Chapter 23: The Extremely Fierce Soul-Devouring Insect

  Liu Yi observed with binoculars, and the insect in the lens became as if it were right before his eyes.

  The Soul-Devouring Insects were not big, resembling winged maggots. Their wings fluttered as they flew back and forth in the air, bobbing up and down as they flew towards Liu Yi.

  "Ugly and awkward in flight, it's a wonder it doesn't drop dead from the sky! Liu Yi shouted as he pulled out a bottle of industrial alcohol from his bag and hurled it forward with all his might. At the same time, Lu Zonghan tacitly shot the bottle to pieces with his handgun."

  "Bang, plop!" After two sounds, the alcohol ignited in mid-air and flew to surround the nearby Soul-eating Insects with flames. Liu Yi and others saw that many of the Soul-eating Insects turned from white to black and fell down.

  Liu Yi's heart was delighted and he shouted: "These insects are afraid of fire!"

  As soon as the words fell, Lu Zonghan pointed at the water surface and exclaimed in horror: "Look!"

  Everyone looked towards the water's surface, only to see that the darkened, fire-scorched Soul-Devouring Insects had actually bounced back up into the air the moment they hit the water's surface, continuing their flight towards them.

  Liu Yi shouted: "I'm going to...this little Qiang is really hard to kill!"

  After being fueled by the flames of alcohol, this group of insects became even more enraged, increasing their frequency and rapidly vibrating their wings to produce a "buzzing" sound, as if cotton was drifting towards them in fits and starts.

  This sound, when it reached Liu Yi and his companions, was like the mournful tolling of a funeral bell.

  Everyone was sweating profusely and desperately running away.

  However, no matter how fast they escaped, they couldn't outrun the flying Soul-Devouring Insects in the air.

  After the first wave of dragonflies began to attack, the dragonflies resting on the walls on both sides of the lake sensed a commotion, as if they had heard the excited calls of their companions and also flew up with a "squeak".

  Liu Yi turned his head to look, and saw that the entire space in the distance was almost filled with Soul Devouring Insects. Due to the crowded air traffic, many Soul Devouring Insects were squeezed out and fell onto the water surface. After falling onto the water surface, they actually moved quickly towards them on the water surface, attacking them.

  "My god, this is a naval army combat sequence!" Malacca exclaimed as he stared at the dense swarm of insects.

  The guns and cannons of modern civilization are completely useless in the face of this eerie Soul-Eating Bug, and Lu Zonghan's hand grenade only managed to temporarily slow down the bug's attack speed, almost capsizing their small wooden boat.

  Liu Yi suddenly felt a surge of helplessness, a feeling that had not arisen when he encountered the pack of wolves in Keke Village or when he suffered setbacks in business, but in front of this small insect, he felt powerful and unable to release it.

  The little Tibetan antelope Xiao Ke stared angrily at the insects, bleating "maa, maa, maa" nonstop, its anxious voice adding to everyone's mental burden.

  At this time, Liu Yi suddenly remembered the words of Xuan Yun Dao Zhang on the day he set out: "Evil things often carry yin energy and will make people feel frightened. To break evil, one must use yang methods, such as drawing talismans with hot blood or using a child's urine to drive away evil. All things have both yin and yang, this is the great principle of heaven and earth. When yang is strong and yin is weak, when yin is strong then yang is weak. If one has a heroic and upright spirit in their heart, then all evils will not invade!"

  Xuanyun Daochang not only has a strong and upright aura, but also possesses extraordinary skills, so he is naturally not afraid of evil things.

  Liu Yi, although strong and robust, also had a belly full of masculine energy, but the overwhelming yin evil energy emitted by the swarms of soul-eating insects had already filled the entire space, making his masculine energy seem useless.

  "If such a large amount of yin energy is to be dispelled with the urine of young boys, I wonder how much would be needed. Probably not even 500 young boys led by Xu Fu would be enough." Liu Yi thought and handed a mineral water bottle to Kekexi, shouting: "Pee, pee!"

  Korvus was taken aback for a moment, but the great interpreter of the future instantly understood his meaning. The matter of using children's urine to ward off evil is recorded in any witchcraft school.

  He quickly unbuttoned his pants in front of everyone, strained for a while and pulled out about half a bottle of yellowish liquid, probably around 200-250 ml.

  The naval forces of the Devouring Spirit Insects were actually much faster than their air force, and in a short while, the dense swarm of Devouring Spirit Insects had approached their wooden boats.

  Liu Yi didn't think twice, pouring a bit of yellow powder onto his right palm from the bottle. He muttered to himself in mid-air and took a bite on his left arm, instantly causing fresh blood to seep out. He dripped the blood into the yellow powder on his palm, then let out a loud shout and splashed it towards the water surface where the Soul-Devouring Bug troops were. This move was the only reliable technique Liu Yi had learned from Master Xuan Yun, called "Infant's Hot Blood Evil-Expelling Technique". The homemade "Evil-Repelling Yellow Blood" he sprinkled on the Soul-Devouring Bugs immediately produced a yellow mist and emitted a "zizzling" sound, like the corrosive feeling of highly toxic rhodamine B being poured onto a table.

  But that's not all, after the first "zi, la" sound, a withering voice like a wildfire sweeping through a barren mountain, echoed across more than half of the water surface. Only to see the yellow smoke billowing on the water surface, and the aquatic insect troops fleeing in disarray.

