Chapter XXXVIII

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We don't know what those dense little spots with fluorescent green colors are, but instinct tells us in this Shekou cave that these things must not be good. The most maddening thing is that in the dusk of the river, we don't know what those things are or what shapes they are, and the only thing that is thankful is that we haven't been attacked by those things at this time.

I saw Hong Yi pull the bolt of the gun, staring at the water with wide eyes with a nervous expression, looking at him like that, I was really worried about whether he would suddenly shoot and go off.

In contrast, Chen Bing and Liu Yi were the calmest, especially that Liu Yi, who saw him glance at Chen Bing, and then immediately put his hand under the water and touched a small spot close to him.

In the dark, I couldn't see Liu Yi's face and expression clearly, I only heard him "Huh? He seemed to be a little surprised, and then he heard the sound of water, and the others turned on their flashlights and looked in the direction of Liu Yi.

It's okay not to look at it, this look, the real appearance of the small fluorescent green spots really shocked us, only to see that the thing is the size of a person's head, translucent, from the appearance, it is no different from a jellyfish, but, unlike jellyfish, these things do not have tentacles, they are a complete, closed egg-shaped object, only the middle position emits two small fluorescent green spots the size of a fingernail.

"What is this?" Hong Yi saw that this thing had no fangs and no tentacles, and it didn't seem to cause any harm to people, so his face suddenly relaxed a lot, so he asked.

Liu Yi didn't answer immediately, he held the egg-shaped object, looked left and right for a while, and said, "This seems to be an egg." ”

"Eggs?" All of us, including the well-informed old man Yuan, were surprised.

Leo nodded, he took his flashlight and shone it at the egg-shaped object, and said, "You see, there seems to be something squirming in here." ”

A few of us stepped forward to watch, and saw that there was indeed a small snake-like strip creature slowly wriggling in the egg-shaped object, and the small fluorescent green specks were the eyes of the creature inside the egg-shaped object.

"No," Hong Yi wondered, "If this is an egg, then how can they move, I can clearly feel these things drilling into my legs." ”

Old man Yuan made a disdainful voice on the side and said, "You can't teach your son, we have all reached this point, and we have seen all kinds of strange things?" Here, we can't look at things from a conventional perspective. ”

Chen Bing echoed casually: "What Yuan Ye said is right, at this point, looking at the problem from a conventional perspective will only mislead us. ”

"Wait, something isn't right." Liu Yi said suddenly.

"What's wrong?" Although Liu Yi's voice was not very loud, in such an environment, an abrupt sigh was enough to make several of us tense up instantly.

"You see," Leo explained, "the creature in this egg seems to be struggling, as if it were about to die. ”

We looked closely, and sure enough, the creature in the egg-shaped object had changed from a slow wriggling at the beginning to a rapid agitation at the moment, as if it had received some kind of fright, but it was not like it, only to see that the egg-shaped object in Liu Yi's hand suddenly became very irregular, one moment it was bulging here, and another was dented.

"Holy shit, that thing in there isn't going to come out." Hong Yi nervously picked up the submachine gun.

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the egg-shaped object "flutter", accompanied by a still very immature scream, and a small head with two chelica teeth suddenly burst out.

At the same time at that moment, two other things happened, one was that Shu Jingcheng pulled out the pistol on his waist almost like lightning and aimed it at the egg-shaped object in Liu Yi's hand at once, and the other thing was that Chen Bing suddenly shouted, "Don't shoot!" ”

All this happened in an instant, and Liu Yi was also frightened, but he was a well-trained person in the end, and he did not immediately throw the things in his hand into the water as soon as he encountered such danger like ordinary people. On the other hand, of course, the reason was that the translucent creature seemed to be in pain when it came out, and it struggled twice and then quickly fell limply, as if dead, and at the same time, its small fluorescent green eyes suddenly lost their light and turned into a lifeless jet black.

