On killing the protagonist

Everyone didn't dare to stay here for too long, and after resting for a while, they began to move away from the cliff again, looking for a safe resting place.

The team didn't stop until they reached a wide area.

This is a prairie with a stream meandering beside it. The nearest mountain is several hundred meters away. If someone attacks, they will be exposed before approaching. The only inconvenience is that once a battle occurs , they also have no danger to defend.

However, other people on the island should be avoiding the attack of worms at this moment, so they don't have to worry about being attacked in a short time.

Accidents happened during the day, and they were attacked at night. When Ye Hanjiang ordered to rest in place, almost everyone collapsed on the ground. After a while, there were repeated snoring sounds in the camp.

At one o'clock in the morning, when everyone was still sleeping soundly, another sound of "enemy attack" woke them up from their dreams.

The people who were used to these worms attacking from time to time complained and quickly picked up their weapons and got up.

Probably because of several attacks, everyone's ability to withstand it has improved a lot. When seeing those worms again, everyone no longer panics like they did when they first encountered a battle.

The firepower from the front row drove some of the worms back, and the rest retreated according to the previously made plan.

However, to everyone's surprise, when everyone retreated to the designated location, before they could catch their breath, they saw the shadows of those worms again.

Gu Qinuo frowned, and while directing everyone to retreat, he ordered people to organize the firepower.

Zhang Li wiped the sweat from his brow, raised his hand to shoot the worm in front of him, and shouted loudly, "Mute you retreat first, I'll break up with Ye Qiu."

Gu Qinuo protected the woman and child behind him, and retreated while walking: "Meet in front."

"clear!"

When they retreated to a safe place, Zhang Li and the two chased after them, and panting, they asked, "What's going on? Why did those bugs come up again?"

Wan Ke was also wondering: "That's right, when we retreated ahead, we obviously wiped out the traces, it doesn't make sense!"

Gu Qinuo guessed: "Could it be the smell of blood?"

Ye Hanjiang shook his head and denied: "The longest distance that normal animals can perceive the smell of blood in the air is [-] kilometers. This is still in the case of downwind. There is no wind here. Even if the smell of blood spreads, it will be within a few hundred meters at most. We have done anti-tracking processing every time we evacuate, so it should not be bloody."

Everyone was puzzled, and they spent the next night meeting the worm, exchanging fire, retreating, and meeting again.

At six o'clock in the morning the next day, they escaped from the encirclement of worms again. The exhausted people couldn't bear it any longer, and leaned on each other to take a nap.

While half asleep and half awake, everyone suddenly heard an exclamation.

Everyone who thought it was another worm attack hurriedly opened their eyes and clenched their guns tightly, but saw nothing around them, not to mention worms, not even a bird feather.

Just when he was about to ask, Bian Qing looked at the open space not far away with a pale face, and said tremblingly, "Xiang Xiu..."

The others followed her gaze and fell silent for a moment.

I saw Xiang Xiu, who was lying in the middle of the camp, quietly moved to the open space outside the camp at some point, his eyes widened, looking at the twilight sky, struggling to make a loud noise.

Bandages were scattered all over the ground, and the wound that Li Yi and the others had bandaged had already opened. At this time, blood was pouring out, but he could only lie on the spot because of his limited mobility.

However, the slight trembling of his body and the bulging veins on his neck told everyone that he was obviously in extreme pain at this time.

When Wan Ke and Mi Ping saw it, they were in a hurry immediately, and they were about to rush forward to save people.

"stop!"

But there were two stern shouts from behind them. They turned their heads and found that it was Ye Hanjiang and Gu Qinuo who stopped them.

Ye Hanjiang looked at Xiang Xiu who was not far away, and didn't open his mouth to explain, but took the strong flashlight in Gu Qinuo's hand, and lightly took a photo on Xiang Xiu.

Wan Ke and the others were immediately dumbfounded, only to see Xiang Xiu's exposed skin fluctuating from time to time, as if something was swimming in his flesh.

"This..." Wan Ke pointed at Xiang Xiu and said nothing.

Ye Hanjiang stepped forward, looked at Xiang Xiu who was not far away, and said to Li Yi: "There are living things moving in his body, is there any way to check?"

Only then did Li Yi come to his senses, and hurriedly replied: "Yes, I have a portable X-ray machine in my backpack, which can be scanned on the spot."

As he spoke, he dug out a palm-sized black box from his backpack, and after some tinkering, he swept Xiang Xiu from head to toe.

The X-ray machine made a beeping sound, and what Li Yi saw on the screen next shocked her completely.

According to the scan, there are countless small light spots in Xiang Xiu's body, which are in frequent activities.

Ye Hanjiang only glanced at the screen before asserting: "They are killing each other!"

"What?" Gu Qinuo was astonished, and quickly looked at the screen.

Sure enough, those light spots were colliding with each other at a very fast speed, and then one light spot disappeared, and the other light spot grew, and then repeated the previous action, and continued to search for the next light spot.

"No wonder he moved here by himself from the side of the stone wall!"

Ye Qiu looked at the screen and couldn't bear it: "Anyone who has tens of thousands of pieces in his body doesn't know what is fighting, and the pain will be unbearable!"

