The moment the fat worm crawled out of the brain, Ziwei and Jiang Xun rushed up almost at the same time and pulled me back. When we retreated to a safe area, we saw that the insect was several times larger than the ones we had seen before, and there was only one, squeezed out of the gap, with a strange body, slender in front and back, except for a bulging belly, which was discordantly protruding in the shape of a large ball.

"Why did you get worms so quickly?" Guo Zheng wondered, rolled up some paper to catch the cockroach that fell on the bed, Tang Jiao stopped him, "This is not an ordinary insect, don't touch it." ”

"What? Can it still be toxic? Guo Zheng didn't believe it.

I thought about the wording to explain to him, Jiang Xun snatched the tissue in Guo Zheng's hand without a trace, reached out to cover the fat insect, pinched his big belly, pinched the insect with his backhand, and said with a smile: "It's too dirty, let's do it." ”

The cockroach's abdomen is full of dense small thin legs, and after being reversed, it kicks quickly because of restlessness, and its long body, like a link, pushes out and retracts its muscles, and relaxes rapidly.

Last time I was touched by its mucus, and I had a black sores on my face, I knew how powerful this thing was, so I asked Guo Zheng to go outside and wait for a while, and then come to take pictures after we spelled out the appearance of the deceased.

As I was talking, the cockroach in Jiang Xun's hand suddenly twitched, its squirming accelerated, and its head and tail shook violently.

I was stunned, Jiang Xun looked indifferent, took a small rope and tied its tail a few times, the cockroach breath became weaker and weaker, and it didn't take long for a sticky liquid to spit out from the head, spraying out a long distance, and then he was honest, staying on the paper towel soaked with his own liquid, and curled up in a semicircle quietly motionless.

Guo Zheng probably really thought this thing looked a little disgusting, so he listened to my advice and went outside the door to wait.

As soon as he left, I hurriedly asked Jiang Xun: "Will you have a problem taking it like this?" Its bodily fluids are poisonous. ”

Jiang Xun threw away the paper, carried the dead knotted thread in his hand, and said with a smile: "You can't die, since I can detoxify you, there is a way to keep yourself from being poisoned, don't worry." ”

I watched him for a few seconds to make sure he wasn't lying, and when I was about to look away, I realized that he was standing close to me, and his eyes were looking straight at me, clear and cold.

I blinked twice, hiding my embarrassment, and quietly looked at the insect in his hand, and was asked by Tang Jiao first, "Why is this different from the one we saw in Dongyan Town before?" With such a big one, it can't be a mutation, right? I didn't see any electromagnetic waves, processing plant pollution or anything. ”

"Watch less movies, it's not so mysterious."

Jiang Xun gently poked the belly of the cockroach with his finger and said: "This is the queen of worms, who is specially responsible for production, the cockroach reproduces itself unisexually, and this belly is full of eggs, if it is produced, the cockroach will be overflowing." Their eggs hatch quickly, taking only a few seconds, and the newly born larvae are hungry, eat the mother, and then attack humans and animals nearby. ”

"Mom, this thing is too ruthless, why does it still eat its mother!"

Tang Jiao blushed, "You can tie it up tightly, we have to finish playing as soon as its stomach pulls its belly, last time even the shopkeeper Shen was touched by it like that, it's too scary!" ”

There were still a little traces of scabs on my face, Jiang Xun took out a drinking cup from Tang Jiao's bag, opened the lid and threw the cockroach in, and said: "The cockroach is a social animal, the insect queen is here, at least there should be a worm king, the worm king will be entrenched around some centipedes as its guards, the two are symbiotic." ”

"No, the key is how can this thing appear here, the queen doesn't follow the king of insects, don't tell me that it's hungry and comes out to feed, it's unreasonable."

"Reasonable." Jiang Xun said: "There is a very strict hierarchy inside the cockroach, there is a rule inside the nest, and there is a set of classes outside the nest, like this one, it can only be regarded as medium. And the queen of insects appeared alone, there are two explanations. One is that the young male worm overthrows the existing rule and expells the loser, in the struggle, winning or losing is decided by life and death, and the group that loses the insect king will enshrine the insect queen as a leader in the pathfinder, find a new security field, and re-establish the hierarchy after the insect queen lays eggs. ”

The second explanation is that the living environment of the cockroaches has changed, and the original place is no longer suitable for their survival. Females are more sensitive to the outside world than males, and will fight because of excessive panic to seek a stronger shelter for themselves, and the status of the queen will be threatened, so they will be forced to stay away from the nest and find new places for other adults in their burrows to settle and reproduce. ”

"But won't the worm die after laying eggs?" Tang Kari asked.

Jiang Xun snorted and smiled, "So women are victims of power, and what they do is not necessarily beneficial to themselves, if you don't want to think about cruelty, you can also understand this as a ...... The so-called great love, the sacrifice made for the sake of more living beings. ”

The atmosphere calmed down, Tang Jiao looked at him a little strangely, and said, "Why do I think you have something to say." ”

Jiang Xun smiled and did not respond, and then said to himself: "No matter what the situation is, the appearance of the insect queen means that they are going to migrate, and where the eggs are laid, the whole nest of crickets will move, which is probably not a good phenomenon for us." ”

I silently pieced together the head of the corpse bit by bit, and the flattened face was propped up again, but fortunately, there was no particularly serious damage, there were not too many breakages, and it was not too difficult to repair.

