Can you blame me for this?

cannot!!

There are ghost-faced lice from all directions, who has time to be picky? If we don’t find a place to hide, our brothers will be cut into pieces!!

What's more, there are huge mounds everywhere here, and there are countless abandoned houses. We have entered several of them before, and there was nothing unusual at all. Who knew that if we picked one nearby at this critical juncture, there would be huge treasures inside.

crisis?

After all, it’s not all the fault of having a bad face. It’s not just me who has a bad face, everyone has a bad face!

Silently, I woke up the Tianguan Blade and stood up silently.

The smell was in this room, but not in our room. My eyes immediately turned to a door on the left, and I moved closer to it little by little.

When Brother Yaozi and the others saw this, they immediately stood up and stayed close to me, ready to support me at any time.

The internal structure of the houses here is exactly the same, they all have two rooms, one is similar to the living room, the stove is also here, and the other is similar to the bedroom, with only a simple wooden door separating them.

The smell came from the bedroom. The wooden door in the middle was slightly closed and was in a state of decay. There were gaps two fingers wide between the wooden boards.

I didn't dare to break in rashly, but stuck to the gap in the wooden door and looked inside for a while.

There was no sound at all in the bedroom, and nothing strange was seen anywhere. Instead, bursts of horrible odor poured out from the cracks in the wooden door, which was exactly the fishy smell we smelled.

I covered my mouth and nose slightly, then inserted the blade of the knife into the crack of the door, and opened the wooden door bit by bit. The rotten wooden door let out a burst of overwhelmed groans.

When the wooden door opened, I suddenly rushed into the house with a Baipi knife in hand.

It was dark inside, and you could hear the quiet sound of a needle dropping.

The expected attack did not occur, but the stench made me dizzy and nauseated.

I still didn't dare to relax, and I was on guard with my knife. Brother Yaozi and the others followed closely and poured into the house.

Snap!

Zhang Xinya turned on the flashlight and illuminated the place.

The room was empty, and there were no monsters.

"What's this?"

Zhang Xinya looked ahead. This was a place similar to a fire pit, which should be used for sleeping. However, it was now filled with dark things, but he didn't know what they were. The stench was emanating from these things.

What comes out is like pickled fish taken out of a manure pit in the dog days of summer.

Zhang Xinya originally wanted to step forward to investigate, but as soon as she got closer, she covered her mouth and started retching, her face turned green, she kept backing away, and said intermittently: "It's so disgusting, it doesn't feel like a stench anymore..."

I know in my heart that she is not a pretentious person. She has the appearance of a goddess and the heart of a woman. She is someone who will smell the sourness after taking off her socks. You can say that she is a charmer, but you can never say that she is a show.

Well, I can only say that there is something really unusual about these pickles in front of me!

"Let me take a look!"

I moved closer step by step, and when I pressed myself against the kang, a pungent smell penetrated my nose.

This can no longer be regarded as a smell, but more like a substantial injury, as if someone punched me hard in the stomach, making my stomach twitch.

However, my endurance was better after all. I suppressed all the discomforts in my body and immediately held my breath.

In my opinion, this smell is more like a protective measure, just like the poisonous gas in the ancient tomb. There must be something in the pickled fish on the kang.

I changed a crowbar, poked it into it, and stirred it up. The black pickled fish immediately rolled up, and a lot of jelly-like green mucus gushed out from underneath.

"Why does this sound like a big snot?"

Lao Bai likes to do things that add fuel to the fire. It's okay if he doesn't talk about it, but when he does, it makes people think about it.

"It seems like the secretion of something?"

Brother Yaozi said: "As for the black pickled fish on it, it should be condensed by dust falling on it."

Soon, I felt that the crowbar in my hand seemed to pick up something. When it was mixed with the secretions, the resistance suddenly became greater. Then I pulled the crowbar in my hand, and there was a "snap" sound, and something fell on my vagina.

On the ground.

"Another molt?!"

Zhang Xinya exclaimed: "Moreover, this molt is more complete!!"

So, these mucus should be protecting this molting?!

