Thinking of this, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. If this is the case, it means that those terrifying rats are very likely to be able to enter this tomb.
I told everyone my worries, and everyone became nervous when they heard it. Chen Biao immediately took off a tear gas canister from his vest, held it tightly in his hand, and was ready to throw it out at any time.
Everyone waited nervously for a while, but no rats appeared. Just as we were wondering, Weizi suddenly discovered something. He said with a trembling voice: "I...I just saw something...there." move……"
"Where," Long Yi asked.
Weizi raised his finger and pointed at some wreckage not far from us. Everyone immediately turned their heads and stared at the wreckage.
After a while, the wreckage actually trembled slightly and made a "crunching" sound, which was almost exactly the same as the sound we heard just now.
"Holy crap, is this skeleton really alive?" I couldn't help but be shocked. I've seen many corpse transformations, but I've never heard of this skeleton coming back to life.
Long Yi didn't believe in evil. He stared at the remains for a while and whispered: "It seems like there is something under the bones."
"There is something," I heard, and I observed it carefully. Sure enough, under the wreckage, there was really a mass of black stuff about the size of a palm.
The body of that thing seems to be covered with a very smooth shell, which can actually reflect the light from the hat lamp above our heads. It is also this thing that arches its body upward from time to time, making the bones pressing on it slightly Vibrates and makes a "crunching" sound.
"What the hell is this,"
"Let's go over and have a look," Wen Qingshan walked over boldly, holding the Broken Dragon Slash in his hand.
We walked carefully to the skeletons, and by chance the thing was completely protruding. I took a closer look and was surprised to see that it turned out to be a huge beetle.
This beetle is almost as big as a mouse, and it is covered with a shell like a gem. Perhaps because there are so many of us, and the light emitted by the hood lamp on the helmet is too bright, the beetle is lying on a broken bone. at every turn.
Looking at the huge beetle in front of me, I said in surprise: "Why is this thing so big?"
Long Yi said from the side: "This thing is a bit like Brother Long,"
"What is Long Ge's flea?" I asked puzzledly.
Long Yi explained: "The Longge flea is a kind of beetle. Its scientific name seems to be Big-toothed Beetle. It is said to be one of the largest beetles in the world, but it is really incredible that the Longe flea can grow to such a big size. It’s so common, it must be because the Yin energy in it is too strong, causing it to mutate.”
"Can this thing bite?" Weizi asked. Seeing that it was not a ghost, he was not so scared, and his tone seemed much more relaxed. After all, he was a soldier, and he was not timid. He was just afraid of ghosts.
Long Yi replied: "They shouldn't bite humans. Although most beetles look ferocious, they are actually pure vegetarians. Their large jaws are only used to cut plant roots."
After listening to what Long Yi said, Weizi suddenly bent down and reached out to the beetle. I saw this from the side and quickly grabbed him and asked, "Brother Weizi, what are you doing?"
Weizi smiled and said, "I'll pick it up and have a good look at it."
"Forget it, you're not afraid of getting your hands pinched by its pair of big jaws," I advised. The beetle's pair of big jaws are five or six centimeters long, and the inside is covered with sharp serrations. It looks like Two saw blades.
Weizi said disapprovingly: "It's okay. Brother Long said its big jaws are only for cutting plant roots. Isn't that equivalent to the chopsticks we use for eating? What's there to be afraid of? Besides, we used to do wilderness survival training. , I often encounter this kind of beetle, but it's just not that big. No matter how powerful this beetle's jaws are, they are at the corners of its mouth. As long as you grab its back, there's nothing it can do."
He seemed to be very experienced, and I couldn't stop him anymore. Weizi stretched out his hand to the beetle again. Unexpectedly, just when his fingers were about to touch the beetle's body, the beetle suddenly raised its upper body. , opened a pair of large jaws at him, and closed them suddenly. Fortunately, Weizi reacted quickly and retracted his hand quickly, so he was not pinched by it, otherwise his fingers would have been pinched off.
Weizi obviously did not expect that the beetle would actively attack him, and said in surprise: "Holy crap, how can this thing be so vicious that it will actively attack people?"
Long Yi also looked a little surprised, but Ouyang Yi saw something. He said in a serious tone: "You'd better not touch it. I'm afraid this thing is not an ordinary beetle."
"Dr. Ouyang, do you know this kind of beetle?" Wen Qingshan asked from the side.
