Chapter Twenty-Seven: Corpse Worms

"Capture the thief and capture the king first, it's better to slaughter the commander directly!"

"Qin Ziyang!" Without waiting for Fan Li to shout out, Qin Ziyang had already jumped out of the village, billowing darkness appeared on her body, and the black storm that devoured Sha Wei just now appeared around her again, she opened her arms, and the black storm split in two, and at the same time rushed towards the commander, and swept all the rushing Sha Wei into it along the way.

Because Qin Ziyang attracted Sha Wei's attention, Martha, Panda, and Fan Li's side all breathed a sigh of relief, and they lay on the earthen wall to look at Qin Ziyang who was confronting Sha Wei, and the back of Fan Li's hand flashed with blue light.

"Wait a while, I think Qin Ziyang can deal with it alone." The panda pressed Fan's hand and nodded to Fan.

"Since you are a soul, then you should tell me a few words, revealing that your family name is the rule of the road, it seems that you are completely unruly!" The Black Storm gathered around the Guardian Commander, repelling the Guardian soldiers who wanted to rush up behind him again and again, surrounded by Guards who had been gnawed to bones, all mutilated.

The commander didn't make any sound, Fan Li felt that it was impossible for Qin Ziyang to let him speak, those were dried corpses that had been buried for several years, his tongue had long been rotten, and his throat was full of insect repellent, how could he speak, it would be good to be able to hum.

The commander drew his saber and raised his saber at Qin Ziyang, and a row of sand guards with bows and arrows suddenly flashed out behind him, and they were full of bows and arrows facing Qin Ziyang, but before the arrows could be shot, they were swept into it by the storm rushing from both sides.

The Sha Wei in the rear was temporarily stunned by Qin Ziyang's storm, and he was stunned for a while, not daring to move. The Commander removed his mask, revealing a face that was so rotten that it was hard to read, all reddish-brown with a few strands of horizontal flesh, and two large scarlet eyes rolling on it. He opened his mouth exaggeratedly, as if he were about to break his jaw. Fan Li only felt a buzzing in his ears, and the piercing scream made him really want to knock his head open. I saw a swarm of locusts spraying out of the commander's mouth and rushing towards Qin Ziyang.

"Be careful! That's a corpse worm! Fan Li's desperate climb down from the wall, the panda raised his hand and didn't catch him, he rolled in front of Qin Ziyang, but he knew it was too late.

Grandpa told himself the story about the corpse insect of Sha Wei, saying that this corpse insect is a worm that grows up by eating corpses and mutates, and their mutation is not determined by genes, and saying "mutation" is just to describe the changes in their appearance, in fact, they are affected by the yin qi that has been gathered by the corpse for many years, and their eating habits have changed, and their reproductive ability has increased greatly. It is said that this corpse worm was an ingenious invention of a king. The king, who had been a sorcerer, didn't want his tomb to be ransacked by tomb robbers, so he came up with the trick of placing eggs in the bodies of the sacrificers and allowing them to multiply, so that when the tomb robbers appeared, they would swarm out and tear the tomb robbers to pieces.

Seeing that the locusts had already pounced in front of Qin Ziyang, Fan Li could only form a shield to temporarily block the locusts' attacks. Before the spirit was fully gathered, Qin Ziyang suddenly grabbed Fan Li's hand and put him in a half-kneeling position, and she bent down to hug Fan Li's upper body.

Fan Li only felt that today was over, no matter how brave Qin Ziyang was, he couldn't fight against so many locusts. But then he found that the group of locusts actually flew around him and Qin Ziyang towards the rear, then turned back and forth, and finally flew to the side, melted into the darkness, and disappeared again.

Qin Ziyang let go of Fan Li, he was slightly surprised to see the commander, he pulled the reins, the war horse turned his head and left, and the surrounding sand guards also withdrew with him.

"What's going on?" Fan Li looked at Qin Ziyang on the side, but Qin Ziyang's face was a proud smile, she raised her right hand, and pinched a dark red locust with her thumb and forefinger.

"You actually ...... this corpse worm"

"You say this thing is a corpse worm?" Qin Ziyang dropped the insect and put it in his other hand, which lay quietly in the palm of his hand.

"I didn't ...... That's right. Fan Li was surprised to see this scene. Corpse insects are insects that grow up eating corpses, and it's a nightmare for us spirit thieves, and you can control it, is it because of demonic energy? ”

Qin Ziyang nodded, and as soon as she raised her hand, the locust flew away.

"This locust has changed, the upper jaw of the chewing mouthparts is exaggerated and enlarged, and the skin can be easily torn apart, and the antennae are degenerated, the tarsal and anterior tarsal segments of the foot have changed greatly, becoming barb-shaped, which is easy to capture prey, and the femoral segments of the hind feet retain the style of jumping feet, but the tibia is too shortened, and it should no longer have the ability to jump."

Fan Li was confused when he listened to Qin Ziyang's analysis, and he couldn't figure out what Qin Ziyang wanted to say.

"You mean it's a big change from a normal locust?"

"Nonsense, you still need to say it. Not only has the appearance changed, but the eating habits have also changed, so the corpse insect you mentioned will tear human skin and devour human flesh, but the corpse insect is also an insect, and I can control it if it is an insect. ”

"You know so much about insects, why did you just let it go and not leave one as a specimen?"

