Nightcrawler: 20 Years of Peaceful Demons

Chapter 37 Missing
I almost crawled to the bug-free area, and found that these centipedes kept rushing towards me, but finally stopped two meters away, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But at this time, I realized that there were still centipedes biting my flesh in several places on my body.

There was nothing wrong with the Snake Cave just now, but it was really bad here.

I have been terrified of this ugly and terrifying multi-legged creature all my life, but at this moment, I didn't care too much. I reached out, grabbed it, threw it on the ground and stomped it. The juice came out, and I just relieved my bad breath, but at this time, the toxin probably spread, my eyes went dark, and I fell into the mud pit at once, and it took a long time before I recovered.

But at this time, I barely sat up halfway, but seeing those centipedes didn't dare to move forward, I turned around and surrounded the torches on the ground.

These centipedes gather in the cave all the year round, and for some reason, their temperament is extremely fierce. Even if they were burned by the flames, they did not flinch in any way. After a while, they extinguished the torch, killing the last wisp of fire in the cave. The light was all wiped out.

This ghostly place, which I haven't had time to look at, is completely plunged into darkness.

I was carrying my bag, half-sitting in the mud pit, leaning against the stone stick, panting constantly, feeling the burning pain at the wound continued, as if I was being roasted on the fire, the pain Like a wave, wave after wave came into my mind, making my thinking gradually stagnate.

I felt that the world in front of me was shaking, blurred, dizzy, and drowsy, as if I was about to fall asleep when I closed my eyes.

But at this time, I was extremely awake, knowing that if I closed my eyes, it would be difficult to wake up again.

Thinking of this, I pinched my thigh hard to keep myself awake.

At this time, darkness enveloped the entire space, except for the "rustling" sounds of countless centipedes crawling around, the only thing left was my heartbeat and gradually heavy breathing.

Sitting like this, I was as down and out as I was, and suddenly I felt a strong sense of unreality.

I imagined that I was actually dreaming.

Woke up from the dream, opened my eyes, I was still the busy medicine salesman running around, with a good income and a decent job, eating, drinking and having fun with customers everywhere, and then at the end of the month, I received a good salary, The kind of salary plus commission, and then I look forward to the Chinese New Year and go home with big bags and small bags.

However, the omniscient pain brought me back to reality again, and made me deeply realize that I am now deep underground in a certain forest in Jiangzhou, Ganxi, surrounded by centipedes and poisonous insects.

And I may not be able to get out alive.

When I thought of this, I was so angry that I couldn't help cursing my mother, but it was useless, and it didn't help me get out of this ghost place. Lu" above the method of meditation meditation.

Sitting like this, I don't know how long it took, I felt the burning pain in my body disappear, and my almost numb body began to regain its vitality.

I'm not sure whether it's the result of practicing Jiuxuanlu, or the effect of the detoxification pill that Mr. Xiahou gave me before. In short, the signs of poisoning started to fade, and I was able to stand up again.

At this time, the surroundings were still pitch black, and I touched the backpack behind me, and then began to study the stone stick in front of me.

In this place full of poisonous insects, it can have a foothold, all thanks to it.

But why are these ferocious centipedes afraid of this stone stick?
In the dark, I can't see too much, I can only touch it with my palm, I feel that it is slippery, I don't know how much mucus is on it, the teacup is thick and straight, and it is straight up, I can touch it up, I can touch it To the top - I am 1.7 meters tall. After wearing shoes, I can reach the top with my hands. That is to say, the stone stick stuck in the mud pit is about two meters long.

Maybe longer.

My judgment at this time is a little fuzzy and not very clear. I rubbed the mucus on my hands and smelled it under my nose. There was a smell of rosin agar, but the smell was not much. I knew it was not the excretion of some strange insects. thing.

I squatted down, scraped away the mud around the stone stick, and found that it was directly connected to the rock layer below.

I tried my best to pull it out, but found that it couldn't be pulled out.

This makes me a little depressed.

Because I was thinking about one thing just now, that is, if I want to leave, I have to face two problems - first, there are centipedes all over the ground here, these bugs are full of aggressiveness, if I leave this safe place without authorization Area, maybe it will be submerged alive by centipedes and poisonous insects; there is another one, that is whether there is an exit here.

If not, I'd have to climb up.

I need to investigate the latter question, and the basis for the investigation is that I have to survive in front of so many centipedes.

