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

At this time, General Yao was unaware that Fan Hongmiao and others regarded him as a traitor and believed that it was all his conspiracy.

When he saw the soldiers fall silently, his first reaction was to squat down and check why they had fallen.

Zhu Qi looked around, trying to figure out where the enemy was launching their attack, striking their soldiers silently and causing them to fall without a sound.

But after looking around, he didn't find anything unusual.

Those soldiers who hadn't fallen also appeared to be in a strange state.

They seemed completely oblivious to the fallen soldiers, continuing as if possessed...

This was clearly not normal, so he went to General Yao and asked, "General, what do you think is going on?"

General Yao stood up and said, "These soldiers are not dead."

Upon hearing his words, Zhu Qi also squatted down to examine the fallen soldiers himself and found that they were indeed breathing.

Strangely, their eyes were wide open, and they didn't move at all, as if they had died with their eyes open.

The sight was so eerie that it sent chills down my spine.

Not only were the fallen soldiers chilling, but the actions of those who didn't fall were also chilling.

For the first time, Zhu Qi, a burly man eight feet tall, felt the urge to run away.

To alleviate this eerie feeling, he ordered the soldiers who hadn't yet fallen to continue their march. But the soldiers didn't react at all, as if they hadn't heard him at all.

However, the horses beneath them neighed repeatedly, as if they had seen something terrifying and wanted to run away for their lives, but were trapped.

Zhu Qi scratched his head, momentarily at a loss for what to do.

He looked at General Yao again, "General, you have been on the front lines of military campaigns for many years. Have you ever seen anything like this before?"

General Yao shook his head.

If we have to talk about something strange, it would be the plague that broke out in the army! He personally witnessed those insects crawling out of people's bodies, trying to enter another person's body.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed that such a thing existed in the world.

For some reason, he thought of Ji Yunshuang. If she were here, she should be able to figure out what was going on, right?

As he was thinking this, Zhu Qi suddenly pointed to the ground and exclaimed, "Was I seeing things? I think I saw something crawl into their ears."

General Yao's temple throbbed, and he quickly looked in the direction the man was pointing. He saw a thin black thread enter a soldier's ear.

Because the thread was only slightly thicker than a hair and moved so quickly, he thought he was seeing things.

He subconsciously rubbed his eyes, trying to get a better look.

The soldier Zhu Qi had just pointed to was nowhere to be seen. General Yao looked toward the ears of the other soldiers.

Soon, he saw several black threads quickly slip into the soldiers' ears.

This time he saw it clearly; it wasn't his imagination.

Something did indeed enter the soldiers' bodies through their ears.

He thought the thing that entered their ears was most likely an insect, though he had never seen one before.

But after witnessing so many bizarre scenes in Zhengcheng, he now finds insects that look like strands of hair not so strange after all.

“It’s an insect!” he said to Zhu Qi, his face pale. “It’s different from the insects I saw in Zhengcheng, but I suspect they’re pretty much the same.”

Zhu Qi's face also turned deathly pale. "General, do you mean that the plague you mentioned has spread here?"

General Yao said, "Although I don't understand what happened, I guess it's like that."

"So what do we do now?" Zhu Qi felt lost for the first time.

At the same time, he was even more puzzled, "How come we're both okay?"

General Yao didn't understand why the two of them were alright, and he didn't have time to investigate further.

He said, "If my guess is correct, then only the Ji family can save them. She seems to know a lot about those insects and knows how to deal with them."

But where could they find Ji Yunshuang at this point?

Even if they manage to escape, Ji Yunshuang might not be willing to help. And even if she were, by the time they return, these soldiers will likely be beyond saving.

Previously, when soldiers in the military camp exhibited symptoms of infection such as vomiting, it was only because they were infected with parasite eggs. The parasites still needed time to hatch, and medication could potentially prevent the parasites from hatching and save the soldiers.

But now, insects have directly entered their bodies.

Zhu Qi, however, did not think as much as General Yao. He said, "I will go to the Ji family now and persuade her to come and rescue them!"

After saying that, he turned around and ran towards Zhengcheng.

But he soon discovered that he would always end up back at the starting point. No matter which direction he started from, he would always circle back.

It's like being lost in a maze.

On the other side, Fan Hongmiao and his companions also secretly got off the carriage and groped their way into the mountains.

The group was terrified. As soon as they got out of the carriage, they buried their heads and fled into the mountains, without daring to look back.

If they looked back, they might have noticed something amiss.

But because of preconceived notions, no one questioned it further, and no one went back to verify it.

They all ran into the mountains, using both their hands and feet.

At this moment, the last rays of sunset faded into the distance, and the light in the mountains grew increasingly dim.

The dark forest, the howling mountain wind, and the cries of some unknown animal added to the sense of fear in the mountains.

The more they ran, the more uncertain they felt.

Shu Tianhe, panting heavily, suggested, "Why don't we find a place to hide and leave when it's light tomorrow?"

"No, we can't stop, or they'll catch up." Fan Hongmiao hugged a tree, panting, and continued walking after catching his breath.

Fan Hongmiao walked forward, and the rest followed suit.

When they were too exhausted to continue, they would stop and rest for a while, then continue on their way.

They walked like that all night, until their legs were trembling with exhaustion, but they didn't dare to stop.

They thought that after traveling all night, they must be far away from General Yao and the others.

But when dawn broke, they were all dumbfounded.

They walked all night and somehow ended up back where they started.

Shu Tianhe stared wide-eyed, incredulous, and said, "Could it be that we've encountered a ghost?"

Fan Hongmiao realized at this moment that his previous analysis was wrong.

If General Yao was behind this, they couldn't have walked all night and ended up back where they started.

His eyes searched the crowd and quickly found General Yao. He staggered over and asked excitedly, "General Yao, what happened?"

General Yao didn't sleep a wink last night.

After Zhu Qi's attempt failed, he tried a few more times.

Once he realized he couldn't leave, he had to think of other ways.

However, he racked his brains but couldn't come up with any good solutions.

He also tried to expel the insects that had entered the soldiers' bodies.

But there's no way to solve it.