However, although Cheng Li was sure in his heart, he still slowed down the horse's speed in case he had no time to react to the sudden shock, and asked the red pupil to sit aside and observe carefully. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

With her eyesight, coupled with Tsukihime's sense of smell, she shouldn't be attacked by anyone.

"Hoofs, hooves, hooves......" As time passed, the sound of horses' hooves gradually became louder, and the clear sound of horses' hooves echoed in the empty wilderness, making people uneasy out of thin air.

Cheng was a little puzzled, obviously there was no such noise just now, and now he turned his head to look at the dirt carefully, but except for the dust raised under the trampling of the horse's hooves, he didn't find anything abnormal.

Maybe it's because it's almost night, and the four fields have become lonely......

"Hmm. Tsukihime felt the increasingly strong smell of corpses in the air, couldn't help frowning, and covered her mouth and nose with her little hands, it wasn't that she hadn't seen dead corpses before, but this smell, it was the first time she smelled it.

After walking for a while, Chengli held his breath slightly, even he could smell a dull rancid smell in his heart, like the smell that had been sealed in a small space for hundreds of years.

It's just that Chengli looked at the red pupil sitting beside him, but found that she didn't show the slightest abnormality, and still looked ahead with her red eyes with a cold face, searching for clues.

"Red Hitomi, don't you smell anything?" Chengli couldn't help but ask, she doesn't have outstanding eyesight, but she has a problem with her sense of smell, right?

"......" The tip of the red pupil's nose twitched a few times, shook his head blankly, and said, "I didn't smell anything." ”

"That's filth. Before Chengli could figure it out, Zishan Ling said in his heart.

"You mean, the smell I smelled?" Chengli was stunned for a moment, and quickly came to his senses.

"Well, once you have spiritual power, you will naturally become sensitive to these breaths. ”

"Doesn't the red pupil also have demonic power?

"It's related to the type of monster, don't you see that Tsukihime also smells it, although there is a sensitive factor in her sense of smell, but since she can sense the filth in it, then her sense of these breaths is also very keen. ”

"I see. "It's probably the same thing as bats being able to hear sounds that people can't hear, and Chengli held his breath and sensed it, and found that even if it didn't pass through his nose, he could still sense the dull rancid smell in the air.

It seems that it is sensed through spiritual power, and the organs only have an auxiliary role......

"There is a situation. Chi Pupil's words interrupted Cheng Li's thoughts, he followed Chi Pupil's gaze, and could only vaguely see some scattered bulges in the grass pile on the side of the road three hundred meters ahead, but he couldn't see what it was.

"What's that?

"It seems to be some dead corpses," Red Pupil narrowed her eyes and stared intently, and after a moment of carriage progress, she said with certainty, "It's some dried corpses." ”

Chengli still didn't see it, and it wasn't until the carriage advanced to a distance of only forty or fifty meters that he vaguely saw that they were some shriveled human corpses.

"Be careful. After Cheng Li reminded, he stared at the dried corpses and held the blood tightly in his hand.

What will happen? Will these dried corpses jump up all of a sudden, or will something jump out of the dried corpses all of a sudden, I don't know if the blood is useful or not, in this case, probably the spiritual fire has the greatest effect, right?

Thinking of this, Cheng Li couldn't help pinching the three-phase treasure jade in the palm of his left hand.

"What's next?" Red Hitomi interrupted Chengli's ramblings.

"What?" Cheng Li was stunned for a moment, but only understood what she meant when he looked at the road in the distance at the signal of the red pupil.

I saw that in those lush grasses, there were more dried corpses scattered in the east and west, until the end of the horizon, there were dried corpses.

Wouldn't there be these dried corpses on both sides of the road next?Cheng Li narrowed his eyes and took a long breath: "Stop." ”

Originally, he planned to ignore the corpses and walk between them, but in the face of the situation in front of him, he decided to get out of the car and take a closer look, maybe he could find some clues.

It wasn't until he got closer that Chengli noticed that the corpses were lying face up, the muscles were no longer visible, only the swarthy skin was still attached to the bones, the cheeks were deep, and the eye sockets were sunken, but looking at the body shape and hair, Chengli knew that this should be a family of three.

I don't know how long I have been exposed to the sun, it was the rainy season recently, the rain and wind blew, and the clothes were almost rotten, and after jumping the remaining pieces of cloth with a tree branch, Chengli noticed that the skin of these corpses had dried out, and in some places it was cracked, but under the skin it was not Bai Sensen's bones, but some yellow-brown wood fiber-like things.

It can't be the atrophied muscle fibers, and when I think of this, I can't help but feel a chill in the heart.

Forget it, let's find the cause of death, and after trying to wipe away the throbbing in my heart, Chengli pressed a branch against the side of the corpse, and with a little force, the corpse was reversed.

So light?

As soon as this doubt rose in his heart, Cheng Li turned his attention to the hollow in the center of the corpse's back, the size of a baby's palm.

This hole?

Cheng Li tapped the skin near the entrance of the cave with a branch, but with a little force, he found that the skin was pushed into it at once, but two cracks spread from the hole, cutting the dry skin.

"This is?" Chengli tentatively pushed the rest of the skin again, and found that another large piece of dry skin had been pushed into it, and after poking a few times, several long cracks had appeared on the skin near the original hollow.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Cheng Li also understood, something should have bitten through the skin on the back of this person and drilled out of it, and these cracks were squeezed because the hole was too small.

So to speak?

Cheng Li shifted his gaze to the ground covered by the dry corpse, and poked it hard with a branch towards the corresponding position of the hole behind the corpse.

After poking it, Chengli sensed the abnormality of the soil, but it was much softer than the soil on the ground nearby, and the branches were suddenly stuck in the mud.

