“Eunuch Li, how… how… did he become like this…” Liu Xitong’s voice was trembling, and the contents of his stomach were almost turning up into his throat, emitting sour gas. Although he was an officer of Luyuan, the capital area had always been peaceful, and he had only seen such disgusting and bloody scenes a few times.
"Eunuch Li is dead. Now this Eunuch Li is just a walking corpse..." Yan Liqiang said calmly, "Be careful, don't get bitten by him..." After saying this, Yan Liqiang sighed secretly in his heart. This is fate. These people in Luyuan are fine, but Xiao Lizi is in trouble. There is only one possibility, that is, the vitality soup that Xiao Lizi drank is not the same batch as those in Luyuan. It is possible that before these people in Luyuan drank the vitality soup, Xiao Lizi had already enjoyed the vitality soup "priority" through other channels, but he did not expect that his "priority" would cost him his life. Reality is so cruel.
"Jie..." Little Li was lying on the ground like a wild beast. After swallowing the bloody eyeball, he suddenly jumped up and bared his teeth at Yan Liqiang and the others, revealing a mouthful of bloody teeth. Disgusting mucus and blood kept coming out of the corners of his mouth. He made strange noises and stared at the people in the yard with bloodshot eyes. He was eager to pounce.
With a loud bang, the soldiers and Liu Xitong who came into the yard with Yan Liqiang were all startled. They couldn't help but take a step back, all drawing their weapons and protecting themselves.
Little Leo's scarlet eyes swept around and saw that Yan Liqiang was still standing there in a protruding position, without any weapon pointed at him. He let out another strange cry and pounced towards Yan Liqiang with his fangs and claws. His speed was very fast, far beyond that of an ordinary person.
Seeing Little Li Zi rushing towards him, Yan Liqiang's heart sank slightly. He knew before that Little Li Zi had advanced to a warrior under the training of Eunuch Liu. At this time, he wanted to see if Little Li Zi could still exert the combat power of a warrior after being infected by the insect eggs, or if he could become like the zombies he met before. However, the result in front of him did not make Yan Liqiang happy. Little Li Zi had proved with his actions that even if he became a zombie, his reaction, speed and strength of rushing towards him were not something ordinary people could achieve. After being infected by insect eggs, most of his strength could still be exerted.
"My lord, be careful..." Yan Liqiang did not move. Liu Xitong beside him took a step forward and stabbed the long knife in his hand directly at the shoulder of Xiao Lizi who was rushing towards him.
Little Lizi has always been Liu Xitong's immediate superior and the manager of Luyuan. Even at this time, when Liu Xitong took action, he still unconsciously kept some restraint and did not use his full strength. At the same time, he did not attack Little Lizi's vital points. He just wanted to force Little Lizi away.
Seeing Liu Xitong's knife stabbing at him, Xiao Lizi jumped away at once, and before he could move again, a group of soldiers nearby surrounded him with spears like a forest, and trapped him in the middle. He rushed over with a strange cry, and the soldiers stabbed him with their spears and forced him away. Yan Liqiang observed carefully and found that although Xiao Lizi's body was fast, his moves and reactions were very rough. He was straight forward, and when the soldiers' spears stabbed at him, he would either use his hands to block the spears or step back. He had no moves and no more flexible reactions. Compared with real force, he seemed too rigid. Yan Liqiang finally breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, the man in front of them was Eunuch Li, the chief steward of Luyuan. The soldiers and Liu Xitong did not dare to use force, as they were still confused. Yan Liqiang watched for a while, then thrust his spear directly through the chest of the screaming little Li...
With a hole in the chest, Little Li was roaring in the yard like a wounded beast. The tip of the Xingchen Iron spear pierced his chest and came out of his back. An ordinary person would have died from such an injury, but he was not dead yet. Instead, he grabbed the spear with his hand and let the spear pierce his body, continuing to rush towards Yan Liqiang with his fangs and claws.
Liu Xitong and a group of soldiers nearby were frightened again and their faces changed.
