Su Mu was stunned. He was first surprised at what this breeding and pest control technology was, and then his eyes fell on the two words "Shadow Gu".
"I was poisoned? When did it happen? Was it just the brief moment when the blood moon was blocked? Damn, it was too fast!"
Although Su Mu appeared calm on the surface, he was secretly using internal vision to try to find the shadow Gu that had entered his body.
However, after searching all over the body using internal vision, no trace of the shadow Gu was found.
"Is this how the poisonous insect can hide?" Su Mu was surprised and a little anxious at the same time.
But at this moment, he felt the message conveyed to him by the maggots sealed in his arm area by the drum:
"It's delicious... I want more..."
Su Mu couldn't help but frown: Delicious? What's delicious? Could it be...
He hurriedly contacted the maggot, and after some difficult "communication", he finally figured out the whole story.
It turned out that the Shadow Gu had indeed invaded his body at the moment when the blood moon was obscured. It was a pity that the location was not chosen correctly, and it was chosen at the position of the arm where the Shadow Gu was sealed.
The result is that when two Gu fight each other, one of them will win.
Of course the maggot Gu would not be polite to the shadow Gu that was delivered to the door and swallowed it in one gulp.
In front of the maggot Gu, the shadow Gu couldn't even struggle and dodge, let alone fight back.
After all, the maggots came from Wei, living in his body, devouring his flesh and blood for who knows how many years.
This is a poisonous insect that even the ancient gods dare to eat and can eat. No matter how strange and powerful the Shadow Gu is, can it be more powerful than the ancient gods?
What a joke!
"I was wondering why I couldn't find any trace of the Shadow Gu after searching for such a long time. It turns out you ate it."
After figuring out the cause of the incident, Su Mu breathed a sigh of relief.
I thought Shadow Gu was a powerful character, but I didn't expect it to be like this? The level of being swallowed in one bite?
This is not an attack at all, it is clearly malicious feeding, giving the maggot a midnight snack, trying to feed it fat!
His heart is worthy of death! Deserve death!
Su Mu shook his head, ignoring the maggot's constant message of "more to eat". After spending money to upgrade his knowledge of the shadow insect to full marks, he started to check it out.
After reading the introduction, Su Mu realized that although the Shadow Gu was eaten instantly by the Maggot Gu, it was not because it was incompetent, but because the Maggot Gu was too strong.
After the shadow insect enters the body of a living organism, it mainly controls the thinking consciousness, and there are two ways of taking effect: fast and slow.
If it takes effect quickly, the shadow poison will completely control the consciousness of the living being in a very short period of time.
But there is a high chance of failure.
If it fails, it is not the shadow insect that is affected, but the creature it parasitizes, which often dies suddenly and in a very miserable way!
Even if the control is successful, the person being parasitized will gradually become the living dead, which is even more painful than a ghost!
Seeing this, Su Mu thought of Luo Cheng, Sun Yu and others.
Could it be that their thoughts and consciousness were controlled by the demons using the shadow poison?
The four students who died were attacked by the poison and died suddenly because they failed to be controlled?
The reason why they haven't shown any signs of being the living dead is because they have been controlled for a short time and the abnormal phenomenon has not yet fully occurred?
As for Luo Cheng and Sun Yu, both of them are core disciples trained by cultivation families. They are very likely to have some kind of amulets on them, so they can remain sober despite being infected and influenced by the shadow Gu.
However, although they remained conscious, the damage caused to their bodies by the shadow Gu was not reduced at all.
That's why they would give away their own school badges while presenting the relics of their fallen classmates.
This is both a warning and a hint, and they know they won't live long.
Even now, they may have shown signs of transforming into the living dead or monsters.
Wait, relics?
Su Mu suddenly remembered the knowledge about the blood-nourishing and calming incense that he had obtained from the belongings of his deceased classmate during the day.
He hurriedly retrieved this knowledge and discovered that there was an extra line of words in it: It can produce witchcraft reaction with the black tide and generate shadow Gu.
“It is indeed so!”
Pure blood-nourishing and calming incense is indeed harmless and even beneficial to the human body. However, when it comes into contact with the black tide, it will immediately mutate and produce poison.
Just like adding cefuroxime to alcohol, it can trigger a disulfiram-like reaction, causing people to experience headaches, nausea, difficulty breathing, and even sudden death.
"But what does the black tide here refer to? The surging darkness? Or something else?"
Su Mu shook his head, the question remained unanswered for the time being. Then he glanced at the students in the temple.
The students looked normal and did not experience the various situations that would occur when the Shadow Gu takes effect acutely.
They were either not infected by the Shadow Gu, or the Shadow Gu chose to hide in their bodies, slowing down their movements and taking effect.
Su Mu continued to read the introduction about Shadow Gu.
The slow movement of the shadow insects will make them lurk in the brains of living things, and by releasing neurotoxins, they will influence the thoughts of the living things little by little and control their decisions.
