The stench emanating from the silkworm is like the sour smell of something rotten, but also has an indescribable smell of ammonia. In short, not to mention being poisoned, if you smell it for a while you will feel your stomach churning and want to vomit out everything you have eaten.
I can only blame myself for being careless and my growing laziness in such a dangerous situation. I was so addicted to pleasure that I forgot where I am now. This is not a farm restaurant or a tourist attraction. We are not here to live a comfortable life. This is a deserted island, a place where we should be vigilant at all times in order to survive.
As the saying goes, "Born in adversity, die in comfort", these words of our ancestors really make me ashamed, and I should always listen to them!
Seeing that what Song Bailu said was about to come true, those worms appeared more and more, until they covered the sky and the sun, and they would trap us in this stone chamber and unable to move. If I do nothing, that must be the idea!
"Even if I die, I can't die in the mouth of such a vulgar and ugly thing." I muttered.
At this time, I thought of a solution. Our location was a favorable geographical location. I was about to take action, but I saw Yunwen holding my finger. I turned to look at her. She looked at me affectionately and said, "It seems that we can't escape this time. Although I thought that I would die one day, I didn't expect it to be so soon. I thought I could stay with you for a while. But I'm not afraid. I'm satisfied to die with you."
Hearing Yunwen say this, the Song sisters next to them started sobbing and crying loudly.
I sighed and said, "Don't cry, it's not time to die yet. Listen to me, not far from us is where we usually sleep. There is hay and straw on the bed, Bailu, it's convenient to get it in the direction you are facing. We will cover you later, and you take it all out. We will roll into a ball and light the insects thrown towards the cave entrance. When the fire gets bigger, we can run away."
"Good idea! You're a genius!" Song Bailu shouted excitedly.
We moved back to back, shielding Bailu from reaching out to take it, but at this moment, the wall inside the stone chamber exploded. Bailu retracted her outstretched hand and sat down on the ground in fear. As she sat down, the fire on her end suddenly became much weaker, and the worms moved closer, scaring Yingchun so much that she screamed and lost her composure.
"Song Bailu, stand up quickly!" I shouted anxiously.
She was obviously frightened and couldn't adjust herself for a while. At this time, Yunwen helped Bailu up and used a torch to scare the worms that were getting more and more aggressive, so that they moved back to their own positions. Then Yunwen pulled apart the three layers of animal skins, took out the hay and straw spread on the wooden table, and handed them to me one by one.
This is all thanks to having a teammate like Yunwen who has good tacit understanding with us. Otherwise, even if we had a good idea, we would have failed today!
I crumpled the hay into a ball, lit a torch, looked at the worms in front of me, smiled coldly, and said, "If you had stayed underground and didn't show your head, you could still survive today. But you insisted on showing your head and wanted to do something bad to us? I'm sorry, but the fittest will survive. I can only prove to you that we are the superior species."
After saying that, I threw out the fire ball, but it didn't cause much waves.
"There's too little air. It won't burn, right?" Bai Lu said disappointedly.
"The cave is not sealed tightly, and we can still hear underground wind from below the cave, which means that the air is circulating. The gap is still there, and there is sufficient oxygen. The wall was just broken, which increased the wind speed and the oxygen content in the air. This fire will definitely burn." I said.
"But..." Bai Lu was stunned before she could finish her sentence.
The insects in front began to get restless, and a huge fire erupted from the insects. The fire had already burned one of the flesh worms, and the fire began to spread. Those insects had just emerged from the ground one after another, and now they were close to each other, and the fire immediately spread one after another.
It was just like the time in the Battle of Red Cliff when Zhou Yu set fire to Cao Cao's iron-chained boats. It was magnificent and spectacular.
"Keep throwing!" I yelled.
The girls followed my method and threw the balls made of hay and wheat straw into the pile of meat worms, set them on fire and threw them. The meat worms in front, behind, left and right all made shrill hissing sounds, and the air was filled with a burnt smell.
Although the worms died or escaped, as the fire grew bigger, we were gradually trapped in the fire. The more we inhaled the smoke, the more it was fatal.
"Brother Zhou Bo! Cough cough cough...what should we do next?" Song Bailu asked.
"Take off your clothes, soak them with the spring water in the jar, cover your nose with them, pick up some animal skins, wet them, wrap them around your body, and follow me out, otherwise you will be choked to death." I shouted.
Now there was no time to think about more things, so everyone could only do as I said. They took off their inner clothes, covered their noses and mouths with water, and soaked the animal skins. Each of them put one on, and I was one less, so I took the black cloak of Jinyiwei Li Mufeng, soaked it, and wrapped it around myself.
We moved out quickly, but the road was blocked by a pile of several roasted dead fleshworms. I could only use the materials available, picking up a wood-chopping axe, and everyone worked together to push them away. Then we continued to move forward, stepping over those that we could, and moving those that we couldn't.
Step by step, all I saw was the ground filled with bursting green juice, and I had to step over those dark brown bodies. It was truly a nightmare experience.
But fortunately, we are about to reach the cave entrance!
We also took a short break, but at this time we saw one of the snakes that was not burned to death rushing towards us with flames still coming out of its body. I immediately chopped it down with an axe, ending its suffering.
Then we walked away from this end and headed outside the cave. As soon as we walked out, we were stunned. The rain had stopped outside, and there were a lot of big fleshy worms moving their bodies on the muddy ground. When they saw us coming out, they immediately squirmed their bodies and ran quickly towards this end. Due to their large size, their speed was not slow!
There must be at least six or seven of them. I can't handle them. The air outside is humid and the ground is muddy. Fire attack is no longer effective.
"Oh my god, how come there are some outside too?" I said.
"'When times are chaotic, one should avoid it. The bigfoot savages in the mountains know this, so they escape and save their lives.' Zhou Bo, do you still remember this sentence? Bigfoot will also escape at this time of year because the area where the tigers are distributed is extremely large." Yunwen said.
"How did Sister Yunwen know this? Forget it, now is not the time to discuss this. I have also told you that if you want to find a new residence, you must not consider the area near City Wall Mountain. This is the reason." Song Bailu said.
"Stop talking about this and think about how to deal with these fleshworms in front of us. I don't want to be touched by them, let alone be eaten by them! Who can save me?" Song Yingchun said crying.
"Let's fight!" I shouted.
He rushed out immediately, holding the axe to decide his life or death, but suddenly he heard a sharp cry coming from the air. Looking up, he saw countless sea eagles, vultures, sea hawks and the like swooping down on him. As the saying goes, there is always a nemesis. When the fleshworms saw the birds of prey, they were so scared that they wanted to burrow into the ground, but it was too late. They were caught by Zuo Diao and killed!
And at a farther distance, I saw a bird of prey that was larger than all the eagles that had come before. With one claw, it snatched a huge fleshworm into the air, dropped it to death, and then came down to eat its flesh, which took only a few bites.
"Why is it so big? Could it be a Peng bird?" I couldn't help but mutter in amazement.
After all, the fleshworm was big enough, several meters long, but in the claws of the bird of prey, it was like a small loach.