Inside The Black Mist Chapter 131: Crow mouth
"Did I hear wrong? I think I heard a dog barking."
The little bird lowered his voice, with a puzzled look on his face, apparently unable to figure out why there were dogs barking underground.
Yan Bing also nodded in his helmet: "That's right, I heard it too. Sir, could it be a mad dog?"
Tianyang hummed: "It's possible, let's go. Let's take a look. Mad dogs are not underground creatures. Since they can come in, follow their traces and we will find a way out!"
This news made Xiaoniao very excited. Although the reverse world itself is a depressing world, the underground is even more depressing. The girl has been groping in these crypt passages for several hours, and she has long thought that the ground can breathe.
As soon as she heard the traces left by the mad dog and was able to take a few of herself out, the girl was immediately full of energy.
Tianyang reminded them: "Mad dogs are different from prowlers. They respond to light and sound. Let's turn off the tactical lighting accessories. There are fog crystals everywhere under the ground, enough for us to see the road clearly. "
Xiao Niao and Yan Bing had no objections, and the latter directly turned off the lighting accessories on the rifle. The light suddenly dimmed, but after a while, they adapted to the surrounding environment.
The sporadic fog crystals emerging from all over the passage exude a deep purple light, providing faint light.
Tianyang activates the infrared vision mode of the tactical eye, and the line of sight becomes clearer, and everything is ready. He gestured to open the way.
Yan Bing walks in the middle, if something goes wrong, he will cover Tian Yang.
After Xiaoniao was in charge of breaking it, she didn't have a gun on her body, but the rapier could release frosty sword energy, which was much more powerful than a rifle.
The three of them walked close to the side of the passage, groping forward in these crooked and chaotic underground spaces.
After walking for a while, he heard a few dogs barking again, the voice was clear, Tianyang easily identified the direction, and led the team into a cave.
"This is.."
Within a few steps, Tianyang stopped, as if he had discovered something.
The little bird came over curiously, and followed Tianyang's line of sight. It turned out that there was a section of plant-like rhizome protruding above the passage in the crypt.
The thing went across the passage and into the wall on the other side. This rhizome is very thick, under the deep purple light of a cluster of fog crystals nearby, it is not difficult to see that the diameter of this thing is twenty or thirty centimeters.
The epidermis is rough, with complex lines, and there is an oval-shaped callus-like thing. It emitted a dim red light, and there seemed to be liquid flowing inside, causing a slight wrinkle on the surface.
The three of them looked at each other, not knowing what it was. Suddenly, there was another dog barking in front.
"Let's go, let's leave this alone."
Not long after, they found a mad dog. That monster, which is like sewing a dog and a human together, is in a troublesome situation.
More than a dozen roots of plants entangled it. Not only did those things tightly strangle the mad dog's body, several of the roots even pierced into the monster's body.
But there is no sign that these roots, like the dead spirit tree, will **** flesh and blood. Perhaps, the purpose of plunging into the mad dog's body is to catch it better?
Why do you say this, because the three of Tianyang can clearly see that those roots are trying to pull the mad dog up, even though the thing is struggling desperately.
Tianyang raised his head, and in Tactical's eyes, a thick plant rhizome was attached to the top of the cave.
When those roots dragged the mad dog near the root, a section of the root suddenly split, and the strands of fibrous roots were entangled with each other, and were torn apart, breaking one by one.
The rhizome split a nearly two-meter opening, and black, mud-like mucus flowed from it, and they snaked down the cave wall. Like the ink spilled on the gray and white canvas, it is filling the picture inch by inch.
The air is filled with the smell of corruption, disgusting.
The Yan Bing wearing the helmet didn't notice anything, but the noses of Tian Yang and Xiao Niao suffered.
Just when the eyebrows of the two were about to twist into a Sichuan shape, the mad dog wailed a few times and was pulled into the crack in the root.
The crack closed, and the surface of the rhizome continued to bulge, like a mad dog struggling desperately inside.
Unfortunately, its struggle did not last even a minute, and it was declared over.
There was no sound in the passage, it was as quiet as a cemetery. If the three of Tianyang hadn't witnessed this scene with their own eyes just now, they might not have believed that a mad dog was actually "eaten" by this root!
"What is this? I've never seen anything like it." The bird lowered his voice.
Tianyang's voice is dignified: "No matter what it is, it will catch its prey, even the people of darkness. It seems that we have to be careful, it is best not to get too close to it."
Xiao Niao and Yan Bing both agree with this suggestion.
Being careful to keep a distance from that weird plant, Tian Yang checked the nearby ground and found traces of mad dogs. These traces are all over the ground, if you go retrograde according to these traces, you should be able to find the exit.