I continued to stir inside, and soon, another shed was dragged out by me.

"It seems that this is where it hides its molted skin."

Brother Yaozi breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "It should not be here."

This habit is quite interesting.

I have only heard of animals that can eat molted skin, such as toads. Toads will eat their own toad clothes, but I have never heard of animals that hide molted skin. It seems that except for the broken molted skin outside

In addition, all the molted skin is hidden here, and green mucus is secreted to protect it.

Lao Bai and Brother Yaozi started working together, and not long after, we dragged four molted skins out of the bedroom.

There is no way, the smell of those green mucus seems to be toxic, and it is not a toxin that our gas mask can filter. If you inhale too much, your lips will turn blue, your face will become numb and swollen, and it will be even worse after it touches the wound, Lao Bai

His face was covered with wounds left by ghost-faced lice, and one of his poisoned heads was as big as a pig's head.

However, this toxin should not be fatal, at least so far we have not experienced any fatal symptoms.

The four molted skins were simply rinsed with the precious drinking water we carried with us, and Brother Kitai put on gloves and spread them out.

"strangeness!!"

Immediately, Zhang Xinya said: "This doesn't seem to be the peeled skin of an object!"

Indeed, except for the similar shapes, the four skins are completely different!!

The first skin is probably the most complete of the four sheds. You can clearly see the shape of this thing. The lower body is a snake, and the upper body is a human shape. This appearance made several of us look at each other. I have never heard of this.

What does it look like?

On the contrary, the legendary ancestor Fuxi and Empress Nuwa have similar appearances, with a human face and a snake body, but that is just a legend after all.

This piece of molted skin shows a state unique to thousand-year-old corpses. It is dry, inelastic, and carbonized over a large area. However, it can be seen through some uncarbonized areas that this thing should be covered in black scales. Although the upper body

It's human form, still snakeskin and black scales!

The second skin is younger, has a smaller carbonized area, and still has a human face and a snake body, but its scales have turned silvery gray.

The third skin is younger and has almost no traces of carbonization. The shed skin is faintly elastic and the scales have turned silver!!

As for the fourth skin, this skin is a bit scary. The upper body is completely human skin, while the lower body is snake skin covered with white scales!

The four skins, dated from far to near, should represent all the molts of the same thing from ancient times to the present. Including the broken skin on the outside, this thing has molted five times in total, and each time its shape is different.

, it’s not just the color of the scales, but more... it’s like an evolution. Looking at the earliest molt, this thing is obviously more of a beast, like a snake hiding like a human, but the later molts are like a human.

Passed like a snake!!

I fell silent all of a sudden.

Ghost-faced louse, five pieces of molted skin, soul seducer, three fishy soil...

And all the unsolved mysteries that appeared along the way...

All this reminds me of a record in Yanshi's Mechanical Art, a...horrible ancient witchcraft!!

Everything seems to be connected.

A guess came up in my mind, an idea that made me feel cold all over. If this is really the case, then our trip will be in trouble.

Moreover, it was planted very, very thoroughly.

Although I can't believe this is true, my intuition tells me that things may have really taken a turn for the worst.

"What the hell is this..."

Brother Yaozi asked Zhang Xinya: "You have done some research on these things. Do you know what this monster with a human face and a snake body is?"

"have no idea……"

Zhang Xinya shook her head, and then pushed me again: "Hey, what's wrong with you? Why are you silent?!"

I woke up with a start, smiled at Zhang Xinya, and then said: "It's nothing, I'm just a little distracted, but since we can't figure out what this is, we might as well not explore it, just have a good rest and wait.

Let’s go out after those ghost-faced lice outside have subsided.”

After saying that, I ignored them, sat down in the corner, and thought about the matter carefully.

However, no matter how hard I thought about it, the answer I finally got was still only two words - no solution!!

At least, it’s completely unsolvable for just the few of us!

So, after being silent for a while, I suddenly said in my heart: "Miss Si Yao? A beautiful lady?"

Unfortunately, there was no response.

I gritted my teeth and shouted again: "Little fairy?"
To be continued...