Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 428 Parasitic Monster
The two of them looked at the doors that burst open one after another in surprise. They did not expect that the operation just now would actually open more than one door.In Xiao Ran's heart, there was even a feeling that the poor suddenly became rich.

"There are so many doors, which one is better to go first..."

Xiao Ran rubbed his hands and prepared to go down the stairs.The second uncle pulled out his collar and whispered: "Don't worry, take a look before talking!"

At this time, bursts of whining sounds, like ghosts crying, poured out from each opened door, followed by the sound of rustling footsteps.The two quickly lowered their flashlights and stared at the nearest door within their field of vision.

The sound of footsteps scraping against the ground gradually became clearer and became more frequent.A few seconds later, an unusually tall body staggered out of the door.

The thing looked like a humanoid, with arms, legs and a head, but the whole body was twisted and bloated, and it walked like Quasimodo the bell ringer in the novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame".

The flashlight flashed across the weirdo's back, and countless green hairs suddenly sprouted from his back.The green hair undulates rhythmically, like the wind blowing across the grassland.

The two of them quickly turned off their flashlights. The weirdo just mechanically turned his head in the direction of the two of them, stood still for a few seconds, and then mumbled and walked towards the center of the hall.

Through the fluorite light on the four walls, Xiao Ran saw strange-looking people coming out of the door one after another, but like the first one they saw, only a few had sound limbs.Most of them were missing arms or legs, and a few had only their upper bodies, dragging half of their exposed black and yellow spines, crawling out of the door and moving with difficulty toward the center of the hall.

"These things should be people parasitized by blood-eating lichen..." the second uncle whispered.

Xiao Ran was frightened for a while, but fortunately his second uncle caught him in time, otherwise, at best, he would have had to fight again.

He suddenly felt that when he was with an experienced person like his second uncle, who was his elder, he could not help but be reckless, as if he would automatically become a fat man when the fat man was not around.

Maybe this kind of recklessness comes from peace of mind and trust. He always feels that with his second uncle here, he doesn't have to be so tense and can be more unscrupulous.

Xiao Ran turned to look at his second uncle, who was staring at those weirdos nervously, not daring to take a breath, and holding the handle of the engineer shovel tightly with his hand.

He suddenly realized that his second uncle was no longer the tall, strong, energetic young man who often made him cry when he was a child.

There was a sigh of relief in his heart, but he suddenly woke up. Why did he recall the childhood of the original owner of this body so vividly?

It seems that as long as his emotions and spirit relax, the original owner will try to regain his body by restoring his memory.This situation has really become more and more frequent recently, and he needs to tighten his strings a little more.

"Xiaoran! Look!"

His second uncle suddenly interrupted his thoughts. He looked at the center of the platform pointed by his second uncle, and saw as many as twenty parasitic monsters surrounding the body of Pseudodontus lowii, with the layers of tentacles on its body like waves. He was rising and falling, and his body was shaking like he was drunk.

"Gu..."

Suddenly one of the weirdos made a loud guttural sound like drinking water, and then the blood-eating lichens attached to his body like flesh tore off one by one. There were more than 30 of them, large and small, and only one of the weirdos was left in an instant. The smooth and white frame swayed and fell to the ground, shattered into pieces.

Those blood-eating lichens squirmed with their needle legs that had not been moved for who knows how many years, crawling around the corpse of Pseudodontidae.Immediately after the second and third, the blood-eating lichen groups on the parasitic monsters fell off one after another, and the "crash" sounds of the skeleton falling to the ground were heard one after another.Nearly a thousand blood-devouring lichens swarmed over the body of Pseudodontus lowii, seemingly trying to connect together and then drive it to move like those parasitic monsters.Xiao Ran saw it and couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

The big birds that had only been parasitized by a few blood-devouring lichens before were already difficult to deal with. If they were wrapped up by so many blood-devouring lichens and turned into a giant parasitic monster, they might have no choice but to escape as soon as possible.

Bursts of sharp "squeaking" sounds and the squeaking sound of acid corrosion suddenly came, and the blood-devouring lichen that was the first to pounce on it had already rolled down from the body of Pseudodontus rosii, like a Like a dying crab, its belly is turned upward, and the needle legs on both sides of its body gradually curl up and stop squirming.

They tore off the skin and flesh of large birds of different sizes from the mouth in the middle of their abdomen, but the body fluids in them were burned to the core.

"It seems that the blood-eating lichens that previously parasitized on Pseudodontus lowii's body have lived with it for many years, forming a unique environment and completing evolution in a certain sense. These later blood-eating lichens cannot withstand The acid etching of the flesh and blood of Pseudodontia roschii..."

The second uncle speculated beside him, his tone really sounded like an old scholar.

More and more blood-devouring lichens rushed towards the corpse, but most of them could not last more than ten seconds before being burned through and falling off.Only some larger blood-eating lichens can barely sustain themselves for a while.

With the loss of each other, the number of blood-eating lichens and the remaining flesh and blood of Pseudodontosaurus carcasses are constantly decreasing.But the number of blood-devouring lichens was too great, and the body of Pseudodontus lowii vibrated its remaining single wing and half-headless neck again and again, crawling and squirming on the ground.

Every time the corpse climbed a few steps, a few blood-devouring lichens would smoke and fall to the ground, and the blood-devouring lichens behind would replenish it.Not long after, the big bird's body crawled away from the sunken platform in the center of the hall and moved to the dead branches and grass piles nearby.Behind the trajectory of the crawling corpses, more corpses of blood-eating lichens were left behind.

Xiao Ran wanted to ask his second uncle what to do, but before he opened his mouth, he knew that his answer would be "wait a little longer" or "see again".

But who would have thought that when his second uncle saw this, he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let's go, follow them. They are almost exhausted on both sides, we have to be the first!"

The two of them walked furtively towards the body of Pseudodontus lowii. The body and the blood-devouring lichen in the grass were still pulling at each other while consuming each other.

Xiao Ran and his second uncle each held knives and shovels, waiting for the last minute finishing work.

The big bird's body struggled for a while, and finally fell silent in the grass.The uncle and nephew looked at each other and carefully pushed aside the weeds that were half a man tall.

Countless blood-devouring lichen corpses were scattered around the bird's body, and the body fluids flowing out of the bird corpse's wounds were smoking and burning the withered grass around it.

Dozens of large blood-eating lichens as big as wolf skins and as thick as door panels were just lying limply covering the bird carcasses motionless.If it weren't for the needle legs hanging around them hanging on the bird carcasses, Xiao Ran would really have thought that these blood-eating lichens had successfully evolved by force.

The second uncle carefully pressed the tip of the shovel against a large blood-eating lichen, and gently scratched its back that was not corroded by the acid. The blood-eating lichen fell to the ground with a crash, along with the skin and flesh of the bird corpse.

"It seems that they are all dead after all. It's time for us to find a way out..." said the second uncle.

Xiao Ran nodded, and the two of them looked at the doorways that exploded from the inside out.

(End of this chapter)