Twenty-three, red cage ghost
The amount of rain in the clouds is hidden to the top, and with the arrival of the first drop of rain, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 countless raindrops are like explosive bombs falling from the air at great speed, with a huge roar, as if a waterfall is flowing down from the side, and the rain splashes the soil on the ground, and gradually a mist is condensed, like a neon cloud.
"There is plenty of rain in the mountains, and the temperature is high, but how many times a year can this kind of rainstorm occur?" Hu Yinman said to me.
"Huh?" I was a little puzzled as to why she would suddenly say that. But in the next second, I felt a soft body clinging to my arm.
Although it was in the rainstorm, I still had a second of blind thinking, and I have to say that this thin girl still has a bit of weight.
Darkness, only darkness, eternal darkness, can't distinguish east, south, west, north, can't distinguish up, down, left, right, can only distinguish everything by feeling, I took her hand, jumped under the snake's skin, and told her loudly not to be afraid, but the voice has been muffled into a mess, I have to hug her, keep saying in her ear.
The electric light dissipated one by one, but the torrential rain continued to change, and there was a greater desire to go down, just like God's heavenly curse in order to wash away the sins of the world, repeatedly washing this distorted and unjust evil land, between heaven and earth, water became the only one, the eyelids seemed to be covered with a curtain of water, the feet were deep and dive on the thin mud, and the calves were like being picked up by a mosquito, and the pain was unbearable.
Luckily, we landed on the edge of the bottom of the sinkhole, with upside-down vines and a huge green snake next to it, and directly behind it was the mountain wall, and the wind was howling, and I stood up and tried to find something to cover us. But as soon as I stood up, Hu Yinman immediately pulled me down and grabbed me, "I'm afraid, I'm afraid." She put her mouth to it, and the girlish fragrance surrounded my ears in the rain, and she kept saying it to my ear, almost biting my ear several times.
"Good, good." I patted her on the back with my hand.
"It's cold, it's cold."
"It's not cold." I hugged her, the rain-soaked clothes were almost transparent at the moment, and I looked down at the trembling girl and hugged her without hesitation.
After the rainstorm, the valley was surprisingly quiet, without the crackling raindrops, I was a little uncomfortable, Hu Yinman and I got out of the tent made of big snakes one after another, and after looking at the fresh sinkhole, I suddenly realized that something was wrong. Originally, there weren't many fungi and mushrooms here, but when I look at it now, all kinds of spor-like plants are growing here at a rate that is visible to the naked eye.
"What's going on?" Hu Yinman was also stunned, she asked.
"I don't know." I spread my hands, "It stands to reason that the sinkhole is a paradise for ancient plants and a kingdom for animals, but when I came, I noticed that something was wrong, and now it seems even more wrong." After answering her words, I continued to look at everything in front of me as if it were a dream, and all kinds of ferns were growing one after another. I'm starting to wonder if the passage of time here is not constrained at all, or is this a separate world like a scene from a cartoon?
"What do you see underground?" Suddenly, Hu Yinman clapped my hand and pointed in the direction not far away.
I looked in the direction and saw some watermelon-like balls growing on the ground, and so on, not grown, they should have been exposed by the heavy rain that washed away the ash and bird droppings brought down from the ground. I gestured to Hu Yinman to keep her here, and then jumped off myself. Sure enough, the ground was already full of potholes, without too much filling, and the underground rivers and traps were densely revealed. And the sound of the underground river tinkling through is becoming more and more obvious.
There are faintly recognizable paths printed in the grass more than one person high, thatch and arrows and bamboos are all over the ground, and people's calves are numb, and the mountains and forests that have just had a rainstorm are all shrouded in mist, and when they raise their heads, they are connected to white, like fairy clouds. Hidden in the beautiful scenery are bamboo stakes cut in the woods, which have been cut off by a cleaver, and the barbs of the broken roots of the upper body are likely to puncture the calf if they are accidentally inserted into a person. Birds and birds are screaming in the air, and some of them are perched on some trees above you.
I crossed a river and stood up and walked over to a sphere, which was hard to identify, and on top of it was a vacuum-like fungus that was growing wildly and emitting a foul smell that I could tell was what I had smelled when I first fell down. Not far away is the huge crack in the ground, I didn't think to walk in, just took a look around it, sure enough, after the rain knocked off a large amount of guano its original appearance also appeared, it was a huge faceted cave, the river water flowed through a natural ladder layer, into the underground river, the hole in the underground river river crystal clear, cool and restrained, poke your head down to a cool wind blowing in the face.
