Indiana Jones

Chapter 124 Encountering Insect Plague (02)

I don't know who fired the gun first, but it was out of control, and the fragile balance was broken in an instant. Four men and one woman who were terrified, flying bullets and angry bugs became the brief theme of this jungle. Tom The dense bullets swept by the Sen submachine gun tore the rushing insects into several pieces, and soon a dozen of them were killed, and the smashed insects were scattered around them, glowing with oil, I don’t know if it is These bugs were all bloody, and some of them were sticky when sprayed on them. They didn't know if they were poisonous. Now they didn't care about it. Batch after batch of bugs were killed, but more bugs followed, It looked like a surging black tide.

"Boom boom boom..." In his busy schedule, Li Siming threw a few grenades, and the violent explosion threw the bug's broken corpses everywhere.

"Stop...stop, stop..." Si Xuanyi raised his hands and shouted desperately. It took a long time for several people to stop shooting. It wasn't that they wanted to stop, but that the magazines were empty. They found these bugs while changing the magazines. He just rushed to a place three meters away from them and then stopped and never dared to move forward again, as if he was very afraid of them but refused to leave.

"It works...it works..." Si Xuanyi waved his hand to tell everyone not to shoot randomly, "Ten thousand years oil works."

"It's too damn close... isn't it too close?" Ma Zhong swallowed his saliva and said, these insects can jump on them from three meters away, even if the long claws can't pierce him It can also disembowel them, not to mention the poison on the claws. This is really falling from one dangerous situation to another. Even if there is nothing to do in the tree, it is ten thousand times better than being eaten by bugs at any time when the enemy is on the back.

"It's useful? Don't you still surround us?" Li Siming said nervously.

"It's not that I haven't pounced yet." Si Xuanyi was also very nervous, he pulled Liang Rong, "Light some more torches, put more oil, hurry up."

Only then did Liang Rong come to her senses, and immediately took out the spare torch, rewrapped it in cloth strips, coated it with ten thousand-year oil and lit it. Si Xuanyi took a courageous step forward and waved the torch at the same time. Stepping back, a gap appeared in the dense circle of bugs.

"Go..." Si Xuanyi vigorously waved the torch to drive away the nearby bugs while walking forward. He planned to use this method to carve a way through the pile of bugs. At least the bugs didn't attack them now.

Li Siming and Rhodes also each took a torch to expand their control area as much as possible. Ma Zhong and Liang Rong cannot be expected to do this kind of thing, as long as the two of them can follow without causing trouble.

The swarms of worms stared at the surroundings, and a few people walked away in fear. The worms seemed unwilling to let them go like this, but they did not dare to get too close. Now they are not in the mood to prove whether these worms are afraid of fire or thousands of years The smell of oil, hurry away before the bugs attack.

The weather was already hot, and a few people were nervous, sweat drenched the whole body quickly, and the place where the giant mosquito bite was soaked in sweat was painful and itchy. The feeling was really indescribable, but in this case they did not With these things in mind, several people huddled together and continued to move forward cautiously. The bugs kept circling around but did not dare to pounce on them.

As he was walking, Si Xuanyi suddenly heard a soft sound in the canopy above his head. He screamed in his heart that he couldn't even look at it. He shrank back and drew the torch towards the top of his head with his backhand. Almost at the same time, he felt the torch hit a On something, a bug was swept away by him and fell into the pile of bugs in front of him, and only a short section of the torch in his hand was left, the burning top half flew far away and landed on the ground, a large swarm of bugs flooded Back off as well, far away from the burning torches.

Liang Rong, who was following Si Xuanyi, was caught off guard by him, and Ma Zhong, who was even more unprepared behind her, was pushed out of the team. Ma Zhong who fell down startled the bugs who followed him, but he jumped up again immediately. If it wasn't for Li Siming's sharp eyesight and hands, he quickly grabbed his legs and dragged him back. The consequences would be disastrous, his head might have been forked into a sieve.

