Chapter 116: Beneath the Crack
The salt on the grilled dried fish is also salt, and it can still be used after scraping it off and soaking it in water, Wu Xie's method is very effective, after pouring the salt water, Neana Naga lying on the tent spontaneously retreated a lot.
During this period, Zhang Haixing deliberately introduced a Neanaga to test the strength of the bullet's attack on this creature and see if he could find a new way out of the predicament.
When pouring salt water on the tent intermittently, they deliberately left a gap in the tarpaulin that was about to crack, and bypassed it when sprinkling salt water.
Soon, the place was dented deeper and deeper, and only a "zila" sound was heard, and the tarpaulin was squeezed by the weight of the thing outside, and an arm-long gap was opened, and a black thing was sinking.
Wu Xie immediately stood up straight to block the shadow of the gap, and the fat man and Feng held the salt water bowl left and right, looked at the opening and got ready, and just waited for an order to let go and splash the salt water on it.
The black shadow first probed his brain, and Nea Naga, who was in the shadow deliberately created by Wu Xie, did not perceive the danger, and slowly slipped in through the crack in the tarpaulin.
Wu Xie and the others fixed their eyes, and saw that this Nea Naga was like plasticine flattened by wheels, squirming in from the broken hole little by little, and instinctively avoided the surrounding places contaminated with salt water.
The figure of the black shadow was like a trace of sewage flowing down, along the tarpaulin lining the shadow reflected by Wu Xie, slowly elongating downward, and after touching the ground, it kept squirming towards the end of the shadow under Wu Xie's feet.
Before it could get closer, Zhang Haixing did not hesitate to aim at it and pull the trigger.
"Bang bang" A few gunshots rang out, and the warm juice mixed with the flying gravel instantly burst around, and the long black ribbon-like thing was shaken into dozens of pieces of different sizes by the penetrating force of the bullet, looking very much like jelly falling on the ground, scattered around softly.
The pieces of "jelly" that splattered out after shattering were still wriggling to avoid the fire, trying to crawl to the place where there was a shadow.
The fat man suddenly lowered his voice and said to everyone: "Have you noticed, this thing looks like an enhanced version of the earthworm monster, and it is still alive after being broken into slag!" ”
Wu Xie hit the beam of the flashlight on a piece of biological debris that splashed at his feet, picked it up with a dagger and turned it over, and said, "Look at this. ”
Everyone's eyes converged.
Wu Xie used the tip of the knife to flick the bottom of the broken pieces, where there were many pimples and uneven antennae, and analyzed: "The bottom of this thing has a lot of antennae, it looks very much like a starfish or jellyfish soaked in water, it should rely on this kind of tentacles to move." ”
It seems that their previous assumption was correct, this thing is indeed an underwater creature that crawled out of the hot spring pit, and can also stay on land for a long time.
And with the lethality of bullets, this soft creature can only be torn into pieces, but the broken parts will not die, and these pieces will be randomly pieced together and then fused into a living Neanaga with no fixed shape.
Wu Xie tried to pick the two "jellies" together with a knife, and in less than a minute, the two "jellies" wriggled and fused into a large piece, and there was no break at all.
Feng's face was ugly as if he was going to the grave, and he kept drawing crosses on his chest, muttering in his mouth, "It's over, this is a monster that can't be killed......"
The fat man rolled his eyes angrily, and before the "jellies" could be re-glued together, he dipped his fingers in salt water and flicked them on.
The "jelly" pieces began to shrink at a visible rate, crackling and steaming, and in a few moments shrank into a pool of slimy water.
Seeing this, Feng closed his mouth in a daze.
Although it was possible to kill Nea Naga in this way, the efficiency was too low, and there were so many groups outside, they couldn't kill a few even if they were tired and half dead.
Taking the initiative doesn't seem to be going to work, and at the moment they can't think of a better way than to stall for time.
Fortunately, the equipment they use is the most advanced military materials, although there are more than a dozen holes, as long as the salt water is poured in time, it can still barely support it for a while.
If it is really an amphibious creature like a jellyfish, then its attack method is likely to be the same as that of a jellyfish, which relies on its antennae to release toxic substances to attack.
It's just that jellyfish paralyze or poison their prey by venom, while Neanaga melts food with mucus secreted by its antennae.
For example, those bones on the stone mountain, there is a high probability that they will be melted and eaten.
The difficult night finally passed, and as soon as the horizon was revealed, the Neanaga scrambled back like a tide, and disappeared without a trace in a few moments.
The fat man put on gloves and reached out to pull the zipper of the tent, but as soon as he exerted his strength, the broken tent was overwhelmed, and the whole collapsed, crushing Wu Xie and the others underneath.
