"Flowering?"
I didn’t understand what Lao Jiang meant. Lao Jiang shouted at the top of his lungs: “Don’t you see those red tongues? Those are gluttonous flowers…”
The overwhelming red flowers spread across the entire mountaintop at an incredible speed, as if hot lava was pouring, making people shudder.
What is even more trembling is what Lao Jiang said. Lao Jiang told us: "Gluttony usually does not bloom because it requires too many nutrients. Often after eating a mountain, it will die without food. Either There are two or more gluttons growing on a mountain of corpses, and gluttons have no concept of a group. In order to compete for nutrients, they often kill each other, and the winner will eat the defeated one. "
"But gluttons who eat the same kind will suddenly ingest a large amount of the same kind of toxins, causing them to wither."
"Many gluttons can't wait for a flower to bloom in their lifetime, because blooming means maturity. After they can bloom, gluttons will feed on meat, and a small flower will bloom for every ten living animals they eat... …”
I was so stunned that I looked at the red hilltop and said in surprise: "There are so many flowers so densely packed that I can't even count them. How many living people and animals did this ghost thing eat?"
Or is it that the person in the bronze coffin was originally alive, but was gradually ingested by gluttony?
What about the salt on the corpse?
Before I could continue thinking about it, the giant was already approaching us. He held a bronze ax and struck down hard, venting his anger.
However, this ax did not hit anyone, but we were so flexible that we dodged it.
The giant still wanted to pursue, but at this moment, countless roots suddenly stretched out from the bronze coffin. They were like silk threads that could be extended infinitely, spurting out towards the giant at a flying speed.
Soon, the giant's arm was entangled in vines!
The giant looked up to the sky and let out a loud roar, and the vines on his body collapsed instantly.
Holding a bronze ax in his hand, he struck the expanding vines with the axe, and streams of milky white liquid splashed out, as thick as tofu and very much like human brains.
But there were too many vines, and the giant's movements were slow. It didn't take long for the blue-black vines to climb up the giant's shoulders from behind, and spread toward its chest again.
You must know that this giant was a warrior of the Fangfeng Tribe in his lifetime and was extremely powerful, but now no matter how he roared or exerted his strength, he could no longer break a single vine.
Those blue-black vines seemed to be directed by something. After climbing up the giant's body, they would continue to spread!
Gloomy green vines covered the giant's face, bit by bit getting into its mouth, eyes, ears and nostrils, until we could no longer see its appearance clearly, and then its chest, legs, feet...
The three-meter-tall giant was instantly tightly bound by the black vines, and only heard its muffled moans like a trapped animal, just like a lamb being hunted by a python.
The vines grabbed the giant's body, tightened little by little, and shrank back to the top of the mountain.
At the same time, I don't know if it was my imagination, but I found that the giant's wrapped body seemed to be shrinking little by little, and the muscles were being sucked dry little by little.
The little red tongue-like flowers on the top of the mountain are dancing in the wind, as if celebrating this moment!
The vines threw the giant to the group of red tongues, and saw those red tongues scraping the giant's body quickly, and the bronze armor that was originally invulnerable was pierced in an instant.
The giant's body was also shrinking at an extremely fast speed, but the red tongue did not completely eat it up, but instead threw it down the mountain.
At that moment, we discovered an even more terrifying scene!
I saw a huge blood-red demon flower slowly emerging from the cliff. The moment it smelled the giant, it woke up.
It unfolded its five petals, revealing the extremely sharp fangs inside, like scimitars for picking flesh, and swallowed the giant in one bite.
The demon flower is three simeters high and so bright that it makes people tremble.
"Boy, look what that is."
I followed Lao Jiang's reminder and looked over, and saw some captured elk, tigers, and mummies of digger soldiers wearing armor from the Tang Dynasty hanging under the flowers.
How much food has this thing stored for itself?
However, the demon flower did not stop after eating the giant. Instead, it opened its mouth and swallowed another mummy.
This scene frightened us all. Qiu Xiuxiu even asked Lao Jiang: "We didn't mess with it. It won't attack us, right? Besides, it still has so much food there, so it should..."
As he spoke, Qiu Xiuxiu's voice became weaker and weaker, and she became less and less confident.
You must know that even if you are gluttonous and have no shortage of food, others can treat us like bacon and store us in their small warehouses.
Lao Jiang's words made us even more heartbroken: "Damn it! It takes hundreds of years to wake up, just in time for us to catch up. It's over, let's prepare for the funeral."
