In the middle of the night I was woken up by the general, he picked up the gun and looked out vigilantly, the palace lord and the field chicken woke up, we heard a dense rustle outside the tent, went outside to pick up the torch and saw that the surroundings were densely covered with finger-sized bright brown reptiles.

Elongated in size, with two slender antennae in front of their heads, a flexible abdomen, curved tail pincers at the end, and a pair of tucked wings on their backs, these unknown insects crawled out of the gaps in dead wood and rhizomes in tens of thousands, and surrounded our tent from all sides.

Girls seem to have an innate fear of this fluffy insect, Ye Zhiqiu Bridge is the corner of my clothes, timidly hiding behind me, those insects don't seem to be afraid of fire, and they are swarming towards us one after another.

What surprised us the most was that those who had just come out of the tent and had not yet reacted, once they were attached to their bodies by these insects, began to struggle desperately to try to beat them down, but soon their bodies stiffened, as if they were immobilized and kept struggling at all, and many of Scar's men were caught off guard and became like this.

We looked at the people who seemed to be petrified in the moment, and we were all in front of us with large masses of corpses burned by torches, but they were nothing compared to the overwhelming number of insects flying in the sky that had obscured the moonlight.

The general squatted on the ground and picked up a charred corpse, looked back and forth for a moment, and his face suddenly changed.

"Jump into the water, jump all into the water." The general shouted loudly as he pushed me into the nearby stream.

We were horrified to see in the water that even though the insects were rampant, they only stopped by the stream and never moved forward, and when we heard the general's shout, everyone rushed to the stream desperately, but the slower ones were strangely stiffened in place under the attack of those insects.

"What is this?" I wiped a handful of water from my face and asked the general in a panic.

"Ear cockroaches, also known as ear clip worms, I heard him mention it when I was in charge before, saying that this kind of thing is very scary, it doesn't attack there, it crawls into the ears, and people can't move when they go in." The general told us with trepidation. "The shopkeeper said that this thing stays in the dark underground, and it will come out in groups to hunt at night during the day, and the only thing that earworms are afraid of is water, and they can't touch a little."

I had a chilly fight, but fortunately the general was alert and we found it early, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable, looking at the earworms flying like the sky and the sun above our heads, densely intertwined like an impenetrable net.

Fortunately, we ran in time and there was no danger, I looked back at the people in the stream, Liao Kai and Scar were there, I looked around but didn't find Wen Ru, Ye Zhiqiu looked around and shouted worried next to me, she was worried that Wen Ru would stay behind, I didn't think so, if Wen Ru really died here, it would be retribution.

When the sun hit us, the surroundings returned to the previous tranquility, and we climbed into the shore tent around seven or eight people who were stiff and motionless, and they were still breathing, but no matter how much they shouted, they did not react at all.

The mules and horses that were brought were tied to the trees and had no way back, and now they all stood like statues, and the scene was extremely strange and gloomy.

"I'd like to see what kind of demons these people are." The general drew his machete, and split the head of a mule and horse, and in the pool of blood we saw with horror that more than a dozen earworms were attached to the brains of the mule and horse, and countless white wriggling maggots-like things were densely covered on it.

"What are these earworms doing?" Ye Zhiqiu covered his mouth and asked timidly.

"This is not an earworm, this is the three corpse Gu, I heard the Miao Hu who rescued me when I was in Jiangxi, this is a strange Gu thing, it has always been raised by the Jiuli tribe, it is said that the three corpse Gu will drill into the ear, and then instantly cut off the cranial nerves, so that the prey can not feel threatened, while sucking the brain, lay thousands of eggs in the prey's head, and feed on the prey's big brain." Wen Ru walked out of the woods with his waist bent, but he didn't expect him to be safe and sound. "The Three Corpse Gu is something that the Jiuli Clan uses to guard the ancestral tombs, but with the demise of the Jiuli Clan, this kind of Gu thing has also disappeared, when I heard this rumor because it was too bizarre and ridiculous, I didn't take it to heart, I didn't expect there to be such a thing."

"You...... How are you still alive? Tian Jixin looked at Wen Ru suspiciously.

"How do you talk?" Ye Zhiqiu walked up to Wen Ru's side and hugged him and asked worriedly. "Elder Wen, I was looking for you everywhere last night, and I thought something had happened to you, and it was great to see that you were safe and sound."

"I was too far away from the stream, and I knew I couldn't run past it, so I hid behind the rocks in the woods, and I got away with it." Wen Ru said to Ye Zhiqiu with a relieved smile.

Gong Jue and I glanced at each other, and I always felt that what Wen Ru said to Ye Zhiqiu was more like explaining to us, and there was a feeling of wanting to cover it up.

Bang Bang Bang ......

Dense gunfire came from behind us, and when we looked back, we saw that the seven or eight people who had been attacked by the three corpse Gu had fallen in a pool of blood.

