The strange story of Huai'an Inn

The huge worm began to slowly crawl around Zhong Liu, but still maintained the posture of making a circle.Knowing that it didn't seem to intend to kill him, Chong Liu relaxed a little bit, but the scene of those surging tentacles swallowing and chewing the humanoid monster just now still made him linger, and he always suspected that if he accidentally pissed it off , the next one to be crushed and chewed by the tentacles may be myself...

But going on like this is not an option.The owner is now facing Xu Hanke's large group of people, who knows what kind of moth they are going to come out with?

He has to figure out a way...

He looked down at his hands, closed his eyes to concentrate, and kept silently chanting: Deformation, deformation, deformation...

There is no use.

He rested for a while, and continued to exert all his energy on his brain, his eyebrows were almost tangled together, even Chu Gong had never tried so hard...

When he opened his eyes again, his hands still exuded a faint light without any other changes.

Chong Liu angrily hit his left hand with his right hand, "Are you being honest when it's time to do something?"

The hand continued to shine in aggrieved way.

Chong Liu sighed, thinking he still had to keep trying.He simply crossed his legs and assumed the posture of an old monk in meditation, trying to empty his mind.However, there are too many distracting thoughts, the more you want to let go, the more you can't let go.For a while, I thought of the long hair band of the shopkeeper, for a while, I thought of the fat cat yawning on the bluestone board, and for a while, I remembered Xiaohuai's trembling voice when he saw him...

Gradually, he actually started to feel sleepy.Head little by little, like a chicken eating rice.

That deep, long-lost sea enveloped him again.

The sea water soaked his light body warmly, stretching all his hands and feet.He stretched out in all directions leisurely, swinging back and forth with the dark tide.

Gradually, he was no longer alone in the sea.Other lives began to emerge.

He saw the kelp forest dancing in the depths of the sea, the primitive fish and insects shuttling among the algae, and the giant snails crawling slowly on the seabed.They danced their frivolous bodies, hovered around him, and frolicked among his many "arms".Chong Liu felt that he was laughing, but he didn't have a throat for laughter.His laugh became a rhythmic tremor, spreading faintly in the sea.

He could hear the chaotic and simple "spirit" of those newly emerged beings.

The original spirit is all about simplicity.When you are hungry, you want to eat, when you are tired, you want to rest, when you encounter danger, you want to escape, and when the time comes, you need to separate a new individual from your own body.Gradually, reproduction becomes more complicated, requiring the cooperation of two different individuals, but the stability of the population has increased.Around him, there are more and more small lives that have completed reproduction together, and they are getting more and more crowded.Later, they even started to devour each other and fight each other...

He was a little sad, but he was just curious to watch all these little lives change rapidly from generation to generation.

Suddenly, he realized that someone was watching him too.

He couldn't tell where he got this feeling, he looked around in confusion, but he couldn't find the source of this panic.

Until in the darkness of the abyss of the sea, a pair of ominous red eyes suddenly opened.They stared straight at Chong Liu with unspeakable ominous malice.

Chong Liu woke up from a shallow dream, his clothes were soaked in cold sweat.But when he opened his eyes, he was almost terrified.

A mountain of tangled tentacles piled up in front of him, and the bumps and barbs covered with unknown mucus could be seen clearly.All the tentacles were entangled and tangled together, still trembling and wriggling from time to time.

The big bug moved its head in front of him at some point.

Chong Liu was stunned for a while, and moved his body carefully, trying to straighten his numb legs.

The big bug didn't respond.

Fell asleep?Or just ignore him?

Chong Liu took the opportunity to look carefully at the big bug's head, but couldn't find anything resembling eyes.

Chongliu was in a stalemate with it for a moment, then suddenly turned his heart and raised his hand.Fear made his hands tremble, and he reached for the tangled tentacles little by little.When he was about to touch it, the bloody tentacle suddenly squirmed, and Chong Liu almost lost his breath in fright.

"That... I don't mean anything malicious..." Chong Liu pursed his dry lips, "Look, I only have two arms and two legs, and you have so many, I can't beat you, can I..."

The wriggling of the tentacles gradually subsided.

Chong Liu took a deep breath, and once again mustered up the courage to reach out his hand.

The initial touch was cold, but gradually, heat began to spread along the palm of the hand.The mucus was smoking and smoking, as if it was burning his flesh, but he felt no pain.

A strange feeling, soft and menacing, like reaching into a deep altar full of unknown bugs.

But suddenly he was not so afraid.

He recalled his illusory dreams, in which countless primordial beings lived and multiplied around him, and he could perceive everything.But when he woke up, he seemed to be put back in the box and disconnected from everything.

Only in Tailong Town, with the help of the shopkeeper, did he clearly perceive Hong's consciousness.

He wanted to get that ability to feel again.He wanted to know about all these horrible and deformed beings in the eyes of the world.

While thinking this, his hand on the tentacle began to change rapidly and steadily.His fingers began to lengthen, the silent light quickly spread to the elbow, and the palm began to crack.

Numerous translucent tentacles of different thicknesses spewed out quickly, some were shaped like octopuses, with only flower bud-shaped openings at the end, others were more like jellyfish's light, light-emitting long belts, and some were whisker-shaped. Yes, some folded like waves.These tentacles quickly entangled with the tentacles of the giant worm, and in an instant, countless fragmented and fragmented memories were sent into Chong Liu's mind.

It worked!

Chong Liu almost wanted to jump up excitedly.

