Real Cthulhu Running Game

   Chapter 1579 A nest of snakes and rats

As a city surrounded by mountains and rivers, Jiuheshan County naturally has many good places for picnics, so Huang Qiu and others like to go to the river for barbecues on weekends. In summer, they also go swimming and of course fishing. It is also indispensable.

   So that day, Huang Qiu and others were discussing the mid-term exam the day after tomorrow, while sitting in a row by the river catching fish.

As a result, they soon saw a scene that they will never forget, that is, a group of rats appeared on the other side of the river, and then jumped into the water without hesitation, which also reminded Huang Qiu and others of the one they had heard of. Story - Lemmings jump into the sea.

   Of course, it has now been proven that lemmings jumping into the sea is completely nonsense. The filmmakers of this documentary specially captured hundreds of lemmings for gimmicks, and then tried their best to force them to jump into the sea.

As a documentary, the truth should be the first priority, but it chose to fake it for the sake of ratings. This has to be said to be an irony, but this cannot be regarded as a special case, because as the English XBB TV station that produces the most excellent documentaries, I also made a lot of fake documentaries for gimmicks, such as letting a group of people play primitive people living in trees.

  Ahem, back to the point.

   Huang Qiu and others didn't know whether the lemmings jumped into the sea was true or not, but they did indeed see hundreds of mice jumping into the river in front of them!

Just when Huang Qiu and the others thought that these mice would swim in front of them, it turned out that these mice disappeared directly after diving. In short, after waiting for a long time, they did not see those mice again, but at this time, a little friend's fishing rod moved. Twice, this scared him so much that he threw away the fishing rod, because no one wants to see a mouse hanging on it as soon as they lift the fishing rod, right?

   "We were all young at that time, and we didn't know what it meant to be a gentleman without standing under a dangerous wall, so in the end, we had the courage to see if these mice would emerge."

Huang Qiu sighed and continued: "So we ran to the bridge next to us, because we thought it would be safer there. If these mice really come out later, we don't care if they land from there. We could all run away to the other side, but it didn't take long for us to get to the bridge when we heard a rattling sound, like someone was grinding his teeth, so we quickly realized that it might be a mouse biting under the bridge. The iron fence, so we lowered our heads and looked at it, and then we saw that there may be less than ten centimeters below the water surface, and there are countless mice stacked there."

"More importantly, these mice seem to be fused together. An unreliable example is Shaqima. The mice seem to be stuck together by something." Luo Jun continued. .

   This reminds Liu Xing not only of a very classic monster image - that is, the same kind of creatures are randomly assembled together, of course, it may be combined by some kind of limbs, and the whole is like a big ball.

  This thing makes people lose their sanity when they think about it.

"But this is still good, because mice can swim, and the refraction of water will also make the picture distorted to a certain extent, so we were only shocked at the time, but we were still bold. We watched the fun on the bridge until Luo Jun, who didn't know what to think, actually took a fishing rod and poked the mice underwater. As a result, something happened all of a sudden, because when Luo Jun poked a mouse, we I saw that the mice underwater looked up at us almost at the same time! You can imagine that picture, I don't know how many mice are staring at themselves, and we can actually see from their eyes A hint of anger."

Huang Qiu's words made Liu Xing and the three frown, because as long as Huang Qiu wasn't lying or adding fuel to the fire, it meant that Turner might have left behind a mythical creature with a swarm consciousness in Jiuheshan County. , or mice.

For a Yithian like Turner, it is not difficult to make a group of ordinary mice have a hive consciousness, as long as they have the same brain, of course, they can also be like the Deta people of Earthsea. In that way, alchemy is used to fuse everyone into one consciousness.

However, compared to the Soul Treant in the Deta Ruins, Liu Xing is more reluctant to face these mice with hive consciousness. After all, the saying that ants kill elephants is not a joke, and it is like the Soul Treant. The giant mythical creatures, you can still hide if you can't beat them, but creatures like mice that can pop up from nooks and crannies are really hard to guard against when facing them.

Therefore, Liu Xing can be sure that when his group enters Jiuheshan County, they will be targeted by these mice at the first time, and every move of his group will be under the control of the mice. They have plenty of time to choose when to do it.

   "So, are the passers-by who disappeared in the old Heshan County town actually attacked by these rats?" Yin En asked along the way.

Huang Qiu nodded and said affirmatively: "As the saying goes - more ants kill elephants, and I believe you should have heard the story of army ants, right? When many army ants gather together, they can Turn all the creatures on the road into bones, so when these rats get together, the people in the car are like meat in a can to them - open the lid and eat it."

   "If that's the case, it would be too scary, so did your old Heshan County choose to relocate as a whole because you learned about it?" Liu Xing then asked.

Huang Qiu shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Don't forget that at the beginning, I mentioned that a group of snakes suddenly ran into Luo Jun's house, and then these snakes suddenly disappeared, and there was no one around. Noticed this group of snakes? Yes, it didn't take long for us to see a group of snakes gushing out of the sewer pipe on the side, and then directly mingling with those mice, that situation made us run away, after all, the picture was placed in That website couldn't pass the review! So we told the adults about these things after we went back, and the adults thought we were joking, because this kind of picture is indeed a bit bizarre."

