The calico cat ran a few steps, broke away from Wu Qiudao's hand, and ran back.
Wu Qiudao stamped his feet anxiously: "What are you doing?"
The calico cat said while running: "I unloaded the bag, and the talisman that Master Yao Wang gave me is still in the bag!"
Wu Qiudao held back the words he was going to scold his mother in. Well, this thing really can't be thrown away.
The floor of the cave was shaking more and more seriously, and the gravel above his head kept falling. Wu Qiudao was so afraid that he raised his hands to protect his head and ran out for two steps, but he still said "poof". He really couldn't leave the eight-nine behind.
The year-old girl ran away by herself.
Wu Qiudao ran back quickly. He saw that the calico cat had put on his schoolbag, and saw a smile suddenly broke out on his face, and he ran towards this side happily.
But the rock walls of the cave could no longer support the violent vibrations caused by the snake's movement, and even the ground cracked.
Wu Qiudao hesitated subconsciously, not daring to cross the expanding crack in front of him, and then he couldn't cross it anymore.
The cracks were getting bigger and bigger, and the entire cave was shattered. Then the cracks suddenly expanded with a "bang", and a fierce mountain wind blew in his face. He could only watch the calico cat standing on the opposite side getting closer and closer to him.
Far.
When the snake stopped moving and disappeared somewhere, the rock wall finally stopped shaking.
Wu Qiudao leaned on the rock wall with his sword and climbed out against the wind in the cave. He stretched out his head to look around. Only then did he realize that the rock wall he was on was on a large underground mountain wall, and the calico cat was on top of it.
The entrance to the cave is on the other side, and there is a huge open rift valley between the two.
The snake did not leave, but stopped moving at the bottom of the rift valley. I don't know whether it fell to death or was simply resting.
Wu Qiudao didn't dare to shout, so he could only use messy sign language to express "You stay there and don't move, I will find a way to get to you." As for whether the calico cat could understand it, he didn't know.
He took a deep look at the calico cat, which was afraid of crying, and the giant strange snake at the bottom of the underground rift valley. He lit the torch and walked along the way, looking for a path that could bypass the cracks.
But he is not too worried. The calico cat's bag is still there, and there is no shortage of dry food and water. If he really can't hold on, he can just wait for the snake to leave and then tear off the talisman in his hand. At that time, the sign will vibrate and the demon will
Tao will naturally come to save her.
But after all, we have just descended into the Xiling Crypt and asked the Demon Dao to save people when we didn’t find anything. Then next time we come to the Demon Dao, we won’t be able to show kindness to the calico cat to collect the summoning talisman, so it’s best for the two of us to do it.
Meet up and continue this trip.
Wu Qiudao held a torch to look for a passable fork in the road, but the underground caves were no better than man-made buildings, and the accessible paths were more like cracks than roads. You had to drill through countless holes that were neither up, down, left, or right to find possible passages.
Soon, Wu Qiudao was tired. He was dizzy and couldn't tell the difference between north, south and east. He also lost the concept of time. Now he only knew that he could no longer walk, so he collapsed on the ground and breathed heavily.
The cave here should be quite far from the ground. There are many glowing moss and strange mushrooms growing on the rock walls. Wu Qiudao's feet would slip from time to time when he stepped on the ground because the moss on the ground was too slippery.
Because there were luminous vegetation here, Wu Qiudao extinguished the torch and saved some use. After the torch stopped burning, maybe less oxygen was consumed. He felt that he could finally breathe, so he reluctantly sat up and started to take the
Fill your stomach with a water bag and dry food.
He didn't know what time it was or where he had drilled into. He only knew that he was very tired. After eating, he got into his sleeping bag and fell asleep.
Although the moss and lichen on the ground were wet and slippery, soaking the bottom of his sleeping bag a little, he was too tired to care about it, nor to find a drier or safer area, and soon fell asleep directly.
Already.
In the deep darkness, Wu Qiudao suddenly woke up from his sleep and felt a terrible suffocation. "Huha", "Huha" he kept breathing hard, but still couldn't inhale any air. It was like a ghost pressing down on the bed.
.
He struggled desperately, but he couldn't break free. Everything within his reach was a slippery mass, as if he was stuck in a sticky dough. Even if he tore hard, it would only stretch the dough longer, and it would bounce back as soon as he let go.
go back.
The strength of his struggle became smaller and smaller, until he stopped breathing completely.
Suddenly, Wu Qiudao sat up with his head raised and was finally able to breathe fresh air. Once again, he triggered the golden finger of immortality certified by Dao Dao and revived from suffocation.
He felt his hands were sticky, and when he turned around, he saw that the dough wrapped around him was slippery moss on the ground, or a collection of strange creatures that he originally thought were moss.
The ground is covered with these lichen creatures. They are constantly rising and falling, forming a ball. Some luminous moss and luminous mushrooms are rolled together by them, and their whole bodies are shining with a faint light, illuminating their true forms.
If Wu Qiudao were to describe it, these lichens are like the "Venom" symbiote in "Spider-Man". Small pieces of semi-solidified black colloid climbed up on their own and concentrated in the direction of the "dough"
.
Just like ants that encounter a disaster like water or fire will gather into a big ant ball, these unknown creatures also gathered together in response to stress, forming a large black ball similar to a water-filled balloon.
After the "lichen" crawled, the cave gradually revealed its original shape. The ground was filled with various skeletons, some people's clothes, and iron tools such as axes, drills, and chisels. Could it be that there were miners here before?
Those black "lichen" crawled over Wu Qiudao's feet, leaving an indescribable disgusting feeling. Wu Qiudao looked around, and the entire cave was dripping with black "water drops".
He understood the way these creatures hunted. They spread themselves out all over the cave, waiting quietly for food to accidentally break in. Then they quietly gathered to suffocate the food and devour it. Finally, they spit out their indigestible bones and waited for the next one.
The rabbit hit.
So what if no creature breaks in for a long time, or the creature doesn't lie down to rest?
Before Wu Qiudao could figure out the answer, these lichen creatures answered the question for him themselves.
As more and more independent "lichen" individuals gather, this black mass rapidly expands, and finally turns into a monster similar to the most common "slime" in Japanese fantasy novels, but it is definitely much scarier than slime!
It is a protoplasmic foam-like micelle with no fixed shape. It looks like it is made of thick tar. Countless pustule-like artificial eyes are like bubbles constantly emerging and disappearing on its surface, which makes people look extremely disgusting.
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The black ball of lichen gradually deformed again, stretched out human-like hands, and rushed towards Wu Qiudao. It was not jumping like a real "slime", but crawling forward like a snail. Those small pieces
The semi-solidified colloid kept crawling underneath, pushing the entire black mass to squirm.
Its mouth, or something similar to its mouth, made a strange sound, which sounded like "hurt...thirst...come on! Come on!"
Come again? Come into your mouth, right?
Wu Qiudao's scalp was numb when he saw it. He didn't even dare to pick up the sleeping bag in his backpack, so he turned around and ran away.