The Little King Next Door

Chapter 29 The Lame Man

Lei Mu is a very patient person.

He followed the crippled man like a hunter stalking his prey.

The lame man's actions were a bit weird. He didn't just avoid the search of the villagers blindly, but walked in a certain direction purposefully, looking for something along the way.

Lei Mu didn't rush to arrest the crippled man, he wanted to see what the other party wanted to do and what he was looking for.

This is most of the day.

The lame man walked to the mountain nest on the southeast side of Trench Island in one breath. He only rested a few times on the way, and then he never stopped all the way.

The other party should also know some herbs, so he picked some herbs on the way and took them raw.

Lei Mu used his eye skills to notice that every time the opponent ate some herbs, the energy in his chest would become slightly brighter, but it would also become quieter.

Now Lei Mu can already confirm that the ball of life energy should be a ball of living things, because he saw the energy move.

Every time the ball of energy moved, the lame man would eat the herbs he found.

I just don't know if the crippled man knows that every time he eats those herbs, it seems to calm down the energy cluster on the surface, but in fact he is feeding the energy cluster and making it stronger.

Lei Mu took down and picked some herbs that the man picked, and planned to take them back to Xiao Ye who knew herbs.Herbs that can increase energy are basically good things.

A green lake appeared in front of him.

The green lake is not big, but the water is extremely clear. The clouds in the sky are reflected on the surface of the water. Coupled with the quiet mountains and forests, there is a kind of beauty beyond this world.

The crippled man seemed a little excited when he saw Bihu. He dragged his legs to the edge of the lake, knelt on the ground and scooped up a handful of lake water, but he didn't drink it, he just splashed the water on his face.

The lame man closed his eyes as if he was feeling something.

Lei Mu saw the energy cluster on the man's chest became brighter and brighter.

The crippled man opened his eyes, and a strong look of joy burst out in his eyes: This is it!He finally found it.

That person didn't lie to him, there really was a lake on this island that completely suppressed the eggs.

He just splashed the lake water on his face, and the insect eggs became much more honest, and the energy that seemed to tear his spirit at any time seemed to disappear.

The man buried his head in the lake water and drank the lake water frantically.

Lei Mu felt something was wrong, he wanted to jump out to stop the crippled man, but stopped after thinking about it, it was too late to go out now.

Judging from the radiance of the energy cluster, the eruption was only a few breaths away.

The man suddenly pulled out his head again, his head was shaking desperately, and his body was also desperately moving backwards.

But there seemed to be a consciousness in his body, urging him to jump into the lake and drink more lake water, preferably soaking in the lake water.

"No! It's not what I thought. I didn't come looking for this lake. It's not me!" the man yelled without knowing it.

"No! I want to come to this lake, only the water here can save me. I have to believe in myself, jump in, jump now!"

"No! Help me, who will save me, it's not me, no!"

Lei Mu appeared behind the man like a ghost, and struck his neck with a palm.

The man slammed to the ground.

Lei Mu looked down at the man and didn't approach him.

A bag slowly bulged on the man's chest.

In Lei Mu's eyes, a clear figure appeared under the bag.

This is... a bug?

Lei Mu waved his finger and said in a low voice, "Sleepy!"

Immediately, a word appeared in the tattoo on Lei Mu's face, and the figure-like words landed on the bulge on the man's chest.

The worm that was about to break free from the egg froze and was trapped on the man's heart.

Trapping is obviously not enough, Lei Mu intends to dig out the bug.

But he will dig but not make up.

In particular, the bug seemed to be connected to the lame man's heart.

If he dug the worm out, the crippled man probably wouldn't live long.

But if the bug was left alone, the lame man would probably die as well.

Or take this person back to find Little Leaf?

Forget it, Xiao Yezi is so small and still injured, the wound on the heart is not easy to heal, so don't cause trouble for the little man.

Lei Mu flicked his fingers towards the man's temple, sending a trace of energy to stimulate him to wake up.

The lame man opened his eyes, and he saw Lei Mu at first sight.

Lei Mu said to him very plainly and directly: "There is a worm in your chest, lying on your heart. It seems to have fully hatched now. I can dig it out for you, but I can't guarantee your survival. You can also Choose to do nothing and let the bug stay in your body, but if you behave abnormally, I will kill you. Your choice."

There was a struggle in the man's eyes, but he quickly said: "Dig it out! Dig that thing out, it deceived me, it has been deceiving me all the time, it has been conscious for a long time, but I thought it was safe as long as it didn't hatch. "

"If this is your choice..."

"No! Don't dig. I don't want to die. This bug won't harm me, it will only make me better. Don't mind your business, go away!" the man yelled again.

Lei Mu: "..."

The man got up and was about to run.

Lei Mu used the "trapped" technique again, trapping the man in place.

There were two expressions on the man's face, which were very strange expressions, as if two consciousnesses were controlling this body at the same time.

This is the first time Lei Mu has seen this situation.

The lame man opened his mouth: "Help me..."

"I can dig out the worms for you, but I can't guarantee what will happen to you after digging out." Lei Mu stated again.

"Dig...don't dig! Ahhh!" The crippled man's eyes turned red, and he went into a state of madness, but he was trapped, unable to move his body, and his whole body turned red and his neck was thick.

Lei Mu waited patiently.

His intuition told him that nothing good would happen if the worm stayed in the man's body.

But the lame man's consciousness is still there, so he will not deprive him of his chance of survival.

The lame man's will seemed to be much stronger than his appearance. About ten minutes later, his expression became unified again, and his eyes became much firmer.

"I don't have much time. I need to tell you something. It would be best if you could send a letter to warn them over there. If you don't want to, it's okay. If it becomes a nest of insects, it's their own fault. "

The lame man smiled bitterly, took a breath, and said quickly: "I am a prisoner who escaped from the prisoner island next door. I was able to escape. I thought it was because of myself and my partner. Now I know, it should be me. The egg on the chest is showing the way, and the egg on my partner. They have invaded part of our consciousness, but I don't know, I always thought it was our own thoughts, including finding and escaping. Methods."

Lei Mu's heart trembled.Insect eggs that can invade human consciousness?Does this mean that the worm eggs can not only devour human souls, but also replace the devoured people?What type of insect is this?

"The worm egg wants to take me out, it just wants to come here, this lake, and what I learned... In fact, it is the medicinal herb sensed by the worm egg, which should help the worm to hatch effect."

The lame man bit the tip of his tongue hard, swallowed a mouthful of blood, and continued: "Most of the prisoners on the island want to escape, and there is an animal world where the weak and the strong prey on the inside. The jailers never care about our life or death. They are only responsible for guarding us. We escaped from prison confines."

"The prisoners there are trying to become stronger in order to survive. I am one of them. I am not the first person to be infected with bug eggs. I was also deceived. Someone told me that if I eat one pills, you can give yourself a certain chance to obtain special abilities. That person is my best friend on the island..."

The lame man looked sad for a moment, and then said: "I believe it. I bought a pill and ate it after spending a lot of money. My friend also bought it."

"I don't know how many people bought that pill, but there must have been quite a few. Not long after taking the pill, I did feel a change in my body. I used to be weak and was the bottom of the pack among prisoners, but since I took the pill Afterwards, I found that my body became lighter and my movements became more flexible, especially my brain... I feel that I have become smarter and my memory has become much better than before."

The lame man looked sad: "Who can resist such benefits? Then one day I saw a certain weed growing by the roadside, and suddenly felt that eating it would be good for me, so I ate it and found that it was indeed It will make me more comfortable. I started to study herbs deliberately, I didn’t learn very well, but I always found herbs that are useful to me and my friends, I thought it was because of my own talent awakening.”

The lame man smiled miserably again: "What about the truth? The truth is that it is the function of the eggs, and it can directly sense what is good for it. Then, one day, my friend and I accidentally saw a prisoner kill Two prisoners who bullied him died."

