Chapter 873 Direct Contact

The valley is still dark and it is difficult for sunlight to penetrate.

However, this is the second time we have walked the same road. It can be said that we are familiar with it. It saves us the need to explore the surroundings and the speed is much faster. Not long after, we came to the vast grassland again and crossed

Behind the grassland, there is a patch of dark woods in front of it.

Because the time is a little earlier than when we arrived here yesterday, the light is slightly better, and it is not as chaotic as when we arrived yesterday, at least in this piece of grassland, and the forest beyond the grassland has not changed much.

It was like a huge mouth of the abyss, swallowing up all the light.

The yin energy was very strong, and the yin wind howled, causing the grass in front of us to move down one after another, making bursts of "rustling" sounds.

"It's past four-thirty in the afternoon, and it will be five o'clock soon. Calculating the time, it is almost the time when the sun sets in the outside world."

Brother Yaozi glanced at his watch, wiped the sweat from his neck, turned to me and asked, "Shall we go in now?"

I estimated the span of this barren grassland from a distance and nodded slightly: "Okay, Lao Shen said that the two hours when the sun sets is the only window period for this area, and it is also the time when we are most likely to pass. According to

According to its description, the time should be between five o'clock and seven o'clock. We have no problem grasping the time. Let's get close to the small forest first."

The grass is vast and can be as big as a person. Once you walk into such grass, it will be more difficult to get around than if you get into the reeds. You will not be able to see the people who are close to you after a few steps, and it is difficult to avoid any danger.

I will not be stupid enough to touch the grass with my face. After handing Xiaozhi to Zhang Xinya, I greeted Wushuang. One person was holding a short knife. He raised the knife and put it down. The weeds in front of him fell down and gradually disappeared among the weeds.

A trail was opened that only allowed one person to pass.

The white bones hidden in the grass were also exposed one after another. Some were from animals and birds, some had just rotted, and some had been weathered and only had a shape left. Underneath the dead bones was thick dark brown humus. Looking at it,

Some are fluffy and very moist. When people walk in, the white bones are broken by stepping on them, making a crunching sound, but the humus underneath is quite soft, even vaguely elastic, like a sponge, and the water contained in it is squeezed out immediately.

What came out was some yellowish-brown liquid, with a touch of blood on it if you look closely, like pus, and the stench was unbearable. Even the howling wind couldn't take away the smell. The deeper you went, the stronger the smell became. I couldn't help it.

I bent down and drove forward less than a hundred meters before I felt a little sick from the smoke. I just felt extremely uncomfortable in my stomach. I wanted to vomit but couldn't. In the process of cutting away the weeds, my hands would come into contact with it more or less.

The dirty liquid squeezed out of the humus will, over time, make the palms of your hands itchy and your fingers will become swollen and hard when pinched.

Obviously, the dirty liquid squeezed out of the humus is poisonous and is corpse poison.

It's normal to think about it. I don't know how many things died in this wild grass. The rotten corpses continued to penetrate deeper into the ground. It would be strange if the humus formed did not contain some corpse poison.

However, such corpse poison is purely within the normal category, and is not comparable to the corpse poison on those extremely poisonous rice dumplings. It is harmful to the human body, but it is very limited. The degree of damage is no different from being bitten by some generally poisonous centipedes.

, if you don’t inhale too much, the body can slowly metabolize it.

I asked Wushuang softly and found out that he had the same symptoms as me, but Laobai and the others had no symptoms except being nauseated by the stench.

It seems that only Wushuang and I inhaled the heaviest poisonous mist when bending down to mow the grass. The poisonous mist is mainly formed by the evaporation of the liquid in the humus. It only sinks and floats on the ground and is basically not inhaled once we stand up.

"Substitute! You two, Lao Bai and Brother Yaozi, come over. Wushuang and I will rest!"

I made a decision almost immediately. As for the gas masks, we did wear them, but I didn't think about it at all, because what we were dealing with was corpse poison. Corpse poison is different from other poisons. The activated carbon and filter in the gas mask

The cotton only absorbs this stuff, and it doesn't disappear. Instead, it concentrates and poses a greater threat to us.

Without saying a word, Brother Yaozi and Lao Bai immediately took the place of Wushuang and I. After the two of us retreated to the back, we soon developed vomiting symptoms. However, after vomiting, the symptoms of poisoning were relieved a lot.

At this time, Lao Bai, who was busy in front, suddenly stopped: "Hey, kite, come and see, is this...is this the tiger we saw yesterday?"

Brother Yaozi paused when he heard this, stretched his neck and glanced at Lao Bai, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "This... doesn't seem to be right? I don't have the right size, and besides, we did it yesterday

When I saw that thing, it was still breathing more or less. If it had died, it would have died that night. Although it is humid and stuffy here, it wouldn't be like this overnight, right?"

I felt much better. I heard the two of them muttering there, so I went over to take a look.

The rotten smell is indeed stronger.

On the side where Lao Bai was, a dead thing could be faintly seen lying on the ground in the grass. The striped and alternate fur told me that it was a dead tiger.

Judging from the length of its body, it is definitely an adult tiger, but it is too thin, almost skin and bones. The fur is wet and stuck in clusters. The eyeballs are rotten, and many parts of the body are not even covered with fur.

They are all rotten in large areas and maggot activity can be seen.

"It is indeed much thinner than the tiger we saw."

Such a thought flashed through my mind, and soon, my eyes were fixed on the opponent's hind legs.

At this moment, my pupils contracted sharply.

I was deeply impressed by the Siberian tiger that suddenly jumped out of the grass. I clearly remember that even when the tiger was still alive at the time, there were already signs of decay on its body, especially on its hind legs and fur.

The shape of the entire rotten and festering area looks like a map of Russia...

The body of the tiger in front of me had the same ulceration marks on its hind legs.

"This is the tiger we saw!"

I immediately gave the exact response, and at the same time looked at the corpse with a frown, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Well, it is indeed two times smaller than when we saw it yesterday, especially the position of the belly.

It feels like...like something has sucked away its flesh and blood and internal organs!"

"Hmm...could this be the way that evil thing absorbs nutrients from living beings?"

"..."

This thought flashed in my mind, and then, I took the short knife from Lao Bai's hand, raised the knife and cleared away the grass in front of me, leaving the tiger's body completely exposed in front of our eyes.

Surrounded by a vast white ground of dead bones, the tiger lay among them, looking a little lonely.

Without paying too much attention to my surroundings, I cautiously approached the tiger carcass step by step.

It's not that I'm afraid that the tiger will just pick up the corpse, but this thing was still alive and kicking yesterday, and now it's like this. Seeing that the corpse is not completely rotten, I suspect that the evil thing is still devouring its flesh and blood.

body, this is obviously an opportunity for us to directly contact this evil thing, no longer through Lao Shen's words, so naturally we need to be more careful.

Based on this, I didn't dare to touch it directly. I observed the carrion for a while and tried to touch the tiger's head with a machete.

Very light!

The inside of the head seemed completely empty, with no flesh and blood, only bones left.

I just pulled it gently, and the tiger's head immediately tilted to one side.

However, almost at the same time, his head was pulled back to its original position!

Although the time was short, I still saw that there seemed to be some white things under the tiger's body. They were definitely not maggots. These things were controlling the tiger's body!

"Do those things belong to that evil thing?"

"Well, why don't you open it completely and see what it is like? Will this alert the enemy? Will it prevent it from falling into a period of silence at sunset?"

"..."

I thought carefully for a moment, made up my mind, stood up, and said: "Wushuang, don't touch this thing with your hands, turn the body over for me!"

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