New and dark light years

Chapter 482 You dare to integrate into the human race!

Zheng Hu and his group came down from the mass grave.

A man asked, "Where are we going now?"

Zheng Hu looked around and frowned, saying, "I only realized what the monsters look like after I died once. They're so numerous and disgusting."

They can now see the absurd.

In their eyes, the strange dolls around them were looking at them 'curiously', but they didn't pounce on them.

A man nearby said, "We are no longer mortals. These monsters dare not come to eat us. This is all thanks to the boundless divine power of our Lord."

"It's laughable that the military governor is still so naive, thinking we're like that divine son of the capital, who can be beheaded and die instantly. Hahaha," another man laughed.

The others laughed too.

But Zheng Hu's face suddenly darkened: "Brothers, do you think it's possible that the divine sons of the capital could also come back to life, but they were killed by that military governor, which is why they can't come back to life?"

The group immediately fell silent.

Someone said, "Brother Zheng, aren't you praising that military governor too much?"

Zheng Hu snorted: "That military governor is a cultivator."

Everyone remained silent for a while before someone said, "Let's leave here first."

Zheng Hu nodded: "You go first, I'll bring up the rear."

The group, unsuspecting, turned and walked ahead, leaving Zheng Hu behind.

The moonlight was very bright, and Zheng Hu wore a very subtle smile.

The group walked slowly along the mountain path.

Tonight seems to have had a significant impact on them.

Zheng Hu slowly approached the last person. When he was only half a zhang away from the other person, a short blade suddenly appeared in his hand. Then, he silently took a step forward.

The short blade pierced the back of the man in front.

The attacked man screamed, causing everyone in front to turn around.

But what they saw was that Zheng Hu's short blade had already sliced ​​open the man's back from behind, and his left hand reached in and pulled out a milky white fat worm from the dense swarm of wriggling insects.

This insect has no shell; it's so tender that it seems like you could squeeze water out of it if you did.

Zheng Hu's expression at this moment was a mixture of excitement and ferocity.

He quickly stuffed the fat worm into his mouth and chewed it twice.

He then chuckled to a few people ahead, followed by a side leap, jumping from the hillside to a slope two zhang high, before disappearing into the woods.

"Little brother..."

A man was holding a recently deceased person, watching as worms surged out of the man's body. The worms couldn't run far before they rolled helplessly on the ground, struggling and slowly dying.

"Chase him! Kill that traitor!"

The man shouted.

Several people immediately jumped down after them.

Meanwhile, several pairs of eyes watched the whole thing unfold.

The next day.

Li Lin got up from his meditation and ate breakfast.

Then a guard came in to report: "Sir, there are four martial arts practitioners outside requesting an audience. They were here yesterday."

"Invite them in."

Not long after, four martial arts practitioners walked in.

Antusen walked at the front, bowed, and said, "My lord, we are back."

Li Lin asked, "How is the situation?"

“Those people did indeed come back to life.” Anterson’s face was still filled with shock. “But they also had internal strife.”

Li Lin nodded: "Tell me what happened."

Anterson nodded in agreement.

Then he recounted in detail what he had seen the previous night.

Finally, he added, "Sir, the other four friends have continued their pursuit. Once those people have finished killing each other, we will definitely capture one or two of them alive."

Li Lin nodded: "Thank you for your hard work. Go and rest first. There will be gifts for you after everything is done."

The four men, including Anterson, were overjoyed.

"Thank you for the reward, sir."

Not long after the four martial arts figures left, Wu Xiaowei was heard shouting outside: "Sir, something bad has happened! Come and see!"

Li Lin frowned.

Then several guards escorted Captain Wu in.

"Why are you tying him up?"

The guard replied, "Sir, he is trying to force his way in."

At this moment, Captain Wu looked panicked: "Sir, something has happened to a child."

"What happened?"

"The spells you made work fine for the other children, but one little girl couldn't take them and is now almost out of breath."

Li Lin immediately stood up: "Take me to see."

The guards immediately released Captain Wu.

A dozen or so people quickly left the county government office and arrived at a courtyard not far away.

This house originally belonged to a wealthy merchant, but he had done too many bad things, which led to his downfall. His property was confiscated and he was exiled.

After that, this place was temporarily used by Commandant Wu.

The group entered the house and saw eight children pacing nervously.

The area of ​​the insect shells on their faces and necks had noticeably decreased, and they looked more energetic.

When they saw Captain Wu, they all ran up to him, calling out to him in a cacophony of voices.

