"Everyone is infected...... "My heart was so tight that I couldn't stop jumping.

Mu Jinshu vented enough, before he stopped his forced laughter, took a deep breath, and said slowly: "The cockroaches we have here have long been uncontrollable, except for a few places, whether it is water or food, they are all infected with the poison of insect eggs. The eggs of the cockroaches are so small that they are barely visible to the naked eye, and at first everyone is unaware of them, and later when there are a large number of deaths, this fact is discovered later, but it is too late. ”

Mu Jinshu looked at me and said, "We are all carriers of toxicity, and everyone who survives has at least one bug in their body alive. ”

The three of them didn't know what to say, and they were unexpected, and everyone had suspicion in their eyes. They look good, how can they?

Mu Jinshu said: "These are all caused by your invasion more than 50 years ago, in addition to us, those people who go out also carry poison in their bodies, and it has spread from generation to generation, even if the adult worm was not directly brought out at the beginning, 50 years is enough time for the poisonous adult." It won't be long before the infestation of cockroaches will make your home your doom. ”

"However, doesn't it mean that the cockroach body is highly poisonous, and if it is touched, it will be life-threatening? How can there be such a long incubation period? As he spoke, Ziwei looked at me worriedly, remembering how I had been poisoned.

At that time, I was only stained with the body fluids of insects, and I couldn't tell whether I had been bitten or not, but I almost lost my life because I felt that the poisoning was not deep, and they didn't know about Jiang Xun feeding my own blood to detoxify, and I didn't know where to start.

Mu Jinshu replied to his question: "Cockroaches are highly poisonous, and there is still a way to solve the mucus on the body surface, but the parasitic person has only one way to die." However, bugs in different nests have different decisions on when to let the host die. Luckily, cockroaches that have just eaten carrion generally do not take the initiative to attack living people, and the eggs sometimes enter the human body with the mother, and the larvae will eat the mother to fill their stomachs after hatching, and then they will not rush to attack and forage and destroy the tissues around the body surface, and after adapting to the life in the human body, they will form a symbiosis with the host, absorbing the nutrients of the human body without releasing venom, until the nutrients that the host can provide are not enough to meet its growth. There are also some who are unlucky, and the brains and hearts are eaten after the eggs hatch, and the body of the person is empty except for a piece of skin. At the end of the day, how long the incubation period is depends on your luck. Unfortunately, your friend is somewhere in between. ”

She sneered, "The little man has limited storage and insufficient nutrition, so I'm afraid he won't die soon." ”

"I got here and my money was stolen and my soul was scared away, and I haven't even eaten a few full meals, where is the nutrition for them!" Tang Jiaosheng burst into tears, looking strange and pitiful, "You guys find a way to save me, I don't want to die, my mother is still waiting for me at home, my family is just one of my children, it's not easy for her old man to raise me so much, who will give her a pension when I die——"

The corners of Mu Jinshu's mouth twitched, "You still talk so much when you are dying, you are still the first one I have seen." ”

"Then for the sake of me making you gain knowledge, Miss Mu, you must have a way to save me! So many of you in Muzhang County have survived, you can't rely on good luck all of them, just me alone with this back, I don't believe you beat me to death! ”

Mu Jinshu paused slightly, his heart was heavy, and his emotions were gloomy, "Our people here don't just rely on good luck, but I'm afraid you can't do the way we survive." ”

"You can do it!" Tang Jiao hurriedly said: "As long as I can live, you can let me do anything!" ”

"The first step is to implant an adult female worm in the body, and it must be a queen in the nest who is in the breeding stage."

"Huh?"

"The second step is also the most important."

Mu Jinshu looked around at us and said, "You must all stay and promise that you will never step outside the barrier of Muzhang County." ”

As soon as these words came out, even Tang Jiao didn't answer immediately, he looked at Mu Jinshu in a daze, his head was stuck, his eyes blinked, but he didn't say a word.

Mu Jinshu said: "Of course, you can also temporarily agree now, and then regret and deny it later, but I promise, in that case, all of you will die an ugly death, including those infected outside the barrier." Since you said that the cockroaches came from us, how to deal with them, we naturally have a way, even if we can't cure the poison, but let people quickly poison and die in a short time, this little thing can still be done. ”

Seeing that we were silent, Mu Jinshu smiled and looked at Tang Jiao, "What?" Didn't you just say that you can do anything to survive? Just let you stay here and stop doing it? ”

"No......," said Tang Ka, "what's in it for you to stay here?" All of you people are eager to kill us, even if we agree, as soon as we get out of this door, we don't have to die, compared to being tortured to death by cockroaches, at most it is a pleasure, what kind of life trick is this? ”

"It's not the same. As long as you agree to my terms, I have my own way to negotiate peace with the chief, not only to keep you alive, but also to ensure that you are well fed and warm, and that you will be safe and worry-free for the rest of your life. ”

"But no matter how good it is, it's not our home." Tang Jiao's mouth was a step faster, and said: "People can't stay in a foreign land all their lives, who doesn't want a home." ”

"Only fallen leaves will return to their roots, of course you can go back if you want to, I can promise to send your body out of Muzhang County after you die." Mu Jinshu smiled: "Anyway, that's all for my words, how you choose is your business, and I'll give you time to think about it." In the meantime, the little mute can stay in your hands as a hostage, she is a very important person to us, and with her, you don't have to worry about us doing something to you. But I must tell the chief about you, and it is up to her to decide what we want to do next. ”

"What do you think?" Mu Jinshu looked at me.

