Dream of Tomb Raiders Notes

Chapter 121 Grass Ticks

"According to what you say, we have entered the nest of those strange birds? Then, won't we be dying if we enter like this?" the fat man said.

"It's really uncertain." Aning said, "It's been so many years. The climate and environment here have changed a lot, and there is too little food. This kind of bird may be extinct here. The kingdom of the West Queen Mother uses the black bird as its patron saint. , that means that we have already entered the territory of the Queen Mother of the West. How could we be scared back by this kind of thing that doesn’t know if it still exists after we’re all here.”

Wu Xie and the others nodded, and the fat man said, "It's better to be extinct, or else I will become a meal for these birds for no reason, and I will really die young."

In fact, the fat man's concern is also the concern of everyone. If you encounter such a human-faced bird, this is their territory, and they are just fish on the chopping board.

Although they were worried, they still had to move on. In the depths of the canyon, Chen Wenjin and the truth were waiting for them.

They walked through the jungle carefully, guarding against the traps that the Queen Mother of the West might set, but "the house leaked and rained all night", suddenly there was a thunder from the sky, and there were lights flickering in the clouds, and dark clouds above. pressed to the top of the canyon.

"The rain that comes once every few years has been met by us. It seems that the Queen Mother of the West does not welcome uninvited guests like us." Mengli said, looking at the precursor of the storm that day.

"Hurry up, hurry up, I'm going to suffocate you, it's cool when it rains." Fatty is looking forward to this rain now.

Suddenly, a pea-sized raindrop fell on his face, and then, the rain poured down from the gap in the tree canopy. The rain was so fierce that they were caught off guard and hugged their heads, trying to find a place to shelter from the rain. .Fortunately, this place was at the bottom of the dense forest, and there happened to be a tree around which was covered by tangled vines. They quickly climbed up to hide from the rain.

They looked at the cliff opposite, and the rainwater rushed down the cliff like a waterfall.Under the canyon, the rainwater washed down formed countless streams and began to converge, forming a river that flowed down to the swamp.

"This rain... It seems that the road ahead for us will be more difficult." Mengli looked at the already wet swamp, and with this rain, the difficulty factor of going deep into the swamp increased again.

"'Hide the wind and gather the water without moving', this place has not changed for thousands of years, it seems that this place is really a treasure land of geomantic omen." After the fat man sighed, he suddenly became restless. When you move, others can feel it too.

Mengli saw a few bugs crawling on the back of her hand, they were tiny flower bugs, they looked like spiders, she watched them stay in her hand for a while, and immediately she didn't know why they looked like spiders. She ran around suddenly as if she was very scared, and jumped off her hands.

This is... a grass tick!

The fat man twisted his body and asked, "Do you feel itchy in your butt?"

"Insects!" Wu Xie yelled, everyone stood up, looked at the trunk they were leaning against, and saw that the trunk was full of dense flower insects, which seemed to be crawling out of the cracks in the trunk.

The strange thing is that Wu Xie and the others are all slapping themselves with worms, but Mengli and the little brother don't have worms on their bodies. Could it be that the nature of these worms is the same as that of corpses, and their blood can be immune?

"Run into the rain. These insects are grass ticks, they suck blood!" Ah Ning shouted.

Fortunately, everyone had the foresight to wear long clothes and trousers. The trousers were tight, and the bugs could not easily penetrate into the skin, but there were still fish that slipped through the net.In the rain, the bugs are all washed away.Ah Ning pulled out a knife and put it on the miner's lamp to burn it, scalding the bugs stuck to the back of her hands and legs.

"Hurry up and burn those bugs down, or they will suck your blood dry." Aning said quickly.

Mengli pulled out a dagger casually, and said, "Let me help you." After speaking, she put the dagger on the miner's lamp and burned it. It seemed uncomfortable to see Wu Xie and Fatty. It seemed that many insects were sucking their blood.Aning didn't seem to be bitten inside, and he burned some of it off and it disappeared.

"Hurry up, I'll help you." Meng Li looked at Wu Xie and Fatty and said.

"No...no need." Wu Xie waved his hand, "I can handle it myself."

"Give us the dagger and the miner's lamp, and Wu Xie and I will go over there and deal with each other." The fat man pointed to the back of the branch, "Hurry up, it hurts so much."

Mengli quickly gave the miner's lamp and the dagger to Fatty. At this time, Wu Xie, Fatty, Pan Zi and Liu Tai helped each other deal with those ticks.

Mengli turned around and found that the little brother was gone. When she looked up, she found that he had crawled to the place under them covered by the plants that had sheltered from the rain just now, and turned on the miner's lamp, not knowing what he was looking at.She walked up, looked at him and asked what he was doing with her eyes.

The little brother grabbed the vine above, turned over, and jumped onto the plant cover. He beckoned her to go up.

Mengli climbed up and saw the moss-covered plants entangled with branches, parasitic vines, and ferns. The little brother took out a knife and cut off the surface of the covering. A large number of vines inside were cut off, exposing the Something wrapped in it.There are a lot of grass ticks in it that are being washed out by the rain.

"Brother, what are you looking for?" Mengli asked softly. The pile of things gave off an unpleasant smell. The little brother tore open a large piece of dead vines. The seeds gushed out of it.

"It seems that this is the nest of those grass ticks." Mengli leaned over to look at the things inside, "No wonder..."

Inside was a mass of animal remains wrapped in rotten fur. The skin had rotted black. I didn't know what kind of animal it was.The little brother inserted a dagger into the fur and stirred it. Inside the skin were bones, which had been tightly entangled with the tree. It seemed that this thing had been around for a certain period of time.

Fortunately, Mengli's cleanliness has been cured, otherwise she would definitely spit out a lot.

"Brother, Mengli..." Wu Xie also climbed up and asked, "What are you looking at?"

"There is an animal corpse here..." Meng Li said.

"It may be that he got sick and died after sucking blood from these insects. Before he died, he lay on the tree and attracted all the insects around him, and sucked them alive." The little brother frowned and looked at Mengli and Mengli. Wu Xie, "They should be resting here, waiting for the next victim."

"This corpse is all rotten, and these grass ticks are still alive?" Wu Xie asked.

The little brother shook his head, expressing that he didn't know. He looked down at the pile of bones, and suddenly took out his knife and made a cut on his palm. Blood flowed from his palm. He squeezed Wu Xie's sleeve, Blood stained it.

Meng Li and Wu Xie knew what he wanted to do right away, and sure enough, he suddenly leaned over and inserted his two strangely long fingers into the bone under the vine, and immediately countless grass ticks swarmed from inside. When he came out, Wu Xie screamed in fright. Fortunately, he didn't have trypophobia, but bugs were nothing to be afraid of.

At the same time, the little brother's hand pulled out something from the bones, first a twisted old-fashioned flashlight, and then human bones. Could it be that this animal corpse has a human corpse?

"This is a big tree python that ate a person. This flashlight belongs to that person." The little brother said expressionlessly.

They decided to move the bones out of the tree first to see who would be inside?

They rested directly on the tree, Wu Xie felt really sleepy, and soon fell asleep.When he opened his eyes, he found himself alone on the tree trunk, and the others were all gone.

"Brother...Mengli...Fatty..." Wu Xie shouted in fear, but there was no reply at all, and the surroundings were completely silent, terribly quiet.

Suddenly, the surrounding leaves rustled, as if something was rubbing against the leaves, and they were coming this way.Wu Xie turned her head and saw that her legs were so frightened that it turned out to be a big white boa constrictor!

(End of this chapter)