All broken pieces.The bug obviously has no vision, and its cognition is composed entirely of air vibrations produced by touch, smell, and sound.Chong Liu couldn't understand at first, but after a while, he could gradually piece together all these perceptions into a rough mental picture.

The big worm was very small at first, only the size of an earthworm, and it was kept in a small and sealed place with thousands of others of its kind.It is very uncomfortable there, the temperature is very high, and there is Tao Qi everywhere that will burn them to death.

In order to survive, they began to devour each other, and when it was the only one left, it was released from the small place.

By then it had grown as long as a boa constrictor, and was shut into another dark but much more spacious place.There is a bipedal insect that the person it recognizes always emits some air vibrations that it is very afraid of. Zhongliu thinks that some alchemists from the Daluo sect are chanting spells to domesticate it, but there is another bipedal insect that will quietly Bring it food and sometimes fresh dirt.Once it saw the young biped, it was not so frightened.

But more often, it was the older biped who had to do his bidding or get burned.

Judging from these memory fragments, this worm was indeed raised by a certain alchemist sent by Da Luo, and it is even very possible that it is Wusheng real person.It seemed to be terribly afraid of him.

And for another alchemist who appeared in its memory... it seemed to have a deeper feeling.

Chong Liu suddenly opened his eyes wide in surprise.

Although the lack of vision cannot completely restore the original appearance of those people in the worm's memory, the image of the younger "biped" assembled using its sense of touch, hearing and smell looks a bit like Yuanchu?

Yuanchu secretly fed it?

This is also possible, after all, Yuanchu is the eldest disciple of Daoist Wusheng.

Chong Liu felt that he had found a key entry point.

He tried his best to convey Yuan Chu's appearance, but the worms obviously knew nothing about vision, and gradually began to become restless because of confusion.Chong Liu felt its tentacles begin to roughly pull his "hand", the pain made him gasp.

"Wait! Brother Chongzi, don't worry!" Chong Liu was in a state of desperation, closing his eyes and trying to overlap Yuanchu's impression with the impression passed on to him by the worm.The pull of the giant worm gradually slowed down, hesitating, accepting the various images passed by Emphatic Six.

"Look, I know your favorite brother Yuanchu!" Chong Liu carefully induced, "Your brother Yuanchu has a very strong relationship with me!"

From inside the worm's body, a long, strange, almost humming sound began to sound.

It seemed a little confused and curious, but the previous sense of alienation and vigilance had faded.

Chong Liu opened the corners of his mouth, knowing that the other party has no eyesight, he still smiled sincerely and kindly, and brought out all the lovable temperament he had practiced in the courtroom for many years, "You like Yuanchu so much, I will take you to find him. Is he okay? We just separated yesterday, and we made an appointment to meet today."

There was another long hum from the worm's body, as if he had some doubts about his words.

Chong Liu then passed on all the memories he could remember about Yuan Chu, "I didn't want to run either, I just wanted to change places. Let's go find Yuan Chu together, so that you didn't disobey your master's orders Yes or no?"

Chong Liu always felt that he was leading some ignorant child... But the consciousness transmitted from the worm's brain was visibly loose.

Chong Liu's eyes crooked with a smile, and finally added a size, "Your elder brother Yuanchu misses you very much. He must be very happy to see you."

After a brief silence, the worm's body began to squirm.Its tail got out of the way slightly, and a small gap appeared in the wall of flesh that had trapped Chong Liu before.

done? !

Chong Liu didn't expect such a cruel looking thing to be so easy to deceive.

Fortunately, most people in this world cannot communicate with it, otherwise they would have been deceived long ago.

Thinking of this, Chong Liu actually felt a little guilty, thinking that seeing Yuan Chu again, he must let him feed the big bug a few big meals.

Chong Liu tried to loosen his "hand".The tentacles that extended from his right arm receded from the worm's tangled tentacles, but could not return to their original shape for a while.Chong Liu had no choice but to roll up the tentacles in embarrassment, hold them in his arms with his undistorted left hand, and use the brighter light emitted from the tentacles to walk towards the gap made by the worm.

Guang hurriedly swept through the darkness in the heights, and Chong Liu noticed some wriggling, pale, and human-like things spread out quickly against the rock wall, like white ants scattered after being turned over a rock, and hid in one after another. In the dark spaces of stalagmites and rock fissures.

He still didn't know what those things were... people?After all, it should be human who can sing ballads, right?But the weird and terrifying appearance of the thing he saw before was definitely not human.

Is it a deformed person trapped in this underground palace?Something like blindness?

or something else...

For some reason, the humanoid monster eaten by worms made him very uneasy.Unreasonable fear permeated his mind, like a thorn, which he couldn't pull out.

But at least there are worms around, and they dare not act rashly.

Behind him, the giant worm began to crawl again.The huge body rolled over the rough ground, and the dragging sound was amplified by the cave, adding some rumbling deterrence.

It is following Chong Liu, thinking that Chong Liu will take it to see Yuanchu.

Chong Liu had no idea where he was at all.He only vaguely knew that this tall and wide tunnel was not drilled by worms, but existed long, long ago.The worm just dug here by chance, and even it probably doesn't know where it is.

This may be the road leading to the underground palace of the Xinglao Clan...

Chongliu knew nothing about this underground palace, even the knowledge about the old Xing clan was what the shopkeeper had leaked to him before.But he could feel that the distant wind was blowing from the front.