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The two words Aniduo repeated were "dead".

She doesn't understand the Central Plains dialect, but she has been taken care of by Tang Lin, and she can speak a few Central Plains words. In addition, she found this place in a hurry, and Asha may have asked her to.But now Tang Lin is not here, and Asha has not come either. Either something happened and she couldn't get away suddenly, or she couldn't come because of other things.

Taking advantage of the heavy rain, Tao Mo and Tantai Ying hurried to Tang Lin's residence.

The originally closed courtyard door was opened under the rain curtain, and the heart-piercing cry of a woman came from the house, more than one person, this mournful cry passed through the rain, and it was cold to the bottom of people's hearts.The sky was dim and unclear, and in the clouds, lightning like tree branches would strike from time to time, turning half of the sky white.The sound of the rain was chaotic, and a large amount of rainwater gathered from the roof made of tiles, sloping like a waterfall in front of the house door.The two quickly walked through the rain curtain and squeezed into the extremely crowded room.

The house, which is not spacious at all, is now full of local women with terrified faces. They raised their heads in panic and looked at the two uninvited guests. On the ground in the circle they formed, there were actually two bodies lying quietly. Grim corpse!Just looking at it, Master Shaogu couldn't bear to turn his head away, he really didn't want to see the miserable situation of these two people.

These are the corpses of two local women, about 30 years old, with blue skin all over their bodies, and their bodies were eaten by some kind of wild beasts, leaving few intact skins, with hideous expressions on their faces, wide-open eyes, and mouths open , seemed to be tortured to death. After being drenched by rain, the two corpses were obviously swollen.

Tantai Ying just recognized at a glance, these two people were washing clothes by the river yesterday morning, and after only one day, they lost their lives so miserably. I was dizzy from the shock.

The tall fox-faced poison doctor was squatting beside the two corpses at this moment, gently opening the mouths of the corpses to check, and from time to time spoke a few words in local dialect to the woman who was crying and almost fainted.It seemed that it took him a long time to realize that there were still two people standing outside the door. When Tao Mo and Tantai Ying had been standing beside him for a while, he slowly stood up, piercing his sharp eyes through the mask.

"What are you doing?"

"Brother." Tao Mo opened his mouth with great difficulty. He called Tang Lin, but he didn't know what to say next.

He, the person closest to Tang Lin, was speechless, and Tan Taiying, an outsider, didn't know what to say, so he secretly poked Tao Mo with his elbow.But just when the two were hesitating, the women sitting around the corpse suddenly turned their heads towards the two of them. For a moment, several pairs of eyes were fixed on the two of them, but they were all numb. .Tao Mo suddenly had a feeling in his heart that the women in front of him seemed not to be living people, but puppets similar to those he saw in the Tiange of the Puppet Villa at that time...

Seen by these women, Tantaiying had no choice but to explain for Tao Mo: "Aniduo came to us just now, saying that someone died..."

The expression on his face was covered by the fox face, but the surprise in his tone could not be concealed, Tang Lin passed the surrounding women, approached Tantaiying quickly, and asked condescendingly: "Why did she go to you? Where is she!"

Tao Mo had no choice but to push Tantai Ying away from Tang Lin, and stood in front of Tang Lin by himself, raised his head slightly, and replied seriously: "She has sprained her foot, keep her in the room, we will Come here first."

Hearing Tao Mo's words, Tang Lin's shoulders couldn't help trembling. He yelled into the room a few times, but no one answered. Then he glanced at Tao Mo and said coldly: "So, you are marrying her Did that person stay in one place?"

That person was probably referring to Bai Wangyan.At that time, Bai Wangyan insisted on following him, but Tao Mo stayed in the stilted building on the grounds of his poor health and Tang Lin's suspicion of him. But now, Tao Mo suddenly realized that the decision he had made might be to make him The fox-faced poison doctor in front of him was even more angry.After all, the girl with the injured foot stayed with the man whom he doubted a lot...

But so what?Tang Lin didn't trust Bai Wangyan, could he also think that he would be detrimental to Aniduo?

Tao Mo raised his head and replied: "She will be fine." After finishing speaking, he cast his gaze at the two corpses again, "Brother, what's going on?"

Tang Lin lowered his head and stared closely at Tao Mo, trying to see something in his eyes, but he looked away for a moment, then the fox-faced poison doctor walked back to the two miserable corpses, stretched out his hand He closed their staring, godless eyes, shook his head and sighed.

"The two of them entered the forest last night and were found dead by the river early in the morning." Tang Lin said slowly, "They were poisoned to death. As for the torn wound..."

He paused, as if he was considering his words, and finally said with difficulty: "It doesn't look like he was injured by a wild animal in the woods, but rather, some kind of..." He was silent for another moment, "A huge worm."

He and Tao Mo spoke the Central Plains dialect, and the faces of the group of local women were still blank. They just stared blankly at the surrounded fox-faced poison doctor, like a group of fish with eyes wide open. After a while, a woman began to cry in a low voice again. The crying sounds were connected together, like some kind of weird tune, mixed with the sound of the rainstorm, extremely weird.

As soon as Tantaiying heard the word "worm", a cold air came up through the ground, he couldn't help shivering, and turned to look at Tao Mo, at the moment when he met the silent swordsman in black , he actually saw a trace of fear in those usually calm eyes.

"Insect?" Tao Mo pondered over the word, with a somewhat unbelievable expression on his face, "In this world, are there such big ones?"

As if surprised by his own deduction, Tang Lin hesitated for a moment, then nodded heavily: "In this place, there are indeed."

"It must be such a big worm that can eat a living person like this!" Tantaiying said in surprise.

But Tang Lin didn't seem to be talking nonsense to them at all. The fox-faced poison doctor pointed to the wound on the corpse, and said in a deep voice: "This kind of wound is not bitten by an ordinary beast. Besides, in this Miaojiang Among them, there is indeed a huge worm... Among the local people, there is a branch that is good at using Gu and poison." He obviously hesitated, and stretched out his hand to put his face on his face. I was very interested in the technique, so I decided to settle here. More than ten years ago, this stockade was not here, the local people lived in the forest, and there was a group of people who specialize in raising Gu insects to protect the altar and the stockade. A Gu worm that has never appeared in the Central Plains, known as the Gu King..."

"Gu King?"

"Gu King!"

The faces of Tao Mo and Tantaiying showed panic again. Tantaiying remembered the strange pattern of giant insects located between the altar and the forest on the map, and the first thing that came to Tao Mo's mind was the picture The face that is very similar to Bai Wangyan...

Tang Lin stared at the two people coldly, and nodded slowly: "Twelve years ago, the person in charge of raising Gu worms and known as the 'King of Gu' was a local young man, but because he offended the gods... After that, the local people moved out of the forest and came here to settle down, and the Gu worm that swallowed the owner disappeared. Who knows...Under the heavy rain, something happened Such things!"

Speaking of this, the fox-faced poison doctor stroked the mask on his face with his hands, and murmured in his mouth: "When there is a heavy rain in this place, nothing good will happen..."