The Twelfth Chapter: The Blood-Sucking Insect with a Human Face

  Meng Qiu didn't dare to look back, but he could feel the powerful and chaotic aura that made his heart tremble with fear. The wave rushed over, its speed incredibly fast, like the wind. Meng Qiu and Wang Haibing were quickly caught up, the wave's crest almost reaching their heels. But the two had already reached their limit of speed. In an instant, a cry of "ah" rang out as Wang Haibing was sucked underwater, followed by Meng Qiu, who let out a muffled groan as he fell into the icy waters. The moment he entered the water, he was enveloped in a chill that invaded his body.

  "It's so cold!" Meng Qiu cried out in a low voice, hastily urging on her true energy to slightly alleviate the chill. Then, using both hands and feet, she tried to swim up to the surface, but just as she broke through the water, she suddenly saw an enormous human face hanging upside down from above.

  That person's face was as pale and swollen as a water basin, extremely frightening, like a rotting corpse that had been soaked in water for a long time. His two eyes were staring straight at Meng Qiu with an eerie gaze.

  Meng Qiu was startled and immediately punched out, directly blasting the person's face with a loud crash, instantly bursting into a splash of clear water. Meng Qiu saw that the clear water seemed to be nothing, but his heart suddenly flashed a warning sign, making him quickly react, pointing with his hand and shouting: "Shield Symbol!"

  In an instant, a black light shield appeared in front of him, blocking the splashing clear water. With a "zizi" sound, it was as if strong acid had been poured on the light shield, and the splashed clear water hitting the light shield almost extinguished its powerful corrosive force.

  Meng Qiu couldn't help but take a cold breath, fortunately he was extra cautious just now, otherwise this one move would have been fatal.

  Then he looked for the face of the person he had blown up, only to find that it was left with only the back half, like a long worm, floating on the surface of the water.

  "It's a human-faced blood worm! Could it be someone from the Blood Sword Sect?" At this time, Wang Haibing also swam up to the surface of the water and saw the thing, and couldn't help but shout.

  Meng Qiu's face turned solemn, the human-faced blood worm was a unique secret technique of the Blood Sword Sect, which specialized in cross-breeding humans and insects to cultivate this thing. It could attach itself to the body of a person or a demon beast, causing their spirit and soul to become disordered, and be controlled by the insect master. However, ordinary human-faced blood worms were only about the length of a finger, but the one before him was actually hundreds of times larger. Who exactly had cultivated such an abnormal human-faced blood worm?

  At this moment, a huge face emerged from behind Wang Haibing's back, shouting and pouncing on him.

  "Behind!" Meng Qiu hastily shouted.

  Wang Haibing suddenly changed color, but did not turn his head to look back. He directly shrunk his neck and dove into the water again, letting that person-faced bloodworm pounce on nothing. Then a white dragonfly stabbed out from under the water with a "puchi" sound, piercing through the brain of that person-faced bloodworm. However, closely following behind, a wave of water rose up, with countless person-faced bloodworms hidden in the wave head, looking ferocious and evil, rushing forward in a scramble.

  "My grass! Run fast!" Meng Qiu shouted loudly and immediately jumped up, stepping on the water surface to run wildly again.

  Wang Haibing also cursed, his face turned pale. At this time, they had already determined that the demon beast in the water earlier was hiding from these human-faced blood insects. Although these human-faced blood insects were not very powerful individually, once they gathered in large numbers, countless and relentless, even a demon beast in its nascent stage would be gnawed to the bone.

  "There's a dry road ahead!" Wang Haibing suddenly shouted.

  Meng Qiu also saw it, about a dozen or so zhang away, the water surface finally ended, revealing a greenish-colored ground. The ground was entirely paved with square stone blocks, clearly not natural, but at this time, they couldn't carefully investigate, and they rushed out of the water's surface in a few steps, not daring to stop for a moment, following the passageway, running straight inside. The people-faced blood worms behind them were still chasing after them relentlessly, but once on land, their speed was not as fast as in the water, however, with an unclear number of layers, losing the cover of the water's surface, they completely appeared, making one's scalp feel numb.

  "Hurry!" Meng Qiu turned his head and took a glance, immediately shrinking his neck, and ran even more urgently. Suddenly, a bright light appeared in front of him, and after taking a few steps, he looked carefully and found it was the entrance to a cave, with two long lanterns lit on either side, the stone gate slightly ajar, but unable to see inside.

  "Close the door quickly!" Meng Qiu rushed into the doorway, suddenly stopped in his tracks, turned around and pushed open one side of the stone gate.

  Wang Haibing coincidentally followed him, running in to push another door. The number of blood worms behind was too many, endless, and it was impossible to kill them all. Running away wasn't a solution, as they were unfamiliar with the terrain, and if they took a wrong turn, they might fall into a desperate situation.

  However, their ideas were great, but the two stone gates were extremely heavy. Meng Qiu pushed hard, but unexpectedly didn't budge! To know that he had cultivated the Ten Dragon Ten Elephant Technique, with arms that could shake off several thousand kilograms of force. Wang Haibing on the other side was even less effective, letting out a loud roar and pushing with both arms, but the stone gate didn't even quiver once.

  "Damn it! Close it for me!" As countless Bloodworms chased after him, Meng Qiu was also anxious. He operated the Ten Dragons and Ten Elephants Technique to its limit, and his body burst out with a loud dragon's roar and elephant's trumpet sound. With a loud rumble, the stone gate rotated. This made Wang Haibing, who was standing beside him, swallow his saliva in amazement. Earlier, he had tried to move the stone gate, but it was extremely heavy, weighing at least 80,000 kilograms. Even if he didn't lift it up, just pushing it shut would require tens of thousands of kilograms of brute force.

  Tens of thousands of pounds of brute force! What a concept!

  Even if it were a late-stage Yin Spirit expert, in terms of pure strength alone, even with full force mobilization of true energy, it would be extremely difficult to burst forth such enormous power. And yet, Meng Qiu looked so slender and delicate, without the physique of a bear or tiger, nor any powerful muscles, yet he was able to push open this incredibly heavy stone door, looking just like a human-shaped monster.

  At this moment, Meng Qiu didn't have time to care what he was thinking about. After pushing a stone gate, he immediately jumped to the other side and squeezed out Wang Haibing. With another burst of strength from his arms, the stone gate closed with a loud rumble.

  It was almost a hair's breadth, and at the moment the stone gate closed, a burst of crashing sounds came from outside, even with a hissing sound, which was the blood bugs rushing up from behind, squeezing the front ones to explode. Fortunately, the two large stone gates were tightly sealed, extremely heavy, no matter how they were impacted, they remained motionless, allowing Meng Qiu and Wang Haibing to breathe a slight sigh of relief.

  "What a close call!" Meng Qiu escaped the danger, his expression slightly relaxed, and began to observe the situation behind the stone gate.

  They just escaped and rushed in, only to block the people behind them from being bitten by the blood-sucking insects. They didn't even have time to carefully examine their surroundings, but now they finally realized that this was indeed a man-made cave. The floor was paved with bluestone, with four beams and eight pillars, very neat and tidy. Moreover, on top of it were inlaid four night pearls, illuminating the entire hall of the cave as bright as daylight.