105 The Lost Village (Part 9)
◎He is right behind me◎
[Spirit value decreased by 3%]
The moment Zhu Ning pulled out the long worm, he heard the system prompt that his spirit value dropped.
Iron nematode.
Zhu Ning's mind was full of this. Such a long worm reminded him of a wireworm.
This parasite can live in the body of a mantis. They will drain the host's nutrients, but will not kill the host immediately. Instead, they will make the mantis their puppet.
You can even let a mantis commit suicide by jumping into the water to complete its own reproduction.
Zhu Ning had once seen a video online of a blogger pulling a wire worm out of a mantis's body. When you watch it, you will wonder how such a long worm could exist in such a small mantis.
Now the red worm in Zhu Ning's hand is twitching, as if looking for its next place to live.
Is this thing a parasite? After being polluted by the wasteland world, humans have mutated, and the parasites have also mutated.
Compared to cities, the most terrifying thing in the countryside is parasites because it is closer to nature. In the past, when medical care was underdeveloped, entire villages were often plagued by parasitic diseases.
Zhu Ning looked up at Grandma Afen. The worm in her eye was twisting, with half of its body drooping from the corner of her eye and crawling to her cheek.
Are all the villagers parasitized?
Zhu Ning thought carefully about the stories in the diary. At the beginning, people frequently disappeared in Xingfu Village. In order to investigate the truth, Lao Zhang mobilized the old lady next door and other villagers who had equipment to conduct surveillance, while those who did not had equipment used their naked eyes. So everyone began to monitor the village, hoping to find the murderer.
The owner of the diary has been monitoring the village, and during her surveillance, villagers still go missing.
But more than a week later, the missing old man Wu suddenly appeared. He had become different from before and even had to learn how to play the piano all over again.
Is Old Man Wu infected with parasites?
After the parasitic infection, he and Old Man Wu's body cooperated again, but the cooperation was probably not very good, and he played the piano very clumsily.
Old man Wu's strange behavior has become more and more frequent. He went to the old lady's house next door in the middle of the night and stared at her camera like a ghost. He also hung around Afen's house. Is he trying to infect new humans?
Afen must be infected. You can tell from her eyes that the bugs have fallen out of her eye sockets. What about the old lady next door?
She wrote in her diary that her eyes hurt. Was she also infected? Where was she then?
There was a wriggling worm lying in the palm of Zhu Ning's hand, trying to drill into the gap of the protective suit. Although Zhu Ning knew that she was wearing a protective suit and the parasite could not do anything to her, she couldn't help but think about it.
Such a long insect could even strangle her if it moved.
Afen was still looking at herself, and she wanted Zhu Ning to eat the apple.
Is he trying to infect Zhu Ning in this clumsy way?
Suddenly, Xu Meng, who was sitting on her left, stood up and said, "Excuse me, old man. I have a stomachache. Can I use your toilet?"
Xu Meng broke the deadlock decisively. She had a low presence and it was the first time Zhu Ning saw her acting, and she really looked the part.
Ah Fen rolled her eyes, revealing a very unhappy expression. She pointed to the backyard and said, "Over there."
Zhu Ning had never worked in depth with Xu Meng, and the two of them didn't communicate at all. Zhu Ning immediately understood what Xu Meng meant.
Xu Meng was probably going to look for clues, and Zhu Ning and the others were trying to find a way to escape.
Li Nianchuan sat stiffly, trying his best to keep his spirit value from dropping, but his eyes could not stop glancing at Zhu Ning.
The parasite was crawling on Zhu Ning's thigh, twisting its body like a blood vessel. Although it was clearly on Zhu Ning's leg, Li Nianchuan always felt that it was crawling on his own leg.
At that moment, the apple in Li Nianchuan's hand became very hot, as if he was not holding an apple, but a beating heart, and worms would crawl out of the apple soon.
Li Nianchuan's hand shook, and the apple in his hand rolled down.
The apple rubbed against the ground, making an indescribable sound, like some kind of meat falling to the ground with a plop and then rolling away.
Afen clicked her tongue, she couldn't stand the waste, and her first reaction was to bend down to pick it up.
Li Nianchuan was about to pick it up, but suddenly, his movements froze.
After Afen bent down, a bloody hole the size of a little finger was revealed on the back of her neck. A blood-red worm had crawled out of it, and half of its body was wriggling.
Li Nianchuan could imagine that if he pulled the worm's head, it would seem like he would never reach the end. The worm in an apple was two meters long. How many meters long was the worm in Afen's body?
Twenty meters? One hundred meters? One thousand meters?
Would the worms that were pulled out fill the entire room? They would wriggle madly in the room like flowing blood.
Will old lady Afen, after the worms were extracted, be like the collapsed apple, with only a soft shell left?
Li Nianchuan's mind was full of crazy thoughts, and his mental level was dropping just by seeing it. He quickly patted his left arm, and a tiny needle pierced into the muscle, and the mental healing agent began to work. Li Nianchuan closed his eyes and felt that his mind was a little normal, but he couldn't help shivering when he spoke.