I hesitated, skeptical of her words, especially the identity of this little girl, but in the end, because I had no choice, nodded, "I agree." ”

"Okay, I'll tell the leader the truth about the misunderstanding between us."

"Wait a minute." When I saw her going around Ziwei to go out, I stopped her and said, "Until our negotiations are over, I hope that no idle person will approach this room except for you and the necessary people." ”

Mu Jinshu nodded, "Of course." ”

She took the stick behind the door, and after going out, Tang Jiao ran over and then put the door on top, spread it on the ground, looked up at us, and said with a clear attitude: "Anyway, I don't care what you choose, I definitely won't stay." ”

Before I could feel that he still had a little sense of belonging and foreign feelings, I heard him say: "If I can't get out, all the antiques in my Fengxian Pavilion will be smashed in my hands, and they are all money, and they are all collected by me one by one, absolutely not!" I have to die in their arms, or what the hell is the difference between my life and living for nothing? ”

"Can you think of anything else in your head all day?" Zi didn't let go of the little mute, went to the window and opened a gap to observe the surrounding environment and terrain, and after a while, he turned around and said: "There are many thatched huts nearby, this is their settlement, the crowd is dense, if you want to save Jiang Xun, the place of detention should not be here." ”

"Maybe they're still tied up in the dungeon we escaped from, which looks heavily guarded and looks like a prison from the inside out." Tang Jiao said.

I hummed perfunctorily, sat down and rubbed my sore shoulders, feeling my stomach swell, and my body had been feeling an indescribable discomfort since I left Dongyan Town.

Things were messy, thinking about it, they floated away from the nine skies, the two of them didn't hear a word of talking, and when Ziwei came to his side, he came back to his senses and asked blankly: "What did you say?" ”

Ziwei frowned slightly, his eyes motioned for me to look at the little girl, and whispered, "This is the first child we have seen here." ”

I didn't react, continued to look at him, and said, "She took Mu Jinshu to see the exit, but she didn't rush to take the first person to check the danger she encountered. Many of the roads in the tomb were sealed, and the hole we went back to was hiding a female corpse, and those strange murals and coffins. I always felt that Mu Jinshu was deliberately hiding something, and her people were as unaware as we were. ”

"I whispered the name ......, and the girl had a sense of mystery from the beginning, and spoke our language fluently as if she were a native speaker.

This is still secondary, what makes me care is that Tang Jiao used poetry to tease her, and she also understood the meaning. She doesn't just understand our language, she understands our culture.

I pulled out the necklace I had picked up from the female corpse tucked into my clothes, and the lettering on it was dark and deep, and a series of strokes and runes stuck together, sticky and not sharp enough.

After thinking for a while, I said to Ziwei: "The top priority is to find a way to find the place where Jiang Xun is being held and rescue the person, he understands the language here, which is a great advantage for us." The four of us entered the barrier together, and if we want to go, we must go together. ”

And he was caught trying to save us, but when we fled, none of us noticed that he didn't follow.

Ziwei was silent and nodded.

Tang Jiao's condition was very bad, he couldn't go down to the ground at all in the early morning of the next day, there was water in the room, there were some vegetables and fruits, I thought that he had been infected anyway, even if it wasn't clean, the situation wouldn't be worse, so let Ziwei give him some to eat.

We held the little mute, and no one outside approached the room, and sometimes there would be people pacing around the perimeter, and finally seeing that we did not react, they also left to do their own business.

Ziwei and I took turns staring at the outside of the house, waiting for two days, when Tang Jiao had a high fever, Mu Jinshu came back before we went to look for him, after entering the door, he checked Tang Jiao's situation, sent someone to fetch some smashed leaves, and put them on his forehead, and it didn't take long for the temperature to drop, and Tang Jiao, who had been uncomfortable for several days, finally closed his eyes and fell asleep peacefully.

The little mute gradually seemed less afraid of us in the past two days, and she stood beside Ziwei during the negotiation, her fingers turning her hair in circles, and her eyes dripping between us.

"The leader agrees with my plan, she is willing to help you, and you are welcome to stay." Mu Jinshu went straight to the point, his face was serious, "But in order to prevent you from changing your hexagrams, the leader made a request. ”

"Listen up."

"She hopes that you can marry our warriors, and your three friends can also marry our girls from Muzhang County, and will be here for the rest of their lives, leaving their roots and becoming the descendants of their ancestors."