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Phosphorescent worms circle and fly, this is their collective wedding.These insects, somewhat similar to mayflies, mate in the night, and then lay eggs that are too small to be seen, and fall into the mud of the swamp. In the next year, more insects will fly out from it, which is their next generation.They fly side by side, with their slender bodies hooked together, in pairs.The blue light fluttering on the wings is brighter, this is their wedding, although short, it is as beautiful as a fairy tale.

Mai Mai sat blankly in the blue light of the wedding, watching Shao Jing come out from the shadow of the woods.His face and body were as dirty as if he had just climbed out of a muddy pond, and there were slender wounds scraped by branches. He looked like a wild man, but under the blue phosphorescent light, Xiaomai thought he was handsome, and he must have appeared in a fairy tale The prince is also second to none.He watched Shao Jing walk out, watched Shao Jing walk in front of him, watched Shao Jing reach out and pull himself up, and then——he heard Shao Jing yell at him viciously: "What are you running around like?" !"

Shao Jing often yelled at Mai Mai, but Mai Mai never yelled back.But this time, just as Shao Jing finished yelling, he heard Mai Mai yelling back in a louder voice than him: "What are you doing here!"

Shao Jing was stunned by his yelling, Mai Mai's expression was even more exasperated than him, for a moment he felt that he had really done something wrong by running here, and his voice lowered involuntarily: "You-I After reading the news, I rushed over immediately..."

Mai Mai felt his head was in a mess. When he first saw Shao Jing, he was overwhelmed by ecstasy like a tide, but the tide receded immediately, and he remembered what the woman said: This Gu Dao, only one person can go out... Now that Shao Jing is here, How about two people?

Shao Jing unconsciously wiped his face with his hands: "You, what's wrong with you?" Mai Mai looked at him with mixed eyes, both joyful and sad, and he felt a little at a loss, "I was wrong to come to you ?”

Wheat suddenly laughed.What is right and what is wrong?Shao Jing is here, looking for him, in this perilous Gu Dao, someone has come to take risks for you, what could be better than this?As for only one person going out - go to his side!He is loved by someone, this is not a dewy marriage that disappears at dawn, even if he dies at this moment, he is satisfied.He suddenly opened his arms around Shao Jing's neck, kissed him proactively for the first time in his life, blocking all Shao Jing's growls.

Phosphor worms danced around them, and the life of the mated adults began to die quickly, but until they died, they were still hooked together in pairs, falling like rain, forming a patch on the ground, still glowing. Pale blue light.A wedding becomes a funeral, yet even in death they are not separated.

Shao Jing hugged Mai Mai tightly, as if he wanted to rub him into his body.Mai Mai struggled a bit, and made an inappropriate analogy: "You are stronger than a military division."

Shao Jing relaxed a bit suspiciously: "Who is the military advisor? Your ex-boyfriend?" The words were sour, but he didn't realize it.

Xiaomai pointed to the corpse that was neither human nor snake with his chin: "He."

Shao Jing glanced at it, and suddenly remembered what happened before, and couldn't help roaring again: "Why are you running to Yunnan for nothing!"

"Why are you shouting, be careful to attract some monsters."

Shao Jing immediately stopped talking, and kicked the military adviser on the ground with his toe: "What is this? Lizardman?"

Mai Mai grabbed his shoulder: "I don't know, I think it's a snake man Gu."

"Snake Man Gu?" Shao Jing frowned, "What the hell is this place? Why are there weird bugs everywhere!"

"The woman said, this is a Gu Dao." Mai Mai didn't want to look at the military master's body anymore.The corpse was already cold and hard, and the skin on its body turned dark gray. It looked more like a four-legged snake than a human. "Let's go, talk while walking."

The night was still so dark, Mai Mai and Shao Jing found a temporary shelter in a tree hole, huddled together and began to tell their stories.Shao Jing said it very simply, during these 24 hours, he just kept on going and going on and on.He saw the wreckage of the flesh, found the corpse of the mute, and finally caught up with the wheat.With the guidance of Gu worms, he only encountered a few half-sized scorpions on the way.

But Mai knows that things are definitely not that simple.Half a scorpion?How big is a scorpion half-sized?How many did you meet?Well, even if they are half-aged, they walked about five hours earlier than Shao Jing. How did he catch up during the five hours?

Shao Jing casually touched the wound on his face: "It's a tree branch, it's okay. Those scorpions are only the size of a plate, and the main reason is that the tactical tail stabs are difficult to deal with, but I have a gun, so it's okay. It's you who feel the pain in the chest. What? It would be bad if there was an internal injury."

Wheat still feels a fishy-sweet taste in his mouth, and he knows he must be injured.But he shook his head: "It's okay." The important thing now is that Shao Jing is not hurt, he is the one who is more likely to walk out.

Shao Jing hugged him a little tighter: "Why do I feel that this place is like a Gu refining jar, where a bunch of bugs are devouring each other. The scorpion as big as a plate... this is the Jurassic, right?"

Mai Mai rolled his eyes at him, but of course Shao Jing couldn't see the look in the dark: "Nonsense! Didn't I tell you just now? The woman said, this is a Gu way."

