Chapter 42
“Um, well…” Lu Shiyu poked his finger, his face full of guilt, his eyes wandering: “Actually, I didn’t find it at the beginning, but I had already started cooking, and it would be troublesome to move it…”
"you……"
"But don't worry!" Lu Shiyu explained in time before Yan Hong got angry: "These creatures won't attack! They only eat moss and small insects!"
"Oh, you said it was okay earlier." Shao Xingyang looked at the deformed creature from left to right: "It's okay as long as it has no attack power."
But when he turned the deformed creature over, he saw a huge mouth full of human-like teeth opening towards him.
Shaoxing Yang had a blank expression on his face. He aimed at the pool and was about to throw the deformed creature in.
"Wait, wait, don't throw it yet!" Lu Shiyu quickly stopped Shao Xingyang who was about to throw the deformed creature out like an Indian flying pancake: "Although this kind of creature won't attack actively, they will fight back if you attack first!"
Shao Xingyang looked up at the distorted creatures that almost covered the cliff wall, and silently decided to throw the distorted creature to the ground.
But after trying a few times, the deformed creature was stuck to his hand as if with glue, and no matter how Shao Xingyang shook it, it stayed there.
"What are you doing?" Shaoxing Yang tried to tear it open with brute force.
"That's the liquid it secretes. That's how they stay firmly on the rock wall," Lu Shiyu pointed in the direction of the pool. "Just wash it off with water."
Tang Zeyu looked at the deformed creature on the stone wall and asked, "Why did that deformed creature fall down just now?"
"It must be full. I see its belly is swollen."
"The way they come down is to just let go and fall? Won't they die from the fall?"
"No," Lu Shiyu pointed to the illustration in the book and said, "They have a gliding membrane between their limbs. It's this layer of skin. When they need to come down, they spit out saliva to dissolve the □□. Once they fall down, the gliding membrane unfolds and they can glide down."
"It sounds like a sugar quoll," Tang Zeyu thought for a moment and asked, "You just said it came down because it was full, right?"
"Yeah, what's wrong?"
Tang Zeyu said hesitantly, "If it came down because it was full, then the rest of them must be full too, right?"
“Huh?” Lu Shiyu’s mind went blank for a moment: “It seems, it seems so.”
Shao Xingyang squatted by the pond and put the deformed creature and his stuck hand into the water. The mucus was finally dissolved and disappeared under the dilution of water. Shao Xingyang's hand was successfully separated from the deformed creature's abdomen.
"Hiss, I finally got it off," Shao Xingyang rubbed his numb hands and said, "This stuff can be used as super glue."
The deformed creature stretched its body, with the front with short hair facing upwards and the belly with a long mouth facing downwards. The whole animal floated on the water like a water lily, quietly looking at Shaoxing Yang, and seemed to be very stable.
"Tsk, my hands have been stuck for ages. Watch out!"
Shaoxing Yang scooped water with his hands and poured it on the deformed creature. The deformed creature immediately widened its eyes, but that was all. It did not put up any more resistance and slowly floated away along the ripples on the water.
After taking revenge, Shaoxing Yanggang stood up and looked down at the lake. It seemed like something was moving, but he couldn't tell whether it was the waves affecting the reflection or it was really moving. Shaoxing Yang waited for the waves on the lake to disappear and the picture to become clear again. Now he could see clearly.
I saw clearly a group of deformed creatures flying down from above.
Shaoxing Yang: “?!”
Shaoxing Yang turned his head and looked up, only to see that all the deformed creatures that were originally climbing on the stone wall had come down all at once. It was too late for him to run, and he was buried by the deformed creatures in a few breaths.
At this time, several other people were hiding in the tent, avoiding the rain of deformed creatures.
"Lu Shiyu, nothing will happen to Shaoxingyang, right?" Yan Hong asked, looking at Shaoxingyang who was buried.
"No, the attack power of this deformed creature is only at the tickling level. He will be suppressed at most." Lu Shiyu waved his hand and said, suddenly as if he thought of something, his expression became a little subtle.
"What's wrong?"
"I suddenly remembered the characteristics of these creatures," Lu Shiyu continued, moving back a distance. "When they're full, they slide down and float on the water. Then, through their only entrance, they excrete the digested food they've eaten last time. That feces becomes food for the juveniles in the water."
Yan Hong, who had been angry too many times today and didn't react much, just said "oh" and said, "And then?"
It's just that the food they eat is feces, that's all, haha, it doesn't matter, she really doesn't care, there are so many creatures like this in nature, it's nothing strange, she doesn't mind, it's normal, all animals are like this, there's nothing to be disgusted about, she really isn't angry at all.
"Well, then," Lu Shiyu's words were obviously more halting this time, "Because their urine will pollute the water, so when they glide down, they will pee in the air, and the urine will be sprinkled on the grass, so as to avoid it from entering the water."
"Ah, it's urine," Chen Yunliang looked outside the tent. "I thought it was raining."
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”
Shaoxing Yang's screams were heard.
"What the hell is this!!!"
The four people in the tent turned their heads back at the same time. It was not that they did not want to call Shao Xingyang, but when they found that those deformed creatures were about to come down, Shao Xingyang was too far away from them. They shouted several times but the other party did not hear them. However, those deformed creatures had already started to come down from the stone wall. The four people had no choice but to hide in the tent first.