Si Xuanyi threw down half of the torch, feeling a chill in his heart. The torch was cut in half and snapped off abruptly.
"You did it on purpose." Ma Zhong was frightened and cried, tears streaming down his face.

"Shut up, I'll kick you out if you talk nonsense again." Li Siming cursed in a low voice.

"Pay attention to the top of your head." Si Xuanyi took the torch that Liang Rong handed him again and waved vigorously to drive away the approaching bugs, "Go quickly."

In this way, they walked out more than 100 meters in fear, but the insects still surrounded them.

"When are they going to follow?" The torch in Li Siming's hand was almost burned, "I'm afraid the torch will be used up soon."

"Then hurry up." Si Xuanyi was also very nervous.

The bugs became more and more impatient, and they no longer just followed, but started to crawl around. Some of them had already climbed onto the trees and dangled on the branches, looking like they would jump down at any time.

"Why doesn't this stuff work?" Li Siming poured some Wannian oil on his clothes and threw it into the pile of bugs. The bugs ran away immediately, but soon surrounded them with great interest, forming a An open space with a diameter of about two meters centered on the bundle of clothes.

"It works, but it's not that obvious. This thing is good against small bugs, and it's not so scary anymore with such a big one." Si Xuanyi said.

"It won't last long with the torch and this little medicine." Li Siming raised his gun, "It's better to kill a bloody road."

"This thing is poisonous when you touch it." Ma Zhong said.

"Let's go like this first, and then we can't talk about it." Si Xuanyi also felt that he couldn't do it by force.

Just as they were talking, several bugs jumped down from the tree. Rhode immediately fired and blasted two of them in the air, and the other almost jumped in front of Li Siming. He knocked the bugs away with the butt of his gun and shot them to death When the gun fired, it was like stabbing a hornet's nest, and all the bugs surged forward.

This attack broke the short-lived calm just now, and the bugs rushed up to take a look first, and some even jumped up and threw themselves on the body.

"Da da da..." Several people could only fire again. They didn't want to be attacked by bugs crawling on them. There was a burst of gunfire for a while, and the bugs who tried to attack were beaten to pieces. Not worth mentioning, dozens of bugs were killed immediately, this is not the real attack of bugs, more bugs are behind.

"Lean on the tree, lean on the tree." Si Xuanyi was forced to keep backing away, the torch in his hand had been lost, and the bugs on the ground dodged the torch and rushed towards him. It was impossible to climb the tree in the current state, so he could only Find a nearby tree to use as a backing.

There are indeed many trees here, and there is a big banyan tree beside them, but it is not as easy as imagined to rely on the tree to fight back, at most to avoid the enemy from the back, but there are too many insects, and it is difficult for them to deal with the ones that come up from the front.

A few people barely resisted the bug's attack with the rapid fire of the Thomson submachine gun. During this period, they found that the bug still cared about the Wannian oil, at least they didn't like the smell, but this discovery couldn't solve the problem they were facing now. The problem.

Just when they didn't know how long they could hold on, the torch that Si Xuanyi dropped on the ground ignited the withered grass nearby, and all the nearby bugs ran away. This relieved them a lot of pressure, and Liang Rong reacted quickly Immediately made some withered grass and leaves to make the fire even bigger, the insects fled away one after another, and the attack slowed down a little, but there were still some who were not afraid of death and rushed up, but not as many as before, but they still made them dangerous, almost I shot some more bugs that were rushing to get a chance to catch my breath.

"Still afraid of fire." Li Siming said, wiping his sweat.

"It's useless for birds, and we can't walk away with the fire." Si Xuanyi said while shooting the bugs in the distance from time to time.

"Damn it, it looks like they're going to get us." Rhodes panted.

"What should I do? It's impossible if I don't leave, and it's even more troublesome at night." Li Siming was right, although it was still early before dark, judging from the current situation, whether they can last until dark is a problem, even if they can last At night, they would not be able to live until tomorrow if they were in the dark on the tree, but the bugs would climb the tree.

"Can you put smoke?" Ma Zhong said, "No matter what kind of insects don't like smoke."

