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Corpse puppets!
Lin Xixue was shocked, the long yellow and black creature that she cut into two just now turned out to be a corpse puppet!
And it's an adult zombie!
No wonder the worm flew straight towards her ear before, probably trying to get into her body directly from her ear.

She couldn't help but think of the sewage pool that Hong Yanzi took her to see in the cave where countless corpse puppets were kept.

According to Bai Qing, Hong Yanzi was going to die with her that day, so he turned the world of the cave upside down, causing the cave to collapse.

Could it be that when the cave collapsed that day, some corpse puppets in the sewage pool were still alive.These remaining corpse puppets found a way out during this period, ran out of the cave, and came to Linghu Village?
If this is the case, then it makes sense. After Hong Yanzi died, these bugs had no one to feed them, so they had to fend for themselves and go out to look for food.

It's no wonder that the guards and warriors sent by the master of the Gu family have never heard from him after they stepped into the bamboo forest. They are probably either parasitized by this insect, or they have become the ration of this insect.

Thinking back to the densely packed corpse puppets in the sewage pool, gnawing away at Luo Si's body, Lin Xixue felt hairy on her back.

From this point of view, the villagers of Linghu Village and the laborers who came to repair the Wuzeng Temple were in danger.

The realgar powder outside the bamboo forest is obviously to prevent the corpse puppets from further fleeing outside Linghu Village.

As for all the people entering the city, they must use realgar powder to kill insects, obviously to prevent corpse puppets from parasitizing in the human body and taking the opportunity to sneak into the city.

However, judging from what the shopkeeper of the Ziren Pavilion said, he obviously didn't know what happened in Linghu Village.

Then how did the Yunzhou government know that the corpse puppet would live in the human body, and how did it come up with the method of using realgar powder to kill the insects for people entering the city?

Was it the Niubi of Sanyuanguan who told Yunzhou government?

Or, in fact, it was the Temple of the City God who provided the information?

According to Bai Qing's review of the situation in the cave, Hong Yanzi has the Youbing Talisman, so Hong Yanzi probably has contacts with the Town God's Temple.

If this conjecture is true, it may not be surprising that Miao Zhu of the Town God's Temple knows something about this corpse puppet.

But if this is the case, when the time comes to ask Miao Zhu to lure Xu Zhiyi's soul, he needs to be more cautious.

However, all of this is just her own conjecture, and she still needs more information to confirm the conjecture, or to overturn the conjecture.

She still had to continue to find out what happened to Linghu Village.

She split the bamboo, the horizontal knife danced in the air like a light sword, and carved a small bamboo whistle in two or three strokes, which she held in her mouth.

This whistle is exactly the insect control whistle that Hong Yanzi gave her before. Although this whistle was burned because of the blue Liuding Divine Fire before, but fortunately, she has a very strong memory, and now she has re-enacted this whistle based on memory alone. come out.

With the insect control whistle in her mouth, she continued to fly in the bamboo forest on the bamboo, and arrived in Linghu Village in just a cup of tea.

However, the scene in the village is not quite the same as she imagined.

The structures of the houses are mostly in good condition, the fishing nets are still hanging on the wooden frame in front of the houses, and the furnishings inside the houses have not changed much, and even some of the soft things have not been tidied up and taken away in the future.

Judging from this posture, the villagers don't look like they were eaten by corpse puppets, but instead, it seems that the whole village has hurried out to escape.

She walked to the edge of the lake, and at a glance, the originally clear water seemed to be much muddied now, and it seemed to exude the faint smell of aquatic plants, but fish could still be seen swimming freely in the water.

One of the large fish saw Lin Xixue standing on the bank, not only was not afraid of people, but swam to the bank actively, opening and closing its mouth, as if begging for food from her.

Lin Xixue leaned down, and was about to take a closer look at the fish, but the fish suddenly jumped out of the water, its belly turned over, and a yellow and black corpse puppet with long legs and many legs jumped out of the fish's belly , flew straight to Lin Xixue's face.

She didn't panic, she just took a step back and whistled softly, the corpse puppet shrunk into a ball immediately and fell to the ground.

Just like the pangolins seen in the previous life, the relatively fragile abdomen is shrunk inside, and the outside is a hard carapace. I am afraid that ordinary knives and guns will have no effect on the carapace.

When Lin Xixue blew the whistle, all the dead fish at the bottom of the lake twitched a few times and gathered towards the shore.

Among them, even half of the body of the fish was eaten by the corpse puppet. The fish meat at the wound had rotted and swelled, and half of the skeleton was still swinging in the water, which was very strange.

These dead fish also jumped out of the water one after another. Some corpse puppets stuck out from the mouth of the fish, like fish tongues; some drilled out from the belly of the fish;

But without exception, all these bugs curled up into a ball and landed at Lin Xixue's feet with crackling noises.

Lin Xixue clutched her heart, forcibly suppressing the nausea, for a moment she didn't know how to deal with these disgusting bugs.

Although she can directly kill all these bugs, if she can keep a few of them, maybe there will be some magical uses in the future?

Although these bugs are extremely disgusting, they can be completely controlled by the insect control whistle directly, and the overall risk is still controllable.

After thinking twice, she still found a big urn from the village, filled it with some smelly lake water, and planned to raise these insects first.

Anyway, when you don't need it, throw it into the void, out of sight and out of mind, and if you really need it in the future, just take it out again.

With a wave of her sleeve, she wanted to drive these insects into the urn, but one of the larger insects suddenly let out a "squeak", and Lin Xixue still understood it.

"Young master, mother of insects, I am hungry and look for food and support."

The worm's spiritual intelligence is obviously not very high, and it speaks intermittently, but Lin Xixue can roughly understand what it wants to express.

Probably one of these worms has a queen-like existence called the worm mother. The worm mother is very hungry now, so these worms go out to look for food, and they have to take it back to support the worm mother.

It was pretty much the same as her previous guess, the only difference was that the worm mentioned the worm mother, which she had never seen before and didn't know about.

From the void, she took out the "Hundred Explanations of the Shushu" handed to her by Hong Yanzi. This book was sewn with the skin of some kind of creature. Yellow, not damaged.

Before that, she always felt that this thing was unknown and she didn't want to read it, but now that the worm mentioned the concept of worm mother, she had to look through the book to confirm it.

She flipped through it quickly, and soon found the detailed explanation of the [corpse puppet mother].

[In Wujiang there is a mountain called Intestine, with a worm mother, a human face, a worm body, a red and yellow back, a lot of legs and a lot of poo in the belly, and a very coquettish appearance, the Gaigou man plucks the yang and eats it]

【Three months after harvesting the yang, more than [-] puppets can be released, and water and rice can be introduced into the body, so that people can eat and drink and get hit by it】

Lin Xixue took a few deep breaths, resisting the urge to be rude and the strong nausea, this is too disgusting.
It's just that once the worm mother finds a man to pick the sun, she will continue to produce new eggs. Wouldn't these disgusting worms be entrenched in Linghu Village forever and cannot be eradicated?
Thinking of this, she couldn't help sighing, there was another mess waiting to be cleaned up.

But she looked again at the talking bug at her feet, blew her whistle, and asked it another question.

"Just now, why did you call me Young Master?"

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