Lao Duoji slowly stood up from the ground, briefly moved his hands and feet, and then touched the big black dog Erlang's head, and then said to us in a deep voice without expression: "Come out!"
Hearing what Lao Duoji said, a few of us slowly walked out from around the corner.
However, after a few of us took a few steps forward, we stopped.
It's not that I'm afraid of Lao Duoji, but the swarms of black bugs make me feel numb.
At this time, the four people on the ground had been eaten away, leaving only bones and bones, but their clothes and shoes were intact.
Perhaps because they smelled the scent of living people, the insects suddenly turned around and pounced towards the few of us.
Seeing the insects coming towards us like a tide, Hua Muling and Li Xiaohong couldn't help but scream loudly.
Women are naturally afraid of bugs, no matter how tough this woman is usually.
I pulled Hua Muling behind me, and Xiong Ming took a step forward without hesitation, blocking Li Xiaohong from his side.
The swarm of insects came very quickly, and in the blink of an eye they were four or five meters in front of a few of us.
Xiong Ming swallowed, gritted his teeth and said, "Hu Tian, what should we do now?"
I said in a deep voice: "Do you know how to say this line? Every critical moment, you ask me what to do? Who the hell am I going to ask?"
When Xiong Ming heard what I said, he became very angry and replied: "Damn it! If I don't fucking ask you, why should I ask someone else? Ask the heartless old man opposite? Let's go all the way." Come to save him, but he is only watching from the other side! What's wrong? You want me to ask him? "
While the two of us were talking, the black swarm of insects had already arrived in front of us, and several of them were about to crawl onto us.
Soon after that, I saw a black shadow suddenly rushing in front of a few of us.
I took a closer look and saw that it was the big black dog Erlang.
The sudden appearance of the big black dog Erlang disrupted the arrangement of the insect swarm. The dozens of black beetles rushing at the front turned around and fled in all directions like mice seeing a cat.
The big black dog Erlang glanced contemptuously at the swarm of insects on the ground, and then turned to look at me. Only then did I realize that there was a black bag in Erlang's mouth.
I took the black bag from Erlang's mouth and looked up at Lao Duoji not far away.
Lao Duoji said in a deep voice: "Take the contents with you and follow me!"
Hearing this, I put my hand into my black pocket, and soon took out four dark things with sticky blood stains on them, and the stench went straight to my forehead.
I don't know what it is, but it feels like the entrails of some kind of animal in my hand.
I glanced at Lao Duoji and asked, "This... what is this?"
Lao Duoji replied in a deep voice: "These are the anal glands of the fox!"
Xiong Ming asked with slight disgust: "Old man, why are you giving us this?"
Lao Duoji looked at Xiong Ming and said: "The Gobi desert is full of dangers. Since ancient times, one thing has been suppressed by another. Although this black iron beetle is powerful, the biggest one is born to be the fox in the desert. Because the sand fox likes the most. Feeding on this beetle..."
Lao Duoji didn't say any more. We were not stupid and naturally understood what he meant.
The reason why this so-called black iron beetle looked so afraid of Lao Duoji and Erlang was actually not because of them, but because of the smell on their bodies.
Needless to say, Big Black Dog Erlang, this guy feeds on sand foxes all the year round, and the smell of sand foxes is more or less stuck to his body.
As for Lao Duoji, maybe it was because he carried this thing with him that those iron beetles did not dare to approach.
The anal gland is the location with the strongest smell on an animal. For those iron beetles, they may think that their natural enemies are nearby, so they dare not approach them.
After I gave the fox's anal glands in the bag to Xiong Ming and others, I tied the extremely smelly anal glands around my waist with a rope.
After finishing all this work, Lao Duoji said in a deep voice: "Follow me!"
I asked hurriedly: "Where to go?"
Lao Duoji wrinkled slightly, looked at me with a puzzled look and said, "Where to go? Of course, leave here!"
"Leave here?" Lao Duoji's words made us all stunned. His reaction at this time was completely opposite to what we had guessed before.
Xiong Ming even asked directly: "Leave here? Didn't you intentionally lead us here?"
