Chapter 223: Corpse Beetle
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, if that's the case, it means that those terrifying rats are very likely to be able to enter this tomb!
I told everyone what was going on in my heart, and when everyone heard it, they all became nervous, and Chen Biao immediately took off a tear gas canister from his vest, squeezed it tightly in his hand, and was ready to throw it out at any time.
Everyone waited nervously for a while, but did not see the rat swarm, we were wondering, Weizi suddenly found something, he said with a trill, "I...... I just saw something ...... Move ...... there"
"Where!?" Ryuichi asked.
Weizi raised his hand and pointed to a few sets of wreckage not far from us, and everyone immediately turned their heads and stared at the wreckage.
After a while, the wreckage really trembled slightly, and there was a "crunch" sound, almost exactly the same as the sound we had just heard.
"Holy! Could it be that this skeleton really came back to life!? "I couldn't help but be taken aback. I've seen a lot of corpses, but I've never heard of this skeleton resurrection.
Long Yi didn't believe in evil, he stared at the wreckage for a while, and said in a low voice, "It seems that there is something under the bones!" ”
"Something?" As soon as I heard this, I also took a closer look, and sure enough, under a few pieces of wreckage, there was really a ball about the size of a palm, and it was all black.
The body of the thing seemed to be covered with a very smooth shell that reflected the light from the hat light on our heads, and it was this thing that arched its body upwards from time to time, causing the bones on its body to tremble slightly and make a "crunch" sound.
"What is this?"
"Let's go! Let's go check it out! Wen Qingshan held the broken dragon slash in his hand and walked over boldly.
We cautiously walked over to the skeletons, and it just so happened that the thing was completely arched out, and I couldn't help but be surprised that it was a huge beetle!
The beetle was almost the size of a mouse, with a jewel-like shell, perhaps because of the number of us, and the light from the hat lamp on the helmet so bright, that the beetle was lying motionless on a broken bone.
Looking at the huge beetle in front of me, I was surprised and said, "Why is this thing so big!?" ”
Long Yi said on the side: "This thing is a bit like Brother Long's flea." ”
"What is a dragon flea?" I asked, puzzled.
Long Yi explained: "Brother Long's flea is a kind of long-cow, the scientific name seems to be called what is the big tooth earth beetle, it is said to be one of the largest beetles in the world, but it is really rare for this dragon-brother flea to grow into such a big one, presumably because the yin qi in it is too heavy, so it is caused by mutation." ”
"Does this thing bite?" Weizi asked, he saw that it was not a ghost, but he was not so afraid, and his tone seemed a lot more relaxed, after all, he was a soldier, and his courage was not small, but he was just afraid of ghosts.
Ryuichi replied, "It shouldn't bite, most beetles look ferocious, but they are actually vegan animals, and they have a pair of large jaws just to cut plant roots." ”
After listening to what Long Yi said, Weizi suddenly bent down and stretched out his hand to the beetle, I saw this on the side, and hurriedly grabbed him and asked, "Brother Weizi, what are you doing?" ”
Weizi smiled and said, "I'll pick it up and take a good look!" ”
"Forget it, aren't you afraid of being pinched by its big jaws?" I persuaded. The beetle's large jaws are five or six centimeters long, and the inside is covered with sharp serrations that look like two saw knives.
Weizi said disapprerovingly: "It's okay! Brother Long said that its big jaw is just to cut plant rhizomes, isn't that equivalent to the chopsticks we use for eating, what is there to be afraid of! Besides, we used to do survival training in the wild, and we often encountered this kind of beetle, but it wasn't that big. No matter how powerful the jaws of this beetle are, after all, it grows in the corners of its mouth, as long as it catches its back, it can't do anything. ”
He said that he seemed to be very experienced, and I couldn't stop him anymore, Weizi stretched out his hand to the beetle again, who knew that when his fingers were about to touch the beetle's body, the beetle suddenly raised his upper body, opened a pair of big jaws at him, and slammed them together, fortunately, Weizi reacted quickly and retracted his hand quickly, so that he was not pinched by it, otherwise his fingers would have to be clipped.
Weizi obviously didn't expect the beetle to take the initiative to attack him, and said in surprise: "Damn! Why is this thing so fierce! They will actually take the initiative to attack people! ”
Long Yi also looked a little surprised, but Ouyang Yi saw something, and he said in a stern tone: "You'd better not touch it, I'm afraid this thing is not an ordinary beetle!" ”
"Dr. Ouyang, do you know this beetle?" Wen Qingshan asked on the side.
