The fat man poked the giant monster insect's body with the muzzle of his gun several times: just now it was as hard as a steel plate, and bullets couldn't penetrate it, but now it's as soft as a pine caterpillar, and it seems that it's not dead yet. I don't think we can care about it. Then stuff some explosives into its mouth and send this thing to the west to vent the bad breath in its heart.
Said: I'm afraid it's not that simple. With our equipment, it is impossible to kill it completely at the moment. Fortunately, it is no longer a threat. This is a mantis with a rare wheel-shaped nerve structure similar to the sun goddess snail. , apart from changing the oxygen content in the air, it is difficult to find a way to kill it.
The ancestors of this kind of mantis can be traced back to the Cambrian period hundreds of millions of years ago, when invertebrates originated. At that time, other animals except insects were still in low-level evolutionary stages. The original form of the mantis, With its tenacious vitality, it has escaped countless earth-shaking species destruction and survived until the Triassic Period tens of millions of years ago, where it has gradually evolved into the largest insect species in history.
Different from the common creatures with central nervous system and tree-like nerves, there are only two kinds of creatures with wheel-shaped nervous tissue and compound cell structure in the world so far. The first one is from a few years ago. The sun goddess snail is a mysterious creature that existed hundreds of millions of years ago. Its existence is so early that humans only know a few fragments of it. The wheel-shaped nervous tissue has no nerve center, which means that the nerves of this animal are separated and the tissue is necrotic. Afterwards, the whorl nerves will still continue to exist, and the sun goddess snail is a hermaphrodite. No mating is required, and the new life produced will replace the dead body outside the body. Although this characteristic limits its number, as long as the living environment allows , its whorl-shaped nerves and mesh-like cell structure will multiply endlessly in the shell.
The name of the mantis worm is Huo's undead mantis. This name is named in commemoration of the British biologist who discovered its fossil. This strange creature with reticular nerves is between invertebrate and semi-vertebrate, and has a body similar to that of the sun goddess. The protective shell of the snail is made of its internal secretions. In nature, there are no natural enemies. Unless you eat the whole snail and digest it completely with gastric juice, you only need to leave a part of the nerve network. It can still survive, and its final extinction, just like those huge insects, is due to a jump-like change in the oxygen content in the atmosphere.
Said: One thing is very strange, which is the overlap and conflict between archeology and biology. Scholars who study ancient Egyptian civilization believe that the scarab that appears in the Pharaoh's emblem is the insect of the gods, and its original form is the mantis. long insects, so they disagree with the view put forward by biologists that this giant hard-shelled insect became extinct as early as the end of the Triassic. They believe that at least in the era of ancient Egyptian civilization, there are still such huge insects left in the world. This has always been debated.
At that time, all animals in the world were very large. This was related to the local plants and geological structures at that time. The environment with excessive oxygen content led to the unlimited growth of insects. The Triassic mosquito fossils now found, Its wingspan is estimated to be over one hundred centimeters.
Insects use the trachea to breathe, but the speed of oxygen entering the tissues will slow down with the size of the insect. When the insect's body exceeds a certain length, the concentration of oxygen in the air cannot meet the requirements of the insect body. This objective This factor is also the main reason that limits the size of insects and leads to the extinction of large insects.
The rock formation structure of the Hulu Cave we are currently in is very special. It is an ancient superimposed rock. Red translucent crystals can be seen everywhere, as well as a large number of ancient fossil forests. These are all products of the Triassic period. Through those in ancient times, From the fossils formed at a certain moment in the era, we can know that at that moment, the volcanic lava and the debris flow that swallowed everything covered this forest almost at the same time, and the temperature quickly cooled down.
The expansion of ground gas formed the special topography of the Calabash Cave. Part of the body of this mantis was engulfed by lava and debris flow. Before the magma had time to melt its hard and heavy shell, it was extinguished by the ensuing debris flow, so the insect Part of the body has become one with the cave and can no longer be separated. In ancient times, the Yi people who lived near Zhelong Mountain may have worshiped this terrifying Huo's undead insect as a mountain god.
I don’t know how many generations this mantis has reproduced in this insect shell. Its respiratory system has actually adapted to the current concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere. Maybe it’s related to the unique structure in the gourd cave, maybe it’s There is some kind of special plant or food here.
When we thought about food, we suddenly thought of the countless dead floats in the water. We wanted to leave here immediately, but now it seems that it is necessary to investigate more carefully, because this big bug should be closely related to the tomb of King Xian.
Why did this mantis wear a golden mask in the shape of a king priest and was artificially put on a layer of dragon scale demon armor? Is it the source of the poisonous fog near the King's Tomb in the Insect Valley?
I told them all the ideas I could think of, but what we know about the evil arts is still very limited. We only know that the evil arts, one of the three ancient and evil Nanyang evil arts, is a kind of manipulation through manipulation. The resentment of the soul of the deceased is transformed into a magic spell of invisible poison. The more miserable the person who died, the more powerful the poison.
The shell of this strange insect was originally red, and red mist was constantly sprayed out from its body. At first, we mistakenly thought it was poisonous. However, we later discovered that the color of these bright red gases gradually changed as the insect body was continuously hit. After finally blowing up its head with explosives, all the red mist-like gas dissipated, and this guy completely lost its ability to resist. The poisonous mist produced in its body must be the same as the poisonous mist it has swallowed in the water all year round. Dead drift has something to do with it.
