(Two in one) “There may even be eggs there.”
…
Jiang Kun’s face changed slightly when he heard this.
As Lu Liran walked forward, he continued: “There was once a morning jogging enthusiast who accidentally stepped into such a limestone pit during his morning jog. Fortunately, the pit was not deep and only reached his chest line, but the more he struggled, the tighter the mud tightened around him, compressing him so much that his chest could only rise and fall slightly, making it difficult to breathe.”
“For some people who lack the skills and common sense in this area, falling into the limestone pit is a fatal danger. Although the man did not drown and suffocated, he did not know how to get himself out. He could only survive by drinking the dirty seepage water from the surface of the limestone pit.”
“The man persisted for three days and three nights until the search and rescue team found him.” Lu Liran raised his eyes and looked at the drone, “When the man was found, he was covered in insect bites and had swellings all over his body. One of his eyes was blinded by a bird, but he was still alive.”
[Holy shit…is this a true story?? I’m getting goosebumps]
[The most terrifying thing is that he is still alive…]
[Fuck, just being pecked blind by a bird alive? Oh my god, how desperate this is]
Lu Liran nodded slightly: “The limestone pit was like cement, sinking the man tightly in it. He could only watch the insects and snakes crawling on him, biting his skin, burrowing into his ears and mouth, and even crawling passed over the tip of his nose and eye sockets…when the bird, which usually doesn’t look aggressive, raised its sharp beak and pecked him down, he was completely defenseless.”
“This kind of experience might be better than just being drowned in the cover.” Lu Liran said.
Jiang Kun behind him opened his mouth slightly, his pupils shrank hard, and he looked like he was frightened.
[Brother Lu today’s daily task of negative case intimidation is completed (1/1)——Milk-soaked biscuits are given to the anchor 1x sukiyaki pot]
[I at this moment = Jiang Kun in the camera]
[Seeing Jiang Kun’s expression, I suddenly wasn’t so scared anymore—— Comedian gifted the anchor 100x Rice grains]
[Jiang Kun: People are scared to death, don’t cue]
After Lu Liran finished speaking, Jiang Kun became much quieter and followed Lu Liran honestly.
Jiang Kun didn’t question Lu Liran’s words because they had met one before.
When they encountered the limestone pit, a man stepped into it first, but they didn’t take it seriously, still laughing at the guy’s stinky body, he even told the guy to come out quickly. But he didn’t expect that the more the man struggled, the faster he would sink. So another person went down to pull him, but he got himself pulled down instead.
At this point, no one dared to get close, let alone save them.
Jiang Kun thought about rescuing them, but he couldn’t do it. He grabbed a tree stick and tried to pull the person out, but the roots of the tree were pulled out of his hands, and neither of the two people came out.
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In the end, he watched helplessly as they were swallowed up by the mire. He saw a hand struggling to reach out of the mire, still calling for help, but in the end they sank into the mire, and no shadow could be seen.
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But as they walked later, they discovered that quagmires like the limestone pits were actually rare, and it was really bad luck that they came across one.
Jiang Kun knew not to take it lightly, but since he never encountered a limestone pit, he unconsciously relaxed his vigilance more and more.
Jiang Kun took a deep breath. Lu Liran’s words sounded the alarm for him.
He knew that if he accidentally stepped in there, no one would come to save him.
At least, if they think about it from their perspective, they didn’t dare to sacrifice their lives to save those two companions.
Jiang Kun followed Lu Liran’s example, he cut down a long tree stick and used it as a pathfinder, and carefully groped forward.
“This place is like a maze, it looks the same everywhere you look.” Jiang Kun muttered in a low voice, leaving marks on the trees as he walked to avoid getting lost.
Unknowingly, they had been walking in for almost an hour. Lu Liran narrowed his eyes slightly. This area was unfamiliar. There were some plants around that he had never seen before, and they were particularly tall and strong.
Even some of the more common dwarf shrubs have grown to incredible heights here.
Lu Liran felt it was a little strange. This change reminded him of the three-meter giant catfish he met in the water before. This ghostly swamp seemed to be changing quietly without anyone knowing.
Without walking too far, Jiang Kun stopped.
Lu Liran noticed the surroundings. They seemed to have walked into the ruins after a forest fire. They were surrounded by charred dead grass and trees. It seemed as if the tone of the entire environment had turned gray.
Jiang Kun lowered his voice and said: “We met the swamp ghost crocodile near here.”
“That guy was right there.” Jiang Kun pointed from a distance. They were several large trees blown down by the hurricane, staggered and stacked on top of each other, a bit like a natural ready-made nest.
Lu Liran looked over from a distance, his eyebrows slightly raised, not knowing what he was thinking.
Jiang Kun continued: “When we saw it, it was facing away from us, as if it was about to crawl inside. One person in our team wanted to get closer and take some photos.”
“Unexpectedly, as soon as we took a few steps forward, the guy suddenly turned around, an umbrella-shaped collar suddenly stood up around its head and neck, and made a ‘hissing’ sound at us.”
Jiang Kun still felt a little fearful and inexplicable when he thought back: “We obviously walked to the side, but that guy suddenly launched an attack on us! All the moths on its back flew out and flew straight towards us.”
“Not to mention that the phosphorus powder will spontaneously ignite. When it comes into contact with water, it will burn even more fiercely. We can only put it out with clothes. We didn’t know it at first, and we lost many people inexplicably. Although they were not burned to death, most died of burn infections.” Jiang Kun sighed, looking a little uncomfortable and sad.
