25. Parasites
The hesitant look in Professor Zhang's eyes flashed, and he silently stared down at the skull and preemptively said, "I suspect that this is a special creature parasitic on the human brain. The skin and flesh were originally connected, and if they hadn't been dead for so many years, they wouldn't have been separated. ”
Gao Tong's eyes stared at the skeleton in a stunned manner, and he muttered a little distracted for a long time, "Chen Xu ......" and then there was a complicated expression on his face, "Wouldn't it be parasitic by something?" ”
No one answered, it is estimated that everyone has a positive attitude towards Gao Tong's speculation, Chen Xu's strange and distorted body posture and strange appearance are no longer what normal humans should have, my heart sank heavily, the danger that was almost close at hand and the pity for Chen Xu like a rabbit dead fox acted at the same time, and the indescribable discomfort and fear were mixed together, pressing on the chest, and even breathing was extremely difficult.
The big head looked back at the road, then glanced at everyone, gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "No matter what lies in front of it, we would rather take a big risk than wait here to die." ”
Gao Tong let out a long breath, looked in front of and behind him, and then stared motionlessly at the dark and endless passage in front of him, and said slowly: "This is the only way, everyone is looking for something to defend themselves, if there is really a parasite, it must be parasitic on the human brain to control people's behavior and movements, be more careful." ”
Gao Tong's voice was low, and his confidence and confidence were not too strong, and the pessimistic context of making everyone pray for more blessings was obvious. Originally, the future of the agency after the collapse of the death was uncertain, but there was another way to die that made people shudder to think about, and the house leak was hit by the overnight rain, and no matter how strong the psychological element was, it was difficult to say that it was optimistic.
Anyway, sooner or later, people will have to break the jar and face their own death, and the struggle is just to give themselves a comfort, I would never have predicted that my fate would be so unfortunate a year ago. While thinking about it, he leaned over and picked up a piece of gravel and weighed it for a long time, feeling that it was quite right, and squeezed it tightly between his five fingers, and unconsciously gritted his teeth and hated it, but he didn't know who to hate.
After everyone was frightened, they had a bit of "fuck you" kind of impatient and impatient mentality, the big head looked calm at this time, walked to Professor Zhang, turned around and wanted to pick him up, Professor Zhang hurriedly waved his hand to refuse, but the big head said with a straight face: "If you run later, this will not drag you down, we can't leave you alone." ”
Team spirit is sometimes forced out by human nature, the big head carries Professor Zhang, everyone you pull me a hand, I remind a sentence of mutual care slowly more, no one wants to die and does not want to affect others, all the way cautiously forward, folded a few corners, the terrain suddenly sinks down, the stuffy humidity rushes to the face, not a few steps on the body soaked in sweat, almost three or four meters wide and narrow, at a glance can not see the edge of the wide cave in front of the eyes of everyone.
Gao Tong slowly stopped at the entrance that suddenly widened, looked at the distance to the left of the stone wall, and then pointed with his hand and said softly: "There is a fork in the road here, and it seems that there is no one." Let's take a look at the terrain here, the air is humid and the temperature is high, and the parasites may be very suitable for their survival before they find a host, so we must pay special attention. ”
My heart couldn't help but tighten, I jumped up quickly, the stones in my hands were sweating, I didn't dare to get too far away from the high boy in front of me, followed behind him, groped forward along one side of the stone wall and moved forward slowly, for fear that a pair of eyes would not be enough to miss something, and the whole body would crumble. Extremely slowly, just after taking a few steps, Gao Tong suddenly paused, his hand trembled slightly and pointed to a raised place on the stone wall in front of him, lowered his voice and turned back to me and said, "What do you think that is?" ”
When I looked closely, I saw that the color of the bulge was slightly grayish, like a scar attached to the stone, and the oval shape was more than ten centimeters in size, and Gao Tong and I didn't dare to get close, and looked at it two or three meters apart in a daze, and didn't know what to do.
Datou put down Professor Zhang lightly, took two steps forward, raised his hand without saying a word, and then there was a "snap" sound, and the stone in his hand flew up and smashed on the bulge, and the empty voice startled me, "It should be this thing," Datou then muttered, "It doesn't look like a stone inside, it sounds empty." ”
The shell was still unusually hard, and the big head simply didn't stop doing anything, leaned over and picked up a stone the size of a skull, took two steps forward, and smashed it with the force, "click", a stream of juice splashed, and the smell of fishy smell permeated the surroundings, and the smashed gray bulge fell to the ground.
Still not daring to get too close, several people covered their noses and stretched their heads to look, the gravel on the ground was sticky with a yellow thick liquid, as disgusting as snot, but the smell was extraordinarily rushing, and the other side of the broken carapace turned up was yellow-white flesh, slowly squirming, and the two spikes a few centimeters long hidden in the meat were sometimes flat and sometimes stirred and erected, "This should be its mouthparts, which may penetrate into the human brain to achieve parasitism." Gao Tong said with palpitations.
Silently breathed a long sigh of relief, and said: "This crustacean clings to the rock, wriggles with muscle tissue, moves very slowly, and poses little threat to normal people who can move...... Speaking of which, after the collapse of the mechanism, Chen Xu was probably in a coma and was taken by the current to the habitat of this crustacean somewhere, which is the ......"
Everyone's hearts were a little sour for a while, not to mention the relationship between them and Chen Xu for a few months, seeing their own kind become like that, it was really sad and gloomy. Gao Tong picked up the big stone thrown by the big head with both hands, and smashed it a few more times, until the thing was too dead to die.
Figured out the reason why Chen Xu was parasitic and became inhuman, but temporarily removed a piece of heart disease, unless a few of us were too hungry to move, this kind of parasitic crustacean is really not a big threat, everyone continued to grope forward in a complicated mood, occasionally saw one or two parasitic crustaceans, motionless clinging to the cave wall, although everyone was inevitably apprehensive, but the hatred was hard to eliminate, and they forcibly endured the fishy smell and completely smashed it, until the yellow and sticky liquid splashed everywhere.
This section of the cave has walked out of dozens of meters, the terrain is completely different from the previous section, the foot is high and low, the left and right sides of the hole one after another are messy and irregular, the passage is like a spider web, the more people go the more uneasy they are, so go on, you have to get lost completely.