I saw that the little girl was as if she had no bones, twisting her body, and actually broke free from the iron chain.

Her speed is extremely fast, as if she is used to climbing like this, and such speed and skill are already non-human.

Liang Zhan pulled Ah Ci back two steps: "It's gone......"

Ah Ci suddenly smelled a fishy smell coming from behind them, and she slowly turned her head, and at some point, the little girl was standing behind them.

I saw that the little girl was wearing a white but dirty dress, and she could no longer see her original appearance, her head was very long, her eyes were still bloodshot, and when she turned, she only felt that two blood-red flesh grains were writhing.

The little girl pursed her lips and made a hoarse voice, and when she listened carefully, Ah Ci actually understood.

Liang Zhan stared at her vigilantly and asked Xiang Aci, "What was she talking about just now?" ”

Ah Ci: "I'm talking about going with her." ”

Linnaeus broke out in a cold sweat: "Come with her?" Crazy? She's not human at all. ”

Ah Ci glanced at her: "We have no other choice. ”

Liang Zhan suddenly stepped forward and asked her, "Are you a human or a worm?" Still is...... Something else? ”

The little girl didn't pay attention to Liang Zhan, just tilted her head to look at Ah Ci, her body seemed to have no bones, and when she tilted her head, her head drooped to her shoulders.

This made all three of them gasp.

Ah Ci looked up, there was very little light that could penetrate at this time, and it was dark. Ah Ci stepped forward and said to the little girl, "Let's get out of here." ”

The little girl nodded, and led them on. The road was uneventful, and it turned out that it was only about 500 meters away from the exit.

As it grew darker, they walked for half an hour, and when they came out of the cave, it was completely dark outside.

Suddenly, those black and oppressive crowds not far away walked towards this side, the wind blew through, and the three of them were soaked in cold sweat, if those things rushed towards them at the same time, it was estimated that they would have no bones left.

But they stopped suddenly ten paces away, and seemed to be very jealous of the little girl, and to the little girl's instructions. Absolutely.

Seeing this scene, Ah Ci and the others were all amazed by what they saw in front of them.

Why are they so jealous of the little girl in front of them? And why worship on the night of the full moon? And where did this little girl come from?

How long did she live? All kinds of strange unsolved mysteries make the atmosphere more and more solemn.

The little girl sent out a signal that they could not understand, and the parasites listened to it, and gradually scattered, as if the remote control was in the hands of the little girl, as long as she controlled it, the parasite would be like a corpse, without any thoughts of its own, at the mercy of the man.

They followed the little girl to a col covered with vegetation and under the faint moonlight. It seems that there is also a collapsed house surrounded inside.

The little girl walked into it in desperation, and the thorns cut her skin into tiny streaks of blood, and the bright blood seeped through her bloodless skin.

Ah Ci felt that the blood was not the blood in her body at all, but that the insects had sucked the blood of the living and supplied it to the host.

But the little girl in front of her is different from those parasites.

Those parasites, ranging from ten to a few decades, need to be reborn with different hosts.

And the little girl in front of her, who controlled those parasites to catch live creatures for her to feed with blood, was able to live to this day.

Such a relationship. Just like a system with a strict hierarchy, take ants and bees as examples, with the bee/ant queen as the origin of life, the rule dominates the worker bees/ants below, and maintains the continuous derivation of the life race.

But this little girl, no, it should be said that the king of these parasites is more advanced than them, she can also have her own independent thinking ability, and she is not like them, like a puppet to be manipulated.

Looking at her various behaviors, Ah Ci feels that most of the human consciousness is still preserved in her animal nature. And she was trying her best to break through the thorns and go inside, as if she was chasing something.

Ah Ci said in a deep voice, "Let's go help her." ”

Linnaeus took a step back and said with great resistance: "I'm not going, she's not like us, she's not human." ”

Ah Ci ignored Linnaeus, took out the knife in his hand, cut off the thorns in front of her for her, and let her walk more smoothly.

Her blood-red eyes looked at Ah Ci, and at this time, her pale skin was already full of shocking blood marks, and the blood in her body kept dripping into the grass.

Liang Zhan immediately joined them, and with Liang Zhan's help, it was much faster, and the thorns and weeds in front of him were finally almost dealt with, and a small dilapidated house that had collapsed for a long time was faintly revealed.

The debris under the broken wall was a little sad, and she walked into the house, as if she was missing something, there were only three rooms, a very small adobe house.

Ah Ci and Liang Zhan stood in place and watched her abnormal behavior, only to see that she suddenly turned out a handmade doll from under the broken wall.

She grinned in her heart, as if she had thought of something, and she kept rummaging through the ruins.

Rubble shards sliced her hands, but she was completely unconscious.

Ah Ci walked up to her with a twisted brow and asked, "What are you looking for?" ”

She opened her mouth and squeezed two words out of her throat, "Milk, milk." ”

"Grandma?" Ah Ci exchanged a look with Liang Zhan and helped her find in this pile of ruins for a long time, until the sky was about to dawn.

Suddenly, Liang Zhan shouted: "Ah Ci, come here." ”

Hearing Liang Zhan's call, Ah Ci ran over with her quickly. I saw a man buried in the ruins, with only a pair of white bones left, and I don't know how long he had been lying here.

The little girl staggered over with the doll in her hand. It seemed that he was very sad and squatted down, and the tears that flowed out were bright red blood droplets, and when he flowed over his pale face covered with green muscles, he was inexplicably mad.

After she finished crying, she lay down beside the white bones with the doll in her arms, just like when she was alive, she hugged her grandmother and slept peacefully.

When Liang Zhan saw this scene, he couldn't help but wake up a little, seeing that the sky was already white, Liang Zhan took off his coat and covered the little girl's body to cover her with the sun.

Ah Ci looked at her for a long time, and could feel her sadness and despair at this moment.

Liang Zhan pulled Ah Ci and sat aside, now his stomach was growling with hunger. Liang Zhan said suddenly: "Those two grandsons don't know where to get our things, at least there is some dry food in them to satisfy their hunger." ”

Ah Ci got up and said, "It is estimated that it is near the cave, I will go to find it." ”

Liang Zhan pulled Ah Ci: "Don't go." As he spoke, he glanced at the man who was still lying motionless beside the pile of bones.

"You're going alone now, without her protection, and you're confronted by those parasites, what if they attack you?"

Ah Ci looked around: "Catch game." ”

Liang Zhan smiled: "I'll go, you look at her." He whispered again; She is now the guarantee of our lives, don't take care of her, don't let her run. ”

Ah Ci was very sure: "She won't run." ”

Liang Zhan looked at Ah Ci helplessly, got up and went to the forest to hunt game, fortunately, he could still find some wild fruits in the forest, or wild rabbits and the like.

Liang Zhan had no experience in hunting game, far inferior to Ah Ci, Ah Ci waited for him in the same place for a morning, only to see Linnaeus sitting far away, and did not dare to approach here.

When it was almost afternoon, Liang Zhan came back from hunting a gray rabbit, skinned it himself, and set up a fire.

When the hare was about to ripen, he glanced at Linnaeus in the distance, probably because of his face, he didn't come, Liang Zhan took the initiative to call her in order to express his friendship.

"Lin Meinu, aren't you coming?"

Linnaeus got up and walked over, and sat down next to Liang Zhan, although they didn't want to answer her at all.

But Linnaeus, on the other hand, didn't want to get close to Ah Ci.

In Linnaeus's eyes, Ah Ci's strange existence has been equated with the red-eyed monster in front of her, and she respectfully stays away from such an extraordinary existence.

After eating, a few people were refreshed.

Liang Zhan said: "Wait for the evening, and then let her take us to the cave to get some water." ”

I don't know if she fell asleep, so she just lay down with the pile of white bones all day, without moving.

When the moon climbed into the starry sky, she moved and got up from inside. glanced at Ah Ci, Ah Ci seemed to understand, got up and walked towards her.

At this point, she seemed to speak smoothly for a long time. Ah Ci, they also heard more and more clearly.

"I can get you out of here."

Ah Ci looked back at Liang Zhan, although there was no superfluous expression, but the joy in his eyes made Liang Zhan feel the joy of the rest of his life after the catastrophe.

Liang Zhan nodded at her, so Ah Ci continued to communicate with her.

Ah Ci: "How can I leave?" ”

"I asked them to drop you off," she said, "but I have one request. ”

Ah Ci: "Well, what request?" ”

Her: "Before leaving, set a torch and burn the whole village." ”

Ah Ci suddenly looked at her with wide eyes: "Burned the village?" ”

She: "Insects are afraid of fire, they will die when they encounter fire, and there is no possibility of resurrection." ”

Ah Ci took a hard breath and asked suspiciously: "You, who are you?" ”

She was silent for a long time before she said: "My name is Yi, I am an orphan, I don't know how long I have lived, the person who raised me in the past was a cup master, and he cultivated a lot of strange cup worms in order to pursue the art of immortality, among which there is this kind of worm in my body. They call it Xun. ”

"Xun, endless, represents the strength of life. I was the first host of this bug, but the cup master was taboo and was quickly poisoned. They also wanted to kill me, so I fled to this village overnight. ”

"The mother-in-law who adopted me, I don't know her name, I only know that she is Gong, so I usually call her Granny Gong. Granny Gong treated me very well and treated me as her own granddaughter, because she had no relatives anymore. ”

"So I lived in this village with Granny Gong for ten years, and Granny Gong is getting older day by day, but my appearance has not changed because of the insects."

"One day it was raining heavily, and the villagers dragged me out of my mother-in-law's house and locked me in the cellar, and they were discussing how to kill me, because in their eyes, I was a demon."

"Then they came up with a way to drown me in the reservoir. They tied my hands and feet and sank me to the bottom. But I didn't die, and I went back alive to find Granny Gong, only to find that it had rained overnight, the house had collapsed, and my mother-in-law was buried under the rubble. ”

"I want to dig up my mother-in-law and bury her with her, I have no nostalgia for this world. My mother-in-law was my only concern, but she also died. ”

"But before I could dig up my mother-in-law's body, these villagers invited a Taoist priest, who was full of nonsense, saying that I was a demon, and asked the villagers to build a cave, saying that they would suppress me in that cave."

"I was tied up in a cave, and the endless darkness and loneliness swallowed me up, and I hated them, and I never harmed anyone in my life, but the world could not tolerate me. They just want me to die. ”

"Bugs multiply in my body, because of the cup king in my body, so these bugs can act according to my wishes through the information transmitted by the cup king."

"I began to take revenge on them, and let the worms hollow out their flesh and take over their shells to keep me company. They say I'm a demon, so I'll turn them all into a demon so that I won't be alone. ”

"But after a long time, I found myself still alone, a long solitude, and no one spoke to me anymore. No one cared about my feelings, and no one understood my thoughts. It turns out that bugs are always just bugs. ”

"Insect parasitized hosts will inherit all the habits and memories of their previous owners, so you can see that they sometimes act like humans, which actually has no meaning to them, just knee-jerk reactions and behaviors."

"Then someone came to the village, saw them, and found that their appearance had not changed for decades, and someone spread the news, but more often than not, the people who came to the village were eaten by insects. Turned it into a new host. ”

"Later, a troop came here for some reason, wanting to spy on the secret of immortality, and more than a hundred people came, and they found me in the cave and rescued me."

"But these people were very greedy, they found out that I was different from them, and locked me in an iron cage, wanting to take me back for experiments, and they did not escape the final fate, I let those bugs eat them."

By the time they reacted, half of them were dead. So they thought they would just send me back to the cave and tie me up for their lives. ”

"Unfortunately, they didn't know that their companions were no longer human, so their companions, who ate them, became hosts of worms."

"Cup worms can survive for decades, even hundreds of years, if they eat a person, but after a hundred years, if there is no new prey, they will still dry up. will die. So they're constantly getting new food. But in the eyes of the world, this represents immortality. ”

"Actually, they're dead, and they're just bugs that control their bodies. I'm just too lonely, really, too lonely, and if I can be like a bug, without my own mind, and live, that's fine. ”

Ah Ci Mo Ming felt sour for a while, and stepped forward to give her a hug, because she also understood what a terrible thing it was to be lonely like this.

Yu smiled: "It's so warm." It's been a long time since there's been a warmth like this. I don't know if I'm a human or a demon. ”

Ah Ci: "You have human consciousness, of course you are human. ”

He raised his head, as if he had been forgiven and reborn, and looked at Ah Ci with blood-red eyes full of gratitude.

"Thank you." He pushed her away, buried his head and said, "Before dawn tomorrow, when you leave, please set a fire and burn them." Let it all end before dawn tomorrow. ”

Tzu: "Do you have to do this?" ”

He nodded, "It has to be done." Otherwise, the bugs will continue to multiply and grow. ”

Liang Zhan sighed lightly; "I didn't expect it...... It will be like this, twelve people have come here, and only three people have returned. ”

He suddenly got up and said, "Those two people took your things and threw them in a corner of the cave, and you can get them back, and you can survive five days with those food and water, and five days is enough time for you to get out of here." ”

They followed the cave back into the cave, where the parasites were walking back and forth. The wooden and greedy eyes seemed to smell delicious food, but they were afraid of the cup king, and no one dared to step forward to attack.

He led them to recover food and blood, and the two men who had seen flesh and blood before had been eaten away by insects and were now reduced to a skeleton.