Lu Liran’s face turned slightly ugly. He knew the burning pain better than anyone else.
Ke Ji paid close attention to Lu Liran’s face. Upon seeing this, he immediately stepped forward, held his shoulders and squeezed him gently, saying in a low voice: “Don’t worry, I won’t let the same disaster happen twice.”
Lu Liran responded in a low voice without saying anything, seeming a little absent-minded.
Obviously, such memories were not so easy for him to ignore. He thought that he was resistant to such memories and did not have much stress reaction to the fire, but he did not expect that they would be faintly agitated here again.
Perhaps the environment here also has some factors —— there are hanging vines and old branches everywhere, which makes people think of devil vines.
Whether it’s the devil vine or the fire, it’s not a big problem if taken alone, but when these two factors are added together, it becomes Lu Liran’s nightmare.
Lu Liran closed his eyes forcefully, recovered his mind and continued walking forward.
“You can walk behind me.” Ke Ji pulled Lu Liran and asked in a low voice.
Lu Liran shook his head: “No, I’m fine, let’s go.”
He turned to Jiang Kun and asked: “Where did you move to cause the swamp ghost crocodile to attack?”
Jiang Kun pointed in the direction and said: “We came from that end and walked to the left, trying to bypass the ghost crocodile.”
Lu Liran nodded slightly when he heard the words: “Okay, then let’s go and take a look.”
Jiang Kun responded and immediately took Lu Liran to the place where they passed before.
“We were at this location.” Jiang Kun poked the ground with a tree stick. There was only about six or seven meters away from the place where he said the swamp ghost crocodile was. No wonder it attracted the vigilance of the ghost crocodile.
Seeing this, Ke Ji pointed in two directions: “This is the place where the ghost crocodile is, and this is the route you take to avoid it? Judging from the straight line distance, you are far away from the ghost crocodile, but you are getting closer to this area.”
Ke Ji pointed to the area where the big trees were blown down by the hurricane.
Jiang Kun looked a little surprised: “What happened to that area?”
“Doesn’t it look like a nest?” Ke Ji asked back.
Jiang Kun choked. In this way, it was somewhat similar, but he felt that this Omega’s idea was a bit too whimsical, just like a nest, just a nest? He remembered that in the limited information, swamp ghost crocodiles do not need to build nests.
“It’s around the mating season now, and we can’t rule out that the swamp ghost crocodile’s mating period is also during this period.” Ke Ji said.
Lu Liran quickly realized what Ke Ji meant and opened his eyes slightly: “Are you saying that there might be a nest of a swamp ghost crocodile? Or even a nest for laying eggs?”
“There may even be eggs there.” Ke Ji said.
While the two were talking, they were already moving towards the place where the hurricane had knocked down.
Seeing this, Jiang Kun had no choice but to grit his teeth and keep up, his heart pounding——
Nest for laying eggs? Not so unlucky, right? If that’s the case…it’s really not a bad thing if the swamp ghost crocodile attacks them.
Soon, the three of them climbed to the trunk of a fallen tree, and they saw that as expected, there was a deep pit hidden under the trunk, and there were many white and pointed eggs in the pit, which made Jiang Kun dizzy.
Jiang Kun took a breath and almost fell off the tree trunk.
They were not unjustly attacked!
But then again, he’s angry.
Jiang Kun was angry at the expert who took them in the wrong direction. If the guy hadn’t told them to go around, they wouldn’t have been attacked by the swamp ghost crocodile.
“That’s true.” Lu Liran whispered. He looked around. The female swamp ghost crocodile probably went out to hunt and did not appear around the nest, “Let’s go.”
He did want to catch a swamp ghost crocodile, but he didn’t want to mess with a female who was guarding her eggs.
Jiang Kun didn’t have any objections. When he heard what Lu Liran said, he immediately jumped down from the tree: “Go back the same way or are you going somewhere?”
Lu Liran walked very fast and said after hearing this: “Aren’t you looking for something? Why are you asking where we are going? We are on different roads.”
Jiang Kun choked, and he acquiesced that everyone should act together! How could this be!
Although Lu Liran didn’t say where he was going, he was indeed walking back. Jiang Kun hesitated for a few seconds and followed him shamelessly.
In the Ghost Swamp, if you hesitate and fall behind, you will lose!
Less than half an hour after they left, a swamp ghost crocodile about three meters long came back from a distance with a fat grass rat hanging in its mouth, as big as a pig.
It climbed back to the big tree that had been blown down, and its pair of yellow-green eyes suddenly stood up sharply and sensitively into a dark vertical line.
The forked letter spits out its pointed mouth from time to time, as if it is identifying the smell.
After a while, it suddenly made a “hissing” sound, startling the birds in the surrounding trees to fly up, and saw it erecting the umbrella-shaped collar on its neck, making the whole head look like Twice as big and extremely ferocious!
It dropped the prey in its mouth, quickly jumped off the tree trunk, and entered the pasture in a blink of an eye.
All this frill talk has me thinking of Jurassic Park and Dennis
Angry mommy, its Hunting Time!
I hope its running ability is just like a frilled neck lizard, and not also a basilisk.
Fun fact, the real life basilisk, aka the Jesus Christ lizard, can RUN ON WATER. THAT WOULD BE TERRIFYING HERE IN A SWAMP! 😱
I wonder if this is why Jiang Kun wont be a recurring character…