"Ah Da, will Xiao Lian be alright?"

"Have you managed to get a doctor, Dad?"

Ah Da… Li Lin looked at Captain Wu.

Captain Wu explained, "I took in these children because I felt sorry for them, and I treat them as my own... This way, sir, please. Xiao Lian is lying in the room."

He quickly led Li Lin to a side room not far away, and as soon as he opened the door, a pungent smell of insects rushed out.

Li Lin instinctively covered his nose.

Captain Wu said awkwardly, "Because Xiaolian's health is getting worse, she hasn't taken a bath for several days. Please forgive her, sir."

"It's not a problem with her bathing, it's that she smells strongly of insects."

As Li Lin spoke, he took out a silk scarf from his clothes, covered his mouth and nose, and then went inside.

In front of a large bed, a little girl lay, covered with a blanket.

She opened her eyes when she heard the sound.

"Ah Da...you're back."

Her voice was weak and feeble.

Captain Wu nodded vigorously: "I have brought the military governor back, you will be fine."

Li Lin walked to the edge of the bed and sat down. He then pressed Xiao Lian's right hand to take her pulse. After a few breaths, his expression became very serious.

"My lord, how is Xiaolian?"

"She has no pulse."

Captain Wu looked as if struck by lightning, staring at Li Lin in disbelief: "But Xiao Lian seems... still alive."

Generally speaking, the absence of a pulse indicates a dead person.
Captain Wu possessed this basic common sense.

He was stunned for a moment, then rushed to the bedside, pressed Xiaolian's wrist, and groped hard for a while before letting go in disbelief.

Because there was truly no pulse.

Then Captain Wu pointed at Xiao Lian and said, "She can still speak, and her body is warm."

“She’s already a true Gu person in the truest sense,” Li Lin sighed. “But she’s been using the talismans you gave her all along, so why can the other children turn back, but she can’t?”

Li Lin shook his head and said, "Perhaps she was in poor health and had already become a Gu person before using the talisman, or perhaps... she didn't even carry that talisman with her at all."

Upon hearing this, Captain Wu was stunned for a moment. He suddenly threw off the quilt and reached out to tear open Xiao Lian's outer garment.

But at that moment, Xiao Lian, who looked very weak, suddenly sat up and kicked Wu Xiaowei in the head with a high kick.

Although Xiaolian looks small, her high kick is full of power.

Before Captain Wu could react, he was about to be hit on the head by Xiao Lian's heel when he suddenly felt his body fly backward.

It turned out that Li Lin had pulled him away at the last second.

Just as Xiaolian was about to give chase, Li Lin suddenly swung his left hand and slapped Xiaolian across the face with the back of his hand!

Pole!
With a sharp crack, Xiaolian was sent flying, crashing through the window and falling into the yard.

"Xiaolian."

"Xiao Lian, are you alright?"

"Sister Xiaolian, are you feeling better?"

The other eight children were waiting in the yard. When they saw Xiaolian 'fly' into the yard in a strange way, they immediately surrounded her.

Xiao Lian rolled on the ground and then suddenly stood up.

"what!"

"Xiao Lian, what happened to you? Why are you like this?"

"You're not Xiaolian, so who are you?"

Only then did Xiaolian realize that her face was in excruciating pain.

She subconsciously wiped her face, but instead touched off fragments of insect shells.

The eight children were so frightened that they backed away.

In their eyes, Xiaolian had completely changed. A large patch of skin had been removed from her face, revealing her mouthparts with densely packed fine teeth beneath her skin.

I don't know what kind of insect it is, but it's shrinking inwards in circles, and it looks disgusting and scary.

When Xiaolian saw the children, her eyes lit up, and she was about to pounce on them and take them hostage, but as soon as she was about to take a step forward, she suddenly couldn't move.

She looked down and found that, without her noticing, more than a dozen small purple paper figures had appeared and were hugging her legs.

Meanwhile, more and more tiny pieces of paper emerged from the surrounding 'grass,' 'rock crevices,' and 'eaves,' and pounced on her.

In less than ten breaths, these little paper figures had covered Xiaolian's entire body, fixing her in place, with only her head able to move.

Captain Wu ran out and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the other children were all unharmed.

Then he turned to the Gu person beside him and asked, "Xiao Lian, when did you become like this?"

Captain Wu's eyes were filled with heartache and pity.

It's so tragic that such a child couldn't be saved.

Xiao Lian didn't speak, but said, "Ah Da, please let me go."

