Chapter 57 The Calamity of the Golden Silkworm: Death by Insect Devouring
Netizens were immediately amused.
[Hey, Young Master Zheng, didn't you have a father who owns a listed company? These were given to you by your father, how come they're like things you picked up on your doorstep?]
[This is hilarious! He tried to show off online, but Yun Shu exposed him immediately. He's a clown and won't admit it, and he even has the nerve to brag about something he found.]
[With your idiotic appearance, even if there were bugs hiding inside, you probably wouldn't be able to find them.]
Zheng Yecheng retorted after seeing the comments, "I did exaggerate a bit, but there are definitely no bugs in these things. My mom and I checked them together."
If you don't believe me, come to my live stream. I can have my mom come and testify!
Yun Shu has more than ten times the number of fans as Zheng Yecheng, so many people went to Zheng Yecheng's live stream to watch the excitement.
Seeing the growing audience, Zheng Yecheng became even more excited and started hurling all sorts of vulgar insults at Yun Shu in the live stream.
Yun Shu was too lazy to argue with a dead person.
However, netizens couldn't stand his arrogance and flooded the chat with comments to help Yun Shu retaliate, instantly filling the screen with comments in his live stream.
"You bunch of idiots are just as stupid as that bitch. Don't you know that the more you insult me, the more popular my live stream gets?"
Zheng Yecheng sneered, then shouted towards another room, "Mom, come quick! I'm going to be a hit on my online live stream, and I'm about to make a fortune!"
"By then, I'll be a huge internet celebrity, earning hundreds of thousands or even millions a month won't be a problem!"
[Damn, this loser is actually getting attention. Everyone should ignore him!]
[I just want to see when he dies. That bastard is absolutely disgusting. Not only does he never utter a word of truth, but he also has no manners whatsoever!]
I'm waiting for him to die too. Let him be famous if he wants to; he won't live past tonight anyway.
At this moment, Old Mrs. Zheng also came over, but she didn't look very well. "Son, what did you just say? What do you mean you can earn hundreds of thousands or millions?"
"Live stream!"
Zheng Yecheng pulled the old lady in front of the camera and said excitedly, "Mom, look at my phone, it shows that more than 100,000 people are watching. My live stream is now in the top ten of the trending list. Soon, many companies will ask me to promote their products. Live streaming is the most profitable industry right now!"
"oh……"
The old lady's eyes were somewhat blurry, and she couldn't see the numbers on the phone screen at all. Moreover, her complexion had an abnormal bluish-gray tinge.
[Host, if your jewelry and antiques are genuine, sell them quickly to get money and take your mother to the hospital. The old lady looks sick.]
[Yes, this old woman's complexion is similar to mine when my great-grandmother first died—pale as a ghost, with a hint of blue.]
Zheng Yecheng, however, was completely oblivious to the fact that Old Lady Zheng's expression was off. His mind was filled with thoughts of how he was about to become a sensation and make a fortune.
Grandma Zheng felt increasingly dizzy and developed tinnitus. She could barely hear what her son was saying, and her heart was constantly throbbing with pain.
"Mom is a little tired, she's going to sleep now."
She turned to leave, but Zheng Yecheng grabbed her. "Mom, don't go yet. Tell them there are no bugs in the bag of treasures we found! You and I checked it, and we didn't see any!"
"Yes...there are no bugs."
Just after saying this, Old Lady Zheng suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood, which splattered onto Zheng Yecheng beside her and a little onto the phone camera lens.
Netizens were all taken aback.
But then, all the viewers in the live stream widened their eyes and their faces showed fear.
From a pool of blood on the lens, a golden worm, resembling a silkworm, crawled out. After sucking the blood from the lens, the worm visibly swelled up considerably.
"ah!"
"How disgusting!"
Many viewers behind the screen were so disgusted that they threw their phones aside, unable to bear looking at the screen.
Some of the braver ones saw the insect fall to the ground, and Old Lady Zheng collapsed to the ground, blood gushing from the corner of her mouth.
The blood gushed out but soon disappeared, and in its place, golden silkworms began to crawl out of her mouth.
"Ugh, what is that?!"
Zheng Yecheng was already terrified, running around the room frantically, screaming in terror, "Bugs! How come there are so many bugs! Mom, why are there bugs in your body!"
These worms are disgusting; they grow bigger after eating blood. Is this the legendary Golden Silkworm Gu?
[Look at the ground! The insects around the old woman are gone, and so is the blood! I didn't even see the insects crawl away; they just vanished!]
[It's not that it's disappeared, but rather that we can no longer see it. The most powerful kind of golden silkworm gu in legends is invisible to the human eye; it only becomes visible upon contact with blood.]
Holy crap, this is so creepy! You can't even see it, it's impossible to defend against!
[It's said that highly skilled individuals can see this, because the Golden Silkworm Gu is an evil creature, and highly skilled individuals can sense its malevolent aura. Yun Shu probably saw it in this way. Yun Shu kindly reminded the mother and son, but they were so greedy for money that they didn't take her words to heart at all.]
While netizens were discussing the incident, Old Lady Zheng had already died. Her body lay on the ground, visibly shriveling up, her internal organs and flesh eaten by insects, and her skin riddled with wormholes.
The scene was so bloody and disgusting that the platform detected it and shut down the live stream.
"mom!"
Zheng Yecheng couldn't care less about the live stream at this moment. When he saw that the bugs on Old Lady Zheng's body were gone, he thought he was hallucinating and carefully walked towards the corpse.
"What just happened?"
Zheng Yecheng was puzzled. "Why were there so many bugs all of a sudden, and now they've disappeared? Am I hallucinating?"
Zheng Yecheng had just finished muttering when he suddenly started coughing violently, and felt dizzy and had angina, as if something was biting his internal organs.
"puff……"
His eyes widened suddenly, and he spat out a mouthful of blood, which splattered on the table. Zheng Yecheng watched as golden silkworms crawled out of the blood.
"Insects, insects! Ugh!"
Before long, two more mummified corpses, consisting only of bones and skin, appeared on the ground. The skin of the mummified corpses was covered with tiny holes.
The police arrived quickly.
When Grandma Zheng died in front of the camera, some netizens called the police. Not long after Zheng Yecheng died, the police arrived at his doorstep.
The police officers were fully armed, wearing protective suits and gas masks, when they entered Zheng's house.
But after entering, I didn't see any insects, nor did I see any of the jewelry and antiques that netizens had mentioned attracting insects.
Because Yun Shu had contact with the deceased and had a conflict with him earlier that day, she received a call from the police asking her to go to the police station.
When Yun Shu arrived at the police station, she saw that Jiang Xueqiu had also been brought there. The police had discovered that the package belonging to the Zheng family was Jiang Xueqiu's.
Upon seeing Yun Shu, Jiang Xueqiu pointed at her viciously and said, "Officer, she must have killed her! My neighbor said she had argued with the Zheng family mother and son, and even hit Zheng Yecheng!"
She must have failed to snatch the treasure and was holding a grudge, so she put poisonous insects in the package to kill them!
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