Chapter 11 Blood Offerings
Zhang Qixun took off his gas mask and sniffed carefully, yes, this is the smell. There seemed to be something choked in his throat, Zhang Jixun retched reflexively, and hurriedly changed into a new gas mask.
Help, I really can't stand it! Zhang Qixun quickened his pace, he had to find the little brother quickly, and then burn the whole mother here with a fire.
The passage here is built like a spiral shell on the back of a snail, and Zhang Qixun can feel that he is going in a clockwise circle, and the number of steps in the turn is getting fewer and fewer, and the rotation amplitude is getting bigger and bigger, which means that he is walking towards the center of the spiral.
The space in front of him suddenly became larger, and Zhang Qixun saw the little brother standing in the center of the stone room with a fire fold in his hand at a glance.
Zhang Qixun was about to speak, but the little brother suddenly turned to look at him, and put his index finger on his lips and compared
The gesture of "shhhhh Zhang Qixun immediately silenced, walked to him cautiously, looked at the side where the little brother was staring, and was suddenly shocked.
There was a huge yellow-gray cocoon hanging in the air. Ma Chongshan, who had just run away, was also here, his whole body was bare, and the clothes on his body didn't know if they were worn off when Zhang Qixun grabbed him and ran away.
At this moment, Ma Chongshan was prostrate and kneeling under the cocoon in an extremely humble posture. Zhang Qixun looked around, here is an oval-shaped stone room like an egg, surrounded by many wooden beams and pillars staggered, built into a lattice and pavilion shape, just now Zhang Qixun saw the cocoon hanging on the carved wooden pole in the center of the pavilion.
The surrounding walls are covered with fluffy filaments, like carpets. There are also a lot of slightly thinner square wood lattices under these wool threads, which are filled with many cocoon silk balls the size of grinding discs.
These checkerboard-like lattices are completely magnified dozens or hundreds of times of the lattice clusters used by lying silkworms to spin silk.
Zhang Zhang was dumbfounded, and he worked together for a long time, and this is not a moth at all, but a huge silkworm!
Ma Chongshan was lying on the steps under the huge truck-like cocoon, his posture was very humble, and he was still muttering something like a spell.
Because it was facing away, Zhang Qixun couldn't see his mouth, so he couldn't read his lips. Zhang Qixun poked his head and looked at it a few times, but he didn't see a reason, so he leaned into the little brother's ear and whispered to him,
"Ma Chongshan, what are you doing here? Could it be that the black calluses outside before were too poisoned and crazy. ”
"Dead." The little brother said softly.
"Huh?" Zhang Qixun was a little confused, wasn't he still chanting a spell, why did he die, so is it the ghost of Ma Chongshan's obsession that has not been eliminated now?
That's. Zhang Qixun gestured to the little brother, meaning that he went over to take a look at what the situation was.
After taking two steps, he found that the little brother had also followed, staring at the scabbed bite marks on the back of his left hand, frowning slightly.
Zhang Qixun waved his hand casually and laughed silently: "It's okay, I don't feel anything abnormal." The little brother led him to the side of the pavilion, motioned for him to squat down, and pointed to Ma Chongshan's bony abdomen.
Zhang Qixun looked for it, and his eyes suddenly froze. Wipe! What the hell is that, when did Ma Chongshan become a gray and coarse silkworm!
I saw that Ma Chongshan's chest and abdomen actually grew several pairs of gastropods, the skin on his body was empty, lying on the side, his head seemed to have become an empty shell, and two rows of fine chewing jaws protruded from his throat, which were its mouthparts.
It turned out that it was this thing that bit the back of Zhang Qixun's hand before. Zhang Qixun suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and he could understand that there should have been a silkworm living in Ma Chongshan's body before, but after entering the well, for some reason, the silkworm in his body suddenly burst out and devoured him, eating all his internal organs, and directly gnawing into an empty skin bag.
What made a murmuring sound was actually the mouthparts of the silkworm that were still gnawing at the empty shell of Ma Chongshan. The sudden loss of skin on Ma Chongshan's body before should be because the inside has been eaten empty, and his body has also begun to shed and molt under the corrosion of this silkworm's saliva, no wonder the crawling action is so like an insect.
Looking at the length of this gastropod, it is estimated that the silkworm hidden in the shell of Ma Chongshan must be more than a meter long.
Thinking of this, Zhang Qixun's face changed, and he looked at the largest cocoon above, and the bad feeling in his heart became more and more serious.
