Chapter 83: Fat Milota
The white powder fluttered one after another, as if countless tiny snow and sand were floating in the sky, and the whole cave was filled with a large area of haze and gray.
The surface of the water in the waterhole had begun to shake, and some of the smaller pools were already gurgling and bubbling.
Huo Xiangu walked anxiously around Shidaokou, her cough was more serious than before, and the life-sustaining medicinal tea was on the side, but she couldn't drink it now, if she didn't want to inhale more poisonous gas, she could only carry it.
After a while, several people stumbled out of the white dust, supporting each other, and the skin of the most serious two people under the protective clothing was oozing blood.
"Quickly retreat, retreat into the stone path."
Zhang Qixun and the little brother had already taken advantage of this time to build a temporary barrier wall at the edge of the stone road ten meters away behind them with a backpack filled with equipment, leaving only a gap in the middle.
Huo Xiangu and the others heard the sound and ran over in a panic.
Zhang Qixun and the little brother immediately stuffed the backpacks left on the side and blocked the gaps.
There were only a few people who came out, and there was only one who didn't know how to call Chu Ji who was dragged and folded in by the remaining Huo family.
The poisonous gas of these alkali powders can penetrate into the skin, which is very corrosive, and fortunately they wear wetsuits when they come out of the water, which can block them for a while.
The skin on the face and neck is scalded like a peeled sweet potato, and although it will not disfigure the whole face, it will definitely leave a shallow scar.
Everyone retreated a relatively long distance into the stone path, where the alkaline gas could not spread for the time being, and they could breathe a sigh of relief.
"What's going on here?" I don't know if it's the first few people who are blistering all over their faces, panting and angry.
When they first came here, there was a huge team of dozens of people, but now there are only eleven people left, including Zhang Qixun and Xiao Ge, and the death rate is terrifying.
"Do you think Zhangjia Ancient Building is a vegetable market, you can come and leave as you want." Zhang Qixun said lightly, "The first two chances of survival have been used up, and now naturally there are only killing moves left." β
"Didn't you say there was no mechanism all the way?" The man sneered again, "No, it's actually you two Zhang family members who can't see it." β
Zhang Qixun glanced at him, "You can do it, you can come." "If you can't, don't beep.
The man stopped talking and glared at him angrily.
Huo Xiangu's health is not good, there is a part of alkaline gas left in the original air in the cave of Fang Cai, and the poisonous gas has the greatest impact on her, which will all depend on willpower to support her, and she would have fainted if someone else had changed.
Zhang Qixun sat cross-legged on the ground and analyzed them slowly, "When we first entered the cave, the alkali powder did not appear directly, but stayed in it for about twenty minutes before the alkali powder came out, so the mechanism in the cave has a time limit, and when this time passes, we still have to go in." β
"The end is here, and the exit must be here."
There is another sentence that Zhang Qixun didn't say, that is, the little brother must be able to find the exit, and maybe he has found it when he walked around the cave, but he didn't say it.
Although the little brother has incomplete memory, his sixth sense is more accurate than anyone else, and he usually relies on intuition and experience to find what he is looking for.
Sure enough, the patriarch is the patriarch, and the other Zhang family members who still exist in the world have not found or tried to enter the Zhangjia Ancient Building, but except for the little brother who can really enter the core of the ancient building, no one else can succeed.
Oh, the black blind man's pervert is also one, not only did he go in, but he also stole the ancestor's funeral knife.
The protective clothing on their bodies is quite strong, but it can only last about ten minutes at most in the corrosive alkaline gas.
Zhang Qixun is actually most worried about the fat man, he and the little brother have been in here for two days, and they haven't gone out for so long, the fat man knows in his heart that something has happened to them, and he will definitely bring someone to come in from the entrance of the sealed stone to find them, and then it will be equivalent to throwing himself into the net.
It is very likely that Milota will also lead them to this cave, so Zhang Qixun must wait until he meets the fat man before he can make the next move, and the little brother probably thinks the same way.
At this time, he hoped that Milota in the jade vein would be a little more powerful and send the fat man over as soon as possible.
Zhang Qixun estimated that the release of alkali powder was decided according to the length of time they stayed there, that is to say, when the mountain moved to attract some of the prey here, and the rest of the Milota were also attracted by the temperature of the prey, the Milota in the jade veins of the cave increased to a certain extent, and the mechanism for putting alkali powder would be opened.
