Chapter 32: Worms
The Bรกb knew it might only be a second or even half a second.
Hearing the sound, reacting, observing the environment, perceiving the danger, and responding, this is the step that any normal person should take, even if the person who reacts quickly, after walking these few steps, has already been swallowed by the monster, unless......
Unless skipping one of these steps, like Monica did.
Monica didn't even finish Babu's entire sentence.
After hearing the word backlash and reacting, Monica jumped back several times in succession, not even thinking about why Babu shouted like that, and didn't even think about what he had found. It wasn't until he had already jumped three steps in a row that he didn't bother to observe what danger was around him.
As soon as her eyes rolled, the next moment, a giant worm-like thing, almost clinging to her clothes, passed by her, and pounced until she was where she had just been.
Cold sweat instantly crawled all over the backs of the four people, and everyone was afraid, this kind of giant monster, if it was really swallowed in one bite, with the current strength of the people present, it would cost at least half a life if it didn't die.
The flesh worm slowly retracted back into the wall, seemingly unaware of the few people next to it, and squirmed to return to the wall, only then did the few people have a chance to see it.
In fact, it is a giant worm, the gray-white body is as rough as a rock, the surface is covered with hard bristles, one by one like spikes, people feel pain all over their bodies when they look at it, the head is a huge round mouth, the mouth is full of sharp teeth-like structures, with the body squirming, the teeth in the big mouth are shrunk one by one like a giant meat grinder, if Monica just went in, it is estimated that it will be ground into pieces on the spot.
There are no organs except for the large mouth, and when the large mouth is closed, the front of the insect looks like an ordinary rock, but there are many very small bumps on the surface, but even if you look closely, you will only mistake it for an unsmooth surface formed by the stone.
Seeing that the bug was about to leave, Monica, although her legs were still a little weak, still pulled out her dagger and poked it at the side of the bug's head.
It felt like a knife stabbing on a rock, and even though the source energy amplification had been used, the dagger was still slid away, and the wrist of the shock was numb.
"Drink."
A low roar came out beside Monica, and just as Monica's dagger was shaken open, and then kicked on the surface of the insect's body, and at the same time as it flipped backwards with force, Algum on the side rushed out from her side and met the insect, raising the sword in both hands above her head, and the whole body energy condensed into the sword, and slashed down with a scream that broke the air.
The sound of gold and stone resonating was deafening, almost resounding through half of the underground space.
Algan, who was hit with all his strength, was directly staggered back by the shock and took four or five steps back before he stabilized his body in front of him, the tiger's mouth in his right hand had been shattered, and blood flowed down the hilt of the sword.
The bug's body trembled, and there was a subtle clicking and cracking sound from below the location where it had been hit. Centered on the hit point of the long sword just now, thin cracks crawled all over the epidermis near the hit point, more and more cracks, more and more dense, and with a snap, the hard outer skin exploded a plate-sized gap, revealing the soft but resilient layer of skin under the drop of at least ten centimeters inside.
Then a few dark spirals arrived.
It was an arrow-like spiral structure formed by black polluted energy, and the three cyclones were like three sharp arrows from Linda's fingertips, circling in the air a few times, and as soon as the skin of the insect exploded, the cyclone drilled in.
This was followed by three muffled bangs.
The cyclone explodes beneath the epidermis.
This time, the insect could no longer be idle, it was like being struck by lightning, and with a violent convulsion, its body began to churn wildly, constantly hitting the surrounding rock walls, shaking the stone walls for a while, as if they might collapse at any time.
Not only did it twitch and tremble, but its large mouth opened again, and although it didn't make any roars, it seemed that it could feel the damage it was suffering at this time from the action of opening and closing its big mouth. However, while the mouth was still opening and closing, the cracked epidermis was recovering at a visible rate, and it was estimated that it would not be a few seconds before the gap that Algan had broken with all his might was about to reclose.
The Bรกb finally moved.
With a complicated expression, he withdrew his gaze from Monica, who had escaped by chance, and strode towards the worm. As she passed by Monica, Babu snatched Monica's beautiful handbag and took out two large leather bags of liquor from it, and then threw it back to Monica.
By the time he got to the bug, the bug had just been hit hard by the magic of the illusion mage, and its huge body was rolling around, almost crushing Babu under him several times, but Babu just wouldn't hide away, and kept jumping around it, knowing that it opened its mouth in pain, revealing its terrifying fangs.
Waiting for now, Babu didn't even think about it, and threw the two large leather bags of spirits in his hand into it, and at the same time, he threw in the torch in his other hand.
