The "dry corpse" put on a suit of armor at some point, and slashed at the white sand with a knife that had long been stained with rust.

Fortunately, Bai Sha reacted quickly and dodged the knife, and then the second brother, Bai Sha and Yu Yang fought with this dry corpse. During the fight, the corpses kept muttering bird language they didn't understand.

I said strangely, there is only one way to this place from the moment I enter the door, but Wang Degui and the butterfly who came in through the gate have disappeared. They can't just disappear into thin air, can they?

I said, "How long have you been in?" ”

"This.... I didn't pay attention to the time, but it was almost more than three hours, right? ”

I don't think it's right, Butterfly and Wang Degui have to pass through here anyway, unless they haven't arrived yet, but they didn't see them along the way, which is strange.

I told Yu Yang that Wang Degui also disappeared here, Yu Yang's expression was a little weird, and he said, "Third Master Qiu, didn't you meet Brother Wu when you came over?" ”

I was stunned and wondered, "What did you encounter?" ”

"The walls of this chamber are moving, changing the location of the passages from time to time..... After we and the second master came in, we didn't come here after turning around several times, and in the end, it took the second master a while to crack the rules..... I thought you and Brother Wu also came in after breaking the mechanism. ”

This time I was completely confused, I walked in with Dawu all the way unimpeded, and I didn't encounter anything strange at all.

But when Yu Yang said this, I also thought that Yu Yang said that they had been in for three hours, and it didn't take long to go up the fifteenth floor, so most of the time was basically spent in the secret passage he said.

"Then you mean, they're both trapped in the secret passage and haven't come out yet.... Dawu and I were lucky enough to come in all the way unimpeded? ”

Yu Yang nodded: "It can only be explained like this.... But when we were in the secret passage, it changed very quickly, and it was not possible to be so coincidental that you could come in all the way without hindrance.... It's weird. ”

When Yu Yang and I were discussing, there was a sound in the secret room, and the two of us didn't stand outside anymore, and rushed in with flashlights.

As soon as I entered the secret room, I smelled the pungent smell of fire oil, and the walls around it were muddy, and the fire oil was probably mixed in the mud to build this secret room.

I was startled when I saw the first face of the dried corpse that Yu Yang said, he was wearing heavy armor, but he had no helmet on his shriveled and small head, and his two eyes were sunken, as if there were no eyeballs, and they were extremely hollow.

It had already broken one of its arms by Bai Sha and Dawu, and its left arm was still waving wildly, but his knife had been knocked to the ground.

"Woooooooo Quack, quack...."

It's really inappropriate to say that he is a dry corpse, because he is still making sounds in his mouth, a bit like the mute people nowadays, who can't say the whole thing when he opens his mouth, but he can produce some strange syllables.

Bai Sha picked up the knife of the "dried corpse" from the ground, walked towards the dried corpse with a blank face, and swung the knife to chop off his head directly.

Perhaps because of the excessive force, the head of the dried corpse was directly cut off, and it rolled twice and rolled to my feet.

I subconsciously took a step back and noticed that there was no blood coming out of his neck, only something that looked like a black thread squirming.

"Second brother.... Look at his neck! I pointed to his head.

The second brother squatted in front of the head of the dried corpse with a flashlight, frowning and observing, and didn't see what it was for a long time.

Yu Yang, who was standing next to me, said "Huh", he asked us all to stay away from this head, and then he took out the tool kit from the backpack and took out a pair of tweezers from it. Yu Yang pinched the wriggling black line in the head of the dried corpse with tweezers, and lifted it hard, and the black line was directly pulled out of his head.

At this moment, our people in the secret room froze instantly, this is a bug of about thirty centimeters, a bit like a wire worm. But the difference is that its body is slender, but its head is the size of a thumb, and it squirms more violently after being pulled out.

"This.... What the hell is it? Dawu was speechless, and said: "This is a bit like the bloodsucking worm I encountered in the river when I was in the field exercise in the army." ”

Yu Yang pulled out the worm, stepped on its body directly on the ground, and said: "If my guess is right, this worm similar to the iron worm is called the nematode, which is a very ancient Gu worm, a kind of Gu worm of the ancient Xiangxi Gu magician, and now it is basically extinct....."

I said, "How do you know this bug?" ”

Yu Yang coughed dryly and said, "I'm not from Xiangxi, so naturally I've heard a lot of things about Xiangxi Gu Technique. When I was very young, I heard in the mouths of the older generation that there was a bug that could control people's movements, and it was called the nematode....."

It turned out that as early as the Tang Dynasty, the Gu magicians in Xiangxi accidentally discovered a kind of insect called Lixian worm in the mountains, which can be used to lay Gu on people, this kind of insect controls the host's body, making the host become powerful and destructive, absorbing the host's nutrients to feed itself.

It can also be used to control corpses and bring them back to life.

However, this kind of Gu technique is too vicious, and it doesn't have much effect, once the person who falls into this kind of worm Gu will die soon because the nematode destroys the brain tissue. So basically, there are no Gu magicians who use this kind of worm Gu, but they just write this kind of worm into the Gu art book.

In the Western Xia period, in order to prevent the invaders from encroaching on their clan and territory, the Xiangxi Gu Masters turned out this insect Gu from the Gu Art Book and used it on the selected dead soldiers, doubling their combat effectiveness.

Even if these worm-infused soldiers die, these bugs can still manipulate their bodies and make them aggressive. In this way, as long as the heads of these soldiers are not cut off on the battlefield, they can continue to fight.

With this insect Gu technique, the hometown of these Gu magicians would not be invaded, and this kind of Gu technique was continued to the Ming Dynasty.

There was an emperor in the Ming Dynasty who was good at immortal art and pursued the art of immortality, and the Xiangxi Gu magician naturally planned for this emperor in order to make a living. But because of the pursuit of immortality, the emperor ate too much "elixir", his body collapsed, and he was diagnosed with a few years to live by Li Shizhen, who was famous at the time, and the emperor asked the reason, Li Shizhen told him that he had eaten too much "elixir", so his body would have this kind of fate that the Daluo Immortal could not save when he came.

When the emperor heard this, the dragon was furious and slaughtered all the Gu magicians and Taoist priests who had refined the "elixir" for him.

It was precisely the group of Gu magicians who inherited the worm Gu that were among them, and since then, many worm Gu and Gu techniques passed down from their ancestors have been lost, including how to raise the worms.