Chapter 70: The Corpse of the Heartless and the Heart-Eating Bug

  The green hat on Wang Dachuan's head, which had always been despised by Liu Yi, turned out to be a Taoist divine artifact called "Guī Guǐ Jìng" (Ghost-Viewing Mirror). Moreover, according to Wang Dachuan, this green hat also had the effect of "Blood-Dripping Head", similar to that of a guillotine, except that one killed evil spirits and the other killed living people.

  In the green hat image, Liu Yi did not see Dragon Dharma Master, but only saw Dragon Hai Zhu standing there, emitting a green glow all over his body, like a zombie. Moreover, they also discovered that on the left side of Dragon Hai Zhu's chest, where his heart should be, there was a black mass squatting there, which was obviously not a human heart. It is estimated that Dragon Hai Zhu's heart had been eaten away by this black mass, and it had made its nest there. Not only that, but also a white shadow attached to Dragon Hai Zhu's body, with a painful expression, as if being controlled by something. Its wanting to escape yet unable to do so made it look extremely distorted.

  "O wretched vengeful spirit under control!"

  At this point, Liu Yi shouted loudly: "Dragon, run quickly, he is already dead, it's a ghost!"

  "Dragon Great Master turned his head and shouted at the crowd: "He, isn't he fine? How could..."

  Liu Yi heard this and his lungs almost burst, if he had known earlier, he wouldn't have brought this little runt out, he's so brain-damaged, it's really infuriating.

  The Dragon Great Master was about to say how could it be a ghost? However, his last two words were not spoken because the hand of the so-called Long Hai Zhu behind him had already pinched his neck and lifted him up.

  Then, Dragon Great Master's limbs were dancing in the air, his mouth making "Woo woo wah wah" sounds nonstop: "Quickly put me down, don't make trouble, if you keep making trouble I'll go back and tell your wife, let you go home and kneel on the washboard!"

  It can be seen that Long Haizhu was a man who feared his daughter-in-law when he was alive. It can also be seen that Dragon Dharma Master is an evil person in the eyes of others, but he himself is not aware of it!

  Liu Yi's eyes widened in anger, and he shouted excitedly: "You little runt, you're so blind! How can you not see such a big ghost? Your eyesight can't be that bad, can it?"

  Professor Zhou was anxious, holding a gun and wanting to shoot the ghost behind Long Dafashi. When he aimed at Long Haizhu, that guy seemed to have thoughts, Professor aimed left, he grabbed Long Dafashi and moved him to the left, Professor aimed right, he blocked to the right.

  Professor Zhou Tao shouted: "Dragon Great Master, quickly bite his hand and run!"

  At this moment, Long Hai's hand covering his heart also moved away and reached towards the heart of Dragon Dharma Master.

  Under the lamplight, a black fist-sized insect crouched there, its small eyes emitting green light.

  Everyone was shocked at once, Liu Yi shouted loudly "Not good!" and rushed forward.

  At this point, Dragon Great Master felt something was wrong. The legendary Black Dragon General had drawn his sword, and it seemed that the guy behind him really had a problem. So, he lowered his head and bit down on Long Hai's hand that was grabbing his right hand.

  With one bite, he actually bit off the other's fingers and even spat out black red "corpse water". Dragon Great Master suddenly felt nauseous and only then was he certain that the guy behind him was a "ghost".

  Long Hai Zhu's fingers were bitten off, his grip disappeared, and Long Da Fa Shi fell to the ground with a "pa" sound. He ran away immediately. Who would have thought that he had only taken three steps forward when he heard a "pu" sound behind him, and Long Hai Zhu suddenly stood up straight and grabbed Long Da Fa Shi's ankle.

  Dragon Great Master "Oh no!" shouted and ran away, suddenly "pa" a sound, a somersault fell to the ground.

  This guy is really stupid, normally when someone grabs you, you would first stretch out your leg and kick the person's hand, then after they let go, you can run away. But this guy is different, he only thinks about escaping - his feet are being held by someone, if he uses force to move forward, it's strange if he doesn't fall to the ground, and if he doesn't knock out a front tooth, that's already lucky!

  This guy fell to the ground, but that's not all, the gun in his hand suddenly misfired, a bullet whizzed by, almost injuring his teammate, provoking Zhou Bingbing into a rage, completely losing her previous good impression of him, and scolding: "You little runt, you're so clumsy!"

  At this moment, Liu Yi also rushed to the front of Long Dafashi, his sword flashing like lightning, and with one swift motion, he chopped off the dry hand that was grasping Long Dafashi. Black blood gushed out, extremely nauseating.

  The dragon pillar with a broken hand did not let out a miserable cry, nor did it even hum, but instead used its broken arm to support its body on the ground and slowly crawled forward, seemingly still wanting to eat the Dragon Grandmaster. At this time, the Dragon Grandmaster had already jumped up from where he was originally standing and ran to Professor Zhou Tao's side, tightly grabbing onto his clothes and refusing to let go, looking quite disheveled.

  Liu Yi saw this strange guy on the ground, still not giving up and crawling towards Long Dafashi's direction, placing his body horizontally in front of him, shouting: "Halt!"

  That unconscious strange corpse, which had been lying on the ground, suddenly stood up and stood there, staring at Liu Yi for a long time. Then he saw him shake his head, walk to the left, planning to bypass him and continue to catch Long Dafashi.

  At this time, Wang Dachuan behind Liu Yi shouted: "Are you making a good talk with the ghost here, or are you kidding?"

