1158. Tomb of the Tusi King (101) Zero-guided clever plan
[No——Damn it, you can't——]
Who is yelling? In a trance, Miao Fangfei seemed to hear the red maggot on the branch making a sharp and angry explosion, and then it was quickly and accurately stuffed into the mouth of the fish with the swordfish, and the explosion suddenly turned into a gurgling and unclear sobbing.
Hearing? Was it a dream? Miao Fangfei didn't know why she was particularly sleepy tonight. She wanted to wake up completely several times, but her body didn't obey. But she didn't feel any danger in her subconscious mind. She just felt a sense of security that made her fall into a comfortable and sleepy state, and she wanted to fall into a sweet dream. She hasn't fallen asleep yet. One reason is that she has a strong willpower, and the other is that the red maggot keeps screaming, saying some insect language that only the king of all poisons, the golden silkworm, can understand.
Its cries were also unclear to Miao Fangfei. She didn't care about them. She just watched with sleepy eyes as Ling Dao pulled out the branch and stuffed the red maggot into the fish's mouth, pulling it out and stuffing it back in again, like flying a kite or fishing. And Captain An was right next to Ling Dao, like a solid wall. His hands turned into huge, white, powerful tiger claws, protecting Yi Ling in front of him. It looked very safe. As if he felt Miao Fangfei's gaze, An Xuefeng glanced over. The calm eyes as always made Miao Fangfei feel at ease. There was nothing to be afraid of, she thought, as long as Captain An and Ling Dao were there, there would be no problem. Even if she lost her memory, the sense of security from her subconscious mind finally made Miao Fangfei relax. She no longer resisted the drowsiness that came over her and closed her eyes. The golden silkworm Gu was lying on her chest, flickering with a faint light, as if it was resonating with something, so Miao Fangfei had a dream -
In the dream, it was also a dark night, with continuous drizzle, cool air, and silence. The quaint and dilapidated Miao stilt house was hidden in the layers of deep forests. The creaking sound of wooden boards was heard, and someone walked down the stilt house briskly in the middle of the night and walked into the rainy night. When she walked outside, the continuous drizzle slowly stopped, and the silver-like moonlight fell down. A layer of fluffy grass carpet grew on the muddy and dirty land, and the stars of fireflies flew out of the bushes like a strip of light.
When the firefly fell gently on her palm like a small lamp, the woman whose face could not be seen smiled. She walked barefoot on the green grass, and the silver ring on her ankle swayed slightly as she walked. Following the light of the firefly, she walked calmly and briskly towards the mountains, which made Miao Fangfei, who was "watching" her back, feel an indescribable intimacy and melancholy in her heart.
On this stormy night, Miao Fangfei dreamed of her great-aunt in the resonance of the golden silkworm Gu and the past, and the mountain god saw her dream, so even the pollution spreading in the Meliri B\u0026B became gentle and harmless, benefiting others, and even the other travelers who were too nervous to fall asleep fell into a deep sleep.
Except for Yi Ling and An Xuefeng, almost everyone was asleep, so no one saw the next horrible scene - after Yi Ling repeatedly sent the red maggots into the fish mouth of the ghost-headed knife, when he pulled out the branch again, a pale hand suddenly stretched out of the fish mouth!
This was like some kind of horror horror movie, a pale hand with distinct joints stretched out of the fish mouth, it silently and extremely quickly grabbed the red maggots, but it grabbed nothing, and was grabbed by the An team who was on high alert!
Ah——!
When the tiger claw suddenly grabbed the pale hand, it suddenly tensed as if it was going to grab the tiger claw in return, but when a circle of golden light burst out from the tiger claw, it suddenly broke and disappeared, just like an illusion. But then a foul smell came, and the originally intact swordfish suddenly rotted, just like time fast forward, and in the blink of an eye it turned into a pool of rotten meat like mud, emitting a strong and sticky fishy smell, which made people cry.
And in this pool of rotten meat, there was a pale and swollen finger.
"It really was caught!"
