Yang Guyun understood this and quickly stepped back ten feet.
Zhou Qiubai Close your eyes and take a deep breath.
Insect groups generally have one female insect, Iron-Eating Beast is a gregarious Spirit Beast, and each group has a female insect in command.
As long as the mother insect dies, the herd will not disperse.
"Found it."
Zhou Qiubai opened his eyes and his body swayed.
He does not tangle with the ants, but floats into the hole like a flowing cloud.
When you go a hundred feet deep, your eyes suddenly open up.
This is a huge natural cave with a hill piled in the center.
To be precise, it is formed by the accumulation of various metal scraps and ore residues.
At the top of the hill, there lay a giant beetle the size of a millstone. Its body was dark gold, its abdomen was bulging, and it was laying eggs continuously.
The female insect senses the intruder and emits a sharp hissing sound.
More Iron-Eating Beast emerged from the gaps in the surrounding rock walls, rushing towards Zhou Qiubai like a tide.
But Zhou Qiubai doesn't care.
His eyes were fixed on the female insect, he pressed the sword with his right hand, pointed his left hand together, and drew a virtual circle in the air.
Third Soul Skill, Slip Wind.
This is not to increase the sword speed, but...
Growth refers to speed.
Diagnosing acupuncture points at intervals is all about using the word "quick".
At this moment, with the blessing of Flowing Wind, his fingers are faster than before.
"Puff puff puff puff--"
Use seven fingers in a row to point at the seven vital points of the female insect.
Although the carapace of the female insect is hard, some areas cannot be protected by the carapace.
The female insect's body stiffened and her neighing stopped abruptly.
Zhou Qiubai then drew his sword.
White Clothes Sword, as always, stabs directly into the center of the female insect's compound eye.
Tsk--
The sword penetrated three inches and shattered the brain.
The female worm twitched violently several times and fell to the ground.
The surrounding Iron-Eating Beast immediately fell to the ground.
It's a bit like the gluttons on the Great Wall. Once the mother worm dies, the daughter worms can't survive.
This is also the reason why this type of Spirit Beast is so small that even if you kill it, you cannot produce Soul Ring.
Because only female worms can produce Soul Ring.
Zhou Qiubai has also seen the wonders of this kind of Spirit Beast.
Are you sure this isn't a fungus?
Forget it, just solve it.
Zhou Qiubai put away the sword, turned around and left the cave.
Outside the cave, Yang Guyun has finished cleaning up the remaining beasts, and the beetle corpses on the ground glowed darkly in the sun.
"Resolved?" he asked.
"Yes." Zhou Qiubai nodded, "The female insect is dead, the herd collapsed, and the mission is completed."
When the two returned to the Mercenary Guild to hand in the task, the one-eyed old man looked at the task voucher with surprise on his face.
"So fast?"
"Good luck." Zhou Qiubai smiled.
The old man didn't ask any more questions and readily settled for eight hundred Gold Soul Coin.
Walking out of the guild, the sun was setting.
Zhou Qiubai suddenly stopped and turned to look at the street corner.
There was no one there.
"What's wrong?" Yang Guyun asked.
"It's nothing." Zhou Qiubai looked away, but felt faintly uneasy in his heart, "It's just an illusion."
However, is that really an illusion?
At that moment, he seemed to feel someone was watching him.
That's not malice, more like...
Observe.
"Go back first." He said.
At the same time, East Palace.
Qian Renxue looked at the secret report in his hand and frowned.
"Salas sent someone to West Mountain?"
She Long bowed respectfully and said, "Yes, Red-Robed Bishop Salas sent two Soul King to West Mountain Mine yesterday, said they were cleaning up the Spirit Beast hazard. But according to our personnel's observation, the two men lurked outside the mine for a whole day and did not show up until Zhou Qiubai and Yang Guyun left."
A cold light flashed in Qian Renxue's eyes.
Clean up Spirit Beast?
What a liar.
Although Iron-Eating Beast is troublesome, it is not enough for two Soul King to make a trip in person.
Obviously, the real target of Salas is Zhou Qiubai.
It seems that it was her good "sister" who gave the order.
Qian Renxue whispered to himself, "Are you so intolerant of someone who doesn't want to bow his head?"
The woman who would sacrifice everything for power, the woman who regarded her as an "evil".
In the eyes of Bibi Dong, there are only two kinds of people in the world.
Useful and useless.
If it is useful, win over it; if it is useless, destroy it.
Zhou Qiubai clearly falls into the "useful but uncontrolled" category.
For Bibi Dong, this kind of person is the most dangerous.
So, Salas took action.
"Send someone to keep an eye on it." Qian Renxue ordered decisively, "If Salas's people dare to touch Zhou Qiubai, then... deal with it. Remember, do it cleanly and don't reveal your identity."
She Long hesitated. "Miss, is it worth it for a Zhou Qiubai? After all, Pope..."
"It's worth it." Qian Renxue interrupted him, "It would be a pity for people like Zhou Qiubai to die. And..."
She paused and lowered her voice. "It just makes my good 'sister' feel disgusted."
She Long didn't dare to say any more, bowed and stepped back.
The family takes care of their own affairs, and just let them resolve their own affairs between mother and daughter.
In the inn room, Zhou Qiubai was sitting at the table, wiping White Clothes Sword.
Yang Guyun leaned against the window and suddenly said, "Someone is following us today."
"Yeah." Zhou Qiubai didn't even raise his head, "I followed Mercenary Guild as soon as he came out. He followed him for three streets and disappeared at the corner of the street."
"It's not malicious."
"Yes." Zhou Qiubai put down the sword, "It feels like I am protecting, or... monitoring."
Yang Guyun was silent for a moment, frowning slightly. "The prince's people?"
"It's possible." Zhou Qiubai raised a smile at the corner of his mouth, "Xue Qinghe has been so good to us during this period. What is he trying to do?"
"Win over."
"Is it necessary to go to this step to win over?" Zhou Qiubai shook his head, "I think it is more like investing. Investing in someone who may be useful in the future, and by the way... creating trouble for some people."
Yang Guyun frowned. "Some people?"
Zhou Qiubai did not answer directly, but asked, "Gu Yun, do you think Xue Qinghe is... strange?"
Some things are better explained clearly.
"Strange."
"What's weird?"
Yang Guyun thought for a while and said, "Sometimes, his movements are too soft. The tone of his words, the way he looks at people, and even the way he walks... he doesn't look like a man, but more like a woman."
Zhou Qiubai A smile flashed in his eyes.
Sure enough, Yang Guyun also noticed it.
"How to say?"
"I can't tell." Yang Guyun hesitated for a rare moment, "I just feel... sometimes some of his little actions are really not like a man. For example, when he holds the tea cup, he actually raises his little finger, his gait when walking, and the look in his eyes when he looks at people... are all too soft."
Zhou Qiubai smiled.
He turned around and looked at Yang Guyun with a meaningful look in his eyes. "Do you think a person who can lurk in the Heaven Dou Palace for more than ten years and make everyone unable to see any flaws would make such a low-level mistake?"
Yang Guyun was stunned.
"You mean..."
"What I mean is," Zhou Qiubai lowered his voice, "Those actions that don't look like a man may not be intentional. Or what you said is wrong, it's not that he doesn't look like a man, but that he looks too much like a woman."
The room was quiet for a moment.
Yang Guyun's pupils shrank. "You mean, Xue Qinghe is a woman pretending to be a woman?"