By the light of the fire, Shopkeeper Qian could clearly see the masses of monsters in front of him.

This is a black strange insect with a flat body. When it stretches out, it is as long as an adult's arm. When it shrinks, it turns into a ball of squirming rotten flesh the size of a bowl. On the back of the strange insect, there are five dark stripes.

Green vertical line.

The entire body of the insect is smooth and flat, covered with greasy mucus. It looks cold and greasy, without any warmth.

They kept extending and contracting their bodies, moving forward slowly, leaving traces of milky white mucus behind them.

However, hundreds of strange insects are crawling out of the stream.

Shopkeeper Qian felt a chill in his heart, as if there was such a strange insect crawling on his back, and he couldn't help but shrugged slightly.

The soldiers behind him saw the strange insect crawling out of the stream, and suddenly there was a sound of vomiting.

The soldiers who vomited were all those who had eaten grilled fish.

"Put it down," the lieutenant shouted.

The army inserted the torches in their hands into the cracks in the rocks and soil in front of them. The fire was lingering, and the strange insects seemed to be afraid of the fire. They stagnated one after another and kept squirming in place.

The remaining soldiers lit torches all around one after another, surrounding everyone in the torches.

Su Tao asked in a low voice: "What kind of monster is this?"

Shopkeeper Qian replied: "Miss Su, if I read correctly, this should be a leech."

"Leech? Leech!" Su Tao repeated the name of the strange insect in a low voice, and suddenly asked: "Could this be Gushan?"

Shopkeeper Qian whispered: "This is not Gushan. The march map indicates that this is Qiaoming Mountain. The stream is Qiaoshui."

Su Tao wondered: "No, the book records that leeches have four transparent wings and can fly in the air. These things have no wings."

Shopkeeper Qian said with a slight wry smile: "Miss Su doesn't know that leech can only grow wings as adults and fly. These are just larvae of leech."

Leeches are originally a kind of strange insects that live in the streams at the foot of Gushan. They live by sucking flesh and blood.

But for some reason, it actually appeared in the Qiao River, and it happened to be on the marching route.

A single leech larvae is not scary, but what is scary is the swarm of thousands of leech larvae.

No matter how high your martial arts skills are, you will be instantly sucked into an empty shell.

"Lub?" Su Tao was secretly surprised.

The larvae of this leech are already so big. How terrifying would they be if they were adults?

Su Tao was surprised that Feizhi was born in Gushan and had never been heard of appearing in other places.

But Gushan is far away in Zhongxuan Kingdom, thousands of miles apart.

Even if leeches could fly in the air, they would never be able to cross thousands of miles and settle in this treacherous water.

The sound of vomiting came one after another from behind.

Those soldiers who ate grilled fish did not know whether there were eggs of these leeches in the grilled fish.

I just felt my throat was itchy, as if there were countless tiny insects crawling out of my throat, and I immediately vomited.

The lieutenant shouted angrily: "Even if you eat leech eggs, they will kill you immediately after they enter your stomach, so there is no need to panic."

Shopkeeper Qian was panicked when he saw the soldiers and said loudly:

"Leech can be used as medicine to stop bleeding and remove blood stasis. It has been recorded in books, so don't worry too much."

After listening to the words of shopkeeper Qian and the lieutenant, the numbness in the throats of the army behind them subsided slightly, and the sounds of vomiting stopped one after another.

But I don’t know how much the panic in my heart can be alleviated.

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Su Tao asked: "Shopkeeper Qian, are there any adult leeches in this stream?"

Shopkeeper Qian shook his head and said, "It's hard to say, only adult leeches can lay eggs.

Judging from the number of leeches in front of us, even if there are no adult leeches in this section of the stream, I'm afraid they won't be very far apart."

Su Tao frowned slightly and said nothing.

Shopkeeper Qian then said: "Miss Su, these leech larvae are afraid of light and fire. As long as we hold on until dawn, these strange insects will retreat without a fight."

Su Tao looked at the dense swarms of leeches, and felt a chill on his back. He really didn't want to stay among the leeches for even more than a moment.

He whispered: "We must wait until dawn, can we rush out now?"

The deputy general looked into the darkness and whispered: "Miss Su, I'm afraid that our way forward and back are already covered with these leech larvae."

Shopkeeper Qian looked at the torches lit on all sides and heard the sizzling sound of leech larvae stirring together. He was silent for a while and said:

"It is recorded in the book that this leech is extremely difficult to kill."

