Chapter 21: The abdomen
Hearing this, my head was stunned for a second, and after I could react, I was inexplicably angry in my heart, pulled Xiu'er, and hurriedly chased after her, while shouting angrily, "Kuroko, what nonsense are you talking about, our brothers have been doing it for so long, how can you let you go on an adventure alone at this time!" Say this kind of thing again in the future, be careful that I don't beat you to death! ”
This feeling is like in ordinary life, you have already subconsciously regarded someone as your own brother, and when you encounter trouble, no matter what his good intentions, you want to let you escape by yourself, leaving him alone to face the next difficulties, it is intolerable! Because you are brothers, you should be blessed and share hardships.
As soon as these words came out, Kuroko couldn't help but stop, although he didn't look back, it was obvious that he was waiting, and he could vaguely see a slight twitch in his shoulders.
In just a few moments, the three of us had walked far away, completely forgetting the existence of Old Man Shi, until Xiu'er and I caught up with Kuroko and smiled dissatisfiedly at him. Suddenly, I heard a terrible wail behind me, and turned my head to see a figure that was almost half-crawling and half-running, and at the same time heard a voice full of crying and shouted in a panic, "Several bosses, several bosses, don't leave me alone!" I'm going to be scared to death! ”
When he put his arm on my arm, the shaking of his body as if he was sick did not abate in the slightest, and it was quite difficult to even walk.
The three of us looked at each other, and there was really no way to take him, so we could only slowly drag him forward. After a while, the extreme panic in Old Man Shi's heart fell slightly, "Thank you bosses, I can move around by myself!" ”
Hearing this, I was greatly relieved, the environment I was in at this time was very weird, just walking around by myself need to be vigilant at all times, and then dragging such a big man of more than 100 pounds, it is inevitable that at a critical juncture, there will be a situation of taking care of one or the other.
Seeing that he could indeed move around on his own, I tried to ease the tense atmosphere in everyone's hearts, so I teased, "Old man Shi, how about it, if you have the life to go home this time, will you dare to rob the tomb with someone next time?" ”
Old man Shi probably didn't see that I was ridiculing, but I was serious, so he replied in a hurry, "Boss, don't be joking, if you can go back alive this time, then this life is given by God, I am so poor that I go to ask for food, and it is absolutely impossible to step into any mountains, forests, rivers and seas again!" ”
"Hehai?" When Xiu'er heard this, she asked, "What do you mean?" Have you passed through some other ancient tombs in the water? ”
"Huh? Where, where, boss, you think too highly of me. I've only read some records of underwater tombs in books before, and I'm quite eager to go and see them. But after this time, I feel that I am still suitable for An An, and don't try to do those things that are beyond my ability. After all, I'm not like the three bosses, who are both wise and brave. Speaking of which, if we were in the belly of the beast right now, we might have just been at the throat level, and if we went any further, we would have a real belly! Old man Shi said a bunch of strange things one after another.
Kuroko walked without squinting, and replied casually, "We're going there, this giant beast has been able to survive for so many years, which means that it has been eating, and because its body is completely immobilized, most of the waste materials must not be able to be sent out smoothly." So if something is really in it, it must be in the abdomen or a little innerer. ”
Sure enough, as we went deeper, the space on both sides became larger and larger, and the lights occasionally shone on the so-called 'stone walls', and you could see a lot of criss-crossing blood vessels that could no longer be described simply as 'thick'. I can only see that the blood in the blood vessels is slow, but it is still flowing. Colorful blood glistened brightly in the light. If we exclude the fact that everyone is in its belly at the moment, it cannot but be said that such a scene is a spectacle.
As we walked, we stopped at the top of the Kuroko and found that we were standing in a place that resembled a small cliff, and further into a small valley. It's just that the valley at this time is different from the abyss outside, but the bottom can be seen with the naked eye, at least to a certain extent. Because now the valley has been covered by a thick layer of all kinds of bones, the kind of transparent film I found at the beginning is now covered with great fanfare on the white bones that have not been completely swallowed up, vaguely as if there are countless insects gnawing the remnants of the **, the body that was so small that it is almost invisible in our stunned eyes little by little growth, until it becomes a small ball, the small worm swayed along the film crawling up, and finally merged into the stone wall like a giant mouth.
Looking at the front of everyone again, the first thing that caught the eye was a huge heart that was as large as an acre of farmland, and the blood vessels on it were like a net that could be said to be linked in all directions, and the whole looked like a large labyrinth. Outside of the heart, the spleen, lungs, liver, and stomach of various sizes are all exaggerated in a form that is so large that it makes people smack, and each organ is covered with a transparent film of astonishing thickness, I don't know if this is the main part of the beast's body, or some other reason. All the insects on the membrane are dense and can be seen, and the insects seem to be using their own bodies as carriers, through crazy gnawing **, and then transferred to the body of the giant beast, as an energy source to maintain the survival of the giant beast.
When we think about it this way, this spectacular scene in front of us is like a large factory with a clear division of labor. Behemoths act as bosses, providing accommodation, grounds, and terrifying protection. As employees, the insects must spare no effort to eliminate any people or animals who strayed into them after they were sealed by the giant beast, so as to maintain the vitality of the giant beast.
At the very end, the large intestine, which is about a thousand-year-old tree, is slowly wriggling, excreting waste to the black place behind it that does not know where it leads.
Before we knew it, the four of us were stunned for nearly ten minutes. Heizi is worthy of being a person who has walked in the sea of swords and fires, and as soon as he came back to his senses, his eyes were locked on the severed arms and stumps at the bottom of the valley, and his face was never solemn and accompanied by excitement, "I really seem to have been here before!" ”
When Xiu'er and I heard this, I couldn't help but feel excited for him, "In that case, let's go down!" ”
When Old Man Shi heard 'go down', he panicked, and the trilling voice in his throat hurriedly ran out, "Three bosses, aren't you talking nonsense?" I didn't see those little worms gnaw at an animal that size in just a minute or two, and there was only a pile of bones left. Not to mention how to go down at a height of more than 20 meters, let's just say that after going down, there will be carnivorous insects everywhere, where to hide, not to mention trying to snatch things from them. The bones piled up there weigh hundreds of pounds, and if the things you are looking for are buried at the bottom, how can you overturn them? ”
Not to mention, this old man is scared, but the questions are all to the point. Just now we were excited for a while, and our brains couldn't run smoothly, and when we heard him say this, we couldn't help frowning.