Those blood vessel-like things were extremely fast like arrows. The two winged cavalry warriors weren't paying attention and didn't realize it until it was too late. The blood vessel-like things pierced their bodies.
"Damn it!" Gong Zheng was furious when he saw this and slashed the other party in half with his steel saber.
However, everyone was shocked when the "puppet" was split into two.
There were no internal organs.
Countless vessel-like objects were connected to the "puppet." After Gong Zheng's slash, those blood vessels were cut off one after another. Many of them fell outside the body and kept swaying as if they were alive.
All the tendrils were connected to a fist-sized meatball.
This meatball and the vessel-like objects had completely occupied that person's body.
"This …" Gong Zheng was tongue-tied as he looked at the scene in front of him. It was completely beyond his imagination.
Not far away, many winged cavalry warriors cried out in alarm, and the sound of them sucking in cold air rose and fell.
The empress walked over when she heard the noise. Her expression changed slightly when she saw the scene in front of her.
Gong Zheng turned to look at the empress and said sincerely, "Sir Ren, you guessed correctly. There's indeed a problem."
Ren Baqian grinned. This was luck. He just felt that he had to use all kinds of methods, but he didn't expect to discover the problem with just one slash.
However, this scene was really … disgusting.
He turned to look at the two winged cavalry warriors who had been pierced by the blood vessel-like objects and asked, "What do you think?"
The two of them pulled out the blood vessel-like objects and threw them on the ground. Then, they pulled out their steel sabers and cut them into several pieces before saying hatefully, "Fortunately, they didn't hit any vital parts."
"That's good. If you feel that something is wrong, tell me." Ren Baqian nodded.
He then turned to look at the flesh and blood in the corpse and frowned. "It seems that his internal organs were 'eaten' by this thing. This thing has replaced the internal organs to maintain the existence of the body."
"What is this thing?" the empress asked with a frown.
"I don't know." Ren Baqian spread his hands. The others also shook their heads.
This kind of situation had never been seen or heard of before. No one had ever thought that such a thing could actually happen.
"Lend me your saber." Ren Baqian took the saber from Gong Zheng's hand and flicked the meatball to the ground. The meatball was actually still moving. The 10 heartbeats per minute that he sensed were coming from this meatball.
Ren Baqian used his saber to cut the meatball open again and discovered that there was something else inside.
A red bug.
Or rather, it was a butterfly that had yet to take shape!
Wings had already begun to form, wrapping tightly around his body. One had to look carefully to distinguish them. As the meatball was cut open, the liquid inside flowed out, and the layer of wings began to slowly unfold.
However, it was clear that although the body had grown, only a small part of the wings had formed.
Most importantly, there was an extremely small and twisted human face on the butterfly's body.
If one looked closely, this face was the same as the original owner's.
Then this meatball was actually a cocoon.
The vein-like things were used to control the body and to absorb nutrients. They were the tentacles of the cocoon.
Weird. Ren Baqian felt even weirder.
Even if these people were possessed by ghosts, it would be easier for him to accept it.
One had to know that a part of the empress's soul was still in his body.
One had to know that there were two Divine Weapons formed from the Divine Soul in his mind.
But he never expected it to be a butterfly, and a butterfly with a human face.
At this moment, there was another change in the stronghold.
As the cocoon was cut open, the other "puppets" seemed to have received some kind of signal. They stood up one after another, let out extremely deep sounds, and pounced toward the people.
Although the sounds weren't loud, when gathered together, it made people feel suffocated, nauseous, and dizzy.
"Kill them!" The empress ordered as she looked at the many "puppets" pouncing toward them. After seeing the condition of the bodies, she didn't hesitate anymore.
These people couldn't be considered humans anymore.
There were less than 200 "puppets" in the stronghold, but there were 300 Kismet Heaven winged cavalry warriors here.
As soon as they came into contact, severed limbs flew everywhere. What shocked everyone was that more than 10 people were actually injured.
These "puppets" could still move even after being cut in half. Furthermore, the vein-like things in their bodies pierced through their skin at the speed of an arrow. At such a close distance, many people were immediately hit.
"Don't chop off their heads. Split them open. They are controlled by the meatball in their bodies. Chop off the tentacles of the meatball," Ren Baqian immediately shouted.
With Ren Baqian's reminder, everyone reacted and chopped off their opponents one after another. Next, they cut open their opponents' stomachs and chopped off more than half of the meatball's tentacles. Soon after, everyone realized that as long as they chopped off more than half of the tentacles, the other party seemed to lose its strength and wouldn't shoot out those tentacles again.
In just a short while, all the "puppets" in the stronghold were killed. The meatballs were picked out of their bodies and chopped into pieces with knives.
One of the winged cavalry warriors died as well. His heart was pierced by a tentacle.
In addition, nearly 20 people were injured.
"Pick out the things in their stomachs, kill them, and then bury them," the empress ordered.
Although the "puppets" were all killed, she still didn't look too good.
After all, these "puppets" still looked like aboriginals.
Ren Baqian stroked his beard and looked thoughtfully at the butterfly with a human face on the ground.
"What are you thinking about?" the empress asked.
"These butterflies haven't matured yet," Ren Baqian replied. "It's been 16 years. It's been 16 years since Ya Sheng discovered them. Furthermore, it was already very strange when he first saw them. Before that, these people had already been swallowed by those things. "
"It's indeed been a long time." The empress nodded. Even if it was 16 years, it was still a long time since these creatures hadn't matured in their stomachs for 16 years.
Ren Baqian raised another question, "That's why there aren't any children here. As for youths, the youngest one here is at least 30 years old. Sixteen years ago, they were parasitized by these creatures when they were still in their teens. I'm afraid that the younger ones didn't meet the requirements or couldn't withstand the parasite and died before they were completely parasitized. "
The reason why there weren't any children or youths in the stronghold had been found.
However, the biggest question at present was what it was and where it came from.
Ren Baqian was also thinking about another question. What would this monster look like after it broke out of its body after it was completely born? What would it bring?
Also … why did that butterfly have the same face as its original owner?
When Ren Baqian saw that someone was about to drag the corpse in front of him away, he stopped them and walked over with a saber. There were still some places that he wanted to take a look at.
After splitting the head open, the brain was already more than half empty. Many thin and hair-like tentacles were attached to the remaining brain.
Ren Baqian got someone to keep the corpses of the creatures in the meatballs and prepared to bring them back to Earth for examination.
The rest were to be burned with fire.
Everyone rested in the stronghold for the night. The empress wasn't in the mood to talk, and Ren Baqian was also thinking about his own thoughts.
The next morning, they carefully searched the stronghold again before leaving.
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