Chapter Fifty-Nine: Cuscuta Seeds
"Who knows, not only did I lose my face, but I also looked pale." Liu Chang looked him up and down, but didn't find any other signs of being attacked, and then asked, "Are you sick?" ”
"No way, to get sick I died long ago at the time of the Great Death, I must have been attacked by something." The soldier hurriedly put down his gun, took off his camouflage uniform, and hastily examined his body, and after a few moments, his hand touched his body and felt something that seemed to be bulging in his skin.
"." He screamed in fright, and the young soldier hurriedly took off his camouflage uniform, revealing the tight-fitting shirt underneath.
"You seem to have something stuffed in your camouflage T-shirt."
"What's that?" The soldier pulled open his T-shirt in terror, and when the two of them saw what was stuck to his skin, they felt hairy and goosebumps uncontrollably.
"What's going on?" Zhao Yue, who was in front, heard the movement, and also stopped leading the team, touched the team all the way, and also saw this strange scene.
"Oh, your mother is disgusting, what is this?" As soon as Zhao Yue arrived, he saw the soldier hurriedly tugging at the plant stalks on his skin—these plant stalks clung to his body, sucking his blood and fat like a tarsal body.
"Looks like a dodder." Li Qingshui also walked over, looked at the vines on the soldier's body and asked, "Don't you feel it when you climb on your body?" ”
"I must not feel it, otherwise he wouldn't know if he was so fat after eating these things?" Liu Chang looked at the things on the soldier's body, and felt very disgusted - those plants were attached to the soldier's body, tightly wrapped his skin, pierced the burr-like small rhizomes on his body into his skin one by one, and then sucked his blood and subcutaneous fat through the straw-shaped holes, and it seemed that it had been pasted for a long time, so that its originally green plant skin was full of red and white fat and blood of the soldier, and it looked fat like a well-fed mosquito.
"Fuck, I said how did I feel dizzy just now, it turned out to be too much blood loss." Pulling the vines on his body to the ground, the soldier stepped on it, and after stepping on the plant skin, the plasma and fat inside "squeaked" and splashed on the ground. The vine of the plant he stepped on seemed to feel pain, and it rolled and was about to burrow into the low.
"Sure enough, it's a dodder." Li Qingshui grabbed the "tail" of the rattan, pulled him out of the ground, and put it in his hand to observe it.
"What the hell is a dodder?" Liu Chang asked as he checked his body, and found a plant of this kind in his storehouse. Luckily, the plant seemed to have just burrowed into his pants and hadn't really started sucking his blood.
"Cuscuta is a parasitic plant, it has no rhizome when it is an adult, and it lives by parasitizing other plants, and now even animals are their parasitic objects." Li Qingshui took the rattan in his hand, carefully avoided the burrs on it, and said: "This kind of thorn should have a strong paralyzing effect, just like a mosquito's feeder, it is not felt when it penetrates the body." ”
", that's horrible." took out the rattan in his trouser tube, Liu Chang hurriedly "stepped on" this ghostly plant, and then said loudly: "Hurry up and check if there is such a plant on your body, don't you know if you will be sucked to death!" ”
With his shout, all the soldiers in the fog knew what was going on, and hurriedly took off their clothes and looked at their bodies—and sure enough, three or four more soldiers found this terrible whisker on their skin.
"Mr. Li, is this plant poisonous?" The soldier whose face had collapsed even the hardest of sucking had pulled off all the "fat" rattans on his body, and there was a very obvious look of fear on his face—if this kind of thing was poisonous, he would be killed.
"I don't know, it shouldn't be poisonous." Li Qingshui looked at the color of the burr carefully, "Do you feel nausea or muscle spasms?" ”
"No, it's just dizziness." The man shook his head.
"It's okay, the dizziness is due to excessive blood loss, it shouldn't be toxic." Throwing away the vine in his hand, Li Qingshui shouted at the team: "Be careful, there are too many lurkers in the forest, pay more attention to your physical condition." ”
"Oh."
"Hmm."
There were sporadic sounds of replies and the sound of getting dressed and undressed, and after a few moments, all the soldiers had checked their bodies, and the voices gradually fell silent.
