Chapter 177: Deadly Aroma
Although Mina didn't admit it herself, it said it all from what she said to me and her insistence that I wasn't Zoraku.
"So you lied to me about more than I thought. Ever since the Fourteen King Worm Ceremony, you've never said a word to me that was 100% true. Why? Forget it, the reason is not necessary, maybe it's just cumbersome to explain. So compared to this, I want to know more about how the Fourteen King Worm Ritual was completed without one person? Or rather, there were more than those people that day. ”
That said, I'm focused on a different issue.
If the king worm really has a hierarchy, and Mina has always been a "high-level" king worm, then the fourteen king worms with a lower rank than her will not be aware that she is not an ordinary human being. As a result, the Fourteen King Worm Ritual that happened before became a hoax!
Deceive the king worm to appear and change the host's body, take this opportunity to eradicate it! If so, it is also in line with Mina's setting of chasing the king worm all the way.
There are only two things that are not clear at this time, one, if the hypothesis is true, then why the ritual still succeeded, and second, why I am the one who was chosen to be the host of the king worm.
Perhaps my words were too close to the truth of the matter, Mina looked at me more and more strangely, "You know a lot, but who are you?" ”
"Answer my question."
"I didn't think the ceremony would be successful, but unfortunately, there was a pregnant woman. What's even more unfortunate is that he can really be parasitized. Mina thought for a moment, then looked weird, "Why am I telling you this?" ”
It seemed like something I shouldn't have said, but it was said by Mina, and the reason for it was probably because I had been haunting this mistake all along, or maybe I just thought I was going to be killed by her soon.
After speaking, Mina suddenly turned into an insect, only a primary form, just like the monster that Ye Tianze and the others incarnated when they were in Moshan. It's just that the speed of the alienation is extremely fast, almost perfectly switching, and it knocks me down in an instant. This is the first time I have confronted Mina head-on, the first time I have fought with her, and what I didn't expect at all was that not only was the speed of my alienation completely below her, but even if my body was completely alienated, it was still overwhelmingly controlled by her power, but she didn't kill me, but was stunned on the spot.
"You, how could you ......" she spoke, unlike those who had been subjected to the inarticulate language of the primary insect venom host, her stammering was due to an accident, and the voice itself was the same as she normally would.
"It's going to be alienating, isn't it? And the shape is exactly the same as the half-finished fourteen king insects. This must be what that bastard of Zola would look like, right? I stared into her eyes, and suddenly stretched out a pair of tentacles around my waist, tied her body, and threw it back hard!
Mina's body slammed against the wall with a loud bang that sent a large amount of dust on the roof of the house.
Mina got up, I was supposed to be her only focus, but I was not in her sight at the moment, she looked up at the slag roof, and then glared at me fiercely: "You move a little smaller!" ”
"So this tone and I are talking to it, is it confirmed, am I Zoraku or not?"
Mina stared into my eyes, her body gradually beginning to disintegrate, much slower than the speed at which she entered it, her mouth opening and closing as if ready to say something to me. But at this moment, the golden heart in my body beat suddenly!!
That's a sign of extreme danger!
But the target is not me......
I quickly dodged to Mina, grabbed her body, and pulled her aside! However, the speed was still a little slower, an invisible force, I couldn't see the way it appeared, let alone capture its form, only that in an instant, Mina's left arm and shoulder were instantly shattered into powder! Flesh mixed and splattered on my face.
She let out a cry of pain and punched me in the stomach, "Damn!! ”
The next moment, he pushed me away, dragged half of his blood-stained body, and smashed through the door!
I froze there, a little confused for a moment, completely unaware of what had just happened. Memory, only Mina's last punch to me, seemed to blame her for the near-fatal blow that was caused by me. Thinking of this, I remembered the image of her just staring at the ceiling and telling me to move quietly......
"There's someone else here." I realized the problem.
"Well, you don't need to analyze the gods in your head, you can see that there are others here." Du Youlan leaned against the door frame and pointed in front of me, "Look at that." ”
Corresponding to Mina's previous position, a hole the size of a fingernail was cut in the wall behind her, and the light shone into the room!
My body quickly disoriented, smashing through the wall, and in front of me was the street, and the smell was in the air.
Fragrance.
It's the smell of perfume that I think is strange on the innkeeper's body!
I followed the scent and chased out, and before leaving, I asked Du Youlan to help me chase Mina, and we would meet here later. After a few streets, I kept chasing the smell, but it was getting weaker and weaker. To be sure, the guy who hurt Mina was definitely much faster than me, and in the end, I didn't get back.
When I returned, Du Youlan was standing at the door of the hotel waiting for me.
There were many people gathered in the vicinity, probably because of the sound of explosions coming from the hotel earlier. The proprietress was there, too, and she still had that scent on her body.