The crippled man got to the point, and he didn't pause: "We all saw very clearly that countless flying insects suddenly exploded from the prisoner's arm. Those flying insects landed on the other two prisoners, and quickly killed them. Eat it clean. After eating, the flying insects flew back to the bullied prisoner and became his arm again."

"We don't know if the prisoner found us. We were terrified. For the first time, we knew that a human arm can turn into countless flying insects. But this is not the first time we have seen weird things, because my body has changed. It is very flexible and walks very lightly, in order to live better, I... wanted to steal something from a big guy, but I saw him hiding in the room and eating human flesh."

The crippled man had a disgusted look on his face. He was also a bad person, but he couldn't accept such a thing.

"Because there are always prisoners disappearing on the island, so there are fewer prisoners on the island, and no one cares at all." The lame man burst into tears: "I don't know when that prison started to become particularly terrifying, but Not many people notice these abnormalities, even the jailers."

"My sneak peek was exposed. I was worried that the boss would find me, kill me and eat me, so I wanted to leave that terrible island. I told my friend about my plan, and the other party also supported my idea. , and we will start figuring it out together.”

Lei Mu saw that the crippled man started to cry while he was talking. He didn't know whether he was crying for his friend or his own experience. In order to divert his emotions, he asked a key question: "When did you find out that there were worms in your body?" eggs, and are about to hatch?"

The lame man sniffed his nose, and his eyes suddenly showed pain: "I live with my friend. One night, I woke up in the middle of the night and saw something moving in his chest. I pushed him awake, I told him. As a result, he didn’t care at all, and said that it’s just the pills we took that are changing our bodies, and when the changes are over, we will be able to gain special abilities.”

"Has your friend's consciousness been taken over by bugs?" Lei Mu asked.

The crippled man is in pain, hmm, "But I didn't know that the pills we were taking were eggs, I just thought my friend was getting weirder and weirder. Sometimes he seemed to be him, and sometimes he wasn't .I began to observe him secretly, followed him, and found that he was talking and laughing with the prisoner whose arm could turn into flying insects. One day, I heard the man ask my friend, what about the eggs in my body? It can hatch in time, and I am very curious about the species of eggs."

Lei Mu interrupted him: "Everyone's eggs are different?"

"I don't know." The crippled man was immersed in the pain, and his words began to become confused: "If it's just a body mutation, I'm not afraid, as long as I am still myself. But I am not myself anymore, and becoming stronger is still important to me. What's the point? I was going to question him, but he said he was going to take me out and I decided to believe him. No, I didn't believe him, I just wanted to leave, I was so scared, I thought I would leave You can start over, you can act as if nothing happened..."

The crippled man suddenly became emotional: "He is gone, I know why he left, because his body is about to start to mutate, he doesn't want me to see it, he is afraid that I will be scared when I see it, and the worms in his body The eggs were dug out! It was he who killed me, it was him! I hate him!"

Lei Mu let him vent his emotions.

The crippled man kept roaring until his throat split.

The lame man was tired of screaming, he suddenly looked at Lei Mu, said with despair and determination: "Kill me, together with that bug, let my crimes end here."

"Okay." Lei Mu agreed, without the slightest hesitation, he slapped the crippled man unconscious.

From the beginning to the end, he did not feel murderous intent or malice from the lame man. Although this man was a fugitive, his hostility and murderous intent were not heavy, and he was not a cunning villain with white skin and black heart.

It's not that those who are put in jail are 100% bad guys, Lei Mu himself has been wronged before, so he knows how dark and stupid some law enforcement agencies are.

Of course, this does not guarantee that the crippled man is really a good person who was wronged. Lei Mu just didn't want to just casually kill a person who had no grudges against him and did not do bad things in front of him.And he still has a lot of questions that he wants to ask the other party.

Lei Mu looked around the lake, took note of the location, picked up the lame man and walked out of the mountain.

The young people in the village came back from the mountains before the tide ebbed, and Hai Yaozu was reporting to the anchor what they were looking for in the mountains.

"A hut was found, but no one was found. The fire inside had not been extinguished for more than half a day. We searched nearby, and the other party probably hid."

