Hearing the woman's anxious voice, Gu Qingfeng was completely stunned.
"Yin Moon? Dehydration?"
Then his pupils rapidly shrank into two pitch-black dots.
Because in his line of sight, the perfectly normal moon suddenly sprouted a great deal of "hair."
That hair rapidly grew, covering the moon's entire surface.
The moonlight quickly dimmed, and heaven and earth sank into murky darkness.
And because they had grown so quickly, those hairs no longer looked like hair, but more like some kind of tentacles?
No, not tentacles.
At that moment, the entire moon looked as though it had grown human hands and feet all over it.
Those hands and feet constantly squirmed, as if they were about to crawl out of the moon.
Gu Qingfeng's scalp went numb at the sight.
Because the scene was simply too wicked and bizarre.
Those "hands and feet" seemed born to inspire fear, enough to make one shudder from head to toe.
And at that moment, Gu Qingfeng saw that the people in the caravan ahead truly did "dehydrate."
They rapidly shriveled and flattened, becoming like rolls of human skin, leaving puddles of water on the ground.
Meanwhile, the heavy cloth covering the carriage Gu Qingfeng had been watching most closely had been lifted, revealing one "humanoid figure" after another.
Only then did he see clearly that they were not people or corpses, as he had guessed, but statues of gods.
Those statues were coated in colored paint, gaudy and multicolored, while their lower halves were hollow, forming one opening after another.
"Into the stoves!"
"Everyone, into the stoves!"
Gu Qingfeng immediately realized that those hollow openings really did resemble the mouths of stoves.
The dehydrated caravan members then curled themselves up and slipped into the holes beneath the god statues like rolled sheets of paper.
Their water was gone, leaving only skin wrapped around bone. Now that they had crawled into the "stoves," they looked like firewood waiting to be burned.
At that moment, only the caravan leader had yet to crawl inside.
Supporting his skin-wrapped bones, he looked at Gu Qingfeng and said, "At a time like this, Your Excellency can only pray for your own fortune."
After saying that, he rolled up his body and crawled into the final small god statue.
Gu Qingfeng had no idea what was happening.
He did not know why the moon had suddenly become like this, nor why these people could suddenly dehydrate and crawl into the god statues.
He only knew that something terrifying was definitely about to happen.
Fuck, fuck, this place really knew how to give people "surprises"!
At that moment, the ground had begun to shake, and fierce squeaking rose from the grass, as though countless things were about to burrow out from underground.
The surrounding area was all flat grassland. For a moment, Gu Qingfeng had no idea where he could go.
Rustle, rustle, rustle...
A dense burst of air-tearing sounds rang out.
It sounded like countless thin feathers pressed together as they sliced through the air.
Gu Qingfeng only felt his vision darken.
Countless humanoid shadows emerged from the ground, blotting out the sky and moon.
Then he saw countless faces.
Faces that were beautiful and seductive.
Put them in a brothel, and each of them would have been the sort to contend for the title of courtesan queen.
The upper halves of their bodies were equally alluring, their skin fair and their cleavages deep. One glance alone was enough to send a man's yang energy surging.
But Gu Qingfeng lowered his gaze slightly, and in an instant, he calmed down.
Because the lower halves of these women could not be called "human" at all.
They looked more like mosquitoes.
The kind of mosquitoes that loved to bite people, their bodies covered in mottled patterns, except they were as large as adults.
If one looked carefully, one would discover that at their abdomens were long, needle-like mouthparts, as though the mouthparts that ought to have grown on a mosquito's face had been transferred there.
These mosquito-like beauties flapped their translucent black wings and flew upward one after another, as though they intended to fly to the moon.
The entire grassland seemed to come alive. Wild rabbits, marmots, snakes, and other creatures darted about everywhere, only to turn into shriveled sheets of skin moments later.
Because the Beauty Mosquitoes' mouthparts pierced into their bodies and sucked them dry in an instant.
Some of the Beauty Mosquitoes also noticed Gu Qingfeng and the caravan.
Flapping their translucent wings, they drifted toward them one after another.
