Chapter 938 Horrifying Creatures (Two Chapters in One)

"Why is this town so quiet?"

Lin Li stood at the gate of the town, looking at the street, but he didn't see a single passerby.

It stands to reason that in a town of this size, there should be at least some passersby on the road in broad daylight.

At this moment, the streets of the town were empty, too quiet, and gave people a weird feeling everywhere.

"Huh..."

A gust of wind blew on the street, and some plants beside the street were gently swayed by the wind, making a continuous rustling sound.

Lin Li listened to the sound of the shaking plants and wondered whether to enter this weird town.

"It's a bit weird."

"Do you want to go in?"

"No spiritual energy fluctuations were found."

"With my current strength, even if I encounter danger, it is unlikely to pose a threat to me."

Lin Li thought for a while and decided to enter this weird town to take a look.

The road paved with stone bricks is very clean. It looks like someone usually cleans it.

"Trample, tramp, tramp..."

Lin Li walked on the road, and his footsteps were very clear in this quiet environment. His footsteps could be heard from a long distance away.

He looked at the houses on the roadside, but saw no one.

The door was open, but no one was inside. This would be impossible in other places.

Of course, the whole town was quiet now. Lin Li walked for several minutes and didn't meet anyone. If he told others about this, they would just think it was a story.

"Hello."

"Is anyone there?"

Lin Li stopped in front of a teahouse and shouted a few times at the door.

The empty teahouse didn't respond, so there should be no one there.

"I'll go to the house with smoke over there and look for someone."

Lin Li didn't find anyone in the teahouse, so he decided to look for the house with smoke in front.

A few minutes later, he came to the house with smoke.

"Is anyone there?"

Lin Li shouted a few times, but still didn't see anyone, which made him frown and mutter to himself.

"The smoke means someone is cooking, how could there be no one?"

As soon as he finished speaking, footsteps sounded behind him, which scared Lin Li.

He turned around and saw many people appearing in the streets and alleys.

"Damn it."

"Why are there so many people all of a sudden?!!!"

Lin Li was stunned. He hadn't seen anyone on the road before.

Now so many people suddenly appeared. Even though he had the cultivation of the first stage of the third stage, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

"Hello, I'm a traveling merchant. I happened to pass by this town and wanted to find something to eat."

Lin Li greeted with a smile, but there was no response from these people in front of him.

"What's going on?"

"Something's wrong."

"There's something wrong with these people."

Lin Li observed carefully and found that these people had no expression on their faces, dull eyes, pale faces, and looked lifeless.

Normal and healthy people shouldn't be like this. These small town residents in front of him looked like patients who had been sick in bed for a long time.

"If you want to die, just stand there and talk to them."

When Lin Li was full of doubts, a strange voice came from the roof of a house next to him.

He quickly looked up and found a young man in a gray suit looking at him seriously.

"My friend, what do you mean by what you just said?"

"Don't worry about it now, come up quickly..." The young man in gray clothes threw down a rope without explanation.

Lin Li ran to the rope quickly, grabbed the rope and climbed to the roof easily.

"It's too dangerous to stay here, follow me..." The young man in gray clothes said, and ran away.

"Uh..." Lin Li hesitated for two seconds, and then quickly caught up with the other party.

The houses in the town are well planned, one row after another, and the two people moved on the roof without encountering any danger.

After a while, Lin Li followed the other party to the destination.

This is a three-story house with a small yard.

Walking into the room, the young man in gray clothes quickly locked the door.

"Huh..."

After the door was locked, Lin Li saw the other party let out a sigh of relief, and then he asked, "Hello, my name is Lin Li, what's your name?"

"My name is Xiao Pingtian." The young man in gray clothes responded.

"What's wrong with those people?" Lin Li asked the doubts in his heart.

"Those residents are dead." Xiao Pingtian said in a heavy tone.

"Ah?" Lin Li was shocked when he heard this.

Xiao Pingtian continued, "Did you find them lifeless?"

"I found them. I thought they were just sick, but I didn't expect..." Lin Li said.

"Alas." Xiao Pingtian sighed.

"How can dead people still move like them?" Lin Li asked again.

"Do you know brain-eating worms?"

"I don't know."

"This kind of worm will find living things to parasitize and use the brains of living things as nutrients to grow.

