It was pitch dark in the narrow cave, and from time to time there were several uncontrollable coughs and the sound of teeth chattering due to the cold.
It can be seen from the dew on the surface of the stone wall that the temperature inside the cave is extremely low.
"Meng Hong, he's dead..."
The hoarse and low voice spoke, causing the other people in the cave to sigh, despair having enveloped their hearts.
In the silence, a gap opened in the hole, and light shone in from the outside world.
A staggering disabled man got into the hole. He was still holding a recently dead hare in his hand. After removing the footprints, he couldn't wait to close the boulder at the entrance of the hole.
The man's whole body was rotten to varying degrees, and a section of his right arm was missing.
The conditions of the people in the cave were even worse. Most of their bodies had rotted away, and their exposed internal organs could even be seen.
They are all human bugs from the insect nest, but they escaped from the control of the Tiandao bug people.
As a result, there is a lack of oil to maintain the insect body, and the body will have an indescribable rejection reaction, and we can only watch ourselves die.
The Tiandao bug people don't care about human bugs at all.
Because he knew that the Gu refining technique had huge drawbacks. Without the oil secreted by the Tiandao insects, even if he escaped, he would only be able to survive for a few months.
"Meng Hong, he's dead..."
Hesi couldn't help but murmured again. Half of his head was like mud, but the insect brain could still play some role and could feel the close relatives connected by blood.
He could clearly feel that Meng Hong was put in a prison car and transported to the downtown area, and then beheaded amidst the scornful comments of the people.
The man's name was Yan Zhen, and he seemed to be the youngest among the humans. He tore the rabbit into pieces and distributed them to his companions one by one.
Only a few people devoured the food voraciously, but the rest of the human bugs had little appetite, which showed that the rejection of the bugs had affected their internal organs.
Yan Zhen shook his head slightly. He had been implanted in the insect body for the shortest time, so when his body was repelled, he still had some energy left.
His main responsibility is to find food, but it seems that he won't be needed much soon.
Yan Zhen thought about his future plans. If nothing unexpected happened, he would probably return to the nest after his companions died.
Although a large number of human bugs die in the mother nest every day and are sent to various towns to die, it is still better than being exposed in the wilderness.
Yan Zhen took out some rabbit meat and handed it to Hesi and said, "Hesi, how about something to eat?"
However, Hesi was frightened and panicked by Yan Zhen's actions. After his brain was damaged, his mind began to become neurotic.
In Hesi's eyes, the people in the cave were like evil ghosts seeking their lives, constantly whispering.
He screamed like crazy, scratched his scalp with both hands, blood mixed with pus flowed out, and his skull became clearly visible.
Hesi pushed Yan Zhen away, and then he got the strength from nowhere to move the boulder blocking the door and got out of the cave.
Yan Zhen wanted to stop Hesi, but found that the latter's figure had long since disappeared.
In the wild mountains and ridges, there are wild beasts wandering in the dark, and there are weird and inexplicable insects. It is definitely impossible for Hesi to survive there.
Yan Zhen searched outside for a while, but finally chose to give up.
The cracks in the underground cave closed again, and the human bugs were like bed bugs living in the cracks of rocks. All they could do was wait for death.
Yan Zhen would go hunting every seven days and bring back some prey from time to time, but he still could not avoid the gradual decrease in the number of human bugs.
He took the trouble to take the body to a distant place for burial, which was one of the few things Yan Zhen could do.
I don’t know how much time passed, but the number of human bugs died down to only five people left.
Yan Zhen was no longer able to go hunting and lay in the cave with a bitter look on his face.
He realized that he was not an exception, but that the decay started within the bones first, and the initial impact on the body was relatively low.
In the end, all insects will turn into a pile of rotten flesh, without exception.
Yan Zhen closed his eyes and waited for death to come. It was only then that he had some courage and developed a negligible hatred towards the insect nest.
Click, click, click...
The boulder at the entrance of the cave was slowly removed, and under the astonished eyes of the humans and insects, Hesi, who had been missing for many days, walked in from the outside.
The skin all over Hesi's body turned out to be lime-like, and even the gap on his head was filled with a rock-like material.
"I found it……"
Yan Zhen asked in disbelief: "How come you are still alive?"
"Stone Heart Gu can turn flesh and bones into stone."
Hesi's words were full of fanaticism. After the poison was removed, his skin gradually returned to normal, and most of the injuries on his head were cured.
He took out a book from his arms, with the words "Master Gu" written clearly on the cover.
"As long as you refine the Stone Maggot Gu, wait until your heart slows down twice, and then swallow three kilograms of lime, you can be promoted to the Stone Heart Gu."
He talked non-stop, the book in his hand opened his fangs, and saliva kept falling from his mouth, and you could tell that there was something extraordinary about it.
He spread his palms together, revealing several green dragonflies.
"These are dragon eye bugs. Grind them into powder and swallow them to suppress the injury..."
Hesi kept talking, pounding the dragon-eye Gu with stones, and then fed it to the other human bugs, muttering nervously in his mouth.
"As long as there are books on Gu magic, we can escape from Jingzhou and go... to Xiangxiang. Old Tang always wanted to go to Xiangxiang before he died."
He didn't notice at all the frightening gaze of Yan Zhen beside him.
