Chapter 15: Deep in the Forest
Li Fan found that he couldn't see Lu Zhong, so he asked Chen Meili to follow Danya first, and turned back to look for it, but he didn't see it after walking more than ten meters along the original road, so he hurriedly beckoned Danya to stop, but he didn't expect to catch up, and he couldn't find any trace of Danya and Chen Meili for a long time.
Now Li Fan was a little anxious, the visibility was too low, he didn't know which direction the two women in front of him went, thinking that they couldn't see him, they should come back to find him, it was safer for him to wait by the big stone, and wait for Lu Zhong by the way, so he sat down on the big stone.
Waited left and right, waited for about twenty minutes, and no one waited, and then Li Fan realized that the problem was serious.
Lu Zhong is likely to have taken a fork in the road, and the two women may be waiting for me in front, shouting loudly will attract the pursuers, what can I do?
Just when Li Fan was in a dilemma, a long, piercing scream interrupted his train of thought.
Li Fan instantly felt dizzy and almost fell, so he hurriedly held on to the tree trunk next to him and sat down, thinking that it would be over to stabilize his mind and resist it, but he didn't expect the screaming sound to continue.
At this time, Li Fan couldn't stand it a little, and when he had a headache, he ran Jingxin Gong to resist, and a few golden wires flashed on his hair that Li Fan didn't notice.
The screaming continued for half a minute and then ended, Li Fan often breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to get up, when he suddenly found a black shadow passing over his head.
Li Fan fixed his eyes and saw a moth-like monster with two pairs of translucent wings flying in the sky, and a comatose person was grabbed under him, it was Lu Zhong.
Just when Li Fan wanted to raise his gun to shoot, the monster had already flown into the fog in front of him with Lu Zhong.
I didn't expect there to be a monster! The scream just now should have been made by it, Lu Zhong was stunned by the scream and was captured by it, this scream may be its means of hunting!
I can hear it, and I can hear it not far from Tanya and Meimei, I can use meditation skills to resist it, they can't resist it, and now they should be unconscious in the forest ahead, there are all kinds of poisonous insects and beasts in this place, I have to find them quickly!
Although he was very worried about Lu Zhong's safety, there was no way to save him for a while, so Li Fan could only find Danya and Chen Meili first.
After searching for a long time on the ground covered with new and old fallen leaves, I didn't find any recognizable footprints, but a faint smell of perfume still provided Li Fan with clues.
It was the smell of Chen's beautiful perfume, very faint, and ordinary people couldn't smell it, but Li Fan had become extremely sensitive because he had practiced meditation for a period of time, so he could smell a little.
After searching for a long time with this wisp of perfume, Li Fan finally found Danya and Chen Meili in a coma behind a giant tree.
There were also some medicines to relieve dizziness in the backpack behind him from the infirmary of the lakeside farm, Li Fan gave the two of them a few pills, and each of them pinched the acupoint for a while, and half an hour later, the two woke up one after another.
Chen Meili has a good physique and a clear mind, so she first asked: "Li Fan, why did we faint? I seem to hear a piercing cry, is it a beast?"
Danya also asked, "What about Lu Zhong? didn't you find him?"
Li Fan shook his head and said, "The sound just now was made by a flying monster, which can make people dizzy, and Lu Zhong was captured by it!"
After hearing this, Danya said with a gloomy expression: "It turns out that the old man of the tribe is right, there are really monsters here, Lu Zhong may be dead, let's leave quickly......"
Chen Meili was also a little scared, and said: "Li Fan, the Chen family will make up some money for Lu Zhong's family, monsters are not something we can deal with, let's go......"
Li Fan didn't say anything for a long time, lowered his head and pondered.
Lu Zhong has followed him for many years, he is diligent, his parents are old, sick, and he is the only son in the family, so he gave up and didn't save him, and he couldn't help it, so he asked:
"Danya, how long do you estimate it will take to leave the Misty Forest?"
Danya thought for a moment and said: "This should be the periphery of the Fog Forest, it will take more than an hour to go out, and I will know the road after I go out, and I will soon be able to find the people of our tribe!"
"Walk for more than an hour, if you run, it should be okay in half an hour, I will send you out first, find the people of your tribe, and then I will come back myself to see if I can save Lu Zhong!"
Seeing that Li Fan was so righteous, the two women both cast appreciative glances at him, and the three of them immediately set off and ran out of the mist forest at full speed.
