At this moment, Han Jiayun was like a dying toad, gasping for breath.
"Hmph!"
Xu Zixin shoved Han Jiayun away, glaring at him with disgust.
"How many times have I told you to stop? Are you deaf!"
"Wife..."
Han Jiayun stood up unsteadily, forcing a fawning smile. "You know me, a man can't just stop whenever he wants."
"But you have to consider the place and the occasion!" Xu Zixin scanned the dark nightscape, her face turning pale.
"Wife, don't be angry." Han Jiayun slung an arm around her shoulder with a playful grin. "Let's get back to the car quickly, aren't you cold?"
"Stay away from me." Xu Zixin, still displeased, shook off Han Jiayun's arm.
After only a few steps, she suddenly stopped.
"Wife, what's wrong?" Han Jiayun's legs trembled slightly; he was nearing forty, and his body was declining.
"Did you hear something?" Xu Zixin nervously surveyed the surroundings, instinctively moving closer to Han Jiayun.
"No," Han Jiayun replied without thinking. He assumed Xu Zixin was too timid and overthinking things.
The car was nearby. Even if there were any real danger, they could quickly escape by getting into the car.
"Buzzing, like bees..." Xu Zixin finished, then suddenly looked up.
And then she saw pairs of blood-red eyes, like stars scattered across the sky.
"Ah!"
A scream rang out.
Xu Zixin pointed upwards, too terrified to do anything but scream, her legs gradually weakening.
Han Jiayun looked up. "Holy cow!" he yelped and bolted.
"Husband, don't leave me!" Xu Zixin tried to stand and run, but her legs wouldn't obey. As soon as she got up a little, she slumped back down.
Han Jiayun glanced back. Countless flying insects, the size of cicadas and with sinister appearances, were swooping down rapidly.
They split into two groups, half attacking Han Jiayun and the other half attacking Xu Zixin.
"My God, what in the world are these?"
Han Jiayun's spine chilled, and cold sweat streamed down his forehead.
He glanced at Xu Zixin, who was lying on the ground, calling for help, and made an instant decision.
"Wife, wait for me to come back and save you." With that, Han Jiayun ran.
A woman could be found again, but a lost life was truly gone.
"Han Jiayun, are you even a man!" Xu Zixin cursed in despair, tears welling up in her eyes.
She watched helplessly as the man who had sworn to love her forever was now only concerned with his own escape.
Xu Zixin gritted her teeth, filled with regret.
If she hadn't been infatuated with vanity and abandoned her college boyfriend, and instead fallen for Han Jiayun and willingly become his mistress, would everything be different?
Soon, over a hundred Iron-headed Gu worms surrounded Xu Zixin.
"Ah!"
As the Iron-headed Gu worms were about to land on her, Xu Zixin, drawing on some unknown strength, leaped up from the ground and ran towards the depths of Luofeng Mountain.
On the other side, under Lin Fan's command, the swarm of Gu worms quickly caught up with Han Jiayun and began to gnaw at him ferociously.
"Ah! Don't bite me, get off!"
Feeling searing pain all over his body, Han Jiayun flailed, tripped, and began to roll on the ground, trying to evade the Gu worms' attacks.
The sharp claws of the Iron-headed Gu worms had already dug deeply into Han Jiayun's flesh, and he couldn't shake them off.
Han Jiayun rolled on the ground, but instead of crushing the Gu worms on him, he only attracted more to bite him.
"Yiyiyiyi!"
After a long while, Han Jiayun, enduring the intense pain, stood up, waving his hands wildly. He spotted the direction of the car and dashed towards it.
Lin Fan, afraid the swarm of Gu worms might cause a fatality, gave the order to retreat.
The taste of flesh and blood made the little creatures reluctant to leave.
But Lin Fan was nearby, and under his powerful will, the swarm took one last bite with their blood-filled mouths before flying away.
Han Jiayun, unaware that the swarm had already departed, yanked open the car door, jumped into the driver's seat, and sped down the mountain as if his life depended on it.
"Please don't crash!" Lin Fan prayed in his heart.
"Help!"
"Someone, please help me!"
"Help!"
Deep within Luofeng Mountain, at the foot of a giant rock that had stood for countless years, Xu Zixin screamed desperately, swatting at the Iron-headed Gu worms surrounding her.
Fortunately, Lin Fan had issued strict orders, warning the swarm of Gu worms not to kill anyone.
Otherwise, Xu Zixin wouldn't have had the strength to scream.
The taste of flesh and blood made the Gu worms' instincts difficult to suppress. They took turns landing on Xu Zixin, biting and flying away.
Before long, Xu Zixin's clothes were stained red with blood. Her head, face, and body were covered in countless wounds.
Her tears flowed continuously, and she no longer held any hope of surviving.
"Dad, Mom, I'm sorry."
Xu Zixin choked out a sentence and reached out, fumbling for a sharp stone.
Rather than being devoured bite by bite by these strange insects, she'd rather give herself a quick end, at least to suffer less pain before death.
With a determined gaze, Xu Zixin pointed the sharp tip of the stone at her temple.
She gripped the stone tightly, preparing to deliver a fatal blow.
Buzz buzz buzz...
Just then, the insects in front of her seemed to be gradually decreasing.
The Gu worms that had been on her body, reluctantly chewing on the flesh and blood in their mouths, vibrated their wings and flew up.
In Xu Zixin's terrified eyes, the swarm of Gu worms circled in the air for a moment before flying off into the distance.
"Flew, they flew away?"
Xu Zixin painfully propped herself up against the giant rock with her hands and cautiously stood up.
The buzzing sound gradually faded until only the whistling wind could be heard.
"Heh, haha."
Xu Zixin laughed as if she had gone insane, then quickly covered her mouth, afraid of disturbing the terrifying insects and causing them to return.
Behind a large tree not far away.
Lin Fan stuffed all the Gu worms into a sack and willed them to be quiet.
Although there was constant rustling, the wind was strong today, and people more than ten meters away should not be able to hear anything.
Lin Fan, hidden behind the tree, frowned in secret.
The woman's condition was not good. Could she make it down the mountain safely by herself?
But if he intervened, wouldn't he expose himself?
At this moment, Xu Zixin was saving herself.
She tore off pieces of her clothes to bandage her wounds.
However, the wounds inflicted by the Iron-headed Gu worms were too numerous to be bandaged effectively.
Xu Zixin could only bandage a few prominent spots first. Then, under the faint moonlight, she found a wooden stick to use as a crutch.
"I will live!"
"I survived this ordeal, Han Jiayun, you're not getting away with this!"
Xu Zixin's anger surged, wishing she could flay Han Jiayun alive.
"I will live, I will get revenge!"
"I'll never mess around again."
Xu Zixin mumbled to herself, limping with the wooden stick towards the direction she remembered coming from.