Chapter 26 Chapter 26 Snapping Turtle

The miasma mother hadn't dissipated yet, and when the person floated up, he felt dizzy and nauseous, and his body felt stabbing pains.What's even more frightening is that several balls of light continue to rise from the depths of the cave. The yellow halo makes people's eyes blurred, and they don't even want to open their eyes anymore.Huang Qianshan wanted to find out what was wrong at the bottom of the water, why the villagers didn't meet Miasma when they came in last time, but they were so unlucky when they came in.However, a huge monster appeared at the bottom of the water, which made Huang Qianshan startled, and he realized that the giant egg in the mountain was born from this thing.Huang Qianshan hurriedly floated to the surface of the water. As soon as he came up, he shouted: "Go on and swim, don't stop, there are snapping turtles at the bottom of the water!"

Hao Dali had never heard of snapping turtles. He wanted to stop to see what the snapping turtles in Huang Qianshan Pass looked like, but Huang Qianshan pushed the other five people to the water in front without saying anything. Hao Dali didn't even have the chance to turn his head. No.After hearing this, the others hurriedly swam forward with all their strength. Fortunately, the stone ball on the top of the cave no longer fell, and they were not so worried when they swam forward. The snapping turtle looks exactly like a crocodile, and it is a combination of a turtle and a crocodile, so it is called a snapping turtle.Snapping turtles have a thick head that cannot be fully retracted into the turtle shell. The neck is short and thick, and there are brown spines on the back of the collar. It looks like a turtle, but its body shape is very similar to a crocodile.This kind of thing originally grew in North America and Central America, but China didn't know that alien creatures would affect the local biosphere for a while, so out of curiosity, a large number of creatures that China didn't have were introduced, and the result was flooding.Native animals perished due to the invasion, and among these introduced creatures were apple snails, tilapias, alligator gars, snapping turtles, and more.

It is said that in order to make up for this mistake, a commissioner was arranged to hunt and kill these creatures for a while, but these creatures have strong reproductive and survivability, and the hunting has no effect at all.A small number of people who kept these creatures couldn't bear it, so they secretly released them into the nature. This "benevolent" act magnified the harm, and countless local creatures declined sharply, making it difficult to restore their original vitality.In the end, the relevant departments stipulated that several types of foreign creatures are not allowed to be stocked casually, but the creatures that have been stocked before have already formed a large scale, so this regulation does not play much role.

Huang Qianshan swam forward vigorously. He thought that someone outside the mountain raised a snapping turtle for the sake of freshness, but in order not to kill it, he put it into the river of Wangwushan.Perhaps, the snapping turtle followed the river into the cave, seeing the cool and quiet place here, so it used the cave as a nest.It's a good time to meet them.We must know that the sense of smell of animals is many times stronger than that of humans. Sharks can smell blood from several kilometers away, and mother turtles have a unique and sensitive sense of smell for the eggs they lay.This foreign king must have smelled the smell of turtle eggs, and now that it is in its territory, it vows to avenge its blood and hatred for its turtle son.Huang Qianshan yelled in his heart that it was unlucky, he didn't step on it on purpose, it's a pity that he can't lay eggs, is it really going to cost his life?

A large section of the underground river was full of deep water, until after swimming a certain distance, a narrow river bank appeared again.The river bank is much narrower than before, and it is full of gravel. There are a few rusty chains on the bank to tie a few ancient boats, but unfortunately they are all decayed, and only the skeletons are left floating on the water. .Lao Yue was the first to climb ashore, and as soon as she landed, she turned around and pulled the others ashore, then opened the layers of oiled paper in the bag, and took out several new gas masks.Lao Yue said to quickly replace the gas mask that was damaged by the blisters. It is not yet possible to give up the chance of survival. There may be other ways. Now do what can be done first.

Hao Dali hadn't changed his gas mask after landing, so he looked at the waters where he came by with his headlamp. When he saw a snapping turtle as big as a wild boar, he was frightened: "Fuck, this is the crocodile you mentioned. Turtle, it's so fucking scary!" Liang Xiaoyu was exhausted before she got ashore. Thanks to Lao Yue who kept pulling her, otherwise she would have sunk to the bottom.Liang Xiaoyu was already unconscious, she just woke up a little bit, when she heard Hao Dali speak, she glanced at the snapping turtle at the bottom of the water, who knew that she immediately rolled her eyes white and passed out.After Gu Changtian landed, he didn't turn around to look at the snapping turtle at the bottom of the water. He anxiously took out a pack of oil paper from his arms, and he was relieved when he was sure that the oil paper pack was intact.

Gu Changtian stuffed the things back into his arms, and when he turned around and saw the snapping turtle in the water, he was also stunned. He said, "Brother Huang, I have never seen a snapping turtle, but I have also seen pictures of it. The thing is much bigger than a normal snapping turtle, is this a fairy?" Among the people pinching Liang Xiaoyu, Lao Yue glanced at the snapping turtle in the water, and said puzzledly, "This snapping turtle is really bigger than normal. Could it be related to its growth environment?" After hearing this, Cai Minmin wondered: "Could it be a snapping turtle that has lived for thousands of years? Didn't it mean that turtles can live for a long time? If it really lived for such a long time, it's not surprising that it grows so big. Maybe it's the queen of the ancient Guo State. Are they stocked here?"

