Cave Refuge-Chapter 260 - 256 Worm Killing_1

Watching the tiny bugs transport pieces of meat, Dong Tianyu suddenly noticed the anomaly when the live chicken had died earlier.

When the chicken died earlier, it didn’t squabble at all. It died so silently that Dong Tianyu initially thought that the rooster was just tired because it was dark, so it sat down to rest. If not for the gradual disappearance of the rooster’s corpse later, Dong Tianyu wouldn’t have noticed this circumstance.

In theory, unless one dies from illness or poisoning, there would be struggle due to pain in case of accidental death by other means.

However, the two live chickens died without struggling at all, disappearing silently like a sculpture eroding away.

Wanting to investigate intensively, Dong Tianyu again took out a live chicken from the Cave. Having obtained clues to the death of the rooster, there was no need to smear the chicken’s body with invisibility solution.

This rooster, like the previous two, was thrown into the middle of the street by Dong Tianyu. At this time, his Divine Sense was not focusing on other places in the street. His focus was firmly locked on the rooster’s body.

Before long, some tiny bugs crawled up the rooster’s still-erratic chicken claws and began to gnaw at them.

The skin on the chicken claws disappeared quickly, revealing the meat inside, which gradually disappeared, revealing the stark white bones underneath. With the disappearance of the chicken claws, the chicken that was originally standing had to sit on the ground due to lack of support from the chicken’s feet.

What puzzled Dong Tianyu was that the chicken seemed oblivious, as if it didn’t feel the pain, even though its claws had been gnawed clean by the bugs. Instead, it still hopped around lively.

Moreover, when the chicken claws were completely gnawed and disappeared, not a single drop of blood flowed out from the blood vessels of the legs.

Putting aside the doubts in his mind, Dong Tianyu turned his attention back to the chicken’s body. Only then did Dong Tianyu realize that the chicken’s body was covered with countless bugs.

What horrified Dong Tianyu was that these bugs were originally just small black dots, but as they chewed away at the rooster’s claws, those that crawled onto the rooster’s body began to gradually blend their colors with the outer appearance of the rooster.

If Dong Tianyu hadn’t raised his attention, and his Divine Sense observation of the chicken’s body hadn’t reached such minute details, he probably wouldn’t have noticed that the bugs had crawled all over not only the external body of the chicken but also inside the blood vessels.

These bugs were small in size, and the pieces of meat and blood they transported were also small. If you didn’t observe them very carefully, the scene ordinary people would see would be like the chicken gradually disappearing like eroding in the wind, just as Dong Tianyu first saw with his Divine Sense. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

At this time, Dong Tianyu instantly understood that these bugs may possess a neurotoxic substance that can paralyze the target during absorption, just like mosquitoes and leeches. Only in this way would there be no sensation when being bitten.

The search and rescue team Dong Tianyu belonged to in his previous life, when they came to this place to collect supplies, must have been like the three roosters that he threw on the street.

They were all targeted by these bugs, first these bugs gnawed at the soles of their feet, and then the bugs bit up along the blood vessels in their feet.

Although the blood pressure in human blood vessels is very high, in the darkness of the night, even if a pool of blood is left on the ground, others would not notice the peculiar scene as long as they did not approach it.

Survivors who were attacked by the bugs, like the three roosters at the time of death, first became feeble and slowly sat on the ground due to excessive blood loss. As the bugs had already entered the blood vessels by then, it was too late to do anything, and they could only walk to their deaths.

However, the survivors who were victimized during the entire process will not feel a quick death. After all, when the bugs bite, they should release a neurotoxic substance that can paralyze the victim, so there would be no sensation at the initial stage of the attack.

By the time the bugs enter the heart through the blood vessels, and then gnaw and destroy the heart, the survivors should have already died and will not suffer any new torments.

Having figured out the cause and effect, Dong Tianyu, who was relieved to know the cause, suddenly felt scared.

Where did these bugs come from, and how did they survive?

Several rounds of natural disasters have almost annihilated all lifeforms except humans.

There’s no need to mention the devastation from the virus outbreak and electromagnetic pulse. Although some species died out (due to the inability to resist the virus) in these two disasters, it was humans who suffered the most damage.

Covered by the Cold Catastrophe, besides the survivors hiding underground and some organisms, all life forms on the surface should have perished.

When the floods ravaged the earth, most parts of the country were submerged in water. The creatures originally living below ground, covered by floodwater, should have suffocated and died.

Just like earthworms that live underground but cannot survive under the sludge at the bottom of a pond.

The flood drowned the earth without any blind spots. Except for the organisms living in the mountains, the creatures that survived the Cold Catastrophe by hiding underground should have suffocated and died underground when the floods hit.

Although it is unknown how the fish appeared after the flood struck, when the scorching heat descended, the riverbeds and waterways were dried and cracked due to high temperature, and the fish that originally lived in the water had almost all died.

Moreover, with the continuous rise in outdoor temperature, even if the seawater has not been completely evaporated and dried, the temperature of the seawater has also been continuously rising.

Although some deep-sea fish living near volcanic vents are not afraid of rising water temperatures, most of the rest of the fish species should die due to excessively high water temperatures.

As for the deep-sea fish, that can be put aside for now. After all, Pengcheng is an inland city, too far away from the coastline. So even if there are still living creatures in the sea, they shouldn’t be able to affect Pengcheng for the time being.

So according to normal conditions, except for the animals that were bred by humans for the purpose of preserving their species, all other creatures should have died after several rounds of natural disasters. The emergence of these bugs now gave Dong Tianyu a bad feeling.

Moreover, the abilities of these bugs are extremely eerie. Not to mention ordinary people, even Martial Artists might unconsciously fall prey to these bugs and be killed without noticing if they’re not careful.

After confirming the cause of death in his previous life, Dong Tianyu took out a glass bottle from the Cave and used the Art of Controlling Objects on it.

He made the bottle fly to the street and covered a few bugs. When they crawled up the bottle wall, the bottle immediately lifted and closed the top, capturing a few bugs in this way.

In addition, Dong Tianyu also scanned the entrance where these bugs entered the ground with his Divine Sense, hoping to find the lair of these bugs in this way.