"It's so tragic. As a teammate, it's really hard to bear to just listen to his screams and remain indifferent," Chen Yunliang said, covering his ears with his hands. "This way I can't hear anything. It's much better."
A foul smell drifted into the tent, the smell was so strong and pungent that it forced several people to pinch their noses.
"This must be the smell of their urine," Lu Shiyu said. "No wonder they pee outside the pool. It really smells bad."
In the end, Yan Hong couldn't help it and zipped up the tent, which blocked the smell a little.
"It smells terrible," Yan Hong fanned herself with her hands and said, "The food is so light, how come it smells so bad?"
"Because this is one of their means of survival. The presence of these unpleasant odors will cause surrounding predators to avoid this area. Otherwise, with their ability to survive, it would be difficult for them to avoid extinction." Lu Shiyu glanced at the location of the zipper door of the tent and asked, "If we just zip the door like this, what will happen to Shaoxingyang?"
"Whatever you want to do," Yan Hong crossed her legs. "He's already stained with the scent, so there's no point in letting him in. Just wash him in the water after you get him."
Several people were sitting in the tent when they suddenly saw a black figure appear on the tent cloth. It gradually approached the tent, and its hands were frantically groping for something on the tent, as if wondering why the door was gone.
Smelling the approaching foul odor, they instantly realized that Shaoxing Yang had returned.
"Hey! Open the door!" Shaoxing Yang, who was outside the tent, patted the tent and said, "Let me in too!"
The people in the tent were watching each other intently. Even a fool knew that if Shaoxing Yang was allowed in now, it would be like turning the tent into a gas chamber.
Lu Shiyu listened to Shao Xingyang's cry for help outside the tent, looked at the two people who pretended to be busy, hugged his knees and wondered whether to say something.
"Don't say anything," Chen Yunliang whispered, "Just pretend you didn't hear anything."
“I heard it!!!”
"Forget it," Tang Zeyu sighed and said, "Let's go out. This place is no longer suitable for tonight's camp."
The tent was opened, and Shao Xingyang stood at the door with his hands on his hips, angrily saying, "Do you have any conscience at all? Not only did you not call me when you ran away, but you also locked me out!"
"Who didn't call you?" Chen Yunliang pinched his nose and said, "You were playing with the deformed creatures over there, splashing water. I called you, but you didn't even respond."
"Ah?" Shao Xingyang recalled carefully that there seemed to be some sound at that time, but he automatically ignored it.
"You can even play with deformed creatures. You really are a little genius."
"Okay, let's pack up and get ready to go," Tang Zeyu said, "walk back a distance and find a suitable place without any smell to set up the tent again."
The few of them quickly packed up their things and walked back along the way they came to correct the wrong route.
But on the way back, Lu Shiyu felt that the things on his back seemed to be heavier. Was it an illusion?
As he was walking, Lu Shiyu felt an inexplicable extra weight moving upwards. Suddenly, he felt something on top of his head, and his vision was blocked. In a panic, he bumped into several people walking in front of him.
"Hey, hey, hey, who walks without looking at the road?" Shaoxing Yang turned his head and couldn't help swearing.
"Fuck, Lu Shiyu, why did you bring this thing out!"
"What?" Lu Shiyu's vision was blocked and he had no idea what Shao Xingyang was saying.
While Lu Shiyu was still struggling, a pair of hands lifted up the part covering her eyes. It was Tang Zeyu.
"A deformed creature is following you. Are you aware of this?"
"What?" Lu Shiyu finally realized what was on his head and hurriedly tried to pull it off: "We have to get it off quickly, otherwise it will be troublesome when it secretes mucus!"
"Don't worry, I'll get it off."
Tang Zeyu stopped Lu Shiyu's panic pulling and helped separate Lu Shiyu's hair from the deformed creature.
The deformed creature had many small raised dots on its abdomen, which allowed it to stick to the stone wall very well. But now all of Lu Shiyu's hair was stuck between the raised dots. Tang Zeyu safely pulled the hair out from between the dots, while Yan Hong supported the deformed creature that had been pulled apart to prevent it from sticking back.
Fortunately, they finally separated without any danger. Lu Shiyu's heart finally settled down. He breathed a sigh of relief, ruffled his messy hair, looked at the innocent-looking deformed creature and said:
"I don't even know when this thing crawled onto my bag. I didn't even notice it when I was packing up."
"Then I'll just leave it here. It should be able to slowly crawl back by itself."
Yan Hong was just about to put the deformed creature on the ground when Lu Shiyu called her.
"Well," Lu Shiyu said shyly, "I'm here now."
Yan Hong: “…”
"You want to eat again?"
Thinking Yan Hong was unhappy, Lu Shiyu immediately began to explain: "Actually, the meat of this deformed creature is very tender and rich in fat..."
"If you want to eat it, take it with you," Yan Hong said casually, "but how are you going to carry it? Are you going to put it in a net bag?"
“…Ah?” Lu Shiyu said halfway without reacting: “You agree?”
"Why would you agree to that?" Yan Hong shrugged nonchalantly, smiling and saying, "After it's cooked, you won't be able to tell what it originally looked like."
"Yan Hong..."
While the two were talking, a sharp scream suddenly came from not far away.
"Ouch——!!!"
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