In the middle of the night, Cao Lin suddenly woke up from freezing, she opened her eyes, and the cave was pitch black, with only a faint trace of spark left in the ashes.

From time to time, there was the sound of lightning outside, and the sound passed through the zigzag cave, becoming a little dull, and the moist cold wind kept blowing from the mouth of the cave, and it seemed to be raining outside, and she could feel the damp sweetness in the cold wind.

She was cold and hungry, and even though she was holding a pile of hay tightly, she was still shivering from the cold, and she endured it for a while, and finally she couldn't bear it anymore.

She cautiously got up, ready to relight a pile of firewood.

There was silence all around, everyone had fallen into a deep sleep, and even Master Wang was snoring lightly from the exhaustion of the whole day.

She searched in the dark for a long time, and finally found a lighter next to the fire.

The bean-sized flames flickered in the cold wind, perhaps because of the psychological effects that seemed to give her an unusually eerie feeling. She didn't dare to look around, for fear of seeing something terrible, she squatted down, her hand trembled a few times, and the flames finally rose.

The light and heat of the flame seemed to give her a great sense of security, and she carefully added the firewood, and she breathed a sigh of relief as she watched the flame burn brighter and brighter.

The hall became bright, and everyone was huddled in a haystack like a homeless man, curled up as much as possible to ward off the cold.

Under the baking of the flames, Cao Lin's originally cold and numb body regained consciousness, she felt some itching in her arm, and subconsciously reached out and grabbed it a few times.

It wasn't until there was a sharp pain that she realized she was clutching at the wound.

In the light of the fire, she looked down, as if she was dazzled, there seemed to be something white stirring in the wound, her heart tightened, and she beat violently, and she dared to take a closer look.

Countless maggots are squirming in the wound, not only the arms, calves, knees, arms, and backs of hands, as long as there is a wound, they are already full of maggots.

The scene in front of her made her pupils shrink violently, her cold hairs stood on end, and her scalp exploded, she suddenly remembered something, and frantically touched the wound on her face, but only touched a piece of slippery, and there was a soft and rolling feeling of maggots between her fingers.

She couldn't hold back her screams anymore.

Everyone immediately opened their eyes, quickly touched the weapon in their hands, and quickly stood up and made a vigilant posture.

"What's going on?" Luo Yuan stood up, glanced left and right, and found that there was nothing unusual.

Cao Lin kept screaming, waving her hands in the air, her body shaking like a sieve.

Luo Yuan walked over and slapped her violently: "Calm down, what's going on?" ”

The intense pain finally made Cao Lin recover a little from the inextricable fear, but his face was still extremely frightened, and he said incoherently: "Maggots, maggots everywhere, I'm going to die, save me, Brother Luo, help me!" ”

Luo Yuan's eyes were sharp, he grabbed her hand, flipped the back of his hand, and when he looked closely, he couldn't help but gasp, even he felt a burst of creepy: "How can there be so many maggots?" ”

Everyone also came around, seeing this infiltrating scene, their faces changed drastically, several people thought of something, and hurriedly checked their wounds, and the next moment, the women's screams came and went, even a few men, their faces were pale.

Among all of them, except for Luo Yuan and Lin Xiaoji, maggots appeared more or less on everyone's wounds. Wang Xiaguang has the most on her body, the maggots have almost occupied the entire wound, and the dense and constantly moving maggots make people's scalp explode, her body shook, and she almost fainted.

Huang Jiahui and Master Wang were no better, screaming again and again, and their faces were as white as dead people.

"Calm down, everyone give me calm!" Luo Yuan shouted.

Huang Jiahui was not injured much, and her physique was good, and she had the least maggots on her body, so she quickly recovered her calm, she said anxiously: "How did it become like this, I have been injured before, but usually this wound is nothing at all!" ”

"Maybe when I was walking through the woods, I got the eggs of insects in the leaves." Luo Yuan guessed.

"The jungle is too dangerous, I don't want to stay here, I'd rather choke on volcanic ash than be covered in maggots!" Master Wang cried and said, tears kept rolling in his eyes, his hand was on the wound, and he dared to touch it.

"Don't say anything discouraged, when the ash is over, we'll turn onto the highway. Let's not talk about that, these maggots must be dealt with as soon as possible, otherwise the longer it drags on, the more dangerous it becomes. Luo Yuan said solemnly, these maggots grow too fast, it is only in the middle of the night, and they have already grown the thickness of chopsticks, if they drag it down any longer, I don't know what the Dao will become, I hope they have not penetrated into the flesh, otherwise......

Luo Yuan was a little unbelievable, as soon as he thought of the terrifying scene where his stomach was full of maggots and broke out of his body at the end, his heart tightened.

Huo Dong gritted his teeth, his fingers reached into the wound, the tentacles were slippery and disgusting, and goosebumps suddenly appeared on his skin, and the originally shallow wound had been corroded extremely deep, almost reaching into a finger. Maggots, which were four or five centimeters long, were constantly pulled out of his wounds and thrown into the fire, where they made a thunderclap sound under the burning of the flames.

