Chapter 87: Collapse
Hearing the sound, Ye Qingcheng and Huo Jing immediately looked in the direction of Bao Jun's finger. The white mist that permeated the wet fire copper forest fluttered faintly from time to time, and a black shadow appeared in front of it from time to time: under a thick fire copper tree with five people hugging each other, a black figure one person tall hung over. However, in an instant, Ye Qingcheng could see that the strange figure was not suspended in the air, but was hanging from a branch by something.
"Go over and see. Ye Qingcheng said,
They cautiously took more than ten steps forward. In the eerie silence, the black figure was a gray-white body as tall as a man, like a loofah on a shelf, wrapped in a layer of gray silk and hanging under the tree. There was also a pungent stench of rancid acid in the air.
"What are those things?" Huo Jing pulled out his flute, and the short sword hidden in the flute immediately flicked out.
On the ground, a dragon groan with a sword drawn startled him. Ye Qingcheng drew his sword before him, jumped up directly and cut off the branch, and the "chrysalis" that was tightly entangled by the gray silk immediately fell down with the broken branch.
Then, he stuck the great sword at his side, slipped a dagger out of his sleeve, and slashed hard at the silk chrysalis, and as a result, the strange gray silk was harder than copper and iron, and the dagger did not stop cutting at all.
"Little Fire, light a fire spirit for me. Ye Qingcheng half-squatted in front of the silkworm and stretched out the dagger in front of the fire.
Immediately spit out a small golden flame from the fire, wrapping around the dagger, burning the dagger red.
"Snort!!" After the dagger was burned, Ye Qingcheng exerted his strength again, and it felt like cutting on wire. However, after a long time, he finally cut a gap in the gray silk wrapped around the chrysalis.
"As I expected. Huo Jing said with a sideways look.
Wrapped in gray silk is a dried corpse!
The dried corpse looked as if it had been air-dried, its eyes deeply sunken and frozen in the decomposing cyan slime of its eyeballs. The teeth in its mouth are grayish and half-melted, as if they were poisoned during their lifetime, and the hardest teeth show signs of being corroded by venom.
The little fat man didn't dare to take a closer look, and like Huo Jing, he turned his head sideways. However, when Ye Qingcheng looked at the mouth of the dried corpse and saw that there was still a trace of beard left on its shriveled skin, a drop of cold sweat immediately ran down his cheek.
"Just two days after his death, this is the body of 'Mustache'. Ye Qingcheng said. Before, there was an apprentice in their Xin Zi group who liked to hold a fan and had a mustache, who was an apprentice at the level of the Martial Sect, and they all liked to use the nickname mustache when they talked about him.
"Hong Feiying's team has been attacked?!" Huo Jing hurriedly turned his face and stared at the dried corpse in front of him in horror. After the mustache entered the Deep Sea Lotus Island, he joined the team of Hong Feiying and Yu Shui.
"With such a tough silk and highly poisonous, it should be the mother of blood. Ye Qingcheng said.
At this time, the little fat man was frightened and panicked, and begged in a trembling voice, "Let's go quickly." ”
"If it's the Mother of Blood, you don't have to worry. Ye Qingcheng said calmly: "After the old poisonous insect is full, it will find a hidden place to sleep, and it will not stay in place." ”
It is worth mentioning that the Mother of Blood is a giant poisonous spider that is as big as a bison after maturity, and belongs to the third-order poisonous insects, and its strength is comparable to that of the third-order fierce beasts. Its movements are extremely fast, its body is as hard as copper and iron, its silk is almost unbreakable except for flames, and its fangs and needles are extremely poisonous. This poisonous spider is also known as the mother of blood because of its red blood and strong reproductive ability after maturity. However, although they are highly reproductive, they reproduce a large number of offspring, and at most one can survive in a territory. Because they are very fond of nibbling their own kind, and it is this bad habit that makes them extremely cruel and terrifying. The one that can survive must be the most terrifying and powerful one. Some mothers who have lived for hundreds of years often eat their own larvae as a delicacy and eat them without leaving them behind. Fertility is only for the sake of devouring, which is completely contrary to the law of biological reproduction. Even the mysterious and weird Gu Masters were afraid of them. They are also one of the most vicious and vicious creatures in the world.