Although what Ma Zhong said is correct, how can he smoke while walking?This is simply nonsense.

"I mean, we light a fire, disperse the bugs, kill all the ones that rush over, and then light another fire and walk for a while, light it again, go again, light it again..." Ma Zhong explained.

"That may be slower than a snail." Li Siming emptied the bullet in the gun and threw another grenade out, blowing up many bugs to pieces, and the air wave sent more bugs flying.

"It's also a way." Si Xuanyi felt a little sick and went to the doctor randomly.

"Yes." Rhodes also agreed with this method after understanding what Ma Zhong meant.

"Then stop talking nonsense, let's go." Si Xuanyi tore off a large handful of branches and ignited them on the fire, and then walked forward while waving them. Jumping away, some of them still had flames on their bodies, and others also lit something to burn and followed behind. A large group of insects surrounded them again. Although most of them were afraid of flames, some still desperately went up. Chong, a few people waved their torches to block the bugs as they walked, and they were in danger for a while. They even thought it was a stupid wrong decision, but there was no turning back, and they had to walk for more than ten meters. After stopping, there were more bugs in front of them, so they could only light the bonfire again. Fortunately, there were a lot of dead grass and leaves here, and it would not take too much effort to light the fire with their hands. Although these bugs are afraid of fire, they are not Obediently stay away from them, there will always be some jumping out to make trouble, there are quite a few of them, and they will all be killed after a burst of shooting. If it is not because they have sufficient ammunition, it is impossible to survive until now.

In the melee with the bugs, they chose the direction where the smoke drifted away. The bugs really don't like the smoke, and the bugs are far away from the places where the smoke drifts. The smoke choked to tears, but it was better than losing your life. This kind of insect could kill you if you touch it. It is not easy to struggle to survive under the siege of thousands of strange insects. They really admired it I can actually live until now.

"Cough cough cough... Hurry up, I don't believe these bugs can keep surrounding us." Li Siming coughed and raised his gun to shoot.

"Seal your mouth." Liang Rong carefully handed him a wet cloth.

After walking a few steps, you have to start a fire, set off smoke, fight with bugs, avoid attacks, and kill the bugs that pounce on you. In this way, it is impossible to maintain speed. This way of moving forward is really not fast, and these bugs leave at once. They didn't mean anything, and they didn't know if they could get away. Everything they could see was pitch-black, but they didn't give up. They kept working hard and trying to survive.

In this way, they walked for about 200 meters with difficulty. It was a dangerous journey, leaving behind the remains of burning campfires and the corpses of bugs all over the ground. At this moment, they found another problem that was difficult to solve. There was a swamp in front of them. There are many trees in the swamp, most of them are dead trees, clumps of dead grass are scattered in it, the black muddy water is bubbling, smoky and lifeless, there is no way to make a fire in it, but there are very few bugs in the swamp, the number is comparable to that around them It is negligible in comparison, they can escape directly into the swamp, or continue to confront the bugs, but the problem is that the swamp on Savage Mountain is full of dangers.

"What should I do?" Li Siming asked loudly while shooting at the rushing insects.

"I don't want to go into the swamp, and I don't want to continue to face these bugs." Ma Zhong never considered whether what he said was feasible, but only expressed his truest thoughts.

"Shut your beak." Li Siming threw the empty gun to him, "Change the bullets."

"I don't know." Si Xuanyi covered Liang Rong and lit a bunch of torches. The ground here was wet and it was difficult to light it. It took a long time to burn a cloud of smoke.

"This swamp should be passable," Rhodes said.

"Ask him if he is sure." Si Xuanyi said to Liang Rong.

"If you want to make a decision, hurry up, you can't stop it," Li Siming shot a bug that had rushed in front of him into the newly ignited bonfire, and what they didn't expect was that the bug was actually ignited by the flames , I saw a fireball rushing out of the fire and bumping around, but it fell to the ground and burned into a ball after only running for more than [-] meters. They even heard the creaking sound of the oil being heated, and the buzzing of fire bugs. A burst of scurrying caused chaos among the insect swarm. The nearby insects were frightened and ran around, forgetting to attack Si Xuanyi and the others for a while.

