I know the fat man's bottom well, I know that he is proficient in water, and I see him fall into the water at this moment, but I have to worry about the fat man. Those strange floating corpses were like dumplings boiling in a pot, tumbling non-stop, and as soon as the fat man fell into the water, he was immediately wrapped in the countless female corpses, and in the blink of an eye, he could no longer see where he was. I tried to jump into the water to save him, but I was blocked by the screaming and struggling monsters, and I couldn't get out of it in a hurry, so I had to shout his name to the water.

The strange insect that had its eyes gouged out frantically shook its massive body, shattering a lot of rocks, and the red mist that flowed from the cracks in its armor was even more, but the color seemed to be less red as blood as it had been at the beginning, and it had become a little lighter.

I thought that the change in the color of the red mist was only due to the change of light and shadow in the cave, and I didn't pay attention to it, I just wanted to avoid the obstacle of this big insect as soon as possible, so that I could go to the water and fish out the fat man. However, the giant insect was so big that I rushed several times, but I had to retreat, and I was almost smashed into a patty by its heavy armor.

Shirley Young saw the flaw on the side, grabbed the fat man's backpack on the ground, climbed onto the highest rock, and took out the explosives from the carrying bag, shouting to me, "It's almost unsupportable!" With that, she threw her 64-style pistol at me.

I looked up and saw Shirley Yang's actions, and I already understood what she meant, so I copied it with my hand, took the 64-style pistol in my hand, and shouted to Shirley Yang: "I'll lead it away first, you will send a signal when you have prepared the explosives, don't take too long, the fat man is still in the water and I don't know whether he is dead or alive." ”

I raised my 64-style pistol and aimed it at the head of the giant insect and fired several shots in succession, but although the range of this gun was enough, its lethality was really insignificant in the face of this giant reptile. In order to buy time for Shirley Yang to prepare explosives, he had to try to lure away the giant worm that was berserk because he was seriously injured.

Although the giant worm's one-eyed is blind, it has lived in the dark underground world for many years, and the light source in this cave is only the cold blue light emitted by the floating corpse underwater, so its eyes have degenerated very strictly, but its sense of touch is quite sensitive. I kept tapping the sapper shovel on the rocks around me, making a "dang dang" sound, which really stimulated the giant worm, which swung its strange body and chased after me.

When I saw that the plan had succeeded, I didn't dare to make direct contact with it, so I ran to those rocky places. The giant insect kept hitting the rocks, and became even more annoyed, and the infinite brute force was like a heavy bulldozer, smashing the rocks in the cave to pieces.

With the limit of manpower, where can you run this strange insect like a train? In my frustration, I shouted to Shirley Yang, "Chief of Staff Yang, why haven't you detonated the explosives?" You want me to look good. ”

I only heard Shirley Young, who was at the top of the rock in the cave, shout to me, "It's a little bit close, find a way to hold it for another ten seconds." ”

I know Shirley Young must be racing against the clock, but I don't want to say ten more seconds now, even three seconds is enough. The strong wind behind him was blowing, and he could feel an extremely strong heat current, as well as the gradually thick red mist around him.

Now I can not care for a few seconds, the boulder in front of me is towering, there is no way to go, in a panic, I have to jump into the underground water next to me, and my shoulder just hit a floating corpse. This time I broke the bones in a good hanging, and the pain made me drink several sips of cold and smelly river water, and I was still wondering in my heart, why is this corpse harder than a stone?

But I suddenly felt a chill in my heart, as if I was hit by an electric current, and in an instant, there was an inexplicable panic in my heart, and I suddenly remembered that this special feeling, when I was swimming in the cave in front of me, more than once, déjà vu, this is a disgusting feeling......

My hands and feet became a little numb, and I was in the water, and before I could think about what was going on, I had been swept into the depths of the water by countless dead drifts. The dark and cold bottom of the water also glowed with a miserable green light, and this time I was very close to the female corpses, almost all of them face to face. I tried my best to keep my eyes open in the water, trying to see what the corpses were so famous that I could find a way out, but my eyes were dazzled by the thousands of female corpses.

The surface of the water has also been completely covered by countless female corpses, and it is almost impossible to break through the water. No matter how good the water is, people can survive underwater for two minutes at most, and unless a miracle happens, they will definitely drown in the cold water.

