Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 184 Grass Tick
184 Chapter 184 Grass Tick

I said, "Brother, look at the rainwater." I saw that the rainwater that washed down gradually turned into countless streams, and then quickly converged into a river, all rushing towards the swamp downstream.I saw that the little brother looked at the water calmly, and then quickly turned his eyes back again. It seemed that he knew what was going on.

Wu Xie looked again and suddenly said: "I understand!"

The fat man asked him: "Do you understand why you were so surprised?"

Wu Xie said: "The reason for the formation of this oasis, look at the direction of the water flow. This is the center of the underground water system here. This is obviously the lowest point of the Qaidam Basin. The dry riverbed of Qaidam turns into groundwater and rainwater. All will gather here, so no matter how the climate changes over thousands of years and the surrounding forests turn into deserts, this place still maintains the lush appearance of 5000 years ago. "Hide the wind and gather the water without moving", the so-called Feng Shui treasure land, Isn’t it a place that has remained unchanged for thousands of years?”

The fat man said "Ah" rather perfunctorily. He didn't know what he was doing. In the middle of Wu Xie's words, he started to click numbers.

Wu Xie looked at him and shook his head, then looked at me, because he knew that I was a good listener every time. I was blinking at him when Wu Xie asked: "How is it, do you understand? "

I said, "Probably, I've heard that "to hide wind and gather energy, the best thing is to get water." "In ancient times, the ability to withstand wind and cold was poor, so they would choose nest-shaped basins to avoid wind blowing, which is called hiding the wind. Such terrain is easy to heat up, which is called gathering Qi. There used to be sufficient water sources nearby, which meant getting water. Well, for a home and a city, it should be a place with good feng shui."

Wu Xie added: "The place where the Palace of the Queen Mother of the West is located should be the treasured eye of the ancestor of the Kunlun Mountains." As he said that, he continued to look at the water flow. Every time he saw the strange scenery, Wu Xie would sigh with emotion.

After being stunned for a while, the little brother lowered his head and looked at me quietly, and asked me softly: "Is it cold?"

I held him with my little hands, raised my head slightly to look at him, shook my head and said to him, "You're here, I'm not cold." I pressed against him tightly, feeling the warmth he gave me.

At this moment, the fat man next to him began to twist his buttocks, squeezing in and out of the small space.Everyone felt uncomfortable when he moved, and Pan Zi scolded: "What the hell are you doing, are you itching or something?"

The fat man frowned and said, "I don't know why, but my butt suddenly felt terribly itchy." After that, he moved his butt again and started rubbing against the tree.

Wu Xie thought he was joking again, and wanted to talk to him, but suddenly his buttocks itched, and not only that, but his back also became itchy.

I looked up at the little brother and winked at him, meaning "something doesn't seem right with them." The little brother looked at them and helped me up with both hands, as if he was preparing something.

Wu Xie was so tortured by the sudden itching that he felt as if something was crawling.He hurriedly arched his legs and grabbed it with his hands. When he took it down, his heart skipped a beat, and he jumped up and shouted: "Bugs!"

At the same time, I was quickly picked up by my little brother and held tightly in his arms. My whole face was buried in his arms. I couldn't see anything. I only felt that other people around me were standing up.

They all looked at the tree trunk we were leaning on, and then the fat man yelled, "Holy shit!" Then they started stamping their feet.

I slowly raised my head from my brother's arms and turned my head slightly to look over. I saw that the tree trunk was full of flowers and insects as big as half a little fingernail, as if crawling out from the gaps in the tree trunks. Except for me and the little boy, Brother, it’s all over their legs and butts, and I can’t even pat it off.

But they stamped their feet for a long time to no avail, and the bugs still crawled towards them without hesitation. I said, "These bugs don't seem to be afraid of people, or are they just biting bugs, not blood-sucking?"

The little brother looked at me and saw that there were no bugs on me. He hugged me tightly and led me slowly into the rain.

Wu Xie and Fatty were bitten the most. They were afraid of their butts and rushed into the heavy rain to let the rain wash away the bugs for them.Everyone else also escaped.

The rain was very cold, and it was very painful when it hit my body. My brother held me with one arm and covered my head with one hand, looking around for new hiding places.

Just listen to the fat man screaming, and it stopped after a while. Because of the coolness of the rain, Wu Xie and the fat man's itching seemed to have subsided a little, but what followed was pain, because they heard the fat man He yelled: "Oh, I'll go, it really hurts." Then they didn't say anything.

The little brother found another branch, took me over, looked around and shouted to them: "Come over here." Then we climbed up the tree again and hid on a patch of land with less rain. Under the blind corner with dense branches.

