I feel that the head should be some kind of huge bird, which is the natural enemy of hairworms, and hairworms are borers that live on this locust tree. They may have made these tree holes. It's like a cycle here.
ecosystem with a complete food chain.
I climbed out along the tree hole and took a look. The caterpillar and the monster were gone. I didn't see the appearance of the monster, so I wasn't sure whether it was a bird. If it was a bird, it would be like that.
Huge bodies must also be very rare. I returned to the tree hole, which seemed to be the nest of the insect. There were many tree holes inside, some big and some small. There was no pattern at all, so I didn’t know what to do.
Which way to go.
Finally, I chose the largest one. It was full of sawdust and animal secretions. It was dirty and had an unpleasant smell. This tree hole extended diagonally downward, twisting and turning in no direction.
It can be said that it is just a hole in a tree that a bug came out of. What kind of pattern can be expected?
This walk lasted nearly half an hour, and I estimated that I should have reached the center of the tree. Sure enough, the color of the tree hole suddenly became very dark. I pricked it with a knife and found that it was softer than the wood outside.
Only the core part of the tree has this feature.
After a few meters, the tree cave came to an end, and another tree cave appeared in front of it, but it was much smaller than the previous one, with a diameter of only about ten meters. What is strange is that there is another tree cave in the center of the tree.
The tree is a completely independent tree, only about one meter in size. The branches on it are very lush, but there is not a single leaf in sight.
A very shocking discovery, I have seen eggs growing inside eggs, but another tree growing inside a tree, this is really unheard of.
I thought that such a tree might be a good thing for me. What I'm worried about now is that I can't find a way to get down. The tree holes drilled by these insects are all parallel and cannot get down at all. Now there is
After finding this tree within a tree, I can climb down.
I didn't want to use the cowhide rope I brought. Instead, I tied one end of the twisted bark rope to a piece of wood here, made a loop on the other side and threw it over.
The rope was tied to a branch. After I tightened it, I climbed over there. The distance was not long, only a few meters. I climbed to the tree easily.
The branches above are very dense and very strong, so I climbed very easily. After climbing more than a hundred meters, the tree was already three or four meters in size, but the tree cave also expanded along with it.
Keep a distance of several meters.
After climbing down for about another fifty meters, I encountered an obstacle. Many pipes suddenly appeared on the tree trunks below, connecting them to the giant ghost locust trees around me.
These tubes are as thick as an arm. One end is inserted into the trunk of the tree, and the other end extends into the one-meter-sized holes in the giant locust tree. They go around in a circle. There are a lot of them.
The position here is higher, so it looks like a huge umbrella.
I climbed on top of those tubes and discovered that they were all transparent, like crystals, with some green liquid inside, flowing very, very slowly along the tubes into the holes of the giant locust trees.
I could already tell from the above that the tubes were very densely distributed, and the gaps in between were so small that no one could pass through them. Now I found that it was indeed the case. If I wanted to get through, I had to crawl to those holes and go through the places with larger gaps.
Just go over there and crawl back.
I tried it. Fortunately, these pipes were very hard and should be able to bear my weight. But to be on the safe side, I did not climb on one pipe. Instead, I let go and lay on several pipes.
, sliding down the slope.
Soon I slid in front of the holes in the giant locust tree. These were obviously dug manually, and the openings were very even.
I curiously used a lamp to shine inside, and found an unexpected sight. The hole was very large, and a square space was carved out. There was a wooden coffin in the center, and it was made of a ghostly locust tree.
It is carved out of the solid part, and the lower part is integrated with the trunk.
Those transparent tubes penetrate directly into the coffin from the head.
A strong curiosity arose in my heart. It should be a very rare thing for a coffin to be made of ghost locust wood. Moreover, this coffin is so strange that it is unheard of to cut the coffin directly from the tree trunk. The strangest thing is these tubes.
, the green juice inside must have flowed into the coffin, I don’t know what it does.
I crawled in along the entrance of the hole. The coffin was not nailed shut. I easily pushed open a gap and shined a light inside. I immediately found that most of the coffin was submerged in the green juice.
