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All the way deeper, the protruding stones on the cave wall became more transparent, with sharp edges and corners. When the firelight reflected on it, countless groups of blurred light and shadows were reflected above the head.

Fu Wan was slightly surprised: "Mines... are they all like this?"

She looked at the crystal stones on both sides, they already looked like gems, they could be sold in the market just a little bit of polishing, they were not like the rough stones they had seen before.

Bai Chan didn't speak.

Suddenly she stopped, raised her hand to block Fuwan behind her, and extinguished the torch in an instant.

"How--"

Bai Chan covered her lips with slightly cool fingers, and said very softly: "There is something in front."

In the darkness, a slight pressure came from Fu Wan's lips.She breathed lightly, and could feel her breath brushing against Bai Chan's skin, causing her slender fingers to tremble slightly.

Are her fingers... so sensitive?

Fu Wan lowered her eyes, and stuck out the tip of her tongue to lick it like a ghost.

She retracted her fingertips in an instant, and even though she couldn't see clearly, Fu Wan had an intuition that the other party must be staring at him.She gritted her teeth silently, feeling the pleasure of a small revenge - who told you to bully me last night.

After gradually adapting to the darkness, the two discovered that the mine was not completely dark.There is a faint blue shimmer coming from the end of the passage, forming circles and circles like water waves.Bai Chan stood in front of her, watching ahead vigilantly.Finally, Fuwan also heard clearly, just behind the corner not far ahead, against the direction of the light source, there was a small rustling sound, like some small animal crawling or flying.

What it is?She tugged at Bai Chan's sleeve.

Bai Chan shook her hand, then let go, and said in a hoarse voice, "I'll go over and have a look, you wait here for me."

"No!" Fu Wan quickly retorted, "I'm with you."

"No." Bai Chan gently but firmly pushed her hand away, "It's more convenient for me to be alone. If you follow me, I will be distracted."

After she had said that, Fuwan couldn't say anything more, so he stood silently and watched her off.

Bai Chan clung to the stone wall and turned the corner very lightly. Fu Wan felt that she was like a light butterfly, which fluttered and disappeared before her eyes.She subconsciously took a step forward, remembering the other party's advice, and forced herself to retract her legs.

It's fine.She consoled herself.However, the words were so feeble that she felt a cold chill creeping up her spine.Yes, it wasn't until Bai Chan walked away that she began to realize that the mine was so cold and damp, the small sounds in her ears seemed to be amplified countless times, and the unknown fear made people panic from the bottom of their hearts.

White cicada... White cicada.She pinched her fingertips deeply into her palm, trying to recall the touch left by the other party on her lips, it seemed that this memory alone could bring some comfort.

Just when she couldn't hold back and stepped forward in a trance, trying to cross the curve, a blur suddenly appeared in front of her eyes.

Bai Chan is back.

Her face was a little pale, but she was still steady.She hugged Fu Wan with one hand, and said softly: "There are some things ahead, I think you should take a look too."

Fu Wan: "Are you okay?"

Bai Chan shook her head with an ugly expression, as if she was shocked by what she saw.

Behind the corner... what is hiding?

Fu Wan's heart beat wildly, and after walking a few steps, she raised her eyes and looked forward.This glance almost took her breath away, and she saw the dim blue light reflected in the narrow mine, and in this blue light, there were countless snow-white insect eggs hanging down from the top of the cave, like heavy snow that had been magically cast out of thin air.Among them, many insect shells have been broken, and strange-looking small insects have landed on the ground one after another. The short ones are only half an inch, and the big ones are as long as fingers, and they are crawling around.

Then Bai Chan raised her hand, motioning her to look up.At first glance, she didn't see it clearly, but now she can see it clearly, the mine is densely packed with such small insects!They open their sharp mouthparts to gnaw on the rock wall, while eating, and expelling paste-like excrement from behind.The excrement stuck to the rock wall, and after a while it dried and hardened, and its color gradually darkened, showing an amber-like luster.

Fu Wan's eyes widened suddenly: "This—"

Bai Chan nodded.

——Just now when they passed the mine, they saw the bare|exposed "gem". It was not a real jade mine, but the excrement left by these strange insects devouring the rock.

Fuwan remembered that he had touched their surface with his hands, and couldn't help retching.

She thought of the rock walls she saw just now when she entered the cave, and there seemed to be old mining traces on the surface, and even more frightening guesses flashed in her head-maybe, Bai Yujing had not produced natural ore for a long time, and they had been using this strange The metabolites of worms are used in the jade market to make huge profits.

