Chapter 64: The Terrifying Wraith Insect

  "Wait, something is stuck on me." I shouted to them. Wang Jue took out a lighter, Hou Dayong wanted to stop him, but he had already lit it with two clicks.

  Right on my body, wherever the firelight shone, were crawling worms, like maggots but not maggots. When I shone it on the ground, what was trampled high and low were human limbs, those sticky things were thick blood and other unrecognizable things. It's really nauseating, but my stomach is empty, can't vomit anything out.

  Hou Dàyǒng let out a sigh, walked over, and carefully helped me take off my clothes, saying: "This is the man-eating ghost worm. Don't let it touch your skin, or else they'll burrow into your body and eat you from the inside out."

  I had heard of a fish called the blind eel. In appearance, it is not much different from ordinary eels. If it attaches itself to the skin of a shark, it will slowly move in through the gills and into the abdomen, where it will eat away at the shark's internal organs bit by bit. Sharks are the overlords of the ocean, and the blind eel that eats sharks is a real creature; humans are the overlords of the earth, and today I finally saw the worm that eats humans.

  "Is this stench coming from these things?" I asked.

  "Yes," Hou Dàyǒng replied crisply, "the corpses are used to feed these man-eating wraiths. They will eat everything, including the living, zombies and ghosts. As long as it was once human, they accept them all."

  "Why don't we ignite it?" I wondered, these insects aren't flammable objects after all.

  "The flames will attract them, just like now..." Before the words were even out, Wang Ke's hand holding the lighter began to tremble.

  It was the first time I saw him so scared, following his hand down, a pile of white ghost insects had gathered at his feet, slowly crawling up from his calf.

  Wang Jue hastily swung his left foot, which had many bugs on it, outward with great force. A bunch of bugs were flung in all directions due to inertia, almost landing on me and Hou Dayong's bodies.

  Hou Dayong took a step back and shouted: "Throw the lighter far away."

  Wang Jue's lighter was automatic, and after igniting it, as long as the lid wasn't closed, the flame would remain. Following Hou Dayong's words, he bent down and gently tossed the ignited lighter horizontally. The lighter fell to the ground, and the flame continued to burn. The blind insects crawled towards the flame, making it through one hurdle!

  Our hearts still racing, we continued to move forward. The road ahead was getting narrower and narrower, the corridor that could originally accommodate two people walking side by side could now only allow one person to pass through.

  There was no light, and I couldn't see if there were any more bugs on the walls. The uneven feeling underfoot still existed, and the stench of corpses grew thicker. To be cautious, I tried to maintain my balance and avoid touching anything. It seemed that Hou Daxiong's decision to roll up his pant legs and sleeves was a wise one.

  After walking for a long time, I finally saw a faint light in the distance. I was overjoyed and thought I could escape. But when I reached the end, I found that the light was coming from a gap in the wall. The gap was not small, about 40 centimeters wide. If it weren't for this gap, the corridor would be a dead end.

  Hou Dàyǒng pointed to the wall seam and said, "We'll squeeze through here sideways, but the wall seam is covered with Meng Chong. We have to be extremely careful not to touch them at all. If even one bug gets on you, it can devour your internal organs in half an hour, and even a god can't save you." Although there were fewer bugs here than before, there were still many densely packed worms wriggling in the wall seam.

  My whole body is trembling, thinking of my martial arts teacher when I was a kid. If only I had practiced more basic skills back then.