When the host dies, they will control the host's body and look for the next living thing to parasitize."

"This...!!!"

Lin Li's eyes widened in shock. It was the first time he heard of this kind of terrifying worm.

"Trample, tramp, tramp..."

There were footsteps coming from the backyard, and Lin Li looked into the distance vigilantly.

"It's our own people." Xiao Pingtian saw Lin Li's vigilance and said immediately.

After a while, more than a dozen men and women appeared in Lin Li's field of vision.

"Who is he?" The leader was a tall and beautiful girl. After seeing Lin Li, she looked alert and asked Xiao Pingtian.

"Miss Lan, this man is a traveling merchant. I happened to meet him when I was out looking for food, so I brought him back..."

"Traveling merchant? Is he alone?"

"Yes, he is alone."

Lin Li smiled and greeted the tired people in front of him, "Hello, my name is Lin Li, a businessman who travels around."

Perhaps because they encountered such a dangerous creature as the brain-eating worm, everyone was very wary of strangers and was a little cold to Lin Li.

Fortunately, Xiao Pingtian mediated and the atmosphere did not become awkward.

Lin Li learned that this group of people planned to go to Dongwu City, and when they passed through this town, they happened to encounter the brain-eating worm.

As a result, they were trapped in this town and could not leave for a few days.

"Gululu..."

A subtle sound rang in the room. Lin Li heard the sound and felt a little familiar, and then his eyes swept over everyone.

"Miss Lan, I'll go out and look for food now..." Xiao Pingtian said.

"Be careful when you look for food, don't take risks..." Lan Yuxia reminded Xiao Pingtian who was about to leave.

"Yes." Xiao Pingtian nodded, then he turned around to open the door and leave.

At this moment, Lin Li took a few steps forward and stretched out his hand to stop Xiao Pingtian who was about to leave.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Pingtian looked at Lin Li in confusion and asked.

"Are you short of food?"

"Yes, we were almost out of food, so we wanted to come to this town to replenish some, but we encountered brain-eating worms.

Now that we have been trapped for several days, we have eaten all the remaining food."

"I have food, you don't need to go out and take risks to find food."

"Eh?" Xiao Pingtian was stunned for half a second after hearing this, looked at Lin Li in surprise, and said, "Are you kidding me?"

Lan Yuxia frowned and looked at Lin Li, saying in a serious tone, "Now is not the time to joke, and this joke is not funny at all..."

Lin Li glanced at Lan Yuxia, ignored her, and then smiled and said to Xiao Pingtian, "I am not a person who can't tell the occasion from the joke."

As soon as the voice fell, a basket of fresh cucumbers and tomatoes appeared out of thin air, all of which were planted by Lin Li himself.

"???" Except for Lin Li, everyone present who saw this scene opened their mouths in shock.

"What's going on?" Lan Yuxia said to herself in confusion.

"It's the storage space ability." A middle-aged man standing next to Lan Yuxia said.

Xiao Pingtian looked at Lin Li, who looked calm and at ease, and said enviously, "You actually awakened the storage space ability."

Lin Li smiled, and then said, "You are hungry, eat something quickly!"

"How much?" Xiao Pingtian asked.

"It's free for you, you don't have to pay me." Lin Li laughed.

"That won't work, I still have to pay the money..." Xiao Pingtian said.

"You just saved my life, and now if I charge you money, my conscience will not be able to go through with it..." Lin Li said.

"Uh..." Xiao Pingtian thought about it, and then stopped insisting on paying, "Thank you."

"Gurgle..."

Lan Yuxia and her group were hungry, and their stomachs were growling again.

"Everyone has been hungry for a long time, eat something quickly!" Xiao Pingtian called out, and the group reached out to take food from the basket.

The conditions were limited, and they didn't care about hygiene. They didn't wash it, and they just ate it with a crunch.

"This tomato is so delicious."

"I've never eaten such a crisp cucumber."

Several servants of Lan Yuxia praised while eating.

Lin Li hadn't eaten lunch yet, and seeing them wolfing down their food, he was also hungry.

A thought came to his mind, and a box of chocolate bars appeared out of thin air.

Because it was not convenient to cook now, Lin Li thought of eating some chocolate bars to fill his stomach first.

