Song Yijin carefully put Zhao Xixi and the three of them onto Kui's boat, because Kui's belly bulged to both sides, and with the weight of the three people, Kui's boat was more stable.
They used stone pieces to paddle the mud on both sides. The Kui paddle went surprisingly smoothly and very fast.
After walking for two hours, the mud began to flow, slowly flowing in the same direction as the Kui boat.
Zhao Xixi noticed this situation and asked Jiang Xiaobao to look at it. The mire was originally a dead pool. If there was artesian flow, it was usually because there was an intersection in front and the mud flowed to other places, or the mud mixed with groundwater. intersection.
After following the mud flow for about half an hour, Jiang Xiaobao excitedly shouted to the others: "Look! There is living water here, and it is what caused the flow of the quagmire!"
< p> Hearing his words, everyone felt a surge of joy - they had scratched until their wrists were almost broken, but now they finally saw hope, because the speed of the water seemed to be accelerating, which meant that the exit of the cave should not be far away.However, at this moment, Zhao Xixi made an unexpected decision: asking everyone to slow down!
She was worried that the exit ahead might be a cliff. If they rushed out without control, they might fall directly from the waterfall, which would be extremely dangerous. Fortunately, one of Kui's legs hung down, which stabilized the canoe so that no matter how the person above moved, the canoe would remain stable.
It didn't take long for them to reach the exit. Just as Zhao Xixi expected, the water in the quagmire leads to another brand new cave here - the Worm-Eating Cave. The gray and black mud blends with the blue underground river. The leather boat carries four people, taking their time. drive into it.
This new cave is extremely quiet, and only the sound of the flowing river can be heard. The four of them looked around nervously. Suddenly, a strange wind blew, carrying a putrid smell.
"What does this smell like?" Zhao Xixi frowned.
"It smells like... a rotting corpse." Jiang Xiaobao said with a strange expression. When they heard that it was a rotting corpse, everyone suddenly became nervous. How could there be a rotting corpse in such a blue underground water? But it does taste like it.
At this time, some white floating objects appeared on the water in front of Kui Zi, and there were more and more of them, constantly turning up from the bottom.
Everyone was shocked and horrified. What is this white floating object? The smell of rotting corpses is what it emits.
Kui Zi continued to glide deeper along the current. The deeper the water went, the bluer it became. From a relaxing blue, it gradually changed to an unsettling deep sea blue. Song Yijin couldn't help but feel worried in his heart. .
"Let's paddle toward the shore next to the cave wall and leave this water." Song Yijin stared at the dark water while rowing the Kui paddle toward the cave wall.There was a faint commotion under the water, and white floating objects were still turning up.
Just as Kui's boat was about to dock, something seemed to be holding it under the boat and it could no longer row.
Then the water surface began to roll strangely, and everyone immediately became alert, "There is something in the water!" Seeing that Kui's boat could no longer row, Song Yijin immediately took out the rope, quickly tied the knot, and threw it to the shore. On a rock, and then pulled with all his strength, the Kui boat moved again.
As soon as they reached the shore, Song Yijin asked Zhao Xixi and the three of them to get up quickly. When Song Yijin was about to step ashore, Kui's boat suddenly trembled violently, and Kui's head shook violently from side to side. Song Yijin was unsteady and hugged Kui's neck tightly.
There was a loud noise under Kui's boat, and the air in his body was instantly emptied. Kui bounced off the shore erratically like a rocket, and then landed on the water three hundred meters offshore without sinking. Kui kept treading water with his legs to keep his balance.
The rope held by Song Yijin had been broken, and his palms were dripping with blood.
At this time, Kui was completely awake. Song Yijin looked at it and raised its eyelids, only to find that its cornea was thick and white, and it had no vision.
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Kui, like bats, relies on ultrasonic waves to identify objects and directions.
At this time, Song Yijin was holding his neck, but Kui didn't notice him. Kui used its one leg to tread water, and its head kept shaking from side to side, as if it was nervous.
Suddenly Kui was dragged down from the bottom of the water by something, and his whole body was submerged in the water. Song Yijin quickly crawled to the top of its neck, but Kui seemed extremely nervous, breathing heavily through his nostrils, and tried his best to swim towards the water. Struggle above.
Song Yijin noticed that it was these white floating objects that made Kui extremely nervous. They gathered around Kui and adsorbed on his body. The color of these objects gradually changed from white to bright red.
Under the deep blue water, countless worms as big as bowls appeared at some point, with bright red mouthparts open, swaying left and right with the water waves, and those white floating objects came out of the worms' mouths. Climb out.
Floating turtle insect! Song Yijin then remembered the "Diyunlu" in the old man's home. It was recorded in the book that the East China Sea specializes in absorbing parasitic floating turtle insects from ancient mythical beasts. It turns out that these white floating objects are floating turtle insects, which are internal parasites of underground worms and are also common to worms. living body.
The worm parasitized by the Floating Soft Bug is probably an ancient single-celled organism - sea onion. This is a carnivore that lived in the ancient ocean. It was rooted in the crevices of the seabed and could not move throughout its life. Its body was like a spring and could stretch up to a hundred times its body length, so it only relied on its body contraction to capture food.
But these worms only lived in the ocean in ancient times. Why do they appear in underground water systems?
At this time, Kui struggled more and more fiercely, trying desperately to escape from the water, but was stuck by the floating turtle bug and could not leave.
On the shore, Zhao Xixi and the three of them also discovered worms stretching out from the bottom of the water. They shouted anxiously, asking Song Yijin to come over quickly.
Song Yijin saw the right moment, took off his belt, threw it to the water in the distance, then climbed on top of Kui's head, jumped onto his belt, crossed the river with one move and one reed, and went straight to Zhao Xixi The place where three people came ashore.
Zhao Xixi and the others were worried when they saw Song Yijin trapped from a distance on the shore.
After Song Yijin left, Kui suddenly became flexible, jumped out with one leg and stepped on the water, then dived into the water, and saw huge waves rising from the entire dark blue, rolling from bottom to top. .
Kui jumped on one leg under the water and turned in circles. When he reached the water where Song Yijin was, he set off a huge water wave and hit the cave wall more than a hundred meters upward. The echo was like rolling landmines.
Song Yijin and the four of them were so frightened that they retreated to the bottom of the huge rock on the cave wall.
In just a moment, the dark blue water had been stirred by Kui and turned into mud color. Then bright red blood flowers emerged from the surface of the muddy water from bottom to top. The blood flowers spread in all directions. Finally, all the blood flowers blended together, and the entire water surface was blood red.
"The red color is the blood of worms. Kui tore up all the sea onions under the water. The blood flowers that floated up are the blood of worms." Song Yijin said, "These floating turtles are parasitic in the sea. In the onion stomach, because sea onions cannot move, in order to capture large food, they will spit out floating turtle worms to surround and decompose large food, and then return to the worm stomach to wait for food, forming a symbiotic relationship with each other. ”
"Now that the worms have been eliminated, the turtle worm will not be able to survive in the water for too long without its host. However, the turtle worm also has a powerful dormancy function. When it falls into a survival crisis, it will activate dormant cells, and the dormant time can last for tens of thousands of years. Above."
"I heard that the Floating Softshell Bug is a creature that scientists at the American Life Science Laboratory are looking for in Antarctica to study the subject of biological immortality. They never thought that the Floating Softshell Bug would be there It’s four thousand kilometers deep here.”
Sure enough, after the sea onions disappeared, the blood-red turtle bugs that were floating on the surface of the water now returned to milky white and gradually became smaller in size. Slowly disappeared again, and finally completely dissolved into the water, and part of it entered a dormant state.