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"Why is this town so quiet?"

Lin Li stood at the gate of the town and looked towards the street, but he didn't see a single passerby.

Logically speaking, in a small town of this size, there should be some passers-by on the road in broad daylight.

At this moment, the streets of the small town were deserted, and it was a bit too quiet, giving people a weird feeling everywhere.

"call……"

A gust of wind blew on the street, and some plants beside the street were gently swayed by the wind, making a continuous rustling sound.

Lin Li listened to the sound of swaying plants and thought about whether to enter this weird town.

"It's a little weird."

"Do you want to go in?"

"No psychic fluctuations were found."

"With my current strength, even if I encounter danger, there is a high probability that it will not pose a threat to me."

Lin Li thought for a while and decided to enter this weird town to have a look.

The road paved with stone bricks is very neat. From the looks of it, someone usually cleans it.

"Tap, step, step..."

Lin Li was walking on the road, and his footsteps were very clear in this quiet environment. His footsteps could be heard from a long distance away.

He looked at the houses on the roadside, but saw no one.

Even though the door was open, there was no one in the house. This was impossible in other places.

Of course, the whole town was quiet now. Lin Li walked for several minutes without meeting anyone. If he told this to others, they would just treat it as a story.

"Hello."

"anyone there?"

Lin Li stopped in front of a teahouse. He stood at the door and shouted several times.

There was no response from the empty teahouse, probably no one was there.

"I'll look for the house with smoke over there, and I'll definitely find someone."

Lin Li didn't find anyone in the teahouse, so he decided to look for the house with smoke rising in front of him.

A few more minutes passed before he came to the house where smoke was rising.

"Is anyone here?"

Lin Li shouted several times, but still didn't see anyone, which made him frown and mutter to himself.

"There is smoke from the kitchen, which means someone is making a fire to cook. How could there be no one there?"

As soon as he finished speaking, footsteps sounded behind him, which startled Lin Li.

He turned around and saw many people appearing in the streets.

"Holy shit."

"Why did so many people show up all of a sudden?!!!"

Lin Li was shocked. He had not seen anyone on the road before.

Now that so many people suddenly appeared, even if he had the first stage of the third stage of cultivation, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

"Hello, I'm a businessman. I happened to be passing through this town and wanted to find something to eat."

Lin Li greeted him with a smile, but the people in front of him didn't respond.

"what happened?"

"Something's wrong."

"There's something wrong with these people."

Lin Li observed carefully and found that these people had expressionless faces, dull eyes, pale faces, and looked lifeless.

Normal and healthy people should not be like this. These small town residents in front of them look like patients who have been sick in bed for a long time.

"If you want to die, just keep standing where you are and talking to them."

When Lin Li was full of doubts, a strange voice came from the roof of a house next to him.

He quickly looked up and found a young man in gray clothing looking at him seriously.

"Friend, what do you mean by what you just said?"

"Don't worry about it now, come up quickly..." The young man in gray attire dropped a rope without explaining.

Lin Li quickly ran to the rope, grabbed the rope and easily climbed to the roof.

"It's too dangerous to stay here. Come with me..." The young man in gray clothing said and ran away.

"Uh..." Lin Li hesitated for two seconds, and then quickly followed the other person.

The houses in the town are well planned, arranged in rows, and the two people moved on the roof without encountering danger.

After a while, Lin Li followed the other party to the destination.

It is a three-story house with a small yard.

Entering the room, the young man in gray attire quickly locked the door.

"call……"

After the door was locked, Lin Li saw the other party take a deep breath, and then he asked, "Hello, my name is Lin Li, what's your name?"

"My name is Xiao Pingtian." The young man in gray clothes responded.

"What happened to those people?" Lin Li asked, expressing his doubts.

"Those residents are all dead." Xiao Pingtian said with a heavy tone.

"Ah?" Lin Li was shocked when he heard this.

Xiao Pingtian continued, "Did you find that they were lifeless?"

"I found them. I thought they were just sick, but I didn't expect..." Lin Li said.

"Alas." Xiao Pingtian sighed.

"How can dead people still move around like them?" Lin Li asked again.

"Do you know about brain-eating worms?"

"have no idea."

“This kind of bug will find living creatures as parasites and use the brains of living creatures as nutrients to grow.

