"Zhou Cang, are you okay?" Xiangyu asked as he unscrewed the kettle I brought with me and poured water for me to rinse my mouth.
I poured a large amount of water into my mouth, then swung it up and down a few times, and then spit the water on the blue brick floor. "I'm fine. It's just that the bronze tripod is a bit deep. I almost drowned in it."
"I had expected that the water would not be shallow. Think about how fast we fell when we first fell, and how strong the gravity would be when we reached the water. But we were not injured, which proves that when we fell into the water,
The back did not touch the bottom of the bronze tripod." Lao Li said.
"It's not like that, there is something under the water." I said, staring at the water in the bronze cauldron, for fear that the paper face would suddenly appear.
"Zhou Cang, did you see anything under the water?" Zhang Jisheng asked.
"These bronze tripods look independent from the ground, but they are connected inside. Just next to the bronze tripod I went to, there was a face that looked like it was cut out of paper," I said.
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"Zhou, can you see clearly the face cut out of paper? It's so dark under the water," Andrew said.
"You must have seen it clearly. What makes me find it most unacceptable is that the paper face seems to be alive." When I said this, I felt a chill on my back for a moment.
"Alive, how could there be a living person under the water?" Xiangyu opened his eyes in horror.
"It's not a human, it seems to be a monster with a human face and a fish body. I vaguely saw her tail in the water."
"Are you saying that these bronze tripods are placed here to show off the mermaid monster, just like the fish tanks we keep at home?" Zhang Jisheng asked.
"Who knows if these are bronze tripods? Maybe they are actually fish tanks." Lao Li said quietly from the side.
"Did that mermaid monster attack you and that's why you dislocated your jaw?" Xiangyu asked.
"Um," I hesitated for a moment, feeling that it was a bit embarrassing to say that my face was stuck in the hole, so I said vaguely, "I guess I was scared."
"That's right. I must have been frightened when I encountered something like this underwater, and I didn't wear scuba. Fortunately, I was not in danger." Xiangyu seemed to be comforting me.
"Zhou, do you think that thing in the bronze tripod is alive?" Andrew asked, and then he may have felt that the expression was not satisfactory, so he added: "I mean, will the thing escape?"
Attack us."
As soon as Andrew finished speaking, he heard a "gurgling" sound coming from the bronze cauldron closest to us, as if the water inside was suddenly boiling.
Immediately afterwards, the water surface began to bubble, and each bronze tripod seemed to have a spring on it. The water column jumped very high. And as the water column jumped high again and again, the temperature around us was dropping. Anyway, I was
It's starting to feel a little cold.
"Zhou Cangjisheng, look at the water overflowing around the bronze tripod. Are there some white things similar to silk threads?" Xiangyu pointed at the bronze tripod where the Jing Gua is located, and said with a slightly trembling voice.
Hearing what she said, I couldn't help but look over. This time before, my scalp was really numb, and my whole body suddenly felt bad.
I saw that all around the bronze tripod was densely covered with long worms that were as thin as silk and had a milky white color.
"Oh my God, why did so many bugs crawl out of the bronze tripod suddenly? Zhou Cang, did you see these things under the water just now?" Zhang Jisheng covered his mouth with his hand, looking like he was trying his best to hold back nausea.
, and then fled the territory of Bronze Cauldron.
"It's very dark in the water, I didn't see clearly." I replied, suddenly startled. Just now in the bronze cauldron, I had always felt that there were some sparse white lights in the water. At that time, I thought those lights were the white lights on the building.
Could it be that what the white mist shines down is not white mist but emitted from the bodies of these thread-long worms?
Thinking of this, the goosebumps on my arms appeared one after another unconsciously.
At the moment when Zhang Jisheng and I were talking, some threadworms were already crawling along the bronze cauldron wall, almost reaching the ground.
At this time, I have probably seen the true face of these long thread worms. They look almost the same as iron worms, but for some reason, the traditional iron worms are all red copper color, but these iron worms here are
It's milky white, that kind of shiny white color. The iron worm closest to me that has crawled to the ground should be more than one meter long and shaped like a horse's hair. The part of its body on the blue brick floor is now facing me.
It was squirming in the direction it was shrinking.
"Zhou Cang, step back quickly. This kind of iron worm can infect the human body, parasitize in the human digestive tract, and absorb nutrients from the host's body. It is very abnormal for this kind of thing to appear at the bottom of Poyang Lake. It is white in color. I don't know if it exists.
