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Chapter 157 Corpse Worm
Seeing so many bugs, I was completely terrified, goosebumps rising all over my body, trembling one after another.
I slowly took out the Peach Wood Sword and carefully placed it into the Black Abyss. However, just as the tip of the sword touched the surface of the Black Abyss, hundreds or even thousands of black bugs surged up along the blade towards the hilt at an astonishing speed. Before I could even blink, the entire surface of the Peach Wood Sword turned black, and I was so scared that I couldn't even throw the sword away!
At that moment, we dared not stay there any longer and hurriedly retreated. But just a few steps back, Cao Qilong accidentally stepped on a black Mummified Corpse behind him and shouted, "Oh my god, there are bugs in the Corpse!"
I quickly turned around and saw that indeed, from the Corpse that Cao Qilong had stepped on, small black bugs were rapidly pouring out.
Seeing this, I finally understood why those Mummified Corpses we encountered along the way were black; it was because each of those Mummified Corpses contained these black bugs inside.
I was about to warn Cao Qilong to be careful and not to touch any more Corpses in the passage. But at that moment, the Black Abyss erupted like a flood, a wave of Black Tide surging towards us...
At first, Cao Qilong and I were just retreating cautiously since the passage was filled with Corpses. We were worried about stepping on a Corpse and triggering the bugs inside. However, when the Black Army surged towards the nearby Mummified Corpses, we were truly horrified. As soon as the Black Army touched the Mummified Corpses in front of us, they instantly turned into skeletons without any pause...
Seeing this scene made our hair stand on end, and our backs were drenched in cold sweat. At that moment, we couldn't care less about whether there were bugs in the Corpses beneath our feet. Coming back to our senses from shock, I shouted, "Oh my god, run!"
After shouting, I grabbed Cao Qilong and turned to flee. As we ran, things became even more chaotic; the long passage was filled with black Corpses. In our panic, we couldn't pay attention to where we stepped and ended up either bumping into or stepping on the Corpses. One step on a Corpse, and countless tiny bugs would surge out in an instant. With the rapidly approaching Black Army behind us, both Cao Qilong and I were terrified enough to use every ounce of strength we had to run as fast as possible. We thought we had poked a huge hornet's nest!
Although those bugs were small like ants, their speed was many times faster than ants. We were running at our absolute limit, but when we looked back, despair washed over us because they were tightly clinging just ten steps behind us.
At this point, there were even more bugs than before; on the ground of the passage, the Black Army had gathered to form a wave of Black Tide, which was over a foot high and rushing towards us. Not only that, but both sides of the stone walls in the passage were also covered with black bugs, as well as the ceiling above us—thickly packed. At first glance, it looked like a darkness that could swallow light was quickly pouncing upon us...
Wherever the Black Army passed through was nothing but skeletons. If they caught up with us, we could only imagine the consequences; perhaps we wouldn't even feel pain before turning into a pile of bones!
At this moment, we were filled with dread and fear. While desperately running away, we shouted for Cao Qilong to come up with a plan quickly.
Yes, although we haven't been caught by the bugs yet, we are not flesh-and-blood humans who can keep running at extreme speeds indefinitely. We can run for ten minutes, but we can't last for thirty minutes, let alone an hour. Once we can no longer run, our fate is easy to imagine.
Cao Qilong is also very aware of this situation. At this moment, we have barely run for ten minutes, yet we already feel out of breath from running so fast, and our speed has slowed down compared to before. No matter how hard we try, our pace continues to decrease.
While running, Cao Qilong shouted in a near-screaming voice, "Who knows what these things are afraid of? With so many bugs around, even if they gave us a box of pesticide right now, it probably wouldn't help!"
Cao Qilong's words were indeed true. The number of bugs behind us was so great that even if there was a wooden door in the passageway at this moment, I believe it wouldn't stop the Black Army at all. You have to understand that when a Mummified Corpse encounters the Black Army, it is instantly reduced to nothing but bones. So even if there was a wooden door, it would certainly not hold them back for even half a minute; the door would be completely gnawed away.
I was internally lamenting our situation, and Cao Qilong was cursing his luck for encountering such terrifying creatures. I shouted at him, "I can't keep running! We need to think of a way out of this; otherwise, we'll really die here as food for the bugs!"
Anyone can run; many people can even run dozens of kilometers. But if you have to run for your life, even an iron man can't last long. At this point, I was nearing my physical limit. If we didn't find a way to slow down the bugs soon, they would catch up with us.
Cao Qilong grimaced and said, "Shidi, your brain has always worked better than mine. If you can't think of a solution, how could I? Besides, all we have on us are Spirit Talismans and Copper Coins; we don't even have a torch. What can we do?"
Upon hearing this, I suddenly realized—fire! That's right; no bug is unafraid of fire.
With that thought in mind, I quickly pulled out a stack of Control Corpse Talismans from my bag. These were left in the bag by the Gravekeeper. Grabbing a handful of Control Corpse Talismans, I performed a hand gesture and ignited them before hurriedly tossing them behind me.
You wouldn't believe it—dozens of burning Spirit Talismans thrown into the center of the passage caused the Black Army behind us to indeed fear fire; they immediately split apart and avoided the group of burning talismans in the center of the passage.
However, for the Black Army, this fire was simply too weak and small to hinder their advance. When the talismans were burning brightly at first, the army of bugs would split into two streams to pass around the flames. But as the flames weakened in an instant, they were quickly overwhelmed by the Black Army.
Although the talismans couldn't stop the bugs, it made me realize that they were indeed very afraid of fire. So I shouted to Cao Qilong, "The bugs fear fire! Let's smash all the Oil Lamps on the stone walls to the ground!"
Seeing the effect of the talisman fire, Cao Qilong immediately complied with my shout. He took care of knocking down the Oil Lamps on one side while I handled those on my side. While desperately running, we reached out and knocked all the Oil Lamps off the stone walls onto the ground.
Every ten or so steps along both sides of the passageway had an Oil Lamp held in a ceramic bowl. As we swept through at full speed, countless ceramic bowls shattered on the ground and ignited into bright flames.
This time, wherever we went, there was fire every ten steps or so. Although the flames were still small, they were quite dense, so they had a significant effect; at least the Black Army slowed down.
Even though the Black Army was slowed considerably due to the lights in the passage, we did not feel any relief because we were already exhausted from running.
Thus, we sprinted all the way. It took us over an hour to enter, but we managed to run out in less than twenty minutes.
Of course, we still hadn't shaken off the Black Army. As we grew more fatigued and our stamina was severely depleted, when we finally ran out of the passage and returned to the Intersection, the insect-like Black Army was right behind us, less than ten steps away.
Once back at the Intersection, we had no time to consider which path to take. I directly dashed into another unventilated passage because the ventilated one would ultimately lead us back, making it equivalent to suicide.
As I rushed into this unventilated passage, Cao Qilong shouted from behind, "What if this path is just like the last one and turns out to be a dead-end Hutong?"
I replied while running, "If that's the case, then it's Heaven's Will!"
Just then, Cao Qilong suddenly surged ahead of me with a shout, "Oh no, the insects are catching up!"
I turned around and immediately felt my hair stand on end because the Black Army was right on my heels.
This scared me so much that my face turned pale; I tensed up and sprinted forward. However, at that moment, I had no strength left. Even though I was using all my energy to dash forward, those insects were hot on my trail. As soon as my front foot stepped out, they surged right up to where my back foot had just been.
Despair washed over me as I thought to myself that this was really it...
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