Chapter 86
The black waterproof backpack was open, but the things inside seemed to have no way out and just kept struggling inside.
Everyone's eyes were fixed on the backpack, almost staring a hole in it.
Finally, the thing hiding in the backpack seemed to discover the light, and several sharp and slender legs emerged from it.
A giant version of a deformed creature.
It looked exactly like the one they found in the skull.
Yan Hong looked at the glass bottle in her hand, then looked at the strange thing that came out of her backpack, and instantly understood what it was.
"This is the old one after the young one is killed," Shao Xingyang complained, "Could it be its cub that we caught?"
The deformed creature's several legs stretched out from the backpack like sea anemones, and its two huge pincers snapped in mid-air, as if showing off its powerful and mighty weapons.
The shells of several walking legs are hard and sharp. Whether you are pinched by the pincers or pierced by the walking legs, it is estimated that nothing good will happen to you.
While several people were still confronting it with their eyes, Lu Shiyu suddenly noticed that its mouth was moving for some reason, as if it was chewing food without stopping.
But in this case, is it really eating?
The mouth hidden under the whiskers suddenly stopped, and then the eyes of the deformed creature seemed to sense something in the air, and finally stopped in the direction of Yan Hong.
The next moment, an unexpected scene appeared.
Without any warning, the deformed creature suddenly spat out an unknown liquid, and the turbid mucus flew straight towards Yan Hong. Fortunately, Yan Hong's ability allowed her to escape safely in these two seconds.
The unknown mucus finally fell on the tree trunk behind Yan Hong.
The moment the mucus came into contact with the tree trunk, small bubbles suddenly began to appear in the mucus, and at the same time, it began to emit some kind of indescribable strange smell, like something rotting, or like a chemical liquid. If you smell it carefully, you can even smell something burning.
As the slime gradually slid down due to gravity, the few people could clearly see that the bark at the part where the slime first came into contact with the tree trunk had been corroded, revealing the whitish core underneath.
Yan Hong looked at the corroded tree trunk with lingering fear, and suddenly felt that the weight in her hand was not right. She looked down and found that the small deformed creature that was originally in the bottle was gone!
Fortunately, Yan Hong found the small deformed creature after searching around. Maybe it was because it was shaken too hard when it was thrown out just now, but the small deformed creature was lying on the green grass, spitting white foam from its mouth.
Yan Hong was about to pick up the little creature that had nearly escaped prison, but she heard Chen Yunliang say calmly, "Go ahead. The captain said I won't have to heal any minor injuries you inflict. Just consider it a lesson for you."
Yan Hong paused as she stretched out her hand, looked at the half-dead small deformed creature, picked up a branch, placed the bottle aside, and moved the creature into the bottle little by little.
During the stirring process, the white foam bubbles from the deformed creature's mouth touched the leaves, which immediately burned a hole in the leaves. If this white foam touched human skin, the result can be imagined.
The other side
After witnessing the aggressiveness and destructive power of the large distorted creature, Shao Xingyang took action directly, slashing the distorted creature with his long sword through the air, as if he wanted to cut it in half with one blow.
Then Shao Xingyang's long knife was clamped by the big pliers, blocked in mid-air and unable to move any further down.
Seeing that the long sword could not cut through the hard armor on its body, Shao Xingyang prepared to draw back the sword, but then he found that he could not even draw back the sword.
The deformed creature's pincers tightly clamped Shao Xingyang's long knife, and several of its legs were inserted into the ground, making Shao Xingyang unable to retract the knife.
Shao Xingyang wrestled with the distorted creature. The harder Shao Xingyang tried to pull back the knife, the harder the distorted creature refused to let go. This silent match ended with Shao Xingyang's crushing defeat.
Shaoxing Yang, furious, swung his other long knife and slashed at the side of the deformed creature, but the other knife was also clamped and neither knife could be retracted.
Lu Shiyu looked at Shaoxingyang who was so angry that he couldn't even think of anything to comfort him, so he turned to look at Tang Zeyu beside him.
"Can you take care of that aberrant creature?"
A gleam of light flashed in Tang Zeyu's eyes imperceptibly.
"Can."
As Tang Zeyu pulled the blade out of the scabbard, flames suddenly appeared on the blade and spread to the entire blade.
As soon as the flaming knife approached, the deformed creature felt uncomfortable because of the sudden increase in temperature in the air and wanted to retreat into the bag.
But how could Tang Zeyu let it happen?
In a flash, the flames spread to the backpack and the dry cloth was instantly ignited.
The deformed creature, with half of its body hidden inside, soon realized that something was wrong. By the time it discovered the source of the problem, the backpack had been burned beyond repair. The deformed creature had no choice but to abandon the backpack and escape, otherwise it would be burned to ashes.
Its eight legs scurried around, but before it could run far, a long knife pierced its body and nailed it to the ground, unable to move forward even a single step.
Shaoxing Yang was holding another knife in his hand. When he saw the long knife successfully hit the target, he whistled happily.
"Precise hit!"
