My reborn husband and son are thinking about how to kill me every day.

Lu Yinheng looked around warily.

Maggots wriggled on Prince Duan's corpse, emitting a putrid stench. It was as if he had been dead for a long time and was already rotting.

But before Ji Yunshuang severed his neck, he looked no different from a normal person.

It seemed that the worm inside his body helped maintain his bodily functions and prevent him from showing signs of decay.

After the worm left his body, he was immediately reduced to his original form.

Looking at the witch's body, Lu Yinheng asked, "Does she also have worms inside her body?"

Ji Yunshuang did not answer his question, but instead took action and beheaded her.

To their surprise, they did not find any worms in the witch's head.

Judging from the condition of the corpse, the shrine maiden was a normal human being and was not infested by insects.

Seeing that there were no worms in the witch's body, Lu Yinheng breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It seems that they have really been killed! Next, is it enough to just save those villagers who are infected with the plague and prevent the plague from spreading further?"

"In principle, that should be the case."

Ji Yunshuang looked at the witch's severed head; even though her body was separated from her head, the expression on her face remained.

She unconsciously thought of the words she had said before she died.

She felt uneasy, sensing that her words seemed to have a deeper meaning, but for a moment she couldn't quite figure out what she hadn't finished saying.

Lu Yinheng looked down at her.

This day was truly thrilling; his experiences far surpassed those of his previous life.

Although he was protected by a protective suit during his battle with the priestess, preventing the insects from entering his body, he still felt his scalp tingle and broke out in a cold sweat several times.

Later, he felt himself teetering on the edge of life and death several times.

If she hadn't arrived in time...

She was like a mystery, drawing him in unconsciously and making him want to explore more...

Although he was full of curiosity, he didn't ask any more questions, but thanked Ji Yunshuang instead, saying, "Thanks to you today, if you hadn't arrived in time, we might all be dead here."

Ji Yunshuang thought he would ask her what material the clothes were made of and how they were made, or why her hands could breathe fire.

She had already prepared an excuse in her mind, but she didn't expect him not to ask, but instead thanked her.

She smiled and said, "We're all comrades-in-arms, so let's not stand on ceremony."

As she spoke, she suddenly remembered the pregnant women with big bellies she had seen when she arrived, and asked what had happened.

Lu Yinheng said, "I don't know the specifics either. We just happened to see a lot of pregnant women when we were passing through the village."

It's not unusual for one or two women to be pregnant, but when almost all the women in a village are pregnant, I instinctively felt something was wrong, so I stopped and secretly investigated. I never imagined it would actually be related to the witch.

Next, he recounted how he followed these pregnant women up the mountain, discovered the witch, and what happened next.

He recalled the way those women gave birth to worms, and a wave of nausea washed over him. He said, "They're giving birth to worms...aren't these worms reproducing?"

Ji Yunshuang couldn't answer that question either.

The mutated insects she saw in the apocalypse were quite different from the ones she was seeing now.

She said, "I don't know either. Let's control this plague first, and then try to find the secluded place of the Witch Clan. Maybe we can get the answer from the Witch Clan."

Lu Yinheng nodded, "I will arrange for someone to investigate."

Ji Yunshuang didn't continue the topic; after a long night of fighting, she was exhausted and disheveled.

The corpses of Prince Duan and the witch lay beside her, the stench of blood and decay almost unbearable for her, who had escaped the apocalypse and enjoyed a period of peace.

She cannot go to the space to wash up yet.

There are still many follow-up matters that she needs to handle.

She looked around and said, "There's too much dry grass around here. It could easily start a fire when I burn it. I need to clear the area first."

Lu Yinheng hurriedly took his sword and cleared away the weeds around him.

His sword had suffered considerable damage after today's fierce battle, and now it was being used to clear weeds, making it look rather pathetic.

Ji Yunshuang glanced at the sword in his hand, and thinking of the armory in her own space, decided that she could pick one out as a reward for him.

The soldiers who fought so hard against the insects today will all be well rewarded after this is over.

While pondering how to reward the soldiers, she set fire to the two bodies, burning them to ashes.

Only after the fire had burned away all the branches and weeds stained with their blood, leaving no further means of transmission for disease, did Ji Yunshuang and Lu Yinheng sheathe their swords and head back.

As the two hurried back, Xu Xi and the others finally arrived at the scene.

Ji Yunshuang burned a large number of insects, which greatly reduced the pressure on the soldiers.

But after the witch left, the insects went out of control, no longer fixated on fighting the soldiers in front of them, and began to flee for their lives.

The women who had given birth to the insects, after daybreak, seemed to have forgotten what had happened the night before, and began to walk down the mountain.

The thought of these women having bellies full of worms sent chills down the soldiers' spines. What if these women laid their worms in the village?

Wouldn't that mean the entire population of the Great Zhou Kingdom would be attacked by these insects?

The soldiers, despite their exhaustion, did their utmost to prevent the women from returning to the village.