I was unprepared at all, I didn't hold my breath in advance, I ate the hard female corpse again, drank a few sips of stinky water, and as soon as I fell under the water, I already felt that my chest was suffocating, my lungs were about to explode, and I couldn't hold my breath anymore, and suddenly I was grabbed by a hand behind my back.

I was so frightened that my hair was about to stand on end, and I felt that the hand grabbed my shoulder and pulled me over, and it turned out that the person behind me was a fat man. He relied on his good water performance and large lung capacity, and he had been holding it for about a minute and a half, and at this time it was already the end of the strong crossbow, and it was about to bubble.

As soon as the fat man and I looked at each other under the water, we felt a vibration in the water, and the giant monster heard the sound of me falling into the water, and plunged its head into the water with all its might. It was so powerful that it immediately dispersed all the floating corpses that had sealed the water.

The fat man and I had no way to survive, and when we saw the worm's head plunged into the water, we immediately grabbed the carapace of the strange worm with our hands. The giant monster immediately noticed it, and immediately lifted its body from the bottom of the water, shaking desperately to shake us off.

As soon as my body left the water, I immediately felt that the ghostly resentment disappeared without a trace, and I opened my mouth wide and took a few deep breaths of air, and by the shaking of the insect body, I jumped down to the rock on the water surface, and saw that the fat man was still firmly grasping the dragon scale bronze armor on the insect body, and I felt a little stable in my heart, and shouted to Shirley Yang: "What are you waiting for!" ”

Shirley Young had already assembled several ingots of explosives and fuses, lit one, and threw it at the head of the giant worm from a great height, telling the fat man to hurry away. When the fat man saw that the explosives were thrown over, he dared to slack off, and when he saw the relatively flat place on the ground, he immediately rolled down.

There were many huge pieces of armor between the head and the body of the worm, as well as the fragments of the golden mask covering the head, and Shirley Yang had planned to time the explosion and threw it at the head.

Unexpectedly, the result was unexpected, the giant insect without eyes, who cares what it is, turned its head and bited, just swallowing the explosives into its mouth.

I heard a thud in the air, as dull as a broken balloon, yellow juice, accompanied by a large cloud of red mist, and countless finely minced meat, scattered like a rain of flowers. The giant worm's body shook a few times and fell heavily to the ground. The sound of the dragon scale demon armor colliding with the mountain stone shook the eardrums.

A red mist emanated from its body, but it became lighter in color and gradually dissipated into the air. Through the bare place of the dragon scale demon armor, you can see that the shell in the armor has turned black, not at all like the bright red as fire when you first saw it.

We figured it would have died completely this time, so we put away the scattered equipment again, and slowly approached with a gun in hand, only to see that the insect head had been blown up like a trumpet flower, and it was still shaking.

A hundred-legged insect, although dead, is not stiff. But even if it doesn't die, it won't pose any threat to us anymore, the heavy blow of the explosion has made it temporarily unable to produce a red fog in its body, although this red mist is not fatal, but it makes its shell hard and powerful, what the hell is this monster?

Shirley Yang said: "It may be an extinct insect, in the prehistoric world, there were only such big insects, but it is not easy to judge now, let's see." ”

We walked backwards along the body of the giant worm to see how long it was from head to tail, and it was amazing how much bronze was needed for this dragon scale bronze heavy armor alone. Unexpectedly, when I walked to the end of the gourd cave wall, I found that this giant insect had no tail, or that its tail had been petrified, and it became one with the red rock of the gourd cave, and it was impossible to distinguish which part was the body of the worm and which part was the stone.

The fat man poked the body of the giant monster worm a few times with the muzzle of his gun: "Just now it was as hard as a steel plate, and a bullet couldn't shoot through it, but now it's as soft as a pine caterpillar, and it doesn't seem to be dead yet." I think we can also ask for a clean conscience, and then stuff some explosives into its mouth, and send this thing to the western sky, so that it will be good to let out the evil breath in our hearts. ”

Shirley Yang said: "I'm afraid it's not that simple, with our equipment, it is impossible to completely kill it at the moment, but fortunately, it is no longer a threat." This is presumably a long worm that only has a rare wheel-like neural structure similar to the heliophile snail, and it is difficult to find a way to kill it other than to change the oxygen level in the air. ”

The ancestors of this long-worm can be traced back hundreds of millions of years to the Cambrian period, when the invertebrate originated at a time when the organism was still in a low stage of evolution. The original form of the long-worm, with its tenacious vitality, has escaped countless earth-shaking species destruction, and has survived until the Triassic period tens of millions of years ago, and has gradually evolved into the largest insect in history.

