"I know! Worms, black worms. I coughed out the worms, so my body is getting better, but the white dew has not been coughed out, so my nerves are still being disturbed by the worms." I blurted out.

"Worms? You vomited out worms. What did they look like? Can you tell me?" Yunwen asked with concern.

"It was covered in black and crawling forward. It seemed to have no brain and emitted a strong pungent smell. It fell to the ground and curled up in a ball, then crawled away quickly. The smell was similar to the ghost claw flower that I accidentally smelled before, but it was sour, similar to the smell after it was corrupted, and there was also some indescribable stench." I said.

"From what you said, it does seem like a kind of maggot, but the maggot is flesh-colored, and you said it is covered in black and emits a strange smell. Is it some kind of mutated maggot? And if the maggot is used to affect the brain nerves, it seems like the method used by some black witches in witchcraft. Could it be that this kind of maggot is the so-called corpse maggot?" Yunwen asked.

"It seems like that. Do you have any way to deal with it?" I asked.

"Everything happened for a reason. All of this tonight was my fault for angering Yingchun, which led to a series of events and harmed Sister Bailu. I will do my best to see if I can help Sister Bailu get rid of the poison. When I was chatting with her before, Sister Bailu mentioned some cases of poisoning by poisonous insects. Generally speaking, those who are poisoned will not survive more than seven or eight days. I will try to save her first. If that doesn't work, there is only one way." Yunwen said.

"It's none of your business. I couldn't hold back my anger. Don't blame yourself so much. What's the final solution?" I asked.

"Find the person who cast the poison and ask him to remove it, otherwise there is no way." Yunwen said.

The Song sisters, one is missing, and the other has been poisoned and is half dead. We were able to get together and chat just two days ago, but suddenly so many things happened. It was so sudden. As the saying goes, people are born in sorrow and die in comfort. We had too much comfort in the past period of time, and things will turn against us when they reach the extreme. This has led to the accumulation and brewing of such incidents. Although it is just a small matter, Yingchun was just jealous and took the opportunity to vent her anger.

But these things are also the result of excessive thinking in daily leisure time, which will explode so fiercely after accumulation for a long time. When you have free time, you will have more time to think more. When you have too many things on your mind, you will feel depressed. If you suppress them for a long time, problems will arise, just like a flood that is about to burst the dam. Everything seems to be leisurely in the mountains, and you think that everything is settled. However, this kind of thing in the wild and desolate land without a sense of crisis will eventually dig your own grave.

I have been feeling weak over the past two days, and Yunwen was helping Bailu try to lure out the poisonous insect, so we all stayed in the house to recuperate. As for Yingchun, we had no time to look for her for the time being. The edible things in the house were already exhausted. Only black fungus, wild vegetable roots and red dates were left. The flour and canned food had already been eaten.

Starting from a month ago, I have begun to try to pick up sea fish, shells and other things left on the beach and bring them back to eat, but now I no longer have the conditions, so all I can eat are these vegetarian things, without a trace of meat. I can just mix them with sesame oil and then stir-fry them to enhance the flavor.

Two days passed in a flash, mainly because I slept most of the time. Yunwen took care of everything else by herself, including digging canals and watering, feeding horses, stewing soup and cooking, caring for patients, and taking care of me.

That afternoon, Yunwen turned on the battery, and all the lights came on. She came to the bedside, next to me, with a depressed look on her face. When I heard the loud sound of the waterwheel turning outside, I also expected what happened, so I said, "The spring water is frozen, right?"

She nodded and said, "Well, Bai Lu is also in bad shape. We can't lure the poisonous insect out, and we can't force it out. Even using blood as bait won't work. If we wait a few more days, Bai Lu will die. Also, tonight is the last night we can turn on the lights in our house. If we don't do something, it's very likely that we'll attract that dirty thing with red eyes and we'll all be poisoned to death."

I sighed, knowing in my heart that Yunwen's analysis was all true. Whether it was whether to save Bailu or our own survival, we had to take the initiative and try to get the red-eyed monster to remove the poison from Bailu and kill it to eliminate future troubles, so that we could truly survive.

Now that things have come to this point, there is no need to retreat any further. Let's just follow Yunwen's line of thought.

"Well, since the red-eyed monster has pushed us all into a desperate situation, we can only fight back with our lives. Let's take the initiative, take our only food, and win this battle for survival." I said.

Yunwen nodded and said, "Not only to win the battle for survival, but also to rescue Sister Bailu. Maybe we can even find our missing and abducted sister Yingchun."

"Yes, this battle is about survival and everyone's life and death. Let's fight," I said.

After we reached a consensus, Yunwen made some roasted black fungus and some red dates and herbs to stew a soup for me to replenish my energy. Then she took me upstairs and showed me Bailu who was still in the Lan room. After not seeing her for a few days, she looked haggard and pale, almost unrecognizable. Due to the contraction of her forehead bone, even her glasses could not support her. She was shivering as if she had a cold, lying on the floor of the room, with medicine jars all around her.

Since Bai Lu would often make strange noises, Yunwen would carry her upstairs during the day and bring her downstairs to sleep with me at night, just to allow me to have the most rest time and to avoid disturbing me.

Seeing Bai Lu like this, I couldn't help but feel distressed. I still remember two months ago, she vowed to try to treat me as a family member, to work together and eliminate the barriers. She also said that she would listen to me more in the future and looked full of trust. However, in the blink of an eye, she was no longer alive or dead. It was all because I couldn't hold back my anger and had a quarrel with Yingchun, which led to the subsequent events.

I feel so guilty for wasting her trust.

After watching Bailu, Yunwen took me to the Mei room next door. The room was filled with the fragrance of flowers. A desk was covered with various papers written or drawn with charcoal. These papers came from the useless pages of books in the cellar. The blank back was used by her for calligraphy and painting.

"Zhou Bo, look at this." Yunwen took out the third piece of paper and handed it to me.

"What is this?" I asked.

"Do you remember that when we were being sacrificed on the top of the Claw Dragon Mountain, you asked me to hide under the bronze tripod for the sacrifice?" Yunwen asked.

"Remember," I said.

"This is the pattern I touched under the tripod. I drew it based on my memory. This pattern is similar to a mythical beast in ancient times, with a human face and a snake body. It should be called Zhu Jiuyin, also known as Zhulong. I heard that he is a local god who is in charge of time. He is also a totem of the witch tribe. I think this may be related to the red-eyed monster. After all, among the ancient tribes before the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was a tribe that worshipped the power of Zhu Jiuyin, and that tribe was called the Blood Eye Clan because their eyes were all red, hence the name." Yunwen said.

"You mean, the red-eyed monster is the descendant of the blood-eyed clan? But I clearly felt last night that the other party was not a human, but some kind of ape, so it may just be a coincidence." I said.

Yunwen was also confused. After thinking for a while, she said, "I don't know the reason, but the reason why the Blood Eye Clan is known is because they created something called [Erosion]. We have seen this thing before, and we also happened to see a monster with blood-red eyes. I always feel that there is a connection. Although I don't know what it is, this point is very important."

"That's very possible. Have you thought of a solution in the past two days?" I asked.

She nodded and said, "Yes, the more I see Sister Bailu like that, the more guilty and indebted I feel. That's why I think about this. Although it's a last resort, I also want to prepare something in advance. The important information is that the Blood Eye Clan was cursed and can never see the light of day, so we can find it during the day. Do you think we can give it a try?"

I sneered and said, "Good idea. It dares to bully people at night. We should find it during the day and beat it to a pulp."