"What are you doing?!" The general raised his gun in a fit of rage.

"It's already like this, it's a sin to live, and they're going to die sooner or later anyway, so I'll give them a ride." The gun in Scar's hand was still smoking.

"Still panting, they are all living people, and you are doing this to disregard human life." Ye Zhiqiu has always been jealous and hateful, and walked up to question loudly.

"Don't get me wrong, everyone is in the same boat now, don't hurt the peace." Liao Kai actually laughed. "Mr. Wen also said that although he was still alive after being attacked by the three corpse Gu, he was still a walking corpse, what the mules and horses were thinking in their minds was obvious to all, and it was better for them to live like this than to die, so let them be happy and accumulate virtue."

Ye Zhiqiu still wanted to reprimand, but I grabbed him, and he didn't dare to assert himself without Liao Kai's nod scar, presumably Liao Kai's hands were probably more than seven or eight people with human blood, and now that they are outnumbered, I am worried that Ye Zhiqiu is in danger.

"It's the first time I've seen you accumulate virtue like this, and I'm afraid we'll have to ask for more blessings with you." I pulled Ye Zhiqiu back and smiled coldly.

"Mr. Gu is serious, and I am also good for them." Liao Kai's understatement and smile are meaningful.

I pressed the gun raised by the general, knowing that Liao Kai is not good at stubble, and what I regret the most now is that I shouldn't let Ye Zhiqiu come in, Wen Ru is experienced in judging the situation after all, and he knows that there is nothing he can do, so he patted Ye Zhiqiu on the shoulder and told her to calm down.

"The surname Liao is ruthless, whether we can find the treasure or not, I am afraid that we will not be left alive, there are many of them, everyone is smart, the situation is not right, you will find a place to go first." Liao Kai asked Scar to pack up his things and continue walking, and when they were far away, the general turned his head to look at me with a serious expression after he finished speaking to us indignantly. "The shopkeeper handed over Zhiqiu to you, and you have to protect her no matter what."

"What, you still want to cut us off?" I smiled disapprovingly. "I don't look at my age, the shopkeeper asked you to come because of Zhiqiu, there is really something you take Zhiqiu and them to go first, and it is not your turn to be an old thing."

"I'm not old enough to be useful." The general raised the gun in his hand and slapped me in the head. "Don't talk nonsense, your little skill is okay to visit the grave, you are not the material to use knives and guns."

"Come here." The palace lord emerged from the woods and interrupted my argument with the general.

The palace lord led us to the grass, with clear footprints on the soft earth, that stretched behind a stone covered with vegetation.

"I followed Wen Ru out of the place just now to find here, Wen Ru should have been hiding here last night." The palace lord pointed to the depression under the stone.

"What's wrong?" Tian Ji asked puzzled.

Gong Jue stepped forward and brushed away the fallen leaves on the stone, revealing dense and fine lines: "These lines are left by the crawling of the three corpse Gu, I have checked that the crawling marks around the tent are exactly the same, the number of the three corpse Gu last night was more than tens of thousands, and they have been here." ”

I looked down and looked around, and sure enough, I saw all such crawling marks around the stone, and from these traces, it seemed that Wen Ru was surrounded by three corpse Gu last night.

"I'm very curious why Wen Ru didn't survive in the water, so I tracked it down here, what puzzled me was that the stone was surrounded by three corpse Gu, but only in the place where Wen Ru stayed there were no crawling marks of the three corpse Gu." The palace lord pointed to the ground and said calmly.

"Wen's hunchback life is really big, so many three corpse Gu are next to him and they haven't found him, it's really good people who don't live long, and the scourge is thousands of years." Tian Ji shook his head indignantly.

"It's not!" The palace lord shook his head and pointed to the dirt marks on the ground. "Judging from the crawling marks, a large number of three corpse Gu discovered and surrounded Wen Ru last night, but I don't know why they didn't attack him."

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We looked at each other in amazement, from the discovery of the palace lord enough to prove that Wen Ru survived is not accidental, Wen Ru is more and more mysterious to us, from the time he tried to blow up the underground altar of the Aoki River, to now be safe and sound under the siege of the three corpse Gu, this person seems to have too many unknown secrets, Wen Ru followed Liao Kai here, I am afraid it is definitely not just out of curiosity about the three-eyed unicorn mask.

"Wen Ru should be the one who knows the secrets of the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace, but what he is best at is the culture and history of Miaojiang, and there may be some connection between this." I thought for a moment and said.

"Do you remember the pattern we saw in the Kunlun Jinque ice carving mural, the war between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou before was real, from the clues we know now, the Moon Palace Nine Dragons Boat first appeared in the Yellow Emperor period." The palace lord stood up and looked at us coldly. "The ancestors of the Miao clan are actually the Jiuli people, could it be because the Jiuli people know some secrets about the Nine Dragons of the Moon Palace."