When the host dies, they take control of the host's body and look for the next parasite. "

"this……!!!"

Lin Li's eyes widened in shock. This was the first time he had heard of such a terrifying insect.

"Tap, step, step..."

There were footsteps coming from the backyard, and Lin Li looked alertly into the distance.

"It's one of our own." Xiao Pingtian said immediately when he saw Lin Li alert.

After a while, more than a dozen men and women appeared in Lin Li's field of vision.

"Who is he?" The leader was a tall and beautiful girl. She looked wary after seeing Lin Li and asked Xiao Pingtian.

"Miss Lan, this man is a businessman. I happened to meet him when I was out looking for food, so I brought him back..."

"Hongshang? Is he the only one?"

"Well, it's just him."

Lin Li smiled and greeted the tired-looking people in front of him, "Hello, my name is Lin Li, and I am a traveling businessman."

Perhaps because they encountered such dangerous creatures as brain-eating insects, everyone was wary of strangers and a little indifferent to Lin Li.

Fortunately, Xiao Pingtian moderated the situation and the atmosphere did not become awkward.

Lin Li learned that this group of people planned to go to Dongwu City, and happened to encounter brain-eating insects while passing through this small town.

As a result, I was trapped in this small town with no way to leave for several days.

"Gululu..."

A slight sound rang in the room. Lin Li heard the sound and felt a little familiar, and then his eyes swept over everyone.

"Miss Lan, I will go out to look for food now..." Xiao Pingtian said.

"Be careful when looking for food, don't take risks..." Lan Yuxia warned Xiao Pingtian who was about to leave.

"Yeah." Xiao Pingtian nodded, then turned around to open the door and leave.

At this moment, Lin Li took a few steps forward and reached out to stop Xiao Pingtian who was about to leave.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Pingtian looked at Lin Li doubtfully and asked.

"Are you short of food?"

“Yes, we were almost out of food, so we thought of coming to this town to replenish some, but we encountered brain-eating insects.

Now trapped for several days, we have finished all the remaining food. "

"I have food, you don't need to go out and risk finding something to eat."

"Eh?" Xiao Pingtian was stunned for half a second after hearing this, looked at Lin Li in surprise, and said, "Are you kidding me?"

Lan Yuxia, who was on the side, frowned and looked at Lin Li, and said in a serious tone, "Now is not the time to joke, and this joke is not funny at all..."

Lin Li glanced at Lan Yuxia, ignored her, and then said to Xiao Pingtian with a smile, "I'm not someone who jokes when I can't tell the difference between occasions."

As soon as he finished speaking, a basket of fresh cucumbers and tomatoes appeared out of thin air. These were all grown by Lin Li himself.

"???" Except for Lin Li, everyone present opened their mouths in shock when they saw this scene.

"What's going on?" Lan Yuxia said to herself in confusion.

"It's a storage space power." A middle-aged man standing next to Lan Yuxia said.

Xiao Pingtian looked at Lin Li, who looked calm and calm, and said with envy, "You have actually awakened the storage space power."

Lin Li smiled and then said, "You are hungry, eat something quickly!"

"How much?" Xiao Pingtian asked.

"It's free for you, no need to pay me." Lin Li chuckled.

"This is not possible, you still have to pay the amount..." Xiao Pingtian said.

"You saved my life just now. If I charge you money now, my conscience will not go away..." Lin Li said.

"Um..." Xiao Pingtian thought for a moment, then no longer insisted on paying, "Thank you."

"Gululu..."

Lan Yuxia and her group's stomachs growled again because they were hungry.

"Everyone has been hungry for a long time. Let's eat something quickly!" Xiao Pingtian greeted, and the group of people reached out to take food from the basket.

The conditions were limited, so I didn't care about hygiene. I didn't clean it and just started eating it.

"These tomatoes are so delicious."

“I’ve never had a cucumber so crunchy.”

Several of Lan Yuxia's servants were praising while eating.

Lin Li hadn't had lunch yet, and seeing how they were devouring their food, he was feeling hungry.

With a thought in my mind, a box of chocolate bars appeared out of thin air.

Since it was not convenient to cook and eat now, Lin Li thought of eating some chocolate bars to cushion his stomach.