God, if you want to say so, if the silkworm moth in the cocoon of the Big Mac hanging on it comes out, wouldn't it be able to give him and the little brother a wing.
Getting closer, Zhang Qixun saw that there was still a large area behind the pavilion, which was stacked with a lot of large blankets, and the yellow-brown old silkworms that had dried up, and the color looked very ominous.
Zhang Qixun squinted his eyes, took out a few large bottles of alcohol from the space, pinched the lighter, looked at the little brother, and said in a deep voice: "Just start the fever?" The little brother pressed his hand, staring at the silkworm that was still hidden in the belly of Ma Chongshan below,
"Wait." Zhang Qi was puzzled,
"What are you waiting for?" The little brother said lightly: "Wait for mating." ”
"Ahem, cough, cough ......" Zhang Qi found a good suspension to choke himself to death, and took a hard breath,
"Little brother, do you mean that after Ma Chongshan's silkworm cocoon hatches, he will mate with the big moth that broke out of the cocoon in the big cocoon?" The little brother nodded and didn't say anything.
Zhang Qixun sighed in his heart, today is really a long insight. Since Brother Jia said that he would wait, there must be some concerns, maybe in the spring period, the combat effectiveness of these two brain silkworms will be a little weaker?
Looking at the difference in the size of the cocoon, the last thing that came out of the cocoon above should be the female silkworm moth, and the male silkworm moth that came out of Ma Chongshan's body.
"How long will you have to wait?" He asked. The little brother shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either. Zhang Qixun counted with his fingers, it takes ten to twenty-four hours for ordinary silkworms to break through the cocoon and turn into moths, so the time it takes for these two giant silkworms to take longer, yes, this time you can wait.
He was about to take out a handful of melon seeds and wait slowly, but the little brother suddenly reached out and pressed the scar on the back of his left hand, and said, "Pick it up, there is something in it." Zhang Qixun's face changed, and he immediately took out the medical bag, and after disinfection, he used a scalpel to remove the scab and directly cut the flesh.
The sharp tip of the knife picked out several shriveled eggs from the bright red flesh and blood tissue, the beige egg shell surface had a circle of black threads, each of which was only the size of a sesame seed, very tiny, but it didn't look like silkworm eggs.
It's just that because of the special nature of Zhang Qi's blood, these parasitic eggs have been killed under the skin before they have time to hatch.
Zhang Qixun secretly scolded himself for being careless, these small parasitic eggs must have been transmitted to him through the mouthparts of the big silkworm in Ma Chongshan's body, I thought that the blood from the wound would not be poisoned if it did not change color, but I didn't expect this meat worm to have this trick.
Pick out all the small eggs in the wound, there are seventy-six in total, Zhang Qixun reluctantly pulled the skin and flesh with tweezers, and asked the little brother to take a magnifying glass to look at it carefully, and only then did he feel relieved to confirm that there was nothing in it.
As the wound was cut and rummaged in the flesh, the blood had already flowed down the back of the hand, ticking to the ground and fainting.
Zhang Qixun frowned in distress, he finally raised such a big damn bug, which caused him to waste a lot.
It was inconvenient to operate with one hand, so Zhang Qixun stretched out his hand and saw that the little brother was seriously medicated and bandaged, and his heart was full of joy.
The brain silkworm in Ma Chongshan's body stayed under the pavilion for half an hour, the human skin shell on his back had been eaten up, and the head belonging to Ma Chongshan was still on the silkworm's head, which looked very much like a half-transformed monster with a human head lying there.
The Brain Silkworm slowly squirmed and climbed onto the wooden lattice on the side with the half-human skin shell that had been left over.
"I'm going to spin silk, I'm going to spin silk." Zhang Qixun looked at the place where the brain silkworm crawled past, where there were many beige cocoons the size of a millstone on the wooden lattice.
He suddenly had a conjecture in his heart, and said in a small voice,
"Hey, little brother, those big cocoons in the wooden lattice clusters can't all be made by people who eat silkworms, right?" The little brother was also staring over there, with a faint expression,
"Perhaps." Zhang Qixun smacked his tongue in his heart, Ma Chongshan in this dog day is not shallow to harm people, what does he want to do here to raise so many silkworms with human flesh?
He carefully calculated in his heart the things that had happened since he entered the ancient well, as well as the words that Ma Chongshan had said.
Except for the sudden appearance of the menacing Wang family, there seems to be no connection with the ancient city of Sizhou, and he has not seen any patterns related to the scorpion tomb here.