Huang Qianshan shook his head and said, "Impossible. Snapping turtles didn't exist in the ancient Guo State period. They were only introduced within a few decades after China's liberation. At that time, all the creatures were introduced at a young level. If they really lived for thousands of years Will foreign countries be willing to give away things that are hundreds of years old?" After coughing, Huang Qianshan continued: "No wonder there are no fish or shrimp in the water. They were all eaten by this foreign king. Now there are miasma mothers in front of us, so we can only dive through them, but there are snapping turtles in the water, and they are both in the water and on the shore. They are all very ferocious, not to mention such a big one.”

Gu Changtian looked at the turbulent water, and asked worriedly: "Then what should we do, we have nowhere to go, nowhere to return, do we really have to wait to die?" Hao Dali held his breath and said, "Grandpa, I don't want to die so uselessly. Wait for that bastard to swim up to me and see how I break its neck!" The snapping turtle slowly swam over from the clear underground river, refracted by the water light, making it look even bigger, which made people on the shore uneasy.Huang Qianshan also lost his mind. He thought that the size of the snapping turtle is indeed beyond the norm. It should not be able to drill out when it grows so big, and can only stay in the cave.How did the giant eggs in the weather station come about? Could it be that someone stole the eggs of the snapping turtle and hid them in the weather station? Who would this person be, and why did they do that?

There is a miasma mother in the front, and a snapping turtle in the back. Huang Qianshan only hopes to have a gun in his hand, and before the miasma mother corrodes his body and the snapping turtle eats him, he can shoot his head off with one shot.Snapping turtles have no natural enemies in nature, and they can swallow alligator cubs in one gulp. This time, Huang Qianshan really has no choice.Lao Yue didn't know what to do, she couldn't go into the water now, but waiting on the shore was not an option, the snapping turtle was approaching step by step, and they would have no place to hide when it climbed ashore.

"Xiaoyu is dying. If we leave her here, it will take some time for the snapping turtle to eat her. Let's take this opportunity to dive and swim under the miasma mother." Cai Minmin said seriously. "If you weren't joking, I'd throw you into the water right now." Hao Dali said angrily. "Then what can you do, why don't you go into the water and try first." Cai Minmin didn't feel wronged. "Minmin, stop talking, we won't leave Xiaoyu behind, if six of us go into the mountain, we'll go out together." Lao Yue said firmly. "Xiaoyue, what can you do?" Gu Changtian asked dryly. "Not yet, there are so many rocks on the shore, let's use them as cannonballs." Lao Yue took care of Liang Xiaoyu, but Liang Xiaoyu was still in a coma. "Or, brother Huang, you were the one who stepped on the broken egg, and he was chasing after you, so you can avoid trouble..." Gu Changtian said in a low voice. "What did you say?!" Huang Qianshan almost lost his temper. At this critical juncture, it really is a friend in adversity. Unexpectedly, Cai Minmin said at this time: "What's the matter with Mr. Huang, he can step on whatever he likes, and when that bastard comes over, I will step on it a few times, so that it doesn't feel interesting!" Seeing this, Lao Yue immediately stopped the dispute. She said, "Stop arguing! There are more and more miasma mothers, and when the light ball breaks, another miasma poison will rush out. We must hide in the water. This The snapping turtle has been in the cave for at least decades, it may have adapted to the poisonous gas of the miasma mother, and now the water is occupied by it, we have to find a way, not fight over who to throw down!" Huang Qianshan didn't bother to argue with them. He thought that even if he had a gun in his hand, he couldn't kill the snapping turtle immediately. Its ghost shell was much harder than other turtles, not to mention the rough skin and thick flesh, which might not be able to kill the snapping turtle. Enter.At this time, Huang Qianshan suddenly remembered the one million data found in the weather station, which not only recorded changes in wind direction, air dust, soil composition, and plant growth, but also recorded changes in the growth of many animals.There was a period in the data where the animals grew abnormally, and they recorded a vole that exceeded the size of a normal rodent and was three times the size of a normal vole.Huang Qianshan didn't keep this passage in mind, he thought it was just an accident, but if the weather station was to record the aftermath caused by the thermal power plant to the environment in the mountains, would the snapping turtle be affected by it, so it happened Have a similar mutation situation? "Let's go forward first, the snapping turtle is about to go ashore, as long as it doesn't get close to Miasma Mother, it doesn't matter!" Lao Yue urged. "Help me carry things. I'll pick up some bigger stones and throw them on the head later. I don't believe it won't bloom." After Huang Qianshan said, he handed the backpack to Hao Dali, and then found a few larger stones on the shore. The big stone was in his arms. "Brother Huang, I was joking just now, don't take it seriously." Gu Changtian walked in front and turned around to explain in a low voice. "Stop talking, I've forgotten about it." Huang Qianshan didn't want to continue the topic just now, so he stopped the topic immediately. "The front is the place where miasma mothers gather, we can't go any further, we have to hide in the water later." Cai Minmin said nervously, "The tree roots here are starting to get smaller and less, maybe we are about to reach the exit ?” "It's possible. There are too many stone balls on the top of the cave. It's not good to stay here for a long time. You must go out immediately, otherwise Xiaoyu will not be able to hold on." Lao Yue said anxiously, but no one could do anything. "The snapping turtle has come ashore!" Cai Minmin shouted, pointing to the waters where he came. The snapping turtle danced on its four thick legs and climbed onto the green gravel-covered shore. It opened and closed its mouth and exhaled a gray, stale smell. People standing far away seemed to be able to smell a foul stench.The snapping turtle didn't come towards them immediately, it stopped on the shore and kept opening and closing its mouth, making everyone confused.After a while, the snapping turtle gurgled and vomited something out. Gu Changtian walked a few steps involuntarily, but when he saw the filth spit out by the snapping turtle, he immediately screamed.