Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 34 Insect Repellants

Lao Yan hummed, and said that it was probably true, let me be more careful.

"Why didn't you tell Uncle Chen and the others?" I felt a little weird.

Lao Yan sighed and said: "It's not that I don't want to talk about it, but it's better not to know some things. Don't you realize that Company Commander Chen is about to collapse?"

When he said this, I was a little aware that although Company Commander Chen and the others were still calm, things that appeared along the way beyond their comprehension were indeed slowly defeating them.

"Okay, I'll be more careful." I nodded, and then asked the question I've been holding back in my heart for a long time: "When you communicated with those strange fish before, why did you lie to me that it was an illusion?"

"You know?" Lao Yan took out a cigarette and lit it, took two puffs and said with a sullen face: "You are not a member of the department yet."

I understand what he means, the ability he showed is really not like a normal person, if I don't belong to that department, then naturally he can hide it if he can, but Company Commander Chen and the others?

Lao Yan seemed to see what I was thinking, and said calmly: "I can't tell you the specifics yet, as long as it's not a bad thing anyway, not only you, but Lao Chen and the poisonous snake don't know either."

Only then did I feel relieved, if other people also hide it from me, then I really dare not take the next road.

Lao Yan rested for a while, then walked to the side and began to look for an exit.

This place is not too big. After searching around, we all shook our heads in disappointment. Except for the stone gate we entered before, there is no exit here.

"It seems that we can only go out from here."

With a cigarette in his mouth, Lao Yan pointed to the coffin and said something, and it was obvious that he was a little frightened.

Company Commander Chen directly refused: "Then it's better to turn around and go back and fight those strange fish, maybe you can survive. I don't know what's in this cave, and I can't even run away when something happens!"

"Uncle Chen is right, Lao Yan, you have to think clearly, there is a big ominous thing inside." I don't dare to take risks this time, I can't tell where this ominous thing is, in case I run into it head-on We definitely have no chance of winning.

Lao Yan asked a little irritably, "Then what do you think should be done?"

"Let's take a rest first, and look around later, maybe there is some mechanism that we haven't discovered." The poisonous snake made a compromise suggestion on the side.

From being chased here by the strange fish, we didn't even drink saliva along the way, we have indeed reached the limit.

Lao Yan exhaled the smoke ring and nodded, so we sat down at a distance from the coffin and took out our marching rations and gnawed.

After eating the dry food, we walked around the cave again, but to our disappointment, there is really no other exit here, unless we go out from the place we came in...

"Did you die?"

Lao Yan glanced at us and seemed to be a little mocking.I thought that there might be other things in the cave he said besides the murderous thing, and instantly understood what he meant.

So I greeted Company Commander Chen and the poisonous snake and said, "It's already like this, why don't you fight! Since this monster has escaped, it might not be here long ago."

With dark faces, they both nodded sullenly after a while: "That's the only way to go."

Seeing that they agreed, Lao Yan and I opened the coffin again, looking at the dark and steep hole underneath, we couldn't help but feel a little trembling, finally I gritted my teeth and entered the coffin: "Old Yan, you are finished."

"Success!" He agreed simply.

I threw the backpack on my back and was about to climb down when I heard Company Commander Chen hiss.

I quickly got up and asked him what's wrong, he touched his arm and said strangely: "It seems like I was bitten by an ant."

"Ants?" Lao Yan looked a little unhappy, saying that nothing in this kind of place should be taken lightly, and asked Company Commander Chen to roll up his sleeves and show him a look.

Company Commander Chen did not refuse, and directly exposed his arm, only to see a giant black ant with the length of a little finger lying on his arm.

As soon as Lao Yan's face changed, he stretched out his hand and patted Chen Lianchang's arm. The giant ant fell headlong to the ground, and Lao Yan quickly raised his leg and stomped on it.

"Hiss..."

Just as he stepped on it, I heard the clear sound of ants.

The sound of ordinary ants is very small, and it cannot be heard without special treatment, but the sound of this giant ant is not only loud, but also very rhythmic.

I always have a bad feeling when I hear this voice...

"Old Yan, trample him to death." I yelled, although I don't know why, but I always feel that I can't let this sound go on.