"Where's Mina?" I asked.
"How can I catch up with her? Don't worry, you can't die. ”
"But it's just a little bit." I recalled the fragment of that moment in my mind, and if I tilted it a little more, it was Mina's head that was blown open, such an opponent, silently approaching, without the perception of the golden heart, death was only a matter of moments.
"I'm curious, what is that? What happened to you in the house? Du Youlan asked.
"She didn't believe I was Zorle and was ready to kill me. I didn't understand why just now, but now it seems that your idea is probably right, the level of the king worm, and Mina is higher than me. It also explains why it used to be so hard for me to find her, but she can find me at any time. As for that thing...... I turned my gaze to the proprietress and responded, "It's the king worm that Mina is chasing!" ”
I really didn't smell it, about this king worm.
But I figured out why I could smell Mina so faintly. As I just mentioned, for the time being, Du Youlan's classification of the king insect level is valid, and I can indeed smell Mina's smell because of this, but there is a disturbing factor, that is, the fragrance, which can devour the original smell of the king insect like a herd of beasts in the air, so Mina's taste becomes lighter.
As a result of this discovery, I have come to several conclusions.
First of all, the thing that harmed Mina was a king worm, and Mina's purpose in coming here was to hunt it.
But this goal is different, it seems to know that Mina can trace the taste, so it finds a way to hide the taste.
But Mina still locked on to her target, but the target also locked on her.
Because of my appearance, I disrupted Mina's plans and caused her to take a gap, and the king worm seized the opportunity and was almost killed by it.
But these conclusions gave me a new question......
How many king worms are there?
The smell of Mina, the smell of black sand worm venom, and the smell of masking it, and the smell of silent night.
There are two kinds of king worms left, but four flavors appear.
Of course, perhaps the masked smell is the smell of black sand worm venom, and I have listed it separately because of the way it attacks, which I have not seen in infected people with black sand worm venom.
But even then, there are at least three.
"How many kinds of king insects are there in this world?" I asked Du Youlan.
"There are only a few, you don't know them all."
"No, I suddenly remembered something."
"Huh?"
"The first king worm in Mina's story, if it is said, can also be listed as a separate ...... So now there are three more, I'm not sure. ”
"That's not bad, my Gu King has one more option."
I turned my gaze to her, "You're talking about it leisurely. ”
"Otherwise, I don't have any enemies, and I don't hunt anyone down."
"Don't be idle, there's something that needs you. Follow me. ”
Du Youlan and I walked to the yelling and scolding hostess of the hotel, motioned to Du Youlan, and tried to help me find out how the smell of the hostess came from.
She also has a similar faint fragrance.
But apparently it wasn't the perfume sprayed directly on her body. But it's not just ordinary contact with the person who wears the perfume, because then there is almost no smell left. So I guess the person who wore that perfume had at least hugged her.
Who hugs each other?
Loved ones or loved ones, right? Or, very close friends. I think it's probably these three relationships.
Therefore, the king worm that Mina is currently hunting uses the body of a relative of the innkeeper's wife!
When it comes to communicating with strangers, Du Youlan is very powerful, and in the face of the angry proprietress, she quickly inquired that the only close person who lives with the proprietress in this town is her daughter. A seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, Du Youlan also found a group photo of mother and daughter in the reception hall of the hotel.
I remembered the face, at least again, even if she hid it in a different way and continued to make me smell, but at least I would still recognize it.
It's just that this idea has just appeared, and it is broken.
In the rubble of the explosion, the girl's body was carried out, and the angry proprietress was stupid, crying and throwing herself at the corpse. I watched from afar, I couldn't smell any life, I approached the corpse, the smell was indeed strong, she was a perfume squire, but she was only a dead person.
I tried to use my eyes to infinitely magnify her cracked flesh, but I couldn't see the shadow of the insect poison anyway.
"How can this be ......"
"Mistaken?" Du Youlan asked.
"I don't know, it shouldn't be."
Everything was at an impasse, and I couldn't find Mina, and I couldn't smell more of that particular scent from all around. In the second half of the night, I walked most of the town, but I still found nothing.
The next morning, Yao Qianwen replaced Du Youlan, and I was already exhausted and had to find a place to sleep. But maybe I still couldn't let go of the incident, and finally went back to the hotel where the accident happened last night, which was closed and a cordon was set up nearby.
I can't smell that smell in this place anymore.
However, I met Zuo Yuan.
Just near the cordon.
He seemed to have been waiting for me around here for a long time, and he was not at all surprised to see me, and even waved to me as if he were seeing an old friend. The moment I saw him, I suddenly thought of a question that should have been discovered a long time ago, but was inexplicably ignored by me.
Is Zuo Yuan considered an insect infected?
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