Southern Xinjiang, swamp.
This area is ten miles long and eight miles wide. There are no tall trees, but all short and small, strange plants painted with various paints.
The water was black and a little sticky, like a little gorgon juice, and it was still bubbling. A misty light green poisonous miasma filled the top, sometimes gathering, sometimes drifting away, and always locked within the scope of the swamp.
In the center of the area, a relatively dry place, sat a beautiful woman. There was a small cauldron in front of her, and she casually sprinkled some powder into it. After a while, wisps of green smoke floated out of the cauldron, exuding an extremely unpleasant smell.
And a hundred feet away to the east of her, there was another group of strange guys. All of them were ragged and exhausted. Many of them had purple complexions, and their bodies were covered with bean-sized pustules, or their skin and flesh were festered, and there were a few black worms stirring in the rotten flesh.
They didn't know each other before, some came from Jizhong, some from Hubei Province, and some from Anhui Province. Those who gave up halfway, those who fell behind, those who died suddenly... at most nearly a thousand people, at least dozens of people.
I have overcome difficulties and obstacles all the way, but I finally couldn't stand it when I arrived in southern Xinjiang. There are poisonous snakes, insects and ants here, and the miasma is rampant. It is impossible to guard against it, but the woman turned a blind eye and had no intention of saving her.
So far, there are only seventy-two people left in the team.
They looked at the woman with awe and longing mixed with fear. He didn't dare to go forward, didn't dare to talk to him, he waited habitually for a long time, and suddenly he heard the bushes beside him rattling, and another group of guys rushed out.
When the newcomers saw a group of beggars, they couldn't help being stunned for a moment, quickly judged the opponent's combat strength, then ignored it, and turned their eyes to the woman.
"Hey, don't you say it's an evil cultivator? You have a big toad with you. If you see whoever licks you, where is the toad?"
A guy with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks muttered in a low voice, and a few mosquitoes the size of dragonflies circled around, but they hated the smell of the medicine juice on his body and didn't want to bite him.
"What toad? It's obviously a ghost mother, and it's a ghost baby with nine sons!"
"Isn't there a lifeless mother who is as beautiful as a celestial being, moody and moody, she descends from Jizhong to the south of the Yangtze River, where corpses are scattered all over the fields, and thousands of families become Buddhas in one step."
"alright!"
The leader heard more and more outrageous, stopped shouting, and asked: "Xiao Ke, why is she similar to you like this? Is there a way?"
The one called Xiao Ke was a teenage girl, dressed in ethnic minority attire, with dark skin, small eyes and thick eyebrows, and she was not ugly.
She looked over there and said affirmatively: "She is refining Gu, she should be a very powerful Gu master. What you heard may be the incarnation of the golden silkworm Gu. The golden silkworm is the king of the Gu. Good fight."
"..."
The leader stared at the distance, and said: "If it's not easy to fight, you have to fight. She has immortal skills. We must grab her. Xiao Mao, you lead someone to attack from behind. Old Tong, you attack from the side. The rest Come with me, attack from three sides, leak the north side, there is a cliff over there. And Xiao Ke, you are also a Gu master, try to restrain her."
"clear!"
The quality of this gang is good, the discipline is strict, and the execution is extremely strong. In a blink of an eye, they acted separately and surrounded them on three sides. The other group saw it all, but they didn't mean to remind them. Instead, they showed a trace of ridicule and pity.
"Zizz! Zizz!"
As the smell of medicine drifted away, waves of poisonous insects were attracted. The copper tripod seems to have no capacity limit, devouring the army of poisonous insects to its heart's content, climbing into tens of thousands of them.
Only then did Long Qiu stretch out his hand to grab it, and instantly evacuated the surrounding aura, and pressed it all into the cauldron, and began to refine Gu worms.
She has been down the mountain for half a year, and rarely uses Dao techniques, but picks up Gu techniques that have not been used for a long time, conducts research and sorts them out, and develops many new Gu techniques.
The one being refined now is the new Gu that has been conceived recently. I saw her flicking her fingers to control the heat of the copper tripod, her eyes were weird, with black in the pink, completely different from before.
"rustle!"
"rustle!"
I don't know if it was the wind blowing or the snakes and insects winding, but there was a slight noise in the grass behind. Several people took aim with their guns, locked on to the target, and put their index fingers on the trigger.
According to their plan, first attack and shoot from the rear, disrupt the opponent's rhythm even if they can't be killed, and then besiege her in close combat, leaving no room for her to perform spells.
"..."
