The spirit insects appear more and more frequently. It seems that they are a little impatient and are eager to save the spirit insect that was captured alive in the city.
Almost every day, a wave of spiritual insects attacks Tongguan City, and the strange thing is that although there are obviously spiritual insects that die every day, the number of spiritual insects that come to die is actually increasing.
"Master Wu, you underestimate the reproductive efficiency of spiritual insects."
Mu Zhixing looked as if he had eaten a dead fly. When he mentioned this, he thought of his experience of dreaming of spiritual insects.
When you become a spiritual insect in a dream, that spiritual insect only does one thing every day - mating!
The mating process of insects is not that beautiful.
Mu Zhixing feels that he has a psychological shadow now, and every time he sees a woman, he will be reminded of that past experience...
"Thousands of them die every day, but they don't reproduce as much as they do."
Mu Zhixing held back and said, "The longer time goes by, the more spiritual insects there will be. Don't forget, the one mutated among the spiritual insects now is not the only one in our hands. Although other mutated spiritual insects
It cannot be inherited, but they themselves must have grown up now. These spirit insects are equivalent to our generals. They know the art of war. Why do you think they keep attacking Tongguan City knowing that they are going to die?" Mu Zhixing's words stunned Zhou Shu and Zhan.
"They do it on purpose."
Zhan said in a deep voice, his face changing slightly, "They are deliberately disrupting our concentration!"
"That spiritual insect——"
Zhou Shu also frowned.
Is it possible that the spirit insect attacked Tongguan City not to save the spirit insect?
"Mu Zhixing, when you entered the Dream Spirit Insect, did you see anything else that you didn't tell us?"
Zhou Shu asked in a deep voice.
"Of course not. I've told you everything. That bug does nothing but mate all day long. I can't describe to you all the details of the bug's mating, right?"
Mu Zhixing felt nauseous again and almost vomited again.
"Are you sure that you told everything about that spiritual insect from the time it was born to the time you captured it alive?"
Zhou Shu frowned.
"From birth? Your magical power can make me fall into a dream until it is born?"
Mu Zhixing was stunned for a moment, "That's not right, I didn't experience its birth. When I turned into it in my dream, it had already become a breeding tool."
As soon as Mu Zhixing's words came out, Zhou Shu realized that something was wrong. His Zhuang Zhou's dreaming butterfly mentality had already been mastered, and the time of entering the dream could be pushed forward a hundred years.
It is impossible for this spiritual insect to live for such a long time. You must know that from the appearance of the spiritual insect to the outbreak of the insect disaster, it only takes a hundred years at most.
"Spiritual insects can resist my mental methods!"
Zhou Shu's heart froze and he had an impossible idea, "Mu Zhixing, where is that spiritual insect?"
"Just lock it in the backyard."
Mu Zhixing said.
"Bring it here!"
Zhou Shu said in a deep voice.
Mu Zhixing went forward with a puzzled look on his face, and after a while, he came back.
"It's not good!"
Mu Zhixing's face became very ugly, "That spirit insect is gone!"
"How could this happen? I've obviously knocked it out, how could it wake up? And this is Tongguan City, where can it escape to?"
"We were fooled!"
Zhou Shu's face became extremely solemn and he said in a deep voice, "I'm afraid it was caught by you on purpose! Those spirit insects outside attacked the city just to cover it. Only in this way can it prove its importance.
We won’t let it be killed by us as soon as it comes up.”
"What is its purpose? What can it do if it sneaks into Tongguan City?"
Mu Zhixing wondered, "How can a bug like it still control the wind and rain in Tongguan City? As long as it dares to show up, we can catch it again immediately!"
"What if it could become a human?"
Zhan suddenly spoke.
"How is this possible?"
Mu Zhixing came out, and then his own expression changed. This spiritual insect can disrupt Zhou Shu's magical powers. Who knows if it has other abilities?
Although I have never heard that spiritual insects can turn into humans, things that I have never heard of may not happen.
That spirit insect has mutated and can even understand human speech. If it really turns into a human...
Mu Zhixing was shocked, and his tone became a little uncertain, "Isn't this impossible?"
