Chapter 43 The Giant Worm
I took two steps back, and the strange thing rolled at my feet, right on the right hand side of Cunli.
"Before I could react, Cunli punched me down, shouting, 'Look at you bite me again.'" ’
"That strange thing was smashed to pieces and stuck to the ground.
I crouched down and looked closer, and it was the size of a sea bowl, like a half-cut gray pottery dish clasped to the ground, with a clip-like mouthpiece in the center of the semicircular edge, two long tentacles on either side of the mouthparts, two bulging balls on the top of the antennae, big black eyes, and a straight edge on the other side like an incision, with white mucus flowing out.
"I stood up and was amazed: 'What a worm's head. ’
"Cunli said, 'This guy bit me. ’
"Then I heard Yi Qi Chong say at the corner of the rock in front of me: 'I have never seen such a big ground lice. ’
"I ran to it, and at the bottom of the rock corner I found a huge ground lice, curled up like a black ball, the size of a millstone.
"The head of the ground lice has been shaved off, white mucus is coming out of her body, and the countless legs that are rolled in the middle of her body are still spasming and shaking.
"Yi Qi Chong lifted the corner of his coat and wiped the slime off the sword, inserted the sword into the sheath, looked back at me and Cunli and said, 'The louse woman should not bite, I used to catch and play with it when I was a child, and I have never been bitten. ’
"I said, 'Such a big bug, it should be a sperm, how can it be like an ordinary bug.' ’
"Cunli said: 'At first, it really didn't look like a biting worm, and when I saw it, I wanted to run, so I chased after it and jumped on its back, and grabbed its two whiskers with my hands, and it carried me for a long time, like riding a horse, but it was fun.' ’
Yi Qi Chong's eyes widened when he heard this, and he looked at Cunli and said, 'I say, you are really bold enough, aren't you afraid to see such a big bug?'
"Cunli said disdainfully: 'How can a living person be afraid of a worm, besides, as soon as it sees me, it runs away, which means that it is still afraid of me.' I thought it would be so interesting if I could tame a giant worm in this hole and take it to be a mount. ’
"As soon as I heard that I had committed the mistake of not doing the right thing again, I didn't bother to listen to him again, and asked, 'Then what's the matter with your legs?'
"Then I ran forward with its whiskers, and ran faster and faster, and at the bend in the rock, I slipped and slipped one foot right into his mouth, and then I felt a sharp pain in my leg, and fell off the back of the worm. Look at it again, and the legs look like this. ’
Yi Qichong shook his head and asked, 'Have you moved the stone gate?'
"Cunli was stunned for a moment and said, 'What stone gate?'
"Yi Qichong said, 'I don't know what the stone gate is. Anyway, have you ever touched any stone gates?'
"Cunli innocently said, 'I haven't seen any stone gates at all. ’
Yi Qichong breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good, let's go up quickly, or the ancestor will be in a hurry." ’
"Cunli was still unsatisfied, and said, 'Now that we have come down, let's go further and look at what is interesting in the cave.' ’
"Before Yi Qichong could speak, I blamed Cunli and said, 'You have caused a lot of trouble for your ancestor, and you still don't know how to advance or retreat. Don't you know that you can't just go into this hole?'
"Cunli said, 'No one told me you couldn't go in. ’
"Yi Qichong rushed and said, 'Didn't I tell you not to come to the back mountain?'
Cunli smirked and said, "Senior brother, I thought you cared about me, and I was afraid that I would meet some jackals, tigers and leopards in the back mountains. ’
"I couldn't bear him anymore at this time, so I turned to Yi Qichong and said, 'Senior brother, let's go up, let him go and continue to explore the cave by himself.' ’
"Cunli said, 'Don't, you leave me alone, how can I walk, look at my legs.' ’
"I seized the opportunity and said, 'Do you know that your legs are like that?'
"Cun Lipi smiled and said: 'Buddha, you, in addition to liking to ask for trouble, there is also a little bit of badness, that is, you are too serious. I'm just joking to ease the tension. ’
I said "Living Treasure" in my heart, picked him up in the past, and helped him walk towards the entrance of the cave with Yi Qichong.
"When I was about to reach the entrance of the diagonal cave on the steps out of the cave, I heard a rumbling sound behind me, and when I looked back, I broke out in a cold sweat.
"A few feet behind us, the road, the rock walls, and the roof of the cave were densely crawled with large centipede-like bugs with legs, each five or six feet long.
"The big bugs are moving towards us at a rapid pace.
"When I saw that I was in a hurry, I said to Cunli, 'Quick, you climb on my back, and I will carry you and run.' You have to endure the pain. ’
Cunli pushed me and Yi Qichong, who were supporting him, forward with both hands, and said, 'You two run, leave me alone, I'll deal with them.' ’
"Yiqi yelled, 'You're crazy, they're not lice. ’
"I saw that the situation was urgent, and I didn't care about talking nonsense with him, so I went up and picked him up by the waist, carried him on my shoulder, and ran forward.
"Yi Qi Chong also ran with me.
"The bugs were very close to us by this time, and Yi Qi Chong turned around from time to time and swung his sword at it.
"After about twenty or thirty minutes of running forward, we were all exhausted, especially me, carrying the gift and running for so long, my legs were weak.
"I felt like the worm tentacles were touching my back.
"Just then, I saw a tall stone gate appear in front of me.
"Yi Qi Chong said to me as he ran, 'How can there be a stone gate here, we didn't see it when we came.' ’
"That's when I realized that we had missed the diagonal hole out of the cave during our escape, and it should be at the other end of the cave now.
"I ran one foot deep and one foot shallow, gasping for breath, swallowing my saliva and saying, 'We've run over the head, and now we should be running to the right end of the hole.' ’
"Yi Qichong said: 'It turns out that the stone gate is here, and the two of us went wrong at the beginning. ’
"I said, 'That's right, isn't that the gift found?'
"Yi Qichong said, 'I'm talking about Shimen. ’
"I said, 'It doesn't matter if he has a stone gate or a stone gate, this time he came down mainly to find a gift. ’
"Cunli also spoke on my shoulder: 'You two stop arguing, think about what to do, there is a dead end ahead.'" ’
A sentence reminded me and Yi Qichong, and we were silent.
"Seeing that the stone gate was about to run, I anxiously looked around to see if there was any passage nearby, and suddenly found a plum blossom-shaped handle on the side of the stone gate.
"I thought to myself, except for the plum blossom-shaped handle on the side of the stone gate, there is nothing left but the bare rock wall, and that handle is the mechanism of the stone gate.
"I said to Yi Qichong: 'Senior brother, you hurry up and run over and press the plum blossom-shaped handle, that may be the mechanism of the stone gate, as soon as the stone gate is opened, we can run in and dodge. ’
Yi Qi rushed forward in three steps and two steps, and ran to the stone gate, and as soon as his hand touched the handle, he saw a black thing, and with a bang, struck him on the hand, and removed his hand from the handle.
Then I heard the howling of a strong wind behind me.
"I kept running, not daring to look back, for fear that the bugs would catch up with us.
"When I finally ran to the stone gate, I put the deposit ceremony against the stone gate, and when I looked back, I was stunned by what I saw. ”