Chapter 28 Volcanic Tomb 1
The abnormal movement of the thousand-year-old pine tree also surprised Yingzi and the so-called shaman warlock of the old mushroom. They couldn't understand what the tree brother was going to do. Was it the instruction of the gods? They didn't know, but Yingzi still ended her spell with her most respectful behavior.
Qin Zhong touched his wet trouser legs, turned around and shouted softly, "There are so many corpses here, which proves that there should be a considerable number of corpses here, or corpses that can attract these corpses here."
"The body? Another corpse?" Guo Dafu stood up from the water with a bearded face and hurried to Qin Zhong: "Big brother, why did we fall into such a place again? If we can't get out again, can we go home?"
"Shut up, what are we doing here?"
"Accompany the boss, go wherever the boss says!" Guo Dafu seemed to be reciting the formula. Even so, he could not hide the hopelessness and panic in his heart.
The old mushroom was also very surprised. He would have floated, but he would have been thrown to the bottom of the water, which was the most difficult for him to explain.
Qin Zhong sneered and said, "I saw it. Now we have to move forward, and there is no way out at all."
The old mushroom looked left and right. The bottom of the tree well seemed to be bright, not a completely closed passage, that is to say, there should be a place that is also transparent, so that they will have hope to go out.
"What's it called? There's nothing terrible here. Don't you see that the light here is very bright?"
Qin Zhong nodded and said professionally, "I remember that my grandfather has also entered some tombs that have been knocked down, and there are breathable heavenly eyes in the middle, which is necessary, but the light here means that there may be some tombs here."
Guo Dafu's face darkened and asked in a daze, "Are we going to dig on the ancestral grave?"
"What are you digging? It's nothing more than walking around the cemetery. Let's go with me." Qin Zhong was about to leave and squatted down to look at the water. He paused for a long time and said, "The water flow is not small. If we go down the warm water, we are likely to return to the hot spring pool just now, or we may go to a dead end and pass through a waterway."
When Guo Dafu heard this, he was stunned: "Big brother, I've never been afraid of anything else. When I grow up, I'm afraid of water. I'm a land animal and don't know water."
The old mushroom smiled: "I don't care, I will float."
Yingzi also showed his determination: "Since I have come to this, I can only follow Brother Qin. I will go as you say."
"Well, since we don't want to take the waterway, we have to go uphill and go upstream of this hot spring, but according to my guess, the hot spring water must have formed this temperature after the lava penetration of a volcano crater, so I'm still very curious about the upstream. Let's go up." As soon as Qin Zhong's voice fell, he walked to the front.
After completing Guo Dafu's mind, he also went up a hundred times. Every time they walked a distance, they could see batches of corpses, some of which were still struggling.
Seeing this scene, Qin Zhong asked, "Old mushroom, according to your experience, what's wrong with so many corpses?"
The old mushroom thought for a long time before answering: "The corpse insects are parasitic on corpses. They die in large numbers. One is because the food, that is, the corpses they can eat are gone, and the other is because they kill each other, because they encounter a super good food for them, that is, When there are quality corpses, they will kill each other, and finally survive the corpses, that is, the worm mastiff, to enjoy their delicious food.
" Mastiff? Isn't that a nickname for dogs?" Qin Zhong questioned.
The old mushroom nodded and said, "This insect mastiff is also an adjective for them. This insect mastiff is quite aggressive, including attacks on us human beings."
Qin Zhong took a cold breath: "So we are likely to encounter such a corpse worm. We must also kill this corpse worm, or we will become his food." He then snorted coldly: "Hmm, I didn't expect that there would be a lot of excitement along the way."
With that, Qin Zhong took two steel knives in his hand and went up the water flow of the hot spring. I really don't know where this super-long passage leads to. After walking on the shore of the hot spring waterway full of corpses and insects for three days, he found that the hot spring water seemed to be thinner than the downstream, and the land part here was relatively Get rich.
Qin Zhong observed, but he didn't do much. Suddenly, he found that there were several messy white bones on the dry beach. Some bone insects parasitize in the white bones hovered reluctantly on the white bones. After hearing the footsteps of Qin Zhong and others, they seemed to be a little flustered and hid in a skull.
Looking further, there are several flag flags inserted on a flat wall, which look like a shaman's flag, and a torch is lit in the middle of the flag flag. I don't know how long the torch has been burning here. Maybe it is because of the spare power of the shaman flag that the torch can burn all year round without being extinguished?
"Look, boss!" Guo Dafu pointed to the bodies of the corpses on the ground and panicked.
The old mushroom curled his lips and said, "Well, what's the fuss? We haven't seen such things on the way."
Yingzi's eyes were sharp, and he suddenly saw the door and said, "No, the corpse insects here are obviously much bigger than those at the beginning. Look, they are one-third the size of ordinary people."
When the old mushroom heard this, he scratched his head: "Well, so the bug mastiff here needs to be bigger."
"Yes, it's bigger. This should be a volcanic structure. Look at the surrounding walls. Obviously, it is volcanic rocks. The temperature here is most suitable for those corpses and insects to grow, and such an excellent temperature is definitely suitable for them to grow bigger and better." Qin Zhong's analysis is correct.
If a person finds a suitable environment, he will grow well and grow strong. What's the exception for corpse worms? Where the temperature is good, the corpses rot quickly, and they can digest them without effort. This is like people and porridge. If you digest well, your body will grow well.
Thinking of this, Qin Zhong quickly moved forward. He stroked the skull with the knife in his hand and drilled out a fist-sized bone worm from it. The two black eyes of the bone worm stared at Qin Zhong closely, whether it was because Qin Zhong moved their food, or he They are the home on which they live.
Qin Zhong grinned at the bone worm and stabbed it down. The bone worm was split in half: "I think this bone worm must also be the food of those corpse worms. I feel that if I want to grow bigger, I need to eat some calcium. The biggest feature of these bone worms is that there is no lack of calcium."
"Well, thanks to you, you can also come up with this bad move. My old mushroom is willing to bow down." What the old mushroom said is a little vinegary.
Qin Zhong retreated with Guo Dafu and others, hiding at the root of the wall more than ten meters away, staring at the bone worm's body.
It didn't take long for a few people to have clear footsteps. The footsteps came from the surface of the water. The sound was very messy, but the approximate size of these things could be heard.
Qin Zhong specially forgot the place where the sound came. At this glance, he was a little surprised. Where did he get such a big black bug? By visual inspection, the big bug was at least one-third the size of a normal person. After Qin Zhong saw it clearly, the bug was in a team of five.
The old mushroom was surprised at this moment: "It's strange that these five are completely the size of insect mastiffs. Why don't they kill each other?"
"Who knows that you don't know about animals, and what we are talking about can only be guessing, but I think Qin Zhong's guess is generally accurate." Qin Zhong's confident appearance is enough to make the old mushroom bow down.
But when several people were studying several corpses rushing over, a huge shadow fell on the wall opposite Qin Zhong and others due to the refraction of light and shadow on the water and the lighting of torches on the wall.