After more than twenty minutes, the three of them came out of the fog area, and Danya carefully identified the direction, and led the two of them towards a village of her own tribe, and ran for another hour to a peripheral village of the Danya Longken tribe.
After entering the village, Li Fan didn't have time to greet everyone, so he immediately came to the ammunition depot in the village after replenishing the fresh water.
I took some magazines that matched my sniper rifle, loaded a dozen grenades and other small items, and was about to leave, when I found two more small petrol bombs, which were also loaded into my backpack.
Danya wanted to order some people to accompany Li Fan to the Misty Forest to rescue Lu Zhong, but Li Fan refused, saying that there were monsters there, and it was not certain whether he could come back or not, and he didn't want others to follow him to the adventure.
The people in the village didn't know Li Fan and them, and they wanted to go to the monsters to save people, and they were very resistant in their hearts, and Li Fan's refusal was exactly what they wanted.
Danya also saw the thoughts of the people in the village, after all, she had been taken away for a few years and was estranged from the people of the tribe, but Li Fan was her savior, and he was a loving and righteous person, so she didn't want him to take risks alone, so she kept persuading Li Fan to give up her plan to save people.
Chen Meili was also grateful to Li Fan for risking to save him, and didn't want him to risk saving Lu Zhong again.
Li Fan pulled her aside alone, took out the registration book from his backpack, pointed to Chen Meimei's message and said:
"Beautiful, do you see? Behind your organ demander is a person named 'Miss', I heard the tour guide talking to that person on the phone in a daze, and also called her 'Miss', think about it, do you know a person called 'Miss', she is most likely sick and needs your organs, and she can match!"
Chen Meili was stunned for a long time with the registration book, shed two lines of tears, and said:
"I have already guessed who this 'eldest lady' is, most likely Chen Min, the eldest daughter of my uncle Chen family, who is sick at home all the year round...... Li Fan, although I was born in a wealthy family, I have no friends, and I was plotted by the people of the family, you ...... Can you not go to the Fog Forest to save people?"
Seeing Chen Meili crying, Danya thought that she wanted to keep Li Fan with tears, so she also came over to persuade Li Fan again.
Li Fan pulled the gun behind his back, straightened his backpack, and said to the two with a smile:
"If I am a person who will not be saved in the face of death, will you still treat me as a friend? You are my friend, and so is Lu Zhong, the two old men in his family are still waiting for him to go back, I won't just leave him alone! You wait for me for two days, if I don't come back, Danya, you will send someone to send Meimei back to Coal City!" After hearing this, the two women felt a little ashamed in their hearts, and watched Li Fan leave the village.
Leaving the village, Li Fan trotted all the way back to the Fog Forest, using a map found in the village with a locator to head towards an area in the depths of the Fog Forest that the villagers said, which was likely to be the monster's lair.
Because he was worried about encountering monsters on the road, Li Fan cheered up his spirits, and paid attention to all kinds of abnormal sounds and smells while running, and sure enough, he found a few moth monsters foraging everywhere, Li Fan was saving people, did not conflict with them, and dodged all the way to the target area.
In front of me is a large canyon, and there is no fog below, but the vegetation is so lush that you can't see anything but green.
Li Fan observed with a telescope for a long time, and saw several moth monsters coming in and out of it, confirming that this canyon should be the monster's lair, and Lu Zhong was likely to be caught here, so he put away the binoculars and groped his way into the canyon along various gaps in the forest.
Not long after entering the canyon, Li Fan found an abnormal situation, the white bones of various animals are often seen in the forest, and occasionally some unconscious beasts like walking corpses can be seen instinctively tearing at the rotting corpses of other animals, but there is no such large group of walking corpse beasts as Danya said, and I have never seen people.
Li Fan walked cautiously in the forest of the canyon, fortunately there was no fog here, his vision was clear, and he was keenly aware of sounds and smells, avoiding a few moth monsters and slowly approaching the center of the canyon.
Approaching the center of the canyon, the vegetation gradually thins out, and there are a lot of limestone on the ground, and you can see some large and small karst caves.
Li Fan saw that there were no animal bones outside these caves, and judged that it should not be a monster's lair inside, so in order to save time, he did not search them one by one.
After walking for a few hundred meters, there was no vegetation in front of him, and the bare ground was covered with all kinds of large and small animal bones, and the soil had a smell of rotting corpses.