Lao Yan also moved very quickly. Seeing that he couldn't die with one foot, he hurriedly crushed a few times, but it was still too late...

There were bursts of 'hissing' sounds from the surrounding rocks, as if responding to the dead ants, but in a split second, I saw densely packed ants crawling on the originally empty rock wall.These ants were as small as normal ants, and were twice as big as the one just now, instantly turning the entire rock wall black.

There is no doubt that if we are surrounded by these ants, we will be killed by them even if we bite.

"Come on!"

Lao Yan pushed Company Commander Chen and the poisonous snake into the coffin, and climbed in by himself, but the speed of the giant ants was faster. As soon as we entered the coffin, they had already surrounded them, and some of them had already climbed up the coffin wall.

Lao Yan took out the lighter from his pocket, tore off the clothes on his body and lit it to smoke the ants, the crackling sound kept ringing in his ears.

But the number of ants was really too much. After these few were smoked to death, hundreds of them followed. Lao Yan's face changed drastically, and he roared, "Old Chen, you go down first with the poisonous snake."

Company Commander Chen also knew that he couldn't talk nonsense at this time, so he got into the hole first, and then caught the poisonous snake.

While fuming the ants with smoke, Lao Yan quickly told me: "Chang'an, you can pick up the coffin board when you see the right moment."

I nodded silently, looking at the densely packed ants lying on the coffin board, I couldn't help but get goosebumps.

Lao Yan wiped the almost burnt clothes on the wall of the coffin, then took out a bottle of green unknown liquid from his bag, poured it directly on the coffin board, and finally took out a piece of clothing quickly, lit it, and continued to smoke. Ants intending to climb up.

The liquid flowed on the coffin board, and the ants retreated as if they had encountered a strong poison. I swallowed, for fear that I would be corroded by the poison as soon as I took the coffin wrench.

Lao Yan yelled: "I will harm you? Hurry up, don't be swallowed by ants in a while."

I didn't hesitate, and quickly lowered my body to pick up the coffin board.

Lao Yan watched me pick up the coffin board, quickly sprinkled the remaining liquid around, and quickly covered the coffin board when the ants retreated.

As soon as the coffin boards were closed, the coffin was plunged into darkness, but within a few seconds, the sound of ants gnawing could be heard from the coffin lid, and it was estimated that they would bite out of the hole in a short while.

Lao Yan and I quickly got into the hole, and by the light of the flashlight, we found a rock in the hole and blocked it.

"Hurry up, those little guys are still following."

After blocking, Laoyan beckoned us to charge forward quickly.

This hole is very narrow, similar to what Company Commander Chen said, and it seems that something was squeezed out. However, the size of this thing is obviously not small. Although two people cannot walk side by side, it is still more than enough for one person to run.

After running for about ten minutes, Lao Yan stopped panting heavily: "The ant colony probably didn't follow."

We all heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this, and I curiously asked him what the liquid was just now, and why the ants were so afraid, and it was fine even after I got started.

Lao Yan explained that it was developed by his department to deal with some poisonous snakes, insects and ants. It contains some medicinal ingredients similar to realgar, which have the effect of repelling these things. He just brought it just in case.

"This thing is not completely non-toxic, you apply some medicine." Lao Yan took out a tube of medicine from his bag and handed it to me, and I quickly applied it.

We rested for a while, then remembered our situation, and raised our hearts again.

"Where does this path lead?"

I let out a long sigh of relief, and then I remembered the most important thing - we are not sure that this hole leads to the exit.

Lao Yan's face also darkened, as if he just remembered that there was still such a problem, and then he waved his hand and said: "It seems that it should be getting better and better, let's take a walk and see."

It seems that this is the only way to do it now, we didn't say anything, we listened to the movement with our ears open, for fear that the big ominous thing would suddenly jump out.

"Why is there a fork in the road?"

The poisonous snake walking in front suddenly yelled, and I walked behind him to take a look, and saw a cave of the same size appeared on the left and right sides of him.

"Isn't this thing drilling around inside?"

Looking at this hole, I immediately thought of this possibility in my mind, but as soon as my voice fell, there was a muffled sound from the road on the left, as if something was digging a hole...

(End of this chapter)