Chapter 91: Fighting the Gu

The flying bug, which came and went like lightning, made the five people on the other side look unusually serious. In my opinion, such a bug is terrifying, especially if it is also poisonous, because the speed at which people can dodge is simply not as fast as the speed at which this bug can fly.

But the five people only looked a little more serious, but not much more panicked. The next moment, one of them actually threw something out. After the object hit the ground, I heard a familiar chirping sound. I was too familiar with this sound because when I was a child in the countryside, I could hear them chirping almost every night.

On the ground was a toad.

This toad was no more than the size of a fist, and its pattern was very strange. Five lines of lines were twisted together, looking very colorful. It had already broken away from the low-level taste of the grayish black toad, and was a noble toad.

If it weren’t for the bumps and pimples on its body, I would have thought it had already been upgraded to the level of frogs.

After the five of them released the toad, two of them began to close their eyes and mumble, looking very labored, while the other three began to give a “deeply affectionate” explanation: “I see what you’re going to do. My toad is a specialist in killing all flying insects.”

“What kind of insect can escape a toad? Hahaha… otherwise the crops in the fields would have been eaten by insects.”

“This toad charm has a history of over a hundred years, and it has been passed down for many generations. It is extremely powerful. Moreover, we control the charm with our minds, so it is very flexible.”

Well, there were no Chibi Maruko-chan in those days, but I think if Chibi Maruko-chan were there, she would definitely make that classic expression of confusion in the face of the commentary trio.

Although these people give the impression that they are a bit ridiculous, their gu technique is indeed not ambiguous. After the toad appeared, it jumped left and right, and its long tongue was occasionally extended. The speed was simply not visible to the naked eye. In my opinion, I could only see the toad’s mouth opening and closing, “contrasting with” the commentary trio. Only very occasionally did I see it retract its tongue.

Perhaps it was because of the natural enemy, after the noble toad came out, the flying insect hesitated and did not dare to get close to the five people. Under the urging of Ling Ruxue, it reluctantly got close to the five people, but was also forced by the toad to fly back and forth. Several times, it almost got caught in the mouth by the toad’s long tongue.

“Haha, if this flying bug is your real name, then you’d better follow us.”

“That’s right, we have even more powerful guys.”

“Really, how can we be bothered with such a small character?”

The three commentators were extremely pleased, and their words were full of threats. Gao Ning rolled his eyes and whispered, “Idiot, if it were me, I would definitely use the insect to suppress the enemy now.”

Ling Ruxue sighed in the face of these people’s threatening words, took the unknown leaf from her mouth, put it back in her hand, then untied her headscarf, and then I saw that under the headscarf was Ruxue’s braided hair.

The elaborate braiding of this hair made the already beautiful Ruoxue look even more feminine. I couldn’t help but feel a little ‘thump’ in my heart, and my hand couldn’t help but clench. Is Ruoxue preparing to seduce the five-person group?

At that moment, Huigen woke up with a groan, and grumbled in dissatisfaction, “Brother, what are you doing pinching my buttocks?”

I blushed. I had been carrying Hui Gen on my back, and when I got nervous just now, my hand tightened and I pinched the kid’s buttocks. I didn’t even know it. I had to pretend to be serious and say, “Nothing, I’m afraid you’re too dizzy. You can continue to be dizzy.”

Hui Gen’er nodded obediently and then fell asleep on my back again. It seems that summoning the Vajra Dharma image really exhausted the child.

The flying demon lost its command and was in a tragic situation. It was finally swallowed by the big toad, which then croaked a few times in triumph before jumping towards us.

“This toad is poisonous and can spray venom. You should come with us…” said the bandit with a smug look on his face.

Ruxue ignored the chatter of the five, as well as the unreliable me and Huigen, and pulled a hairpin out of her hair. A long, shiny black braid fell down, shaking!

When I first saw Ru Xue, I was amazed by her long hair down to her waist, which looked very charming. I didn’t expect it to look so good when braided, but I saw with my sharp eyes that a thin, cold-looking blade was tied to the tip of this long braid.

Ru Xue took a step forward, and I only saw her head shake, and the long braid swung out like a whip. The blade of cold light happened to cut across the toad, and a magical thing happened. The toad fell to the ground and didn’t move.

Pigtail kung fu? This was a popular form of kung fu during the Qing Dynasty. When practiced to a high level, the pigtails become as sharp as whips. I didn’t expect Ruoxue to know this technique, but I was very confused. The wound on the toad was clearly not deep, so why did it fall to the ground and look dead?

At this point, Ru Xue had already retracted her braids and was biting the whip in her mouth. I couldn’t expect her to explain it to me, but I had the five-person chatterbox group. Sure enough, one of them said, “Hair poison. Under the stimulation of the medicine, every strand of hair contains a strong poison.”

“Used in conjunction with the braiding technique, it’s no wonder that hair poisoning was so popular in the Qing Dynasty.”

“Well, it’s extremely difficult to master the hair poison. What kind of person is this woman to have hair poison?”

“I heard that Ling Ruxue is the female demon of the Moon Weir Miao tribe, but what’s so scary about the female demon of the Bai Miao tribe?”

They started discussing it as if nothing had happened, but they were not idle. This time, each of the five took out a cloth bag, and one of them said arrogantly, “If you have the ability, defeat the life-giving spirit that we have nurtured since childhood.”

The five of them released their life-giving bugs at the same time. It seems that the hair bug has deeply stimulated them. In fact, if I were to face this strange hair bug, I would also be like a great enemy.

The whip technique is already famous for its long-distance control and unpredictable direction of attack. If there is a knife at the tip of the hair, as long as a small cut is made by the knife and then swept by the poisonous hair…

The result is that you can refer to the noble toad on the ground.

Facing the cloth bag that the five people took out, Gao Ning’s face changed and he whispered, “The secret army’s life-giving insects are all a kind of poisonous flying ant. They are very hard and almost devour everything. Even if they wear a layer of protective clothing, they will be devoured by these flying ants. One or two may not be a problem, but a group of them…”

Gao Ning was clearly reminding Ling Ruxue, but I thought of something else. When the secret forces work together, a group of overwhelming flying ants, such things can already be classified as large-scale biological weapons. What are they going to do?

And can Ruoxue deal with these flying ants?

You know, swarms of ants have almost no natural enemies among insects.

Ruxue bit her braid and remained calm as ever. No expression changed on her face. The five people across from her had already ripped open the small black bag. As soon as the bag was ripped open, the ants flew out one by one.

Soon, a small cloud of insects gathered in front of the five people. I took a quick look and saw that each cloud of insects had about 2,300 so-called flying ants. These ants were already quite large when viewed individually.

They were about the size of a human’s little finger, had transparent wings, and were covered in red and black patterns. The pair’s mouthparts were huge and exaggerated in proportion to their bodies, proving that what Gao Ning had said was true.

I don’t know what the difference is between the natal gong and the general gong, but the five people commanding this swarm of flying ants seemed to be doing it effortlessly, much easier than commanding the noble toads just now.

Under the command of the five people, the flying ants began to disperse. Although the number of each person was not large, the five people together probably had more than 1,000 ants. In addition, they were not small in size, and when they flew toward us in a scattered manner, it was like an overwhelming attack, and we had no strength to escape.

During this time, Ling Ruxue only did one thing, which was to throw a small bamboo tube to us and said, “Quickly, sprinkle this powder all over your body.”