death to survive

"Hey, do you think these people in the cocoon are dead or alive?" Moving closer to Xiao Yi's side, Wang Yang raised his elbow and bumped Xiao Yi's shoulder, pointing at the front of the hanging It was a middle-aged man who was entangled by spider webs with only his head sticking out.

The middle-aged man's cheeks were sunken, his eyes were closed, his lips were chapped, and his complexion was purple.The skin on the entire face looked shriveled and dried up.This is slightly different and different from some people nearby who seem to be sleeping with their eyes closed, so it caught Wang Yang's attention.

Around this middle-aged man, the human head and cheeks exposed from the cocoon beside him seemed to have been sucked dry of the skin, shriveled into a ball with dryness and cracks.

Xiao Yi took a closer look at the middle-aged man's face, and replied: "The eggs of the red-eyed white scorpion spider were injected into their bodies, and the function of hanging here is to provide nutrients for the larvae in the body. These skins have already begun to dry and crack. Shrunken, it means that the larvae in the body have almost absorbed their nutrients."

"Uh... that means, this person is already dead? Then, those whose skin is not yet cracked, do they already have larval eggs in their bodies?" Wang Yang looked at so many human cocoons in the cave. , It turns out that they are all containers that provide nutrition for the larvae to hatch. Thinking about it makes people feel chilling.

Looking at the situation, it should be said that the entire cave is a nursery for the red-eyed white scorpion spiders for their larvae.

"Yes, once the eggs are injected into their bodies by the mother worms, the liquid attached to the eggs will also enter their bodies, releasing some kind of special toxin, making them fall asleep and never wake up again, just like hibernating Only in this way can we ensure that the flesh of these people will not rot due to death, so that the larvae will not get good nutrients." Xiao Yi explained to Wang Yang.

"These captured people are really miserable. They were unknowingly eaten to nothing but their shells in their sleep..." I imagined that their bodies were filled with the disgusting scorpion that I first saw. It was like a spider larva, which made Wang Yang goosebumps all over his body.

"Then, did that also happen to Zhihong?" Li You hurriedly asked when he heard Xiao Yi's words beside him.If Zhihong's body was also injected with insect eggs, there would only be a dead end.

"I don't know about this. How about we look for it more carefully?" For those two unfortunate people who were arrested, poor people Qiao Feiyu and Fang Zhihong, Wang Yang now holds great sympathy and prays that they will not be like this. Such a tragic way to be injected into the eggs and become the future nutrients of the larvae, this way of death is too miserable.

While several people were talking in low voices, Lin Jie suddenly interjected tremblingly, and said to them, "Wait a minute, I seem to have seen that person's eyes move just now."

"X! Don't say such scary things in this kind of place. The people hanging in this cave, as Xiao Yi said just now, are basically the living dead. How could there be people whose eyes can move?"

In the middle of the night, still staying in a dark cave full of cocoons and talking about these things, isn't it the same as changing from a science fiction movie to a supernatural movie?

"Really! Really! I'm not mistaken, it's that middle-aged man, his eyes just rolled!"

With frightened hands, Lin Jie pointed at the middle-aged man whom Wang Yang had observed just now, with fear in his tone.Just now, when the flames flashed by, the middle-aged man in front of him, whose skin was so dry and cracked, raised his eyelids and quickly closed them again.He thought he was dazzled or affected by the beating of the torch, but he didn't expect that when he observed carefully again, he suddenly saw the man's eyelids lift again.

This... is definitely not his hallucination...

Seeing Lin Jie's expression so confident, Wang Yang and the others couldn't help but focus their attention on the face of the middle-aged man that Lin Jie was pointing at.

Watching quietly, after a while, the middle-aged man who was hanging in the cocoon by the spider silk, opened his eyes which had been closed all the time.

A white forelimb protruded from his eye, the man's entire right eyelid was pushed open, and more feet protruded out of the eye socket, trying to squeeze out, the man's eye socket was forced to With a big pull, the dry and dehydrated skin, with a fragile "Kaz ─ ─", the fleshy skin on the man's eyes was torn apart.

Those worms in the eyes can finally drill out from the torn eye sockets, and their appearance is so familiar. Isn't this the larvae of the red-eyed white scorpion spider that was slapped to death in the village room? !

Before everyone could react, the middle-aged man's mouth opened wide, and the man's head began to fall back feebly. With his mouth wide open, another worm of the red-eyed white scorpion spider came out. Crawled out of his throat.The whole body is snow-white, and eight red eyes are lined up in two rows on the top of the head of this scorpion-like insect.