Li Fan hid behind a big rock, observed the situation in front of him with a telescope, and found that in front of a large karst cave with a diameter of five or six meters, there were more than a dozen moth monsters spinning silk to tie up unconscious beasts, including tigers, monkeys, wild sheep, wild boars, and so on.
There are also dozens of silk balls that have been tied, one of the long silk balls reveals some of the tones of the blue clothes that Lu Zhong wears, Li Fan judged that the silk ball should be tied to Lu Zhong.
After observing for a while, from time to time there were moth monsters grabbing the beasts they had just caught and spun silk at the entrance of the cave and tied them, and some of the moth monsters that had tied their prey flew out to continue foraging, while others flew to the mouth of some small caves, and picked a kind of red, red, green and green fruit from the vines that climbed out of the cave to eat.
Li Fan focused on the telescope and looked at it for a long time, but he didn't recognize what kind of vine fruit it was.
There was another phenomenon that caught Li Fan's attention, all the captured beasts were tied into silk balls, and none of them were eaten by the moth monster, only the moth monster was seen eating vine fruits, leaves, and wild fruit rhizomes.
Strange! Could it be that these moth monsters are vegetarians? So what do they do when they catch wild beasts? Bundled into silk balls to be used as fertilizer for plants?
Just when Li Fan was puzzled, there was a scream in the big cave, and the twenty or so moth monsters outside the cave heard the sound, and immediately grabbed the bundled beast silk ball and climbed into the big cave, fortunately the silk ball where Lu Zhong was was not brought in.
What's in that big cave? These bundled silk balls are for the monsters inside? Now that the moth monsters have all gone in, Lu Zhong has not been brought in, and it is time to save him!
Thinking of this, Li Fan immediately came out from behind the big boulder, ran quickly to the big cave, and ran away with Lu Zhong's silk ball.
After running for a while, I found a remote tree hole, put Lu Zhong's silk ball in it, and cut the silk ball with a dagger, and it was indeed Lu Zhong inside.
Li Fan checked it, Lu Zhong was still breathing, and the stone in his heart was finally put down.
Feeding Lu Zhong a few tablets to relieve dizziness and letting him continue to lie in the tree hole in the distance, Li Fan ran back to the top of the big cave out of curiosity, and found a small hole to look down at the situation in the cave.
I saw that there was a huge white flesh mass more than ten meters long in the big cave, with a moth monster's head and upper body at one end, and a moth monster kept sending leaves, wild fruits and the kind of red, red, green and green vines to its mouth, and there was a tail organ at the other end, laying eggs, and the eggs produced had hard shells, which were about the same size as walnuts.
The moth monsters that had just crawled in stepped forward one by one to pick up the eggs that had just been laid, and after receiving them, they stuffed the eggs into the head of the beast in the silk ball, and then spit the silk and tied it up.
On the other side of the cave there is a large quagmire, soaked in all kinds of rotting beast corpses and vegetation, emitting a foul smell, a vine climbs out of the quagmire, and large branches stretch out along the cave wall from each small hole, and the vines bear large and small red, red, green and green fruits, and the moth monster is especially fond of eating this fruit.
Seeing this scene, Li Fan seemed to understand a little, this kind of monster probably uses the head of the beast to hatch its own larvae, and the larvae break out of the egg shell and suck the host's brain fluid to grow, so there will be a beast like a walking corpse with damaged brains wandering outside.
The larvae that have sucked the brain fluid have a certain intelligence, and some will control the host to go out far from the canyon to find the brain fluid of other animals to suck, Dantuo is an example, maybe the flower worm on his body thinks that he is in good physical condition, and uses him as a means of transportation, so he does not suck his brain fluid.
Danya is already her friend, her clan is nearby, there must be many clansmen who have been killed by this monster, since she has come here today, simply find a way to kill this beast's nest, not only to do Danya a favor, but also to do a thing to accumulate merit.
This monster is a bit like termites, relying on that beast queen to lay eggs, other moth monsters should be similar to worker ants, no fecundity, as long as the beast is killed, there is no need to hatch eggs, their adults are vegetarian, should no longer harm humans......
Thinking of this, Li Fan began to think about how to kill the big monster that was more than ten meters long below.
Relying on a few grenades is not safe, maybe this monster has a particularly thick skin and may not be able to blow up. Two gasoline bombs are relatively small in size and have a limited burning area, so they may not be able to burn it, what should I do?