Lan Yuxia and her group were curious when they saw Lin Li bringing out food they had never seen before, but they were too shy to ask.

After a while, everyone showed a satisfied smile after eating.

Lin Li looked at the people who were full, and finally his eyes fell on Xiao Pingtian.

"I think the residents controlled by the brain-eating insects have little fighting power. With your strength, it should be easy to leave the town."

Xiao Pingtian shook his head, "You were deceived by their appearances."

"How do you say that?" Lin Li asked in confusion.

"Those are just minions, here to search for targets that can be parasitized. Once surrounded by them, the truly powerful brain-eating insects will appear immediately, and it will be impossible to escape." Xiao Pingtian said.

"The truly powerful brain-eating insects you mentioned are alien beasts?"

"Yes."

"How strong are they?"

"I have encountered one before, with a mid-level second-level cultivation level."

The middle stage of the second stage is not strong either! These people can defeat it very easily if they work together... Lin Li thought in his heart.

Xiao Pingtian added at this time, "If it were just a second-stage brain-eating worm, we wouldn't be trapped here.

Every time a brain-eating worm with this kind of strength appears, if you are entangled with it for a while, other brain-eating worms with the same strength will rush over immediately. "

Lin Li now knew why these people were trapped here, and a look of realization immediately appeared on his face, "That's it."

Lan Yuxia on the side interrupted, "It's not good for us to be trapped here all the time. We have to find a way to leave next."

Xiao Pingtian nodded, "Miss Lan is right. Now we don't have to worry about food for the time being. Next, I will explore the road and try to find a safe route out of here."

"I'll go explore the road with you." Lin Li said after hearing this.

"It's very dangerous to explore the road. Just stay here and leave together when I come back." Xiao Pingtian said.

Lin Li mobilized the spiritual energy in his dantian, and his body began to emit second-stage mid-level spiritual energy fluctuations.

"Do you have a second-level intermediate level of cultivation?" Xiao Pingtian said in shock.

He originally thought that Lin Li, at such a young age, could only reach the peak of the first level of cultivation, but he did not expect that he would reach the middle of the second level like himself.

"If I didn't have some strength, I wouldn't dare to travel far away to do business." Lin Li chuckled, looking very calm.

"You have cultivated to the middle of the second level at such a young age, and you have also awakened the storage space ability. It is really enviable..." Xiao Pingtian has a straightforward personality and said directly.

"It's just luck." Lin Li responded modestly, with a warm smile on his face.

Lan Yuxia and her servants were originally wary of Lin Li, a stranger. But now that they ate the food Lin Li brought out and discovered that Lin Li was a genius in cultivation, their attitudes immediately changed.

"Miss Lan, we went out to explore the road. You should be careful while staying here." Xiao Pingtian turned his head and looked at Lan Yuxia.

"You should also pay attention to safety." Lan Yuxia warned again.

Lin Li looked at Xiao Pingtian and then at Lan Yuxia, thoughtfully.

"boom."

Lin Li and Xiao Pingtian walked out of the house and closed the door. Lan Yuxia in the room locked the door bolt.

"call……"

A gust of wind blew on the street, blowing on the body and bringing a slight chill.

"It's strange, why don't those brain-eating insects search the house?" Lin Li was a little confused.

"I don't know about this either." Xiao Pingtian shook his head, "If those brain-eating insects searched every house, we might not be able to survive until today..."

"Does the brain-eating worm have any weaknesses?" Lin Li asked.

"After they break away from their host, they will die soon after being exposed to the sun..." Xiao Pingtian said.

"Is sunlight so lethal to them?"

"Yes! Such a terrifying creature is very afraid of sunlight."

"Then how to force them out?"

"Destroy the host's brain."

After listening to what Xiao Pingtian said, Lin Li immediately thought of the headshot scene.

"Let's seize the time to explore the road!" Xiao Pingtian raised his head and looked at the sun in the sky. It was now the time when the afternoon sun was the strongest.

The two men then went to the roof of the house and began looking for a way out.

With Lin Li's current strength, it would be very easy to leave this town full of brain-eating insects.

The reason why he is following Xiao Pingtian now is because he wants to explore this town in depth to see if he can get some unexpected gains.

…………(End of chapter)