Chapter 38: Miao Territory Gu Worms
Deep in the night, it is always quiet. In this noisy city, it is rare to hear insects chirping and birds singing. The sound of crickets is like a natural lullaby, but the Chen family cannot fall asleep. All four members sit in the hall, staring blankly, surrounded by bodyguards.
Only Li Meng was heartless and slept soundly on the bed, he was nourishing his spirit. People are made of iron, food is steel, rest and food cannot be lacking, otherwise even the greatest master would have no energy or spirit to face the enemy.
"Ah!" A mournful cry broke the tranquility of the villa.
Li Mang's eyes snapped open in the guest room, and he quickly got up and went downstairs to find that the first floor lobby had become a scene of chaos, with more than 20 bodyguards surrounding the Chen family.
"What's going on? Where did that scream come from?" Chen Hui was just asking a bodyguard who had run back from the backyard.
"Boss, another person has had their eyes dug out!" The bodyguard reported in a panic.
The three Chen sisters huddled together, their faces tense with anxiety, while Chen Hui was also stunned, unable to issue any orders for a long time.
"Can I go take a look?" Li Mang suddenly interjected as he just came downstairs.
Chen Hui glanced at him, the smile on his face somewhat unnatural, but since he had nothing to hide, he said, "Alright, take Li Gongzi for a check-up."
In the backyard of the villa, a corpse lay beside the swimming pool, its eyes already gone, staring blankly into space with empty sockets, fresh blood gushing out, and the bloodstains had even seeped into the pool, dyeing a large area red.
Li Mang felt a bit uncomfortable, but he still forced himself to carefully examine the victim's injuries. These eyes were dug out? It didn't seem like it, but he wasn't a professional, so he asked Chen Jia, the bodyguard beside him: "Judging from the wound, how were these eyeballs dug out?"
"...". This bodyguard obviously did not expect Li Meng to ask such a question, it was because he was too nervous in his heart, which led him to overlook this detail.
The bodyguards of the Chen family were all elites, and upon hearing this, they also reacted and used cotton to wipe away the blood from the deceased's eye sockets. To their astonishment, they discovered a strange phenomenon - the outer membrane of the eyeball was still intact, with only a small hole in it, but the contents inside had vanished into thin air, as if something had eaten them away. It was unbelievable!
"This...this isn't something that was dug up." The bodyguard, who had grown up under the red flag and was once a special forces soldier, stuttered as he spoke. How could he possibly believe in ghosts? But the condition of his deceased comrade before him was difficult to explain.
Li Meng took out his mobile phone, suppressing the discomfort in his heart and took a few close-up photos, which he sent back to Yang Fan, explaining the specific situation, waiting for the headquarters to respond.
"Hmm..."
But in the next moment, Li Meng suddenly sensed a strong gust of wind coming from behind him. He quickly dodged to the side and turned his head to look, but was shocked and lost color. The one attacking him was surprisingly Chen Jia's bodyguard who had just answered his question earlier. At this time, the latter still held a military dagger in his hand, with both eyes clearly bloodshot.
The bodyguard was quite skilled, and although he stumbled for a moment after missing the first strike, he immediately closed in again, his dagger aimed straight at Li Meng's vitals.
"Hmph!" Li Meng let out a cold snort and swiftly kicked out - "Thud!"
" Splash!" The bodyguard fell into the water with a loud noise, but when Li Meng was about to go and pull him out, another strange thing happened. The bodyguard in the water suddenly covered his head and let out a miserable cry, his expression under the light was extremely ferocious, showing great pain.
"Pffft! Pffft!"
As two shots rang out, the screams suddenly stopped, and the bodyguard also stopped struggling, eventually sinking slowly into the water.
Li Mang stood at the edge of the pool with his mouth agape, staring in shock at the pool that was now bubbling up water. His eyes were filled with a look of horror. Others may not have noticed, but he could clearly see that the bodyguard's eyes suddenly burst open, and then he died directly, with a death pose that perfectly matched the previous deceased, which was terrifying.
"...the other bodyguards beside him stared blankly at the swimming pool, their minds hadn't even turned a corner, this comrade's inexplicable 'loss of control', and then inexplicable death, made them feel very unreal."
"Ding Dong!"
The ringing of the phone interrupted Li Meng's daydreaming, thinking it was Yang Fan, and asked: "Yang Guan Shi, have you figured it out?"
"It's me, you stinker!" But to Li Meng's surprise, it was Snake Granny's voice on the phone. Before he could express his confusion, she continued, "I've seen the photo you sent to Yang Fan just now, and based on your description of the situation, it should be caused by Miaojiang Gu poison!"
"Gu poison?" Li Mang exclaimed in surprise.
"That's right, it's Gu poison. The Gu master lets his Gu insects enter the person's body and controls their life and death, and can even manipulate their actions. From what you've told me, this Gu master is not weak. You must be careful." Snake Granny reminded her with a serious expression.
Although Li Meng's brain was already big enough, he still felt a chill when he heard such an evil thing, but he still told Snake Grandma about the unexpected event that had just occurred in a few words.
"That's right, this gu worm might be afraid of water, and when it encounters water, it will struggle, causing the bodyguard to die prematurely. You quickly search the water surface to see if there is a corpse of the gu worm." Snake Granny instructed in an orderly manner.
Li Mang hastily asked the bodyguard next to him to bring a flashlight, and indeed saw two small insects struggling on the water surface. After a closer look, he found that they were two small beetles that he had never seen before. Li Mang could only describe the appearance of the beetles to Snake Granny.
"This is a soul-worm, a type of worm that mixes into food and drink, enters the body, attaches to internal organs, grows for half a month, then quietly reaches the brain. At this time, the worm master can control the person's body and make it carry out certain commands." Snake Granny was knowledgeable and immediately identified the worm's identity.
" Mixed into food? Then I may have also fallen for it?" Li Mang was shocked, his heart secretly regretting.
"You stinky kid, do you think it's easy to raise a Gu insect? It takes at least a year to cultivate one! Of course, I also can't rule out the possibility that you've been infested, but don't be afraid. The incubation period for this type of Gu is only half a month. As long as you can make it back within that time, I'll help you get rid of it." Snake Granny comforted with a smile.
"Alright!" Li Mang felt a bit more at ease, and immediately looked around, asking a pressing question: "From what I can see now, the people possessed by the Gu in the Chen family are definitely not just these few. How can I help them get rid of it?"
"If it were an ordinary Gu worm, taking garlic and black dog blood might be able to expel it through diarrhea and vomiting. But this is a Soul Gu, unless I arrive tomorrow, you will have difficulty resolving it on your own!" Snake Granny said in a low tone.
"Can't wait until tomorrow, is there no other way?" Li Mang asked anxiously.
“...” Grandma Snake pondered for a long time before finally coming up with a solution that wasn't really a solution: “The Gu insect actually belongs to a type of insect, especially the Soul-Gu Beetle, which loves sweet foods, especially honey. If you apply honey to their mouths, it might be possible to lure out the Soul-Gu, but this isn't necessarily going to work, and the quality of the honey has to be extremely high.”
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