The fat man poked the giant monster's body with his muzzle a few times: "Just as hard as steel plates, and he couldn't even shoot through the bullets, but now he is as soft as a pine caterpillar. It seems that he is not dead yet. I don't think we can ask, and then stuff some explosives into its mouth and send this thing to the west, so that it can also exude a breath of anger in his heart."

Shirley Yang said: "I'm afraid it's not that simple. With our equipment, it's impossible to completely kill it now. Fortunately, it's no longer threatened. This is a dung worm with only rare wheel-like nerve structures like the Sun Goddess Snail. It's hard to find a way to kill it except to change the oxygen content in the air."

The ancestors of this kind of dung beetle can be traced to the "Cambrian" hundreds of millions of years ago. When invertebrates originated, other animals except insects were still in a low-level evolutionary stage. The native form of dung beetle, with its tenacious vitality, has escaped countless earth-shaking species destruction and survived until the Triassic period tens of millions of years ago, and has gradually evolved into the largest insect species in ancient times.

Unlike the common organisms that mainly focus on central nerves and have tree-like nerves, there are only two types of organisms that have rotating nerve tissue and complex cellular structures so far. The first one is the mysterious creature "Sun Goddess Spiral", which is hundreds of millions of years ago. It exists too early. Humans only have some fragments of it. The rotating nerve tissue has no nerve center. That is to say, the body and nerves of this animal are separated. After the physical tissue is necrotic, the rotating nerves will continue to survive. Moreover, the "Sun Goddess Spiral" is hermaphrodite and does not need mating. The new life produced will replace the dead body outside the body. Although this characteristic limits its number, as long as the living environment allows, its rotating nerves and reticular cell structures will reproduce endlessly in the shell.

"Detectus worm" is also known as "Ho's immortal worm". This name is named to commemorate the British biologists who discovered its fossil. This unique creature with reticular nerves is between the invertebrae and the hemispring, and has a protective shell similar to the "Sun Goddess Snail". The hard shell is formed by the secretions in its body. In nature, there is no natural enemy. Unless it can be eaten and completely digested with gastric juice, as long as part of the neural net is left, it can still survive. Its final extinction is just like those huge insects, due to the change of oxygen content in the atmosphere.

Shirley Yang said: "There is one thing that is very strange, it is the overlap and conflict between archaeology and biology. Scholars who study ancient Egyptian civilization believe that the scarabs that appear in the badge of the Pharaoh are worms of gods, and their original form is a worm of a dung beetle. Therefore, they do not agree with the view proposed by biologists that this giant hard-shelled insect was extinct as early as the end of the Triassic period. They believe that at least in the era of ancient Egyptian civilization, there was still such a huge insect left in the world, and there was always debate on this."

In that era, all animals in the world were very large in size, which was related to the plants and geological structure at that time. The environment with excessive oxygen content led to the unlimited growth of insects. The Triassic mosquito fossils found now are estimated to have a wingspan length of more than 100 cm.

Insects use trachea to breathe, but the speed at which oxygen enters the tissue will slow down with the size of the insect. When the insect's body exceeds a certain length, the concentration of oxygen in the air cannot meet the requirements of the insect body. This objective factor is also the main reason for limiting the body shape of the insect and the extinction of large-shaped insects.

The rock structure of the "Hulu Cave" we are currently in is very special. It is an ancient stacked rock with red translucent crystals everywhere and a large number of ancient fossil forests. These are products of the Triassic period. Through the fossils formed at a certain moment in the ancient times, we can know that at that moment, the volcanic lithologies and mudslides that engulf all things almost covered the forest at the same time, and quickly cooled after high temperatures.

The expansion of the ground gas formed a special terrain of the "Gourd Cave". Part of the body of this "Duckling Worm" was swallowed by lava and mudslides. Before the magma could melt its hard and thick shell, it was extinguished by the subsequent mudslides. Therefore, part of the insect body grew into one with the cave and could no longer be separated. In ancient times, the barbarians who lived near "Zhelong Mountain" might have worshipped this terrifying "Huo's immortal insect" as a mountain god.

I don’t know which generation this “duckling worm” has reproduced in this insect shell. Its respiratory system has adapted to the current concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere. Perhaps it is related to the unique structure in this “gurd hole”, or perhaps there is some special plant or food here.

When we think of food, we suddenly remembered the countless "dead floats" in the water. We wanted to leave here immediately, but now it seems that it is necessary to investigate it carefully, because this big bug should have a great relationship with the "Tomb of King Xian".

Why did this "dewed beetle" wear a golden mask in the shape of a priest of the King of Exaltation and artificially wear a layer of dragon scale demon armor? Is it the source of the poisonous fog near the "Insect Valley" near the King's Tomb?

I told Shirley Yang all the ideas I could think of, but what we know about "sorption" is very limited. I only know that "sorption", one of the three ancient evil evil magics in Nanyang, is an evil technique that converts the resentment of the souls of the dead into invisible poison. The more miserable the dead, the more violent the poison will be.

