Chapter 93: The Secret of the Bug People

At that moment, not only did my face change, but Ling Ruxue’s face also changed. I even noticed that Ruxue had a small movement, which was that there were a few more bamboo needles between the gaps of her fingers. If anything was wrong, I believe Ruxue would strike Gao Ning first.

This discovery moved me. If she didn’t care about me, why did she act more concerned about Gao Ning’s words than I did?

It’s no wonder that we misunderstood Gao Ning’s words. If we weren’t careful, we would have thought that he was deliberately leading us into a trap. In this tense atmosphere, it would be strange if we didn’t suspect him.

At this point, we had already finished walking up the stone steps, and I, who had already been here once, knew that if we turned the corner, we would enter the insect room.

It was here that Gao Ning stopped, looked at me and Xue as if they were enemies, and said with a smile, “Don’t be nervous. I know what you’re thinking. But doing this won’t do me any good. I’m hoping the bugs will weaken. I just wanted to show you that they must be relieved that you ran to the bug room, and they’ve only sent a few pursuers as a gesture. Maybe these pursuers are just trying to dispel your doubts. It’s just that they didn’t count on me being here.”

After saying this, Gao Ning paused, as if he had sighed, and then said, “So we have to act quickly, because someone has already discovered that four people have run away. By dawn, they may discover that I have disappeared. If that is the case, I believe that those old monsters will burn their lives to chase here, and the Miao people will no longer be afraid of the taboo of the insect room and rush in.”

After Gao Ning’s explanation, my face looked a little better. In the face of this statement, I said, “So what are we waiting for? Let’s go in now.”

Although everything in the insect room was terrifying, the motionless monster was not that scary. In my imagination, the only dangerous place when we got to the insect room was how to bypass the big bug and then enter the hole behind it smoothly.

As for why there was a hole behind the insect room, I didn’t think about it at all.

But just as I was about to move forward, Gao Ning grabbed me and said, “Let’s wait here for a while. When your strength is restored, we’ll go in. It’s not as simple as you think.”

I looked at Gao Ning and asked, “What do you mean?”

The more I get to know him, the more I realize that I can’t read him at all. I can’t remember how many times I’ve asked him what he meant.

Gao Ning, however, calmly sat down, then patted the floor next to him and asked Ling Ruxue and me to sit down as well. He said, “I have a solution. Sit down and talk slowly.”Taoist priest

I sat next to Gao Ning, one of us holding a cigarette in our hands, while Huigen slept in my lap and Ling Ruxue sat next to me.

If Gao Ning were not there, this scene would be very warm and cozy, but my mood had nothing to do with warmth and coziness. On the contrary, it was extremely bad.

I took a deep drag of the cigarette, then exhaled heavily, and then asked Gao Ning again, somewhat uncertainly: “Are you sure about this? As long as we get within 3 meters of the bug, the bug people will wake up, and the old guy will wake up too. If we go behind the bug, the female bug will wake up too?”

Gao Ning said, “How could I lie to you now? Everything is true! What are those bug people? They are even worse off than the ordinary people in the village. They are captured and used as nutrient piles for the bugs. Just like insects in the insect world lay their eggs in places with abundant food. The eggs of the female bug are laid in their bodies. These bug people are in a strange state. You can’t say they are alive or dead.

I didn’t say anything, just smoked a cigarette. Just thinking about it was terrifying. I couldn’t imagine what I would do if I were a bug person. If I knew in the next moment that I couldn’t escape being a bug person, I would rather commit suicide by any means, even if it was a sin.

Gao Ning has always been very calm, but when it comes to all things worm people, his hands actually tremble slightly: “Do you know why I said that? Because after they are laid eggs in the body, the mother worm will use the kind of silk you see to seal them up. At this time, you should not expect the seed people to feed them, because everything in the worm room is also dangerous for these seed people. In this way, after being sealed up and starved for two or three days, the eggs will hatch into larvae. Once the larvae hatch, they will rush into the insect’s brain. At this time, the insect’s brain is already dead. They are considered dead, but they are not, because there is a strange thing about the larvae. As long as they are in the insect’s body, the insect’s corpse will not rot… “At this point, Gao Ning paused for a moment, probably not knowing how to describe it.

But I calmly said, “I know, it’s like a zombie, right? The difference is that these bug people are controlled by the bugs, right?”

Gao Ning looked at me and for the first time showed a surprised expression, then asked, “How do you know? As soon as the bugs leave the body of the bug man, the bug man will turn into an ordinary corpse and rot quickly because it is already empty inside.”

I didn’t respond, I just smoked my cigarette, I didn’t want to think of the word zombie, but there was no way around it, the purple plants, the purple bugs, and Gao Ning’s description, all of this could only remind me of zombies.

Purple has always been a synonym for nobility. I couldn’t help but wonder why these functions were so rebellious and shouldn’t have appeared in our world at all. Why were the flowers of the demons all purple? Were they more precious?

The consequence of being precious is that it is even more terrifying than the devil?

I didn’t answer Gao Ning, and Gao Ning didn’t bother to ask me any more. He leaned against the wall and said, “These bug people can move even if you cripple them. It’s useless to blow their heads off, as long as the bugs are still in their bodies. They don’t have any special attack power, but they bite people, bite them recklessly, and if people are bitten by them, the larvae may settle in the unbitten people.

I stared at Gao Ning and said, “If that’s the case, what hope do we have of escaping? I think you won’t forget that there are at least a dozen bug people sealed in this bug room. As long as one of them gets close to us, we’re finished!”

Gao Ning said, “Yes, and these bug people are not the zombies people think they are. They move very quickly, and even if you have a gun, you can’t solve it. Moreover, if they really become a pile of rotten meat and can’t get up, the larvae will also fly out. When the larvae fly out, the mother bugs will also wake up, and with that old monster…”

As I listened to Gao Ning tell me all this, I felt that it was a dead end, with no hope. At first, I became more and more nervous and serious. At the end, I laughed. I looked at Gao Ning and said, “According to what you said, you are just playing with us, bringing us here! No wonder the Miao people don’t want to come in here.”

I asked him this question on purpose. Gao Ning made everything sound so serious, but in fact, he wouldn’t have said anything without a reason. Plus, he definitely needed my attitude. He must have a way out.

I didn’t want to hear him exaggerate, and I had been led by the nose all the way, so I had had enough. This time, we had reached the insect room, which was on the verge of escape. I just wanted Gao Ning to tell us everything directly, without exaggerating to scare us. I felt that I had to take the initiative.

I was obviously asking Gao Ning to tell me directly what the solution was. Gao Ning, being as smart as he is, would understand. I think he also sensed my dissatisfaction and my desire to get even, so he said, “This kind of insect room seems to be unbreakable, but in fact, with you and me here, it’s possible. Chen Chengyi, you have to remember that I can’t do what I want to do without you, and you can’t do it without me either. At this time, neither of us should be unhappy with each other. After all, after this, we will go our separate ways and we will never see each other again.

I took a cigarette out of my mouth and exhaled, my expression calm, but my heart was in turmoil. In the rising smoke, I looked at Gao Ning’s face. I always felt that this person was up to no good, and I wondered if I was helping him. If so, what should I do?