Chapter 25: Horrible Blood-sucking Worm
Qin Shiyu squatted down and pointed at several strange marks on the stairs to the second floor: "Look at what this looks like?"
Li Huiyin leaned over and said, "This mark looks familiar! Why are there so many holes? Does your neighbor like digging holes?"
Zhu Ci checked all the rooms on the first floor and came out saying, "The house is messy, but not dirty. Something must have happened. Things were messed up and someone escaped."
Xu Zhiyang stood at the stairs and heard Qin Shiyu's analysis: "These marks look like snake marks, but what are these pits?"
"How about we go up and take a look?" Xu Zhiyang raised his head and glanced upwards, and suddenly saw a small animal running past along the ground, leaving an afterimage.
It happened so fast in less than a second that Xu Zhiyang almost thought he was dazzled.
"I'll go up and take a look." Zhu Ci said as he stepped onto the stairs.
Xu Zhiyang suddenly grabbed Zhu Ci's wrist, and quickly let go when he turned around. "I want to go with you... I feel... it's not safe here."
Zhu Ci seemed to be in a good mood at the moment. He raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "Your premonition has come again?"
Not sure what he was happy about, Xu Zhiyang nodded, "Yeah."
"Okay." Zhu Ci extended his hand towards Xu Zhiyang, "Let's go together."
Xu Zhiyang stared blankly at the palm spread out in front of him.
Is this what you meant?
Isn't this a bit radical?
Xu Zhiyang hesitated for two seconds, but finally put her hand on it. Her palm was dry, warm, and strong.
Li Huiyin said with great tact, "Then we'll stay downstairs."
"Oh..." Xu Zhiyang was foolishly led away by Zhu Ci, her mind was blank, and her attention was all focused on their holding hands.
This...does being a big brother have to be so responsible these days?
Are you holding his hand because you're afraid he'll fall?
Quite conscientious.
Xu Zhiyang touched his nose, feeling a little embarrassed. He wanted to pull his hand back but felt that such a greeting might be embarrassing.
While thinking about this and that, Xu Zhiyang was not concentrating when going up the stairs. She tripped on the steps and almost fell to her knees.
Fortunately, Zhu Ci pulled tightly, looked back, turned around and held Xu Zhiyang under the armpit to help him up.
"careful."
"good……"
Zhu Ci took Xu Zhiyang to check all the rooms upstairs. There was nothing unusual, except for some strange scratches and some small holes on the ceiling and floor.
"It seems the owner of this house has left. Let's go down."
"Um."
Zhu Ci held Xu Zhiyang's hand and walked towards the stairs. He felt his palms were slightly sweaty, so he let go of her hand.
It was Zhu Ci who was pulling him all the time, and Xu Zhiyang did not shake hands. When the hand was suddenly released, Xu Zhiyang had not yet reacted.
Xu Zhiyang breathed a sigh of relief and raised his hand to rub his nose to ease the embarrassment.
His recent mood has been affected by Ayang, and he always has some inexplicable strange emotions towards Zhu Ci.
A Yang really likes to go against Xu Zhi Yang. When she realizes that he hates Zhu Ci, A Yang starts to go against Xu Zhi Yang.
The more Xu Zhiyang didn't want to get close to Zhu Ci, the more A Yang wanted to cling to Zhu Ci.
After figuring out that it was Ayang who was causing trouble for him in his attitude towards the blessing, Xu Zhiyang's mind was no longer confused and he regained his usual composure.
But at this moment, Xu Zhiyang suddenly felt an extremely subtle energy fluctuation.
Before Xu Zhiyang could remind Zhu Ci, he saw an animal as long as a finger falling from the ceiling, about to land on the back of Zhu Ci's neck.
"Get out of the way!" Xu Zhiyang wanted to use his supernatural powers to fight it off, but was afraid of hurting Zhu Ci by mistake, so he reached out and pushed Zhu Ci away, but the animal bit him on the wrist!
"Hiss!" Xu Zhiyang gritted his teeth in pain.
Zhu Ci turned around and saw a creature with a snake-like lower body and a black and red insect-like upper body. It had six thin legs and a mouthful of sharp teeth biting the flesh of Xu Zhiyang's wrist.