  He spoke as he quickly pulled out a yellow talisman from his pocket and stuck it to the "heartless corpse's" forehead, muttering an unintelligible incantation.

  It's strange to say, after the Dao symbol was pasted on, the corpse stopped moving. After he finished reciting the curse, a white gas burst out of the corpse and circled around them like wind before fleeing far away.

  At this time of swirling white gas, they felt a faint chill from an unknown world, could it be the soul of a person?

  After the white gas went away, the corpse suddenly changed. The flesh of the whole body rotted quickly and fell off from the body, emitting a foul odor that was extremely smelly. After the rotten flesh fell off, only a skeleton was left standing in front of everyone. The black insect crouching on a rib above the white bony chest cavity suddenly revealed its true appearance.

  Looking at the situation, Long Haizhu should have been dead for many days, and his body had already rotted. The reason he could still move was probably related to this black insect in front of him.

  Zhou Bingbing was quickly scared into hiding behind Professor Zhou Tao, looking like a puddle of mud. Liu Yi, despite having experienced the Kunlun Death Valley, was also startled, as anyone would be when they see someone who was just moving around turn into a puddle of mud right before their eyes.

  Professor Zhou Tao saw the strange corpse and walked over, surrounding it. Dragon Dharma Master looked at the dead Long Haizhu on the ground and shook his head, sighing: "You said he was a good person, how did he die? Just for being greedy about money, losing his life to find a lost sheep is really not worth it!"

  ……

  Those strange insects on the corpse were as big as a grown man's fist, with distinct body parts: the head was a small triangle, the neck a small rectangle, and the belly an oval shape. At this moment, they were flashing a pair of green eyes, calling out "zhi zhi" to Liu Yi and others, while their little heads nodded up and down, like a praying mantis, resembling the evil Qin Hui knocking his head in repentance in hell.

  Wang Dachuan took a closer look at the strange insect and suddenly let out a cry of surprise. He lifted the lid of his teapot and scooped up the insect, which looked very sinister but didn't move or struggle as it was trapped inside. Wang Dachuan quickly pulled out a talisman from his pocket, crumpled it into a ball, and threw it into the teapot. With a loud "slam", he closed the lid of the teapot and rubbed his chest, saying: "This place is too strange, I didn't expect to encounter a ghostly creature from the underworld - the 'Heart-Eating Insect'!"

  As soon as the words fell, the standing skeleton lost all control and crashed to the ground.

  Liu Yi exclaimed: "This worm eats human hearts? It seems that Long Haizhu's hand in front of Dragon Dafashi's chest is going to 'dig out the heart'!"

  Wang Daichuan chuckled and said, "This Heartworm, also known as Greedheart Worm, is an undead creature from the underworld that can only be eliminated by Taoist secret techniques. It's said that this thing is lazy to death and doesn't like to move around, usually controlling a dead person's body to search for its target. Of course, there are exceptions, it's said that in a place called 'Greedheart Illusion' there are even bigger Heartworms than the one before us."

  Everyone heard it for the first time and listened with rapt attention.

  "Generally speaking, once a person's heart is eaten by this thing, they become a heartless person. The body and soul of the heartless person are then controlled to find the next target, which is a 'greedy-hearted person'. When the Heart-Eating Bug eats the heart of another greedy-hearted person, the first soul can break free from its restraints. Then, it controls another 'heartless corpse' to continue searching for the next target, repeating the cycle..."

  He sighed again and said, "It's precisely because the soul of an unsuspecting person is controlled by it and commits the evil act of killing a 'greedy person' that they all gather in the legendary nineteenth layer of hell after death!"

  Everyone was shocked, and Professor Zhou Tao asked: "Hell only has eighteen layers, where did the nineteenth layer come from?"

  "Hey, as everyone knows, the world is developing, and the underworld is also keeping pace. The eighteen layers of hell are no longer enough to accommodate all kinds of spirits, so King Yan thought about opening up another thirty or fifty layers and creating small apartments for the spirits to buy. However, he discovered that there were too many deaths in the mortal world, mostly due to greed. He thought that these greedy people would be too stingy to buy his apartments, and if he developed real estate, he would surely go bankrupt. In a fit of rage, he opened up a large nineteenth layer of hell, called 'Greed Hell'. These greedy ghosts were not only greedy in the mortal world but also fought over their territory in the underworld, making it a heavy burden for the 'dead spirits'."

  He said here, he asked: "After a person dies and becomes a ghost, what does the ghost become after it dies? Do you know?"

  Liu Yi guessed: "Could it be that these insects are the 'Greedy Ghosts' who have died and transformed again?"

  Wang Daichuan chuckled and said, "Not bad, these 'greedy ghosts' transform into heart-eating insects after death, and the people eaten by these insects all fall into the 19th level of hell and cannot be reborn. They go back and forth, forever unable to reincarnate, without even a chance to enter the animal realm. It's clear that greed is not worth it! But I wonder why this insect has appeared in the human world..."

  Liu Yi looked at Wang Dachuan with a strange gaze and said: "Someone as greedy as you should go to the 19th floor after death, shouldn't they?"

  Wang Daichuan chuckled and said: "My Taoist powers are strong, and I am a master of the game of wind and dust. How could you ordinary people possibly understand?"

  Everyone was suddenly speechless, speaking with great momentum and grandeur, but this green hat image wasn't that great.

  Liu Yi said with a strange tone: "This bug is quite peculiar, the country doesn't need to set up an anti-corruption bureau or anything like that. Just raise a batch of these bugs and it'll be fine. By the way, how do they distinguish whether you're greedy or not?"