After the first one came out, the following worms swarmed out like a tide. Dozens of worms kept crawling out of the middle-aged man's mouth, nose, and eyes, dragging them along. The body, still wet with bodily fluids, climbed up to the top of the cave along the silk thread hanging from the ceiling, and spread out in all directions.

"It's really time, just in time for them to hatch..." I didn't expect the bad luck of the few of them, there is no worst but worse... So many worms popped up all of a sudden, I don't know how long it will take How to deal with it.

"Ah! There are also over there!" Li You took a step back in surprise and fear, and pointed to the human cocoons on his left whose skin had shrunk and cracked. The heads of those cocoons began to hang down in different directions, and their mouths were squeezed. Stretched, groups of red-eyed white scorpion spider insects quickly crawled out from the inside, all white, moving and crawling between the dead man's head and the silk thread connecting the cave roof.

"It's not just over there, the human cocoons in this area have begun to hatch." Wang Yang held up the torch and looked at the human cocoons in their area, and worms had already begun to crawl out of them, piles of worms , swaying on the hanging silk thread, the scene is quite spectacular...

"These worms have just hatched, and they won't move until the mucus on their bodies dries up." Xiao Yi said suddenly.Explain that although these worms appear on a large scale, they will not be harmful to them for the time being.

"Puff—" A red-eyed white scorpion spider insect that accidentally fell to the ground was trampled to death. Green blood sprayed out of his feet. Wang Yang rubbed his boots back and forth on the ground in disgust, and looked up. I heard Xiao Yina continue to say: "However, the large-scale hatching of larvae, the female of the red-eyed white scorpion spider is probably coming soon."

"Ah? The big ones are coming too? It's unlucky that no one has been found yet!" Before anyone was found to be saved, bugs came out one after another. It's not easy...

Wang Yang raised the torch and looked at the top of the cave, where the red-eyed white scorpion spider insects were already densely crawling, making the scalp tingle, feeling sad.

"Here we come..." Xiao Yi, who was listening quietly to the sounds around him, suddenly said.He grabbed Wang Yang's hand next to him and dragged him into the cocoon.

"Eh? What's wrong?" Wang Yang didn't understand Xiao Yi's actions as he kept knocking and pushing away the human cocoon next to him, and was dragged forward in a daze.

"There is a cave ahead, go there first and have a look."

Avoiding the red-eyed white scorpion spider that was about to come, Xiao Yi wanted to explore the small cave opposite the cave that was blocked by the human cocoon. He didn't notice it at first.

Because his eyes are more adaptable to darkness than normal people, he can clearly see the surrounding scene in the cave, even where the light of the torch cannot reach.Therefore, he was able to discover the small cave opposite.

The two people were not found in those human cocoons. According to the unique habits of the red-eyed white scorpion spider, they might have been caught as food and put away, but they were not in those human cocoons.

The cave opposite is probably where the red-eyed white scorpion spider used to store food. Going there, they might be able to find the two captured people.Avoid the confrontation with the red-eyed white scorpion first, and find and rescue the person first.

"Eh? There's a hole over there?" Squinting his eyes and looking at the direction ahead seriously, Wang Yang didn't notice his hand that Xiao Yi had been holding all the time, and ran right behind Xiao Yi's side.He didn't expect Xiao Yi to find other caves in such a dark cave, which is not bad, saving them a lot of time and trouble.

"Where are we going? What about Zhihong and Qiao Feiyu?" Li You and Lin Jie followed closely, running behind Xiao Yi and Wang Yang, Li You asked worriedly while running.

"Not here, go look in that cave." Xiao Yi answered Li You's question concisely.He had probably gone through so many human cocoons just now, but he didn't find any trace of those two people.

"Really, really?" Thinking that Zhihong is not here, and has not been made into an incubator for the red-eyed white scorpion spider insect, Li You's mood immediately improved a lot.

"Will they be in that cave ahead?"

"I don't know." After Xiao Yi answered the question indifferently, he continued to accelerate his pace.

"Hurry up, those adults are coming back."

"Oh! Got it." Responding to the urging voice in front, Lin Jie turned his head and comforted Li You: "Don't worry, we will definitely find them, run quickly." Help Li You bring more He helped hold the torch in his own hand, lightening the burden on Li You and enabling him to run faster.

"Well... okay." I don't want to drag everyone down and cause trouble for everyone because of my uselessness.Li You gritted his teeth hard, exerted all his strength, and quickly followed the few people in front.