After tidying up, he asked Jiang Xun: "Can you find the location of its original nest?" ”

"Unless you let the mother lay eggs, watch the larvae and wait for them to come, and follow the trails of the arrival." Jiang Xun said: "However, the cockroach larvae can't be controlled by a few of us alone, not to mention the king of insects, they are very diffuse. ”

Ziwei let Guo Zheng come in to inspect the body, his eyes lit up when he looked at the restored body, and he hurriedly asked his colleagues from the police station to come over and take a few photos, so that they could be released for his family to identify.

When I left the hospital, I saw Sun Huaxing outside the morgue, and after he calmed down, he didn't say anything when he saw us, just sitting on the ground against the door, the whole person was weak and weak, and a little tear in the corner of his eye slowly filled the annual rings carved by time on his face, and the ravine was full of pain.

I hesitated for a moment, bit my lower lip, and stepped forward to help the man up. He was emaciated to a handful of skinny bones, and as I put my arms around him, I felt the bones beneath them as fragile as a long-eaten piece of wood, which would be broken with a slight force, revealing the powder within.

Sun Huaxing stood up with my strength half-leaning on the wall, Ziwei also came over to hold him, and the tears in his eyes suddenly increased more.

I said, "Life and death are fateful, and you mourn." ”

Sun Huaxing didn't speak, and we sent him back to our home. When I entered the room, there was almost nothing but a bed and a stove, not even a table for eating, and two bowls were placed on the sides of the cauldron, touching the porcelain in the corners.

The two worn-out quilts at home were covered one by one, and the child did not shake off the dust on them, so he helped make the bed and helped the old man to lie down. Our backpack had food prepared in advance, Ziwei boiled a pot of hot water, fed him something, drank half a bowl of water, Sun Huaxing's face looked much better.

Before leaving, Ziwei left him some necessary daily necessities, and when he walked to the door, Sun Huaxing suddenly opened his mouth and said dumbly: "Don't look for it anymore." ”

I stopped at the threshold and turned to look at him, "What did you say?" ”

Sun Huaxing's eyes full of yellow spots revealed despair, and his voice was sad and fearful, "Muzhang County...... Look no further......"

I frowned slightly, Sun Huaxing's breath was uneven, his chest was purring because of his age, and he said in a low voice: "That's hell, that's a group of demons...... No one can leave alive, no one can ......"

As soon as he finished speaking, the moment the words fell, he bent down without warning holding his abdomen and let out a painful scream.

"Get to the doctor!"

Jiang Xun and I guarded Sun Huaxing, his breathing sound was getting harder and harder, his trachea was blocked, and his snort was short and urgent.

Jiang Xun leaned on his chest and listened to his heart rate, and asked me to help him sit upright, reduce the blood flow to the heart, and increase the ventilation of the lungs.

I did as I was told, and when the doctor arrived, Sun Huaxing was holding his knees, his forehead was drenched in cold sweat, and his expression was full of pain.

Sun Huaxing's lungs were covered with crackles, his blood pressure could not be measured, his lips were cyanotic, and after receiving cardiac injections, he was sent to the hospital for acute pulmonary edema and was injected with oxygen in the ward.

Ziwei followed to go through the formalities, and it didn't take long for the police to hear the news and rush over.

Sun Huaxing is also a long-lived member in this place where the life span is generally very short, and the city has issued a policy to take care of and attach importance to the elderly over 50 years old. The nearby residents are usually very concerned about Sun Huaxing's family, and all of a sudden two people have an accident, and the number of people discussing it suddenly increased.

The doctor gave him a full body examination, and after several people discussed, they said that it may be caused by malaria, which is not serious, but it is infectious, and it should be isolated to strictly prevent insect vector transmission.

Malaria is usually transmitted through mosquito bites, and the temperature and season here are the most mosquitoes, which is not a rare disease, and it is not so scary, but I always feel that things are not so simple.

Back at the hostel, Tang Jiao's face was not very good-looking, and he opened his mouth a few times before he said to me: "We haven't found Muzhang County after we came here, Shopkeeper Shen, you are a refreshing person, and I won't beat around the bush." Jiang Xun and I didn't plan to come here in the first place, we didn't want to make friends with you before we decided to come here to help you, we have all seen the situation in Dongyan Town, if you are alone, even if you catch the guy behind the bad guy, you may not be able to catch him, we are worried that you and the little brother Ziwei will follow. You see that there is even a contagion here, can we consider leaving here, after all, our purpose has not been achieved, it seems that the place disappeared many years ago, and there is no point in us staying. It's better to leave early, because the province didn't find Muzhang County at the end of the day and contracted a disease, and lost his wife and soldiers. ”