A bag of ten kilograms, a total of twenty kilograms, was thrown into his mouth, and the leather bag was turned into pieces by the sharp teeth, and the liquor immediately filled the monster's mouth, and the torch followed, quickly igniting the spirit.
Whew, the fire burns.
The flames concentrated on the head made the burning worm look like a moving torch, and there was no damage on the body, but the head burned more and more. The monster is indeed very large, it is already seven or eight meters long outside the wall, and I don't know how long it is inside the wall, twenty kilograms of spirits is really nothing to its size. But even so, after the head was burned repeatedly, it gradually lost its ability to struggle, and collapsed weakly on the ground, allowing the flames to creak, and its body began to twitch a few times, and finally it was completely motionless.
The fragrance is overflowing, and the fragrance is wafting thousands of miles.
The strong aroma of barbecue made the four of them a little hungry, as for little Anna, if it wasn't for Babu to stop her, she would have pounced on it and feasted on it, but fortunately, with Babu's desperate stopping, it didn't make her recipe more curious.
"Whew", the four of them let out a sigh of relief, and sat down on the ground in unison, watching the flames on the insects gradually dim, only feeling soft, and not wanting to move for a while, if other monsters appear, it is estimated that none of the four can escape, but fortunately, it seems that the territory of the insects is nearby, and there are no other monsters close.
Monica and Barbu leaned side by side next to each other, gasping softly, trying to calm their nerves, but as soon as they sat down, Monica felt her hand being grabbed.
Monica looked sideways, and Babu didn't look at her, but her hand was holding her hand tightly, and there was still a cold sweat in her palm. Monica's gaze softened, a warm smile appeared on her face, and her fingers naughtily picked at Babu's palm a few times, but Babu's hand did not let go, but clenched it tighter.
"I hope it's the last one at this time, and the bottom is the underground lake you said, and there shouldn't be any more monsters in the way." Linda finally couldn't help it, and said in the lowest volume, "What the hell are these things, I'm not just talking about this bug, including the ones we just encountered, what are they?" And how did they get in, there can't be any other passage. โ
Both Babu and Monica sighed, and neither answered.
"Aren't you crusading against these aliens?" Linda asked reluctantly, "You should know." โ
"You can believe it." Babu muttered faintly, and explained in a low voice, "The illusory world is so big, the aliens are endless, and each has its own characteristics, and there are so many things we don't know. โ
"It's more like a mutant." Monica Tibab added, "They are very similar to mutants, maybe it's some way to get them to come in with it." I just don't know why these mutants can survive in this world, and they should only exist on the edge. โ
"Well, that's pretty much it, it's not the same around his body." Babu looked at the two distorted and entangled spaces in front of him, from normal to full of weirdness, the closer he got to the end of the cave, the more the red mist space representing weirdness prevailed, "I guess...... Just guessing, I guess it must have used some method to twist the surroundings of the main body into an edge-like environment, so that the mutant can continue to exist, and the mutant becomes its last line of defense, protecting its body from harm. The last time I observed it, I saw that it was emitting clouds of black gas all the time, and I suspected that it was actually the culprit that caused the death of the people in your town to come back to life. โ
"We've already guessed that, they've been in our bodies for a long time." Algan subconsciously touched his chest and head, "But we don't know, if we crusade against it, whether it is eliminated or driven away, what will happen to us?" โ
"After severing its connection with the present world, the dead should fall again." Monica can't give a very definite answer, and can only guess.
"What about the people who are still alive?" Algan and Linda finally have the most crucial question in mind.
Monica and Babu were silent, and the environment was silent again, except for the torches in their hands, still crackling and burning.
"There's no answer, so why don't you take a gamble?"
After a moment of silence, Babu smiled and reached out to Linda and Argon, where a copper coin lay quietly on the back of his hand. With a flick of his finger, the copper coin flew into the air, tumbling higher and higher.
Linda stared at the copper coin for a few seconds, a little distracted, but finally pushed away Babu's hand with a complicated smile and shook her head.
"No need, gambling is really exciting, but I don't like it, I choose to be rational when I make a choice, no, not only when I make a choice, but when I die."
"Me too."
Babu smiled and withdrew what seemed to be a slightly thicker coin: "Decided?" There is no more chance of regret. โ
"Hmm."
"Then let's have a good fight with it." Babu rubbed his hands and pulled Monica to get up with him, the smile on his face was full of excitement and excitement that couldn't be hidden at all, and even the muttering voice was a little abnormal, "Just let me see, what are you aliens capable of, you dare to rob my Anna's things, no matter who robbed them, they will vomit back to me." โ
As if sensing Babu's determination, the red mist coming from the cave below became even thicker, and several giant hands formed by shadows quickly stretched out from the cave and slapped down on the four of them.