Yiling was surprised, tilting his head to look at the finger, and then disliked the stench, frowned and moved back. Without him saying it, An Xuefeng stretched out his tiger claw and rubbed his fingers, and a golden glimmer swept across like a breeze. In the blink of an eye, the rotten meat turned into ashes, without even a bit of pus left, leaving only this finger that looked like it was bitten off a corpse.
He poked the finger with a branch and put it in the fire for a while, but it didn't change its shape until he lit the tiger marrow lamp oil and burned it with tiger fire. The finger was gradually burned by the flame. After burning, a strange fragrance filled the air, making people feel like they were floating in the air, and their souls were a little lighter, as if they could leave their heavy bodies and wander in the void at any time.
Yi Ling and An Xuefeng were both in a trance for a while, and soon returned to normal. A very strong sense of attention came from behind him. An Xuefeng turned his head and saw that the window that had been flooded was crowded with densely packed ghost-headed knives, wandering outside the window like crazy, and the number was so large that it looked like a school of small sardines. All of them were attracted by the soul smell that leaked at that moment.
"The ghost-headed knives have eaten too much fragrant meat, and they are polluted and eroded. They are no longer considered living things."
An Xuefeng said in a deep voice: "But I think there are still dead drifts in the water."
The passengers were already tense enough just now, so An Xuefeng didn't plan to say it tonight, but only mentioned it to Yi Ling in private.
Anacondas, scorpions, and insects formed a predator chain. The source of the chaos was the swarms of insects attacking the boat. If the swarms of insects did not attack the boat and stayed far away from the boat, the melee would be safer the farther away from the boat.
So why did the swarms of insects attack the boat? What attracted them on the boat? Because An Xuefeng and the others were living people with the breath of living people?
No.
"There was a dead body attached to the bottom of the boat, drifting with the boat."
An Xuefeng said solemnly: "I saw it."
It was a pale, swollen, greasy corpse covered with insects, sinking like a pile of compost piled with worms. When An Xuefeng was killing the fish, the tip of the knife pierced the corpse's wrist. When he lifted the knife, he pulled it out of the water and pulled out a section of the corpse's arm.
But almost in the next second, An Xuefeng's blade flicked, and the arm disappeared, taking the body with it. It disappeared so quickly that only An Xuefeng saw the body. After it disappeared, the creepy scratching sound on the bottom of the boat also disappeared. No one except An Xuefeng saw it, and no one even heard the scratching sound.
It was impossible to tell whether the corpse was real or just his visual and auditory hallucinations. As if he was born with some backlash from water, An Xuefeng felt that his strength had been suppressed a lot since boarding the ship. Both his keen five senses and his sensitive sixth sense seemed to be covered with a layer of fog, making it impossible for people to perceive accurately. . Perception is the most important in this dangerous environment full of pollution, but visual and auditory hallucinations can further confuse cognition in the chaos, and people can easily make irreparable mistakes.
For example, during the killing, An Xuefeng also saw Wang Pengpai Huan as a fat stone figurine, Wan Xiangchun Huan as a big ghost-headed sword, and the "corpse" of Wang Yushu and other companions also floated on the water. Like a dead body.
But An Xuefeng was determined to distinguish the true from the false. It was not until later when a swarm of greedy devouring insects appeared in the ghost-headed swordfish swarm that An Xuefeng suddenly discovered that a fish did not compete with its companions for blood food, but it ate not a lot. Because a hand stretched out from its mouth and stuffed piles of bugs into the fish's mouth.
This made An Xuefeng unsure. Was it the dead body that was under their boat just now, or the hand in the mouth of Guitou Dao? The two are fundamentally different.
"The Ghost Head Saber cannot be considered a living fish. It is full of pollution curses and is already a medium for curses and witchcraft."
The big hand protruding from the fish's mouth is not a real hand, but more like a mixture of resentment pollution and twisted soul fragments torn apart by the fish, twisting into a terrifying strange hand. Its soul is incomplete, and its strongest instinct is to pursue completeness. Every big ghost head sword probably has this kind of thing in its belly. Wang Pengpai was bitten on the hand and tore off a piece of meat. Now the wound has been healing for a long time, and what's even weirder is that he was still talking a second ago, and fell asleep the moment he lay down, as if he was mentally exhausted to the extreme.
