Chapter 21: Seeking Fragrance in the Ten Thousand Chelates
And when the fire stick I was holding could finally illuminate Du Xin, I immediately felt a chill crawling all over my body like a snake, where is this Du Xin, this is clearly a half-skeleton entangled by vines!
I couldn't help it, "Oooo Losing my balance, my hands fluttered aimlessly, and I threw the lit fire stick in my hand somewhere, but fortunately I grabbed the low-hanging vine. In order to maintain my balance, I subconsciously pulled hard, and just now I saw half of the skeleton "whoosh" and fell in front of my eyes, the skeleton wrapped in brown and yellow rags has long been dry and yellow, I don't know how many years have passed, there is no skin and flesh, and the bones that began to lose water and crack are stained with a lot of black mud stains, like a demon struggling out of the soil; A skull was tilted, and the black hole was staring at me, and a gray-green vine protruded from the skull, tangled with other vines, as if the skull were the ornament on the vine's necklace; And one of the skeleton's upper arms was wrapped around vines and pointed diagonally upward, and the lower arm was drooped down, as if waving.
I was scared half to death by this sudden zero-distance contact, I couldn't help screaming, my hands were loosened, and I fell to the ground directly with a dog gnawing mud, and the gravel under me almost directly pierced my chest, making me arch up and cover my chest for a muffled snort, but before I could pant evenly, I heard Ai Qingying shouting: "Situ Ran, hurry up, the crab cubs are coming, go quickly!" Then Liang San and a few people shouted: "Hurry up, hurry up, these are surrounded by steamers." Cao Ye beside me also called me anxiously: "Hurry up, hurry up, these crabs are coming, coming." ”
I straightened up on my knees, rubbed my chest and turned my head to look, only to see that the fire stick I had just lit had been thrown impartially into the crab queue a few meters away, blocking their way to the crack in the cave wall, which was already densely packed with crabs and poisonous snakes, like boiling porridge, constantly surging. And these crabs are used to being arrogant, and now they are naturally angry, and they began to be angry with us, and turned their heads and crawled towards me and Cao Ye sideways, and the big scissors clattered, and a semi-circular encirclement posture had been formed, and even the road between us and Ai Qingying and them was blocked. And where Ai Qingying and the others were, the crab pyramid was gone, replaced by a sea of crimson crabs, pressing towards them step by step, and the encirclement was shrinking smaller and smaller.
Suddenly, the clicking sound became very rapid, like a clarion call to launch a general attack, the crabs suddenly accelerated their movements, and the tide generally rushed towards us, I was troublesome when I was using Du Xin as a screen outside just now, and threw the backpack and trekking poles to the ground, and now with my bare hands, I could only kick out the approaching crab with one kick, and found that the crab shell was extremely hard, and the toes were sore, like kicking to the steel plate, and the crab that was kicked rolled in the air and fell into the army, without injury, and surged over again, and my feet kicked back and forth like this, although sore, but also very enjoyable, the actual effect is just like kicking the waves on the beach, there is no way to stop them from covering the tide, fortunately, the quality of the clothes and shoes worn on the body is not bad, quite thick and strong, even if the crab climbs on the upper leg of the shoe, it has not been able to cause any substantial damage, but there are a few sandwiched laces and pants, and they can't shake off; Cao Ye waved the two trekking poles in his hand and swept a large area, which was slightly easier than my side, but it also couldn't stop the continuous spread of crabs.
In the distance, Ai Qingying and their side also heard the shouts of "hum ha, hey" and "oops, hey", as well as Liang Sanjian's cursing in Mandarin and dialects, it must be that this half-naked man wearing only flower pants has no protection and is not lightly tossed by crabs. Just as we were retreating, Ai Qingying shouted at us, "What are you guys doing? Hurry up and bring that damned girl over here, do you want to feed the crabs here?! ”
I was shocked, I was dizzy and tired of coping with this series of sudden changes just now, and I forgot that we were here to pull Du Xin, but where is Du Xin here, there is only one skeleton entwined by vines, maybe the Du Xin we see is just something we take for granted, but how can this half of the skeleton wave so naturally, is it an illusion caused by the wind blowing?
I kicked the crab hard, leaning towards Cao Ye's side while shouting to Ai Qingying about the situation here, but this guy suddenly became irritable and shouted at the top of his voice: "It's such a big place, where can she hide, can't she get into the mouse hole, right?!" If you can't find her, you TM will die there! ”
I hate people the most and pretend to be the boss, but in this situation, it must be very inappropriate to scold him, so I scolded him fiercely: "Hide? Is Du Xin a neuropathy? Running here to hide and seek? Suddenly, I thought of something, grabbed a crab that had climbed up to my waist and threw it far away, and then quickly looked back at the vines that were wrapped around the half of the skeleton, and where they were so big that they could cover something.
With this in mind, I hurriedly shouted to Cao Ye to help me push it, turned around and pounced on the vines, and didn't care about the staring of the skeleton black hole, pulled up the curtain-like branches and leaves and looked around, and suddenly found that in the corner between a layer of heavy vines and the mountain wall, a pair of hiking shoes were kicking up and down slightly, but because the amplitude was very small, there was no sound at all, and then looking forward, it was Du Xin! I saw that the snake-like vines had tightly wrapped around her body, and even covered her mouth tightly, making her face flushed, as if her breathing had been extremely difficult, and what was even more strange was that the vines seemed to be pulling Du Xin forward slowly.
I pounced on it, and pulled the vine that entwined Du Xin with my hand, which didn't look very thick but was quite tough, and it couldn't be torn apart for a while, and the vine seemed to be conscious, speeding up the speed of dragging Du Xin in, I saw this, and quickly grabbed Du Xin's leg and pulled it back, between us, there was a kind of tug-of-war. was in a stalemate, and suddenly there was a pain in the buttocks, as if it was caught by pliers and twisted hard, it must have been those crabs that had been steamed and robbed while the fire was robbed and climbed up.
Adding fuel to the fire is not only these rampant and domineering crabs, but also Liang San. He shouted and scolded us loudly while sighing: "Situ Ran, what are you two doing?!" Oops...... Yo, let's get rid of Lao Tzu's ghost fire poke. If you don't come again, the old men will be removed, and you two babies will become crab poop. ”
I have already pulled Du Xin's feet into my arms, clamped them with my legs, and then used my free hands to pull off the two crabs that clamped my buttocks, and even ripped off two small pieces of meat at the same time, the relief and pain hit at the same time, making me have a long chill, but now I have no time to care about these at all, I just use my hands to break the vines wrapped around Du Xin's legs, but it has no effect at all. Hearing Liang San shout like this, I responded loudly: "Du Xin is entangled in vines, I need a knife!" Chainsaws will do the trick too! ”
Liang San didn't know if he heard it, and he didn't reply, and Cao Ye shouted out breathlessly at this time: "I can't hold it, I can't hold it, I'm going to be buried, I'm going to be buried." I'm going to die here, we're going to die here. The road is also blocked, we are surrounded, we are dead, Du Xin is not saved, we will also die. ”