"Xiao Jing, why didn't you notice the attack of the silk seed?" After packing up again, Liu Chang asked the little girl carefully, he thought that with the little girl here, even if his side was attacked, he could prepare in advance. But the terrible forest lurkers told him what a real sneak attack was, what it meant - they had begun to eat your flesh and drink your blood, and you didn't know it.
"I don't know, I thought they were weeds, they were too close to the weeds' breath of life, and the breath was so faint that I didn't feel it at all." The little girl had an aggrieved look on her face, "I'm sorry, if you hadn't found out earlier, maybe you and that soldier's lives would have been lost." ”
"No need to apologize, I don't blame you for this. This broken rattan must have come out of the ground, and it is not surprising that you can't perceive it. Pulling up his trouser legs, Liu Chang exposed his feet and necks in his sight, to ensure that the next time a parasitic plant similar to "dodder seed" attacked him, he could detect it early.
"Let's go, this blood and fat all over the ground smells too strong, I'm afraid of attracting carnivorous creatures for a while." Li Qingshui glanced at the place where the silk was trampled on, and then at the soldier who had lost too much blood, "You can still walk, right?" ”
"Yes, it's fine." The man shook his head vigorously, trying to dispel the vertigo.
"If it's okay, leave quickly, leave quickly." The strangeness of the forest, the company commander had already begun to realize how dangerous it was, he waved his hand, held the fog lamp, and rolled up his trousers to let the soldiers follow him.
But the sky did not obey people's wishes, and as soon as he raised the fog lamp on his side, the little girl made a vigilant sound.
"Brother, be careful, there are a lot of creatures with a danger value of about 0.2 flying in the air from a hundred meters away, and the speed is very fast." Before the little girl finished speaking, Liu Chang heard the "fluttering" sound of a large number of wings flapping, and before he could wake everyone up, he saw strange birds flying over.
Within their sight, these birds had sharp beaks, the size of a human head, and small scarlet eyes, and they swooped down on the team as soon as they appeared, and it was obvious that they were not good at stubble.
"There's something in the air, everyone." As soon as Liu Chang spoke, a big bird rushed down at his head and was dragged to the ground by him with a crossbow.
"!" The big bird landed, and before Liu Chang could make up for it, a series of attacks from above followed. Tired of coping, Liu Chang had no choice but to protect the little girl and lean on a big tree to avoid being attacked on her back and abdomen.
"Shoot them in the sky and scare them away." In the fog, the company commander's call came out, "Pay attention to the vertical angle, don't hurt your own people." ”
As soon as he had heard his shout, he raised his gun and let out a burst of gunfire, and the big birds, frightened by the sound of the gunfire, did not dare to attack rashly any longer, and their bodies rose up, and they hovered in the air instead—frightened, but obviously had no intention of leaving.
"Attention, they haven't left yet!" The gunshots stopped, and Liu Chang knew that everyone couldn't see the situation above their heads, so he hurriedly reminded loudly: "Hanging in the air, it is estimated that you will not stop if you don't eat meat." ”
After shouting, Liu Chang raised the bow and crossbow in his hand and pulled the trigger on the fattest one in the flock.
Under the impetus of the bowstring, the "Whoosh" crossbow arrow shot out at a rapid speed, and before the big bird could react, an arrow pierced its body, and the feather blood bloomed in the air in a brilliant blood flower.
And at the moment when the flowers bloomed, at the same time that the corners of Liu Chang's mouth had just shown a smile, the birds in the air smelled the blood of their companions, and they flew there in unison, grabbing the corpses of their companions in the air. In just three blinks of an eye, the bird that had just died was eaten by its companions, leaving Liu Chang, the only one below who could see this scene, stunned.
But his stupor didn't last long enough for a second before he was pulled back to reality by the little girl's next words.
"Again...... Another group flew in, with a higher danger value than this group, at 0.5. ”
"No, we can't finish these birds." Liu Chang frowned deeply, and then heard a "buzzing" sound in the air, and then a large group of mosquito-like insects with sharp mouthparts appeared in his field of vision. Then he saw that the birds fled when they saw the giant mosquito, and some of them were caught by the giant insects, which were half the size of a man, and turned into their hearty breakfast.
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