The world behind this door is different from their original world. This kind of thing is really not impossible.
After all, they still know very little about spiritual insects.
Even natives like Ge Changlong and Jin Kui only know that spiritual insects pass by and no grass grows on them, and they are incompatible with humans.
In other words, they have never tried to understand the spiritual insects in depth. When facing the spiritual insects, they can just kill them. As for understanding?
Why should we understand them?
It has to be said that people in this backworld are born with a sense of pride, and they will not even look at those who are inferior to them.
Not to mention spiritual insects, even for beings who are also human beings, it is the same. Otherwise, they would not have become slaves of the miners in Tongguan City.
"We assume that this spiritual insect has mutated. Not only can it understand human speech, it has also mastered the magical power of change and can transform into human form."
Zhan pondered, "Then why did it sneak into Tongguan City?"
"If it is just to destroy Tongguan City, it seems that there is no need to do this. As long as it hides its body, after the number of spiritual insects reaches a certain level, Tongguan City will naturally disappear under the insect disaster and blend into Tongguan City. Purely
It’s unnecessary.”
Zhan said thoughtfully.
"Insects may not necessarily think the same way as we do."
Mu Zhixingdu said.
"You have dreamed of it before, and you should know some of its thoughts."
Zhou Shu said, "Then guess what its purpose is?"
"I don't know."
Mu Zhixing rolled his eyes. No matter how he thought about it now, he felt that he had been tricked by Zhou Shu. If he had known that the experience of dreaming spiritual insects was so unpleasant, he would never have agreed to Zhou Shu's dreaming!
"Do you think the purpose of spiritual insects entering the city is to learn how to behave?"
Zhou Shu did not continue to question Mu Zhixing, but said, "After it mutates, it can learn human speech. Who can say that it can't learn other things? For example, martial arts, or forging weapons-" <
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Zhou Shu's words made everyone take a breath of cold air.
Do spiritual insects know martial arts?
It’s a bit scary to think about it.
Before this, the terror of insect plagues mainly lay in the number of spiritual insects and their talents.
Speaking of which, a single spirit insect is not scary. They mainly have hard scales and amazing defense. In addition to their sharp teeth, they rely on a little bit of their own magical powers to attack.
Although their natal magical powers are not weak, those magical powers are very single after all, and are far less diverse than human martial arts.
Such a spiritual insect is already very terrifying. If he learned martial arts skills...
"Is this possible?"
Zhan hesitated.
If this is really the case, they can really prepare for a retreat.
Facing the insect plague, Tongguan City already had little chance of winning. If those spiritual insects still knew martial arts, then Tongguan City would have no hope at all.
"Just a guess."
Zhou Shu shook his head and said, "Or, it has other reasons, such as coming for Yuanshi? This is not impossible."
"Anyway, we were careless and let it escape!"
Zhou Shu said in a deep voice, "We must make the best plans now."
"Should we tell Ge Changlong and Jin Kui?" Zhan said in a deep voice, quickly calculating his own strength in his mind.
On the surface, it seems that they have established a firm foothold in Tongguan City, but in fact, they are still using false identities.
Of the people in ancient heaven, there are only these people left, and their power is limited.
It is impossible to defend Tongguan City with their own strength.
It is possible to do this only with the help of Ge Changlong and Jin Kui.
"This matter cannot be hidden from them."
Zhou Shu nodded and said, "If you want to defend Tongguan City, you mainly need to rely on them."
"Furthermore, there is a change in the spirit worm, which may be a matter that affects the entire world. If our idea is really true, then Jin Kui and Ge Changlong alone may not be able to do it, and there may be higher-level forces involved.
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After hanging out in Tongguan City for so long, he has become the deputy city lord of Tongguan City. Now Zhou Shu has begun to come into contact with some secrets of this world.
As the lord of Tongguan City, Ge Changlong is naturally regarded as an unparalleled big shot in Tongguan City. But looking at the whole world, Ge Changlong is just a not-so-outstanding son of the Ge family, and the Ge family is just one of the most outstanding people in the world.
One of several large families.
Above the Ge family, there are false gods, and above the false gods, there are divine beings.