However, this place was a bit small and there was not enough room for all of us to go in. In the end, they pushed me, Aning and Wu Xie in, while the others covered their heads with tarpaulins to barely avoid being hit by the rain.

Pan Zi said, "Damn it, what the hell kind of bug was it just now?"

Aning shook off the water from her hair and patted the dimmed miner's lamp. After patting it several times, she finally brightened it up. Then she looked at her trouser legs and used her little finger to remove the dead bugs stuck to her legs. He picked it up with his fingernails and held it in front of the miner's lamp to check.

I also looked at it, and it looked a bit like a spider, but also a bit like a little scorpion without a tail. I asked, "Sister Aning, what kind of bug is this?" She didn't answer, but I saw her hands were shaking. , it doesn’t feel like a good bug.

Then she heard Wu Xie say "ouch" and grinning. It looked like she was in pain. Wu Xie also asked her, "What is this? Is it poisonous?"

At this time, Aning frowned. When Wu Xie saw his expression, his heart skipped a beat and he knew it was bad!
Aning quickly put me into the little brother's arms and asked me to face the little brother. The little brother held the tarpaulin with one hand, patted my face with the other hand, and then kept supporting my head.Aning smoothly pulled out the knife from Pan Zi's waist and said to Wu Xie: "Turn around and take off your pants quickly!"

Aning said that he was about to pull Wu Xie's belt. Wu Xie became anxious and quickly covered his pants and shrank: "What do you want to do?"

Aning said: "Those bugs are grass ticks, and it's very troublesome to bite them. If you and Fatty are bitten, if you don't want to sleep on your stomach in the future, take off your pants quickly, and wait until it crawls to your crotch Your life will be over if you do this!"

Wu Xie understood the importance of this matter as soon as he heard it, and he did feel that his sensitive area was a little itchy, but he couldn't let An Ning handle it for him. He grabbed his pants and said to An Ning: "Then you can Give me the knife and I’ll take care of it myself!”

Aning said: "What do you think of your own butt?"

Wu Xiexin said that even if I do this, I can't show it to you. Besides, there is Xiaoxun here, so it's not appropriate...

The fat man next to him scratched his butt and said, "Stop arguing." He took the knife from Aning's hand and said to Wu Xie, "This woman is right, grass ticks are very troublesome. The two of us are here." Go over there and deal with each other." An Ning felt that the fat man was unreliable and asked: "Can you deal with it?"

The fat man looked at her and said, "Isn't it just a matter of heating the knife and scalding it? I have joined the team and let the cattle and sheep go. I don't know about this yet. You should check it yourself, you thin skin and tender meat." Yes, this is the most attractive insect."

As he said that, the fat man pointed to the branch on the other side and said, "Tianzhen, let's get it over there."

Wu Xie saw that it wasn't raining heavily there, but the branches seemed not very strong, but compared with the rest of his life, it was nothing. He replied: "Let's go." He followed them and climbed over, and soon no one could be seen. .

Aning asked me: "Are you okay?"

I shook my head and said to her: "I'm fine." I looked at her and said to her: "Check yourself quickly. Are you going to use a knife?" As I said that, I pulled out my little black gold and handed it to her. I gave it to her, and she took it in her hand and looked at my knife. Maybe it was because of the material and style. She looked at the knife a little confused, so I said to her: "Didn't you say that the bug must be removed quickly? Don't look at the knife." Now, do you want me to help you?"

Only then did she come back to her senses and said to me, "I'll do it myself."

The people who followed them all looked at themselves to see if there were any bugs and dealt with them quickly.

Wu Xie and Fatty had walked far away. Looking back, Aning and Xiaoxun seemed to be invisible.The fat man couldn't bear it any longer. His face suddenly changed. He started shaking and took off his pants. He said to Wu Xie, "Hurry, hurry, I'm going to be maimed!"

Wu Xie endured the pain and said to him, "You were pretending to be calm just now."

The fat man said: "Don't I want to lose face? You also know not to let that bitch take off her pants. Stop talking nonsense and hurry up, you damn bastard..." followed by an "ouch".

Wu Xie put the miner's lamp on a branch and looked at the fat man. He was dumbfounded and blurted out: "Fuck! This thing is too fierce..." As he said that, he suddenly felt like vomiting and covered his mouth. He retched twice.

The fat man already had a look of despair on his face and said, "Why, you're so damn disgusting..."

