Chapter 7: Water Flowers (1)

"Nature's magic ......," Jiang Xian said with emotion, leaning against the wall. Pull out the compressed biscuits and water bottle, and eat them as you take in what you see.

It's a huge space.

It was probably fifty meters above the ground, and it was covered with stalagmites and countless pebbles, large and small.

The whole space is probably about a thousand meters. Forming a huge hollow-type field, and at the edge of the field. There are dozens of holes of the same size and size as the place where they came out.

Wisps of sunlight poured down through the gaps above, forming scattered spots of light on the water surface. The big ones are several meters in size, and the small ones are only a foot square. The water is not deep, the deepest is only three or five meters. Through these light spots, you can clearly see the colorful flowers swaying in the water.

I don't know the variety, so it grows quietly in the river. Under the masterpiece of nature, humble survival.

The lake is overgrown with glowing plants. However, under the light, the spores will not be ejected - Jiang Xian guessed correctly, this is indeed the final landing point of the luminous plant spores. People stand by the lake, and they can't see the end at all. Looking up, the roof of the cave makes up for the scattered potholes, like the twinkling stars, and like the mouth of the light that cracks open in the golden net. Looking down, the lake is crystal clear. In the sunlight, it looks like a crystal clear gemstone.

The reflection of heaven and earth, the contrast between the great and the small, the shock brought by the brilliant natural wonder, made everyone intoxicated by this rare beauty.

I don't know how long it took, but a figure suddenly fell beside him. Temulun, likewise eating compressed biscuits and drinking water, sat down beside him.

However, instead of looking at him, he looked at this beautiful underground world. He took a sip of water before sighing, "What a treasure of nature." ”

"Team Leader Jiang. There's a question I've always wanted to ask you. Temulun put down the water glass, looked up at the hole above, and said casually, "You...... What the hell is it for? ”

He said to himself: "When I heard that you were the team leader, I was not convinced. Don't talk about me...... No one was convinced. ”

"But...... In the past few hours, I have been really convinced. ”

"Your quick reaction and vast knowledge, at least above me, I am not as good as you."

Jiang Xian snorted: "The profession is different, is there a cigarette?" ”

Temulun flipped through it for a long time, turned out a bag of hardcover white sand, and handed it to Jiang Xian. The two of them took a deep breath. In the blue smoke, Jiang Xian squinted his eyes and smiled, "As for what I do...... It's better not to know than to know. ”

"In the future, it should be difficult for us to intersect."

Temulun was stunned, and then smiled: "Yes." ”

"You're a dangerous person and a wonderful person." He gave a thumbs up, slapped his ass with a cigarette in his mouth, and stood up. walked next to the unconscious Zhao Boli and covered the other party's forehead with his hand.

Jiang Xian also stood up and asked as he walked over, "How is he?" ”

"I have a fever." Temulun looked at the other party's lips that began to turn a little pale, and frowned, "The temperature is not low...... How so? ”

"Bats carry too much virus on them, and that's normal." It was not Jiang Xian who answered, but Song Lianshi. After saying this, he looked up at Jiang Xian: "What now?" ”

Before he knew it, he had become accustomed to putting himself in the position of listening to instructions.

Jiang Xian looked at the other party like a ghost: "Don't you still want to find the second darer?" ”

"Believe me, the front will only be countless times more dangerous than this!"

The celebrity who is buried here for some unknown reason has an abnormally large cemetery.

The enclosure began from a few kilometers away, which ...... Who could have had that kind of honor at that time?

I haven't seen the slightest clue about the other party's tomb yet, and it can only be in a deeper place. How big is this tomb? How much labor is required? How many traps are there for such a large tomb?

This is not a copy of Song Lianshi's black iron that can be swiped alone.

At least a few kings need to form a group.

"I'm not going forward." Jiang Xian took a few puffs of cigarette vigorously, then extinguished the cigarette butt, stared at Song Lianshi's gaze and said, "I don't want to be buried with me." ”

Song Lianshi looked at his gaze calmly, took a long time before retracting it, and smiled bitterly: "Well, the right choice, I won't go forward." ”

"It's because I'm too confident." He let out a long sigh, as if to say something. But in the end, a thousand words turned into an emotion: "The ignorant are fearless, ......"

