Global Evolution

Chapter 58: Cuscuta

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"Who knew, not only did he lose weight, but he also looked pale." Liu Chang looked him up and down, but found no other signs of being attacked, and asked immediately, "Are you sick?"

"Impossible. If I were to get sick, I would have died during the Great Death. I must have been attacked by something." The soldier hastily put down his gun, took off his camouflage uniform and hurriedly checked his body. After a while, his hand touched body, felt something bulging on the skin.

"Damn it." He yelled in fright, and the young soldier hurriedly took off his camouflage uniform to reveal the tight-fitting shirt inside.

"Your camouflage T-shirt appears to have something stuffed in it."

"What?" The soldier pulled down his T-shirt in horror, and when the two of them saw what was sticking to his skin, they felt hairs all over at the same time, and goosebumps sprang up uncontrollably.

"What's going on?" Zhao Yue, who was in front of him, also stopped leading the team when he heard the movement, walked along the team and saw this strange scene.

"Oh, your mother is so disgusting, what is this?" As soon as Zhao Yue came, he saw that the soldier was hurriedly pulling the plant tendrils on his skin—these plant tendrils were tightly attached to his body, like a tarsus. The body of bones generally sucked his blood and fat.

"It looks like a dodder." Li Qingshui also walked over, looked at the vines on the soldier's body and asked, "Don't you feel it when you climb on it?"

"I definitely don't feel it, otherwise he would not know if he is so fat after eating all these things?" Liu Chang looked at the things on the soldier's body and felt very disgusted—the plants were attached to the soldier's body, tightly wrapping his skin, The burr-like rhizomes on his body were inserted into his skin one by one, and then sucked his blood and subcutaneous fat through the straw-shaped hole, and it seemed that it had been attached for a long time, making it green The red and white fat and blood of the soldier was filled under the plant skin, looking chubby like a full-fledged mosquito.

"Damn it, I said why I felt dizzy just now. It turned out that I had lost too much blood." Pulling the vines on his body to the ground, the soldier stepped on them, and after the plant skin was crushed, the plasma and fat inside "squeaked." " splashed all over the ground. And the plant vine that he stepped on seemed to feel the pain, and it rolled and was about to get into the bottom.

"It really is dodder." Li Qingshui grabbed the "tail" of the rattan, pulled him out from the ground, and put it in his hand to observe carefully.

"What exactly is dodder?" Liu Chang asked while checking his body, and found a plant of this kind in his storage. Fortunately, the plant seemed to have just penetrated into his trousers not long ago, and hadn't really started to suck his blood yet.

"Cuscuta is a parasitic plant. When it grows up, it has no roots and lives by parasitizing other plants. Unexpectedly, even animals are their parasitic targets now." Li Qingshui held the vine in his hand, carefully Carefully avoiding the burrs on it, he said: "This kind of thorn should have a strong paralyzing effect, just like a mosquito's feeder, and there is no feeling when it penetrates into the body."

"Damn, it's so scary." Taking out the rattan in his trousers, Liu Chang hurriedly "stomped" the ghostly plant to death, and then said loudly: "Hurry up and check whether there is such a plant on your body!" , don’t be sucked to death in a while without knowing it!”

With his cry, all the soldiers in the mist knew what was going on, and they hurriedly took off their clothes and looked at their own bodies—as expected, three or four soldiers found this terrifying beard on their skin.

"Mr. Li, is this plant poisonous?" The soldier with the most ruthless face collapsed after being sucked off all the "fat" vines on his body, with a very obvious look of fear on his face-this kind of thing If it was poisonous, his life would be lost.

"I don't know, it shouldn't be poisonous." Li Qingshui carefully looked at the color of the burr, "Do you feel sick or muscle cramps?"

"No, just dizziness." The man shook his head.

"It's okay, dizziness is caused by excessive blood loss, it shouldn't be poisonous." Throwing the vine in his hand, Li Qingshui shouted to the team: "Be careful, there are too many lurkers in the forest, pay more attention to your physical condition .”

"oh."

"Um."

There were sporadic answers and the sound of undressing and undressing in the team. After a while, all the soldiers checked their bodies, and the voices gradually quieted down.