Liang Zhan shuddered: "The taste of these insects is really good." ”

After retrieving the things, they didn't want to stay in the cave for a long time, and walked out quickly.

Through the summoning of the cup king in the body, the hosts all followed behind him like walking corpses.

Liang Zhan swallowed his saliva quietly, looking at this strange scene, the host here, as well as the missing Brother Feng and the two girls, and the buddy who was crawling with a broken leg in the back......

Linnaeus's eyes were red, and he didn't dare to look back.

He led them back to the village, pushed away the head of the village, and sat down at the table, and the hosts sat down as if they were alive.

He took the cup and wiped it clean with a cloth, and said to Ah Ci: "When my mother-in-law was alive, she liked to sit at the table like this, making tea and drinking. It is a home-grown tea tree, and the leaves are plucked, and the water that comes out is pale green, and when you drink it, it is bitter and sweet. I miss the taste of that time, now there is no tea, no mother-in-law, and it is no longer the village it used to be. ”

Ah Ci suddenly thought of something, rummaged through his backpack, and in the pile of snacks, took out a bag of tea.

He looked at her with wide eyes.

"I like to drink tea, I know a guy who also likes to drink tea, he often holds all kinds of good tea, but he has a lot of different tea sets, a pot of tea leisurely, let me taste it with him."

He smiled, "That's good. It's a pity that my mother-in-law doesn't have a tea set, she must also want to have a pair of pots, I used to think, save more money, and wait until I go down the mountain to the market, and then buy a good tea set for my mother-in-law. ”

Ah Ci boiled water, brewed two cups of tea, the two looked at each other and smiled, and slowly drank the tea in the cups.

Linnaeus looked like he was about to vomit, walked to the side, and complained to Liang Zhan: "How dare she drink?" It's so dirty, it's still with that monster. ”

Liang Zhan: "What monster?" In fact, she is also human. Didn't you hear her? It's pathetic, a little sympathetic, okay? ”

Linnaeus looked at Liang Zhan incomprehensibly: "Compassion? If they were normal people, they would want them to die, right? In this way, the monster lives in this world, which will cause everyone's discomfort and panic. ”

Liang Zhan frowned, and said in a deep voice: "Actually, you can look at it however you want, it has nothing to do with me, but Ah Ci can't, Ah Ci is a normal person, please don't look at her with colored glasses." And although Ah Ci looks indifferent and ruthless, he is actually much more conscientious than you so-called normal people. ”

Linnaeus's face turned blue and white for a while, and he smiled at the corner of his mouth: "You really defend your Aci." ”

Liang Zhan did not give Linnaeus any face; "I don't defend her. Am I still defending you? What is your relationship with me? I'm afraid I'm not even a friend, right? To be honest, if you can get out of here alive, you have to thank Ah Ci. ”

Liang Zhan didn't want to talk nonsense with Linnaeus anymore, turned around and walked two steps, as if he remembered something, and turned around and added: "Also, I'm not interested in you, in fact, you are the one who really loves to pretend, pretending to be pitiful and innocent and pretending to be generous, in the process of our escape, your performance is really disappointing." So please don't post it again in the future. ”

Linnaeus: "You! Heh, don't be kidding, I'm not interested in you, there are too many boys chasing me to count, you Liang Zhan, just look better than ordinary people, really when you are amazing? ”

"Oh, that's the best, and besides, don't compare it with my Ah Ci at every turn, you and Ah Ci...... Tut-tut, there's really no comparison. ”

Liang Zhan sneered, turned around and walked back into the house.

Seeing that Ah Ci was still chatting with her about some trivial matters, most of the time she was saying that she might be really lonely, and no one had talked to her over the years, and she didn't care what she was thinking.

However, she met Ah Ci, as if in this world, only Ah Ci could understand her loneliness and loneliness, as well as those panics from the depths of her soul.

So before disappearing into this world completely, I wanted to tell Ah Ci everything I had.

Ah Ci was a very good listener, and she sat there quietly, listening attentively, reminiscing about her childhood. Those things.

When it was almost dawn, he urged, "You should go, there is no time." Thank you for meeting you. ”

Ci: "You don't have to die." ”

"Death is sometimes a relief. For me, I should not have lived in this world for a long time. My mother-in-law said that after death, people will go down to the Yellow Spring, cross the Nai He Bridge, and if there is an afterlife, I want to try the beauty of a normal life. ”

Ah Ci took a deep breath, and finally made a friend, but now he was about to say goodbye.

When they left, they piled firewood around the house. This kind of weather can easily ignite.

Liang Zhan set a fire, and they walked a long way, but they could still see the light of the fire, which went straight to the clouds.