"what?"

Zhang Li said with some hesitation: "This spot of light...why does it look so much like the bugs we encountered before?"

After his reminder, everyone was startled, isn't it?

It's just that seeing such a large number of light spots in his body before, everyone was shocked, and no one had ever thought of it.

"Look over there!" There was another exclamation, and everyone looked in the direction of the voice, and saw a shocking scene appearing in front of everyone's eyes.

I saw those worms who had fought countless encounters with them before, approaching here in groups.

Everyone immediately clenched their weapons, loaded the bullets, and waited with bated breath for the upcoming battle. At this moment, there was a rustling sound from the other side.

"What's that?"

On the other side, the crickets they had seen before also galloped towards this side frantically.

With Xiang Xiu as the center point, the two sides launched a confrontation with clear distinctions.

The people caught in the middle did not dare to breathe out, for fear that the fire at the city gate would harm their fish in the pond.

"What should I do?" Gu Qinuo asked Ye Hanjiang softly, tilting his head. The current situation is obviously not suitable for rescuing Xiang Xiu, but it is also extremely inhumane to let him be placed in the middle of the battlefield.

Ye Hanjiang is also having a headache about this matter, if they refuse to save him at this time, then other people will definitely be suspicious of it.

While hesitating, Li Yi suddenly heard screaming: "Xiang Xiu's vital signs have disappeared!"

"what?"

Ye Hanjiang was shocked, and hurriedly looked at Xiang Xiu, but saw that Xiang Xiu, who was still screaming loudly, had lost his voice at this time.

But then he discovered something unusual: "There is something in his eye."

Everyone hurriedly looked over, but saw a trace of blood and tears slowly flowing from the corner of Xiang Xiu's eyes.

Just when everyone thought it was Xiang Xiu's eyeballs ruptured due to too much pain, they saw that his originally pitch-black eyeballs suddenly became transparent, and then they shook slightly from side to side like jelly.

"What... what's going on?" Mi Ping, who had a fairly good relationship with Xiang Xiu, exclaimed.

Gu Qinuo squinted his eyes when he saw the strange situation in front of him. If something goes wrong, there must be a monster, so he half-turned his body and inadvertently blocked Ye Hanjiang behind him, reminding him: "Be careful."

Just at this opening, the transparent eyeball suddenly opened a small opening, first two thin tentacles, then a round head, a torso with a carapace, then the remaining limbs, and finally a crescent moon. General cocky tail.

It was nothing but the cricket they had seen before!

It's just that this cricket is bigger and darker in color than other bugs.

And what happened next shocked everyone.

From the moment the cricket opened its eyeballs and appeared, the two sides, who were already ready to move, couldn't bear it anymore, and they strangled together in an instant.

In the blink of an eye, Xiang Xiu's body disappeared in front of everyone's eyes, but in this situation, no one cared about restraining him.

The cricket desperately tore at the worm's skin with its sharp front claws, and the painful worm immediately spewed out streams of rotten liquid, but these rotten liquids did not seem to have much effect on the corpse insects, the rolling thick On the contrary, the smoke choked up the noses and tears of the people who stood aside and were forced to watch the battle.

But anyway, the worms' sheer weight helped them take the lead by a narrow margin.

The life-and-death struggle between the two sides left everyone stunned, especially when a worm approached the dark corpse worm, the other corpse worms desperately rescued it, which was simply terrifying.

Ye Qiu paled and said, "My God, are these bugs crazy?"

Ye Hanjiang shook his head: "I can't see it."

Seeing that he seemed to have discovered something, Gu Qinuo asked, "There must be a reason for them to protect that bug, right?"

The person being asked glanced at him, then nodded and asked, "Have you seen the Queen of Peak and the worker bees?"

Gu Qinuo raised his eyebrows, and Ye Hanjiang continued: "I guess that big dark cricket should be their peak queen. Once the peak queen is killed, it will not be far from the extinction of the whole group, so they will Then go desperately to rescue that big cricket."

He reminded everyone: "I once said that in order to form such a large-scale insect swarm, the first condition is a large number of corpses, but the island is short of supplies, and the corpses of adventurers alone cannot satisfy so many monsters." needs."

Then he guessed: "I think those crickets feed on catching these worms. According to their size, a worm is equivalent to a corpse, enough for those crickets to survive."

After finishing speaking, he pointed to the fast-rolling worms, and said: "As for these worms, they were preyed upon by crickets when they were young, and they prey on crickets when they grow up. After the peak, for them, it is a good opportunity to get rid of the serious troubles of their confidantes, and naturally they cannot let it go easily, that's why we saw this scene in front of us."

From this, Gu Qinuo came to a conclusion: "One will grow and the other will grow, mutual generation and mutual restraint."

When everyone heard the words, they nodded in agreement.

Ye Hanjiang on the side didn't speak any more abnormally, but secretly said in his heart: "No, although some of these crickets were preyed on by worms, compared to the whole group, they are just a drop in the bucket!"There must be other natural enemies to deal with the crickets. Otherwise, with the reproduction speed of these crickets, it is impossible to control their scale. This should be a complete food chain. What is it? '