In Search of the Sacred Spring Chapter 23: Lantern Fire (1)

In order to save battery, I have turned off the flashlight while reading the content on the gold wall. At the moment, a group of us suddenly fell into endless darkness, and I don't know who pushed me in a panic, and the L-shaped flashlight that was originally hanging on my chest flew out at once, and I hurriedly threw myself on the ground to pick it up.

Before I could touch the flashlight, everyone was already in a mess, especially the Mask Chief, who was already full of awe of this hundred ghost pit, and when he saw that the fire and candles were extinguished, he was so frightened that he cried on the spot. In the darkness, I only heard someone shouting: "Don't move, everyone find the fire first, put on the light-

I lay on the ground, looking for a flashlight among the broken bones everywhere, my fingers suddenly touched a cold and hard object, I was overjoyed, and hurriedly dragged it in front of me, even pushing the switch a few times, I didn't see it react slightly, I am afraid that it was because it had broken something when it fell just now. The quiet darkness did not last long, and soon a small bright spark slowly ignited in the pitch-black hundred ghost pit. I wondered how the flashlight could have been lit before it started. Relying on that faint little light, I found the location of the fat man, he and Qin Siyan were squatting on the ground looking for their pockets, apparently trying to find a box of foreign fire to come out. Several others were also a little overwhelmed by the sudden open fire in the darkness. The little spark floated in the air, flickering left and right above our heads, and I clenched the flashlight and slowly moved towards the fat man, feeling so depressed: I have ever heard of ghosts blowing out lamps, but I have never heard of ghosts lighting lamps. What the hell is this little flame coming from, and how can it look so evil!

Deep into the underground Hundred Ghost Pit, all the equipment we used for lighting was wiped out. A small spark suddenly floated in the air, this bright light floated above the heads of several of us, I couldn't help but think of the ghost fire in the old three customs, is it because this place is full of bones and bones, accumulating a large amount of white phosphorus, so there will be this strange floating object? I'm going to share my speculations with the rest of you, but I don't want the Cremo Savage Chief to see the firelight, and as if he had lost his mind, he showed a look of ecstasy and ran wildly towards the place where there was light-

Be careful! Don't go over! -The bald scoop was originally crouching beside him, trying to reach out and grab him, but only tore off the fig leaf from his waist.

The Mask Chief's burst of survival in an instant was something none of us expected, and I didn't even have time to call out to him as I watched him crash into that eerie fire. He jumped up as he approached the flames, and let out a scream that I had never heard before, and we were all so frightened that we didn't know what had happened. I hurriedly flapped the flashlight, hoping that it would flash at the critical moment. At this time, the chief had already covered his face with his hands and fell to the ground, and the whole person had begun to roll on the ground probably because of the pain. We were all stunned by this horrific scene. The bald scoop pressed Wang Shao to the ground and shouted at us: "His eyes, he said his eyes are invisible!" -

In an instant, the little dot of glitter approached us again in the cry of the chief. The bald scoop couldn't hold it anymore, took out his pistol, and shot indiscriminately. The others reacted at once, and also picked up their weapons and set off gunfire indiscriminately in the air, and the stray bullets without a crosshairs hit the wall and splashed a large number of sparks, I was so hot that I couldn't help but shout to them: "Calm down, we have limited bullets and can't waste them here, everyone hurry up and ignite." With light, it's easy to do——

I**, what the hell is that, fire, fire! -The fat man and the four eyes follow the bald look and stick their bodies to the ground. I fiddled with my flashlight with my head down and felt the fire in my backpack. At this time, a voice sounded next to me: "Old Hu, above your head!" -I jerked my head and saw that the deadly light was hovering above my head, and in the blink of an eye it had swooped down and swooped down in front of my eyeballs. Instinctively, I closed my eyes and raised my torch to smash it at the light that was rapidly approaching me. I just heard a sound, and the thing was actually knocked hard by me, and the flashlight in my hand lit up because of the impact. In the intense divergent light, I saw a giant winged monster with a sharp beak monkey gills flapping its wings and letting out a howl.

It took me two or three seconds to recognize that it was a giant lantern bat, a giant bat that had lived in the dark for a long time and glowed by the microorganisms parasitic on the top of their heads, and it was like a floating light in the dark cavern, constantly attracting those creatures to the sun, and once the prey reached the attack range, they would use their sharp mouthparts to break each other's eyeballs, and then slowly torture the prey to death, and finally drag it back to the nest to feast. This symbiotic and mutually beneficial parasitic relationship is very common in the Amazon bushes of diverse species, when I visited the museum before, I once saw a specimen of lantern bats in the exhibition area, at that time it was only an ordinary large bat specimen, and did not pay attention, now I meet this living one, only to know that this thing is extraordinary, not only cunning by nature, but also very ferocious means of predation, if I hadn't had a flashlight in my hand just now, I am afraid that now I am the same as the chief, it has been cut out of an eyeball alive.

The lantern bat was scurrying around by the light of my flashlight, and the fat man and Four-Eyes had already lit the torches. He said fiercely: "What a flying mouse, watch the fight!" - After saying that, he fired a shot at the bat. This hairy beast has lived in a dark environment for a long time, and cannot be stimulated by the bright light, first by the flashlight on the head, dizzy, and then frightened by the torch in our hands, there is no time to dodge, was shot by the fat man in the wing, let out a terrible cry, and then fell straight down. I let out a long breath, got up and went to pick up the chief, his face was full of blood, he covered his right eye with both hands, and the whole person kept rolling on the ground, I first checked his injury, and found that the right eyeball had been pecked out, and there was still half a bright red optic nerve hanging around the eye socket, I couldn't bear to look any further, I pressed the chief's shoulders with both hands, and beckoned Qin Siyan to come and bandage him. The bald scoop helped Wang Shao up, he looked around and said: "Bats are social animals, I don't think it is suitable to stay here for a long time, it is better to withdraw quickly-

You crow's mouth, you won't say anything nice, if it's a bat nest here, we won't be able to pay for a few lives-the fat man lifted the fire and spat at the ground-

You're a serious coal star--my scalp was numb, and I always felt that there was going to be some accident, so I said to everyone: "Brother, light up everything that can be illuminated, let's quit quickly It's a serious thing-