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"Let my colleague from Southwest take him away later. I don't have time to waste on him."
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In the early morning, before the sky was fully light,
The village was not as lively as it was during the day. There were only a few roosters crowing and the sound of the morning breeze blowing the thatch. Even the roosters had not crowed yet.
Hu Xiuwu, Hu Bayi and others woke up early today. Hu Xiuwu sat cross-legged and meditated to adjust his state.
Shirley Yang and Hu Bayi were still studying the tomb-suppressing book and the dragon-tiger short staff they found on Enkuan.
Wang Kaixuan and Lao Meng were sorting out their equipment, including flashlights, sleeping bags, machetes, protective clothing, and even explosives.
But there were no hot weapons. Wang Kaixuan applied for a gun, but was rejected by Liao Zhong.
Nadutong is a company, not a law enforcement agency. It can use helicopters and ask the government for help.
However, the entire Naduotong company does not have a gun license. Even though the power of magic weapons is actually no less powerful than guns, the company is still not allowed to legally carry guns.
Guns are the bottom line.
Liao Zhong and his colleagues in the southwest finally determined the pick-up location and time.
After everything was ready, they left Caiyun Inn quietly without saying goodbye to anyone.
Heading towards Zhalong Mountain.
Chapter 47 Simple Mode
Hu Xiuwu and his team took a small boat and followed the Snake River to the waterway that Liao Zhong and his team had found earlier.
Wang Kaixuan held the engine handle, controlled the direction of the boat, and headed deeper into the cave.
After completely entering the cave, everyone turned on their flashlights and headlamps. Hu Bayi turned on the large spotlight on the bow to help Wang Kaixuan illuminate the road ahead.
The cave is located under the snow-capped mountains. The temperature inside the cave is extremely low, the water is freezing cold, and there are stalactite columns hanging upside down on the top of the cave. But the further they go, the more bizarre the cave becomes.
The walls of the cave were no longer made of naturally formed stone pillars, but had been replaced by human pupae that were clearly artificially created.
These human pupae are fat, thin, tall, and short. It is unknown how long they have been hanging in the cave, and a thin layer of rock has covered the surface of the human pupae.
"Oh my god, these couldn't have been made by King Xian!" Wang Kaixuan shouted at the stern of the boat.
Liao Zhong asked Wang Kaixuan to pull the boat aside and take a closer look at what was going on with these human pupae.
Hu Xiuwu looked at the human pupa next to the boat and controlled the ghost mound to shoot out a gas force. The gas column shot out by the ghost mound hit the abdomen of the human pupa.
Just like breaking an egg, the surface of the human pupae broke into several pieces like an eggshell, and the soup inside leaked out.
Every human pupa is a nest of insects, filled with eggs that have not yet hatched.
Lao Meng carefully examined the characteristics of these eggs, and pushed up his glasses, reflecting the light of knowledge:
"Looking at the characteristics of the eggs, they seem to be the eggs of the water boar wasp, but they are much larger than normal water boar wasp eggs."
In order to break through the limits of a veterinarian, Lao Meng studied biology diligently and successfully became a graduate student in the Department of Biology at Xiyu University.
If it weren't for the fact that it was so difficult to find a job in biology and the salary of a biology teacher was too low, and he had to raise two children and a wife who spent money like water.
He wouldn't go anywhere to work as a temporary worker.
Wang Kaixuan twitched his nose: "Hey, Lao Hu, Xiu Wu, do you think there is a familiar smell in this human pupa?"
After hearing what Wang Kaixuan said, Hu Xiuwu also took a deep breath.
There was a stench of corpse floating in the cave, and beneath the smell of rusty stone, there was a hint of fragrance.
Hu Xiuwu suddenly realized: "Isn't this the taste of the fish soup in Ma Dadan's shop? So that's it, the real function of the fish soup is to make beer!"
Ma Dabao's 爫烡 is a basic material for the art of making bamboo and bamboo.
But Ma Dabing didn't know that the fish was used as a strange poison.
Hu Bayi said: "The environment here is so disgusting and scary, no wonder Peacock's brother never brings Peacock here."
Liao Zhong said, "Everyone, be careful. This is probably a trap set by King Xian. It's probably not safe here. Fatty, keep going forward."
Wang Kaixuan restarted the engine of the boat and drove the boat towards the Insect Valley.
The roar of the speedboat engine is amplified by the reflection of the cave, causing tinnitus in people's ears.
Before they walked far, the human pupae in the cave began to tremble continuously, as if they were woken up by the noise of the boat.
It's early in the morning, when people are sleeping soundly, and you drive by with advertisements playing on the radio. Isn't that too much, especially when your car goes off earlier than the alarm clock.
If you wake people up, don't blame them for being grumpy.
One after another, human pupae swayed and fell from the wall of the cave into the water, creating splashes of water.
When the eggs inside the human pupa come into contact with water, they quickly hatch and grow into fully-fledged water pig wasps.
Don't be fooled by the name of the water bee. Although the word "bee" is in its name, it actually has no wings and does not look like a bee. It is more like a leech and can attach itself to people to suck blood.