"We, we have to leave. It's getting dark." Li Nianchuan stuttered. No matter what Zhu Ning wanted to do, he couldn't stay here any longer. If he continued to be a guest, he might go crazy and take out a gun and shoot wildly.
Zhu Ning also stood up. When she stood up, the bugs on her body fell to the floor. The house was already deserted and the floor was covered with dust.
The insect fell into the dust, covered in dust, and squirmed like a maggot in the mud.
Zhu Ning could tell that Li Nianchuan was on the verge of going crazy, and immediately said, "Sorry to bother you, we'll be leaving first."
Zhu Ning said this as he walked out, unsure of A-Fen's reaction, or whether the insects on the ground would suddenly attack. So Zhu Ning moved very cautiously, wanting to evacuate immediately while also making sure his movements didn't disturb A-Fen.
As soon as Afen touched the apple with one hand, she bent down and did not raise her waist, but the parasite on the back of her neck stood up completely.
It seemed as if the controller behind it had given up controlling a puppet, and the parasite came face to face with Zhu Ning.
The worm was looking at her.
It's a very strange feeling, like you're being seen by a bug.
Zhu Ning could still control his movements, but Li Nianchuan could barely control them. His entire body was screaming for escape, and even mental healing potions couldn't soothe the fear.
Li Nianchuan's legs were not moving smoothly, and his left and right feet were fighting, almost tripping himself on the spot.
He had no idea what he was doing, he just wanted to escape. He broke down the door and ran out. Although he had already stepped out of the threshold, he always felt that he was bringing something out with him.
He groped his back and torso, feeling himself all over, trying to get rid of the invisible bugs.
Maybe some bugs have already crawled in, but he doesn't know it. The bugs will invade his brain, occupy his body, and reproduce in his shell, eventually leaving him with only a shell. If someone gently scratches his skin with a knife, the thin skin will immediately fall apart, and the inside will be full of wriggling red bugs.
It looks like there are many of them, but in fact there is only one, a very long one that seems to have no end.
Li Nianchuan looked back and saw that old lady Afen did not chase out. She was just standing at the window. Her eyes were filled with red bugs. There were so many that her eye sockets could not hold them all. The bugs fell down with a crackling sound like tears.
Such a pair of eyes were staring at Li Nianchuan.
Afen was not angry, and even smiled. That expression made people feel even more terrified, as if you couldn't escape, and no matter where you ran to, there would be eyes glued to you, and there would always be a bug chasing you from behind.
Panic building up to its limit is like the tide reaching its peak. You have to find a way to let it out, or you’ll go crazy and die.
Li Nianchuan's first reaction was to grab the gun. He felt like he was about to collapse. Due to extreme fear, his movements were faster than usual. He quickly loaded the gun and took aim.
He is about to shoot.
One hand pressed down on the muzzle of his gun with an indescribable force. Zhu Ning stood in front of him, not afraid at all that Li Nianchuan would accidentally fire the gun.
Zhu Ning's low voice came: "Don't do it."
Don't do anything. Don't act rashly before you figure out what's going on.
Li Nianchuan looked at Zhu Ning in front of him. Zhu Ning was wearing a helmet, so he couldn't see Zhu Ning's eyes. Therefore, he could only hear the voice. He could feel the other party's firm tone.
Li Nianchuan's hands were shaking. He blinked his eyes, and red bugs flashed before his eyes like hallucinations. It was as if his eyes were crawling with bugs, and there were bugs in everything he looked at.
Zhu Ning was covered in bugs, and he himself was also covered in bugs. They were overwhelmed by parasites very early on.
A wave of nausea came over me, making me want to vomit.
"Don't do it," Zhu Ning comforted him, "You don't have any bugs on your body. I checked."
Li Nianchuan calmed himself down and looked carefully at Zhu Ning's body. There were no parasites. He looked at himself again. There were no parasites either. He was clean. It was just an ordinary black protective suit.
Zhu Ning: "Put away your gun."
Zhu Ning did not confiscate Li Nianchuan's gun, she did not deprive him of the right to self-defense, what she said was to put away the gun.
Li Nianchuan's trembling hands stopped. He didn't know why Zhu Ning could remain calm. The gap between genius and mediocrity was fully opened. Li Nianchuan could see the non-existent gap, but Zhu Ning's voice was too clear, and it had a greater soothing effect than mental healing drugs.
Can people with strong spiritual power soothe others? Do they have a lasting influence?
Li Nianchuan didn't know about the others, but he could feel Zhu Ning's strength. His shaking hands slowly stopped and he took back his gun.
"So good." Zhu Ning said.
She coaxed herself like a puppy, but Li Nianchuan was strangely soothed.
Li Nianchuan's behavior was that of a normal person. He did nothing wrong. In this Class A pollution area, it was good enough that he could hold on until now.
Zhu Ning turned around and saw Afen still standing at the window, revealing a sinister shadow, looking at them with a smile on her face. Other people came out one after another, and the villagers seemed to be inspired by some common feeling and walked to the window.
The pollutants moved.
Zhu Ning could imagine that they had walked exactly to the location of the footprints, as if they had reached their predetermined anchor point.
