Copper Coins Chapter 80: Hundred Wormholes (2)
Yes! Isn't this where the legendary Tongshou spider might exist? !
It's really a coincidence that I chased someone here by accident. For a moment, Xue Xian felt a little weird, but before the weird thought became clear, he subconsciously swept it away.
The characters on the wall looked like a book from heaven. Except for the three words Bai Wodong, none of them could be recognized by Xue Xian. They seemed to be written by an ancient clan. After watching for a while, Xue Xian finally ran out of patience and withdrew his gaze
"There are moths all over the place, and the skin and flesh are numb. It's really not a suitable place to stay for a long time." Xue Xian swept the corpse of insects in front of him, and said with a disgusting expression: "There is still a lot in front of me. There is Shidao, let's go over there, it's good to see everything, I don't want to see these powder-covered things anymore."
Xuan Min looked away from the oddly carved characters, said "um", and no longer delayed, while coldly sweeping away the moths that hit him with his wide sleeves, he led Xue Xian around with great strides. Arrived at the stone crossing in front.
Fire dragons swept through thousands of troops in the cave, roasting all the moths that came upon them.
Xuan Min glanced back and saw that in just a short while, a thick layer of worm corpses had already been spread on the ground. At first glance, it was nauseating, but a closer look revealed that it was strange.
"Hey—these **** actually bite people." Xue Xian slapped the back of his hand angrily. If it wasn't for his love for water and fire, he would have burned the entire cave. He stretched out the back of his hand to Xuan Min and glanced at it, and even he himself did not realize that this move was a little blind.
Using the light of the fire dragon, Xuan Min glanced at the two extra blood spots on the back of his hand, pointed to the corpse on the ground behind him, and said, "Some of these moths are unusually large."
If it is possible to raise a rare thing like the Tongshou spider, then this hundred wormholes will not be simple, maybe it is a natural Gu tool. This moth has stayed in it for a long time, living from generation to generation, and some changes are to be expected.
It's just that this mutation is really unpleasant - not to mention the change from small to big, and actually started to focus on flesh and blood.
"Let's go! One more look and I'm going to throw up on you." Xue Xian's face was dark, and he walked deeper without turning his head.
The further you go in, the higher the stone path is. The two no longer have to bow their heads in grievances. Even the fire dragon was led over by Xuan Min, roaring over the top of the two of them, and strapped directly in front of them. Way up.
At this time, even Xue Xian, who was intolerant of heat, began to look pleasing to the eye when he saw the fire dragon.
The two blood spots on the back of Xue Xian's hand that were made by the moths were hot for a moment, but they quickly dissipated. He guessed that the moth should be poisonous. If ordinary people were here, they would either be disgusted by those moths, or they would be killed in the hole by the poisonous moths. In short, there would never be anything Good end.
Although the moths in the stone cave just now were almost burnt, there were also some lying down in this stone path. As Xuan Min said, these moths in the stone path are much larger than ordinary moths, and the largest is even bigger than a slap. I don't know what to eat on weekdays. .
Most of them follow their nature and go straight to the fire dragon, and some are attracted by Xue Xian and Xuan Min.
"The further you go, the weirder these moths grow." Xue Xian's face was gloomy, and he swept his sleeves in annoyance. With a sharp blade, the gust of wind slashed the things that flew up to the ground, and smashed it on the stone wall, causing the entire cave to tremble a few times, and the finely broken stones fell from the top. Come on, let out a puff of smoke.
Xue Xian: "..."
So sometimes it's not a good thing to be too strong. In such a place that is about to collapse if you're not careful, you can't exert any strength at all. It is good that there is a Xuanmin who can release and withdraw to follow.
When they walked to the depths of the stone path, the moths they encountered again no longer foolishly pounced on the fire dragon, but seemed to have become spirits, avoiding them and flying deeper into the desert as if they were flapping their wings. go.
I don't know if it was Xue Xian's delusion or not, but he actually picked up some other meaning from the moth's actions. It's like... rushing to the depths to tip off.
As he was thinking about it, he felt a sudden itch on the little finger of his left hand, as if something slender was crawling on his finger.
Xue Xian frowned, raised his hand and glanced.
"Ant," he said.
I saw an ant with its head and tail hanging out on his little finger, but the ant was two times bigger than usual. Under the light of the fire, its body was still a little red. This thing is not afraid of death, he sneered under Xue Xian's eyelids, and stung a little flesh from his little finger.
Xue Xian "tsk", "Another greedy thing that eats meat and drinks blood."
As he spoke, he impatiently blasted the man-eating ant out.
The strength of Xue Xian's finger was naturally extraordinary. The ant slammed into the stone wall heavily, and immediately collapsed into a pool. The juice overflowing from his body melted on the stone wall, giving off a faint stench.
From the smell alone, you can tell that these ants are probably eating dead corpses on weekdays. As for whether the corpse was a worm or a human... that's hard to say.
