When Miao Xiaoxian and I walked over to Wei Shengnan, she was no longer struggling as before. Instead, she lay on the sled with her eyes open, like a corpse.

Seeing Wei Shengnan like this, I waved my hand in front of her and said, "Wei Shengnan! Look at me, can you hear me?"

Miao Xiaoxian untied the belt I used to bind Wei Shengnan: "Stop shaking. The secretions of the Spotted Insect Gu will damage a person's central nervous system. People controlled by this insect will wander around until they die."

I frowned: "You can train monkeys to raise Gu because monkeys have high intelligence, but insects are not easy to train. If these Gu insects kill their hosts, wouldn't they also die?"

"The spotted insect is a kind of cordyceps. You can think of the person who is poisoned by it as its nutrients. After the person dies, the spotted insect will turn into a plant state and use the corpse as stored nutrients. Raising a poisonous insect is not training the insect, but just using the insect's habits. Moreover, the so-called poisonous insect is actually just a deformed insect hybridized after the second generation."

Miao Xiaoxian lifted Wei Shengnan's eyelids to take a look: "The situation isn't too bad yet. Turn her over and then spread her buttocks apart!"

"What?"

When I heard Miao Xiaoxian's words, I looked at her, a little confused: "After all, we are men and women, this is not appropriate, is it?"

"Otherwise what? Do you know how to exorcise curses?"

Miao Xiaoxian said coldly, "We're here to save someone. I can't handle this alone. If you keep wasting time, you'll kill her!"

I thought about it and realized she was right. After all, I had already examined Wei Shengnan's body to confirm whether she had been assaulted, and we were also trying to save her. So I steeled myself and asked, "What do you need me to do?"

"Make her lie face down on the ground, then you straddle her back and spread her buttocks apart. She might struggle violently during the process, but you must hold her down. Once she loses control and lets the worms run rampant inside her, even a god can't save her!"

Miao Xiaoxian paused for a moment: "I also want to remind you that what you are about to see may make you uncomfortable. If you feel anything unusual, you can close your eyes!"

"bring it on!"

After listening to Miao Xiaoxian's instructions, I straddled Wei Shengnan and pressed my hand against her buttocks.

Wei Shengnan has great skin, and because she has practiced martial arts since childhood, her skin is very elastic.

Although I used to like Wei Shengnan a lot, I knew I shouldn't take advantage of her in this situation, so I shook my head to stop myself from thinking nonsense and turned my gaze to Miao Xiaoxian.

Miao Xiaoxian found a hollow vine in the nearby woods, cleared it with a stick, pried open Wei Shengnan's mouth, and inserted it into her throat. Then she opened a small gourd and poured the liquid inside into a tube.

After doing all this, Miao Xiaoxian said to me, "The spotted worm parasitizes a person's intestines and paralyzes their nerves through secretions. The food I gave her has the taste that this worm hates the most, so it will run out of the intestines. During this process, the person who is infected will be in great pain, so you must control her. If her body moves around, the worm will be startled and rampage around inside her body. Once it ruptures the intestines, she will not be able to save her life!"

"Um!"

Upon hearing Miao Xiaoxian's explanation, I increased the pressure on my hands.

Miao Xiaoxian inserted the vine into the sanitation worker's throat, grabbed the other end, and blew a strong breath into it.

After doing all this, Miao Xiaoxian pressed down on Wei Shengnan's shoulders: "This medicine works very quickly, so get ready!"

Less than three minutes after Wei Shengnan took the medicine, her body suddenly moved. Before I could react, she let out a painful groan, which then turned into a scream, and her body began to tremble violently.

Seeing the drug taking effect, Miao Xiaoxian yelled at me, "Hold her down!"

"rest assured!"

He pressed his body down on Wei Shengnan, holding her buttocks down tightly.

After struggling for about two minutes, Wei Shengnan's voice became even sharper, and she was covered in a layer of cold sweat.

Immediately afterwards, I saw a white worm, about the thickness of a thumb, crawl out of her anus.

The insect had no eyes, or rather, no head. It had a large hole in front of its body filled with dense tentacles, and its body was covered with small fleshy bumps.

After I saw the bug, I asked Miao Xiaoxian, "I see the bug, should we pull it out?"

"Don't touch it! This worm has no hearing or sight, and all those bumps on its skin are covered with barbs. If it's startled, it will open up and tear its intestines!"

Miao Xiaoxian quickly stopped me: "Don't do anything, and don't move anything. Let the bug crawl out on its own. Try to spread its buttocks open as much as possible so that the bug doesn't feel threatened!"

I looked at the repulsive white worm and turned my gaze away: "At most, this worm couldn't have been in her body for more than ten hours. How could it grow so fast?"

“The cultivation of Gu worms is far more complex than you imagine; they are cultivated through a process of selective breeding from generation to generation.”

Miao Xiaoxian was sweating profusely as she held Wei Shengnan down: "I need to give her the medicine again. Hold her down and don't let her move around!"

I nodded: "How long will it take for this worm to be expelled from her body?"

"Not necessarily. It depends on the insect's resistance to the drug. Some insects leave the human body quickly, while others can survive for a whole day."

Miao Xiaoxian said a few words and then began to force-feed Wei Shengnan the medicine for the second time.

In the end, I wasn't so tired anymore, because Wei Shengnan had already fainted from the pain.

After nearly an hour of struggling, I finally saw the insect's tail.

I initially thought it was just a small worm about ten centimeters long, but when it crawled out, I found that it was over a meter long, like a giant earthworm, constantly rolling around on the ground.

After the Gu worm crawled out, Miao Xiaoxian quickly asked me to take Wei Shengnan aside. Then she brought over a lot of dry grass and burned the worm.

While I was at it, I went to the river to wash off the blood and re-bandage my wounds. I looked at Miao Xiaoxian with gratitude and said, "Xiaoxian, thank you so much for today. If you hadn't arrived in time, we would both be dead here."

"It's not a matter of being timely or not. You were right before, I did come to find you."

Miao Xiaoxian glanced at the unconscious Wei Shengnan, then turned her gaze to me and said seriously, "I know you are the leader of this group, so I came to find you to have a talk."

I was somewhat surprised to hear that she had come to this jungle to talk to me: "What do you want to talk to me about?"

Miao Xiaoxian's cheeks flickered in and out of the campfire as she uttered four words that resonated deeply with me: "Miao Jiang Immortal Palace!"