Chapter 100: Director-General of the Xiancheng Inspection Bureau, Bao Junyi

Blood Chilo said inwardly: I have intelligence too. Ancestor forbade me from going to places that are too dangerous.

"It's not dangerous. You just need to bring us near that place." Su Huchen said. "Look, this kind of sparkly stone — as long as you take us there, I'll give you ten of them." Su Huchen took out a thumb-sized colorless crystal as he spoke.

This colorless crystal was a worm crystal.

Blood Chilo looked at the worm crystal, then looked at Su Huchen. Blood Chilo simply bent her upper body and lay flat across the flowerpot. Go where? For such a tiny bit of tasty food?

Blood Chilo simply went slack. No matter what Su Huchen said, she neither moved nor made a sound.

She wouldn't even pay him any attention.

Su Huchen had no choice but to first arrange for the Inspection Bureau's elites to set out.

Then he took Blood Chilo and found a private room in a tavern to begin communicating.

But Blood Chilo still wouldn't pay him any attention.

Su Huchen, baffled, had Su Hanlin called over.

"Take a look — what does this mean?"

Su Hanlin took one look and immediately burst out laughing.

"Don't you see? This is called going slack."

"What does that mean?" Su Huchen said, stunned.

"It means no motivation, too lazy to move." Su Hanlin said with a smile. "Da Hu Zi, before Blood Chilo suddenly turned into this state, what exactly did you say to her? Tell me every word without missing a single one, quickly."

Su Huchen listened and felt utterly speechless, but he still recounted his conversation with Blood Chilo in full.

Su Hanlin understood the moment he heard it.

He burst into loud laughter at once.

"Let me see that worm crystal." Su Huchen hurriedly handed over a thumb-sized worm crystal to Su Hanlin.

Su Hanlin looked at the small worm crystal with distaste. Inwardly he thought: no wonder Blood Chilo wants to go slack.

He simply pinched the small worm crystal and placed it into the flowerpot soil at Blood Chilo's feet.

"Here, let's have a little dessert first. After dessert we'll discuss the split ratio. Can't let you come for nothing, right?"

Hearing this, Blood Chilo finally extended a tender white root, grabbed the worm crystal, and dragged it into the soil beneath her, crunch crunch crunch — eating it just like nibbling a biscuit.

"He gave too little. That extremely fragrant place has lots of these stones. I'm too small right now to go — I'd die. But I will definitely grow up. Once I'm big, I'll come back and eat it. It'll all be mine." Blood Chilo said indignantly between bites of biscuit.

Su Huchen, standing to one side listening to their talk, finally understood why Blood Chilo had gone slack. The expression on his face instantly turned into a great big grimace.

Turns out she felt his payment was too stingy.

"It really is a bit of a rip-off for 'Luo.' Even though we're small now, we'll definitely grow up for sure. Once we do, won't eating it be as easy as having a mouth?" Su Hanlin said, going along with Blood Chilo's way of thinking.

Blood Chilo immediately felt she had found a soulmate.

Her little body stood ramrod straight again, and she even nodded.

"Exactly. I'm only one chi tall now. Once I eat a few more tasty white worms and grow to one or two meters tall, I feel sure I'll be the one eating it — absolutely no way it eats me."

Blood Chilo said with great confidence.

"Why do you say 'it'? A worm nest is usually just a base for breeding worms. It's not a living being, is it?" Su Hanlin immediately caught the anomaly and pressed further at once.

"It can give birth to lots of worm babies, lots and lots of black worms are even using mud to help it expand its body.

"And several tasty white worms help it lay eggs. Those eggs can hatch into lots of little black worm babies very quickly. It can order those tasty white worms to lay eggs. It can also command more black worms to go feed those few tasty white worms."

Su Hanlin's mind immediately flashed with the image of the plump white mother worm and the black mutant locusts.

But command… orders…

"Wait — Blood Chilo, what you mean is, that large worm nest that breeds countless worms actually has its own consciousness?" Su Hanlin quickly analyzed Blood Chilo's words and arrived at a most alarming conclusion.

Too terrifying.

Has the worm nest already begun to develop its own consciousness?

Is it just this one worm nest that mutated, or have all the new-generation worm nests changed?

"Yes, it threatened me — get close and it'll eat me." Blood Chilo said, aggrieved.

Su Hanlin glanced at Su Huchen. Su Huchen immediately ran out to use a long-distance message talisman to contact the City Lord and his own direct superior.

This time, something huge was about to blow up.

The Xiancheng Inspection Bureau simply couldn't contain it.

"Then are you afraid of it?" