Hearing Ye Li's words, the two of them suddenly widened their eyes and looked at the submerged lizard with surprise, wanting to see what the soul-controlling insect looked like.
However, upon closer inspection, all one could see was a thigh-thick hole on its forehead, which almost turned the entire head of the burrowing lizard into a flesh ring.
Huang Jian smacked his lips and said, "Brother Ye, does the soul-controlling insect you mentioned really exist? Was it that kind of thing that controlled these monsters to fight just now?"
"Huh, this little fat guy is really ignorant!
But it's not surprising, after all, soul-controlling insects usually only exist deep in the areas where our monsters live, and they usually don't run outside to attack humans."
When Tunri heard Huang Jian's doubt, he couldn't help but snorted coldly.
Ye Li looked at the suspicious expressions on Mu Tianzhi and Huang Jian's faces, knowing that neither of them had heard of this kind of thing, and immediately explained: "I also accidentally learned about the existence of this thing. It is said that they only live deep in the monster area and generally do not appear in the outside world.
This kind of thing does exist. What I just killed was just an offspring, not the mother. I don’t know how many of these things there are.
However, it would be troublesome if there were too many of them, because this thing could control the actions of monsters and make them fight in a coordinated manner.
Each batch of soul-controlling insect bodies is controlled by a mother body, so that a large group of monsters can cooperate perfectly in a large area.
The mother's level has reached the Virtual God Stage, which is considered a high-level monster. Its intelligence is not much weaker than that of humans.
With human-like intelligence, he was able to command these low-level monsters to work together to attack. It is no wonder that this fortress was captured directly."
After hearing Ye Li's words, Huang Jian and Mu Tianzhi looked at each other and then frowned.
Of course they understood what Ye Li meant. If these monsters, which only had relatively simple cooperation capabilities, suddenly became as intelligent as humans and knew tactics such as luring the enemy, ambushing, supporting, and encircling, then with their huge numerical advantage, the defeat of the defenders here was inevitable.
Thinking of this, the three of them turned serious. Just as they were planning to discuss what to do next, suddenly a sound of fighting came from the jungle not far away, with faint human voices mixed in with the roars of beasts.
"There are people here, maybe they are the guards of the fortress, let's go and take a look!"
Huang Jian pricked up his ears and listened, then reacted immediately.
The three of them quickly crouched down, lowered their bodies, then carefully entered the jungle and began to rush towards the place where the sound of fighting came from.
At this time, Ye Li was talking with Tunri in the sea of consciousness.
“Senior Tunri, why did these soul-controlling insects suddenly appear here and join in the beast tide attack
Didn't you say they live deep in the monster area? Why are they running out now? Is there something special going on?"
Ye Li asked doubtfully.
After Tunri thought about it, he shook his head and said, "I don't know, they shouldn't come out no matter what the reason is.
This thing always lives only in the area where it lives, controlling the surrounding monsters, bringing them food, and defending them from natural enemies.
These things have poor offensive and defensive capabilities except for controlling monsters with low soul power, and generally will not easily provoke other things.
Of course, other things will not provoke them easily. After all, the power of soul movement is a very special and powerful force, whether it is among you humans or among us monsters.
I really can't think of any reason why these soul-controlling insects would leave their habitat and run outside to control monsters to attack humans. This behavior has no benefit to them at all."
After hearing Tunri's answer, Ye Li became even more confused.
However, now is not the time to think about the reasons. He cannot find the answer from Tunri, and with his own level of knowledge, it is even more difficult to find the answer.
Their current priority is to check the battle ahead, and if there are any of their own people there, they must rescue them immediately.
The place where the sound of fighting came from was not too far from here, and the three of them quickly groped their way over and found an open space in the forest.
Carefully pulling aside the bushes in front of them, the three of them saw four men in guard uniforms, who were trying their best to resist the attacks of seven demon beasts in the late stage of the Descending Stage.
Fortunately, these four people are also in the late stage of the Divine Coming Stage, so they can resist the attack of the seven monsters.
"He's one of our own, what should we do, Ye Li?"
Mu Tianzhi and Huang Jian couldn't help but look at Ye Li, as if waiting for him to make a decision.
After all, in the world of talisman masters, strength has always been respected. In the eyes of the two, Ye Li's strength is stronger than theirs.
Ye Li frowned and looked around. It seemed that the monsters outside did not discover them, so he did not dare to use his spiritual power to investigate.
Relying on observation with the naked eye, he soon discovered the figure of the soul-controlling insect on the back of the head of an ape-like monster.
"Look, on the back of the head of that golden ape is the soul-controlling worm!"
Following Ye Li's gaze, Huang Jian and Mu Tianzhi looked towards the Golden Ape, and sure enough, they saw a strange black beetle-like insect on the back of its head.
"Ye Li, should we go up and help? They seem unable to hold on!"
After Mu Tianzhi took a look at the soul-controlling insect, he immediately noticed the changes in the battle situation. The four guards were indeed unable to hold on any longer.
Ye Li said: "We will be there soon, after you two rush out, try to run to both sides to attract the attention of the monsters.
I will try to get closer to the Golden Ape. After all, the farther away my Soul Walking Spell is, the weaker it is. The Soul Controlling Bug has strong soul power, so if my attack is weak, I won’t be able to hurt it.”
After hearing Ye Li's words, Huang Jian and Mu Tianzhi responded and immediately prepared for battle.
After a breath's interval, the three of them rushed out of the forest at the same time.
Huang Jian and Mu Tianzhi rushed forward while deliberately shouting loudly to attract the attention of the monsters.
Ye Li restrained his strength so as not to let the monsters pay too much attention to him, and then rushed straight towards the Golden Ape.
The appearance of the three people did indeed immediately attract the attention of the monsters. In fact, it immediately attracted the attention of the soul-controlling insects.
However, the highest power displayed by the three was only the middle stage of the Divine Descent Stage. The soul-controlling insect immediately controlled the two monsters, one on the left and one on the right, blocking the three people's way forward.