Now there is only one way to solve the first problem, and that is to pull out the whole stick that deters the poisonous insects, so that I can use it to drive away the poisonous insects.

I tried for a long time, but the stone stick was like a steel bar fixed on the ground, and I couldn't pull it out no matter what.

If you can't pull it out, break it off.

If it is broken, I can take it away——Thinking of this, I started to grab the top and fold it to the ground, but I never thought that this thing is also very tough. There is a gap.

This is how to do?
The body has not recovered yet, but the excessive force at this moment makes my head look more dizzy, and as time goes by bit by bit, I know that the more I drag on, the greater the danger will be, thinking like this, I decided to Putting all his eggs in one basket, he began to adjust his breath, using the method of stimulating the blood in "Jiuxuanlu", to burn the demon power, turn it into strength, and pull it out forcefully again.

This time, if you don't succeed, you will be benevolent. If it really doesn't work, then I will kill you here.

what……

I held the stick tightly with both hands, the strength gathered from my limbs into my hands, my breath sank, and then I suddenly lifted it to my chest.

Up!
At the beginning, the stone stick remained motionless, but when the blood of the Lingming stone monkey erupted, the solid and indestructible stone stick finally loosened a little.

I took advantage of this looseness and turned the circle bit by bit. Gradually, gradually, the stone stick shook more and more.

When I shouted violently and said "Get up", the stone stick finally left the ground. However, the moment it left the ground, I felt that the stone stick that was tightly grasped, as hard as steel, softened and softened. The dumplings turned from steel bars to cooked noodles and softened.

Not only that, but the stone scale on its surface also began to fall off.

The moment the stick became soft, I quickly reached out to pick it up, and when I came back to my senses, I found that the stick had softened into a ball of rope.

And when the stone dirt fell off, the thing revealed its original body, but it was like silica gel, soft and hard, and a bit soft in the hard. It is only as thick as a chicken egg, soft, and much shorter in length.

It was limp, and I held it in my hand and shook it like a whip.

Such a change caught me off guard. After a while, I held back the curiosity in my heart and stopped thinking about the reason. Instead, I grabbed the huddled thing and walked forward.

I'm just experimenting, whether the stone stick turned into noodles can still deter these centipedes and poisonous insects.

Fortunately, as I stepped forward, I felt those gadgets in the dark and began to shrink back. That is to say, although the shape of this thing has changed, its deterrent effect on centipedes and poisonous insects is still the same. existing.

This result made my hanging heart finally relax.

In any case, I finally took the first step towards success, and next, I have to find the exit.

Relying on a general impression, I came to the place where the torch fell just now. At this time, the centipedes retreated one after another, and I hung the softened stone stick around my neck, bent down to pick up the torch, and found that there was still There were some sparks, and I blew them bit by bit, turning the sparks back into flames, and then the torches started burning again, bringing light to the place.

With the light, I began to look around and found that it was a small space of twenty or thirty square meters, with a quagmire in the middle and rocks next to it, but except for the dense fist-sized holes on the mountain wall, There is no other way out.

Fortunately, at this time, I saw a rattan rope hanging from above, in an inconspicuous place.

This thing seems to be specially left by the designer.

I walked over, pulled the rattan rope and tugged it, feeling that it was still strong, then looked up and looked at the centipede that was constantly surging in Zhouzhai, I didn't want to stay for a second, so I took the half-slender stick Put it in the backpack behind you, bit the torch with your mouth again, and started to climb up.

This process was extremely difficult. If I didn't pay attention, I started to slide down with sweaty palms. I was so scared that I hurriedly hugged the rope to stop the fall.

It took me almost half an hour to climb repeatedly in this way before I climbed to the top.

And here is a slippery shallow slope, where I just slipped down, and here I have to climb carefully, because if I make any mistakes, I will definitely have to fall again.

After tossing like this, when I finally climbed to the top, I was almost exhausted. I threw the torch aside and lay down on the ground. Painful and itchy, very sad.

I rested for a long time before I got up. After thinking for a while, I suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly took out the silicone rope-like thing.

Then I started to check the things that I took from Qiu Wendong when I was alone.

I haven't had time to take a closer look at it because I've been running around all the time.

However, when I emptied the entire backpack, I was dumbfounded.

I was stunned.

Except for a bead of blood and a stone that came from nowhere, there was nothing in the backpack.

Including the piece of meat that I thought was the Houtu Lingzhu, and other blood beads, all disappeared.

what happened?

(End of this chapter)