Chapter 0027 Corpse Tree
"Oh my god, what's going on?" He Jintang said, swallowing his saliva.
I stopped and looked around carefully. Seeing nothing unusual, I came to the girl and saw her standing in the thorn bush. Her face was frighteningly pale and her eyes were staring straight ahead.
Looking again, I realized that she was almost hung on the bushes, with many bloody scratches on her hands and neck caused by branches.
I touched her wrist and found that she still had a pulse, but seeing that she looked so strange, I gave her some second thoughts and didn't put her down immediately.
As I hesitated, I heard someone behind me shouting, "What happened... Hey, isn't this that so-and-so?"
The people who came were Meng Dazhi and his four brothers. They felt the girl's nose and shouted, " She's still breathing. Hurry up and save her!" They hurriedly carried her down.
At this time, the others were also awakened. Liu Feihe bent down to examine the girl. Boss Liao and others also came from the other side and stood aside to watch.
I noticed that the girl had empty eyes, as if she had lost her soul, but her pupils were dilated, which was not a symptom of being possessed by evil spirits.
Liu Feihe frowned and shook his head from time to time, and it seemed that he didn't understand anything.
"Third brother, go and take a look." Just listen to the old man Liao said.
The dark-faced third brother hummed, handed the somewhat silly fourth brother to the fake Qin Ran, walked up to the girl, and stretched out his hand to open her eyelids.
Seeing this, Liu Feihe stepped aside. Master He Jiu asked him a question in a low voice, and he shook his head slightly.
I saw that the black-faced third brother was very skilled and seemed to have great accomplishments in medical skills. After watching for a while, I saw He Baoer standing next to the fake Qin Ran with a paper mask on her head, so I smiled and waved at her: "Baoer, come to your brother."
He Baoer didn't move. Fake Qin Ran narrowed his eyes and said with a sweet smile, "Little handsome boy, what do you want to do?"
"Play with the little girl." I said, and walked over to hold He Baoer's hand, wanting to feel her pulse.
The fake Qin Ran shook his body, thrust his chest up, and chuckled, “Then why not play with your sister first.”
At this moment, I suddenly heard a thud. I turned around and saw the black-faced third brother lying straight on the ground.
The fake Qin Ran's face changed drastically and he hurried over to see the third brother.
I took the opportunity to pull He Baoer over, and felt her skin was cold to the touch, but she still had a very faint pulse. Her head was covered with a paper doll, so I couldn't see her face. I didn't know what was inside it, so I didn't dare to take it off.
"Third brother, third brother!" All that was heard was the fake Qin Ran shouting in grief and anger.
I was shocked to see that girl bleeding from all seven orifices and her eyes rolled back. The third guy with a black face twisted on the ground, black blood gushing out of his ears, mouth and nose, and a gurgling sound came from his mouth. In the blink of an eye, he was silent.
"Don't come near!" Boss Liao suddenly shouted and waved his hand in front of the fake Qin Ran.
At that moment, I saw that he seemed to be pinching something between his two fingers.
"Second brother, look at what this is?" Boss Liao shook his fingers and shook the thing to the ground.
It was a black beetle, slightly larger than a fingernail, black with red, and a faint metallic luster. Its back was sunken, and it was obvious that it had been pinched to death by Boss Liao's two fingers.
“This…” Fake Qin Ran held back his grief and stared at the bug for a long while, “This looks like a Yin Corpse Beetle, but…but the color is a bit strange, Yin Corpse Beetles are usually gray.”
He Jintang asked me with a pale face what the Yin Corpse Beetle was. I shook my head and said I didn't know.
I only heard Boss Liao say with a sullen face: "Just now this bug flew out of the third brother's nose and I caught it!"
The fake Qin Ran's face turned pale, and he said in a trembling voice: "Yin corpse... Yin corpse beetles, they like to eat human brains!"
I was secretly shocked when I heard this. No wonder the girl and the black-faced third brother were bleeding from all seven orifices. It turned out that the worm had drilled into their brains through their nasal cavity.
This thing is really hard to guard against. The black-faced third brother is a Feng Shui master who can set up a soul-locking formation, but he actually died in the hands of a bug!
After hearing her words, everyone involuntarily took a few steps back. After all, no one knew whether there were still bugs hidden in the bodies of these two people.
Boss Liao was decisive. He said in a deep voice, "Hello, brother." He asked Li Kun to set fire to the bodies of the two men.
After what happened, we certainly couldn’t sleep, so we quickly evacuated the village.
The fake Qin Ran said that the insect shells in the dry well at the east end of the village were the shells of Yin corpse beetles. She was confused by the color of the insect shells at the time and did not recognize them.
That dry well is most likely used to raise human pupae.
Meng Dazhi sneered at the time and said that "human figurines" were used as burial objects in ancient tombs. Have you seen the Terracotta Warriors?
The fake Qin Ran looked at him coldly and said that this was not that kind of "human figurine" but a "human pupa" made of insect cocoons, which made everyone shudder.
According to her, this human pupa is a way to raise the Yin corpse beetle.
You have to find a suitable living person in advance, feed him the secret medicine for half a year, and then implant the eggs of the corpse beetle into his skin.
When the eggs hatch, they will parasitize the person and grow up , and that person will become a human pupa.
There are actually such cruel methods in the world. It makes my scalp tingle just by hearing about them.
Soon after we left Erjing Village, we entered an extremely dense forest.
"Everyone, cheer up and be careful where you step!" Liu Feihe's two disciples shouted loudly in front.
In these remote mountains, countless layers of dead leaves have accumulated over the years, and some places may contain deadly traps.
Suddenly, we heard a few terrified screams from the front. When we rushed over, we saw a hellish scene!
In front of us grows an unknown giant tree, on which hang clusters of dark shadows, swaying gently in the wind.
Those black shadows were not something else but individuals. To be more precise, they were corpses hanging upside down on the trees, just like strange fruits growing on the trees.
Everyone was stunned by this strange and terrifying scene.
Everyone present turned on their flashlights and shone them at the tree. Soon they saw several familiar faces. These people were people they had seen in the inn before.
Among them were members of the poaching group and companions of the girl who died before. These people set out into the mountains earlier than us, but unexpectedly they all died here strangely!
The legs of these people were pierced directly by tree branches and they were hanging there like dead fish. There was a bloody hole in the middle of each of them's forehead and their faces were horrified before they died.
"Really... there really is a monster!" Suddenly a guard couldn't bear the fear and screamed in a trembling voice, and everyone was in a panic for a while.
"Everyone, don't panic!" Liu Feihe said loudly, "Let's get out of here first!"
Bald Boss Liao also agreed: "Master Liu is right. What kind of monster is this? It's just someone playing tricks!"
We went around the corpse tree and continued on our way.