He turned his head to look at Zhao Boli, who was unconscious on the side: "Moreover, he also needs to be healed." If a few more people are compensated, it will not be a search and rescue, it will really be a funeral. ”

He patted his trouser leg and stood up: "Can you drink that water?" I lost my backpack in order to carry this kid. When we're rested, we'll talk about how to get out. ”

Along the way, he and Temulun were responsible for carrying people, while Jiang Xian was in charge of backpacks, but they couldn't carry a few people's bags at all. Zhao Yazhi's knee was broken when he fell, and he finally stopped, and he could only carry one, and Jiang Xian had to give up a backpack. It's Song Lianshi's.

"Most of the groundwater is fine. But it must be boiled and drunk. Jiang Xian leaned on Song Lianshi's original position and touched Zhao Boli's forehead. was about to continue to rest, but just as he looked at Song Lianshi, his eyes suddenly stopped.

Not just him, Zhao Yazhi gasped and stood up tremblingly. Temurun shook his head in disbelief, looked at his back, and then at his head, and was speechless for a moment.

"Old, old Song ......" In the end, it was Zhao Yazhi who took the lead in opening his mouth: "You...... Don't you feel it? ”

"What does it feel?" Song Lianshi turned his head inexplicably: "I'm almost not injured." How do you feel? ”

"No...... It's not ......" Zhao Yazhi swallowed his saliva: "Your back...... Doesn't it hurt? Not itchy? ”

Song Lianshi saw the expressions of the three of them, and finally became solemn: "What the hell is going on?" ”

"You come here first, turn your back on us." Jiang Xian beckoned, and Song Lianshi walked up to him and sat down. There was silence behind him, and after waiting for a full minute, he frowned and said, "What happened?" ”

"You touch it with your hand, where your right shoulder is." Jiang Xian's voice came from behind him. Song Lianshi stretched out his hand suspiciously, and in the next second, his fingers trembled violently a few times.

He had a knife inserted into his right shoulder, at some point.

Not deep, but ...... He didn't feel it at all!

"What the hell is wrong with me?!" He was so shocked that he almost stood up, but he was immediately pressed down by Temulun: "Don't worry, Team Leader Jiang is watching." ”

Jiang Xian was indeed watching.

But...... Looking at it again, he can't see what the solution is.

On Song Lianshi's back, pustules the size of thumbs bulged. From around the pustule, the subcutaneous nerve seemed to have been stimulated by something, and it was thick and purple-red, like a tree root, which was terrifying!

There are no less than fifteen of these pusachets! Most of them are shallow, however, there are two or three pustules, already visible to the naked eye, deep into the muscles!

Song Lianshi is like the back of a toad, and what is even more terrifying is ...... He didn't feel anything!

The nerve in the back is completely paralyzed.

"Spores." Jiang Xian narrowed his eyes and pondered. With his hand lightly pressed his temple, he sorted out the thoughts in his mind again.

"I see...... This killer move is not one, but two! ”

"The first part is the luminescent plant mimic insect. Lure a swarm of bats into attacking. Part II...... These spores are a killer move in themselves. ”

He muttered to himself, not shying away from others. Zhao Yazhi said nervously: "What do you say?" ”

Jiang Xian lightly stabbed and opened a pustule, and suddenly, a stream of blood with a fishy white juice flowed down Song Lianshi's back. He gently flicked the center of the pustule with the tip of his knife. Soon, a grain of rice was picked out.

"What is this?"

Jiang Xian picked this "rice grain" on the tip of the knife, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he said coldly: "Have you ever heard of Cordyceps?" ”

"Of course......" Zhao Yazhi didn't finish speaking, and suddenly realized something. Incredulously said, "You mean...... The spores of these luminescent plants can use people as hosts?! And then...... Then like cordyceps eating empty bat moths, put the ...... ...... people"

"I don't know exactly how it is. But...... There is this trend. Jiang Xian picked up the pustule with a knife: "These spores are attached to the bat swarm. I'm afraid it's not just to take the spores farther away...... They may take root and sprout inside the bat's body and then ...... Empty the bats. Grow another one of these plants...... It's literally going viral! ”

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. One question that comes to mind is this: What do luminous plants do for their livelihood?

