Volume 3 Chapter 31 The sudden arrival of trouble
Intuition told Shao Qing that something was wrong and her intuition was usually very accurate. There are many times she has relied on her intuition to escape danger.
As soon as she saw the zombie, she couldn’t help but frown.
She whispered to Qin Zixi: “I sense something wrong.”
“What’s wrong?” Qin Zixi didn’t notice any problem. He frowned and looked hard, but no matter what, it was just an ordinary fourth rank zombie.
They will know when they see how it reacts when it is attacked.
“I don’t know how to say it…” Shao Qing gritted her teeth and then said: “Trust me, tell everyone to be more guarded…”
She hadn’t finished talking when there was a change in the scene. The zombie that was on its final struggle suddenly had a black bug drilling out.
The bugs were very small. If it were usual, they would definitely not be able to see it clearly. But what if the bugs became densely packed?
The whole zombie, in a few seconds, was crawling with bugs. They gave up the zombie and quickly spread out.
An earth elemental user who was nearby quickly propped up an earth shield. His response was very immediate, but he still let out a sharp scream.
The dense insects crawled on him instantly. The earth shield was not effective at all as it failed to block them for even a moment.
He screamed and ran towards his companion. After a few steps, he paused. Then, the nest of bugs scattered themselves leaving a pile of scattered bones.
The bones were gnawed clean with a tint of red, but there was no trace of meat at all.
Seeing such a scene, everyone couldn’t help but retreat back, but the speed of the bugs were very fast. Some people couldn’t help but throw things like fireballs, wind blades and so on towards the bugs. Then they were horrified to discover that the fireballs and everything else after being thrown into the swarm quickly disappeared and the bugs seemed to become a little bigger…
They could devour superhuman powers!
“Everyone back away!” Shao Qing stepped forward quickly. Vines rose up, turning into a vine wall to stop the insects.
This stop was short-lived because Shao Qing could feel them eating the vines and their speed of devouring it was not slow.
Everyone couldn’t help but start to retreat. Qin Zixi quickly stepped forward and organized them. Shao Qing called Yan Qiyue over: “You try.”
Yan Qiyue nodded, using his skills and then his face distorted. “No, their shells are very hard. They can’t be crushed!”
Shao Qing didn’t panic. She took out a dagger and then grabbed one out of the swarm with a vine. Using the dagger to cut down, with a ding, the bug was left unscathed.
Black bugs, pointed heads, teeth clicking together, razor sharp, body a complete hard black shell, there were shallow lines barely visible.
Shao Qing called for several people to come over while the vine wall was not completely devoured and used various methods. Finally, she discovered that these bugs could indeed devour powers. No matter what the ability was or how sharp the sword was, to them, there was no effect.
Then unexpectedly Shao Qing found that there was a white spot on the bug’s belly. She quietly stretched out her nails and poked it. Once she did, it directly penetrated into the bug’s belly.
Weakness found…but…to turn it over and poke its navel? Not to mention that there were so many, how could they turn them over one by one and poke it, that would be too excessive!
Shao Qing felt desperate. She originally wanted to throw away the corpse of the insect, but found a glass bottle and placed it inside: “Find someone to send it back to Jing Du to study.”
Qin Zixi nodded and found a speed type superhuman. Sending a few people to take care of him, he sent him back to Jing Du.
“Intuition tells me that this is another natural disaster.” Shao Qing said with a blank expression: “The only weakness that has been discovered so far is that it has a white spot on its stomach that is very soft. Other weaknesses have not been found. However, we can’t just turn them over one by one and poke their stomachs. The second point is that they are not interested in zombies and probably use them as boats.”
Shao Qing pointed to the fourth-rank zombies who were still alive. These bugs came hidden inside the zombies.
She is curious now, what happened in country M to cause these black bugs to sneak over to China.
After adding another layer of vines to the wall to circle the insects, Shao Qing said: “We can’t continue like this. They have been eating my vines this entire time and have been growing…”
Her vines also contained some superpowers.
Everyone looked at each other. Fortunately their attack power was not strong, but with their peculiar abilities, they could not be killed or trapped, it was a headache.
If they can’t contain them, how can they kill each one?
“They are multiplying!” Someone screamed. Shao Qing frowned and found that these insects, after reaching a certain point, would not grow. Instead, they would shed white eggs to hang on the vines. Then real soon, small bugs began breaking out of the shell.
The little bugs would eat and eat, become bigger, then lay eggs immediately.
Shao Qing instantly felt itchy and creepy.
The incomparably hard shell, inability to kill them, able to swallow superpowers to strengthen itself, and the ability to reproduce so fast, what are their shortcomings?
There can not be a more perfect race!
Now the idea of killing them one by one was also broken. The time necessary to kill them definitely wasn’t as fast as they grew.
Shao Qing could predict that if they were left alive, they would quickly occupy China. With their endless reproduction, it would finally mean… the extinction of mankind.
This future was too frightening. Even if zombies cannot be attacked, what about it? What is the meaning of a world with only zombies left?
Shao Qing looked very serious. She killed several insects again and handed them over to Yan Qiyue: “I’ll leave it to you.”
Yan Qiyue nodded and asked the people around her: “Is there a quieter place?” Someone immediately took him away.
Before Yan Qiyue researched something to curb these bugs, they could only find a way to deal with them.
