Chapter 1139: Gathering of Hundred Demons (9)
I could see that the bellies of these wanderers were visibly shriveled, and it felt like the result of being eviscerated by Gu worms.
However, I am not interested in whether these Gu worms have a preference for eating human stomachs and intestines, I only care about Zhao Youkuang's whereabouts.
It seems that Zhao Youkuang has once again managed to escape from the siege of these Gu worms, at least there is no body of her here, and I feel that with this woman's shrewdness, it is unlikely that she will be taken by the Gu worms.
I don't really care about the damage to the car, because after Duan Xiaoxiao's energy and I have recovered one after another, it is not a problem to run in this kind of mountain and forest area at all, and the vehicle in the mountain and forest area is not so easy to travel, so if we run to catch up, there is still a good chance that we can catch up.
The only problem is Amy, she is the only one of the three of us who is still physically weak, after all, she is different from Duan Xiaoxiao, she has not been able to rely on physical contact with me to recover energy, and although Chenxi's energy has not recovered, he can already compete with me with his own mountain and forest walking skills.
Amy is very sensible, she immediately offered to let the three of us go to chase after her, and she herself is responsible for the search of personnel in this area, mainly to find out if there are any remaining personnel of the feint force we sent here before, and if there are injured or trapped, she can also rescue.
Although I was very uneasy about Amy walking alone in the mountains and forests, there was no other way now, I called Amy her own good Gu musket, and told her to pay more attention to her surroundings, and then we parted ways with Amy.
Amy continued to walk along the east side, and the direction of the vehicle was in the northeast corner.
We ran wildly along the wheel of the car in the northeast direction for more than ten minutes, and soon saw another corpse on the ground.
The distribution of this corpse is much wider than before, but I am slightly relieved that there are still no of us among these corpses, and they are mainly composed of a large number of semi-infected people and a few Gu corpses.
What's more, the semi-infected people who appeared in front of us now also showed signs of being violently bitten by Gu worms, and the vast majority of corpses also showed signs of Gu worms breaking out of their abdomen.
Seeing these scenes in front of me, I had to suspect that these Gu worms didn't seem to have burrowed into their bodies recently, because the number was so funny, and it didn't make sense that each of so many Gu worms could successfully invade the human body.
So...... Could it be the opposite of what I thought? These Gu worms may have existed in these people's bodies for a long time?
This is also very likely, because the living Gu people themselves are the most obvious examples, the first Gu worms that began to parasitize in their bodies were all larvae, and they became later adults by absorbing the host's energy the day after tomorrow, which is the appearance of the Gu worms I saw later.
So the question is, when were these Gu worms sent into their bodies, and who secretly planted the Gu?
I'm sure not all wanderers have this kind of thing, because I have seen a lot of wanderer's corpses not only in the outpost of Dongkou Province but also in the Changqing Valley area, and even I myself have personally dealt with a lot of wanderers in other places, but I have not seen Gu worms in the corpses, so this kind of wanderer with Gu worms, or Gu worm larvae, and semi-infected people in their bodies should be concentrated in the Qinhuai Mountain Range.
It's unlikely to be all of them, but at least it's the vast majority!
The corpses here can be described as endless, and the corpses stretched down the path, and we finally found that the corpses were dragged hundreds of meters long!
One can imagine the total number of corpses, and most of them are semi-infected, which means that I was quite conservative in my previous estimate of the number of semi-infected people hiding in the Qinhuai Mountains.
Based on the current number of corpses, I would believe even if someone said that there were thousands of semi-infected people hiding here.
Because this number is entirely possible, you must know that when the semi-infected people in South China and North China provinces migrated with them, they basically all went out, leaving only a very small number of people who did not go. And the semi-infected people in the two provinces alone have at least ten camps, and according to the number of people in each camp, there are more than a thousand.
Counting the semi-infected camps that I haven't seen, I feel that the total number of people can be in the tens of thousands, so even if you remove the semi-infected who died in Dongkou Province and some of the semi-infected who did not escape from the concentration camps, the total number of people left is still not to be underestimated.
Along the way, I saw that almost all the corpses of the semi-infected had Gu worms on their stomachs, but what surprised me was that I didn't see half a Gu worm.
Could it be that he froze to death?
It's also unlikely, the green caterpillars I just saw have obviously been soaked in the cold, so it's unlikely that they will freeze to death, and I feel more like I was summoned by someone.
At this time, Dawn found some traces in the path of the corpse that I hadn't noticed before, these marks were left by the crawling of Gu worms, most of them were some slender dents, due to the large number, these dents finally became straight lines.
There were two such straight lines, both of which passed under the pile of corpses, and the reason why I hadn't noticed it before was because the appearance of the corpses themselves was so shocking, so I naturally ignored these clues.
It seems that my guess just now is correct, these Gu worms are not dead, but are attracted by something and move forward collectively.
At this point, we had reached the end of the pile of corpses, and we saw a well-preserved SUV parked in the snow, empty but with some blood.
There were two white-haired wolves with their heads shattered at the foot of the vehicle, and there were more Gu blood stains scattered around.
It seems that there is a Gu thing attacking this car.
This is very important, because it shows that Zhao Youkuang himself is not the initiator of the Gu Confusion, because if she did it, then there is no reason why she will fall into the range of the Gu Monster's attack.
Therefore, the possibility of the moon spirit is further increased.
The human footsteps here are also not very clear, because this place is right in the shade of the cliff, and there are quite a lot of traces of Gu objects trampling nearby, so we can't locate it by footsteps.
But the road of the infinite sky, although the footsteps are chaotic, but the linear traces left by those Gu insects are quite clear, these Gu insects will not only leave traces when they travel on the snow, but even when they pass by on the ordinary ground, they will also leave some faint white slime.