Plants need nutrients to grow, but the pits are full of limestone and the soil is not available, where is the nutrients?

Now he understood.

Thinking back to that fluorescent canyon, how long has the glowing plants all over the ground accumulated? How many bat carcasses were used to form a fluorescent corridor? Thinking about the number made him shudder.

He opened his eyes, devoted all his attention to Song Lianshi's back, and said in a deep voice, "These spores are extremely paralyzing. Extremely fast development. How long have we been past Spore Canyon? They have grown from the size of a needle to the size of a grain of rice. ”

Zhao Yazhi's body trembled slightly. After a few seconds, the word "" was squeezed out.

What the is this!?

"That'...... Is Old Song okay? ”

Jiang Xian was engrossed in picking at the pustule and did not answer. Temulun next to him said in a low voice: "Everything else is easy to say, it's just ...... Close to the heart, the spores are too deep...... I'm afraid I can only go to the hospital for surgery. If we take it out rashly, I'm afraid that this place will be contaminated with more bacteria, and at that time, there will really be no way to save it. ”

"It's okay, I can handle it." Song Lianshi, who had been silently listening to their conversation, suddenly whispered.

Jiang Xian's scalpel paused. An indescribable trace of regret welled up in my heart.

I was careless.

Maybe he has cooperated too much with the king, and bringing bronze is not his forte. At that time, he was obviously prepared before going down, and he made people wrap his whole body in clothes, but he didn't expect it. The green galaxy links to the bat kill move.

The arrival of the bat swarm and Zhao Boli's improper response caused a chain reaction for the entire team. So much so that the flashlight was insufficient, which made Song Lianshi have to take off his clothes as a torch. So, among these people, he was the only one who was contaminated with spores.

Minutes and seconds passed. It took more than ten minutes for Jiang Xian to pick out all the spores. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Lao Zhao, you help Xiao Zhao to go to the water's edge." Give him some ice. Remember, don't go deep, it's right next to the water. Sometimes, the danger is where you don't think it is. ”

Zhao Yazhi nodded deeply, after all, he had just experienced the unpredictable killing of nature. He's even a little bit of a cup now.

"Temurun, you go to the water's edge to get some water. Boil, not too much, this part is used to clean Lao Song's wounds. In addition, boil some more water to make our water reserves, we don't have much water left. Remember, like Lao Zhao, don't go deep. ”

"Understood."

After dividing the task, Jiang Xian turned around and counted the packages, and took out medical gauze and iodophor. Just when he was about to help Zhao Yazhi help Xiao Zhao up, suddenly, he felt ...... Something pulled at the corners of the clothes.

It's light and can be hard to spot if you don't have your full attention. He looked around without moving, Zhao Yazhi was still looking for tools, and there was no one else around him except him. So......

"Are you awake?" He approached Zhao Boli and asked in a low voice.

Zhao Boli's body trembled, he barely opened his eyes, his eyes were burning a little red, he looked at Jiang Xian with great difficulty, and nodded slowly. Then, he opened his chapped lips and trembled slightly.

Jiang Xian thought that the other party wanted to drink water, and was about to turn his head to get water. The corners of his clothes were pulled again.

He...... Want to speak?

Looking at the other party's mouth that had opened several times, Jiang Xian put his ear next to the other party's mouth with a sharp heart. Immediately after, he heard something that gave him a creepy break.

"Someone...... Fetch down...... It's mine...... Flashlight ......"

This sentence made Jiang Xian's goosebumps rise. He almost instinctively wanted to look back, but he suppressed the thought. He said in a low voice: "It was too chaotic at that time, and there were mistakes in the chaos." ”

Zhao Boli's eyelids closed again, he shook his head slightly in pain, and his lips silently spat out two words.

Twice.

Jiang Xian's eyes suddenly shone brightly, and his hands pinched his trouser legs. He understood the lip language, and the other party was saying...... That man, knocked down his flashlight twice!

This is...... Murder!