Tianyang was about to call the two to leave, but suddenly saw a red light in front of him. The red light came from the plant rhizome on the cave wall, and all the large and small oval cocoons on its surface lit up.
Gulu Gulu——
There was a sound of water flowing through the rhizome, as if there was a hollow pipe inside this thing. Now, there's water running through it, like those ubiquitous sewers in the lower part of the fortress!
"Ah!" For some reason, the little bird exclaimed.
Tianyang looked at her, and the girl was pointing at a callus on the root, with a frightened expression: "I seem to see someone inside."
"Is there someone?" Tianyang looked up, staring at a cocoon bubble above.
However, no matter how hard he used his eyesight, it was difficult to see what was inside the cocoon, he could only see a series of bubbles.
Just when he was about to look away, a man's face was stuck on the callus unexpectedly!
This face has been bitten by something, the left half of the face has only bones left, and if you look in from the eye sockets, you can even vaguely see a gray thing.
That should be his brain...
The broken and terrifying face appeared suddenly and disappeared suddenly. With just a second or two of sound, it seemed to be driven by the current, and drifted to an unknown distance through the hollow channel of the rhizome.
The sound of running water lasted for nearly a minute before it stopped. Tian Yang looked along the rhizome. It is attached to the wall of the cave and extends obliquely to the depths of the ground.
The red light emitted by the cocoon bubbles on the rhizome began to dim, and after a while, it had returned to the original almost undetectable luminosity.
But the scene just now has been deeply imprinted in the minds of the three of them. For some reason, the water flow in that strange plant reminded the three of Tianyang to the same word: eating.
Tianyang thought for a while and said, "I'm going to go down and have a look."
He pointed to the direction where the roots of the plants extended: "This thing doesn't look like it was formed naturally. We walked all the way and didn't find any living things underground."
"But this thing can prey, so how can it grow in a place where there is no prey? So I think there may be something weird down there. Otherwise, such a plant would not grow for no reason."
Little Bird also agrees: "Maybe the black folks have other arrangements below. If we find something, it will be a great achievement."
Since they reached an agreement, the three of them turned around and followed the trend of the plants above the cave, all the way deep into the ground.
On the way, there was another sound of water flowing in the root of the plant. This phenomenon happened three times in total.
Every time there is a sound of water flowing, the cocoons on the rhizome must light up red, like red light bulbs.
What reassured Tianyang was that the thing didn't seem to be interested in human beings, and the three of them had been following it for so long and hadn't been attacked.
After two hours like this, when Tian Yang doubted whether this rhizome was going to go deep into the heart of the reverse world, the end point appeared without warning.
When turning a corner, the front suddenly opened up, and it turned out to be another wide underground space. In the huge space in front of him, a figure came into Tian Yang's eyes without warning.
The boy stopped quickly, and made a warning gesture to the two people behind him.
After careful observation, it was discovered that it was not a figure, but some kind of plant.
It is composed of countless tangled and twisted rhizomes, and it is very tall, seven or eight meters high. The strange thing is that, whether it is intentional or not, it has been shaped into a human image.
That's why when Tian Yang suddenly saw it, he thought he saw a figure.
From the boy's direction, it looks like a woman, and the countless roots hanging down from top to bottom form the woman's "hair".
In the place shaped like a shoulder, the rhizomes are coiled like a ball. From a distance, it looks like a child's head is lying on a woman's shoulder.
The thick rhizome extending all the way here, it submerged into the body of the tall "woman", reminded Tianyang of something like "umbilical cord".
The young man held his breath and observed for a moment to confirm that there was nothing wrong before making a gesture.
The three walked lightly and came to the "sculpture" of a woman made of plants. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that it was a "pregnant woman".
Its belly is round and straight.
Two "arms" composed of intertwined rhizomes hold the stomach very vividly.
The "woman"'s legs are spread out, as if she is about to give birth at any time. This huge sculpture, and this weird image, plus being underground. No matter how you look at it, it makes people feel eerie and eerie.
Tianyang turned his head and glanced at the other two, Xiaoniao and Yanbing's expressions were a bit ugly.
Why do these plants deliberately create such an image? Is it a pure coincidence that the pregnant woman is about to give birth, or is there another deep meaning?
Tianyang coughed dryly, and brought Yan Bing back to his senses: "We should go, this weird thing, leave it to the headquarters to study, we have fulfilled our responsibilities, there is no need Stay here again."
"Besides, we are not botanists, and we probably won't be able to study anything if we stay."
Little Bird hugged her arms tightly and looked around: "I think so too, this place is too weird, there is only such a scary thing. Compared with it, I would rather run into black people..."
At the end of the sentence, from the darkness ahead, a few barks of dogs came faintly.
The little bird was stunned for a moment: "No way, did you really run into a black man? My crow's mouth is too effective!"
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