Chapter 527: The True Murderer
Shuttling through the capillaries-like complex spatial corridors, everything in the underground world is distorted like a haha mirror, and the light is presented in a bizarre way, with dirt, sand, corpses, roots, and many unknown dead ends, as if entering a schizophrenic world.
During the "journey", we passed through the nest of the black insects, which was a "sea", a group of insects hibernated and piled up, covered with wings on their backs, shining like a sea floating, the cave of the black demon insects was really big, like a vast plain.
I seem to understand the predation routine of black insects, when tens of billions of black insects lie dormant in a sandy area or pasture, from a distance, it looks like a lake, for the thirsty to the death of livestock and herdsmen, this is really a gift from God, but... If you come near, immediately a wave will be slapped to reveal the prototype and bind you in it.
"Look, what's that?" The three tails suddenly exclaimed, and Liu Ruyun and I hurriedly looked down.
But in the extremely stretched and distorted spatial image, in a cave hall full of rattan roots, a large white insect kept dancing its limbs and legs, this guy looked so strange, like a monkey, and like a beetle, and in the room... It's full of people! Living!
I have goosebumps on my back, a living person... There can't be anyone else here except us, what is that big bug? In the Six Gates, there seems to be no depiction of it.
Mio stopped, we looked down curiously, the distorted image was really not clear, those people seemed... Without any clothes, they curled up in a ball in horror, and a winding and deep space path led straight below.
"Childe, let's go down and have a look," Liu Ruyun said.
Without waiting for me to speak, Liu Ruyun drove the three-tailed fierce man down, and she rushed out of the space tunnel directly and landed in front of the tunnel of the terrifying cave.
My heart sudden: "Ruyun, you cat can just look down at the edge of the space tunnel, why do you need to come down?" If we are in danger, we can go back. ”
Liu Ruyun smiled bitterly: "Childe, the space tunnels are all one-way lines, there is no reason to go back, since you have chosen to come down, there is no way back." ”
"I'll go! Why didn't you say it earlier! ”
"Shhhh Let's take a look at what this monster is. ”
I'm about to collapse, Liu Ruyun is so fat, I knew that I wouldn't let her come down like this, and then I have to re-deduce the direction of the space gate, and it may not be. This underground labyrinth is full of black bugs and cotton corpses, and it is estimated that those cotton corpses... It's already in the hall of the Six Gates, and if the group rushes over, they don't even have time to escape.
Zhang Zhiyan and Jin Jia came out of the space ring, she wagged her tail desperately, and bursts of thick powder mist dispersed, re-blessing us with the illusion of stealth.
After walking a few steps forward, I finally saw the true face of the big meat worm, and my stomach cramped with disgust, this guy was snow-white, covered in fine fluff, and his black compound eyes were as big as a washbasin, and his six limbs and legs full of barbs kept dancing, but they belonged to insects, and his swollen belly was like a van, and under the translucent membrane, there were slowly wriggling eggs.
And those so-called "living people" are all hanging on the rattan on the cave wall one by one... A soul body wrapped in a membrane! Struggling and squirming, their bodies are covered with grape-sized eggs, densely adhered and drawn, so disgusting!
"I'm rubbing! What is this? Falling peanuts and ground cicadas? I was shocked.
Liu Ruyun's brows furrowed, and her hands kept pinching. After a few breaths, she let out another breath with a comforting look: "Childe, we are not busy in vain, this guy... That should be the ultimate goal of this operation. ”
"What? You mean, this big bug... Is it the real demon concubine? "My chrysanthemum is tight, this is too, right? But when you think about it, is it possible? That demon concubine is a monster worm, and what you see now is the prototype of the demon concubine?
Liu Ruyun shook her head: "Definitely, this strange insect is the queen mother of those black insects." ”
"The Queen Mother?"
"Yes, like the queen ant, you see its belly, how much like a human brain, crumpled, it controls every move of the entire black insect colony," Liu Ruyun said.
I'll go! All four of us gasped when she said this, and our brains... Eggs, belly pouches, queens?
"You mean, these eggs are the Black Worm Command? All of them are chiefs of staff? My eyes widened in disbelief.
Liu Ruyun shook her head helplessly: "You don't understand it so vulgarly, in short, the huge abdomen of this female worm is the nerve center of its thinking." ”
Looking at this... Like a cave hall like a capillary specimen of the human heart, there is such a big insect lying in it, the cave hall is not big, it is estimated that it is only one acre, and this insect occupies almost all the area of the ground!