During the incubation period, creatures infected by the Shadow Gu will not show any abnormalities. The transformation of their thoughts and concepts also takes time, and it is not abrupt, making it even harder for people to see the problem.
When Su Mu saw this, he suddenly thought of the future scene he saw through the splash divination technique.
Everyone suddenly turned into monsters at the exit of Yuanjiao Secret Realm. It was most likely caused by Shadow Gu.
At this time, the maggot was still constantly conveying messages to Su Mu, such as "delicious", "I want to eat", and "I want to eat more".
Su Mu's heart moved, and he asked the maggot Gu: "Are there any more shadow Gu around here?"
"Shadow... Gu?" The message that Maggot Gu sent back was full of signals of confusion and doubt.
It seems that this guy only knows how to eat, but doesn't know the name of the food he eats.
Su Mu changed his words: "It's what you just ate."
"There's... lots... for me to eat..."
As expected, all the students were infected with the Shadow Gu!
Su Mu raised his eyebrows slightly. His original plan was not to rush to deal with the shadow poison, so as not to be noticed by the demons that released them and come up with new tricks.
However, after reading the entire introduction of Shadow Gu, he changed his mind.
The shadow poison, whether it is acute or chronic, will release toxins and damage the brain and internal organs as long as it enters the human body.
This kind of damage is very terrible and difficult to repair. The most important thing is that once the toxins accumulate to a certain amount, even if the shadow poison dies, the person will lose himself and turn into a monster.
Su Mu didn't dare, and couldn't gamble with the safety of his classmates.
"Kill the Shadow Gu first. After that, even if the demons have other tricks, we can counter them. We won't be afraid of them!"
Su Mu made up his mind, and told the maggot Gu: "You can eat the shadow Gu... the thing you just ate. But you can only eat it, not other things, and you can't hurt anyone, understand?"
The maggot Gu suddenly became excited and said repeatedly: "I understand...eat...eat..."
"Okay, go ahead." Su Mu untied the seal on his arm. The maggot cheered and immediately pounced on the nearest classmate.
Next, the maggot swam quickly in the bodies of each student, hunting down the shadow gu that it considered delicious.
The students didn't feel anything about it, just like they didn't feel like they were infected with the Shadow Gu.
However, in the fairy palace on top of Jade Mountain.
The strange black liquid in the clepsydra had returned to calm after the blood moon reappeared, but at this moment, it began to boil again.
However, the boiling black liquid did not climb up the blood-red moonlight again, but instead surged and formed a head.
The face of the pitch-black head could not be seen clearly, and it even looked more like a flat ball.
But it was wailing in a strange and sharp voice: "Dead, dead, all dead, all my good children are dead, not a single one is alive, sob, sob, sob..."
When Luo Cheng and Sun Yu, who were standing next to the clepsydra, heard this, they were so excited that they almost couldn't control their emotions.
They exchanged glances secretly, and understood each other's thoughts: "Not only were Su Mu and his men not controlled, they also killed the poisonous insects! This is really good news!"
A second head emerged from the black liquid of the clepsydra, saying sarcastically, "I've said it before, there's no need to make it so complicated, just kill one group and capture another. I don't believe that the captured cultivators dare not serve us obediently! If they dare, then we haven't tortured them enough."
Then the third head appeared and asked, "How did your Shadow Gu die?"
The first head cried, "They've been eaten! They've all been eaten!"
Eaten?
Hearing this, not only the head formed by black liquid in the clepsydra was surprised, but Luo Cheng and Sun Yu were also stunned.
They didn't know that the shadow insect was eaten by maggots, and thought that Su Mu had eaten it. They couldn't help but exclaim in their hearts: "What a great Su Mu, he dares to eat this and can eat it? Did he learn this from Bear Grylls? It's so crunchy and he can finish it in one gulp?"
"It was actually eaten. How was it eaten?" Another head popped out from the black liquid.
"How should I know? I didn't see it." The original head was still crying.
The fifth head floated out and said in a deep voice: "Alright, stop crying. Now we are not studying how the cultivator ate the shadow poison, but we need to decide the next arrangements."
The second head said sinisterly: "Just do as I say, kill some and arrest some. As long as we torture them well, we don't have to worry about them not listening to us!"
"agree!"
"agree!"
"That's it!"
A total of eight heads expressed their opinions, plus the second one that made the suggestion, a total of nine heads emerged from the black liquid.
The first head that was crying before was even more clamoring: "The cultivators who have eaten the shadow poison must be brought to me alive. I will eat them and avenge my babies!"
Luo Cheng and Sun Yu were very anxious, but there was nothing they could do.
"No problem. But..."
The second head suddenly rose from the clepsydra, like a black evil dragon, and stretched out in front of Luo Cheng and Sun Yu, staring at them and smiling sinisterly.
"Before launching an attack on the cultivators, eat the traitor first!"
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