"Specimens?" Qin Ziyang laughed out loud, with a mocking meaning in it. "I don't want to kill an insect for some unnecessary purpose, after all, I'm not a formal entomist, it's just a hobby of mine, and there's no need to kill them on instinct, which will break the emotional relationship between us."

"I don't think it's good to stay here for a long time, let's get in the car after resting, as far as the current situation is concerned, sleeping in the car is better than sleeping here." Martha walked up to Qin Ziyang and said, Ziyang nodded in agreement.

Five minutes later, they had packed their bags and were on their way. Fan Li stared at the dark world in a daze, he had heard his grandfather say before that corpse insects were the most feared thing for grave seekers like them, because this thing was pervasive, and one could pose a great threat. But now, the corpse insect has become a pet in Qin Ziyang's hands, and the mystery of this makes him puzzled.

The locust swarm appeared directly ahead, and Martha slowed down and followed the locust swarm. As Fan Li said, there must be a mausoleum nearby, and this group of locusts knows the location of the mausoleum better than anyone else. Half an hour later, Qin Ziyang looked at Fan Li, who was still frowning, and lit a cigar and brought it to his mouth.

"Take two puffs, suppress the shock, and look at the scare of you."

Fan Li shook his head, he stared at Qin Ziyang.

"I just want to ...... Know why you are able to control these critters, how you think and how you feel that the terrifying corpse worm has become a pet in your hands. ”

"Some people are born with some abilities." Martha in the driver's seat replied instead of Qin Ziyang, it was rare for this cold beauty to speak.

"Doesn't this have anything to do with demonic energy?" Fan Li then asked.

"It matters, the effect of this ability has been enhanced to a certain extent by magical energy, but this ability has existed since I was a child, and there was no magical ability at that time." Qin Ziyang touched the glass with his fingertips, and a locust actually climbed onto the smooth car glass, looking at its barb-like feet and cutter-like teeth, Fan Li only felt a cold sweat break out on his body.

Fan Li glanced his head to the other side, the buzzing sound and rustling sound in his brain just now must be the effect of listening to the voice of the spirit, the rustling should be the roar of the soul inside the shawei, but the buzzing sound after the appearance of the corpse worm is difficult to explain. I saw Sha Wei's face just now, they are indeed highly decomposed corpses, but those two big eyes are very vivid, I have never seen Sha Wei, but I have heard it in the book, there is a story between Sha Wei and the tomb fraud corpse among the predecessors of the spirit thieves, many people think that Sha Wei is just a corpse in the desert tomb that is bent over by the soul, but Fan Li feels that Sha Wei is more like a living person with brains. The clothes on Sha Wei's body that I saw before were all damaged, but I could see traces of Mongolian soldiers, and there should be an ancient tomb related to Mongolia here, which was probably the prison they were looking for.

"By the way, what kind of bug did you eat before, it's so disgusting." Fan Li turned his head and asked Qin Ziyang.

"Disgusting? That's high protein. In the desert, many species of wings have degenerated, forming a storage chamber for nutrients under the elytra. ”

"What about the Black Storm? I think they've eaten all the dry skin of the sarmes, so they must have been the worms you recruited. ”

"That's right, we've been lighting a fire for a while, and with my ability, I can attract a lot of insects." As soon as Qin Ziyang finished speaking, her nerves suddenly tensed, she shook open the window, and just revealed a small gap, a gust of wind and sand blew in, and she quickly closed the window.

"What's wrong?" Martha looked back at Qin Ziyang. "Something?"

After Martha's words, Fan Li's voice only heard the sound of the panda loading the pistol, and he felt that something was wrong.

"I'm not sure. Fan Li, is there anything else strange in the desert? The same thing as Shamede. ”

Fan turned his head to look at the pitch-black back, and a buzzing sound began to be heard in his ears, and it was getting closer and closer.

"I think something is indeed coming, but I can't see the outside, it's all blocked by the wind and sand, I can't be sure what ......it is" Before Fan Li finished speaking, the rear lights of the car in front of him suddenly turned on, the rear lights of this car were actually the same as the headlights, and the scenery behind them was in full view, Fan Li and Qin Ziyang saw together, in the churning sand fog behind, there were several shadows moving towards this side at high speed, and the shadows were very weird and huge.

"The previous method didn't work!" Fan Li stretched out his hand towards Qin Ziyang, Qin Ziyang grabbed Fan Li's hand without thinking about it, and a blue machine gun appeared in the rear of the car, and the bullet with blue light illuminated the world behind it, and there was an effect of lightning and thunder. After a frenzied strafing, the shadow behind him was gone, but the buzzing in his ears was still there, and it was so loud that it made Fan's ears tingle for a while.

"Be careful!" Fan Li shouted, in fact, he didn't know what to be careful about, he just felt that the other party was very close. Immediately afterwards, the whole car was pushed up by a force, the car lost its balance and rolled in the air, Qin Ziyang and Fan Li, who were not wearing seat belts, collided together, and crashed towards the rear glass.

Fan Li's entire face was attached to the glass, and at the same time, he saw a terrifying mask outside the glass through the headlights, which was a mask engraved with thunder patterns, shaped like a wolf's head, and beside him, there were warriors riding war horses.