"Xiao Jing, why didn't you notice the attack of Cuscuta?" After packing up his luggage again, Liu Chang asked the little girl carefully. be prepared. But the terrifying forest lurker told him what a real sneak attack is, what it is—it has already started eating your flesh and drinking your blood, and you haven't noticed it yet.

"I don't know, I thought it was weeds, they are too close to the life breath of weeds, and the breath is so weak that I don't feel it at all." The little girl showed a grievance on her face, "I'm sorry, if you didn't find out earlier , maybe your life and that soldier’s life are gone.”

"You don't need to apologize, this is not your fault. The rattan should have come out from the ground, so it's not surprising that you can't feel it." Rolling up his trouser legs, Liu Chang exposed his ankle in his sight To ensure that the next time a parasitic plant similar to "Cuscuta" attacks you, you can detect it early.

"Let's go quickly. The smell of plasma and fat all over the floor is too strong. I'm afraid it will attract carnivorous creatures." Li Qingshui glanced at the place where the dodder was trampled, and then at the soldier who lost too much blood , "Can you still walk?"

"Yes, it's okay." The man shook his head vigorously, trying to drive away the dizziness.

"If you have nothing to do, go quickly, leave quickly." The weirdness of the forest, the company commander had initially realized how dangerous it was, he waved his hand, held up the fog lights, and rolled up his trousers to let the soldiers follow him.

But the sky didn't obey people's wishes. As soon as he raised the fog lights, the little girl made a sound of vigilance.

"Brother, be careful, there are many creatures with a danger value of about 0.2 flying in the air a hundred meters away, and the speed is very fast." Before the little girl finished speaking, Liu Chang heard the sound of flapping wings, and before he had time to come out The sound alerted everyone, and he saw strange birds flying over.

Within sight, these birds had sharp beaks, the size of a human head, and small scarlet eyes. They swooped down on the team as soon as they appeared, which was obviously not good.

"There is something in the air, everyone pay attention." As soon as Liu Chang said that, a big bird rushed down at his head, and was dragged by his crossbow to the ground.

"Fuck!" The big bird landed, and before Liu Chang had time to make up for it, attacks followed one after another from above. Tired of coping, Liu Chang had no choice but to protect the little girl and lean on a big tree to avoid being attacked.

"Fire a shot into the sky to scare them away." In the mist, the company commander's call sign came out, "Pay attention to the vertical angle, don't hurt your own people."

After his call sign sounded, he raised his gun and let out bursts of gunfire. The big birds were frightened by the gunshots, and they didn't dare to attack rashly anymore. Scared, but obviously not planning to leave yet.

"Attention, they haven't left yet!" The gunshots stopped, and Liu Chang knew that everyone couldn't see the situation above their heads, so he hurriedly reminded loudly: "It's hanging in the air, I guess I won't stop until I eat meat."

After shouting, Liu Chang raised the crossbow in his hand, aimed at the fattest bird in the flock and pulled the trigger.

"Whoosh..." The crossbow arrows shot out under the impetus of the bowstring, and the speed was very fast. Before the big bird had no reaction, the arrow pierced through its body, and the feathers and blood bloomed in the air. Gorgeous blood flowers.

And at the moment when the flowers bloomed, when Liu Chang's mouth just smiled, the birds in the air smelled the bloody smell of their companions, and they all flew there, scrambling for their companions in the air. corpse. In just three blinks, the bird that had just died was completely eaten by its companions, leaving Liu Chang, the only one who could see this scene below, dumbfounded.

But his blankness didn't last for a second, and he was brought back to reality by the little girl's next words.

"Again... Another group flew over, with a higher risk value than this group, 0.5."

"No, we can't finish hunting these birds." Liu Chang frowned deeply, and then heard a "buzzing" sound in the air, and then a large group of mosquito-like insects with sharp mouthparts appeared in his field of vision. Afterwards, he saw the birds run away one after another after seeing the giant mosquito, and some of the ones that couldn't escape were caught by the giant insect, which was half the size of a human, and turned into their hearty breakfast.