Chapter 38: The Mist

The pain in my hand, the stunned Wu Laogui, the anxious Zhang, and the brother Chengxin who blamed me for using my hand to catch the bug all became a background noise in my eyes. In my eyes, there was only a magnified “slow motion” of the bug flying towards Ru Xue again.

I knew that it was dangerous to catch the bug with my hand, especially after Ru Xue said that the bug was not poisonous, but was more terrifying than poisonous bugs. I shouldn’t have made such a “low-level mistake,” but in fact, if Ru Xue was safe, nothing would be a mistake for me!

At this moment, I hate myself a little. My eyes can keep up with the speed of the bug, but my body can’t keep up with my eyes!

I could only see my outstretched hand, covered in blood, with a clear piece of flesh missing the size of a fingernail!

The bug flew past and landed on Ruoxue’s shoulder. Ruoxue reached out and the bug crawled onto her hand. At this moment, I had just grabbed Ruoxue’s wrist and reached out to remove the bug again.

The bug was clearly hostile towards me, flapping its wings and looking at me as if it was about to bite me again.

“Chengyi, don’t move. It won’t do anything to me,” said Ruoxue, who quickly grabbed me and explained to me.

I saw that the bug really did what Ruoxue said. After I pulled away, it just “obediently” lay on Ruoxue’s palm, shaking its head and swaying its body, as if it was trying to please Ruoxue.

“It…” I looked at the bug and didn’t know what to say because there were so many questions in my stomach. I didn’t know where to start.

“I just learned about it too. It is it, and it will never hurt me. Chengyi, why are you so impulsive?” Ruoxue held my injured hand, which was bleeding profusely. She looked at me reproachfully with her eyes, and she was really a little angry.

“In that situation, if it were you, you would have saved me too. Besides, it’s just a piece of flesh, it’s not a big deal.” I saw Ru Xue holding my hand, and the worm obediently climbed onto Ru Xue’s shoulder and lay there motionless.

“It’s impossible to be okay. A few more bites will hurt your soul. This bug doesn’t just bite off flesh. While it’s biting into the flesh, it’s also biting into the soul. It swallows a small piece of flesh, and at the same time it swallows that part of the soul that corresponds to the flesh. And once it matures, it can devour anything.” Ruoxue always carried a handkerchief with her, and Chengxin carried some powder. She took the powder that Chengxin handed her and explained to me calmly while bandaging my wound.

Yes, Ru Xue was very calm, but my heart was in turmoil. The reason is simple. Just think about it. If you are eaten by this bug, you will be completely destroyed. No, it is even worse than being completely destroyed. Even your soul will be eaten. How terrifying is that?

Not only me, but also Chengxin, widened his eyes and said in a low voice, “This is not poison, it is a deadly poison, a deadly poison that cannot be cured. Ru Xue, how do you know about this worm? Is Chengyi okay?”

At this point, Ru Xue had already carefully bandaged the wound on my hand and said to Brother Chengxin, “Chengyi is fine. This bug is still in its infancy and is far from being a mature body. Chengyi’s spiritual power is strong. This bite is like a small cut on the body, and it will recover.”

“That’s good.” Cheng Xin brother let out a long sigh, but he forgot that Ru Xue had not answered him at all about how he knew about the bug.

As for Old Zhang, his eyes widened and his throat made a strange sound of ‘mo-mo’, not knowing what to say, but unable to help but marvel at the strange effect this had created. In fact, all of this was too incredible for Old Zhang.

Wu Lao Gui is a heartless guy. Seeing that everyone was fine, he floated into the hole he had just opened, saying, “I’m going to explore the way. Who says I’m a hard worker?” Then he disappeared.

It was as quiet as snow, and while blowing on the wound on my hand, which had already been bandaged, it said, “It can’t get in. There should be two more doors to open.”

“What do you mean…” I looked at the other two pairs of “phantom stones.”

“Mmm,” Ru Xue nodded.

Old Zhang couldn’t help but say, “Girl, did your ancestors make this in this old forest? How do you know so much about it? This can’t be right, can it?”

Ruxue smiled, but she didn’t explain. She looked at me with a searching gaze, but she just avoided it.

I was like caught in a fog, not at all clear about what was going on with Ruixue. I should know her inside and out, but why did I find that I didn’t understand her again?

I could only console myself with Ru Xue’s words, that she would give me an explanation when she went out. I hoped that Ru Xue would tell me everything, and I could hardly calm down again when I thought of the inexplicable pain and the uneasy feeling.

“If my guess is right, there are also these bugs under the other two pairs of enchanted stones. I’ll knock them open. You wait. We always have to go out, don’t we?” As if she no longer wanted to talk about it, Ru Xue picked up the ice pick again and began to knock on the other pair of enchanted stones embedded in the wall.

The sound of the hammering echoed through the stone chamber again, but Chengxin, Lao Zhang and I had no desire to talk. It was a bit dull. We were not as heartless as Wu Laogui, and we could feel that something was wrong with this matter.

Especially me and Chengxin brother both know that Ruoxue is a “bug” player. If she gets a particularly powerful bug, she must be very happy, just like when I learned a particularly powerful Taoist technique.

In fact, I didn’t feel how happy Ruoxue was. I even felt that she was under great pressure. But she was always too calm in her daily life. I could only guess at her emotions, but I could never be sure.

Moreover, not only me, but even Old Zhang couldn’t help but whisper in my ear, “Big brother, your wife’s ability to make that bug so close to her is a great thing, and it’s good for us, too. Why isn’t she happy?”

I didn’t know how to answer Lao Zhang, so I just shook my head to show that I didn’t know. The kind of depression that comes from being in a fog and having the person you love the most as the object of your affection made me feel that even if Lao Zhang said that Ruoxue was my wife, I still wouldn’t be happy.

After a while, Wu Laogui floated out, and as soon as he did, he shouted as if the sky had fallen: “It’s terrible, terrible! The road down there is a dead end, blocked by a door, and it’s a dead end again.”

We all looked at it calmly, except for Old Zhang, who said, “We all know, Ru Xue told us, there are three doors in here, and only one has been opened.”

“Ah?” Wu Laogui looked displeased and hurriedly floated to Ru Xue’s side, asking repeatedly, “Why didn’t you tell me? Why didn’t you tell me? I made a wasted trip. I can’t do that.”

Unfortunately, as she was concentrating on striking the enchanted stone, how could Ru Xue, who was so worried, respond to Wu Laogui?

The sound of a stone falling to the ground.

After a while, the second stone fell to the ground, and the blue-eyed fox became a “blind fox”!

This time, there was no loud, strange roar like the last time, but the ground shook again. This time, we were calm and knew that the second door had opened.

As expected, another worm crawled out of the blind fox’s eye socket this time. It was the same kind of worm as the last one, only slightly smaller and with one less purple stripe.

After this bug came out, it also did the same thing. After crawling halfway around the wall, it flew towards Ruoxue and, like the first bug, lay quietly on Ruoxue’s shoulder.

Soon, the stone chamber was quiet again. Ruoxue walked up to me and said, “Chengyi, help me. Carry me and knock off the last pair of enchanted stones.”

I looked at the strange bug lying on Ru Xue’s shoulder, and I couldn’t say what I felt in my heart, but I nodded and took Ru Xue to knock off the last pair of enchanted stones!