Early in the morning, when the birds were singing around the entire Lafu Inn, Shi Xiangke was half-lying on the bed in a room on the second floor. Half of his quilt had fallen to the ground. A woman in white was sleeping peacefully beside him. This woman in white was Xiao Yue! Shi Xiangke twitched in her sleep. Then, she half-closed her eyes and opened them. In a daze, she saw that the room was bright. It turned out that the sky was already bright. She lowered her head and turned her body. Suddenly, she saw a white figure lying beside her. Shi Xiangke tried to open her eyes in confusion. Xiaoyue's sleeping and seductive face was enlarged in front of her. Shi Xiangke was so scared that she sat up and checked her clothes. She was afraid that she had done something she shouldn't have. But seeing that his clothes were intact, Shi Xiangke was relieved. Because of his actions, Xiao Yue who was sleeping at the side was also pulled. Xiao Yue rubbed Meng Shui's eyes and propped herself up, asking,"Why are you up so early?"
"You, why are you in my room? Also, why are you on my bed?" Shi Xiangke scolded angrily.
"The wind was too strong yesterday. The weather has already turned cold. It's very cold outside!”Xiao Yue pouted as if she was acting coquettishly with him. She had forgotten that she was a fox. She wasn't used to living a human life or sleeping in a human bed. She felt that it was more comfortable to find a nest and curl up to sleep. Therefore, Shi Xiangke stayed in the inn alone while Xiaoyue slept outside. However, the wind was too strong last night. She felt cold even when she stretched out her fox tail to cover it. That was why she wanted to find Shi Xiangke. Then, it was like this early in the morning.
"Can't you just find a random place? Why are you on my bed?" Shi Xiangke was going crazy. His whole life was going to be ruined by this vixen. He couldn't get rid of her, but he couldn't do anything to her!
"Husband!" Xiaoyue cried out sadly for what he said, immediately refuting Shi Xiangke's anger."Don't call me husband!"
Hearing this, Xiaoyue pursed her lips and didn't say anything.
At this moment, a terrified scream came from outside. The sound quickly scared away the birds that were singing on the branches outside the window. It also instantly shook the entire inn, waking up the sleeping guests.
Shi Xiangke and the others, who were still in an awkward atmosphere, were listening to the scream. They didn't pay attention to what had happened before. The two of them looked at each other in tacit understanding and then ran out of the room as fast as they could. Shi Xiangke and the others heard that the sound came from the room next door. Therefore, when they opened the door and came out, they saw the waiter running out of the room next to Shi Xiangke's. He looked at the room in horror and ran down the room while screaming.
Shi Xiangke and Xiaoyue looked at the waiter's frightened face as if something was going to happen. They rushed in.
A man was lying in the bathtub with his clothes on. They ran in and saw the man's back. Shi Xiangke and the others couldn't help but gasp when they saw the man's face.
The man's body seemed to have been sucked dry by something. His skin turned abnormally black, and the bones on his cheeks were exposed. It was as if his entire body was only skin and bones.
Xiaoyue had never seen such a situation before. The emotional reaction of demons was the same as that of humans. They would be afraid of something. Therefore, Xiaoyue screamed. Fortunately, Shi Xiangke covered her mouth and didn't let her scream. Shi Xiangke had never seen such a situation before. It didn't seem like the essence of a monster was sucked dry. Although it was also sucked dry, it wasn't a monster's doing.
Shi Xiangke went forward to explore. Suddenly, she found several black foreign objects in the bathtub. No, not just a few, but dozens of them. Countless black foreign objects that looked like earthworms and were at least dozens of meters long were swimming in the bathtub.
"What about these things?" Shi Xiangke went forward to take a closer look. Suddenly, the man's body fell down into the bathtub, splashing water everywhere. Shi Xiangke was scared and moved away. The water splashed on the ground, and the black object inside was splashed out. Xiao Yue ran to Shi Xiangke and pulled him to look at the black object crawling on the ground. It seemed to have two heads stretching out.
Shi Xiangke wanted to lie on the ground and study it. He couldn't figure out what kind of monster it was. It looked like an earthworm, but it had a hook. When Shi Xiangke wanted to touch it, Xiao Yue called out,"Don't touch it!"
Shi Xiangke turned to look at Xiaoyue suspiciously. Xiaoyue walked over and stared at the strange thing on the ground."This is a taeniasis!"
"Tapeworm?" Shi Xiangke asked suspiciously.
Tapeworms were unknown to humans, and they could not detect their existence. However, these worms were closely related to humans. Tapeworms were usually about one meter long, and the longest was fifteen meters. However, according to Xiaoyue, a fifteen-meter-long Tapeworm must have become a spirit.
"Tapeworms are a type of parasite that live in the bodies of animals and humans. The most common one is in livestock. The head of the Tapeworm has a sucker and usually has a hook. It absorbs food from the host's liver and stomach to survive and reproduce. Once the larvae in the stomach break out of the shell, they will drill out of the intestine wall and enter the blood.”
Shi Xiangke looked at his stomach unconsciously, as if he could feel worms crawling out of his stomach!
"Stop looking. You definitely have it.”Xiao Yue said," Everyone has parasites in their bodies.”Of course, that included herself. She had seen parasites before, the disgusting kind." But I've never seen these worms run out of the host's body, and there are so many of them at once?”
"Run out? Then what was the situation before?”Shi Xiangke asked.
"Stomach pain and increased appetite! Sometimes I feel very thirsty!"
"Then what's going on?"
"Looks like we might have to investigate further! The officials are here!" Xiao Yue said when she heard hurried footsteps outside.
The middle-aged man in the official uniform was the local magistrate. A group of constables with sabers walked in. Shi Xiangke and the others had already stepped aside. Because the yamen had been dispatched, many guests didn't even put on their clothes and crowded outside the door, wanting to explore inside. They even asked what had happened. If the constables hadn't stopped them, they were afraid that the house would have been broken down by them. Shi Xiangke and Xiao Yue were also squeezed inside.
When the magistrate and the constables saw the appearance of the corpses, they were not too surprised. Instead, they were used to it because someone had found two corpses in the same state by the river before, as if they had been sucked away by something. However, when they saw the taeniasis in the bathtub, their expressions immediately changed.
The waiter was a young man. He was obviously frightened. At this moment, he was explaining what had just happened to the side of the room.
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