"Well, continue to search tomorrow, we must find this person." After the anchor finished speaking, he looked up and saw Lei Mu walking out of the forest.

Lei Mu held a thin man in his hand. The man closed his eyes and seemed unconscious.

The anchor immediately greeted Lei Mu.

Hai Yaozu and others all looked at the man carried by Lei Mu.

"Who is he?" When the anchor asked this question, he already had a big problem in his mind.

Sure enough, Lei Mu replied: "It should be the mysterious person spying on me and Xiao Yezi."

The anchor cupped his hands at him: "It's amazing. So many boys were sent out but no one was found. You are not familiar with our place, but you can still catch him. Is he the only one?"

Lei Mu: "Only found him."

Hai Yaozu interrupted: "Uncle, we only saw traces of one person's life in that hut."

The anchor is at ease, they are not afraid of outsiders landing on their island, what they are afraid of is that these outsiders hide from them and do things that are not good for the islanders.

Hai Yaozu stretched out his hand, wanting to take this person from Lei Mu's hand.He didn't mean anything else, but simply thought that such sneaky outsiders should be handed over to their village, and he couldn't bother the distinguished guests in the village.

Lei Mu avoided Hai Yaozu's hand, "This person cannot be handed over to you for the time being, there is something wrong with him."

"Hey? What's the problem?" The anchor was startled and pulled Hai Yaozu back.

Hai Yaozu and several close young people also looked at Lei Mu.

Lei Mu was about to explain when he heard the village chief shout: "Anchor!"

The anchor and the others turned their heads together, and saw the village head who was not too old but not too young to be running. It looked like he was in a hurry.

The anchor ignored Lei Mu's side for a while, and hurriedly greeted the village chief: "What's wrong? What happened?"

"Bad thing!" The village chief stopped, panted for a while, and hurriedly told about the discovery of monsters and schistosome parasites on the reef beach, and Wang Ye's speculation.Focus on explaining Wang Ye's achievements and praise him greatly.

When Lei Mu heard that Wang Ye was able to check whether the villagers were parasitized by schistosomiasis, and could kill the schistosomiasis parasitized in the human body, there seemed to be a strange light in his eyes.

After hearing this, Chuanmo and the others were both curious and scared, and they respected the brothers Lei Mu and Wang Ye even more.

A few young people couldn't stay still, wondering what the bug looked like, and rushed to the reef beach to watch the excitement, although there was no excitement there.

The anchor was much more stable than the young man, and continued to talk to the village chief: "So it is possible that the shark was penetrated by the female worm of some kind of schistosomiasis?"

"It's very possible." The village chief grabbed the anchor's hand, "Do you think we should send someone to the seagrass island to find the shark family immediately?"

The anchor looked up at the setting sun and said disapprovingly, "It's too late to go out to sea now. In two or three hours, the sun will completely fall into the sea. You know how dangerous it is to sail at night."

The village chief was anxious: "Then what should I do? If the worm regenerates a bunch of eggs in the shark's body, and the eggs hatch again, not only the shark's family will be unlucky, but the seagrass island..."

The village chief regretted that he would not have let the Shark family leave the village if he had known.

But who would have thought at that time that such a thing would happen?

The anchor also knows that human life is at stake, but he can't let the villagers risk sailing in the dark just because he wants to find sharks.The sea wind at night is always stronger than during the day, and the sight is unclear. If you deviate from the channel and are blown by the wind again, God knows where the ship will be blown.

"Tomorrow morning, when the tide ebbs tomorrow morning, I will take a boat to Seagrass Island." The anchor also wanted to bring Xiao Ye Zi, who can recognize bugs and save people, but this matter has to be done with Xiao Ye Zi and his brother. discuss.

The village head had no choice but to do so, and it was impossible for him to ignore his own villagers for the sake of the Shark family and Haicao Island.

"Brother Lei, who is the person in your hand?" The village chief finally noticed the person in Lei Mu's hand.

"Mumu!" Wang Ye saw Lei Mu from a distance, and immediately ran over.

When Lei Mu saw Wang Ye, a faint smile appeared on his expressionless face.