Chapter Seventy-One: Animals That Eat the Dead
I said to Lantern Xiao: "Don't be in a hurry to die, you use your brain first, these coffins are all placed on the ground, and they are not stacked, they can't block the line of sight at all, as long as the light is in the strong point, we can see a small half of the cave, how can this situation be ecstasy?" If you can't get out, then you lack the heart! ”
Lantern Xiao was stunned for a moment, and then smiled embarrassedly, "Oops, once I was bitten by a snake for ten years and was afraid of the well rope, I'm a little stunned, confused!" See laugh, see laugh. ”
"I despise no laughter!" As I spoke, I gestured at him with the middle finger.
Further on, we found that many of the coffins here had fallen to the ground, and some bodies had rolled out of the coffins. What worries me a little is that the corpses seem to be mutilated, as if they have been eaten by something. Could it really be that as Lantern Xiao guessed, some newts burrow here to feed?
However, looking at some of the fragments of the corpse, I had some doubts in my heart, how did the newt bite the corpse like this when it was so small?
Lantern Xiao's focus is not on this, but on looking for something on the ground.
I asked him what he was doing, and he said it was not appropriate to open the coffin and get the artifact. But these have been opened and scattered on the ground, and he can always pick them up.
I didn't bother to pay attention to him, I didn't speak, but I had a faint bad feeling in my heart.
Lantern Xiao was still looking for the artifact with great interest, and I used my flashlight to shine in the direction of Lantern Festival, and suddenly found that there was a cone-shaped object on the side of a coffin in front of me, which was dark red and had some small bulges on it. I think this thing sounds familiar.
And when I identified it carefully, I immediately broke out in a cold sweat, which was clearly a tail! The tail of the newt!
But how is this possible! How do wart newts grow so big? The wart newt just now weighed more than 20 centimeters in total, and this one, with its tail alone, was nearly a meter long, the thickness of my calf.
I grabbed the Lantern Festival, which was still moving forward with my head down. Lantern Xiao didn't know so he looked up and asked, "Huh?" What's wrong? ”
I covered his mouth and looked back at the tail, which luckily didn't seem to catch the big guy's attention.
I pointed forward with my hand, Lantern Xiao looked in the direction of my finger, and at first glance he didn't seem to notice anything, and he looked closely, and then he was stunned for a moment, he rubbed his eyes, and then looked forward, and suddenly his face changed, and he sat on the ground in shock.
Lantern Xiao raised her hand and pointed hard forward, as if to poke the air to death, I put my finger to my mouth, and nodded. Lantern Xiao looked nervously at the thick tail and took a deep breath gently.
I waved my hand at Lantern Festival and motioned for him to walk around with me. Lantern Xiao nodded and stood up gently, following behind me.
So the two of us crept around the giant newt. When I walked to the side of it, I couldn't help but shift the flashlight a little in that direction. I was amazed to see that it was an oversized newt, I didn't expect this thing to grow so big.
However, I was slightly relieved that the front half of the "giant" of the newt realm had been buried in a coffin that had fallen to the ground, and it didn't seem to notice our presence.
Just when we were about to breathe a sigh of relief, I was surprised to see that the little wart newt that had been kicked away by Lantern Xiao just now had crawled from nowhere. It jumped onto the back of the giant newt. I couldn't help but sink in my heart, and said that this little wart newt wouldn't be here to sue!
And at this moment, the huge wart newt moved, and a chilling big head turned out of the coffin and slowly turned towards us.
At this moment, I felt that the blood in my whole body was cold, and I and this huge newt had a four-eyed relationship, and this time I also clearly saw that this newt had two blood-red eyes.
Lantern Xiao slowly moved to my side and whispered, "Don't look at it, run away!" ”
I nodded slightly, glanced at the general route, and exclaimed, "Go!" Then Lantern Xiao and I ran desperately, and the moment we turned around, I heard the newt move too.
Lantern Xiao shouted as she ran, "Why are there so many big newts!" ”
"How do I know!" In fact, I was also speculating in my heart whether the appearance of such a mutated body shape would really have something to do with eating dead human flesh here. But it doesn't matter, I can't be distracted now, otherwise, the newts here will taste alive.
I could hear that something was chasing us behind us, and it must be the mutated newt.
But as I ran, I found a problem, because we kept walking through the cracks of these coffins, constantly changing routes, and because of the light, I was so miserable that I lost my way, and I couldn't find the way I came.