"Xu Xiaoyang! What happened?" Li Huiyin asked loudly from below.
Xu Zhiyang endured the pain, "It's nothing! Don't come up!"
Zhu Ci drew out the black scimitar, but found that he couldn't do it.
Xu Zhiyang's wrist turned black rapidly and extended upwards. In just a few seconds, the insect's abdomen became more and more bulging, and it was obvious that it had sucked a lot of his blood.
The insect's sharp teeth were deeply embedded in Xu Zhiyang's flesh. Even if the insect was cut off, its teeth would still remain in the skin.
"Peel off the skin and flesh." Xu Zhiyang gritted his teeth and whispered.
"Are you sure?! This hurts." Zhu Ci kept looking for a place to start.
"It's the only way." Xu Zhiyang's face had turned pale at this moment. He dragged his arm with his other hand, feeling that the insect was sucking his blood and was getting heavier.
"The upper body of this insect resembles a rove beetle. You can't cut it in half. Its blood is poisonous and will cause blisters if it flows on the skin. And after it mutates... it might become even more powerful."
Xu Zhiyang secretly used the five elements energy in his body to fight against the poison that the insect injected into his wrist when it sucked blood.
The pain felt like a burning pain, as if her skin and flesh were on fire. Xu Zhiyang bit her lips until they bled, which prevented her from screaming out.
Zhu Ci didn't hesitate any longer and cut off the piece of flesh on Xu Zhiyang's wrist that was bitten by the insect's fangs with one knife.
At the same time, Zhu Ci used wind blades to cut the insect into pieces.
The insect's red blood flowed out, corroding the floor quickly like sulfuric acid, and soon burned a hole.
"The mutated insects are really powerful." Xu Zhiyang raised his hand to cover his bleeding wrist, and the bleeding stopped after a while.
Zhu Ci took out gauze from the interlayer of his backpack and helped him wrap it up. He gently held Xu Zhiyang's wrist and said, "It's not safe to leave here."
"Okay." Xu Zhiyang lost too much blood and was almost half-carried down the stairs by Zhu Ci.
Li Huiyin was almost scared to death when she saw Xu Zhiyang like this, "What's going on? What happened to my Xu Xiaoyang? His face is as pale as a ghost!"
Zhu Ci: "Let's go out! It's not safe here!"
Several people hurried out of the villa, and Zhu Ci took Xu Zhiyang and stopped far away from the villa.
Qin Shiyu had already noticed the blood-stained gauze on Xu Zhiyang's wrist and asked anxiously, "How's Second Brother? Is there something on the second floor?"
"There are mutated bugs that suck blood and release toxins. They bite into your skin with their teeth and won't let go. They're very dangerous."
Zhu Ci saw that Xu Zhiyang couldn't even stand and kept sliding down, so he had to pick her up.
Xu Zhiyang felt dizzy and wanted to say, "Don't hug me."
But this poison was probably a neurotoxin, which made it difficult for him to breathe and caused terrible pain in his joints.
Xu Zhiyang could only rest his head weakly on Zhu Ci's shoulder, concentrating on activating the five elements of energy in his body to repel the poison left by the insects. The black skin on his wrist slowly returned to its original color.
Xu Zhiyang was using wood energy to heal his own wounds at the same time. When he noticed that Li Huiyin wanted to remove the gauze to disinfect the wound, he dodged.
"Don't look at it...it's a bit scary."
Li Huiyin was so anxious that she almost cried: "I was just scared when I was little! I'm not afraid of shit!"
"This bug is so powerful that it can release toxins while sucking blood." Qin Shiyu carefully observed Xu Zhiyang's recovery and asked, "Second brother, has it also inhibited the speed of your wound repair?"
"Yes..." Xu Zhiyang used energy to scrub away toxins from the body like a brush over and over again, and the wound healed twice as slowly as usual.
"Don't worry about me, it will be fine in a moment..."
Qin Shiyu: "Second brother just lost too much blood. Luckily, we dealt with the bugs early. This thing sucks blood so quickly. I think it's like that faceless monster just now. It can suck a human into a mummy in a short time!"
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