The author's diary of ghost stories

"唳——"

Ear whistles came from all directions downstairs. The monsters were pacing back and forth around the altar as if they were facing a formidable enemy. Their mouths made extremely hoarse hissing sounds, which sounded like cats giving a warning. That "ha" sound at the bottom of your throat.

At this time, Yu Liang finally had the opportunity to carefully observe the whole picture of this monster.

They normally stand, with blunt bony protrusions on their joints that can be used to hit and smash targets at any time.

The legs and tail are thick and powerful, and the forelimbs are slightly shorter but have claws larger than the size of a hand, and the claws are as sharp as sickles.

Whistle beast.

He had a simple name for this monster in his mind.

Dozens of black whistle beasts all looked up at the scarlet eyes of the dome. They maintained a similar posture, with their claws clasped in front of their chests, as if they were performing some kind of worship.

However, this kind of worship is not because of piety, but because of worry, uneasiness and fear.

It was not at all as content as when he was hunting and chasing him before. The umbrella-shaped membrane on the neck was also close to the neck, with no sign of opening.

The muscles all over their bodies were tense, as if they were waiting and expecting something.

A smooth gray altar, towering white ribs, and a red eye under the dome framed with dark gold. Dozens of hard-shelled cold-blooded creatures that seemed to be made of obsidian worshiped around the altar.

The scene is dreamlike but not dreamy.

Faintly, Yu Liang seemed to hear the divine Sanskrit sound.

He shook his head and took off his hood. The platform he was on now extended out. Looking out from his position, the giant ribs around the altar covered him like a cage.

This is not a kind of imprisonment, but a kind of protection.

Perhaps with this layer of protection, the whistle beasts downstairs stopped thinking about attacking the platform.

However, recalling the previous escape, the whistle beasts stopped when they saw him stepping onto the bone stairs. They seemed to be afraid of something, so they did not dare to approach the bone stairs.

Through the cracks in the rib cage, he saw that the whistle beasts on the ground began to become restless, no longer as quiet as they had just been in worship.

They were waiting for something just now, but now it seems like they have been let go.

He looked up at the closed eyes on the dome.

Although he didn't know what the principle was, it was obvious that when he put on the hood, the eyes on the top of the ball would open, and they would present what they saw in front of Yu Liang.

Shared vision?

In layman's terms, these eyes are Yu Liang's "peripherals", used to help him complete more accurate operations on the operating table.

Due to the existence of the rib cage, Yu Liang's vision was blocked, and he had to wear a hood to operate from a high-altitude perspective.

He looked at the two lumps of meat Tai Sui on the left and right on the table, first put on his headgear, and then inserted his hands into the meat Tai Sui.

Yu Liang could feel that the two pieces of meat Tai Sui he was using now were more sensitive than the piece of meat Tai Sui on the circuit board operating table, so they could perform more delicate operations.

He tried to shake it from side to side, but the meat seemed to be locked at this time, so he tried to press or pull the meat first.

Perhaps some kind of switch was touched, and blood and flesh began to grow on the ring of white ribs.

Starting from the tip of the ribs, light yellow tissue fluid continued to leak out, flowing down along the ribs, and was completely dry when it reached the halfway point.

Where the tissue fluid had been touched, spore-like biological tissue continued to burst out, and then quickly condensed into flesh and blood.

That is?

Yu Liang, who looked down from a high altitude, was secretly surprised.

Meat and white bones?

Soon, complete flesh and blood appeared on the ribs, but it was only flesh and blood. They did not form a body, but turned into a disgusting appearance of unrestricted proliferation of fat.

Looking at the whistle beasts next to the altar, they are still looking up at the eyes of the dome, probably because they haven’t waited for what they need for a long time. The ear whistle monsters are a little hesitant and can only rotate their ears and make a somewhat doubtful sound. whistle,

At this time, Yu Liang also found that the Rou Tai Sui joystick no longer locked the direction, so he swung it left and right, trying to see what the Rou Tai Sui was trying to control.

Sticky fat lumps stuck to the flesh and blood, as if they had received some kind of instruction. These fat-like things melted quickly, turning into a pool of yellow-green stinky liquid and pouring down.

Like a downpour, the smelly liquid poured directly on the bodies of these whistle beasts, covering their heads and faces.