Different from the common central nervous system-based organisms with dendritic nerves, there are only two kinds of organisms with wheel-shaped nerve tissue and complex cell structure in the world so far, the first is the mysterious creature Sun Goddess Snail hundreds of millions of years ago, and human understanding of it is only a few fragments. The rotamorphic nerve tissue does not have a nerve center, which means that the ** and the nerve of this animal are separated, and the rotamorphic nerve will still survive after the tissue is necrotic. Moreover, the sun goddess snail is hermaphroditic and does not need to mate, and the new life produced will replace the dead body. Although this property limits its numbers, its rota-like nerves and reticulated cell structures will continue to multiply in the shell endlessly as long as the living environment allows.

The longworm is also known as the "Horn undead", a name named in honor of the British biologist who discovered its fossil. This strange creature of the wheel-shaped nerve, between the invertebrate and the semivertebrae, has a protective shell similar to that of the sun goddess snail, and the hard shell is formed by the secretions in its body. In nature, it does not have any natural predators, and unless it can be eaten whole and completely digested with gastric juice, it can still survive as long as a part of the neural network is left. Its eventual extinction, like that of the giant insects, was due to a leaping change in the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere.

"One of the things that is very strange is the overlap and conflict between archaeology and biology," Shirley Young said. Scholars who study ancient Egyptian civilization believe that the scarab beetle that appears in the pharaoh's coat of arms is the worm of the gods, and its original form is the longworm of the dragon, so they disagree with the view of biologists that this giant hard-shelled insect became extinct as early as the end of the Triassic period, and they believe that at least in the era of ancient Egyptian civilization, there were still such huge insects left in the world, and the two sides have always argued about this. ”

During the Triassic period, all the animals in the world were massive. With a high oxygen content and an indefinite growth in insect form, the Triassic mosquito fossils now found are estimated to have a wingspan length of more than 100 centimeters.

Insects use their trachea to breathe, and the rate at which oxygen enters the tissues slows down with the size of the insect. When the body of an insect exceeds a certain volume, the concentration of oxygen in the air cannot meet the requirements of the insect body, which is also the main reason for limiting the body shape of the insect and eventually leading to the extinction of the large-sized insect.

The rock structure of Huludong where we are currently located is very special, it is an Archean superimposed rock, red translucent crystals can be seen everywhere, and there are a large number of ancient fossil forests, which are all products of the Triassic. From the fossils formed at a certain moment in ancient times, it can be known that at that moment, the lava of the volcano and the mudslide that engulfed everything covered the forest almost at the same time, and the high temperature cooled rapidly, and the space gas expanded, forming the special topography of the gourd cave. Part of the worm's body was swallowed up by lava and mudslides, and before the magma could melt its hard and heavy shell, it was extinguished by the mudslides that followed, so that part of the worm's body and the cave grew into one body, and could no longer be separated. In ancient times, the Yi people who lived near Shalong Mountain may have worshipped this terrifying Huo's undead insect as a mountain god.

I don't know how many generations this worm has been breeding in this shell, and its respiratory system has adapted to the current concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere, but this may be related to the unique structure in the gourd hole, or maybe there is some special plant or food here.

When we thought of food, we suddenly remembered the countless dead floats in the water, and we wanted to leave this place immediately, but now it seems that it is necessary to investigate it more carefully, because this big insect must have a great relationship with the tomb of the king.

Why did this longworm wear a golden mask in the shape of a priest offering kings and be put on a layer of dragon scale demon armor, is it the source of the poisonous fog near the Worm Valley?

I told Shirley Yang about the idea, but we still know very little about the art of scabs, only know that the ancient and evil one of the three great evil arts of the South Seas, is a kind of evil art that converts the resentment of the soul of the dead into invisible poison, and the more miserable the dead person, the more violent the poison.

The red mist gas dissipated, and the guy completely lost his ability to resist. The poisonous mist produced in its body must have something to do with the dead drift in the water it swallows all year round.

Judging from this, it is possible that a certain part of the body of this giant insect is connected to somewhere above the worm valley. According to its characteristics, the insect body is nearly 100 meters long, which is not unusual, coupled with the extremely low terrain in the valley, even the rhizomes of plants can penetrate, maybe the insect mouth swallows the floating corpse in the water, and the resentment of thousands of female corpses will pass through the insect body, transforming into a white mist that pervades the valley, blocking the road from the outside world to the tomb of the king.

