall building. There was not a hint of ornamentation, and when we looked up, we even thought that the tower was a bare pole, and there was not even a door, only a circular hole appeared in front of us. But let's not talk about how strange this tower is, and we're relieved that this place won't collapse.
Sitting here, we watched the world in front of us being destroyed little by little, and we really couldn't figure out what the Gumo people thought, why did they resurrect it and make a good show of city destruction?
Thinking about it here, I saw that Xie Chenhui had turned on the searchlight and didn't know what he was looking at. "Won't you take a break?" I didn't look back, I just asked him, compared to what was behind me. I prefer to watch the fall of the city as if I were an Terminator.
"Something is wrong with this tower." Xie Chenhui said: "The outside of it is not glued with cement or bricks. ”
"What's that?"
"Yes." I heard Xie Chenhui swallow a mouthful of saliva, "It's like the scales of an animal, that's right, Xiao Du, this is the scales of a creature, dense." ”
"No, it won't!" I turned around and said, "How can people in this country be so perverted. "When I walked over to look at it, I saw the scales of the dragon in an orderly order, the scales were not very large, but each one was like a stone that had been worn by the wind and sand for a long time, hard and rough in the surface, but in any case these things were the scales of real animals.
"What are these things?" Xie Chenhui said as he frowned and walked towards the tower. But when he was halfway there, he suddenly said to me, "Xiao Du, we have passed by here before. Do you remember when there was a door here? ”
"That's right!" When Xie Chenhui said this, I immediately remembered it, I took a look at it from a distance when we passed by here before, and it seems that this tower is closed all around! I shouted and walked inside, but as soon as I passed the door, I felt something drip onto my mask, and it was very loud.
Confused, I reached up and touched it, and found that it was actually a-yellow sticky liquid. At the same time, it smells too strong. "What the hell is this?" I went out and looked at the heavens, and wondered why there were all these things in the sky?
I originally wanted to see more, but at this time, Xie Chenhui called me in again, "Xiao Du, Xiao Du, come and see." ”
"What's wrong again?" I walked in speechlessly, and found that this Xie Chenhui has been getting more and more brainless recently. No matter what happens, you have to call me to see it, how can this fat man, a big company, hire such a birdman to take care of things.
"What kind of place are you going to be?" Xie Chenhui said and turned on all the light sources to shine upward, I looked up with his pointing, but what I saw was not a ceiling or a railing, but pipes like water pipes hanging in the air, some of those pipes extended from the floor of the upper floor, and some of them protruded from the walls, but what they were the same was that each of them was actually flesh-colored, if it wasn't for entering a building, I even had reason to believe that the place we came from was in the intestines of an animal.
"The architectural style here is small at the bottom and big at the top, and I think that if more than half of the upper part is not fixed, the people of Somo will not dare to build such a building. In other words, the distance from the rock layer above is still very close. Xie Chenhui swore and said, "But there is one thing, that is, we can't find the statue." ”
Hearing this, I gave him a blank look and looked at him with disdain, "Don't you know everything?" Why are you calling me in, I've had something even more disgusting outside than yours before. I rubbed my hand my pants.
"It's just that the boss is used to everything, you don't know that although he is the boss of the company, he has to take care of everything, and gradually we have become accustomed to it."
"This habit is not good, I interrupted Xie Chenhui's words." said: "I have been relying on others all the way, I would have died a long time ago. Sometimes it's on your own. ”
"I know that." Xie Chenhui shook his head, put the searchlight on his shoulder, and walked over.
"There's nothing on the perimeter of the wall, it doesn't look like a normal tower. Anyway, be careful, the stairs are on the left side of the spiral test, such a staircase clings to the wall of the building, it will not be very reliable after a long time, wait a moment and we will go up in batches. I didn't pay attention to Xie Chenhui's exclamation. In fact, I feel more emotionally than anyone else about the fat man, although he has a time to take advantage of it. But I wouldn't have come this far without him, but now his life and death are uncertain.
"Ugh." Sighing silently, I urged Xie Chenhui to go up. Now anyway, the chances of us surviving are still very good, the third uncle fled from here back then, and now we hear the voice from above, anyway, there is still hope. As I watched Xie Chenhui walk up the stairs, I swept around the interior of the tower with a flashlight.
It's really weird, there's not a trace of decoration, not even a door. I couldn't tell where the material came from except that the staircase was made of wood, and I didn't know what the suspended pipes were used for. "Just as I was thinking, another thing dripped onto my mask, and I silently looked up at it, and found that the source of the thing was a pipe, and suddenly a sharp-beaked monkey gilled thing came out of the pipe.
I was startled, I didn't know what it was, I could only see him grimacing at me in the dark, and then he disappeared in a puff of smoke, ran back into the pipe, and disappeared. "What's that?" I wiped the contents off my mask and began to pull the gun out of my backpack. Could it be that this pipe is for this thing to pass? If that's the case, then wouldn't Xie Chenhui go up. It occurred to me that this pipe was leading to the top. I immediately became nervous. Hurriedly ran to the top.
But before I could run a few steps, something jumped from the sky and landed on my mask, and then I heard a disgusting wheting sound, as if something was licking me with its tongue. I tilted my head and rushed towards the nearest wall, thudging the thing with my mask on the wall.
And the thing was hit for a while, and I jumped off my head with two screams, and I saw the thing for what it really was. It was like a giant slug, except that its upper body was a monkey-like creature, with a large tongue curled up in its mouth. I picked up my gun and gestured at it, and he jumped away and disappeared into the darkness.
"It seems to be wise, but I've never seen anything like it." I grabbed my flashlight and immediately chased after it. That thing probably won't adapt to the bright light because of its long-term life in the dark! I thought about going over and knocking it to death, but when I ran over and shone my flashlight at him, he looked at me motionless in my light, and soon he spat out something like a snake and an apricot.
The thing was so fast that I could barely dodge it, just stood and heard a creaking sound running down my cheek. "Venom" At this moment, I suddenly understood, this thing seemed to be a snake, but it had a monkey-like upper body, but fortunately I had this mask, otherwise I would really be disfigured.
Without saying a word, I immediately rushed over quickly, and a rifle butt slammed on its head, and its head splashed. "It doesn't look like it's very peaceful here!" I said this and blinked, at this time the venom on the mask had formed a rushing gas, and I couldn't open my eyes, I quickly tore a pocket from my pants as a rag to wipe off the venom on the mask, shrunk my nose and slowly opened my eyes, but I don't know if I was dazzled or what. The moment I opened my eyes, I saw the wall in front of me move slightly. (To be continued......)