"And we actually have a famous dish in Jiuheshan County, which is snake soup, so we caught wild snakes in the vicinity a long time ago, and there may be some snakes in the deep mountains and old forests nearby, so There are very few snakes around the city, which is why Luo Jun's parents thought we had hallucinations before. Of course, when there were mice crossing the street before, there were also a few snakes, but this is also regarded as a normal phenomenon. So at this time, no one thinks there is any problem... Until one night a few years ago, the whole county saw a big snake!"

"Our old Heshan County will hold a barbecue festival every summer, and it is the stalls lined up on both sides of the Heshan River to sell things. As a result, someone suddenly found a huge snake-shaped shadow in the river that night. Swimming forward, this surprised everyone, including me and Luo Jun of course! According to what I saw, this might be a large snake over twenty meters long. As for the diameter, it might be It takes four people to hold it, of course, the more important thing is that the iron fences under the bridge still did not stop it, and it finally disappeared into a whirlpool!" Huang Qiu said with a serious face.

   More than 20 meters?

Liu Xing remembers that the longest snake in the world is only about ten meters, but in ancient times, there were some snakes with a longer body size, and like these large snakes, they usually lived near the water, because they needed the buoyancy of the water. Improve your moving speed. After all, snakes have no feet, so they have to move through the constant movement of their ribs. Therefore, large-sized snakes like pythons and anacondas move at an impressive speed on the ground.

So Liu Xing began to suspect that Turner brought some kind of snake from the ancient times to the modern age, and this kind of snake should belong to mythical creatures, and can directly pass through the iron fence in some way, such as blurring the body, Or simply flashed past.

However, this also makes Liu Xing feel more puzzled, because according to the current situation, Turner has prepared a group of mice that may have swarm consciousness and a large snake from ancient times in Jiuheshan County, so What the **** is this mod trying to do? Do you want to have a snake fight?

"Since there was another earthquake after the barbecue festival, some people began to call for the overall relocation. However, as I said before, some people still feel that their homeland is hard to leave, and of course they will not put out more than one set. The opportunity of the house, so in name they also agreed to the overall relocation, but after the overall relocation is completed, they still live in Jiuheshan County, but the water and electricity in the old Heshan County are not connected, so they need to buy their own natural gas tanks and Diesel generators, if the water is brought up from the river nearby, as a result, these people who stayed in Jiuheshan County soon developed various adverse reactions.”

Luo Jun shook his head and continued: "At that time, my grandparents had to stay in Jiuheshan County, so my parents had to buy them various things to facilitate their lives, including a set of advanced cleaning Water device to prevent them from drinking unclean water and getting sick. As a result, when my parents went back one time, they found that they looked a little wrong, so they immediately sent them to the hospital for examination. The final result turned out to be my grandparents. It's a kind of snake venom. Fortunately, this kind of snake venom is dispersed in the water and filtered by the water purifier, so my grandparents' situation is not bad, but the situation of other people's is very bad!"

"Snake venom? This thing is a bit outrageous." Zhang Jingxu couldn't help but said: "Generally speaking, snakes can freely control the opening and closing of venom glands, so there is no snake swimming in the water, and some snake venom leaks out. What's more, the venom of a snake is very limited, and it takes a lot of effort for them to regenerate, so the snake will not actively release the toxin until it is necessary; and the runoff of the Heshan River is not large. , but it is not difficult to dilute the toxin, unless these snakes deliberately release their toxins when they see someone drawing water... But this is unlikely, after all, snakes that use toxins as weapons are generally It is impossible to treat humans as prey."

   Zhang Jingxu said so, but he was already sure that those snakes were targeting humans in Jiuheshan County, and they also intended to control the release of toxins to ensure that these people would not show obvious symptoms in the first place.

"We thought so too, but in the end, several people still died of poisoning, so these people who stayed in Jiuheshan County chose to leave, after all, this is no longer a place to live... and some people think that it is because of us After eating snake soup for so many years, these snakes are taking revenge on us, which seems a little fantasy, so we also regard this as a folklore."

Huang Qiu shook his head and said, "But then all the passers-by who passed by Jiuheshan County and some who came back to clean the old houses disappeared, making Jiuheshan County a famous forbidden place, so there are some so-called anchors running away. It turned out that many people came and went, but this also caused a lot of heat on the Internet, so the official sent a lot of people into Jiuheshan County to investigate; the results were a bit strange, then Even the urban area of ​​Jiuheshan County has not found any problems, and you have also seen that many wild cats and dogs are also living well, so after a few days of investigation and found nothing, you can only settle the matter hastily."

"That's right, how do these cats and dogs survive? It stands to reason that when there is no human to produce domestic waste, these wild cats and dogs will lose a stable source of food, so such an empty city should not be able to support much. Wild cats and wild dogs, right?" Liu Xing asked.

"Rats and snakes." Luo Jun replied directly: "We found a lot of bones of mice and snakes, so we suspect that these wild cats and dogs feed on them, but we can't figure out why those mice and snakes Appearing in urban areas, because mice want to live in cities, they are actually more dependent on humans than wild cats and dogs. After all, there is not much food that grows naturally in cities, so when humans leave the city, most mice should choose to leave. Cities, unless the urban environment has become exactly like the wild; as for the snakes, I think they should follow the mice, because the mice are also their best food source."

   Liu Xing nodded, and then changed the conversation: "By the way, speaking of Luo Jun, why did you think of stopping passers-by from entering the urban area of ​​Jiuheshan County?"

   (end of this chapter)