Now, at a glance, human figures appeared in the rows of houses in the deserted village. They stood in front of the windows, looking at him as if they were monitoring him.
It was the same as the first world, their noses were almost touching the windows, but there was no heat, they were truly dead.
Zhu Ning looked back and saw that the house where they found the diary was empty, and the old lady who wrote the surveillance log was not there.
She seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.
The logic of the contaminated area is to drive you crazy. As a normal person, Li Nianchuan is already on the verge of madness. Zhu Ning and Xu Meng should be able to hold on longer.
But how long can he hold on? Even if Zhu Ning can hold on, Xu Meng may not be able to hold on.
Based on Zhu Ning's experience of frequently visiting contaminated areas, once the contaminated areas realize that you cannot be breached, they will start to take the route of physical attacks.
Li Nianchuan kept taking deep breaths and asked, "Where's the captain?"
Zhu Ning frowned and looked back at Afen's house. Xu Meng said he was going to the bathroom and hadn't come out yet.
Xu Meng is at Afen's house.
She took a walk around under the pretext of going to the bathroom. Afen was in the living room at the time and was distracted by Zhu Ning, so she didn't look at her much.
Afen's house is only separated from the old lady's house next door by a wall, and their small courtyards are connected. From the dusty furnishings, one can probably infer the person's personality. Her house is full of embroidery or flowers and plants.
If the person next door is a grumpy old lady, then this family has a gentle and kind old lady.
Her family's surveillance equipment was not in the backyard, but next to the bedroom. Xu Meng tried to turn it on, but it didn't work either. The power was out in this deserted village, completely out, and there was no electricity anywhere.
Xu Meng checked the surveillance camera and found that the wires at the back were broken.
Was it interrupted by someone?
Who did it? Old Man Wu? Did he destroy the surveillance before he took action?
There was nothing on the desk. This family had no habit of keeping a diary, probably because Lao Zhang did not ask Afen to help monitor. Afen installed the equipment purely for self-protection.
She is a little different from the old lady next door.
There is no written information in the surveillance room, not even a photo.
Probably because Afen had been parasitized by someone, the first thing she did after replacing the original owner was to destroy the evidence, so she found nothing here.
Xu Meng heard a noise coming from the living room. Li Nianchuan stammered that he wanted to leave, and it seemed like an apple had fallen to the ground.
Xu Meng had actually only been out for two minutes. She felt that Zhu Ning and Li Nianchuan should be leaving. Xu Meng didn't have time to go out through the main gate, so she planned to climb out through the backyard.
This polluted area is very strange. Xu Meng has been in and out of many Class A polluted areas, but has never encountered such a strange one.
Xu Meng's intuition told her that she must find the source of the pollution and leave immediately, as greater danger might be waiting for her.
The yard of Afen's house is connected to that of the old lady next door. There is no one at the old lady's house, so it is relatively safe to climb out from here.
Xu Meng is very skilled. If she wants to disappear from somewhere, it only takes her a second, and others can't even see her shadow.
She was about to move when she suddenly stopped.
There seems to be a small hole in the wall, and someone has blocked the hole with paper.
Xu Meng pulled out the ball of paper and found that it was not a piece of paper. It was like she had accidentally poked the nuts stored by the hamster for the winter, and a pile of wrinkled paper balls rolled down.
The holes were filled with paper balls of all sizes.
What's this for? Tip off the old lady next door?
Xu Meng could imagine that Afen was standing by the wall, passing papers one by one to the other side. This might be a tacit way of communication between the two old people.
Xu Meng unfolded a piece of paper with the words: Shengxin, run! Lao Du is crazy!
Shengxin? Is that the name of the grumpy old lady next door?
Who is Lao Du?
Xu Meng unfolded another piece of paper: Shengxin, Lao Du is not Lao Du anymore, I suspect he has bugs in his body.
The third note: There is a huge bug in his ear, several meters long. Lao Du keeps staring at me, run!
The fourth note: Shengxin, my eyes have been hurting more and more recently. I suspect that the bugs from Lao Du have run from his ears into my eyes. I am about to become like Lao Du.
The fourth note: Shengxin, run! Stop saving me, run!
The following notes all repeated this sentence, and all the information was saying the same thing: Lao Du was infected, and Afen herself suspected that she was also infected, and she wanted her neighbor Shengxin to leave as soon as possible.
She didn't know how long she could keep her sanity. Before she completely lost control, under Lao Du's surveillance, Afen was still passing on messages.
Xu Meng frowned. The note repeatedly mentioned the word "Lao Du", which meant that the old lady in this household was not living alone, but had her own partner.
There was another person in the house, no, or maybe another contaminant.
Snap——
Xu Meng heard a sound behind him. Someone stepped on a branch, making a crisp sound. He was right behind him.
The author has something to say:
The adult worms of the Iron Wireworm inhabit rivers, ponds, and ditches. Females lay eggs that hatch into larvae in the water. These larvae then parasitize insects or humans after being ingested. When these worms are ingested by large arthropods, such as mantises and locusts, the larvae continue to develop inside the animal, gradually controlling its behavior. As adults, they manipulate the host to find a water source, drown it, and then burrow out. — From a certain family.
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