Before Xue Xian could calm down from the disgusting smell, he felt that he had been slapped twice on his side and behind.
He tilted his head and just saw Xuan Min withdraw his hand. At his feet, there were scattered ant corpses with their slender feet facing the sky... and a number of ant colonies crawling from the front, along the uneven ground or along the rocky cliffs.
The queue was surprisingly long, stretching from the foot to the end of the fire.
This thing is even more annoying than a moth, because it climbs up on a person's legs and feet.
Xue Xian turned his head and glanced at it. Sure enough, Xuan Min's face was so cold that it was about to fall from ice. With his particular temperament, he probably couldn't bear the crawling of insects in his clothes.
Xue Xian glanced at the shadow at the end of the fire with his extraordinary eyesight, and his expression changed immediately. Now it's just a row of ants, and if you go further, the ants will almost cover the ground.
The speed of those ants is so fast that it was only the time when the two of them stopped, and they used it like a tidal wave. of.
Xue Xian couldn't help but think of the previous moths, and only felt that the things in these wormholes were probably not far from the essence.
The ground cannot be stepped on, the stone walls cannot be touched, and even the top of the head is covered with those ants.
He didn't say a word, and immediately picked up a gust of wind from the bottom of his feet, and regardless of whether it would collapse the cave, he dragged Xuan Min straight forward. A gust of wind swept the bottom, and neither of them touched the ground. They almost stepped on the wind to bypass the tide-like cannibal ant colony.
The howling wind was so powerful that it slammed into the entire cave and shook the whole cave. The top of the stone fell, and there was a constant beeping sound under the feet. Countless man-eating ants were smashed into flat shells by the strong wind and smashed against the rock wall. It was torn apart directly in the wind.
And the roar of the fire dragon continued, scorching the top of the stone road to black, leaving no openings.
Xue Xian finally understood what the old man Zhai meant when he said "Hundred wormholes go to half their lives just by listening to it". It was him and Xuanmin who had lost it. , I am afraid that it will come in with flesh and blood, and go out alone.
This cave is deep and long, and I don't know when it will end. Xue Xian and Xuan Min ran away in the middle for about a stick of incense, and there were mountains and seas of corpses under their feet...
"Moths, man-eating ants, scorpions, centipedes, scorpions..." Xue Xian counted the dead poisonous insects all the way, then glanced at the ground and sneered.
These pranksters are more poisonous and bigger, and the closer they are to the depths, the more difficult it is to deal with. Some of them even have to be burned for a while before slowly curling up.
However, no matter how troublesome it is, to Xue Xian and Xuan Min, they are nothing but worms. The big deal is that they don't touch the ground, and the wind and fire run side by side. So this is not the reason why Xue Xian sneered.
The reason why he was sneering was because the deeper he went, the piles of corpses on the ground were not just the corpses that he and Xuan Mong had exterminated. More human bones.
The bare bones were yellow and white in color, and the flesh was gnawed so clean that there was nothing left. At first glance, it seemed that they had been buried here for many years. But at a closer look, you can see that the blood on the bones is sticky and moist, and there is a familiar smell.
"It's the people from the corpse shop." Xue Xian covered his mouth and nose, and finally landed at the end of the corpse.
Xuan Min frowned and glanced back, then looked back and landed in front of his feet.
The place where they stood at this time was the end of the stone road, and the stone wall was sealed when they went straight. There was a stone staircase spiraling upward at their feet. I don't know what dynasty or generation left it. A white cobweb is knotted.
It's just that the cobwebs, which were originally stacked one on top of the other, were swept away and hung lightly on both sides of the stone ladder.
Seeing the spider web, Xue Xian naturally thought of "Tongshou Spider". Naturally, the name was not just a coincidence. Presumably the top of the stone steps was where they were finally looking.
"Someone got there first." Xue Xian glanced at the cobweb, "It seems that those in the corpse shop were recruited to be iron shields for human flesh."
Xuanmin pondered: "But the bones in the stone path are limited, and there should be some leftovers."
"Maybe it's up there." Xue Xian pointed to the stone steps.
The two of them looked at each other, and without delay, they immediately lifted their feet and walked up the stone steps.
The stone ladder was also stained with some sticky blood, and mixed with some pickled filth, so that the two of them didn't touch the ground the whole time, which happened to avoid making a sound when they stepped on those things.
This stone ladder is extremely high, with layers of winding, almost a hundred knots, but it only took a moment for the two of them to stand silently at the top.
A flat stone room with the size of two rooms fell into their eyes, but there was a deep black pool embedded in the stone room. A bronze mirror fell on the edge of the pool, and there was a large mess of bloodstains around the bronze mirror. The edge spread all the way to the rocks on the edge of the pool.
And on one of the white stones, five **** fingerprints were imprinted, as if someone scratched it out during the struggle.