On the ground, a drop of viscous cyan liquid dripped down from above and fell in front of Ye Qingcheng.
......The venom is also extremely corrosive, and when it falls, it immediately corrodes a hole in the damp dead leaves on the ground.
Ye Qingcheng immediately raised his head and found that there seemed to be something hanging among the dense leaves above his head. He stretched out his hand and pointed upwards and said, "Xiaohuo, go up and have a look." ”
Away from the fire decisively climbed to the trunk of the tree and nimbly burrowed into the dense foliage. Then, a series of flame claw marks flashed from above, and one after another "human chrysalis" wrapped in gray silk fell from among the leaves, and there were seven or eight of them.
Finally, he searched for it again before jumping down.
Judging by the size of these wrapped corpses, they were all human beings. On this Deep Sea Lotus, there was no one to survive before, which means that these should be the corpses of apprentices, and it is very likely that they are Hong Feiying's gang. However, there is no short stature in it, and Hong Feiying, who is only six years old, should not be among them.
"Why are some corpses so bloated?" Ye Qingcheng muttered, "After being sucked dry of flesh and blood, they should all be dried corpses." ”
"Let's see who's dead. Huo Jing said.
"Xiaohuo, you come. Ye Qingcheng said.
On one of the small paws that left the fire, a layer of fierce flames immediately burned. It deftly jumped between the corpses, and the shadows of the fire claws flashed, and the silk threads at the head of each corpse were scratched open by it.
When the hideous, shriveled and familiar faces of apprentices appeared in front of them, Bao Jun, who was the least courageous, almost collapsed. Even Ye Qingcheng, who had the best mentality, had grief condensed on his face.
"There are no backbone apprentices such as Yu Shui, Ram Shen, and so on. Ye Qingcheng said. He then set his eyes on the last two "human pupas" that were more than five feet in size, and they were very bloated and not shriveled up like other corpses.
Lihuo glanced up at Ye Qingcheng, and decisively cut the gray silk on the heads of the last two "human chrysalis".
As a result, Ye Qingcheng was taken aback.
These were two apprentices who were only fourteen or fifteen years old and about the same age as Ye Qingcheng, a man and a woman, and they were the youngest members of her team except for Hong Feiying. They are a pair of beautiful young boys and girls, with delicate faces and facial features. The most frightening thing is that their bodies are not shriveled, and they still maintain their original appearance, but their complexions are blue and white, which is a little weird. They weren't even dead, but their bodies couldn't move, they couldn't speak, they could only stare at Ye Qingcheng in despair with a pair of painful and beautiful eyes.
"Bai brothers and sisters?" Huo Jing recognized them at a glance, and seemed to have a deep friendship with them. He was pleasantly surprised and said, "Great, you guys are still alive." Get out of the fire, quick, get them out, by the way, why are your bellies so big, why didn't that old poison kill you—"
"Off the fire. At this time, Ye Qingcheng's eyes were already filled with tears, and he said in a hoarse voice, "Cremate them." ”
Huo Jing, who was half-squatting in front of the tightly wrapped Bai brothers and sisters, raised his head in disbelief, stared at Ye Qingcheng, and said, "What did you say?"
"Burn them. Ye Qingcheng said in an unquestionable tone.
"What did you say?" Huo Jing stood up suddenly, grabbed Ye Qingcheng's clothes with both hands, and shouted: "They grew up with me since they were children, and no one died, so you burned them?!"
Ye Qingcheng shook off Huo Jing's hand suddenly, stretched out his hand and pointed at the bloated abdomen of the Bai brothers and sisters, and shouted, "Do you want me to say it directly?!"