"Remember, when you meet such people, fatal wounds below the neck will not be fatal to them. The vital part of their body is the head. Only if you completely blow up their heads or cut them off, they will no longer threaten you!" Yan Liqiang said to the soldiers and Liu Xitong around him, demonstrating, then he pulled back the spear with a swish, and stabbed it out with a swish, piercing through Xiao Lizi's face. The spear shook slightly, and Xiao Lizi's head suddenly exploded completely in the yard like a swollen watermelon.
Yan Liqiang retracted his spear again, and Little Lizi's body fell down in the yard. Although the time from the beginning to now was not long, everyone who entered the yard, except Yan Liqiang, was sweating coldly.
"Ah, you see... Eunuch Li has... Dongzi in his head..."
Little Leo's body fell down, and from his exploded head, a pink, child-sized, octopus-like strange insect crawled out of his head and squirmed on the ground. People around him came over with torches to take a look, and they all felt creepy, their stomachs were twitching, and their faces looked ugly.
"Sir... what... what is this?" Liu Xitong asked stutteringly.
"I don't know either. I only know that Eunuch Li was killed by this bug..." Yan Liqiang lowered his head, looking at the squirming pink bug on the ground, feeling a little sick. This thing should be the holy bug. No, it should be the thing hatched from the egg of the magic bug. It was this thing that controlled people's brains. At this time, everyone didn't know the relationship between this thing and the Yuanqi Soup, so there was no need for him to tell others about the magic bug. Once he told others about it, he would be exposed.
Liu Xitong gritted his teeth, took a torch next to him, and pressed it down. With a sizzling sound, the strange insect on the ground was burned into a smelly black ball.
"Sir, what should we do now?" Eunuch Li was already dead, and Yan Liqiang naturally became the only person in the entire Deer Park whose words could be kept. Everyone's eyes were on Yan Liqiang.
"Let's see if there are any living people here first!" Yan Liqiang ordered directly.
"Yes!" Liu Xitong waved his hand and led his men to search every room in the yard. Finally, two bodies were found outside Xiao Lizi's bedroom. One was the eunuch named Xiao Dezi who was beside Xiao Lizi, and the other was another guard. Both of them had their faces and necks bitten to pieces. They were deader than dead. There were no living people left in the yard.
To prevent accidents and infections, Yan Liqiang had the bodies collected and buried in a pit dug in the yard. He then sealed off the yard and prohibited anyone from approaching.
The pit in the yard had not been dug yet, but over there, the soldiers, craftsmen and servants of the entire Deer Park had been called up, and the entire Deer Park was suddenly awakened from its confused sleep...
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Liu Xi and several others used a ladder to climb up the high wall of the deer park, climbed over the wall and looked at the faint glow of fire coming from the distant fields. Their feet were trembling and their faces were pale.
"Sir, those... those people in the village... could it be that... could it be that they have all become like Eunuch Li?"
"This is what I saw when I came back from outside. Many villages west of the Imperial Capital are now in chaos. I don't know what the villages in other directions are like. I'm afraid that the Imperial Capital is already in chaos..." Yan Liqiang said in a serious tone, looking towards the direction of the Imperial Capital.
"What about the imperial army? I remember that the Imperial Horse Guards still have quite a few troops in the camp in the Imperial Capital..."
"If the Imperial Capital is in chaos, and even if only half of the millions of people turn into a half-human, half-ghost monster like Eunuch Li, what use do you think the Imperial Guards' troops will have? The key point is that there is another premise, that is, the people in the Imperial Guards' troops will not turn into Eunuch Li..."
"Could this all be done by the White Lotus Sect?"
"Looking at the commotion the White Lotus Sect made in the sky tonight, it should be that!"
"Then how did they manage to stuff the bugs into Eunuch Li's head? Could it be some evil magic that has befallen so many people?"
"We can explore this issue later. The most important thing now is that we have to find a way to survive!"
"Now what?"
"Guard the Deer Garden. Don't open the door or run out casually. There are no villages around the Deer Garden. It's dark now, so those people can't get here all of a sudden. Even if someone gets here, they can't rush in for a while. Also, have everyone in the Deer Garden pack up and prepare to evacuate. I'm going to take a look at the Imperial Capital and find out what's going on there. If the situation in the Imperial Capital is not good, we must evacuate immediately. Staying here is just waiting to die..."
(End of this chapter)