The lieutenant general did not answer. He reached out and took a large sword from the hands of the soldiers beside him with a flick of his wrist.

The broadsword was like an arrow, stabbing at a leech that crawled out alone, chopping it down and nailing it to the stone surface.

The rocks beside the stream were extremely smooth and hard, and the deputy general nailed a leech to the stone surface calmly, which was a testament to his martial arts skills.

The lieutenant-general gave a small test of his skills, which aroused cheers from the army.

But the deputy general didn't look happy at all, and he and shopkeeper Qian looked at the leech nailed to the stone surface.

The leech struggled desperately on the tip of the knife, but the big knife had already penetrated deeply into the stone surface. The more it struggled, the bigger the wound on its back became, and streams of green juice gushed out from the wound.

Amidst the exclamations of the army, Leech's body stretched desperately to both sides.

The whole body was stretched to more than half a foot long, as flat as silk.

Under the firelight, you can faintly see the fluid flowing in the body.

As the dark green juice splashed, the leech actually pulled its body apart and fell into two parts. Dark green juice continued to gush out from the wound.

The two insect corpses twitched slightly, and the juice flowing out from the wound gradually became lighter, became transparent, and stopped flowing out.

Shopkeeper Qian felt inexplicably uneasy when he saw this strange scene.

The army murmured, seeing the lieutenant kill a leech easily, their morale was greatly boosted, and the cold feeling in their hearts was suddenly relieved a lot.

Shopkeeper Qian stared at the two insect corpses, his brows slightly furrowed in thought.

The book records that leeches feed on the flesh and blood of humans and animals. Their attack power is not very good, but their vitality is extremely tenacious and they can be killed repeatedly without dying.

"Kill repeatedly but not die, kill repeatedly..." Shopkeeper Qian was shocked.

I saw that the two insect corpses on the ground were shaking slightly, and the broken wounds had shrunk and bonded together.

The two worms squirmed on their own, slowly crawling back into the dense swarm of insects in full view of everyone.

The leech that was cut off turned into two leeches.

There was a commotion in the army, and with the power of the lieutenant, he was unable to kill the leech, and instead made one of it break into two.

Shopkeeper Qian sighed slightly and said, "It is true that the book never deceived me."

He then whispered: "The skin of a leech is extremely tough, and there is only mucus in its body but no internal organs. Even if it is hit with a blunt instrument, it cannot be damaged at all. It can only be cut off with a sharp instrument."

But if it is cut off,

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Like just now, one will turn into two, and two will turn into four." "This..." the deputy general couldn't help rubbing his eyebrows and said: "Then isn't this leech impossible to kill?"

Shopkeeper Qian said: "Leechworms are extremely afraid of cold and heat. Even if the larvae are exposed to a little sunlight, they will die immediately."

"Yes." The deputy general suddenly smiled and said, "Leechies are afraid of light, cold and extreme heat.

I was thinking that if I could freeze these leeches one by one into ice worms, I, the soldiers, could take them to the medicine shop and exchange them for some silver."

There was a chuckle among the army. As the leader of the march, the deputy general did not panic even in dangerous situations, which gave these soldiers a little peace of mind.

In front of the torch, the leeches that dared not step forward shrank and squirmed, becoming entangled with each other.

Then, the leeches crawling out of the stream arrived again, climbing layer upon layer on the backs of the previous leeches, which were more than a foot high.

There were layers of foam between the squirming leeches, making a sizzling sound.

Su Tao's hair stood on end, his back was numb and itchy, and his skin was covered with chicken skin. He must have been like this among all the soldiers in the army.

Leeches are still crawling out of the stream in a seemingly endless stream.

I don’t know how many such leech larvae are hidden among the rocks at the bottom of the stream.

What Shopkeeper Qian is most worried about is whether there are adult leeches hidden in the bottom of the stream.

The pile of leeches in front of the torch is getting higher and higher, almost level with the height of the torch.

The water vapor on the leech's body gradually suppressed the light of the fire. From the pile of squirming leech, large groups of foam poured out, gradually pushing towards the torch.

Some soldiers took out balls of pine resin, smashed them and scattered them on top of the torch. Suddenly the flames exploded, rising half a foot high.

The swarm of leeches panicked, and thousands of leeches kept squirming rapidly and desperately retreated.

It's just that the leeches behind are still moving forward. Thousands of leeches are piled higher and higher three feet away from the torch, like a squirming mountain of meat.
To be continued...