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Lantern Xiao looked at her extremely red and swollen hands, "Why did so many scorpions suddenly appear!" ”

I shook my head, "I don't know," I put my hands on my knees and gasped for breath, "No, let's hurry up and find a way to leave, otherwise, I think there will be more and more things in the evil sect!" ”

Lantern Xiao looked around blankly, "I want to leave too, but go that way!" ”

I also got up and looked around, pointed to one of the forks in the road, and said, "Let's go, go to that one, I remember not going in that direction." ”

Lantern Xiao nodded, at this time, he could only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor. But we had just taken two steps, and suddenly I heard the sound of rustling around me, and my heart sank instantly, and I hurriedly shone my flashlight around, and I saw a large number of scorpions pouring out of the surrounding passages. What I watched with Lantern Xiao was a numb scalp, and the foot that had just stepped out quickly retracted.

The surrounding scorpions spread rapidly against the ground, and Lantern Xiao and I hurriedly retreated, but soon, we were surrounded by countless scorpions from all directions, surrounded by a small area in the middle of this clearing.

Lantern Xiao and I stood back to back, our whole body tense and ready at any time, once these scorpions spread to our feet, at that time, even if it was possible to be swallowed by the scorpion swarm, we could only fight!

We looked at the scorpions on the ground that were still approaching, and we were so nervous that we almost forgot to breathe.

However, for some unknown reason, when these scorpions were still twenty or thirty centimeters away from our feet, they all stopped, and they kept wandering and entanglement, but they did not get closer to a centimeter!

Although Lantern Xiao and I were incomprehensible, I was still overjoyed and breathed a sigh of relief.

We didn't dare to move our feet, and we were silent for a while, looking at the situation around us. And the terrifying reptiles on the ground, stimulated by our flashlight, became very active, and countless small tail pins stood up from the ground, as if to pierce any object that passed here, just looking at it made the two of us cold.

Lantern Xiao said in a low voice: "Zhuo Ran, what do you say?" You can't keep it like this, buddy's physical strength can't support it! ”

I shook my head, "I don't know either!" ”

Lantern Xiao sighed, "I really didn't expect that this ancient tomb Zhuo family has been exploring for hundreds of years, and it is still so dangerous!" ”

I said to him, "I can't help it, my second uncle once told me about the mechanism, in the ancient tomb, as long as it is a mechanism with a trigger device, whether it is a wooden mechanism, a bronze mechanism, or a stone mechanism, it cannot escape the erosion of time, and the trigger machine will always fail one day." There are only two kinds that can last for a long time, the first is to completely abandon the trigger device and brake statically, such as the bronze coffin array in Qilian Mountain, or the underground ancient city we are in, such a mechanism, as long as those things are still there, the mechanism will have an effect. Another is to use the reproduction of living organisms to live from generation to generation. For example, the human-faced beetle we saw in the desert, I guess the same is true for the scorpion here. ”

Lantern Xiao pinched the leg that was already a little wooden, "I understand the reason, just tell me, how should this kind of mechanism be cracked, your Zhuo family has been operating here for a hundred years, won't it be done yet!" ”

I sighed and said, "I think the ancestors of the Zhuo family must have found the law and solution a long time ago, but I just don't know. ”

"Holy! You're the same as you didn't say! Lantern Xiao sighed a little desperately.

After a long while, Lantern Xiao suddenly asked me, "Why don't you say these scorpions attack us?" Do they want to wait for us to die? ”

"Waiting for work?" I shook my head, "It's unlikely, these scorpions are just insects, they don't have much intelligence, and they will never use such a clever art of war." ”

Lantern Xiao slowly moved her already numb feet, "Then why do you say sore?" ”

I looked down at my feet, frowned, and suddenly had an idea, "I think there might be something wrong with the ground under our feet!" As I spoke, I slowly bent down and touched the ground with my hand, and when my hand touched the ground, I immediately found the problem, because when I just stepped into this ancient city, my first feeling was that the ground was very hard, but here, at this moment, the ground under our feet, I felt it with my hand, and the ground was much softer.

I picked up a pinch of soil with my hand, shone it with a flashlight, and put it under my nose and smelled it, and immediately I smelled a somewhat choking smell, which was a little strange, and I looked down at the color of the soil, but under the light of the flashlight, the color of the soil was somewhat distorted.