Ouyang Yi replied: "I've never seen such a huge beetle, but I suddenly thought just now, according to records, there is a large beetle that feeds on carrion corpses, called corpse beetle, and it's not this thing!" ”
"What!? This is a corpse beetle!? "I can't help but be surprised, in fact, about the corpse beetle, I once heard Huang Yixian mention it, but he didn't see it with his own eyes, but he saw the relevant records, it is said that the corpse beetle is a kind of yin and evil insect, living in a place with extremely heavy yin qi all year round, specializing in eating corpses, when food is scarce, it can lie dormant for thousands of years without stiffness, plus its body shell is very hard, it is like a stone, so it is also called "not stiff stone".
Because Huang Yixian didn't believe that this strange creature really existed, I didn't think about it at all just now.
Ouyang Yi continued: "According to records, the corpse beetle is a social species, dormant all year round, although most of the time it feeds on corrosion, but in fact because of the extreme lack of food, it is quite aggressive, once awakened, it will target a living thing. It is said that in a certain pharaonic pyramid in Egypt, there was an incident of corpse beetles attacking the scientific expedition team and causing casualties. ”
Hearing Ouyang Yi say this, everyone was taken aback, Wen Qingshan glanced at the corpse bones everywhere, and said, "No wonder these bones have traces of being bitten, it turns out that they are not rats, but corpse beetles!" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the corpse beetle suddenly crawled towards Weizi quickly, Weizi raised his leg and stepped on it with a hard kick, he was wearing combat boots on his feet, and he was very violent, I thought that the corpse beetle's body must have been crushed.
Who knew that he raised his leg and looked, and the body of the corpse beetle looked unharmed, just lying there motionless, not knowing whether it was dead or not.
Weizi was a little surprised: "Why is this thing so hard!?" ”
I said, "It is said that the shell of the corpse beetle is very hard, like a stone, and it can lie dormant for a long time without stiffening, so it is also called a non-stiff stone." ”
"Not stiff? It's a funny name! I'd like to see if it's the hard shell of this thing, or if it's my knife! After Weizi finished speaking, he pulled out a dagger from his waist and stabbed it towards the body of the corpse beetle.
The sharp dagger pierced through the hard shell of the corpse beetle, and the corpse beetle, which had been motionless, immediately struggled and let out a strange hissing sound, like a low-frequency sound, which sounded very harsh.
"Holy! How can this thing still be called! Weizi was taken aback.
The corpse beetle hissed for a while, and a series of "crunching" sounds came from the pile of corpses in front of us, startling everyone, and then looking at the pile of corpses, it was trembling slightly.
"This ...... What's going on!? Weizi's voice trembled again.
Wen Qingshan immediately thought of something, he turned his head and asked Ouyang Yi, "Dr. Ouyang, you just said that this corpse beetle is a social species?" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, a skull at the top of the pile of corpses was pushed by something and rolled down from above, and before we could react to what was going on, a dense mass of corpse beetles crawled out of the pile of corpses.
Seeing this, Ouyang Yi immediately shouted loudly: "Everyone get out of here!" ”
Everyone didn't dare to slack off, and hurried to the front of the burial chamber, but those corpse beetles seemed to smell the smell of us, and chased after us.
We returned to the coffin-filled chamber, where more than twenty zombies lay on the floor of the chamber that we had just dealt with. We didn't care if we would step on them, so we ran back, but when we ran to the other end of this tomb, we found that the stone door at this end had been closed, and although there was also a gossip mechanism next to this stone door, it would definitely not be able to open it for a while.
There was no way out, everyone had to turn around, but when they turned around, they found that there were no corpse beetles chasing after them, and then took a closer look, it turned out that the corpse beetle swarm was eating the zombies lying on the floor.
The number of corpse beetle swarms is huge, and as far as the eye can see, there is a large area of black pressure, which makes people shudder. Maybe it's because they haven't eaten for too long, but in just two or three minutes, a zombie is almost eaten by the corpse beetle swarm, and only a skeleton remains.
It was a shocking scene.
Ouyang Yi immediately said to Long Yi: "Quick! Before the corpse beetle comes, find a way to open this stone door! ”
The dragon nodded, and immediately walked over to the stone gate and fiddled with the gossip mechanism.
However, before he could open the stone door, some corpse beetles were already crawling towards us, and Weizi immediately fired at us with an automatic rifle, but there were so many corpse beetles that a single gun obviously couldn't wipe them all out.
But in the blink of an eye, the corpse beetle swarm had climbed to a distance of only about two or three meters away from us, and everyone's hearts were hanging, but at this moment, the corpse beetle swarm stopped advancing.