The deeper you go, the more desolate it becomes, with hardly a blade of grass to be seen.
I walked for over an hour, following the footsteps of those who had come before me. The soil became softer and softer, and the footprints sunk down to the level of my calves. Suddenly, I heard a terrified cry, followed by a sharp shout, "Hurry and catch it!"
Lin Xiaoman, who was always paying attention to the movements in front of him, saw it clearly.
Like a fish leaping out of water, a dirt earthworm suddenly jumped out from the ground, opened its big mouth, and swallowed the person closest to it whole.
A faint scream came from its abdomen, but it was silent within three seconds.
Inside the earthworm's body, there are rows of sharp fangs. When a person enters the earthworm's stomach, it is like entering a crusher.
The earthworms crushed the man to pieces, and after completing their initial digestion, they quickly dived back into the ground.
With the disappearance of the earthworm, the crowd in front was obviously in a state of high tension and alert, each holding their weapons tightly.
Their weapons are basically divided into two types, one is a gun, and more people hold a sickle with a long handle.
An invisible danger hung in the quiet air.
"There!" someone shouted, and sure enough, the ground was arching in the direction he pointed, and it seemed as if a huge monster was about to break out from under the earth.
After determining the direction, several people holding sickles immediately surrounded it. On that piece of land, the man who felt the ground shaking under his feet had a face full of horror and a deep fear of death.
Sure enough, less than two seconds after the trace was discovered, the earthworm jumped out from that place, and the frightened unlucky guy was swallowed up after running just two steps.
The other two who arrived there the fastest and were closest to it raised their long handles with both hands and stabbed their sickles into the bodies of the earthworms.
"I grabbed him!"
"Shoot now!!"
"Shoot!" Brother Li ordered, "Hold on! Hold it!"
Upon hearing the order, a dozen gunmen began to fire, and little bits of blue light all fell on the earthworm.
It’s just obvious that the power of the gun is really not strong, and there is an obvious cooling time. After a wave of blue light bullets, the attack stops.
The two who succeeded first held the long handle tightly. The damage value of the sickle weapon was obviously not high, and its greater purpose was to prevent the earthworms from burrowing into the ground and escaping.
But there was nothing they could do. The two men's strength was just like a chicken's in front of the earthworm. The earthworm, which had finished digesting, twisted its body vigorously. With a little struggle, the two men were thrown away. It twisted a few more times like a dog shaking off water, and the earthworm, which had shaken off the sickle, burrowed into the ground again and disappeared.
Eat people, burrow into the earth, eat people, burrow into the earth...
It is obvious that the cost of bullets is too high. Only when someone hooks the earthworm will Brother Li give the order to shoot. However, due to the cooling time of the gun, it is impossible to kill them with random guns.
I don't know if it was full or was seriously injured and ran away. After eating three people, I waited for a full quarter of an hour, but the earthworm did not appear again.
Everyone can only move forward again and look for the next target.
After following them all the way, Lin Xiaoman also figured out what they were doing. The hunting team just walked around aimlessly. Once a earthworm jumped out to eat people, they would first hook it with a sickle. Only when it was hooked and there was a certain chance of killing it, would Brother Li give the order to shoot.
This gun is really low quality. It has a cooldown time of 10 seconds after firing.
A ground earthworm can only be killed if you are lucky and rely on the strength of numbers to hold it back and prevent it from burrowing into the ground.
One day, about fifteen people from the entire hunting team of 100 people died, and the result was killing two earthworms.
A single earthworm weighs about four to five hundred kilograms. In addition to the valuable magic crystals, the meat on its body is also a great harvest.
The hunting team had to bring prey, and with more people, the target would be bigger. Seeing that they were about to finish their work, Lin Xiaoman and Tian Hao left ahead and returned to the base first.
After observing for a day, Lin Xiaoman had a basic intuitive understanding of earthworms, but there was one thing she really couldn't understand.
According to her observation, the dozen or so men armed with guns, Brother Li, and several other small leaders, not only were no one killed, but no one was even injured!
The earthworms didn't attack them at all!
The earthworm's predation is absolutely random, and the position has no effect at all. There is no such thing as "standing at the back is safe".
So, why?
All things are interdependent and mutually exclusive, there must be something!
Intuitively, Lin Xiaoman suspected it was the medicine, and the medicine... Doctor Zhu!
Don't ask her why, this is an intuitive suspicion as a colleague!
That night, under the cover of darkness, Lin Xiaoman quietly went out and sneaked into Dr. Zhu's house, but he didn't find anyone.
Lin Xiaoman thought of something and went to the warehouse, and sure enough, he found Dr. Zhu and his team in the warehouse where the corpses of the earthworms were stored.
Dr. Zhu is easy to recognize because of his white coat and old face.
Doctor Zhu directed several people to work busily inside. Lin Xiaoman waited for 3 or 4 hours. Around late at night, Doctor Zhu left with a strong man who looked like a team leader.
"Old Zhu, should we stay and look after him?"
"Don't worry, they are experienced and will definitely be able to do it before we set off tomorrow."
"Well, that's better. If we delay, Brother Li will blame us, and neither you nor I will be in trouble."
The two men lowered their voices as they walked and talked. When they reached a dark alley, Lin Xiaoman quickly attacked, knocking the burly man unconscious with a single palm strike. At the same time, he grabbed Doctor Zhu's neck with one hand, "Don't scream, or I'll kill you."
Lin Xiaoman imitated a vicious and sinister male voice.
Seeing his companion's life or death uncertain, Dr. Zhu was so frightened that he could only tremble and dared not shout, "Okay, good man, spare my life!"
"Hand over the medicine for the earthworms!"
"What? I don't know." Doctor Zhu feigned confusion, his heart filled with horror. This was District Seven's greatest secret weapon. Could someone have rebelled against Brother Li? Or was it someone from another district?
"Behave yourself!" Lin Xiaoman used force on his hands and lifted the man up roughly.
"I'll tell you, I'll tell you..." With his feet suspended in the air and the shadow of death immediately looming over him, Dr. Zhu begged for mercy in a difficult voice.
"Dare to lie to me, I'll make you live a life worse than death!"
Continuing to pinch him, Lin Xiaoman held a fruit knife against Dr. Zhu's lower body. Although he was an old man, any man would not want to be a eunuch.
"I wouldn't dare, I wouldn't dare!" Faced with the threat of extinction, Dr. Zhu's face turned pale with fear. He confessed everything in a trembling voice, "There is a medicine for earthworms. I accidentally researched it a few years ago. All you need to do is mix earthworm blood with black rot grass... and apply this potion to your body. It will repel the earthworms, just like we humans won't eat fellow creatures covered in feces. A dosage of about 10 ml will last for about 12 hours. If there are other prey around, they won't attack."
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