Chapter 41: The Gigantic Bug's Life-or-Death Struggle

  Just as the team member had just walked to the center of the ground, I saw that the rotating Bagua pattern actually stopped and returned to its previous calmness, but the pattern was indeed already there.

  The team member walked up, bent down and lowered his head to take a look, seemingly having no idea what was going on. After looking for a while, he turned around and shrugged his shoulders at Zhang Zhuang, indicating that there was no danger.

  We were all curious, so we walked towards the middle of the house. Just a few steps out, I saw our teammate who was facing us suddenly sink into the ground as if he had fallen into a trap, his lower body disappearing into the earth.

  "Hurry, hurry and save me..." He seemed very nervous, shouting loudly in a terrified tone.

  Everyone rushed to the front, and two of Zhang Zhuang's men picked up their guns and reached out to pull the trapped person, but the lower half of his body seemed to be stuck, and neither of them could pull him out.

  Just as he was scared pale, I suddenly felt something strange behind him. I walked over to check and found that the octagonal pattern that had just appeared had disappeared, and a mound of earth had appeared on the ground, which was still expanding upwards. In the blink of an eye, it had grown to more than half a person's height.

  At this time, even a fool can see that there is something coming out of the ground. I didn't have time to think much, and I pulled Zhou Huan back several steps. Zhang Zhuang and his other subordinates also retreated with us, leaving only the team member who was trapped in the soil wailing alone.

  When half of the crowd had left, I saw that the mound was getting higher and higher, and then a dark green monster poked its head out.

  What's going on? I looked at Zhang Zhuang and that old ghost with a terrified face, but they also had the same expression as me, with a puzzled look.

  I went to see the thing that came out again, and found it was about as thick as a bucket, swaying back and forth straight up, and finally stopped when it rose to about three meters.

  At this time, I carefully looked and found that the thing was not all green, but had a ring of black lines on its body, which divided it into several sections. I immediately understood that this was the big pillar that I poked with my flashlight before!

  My god! Now that I see it clearly, I realize this isn't a pillar at all, but rather a huge worm as thick as a water bucket, because I saw two rows of very short antennae growing on its body.

  At this time, Zhang Zhuang anxiously shouted at the old devil: "Old devil, do you know what this thing is?"

  "I also can't see it clearly, but from the appearance, it seems like a worm."

  "Fart, where would there be bugs that can grow so big? Is it the ancestor of the bugs or something?"

  While the two were talking, I saw that giant insect bend its upper body forward, opening an elliptical big mouth with dense sharp teeth inside.

  The team member who was buried in the ground was completely frightened at this time, twisting his body and staring blankly at the giant insect without any reaction, even the previous mournful cry had stopped.

  It went to look at the giant insect, stretched its mouth to the top of the team member's head, shrunk its neck back like a snake, and then heard a "crack" sound. It swallowed the team member's head into its mouth in one bite.

  Damn it, I watched with my own eyes as this tragic scene unfolded, and saw that the beheaded team member's neck suddenly spouted a column of blood.

  It's really scary, when did insects start eating people? I pulled Zhou Huan and continued to retreat backwards.

  "Damn it, shoot him!" Zhang Zhuang immediately shouted loudly to his subordinates.

  Actually, there was no need for him to give orders. The gunfire and his shouting almost sounded at the same time, and a large number of bullets were shot into the body of that giant insect, and a stream of green liquid spurted out.

  As soon as the green liquid sprayed on that headless team member, a white smoke immediately emerged with a hissing sound. The power of this giant insect's venom was apparently much more severe than those small insects outside. The body of that headless team member began to rot and melt instantly, and in the blink of an eye, the entire body disappeared, finally turning into a puddle of green water.

  Just a moment ago, he was still jumping around, full of life, but now he's dead right in front of us. What's even more unbearable is that we can't even find his body.

  Zhang Zhuang was now completely enraged, and the other three armed team members didn't dare to get close, they just kept cursing and shooting at the giant insect until all the bullets in their guns were gone.

  After the attack stopped, they quickly went to fill up their bullets. The giant insect crashed to the ground with a thud, ignoring its own body being riddled with holes, and twisted its bucket-like insect body towards us and charged over.

  At this time, everyone retreated to the wall one after another. Without anyone's command, they started running along the wall in a circle. The sound of friction on the ground came from behind, and it was clear that the giant insect was closely following them.

  I didn't even have time to look back, pulling Zhou Huan and running wildly, when we ran around the house for more than half a circle, I heard the gunshot sound again behind me.

  It's probably loaded with someone's bullets, I ran while turning my head to look back, saw a team member falling behind the team, retreating to one side and firing intensely, soon that giant insect had already caught up to him, its upper body suddenly stood up, opened its mouth and shot out a green **, spraying it all over the person's body.

  The result was even more miserable. The person didn't even have time to let out a scream, and his body immediately began to melt away, eventually turning into a puddle of green goo.

