Chapter 16
I quickly took out the satellite phone and hung up, but the ringtone was still heard by the ghost-faced moth.
The ghost face on its back seemed to be smiling at us, and the three of us didn't dare to breathe.
Now I finally understood why my previous calls were so intermittent and unclear. It turned out that the ghost-faced hawk moth was controlling the professor's corpse to call us. Its purpose was simple: to trick us all into coming here and becoming its eggs and pupae.
Its wings began flapping faster and faster, and it was about to take flight. The three of us all hurried to escape from this place, but before we had taken two steps, we saw a large number of ghost-faced hawk moths flying towards us.
"What should I do?" I asked anxiously.
"Qingyun, Four Symbols Talisman." Erma stretched out her hand towards Qingyun.
Qingyun quickly took out four yellow talismans from the cloth bag and handed them to Erma.
Erma took the four talismans in her palms, clasped her hands together, and placed them in front of her, chanting: "Blue Dragon and White Tiger, the troops are in great formation; Vermillion Bird and Black Tortoise, guard my true self!"
The talisman in her hand immediately emitted golden light, spreading in the four directions of east, south, west and north, forming a magic circle.
Countless ghost-faced moths rushed towards us. They crashed into the barrier formed by the magic circle, and the sound they made was like pouring water on burning coals. The four talismans flashed with golden light, and those ghost-faced moths were instantly reduced to ashes.
I originally thought that I was about to become their human pupae, but I didn’t expect Erma to be so powerful.
"What kind of magic is this? It's so powerful." I said excitedly.
Qingyun looked at me with disdain.
"What are you looking at?" I asked Qingyun.
"You've never seen the world." Qingyun said somewhat embarrassedly when I caught him.
"Do you deserve a beating again?" I have been thinking about Mao Jianming and Zhang Song these days. Now seeing Qingyun's expression, I really want to go up and pinch his face.
Qingyun stopped talking and turned around to look at the ghost-faced hawk moths.
Erma smiled and said, "Sister, please don't bully him. This is called the Four Symbols Guarding Spirit Formation. No matter how many of them there are, they can't rush in."
“You’re amazing!”
I had just finished speaking, and before I could feel proud for long, I saw cracks appearing in the Four Symbols Guarding Spirit Formation. Those cracks gradually spread, and it looked like it was about to break.
"Didn't you say it was okay?" I looked at Erma nervously.
At this moment, we saw all the hawk moths disperse, and the hawk moth king controlling the professor's body sucked the formation with its mouthparts.
In the middle of those cracks is the attachment point of the breath of the Ghost-Faced Hawk Moth King.
Erma immediately removed the string of beads from her hand and, with her blessing, launched them towards the Ghost-Faced Hawk Moth King. The Four Symbols Guardian Spirit Formation instantly vanished, and a series of beads pierced the Ghost-Faced Hawk Moth King's body, causing it to spurt out green blood, mixed with its scale powder.
Unexpectedly, the Ghost-Faced Hawk Moth King not only did not retreat, but also extended its mouthparts towards Qingyun. The copper coin dagger in Qingyun's hand cut towards the mouthparts, but it only blocked it for a moment before the copper coin dagger was shattered by the mouthparts.
Qingyun is just a boy after all, and his Taoism is not profound.
The mouthparts instantly pierced Qingyun's arm, and I saw his blood flowing along the mouthparts into the stomach of the Ghost-Faced Moth King.
"Qingyun!" I shouted.
Erma also reacted at this time. She turned her right hand into a knife and slashed at the mouthparts, actually cutting them off alive. In just two or three seconds, Qingyun's face was already pale, obviously lacking blood.
But this is not the end. The mouthparts left Qingyun's arm and crawled on the ground, trying to reconnect with the Ghost-faced Moth King.
Qingyun stepped forward and stomped on it, then took out a Five Thunder Talisman from his bag and threw it at the broken mouthpart. With a loud explosion, the mouthpart was shattered.
But at this moment, the Hawk Moth King suddenly rushed towards me. I couldn't dodge in time and was caught by its six legs and flew up from the ground.
I saw Erma and Qingyun chasing me at high speed from behind. I struggled hard, but couldn't break free. I didn't know where it was taking me. As I watched Erma and Qingyun get farther and farther away, I felt extremely scared.
Finally, it dropped me into a large tree hole, and beside me were two people, Mao Jianming and Zhang Song. They were both entangled in the silk spun by the ghost moth, like a cocoon.
After doing this, the Ghost-faced Hawk Moth King quickly left.
I observed the environment inside the tree hole, which was yellow and white. It turned out that the entire tree hole was its cocoon room. Taking this opportunity, I quickly peeled off the cocoon silk attached to Zhang Song and Mao Jianming, shaking them vigorously.
Zhang Song woke up quickly, but when he saw me, he obviously didn't react.
"Why are you here too?" Zhang Song asked.
"I was caught by a big moth," I said.
When he heard what I said, he immediately looked at the top of the tree hole with a nervous expression.
I was curious about what he was looking at, so I looked up as well. There was nothing there, so I asked him, "What are you looking at? Why don't you wake up Mao Jianming?"
Zhang Song heard what I said and quickly called out to Mao Jianming, but no matter how we shook him, he wouldn't wake up. Finally, Zhang Song slapped Mao Jianming, which was much more effective than shaking him just now. After this slap, Mao Jianming's eyelids gradually opened, and he looked at Zhang Song and me in surprise.
After Mao Jianming woke up, the first thing he did was look up.
This was exactly the same as when Zhang Song woke up. I couldn't help but ask them, "What are you looking at?"
Zhang Song then said, "That monster was right above us. I wonder where it is now?"
As we were talking, we noticed that Mao Jianming kept his head raised with a look of fear in his eyes.
Then a pool of sticky liquid fell on my feet.
I felt something was wrong and looked up as well. I saw a ghost-faced hawk moth that was three or four times bigger than the ghost moth that caught me, crawling down from the top of the tree hole.
It has no wings, only six legs, and looks similar to a spider.
Zhang Song also noticed it and quickly kicked the hole in the tree. Mao Jianming and I immediately pushed hard together, but we couldn't open it.
"Do you have fire with you?" Zhang Song asked.
I immediately took off the backpack on my back, took out the flint and steel inside and gave it to Zhang Song.
The hawk moth was getting closer and closer to us. I could even see the teeth in its mouth. Its saliva fell to the ground with a splattering sound.
Zhang Song skillfully used a flint to light the cocoon silk. Under normal circumstances, this cocoon silk would definitely be an excellent fire starter, just like cotton, it would catch fire at a touch.
The flames instantly ignited the entire tree hole and shot straight up. Seeing this, the ghost-faced hawk moth quickly retreated upwards.
The door to the tree hole was originally secured by cocoon silk, but once it was ignited, it lost its function and collapsed to the ground. The three of us quickly rushed out and ran forward regardless of anything. Our current idea was to get as far away from here as possible.
Behind us, a hawk moth also emerged from the tree hole.
"Run! It's coming out." I shouted.
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