When rolled up, the position of the head and tail are exactly in the same straight line, and the blanket forms wings on both sides of the body, which is almost the same as the body structure of a bat. As it rolls up its body, you can see that the abdomen is positioned from top to bottom. There are many round suckers about the size of fingernails distributed under it, which look and feel like wet leeches.
Judging from the way it swallowed the camel's blood just now, once it sucks on people and animals, it will be like a leech and will not let go. No matter how hard it is, it can't get them out of the body until the blanket wraps it up. It sucks the prey's blood cleanly before releasing the prey.
After learning about this situation, they understood why the camel entered the blanket and was immediately rolled up by the blanket!
Just now, those leech mouthparts were everywhere, biting the camel's body, and finally sucked the camel dry in a matter of seconds. At the same time, the blanket became thicker, and it was visible to the naked eye that it had swelled a lot. body, which means these things eat by devouring flesh and blood.
Everyone was surprised. They didn't expect that there was such a monster hidden in the quicksand. It looked like a ray in the desert.
"Is this thing a living thing or a plant? Or is it a symbiosis of animals and plants?"
When Song Siyuan saw this scene, she didn't know what the thing was called. He could only judge that it was some kind of large blood-sucking leech, or some kind of fish living in the mud swamp.
"I just said that some animals that disappear in underground waterways will be eaten by certain animals living in caves. What you saw just now is the thing that came out of the mud smelling the smell."
Keli looked at everyone, his eyebrows obviously serious: "No one knows what they are so far. The people nearby often call them cowhide rolls, and they are also called ghost mats, ground rolling skins, and blood-sucking blankets..."
This is a large blood-sucking mollusk that lives in sandy swamps or underground caves. When its body is spread out, it looks like a blanket. In fact, after drinking enough blood and flesh, as the body thickens, it will form two sharp points like a leech. The round, shuttle-shaped body in the middle will turn into a blanket again after digesting the blood and continue hunting.
In a sense, it is a giant blood-sucking leech that sleeps in swamps or ponds, disguised as moss or aquatic plants near the water, and traps bison, tigers, foxes, camels, goats or other humans and animals. Attract them to eat the green moss.
When they get close to the blood-sucking blanket, they will immediately shake their bodies and wrap their heads around them. It will not be until these animals lose their footing and fall into the river that they will be completely wrapped up. Sometimes they will also hide in the water to chase some animals that have already entered the water. .
At this time, any animal that falls into its hands will definitely die. Most sand people are most afraid of these things. If they encounter these blankets, they must run away quickly.
"Keli, you are so familiar with it. Have you ever seen such a thing?"
Yue Guanchao listened carefully to Keli's words and figured out the meaning from his words. If he hadn't seen these things, how could he have such a clear understanding of the habits and appearance of these animals? Some of the body structures they couldn't see clearly were in his eyes. It will become clear immediately after the introduction.
"I'm not familiar with it. Abba has indeed seen this kind of thing in the oasis in Lop Nur before."
These things are not only found in deserts. Such blood-sucking blankets have also been found in wasteland areas very close to Dunhuang.
At that time, there were many oases around Lop Nur. Some herdsmen would drive their cattle and sheep to the oases near Lop Nur in order to let their cattle and sheep eat fresh grass and moss.
At that time, Gunizi and nearby herdsmen also came to Lop Nur. At that time, in addition to the lake basin waters, Lop Nur also had many abandoned rivers due to the diversion of the Kongque River. These rivers had lacked water, leaving only mud. of river bed.
Those herdsmen are conscientious people who rely on grazing to make a living. They care about things very much. Even the excrement of cattle and sheep is collected and used as compost. Suddenly, when I saw a one-meter-square blanket lying in the muddy river, I thought someone had taken the cowhide. The blanket was thrown into the mud.
The man wanted to reach down and fish it out. The moment he got close to the blanket, his whole arm was rolled up. He immediately felt a stinging pain coming from all parts of his arm. If his companions hadn't noticed something strange about him, they would have fallen headlong. If you enter the muddy ground and get wet, even the gods will be unable to save you.
They sprinkled a lot of salt on the blood-sucking blanket before it was stimulated and relaxed. When the herdsman's arm came out, wounds the size of fingernails were evenly distributed on the skin. Even the clothes were directly bitten, and some wounds were deep. Some of the muscles have penetrated the bones, and I heard that even the tendons of the arms were bitten off.
Although the herdsman's arm was saved, it still left behind sequelae. The arm was weak and trembling. He tried to use force but had no strength. It was considered a direct loss of an arm. However, compared to his whole body being sucked dry, he still sucked blood from the blanket. He picked up a life in his mouth.
According to the herdsmen who rescued people at the time, the blanket was only one meter long. He looked young, so he probably forgot to escape when the river changed its course, so he continued to live in the river until the river dried up and turned into a swamp. Out of the water.
This blood-sucking blanket was already very dry and thin, as thin as a cool blanket. It must have been a long time since hunting, and the body was extremely weak. Otherwise, it would have been able to wrap itself up just by relying on the curling force, which was stronger than a snake. The human bones were completely crushed.
After beating the vampire blanket to death, they observed the body structure of the vampire blanket under the bright sun.
The whole body of this blood-sucking blanket is an irregular oval square. If strictly speaking, it is closer to an irregular rhombus. The upper and lower corners of the rhombus can be regarded as the head and tail. There are snail heads and snail tails distributed along the head and tail to form a line. At the midline, it can be seen that the left and right organs are symmetrically distributed.
The position of this line can be regarded as the real body of the blood-sucking blanket. The predatory suckers on the abdomen are mostly concentrated near the midline. As for the two corners on the left and right of the rhombus, they can be regarded as the fins or wing membranes of the blood-sucking blanket, just like bats. The body is the same, and it mainly plays the role of movement, swimming, and activity. It is responsible for floating, diving, and swimming tracking in swamps or water.
It is also these two horns that play a curling role, rolling up and fixing living creatures, and then the suckers on the abdomen pierce the skin and muscles to suck blood.
After sucking blood, the abdomen will become full, and they will continue to hunt after digestion. These blood-sucking blankets have strong vitality. They can survive without eating flesh and blood for up to half a year, but the body will consume a lot of nutrients and become thinner and thinner. Finally, the thickness of the mat is formed.