"It's so easy to catch fire." Ma Zhong looked shocked at the burning bug.

Rhodes was not attracted by this scene at all, he looked at the swamp and pondered for a moment: "It's going to take some risks, I can't guarantee it."

After listening to Liang Rong's translation, Li Siming snorted: "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up, can't you stand it?"

"Follow me." Rhodes raised his gun and stepped on the meadow exposed on one side of the swamp, took a few steps forward, jumped onto the other side, then turned to cover the others, and the people behind followed one after another. Then they rushed over and fell into the mud pit, and more fell down, and soon rolled into a ball. These insects became extremely clumsy in the water, and only a few that jumped to the meadow could catch up with their boss Sylphy and the others were too few in number to be effective, so they were shot and killed together.

Seeing the Chongzi group wandering not far away, they finally breathed a sigh of relief. They all collapsed and panted on the meadow. They couldn't remember how they got here from the 200-odd meters just now, and it was a miracle that they were still alive.

The worms were still there, but they didn't follow them. Just a dozen meters away, there were some worms scattered on the meadow and hard mud in the swamp behind them. The number was not large, which was nothing compared to the huge number on the other side. worth mentioning.

"Can we get by?" Ma Zhong was a little worried, he was a little afraid of the swamp.

"I hope." Si Xuanyi didn't have much confidence either.

"The further you go, the less places you can stay. I don't know how big this swamp is. I hope we can get there before dark, otherwise we will have to spend the night in the swamp. That's not a good idea," Rhodes said. .

"The size of the swamp in the jungle is irregular." Li Siming said, "The lower the terrain, the larger the area. The small ones are only a few dozen steps, and the large ones may be several miles. It is completely impossible to judge. You can only know it when you walk through it. It is very dangerous. If there is really no bottom, we can choose to move along the edge of the swamp, as long as we avoid those bugs, we can go out."

"At least we should leave for a while, those bugs will follow us." Si Xuanyi said.

"If there is a big fire, will it burn us?" Ma Zhong asked suddenly, because he saw that the bonfire they had made before had spread to the nearby bushes. Although it was not big, it might spread.

"We should be fine in the swamp, but I suggest leaving as soon as possible." Rhodes stood up, "Step on my footprints, remember that if you sink, don't struggle hard, wait for others to pull you up."

"We need a cane." Liang Rong said to Rhodes.

"Yes, the tree in front is our first target." Rhodes pointed to a tree not far away and said, "I hope there is a place where we can settle near it."

Li Siming beat a bug that was blocking the way to pieces, then jumped to another meadow and squatted down to observe the corpse of the bug carefully. Although he had been in close contact with these bugs before, he had never had a chance to observe them seriously: "This thing is too evil,"

"What?" Si Xuanyi asked.

"This is a knife." Li Siming picked up a bug's front paw and said, "It's a bit like half a scissors, but it's much bigger. Looking at the dark blue side, it should be very poisonous."

"What are you doing with it if you escaped?" Ma Zhong felt that Li Siming was unnecessary, and was talking about a drop of water falling on his face, and it was raining.

Rhode's face changed, "If it rains heavily, the swamp will turn into a vast ocean, and we won't be able to tell where we can go."

"Then what should we do?" Liang Rong asked.

"What else can we do? Go, leave as soon as possible, now we can only walk along the edge, if we can't, we have to go back to the forest, we can't stay in the swamp, otherwise we may be swallowed by the swamp directly." Rhodes said, look It was obvious that he was in a hurry.

Several people hurriedly followed Rhodes from one meadow to another. Suddenly, a continuous burst of gunfire came from a distance. In addition to the gunshots and explosions, the sound was very close to them, at most a hundred Yu Mi, in the other direction where they encountered the worm, but obviously also within the control range of the worm, the devil came...

(End of this chapter)