Seeing the dense swarms of water boar bees swarming towards the boat, Wang Kaixuan and Hu Bayi were both shocked, and Shirley Yang also got goose bumps.
On the contrary, Hu Xiuwu and Liao Zhong were very leisurely. Liao Zhong even had the mood to take out a cigarette, light one, and puff away the smoke.
"Old Meng, come on, if you don't take action, those guys will be scared."
Lao Meng was called out by Liao Zhong and could no longer slack off. He could only sit by the boat and put his hand into the water.
Lao Meng's Qi spread out from his hands in circles, touching the water pig queen bee.
These water boar bees immediately turned into licking dogs, circling around the boat and becoming its guards.
The smell of the water bee attracted a green scaled crocodile that feeds on the water bee.
The water python in nature is not poisonous, but the water python in the cave is obviously poisonous, so it is not poisonous.
Hu Xiuwu crossed his legs and leaned back in the boat.
"Uncle Meng, there comes another one,"
Lao Meng wiped the nonexistent sweat from his forehead and said, "This thing will take some effort. Snakes are still smarter than insects."
The green scales and the excellent staff knocked on the neon lights. The green scales and the excellent staff knocked on the neon lights. The green scales and the excellent staff knocked on the neon lights. The green scales and the excellent staff knocked on the neon lights.
Before it had eaten enough, the green-scaled fox started to eat the food.
Soon, the sound of iron sheets rubbing against each other was heard again from underwater.
Shirley Yang heard the noise and shone her flashlight toward the river behind her: "It's a saber-tooth viperfish, a ferocious piranha. A school of saber-tooth vipers can gnaw a buffalo to its skeleton in an instant."
Shirley Yang talked about how scary the knife-toothed viperfish was, but her expression didn't change at all, and her tone wasn't panicky, but rather calm.
It's like seeing a rare fish in an aquarium and introducing it to your friends.
As expected, the group of knife-toothed vipers surrounded the water boar wasp again.
Before entering the cave, they only had one small boat. After entering, they already had three layers of guards inside and outside.
There is also a vanguard general leading the way in front.
The boat approached the shore calmly, and the green-scaled boat was not far from the shore.
He went ashore first, crawling back and forth on the shore to check whether the surroundings were safe.
Seeing the green scales and the red and blue water flowing into the water, the red and blue water flowing into the water flowed out, and the red and blue water flowing into the water flowed out.
Liao Zhong then went upstairs with a cigarette in his mouth.
Hu Xiuwu yawned, picked up his bag, followed Lao Meng and Liao Zhong, and jumped onto the shore.
At the end of the team were Wang Kaixuan and Hu Bayi, who looked dazed. They had an expression as if they had seen a new world.
Is that all?
Thinking back to the past, the experiences at the General's Tomb at Niuxin Mountain and the life-threatening situations at Longling, and looking at the present situation, which seems like a trip, Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan seem to understand something.
What does it mean that every profession has its own expertise? What does it mean that it is easier to practice with the support of the government?
What about the General of the Fa Qiu and the Captain of the Mojin Sect? Can they be as awesome as the official archaeology?
After everyone got ashore, Lao Meng released his control over the water boar wasp and the knife-toothed viperfish.
After Lao Meng left, both parties woke up and realized each other's presence.
The schools of fish and insects paused for a moment, as the prey and predator discovered each other at the same time.
In the blink of an eye, the water began to boil.
Chapter 48: Entering the Worm Valley Easily
Without even getting their clothes wet, the few of them crossed the river and entered the Insect Valley.
The river channel is at the foot of Zhalong Mountain, where the terrain is already very low, but unexpectedly, the altitude of the Worm Valley is even lower than it.
The original underground river actually turned into a small waterfall in the Worm Valley.
The environment of the Insect Valley is different from that of Zhalong Mountain. The terrain here is special. The entire Insect Valley is like a huge amphitheater. The closer to the center, the lower the terrain.
The basin-like structure, coupled with the suitable temperature and abundant rainfall in the southwest region, makes the Insect Valley densely covered with green plants, blocking out the sun, and various rare butterflies that are difficult to see from the outside world are flying among the flowers.
The extremely poisonous white miasma, like Saturn's planetary rings, surrounds the outer periphery of the Worm Valley.
In this situation, neither Hu Bayi nor Hu Xiuwu could use their Feng Shui skills.
Liao Zhong held up a telescope and observed the terrain of the Worm Valley beside the small waterfall:
"The Medicine Immortal Society's group climbed over from Zhalong Mountain. They must have entered the Worm Valley from there. Since they have already found the correct path, we don't need to explore it ourselves."
"Let's follow the path they took."
Before leaving, Liao Zhong reminded the others: "Put on your protective clothing, because we are going to pass by that patch of white miasma."
After knowing that the target this time was the tomb of the Gu King, Liao Zhong asked the technicians of the bunker to prepare fully enclosed protective clothing for everyone in the team.
Before putting on protective clothing, everyone has to put on headphones to facilitate communication.
The protective suit is white, which is particularly conspicuous in the forest. There are talismans on the surface of the suit.
Hu Xiuwu looked at the talisman on his clothes and felt that it looked familiar.
"This seems to be our Shangqing's plague-repelling talisman."