The sharp-mouthed monkey's cheeks have the best small hair shooting skills, and the three points form a line, pointing directly at the back of the target. His heart fluctuated, his hands were steady, this shot was hit with 100% certainty.
Whoosh!
The moment he was about to pull the trigger, the blades of grass beside him trembled suddenly, and the teammate next to him disappeared instantly, followed by a scream.
"Help... help..."
He turned his head and looked, his whole body was shaking. A big toad was squatting a few meters away, with its big mouth bulging, and a fleshy leg drooping outside.
"ah!"
"Ah, help!"
In an instant, the wild grass trembled and screamed again and again.
not good! When the side team heard this, they attacked decisively, shooting special short arrows with black tips, obviously poisonous.
The woman didn't dodge or evade, she was still fiddling with the copper tripod without seeing it.
The group of people were overjoyed, only to see the toad jumping out, stretched suddenly, and turned into a giant python, with a sweep of its tail, it blocked many arrows.
"Follow me!"
The leader had no choice but to rush out, his footsteps were windy, and he came close in the blink of an eye. Followed by seven or eight people, holding all kinds of weapons, full of internal energy, solid foundation, overall strength is not weak.
"Huh?"
Long Qiu didn't pay attention at first, but suddenly stretched out his hand to grab some strange flying insects. The flying insect touched the flesh and began to squirm crazily, desperately trying to get into the skin, but was killed by the body-protecting aura in the next second.
"You actually have a Gu Master!"
She finally stood up and locked onto the target directly.
not good!
Seeing that the attack had failed, Xiao Ke was about to move, when his eyes blurred, and the man had already approached. She was startled and waved her hands, two three-inch black snakes flew out of her sleeves.
A plant on the ground also suddenly shattered, turning into a dense group of small flying insects, rushing straight at each other.
Long Qiu swept his long sleeves away, the black snake fell to the ground, and the flying insects dissipated.
"puff!"
The two black snakes were Xiao Ke's natal Gu, immediately spurted blood and fell to the ground.
She was originally from Gui Province, Yao nationality, and Grandma Zeng Zeng was a grass hag in the village, and then she was broken for two generations. After the spiritual energy was revived, she learned it by accident.
The members of the gang are all fellow villagers from Gui Province, and she joined them, just wanting to make a living in this world. As long as there are enough interests, good things will be done, and bad things will be done, or in their eyes, there is no distinction between good and bad.
Xiao Ke managed to stand up, and then turned his head to look. In less than five minutes, his companion was either dead or injured, and lay on the ground.
She immediately despaired, closed her eyes and waited for death.
"..."
As a result, there was no movement for a while, she opened her eyes, and saw that the woman left herself and went back to the copper tripod to continue fiddling with. She was seriously injured, did not dare to move rashly, and collapsed on the ground suffering.
I don't know how long it took before the woman put her hands together, and a puff of red smoke spewed out from the cauldron. Immediately afterwards, a blood-red butterfly flew out of the tripod, fluttering its wings and dancing and hovering in the air, soft and delicate, with a strange smell of blood.
The butterfly flew for a while, then fell slowly, and landed on a long, white finger.
Seeing the woman approaching, Xiao Ke couldn't help but ask, "You, you won't kill me?"
"Um."
"Why?"
"No reason."
As soon as Long Qiu gave it away with his fingertips, the blood butterfly's wings trembled slightly, and it flew to Xiao Ke's face, scuttled, and actually got into her left eye.
"ah!"
Xiao Ke only felt the severe pain, every muscle was twitching, rolled on the ground and shouted desperately, and finally his consciousness went dark, and he passed out.
When she woke up slowly, she suddenly found that the butterfly had become her natal Gu. It seemed to be dissatisfied with the weak body of its master, and flew out on its own initiative, and when it turned over the corpses, the blood energy visible to the naked eye was sucked into it.
The butterfly returns to the body, quickly transforms the blood energy, extracts the essence and removes the bad, and supplements the loss of the owner.
After a while, Xiao Ke felt full of energy and energy.
"..."
She sat on the ground blankly for a long time, only to realize that the woman had already left, and she could only see the backs of a group of people in the distance.
All her companions were dead, and she was homeless. I didn't know what to think, but an impulse surged in my heart, and I quickly got up and chased after her.
With newcomers joining, those people are no strangers to it. Xiao Ke was very curious and asked, "Why did you follow her?"
"Why did you follow her?" One person asked back.
"I, I..." She knew it in her heart, but she couldn't say it out of her mouth.
"Hehe, we're all pretty much the same." The man smiled.