It seems that all the water here flows out through here, I thought about what can I get out of here, and then I kicked in the center of the spherical object very naturally, but the strange thing is that the fungus did not kick me out, but the object was kicked out by me, I inadvertently looked down, and immediately jumped up in shock, it was a human head, a human head like the human head I saw when Yang Shizhong and I entered this forest.
"What's that?" Hu Yinman couldn't help but ask when he saw my appearance.
"A human head." I opened my mouth to speak, but suddenly I realized that something was wrong, and after thinking about it, I turned my body and looked around, only to realize that it was actually a human head, and what was even more disgusting was that every person washed out by the rain had a red plant growing on its head, and it was getting bigger and bigger, and in less than 5 minutes it was almost the same size as the skull. And the color is bright red as if it is dripping blood, and when I look at it, it is like a bamboo cage, and slowly it is still growing.
"Get out of the way and let me see, or I'll jump." Hu Yinman threatened me.
"Yes, yes, Miss." I stepped out of the way and looked coldly at this thing that looked more and more like a human head, in fact, I wouldn't feel anything if it grew plainly, but it actually grew out of a human skull.
"It's the red cage ghost." That's when I heard Hu Yinman's shout.
"You know?" I frowned, it didn't seem like a good thing, just by listening to the name.
"Well, it's a fungus in the Phalloidaceae family." "It's called the red cage in our place, and its spor-producing tissues have a foul-smelling smell that attracts flies and other insects to help spread the spores," she says. ”
"That's all?" I feel like it's a bit of a misnomer.
"That's right."
"Then you give her such a fucking overbearing name." I took a breath and said, "It's terrifying. ”
"I don't know, but in Haiti, someone planted it in a human body, so on that side it is also called a shrine maiden heart. You'd better stay away from it, this kind of thing is rumored to be very evil in foreign countries. ”
"Okay, I got it." No kidding, I slowly backed away from it. But as they got more and more, I gradually found that this kind of thing didn't seem to stop here. I had a little hair in my heart, "Can it go on like this?" "Suddenly a mountain breeze blew down, and I suddenly felt a foul smell coming from the surface, and I almost fainted." Poisonous? "I was almost dizzy, and I ran back with my nose covered, and on the way my legs first began to go numb, then to my waist, and then to my hands, and I looked over, and there was a dense series of rashes.
"How, how." This is the second time she has seen me run back in embarrassment, and this time when she saw my bags all over her body, she suddenly covered her mouth and vomited, "It smells so bad." ”
"Toxic. You don't smell it. "I tried to stay away from her as much as possible. You face the wall and cover your mouth and nose.
"What's that?"
"The powder of the big stick," I said weakly, is there any point in asking this kind of nonsense at this time?
"Shame on you." Sure enough, she didn't speak, and stood quietly behind the snake's body with her mouth and nose covered. At this time, my whole body began to feel tight, as if I was being caught by a snake, and the pain was overwhelming. "You're poisoned?" Hu Yinman turned to look at me, I couldn't say anything here, so I had to keep gesturing to her to stay away from me, but how far away could I go? The bottom of the sinkhole is a closed existence, and the only way is the underground river, is it really going to drift down? No, no, no.
"What to do, what to do?" I started to panic, I really didn't know what else was in this situation, okay. Suddenly, something stuffed my mouth, and I only felt a bitter taste that was enough to numb my nerves, and it instantly spread over my nerves, and then a cool breath slowly calmed me down. I lay on the ground, the pain in my whole body quickly subsided, and I sighed secretly as I stared at the red cage ghost mushrooms that had become huge. After a while, I felt that I could open my mouth, so I asked her curiously, "What did you give me?" So bitter? ”
"Snake gall." Hu Yinman looked at me helplessly, "I don't know if it's providence or man's courage is the boss of this snake, otherwise how much do you think you can eat?" ”
"Huh." I laughed in my heart, this is really artificial, I guess I it off. Without saying a word, I sat up and stretched out my hand to look at the red dots that were gradually fading, and I couldn't help but feel in my heart. Hu Yinman also seemed to see my doubts and said to me, "This snake doesn't know how long it has lived, and the whole body can be treasured, except for the fear that you can't bear it, the others are all great supplements." ”
"Now is not the time to talk about this." Without saying a word, I took her hand, "You still have a little snake gall, right?" ”
"Huh?" "We can't stay here for a long time if we look around, we can't find a place to avoid it, so we have to hide in the underground river."
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