There is no other reason for prohibiting stone gambling in the city, I'm afraid it will expose the secret that Bai Yujing has no natural ore!

The "Jade Mine" was actually a gigantic deception woven rationally by the entire city.

Fuwan subconsciously wanted to look forward more carefully, but was grabbed from behind.

"Don't go there." Bai Chan tugged at her arm, frowned and said that the strange disease suffered by the jade picker Wang Jinfa might also be related to this kind of bug.

Looking back, Fu Wan found it was indeed possible.Since the problem occurred, Bai Yujing's "jade" production has dropped sharply. If it is said that no jade pickers are willing to risk their lives to provoke these zerg, then it makes sense.

Bai Chan said: "I just don't understand, what is the relationship between the large number of sick ordinary residents in the city and this jade?"

Fu Wan caught a flash of light.

"Shh." She signaled Bai Chan to keep quiet first, listened carefully, then turned her head and said seriously: "Underground water."

There was a faint sound of rumbling water not far ahead. It must be a certain underground water system in Baiyujing. This mine dug through the river bed so hard that the eggs and insects were swept away by the waves, or the insects were attached to the river water. Whether it is survival or not, the waters are polluted no matter what.

Residents of Baiyujing have always had the habit of drinking unboiled water, so many people have been tricked?

Bai Chan reacted accordingly.It's rare that the whole person's face changed, probably because he thought of the water he drank a few days ago, and felt a little nauseous.

"Do you feel uncomfortable?" Fu Wan asked softly.

Bai Chan shook her head and said nothing.

Fuwan comforted her: "I don't feel anything at all, maybe the area we live in is safe." Before she finished speaking, she suddenly remembered that the little girl she met that night was boiling water on the stove. I know something, but I just hide it and don't say it.

She thought for a moment, then suddenly blurted out: "...Mother worm."

"what?"

"Mother insect!" Fu Wan's eyes lit up, "Do you still remember what the woman from southern Xinjiang said to us before we set off? She said that the key to killing the insect swarm is to catch the female insect!"

Bai Chan disagreed: "Even if she didn't lie to us, the place is full of bugs, how are we going to find the 'mother bug'?"

Fu Wan paused, his eyes moved down, and slowly landed on the firewood stick.

Bai Chan also looked there by coincidence, and the two looked at each other, and they both read their thoughts from the bottom of each other's eyes.

"This is underground, so the thick smoke may not be easy to dissipate. After a while, we only have half a cup of tea to run back to the entrance of the cave." Fu Wan calculated, "We still have to hold our breath."

Bai Chan nodded: "Don't worry."

Fu Wan had inexplicable trust in her, and directly took out the fire folder from his arms and handed it to her.Bai Chan took it over and blew it on, and lightly approached the edge of the torch tarpaulin, and looked at the flame with a humming sound.

The sudden light startled the swarm of insects to back away, and there was a lot of noise in the cave.

Fu Wan shouted, "Now!"

Bai Chan threw it away, and accurately threw the burning torch to the center of the swarm of worms, and instantly the aroma of burnt meat spread in the hole, and the swarm dodged frantically, making squeaky noises .

She picked up Fu Wan and said softly, "Hold on to me." Then she sprinted out of the cave without looking back.

Fu Wan pinched her shoulders with both hands, and leaned tightly on her back.

Even in an extremely noisy environment, she could clearly hear the buzzing sound of a group of adult insects chasing after them angrily. After crossing the thick smoke, they started chasing them in the direction they were fleeing, as if they had pierced through a hornet's nest.

In addition, it is the smoke that is pungent and pungent to the eyes.

Fu Wan was afraid that Bai Chan would be distracted, so he didn't say a word to her, but stretched his limbs a little wider, covering her entire back, trying to block some bites for her.

Just then, she felt a sharp pain in her upper arm—they were overtaken.

The zerg had extremely sharp mouthparts, and it almost took a piece of flesh with its bite. Fu Wan clenched his teeth tightly so that he could not cry out in pain.The wound was burning with pain, and there was a little numbness in the pain. It was slightly swollen and slightly hot, as if something small had been injected into her body along the broken blood vessel.

Fu Wan's heart sank slightly, and he urged in a breathless voice: "Go quickly."

Bai Chan picked up his speed again, swept across the corridor like a shooting star, and ran towards the entrance of the cave with all his strength.