"......" The fat man scolded, his hands fluttered a few times to tear the tarpaulin open, and when he went out, he saw that the rocks around the tent were all covered with slime left by Neanagar.
The fat man said angrily: "What the hell is this Naga doesn't talk about hygiene at all, how can you defecate anywhere, look at what is made for this place, uncle, I have nowhere to stay." ”
Zhang Haixing also followed, the corners of her eyes twitched when she heard this, and she frowned and said in disgust: "Can you not say it so disgustingly." ”
Wu Xie also lifted the tarpaulin and drilled out, looked around, and found that the charcoal fire they had prepared last night was all translucent film that had dried and formed a shell.
The membranes that encased the unburned charcoal cores underneath looked at first glance like the eggs of some kind of creature piled together, crowded and uncomfortable to look at.
The camp was in a mess, and a few people tidied up a little, and it finally didn't hurt their eyes so much.
After breakfast at dawn, everyone reorganized and distributed equipment and food, and then followed Zhang Haixing and continued to walk towards the crack above.
Half an hour later, they reached the edge of the crack.
There is a large platform here, which is sunken into the rock, and the bones are piled up in a mountain from the inside out, and some of the white bones even hang directly on the edge of the crack.
Looking down, there were many stone pillars in the cracks three or four people wide, and some of the narrower places were also stuck with white bones, and it was pitch black at a glance, and there was no end in sight.
The fat man shouted "pi pi" twice at Wu Xie on the side, turned on the fog lamp and shone below, and said softly: "Innocent, do you look familiar, this place?" ”
Wu Xie walked to the edge of the crack and looked down, and saw that the gap in the mountain below was gradually widening, and the strange rocks embedded in the crack were deeper below, where the light of the fog lamp illuminated, where countless bronze chains were traversed, all the way to the dark abyss below.
"Changbai Mountain." Wu Xie muttered softly.
"What did you say?" Zhang Haixing walked over from the other side of the stone platform, she only saw Wu Xie's mouth move a few times from the side, and she didn't hear what he said.
Wu Xie turned his head, looked at her with a look that was unfamiliar in Zhang Haixing's eyes, and said quietly: "Girl, from now on, everything here is up to me." ”
Zhang Haixing seemed to have an inexplicable attachment to the identity of the team leader, and she said unhappily: "Why? ”
Wu Xie said: "I can take you to see the 'ultimate' in your Zhang family's mouth." ”
Zhang Haixing's eyes changed slightly, "You mean, the 'ultimate' is down here?" ”
Wu Xie smiled incomprehensibly, and then said to the others: "The temperature here is so high, there is likely to be live lava below, the mountain is full of toxic sulfur vapor, inhaling too much will lead to respiratory poisoning, and there will be irreversible damage to the eyes, everyone remember to put on a gas mask before going down." ”
Feng was puzzled: "Why do you want to go down?" Why not follow the cracks? The map does not indicate the direction of the down. ”
Zhang Haixing took out the half-part scorpion map from her arms and looked at the two forks at the end of the line, "Could it be that this is what the fork in the road here means?" ”
Wu Xie had already begun to take out the gas mask and put it on his face, his voice was a little more calm in the mask, "If you believe me, follow me, if you don't believe me, then I have no choice, you can choose to continue along the crack." ”
After that, he took the fog lamp in the fat man's hand, fixed it on his body, twisted the aperture to the maximum illumination range, and then picked up the backpack and climbed down from the edge of the crack first.
There are many stone pillars that can be climbed below, and some of them are wide enough to lie down two people side by side, so even if Wu Xie is not very proficient in rock climbing, he can still hold on to the stone pillars and find a suitable place to stay.
The fat man followed and climbed down, and the figures of the two were soon blocked by the stone pillars above and could not be seen, Zhang Haixing stood by the crack and could only see the flickering lights below.
"Let's go down too." Zhang Haixing no longer hesitated, carried her equipment, climbed down for a while, and quickly caught up with Wu Xie and the two in front.
Feng stared at their figures and disappeared under the stone bushes, turned around and picked up the bones on the ground, posed a strangely shaped tower at the edge of the crack, stuffed a black thing into the tower, and then climbed into the crack as well, and the speed was faintly faster than Zhang Haixing.
The further you go in, the wider the gap becomes, and the greater the distance between the stone pillars that lie across the mountain wall, in some places as far as two stories apart.
Zhang Haixing relied on her good skills, and easily flipped and jumped between the stone pillars without a rope, and soon distanced herself from Wu Xie and them.
Wu Xie was not in a hurry, fixed the rope on the stone pillar and lowered it steadily, and then dismantled it when the fat man and Feng Ye came down, and so on, and slowly went down. (End of chapter)