Chapter 46
Above the mist of the abyss, a cave appeared before our eyes.
Su Ran pulled Guji: "... Let's go, Guji, we have to hurry."
As soon as the words fell, countless red compound eyes appeared, blinked quickly, and then disappeared. Su Ran was stunned for a moment, and when he looked again, everything returned to dead silence.
In the distance, there was the sound of crows, like they were wailing, mixed with the red mist, and the cave became even more eerie.
But Su Ran and Guji had no choice.
As for Su Ran, he didn't know whether Guji had the same complicated emotions as him, but rescue was necessary now.
They all worked hard for this.
So Su Ran mustered up his courage.
Beyond the fog, there are rocks that look like small hills. There are more than a dozen of them distributed at the entrance of the cave. Sticky moss grows in the center of each stone, emitting a faint green light.
And underneath, there are a lot of piled-up bones. They are weathered and seem like they will break if touched.
From some traces, it can be seen that they were eaten by wild birds, pecking out small holes.
However, even so, there was no dust on the surface as expected, instead it still retained a dark red color.
Su Ran stared at it for a few more seconds.
As a simple rose, he couldn't understand how such a dark red color came about. After all, the colonel once told him that many arthropods in the wild, as well as humans, would turn into a pile of bones once they died.
He did not show Su Ran the relevant pictures, even though his walkie-talkie had these pictures stored in it.
However, Su Ran could imagine it, because he was also a wild rose, had experienced deformations of varying sizes, and had seen many animal corpses before.
but……
Why are there red, flesh-like things on these ancient bones?
Su Ran didn't understand.
But despite this, they only stopped for a few seconds, resolutely holding each other's hands, and carefully stepped into the cave.
All the soldiers in this formation died.
Every few meters, there would be one lying on the ground with their mouths open, their palms or other parts half-eaten, and dried blood falling to the ground, leaving black marks.
He used a small leaf to confirm the breathing of several of them, but was afraid of disturbing them, so he pulled Gugu's tentacles and carefully avoided their limbs. At this moment -
He touched something.
It was soft and seemed to have no bones.
Same with plasticine.
Su Ran took a small step back.
Without hesitation, he stretched out his small leaf and touched it lightly.
——Then he saw a pair of hands falling from between his leaves. In an instant, the shape of the palms disappeared and turned into slippery plasticine, sliding to the ground along the small leaf veins.
Normally, even in the case of the new city, Tahrir is “completely integrated” into the land.
But the ones we see now have intact appearances and have everything human, such as facial features, body, and limbs, but they are just skin, like fish with bones removed, leaving only flesh and blood.
This was completely beyond Su Ran's imagination.
The elders had explained the mechanisms of this world, one of which was about "injury." For ordinary creatures like them, injury was based on a state of physical damage.
But now, what kind of monster can extract human bones while ensuring that other parts - even the skin - remain intact?
It seems that the colonel and his men are facing an unprecedented danger.
"Guji, what's going on?" Su Ran asked softly, "I've never... seen a human like this before."
Faced with Su Ran's question, this little mushroom didn't know the answer either.
He looked around, and finally stretched out his tentacles and pointed at the cave: "Gujiji!"
Su Ran followed his gaze and saw a figure emerging from the inner layer of the cave. He was wearing a neat uniform and swayed for a moment as he stood up, but he used his gun to support himself on the rocks, barely maintaining his balance.
——Could it be the colonel?
Su Ran: "We have to hurry!"
After he said that, he held the small flower bud, and ran over, shaking and clattering, and it turned into a small rose in the shape of a sprinting flower.
And that figure was getting closer and closer... Finally, it appeared in front of him.
The author has something to say:
Too sleepy, sorry for the short post QAQ
Rest on Sunday, the next chapter will be long and thick! Colonel Si will appear on Saturday.
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