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Chapter 88 Gu

"roar----"

Heavy breathing, accompanied by the screeching sound of claws scraping against the rocks, drew rapidly closer.

The commotion was so great that it attracted the attention of the surrounding monsters.

Before Elder Ge could even begin to search Chen Qian for his treasures, the chilling, foul wind had already filled the stone chamber.

"Damn it! They came so fast!"

Old Ge gritted his teeth, ignoring the corpse on the ground, and took out a handful of powder from his pocket, trembling as he sprinkled it at his feet.

Then, like a frightened mouse, he quickly shrank into the shadowy corner of a huge rock.

Hold your breath, suppress your heartbeat to the lowest possible level.

"roar!"

A huge, skinned monster crawled in.

It had no eyes; instead, there were two lumps of rotting, pus-filled flesh.

With its head tilted to the side, its skinless ears twitched slightly as it listened to sounds and located them.

At the same time, his nostrils twitched wildly as he sniffed for the human scent that filled the air.

It first sensed the direction where Elder Ge was hiding, and was about to take a step when it seemed to smell some extremely disgusting and pungent odor, and snorted.

He shook his head in frustration and turned to walk to the other side.

Over there, you'll find its favorite flavor.

The smell of blood.

Hiding in the shadows, Old Ge could only barely discern the monster's movements by the flickering light of a tinderbox lying on the ground some distance away.

He was extremely anxious: "You beast! Eating those two good-for-nothings is one thing, but don't touch that kid surnamed Li! If you swallow his treasure, I'll rip you open!"

The skinned monster, following the scent of blood, crawled between the two corpses.

It first sniffed the tomb raider who had been eaten by insects, then excitedly opened its mouth wide.

Then it turned its head and brought its gaping mouth close to Chen Qian's face.

It took a deep sniff.

suddenly!

"roar!"

The monster seemed to have smelled some kind of deadly poison or something extremely disgusting. It suddenly shrank back, shook its head wildly, and even let out a disgusted growl.

It ignored Chen Qian completely, as if he were not meat, but a stone in a latrine.

It extended its sharp claws, grabbed the corpse of the tomb raider next to it, and dragged it away from the stone chamber at an extremely fast speed, disappearing into the dark passage.

"Gone?"

Old Ge huddled in the darkness for a while longer, until he was sure the sound had faded away, before cautiously crawling out.

He quickly picked up the tinderbox from the ground and hurried over to Chen Qian's side.

The firelight illuminated Chen Qian's deathly pale face and his lifeless corpse.

"It's still here—it's good that it's still here."

Old Ge breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes gleaming with greed.

He kicked away the military knife next to Chen Qian's hand, but dared not touch the corpse directly.

After all, that deadly worm is still inside Chen Qian's body!

"We need to lure the bugs out first."

With practiced ease, Old Ge walked to the tomb raider's body, which wasn't quite dead yet, and smothered it to death.

A small piece of raw flesh, still dripping blood, was cut from the tomb raider's corpse.

He took out a red medicine bottle from his pocket, sprinkled some powder on the meat, rubbed it vigorously a few times, and immediately emitted a strange sweet fragrance.

He pinched the piece of meat and carefully placed it near Chen Qian's mouth and nose.

This "insect-attracting powder" is so appealing that carrion worms will rush out to eat it.

One breath, two breaths, ten breaths —

Old Ge's brows furrowed into a deep frown.

There was no movement.

The insects seemed to have vanished into thin air; not a single one crawled out.

"That's strange—did we go too deep?"

He moved the piece of meat closer to Chen Qian's nostrils, almost touching his skin.

There was still no response.

A sense of unease rose in Old Ge's heart.

He raised these carrion larvae, and he knew their habits best. Even if they burrowed into his bone marrow, they would come out when they smelled this fragrance.

"That's really strange!"

He dared not touch it directly; this thing was ruthless and unrecognizable.

Once he gets involved, he's doomed.

"What exactly is going on?"

Old Ge gritted his teeth and held up the fire tinder.

Slowly, little by little, she lowered her head and got closer to Chen Qian's face.

We can only wait and see what's going on.

The firelight flickered, drawing ever closer.

Chen Qian's eyes, which were originally wide open, dull, and unfocused, were clearly reflected in Old Ge's eyes.

The moment the firelight illuminated my eyes.

A sudden change has occurred!

Chen Qian's originally dark and diffused pupils suddenly trembled violently, as if they were alive.

Followed by.

The black pupil actually split open.

Inside the original pupil, an even smaller and deeper pupil was forcibly split off!

One eye with two pupils!

Two pupils, one large and one small, spun and overlapped wildly in their eye sockets.

Those eyes were fixed on Old Ge, who was standing right in front of him!

"What the hell is that?"

Old Ge was so frightened that his heart almost stopped, and he instinctively tried to fall backward.

But it's too late.

"call!"

A large hand reached out from below, as fast as lightning, and grabbed Old Ge's neck tightly!

He didn't even have a chance to struggle before that hand slammed him hard onto the hard rock ground, hitting the back of his head until he was dizzy.

The fire tinder flew out of their hands, casting their long shadows on the wall.

Chen Qian slowly sat up.

He grabbed Old Ge by the neck with one hand and brought the old man's face up to his own.

Those eyes, with their four pupils, kept scrutinizing Old Ge.

Those are not the eyes that humans should have.

The large pupil encloses the smaller pupil, as if another abyss is hidden within the abyss, before finally refocusing into one!

Chen Qian tilted his head, looked at Old Ge who was struggling desperately in his hands and whose face was turning purple, and a wicked smile appeared on his lips.

"Is Elder Ge very surprised?"

"Click."

A crisp sound.

With just a slight twitch of Chen Qian's wrist, Old Ge's wrinkled neck snapped like a withered branch, and his head slumped to one side.

Chen Qian released his grip, letting the body slide to the ground, his face expressionless.

He slowly stood up and stretched his somewhat stiff limbs.

A very strange feeling welled up inside me.

The heaviness in my body disappeared, replaced by a feeling of fullness, even a kind of swelling, power.

He subconsciously touched his chest, where he had previously placed the Soul Soil and the golden Gu worm.

He pulled open his shirt, his eyes narrowing slightly.

The tattered cloth that had originally wrapped the golden Gu worm was now empty, and the gruesome wound on his chest, which had been slashed open by the shovel, had now stopped bleeding.

The skin around the wound had already begun to scab over, and the healing speed was astonishing.

"Gone—"

Chen Qian muttered to himself.

The excruciating pain I felt earlier was caused by the golden Gu worm forcibly breaking into my body!

And at that moment, he clearly sensed something lurking in his heart.

"Thump————·————·————"

Each heartbeat became heavy and powerful.

With each heartbeat, a powerful surge of heat is pumped into the blood vessels.

As for the carrion larvae that Old Ge scattered?

It's likely that as soon as it enters the body, it will be completely devoured by the "Gu King" that uses this place as its nest, becoming its first meal.

As if by some stroke of luck, this broken body seemed to have been given a second chance at life by the Gu worm.

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