It can be said that Ge Changlong and Tongguancheng are the lowest forces in this world, and at most they are just a little stronger than cannon fodder.
If they can't stop the spirit worms, people from the Ge family will take action. If people from the Ge family can't stop them, false gods will take action.
As for the sacred, under ordinary circumstances, he would not take action at all.
[The tiger-wing knife you forged successfully kills, and the spiritual essence cultivation level improves by one point.]
While he was speaking, a light suddenly flashed in front of Zhou Shu's eyes.
He frowned slightly and looked up towards the city.
There were no spiritual insects attacking the city at this time, so why did the Tiger Wing Sword suddenly kill?
Zhou Shu narrowed his eyes slightly and shouted loudly.
"Xue Liang!"
"Here!"
Xue Liang's voice rang out, and he hurried over quickly, kneeling on one knee, "Sir!"
"Have you lost the tiger-wing knife in your house?"
Zhou Shu said in a deep voice.
"Sir, wait a moment, I'm going to take stock right away!"
While talking, Xue Liang left in a hurry, and a moment later, he ran back with a panicked expression.
"Sir, one tiger-wing knife is missing."
Xue Liang knelt on the ground with a thud, "Please punish me, sir!"
Zhou Shu and Jin Kui have been using the assembly line casting method to forge tiger-wing knives. The forged tiger-wing knives are temporarily placed in the Wu Mansion, and will be sent to the city after a certain amount has been accumulated.
Zhou Shu directly left the responsibility for keeping the tiger-wing knife to Xue Liang. Now he lost one. Losing military supplies before the battle was a serious crime.
"Get up, this is not your fault."
Zhou Shu said coldly, "Immediately send all the tiger-wing knives in your house to the top of the city and hand them over to the city lord yourself."
"Let all the weapon-forging apprentices stop what they are doing and wait for my order when to start again."
"From now on, no one in the house is allowed to leave without my order. Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed without mercy!"
Zhou Shu issued orders one after another.
The light in his boy's hole flickered, and everyone was a little confused as to what was going on.
"Our guess may come true."
After issuing more than a dozen orders in succession, Zhou Shu turned to look at Zhan, Mu Zhixing and others, and said, "That spirit insect stole a tiger-wing knife and killed someone with it." p>
"He may have disguised himself as a person and blended into the crowd!"
Everyone's eyes shrank, and their faces became extremely solemn.
Although they didn’t know how Zhou Shu knew about this, they knew that Zhou Shu would not lie.
A spiritual insect really turned into a human?
If this ability can be passed on to other spiritual insects, then the matter will be really serious.
"Sir, is there any way to identify them?"
Zhan said in a deep voice, since Zhou Shu knows about this matter, it is very likely that he also has a way to deal with it.
"I don't know."
Zhou Shu shook his head and said, "I haven't seen with my own eyes what the spiritual insects look like after they change, so I can't be sure what method they used."
Zhou Shu is now a little worried about whether the spirit insect's transformation technique has anything to do with his ever-changing magical powers!
If the spiritual insects also possess ever-changing supernatural powers, then things would be really bad.
The magical power is ever-changing and has no flaws. Even Zhou Shu can't distinguish it.
Zhou Shu's ever-changing magical powers come from the rewards of the Divine Weapon Map. As for where the rewards of the Divine Weapon Map come from, until now, Zhou Shu is not sure.
At that time, he suspected that the reward for the Divine Weapon Map came from the source world, but it turned out that it was not the case.
Later, he also suspected Heaven, but there was also no evidence.
Now Zhou Shu is almost certain that the Atlas of Divine Weapons came from the hands of the Ancient Heavenly Emperor, and its rewards are inseparable from the world behind this door.
The rewards from the Divine Weapon Map are not created out of nothing. It can reward oneself with ever-changing magical powers, which means that there really are ever-changing magical powers in this world.
Even if this is not the case, there is no guarantee that the spiritual insects have any weird means to learn magical powers from themselves!
After all, it can even block Zhuang Zhou’s Mengdie mentality. Who can guarantee that it doesn’t have other weird methods?
"I'm going to see Ge Changlong and blockade Tongguan City. I must find this spiritual insect!"
