The eyes of the two robbers were bulging like two eggs, and their eyeballs almost jumped out of their sockets.
Song Xin turned his wrist, and a long sword was instantly held in his hand. At the same time, a silver sword energy bounced rapidly on the long sword. Zhang Xiuyang was secretly surprised when he felt the powerful aura emanating from Song Xin's body.
"ah!"
The two robbers suddenly put their hands on the ground, and two weird bugs crawled out of their mouths. One end of it resembles the end of a whip, the whole body is black and smooth, and the shape is like a black snake. There are circles of links on their bodies. When they shrink and squeeze outward, a circle of small teeth will appear on the links, hanging on human internal organs like hooks. This caused great pain to the two robbers. They covered their necks desperately, but still could not stop the worm.
Song Xin secretly opened the eye of clear consciousness, and a record in the Wan Sheng Lu instantly appeared in Song Xin's sea of consciousness, "Blood Worm!"
When Zhang Moyang heard Song Xin calling out the name of the strange worm, he suddenly turned around and asked, "Is it really a blood worm?"
Zhang Xiuyang still didn't understand what was going on, "What are blood worms?"
Zhang Moyang took a deep breath and said: "Blood worms will lay their eggs in the water. When a person drinks polluted water, the eggs will enter the body and begin to breed larvae. During this period, the human internal organs will be used as nutrients. This worm The scary thing is that they can control what people say and do, and they can also know their past memories."
"Senior brother, look!" Zhang Xiuyang pointed at Zhang Chengren,
"Uh..." As soon as the black bug climbed out and landed on the ground, it began to crawl underground. When Zhang Chengren on the side saw his accomplice dying like this, he was so frightened that he rolled his eyes and fainted to the ground.
"It will burrow into the soil and burn it to death." Song Xin reminded loudly that Wan Sheng Lu records that once blood worms enter the ground, they will actively search for underground water sources and lay eggs there. Once they contaminate the water source, all the wells in the area will be contaminated. As long as people drink the water, they may be infected by worms.
Before Song Xin finished speaking, Zhang Moyang shot out two talismans from his hand. With a crisp "pop" sound, the talisman exploded and turned into a ball of furious flames. The blood worms made a rustling sound and rolled crazily in the fire. Then their bodies exploded due to the high temperature, and dirty and smelly meat splashed everywhere. But it couldn't withstand the flames and turned into ashes after a while.
Zhang Moyang walked to the well and took a bucket of water up. He found that it was slightly green and he could no longer drink it. "There should be insect eggs in the water, but why are there blood worms here?"
Song Xin looked at the unconscious Zhang Chengren on the ground and said, "When he wakes up, ask him. Those blood worms that ran out before should have escaped."
Zhang Moyang speculated: "Someone must have put the insect eggs in the well. I think those guys who put the insect eggs have already been here, otherwise this thief would not have died like this. And these corpses, it seems that someone has touched them." .”
Zhang Xiuyang asked: "I think the bug came out of the mouth just now. What's the matter with the dry skin in those people's ears?"
Song Xin said: "That's the skin they shed. But these skins are precious medicinal materials and can be used to prepare antidotes."
Zhang Moyang did not expect that Song Xin had such rich knowledge about poisonous insects and monsters, so he asked: "Brother Song, what medicinal materials do you need? Can you prepare them now?"
Song Xin said: "Yes, if you have alum, sophora flavescens, realgar, salt, and this ground insect skin, you can make pills to kill insect eggs. However, because the insect skin is extremely toxic, I am worried about ordinary people. Instead of being cured, he was poisoned to death.”
Zhang Moyang nodded and said: "I happen to have these medicines. Please help Brother Song prepare some antidotes. I am afraid that Zhang Chengren has also drank this kind of poisonous water."
Song Xin carefully collected the withered skins, and according to the prescription records in the Medical Dao Chapter, he mixed the medicinal materials according to their proportions, then ground them into powder, added some water, mixed them and kneaded them into pills.
Zhang Xiuyang took the pill and smelled it. The pungent smell made him almost vomit. He looked at Zhang Chengren with sympathy and said, "It stinks! Do you really want to feed it to him?"
"Oh, let's treat a dead horse as a living doctor. If the bugs in his body have grown more than a foot long, it will be useless to take the antidote." Song Xin took the pill, walked to Zhang Chengren, opened his mouth and stuffed it in .
Although he was still unconscious, the taste of the pill still made Zhang Chengren's face twitch. After a few breaths, he suddenly opened his eyes and began to vomit. A white worm about half a foot long mixed with black blood was spat out.
As soon as the bug came out, it began to twitch painfully, twisting a few times and then died. Apparently he couldn't bear the power of the antidote and was poisoned to death.
Song Xin breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, you saved a small life."
After Zhang Chengren regained his consciousness, he saw a disgusting insect still twisting slowly beside him, and he was so frightened that it jumped up like a grasshopper. He rolled and crawled away a few feet and asked in panic: "What...what is this?"
"Someone has laid poisonous insect eggs in the water you drank." Song Xin explained briefly. Zhang Chengren survived the catastrophe and knelt down and kowtowed.
Zhang Moyang asked: "Do you know if there is any suspicious person who poisoned your well?"
Zhang Chengren rubbed his head and thought carefully for a while, then said: "That's right! I remembered that there is a hawker who often comes here to deliver goods to him."
"Delivery?" Zhang Moyang was stunned.
Zhang Chengren pointed to the corpse of the headmaster and said: "We, the headmaster... often buy rouge and gouache."