The strong alkali will expel Milota from here, so when the surrounding Milota spreads out to a certain distance, the dropping mechanism will stop.
The stone path behind them was full of mountain rocks, and Milota couldn't get out, so they only had to wait for a while, and hit the time difference in the round-trip to Milota.
However, there is one thing that is very strange, the water in the pool was non-toxic when Huo Chusi tested it before, but if a strong alkali is incorporated into it, it will be corrosive anyway.
So is there a connection between the bottom of this waterhole and the outside world, that is, the water here is alive, and there is a channel to lead the water here to the outside.
He couldn't help but think of the last time he and Wu Xiaoxie were in Banai, they were swept into the Milota Cave by the siphon tide, and the underground river they passed when they went out to find their way, as well as the shaft covered with spores before.
He had a hunch that there should be a connection between these waterways, but they had gone deep into the mountains and didn't know how far, and it was difficult to get out along the waterways.
Huo Xiangu would not have thought of this layer, but at the moment those who are still by her side are real henchmen, and there is little point in going out, now she just wants to find the Zhangjia Ancient Building.
Estimating that the time was almost up, the little brother touched the stone wall, and then nodded at Zhang Qi.
Everyone changed into new protective clothing, armed themselves, and when they moved their backpacks blocking the stone path, something heavy fell down.
Looking closely, it was a dried corpse that had been burned and corroded by a strong alkali, the moisture in the flesh and blood had been steamed dry, red and festering like the blood corpse of the Lu Palace, there was no good skin on the whole body, especially on the back, under the spasmodic and twisted skin and flesh, and even the bones curled up from the spine could be seen.
Huo Chushi put on protective gloves and dug out the corpse's huddled arms, took out a silver chain, and after looking at it, he said, "It's not the fifth day of the first month." β
The corpses were moved aside, a thin layer of white powder was piled up at the end of the stone path, and there were several corpses in the cave, some floating in the pool, some with half their bodies hanging on the edge of the pool, and the death was basically the same as the tragic death.
Except for Huo Chuwu's body, no one cared about the other corpses, Huo Xiangu asked his subordinates to tap with tools on the jade wall, listen to the sound to find the cavity behind the wall, and judge the location of the mechanism.
After a while, when they saw that powder began to fall from the hole above the cave, they immediately withdrew to the stone tunnel and blocked it with something to prevent the poisonous gas from leaking out.
Tossed back and forth five times, each of them scrapped three pieces of protective clothing, and two remained.
Huo Xiangu's eyebrows continued to be sad, it still can't go on like this, their equipment is not enough.
At this moment, there was a muffled sound like thunder outside the cave, as if it were an earthquake, and the entire cave space suddenly trembled violently, and the jade wall on one side made a clattering and cracking sound.
What's the situation? Could it be that Milota was annoyed and embarrassed by their back and forth, and finally couldn't bear to get out?
The muffled sound made people's ears dazzle, and their heads dizzy.
Unsure of what had happened, they hurriedly withdrew from the cave, guns on guard.
With a bang, a place on the right side of the cave actually cracked a gap directly, and then there was an explosion, and the stones exploded inward, and the rubble splashed.
The smoke cleared, and a huge body came out of the blasted hole, covered in green, with a huge head, and two black eye sockets, staring straight at this side as soon as he turned his head.
Huo Chushi's conditioned reflex raised the gun to shoot, Zhang Qixun immediately held down the barrel of his gun, and the bullet hit the sole of the Milotuo's feet at once, so frightened that the Milotao jumped up.
"Don't shoot!"
"Wow, your own people, which good man can see clearly with his eyes open, don't hurt a good person by mistake!"
Zhang Qixun's voice overlapped with the voice of the green "Milota".
Everyone was stunned, and then they saw the chubby body rushing over like a cannonball, grabbing their heads, revealing a big white and fat face, looking at Zhang Qixun and the little brother on the left, and after making sure that nothing happened to them, they immediately shouted.
"You two donkey things, the fat man is looking for you!"
Zhang Qixun was overjoyed and patted him on the shoulder, "How did you find it?" β
"It's embarrassing to say it." The fat man said angrily, "Tai Te Niang's is not worry-free, I said that I would go in and find someone, but instead I will find you two without a shadow, if I really can't find you, I don't know how to explain to the naΓ―ve after I go out." β
Zhang Qixun pulled him into the stone road, "This place is not safe, let's go to the stone road first and then talk." β
The fat man fried it just now, and the surrounding Milota will definitely gather quickly, and the alkali powder will come.
