Chapter two hundred and sixty fifth insect disaster
In order to conceal their identity, those Gu insects actually destroyed the murals?
I originally wanted to ask the professor, aren't those monsters Gu worms? How could they have the idea of hiding their identity, but as soon as the words came to my lips, I swallowed them because I suddenly thought of a possibility, that is...
Do those Gu insects have the same thinking ability as humans?
After hearing my guess, Professor Tang let out a sigh of relief: "Yes, even the high priest who cultivated the deformed Gu did not expect that the Gu he cultivated not only had the ability to transform into a human appearance.
.Behind the ability to imitate human appearance, there is actually another more special imitation ability hidden. After the Gu insects transform into human form, they will become strongly aggressive towards the objects they imitate."
"The first person to suffer was a subordinate of the high priest. This subordinate was originally a Gu cultivator responsible for taking care of the Gu insect nest here. Because he came in and out of this place all the time, he had long been imitated by the Gu insects in the nest.
His appearance. One day, the voodoo master was attacked by voodoo insects and died. However, no one in the Dian Kingdom realized that the voodoo cultivator was dead. Instead, they thought he was still alive. The reason
, in fact, it is because the Gu insect that attacked the Gu master has replaced the Gu master himself and blended into human society!"
"Multiple in...?" I couldn't react at once, "Professor Tang, wait a minute. According to what you said, the monster I saw before that had the same appearance as me should be a deformed creature that imitated my appearance.
Is it a Gu? But the behavior of that Gu is completely different from ordinary people, and it only repeats my words. People like me who don’t know the existence of deformed Gu may indeed be temporarily deceived by them, but I know these deformed Gus.
How could the ancient Dian people, who had poisonous insects, be deceived by them?"
"Then why didn't you recognize the two fake police officers Li Shengli and Mu?" Professor Tang asked me.
"This..." I was speechless and suddenly realized something, "Wait a minute, could it be said that the behavior of the monster in the shower room is another ability of the shape-shifting Gu?"
Professor Tang nodded, and my hair stood on end. Before Professor Tang started to explain to me, I already understood what was going on at that time.
"The ability of the shape-shifting Gu bugs that even the high priest who cultivated them didn't know was that those Gu bugs could devour people's brains. When you were attacked by them, you saw the tentacles of the Gu bugs stretching out from their seven orifices. Those Gu bugs were
The eating organ. If I hadn't saved you at that time, those tentacles would have penetrated into your brain from your seven orifices, and then swallowed your brain up bit by bit."
"When the time comes, you will naturally die. But everything in your brain, including your memories and your personality, will be inherited by the Gu that devours you!"
I opened my mouth wide and didn't know what to say for a while. After a while, I managed to squeeze out a few words: "Is this kind of thing possible?"
"I'm not a biologist, how do I know it's impossible? What I just told you are all what I saw on these destroyed murals, plus what I saw with my own eyes later.
A tragedy, the final conclusion."
Professor Tang paused and continued: "After the first deformed Gu worm that blended into the outside world appeared, many nameless corpses were discovered in the ancient Dian Kingdom overnight. These corpses all had the same characteristic, that is,
Their facial features were completely destroyed, making it impossible to tell who the deceased was. At first, the ancient Dian Kingdom thought that this might be the work of spies sent by Dian Kingdom’s former mortal enemy, but as the number of deceased gradually increased,
This completely plunged the ancient Dian Kingdom into panic. Even the King of Dian, who had been obsessed with the art of immortality and had not been involved in political affairs for a long time, was alarmed. It was not until this time that the Dian Kingdom discovered the truth about the shape-shifting Gu. But
By that time, it's already too late."
"The last mural I saw depicts a war between the ancient Dian Kingdom and these shape-shifting Gu insects. In order to replace humans, those Gu insects that turned into human forms started a bloody battle with the Ancient Dian Kingdom. This There is no winner in the war. Although the Dian Kingdom finally eliminated all the Gu insects disguised as humans, most of the Dian Kingdom citizens in this city also perished with those Gu insects. Even the King of Dian and the High Priest who caused these incidents, They were all killed by Gu insects in the flames of war..."
The product he created in pursuit of immortality turned out to be the culprit who killed himself and destroyed his country. Nothing in the world is more unpredictable than this.
At this time, Professor Tang began to take steps again and continued to move deeper into the passage, and I immediately followed.
As we gradually went deeper into the passage, the situation ahead was exactly as Professor Tang said. The temperature in the passage was getting higher and higher, and the air became a little humid. I could even smell a thick sulfur filling the air. smell.
Not long after walking, gray-white things suddenly appeared in front of me. I looked over with a flashlight and found that these things turned out to be bones.
Most of these white bones have been completely weathered into fragments. Only a few of them are sunk in the ground, and the shape of the original bones can still be seen. The further I go, the more white bones there are. In the end, almost every time I take a step, I can hear the sound of the bones. The sound of bones breaking under my feet.
Professor Tang, who was walking in front, said to me as he walked: "These corpses are the last troops sent by the Dian people in order to seal the nest of the deformed Gu insects during that war. Most of them They all died in this passage, and only a few of them finally reached the exit of the lair, picked up a stone wall on the spot, and completely sealed the deformed Gu worm's lair."
Professor Tang sighed and said: "But who would have thought that a thousand years later, our archaeological team would waste the hard work of these warriors..."
Professor Tang told me that after discovering this passage, the archaeological team immediately organized an expedition team led by Professor Tang. At first, this team only discovered the group of murals halfway through the passage, but while Professor Tang was still in the passage While they were studying the murals, two members of the team continued to move deeper into the passage out of curiosity.
The two archaeological team members later discovered a stone wall deep in the passage. Due to its age and the constant corrosion of the sulfur-filled air in the Gu insect nest, the stone wall itself had become extremely fragile. The two archaeologists Under the contact of the team members, part of the stone wall immediately collapsed, exposing the Gu insect nest inside.
"I hadn't finished reading the murals at that time, so I still didn't know what kind of demon was hidden behind this passage..."
Professor Tang recalled the scene with trepidation: because of the discovery of two archaeological team members, he had to interrupt his research on the content of the mural, and chased after it with the other archaeological team members and entered the Gu insect nest.
But not long after, the archaeological team retreated hastily from the lair.
This retreat was not because they were attacked by shape-shifting Gu insects, but because they were attacked by another kind of strange shelled insect in the lair. That kind of strange insect was actually Professor Tang's archaeological research The unknown creature mentioned in the report in the institute. According to Professor Tang's current research, this kind of crustacean insect should be another kind of Gu insect that was put into the nest in order to cultivate deformed Gu insects in the ancient Dian Kingdom. This kind of Although Gu insects are very special and have never been seen by anyone before, they are just a special kind of insect at best. The purpose of their existence is only to provide a food source for the deformed Gu insects.
Although it was just food, that kind of monster beetle was not easy to mess with. It caused a lot of chaos to the archaeological team at that time. Fortunately, the archaeological team did not suffer any losses in the chaos. Only one team member was injured due to the chaos.
He was temporarily separated from the main force for a while, but even so, the team member successfully escaped not long after everyone evacuated the nest.
Professor Tang and others, who thought they were safe, immediately decided to leave here temporarily and return to the archaeological base. At the same time, they sent a report to the research institute, requesting them to send people to investigate these strange crustaceans, because if they couldn't find a way to deal with them,
Then the archaeological team will no longer be able to enter the Gu insect nest for investigation and research.
But no one on the archaeological team at that time discovered that a demon had taken advantage of the chaos and sneaked into the archaeological base, laying the groundwork for the subsequent tragedy...