A wound the size of a ping-pong ball, he pulled out more than a dozen maggots. The flesh inside the wound was full of holes like beehives, some of which were faintly white in the depths, apparently maggots growing in the depths.

A trace of despair flashed across his face, and he suddenly broke down and thumped the wound hard, blood mixed with white slurry splashed everywhere, and a large muscle near the wound was completely deflated, and it seemed to have been hollowed out.

The faces of the crowd were pale and cold.

Luo Yuan could no longer maintain his calm, and his face changed drastically. Seeing that Wang Xiaguang was about to fall to the ground, he hurriedly held her up and put her on the hay, Luo Yuan checked her condition, her wounds were mainly on her back and calf, the wound on her calf was only the size of a palm, but there was a large piece on her back, the situation was very serious, and because she couldn't see the reason behind it, even she didn't find it herself.

Luo Yuan's heart was heavy, and his fingers tried to press lightly along the area near the calf wound, but before he could use any force, the skin was dented, causing maggots to squirm slightly.

Wang Xiaguang lay motionless on the hay, looked at the top of her head in despair, and said in a trembling voice: "Am I going to die?" ”

"No, since I rescued you, I won't watch you die." Luo Yuan said undoubtedly: "I'll go and get the knife." ”

"What do you want to do?" Wang Xiaguang hurriedly asked.

"The maggots are not deep enough now, just cut off the whole piece of meat." Luo Yuan said.

"Then I can't go in the future!" Wang Xiaguang asked.

"It's not that you cut off your whole leg, but you're going to be a little lame when you walk in the future?" Luo Yuan was silent for a while, and said softly, he didn't say anything about the situation behind her, so as not to collapse in her heart.

"No, if you cut it off, even if you can walk in the future, you will have to cultivate for a while, I don't want to be a burden to you." Wang Xiaguang bit her lip, tears kept sliding down her face, and she shook her head: "I'm afraid I won't be able to go west, and I should have died, the night my mother committed suicide, I should have died!" ”

The death of her parents and Luo Yuan's indifference made the last trace of persistence in her heart disappear, and the tragic condition of her body became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and she had already sprouted the will to die in her heart.

Luo Yuan looked at her lifeless eyes, this kind of look was too familiar to him, he had already seen it from the two of them, and the last one committed suicide, his face was moved: "This is not a burden, even if you break your leg, I will take care of you for the rest of your life." You are still young, there are still many beautiful things that you have not experienced, the west is a stable world, then we don't have to take risks, we can live a normal life, you must persevere. ”

Wang Xiaguang's numb eyes suddenly lit up, a hint of blush appeared on her pale face, and she said, "You said you would take care of me for the rest of my life?" ”

Luo Yuan found that Wang Xiaguang had a misunderstanding, but now that it was over, he could only nod his head and say, "So you must live, don't be afraid, just hurt a little." ”

Wang Xiaguang's face turned pale again: "Then hurry up!" ”

"Cry out loud in pain!"

Luo Yuan quickly pulled out the chopping knife, he repeatedly compared the wound on the calf, the palms of his hands were slightly sweaty, and his hands, which were usually as steady as rocks, trembled slightly at this time, he took a deep breath, and was just about to slash it down, he suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said: "Lin Xiaoji, bring that frog over?" ”

The flesh and blood of the frog has a paralyzing effect, but the toxicity is not great, it is a natural anesthetic, Luo Yuan is a little glad that he didn't want to move yesterday, and the others didn't go out to throw it away for safety, otherwise Wang Xiaguang could only endure it alive.

Lin Xiaoji didn't dare to hesitate, and hurriedly ran over and brought over the corpse of the frog that was still in the corner.

Luo Yuan immediately broke open its belly, and after half the night, its blood had coagulated, but he didn't need much, just a few drops of blood were enough. He picked up a piece of hay and dipped it in blood, dripping it on the maggot-infested wound.

That's when something surprising happened!

The maggots seemed to feel that a great disaster was coming, and suddenly squirmed violently, scrambling to get out of the wound, and after a while, the calf was already crawling with maggots, and after a few minutes, the maggots at the wound were empty, and even the maggots that had burrowed into the flesh ran away.

Luo Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then there was ecstasy.

The atmosphere in the hall instantly became warm, and everyone gathered around the frog and carefully dripped its blood on the wound.

Creatures restrain each other, this frog seems to be the natural enemy of maggots, a large number of maggots have drilled out of the wounds, trying to escape from this place, but they are trampled to death by everyone, or thrown into the fire, maggots are burned by the flames, and the air is filled with a smell of burning, but no one cares.

After venting, several women were depressed, even Huang Jiahui became silent, although the maggots disappeared, but they left disgusting wounds, even they didn't dare to look at them directly, and no one knew if the terrible scars would be left in the future.