"let me help you……"
Yan Zhen also grabbed a piece of gravel, then walked slowly to Hesi's side, and smashed the latter's head hard, causing a bloody head.
Hesi looked at Yan Zhen in disbelief. Yan Zhen's face was filled with tears, and his expression became extremely twisted and resentful because of guilt.
"They couldn't die in vain. How could they escape Jingzhou? They shouldn't have."
Yan Zhen was talking nonsense, and when he saw that Hesi was motionless, he killed all the other humans and insects with stones, laughing like a madman.
Hesi stumbled up and hit Yan Zhen with his rocky arm.
Hearing the sound of broken bones, Yan Zhen's fragile spine was completely broken, and he screamed and fell to the ground.
Yan Zhen's laughter still did not stop, and his eyes showed deep joy, but it was not directed at Hesi, because he did not blame the other party at all.
Hesi looked at his hands in disbelief, and the warm blood made his stomach surge.
Blood flowed from Yan Zhen's teeth, and he gasped and said: "Hesi, you can't go back to Xiangxiang. The insect nest is our mortal enemy. What kind of insect fairy is there? There is no insect fairy in the world..."
Before he finished speaking, Yan Zhen expired and his body was still twitching slightly.
When Hesi walked out of the cave again, the cover of the book had become blank. Under the hint, his mentality changed, and he developed an unforgettable hatred for the insect nest.
The books stretched out their limbs and turned into shadows and entered the Niwan Palace of Hesi.
Hesi covered his head. The severe pain from his soul made his memory blurred, but his understanding of Gu insects became clearer.
After a long time, he opened his eyes and couldn't help but said to himself: "Who am I?"
"You are Master Gu..."
"It turns out that I am Master Gu, the reincarnation of a monk who has achieved great success in Gu Dao."
Master Gu glanced at the scattered Gu insects around him, but his mind was flooded with information about how to be promoted and how to use it.
He immediately escaped into the jungle and headed towards the environment where the Gu insects were active.
Hundreds of miles away, Ren Qing was also distractedly paying attention to Master Gu, and was influencing the latter's thoughts through the Toe Separation Technique.
There is no other way to do this. If we don't cheat the people, there is no way that we can become the third force that affects the situation of the war.
Although the Mistress of the Insect Nest will be in Jingzhou in the future, there are many Tiandao Insects in the Yangshen Realm.
Ren Qing used the bandits controlled by the fungus soul to go to a cave where human bugs were raised, and asked the bandits to attack the Tiandao bugs who stayed behind.
Soon the insect escaped from the crypt, and under Ren Qing's subtle influence, he had an "accidental" encounter with Master Gu.
At this time, Master Gu had completely gone astray in order to increase his strength.
He parasitized a kind of poison called "Weevil Poison" on his abdomen, causing his upper body to swell several times and his skin to be covered with beetles.
【elephant poison】
[The host parasitized by the elephant beetle will be like an elephant skin and gain the power of half an elephant. It must be smeared with elephant blood every day. 】
[You can nourish the Elephant Gu by swallowing giant elephants and advance to the mortal body to transform into Elephant Gu. 】
Master Gu's strength quickly reached the half-corpse state. Of course, Ren Qing felt more like a Gu insect reaching the half-corpse state, rather than a host.
Ren Qing also pulled Master Gu's consciousness into Dream City, otherwise Human Insect would not be able to gather the resources to supply Gu Insect and be promoted.
He opened the window of the teahouse and looked at the starry night.
The Taoist temples and Buddhist temples in the city are still lit. The ancient monks in the Yangshen realm will not easily try to refine Gu, and must still be exploring.
The path of refining the art of Gu is unavailable, and the people behind the scenes will definitely choose to continue the trick.
Just as Ren Qing thought of this, the Taoist temple named Sanlong Temple suddenly experienced a surge of magic, but it only lasted for a few breaths.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
"I have become an immortal!!!"
A crazy voice sounded in the room of Taoist Tianxu, the master of Sanlong Temple. The Taoist boy wanted to open the door to check the condition of the temple master, but saw the reflection reflected in the window, which looked indescribable.
Like a pile of rotten meat, countless tentacles stretched out, dancing wildly, and the weird cries of crickets could be faintly heard.
"I have been observing the way of heaven day by day, and finally figured out the way to ascend to immortality. Where is Weihe?"
"The disciple is here."
The Taoist boys were trembling and their fingers were twisting uncontrollably.
"Pass my message to invite the masters and abbots of various temples in Sanxiang City to come to Sanlong Temple. I, the old Taoist, will explore the method of becoming an immortal together with my colleagues."
Ren Qing looked at the undercurrents of the various forces in Sanxiang City. It was obvious that the people behind the scenes couldn't bear it anymore, but they still didn't reveal their flaws.
"Let the ancient monks use their powerful souls to seize the poisonous insects, which is indeed a different approach."
This method can only be used in Jingzhou. The strange objects transformed into insects are neither alive nor dead and will not form a restricted area, so they are considered stable.
Ren Qing began to make preparations, refining the forbidden corpses into zombies, and also helped some demons peel off the strange objects in their bodies.
Jingzhou was in chaos visible to the naked eye. Although the various forces remained behind closed doors, their demand for flesh and blood increased greatly.
It's like concentrating the evolution of civilization into a short period of a hundred days, making it overwhelming.