But fortunately, we kept going back and forth, so that the newt behind us never caught up with us, this reptilian is very fast in a straight line, but the turn is not flexible, so it bought us time to escape. But I can't find a way out, it's also a very serious problem, if there is no pursuit of the newt, we can always find it after a few more attempts, but in this case, if you try rashly, you will try to reach the mouth of the giant salamander, although I don't know how lethal it is, but I am not curious at all, and I don't want to test!
Lantern Xiao and I ran all the way to the end, but found that it was a mountain wall, and there was no way out at all, "Quick, go this way!" "We randomly chose a direction and again re-followed the mountain wall to find a way out until the next cul-de-sac.
Lantern Xiao shouted anxiously, "Damn! You can't do it! ”
I was also upset and irritable, "Don't TM say cool words, you can do it!" ”
Lantern Xiao wanted to talk back, but at this time, in the darkness a little farther behind us, there was a "knock" sound of hitting the coffin, obviously the wart newt was still chasing us, although it had not yet determined our location, but it was only a matter of time. And in this dead silence, we can hear that the voice is slowly approaching. My and Lantern Xiao's faces all changed at once, "Oh no! It's time to catch up! ”
We were in a dead end that had sunk into the wall, and if we had gone back the way we had come now, we would probably have met the newts rushing in from outside. It can be said that the place we are in now is a desperate situation.
To be honest, I blame myself very much now, after all, I am leading the way, and I suddenly became a little flustered, "Damn! All TM blames me, I went the wrong way! ”
Lantern Xiao snatched the flashlight from my hand, "Now is not the time to talk about this!" "Lantern Xiao shone upwards, and we saw that on the cave wall four or five meters above, there were some rattan or tree roots that had come in from the cracks in the rocks.
Lantern Festival slapped me, "Let's go up!" ”
"But," I said, looking at the vines and roots that stood tall above, "but I can't reach them at all!" ”
Lantern Xiao looked at the coffin next to him, said offended, and then beckoned to me, "Quick!" Help! ”
Lantern Xiao and I erected the coffin and stood under the cave wall, forming a ladder where we could stay. But many coffins have decayed, we had to put two or three coffins together in a row, and soon we were in a mess around us, broken wood and broken corpses scattered all over the ground, at this time we didn't care about respect or disrespect, life mattered!
Lantern Xiao pointed to the coffins standing on the cave wall, "Quick, go up!" Grab those rattans and climb up! ”
I waved my hand and looked at the darkness behind me, "You go first, I'm a little more flexible than you!" ”
Lantern Xiao pulled me over, "You know a fart, at my body weight, if I step on it and collapse, no one will be able to walk!" ”
The newt in the darkness seemed to hear us, and we could clearly hear it coming straight for us. Lantern Xiao pushed me hard, "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up!" ”
"Good!" I gritted my teeth, ran up to the coffin that stood diagonally on the cave wall, and then jumped high, grabbing a piece of rattan with both hands. The wound on my left hand had just scabbed, and with this exertion, the wound was torn again. The intense pain made my forehead instantly ooze cold sweat, but I still clenched my teeth tightly and didn't let go.
The walls of the cave were not smooth, and there were some raised rocks that allowed me to step on them for a while, barely steady.
I turned my head to the Lantern Festival below and shouted, "Quick! Hurry up! ”
Lantern Xiao nodded, raised his hand and threw the flashlight to me, and I caught it with one hand to illuminate him.
Lantern Xiao took a few steps back, which was also a run-up, but the speed of Lantern Xiao's start was obviously not enough, coupled with his large weight, he couldn't run just halfway through. Lantern Xiao was unwilling, and pushed up hard, but as a result, his feet slipped, and he fell from above, and Lantern Xiao's body slammed into the ground, making a "bang" sound.
I hurriedly asked, "Lantern Festival, are you okay?" ”
Lantern Xiao rubbed her buttocks and stood up, waving her hand, "It's okay, it's okay!" ”
At this moment, I heard the newt approaching us, which seemed to speed up. I yelled at Lantern Festival: "Hurry up! Hurry up! That's coming! ”
Lantern Xiao nodded, then looked at the height of my place, and said with a little despair: "It's over, buddy seems to be choking enough!" Saying that, Lantern Xiao looked behind him, "It's really not good, I'll fight with it, to be honest, it's not necessarily who kills whom!" ”
I hurriedly shouted to Lantern Xiao: "Don't talk nonsense, you try again, I'll hang my legs, you just need to grab my legs for a while!" As I spoke, I wrapped the rattan around my right arm and held it tightly. Then one foot curled up against the wall of the cave, and the other leg stretched down as far as he could. "Lantern Festival, then you try again, you just need to run to the top of the standing coffin, a little upward, and you can catch me! Don't give up! Fast! ”