A group of people squatted behind the vine wall and began to exhaust their own methods to deal with the bugs. Shao Qing also tried the same. Qiu Tang’s poison, useless, Guang guang’s poison, useless…
She suddenly thought, dodder seeds?
If she threw out the dodder seeds since they were so small when they got attached to the insects, it wouldn’t be discovered at all.
But…the seeds can’t enter…the insect’s body unless they enter through the mouth. However the dodder seeds will also be devoured.
She was helpless. After trying it all, she released her man-eating flower and sighed: “Da Hua, this is your little sister…”
The man eating flower couldn’t understand, it only saw food. As soon as it was released, the head of the flower stretched out without saying a word. When the petals closed together, it swallowed a bunch of bugs.
Shao Qing quickly patted Da Hua: “Baby, spit it out! This thing can’t be eaten! They may even eat you!”
Da Hua shook its flower head, it was originally a domineering character and you want it to spit out the meat in its mouth?
Shao Qing could only peel the petals open. What she saw was that the insects were lying in the ‘stomach acid’ of Da Hua leaving only some shells behind.
Da Hua flicked its flower head and spewed out a bunch of indigestible bug shells. Then it stretched out its flower head happily, swallowing a bunch of insects into its stomach with satisfaction.
It’s been a long time since it had eaten. Because it couldn’t keep up with Shao Qing’s progress, Da Hua hadn’t been released for a long time. Even though Shao Qing wasn’t willing to part with it, she rarely used it.
Unexpectedly, Dahua, who had no taboos for eating, had a use.
No wonder everyone says that each item has its own weakness.
Shao Qing found a bottle and spoke to Da Hua: “Spit some of your “saliva” out, otherwise I won’t let you eat. After vomiting, you can eat whatever you like.”
Da Hua originally covered its head with its leaves, shaking its head furiously. However, after hearing the second sentence, it decisively opened the petals and spit out some transparent liquid.
Then the bottle that Shao Qing took out was corroded…
This liquid was particularly corrosive and the glass bottle could not bear it at all.
Seeing that the bottle was corroded, Da Hua covered its head and shook its petals like it was laughing. Then Shao Qing pulled a petal off and rolled it into a cup to scoop up the liquid.
Da Hua:…
Waaahhh, its master was so cruel!
Fortunately, as long as there was Shao Qing’s power supply, its petals could be regrown, so Da Hua was not particularly distressed, it just had a flower headache.
After receiving some liquid, Shao Qing sent someone to give it to Yan Qiyue. Then she found a place to sit down and watch Da Hua eat.
Da Hua showed its fierce side. No matter how much it ate, it couldn’t be satisfied. The black bugs multiplied quickly, but it was still a little slower than the rate of Da Hua eating.
If it was ordinary times, Da Hua facing a group of black bugs alone, it would have been eaten long ago. However, with Shao Qing watching, the black bugs could not attack Da Hua. They could only be eaten by it.
Although Da Hua ate the black bugs very quickly, quicker than the speed of reproduction, it was not much faster. It can be said that the black bugs were gradually decreasing.
Even so, it was enough to surprise the people around them. They cheered and looked as if they were saved.
Shao Qing was not so cheerful, she said to Qin Zixi: “I suspect that there have been zombies carrying black bugs before and entered the inland…”
“It shouldn’t be. These kinds of black bugs reproduce very quickly. If there were really zombies carrying black bugs and entered inland, it should have erupted by now.”
Shao Qing felt the crisis could not be solved so easily. While touching the leaves of Da Hua, she encouraged it to continue to eat: “If you have the opportunity, it’s better to go to country M to see what’s going on there. With the zombies crossing over and the black bug stowaways, there might be some other messy things at play.”
Qin Zixi held his chin and said, “Jing Du has already prepared to organize manpower to go to country M. First, it’s to explore the situation there, especially in terms of strength. Second, there have been many overseas Chinese who have contacted Jing Du several times wanting to return to the country. However, because of the zombies, the sieges, and the things on the coast, there were not enough people to help and things got delayed.”
Shao Qing nodded. Originally, she wanted to say that if Jing Du needed someone to go over to take her with them. Later, she realized that things were not like before with her current identity. She was afraid no one would dare take her now.
Qin Zixi seemed to see through Shao Qing’s thoughts. He whispered: “My grandpa sent someone to organize it. If you want to go, at that time we can take you along.”
“We can speak about it then.” Shao Qing didn’t want to confirm. By that time, she didn’t know what would have happened. She fiddled with the leaves of Da Hua and then said: “During the time that I wasn’t in the country, has there been any new news?”
Since she was waiting for Yan Qiyue now and was bored, she might as well chat.
“I heard a few days ago that some bases have already developed inhibitors. If ordinary people are bitten by zombies and are given an inhibitor, they can return to normal.” Qin Zixi said while supporting his chin: “It’s just a rumor. Whether it was actually produced or not, it is still unclear. The research institute on Jing Du’s side was also abandoned. Since the last time you were there, the senior management in the research institute has almost completely changed. Now they’re also working on inhibitors, but there is no result yet.”
Shao Qing nodded. If they can really make an inhibitor, it would be a good thing. Who knows, it might even be effective for someone who has been infected, like her or Er Dai.
It’s just that she feels that the inhibitors could bring disasters, not just blessings. This is especially true when the inhibitors are not in the official hands.
When she was chatting with Qin Zixi, Yan Qiyue had quickly found the most critical things.
This was also thanks to Da Hua.