It lies in a large bunker, surrounded by soft sand, like a large bathtub, in which a fat woman lies and revuls in the bath......
Crawling all over the cave hall of the root vines, there are dozens of "cocoon" shaped soul bodies, transitioning from white to black, those eggs attached to the soul body, absorbing the soul inside, little by little black, hardening, and finally breaking out of the shell, turning into dense "black powder" into the sand, leaving a mottled dense, extremely disgusting "maggot shell".
These suffering souls, at first, struggled and squirmed, and slowly... All of them were drowsy and unconscious, allowing their eggs to absorb the nutrients.
"These roots should be the roots of those ghost trees and poplars outside, they kill people, and they pump souls here to feed the female insects to eat souls and reproduce offspring," Liu Ruyun said.
"Sister Liu, it's easy to say that there is a nerve center, I can control its heart and do whatever I want," a wicked smile rose at the corner of Zhang Zhiyan's mouth.
Liu Ruyun looked at me and said seriously: "The purpose of this operation is to get rid of the Black Wind Demon, and the essence of the Black Wind Demon is that these black insects have nothing to do with the so-called Xixia Demon Concubine, and if you control the mother worm, everything will be easy to do, as for the Western Xia Demon Concubine, you can only think about it in the long run." ”
I thought about it, too, if Zhang Zhiyan controlled the mother worm, wouldn't all the black worms in it be at our disposal, even if the army of cotton corpses rushed over, they were not afraid, the black insects directly sent them to the sky, and then threw them on the ghost wood poplar tree to eat, for a while, I had a strange idea, who can corrupt who can be against the ghost wood poplar?
I was still thinking about it, but I saw Zhang Zhiyan holding her head and squatting down in pain!
"Zhiyan! What happened to you? I was shocked.
Zhang Zhiyan shook her head and said, "No, its spiritual power is too strong, I can't control it." ”
I sighed and frowned, my mental strength was too strong? Come to think of it... This big bug, it controls tens of billions of black worms, powerful neurons, not something that Zhang Zhiyan can control with a five-tailed silver fox.
"All I can do is make it not perceive us, and... As for tricking it into hallucinating, I can't control its mind and read its memories, I can't ......do it," Zhang Zhiyan said in frustration.
Liu Ruyun comforted her: "Zhiyan, this is already very good, at least we won't be in danger." ”
If you want to say that it is not difficult to kill this big insect, you can take a whole body, if you do it rashly... The swarm of insects saves us from no hope of survival, and the mission must be completed, but we can't put our lives into it.
"Help, help me!" As he spoke, there was a cry for help from the cave hall.
When he looked up, he saw a young man's soul "knotted" on the roots of a vine, and he struggled desperately, terrified to the extreme.
It can be seen... He didn't realize he was dead. In fact, after death, people will only understand that their life has come to an end after a period of psychological recognition.
Seeing the new soul body, the compound eyes of the big insect immediately shrank, as if focused, and then, seeing that from the center of its abdomen, a slender, two-meter-long needle tube-like object, the end of which was dripping with viscous liquid.
"What's that?" I shuddered.
"Ovulation tubes," Ms. Liu replied.
I rub! It's disgusting, I swallowed in my uncomfortable throat, but when I saw the big bug, I raised the "anti-aircraft machine gun", poof, and squirted out a large sticky, glutinous rice porridge-like egg body, firmly stuck to the newborn soul body, the young man struggled desperately, but to no avail, and was soon swallowed by the egg porridge, becoming a "cocoon" full of particles.
The disgusting scene is unbearable, this is considered to be a never-ending ** return, and the dead soul will turn into a black worm.
"There it is! I've got a way! Zhang Zhiyan suddenly screamed, startling us.
"Zhiyan, what's the solution?" I looked at her in amazement.
Zhang Zhiyan said: "Shoot, shoot it dry!" I'm going to let it die of exhaustion! ”
I rub! What the heck? But seeing Zhang Zhiyan wagging her tail, the vines and roots of the cave hall seemed to be blooming all over her body, and for a while she was full of newborn "soul bodies", the mother insect was really stimulated, and raised the "anti-aircraft machine gun" and kept spraying wildly.
"As long as I drain its brains, I should be able to control it," Zhang Zhiyan said fiercely.