Chapter 131 – Pandora’s Box

Fatty poked a few times on the body of the giant monster bug with his gun: “Just now, it is as hard as a steel plate, bullets can’t penetrate it, but now it is as soft as a pine caterpillar, it seems that it is not dead yet, I don’t think that we need to ask for any reason, and then we can stuff some explosives into its mouth, and send this thing to the west sky, and we can also get out of the evil anger in our hearts.”

Shirley Yang said, “I’m afraid it’s not that simple, with our equipment, it’s impossible to kill it completely, but the good thing is that it’s no longer a threat, it’s a worm with a rare whorl-like nerve structure similar to the Sun Goddess Snail, except for altering the oxygen content in the air, it’s hard to find a way to kill it.”

The ancestor of this worm can be traced back to hundreds of millions of years ago in the Cambrian period, when invertebrates originated, and at that time, the rest of the animals, except for insects, were still in the lower stage of evolution, and the original form of the worm, by virtue of its tenacious vitality, escaped the destruction of the species for countless times, and survived until tens of millions of years ago in the Triassic period, which is the most recent period. Tens of millions of years ago in the Triassic Period, has gradually evolved into the most massive bugs in ancient times.

Different from the common organisms with central nerves and dendritic nerves, there are only two organisms in the world that have rotated nerve tissues and composite cell structures, the first one is the mysterious organism “Sun Goddess Snail” that existed several hundred million years ago, and its existence is so early that human beings only have a few fragments of it. The rotunda nerve tissue does not have a nerve center, that is to say, this animal’s body and nerves are separate, after the necrosis of the body tissue, the rotunda nerve will still continue to survive, and the “sun goddess snail” is a hermaphrodite, do not need to mate, and produce a new life will be replaced by the body outside the body of the death of the body, although this characteristic limits its number, but as long as the living environment allows, it can only be used as a substitute for the “sun goddess snail”. Although this characteristic limits its number, as long as the living environment permits, it will endlessly reproduce in its shell with its rotating nerves and reticular cell structure.

The “worm”, also known as the “Hoh’s immortal worm”, was named in honor of the British biologist who discovered its fossil, a strange creature with reticular nerves, between invertebrate and semi-vertebrate, and possessing a structure similar to that of the “sun goddess snail”. “Sun goddess snail” as the same protective shell, hard shell is its body secretion formed, in nature, there is no natural enemy, unless it can be eaten whole, with gastric juices completely digested, otherwise as long as a part of the neural network left, it can still survive, it is the final extinction of the same and those large insects It was due to the jumping change in oxygen levels in the atmosphere.

Shirley Yang said: “One thing is very strange, is the overlap and conflict between archaeology and biology, scholars studying the ancient Egyptian civilization, think that in the Pharaoh’s emblem appeared in the holy beetle, that is, the worm of the gods, its original form is the worm, so do not agree with the biological scholars put forward, this kind of giant hard-shelled insects as early as the end of the Triassic period on the extinction of the point of view, they believe that at least during the time of the ancient Egyptian civilization, there were still such huge insects left in the world, and this has always been debated.”

In that era, all the animals in the world were huge, which is related to the plant and geological structure of the time, the environment with excessive oxygen content led to the unrestricted growth of insect form, the Triassic mosquito fossils now found, the length of their wingspan is estimated to be more than one hundred centimeters.

Insects are the use of trachea for breathing, but the speed of oxygen into the tissue, with the size of the insect and slow, when the insect’s body exceeds a certain length, the concentration of oxygen in the air will not be able to meet the requirements of the insect body, this objective factor, but also to limit the size of insects, as well as leading to the extinction of large insects is the most important reason.

The rock structure of the “Gourd Cave” is very special, it is a kind of ancient aplacental rock, red translucent crystals can be seen everywhere, there are also a large number of ancient fossil forests, which are products of the Triassic period, through the fossils formed at a certain moment in the ancient times, we can know that at that moment, the lava of the volcano and mudslide engulfed almost everything, almost all of which are the most important factors. The mudslides that engulfed everything covered this forest almost simultaneously, hot and then quickly cooled.