Chen Yunliang walked forward and squatted beside the deformed creatures, observing them carefully. Apart from their body size, the two deformed creatures were indeed identical in every other respect, so it could be confirmed that they belonged to the same species.
The deformed creature still wanted to struggle, but unfortunately the long sword completely penetrated its soft body. If it moved again, it would probably be cut in half.
"Hey, Lu Shiyu," Yan Hong seemed to have thought of something, shook Lu Shiyu's arm and said, "This big one can be eaten."
Lu Shiyu hesitated for a while, but finally compromised because he could not withstand Yan Hong's constant shaking.
"Of course you can, but I need to first figure out what I can and can't eat. It would be terrible if everyone gets food poisoning after eating." Lu Shiyu was dizzy from being shaken: "Stop shaking, I can see double."
Only then did Yan Hong stop.
"Then leave this to me," Chen Yunliang said, shaking the bottle in his hand. "I'm also planning to dissect it to see its internal structure. How exactly does it produce a liquid as corrosive as strong acid?"
"Well, once Chen Yunliang finishes his research, I'll take care of this big one."
Yan Hong raised her hands and cheered: "Great!"
Chen Yunliang was driven aside by Yan Hong to fiddle with the small deformed creature, while the big one was tied up with a rope by Lu Shiyu and hung up to prevent it from running around. In order to prevent it from spitting out that liquid again, Lu Shiyu also tied its mouth, so that even if it wanted to vomit, it would only stay in its own mouth.
Several people returned to the work of burying the graves, put all the clothes and remains of several people into the pit, and then filled the pit with the soil they had dug and compacted it. Compared with the original, a small arch has been formed here. However, no matter how you look at it, it does not look like a grave. Instead, it looks like several people tried to escape legal punishment by burying the evidence after killing someone.
"It seems like something is missing," Lu Shiyu rubbed his chin and looked at the mound of earth. "It doesn't look like a grave."
Tang Zeyu understood what he meant, so he chose a nearby tree, cut down a section of it, made some minor modifications, and finally made it into a wooden sign.
"Oh, how come we forgot about the tombstone?" Yan Hong clapped her hands. "Can we just stick it in there? Do we need to write something on it? Like, 'Tomb of So-and-so' or something like that?"
Lu Shiyu said helplessly: "But we don't know the names of these three people, so we can't write them even if we have an idea."
"It's okay, I'll write it."
Tang Zeyu took out a black oil-based marker from her bag, pointed at the template, and after determining the approximate writing position, she held the wooden board with one hand and started writing without making a draft.
Yan Hong, Lu Shiyu and Shao Xingyang watched Tang Zeyu write from both sides.
Because a stroke written with an oil-based pen is ultimately too thin for a wooden board, Tang Zeyu chose to draw the strokes and then fill them with color. The final effect is almost the same as that written with a brush dipped in thick ink.
"Wow, I didn't expect you to be so good at writing, Captain."
Shaoxing Yang looked at the written wooden tombstone, clicked his tongue twice, placed the tombstone in the center in front of the mound, inserted it into the ground, and reinforced it with a layer of soil to make sure it would not fall easily.
The simple grave here had just been completed, and Chen Yunliang on the other side had also finished studying the deformed creature.
"It's not a big deal, it's non-toxic, but you need to remove all the internal organs and clean them out. There's still... Never mind, you wouldn't understand even if I told you. Just remove everything except the meat. And don't burst anything like a balloon."
Lu Shiyu wrote down Chen Yunliang's words one by one, then put down the deformed creature and went to cook.
Lu Shiyu carefully turned the deformed creature's head towards a deserted direction to prevent it from suddenly spewing out anything else.
After sharpening the kitchen knife, Lu Shiyu chopped off the eight legs and two large claws of the deformed creature. The torso instantly became bare, and it really looked like shrimp.
The tip of the knife made a shallow cut on the body of the deformed creature. For fear of cutting something that should not be cut, it could not be cut too deep. The rest could be torn apart directly by hand.
After tearing open the white and tender torso, what caught the eye was the organs connected by a black line like grapes. Lu Shiyu guessed that the black line was something similar to the digestive tract, but it was hard to say as for the other parts.
Cut off the part of the black line connected to the brain, and then you can directly pull out a bunch of organs that are difficult to identify.
After removing the internal organs, only the white tender meat was left in the body. It looked like a large piece of lard, and Lu Shiyu was not sure what it tasted like.
Unlike the extremely soft torso, the part of the deformed creature with the shell was extremely hard. Lu Shiyu tried to chop it with a kitchen knife. After several times, the shell only suffered some superficial injuries, but Lu Shiyu's kitchen knife was almost broken.
"Damn it! Is this a stone?" Lu Shiyu threw his foot down and said simply, "Just boil it in water!"
Lu Shiyu decisively chose to give up struggling and started preparing to cook after processing the ingredients he could process.
Meanwhile on the other side
Neil lit a match and threw it into the pile of firewood. The flames instantly spread across the pile. The gradually increasing flames illuminated the surrounding environment and the faces of the three people.
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