The impact of the cannonball knocked the worms back a distance, and the insects, which were only about forty meters away from them, were knocked back a few meters.

"Dada......"

"Bang ......"

The sound of Chicago typewriters and Lee Enfield rifles rang out at the same time after the explosion, and there was an uproar in the underground waterway.

The long worm was beaten and splashed with yellow water, and the flesh flew sideways, and its whole body trembled, and the strong kinetic energy of the bullet prevented it from taking a single step, and it was almost pressed against the opposite cave wall.

And as they continued to be fired by dense bullets, the long worm's already sparse mouth continued to spew red mist, and Chen Yulou and Partridge Whistle both noticed that the color of the spewed red mist was gradually fading over time.

Seeing this, Luo Changfeng shouted: "Work harder, this big insect is about to die." ”

When everyone heard this, their hands moved a little faster, and in order to ensure the output of firepower, the soldiers with more hands shot empty in the gun, handed it to the wrestlers and swordsmen behind them to reload, pulled out the grenade, pulled off the drawstring, and threw it into the red mist.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

"Bang Bang ......"

"Dada......"

The sound of guns and cannons was endless, and the yellow juice, accompanied by countless finely minced meat, flew endlessly on the other side of the river, and the red mist gradually dissipated.

As a wisp of red mist dissipated, it was already visible that the carapace of the long worm had turned black, not at all like the bright red of fire when it first appeared.

Slowly, the long worm finally stopped moving, and lay on the opposite rock formation, only twitching and shaking slightly.

"Ceasefire. Luo Changfeng shouted, and the gunfire stopped abruptly, only the smoke drifting from the river told how fierce the firepower output was just now.

The mouth of the worm lying on the ground, which had been completely shattered, suddenly became several times larger than before, and it kept making a "cooing" sound.

The next moment, I saw the huge insect mouth, spitting out a large number of floating corpses that had been swallowed by it before.

The floating corpses had turned black and brown, and there was no cold blue light on the surface, and there was a lot of viscous liquid on the corpses.

After spitting out more than a hundred black female corpses, it let out a violent grunt again, and a huge square object spat out of its mouth and fell heavily to the ground.

The surface of the thing was dripping with juice, and there were many large uneven copper nail caps, which seemed to be a bronze box, or a large copper coffin.

After spitting out the bronze box, the head of the worm fell to the ground again, curled up, and did not move.

Everyone waited for a while, and saw that the long worm was no longer moving, so they all looked at Luo Changfeng, and Chen Yulou said, "Changfeng, explain, what is this?"

Luo Changfeng said: "The longworm, an immortal insect in the primeval era, the nerves are separated from the flesh and blood and exist alone, so it has no pain. ”

"Unless it is eaten by something bigger than it, thoroughly digested and absorbed by gastric juice, or burned to ashes by fire, as long as the nerve does not die, it will continue to divide and grow itself, and eventually return to its original state. ”

"So this thing can only break it, make it bleed too much, incapacitate, and can't be killed at all. ”

"However, changes in the oxygen content in the air can also cause it to die, and it stands to reason that this kind of thing should have been extinct tens of millions of years ago, but I didn't expect there to be another here. ”

"It should be the environment here, which meets the conditions it needs to survive, but it doesn't matter, this long worm is no threat to us now, at least not for a few months. ”

Luo Changfeng didn't explain in detail, after all, although Chen Yulou and the others knew some scientific things, they didn't know much, even if they talked to them about "rotashaped nerve tissue" or "complex cell structure", they couldn't understand it.

Therefore, he just explained it to them in more traditional language, so that they could know the characteristics and origin of this thing.

After Luo Changfeng explained the worm, the partridge whistle asked, "You said that this worm is the source of the poisonous miasma above, but I don't know why?"

Luo Changfeng pointed to the floating corpses scurrying around in the water, and said: "It's the glowing thing on those floating corpses, I can't tell what it is, but you see, those corpses that were spit out by the long worm have black body surfaces." ”

"These seemingly white floating corpses are actually black, and there is something unknown growing on their bodies, and after the long worm swallows these floating corpses, it digests that layer of things, but these corpses it can't digest, so it can only spit out. ”

In this way, those floating corpses will slowly grow that unknown thing, which is why these floating corpses have never been able to eat them for two thousand years. ”

"And those things on the body of the floating corpse, after being digested by the long worm, will form a poisonous miasma, if I guess correctly, the body of this long worm must be connected to the cave wall, confined here and unable to leave, the second half of its body produces a poisonous miasma, rising from the ground, and finally rising from the surface of the earth. ”

Luo Changfeng's explanation is reasonable and logical, but there is one more question, Chen Yulou asked: "However, how did the glowing white substance on these floating corpses come about?"

Luo Changfeng looked at those floating corpses and said, "Not surprisingly, the key problem is on the back of those floating corpses, which is the kind of thing that moves with them." ”

"I'm afraid the truth here is very profound and complicated, but we don't really need to delve into it, we only have two goals for this time to dedicate the king's tomb. ”

"One is to look for the dust beads, the second is to find the burial goods for the king, and the rest, as long as it is okay for us, we don't have to worry about it. ”

"After all, the work of exploring the truth of history is done by archaeological experts, and we just need to find what we need. ”

When everyone heard this, they nodded in agreement, and Chen Yulou said with a smile: "That's right, let's just look for things, no matter what thaumaturgic tricks he has, but Changfeng You can deduce so many things, it's not simple." ”

Luo Changfeng smiled and said no more, Luo Lao said tentatively: "Then let's go over now?" Although the mask was blown up, it was such a big piece of gold. ”

"Look at the size, to say the least, there must be a few hundred catties, and when I take it back, there are a lot of big yellow croaker, and the bronze box, I don't know what is in it. ”

Luo Changfeng did not object to this proposal, these tomb robbers are all masters who don't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles, when they see something like a bronze box, if they don't open it, they will be stuck in their throats, and they will be embarrassed.

The team turned around and was only a few minutes away from the waterfall, so it was just a matter of going back and going around the waterfall to the opposite rock formation.

Originally, there were many bamboo rafts on the river, but those floating corpses were scurrying around, and the bamboo rafts would also be bumped into and float everywhere, and they could not be fixed at all, so they could not form a pontoon bridge.