"laugh--"

This yellow-green smelly liquid seems to be specially designed for this kind of whistle beast. The moment it touches the whistle beast, it makes a hissing sound. It looks like a chemical reaction between some strong acid and organic matter.

They began to corrode the monster's outer armor continuously. In more than ten seconds, the monster's scales were completely corroded, and a bloody hole was dug out of the flesh and blood body.

In just this moment, several whistle beasts were corroded to death by the stinky liquid. The stinky liquid had no effect on the floor of the altar. It just flowed through the ground and finally merged into the gap between the floor and the stairs.

Acid can kill these whistle beasts, and the movement of Rou Tai Sui can be seen on the flesh and blood between the ribs. Moving there will indicate which direction the flesh and blood melts into the acid.

No, not just killing monsters.

Yu Liang suddenly noticed that the acid could also wash away the filth near the altar. After being washed, the altar and the first floor suddenly looked brand new, bright and white.

Killing the whistle beast seems to be just a side effect. This device seems to be just to ensure the cleanliness of the altar, just like...

Some kind of cleaning device?

Yu Liang looked at it from top to bottom, and he began to feel a little surprised.

Are these standing ribs and wanton flesh and blood just for cleaning the altar?

Such a magnificent creation is just a cleaning device?

He didn't know what to say, but he just felt that this was beyond his knowledge and understanding.

Yu Liang kept moving Rou Tai Sui and spread the acid evenly on the first floor. The flushing range of the acid did not include the tunnel just now, and the whistle beasts had no intention of hiding in the tunnel and just stood quietly. On the ground, waiting for the acid above to come.

Um?

He stopped what he was doing and did not continue cleaning the first floor.

At this time, nearly half of the whistle beasts had been bathed in acid and died on the spot. The dying monsters did not even make a sound, but just waited quietly for death, which seemed particularly peaceful and peaceful.

What are they doing?

Why not escape?

Yu Liang felt something was wrong, and the whistle beast's abnormal behavior made him afraid to continue operating.

If the whistle beasts started to flee, he would follow them and kill them all with the cleaning device, but now the whistle beasts seemed to be willing to kill them at the slightest opportunity, and they were willing to die generously, which made Yu Liangliang suspicious.

Are they okay?

At this time, new movements appeared in the pile that had been corroded into pieces by the acid.

Among the corpses of dozens of ear-whistle monsters, one moved.

A smaller monster emerged from the broken scales. It shook its head and began to eat other corpses. It opened its mouth to an exaggerated 120 degrees, and then swallowed the big monster in front of it in one gulp. A pile of corpses.

It evolved!

Yu Liang realized this, and he quickly controlled the melting of flesh and blood, covering the small monster with stinky liquid. Even if it could not kill the small monster, it could corrode its food and wash away the corpses.

As a result, when the stink fell, the remaining whistle beasts jumped on top of the small monster without hesitation and took the acid for it.

When Yu Liang saw that something was not good, he immediately took off his hood, raised the black bone air gun beside him, and aimed at the little monster through the gap in his ribs.

"Pah, pah."

Two shots were fired one after another, penetrating the pile of corpses and hitting the little monster. The bullets splashed sparks on its body, but it did penetrate into the monster's body.

"ha--"

The small monster screamed in pain and burrowed into the pile of corpses, seemingly trying to use other corpses to block the bullets.

Yu Liang put down his gun again and sighed helplessly in his heart.

Can't penetrate.

The bullet only pierced the surface of the monster's skin, like an injection, and could not cause any major damage to the monster.

He looked at the whistle beasts. Basically, they were all dead. The remaining three or two whistle beasts were rolling in the acid accumulated on the ground, knowing that they were melting in the acid like soap.

All dead.

Except for the small monster, none of the whistle beasts on the first floor survived.

Yu Liang no longer hesitated, melted more acid, and washed the small monsters thoroughly before they could eat the corpses.

One side was eating, the other was corroding. The corpses on the first floor quickly disappeared, and the little monster didn't know when it developed into a big monster, which was as big as two whistle beasts.

More than four meters tall, the body is bloated and not as well-proportioned as the Whistle Beast. It looks a bit slow.

After eating, the monster sat down on the spot and slowly exerted force. A translucent egg-shaped object detached from its reproductive mouth and fell to the ground.

It picked up the eggs, took steps, and headed towards one of the slightly larger tunnels.