Her voice was very soft and pitiful.

Li Lin came out of the room and said, "The Xiao Lian you know was probably a fake from the beginning."

"What do you mean?" Captain Wu asked.

“She was a Gu person from the beginning. If I’m not mistaken, she should be the first child to be transformed into a Gu person. By the time we rescued her, she had already completed the transformation.”

Captain Wu looked at Xiao Lian and asked, "Is that so?"

Xiao Lian was silent for a while, then turned to look at Li Lin: "Li Lin, now that you have formed an alliance with the Qin family, you should no longer interfere in the affairs of us Gu people."

"An alliance is just an alliance. Since you're allies, you shouldn't be interfering in my territory." Li Lin laughed, "Who are you now?"

Captain Wu was stunned. He didn't quite understand what Li Lin meant because the conversation had taken a rather abrupt turn.

Xiao Lian's face contorted, and her mouthparts contracted incessantly, because most of her face skin had disappeared. This action was actually her laughing.

"Did you see it?"

"I'm not a fool."

Xiao Lian breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You can call me the Gu Immortal!"

"An immortal?" Li Lin laughed. "You dare call yourself an immortal?"

"Humans can become immortals once they develop intelligence, so why can't insects?"

Li Lin snorted: "'Immortal' is a word that prioritizes humans. You're just an insect, so don't try to glorify yourself."

"But at least I look presentable now, don't you think, Your Excellency?"

Li Lin frowned: "I'm not going to argue with you. What is your purpose in appearing in front of me?"

"negotiation!"

"What to talk about?"

"You can no longer interfere in the affairs of us Gu people."

Li Lin sneered, "Why not? I can't just stand by and watch myself surrounded by nothing but bugs."

"That's not fair."

"What's unfair about it?"

"Aren't there two worms around you too?"

"Long worm..." Li Lin immediately understood that the other party was referring to the Tree Fairy and Willow Mirage.

Li Lin sneered, "They are them, and insects are insects."

"Compared to you humans, we are all aliens," Xiaolian roared angrily. "Why can they be accepted by humans, but we can't?"

"Because they are True Lords, they are willing to integrate into the human race."

“We are willing too!” Xiao Lian shouted. “We can submit to the Great Qi, we can submit to the human race, and we can protect a region for you.”

"How did you integrate into the human race?" Li Lin pointed to the other's body: "You parasitize a child, eat the child's soul, and take over his body. That's called integration, that's called submission?"

“It’s a win-win situation.” Xiao Lian’s two eyeballs popped out of their sockets, and then green compound eyes, like those of insects, grew out of them. “You provide some bodies, we use them to fuse, and then we can do things for you. Isn’t that great? We can even create spirits for you…”

Pole!
Xiao Lian's head was shattered by a white light.

White and green liquids spilled all over the ground.

After the white light pierced Xiao Lian's head, it drew an arc in the air and returned to Li Lin's hand.

It is a crooked 'corner'.

It was given to Li Lin by Liu Shen.

The children nearby screamed in terror at the sight of this cruel scene.

"Captain Wu, take the children elsewhere and take good care of them," Li Lin said coldly. "Also, you must forget everything that insect said earlier. If I hear any bad news outside, you will be the first to die."

"Yes." Captain Wu bowed.

The matter of spirit stones cannot be known to more people, at least not now.

At this moment, Li Lin vaguely understood why Zheng Hu, who was just a mere patrol officer, knew how to create Gu people.

It seems that... spirit stones have already formed a hidden industry chain.

At least this prototype already exists.

After Captain Wu left with the child, Li Lin had someone bring kerosene, poured it on 'Xiao Lian's' corpse, and burned it to ashes.

"It seems we need to complete the strategy for conquering Gui County as soon as possible."

The growth rate of the Gu people far exceeded Li Lin's expectations.

It seems that the time will come to strike the Gu people on our own territory.

Therefore... the use of talismans and spells must be decentralized.

I don't expect everyone to know it, but at least all Spirit Hunters should know it.

Otherwise... Li Lin sensed that in this world, the human race would lose its voice in the future.

Li Lin walked out of the house and then saw Xiao Chunzhu.

The other party looked nervous. Upon seeing Li Lin, he immediately jogged over, clasped his hands, and said, "Sir, a messenger from the Jin County military camp has arrived by fast horse... Xiang County has fallen, and the bandit leader Zhang Zouzhi has seized the city and declared himself king, calling himself Da Shun!"

(End of this chapter)