There were about ten adults and children in Dahe Village who had been bitten by the ghost-faced locusts. They were all carried to the yard of the Zheng family.
About ten people lined up in a row. Except for the leader, all the villagers blocked the yard and stretched their necks to look at him.
He was guarding his little grandson, who looked to be only four or five years old. His hands and arms, bitten by locusts, were swollen like steamed buns. The epidermis was damaged, the wound was eroded, and pus oozed out from time to time.
The child himself also has a high fever that won't go away. In comparison, this child's condition is not the most serious.
The worst-hit ones were an old woman and a farmer. They had been bitten by locusts several times and their bodies were severely festering. Qing Wuyi saw that they were filled with a thick, indelible aura of death.
Judge Pen's voice was also very condensed: "The spirits of these two people have faded. I'm afraid they can't be saved."
Qing Wu's expression remained unchanged as she ordered her subordinate, "Find a live chicken, preferably a live chicken."
The daughter-in-law of the Zheng family returned to the house immediately and found that it was not safe to keep the poultry outside, so she drove them all into her own house.
The live chicken was soon found, and the chicken was flapping its wings in the palm of the hand.
"My Lady Princess, what should we do next?"
"Cut it and let the blood out, but don't kill it."
Baisui went straight forward to catch the chicken, took out a dagger and stabbed the chicken's neck. The chicken clucked and cried, and blood spurted everywhere.
Qing Wu immediately said: "Let go!"
Baisui quickly threw the chicken away.
Everyone was wondering what was going on. The next moment, everyone saw the villagers who were bitten by locusts and fell unconscious opened their eyes at the same time.
Before they could feel happy, someone screamed.
But this group of people were awake, their eyelids opened, their eyes rolled up, and only the whites of their eyeballs trembled.
"Everyone move back." Qing Wu's voice fell, and everyone stepped back in unison.
The daughter-in-law of the emperor was worried about her son, so she could only hold back her tears and dared not to step forward.
As the smell of chicken blood spread, changes began to occur in the villagers who had woken up, as if something was moving under their skin.
Boo!
It sounded like skin and flesh being pushed open, or like the sound of bubbles bursting.
Along with the screams, bugs emerged from the festering parts of the villagers' bodies. They were actually locust larvae.
Densely packed larvae emerged from the human body and crawled towards the chicken. In a blink of an eye, the chicken was covered by the insects.
Some people screamed, some people retched.
This scene was even more terrifying than the locust swarm just now. Baisui felt itchy all over, as if bugs were crawling on his body.
The daughter-in-law of Xi Zheng was so frightened that she almost fainted. Xi Zheng also sat on the ground with weak legs. Those villagers who had just "woke up" fainted again after the insects left their bodies.
"Set fire." Qing Wu shouted and threw the torch towards the pile of insects. The fire immediately grew larger.
He was trembling and kowtowing, crying, "Princess, please save me! Please save my grandson!"
There were cries of begging all around.
Qing Wu said seriously: "These locusts will lay their eggs on the wound, using human flesh and blood as a breeding ground and souls as food to hatch. Chicken blood has positive yang energy, which can draw out the larvae."
"I'll have someone send some nourishing medicine over later. The wound is superficial, so there's no problem saving your life. As for the rest..." Qing Wu shook her head.
When these words were spoken, some villagers were happy while others were sad.
Most people are in a panic. These evil locusts not only eat food but also take people’s lives!
"Okay, just stay in the village." Qing Wu waved her hand: "Dahe Village has the energy of Fuhuo, the locusts will not come here again."
Hearing this, the villagers breathed a sigh of relief.
To them, Qing Wu's words were like an imperial decree, and no one would question them.
This time, Qing Wu and the others also brought some medicinal herbs, which were blessed by the mountain spirits in Henglu Mountain. After leaving two black-armored guards to boil the medicine according to the prescription given by Qing Wu, the group hurriedly left Dahe Village.
Xiao Chenyan sent the letter back to the city, just in case. On the way back, Qing Wu sent the letter to Baimei and Little Fox using a talisman.
General Lin and others were facing a powerful enemy.
After this incident, everyone understood that the locust plague might not be the most terrible thing, the most terrible thing would be "man-made disaster"!
"There are many refugees in the city now, and many of them have been bitten by locusts. Doesn't it mean that there are locust larvae in their bodies? Maybe some of the eggs have hatched..."
Just thinking about the consequences makes my scalp tingle.
I thought the county town was safe, but from what I see, it may be even more dangerous!
Qing Wu hadn't said much yet. As the journey was inconvenient, the group returned to the county town exhausted. As soon as they entered the palace, before they even entered the front hall, Xiao Yao came over.
He looked pale and had not yet recovered. After receiving the news from Xiao Chenyan, he became even more restless.
Qing Wu didn't waste any words and said, "The current problem is not just as simple as locusts laying eggs on human flesh and blood."
"This creature is called the Ghost Face Locust. It can eat not only grains but also stones and iron objects. What it loves to eat the most is human souls."
Xiao Yao had not experienced it personally, so when he heard that locusts feed on human souls, he still looked incredulous.
The expressions of General Lin and others were so ugly that they could not be described.
Qing Wu continued, "They lay eggs in the human body not just to hatch the next generation. People who are planted with insect eggs are like being poisoned."
"It's not difficult to control the situation in the county town. The trouble is the refugees coming this way."
The woman's voice was icy cold, like a hammer hitting everyone's heart.
"In a few days, the county city may not be facing a large number of refugees, but a large number of insane insects."
“This is not a plague of locusts, but a plague of insects.”
Everyone felt as if they were falling into an ice cellar.
The locust plague is something that is difficult to resist with human power, and the current situation has become so complicated.
Xiao Yao felt his whole body numb. Even if he wanted to favor Gu Lingyue, he couldn't act like nothing happened at this moment!
He could tolerate Gu Lingyue casting a curse on him, but the Jiuli survivors were treating the lives of the people of Nanling as worthless!
They have turned the entire Nanling Mountains into a breeding ground for poisonous insects. If this problem is not eliminated, Nanling Mountains will be transformed into a living hell!
At this moment, everyone's eyes were focused on Qing Wu.
Whether Nanling can survive this crisis depends entirely on her!
Qing Wu closed her eyes with a headache. Sure enough, her premonition that she was going to be unlucky was right. This trouble was really troublesome!
And she had a feeling that there would be even worse things to come.
The bad boy Awu's back teeth were itching and her beautiful eyes were sinister. It was because she hadn't shown her private parts for too long. Did those scumbags think that she had cultivated her character or that she couldn't lift a knife anymore?
Oh, first there was Xirang to create hell, then there were ghost-faced locusts that turned into insect plague. Fine, she wants to see in the underworld which ghost is so bold as to collude with the world of the living to cause chaos time and again!
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