Though Mu Xingchen only half understood what he had heard, he still caught the key words and asked, "So are we going to find Bai Yu now? What about the things outside?"
There were so many of them that they had probably surrounded every inch of the little hut.
Qi Gu was still hesitating over which method would solve the problem fastest when Miao Yue stepped forward first. "Let me."
She plunged the Miao Dao into the packed earth, then unscrewed its hilt, took a handful of pitch-black things from inside the hollow handle, and scattered them out the window. Those tiny black pellets instantly turned into a dense swarm of insects. They looked bizarre, unlike any species the others had ever seen, and their sheer numbers were enough to make anyone's scalp crawl.
Mu Xingchen and Pubu Gesang were on the verge of clinging to each other.
Miao Yue looked at the latter with a bright smile. "Him, I understand, but this isn't your first time seeing them. Why are you so scared?"
How was this scene any different from coming home, opening the door, and finding a swarm of American cockroaches scrambling away before they could hide, with a few taking flight as they fled and hurtling straight toward your eyes?
No matter how many times it happened, there was no getting used to it!
"Gu insects? Miaojiang people?" Qi Gu asked.
"Yes. My mother passed them down to me, and my father left me the Miao Dao." Miao Yue gently stroked the hilt with her fingertips, directing the Gu insects to climb onto the water corpses outside. Soon, the insects crawled into their bodies through their nostrils, ear canals, or mouths, and before long, the corpses all stood obediently still.
[Holy shit, she's amazing! She practices both