  The Wraith Worms in the air, seeing the yellow smoke rise up, also paused for a moment. It was clear that Liu Yi's self-made weapon had taken effect. Unfortunately, there were too many Wraith Worms, and although Liu Yi had cast a spell to destroy some of them, the remaining ones immediately bypassed the yellow fog and continued to pursue them from both "water" and "air" routes.

  Liu Yi did not give up easily and repeated his trick again, once more slowing down the Soul-Devouring Bug's pursuit.

  However, the child's urine has been used up.

  Liu Yi threw the bottle at Korksi and said: "Continue!"

  Kekesi muttered: "Others have no urine!", but still put the bottle in **, he knew very well that at this time it was a race with the god of death, and more children's urine meant more chances to escape.

  "Don't panic, there's always a way out. Heaven will bless children with kind thoughts. I'm a good kid, God bless me, Holy Mother of the Sun bless me, Lord Laozi bless me..."

  Liu Yi prayed silently to the gods for protection, while holding a flashlight with wolf teeth and examining every nook and cranny, hoping to find a cave or crevice in the wall where he could hide. However, he was disappointed to find that the stone walls had only protruding rocks but no recessed caves or hiding places.

  At this time, the Soul Devouring Insect air force had arrived above them and swarmed towards them, but when they approached their wooden boat, they suddenly stopped. It should be that the powder of the ghost-repelling pills Liu Yi scattered on the wooden boat earlier had a temporary defensive effect.

  Danger is near, but everyone has not given up hope of survival. At this time, they used all kinds of weapons, igniting fires, shooting guns, and even Professor Zhou Tao took out a bottle of "mosquito killer" to spray.

  Professor Zhou brought this bottle of insecticide because he was afraid there would be more mosquitoes outdoors on this trip, and it ended up being very useful.

  The insecticide spray fog sprayed towards the whirligig beetles, unexpectedly the whirligig beetles that had been sprayed with the mist fell down in large numbers, spinning around on the water surface, just like mosquitoes that had been poisoned by insecticides, struggling before death.

  Malacca saw a bottle of insecticide so powerful and regretfully exclaimed: "Damn, I should have brought more!"

  Those soul-stirring insects that were not affected by the insecticide, although they did not launch a full-scale attack on them, have been hovering around them all the time, making people feel sick without even eating them.

  Everyone pinched their noses with one hand to prevent the soul-eating insects from entering their nostrils, while rowing vigorously with the other.

  Just as they were fleeing in a hurry, dozens of white ropes as thick as thumbs descended from the mouth of a cave on the top of the stone cave in the middle of the river surface of the White Bone River.

  ……

  Professor Zhou continued spraying insecticide, and for the time being, there was no great danger. Before long, the wooden boat returned to the surface of the water, which was as white as a forest of bones.

  It seems that crossing through the dense white bones isn't as easy as it looks!

  The Water Ghost Troop had been getting closer and closer, and as they passed over the surface of the White Bone River, it was clear that they knew those white bones were leftovers from before, but now, in order to clear the battlefield obstacles, they actually started gnawing on the white bones.

  In Liu Yi's ears, the rhythmic "rustling" sound was transmitted, as if tens of millions of silkworms were gnawing at mulberry leaves. In just a short while, a piece of white bone was gnawed by them, leaving no residue.

  Liu Yi was paddling with all his might when he suddenly looked at these terrifying soul-sucking insects in horror, thinking to himself: "Could it be that I'll die here today?"

  At this time, Lu Zonghan discovered a white rope hanging down from the top of the Gaogao Cave and shouted: "It seems that we didn't have a rope when we passed by here before?"

  Liu Yi curiously turned his head to look, and saw that 50 or 60 white ropes as thick as thumbs were blocking the middle of the river. He felt suspicious, so he held up his flashlight to shine upwards. He saw that more than three meters above the top of the cave was a large opening, with two faintly visible cracks on either side, just like a water pipe. And those white ropes were hanging down from that big opening.

  "Was it the previous prayer to the Holy Mother that took effect? Thinking of finding a hole to avoid the attack of the soul-eating insect, a cave entrance really appeared."

  Liu Yi thought so, and reached out to touch the rope, only feeling a smooth texture in his hand, without knowing what material it was made of. He pulled on it with his hand, thinking that the rope was quite tough and could support the weight of one person.

  How can the little Tibetan antelope climb up? This is a serious problem.

  But the problem he worried about did not arise, for those ropes suddenly rose without wind, like monsters with eyes and hands, brushing and tying up several people, and then continued to stretch, actually bundling their entire wooden boat tightly.

  "Ah!" Malacca shouted, holding a dagger and trying to cut the rope, but it seemed to have eyes and pulled him into the air, swinging him around until he was dizzy and his dagger fell into the water. Then Liu Yi and others saw Malacca struggling and screaming in mid-air, being slowly pulled towards the top of the stone cave, before suddenly accelerating and disappearing into a hole above the entrance.

  "Malacca!" Liu Yi shouted loudly, although he wanted to rescue him, but it was hard to save himself. He struggled hard to break free from the rope, but it was undoubtedly a desperate struggle.

  "Ah!"

  "Ah..."

  In the midst of everyone's screams, they were pulled along with the wooden boat by that strange white rope towards the top of the stone cave. As everyone was flying in mid-air, the entire boat flipped over and all the backpacks on board started falling off. Fortunately, Korksi and Liu Yi managed to grab one each just in time, so as not to lose all their equipment at once.

  And those soul-eating insects, as if reluctant to give up this delicacy that was about to reach their mouths, also swarmed towards them in flight.