Ouyang Yi replied: "I have never seen such a huge beetle, but it suddenly occurred to me that according to records, there is a large beetle that feeds on carrion, called the corpse beetle. Maybe it is this thing. ,"
"What, this is a corpse beetle," I couldn't help but be shocked. In fact, I had heard Huang Yixian mention it before, but he had never seen it with his own eyes. He had only seen relevant records. It is said that the corpse beetle is a kind of evil. The insect lives in places with extremely heavy Yin all year round and feeds exclusively on carrion. When food is scarce, it can lie dormant for thousands of years without becoming stiff. In addition, its body shell is very hard, like a stone, so Also known as "non-stiff stone".
Because Huang Yixian didn't believe that this strange creature really existed, I didn't think about it at all just now.
Ouyang Yi continued: "According to records, the corpse beetle is a gregarious species that lies dormant all year round. Although in most cases it feeds on corrosion, in fact it is quite aggressive due to the extreme lack of food. Once it wakes up, it will attack all living things. It is said that in a certain Pharaoh's pyramid in Egypt, corpse beetles attacked a scientific expedition team and caused casualties."
Hearing what Ouyang Yi said, everyone was shocked. Wen Qingshan glanced at the remains of corpses everywhere and said: "No wonder these bones have traces of being chewed. It turns out they are not rats, but corpse beetles. "
As soon as he finished speaking, the corpse beetle suddenly crawled towards Weizi quickly. Weizi raised his leg and stepped on it hard. He was wearing combat boots and he used hard force. I thought about that. The corpse beetle's body must have been trampled to pieces.
Unexpectedly, when he lifted his legs and took a look, the body of the corpse beetle seemed to be unharmed. It just lay there motionless, and he didn't know whether it was dead or not.
Weizi was a little surprised: "Why is this thing so hard?"
I said: "It is said that the shell of the corpse beetle is very hard, just like a stone. In addition, it can lie dormant for a long time without becoming stiff, so it is also called a non-stiff stone."
"Bu Zombie Stone, the name is a bit interesting. I want to see whether it is the outer shell of this thing that is harder, or my knife." After Weizi finished speaking, he pulled out a dagger from his waist and pointed it towards the corpse beetle's head. The body was pierced.
The sharp dagger penetrated the hard shell of the corpse beetle. The originally motionless corpse beetle immediately struggled and made a strange hissing sound, which was like a low-frequency sound and sounded very harsh.
"Holy crap, why is this thing still barking?" Weizi was shocked.
Not long after the corpse beetle screamed, a series of "crunching" sounds came from the pile of corpses directly in front of us, which shocked everyone. When they looked at the pile of corpses, they were actually shaking slightly.
"What...what is going on," Weizi's voice trembled again.
Wen Qingshan immediately thought of something. He turned to Ouyang Yi and asked: "Dr. Ouyang, you just said that this corpse beetle is a social species."
As soon as he finished speaking, a skull on the top of the pile of corpses was hit by something and rolled down from the top. Before we could realize what was going on, densely packed corpse beetles crawled out of the pile of corpses.
Seeing this situation, Ouyang Yi immediately shouted: "Everyone, get out of here quickly."
Everyone did not dare to neglect and hurried to the next tomb. Unexpectedly, the corpse beetles seemed to smell the smell emanating from our bodies and actually followed closely behind us.
We returned to the tomb full of coffins. On the floor of this tomb, there were still more than twenty zombies that we had just killed lying on the floor. We didn’t care whether we would step on them or not, we just ran back. But when I ran to the other end of the tomb, I discovered that the stone door at this end had been sealed. Although there was a Bagua trap next to the stone door, it would definitely not be able to be opened for a while.
With no way out, everyone had to turn around. Unexpectedly, when they turned around, they found that no corpse beetles were chasing after them. A closer look revealed that the corpse beetles were eating the zombies lying on the floor.
The number of corpse beetles is huge. When you look at it, you can see a huge black area, which makes people shudder. Maybe it is because they haven’t eaten for a long time. In just two or three minutes, a zombie is almost eaten up by the corpse beetles. , only a skeleton is left.
That scene can simply be described as shocking.
Ouyang Yi immediately said to Long Yi: "Quick, before the corpse beetles come, find a way to open this stone door."
Long nodded and immediately walked to the stone door to play with the Bagua device.
However, before he could open the stone door, some corpse beetles were already crawling towards us quickly.
Weizi immediately opened fire with his automatic rifle, but there were too many corpse beetles, and it was obviously impossible to eliminate them all with one gun.
But in the blink of an eye, the corpse beetle swarm had crawled to a distance of only about two or three meters away from us. Everyone's hearts were hanging, but at this moment, the corpse beetle swarm stopped moving forward.