Judging from this, it is possible that a certain part of the giant insect's body is connected to a certain point above the insect valley. According to its characteristics, it is not surprising that the insect's body is nearly a hundred meters long, and because the valley is extremely low in the ground, Even the roots of plants can penetrate the topography. Maybe the insects swallowed the floating corpses in the water, and the resentment of thousands of female corpses would pass through the insect bodies and transform into a white mist that permeated the valley, blocking the entrance to the temple from the outside world. The only road to the king's tomb.
The human skin map records that the miasma around the tomb of King Xian exists in a ring. This may be because the person who drew the human skin map did not know the details. After our field investigation outside, it is impossible for this kind of valley terrain to have a ring of mountain miasma. The poisonous fog is surrounded by cliffs on both sides and behind, and there is only a sliver of skylight when you look up. As long as the poisonous fog blocks the road in the valley, there will be no other way to the king's tomb.
At this time, it was discovered that the surface of the dragon scale bronze armor outside the insect body was engraved with many inscriptions and was severely worn. Only a small part could still be seen, but they were all weird and unrecognizable. We suddenly remembered that such symbols I have also seen it in Beidian, the big vat where the dead were put in and chained and sunk into the pond. There was this symbol on the vat. At that time, Professor Sun said that it was from the long-lost art of evil. A certain kind of talisman, called the soul-piercing talisman, is used to block the vicious magic of the dead souls. This shows that this layer of bronze demon armor is similar to the copper skin wrapped around the water vat.
It seems that as we expected, this specially made dragon scale demon armor and the golden mask that combines the characteristics of the six demon beasts of King Xian were all installed on this giant insect through some kind of evil ritual.
Those people really know how to adapt to local conditions and make use of all available resources. However, these things are not done in a righteous way, and they specialize in this evil method that harms people. Unfortunately, King Xian always wants to become an immortal and realize the Tao.
Probably when the tomb of King Xian was being built, the mountain god master only ate large toads that were found in the water. Since those foods contained poison glands in their bodies, the giant insect was also poisonous. Until this place was discovered by King Xian, he took advantage of the ancient Yi people.
The method passed down from generation to generation is to drain out its toxicity, and then brew it at will, making the insect half-dead and turning it into the source of the poisonous fog that guards the tomb of the king in the valley. The endless hatred of the dead passes through it repeatedly.
Its body was transformed. No wonder it screamed so miserably. From this point of view, it was quite pitiful. Like those human pupae, they were all sacrificed to the king's tomb.
According to this speculation, the large number of female corpses in the water were set up to create mist. However, according to the speed at which these bugs have been eaten in the past two thousand years, the entire population of the Han Dynasty combined cannot fill today's population. It seems necessary.
We took a dead body out of the water and brought it up for analysis. We had to find a way to break the barrier in the valley so that it might be useful when we leave.
The fat man was afraid that I and I would come out immediately, because he also planned to collect all the gold fragments scattered on the ground, as well as the parts on the insect's head.
, and immediately hurriedly found the engineer shovel to dig out the gold from the pulpy insect heads.
I was busy using my mountaineering pickaxe to salvage the dead drifts from the waterside. I didn't notice what the fat man was doing. Suddenly, I heard him shouting from behind. We hurriedly turned around and saw the giant fish with its head blown apart.
The insect suddenly raised its head, and the outer mouthparts were completely shattered. At this time, the mouth inside had become several times larger than before at some unknown time, and it kept making gurgling sounds.
I thought to myself that this guy is too strong. He can do such big moves after being blown up like this, but is he really immortal? I quickly picked up the Chicago typewriter and was about to give it another shot, but I found that it was not going to hit us.
Attack, it looks like it is about to vomit.
I just thought of this, and before I could remind the fat man to avoid it, I saw the huge insect opening its mouth and spitting out a lot of female corpses. The dead ones that had been swallowed by it in the water had now turned black and brown.
, it also lost the cold green light on the surface, and the body was still stained with a lot of red, green, and yellow viscous liquids, all of which were sprayed on the fat man. I was about seven or eight meters away from him.
They almost fainted from the stench.
I immediately used the mountaineering pick in my hand to hook the fat man's carrying bag, and struggled to pull him out of the pile of corpses. Fortunately, the poisonous smog was discharged into the valley. The liquid should be gastric juice, although it may
It's somewhat acidic, so as long as you wash it off immediately, it's okay even if some of it sticks to your body.
The huge Huo's undead insect seemed to have been beaten hard by us just now. It couldn't stop vomiting. After vomiting out more than a hundred dark female corpses, it made another violent grunting sound, which seemed very painful. It vomited out a
The huge square object fell heavily to the ground. The surface of the object was dripping with juice and there were many concave and convex large copper nail caps. It looked like a bronze box or a large copper coffin.
I was so surprised. I never expected that there was such a big thing in its belly. Fortunately, I pulled the fat man back in advance, otherwise I would have to smash him into a thin man. We looked at each other in surprise: This is simply like
In Western legend, the Pandora's box hidden in the belly of the ancient dragon. Book Alliance
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