The green-skinned juice was actually transparent and very clear. I could see what was going on underneath through the liquid.
The sight is horrifying. There is a person lying below. It is impossible to tell whether he is a man or a woman, because his entire skin has been peeled off, and his body has completely turned green under the soaking of green juice, and the flesh has been completely transformed.
A layer of green hair grows out of it.
His face was hideous and terrifying, and his nose and ears were gone. The crystal tube was not inserted into the coffin, but penetrated into the body from the lower body of the corpse. All these green juices seeped out of the corpse.
of.
The green juice had a refreshing smell, while the corpse gave off a foul smell. The two mixed together to form a very strange smell.
I couldn't stand it anymore and was about to leave, but then I made an unexpected discovery. There were many small holes in the body, and some very thin lines extended from the body and connected to the surrounding coffin walls. These lines
It is translucent, and in this green liquid, if you are not careful, you may not be able to find it.
I was very curious about what these lines were used for, so I stretched out a tool and touched them. Unexpectedly, those lines were very fragile and broke when I touched them.
What was even more unexpected was that this time it poked a hornet's nest, and those lines were broken one after another. In an instant, the green liquid inside suddenly became turbid, bubbling like boiling water, and the evil smell
The odor also became stronger.
I already had a premonition that something was not going to happen, so I hurriedly ran towards the entrance of the cave. After taking a few steps, there was a loud noise behind me. I looked back and was shocked to find that the entire wooden coffin had exploded, and the green body
The corpse had already sat up, and thick black liquid was constantly seeping out of the body, covering the ferocious face and body like tar.
This was no longer a corpse, but a monster. I hurriedly crawled out of the hole, grabbed a transparent tube and crawled towards the middle.
When I was halfway up the climb, I couldn't help but look back and saw that the monster had already chased me. I took out the spray gun from my waist and fired a shot with my backhand. Naturally, it wouldn't miss at such a close distance.
, but unexpectedly, the monster just paused, and instead rushed towards it more ferociously, making a gurgling sound in its mouth, as if it was swallowing something.
When I climbed up the tree, I felt a little calmer, but the monster almost chased me end to end. I could only climb down quickly along the gaps between the branches, but this was still no match for the monster.
It was so fierce that within a short time it was less than two meters away from me.
It seems that I can't run away, and I have to fight with it. At this time, I suddenly had an idea, how can this monster determine my position? Its two eyes are almost two black holes. Could it be based on
Is it the smell? But I didn't have time to think about these things at this time. I quickly walked around the tree trunk to the other side. I already had the long-handled knife in my hand. If it pounced, I would definitely remove its two parts.
But what I didn't expect was that when it climbed to a position parallel to me, it did not rush towards me, but crawled directly down.
What's going on? My mind is full of doubts. Its target is not me, so where is it going?
Suddenly, an idea flashed in my mind, and I had a hunch that the place where this monster was going must be the most secret place here, that is, the real secret here. As long as I followed it, I might be able to get there.
That was definitely the case. I chased after the monster without hesitation. The monster was very fast. At this time, I could only vaguely see a shadow, but I was not worried about losing it because the monster passed by
They all left some traces, and I can follow them to find them.
This walk lasted for a full hour, and my legs and arms were almost numb. To my joy, I could vaguely see the bottom.
It turns out that there is a fault in the center of the giant ghost locust tree, and the tree in this tree grew out of that fault. It can also be said that the two trees are actually one body, but they look a bit similar.
parasitic relationship.
I climbed along the trunk all the way to the bottom. The roots of the tree in the tree are all embedded in the body of the ghost locust tree. They look intricate and intricate. Many roots are intertwined to form arc-shaped portal-like openings.
They extend in all directions, some are connected, and some appear to exist independently.
I followed the traces left by the monster and got into one of the portals, only to find that it was more complicated than I thought. It was like a huge maze. If it weren't for the monster, I think I would have entered.
I can't find a way forward.
The further inside I went, the narrower the space became, and in the end I almost had no choice but to crawl forward on my stomach. However, this situation did not last too long, and soon I encountered a cave that went straight downwards.
It is about two meters in diameter. From the traces left by the monster, it seems that it went down from this cave.