Zhou Shu said in a deep voice, "The Wu Mansion is entrusted to you. Don't let anyone leave before I come back. And you must be careful not to be left alone and don't trust anyone."
After Zhou Shu finished speaking, he turned into a ray of light and disappeared in the direction of the city lord's palace.
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"Haha——"
Ge Changlong laughed loudly, "Second brother, are you kidding me? Spirit insects can turn into human form? How is this possible?"
"Why is it impossible?"
Zhou Shu asked rhetorically.
"Spirit insects are spirit insects, and humans are humans. I have never heard of a spirit insect being able to turn into a human being. How?"
Ge Changlong said, "Second brother, you may be too nervous. Don't worry, I can guarantee that even if Tongguan City is lost, you will be fine."
"No, brother, I haven't heard of it before. That's because this spirit insect has not mutated, and there has never been a spirit insect that can understand human speech before."
Zhou Shu said seriously, "That spirit insect has undergone a mutation. Although I don't know how it happened, anything can happen to it!"
"Brother, I'm not being alarmist, but if it escapes Tongguan City, things will be dangerous. It may have stolen the secret of the art of weapon casting!"
Zhou Shu said with a solemn expression.
His reaction also made Ge Changlong stop smiling.
"Second brother, did this news come from your master?"
Ge Changlong asked in a deep voice.
"Yes!"
Zhou Shu said categorically.
If you have a big flag, of course you have to pull it up.
It's just that he himself said that Ge Changlong may not pay much attention to it.
Now Zhou Shu still has to make use of Ge Changlong's power, so he has to make Ge Changlong trust him.
"You mean, that spiritual insect has now turned into a human form and is hiding in Tongguan City?"
"Yes, not only that, before it escaped, it also stole a tiger-wing knife."
Zhou Shu said in a deep voice, "Brother, you can imagine if spirit insects can use magic weapons——"
Ge Changlong frowned, can spirit insects use magic weapons?
This sounds really ridiculous.
But Zhou Shu said it so seriously, and his news came from the master of Tiangong Pavilion. Even if Ge Changlong didn't want to believe it, he couldn't ignore it, otherwise he wouldn't be able to bear the consequences if it turned out to be true.
"Second brother, I want to see your master. This matter is of great importance. I want to discuss with him how to deal with it."
Ge Changlong pondered.
"My master is not here, and I can't contact him."
Zhou Shu shook his head and said, "Brother, don't you still believe me?"
"It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that this matter is too unbelievable."
Ge Changlong said, "Even if I report this matter to the superiors, they won't believe it. If they don't believe it, they won't send us more manpower. If it's your master who comes forward, then there will be no problem."
The master of Tiangong Pavilion is a big shot who can reach heaven.
What he said was much more effective than Ge Changlong's.
In fact, if the master of Tiangong Pavilion really speaks out, the higher ups will definitely take it seriously, and then there will be no need to worry about any spiritual insects at all.
But since Zhou Shu said this, there is nothing Ge Changlong can do. Under normal circumstances, he would not be able to contact someone with the status of the master of Tiangong Pavilion.
However, Ge Changlong is not that worried. In his opinion, how can the master of Tiangong Pavilion watch his direct disciple die at the mouth of a spirit insect?
Now that he knows about this matter, he will definitely not sit idly by and do nothing.
Seeing that Ge Changlong didn't really care, Zhou Shu knew what he was thinking.
"Brother, don't put your hopes in my master, he will not interfere in this matter!"
Zhou Shu said in a deep voice, "If you can't invite anyone, brother, then we will have to rely on ourselves."
"Is it still a test?"
Ge Changlong said to himself, if the master of Tiangong Pavilion does not interfere, isn't this a test for him as a direct disciple?
Ge Changlong felt in his heart that this might be a test for his second brother to take over as the head of Tiangong Pavilion. As long as he passed the test, he could become the official successor as the head of Tiangong Pavilion.
Thinking of this, Ge Changlong regained his energy, "I understand, second brother, Tongguan City has been sealed off. Unless the spirit insect disappears out of thin air, we will definitely be able to dig him out!"