It has not been specially cultivated and then mutated, don't let them touch it." Xiangyu shouted to me, and he had already run outside the round bronze tripod.
After hearing Xiangyu's words, I wanted to run away, but at some point, my ankle was wrapped around an iron worm. As its name suggests, the body of the iron worm was as hard as iron, and it squirmed as fast as they did on the ground.
The graceful figure is completely inconsistent with her figure.
I reflexively raised my feet and kept swinging them, but it was of no use. The iron worms only wrapped around me tighter and tighter, and one end of the worm on my ankle had already penetrated into my skin.
After the sting, my feet started to feel numb, as if the peripheral nerves were paralyzed.
Wow, this insect is so powerful. I couldn't help but sigh in my heart.
"Brother Zhou, don't worry about this one on your feet. Run out and talk about it later." Lao Li pulled me out of the bronze cauldron group, not caring that there were several iron worms wrapped around his body.
Several of us retreated under the eaves of the enclosed building. There is a step about thirty centimeters long. It seems that the wireworms haven't found a way to climb up the step yet, so they are squirming in the yard for the time being.
The nipples were so hairy that I couldn't help but think of Dragon Beard Candy. I thought that I would never have anything to do with this kind of sweet in my life.
Xiangyu, Zhang Jisheng and Andrew ran fast, so they would not be invaded by wireworms. And I don’t know if the wireworm on my ankle fell on its own while running or something. Anyway, when they got to the eaves, my
There are no more bugs on me.
On the contrary, it was Lao Li. He was probably because he was hurt by me, so now his entire trousers were crawling with these bugs. But at this time, his nosebleed came out at the wrong time.
It seemed that the ironworms could smell the smell of blood. They suddenly changed their targets in unison and squirmed towards our position.
At this time, the yard was already a milky white. If you didn't look carefully, you would have thought that the unscrupulous man had filled the yard with freshly squeezed milk, and those bugs were squirming in the milky white.
The milky white gradually moves towards the southwest corner where we are under the eaves, and a small piece of bluestone floor tiles can already be seen in the northeast corner of the yard.
"What should we do? This large swarm of iron worms can kill us," Andrew said.
"Brother Zhou, listen to me. These bugs are obviously attracted by my blood. It's not an option for us to confront them in this yard. It's better to go all out." Lao Li suddenly said.
"How about a desperate move?" I asked, with a hint of ominous premonition in my heart.
"I'll use my own blood to attract the iron worms. You can go back to the bronze cauldron and see if there are any traps under the water, and if you can use the traps to find the exit from this yard," Lao Li said.
"No, it's too dangerous for you." As soon as Lao Li finished speaking, I immediately rejected his proposal.
"Brother Zhou, please be more sensible. This is currently the best way to get rid of these iron worms, and I am not certain to die if I use blood to attract the iron worms. If you can find an exit, then we can all escape from these worms together.
"Lao Li pressed my shoulder and said, "People have to learn to make choices, and I'm not the only one taking risks in this matter. You also have to be prepared to sacrifice. Who knows if there are still these bugs under the water?
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"Lao Li, I," Lao Li's words made me unable to insist on refusing, but I felt very unbearable in my heart, because it was obvious that he was going to be sacrificed.
"Since everyone agrees, then you guys will slowly move along the eaves of this circle to the position opposite me. That place is relatively safe. After I can no longer satisfy the wireworms, this will also be able to win a little more for the little brother of the Zhou family.
time."
"Brother Li," Xiangyu's eyes were filled with tears.
Zhang Jisheng and Andrew looked like they were eager to escape, wishing they could run to the other side quickly. Their faces were really boring.
I secretly thought to myself that if I sacrificed my life for such a person, then I would be really not worth it for Lao Li and myself.
A wry smile appeared on Lao Li's pale cheeks, and his eyes were determined, but I felt that his soul seemed to have begun to collapse.
It turns out that this is what a person who regards death as home looks like.
Just when we were moving in the opposite direction of the wire's movement as planned, Lao Li suddenly took my hand and said in a soft voice: "Brother Zhou, you must remember my words.
There are some things in the water that will recognize you. If necessary, you must protect yourself. If there is an exit in the water, you must leave first and don't worry too much."
After he finished speaking, he gently let go of my hand and pushed me.
These two sentences sound like last words to me.
It turned out that Lao Li thought that the exit of this yard would be in the water, and he was using his own life to give me a chance to escape.