Almost at the same time, the multicolored little god statues began to emit wave after wave of light.
These "mosquitoes" feared that light and hurriedly avoided it.
Once they avoided this area, the only target left was Gu Qingfeng nearby.
In his previous life, seeing a swarm of mottled mosquitoes had been enough to make Gu Qingfeng's scalp crawl. The mottled mosquitoes before him were even larger than he was, making them all the more horrifying.
Without any hesitation, Core Branch emerged from his body, and golden light burst from all over him.
Geng-Metal Power surged from within him, carrying sharp, cutting radiance.
The "mottled mosquitoes" approaching from the front were instantly pierced full of dense little holes, screeching strangely as they fled.
For a time, Gu Qingfeng, his whole body flashing with golden light, seemed to have transformed into a god statue himself, making this swarm of giant mottled mosquitoes afraid to approach.
But Gu Qingfeng's golden light was also as conspicuous as a pearl in the night, drawing even more Beauty Mosquitoes to gather around him.
Though they did not dare come close, they licked their lips, the mouthparts on their bellies constantly swaying, looking as though they wished they could devour Gu Qingfeng alive.
Just then, a sound of wings grinding together rang out, and the densely packed mosquito swarm immediately opened up a path.
A huge blood-red mosquito flew over.
This mosquito still had a beautiful, seductive face, but its chest was no longer deeply cleft like a ravine. It clearly possessed the traits of a woman's face and a man's body.
Its wings were red, and so was its mosquito-like lower body, as though it were a mosquito swollen full of blood until even its outer shell had changed color.
The other mottled mosquitoes all moved aside. It was clear that this was something like the "king" of these strange mosquitoes.
It looked at Gu Qingfeng with the same greedy expression, licking its tongue as it charged over.
"Damn it, you dead shemale!"
Seeing its flat chest, Gu Qingfeng could not help shouting a curse.
In an instant, the golden light around him intensified.
Yet this blood-colored mosquito charged straight at him regardless, swinging its needle-like mouthparts.
Seeing this, Gu Qingfeng drew Core Branch from his shoulder with a buzz and stabbed forward.
Core Branch was incomparably sharp, piercing straight through the blood-colored mosquito's abdomen. Yet the pain on its beautiful face instantly turned into delight. It continued to actively press its body onto Core Branch, letting it sink deeper so it could get closer to Gu Qingfeng.
The more pain this blood-colored mosquito felt, the happier it seemed, looking utterly perverse.
Seeing it open its mouth and lick its pointed tongue, with only an arm's length between them, Gu Qingfeng reached into his robes and flicked out a crimson fragment.
The blood-colored mosquito had been charging recklessly, determined to get close to Gu Qingfeng even with its body pierced through. At such a short distance, it had no chance to dodge this launched "hidden weapon."
The Crimson Corruption Godscale shot directly into its mouth, even reaching deep into its throat.
Terrifying corruptive power slid down its throat, raising a trail of crimson.
The blood-colored mosquito had already been rather red, a glaring blood-red, but that streak of crimson was far duller than its own color, yet remained clearly visible.
Only then did the blood-colored mosquito finally reveal a panicked expression.
It was not afraid of Core Branch piercing its body, but it feared this!
It stretched out both hands, wanting to dig the scale out, but it was already too late.
The flesh in its throat, neck, and chest rapidly rotted and fell away, turning into writhing crimson lumps of meat.
Just as it reached out to dig for the scale, Gu Qingfeng swept Core Branch and directly severed its hands!
Thus, before Gu Qingfeng's eyes, the huge blood-colored mosquito turned into chunks of crimson flesh that fell to the ground, writhing nonstop in a particularly horrifying sight.
The mosquitoes around them had been reluctant to leave Gu Qingfeng and had kept circling nearby. Upon seeing this scene, their lovely faces turned pale with fright, and they scattered in all directions.
Thus, the area around Gu Qingfeng, radiating golden light from head to toe, suddenly became an empty space, forming a stark contrast with the densely packed "mosquito swarm."
Inside the little god statues on the carriages, pairs of eyes watched this scene, their eyeballs bulging wide.
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