Yu Liang noticed its huge belly and immediately realized that the monster was breeding and laying eggs, and it didn't just give birth to one.

He raised his gun and shot at the egg held in the monster's hand. The egg did not have thick leather armor like the monster, so it burst with a sound, and the green yolk and transparent egg liquid spilled on the ground.

The monster seemed to know that someone was attacking it, so it walked a little faster and struggled to get into the tunnel.

Yu Liang's bullets chased it, but failed to cause any substantial damage. The monster's body was bloated and fat, and this fatness also gave it a strong defense. The bullets had no way to deal with her.

Before completely entering the tunnel, the mother monster paused and turned back to glance at Yu Liang, who was standing on the top floor.

Through the ribs, one person and one monster looked at each other.

But in just one second, the mother monster completely penetrated into the tunnel.

Yu Liang put down the air gun in his hand, recalling the exchange of views just now in his mind.

From the monster's eyes, he saw confusion, doubt and surprise.

This mother monster is more human than imagined, and its intelligence is far higher than that of humans.

For some reason, a sentence popped into Yu Liang's mind.

"Turkey" saw "Farmer".

Thinking back to the worship and cleansing just now, this wonderful feeling becomes clearer.

Using Liu’s “Farmer Hypothesis” may help us understand the situation better.

He didn't know where monsters like whistle beasts came from, but it was obvious that they were still in the "beast" stage and had not developed more advanced intelligence.

The flesh-and-blood civilization may not know much about this kind of whistle beast. They prepared the secondary jaw bone gun for the Dansheng people, and their primary purpose was to capture the whistle beast.

So at the very beginning, the flesh-and-bone acid cleaning device may not have been set up for whistle beasts. They were really only used to clean the altar and the first floor.

One day, the Whistle Beast appears.

One day, Whistle Beast was corroded by acid dripping from its head.

One day, a whistle beast gave birth to a reproductive mother from its body after corrosion.

So this law became the truth in the world of whistle beasts.

When the red eyes open, divine water will flow out between the bones and flesh. The divine water will take away almost all the whistle beasts, but at the same time, a new mother body will be born from it.

The mother's body will give birth to more whistle beasts, growing the group.

This is probably the reason why those whistle beasts quickly gathered their companions after opening their eyes on the dome. They waited devoutly for the miracle to come and for the new mother body to be born among them.

In the civilization of beasts, more of the same kind means more power. Only with more power can you obtain more food and territory.

This requires reproduction, so they have the most instinctive beliefs.

Fertility worship.

Then the "cleaning device" with its reproductive power has undoubtedly become a "god"-like character.

If the whistle beast is regarded as a "turkey", then the civilization of flesh and blood is the "farmer", and the acid cleaning of bones and flesh is a miracle in the turkey world, and this miracle is only the work of the "farmer".

To some extent, this is a dimensionality reduction attack.

It's just like……

The maggots in the sewer regard the toilet as their god.

Toilet god.

Whenever the sound of pumping water appears, the water will bring food to them, bringing them harvest and joy.

Yu Liang guessed that this cleaning device should have been an automatic program in the past, cleaning on specified dates.

So what happened in this base?

The flesh-and-blood civilization fought against this monster and finally chose to abandon the base.

Even the Whistle Beast was created by them, but for some reason it got out of control, causing the flesh-and-blood civilization to abandon the base.

The cleaning device was still working according to the program, inadvertently helping the Whistle Beast clan to thrive.

Until the energy in the base is disconnected, miracles will no longer appear in the world of whistle beasts, and the population will decline from prosperity.

Then the look in the mother monster's eyes is intriguing.

It discovered that the person who mastered the miracle turned out to be Dan Sheng.

"God" is not God, but his former food.

It turns out that the "farmer" has always been by the "turkey"'s side.

Yu Liang put away the air gun. In the end, this was just a reasonable guess based on the current information. What happened in this base and what did this monster want to do...

Still unknown.

The more critical thing is of course the flesh-and-blood civilization. What did they want to do in the past, and why did such monsters appear in the base.

Of course, there is good news.

The cleaning just now eliminated all the whistle beasts, leaving only one mother body, and the mother body now has to go back to lay eggs.

This base should be relatively safe until the new whistle beasts grow to maturity.

Or...

Now he should kill the mother, because—

"Turkey" has seen "Farmer"!

The Three-Body TV series is really good