After an unknown amount of time, the buzzing sound behind him finally faded away. Fuwan raised his eyes and saw the light-transmitting hole not far away, and his tense muscles relaxed.

Bai Chan didn't slow down and sprinted all the way, the two almost hugged each other and fell out of the cave.At that moment, Fuwan realized something was wrong, the surrounding was too bright, so bright that she couldn't help squinting her eyes.

"You are—" the miner leader showed a slightly surprised expression, and immediately waved his hands, "Tie these two up for me first."

Several subordinates surrounded him in response.

At this moment, thick smoke billowed out from the mouth of the mine, and the surrounding jade pickers stopped in unison, hesitatingly said: "My lord, my lord...this...?"

Taking advantage of this short moment of distraction, Bai Chan has already drawn his sword out of its sheath, stabbing the leader's face like lightning, the blade turned in mid-air, turned a little lower, and firmly pressed against the opponent's neck .

"Don't move." She said coldly, "You will die."

Before the man could react, he felt a chill on his neck, as if a small hole had been cut.He froze, and tremblingly looked at the murderous woman in front of him, he saw her expression was cold and solemn, against the thick smoke and fire rising from behind, it looked like Shura reincarnated.

Fu Wan didn't care about the pain, got up clutching his arms, and asked anxiously, "Who got the things in the mine?"

The man was panting heavily, looking at the sword blade that was close at hand with extreme fear, completely ignoring her.

Bai Chan shook her sword: "Answer her."

"Ah... ah! What, what?"

Fuwan patiently repeated the question again, and the man panicked: "Don't, don't kill me! I say, I say everything! Everything in the mine is handled by Mr. Xu himself, and our subordinates are just following orders!"

Fu Wan: "Where are those miners who are sick?"

The man hesitated.

Bai Chan sent Jian Feng forward, and said coldly: "Say!"

As soon as the man's legs softened, he immediately fell to his knees, and said in a broken voice: "They are all here, locked behind, Mr. Xu will not let us leak the news, afraid, afraid..."

Fu Wan's face sank like water: "If you don't want to talk about it, you'll kill it, and it's the same if you ask someone else."

The man was almost scared to pee, and quickly said that Mr. Xu was afraid that the epidemic would expose the truth of the "jade mine" and cut off his source of income. He ordered all the sick miners to be detained and managed, regardless of life or death, as long as they don't leak the news.

Fu Wan gritted his teeth, and said angrily, "You are also working in the mine yourself. If you act like a tiger's minion, aren't you afraid that one day the retribution will come to you?"

The man was limp and unable to utter a word, he was so frightened that he was dumbfounded.

Seeing him like this, Fu Wan probably couldn't ask any more questions.She took out the signal stick that Mrs. Baidie had given her earlier and lit it, and saw a bright orange firework soaring into the sky, piercing the night sky and blooming into a magnificent little firework.

Not a moment later, a whoosh sound was heard from the forest, and dozens of masked men in well-dressed clothes appeared in front of everyone.The leader was a scar-faced beauty, who knelt on one knee and saluted: "Your Highness."

Fu Wan said, "Where's your city lord?"

"Your Excellency has some affairs that cannot be separated from your body for the time being, and the special subordinates are here to help."

Fu Wan nodded: "This mine is the cause of Bai Yujing's disease, these few are insiders, you take care of Gu, and send a few more people to follow Gu to save others."

The woman nodded without asking why, and quickly split the team into two halves, one half stayed where it was and dealt with the aftermath, while the other half silently followed behind Fu Wan.This group of guards was as silent as a shadow, exuding the smell of blood that had experienced many battles. Although they were small in number, they overwhelmed the large group of miners, and none of them dared to act rashly.

Bai Chan was too lazy to talk, and directly forced the foreman with a sword to force him to walk in front and lead the way.

Several people turned around and walked to an open space at the edge of the shanty town.

"What about people?"

The foreman pointed to his feet with trembling fingers, and when he pushed aside the hay, he saw an old wooden plank—the group of patients were brutally locked up in the cellar.

Fu Wan gave him a cold look and said nothing.

On the contrary, the head guard slashed open the lock, curled his lips into a smile, and said in a hoarse voice, "You go first."

The foreman took a step back in horror.There was a long scar on her face, and her smile was extremely eerie. He wanted to play a rascal, but this time he didn't even dare to fart, and obediently climbed down with the ladder.