I didn't raise my head and said to Lantern Xiao: "Lantern Xiao, give me the lighter, there is something wrong with this soil." ”

"Really?" When Lantern Xiao heard my words, he suddenly turned around, and his big ass hit me right on top of me, and I was pushed forward, and suddenly I fell down like a front. I was covered in sweat and hair, and I saw that my whole body was about to crawl into the worm pile, and the countless scorpions on the ground were getting closer and closer to me, and I knew that I might soon be stung into a sieve, and at this moment, I said to the Lantern Festival, "I X your uncle!" ”

But before I could scold, my body stopped at once, and my belt was pulled by the Lantern Festival, and the scorpion tail pins on the ground in my face were less than twenty centimeters long.

Lantern Xiao snorted, and pulled me up again with both arms, which is also the benefit of Lantern Xiao's wide body, and her body strength is not lost, Lantern Xiao looked at me, "Zhuo Ran, what are you doing?" Defy the law and get in close contact! ”

"Pick up the fart!" I scolded, "Lao Tzu TM was pretended to be down by you!" ”

"Huh? Oooh! Sorry, sorry! Lantern Xiao said as she handed over the lighter.

I carefully bent down, pinched up a handful of soil again, and burned it on the lighter, and a wisp of green smoke rose up, and I hurried over to smell it, and my heart immediately understood.

I returned the lighter to Lantern Xiao, "This soil has been tampered with, and it is mixed with sulfur and realgar, no wonder these scorpions dare not approach here!" ”

Lantern Xiao leaned over and looked at it, "But who did this?" How many refuge islands did the owner of the tomb deliberately leave behind? ”

"I don't think so," I said, "the soil has not been altered for a long time, and this kind of thing will be ineffective in a few years if it is mixed into the soil, so it must be done regularly by coming back and re-doing it, so it can't be the owner of the tomb, it must be the Zhuo family." ”

As soon as Lantern Xiao heard me, his eyes suddenly lit up, "Does this mean that you can find hope of escaping on this!" ”

I nodded, but I looked up at the countless mountain scorpions around me, and the glimmer of hope that had just risen felt shattered, "Hope? Where is the hope? ”

Lantern Xiao thought for a while and said: "Since this kind of place is made by the people of the Zhuo family, it will definitely not be the only one, can we divert the attention of these scorpions first, and rush out while they are unprepared, find the next place as soon as possible, and so on, can we escape." ”

I couldn't agree to Lantern Xiao's proposal, "It's too dangerous, let's not talk about whether we can find a second place to take refuge before these scorpions swallow us up, even if we want to escape while these scorpions are unprepared, it is impossible to achieve, because scorpions are not a thing that depends on their eyes to see things, its eyesight is very poor, and it can see a range of about ten centimeters around itself at most." The scorpion relies entirely on the listening hair on its legs to feel the vibrations around it, so as to judge the direction and direction. ”

"But," Lantern Xiao shook the flashlight in his hand, and the scorpions on the ground immediately stirred, "You said that these scorpions are almost blind, but I don't think so, they seem to have a reaction to the electric light!" ”

"Actually, it's not," I said to Lantern Xiao, "the scorpion's photoreceptor organ is not the eye, but on the upturned tail, where there are scorpion's photoreceptor cells, which can sense the stimulation of external light and react, that is, ......"

Speaking of this, I was suddenly stunned, and an idea flashed in my mind, if the scorpion was alarmed by us and dispatched, then there are only two possibilities, the first is that these reptiles felt the vibration of our footsteps, I arbitrarily believe that if this is the case, it is mostly because of the outstanding weight of the Lantern Festival. The second possibility is that the scorpion's tail senses the light of our flashlight and receives some stimulation.

I couldn't help but wonder in my heart, now that we were still and what would happen if we turned off the flashlight again, and whether the scorpion swarm, which had lost its target, would retreat.

Eventually, I felt like I should give it a try, and I whispered to Lantern Festival, "Turn off the flashlight!" ”

When Lantern Xiao heard my words, he obviously hesitated, but he still nodded, and with the two of us turning off the flashlight, the whole space instantly fell into darkness, but at the moment when the darkness came, Lantern Xiao and I were both stunned, and Lantern Xiao couldn't help but admire, "I'll go!" It's a fantasy! ”

I was so shocked that I couldn't speak. After we turned off the flashlight, the photoreceptor at the tail of each scorpion emitted a fluorescent green point of light, in the dark filled space, countless points of light formed an incomparably huge starry sky, and it was constantly changing and spreading, and I and Lantern Xiao were as if we were in the night sky, under our feet was the starry sky, and the light band composed of a single point of light stretched out, like a galaxy, which was a picture that we had never seen in our dreams.

Lantern Xiao and I didn't forget to find a way out at this time, looking at the fantastic scenes around us, we felt a great shock, and the scene in front of us made us fascinated.