A few more green heads poked into the crack of the cave explosion, and the voice was Huo Xiaoli and them.
Powder was already falling from the top of the cave, and everyone retreated back into the stone tunnel.
Zhang Qi asked the fat man how he came, and the fat man said that on the afternoon of the day when he and the little brother entered the closed door, because he had not waited for anyone, he wondered if something was wrong inside, and it happened that there were a few uninvited guests in the camp, led by Huo Xiuxiu's brother and sister, and the Huo Qiji who stayed in the Yao Village was also held hostage by them.
Seeing that these two people were not good, Huo Zhizhi was outside and talked around with the two people, and the fat man took the opportunity to take Huo Xiaoli and a few people to sneak into the cave in the dark with equipment to find someone.
Hearing that Huo Youxue and they had touched the mountain, Mrs. Huo's face turned pale, and then she sneered in her heart, those two things who didn't know what to call were guarding outside the cave, just waiting for the news that her old woman was folded in the ancient tomb inside, so as to control the situation in time and strike first.
I am afraid that there are many people in the entire Huo family now, and they will immediately launch a seizure of power as soon as the internal situation changes.
Fortunately, she had already seen through the urine sex of the two of them, and sent Xiuxiu to a safe place early, with Xiuxiu's ability, Taoguang was obscure enough time, and sooner or later she could get it back to the Huo family.
"Oh yes." The fat man remembered something again, and added, "Those two people seem to have something to do with Jude Kao's old turtle when they come here, Huo Zhizhi asked me to tell the old lady that they seem to have plans to enter the ancient building together, so he asked us to bring some important materials with us when we came in at night, and we couldn't leave anything to them." β
Huo Xiangu sneered, "Since they all want to come in, let them have no return." β
As he spoke, he asked the fat man, "How is the situation on the side where you came in?" β
The fat man patted his thigh, hissed, and immediately twisted his brows, "Don't mention it, obviously the first to come in smoothly, this time the road suddenly changed, like a maze, no matter how you walk, you can't get out, and finally reach the end, only to find that it is a dead end, is this also the case?" β
Seeing Zhang Qixun nodding, the fat man said again: "After discovering that the end point is a cave, the fat man wondered if there was a mechanism hidden on the jade wall, and he thought about learning from the wooden fish, and you two touched the wall, in case the blind cat ran into a dead mouse, let me find out." β
"I didn't think about it, but I was hit." As he spoke, the fat man bared his teeth and took off his gloves.
Zhang Qixun looked at it, and his face suddenly changed, "The wall you touched empty-handed!" β
The jade wall is glued with alkali powder, and the fat man loves to sweat, so he sticks his sweaty hand to the wall, and the alkali powder naturally reacts with water.
At this moment, the fat man's palms were full of pimple blisters, like the skin of a red and white toad, and there were many fine bubbles on his fingers, like a fish rash, some of the blisters had been squeezed out, and the blood and pus in them were all sticky.
Zhang Qixun's brows furrowed, and a nameless fire surged in his heart, "What about the other hand?" β
"There's nothing wrong with the other hand, just a few small bubbles, pick the tip of the knife, and rub some medicine." The fat man smirked.
He also knew that he was reckless this time, and whispered to argue, "Isn't the fat master worried about you two, he didn't look carefully when he was in a hurry......
Zhang Qixun glared at him, grabbed his other hand and took off the glove, and at a glance, only the two fingers of the index finger and the middle finger of this hand were bubbles, which had been picked by the fat man with the tip of a knife, and the thin skin on it had already been rubbed off by the gloves, leaving only the tender meat under the bubble.
He took out the medical bag, took out the needles and bubbled them one by one in the palm of the fat man's hand, squeezed out the pus and blood, cut off the skin of the flesh that had been scalded, wiped the poison and rubbed the ointment on the burns, and finally wrapped it in a thin gauze cloth.
The fat man grinned in pain, and he smoked cold air, but after applying the medicine, the burning pain on his hands was significantly reduced, and the cold was quite comfortable.
Thanks to the reward of the bigwigs such as [Repay the song,] [I was the most naΓ―ve when I was young] [Dali Chen] and other bigwigs. *