The human skin map records that the mist around the tomb of King Xian is in a circular shape, which may be that the person who drew the human skin map does not know the details. After our on-the-spot investigation, the terrain of this valley cannot have a circle of mountain miasma and poisonous fog, both sides and behind are thousands of cliffs, and there is only a ray of sky light when you look up, as long as the poisonous fog blocks the road in the valley, there will be no other way to enter the tomb of the king.

At this time, Shirley Yang found that the surface of the dragon scale bronze armor outside the insect body was engraved with many inscriptions, which were very tightly worn, and only a small part could still be seen, but they were all strange and unrecognizable. It occurred to us that such a symbol had been seen in the stele shop, in the large vat that had been sunk into the pool with chains, and there was such a symbol on the tank. At that time, Professor Sun said that this was a kind of spell in the long-lost magic of the dead, called the "soul poking talisman", which was used to block the evil magic of the deceased, which showed that the bronze demon armor was similar to the copper skin wrapped outside the water tank.

It seems that as we expected, this special dragon scale demon armor, as well as the golden mask that combines the characteristics of the six demon beasts of the Sacrifice King, are all installed on this giant insect through some kind of scab ritual. Those people really will adapt measures to local conditions and use the resources that can be used, but these things are not used in the right way, and they specialize in this evil method of harming people.

Probably before the construction of the tomb of the king, the mountain god only ate the big toad toad produced in the water, because the food body contains poisonous glands, so this giant insect is also poisonous. Until this place was discovered by King Xian, he used the method handed down by the ancient Yi people to exhaust its poison, and then concocted it according to his wishes, making this insect half-dead and turning it into the source of the poisonous mist of the tomb of King Gongwei. It is also very pitiful, and like the figurines, it is a sacrifice to the king's tomb.

If you speculate like this, a large number of female corpses in the water are set up to create a mist, but in the past two thousand years, the population of the entire Han Dynasty has not been able to fill today, so it seems necessary to make a dead floating corpse out of the water to analyze.

The fat man was afraid that Shirley Young and I would propose to leave immediately, because he also planned to collect all the gold fragments scattered on the ground one by one, which was a very considerable amount, so don't do it in vain. Seeing that we were gathered around the insect body to inspect it, we immediately hurriedly found the sapper shovel and picked out the gold from the rotten insect head.

I patronized with Shirley Yang to salvage the dead drift by the water's edge with a pickaxe, I didn't notice what the fat man was doing, and suddenly I heard him scream behind him, and we hurriedly turned back, only to see the giant insect that had been blown up, its head suddenly raised, and its mouth was completely broken, and at some point, it became several times larger than before, and kept making a "cooing" sound.

This guy is too sturdy, is he really immortal? I hurriedly picked up the Chicago typewriter and prepared to give it another shuttle, only to find that it wasn't trying to attack us, look at it like that...... It was as if I was going to vomit.

Before I could warn the fat man to dodge, I saw the huge worm mouth, wah-la-wah, spitting out a large pile of dead drift that had been swallowed by it before. At this time, the dead drift had turned black and brown, and there was no blue and cold light on the surface, and the corpse was still stained with a lot of viscous liquid, all of which were sprayed on the fat man. I was about seven or eight meters away from him, and I almost fainted from the stench.

I immediately used the pickaxe in my hand to hook the fat man's carrying bag, and together with Shirley Young, I struggled to pull him out of the pile of corpses. Fortunately, the poisonous mist was discharged into the valley, and these liquids should be gastric juice, although it may be a little acidic, as long as it is washed immediately, it will not hurt.

As soon as the huge Huo's undead vomited, it couldn't stop, and after spitting out more than a hundred black female corpses, it let out a violent grunt again, this time it was very painful, and spit out a huge square object, which fell heavily to the ground. The surface of the object was dripping with juice, and there were many large copper nail caps with concave and convex faces, which looked like a bronze box, or a large copper coffin.

I was amazed, I never thought it would have such a big piece in its belly, but fortunately I pulled the fat man back in advance, otherwise I would have to smash him into a cake. I glanced at Shirley Yang, and Shirley Yang was also shocked: "This is like the Pandora's box hidden in the belly of the ancient dragon in Western legends. ”