Lao Duoji glanced at Xiong Ming and said, "Why did I lead you here? The big storm is beyond my control! Besides, what good does it do me to lead you here?"
Xiong Ming said: "But..."
Lao Duoji didn't wait for Xiong Ming to finish what he said, then interrupted him and said, "It's nothing! If you want to stay here in the underground world, just stay. If you want to get out of here, go find Nasang." Grado Desert, just follow me!"
After saying that, Lao Duoji whistled softly, and the big black dog Erlang turned around and ran towards Lao Duoji.
The four of us were left looking at each other.
After a while, Li Xiaohong took the lead and asked, "Hu Tian, should we follow?"
I glanced at Li Xiaohong, thought for a while and said: "Now that things have developed to this point, the only thing we can do is to stay with Lao Duoji. After all, he is the person who is most familiar with this place."
Hua Muling pointed to the withered bones on the ground and said, "But what about Professor Li and those mercenaries?"
I sighed and said, "As the old saying goes, it's a blessing, not a curse. Disasters cannot be avoided..."
I didn't say anything further, but the meaning was already clear.
After the few people were silent for a few seconds, they no longer hesitated and chased in the direction of Lao Duoji.
Lao Duoji did not enter the ancient underground temple, but walked slowly along the wall on the right side of the ancient temple.
Lao Duoji walked very slowly, as if he was looking for something. He stopped and walked, and from time to time he kept tapping on the wall with his hands.
Xiong Ming looked strange and couldn't help but ask: "Old man, what are you doing?"
Lao Duoji ignored Xiong Ming and continued to touch the wall.
When I saw this, I reached out and touched the wall a few times. Apart from the cold rock wall, there was no difference.
Lao Duoji groped forward for a while, his expression began to turn serious, and he murmured: "That's wrong! Why aren't you here anymore?"
I asked in surprise: "Mr. Duoji, why aren't you here?"
Old Dorje said: "If I remember correctly, there should be a way out here, but why did it suddenly disappear?"
Xiong Ming said from the side: "Old man, could it be that you remembered it wrong?"
Lao Duoji said in a deep voice: "Impossible! Even if I remember it wrong, Erlang will not remember it wrong!"
Hearing what Lao Duoji said, I couldn't help but turn my head and look at Erlang. At this time, I saw that it was spinning around in front of a rock. Occasionally, it made two low calls, as if it wanted to tell us. Something.
This move of Big Black Dog Erlang attracted the attention of all of us, and Lao Duoji immediately went over to check the rock wall.
But at the moment when Lao Duoji's hand was about to touch the rock wall, Erlang, the big black dog, suddenly barked and started to bite Lao Duoji's trouser leg and dragged him violently.
Lao Duoji was caught off guard and was suddenly pulled to the ground by Erlang.
The next second, an unexpected scene happened. The originally intact wall suddenly opened a gap with a "click", and then, a big hand suddenly stretched out from the stone gap.
This big hand is very strange. There are countless tiny buds growing on the dark skin, and there are many dark brown branches entwined in it.
I know these hands. Isn't this the same monster that chased us before?
"How did it come here?" I couldn't help but scream in my heart, and at the same time, an extremely bad premonition came to my mind.
Not only did I know this monster, but Old Dorje also seemed to know this guy. He shouted in a deep voice: "This is... this is Mahado!"
"Mahado?" Xiong Ming shouted in surprise: "What is that?"
Lao Duoji shouted in a low voice: "Mahaduo means hell demon flower in ancient Tibetan. In fact, it is a plant very similar to dandelion. It is not harmful in normal times. However, as long as a living person is infected with it, , Mahado will immediately parasitize the host and take root. Mahado is extremely aggressive, and its root system will occupy all the host's organs, including the brain, in a short period of time... "
When Xiong Ming heard this, he couldn't help but exclaimed: "So, those mercenaries who came back to us before accidentally came into contact with this kind of thing?"
Lao Duoji said: "Mostly it is like this. Although Mahado is very aggressive, its life force is very short. It needs to constantly change its host to survive. Once the nutrients in the host's body are sucked out, its life will be It’s come to an end.”
I gritted my teeth and said, "No wonder this guy keeps pestering us!"