It turns out that the gluttons that grow flowers belong to the category of demons. In order to maintain their long lifespan, they fall into deep sleep every once in a while.
While sleeping, one is in the underworld, and after waking up, one is in the human world.
Especially underground, it can also avoid the consumption caused by photosynthesis.
But every few hundred years, Gluttony must wake up! Because it wants to eat, it must eat enough at one time before it can continue to sleep, just like hibernation in mammals.
And that mountain of coffins is its food source.
"I guess that Wen Tao was just as unlucky as us back then. He woke up the flower when he came in. As a result, the invincible digging army was eaten up and wiped clean at once, and the Yin Ruins became a shadow for his life... "
Lao Jiang's words almost sentenced us to death, and Bai Shui's face turned pale: "Then what should we do? We can't even defeat the giant, are we all going to die here?"
Although we are not as panicked as Baishui, we all know that there is always danger and misfortune. What is thousands of years old is still the monster in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". How to deal with this?
Why should such a terrifying being be fed in a tomb? Is it just to guard the tomb?
Now is not the time to think about this issue, but we have no way to escape, there is no place to hide here.
Moreover, the way back was dug out by the giant, and I couldn't even go back.
Lin Jianye added insult to injury and said coldly to me: "It's all your fault. You only wanted to kill us. It's good now that you can't even escape!"
"My apprentice, when will it be your turn to talk too much!" Lao Jiang put one hand on the black knife, with murderous intent in his eyes.
"If you regret coming with us, that is your own choice and has nothing to do with anyone else."
Lin Jianye still wanted to refute, but at this time there was a swishing sound from the ground, and countless vines were approaching us like poisonous snakes, issuing a terrifying threat...
Platoon leader Zhang immediately shouted for us to retreat, and then fired a burst of fire at the ground ahead with his submachine gun.
Only then did I realize that those vines had tentacles growing on them, like strange little mouths hanging on them. It was just creepy to look at.
There was a burst of gunfire. Although Platoon Leader Zhang killed a lot of vines, more vines surrounded us from the other direction.
We had nowhere to escape. He Lanxue pulled out his long sword. In the cold sword light, several vines broke into half, spilling various disgusting white liquids.
Lao Jiang also drew out the black knife from his waist and fought He Lanxue back to back!
Lin Jianye was still sarcastic, and then Yin Ling'er shouted: "Stop arguing, old bastard."
"What did you say? You called me an old bastard?"
Lin Jianye was very unconvinced, but Yin Ling'er said that he could not do anything and was the first to sow discord. Even Adou had to give up his position to him and let him be the number one king of the kingdom that could not be supported.
Lin Jianye was almost angry to death and wanted several archaeological experts to help him make an assessment, but he saw that everyone had picked up shovels and concentrated on cooperating to deal with the spreading vines.
Only Lu Baoping dealt with him, but also made Lin Jianye accept the reality.
"No one forced us to follow them just now. The legs are on us, so how can we blame that young one."
At this time, I didn't even have a pistol on me, so I could only follow behind Yin Ling'er. She had already released the poisonous insects in the big bamboo basket. The black insect tide was like a small tornado, resisting the vines.
Form a protective circle around He Lanxue and I!
"Eat them, eat them." Yin Ling'er kept giving orders.
I only felt a buzzing in my ears, and there were black bugs flapping their wings and nibbling at the vines in front of me. They had round bellies and patterns on their bodies. At first glance, they looked a bit like bees.
But the vines just increased in number, and Yin Ling'er obviously couldn't hold it anymore!
As soon as many insects flew out of the big bamboo basket, they were frightened back by the vines, and the first silver bell was so angry.
By the end, her eyes were red, as if she had cried.
Yin Ling'er bit her snow-white teeth and shouted: "Master, help me push it!"
After saying that, Yin Ling'er suddenly put down the bamboo basket, sat on the ground and ate candy.
Lin Jianye still wanted to make sarcastic remarks, but He Lanxue shut up and forced him back. She looked at Yin Ling'er with a worried look on her face, and almost got caught in the vines because she was distracted. At the critical moment, Lao Jiang's black knife took action and cut off a vine. The vine broke into two pieces.
Watching Yin Ling'er keep peeling off the candy wrappers, one bite at a time, I wondered if she hadn't chewed it.
And when was this meeting, how could she still have the heart to eat sweets?
I really didn't understand this at all, but I heard He Lanxue telling me to be optimistic about Yin Ling'er and not to let anyone interrupt me.
I asked He Lanxue what was going on.
He Lanxue just replied: "She is going to use that. Now all our hopes are on Ling'er alone..."