"Woman? The woman who brought you to the Gu Dao?"

"Yes--" Mai Mai sighed softly, "I still don't know her name." He opened his hand, and a small pale golden beetle flew up from his palm, floating in the dark tree hole. shimmer.

Shao Jing also opened his hand, and the beetle given to him by the man also flew up, and happily got together with the wheat beetle, circling incessantly: "This is probably a co-birth Gu, nature will look for each other, otherwise I would still I can't find you."

Mai Mai remembered that the woman said the name of this Gu: "It seems to be called... I forgot... At that time, she was going to die, I just felt sad, and I didn't listen carefully to what she said. It’s not advanced enough, if she was advanced, she wouldn’t have to come back to this place or what’s going on, I didn’t understand…”

"Oh." Shao Jing didn't quite understand, and he was so tired that his eyelids kept sinking.It was the same with Mai Mai. The two of them leaned together, each holding a gun in his hand, blocking the opening of the tree with his backpack, and slowly passed away in a daze.

Mai Mai had a dream, dreaming that he and Shao Jing were standing in a stone room, the walls of the stone room were full of honeycomb-like holes, from which all kinds of insects kept crawling out, no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't kill them all.He watched helplessly as Shao Jing was surrounded by a group of centipedes and disappeared among the piles of bugs.Turning around, a huge spider hangs down from the top of the stone wall, sprays out a stream of white silk to wrap around him, lifts him up, and shakes gently in the air...

Mai Mai opened her eyes suddenly, sweating coldly.Shao Jing has already gotten up, shaking him gently: "It seems that there is movement."

The moon was very good, shining through the gaps in the leaves, I could barely see the outlines of things on the ground, as if some dog-like things were walking through the trees.The tree hole where Mai and the others stayed was about one meter above the ground, and those dog-like things seemed to have not noticed them, and were passing under their trees one by one.At this moment, Maimai saw clearly that they were scorpions the size of dogs, with barbed tail spines sticking out of their backs.

Wheat fought a cold war.Shao Jing pulled him back without saying a word, and gripped the gun tightly.Both of them held their breath. If they were discovered at this time, there was really no way out.

Suddenly there was a commotion in the scorpion team. A small scorpion seemed to want to leave the team, but was immediately stabbed by the scorpion behind him with its tail thorn, and immediately a group of scorpions jumped on it. As they marched in a single file, there was only one barbed tailbone left on the ground.

Team Scorpions finally disappeared into the forest, and the sky gradually turned pale.Mai Mai and Shao Jing made sure that there were no more bugs around, and then slowly slid down the tree.The tail thorn on the ground was almost as big as a cargo hook, and there was a poisonous gland attached to it.Shao Jing pondered for a while, then picked up the tailbone, and put it in a plastic bottle that they drank. The poisonous gland was inserted in the bottle, and the barb fit right into the mouth of the bottle.He buckled the top of the barb with a plastic bottle cap, and the sharp, awl-like tailbone almost pierced the cap.Mai Mai watched him tie the bottled tailbone to the back of the backpack with vines, and couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing?"

"It's the same as your spider silk rope--" Shao Jing picked up his bag and wrapped the spider silk rope around Mai Mai's waist, "Maybe it will be needed sometime, but be careful, don't touch it."

"Those scorpions don't know where they are going..."

"Maybe--" Shao Jing pondered for a moment, "Even if they go to the stone room you mentioned, they also want to go out."

Wheat shudders.How would they deal with such a group of scorpions?

"Let's not think about dealing with them first, but follow them."

"Follow them?" Mai Mai was surprised, "Should we hide?"

"No." Shao Jing pulled him on the road, "I have already understood the law of Gu Dao. It's like raising Gu. Put all kinds of poisonous insects into a container, and the last one left is Gu. Only then can the container be opened to kill it. Take it out. The bugs on the Gu Dao, if they want to leave this weird place, they have to turn themselves into the last 'Gu', so they must devour other bugs. So what we have to deal with is not a group, but one. We We have to wait, wait until they devour each other, and then we will look for another chance."

Mai felt a little uncomfortable.Shao Jing deduced the laws of Gu Dao, but he didn't expect that they were also a kind of "bugs" in this Gu Dao.But he still can't care about being sad now, although what Shao Jing said makes sense, but--

"Wait until the last one—I don't know what will become of it!"

Shao Jing smiled: "There must be more than one worm who wants to leave the Gu Dao, and it is not just this type. We can't fight them recklessly, and we can only profit from it. Let's go, play by ear, we are more intelligent than others. They are big, you can’t beat these bugs if you don’t believe it!”

It's good for two people to hurry.The sun rose, and the woods were still so sultry, but Xiaomai felt relaxed.The direction the Gu worms led them was indeed the direction the scorpions were going, and the empty skins of the scorpions were constantly found along the way, which proved that Shao Jing's analysis was correct.After walking for about two hours, it suddenly became clear to them that the forest had disappeared, and what appeared in front of them was a cliff, which could not be seen from left to right, and on the opposite side, it was filled with clouds and fog, and nothing could be seen clearly.On the ground by the edge of the cliff, there were extremely deep traces of insect feet scratching. The trees on both sides had grown upside down, and there were countless scars on the trunks.Shao Jing took a look: "They crawled underneath."