"Let's go!" Zishan Ling suddenly remembered something and shouted loudly.

At the same time, a strong vibration was transmitted from the branch to Chengli's palm, and then a strong force came from the branch, but there was something alive that wanted to come out from below, and when he realized this, Chengli's hand couldn't help shaking.

"Hurry up and get the branches—" Azusa Shan Ling was only halfway through his words, when Cheng Li felt a wave of resistance coming from the branch, and then it sinked down sharply, as if it had pierced something.

"-Pull it out!" It was only then that Zishan Ling finished speaking, and Chengli also realized that he was aware of the gray-brown liquid that was gushing up along the branches.

"Isn't it late?"

"Let's go!" Zishan Ling didn't have time to respond to Chengli's self-deprecating question, and immediately shouted.

In other words, a violent stench spread through the air, stinking like a rotting dead fish.

However, Chengli heard the anxiety of Zishan Ling, and didn't care about the stench, so he jumped into the carriage and picked up the red pupils, and wanted to leave here with Yuehime, just watching Yuehime cover her mouth and nose tremblingly, her heart sank.

Although Tsukihime is younger than the red pupil, whether it is in terms of demon power or physique, Tsukihime is much better than the red pupil, originally thought that as long as she had a red pupil, how do you know that she forgot the factor of Tsukihime's sensitive sense of smell, looking at her current appearance, she is afraid that it is possible to faint with anything......

"What are you doing?" Just as he was choosing between Cheng and Centrifuge, Zishan Ling noticed his movements and immediately asked.

"Aren't you going to get out of here?"

"Use a carriage! or you won't be able to outrun the earth spiders!"

"But if you turn around now, I'm afraid—"

"Rush forward, don't turn around, rush forward!"

Hearing Zishan Ling say this, Chengli had no choice but to put down the red pupil, signaling her to direct the horse to move forward as fast as possible, knowing that there was danger here, the red pupil also sent most of the demon power to the horse, and suddenly, this horse that was vigorous under the nourishment of the fairy water demon power spread its four hooves, as if it had been injected with hormones, and galloped wildly.

It was only then that Chengli relaxed, hugged the still trembling Tsukihime in his arms, and began to pay attention to the piles of corpses on the side of the road.

Just one look, Cheng Li couldn't help but squint his eyes, and those dried corpses all trembled in unison, although the speed of the carriage was fast, Cheng Li believed that he would not be mistaken, and as soon as he saw the pale face of the red pupils beside him, Cheng Li knew that she had also noticed this.

"What happened just now, and what is the Earth Spider?" asked Cheng Li Xiang Zishan Ling, although she didn't know what was about to happen, but if she had a little more information, she would have a better chance of winning, judging from Zishan Ling's performance just now, she should know something.

"That's the larvae of the soil spider, you guessed it, they live inside the human body, they grow by sucking flesh and blood, until they have sucked all the nutrients, and then they bite through the skin and crawl out of it. ”

"Hmm," Cheng Li nodded, noticing that some of the corpses had been lifted up, and hurriedly asked, "So, the earth spider can lay eggs in the human body?

"The earth spider is not a monster, but a ghost, so it does not reproduce by laying eggs," Zishan Ling was not so anxious about Chengli, and explained 1510, "The earth spider should be said to be a condensation of filth and evil qi, you have also noticed, its blood is almost all filthy. ”

"Uh, is it?" Chengli was a little unsure, he was panicked by the screams of Zishan Spirit, and he didn't care about the filth at all, except that he felt that the stench was unusually strong.

"As long as there is a certain amount of evil qi in the human body, there will be filth generated, and if it is not removed in time, there will be earth spiders born from it. ”

"What if that's the case?"

Zishan Ling heard Cheng Li's uneasiness, and immediately comforted: "You have spiritual power in your body, you will not be parasitized by earth spiders, whether it is evil qi or filthy qi, as long as it is not strong to a certain extent, your spiritual power will be spontaneously removed, these are just the larvae of earth spiders, the evil qi is not strong, you don't have to worry." ”

After hearing the news, Chengli finally breathed a sigh of relief, in this way, even against the enemy, there is no need to tie his hands.

"Then what's the matter with these people? Not to mention that the death is so strange, and they are neatly distributed on both sides of the road?" At this moment, some yellow-brown and gray-brown spiders the size of dustpans crawled out from under the dried corpses, but although Chengli noticed this, he didn't care much, and instead asked why these corpses were on display.

"I don't know. Zishan Ling couldn't think of why, and of course, she couldn't think of why Chengli asked this meaningless question.

"Okay. "Forget it, it's just a trivial matter, since you don't have to worry about being parasitized, then there's nothing to be afraid of.

Just sensing the relaxation of Chengli, Zishan Ling couldn't help but run out and pour cold water.

"Although the evil qi of these larvae is not strong enough, if it is an adult earth spider, the evil qi is enough to eat away at your body. ”

"Didn't you say these were just the larvae of the soil spiders?"

"Yes. ”

"Didn't you say that the earth spider was born out of evil qi and filth, and there shouldn't be an adult earth spider around here?"

"Not really. ”

"Then what are you doing discussing adult earth spiders, there are no ones nearby anyway?" Cheng Li exhaled: "It scared me." ”

"Not now, but soon. ”

"You mean—" Cheng Li was only halfway through his words before he stopped abruptly, and he suddenly understood what Zishan Ling meant.

None of the soil spider larvae attacked them, but swarmed towards the corpses in front of them, merging together one after another.

"What is this?"

"This is a self-protection measure for the soil spider, once a certain soil spider larva is harmed, all the soil spider larvae will stop absorbing filth together, and together they will condense into an adult soil spider. ”