The shell of this monster insect was originally red, and red mist kept spraying out of its body. We began to mistakenly think it was poisonous. However, it was discovered that these bright red gases gradually faded as the insect body was constantly hit. After finally blasting its head with explosives, all the red mist gases dissipated, and the guy completely lost the ability to resist. The poisonous mist produced in its body must be related to the "dead float" it swallows in the water for many years.

According to this judgment, it is possible that a part of the giant insect's body is connected to a certain place above the "Word Valley". According to its characteristics, the insect body is nearly a hundred meters long, which is not surprising. Because of the extremely low terrain in the valley, even the rhizomes of plants can penetrate. Perhaps the insect's mouth swallowed into the floating corpse in the water, and the resentment of thousands of female corpses will be transformed into the undispersed white "fog" in the valley, blocking the only way to enter the "King of Xian" from the outside.

The "Human Skin Map" records that the "Mistress" outside the "Xian Wang Tomb" exists in a circular shape. This may be because the person who drew the "Human Skin Map" does not know the details. After our field survey outside, the terrain of this valley cannot have a circle of mountain miasma fog, with cliffs on both sides and behind. There are only a ray of skylight when looking up. As long as the poisonous fog blocks the road in the valley, there will be no other way to enter the "Xian Wang Tomb".

At this time, Shirley Yang discovered that the surface of the dragon scale bronze armor of the insect's body was engraved with many inscriptions. It was worn seriously. Only a small part could be seen, but they were all strange and unrecognizable. We suddenly remembered that such symbols were seen in the "Stone Monument Store". They were in the mouth that was filled with dead people and sank into the pond water with chains. The cylinder had such symbols on the body. At that time, Professor Sun said that this was a spell in the "Science Technique" that had been lost for a long time. It was called the "soul-punching Talisman", which was a vicious and evil technique used to block the dead souls. This shows that this layer of bronze demon armor was similar to the bronze skin wrapped in the water tank.

It seems that as we expected, this special dragon-scale demon armor and the golden mask that combines the characteristics of the six demon beasts of King Xian were installed on this giant insect through some kind of "skill" ritual. Those people would really adapt to local conditions and use all the resources they could use, but these things were not used on the right path and specialized in this evil method of harming people. Fortunately, King Xian always wanted to become an immortal and attain enlightenment.

Perhaps before the construction of the "King of King Xian", the mountain god master only ate the water-produced toad. Since the food contains poison glands in his body, the giant insect became toxic. Until this place was discovered by King Xian, he used the method passed down by the ancient barbarians to release its toxicity, and then soaked it at will as he wished, making the insect half-dead, turning it into the source of the poisonous mist in the valley. The endless hatred of the dead repeatedly transformed through its body. No wonder it screamed so badly. It seems quite pitiful. Like those pupas, they are all victims of the "King of King Xian".

If we speculate, the large number of female corpses in the water were set up to create "fog". However, over the past two thousand years, at the rate of the insect's ate, the population of the entire Han Dynasty could not be filled today. It seems that it is necessary to draw a "dead float" from the water to analyze it. We have to find a way to break the barrier in the valley, so that we may use it when we leave.

The fat man was afraid that Shirley Yang and I would go out immediately because he planned to collect all the gold fragments scattered on the ground and the parts on the heads of the insects. The number was very considerable. When we saw us surrounding the insects to check, we immediately rushed to find the engineer shovel and pick up the gold from the rotten insects.

I was patronizing with Shirley Yang to use a mountaineering pick to salvage the "dead float" by the water. I didn't notice what the fat man was doing. Suddenly, he heard him screaming from behind. We hurriedly turned around and saw that the giant insect that had been blown up on its head suddenly raised its head, and the mouthparts outside were completely broken. At this time, the mouth inside had become several times larger than before, and kept making "gurgling" sounds.

I thought to myself that this guy was too strong. He could do such a big move when he was blown like this, but was he really immortal? I hurriedly picked up the "Chicago Typewriter" and prepared to send it another shuttle, but found that it was not about to attack us, looking at it like that... it seemed like it was about to vomit.

As soon as I thought about this, I had no time to remind the fat man to hide, I saw a huge insect mouth, and spit out a lot of female corpses. The "dead float" that was swallowed by it in the water had turned black and brown at this time, and the cold blue light on the surface was also lost. The body was still covered with a lot of red, green and yellow viscous liquids of several colors, all sprayed onto the fat man. I was about seven or eight meters away from him, and I was almost fainted by the stench.

I immediately hooked the fat man's carrying bag with the mountaineering pick in my hand, and worked hard to pull him out of the pile of corpses with Shirley Yang. Fortunately, the poisonous "fog" was discharged into the valley. These liquids should be gastric juice. Although they may be a bit acidic, as long as they are washed immediately, even if they stick to their bodies, it would be fine.

The huge "Huo Immortal Worm" seemed to be beaten hard by us just now. When we vomited, we couldn't stop. After spitting out more than a hundred black female corpses, we made another violent "guru" sound. This time it seemed very painful. We spit out a huge square object and landed heavily on the ground. The surface of the object was dripping with juice, and there were many large copper nail caps with concave concaves, which seemed to be a bronze box or a large copper coffin.
Chapter completed!