Wheat was stunned.It never occurred to me that the stone room was actually under the cliff.

"How do we get down?"

"I don't know how long the spider silk rope can be stretched, and I don't know how deep it is here." Shao Jing looked down for a while, then untied the backpack, "I'll go down and have a look."

Mai Mai grabbed him: "No way! Who knows what's down there!"

Shao Jing untied the spider silk rope around his waist: "If we don't go down to see, we will never get out. It's okay, I think someone must have been to that stone room, otherwise how would that woman know? Since someone went out However, it means that this place can still be visited by people.”

"But those scorpions might be down there!"

"No. Looking at the traces, they should have passed away long ago." Shao Jing tied one end of the spider silk rope around his waist, and wrapped the other end around the tree next to him, and handed it to Mai Mai, "I'll go down and have a look. Don't worry, if you find something wrong, shoot me, just pull me up." He handed the other gun to Xiaomai, "If there is anything wrong up there, shoot me, and I will come up immediately."

Mai Mai watched Shao Jing slide down the cliff and disappear into the clouds.The clouds and fog here are also a bit weird. The sun is clear on the cliff, but the fog is filled with more than ten meters below the cliff. Could this be something like miasma?Also, are those scorpions still on the cliff?He was thinking wildly, the trembling of the spider silk rope became more intense, Shao Jing climbed up: "No, it's too deep, the rope is still too far away."

Just as Mai Mai was about to speak, Shao Jing suddenly made a silent gesture, quickly packed up his things, dragged him to the nearest tree, and covered his body with leaves.After a while, they saw a brightly colored belt moving towards them in the distance, and they didn't see clearly until they got closer. It was a group of snakes, a group of snakes rolling together, devouring each other while moving forward.When they reached the open space in front of the cliff, they got entangled and fought desperately.These snakes are as thin as arms, and although they are not as thick as the Gatekeeper Dragon, their diameters are astonishing, and the heads of these snakes are all sharp triangles, obviously they are all poisonous snakes.They devoured each other, one snake swallowed one of its kind, and immediately curled up and began to shed its skin.However, such a snake is often swallowed by another snake before it emerges from the old skin.The snake's tail flicked and hit the trees on both sides, and Xiaomai finally understood why these trees were growing upside down, and the trunks were still full of scars.The venom was sprayed on the ground, leaving small black dots.

However, there are still snakes that successfully shed their skin. When such a snake emerges from the old skin, it is already a circle larger than before. As soon as the mucus on the skin dries up, it turns around and devours another of its kind.Out of hundreds of snakes, only a dozen or so remained, coiled among the snake sloughs on the ground, staring at each other.

Shao Jing suddenly poked Mai Mai lightly: "Tell me, why didn't those scorpions leave their shed skin?"

Mai Mai was thrilled to see it, but before she could react, she was stunned for a moment: "Huh?"

Shao Jing's eyes flickered: "Those scorpions should be like these snakes, devouring each other and molting to mutate here... But what about their molted skin?"

Mai Mai was stunned for a while: "I won't be swallowed by them... right?"

"No." Shao Jing said affirmatively, "Do you remember the shed skins we saw along the way? Apparently they don't have the habit of eating the skins too."

Mai Mai thought of an impossible possibility: "Could it be that they brought all these skins to the bottom of the cliff?"

Shao Jing nodded: "Maybe. But I don't think they brought it down." Before he finished speaking, the dozen or so snakes seemed to have reached an agreement, and put away their attacking posture. Then, they climbed down the cliff.

Shao Jing pulled Mai Mai and jumped off the tree: "Pick up a thicker snake slough and put it on your body."

"What are you doing?" Mai Mai was disgusted for a while, but Shao Jing had already started to play tricks: "Hurry up, maybe this is the only chance to go down."

Mai Mai still picked up a snake slough and put it on her body, while Shao Jing stuffed the backpack into another snake slough and tied it to her body with a spider silk rope.As soon as they were done, there was a rustling sound from the bottom of the cliff. Shao Jing pulled the wheat and rolled it behind a tree to observe.I saw a group of ants that were as long as a child's arm climbed up, and began to lift the snake sloughs to transport them down the cliff.Shao Jing said in a low voice, "That's it. These molted skins are probably their food. Let them transport us down."

Mai Mai was extremely nervous: "Nonsense! What if we fall halfway up the climb? What if they don't even reach the bottom and eat us? What if..."

"Try it. There's no way we'll go down otherwise."

With one sentence from Shao Jing, all of Mai Mai's worries were pushed back.Yes, this is a risky thing, but if they don't take risks, they will have to wait here to die.

The ants finished picking up the snake sloughs in the open space, probably smelling the smell of the snake sloughs on them, and crawled behind the tree again.Shao Jing connected the two together with a spider silk rope, and smiled slightly: "No matter what, we will always be together."

Mai's heart suddenly settled.He relaxed his body, felt the ants lift them up, the countless mandibles bit the extremely tough snake slough, firmly fixed them above the ant team, and then climbed down the cliff...