Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 382 Can't Get Enough!
The moment the blood-devouring lichen flew over his head, Xiao Ran unexpectedly smelled a strange fragrance mixed with honey-like sweetness.When the blood-devouring lichen tightly wrapped the stone lion, Xiao Ran sniffed his nose again, wanting to smell this strange fragrance again.

Unexpectedly, the second uncle covered his nose and shouted at him: "Don't smell it! If you smell it too much, be careful to be addicted, and be confused by it. This smell is specially used by it to lure prey..."

Hearing this, Xiao Ran quickly blew his nose vigorously.This hunting principle should be similar to that of nepenthes trapping insects. It also emits a certain smell that makes the target irresistible. When the insects smell it, they will consciously burrow in, and eventually become the belly of the nepenthes.

At this moment, there was a sound of rubbing stones, and he looked into the darkness, only to see that the blood-eating lichen wrapped in stone lions was wriggling and twisting, and the protruding tentacles on the back were also shaking constantly, looking extremely excited .

Not long after, layers of gray stone foam began to fall from the edge of the stone lion covered by the blood-devouring lichen, and the size of the stone lion also decreased at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"This bastard, it's been a long time since he drank blood, he can chew stones so finely..." Second Uncle sighed.

Only then did Xiao Ran come to his senses, and turned around to ask his second uncle, "What are you doing with such a dangerous thing here?"

The second uncle glanced at Xiao Ran and said: "This thing can take us where we need to go, just like a dog that recognizes the house. I thought I would feed it some blood, and it would come alive and take us back. I underestimated it, holding it in for too long with such a little blood can't satisfy it at all..."

Xiao Ran was puzzled and said: "Can this thing take us where we should go? Where? Where did you get this thing from?"

The second uncle didn't give him an answer, but hurriedly raised his hand to stop his questioning.Xiao Ran looked at the stone lion, and couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.The blood-devouring lichen had already returned to the ground at this time, the quilt-like body was supported by its dense thorny feet wriggling like a giant millipede, and its thin tentacles were constantly exploring in his direction.

Looking at the stone lion again, the damaged head has been completely worn away at this time, and the surface is smooth as if it has been polished by a grinding wheel.

I was careless just now, and my voice couldn't help but raise a little bit. If the second uncle hadn't stopped him in time, I'm afraid that thing would have flown over by now.

"This beast is not entirely an animal, it is a mixture of animals and plants. It has no sense of hearing, sight, or smell, but it is very sensitive to the temperature and humidity in the air. Fortunately, we are still next to the corpse-scented konjac, and that one The liquid in the tank, it can't tell our position so quickly..."

Only then did Xiao Ran suddenly realize the principle of blood-devouring lichen.Shuran looked up at the flower that was facing him like a pug, and said angrily: "It belongs to your family, right? I raised you with my blood for nothing, white-eyed wolf..."

Corpse Fragrance Konjac naturally couldn't understand what Xiao Ran said, but he could roughly understand Xiao Ran's emotions, so he turned Hua Guduo to one side, and ignored Xiao Ran as if he was angry.

"Second Uncle, what should we do now? It will have to make plans for that cabinet later."

The second uncle thought for a while and whispered: "There are two ways. One is to go up and get enough blood and feed it, so that it will be more docile for a while and walk towards its hometown. The other is to give it Pour cold water on it, and rely on the current low temperature to freeze it, this thing likes heat and doesn't like cold, it's already much duller."

Neither method is easy.To get cold water, you have to go around the blood-devouring lichen to get to the upward stairs.And pouring cold water is not quick freezing. It is hard to say what stress response will be caused in the process of freezing it.

And to get blood, even if you go to the nearest vegetable market to buy chicken blood and pig blood, it will take half an hour to make a round trip. If the blood-eating lichen accidentally takes advantage of the loopholes in this half hour, then Xu Er will suffer. .

The two of them carefully combined, and the safety factor of using cold water is greater.Just in case, the second uncle also asked Xiao Ran to take down the rope net that usually fixes the warehouse shelves, cover it first and then pour water on it, maybe it will prevent it a little.

Just do it, Xiao Ran held his breath, moved step by step carefully, and moved towards the upper steps little by little.Although I can control my breathing, I can't control my heartbeat so well.When passing by the blood-devouring lichen, seeing the stinging feet like a stinger, and the same thin and different length of tentacles on the back wriggling like waves, Li Ran's heart couldn't help but beat wildly, and the temperature of his skin suddenly rose. A fine layer of sweat also gushed out.

This time, the fine tentacles of the blood-devouring lichen aimed at him in unison.

Xiao Ran froze in place, neither moving nor moving.Normally, he could take a deep breath to calm his heartbeat, but now he was too close to the blood-devouring lichen, and he didn't dare to breathe at all.

The blood-devouring lichen danced its thorny feet like waves, slowly approaching him, those snail-like tentacles were also constantly exploring his direction, Xiao Ran had the idea of ​​running away.

At this time, a few stones flew over suddenly and hit the tentacles on the back of the blood-devouring lichen.Those weed-like tentacles retracted, and its forward movement also temporarily stopped.

Xiao Ran turned his head and saw his second uncle waving his hand at him, and pointed to the steps. It was the second uncle who helped him at the critical moment just now.

He wiped the sweat off his brow, ready to move on.And those small tentacles of the blood-devouring lichen, like the little hands of a naughty boy, after touching the stone and turning it around, found that it was not prey, they spread it like a wave, and finally carried the stone from the body to the ground.

Not waiting for time, Xiao Ran hurriedly quickened his pace slightly, and the blood-devouring lichen seemed to have sensed the change in the air flow around him, and moved towards Xiao Ran again.Xiao Ran was always suppressing his urge to run away, he could only take bigger steps and walked towards the stairs.

"Cough cough cough..."

A slight cough sounded suddenly, the blood-devouring lichen stopped wriggling immediately, and the tentacles changed direction to explore again.Xiao Ran turned his head, only to see his second uncle shaking his head at him in surprise, then pointing in Xu Er's direction.

Xiao Ran turned his head, and saw that the flower bone of Corpse Fragrance Konjac was slightly opened, facing him like a puppy, as if asking for credit.I don't know what method it used to make Xu Er, who was soaked in it, cough.

Xiao Ran didn't know whether to laugh or cry at once, he was more afraid that the blood-devouring lichen would get into Xu Er's closet than the blood-devouring lichen suddenly came to chase him.

Sure enough, the blood-devouring lichen, a brainless creature, seemed to finally remember that it had missed a certain delicacy before gnawing on the stone, so it waved its thorny feet again, and groped towards the wardrobe.

Xiao Ran yelled in his heart that it was not good, but at this moment, the second uncle waved his hands anxiously, signaling to Xiao Ran to go up quickly, and he would deal with it.

In a dilemma, footsteps came from above, followed by Xiao Changfeng's voice: "Xiao Ran! Sky! Are you down there? Let's kill a chicken at noon, and see if this one works..."

The sound of a chicken flapping its wings came from above, and Xiao Ran stared at the blood-devouring lichen with wide-eyed eyes, and saw that the thing had turned to the stairs, and the antennae all over its body showed the appearance of being ready to go.

(End of this chapter)