A single mucus may not be enough to cause our visual impact, but thousands of Gu worm slime mixed together to form two very conspicuous white strips.
I'm still a little hesitant about whether to follow these two white lines, because after all, this is not left by Zhao Youkuang's team, and it would be troublesome to say that the direction in which the Gu worms traveled was different from the direction in which they fled.
But after thinking about it, just now, the traces left by those Gu worms are completely consistent with the chariot reel marks of Zhao Youkuang's team, so I seem to be able to conclude that this large number of Gu worms is very likely to be chasing Zhao Youkuang?
Do these Gu worms want to kill Zhao Youkuang?
You must know that Zhao Youkuang still has Qin Yao by his side, I can't let Qin Yao die.
I quickly checked the equipment on the three of us, and now we each had two Gu muskets on hand, and I brought three of them myself, one in my hand to use with the Mountain Opening Knife, and the other two on my back for backup.
Duan Xiaoxiao took one, and she could now use the Gu musket proficiently.
Dawn didn't want to use the Gu musket originally, because compared to his ability to use a flying spear, his shooting accuracy was not so superb. However, you must know that Dawn's flying spear can actually only play an obvious role when dealing with large, scarce Gu objects, and it is a drop in the bucket for batches of small Gu objects, especially Gu worms.
So just in case, I forced Dawn to put two Gu muskets into his flying spear basket.
But as soon as I had finished distributing my guns, I heard a swift tiger roar in the forest beside me, followed by a gust of wind mixed with heavy snow, and I knew that the spear of the morning light was still very important...... Especially now, when it's time for the spear to do its job.
It was a black and blue tiger, about the size of an adult bull, more than double the size of the one I had seen in the basement buildings on the island!
I rubbed it!
You know, the black and blue tigers I encountered in front of me were much smaller, but it took me a lot of effort to escape, and now this black and blue tiger is like a monster, and I can't help but feel a little worried.
Fortunately, there was only one monster, and its attention didn't seem to be on us at all, and I saw the black and blue tiger poking out half of its head from the woods, and the rest of its body parts half-hidden in the jungle.
The snow is a little smaller now, and we're in the shade, so the line of sight is a little wider.
Following the sight of the black and blue tiger to the side, that is, to the west of the woods we had just walked through, I faintly noticed a few jumping figures over there.
I almost immediately concluded that this was a Gu baby, because this kind of small-sized smart Gu thing, in addition to Gu babies, there are only up-nosed monkeys, but once the up-nosed monkeys approach, they will inevitably make a loud noise first, and now these black and non-slippery little things are so quiet and fast, they can only be Gu babies.
Sure enough, several Gu babies soon jumped out and ran to a position less than fifty meters away from me.
It was at this time that I unexpectedly found myself once again connected with those Gu babies without realizing it.
I strongly resisted the establishment of this connection, because I had just been miserable by another group of Gu Infants, and I almost didn't let them take them into the trap and destroy them.
But I quickly sensed the fanaticism of these Gu babies, and they seemed to really want to follow me desperately.
If you think about it...... It's indeed a bit strange, because if they hadn't fanatically followed me, how could they have caught up after us had traveled so far?Since even these Gu babies could be found, why couldn't the two-headed monster and other large number of Gu creatures find us?
The only explanation is that these Gu babies have never been connected to me from the beginning, and they have followed up accurately along the way.
In addition, I remember very well that when those Gu babies first appeared, Nie Bi's voice, that is, the remnants of Nie Bi's consciousness, was almost there
At the same time, I was communicated. And the connection with the Gu Infant was also what Nie Bi took the initiative to remind me.
Could it be that I misunderstood those Gu babies before? They were really helping me, but they were only controlled and affected by another energy when they were close to the exit, and then turned around and launched an attack on us?
If that's the case, then I don't regret killing them...... Because there was really no second way.
But clarifying my thoughts to the point where I am now has been of great help to my current situation, because I quickly established the identity of these Gu Babies as "allies", and this group of "friendly forces" appeared in time to help us fight against this black and blue tiger that reminds us of great terror.
There were about twenty or so Gu babies coming out of the forest, all of them exuding a clearly visible white cold aura, and their eyes were also filled with extremely pure blue light.
Duan Xiaoxiao and Chenxi had already seen the movements of these Gu babies, neither of them said anything, Duan Xiaoxiao was quite brave and aimed the Gu musket in the direction of the black and blue tiger.
However, I know very well that this black and blue tiger is so exaggerated, and its resistance to Gu fire must be extremely high, and I feel that even if we finish all the six Gu muskets of the three of us, we may not be able to really hurt that black and blue tiger.
The only way is to rely on these little Gu babies.
The black and blue tiger's eyes were on those Gu babies from the beginning, you must know that the distance between us and the black and blue tiger is actually closer, but this black and blue tiger has given priority to Gu babies.
Could it be that the attraction of a living person is quite subtle to a Gu object? This may also explain the fact that we are in a mess with the Qinhuai Mountains now, and we have not encountered too many interceptions along the way.
I wondered if this black and blue tiger had already focused on the Gu Baby, could I take the opportunity to escape and let the Gu Baby drag them down?
However, as soon as I moved, I found that those Gu babies immediately chased after me like farts worms.
Damn, that's the trouble...... I can't run away with a group of Gu babies and a black and blue tiger, if I meet our people, wouldn't it be tantamount to luring wolves into the house?
I can't let this black and blue tiger delay me too long.
I glanced at Duan Xiaoxiao, thinking that this black and blue tiger was essentially just a Gu creature with an enlarged body and mixed with cold qi, since this was the case, then it should be subject to Duan Xiaoxiao's cold attack.