The expansion of gases in the ground formed the special terrain of the “gourd cave”, and part of the body of this “worm” was swallowed by the lava and mudslides, and before the magma had time to melt its hard and thick shell, it was quenched by the ensuing mudslides, so that part of the worm grew as one with the cave, and so the worm grew as one with the cave. A part of the insect and the cave to grow into one, can no longer be separated, the ancient Yi people living in the vicinity of the “Chalong Mountain” may be the horror of the “Huo’s immortality worm” as a mountain god to worship.

I do not know this “worm” is in this shell reproduction of the first few generations, its respiratory system, even has adapted to the concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere, perhaps with this “gourd hole” in the unique structure of the relevant, perhaps there is some kind of special plants or food. Maybe there is some kind of special plant or food here.

When we thought of food, we suddenly remembered the countless “dead floats” in the water, and we wanted to leave this place immediately, but now it seems that it is necessary to investigate more carefully, because this big bug and “King Xian’s Tomb” should have a great connection.

Why would this “worm” wear a golden mask in the shape of a priest of the King of Sacrifice, be artificially dressed in a layer of dragon scale demon armor, and is it the source of the poisonous fog near the King’s Tomb in the “Valley of Worms”?

I can think of some of their own ideas, Shirley Yang told once, but for the “Mistletoe” we understand is still very limited, only know that the ancient evil of the three major evil arts of the South Seas one of the “Mistletoe”, is a kind of dead people through the soul of the resentment, converted into the soul of the dead. Soul’s resentment, converted into invisible poison of the evil arts, the more tragic the death, the more violent the toxicity.

The shell of this strange insect was originally red, from its body constantly spraying red mist, began to be mistaken for toxic, but later found that these bright red gas, with the body of the insect by the constant blows, and the color gradually fade, to be the last with explosives to the head of it after the explosion, the red mist gas all dispersed, this guy will completely lose the ability to resist, it produced in the body of the poisonous mist, must be The poisonous mist produced in its body is definitely related to the “dead drift” in the water that it has been swallowing for years.

According to this judgment, may be this giant insect body part, is connected to the “worm valley” on the upper side of a location, according to its characteristics, the body of the worm has nearly 100 meters long, is not surprising, but also due to the extremely sunken topography of the valley, even the roots of the plants can penetrate, may be swallowed by the mouth of the worm into the water of the floating corpse, thousands of female corpse of the grievances through the worm body, transformed into the valley of the dead body. Insects, transformed into the valley’s diffuse white “痋 fog”, blocked from the outside world into the “King Xian’s Tomb” the only way.

On the “Human Skin Map”, it was recorded that the “Mist” on the periphery of the “King Xian’s Tomb” existed in a ring-like shape, which might be because the person who drew the “Human Skin Map” did not know the details. This is probably because the person who drew the “human skin map” did not know the details, after our field survey outside, this valley terrain, there can not be a ring of mountain miasma poisonous fog, both sides and the back are ten thousand feet of the wall, only a line of light, as long as the poisonous fog blocked the road in the valley, there will be no other way into the “Tomb of the King of Xiongnu”.

At this time Shirley Yang found the insects outside the body of those dragon scale bronze armor armor surface, engraved with a lot of inscriptions, wear and tear is very serious, only a small part can still be seen, but they are strange, can not be recognized, we suddenly remembered, such symbols, in the “monument store” has also seen, in the mouth of the loaded with the dead, with a chain sunk into the water of the pool. Chains sunk into the pool of that vat, cylinder body will have this symbol, when Professor Sun said that this is lost for a long time “痋术” in some kind of incantation, called “poke the soul of the runes”, is used to block the soul of the dead of the evil evil arts, which means that this layer of bronze demon armor, and that mouth This means that this layer of bronze demon armor is similar to the bronze skin wrapped around the water tank.

