"Miss Jingjing, there is only one thing I regret most right now."

Wu Liang also laughed and said with raised eyebrows.

"What's up?"

Taking the engineering shovel handed over by Dian Wei, Bai Jingjing asked curiously.

"Hey, I'll tell you if I don't die this time."

Wu Liang smiled coquettishly.

"No need! It's better for you to die here!"

Bai Jingjing instantly noticed something from Wu Liang's malicious smile and rejected Wu Liang on the spot.

Yu Ji was thrown to the ground and was in shock. At this moment, he saw that Wu Liang and others could still laugh. As he climbed up, he shook his head and wailed: "Crazy, you are all crazy, you are all crazy! But why bother me...

"

But at this moment.

Without Princess Dianwei to hold him, Yu Ji's old arms and legs were absolutely impossible to escape from the swarm of insects. Knowing that he was doomed, he did not run anymore, but hid behind the three of them and sighed and shook his head.

I almost cried when I saw it.

Talking room.

The swarm of insects has arrived.

Wu Liang's expression tightened. He could no longer separate Shen and Bai Jingjing from joking. He felt his head was burning and he shouted loudly: "Kill!"

"kill!"

"Fight!"

Dian Wei and Bai Jingjing also responded, but they didn't know whether they were talking to others or themselves.

The three men immediately waved the engineer shovels in their hands and chopped hard towards the dense swarm of insects.

"Whoosh!"

Every time the shovel went down, at least a few strange insects were chopped into two pieces, or they were knocked away and hit the wall heavily, leaving a sticky yellow-brown mark.

But there are simply too many monsters, even if they try their best to attack them.

It only took a few breaths before the insect swarm was completely submerged.

Strange insects kept crawling on their bodies, and there was no time to shake them off. Even Yu Ji, who was standing behind, was not immune. He kept jumping around and shouting. In this way, he actually trampled several to death.

Just a strange insect...

Then.

He slipped due to the viscous liquid ejected from the strange insect's body and fell heavily to the ground.

In just a split second, he was immediately crawled all over by strange insects, looking like a humanoid monster made up of strange insects.

It was at this time.

"Something's wrong!"

Among the insects, Wu Liang suddenly put down his engineering shovel and shook off more than a dozen strange insects that had climbed onto his body. He said to Dian Wei and Bai Jingjing with a look of surprise, "Have you noticed that the target of these strange insects seems to be...

It’s not us. To be precise, they don’t have any hostility towards us at all, but it’s more like we are blocking their way out of wishful thinking?”

"this……"

Hearing this, Dian Wei and Bai Jingjing paused suddenly.

It seems that this is indeed the case. Although these strange insects crawl very fast and many of them have climbed onto their bodies, so far, none of them has harmed them.

On the contrary, they have been working hard to kill these strange insects...

"!?"

Hearing this, even Yu Ji, who was rolling crazily on the ground, subconsciously stopped.

At this moment, his body is covered with strange insects. If these strange insects really intended to harm him, he would have basically been eaten by now.

But miraculously, these strange insects did not bite him or claw at him.

It seems that they just regard him as an obstacle that must be climbed on the way forward, a stepping stone?

"Crack, click, click..."

The sound of strange insects crawling filled the entire tomb passage. Wu Liang and others looked at each other, but no one said anything.

"..."

The atmosphere was slightly awkward.

This is an embarrassment of misplaced feelings.

Wu Liang and the others hope that no one will remember what they just said about "looking at death as if they were home"...

Yu Ji hopes no one will remember the "crying for father and mother" just now...

Especially Yu Ji.

As the only "other" among the few people, and the other three people combined are not as old as him, if he knew that he was like this, he would definitely make himself behave more calmly.

It's great now, all that's left is gone...

Moreover, he has killed the most monsters here. Wu Liang and others only shoveled down a few of them, and when he rolled around, they were one piece. At this moment, whether it was on his body or on the ground where he had just rolled, there were already

It was a terrible mess.

that's all.

Wu Liang and others stood quietly, letting the strange insects crawl past them or on their bodies. At most, when the strange insects were about to crawl above the waist, they would shake them and shake them off.

After several minutes of this, the number of strange insects finally gradually decreased.

"call--"

Wu Liang took a breath, and at the same time he was pleasantly surprised and decided not to mention what happened just now. Instead, he squatted down and carefully looked at the strange insects that died at his feet.

To be honest, Wu Liang has not done much research on insects, and it is difficult to distinguish the types of these strange insects just by their appearance.

But based on his research on "corpse turtles" in his previous life, he already had some speculations in his mind.

These strange bugs are most likely - burial bugs, or corpse-eating bugs.

There are about 175 species of burying bugs in later generations. They are a kind of beneficial insect. They are not interested in fresh meat and blood. They only feed on dead or decaying corpses of animals. They can transform the corpses into insects that can be recycled more easily in the ecosystem.

Materials, like scavengers in nature, play a role in purifying the natural environment.

It is reported that when the burying bug eats animal corpses, it always digs up the ground under the corpse, and eventually buries the corpse underground naturally, hence the name.

However, the burial insects known in later generations are very small, with an average body length of only 2.5 centimeters, which is far less large than the one in Haihunhou's tomb.

It was also because of this that Wu Liang had not connected the two before.

But there was one striking feature that forced Wu Liang to connect the two after seeing the characteristics of these strange insects - those "honeycombs"!

Corpse-eating bugs will build nests like bees in places where food is abundant or when they lay eggs.

Therefore, those "hives" were most likely the nests or delivery rooms of such large burying insects that he could not imagine at all...

This may also be an extinct creature.

After all, a burying bug of this size needs a lot of corpses to survive.

The Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous eras were full of huge dinosaurs. The corpses of those dinosaurs could naturally meet the needs of burying insects. However, with the extinction of the dinosaurs, most mammals were not as big as before.

The living space of this large burying insect has naturally been squeezed, so there are fewer and fewer of them until they become extinct.

Of course, these are just inferences drawn by Wu Liang based on known information.

It remains to be verified whether these strange insects are burial insects. If an entomologist from later generations traveled with him, it might be possible to draw a relatively accurate conclusion.

In short.

This trip was thrilling and thrilling.

Just think of them as burying bugs for now.

Go back and take the corpses of the two strange insects and use pine resin to make specimens of them and store them. If they are kept for future generations nearly two thousand years later, they will become amber, which may help future generations study.

…

As there were fewer and fewer strange insects, Wu Liang and others finally regained their composure.

"Master, shall we continue to enter?"

Bai Jingjing also never mentioned Wu Liang's "most regretful thing" and asked while looking at the deep tomb passage in front.

"Come in, but wait for a while and listen to see if there is any other movement."

Wu Liang said cautiously.

Although he already knew that these strange insects had no ill intentions towards them, he was still worried about whether there was anything in the tomb that could threaten these strange insects, so he frightened these strange insects and ran out.

"You are really brave. Are the things in the tomb so attractive to you?"
To be continued...