When Lan Yuxia and her group saw Lin Li take out food they had never seen before, they were very curious, but they didn't dare to ask.

After a while, everyone who had eaten showed a satisfied smile.

Lin Li looked at the people who had eaten their fill, and finally his eyes fell on Xiao Pingtian.

"I think those residents controlled by the brain-eating worms have little fighting power. With your strength, it should be easy for you to leave the town."

Xiao Pingtian shook his head, "You were deceived by their appearance."

"What do you mean?" Lin Li asked in confusion.

"Those are just minions, searching for targets to parasitize. Once they are surrounded, the truly powerful brain-eating worms will appear immediately, and then it will be difficult to escape." Xiao Pingtian said.

"The truly powerful brain-eating worms you are talking about are the exotic beasts?"

"Yes."

"How strong are they?"

"I have encountered one before, with the cultivation level of the middle stage of the second stage."

The middle stage of the second stage is not strong! These people work together and can easily defeat it... Lin Li thought in his heart.

Xiao Pingtian added at this time, "If it was just a middle stage of the second stage, we would not be trapped here.

Every time a brain-eating worm of this strength appears, it will be entangled by it for a while, and other brain-eating worms with the same strength will come immediately."

Lin Li now knew why these people were trapped here, and his face immediately showed an expression of sudden enlightenment, "So that's it."

Lan Yuxia on the side interrupted, "It's not good for us to be trapped here all the time. We have to find a way to leave next."

Xiao Pingtian nodded, "Miss Lan is right, we don't have to worry about food for the time being. Next, I will go to explore the road and find a safe route to leave here."

"I will go to explore the road with you." Lin Li heard it and said.

"Exploring the road is very dangerous, you just stay here, and leave together when I come back." Xiao Pingtian said.

Lin Li mobilized the spiritual energy in his dantian, and began to emit the second-stage middle-stage spiritual energy fluctuations.

"You have the second-stage middle-stage cultivation?" Xiao Pingtian said in shock.

He thought that Lin Li was so young and had the cultivation of the peak of the first stage at most, but he didn't expect that he had cultivated to the second stage like himself.

"If I didn't have some strength, I wouldn't dare to go out for business." Lin Li laughed, looking very calm.

"You have cultivated to the middle stage of the second stage at such a young age, and you have also awakened the ability of storage space. I am really enviable..." Xiao Pingtian's personality is quite straightforward, and he said directly.

"It's just luck." Lin Li responded modestly with a warm smile on his face.

Lan Yuxia and her servants were originally full of vigilance against Lin Li, a stranger. Now that they have eaten the food that Lin Li brought out and found that Lin Li is a cultivation genius, their attitude immediately changed.

"Miss Lan, we are going out to explore the way. You stay here and be careful." Xiao Pingtian turned his head and looked at Lan Yuxia.

"You should also pay attention to safety." Lan Yuxia reminded again.

Lin Li looked at Xiao Pingtian, then at Lan Yuxia, thinking.

"Bang."

Lin Li and Xiao Pingtian walked out of the house, then closed the door, and Lan Yuxia in the room inserted the bolt.

"Huh..."

Gusts of wind blew on the street, hitting the body and bringing a hint of coolness.

"It's strange, why don't those brain-eating insects search the house?" Lin Li was a little puzzled.

"I don't know about that either." Xiao Pingtian shook his head. "If those brain-eating worms searched every house, we might not be able to survive until today..."

"Do brain-eating worms have any weaknesses?" Lin Li asked.

"After they leave the host, they will die in a short time under the sun..." Xiao Pingtian said.

"Is the sun so lethal to them?"

"Yes! Such terrible creatures are very afraid of the sun."

"Then how to force them out?"

"Destroy the host's head."

After listening to what Xiao Pingtian said, Lin Li immediately thought of the scene of the head explosion.

"Let's hurry up and explore the way!" Xiao Pingtian looked up at the sun in the sky. It was the strongest time of the afternoon sun.

Then, the two came to the roof of the house and began to look for a way out.

With Lin Li's current strength, it is very easy to leave this town full of brain-eating worms.

The reason why he followed Xiao Pingtian now is that he wants to explore this town in depth to see if he can get some unexpected gains.

…………(End of this chapter)