It seems not surprising to us, this a special dragon scale demon armor, and that combines the dedication of the king of the six demonic beast features of the gold mask, are through some kind of “痋术” ceremony, installed to this giant insect body, those people to really will be adapted to the local conditions, the use of all the resources that can be utilized, only that these things are not used to what is the right way to specialize in the evil method of this harm to people. The King of Xian always wanted to become an immortal and prove the truth.

Before the construction of King Xian’s Tomb, this mountain god ate only big toads and toads produced in the water, and since those foods contained poisonous glands in their bodies, it made this giant insect toxic, until this place was discovered by King Xian, who then used the method handed down by the ancient Belonging Barbarians to exhaust its toxicity, and then randomly made it according to the will of the brewer. It was only when this place was discovered by King Xian that he utilized the method handed down by the ancient Belayers to exhaust its toxicity and then soaked it as he wished, making the worm half dead and turning it into the source of the poisonous mist in the valley that arches over the King’s tomb. The endless hatred of the dead was repeatedly transformed through its body, so no wonder it screamed so miserably, and it seems to be quite pitiful, just like those chrysalises, which are all the victims of the King Xian’s Tomb.

If according to this speculation, a large number of female corpses in the water, is to create “痋雾” and set up, but this two thousand years, according to the speed of this worm eat down, the entire population of the Han Dynasty, also fill not today, it seems necessary to get a “dead drift” from the water! It seems necessary to get a “dead float” from the water up to analyze some, have to think of a way to break the barrier in the valley, so that when you leave may be used.

Fatty was afraid that I and Shirley Yang proposed to leave immediately, because he also intends to scatter on the ground gold debris, as well as the head of the part of the bug, are collected one by one, the number is very considerable, do not want for nothing, see us surrounded by the body of the bugs to see, immediately busy to find the engineering shovel, to the sparse head of the bugs to pick up those gold.

I focus on and Shirley Yang with mountaineering pickaxe, to salvage the water’s edge of the “dead drift”, did not notice the fat man in what to do, suddenly heard him in the back of a shout, we hurriedly turned back, only to see that has been blown up the head of the giant insect, the head suddenly lifted up, the outside of the mouthparts have been completely crushed, and this time, inside the mouth, already! I don’t know when, became several times bigger than before, and continuously issued a “cooing” sound.

I thought to myself that this guy is also too strong, blown up like this can still do such a big action, but really immortal body? Hurriedly copied up the “Chicago typewriter”, ready to give it another shuttle, but found that it is not to attack us, look at it that way …… seems to be to vomit.

I just thought of this, it is too late to remind the fat man to avoid, see that huge insect mouth a, wow la wow la, spit out a large number of female corpses, is previously in the water was swallowed into the “dead drift”, at this time have been changed to do the black and brown, but also lost the surface of the layer of green and cold light of the shade, the body is also stained with a lot of red, green, yellow colors of several colors of the Sticky liquid, all sprayed to the body of the fat man, I was about seven or eight meters away from him, were smoked by the stench almost fainted.

I immediately use the hand of the mountaineering pick, hooked the fat man’s carry bag, and Shirley Yang together, struggling to pull him out of the pile of corpses, fortunately, toxic “痋 fog” are discharged into the valley, these liquids should be a type of gastric fluid, although there may be some acidic, as long as immediately wash, even if it sticks to some of the body, but also is no harm.

Huo’s Immortal Insect” seems to have been hit hard by us, a vomit up will not stop, to be vomited out of more than a hundred black female corpses, and then again issued a burst of violent “Gulu” sound, this time it seems to be very painful, vomit out a huge Square object, heavy on the ground, the surface of that thing is dripping with juice, there are a lot of concave and convex large copper nail cap, it seems to be a bronze box, or a large bronze coffin.

I was surprised, never thought it had such a big piece in its stomach, fortunately, I pulled the fat man back in advance, or else I had to smash him into a skinny man, I glanced at Shirley Yang, Shirley Yang was also shocked, “This is just like the western legend, the Pandora’s magic box that was hidden in the belly of the ancient dragon.”