  That giant insect suddenly gave up its pursuit of us at that time, I saw it lying on the ground, starting to suck up the green water formed by the pile of corpses, as if it was a delicious delicacy, looking at it made people feel extremely disgusted.

  In such a short time, two people have died and even the bodies can't be found. Looking at that huge bug eating away, I almost collapsed and grabbed Zhang Zhuang's collar uncontrollably, shouting: "Is what you're looking for more important than human lives? Why don't you just die."

  Zhang Zhuang obviously didn't expect me to make such a move, and after being stunned for a moment, he seemed to suddenly remember something, then pushed me away and pulled Zhou Huan into his arms, holding the gun to her temple.

  Zhang Zhuang sneered at me, shouting: "If you want to die, you'll die first. You little brat has strong physical resistance, so go and kill that worm, otherwise I'll shoot her dead with one bullet."

  After finishing speaking, Zhang Zhuang pulled out a sharp knife from his waist and pointed it at me in front of him. The gun in his hand also tapped against Zhou Huan's temple twice.

  I picked up the knife on the ground, I would rather kill myself first. The one who died just now was not our person, I ate my fill and didn't go to escape, why bother with this idiot.

  But it was too late to say anything, I turned around and looked at the giant insect again, it had already sucked up all the green liquid and started moving its body towards us.

  I didn't know if I could withstand the attack of this giant insect, but now Zhou Huan is in Zhang Zhuang's hands and can be killed at any time. Even if Zhang Zhuang doesn't kill us, running like this will eventually lead to being killed by that giant insect one by one. In any case, it's impossible to escape, so I might as well take a gamble.

  Thinking of this, I held up the knife and took two steps towards the giant insect. I heard Zhou Huan's urgent cry behind me: "Qiu Ye, you can't be foolish, don't go over there."

  I turned my head to look, and saw Zhou Huan being strangled by Zhang Zhuang's neck, struggling desperately. So I shouted at her: "Don't move around, don't worry, nothing will happen, I'll go kill the bug, and we can get out of here."

  "No way, you can't resist at all, I won't let you go..."

  I didn't bother with Zhou Huan anymore, turned around and prepared to attack the giant insect. Just as I took a few steps forward, I heard a dense barrage of gunfire coming from behind me.

  I was startled and turned around to see that there were many people in the house, about twenty of them, all holding guns and shooting at the giant insect.

  I took a closer look and saw that the man in the floral shirt was also among them, gesturing wildly with his hands and shouting loudly at his subordinates, presumably ordering them to beat him severely.

  Although I don't know where these people came from, it's clear that I no longer need to struggle desperately. Hurriedly bowing my head and running back, I found Zhou Huan had already escaped Zhang Zhuang's control, biting her lip and staring at me with wide eyes.

  I came up to her and asked: "How are you? Is everything all right?"

  Zhou Huan angrily said to me: "You're really sick, you clearly know it's sending yourself to death but still want to do it. I'm telling you, if you die, none of the rest of us will survive."

  I saw that he was fine, so I felt at ease and didn't pay attention to what she said afterwards. When I turned back to look, I saw the giant insect being beaten back, its body no longer recognizable in its original form. The entire insect's body had been shot into a sieve-like state, with green ** flowing all over the ground.

  After all, the super strong firepower of so many people, no matter how powerful the giant insect was, it couldn't withstand it. In the end, it struggled for a while and then fell to the ground motionless. Everyone shot another round at its motionless body before discovering that it had thoroughly died, only then did the gunfire stop.

  I saw these people loading, on high alert, a man in a floral shirt walked up to Zhang Zhuang and asked: "Zhuang brother, are you okay? Are you injured? What the hell is that thing?"

  "I'm fine, how did you get in? What's going on outside?"

  "Don't worry, I'll leave some people behind to keep an eye on them, nothing will go wrong."

  Zhang Zhuang nodded and then looked around the house before asking Hua Chuanxin, "How did you get in? Where is the door?"

  "Ah, the door..." The floral shirt was clearly stumped and looked around the house in a circle, finally furrowing his brow and saying: "Damn it's weird. When we came in, we found that green monster and didn't think much of it before attacking, but where did this door go?"

  I heard him say that and thought it was very strange, looking around I didn't see any shadow of the door either, could it be that this group of people really came out from underground?

  At this time, the old devil shouted to the crowd: "Everyone spread out and search carefully. I think the door must be blocked by some obstacle. Since we can come in, we must go out."

  As soon as the crowd heard the order, they immediately dispersed and began searching around the walls of the house. I and Zhou Huan also walked to one side of the wall and used our hands to feel the black stone wall, wondering if there would be any mechanism or something like that.

  At this time, I saw the old devil also walking over, he didn't go to check the wall, but walked to a point where a sunflower lamp was lit and carefully examined it.