No, if these things really have nothing to do with the ancient city of Sizhou, the little brother will not come all the way here, he is clear about some things, so he rushed to deal with them before going to Changbai Mountain.
And the eggs that entered his wound through the mouthparts of the brain silkworm, and the appearance was also very strange, he didn't look like silkworm eggs before, but like the eggs of some kind of moth.
Based on Zhang Qixun's barren experience in raising silkworms, silkworms only break out of the cocoon and become moths, and will use their tails to mate and lay eggs, and the brain silkworm was still in the form of a silkworm before, and where did the eggs in the mouth come from?
Not to mention that the silkworm that ate Ma Chongshan may still be a male. In this way, the black bumps hanging in the passage outside are not the same species as the silkworms, so they can only be in a symbiotic relationship of eating and being eaten, and those chrysalis outside are the reserve food of the giant silkworms that live here.
This giant silkworm enters the mating period in winter, while the devil's back moth outside happens to be dormant in winter, which is more convenient to eat, and the dormant moth will not struggle to resist.
When the silkworm parasitic in Ma Chongshan's body was eating those insect pupa, it may have been that Zhang Jixun was in a hurry, so it bit Zhang Jixun in turn, or wanted to eat Zhang Jixun together, so as to get the eggs into the back of his hand.
So the question is, where did Ma Chongshan get this silkworm that can grow into a giant mac.
Did the Wang family give it, or did Ma Chongshan get it from somewhere? Or, Ma Chongshan is raising this silkworm for the Wang family.
The Wang family is borrowing Ma Chongshan's hand to do the experiment! From this point of view, the two Wang family members were actually sent to kill them.
Zhang Qixun chuckled, I have to say that there are quite a lot of twists and turns here, and he almost got into it.
The most important thing now is to find out the purpose of Ma Chongshan's raising of this silkworm and the origin of this mutant silkworm.
What is the reason that Ma Chongshan can work diligently for the Wang family, and this purpose is even important enough to sacrifice the lives of the Ma family.
Zhang Qixun frowned slightly, habitually knocked on his knees without a match, gathered all the clues in his mind, and carefully thought about the connection.
Flesh and blood offerings, the flesh and blood of the Ma family's relatives...... Close relatives...... Flesh and blood...... Offering – a silkworm, a giant mutant silkworm............ The silkworm in Ma Chongshan's body suddenly exploded to devour the main ...... Eat...... Eat it – silkworm farming...... Raise...... Himalayan Southern Tibet – Metuo!
Zhang Qixun's eyelids moved slightly, and something suddenly flashed in his mind. He immediately looked at the little brother, his mouth moved, and before he could say the conjecture, the little brother seemed to feel something, and turned his head to look at him, his eyes were quiet.
Zhang Qixun sighed silently in his heart, no wonder, no wonder, in this way, everything makes sense.
It seems that such a sudden change in Ma Chongshan is also related to the extinction of the Wang family and the fact that he and his little brother came to the door.
Ma Chongshan probably realized that the Wang family wanted to unload the mill and kill the donkey, and because the Zhang family's blood was special, it would affect this silkworm, so in a hurry, he would secretly swallow the silkworm seeds that had been hidden on his body behind his back and Zhang Qixun, so he was gnawed into a bare rod skin by the silkworm in the ancient well passage.
In fact, if the evil situation is done well, with a slight change in the inside, it can achieve the effect of both suppression and nourishment, which is the so-called corpse raising, and the Wang family built a corpse raising bureau here to raise silkworms, which is not a small hand.
After figuring out the trick, Zhang Qixun stiffened his face, raised the hand wrapped in gauze, and made an oK gesture to the little brother, saying that he already knew it, and his hand was fine.
The little brother nodded, turned around and continued to stare at the wooden lattice shelf, which had climbed onto the wooden lattice shelf and began to spit out of his mouthparts.
Silk is initially a translucent liquid, but it quickly condenses into soft threads when exposed to air.
The head of the brain silkworm against Ma Chongshan has been swaying in a figure 8, as if drunk, the head is shaking, and the insect body is also crawling in the wooden lattice, and soon it is paved into the rudiments of an oval cocoon.
Zhang Qixun and the little brother sat in the corner and waited quietly, the speed of the brain silkworm spinning silk was faster than expected, and it only took four hours for the filaments to be spit out and wrap its entire insect body one by one.
I only saw that the inside of the big cocoon was still squirming, and it took another two hours before it completely quieted down.