Everyone looked at the long creature carefully, and saw that its head was a little like a centipede, with some tiny scales on its body, and they didn't know if it was a poisonous creature.

There was a trace of astonishment in everyone's eyes, and everyone didn't understand why such a thing could happen.

Although there was no danger, everyone still had palpitations, so they heard Hong Yi say: "I'm scared to death, I said Liu Yi, why are your hands so stinky, so many insect eggs, why did you catch one and hatch it." ”

Smelly hands? I glanced at the situation below the surface of the water around me, and there were thousands of small spots here, saying that Liu Yi had bad hands, and that among so many eggs, he had drawn an egg that happened to hatch, which was a bit far-fetched. There must be some reason for this.

"According to the old man, it may not be Liu Yi's hand smell." Old man Yuan said in a sarcastic tone.

When Chen Bing heard this, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and asked, "Master Yuan, so you know this kind of thing?" ”

"No, no, no," Old Man Yuan hurriedly explained, "The old man, like you, is the first time to see this creature, but, you see, there are so many insect eggs around here, it is a bit far-fetched to say that Liu Yi's hands smell." ”

I gradually felt a lot of eggs burrowing into my thighs, and suddenly, a lightning bolt crossed my mind, and I blurted out, "It's temperature!" ”

Everyone looked back at me, they were not stupid ordinary people, although I only said three words, but, at this point, they immediately understood what I meant.

Chen Bing clapped his hands and said: "Yes, these eggs are desperately close to us, but they did not attack us, the biggest possibility is because of the heat on our bodies, this yellow water is so cold, our temperature is probably a necessary condition for these eggs to help them hatch." ”

"Huh?" When Hong Yi heard this, his face changed greatly, and he said: "Then according to what you say, aren't these insect eggs around us about to explode immediately." With that, he picked up his submachine gun and aimed it at the small fluorescent green specks under the water, but then put the gun down again and said, "It's useless to use a gun, there are too many of these things." ”

"Light!" Liu Yi said: "These insects are afraid of light, and the reason why that bug died so quickly just now, in my opinion, is most likely because it is afraid of the strong light emitted by our flashlights." ”

When I heard this, there was some truth in this, because the eyes of creatures that have lived in the dark for a long time will become very sensitive, and at this time, aiming a strong light at their eyes can blind them almost instantly, and I see that the bodies of these creatures are translucent, and they seem to be unable to withstand any strong light.

Just when I was still hesitating, I suddenly heard a "flutter" sound near the root of my thigh, I secretly screamed in my heart, and hurriedly went to shine a flashlight on the water, but the water quality was too turbid, like muddy water, and even the penetrating wolf's eye flashlight could not illuminate the insects in the water.

At this time, I heard Chen Bing shouting at me: "Press the flashlight into the water, this is a military flashlight, release water." ”

I believed Chen Bing's words, pressed the flashlight into the water, and there was a faint halo on the water surface, although I still couldn't see the situation under the water, but my feeling was not lost, at that moment, I could clearly feel that my thighs were a lot easier, but after all, the flashlight could only emit limited light, and its effect in this turbid river water was extremely limited, so before I was happy, another batch of insect eggs rushed to me behind me.

Perhaps because of our presence, the temperature of the water around us has risen, and I gradually feel that the eggs around us are moving closer and faster at a faster and faster speed, Hong Yi can no longer hold on to the side, and begins to desperately strafe at the small fluorescent green spots underwater, but his crazy actions were quickly stopped by Chen Bing.

The reason for stopping it is actually very simple, in addition to the extremely destructive power of the bullets emitted by the submachine gun, it also carries a considerable degree of heat, if Hong Yi shoots aimlessly like this, the number of eggs destroyed may be far less than the number of eggs that help hatch.

"Ouch!" I heard Old Man Yuan frowning and shouting, "His grandmother's, the old man was bitten by that bug." ”

At this time, no one had the time to gloat, because soon, I began to feel sharp and sharp pain in my thighs and calves.

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