Zhang Mingyu looked at the white bug in his hand for a while before coming back to his senses. Then he looked at me and said, "Junior Brother Li, you should know about living corpses, right?"
I nodded.
Of course I know about living corpses.
In the past, when several city gods were looking for a new immortal body for themselves, they first made a living person into a living corpse.
For example, Xu Er's daughter.
For example, Juan Niang in Tiancoff Village is like this.
But what does this bug have to do with living corpses?
I don't quite understand.
Zhang Mingyu explained: "The soul-eating Gu feeds on the soul of a living person. Once it enters a person's body, it will continue to devour that person's soul until the person's soul completely disappears."
"This kind of Gu is not a special kind of Gu. On the contrary, there should be quite a few people using this kind of Gu in the entire Miao territory."
"But because the existence of this kind of Gu is extremely cruel, and if you want to feed one, you need to kill at least one person, so the Miao people have almost banned the existence of this kind of Gu."
"The last time it appeared..." Zhang Mingyu looked at me, "It was in Zhongdong Gu Village."
When I heard these four words, my eyelids couldn't help but twitch.
Is it really related to Zhongdong Gu Village?
I felt a little dizzy for a moment.
"Tell me carefully."
Zhang Mingyu nodded slightly, and then said: "Junior Brother Li, I have told you about the Zhongdong Gu Village before, but we did not tell you about the Soul-Eating Gu at that time."
"Because your senior sister and I both felt at that time that the soul-eating Gu would not appear again, and what happened in the Zhongdong Gu Village back then would not happen again."
"It seems now that we were still too naive."
"According to my understanding."
"The Gu King in Zhongdong Gu Village went crazy overnight and killed all the people in Zhongdong Gu Village. There was a reason why no one in the Miao family was willing to admit it until now."
"That means the entire Zhongdong Gu Village has been poisoned with the Soul-Eating Gu."
My eyes widened.
"The Gu King's village was bewitched?"
"Are you kidding me?"
To be honest, I don't believe this at all, because it is undoubtedly telling me that Tianshi Mountain is occupied by evil spirits.
"What's more, Zhang Mingyu and the others have said that the Gu King of Zhongdong Gu Village is the first Gu King in the Miao Territory. This status and strength are evident."
"Who can bewitch someone under the nose of such an ancestor who plays tricks?"
Isn't that nonsense...
But thinking about this, I felt a chill in my back.
Because it suddenly occurred to me that this seems not impossible...
I immediately calmed down and looked at Zhang Mingyu, who smiled bitterly and said, "When I saw the news, I had the same reaction as you."
"But according to the records in our Tianshi Mountain classics, this is a real thing."
"But it's very possible that only we at Tianshi Mountain know about it."
"Who is the poisoner?" I asked.
Zhang Mingyu shook his head and said: "There is no record in the classics."
"I just said that the Gu King most likely discovered that the entire Zhongdong Gu Village was infected with the Soul-Eating Gu. In order to prevent the Soul-Eating Gu from spreading throughout the entire Miao Territory, he finally chose to kill everyone with his own hands. Because of this
That's why he went crazy."
I laughed bitterly.
How can you not be crazy if you kill so many people with your own hands, and they are considered your own family members?
It would be crazy for me too.
"So what you're saying is that the presence of soul-eating Gu in Tiankeng Village now may be related to what happened in Zhongdong Gu Village back then?" I asked.
Zhang Mingyu thought for a moment and said, "It's possible."
"But it's also possible that someone in the Miao family is using this kind of poison without permission."
"But whatever the reason is."
"We can all feel relieved now."
"What are you worried about?" I was stunned for a moment.
Zhang Mingyu shrugged and said: "At least it proves that this place has nothing to do with the orthodoxy of the Miao family. If we get involved, we won't offend the people of the Miao family."
"but……"
Zhang Mingyu looked in the direction of the sinkhole.
"The Maoshan lineage...not sure yet."
Zhang Mingyu looked thoughtful.
"Maoshan's lineage is different from our Tianshi Mountain. Although tracing back to its origin, it can be said to be a unified lineage, our Tianshi lineage has always had very few disciples. Even if it is not the leader of the lineage, it can only accept three disciples in a lifetime. The leader of the lineage
We can only accept one disciple."
"The Maoshan lineage emphasizes teaching without distinction. Anyone who wants to get started, even if he cannot become a formal Maoshan disciple, will still have the name of a layman."
"The number of lay disciples in Maoshan is extremely large, and they are both good and evil."
"One more thing, that is, the Maoshan lineage is very protective of shortcomings. Even lay disciples, no matter good or evil, as long as they bear the name of Maoshan, they will be protected by their elders."
"If this old man is indeed using this soul-eating Gu to do evil, if we get rid of him, we have offended the Maoshan people."
"Are you scared?" I looked at Zhang Mingyu.
Zhang Mingyu was stunned for a moment, then shook his head seriously: "Of course not."
"I just find it troublesome."
I shrugged and said, "That's fine."
"Li Bowen once taught me something."
"Kill what deserves to be killed."
"Save what needs to be saved!"
“It’s time for the people of Tiankeng Village to be saved.”
"If the old man is really doing evil, he should be killed."
"What's really going on..." I smiled and said, "Look for Li Bowen."
Zhang Mingyu was stunned for a moment, then looked at me in surprise and asked, "Junior Brother Li, is this how you call Uncle Li?"
I shrugged and said, "I'm just an outside disciple, similar to the lay disciples of Maoshan."
"What's this?"
Zhang Mingyu was speechless for a moment, and then he smiled bitterly after a while and said: "We in the Tianshi Mountain lineage do not have outside disciples."
I narrowed my eyes slightly, then pretended not to hear, and asked again: "Now that it is confirmed that this bug is the soul-eating Gu, how should we solve it?"
"We can't let everyone in Tiankeng Village enter a state of suspended animation, right?"
Zhang Mingyu shook his head and said: "At present, this is the way to go."
"And based on my observation, these soul-eating Gu have been in these people's bodies for several days, and their souls have become extremely weak. In one day at the latest, they will completely become soulless bodies.
body."
The corners of my mouth twitched slightly, and after thinking for a moment I said, "Then let's do this."
"But after we take out all these soul-eating Gus, Old Eighteen will definitely find out."
"You still have to make some preparations."
When Zhang Mingyu heard this, he said calmly: "No."
"As long as we don't kill this Gu insect, there won't be any problem."
"Really not?"
Zhang Mingyu nodded affirmatively.
Seeing that he was so confident, I stopped talking nonsense and immediately took him out of the house and headed to the next house.
Fortunately, there were not many people in Tiankeng Village, so it didn’t take us long.
Just over half an hour.
A total of thirteen worms were taken out by us.
Originally there were supposed to be seventeen items.
But now four people have died in Tiankeng Village.
The other one is the old eighteen, so naturally there are only thirteen.
The thirteen worms all look like huge maggots, and they are disgusting to look at.
Zhang Mingyu didn't mind too much, he just picked up the Gu insect and carried it with him.