Wu Xie said: "Your thighs and buttocks are all covered with blood buns the size of peas. There are a few of them as big as broad beans, but how did you manage to crawl in so many? This is too exaggerated... …”

The fat man said helplessly: "What's more, these pants are too small, and my crotch fell apart when I was moving rocks in the Devil's City!" He shook his pants to show Wu Xie, and there was a big crack on them, and continued. : "Damn it, I said it would be cool if it cracked, but I never took care of it. I forgot about it when we entered the forest. What a sin... Oh my god, stop wasting your time and get started quickly! This thing can last all the time. After sucking blood for two or three days, it will be six or seven times its own size. Thirty of them can drain the blood of a rabbit. I am already anemic and cannot withstand this torture."

Wu Xie looked at the insects whose stomachs were so full that they had become transparent after sucking blood. His stomach was churning, and he picked up the knife with a little trembling. He gestured for a long time and didn't know how to start. When the fat man saw that he wanted to pick it off with his hands, the fat man hurriedly shrank. He raised his butt to avoid it and said: "Don't pull it, it bites into the flesh, and its head goes into the skin to suck you. If you pull it, the head will be broken inside. It's the same as Xuemaozi. You have to do what I just said." You said, burn the dagger with fire!"

Wu Xie nodded, very nervous, and tremblingly took out the lighter, burned the tip of the dagger red, and then went to burn the dead insect that sucked blood into a small balloon. As soon as the knife came close, the thing immediately pulled out its head. Wu Xie immediately pulled him down and beat him to death with the handle of his knife. The blood bag burst open.

Every time one of them was ironed, the fat man felt terrible pain. It hurt so much that his legs became weak. Wu Xie felt uncomfortable just looking at it, and his hands became soft.

Aning quickly took care of it, then wiped the little black gold and returned it to me. After that, she kept looking at me. I felt that he might think that I was not as simple as they saw, and that I had many secrets. A little bit curious about me.

Half an hour passed and the rain subsided. The boy put away the tarp and looked down. I asked him: "What do you want to do?" I also took a look and asked: "You want to go take a look. "Shall I go with you?" He took the miner's lamp to his side, then looked at him, waiting for him to make a decision?
The little brother turned around and said to me: "Follow me, slow down."

Wu Xie finally got the fat man's thighs and butt clean.After checking himself, Pan Zi wanted to come over and help, but as soon as he passed by, the branches over there began to tremble, and he couldn't help but have one more person, so he had to give up. Pan Zi said to them: "You must disinfect after you are done. Otherwise, it’s easy to get cold and fever illnesses.”

Wu Xie replied: "I know." Then he applied disinfectant water to the fat man, sighed and said: "You have become a fat man, get up, it's better."

Then it was his turn. He felt that it was really embarrassing to sit on a horse while others were looking at his buttocks. He looked at the fat man with a look of embarrassment on his face.

The fat man looked at him: "Why are you still stained with ink? Take it off quickly and wait for the insects to dry up."

Wu Xie reluctantly took off his pants and let the fat man deal with it. The bite was in good condition and was dealt with in ten minutes. Finally, he checked everything and found that no one was missing. He breathed a sigh of relief and put it on. Good clothes, the two smiled awkwardly and crawled back.

Pan Zi asked them both: "How is it?"

Wu Xie nodded and said: "Fortunately, no bites were missed at last. Have they been bitten?"

Pan Zi said: "A Ning only received a few bites on his arm, but the little brother and Xiao Xun were fine at all."

Aning explained: "Grass ticks have a very sensitive sense of smell and can smell your blood type. It seems that you two are more palatable."

Wu Xie suddenly remembered that Aning had to deal with the bugs for him just now. He was slightly embarrassed and quickly changed the subject and asked her: "Why are there so many ticks here? Aren't these things lurking in the grass? Why? They all gather on this tree, do they also suck the sap?"

Aning shook his head: "I don't know, but there are such bugs here. We must be careful in the future. These bugs are the most annoying blood-sucking insects. Others such as mosquitoes and leeches rarely kill their hosts. Only this kind of bugs Bugs can suck the host's blood dry. Last time I was doing a project in Africa, I saw a giraffe die in the hands of this kind of thing. The body was covered with blood tumors, which was terrifying. As soon as we got close to all the grass ticks They were all rushing toward us, and it was so dark that it looked like moving shadows on the ground. The guide at the time was so frightened that he used the fire extinguisher in his car to stop them, and then drove away like crazy."

After hearing this, Wu Xie thought about the situation of the fat man just now, and couldn't help but shudder. He suddenly noticed that two people were missing, and asked Aning, "Where are they?"

Aning pointed downwards with his chin. Wu Xie looked over and saw Menyou Ping and Xiao Xun crawling back to the plant cover that had been sheltered from the rain at some point. They turned on the miner's lamp and didn't know what they were looking at. .

(End of this chapter)