Corpse Puppet!
Lin Xixue was shocked. The long yellow and black creature that she had just chopped into two parts turned out to be a zombie worm!
And it’s an adult corpse bug!
No wonder the bug flew straight towards her ears before, probably trying to get directly into her body through her ears.
She couldn't help but think of the cesspool in the cave where Hong Yanzi took her to see countless zombie insects.
According to Bai Qing, Hong Yanzi wanted to die with her that day, so he turned the entire cave upside down, causing the cave to collapse.
Could it be that when the cave collapsed that day, there were still some corpse worms in the cesspool that were not fully dead. These remaining zombie worms found a way out during this period. They escaped from the cave and came to Linghu Village?
If this is the case, it makes sense that after Hong Yanzi died, these bugs had no one to feed them and had to fend for themselves and go out to find food.
No wonder the servant warrior sent by the master of the Gu family has not been heard from again since he stepped into the bamboo forest. He is probably either parasitized by the insect or became its food.
As soon as she recalled the dense corpse worms in the sewage pool, gnawing away at Luo Si's body, Lin Xixue felt hairy on her back.
From this point of view, the villagers of Linghu Village and the workers who came to repair the Wuzeng Temple were probably in danger.
The realgar powder outside the bamboo forest is obviously to prevent the zombie insects from flowing further outside Linghu Village.
As for everyone who enters the city, they must use realgar powder to kill insects. This is obviously to prevent corpse bugs from parasitizing in the human body and taking the opportunity to sneak into the city.
However, judging from the words of the shopkeeper of Zi Ren Pavilion, he obviously did not know what happened in Linghu Village.
So how did the Yunzhou Prefecture know that the Corpse Puppet Insect would parasitize in the human body, and how did it come up with the method of using realgar powder packets to kill the insects on people entering the city?
Did Niubi from Sanyuan Guan tell Yunzhou Prefecture?
Or is it actually the temple blessing from the Chenghuang Temple that provided the information?
According to Bai Qing's review of the situation in the cave, Hong Yanzi had the Youbing Talisman, so Hong Yanzi probably had some dealings with the City God's Temple.
If this conjecture is true, it may not be surprising that the temple ministers of the City God's Temple know something about this zombie insect.
But if this is the case, you will need to be more careful when asking the temple to attract Xu Zhiyi's soul.
However, all of this is just her own conjecture. She still needs more information to confirm or overturn her conjecture.
She still had to continue to explore what happened in Linghu Village.
She split the bamboo, and the horizontal knife danced in the air as nimbly as a light sword. With a few strokes, she carved out a small bamboo whistle, which she held in her mouth.
This whistle was the insect control whistle that Hong Yanzi had given her before. Although this whistle had been burned before by the cyan Liuding Divine Fire, fortunately, she had a very strong memory, and she was able to recreate the whistle based on her memory alone. come out.
Holding the insect control whistle in her mouth, she continued to fly through the bamboo forest on the bamboo trees. She arrived at Linghu Village in just a cup of tea.
However, the scene in the village was not the same as she imagined.
Most of the structures of the houses are intact, and the fishing nets are still hanging on the wooden racks in front of the houses. The furnishings in the houses have not changed much, and even some of the soft goods have not had time to be packed away and taken away.
Looking at this posture, the villagers didn't look like they had been eaten by zombie bugs, but rather it looked like the whole village had fled in a hurry.
She walked to the lake and took a quick look. The originally clear water seemed much turbid now, and seemed to exude the faint fishy smell of aquatic plants, but she could still vaguely see fish swimming in the water.
One of the large fish saw Lin Xixue standing on the shore. Not only was it not afraid of people, but it actively swam to the shore, opening and closing its mouth as if it was begging her for food.
Lin Xixue leaned down and was about to take a closer look at the fish, but the fish suddenly jumped out of the water, flipped its belly, and a yellow and black zombie with many legs jumped out of the fish's belly. , flew straight towards Lin Xixue’s face.
She didn't panic, she just took a step back and blew a bamboo whistle in her mouth. The zombie immediately shrank into a ball and fell to the ground.
Just like the pangolin I saw in my previous life, it has its fragile abdomen tucked inside, and the outside is a hard carapace. Ordinary swords and guns have no effect on the carapace.
As soon as Lin Xixue blew the whistle, all the dead fish at the bottom of the lake twitched their bodies and gathered towards the shore.
One of the fish even had half of its body eaten by the zombie worm. The fish flesh at the wound had rotted and swelled, and half of the skeleton was still swinging in the water, which was very strange.
These dead fish also jumped out of the water one after another. Some corpse worms poked out of the fish's mouth, like fish tongues; some emerged from the fish's belly; some simply broke open the fish's head, bringing out the fishy brain.
But without exception, these bugs all curled up into a ball and landed at Lin Xixue's feet.
Lin Xixue covered her heart and forced down the nausea. She didn't know how to deal with these disgusting bugs for a while.
Although she could directly kill all these bugs, if she could keep a few, maybe they could be used for some useful purposes in the future?
Although these bugs are extremely disgusting, they can be completely controlled by themselves using the bug control whistle. Overall, the risk is quite controllable.
After much thought, she found a big vat from the village and filled some smelly lake water with the intention of raising the bugs first.
Anyway, when you don't need it, just throw it into the void, out of sight and out of mind. If you really need it somewhere in the future, just take it out.
She waved her sleeves to drive the bugs into the urn, but one of the larger bugs suddenly made a "squeak" sound, and Lin Xixue actually understood it.
"Young Master...Insect mother, hungry...I look for food...to provide for you."
The insect's intelligence was obviously not very high, and it spoke intermittently, but Lin Xixue could roughly understand what it wanted to express.
Probably there is a queen-like existence among these bugs called the mother bug. The mother bug is very hungry now, so these bugs go out to look for food and have to bring it back to support the mother bug.
It was very different from her previous guess. The only difference was that the insect mentioned the mother insect, which she had never seen before and did not understand.
She took out the "Hundred Solutions to Evil Techniques" that Hong Yanzi gave to her from the void. This book was made of the skin of an unknown creature. Under the burning of the six dings of divine fire, her hair was only burnt. Yellow, not damaged.
She had always felt that this thing was unknown and was unwilling to look through it, but now that the bug mentioned the concept of mother bug, she had to turn over the book to confirm.
She flipped through it quickly and quickly found the detailed explanation of [Corpse Puppet Mother].
[There is a mountain in Wujiang called Intestineless, where there is an insect mother, with a human face and an insect body, a red and yellow back, and many legs with defecation in the belly. Its appearance is very coquettish, and a man with a hook will eat it after picking up the yang]
[In three months after harvesting Yang, more than 10,000 puppets can be released, and water and rice can be introduced into the body, and the person's diet will be affected by the magic]
Lin Xixue took a few deep breaths to resist the urge to explode and the strong nausea. This was too disgusting...
It's just that once the insect mother finds a man to harvest Yang, it will continue to produce new eggs. Then wouldn't these disgusting insects be entrenched in Linghu Village forever and cannot be eradicated?
When she thought of this, she couldn't help but sigh, there was another mess waiting to be cleaned up.
But she looked at the talking bug at her feet, blew her whistle, and asked it another question.
"Why did you call me young master just now..."