"When the Ghost Head Sword bites the flesh, I'm afraid it also bites away a small piece of the soul, which is why I feel sleepy."
However, Wang Pengpai is young, strong, and in good physical condition. Even if he loses this small piece of his soul, he will always look good. But in this case, once they are injured and their flesh and blood are eaten by the Ghost Head Sword, their souls will also be eaten away. If they are injured too much, no one will be able to hold on.
"But it's not what attracts the bugs to the boat."
An Xuefeng said that he still believed that what he tied up from under the boat was a complete floating corpse. It floated under their boat with malicious intentions and was the real culprit that attracted the swarm of insects. But why does it disappear? This is very similar to the big hand that disappeared into the fish's mouth and turned into resentment. When it comes to whether to trust intuition or what you see with your own eyes, An Xuefeng actually trusts intuition more. With visual and auditory hallucinations, all five senses are untrustworthy. The Ghost Head Sword jumped on the ship to eat insects, not to eat people.
So An Xuefeng asked Yi Ling for help, using the bait with his soul exposed to catch the resentment in Guitou Dao's belly.
The ghost-headed sword he brought back didn't show any movement even when there were people around it. Of course, this may be affected by its 'death'. Even if this monster that feeds on polluted and resentful souls cannot be considered 'dead' as long as it is not completely eliminated, variables must still be eliminated.
Now it is obvious that Yi Ling only stuffed the red worm with an active soul into the fish's mouth a few times and fished out the big hand. It can be seen that 'death' does not affect the 'foraging' of Ghost Head Dao.
Therefore, this kind of fish is indeed not interested in unprocessed human flesh and the soul wrapped in this human flesh.
This is very bad. Wang Pengpai has determined that cinnabar can expel the ghost head sword. He has discovered its weakness and can deal with it. But that floating corpse that only An Xuefeng had seen before and disappeared quietly was probably the culprit that attracted the swarm of insects. However, they didn't understand it at all and were unable to counterattack for the time being.
If you wait until you get on the boat to try and make mistakes, it will be too late. There were too many dangerous things in the water, and they were scattered on a boat. They couldn't risk going into the water to look at the bottom of the boat at any time. The Ghost Head Sword eats meat and can eat souls. Yi Ling doesn't even intend to let the corn shoots go into the water tomorrow, let alone people. If that dead float followed the boat silently, it could attract a large number of insect swarms at any time and cause a chain reaction. It would be too dangerous on the water.
"It's really disgusting to follow the boat to death."
Yi Ling agreed with An Xuefeng to prepare for a rainy day. He held the branch between his fingers and subconsciously wanted to turn it. After the branch wrapped around his finger twice, he remembered the red maggots clinging to the branches. It is no longer as energetic as before, and has no strength to scream. The whole insect is like a silkworm that is about to die of disease, wrinkled and shrunk, and the red color on its body has faded a little. Qi Soul, who had already lost his soul, was swung by Yi Ling like he was turning a pen, and his vision suddenly went black and the whole insect fainted.
Looking at it, Yi Ling suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his heart and smiled.
"I have a way, but I don't know if it's feasible, and it's very risky."
"It takes at least two days to enter the mountains by water."
An Xuefeng pondered for a moment, then understood in his heart, nodded and said: "It is better to take risks early and solve the trouble later than to be attacked all the way and end up exhausted and have an accident."
When the passengers were asleep and Wu Laoliu was in a coma, they reached a consensus.
So when Wu Laoliu woke up again from this incarnation that was unwilling to give up, he first felt the majestic power in his body - it was the pieces of butterflies full of thunder power that he took the initiative to break off when he cut off his tail to escape. wing! These red butterfly wings were actually stuck back to its side, making its incarnation full of power. However, the ominous premonition in Wu Laoliu's heart became deeper and deeper. He tentatively moved his body - unable to move.
It was firmly tied to the bottom of the boat with a black climbing rope! This is a force that even a half-hearted Thunder God cannot withstand and cannot escape from - is this an unbreakable leader prop that binds it? !
What are they going to do? !