Song Xin and the others felt a chill. They thought that the boss was forced to wear women's clothes to death, but it turned out that there really was a girl living in his heart...
"When was the last time he came?" Zhang Moyang asked.
"About half a month ago, Uncle Zhang came here with him once. Speaking of outsiders, they are the only ones who have been here.
"Uncle Zhang?" Song Xin and the others were stunned, "Is he the one-eyed old man? What is he doing here?"
Song Xin asked solemnly: "What will happen after he comes here?"
"That day he said he was thirsty while walking, so we asked him to go to the well to fetch water. It seemed that after a few days, the well water had a strange smell."
Zhang Moyang looked at the pills in Song Xin's hand, his face darkened and he said, "No, there must be something wrong with the water that one-eyed old man gave us..."
Zhang Xiuyang slapped his head, "Could it be that he also fed us insect eggs!?"
Song Xin gritted his teeth in hatred and said, "If it was really him who dropped the eggs, there should be insect eggs in our water as well. Have you all drank?"
After some confirmation, neither Song Xin nor Zhang Moyang drank the water sent by the old man, but Zhang Xiuyang drank two large bowls because he was thirsty.
Seeing Song Xin and his senior brother looking at him, and looking at the unpleasant-smelling pill in Song Xin's palm, Zhang Xiuyang said with a sad face: "I really want to take it..."
"Do you want to be like them? And you are a practitioner. I don't know what the blood worms fed by your Qi and blood will look like." Zhang Moyang said lightly.
"Okay... I'll take it..." Zhang Xiuyang pinched a pill from Song Xin's hand, and before he put it to his mouth, the facial features on his face were already crowded. It took less than a cup of tea to take the pills, and Zhang Xiuyang couldn't help but start vomiting.
Since the eggs entered the body for a short time, he only spit out a white worm the size of a fingertip. Zhang Xiuyang didn't expect that not long after he drank the water, the insect eggs had hatched in his body unknowingly. He said with an ugly face: "Let me catch the poisoner, I will smash his head into pieces!"
"It seems that the old man does have a problem. But why are they there?" Song Xin was puzzled.
Zhang Moyang said solemnly: "There is only one village near Shuifu. If any cultivators come and prepare to enter Shuifu, they will most likely stay in the village. It seems that those villagers are not simple..."
"Senior Brother, are you saying that they are killing people secretly to reduce the number of people entering the Water Mansion?"
"This is the only explanation that makes sense."
Zhang Chengren looked confused and even began to doubt his life. "What are you guys talking about..."
Zhang Xiuyang said: "You met us today and saved your life. Your Uncle Zhang may have died long ago."
Everything that happened here was beyond Zhang Chengren's little mind, "How could it be possible? He knows me. When you beat me up in the village, didn't he plead for me on my behalf?"
Song Xin didn't bother to explain to him anymore. After throwing a small bag of copper coins to him, he said: "No one can live here anymore. You can go and find a future by yourself. Don't go back to the village."
"I...where am I going?"
"You can go wherever you want, but don't follow us. This money is enough for your travel expenses," Song Xin said.
After sending Zhang Chengren away, Zhang Moyang threw the talisman and blew the well to the ground. Then they burned the remaining bodies together with the wooden castle.
"What is there in General Fenshui's Mansion that makes these people not hesitate to use poisonous insects to harm other practitioners."
Zhang Moyang said: "He was once a real person in the extreme alchemy realm."
"Ji Dan? Isn't that the highest state of a real person? To be able to cultivate to the level of Ji Dan, that person must be so amazing to be so beautiful." Song Xin and the others had talked about the ninth level of inner elixir in the village before, Han, Fu, Rou, Lian, Bai, Huan, Shen, Hua, Ji.
Zhang Moyang said: "This is also the admiration and envy of countless people. Later I heard that he obtained the divine status and successfully ascended, and his mansion became the place where all the water in the world gathers."
"Where thousands of waters gather!? Where thousands of waters gather?" Song Xin heard this name and recited it silently several times. Suddenly he remembered that when collecting the jade seal, the strange woman's voice said that in the future, there would be a gathering of ten thousand waters. Where to see him. Is this where it is? !
Zhang Moyang didn't notice that Song Xin was distracted, and continued: "By the way, speaking of this, General Dividing Water likes to deliberately get some strange treasures to put in his mansion, some of which will not be restricted by the restrictions of heaven and earth. In the Spring and Autumn Period , someone got a spiritual sword from the house and accidentally killed several mortals with it. He thought it would trigger divine punishment, but unexpectedly, he was safe and sound, and his luck was not reduced."
"Brother Song, are you listening?" Zhang Xiuyang noticed that Song Xin was a little distracted and touched him.
"I'm listening, but I'm a little confused when I hear about treasures that can avoid heaven's punishment."
Song Xin couldn't help but be curious when he heard about the treasure that could avoid heaven's punishment. In the beginning, Yu Ji had to hide in the jade ring to avoid heaven's punishment.
He asked: "How could such a thing happen? Then what happened to this man?"
"After this man got the treasure, he started killing without any scruples. There was a person from a small vassal state who was slaughtered by him in one night. Later I heard that he was killed by the Kunlun Sword Sect, and the people from Kunlun brought the sword back. After that, no one saw him again.”
"Ascetics kill mortals indiscriminately. If other ascetics don't stop them, there's really nothing they can do." Zhang Xiuyang nodded.
Half an hour later, the three of them rushed back to the village only to find that the place was already empty...
All three of them had guessed this result and were not disappointed. The person who poisoned him will definitely enter the Water Mansion to try his luck this time. When the time comes, they will definitely show their flaws.
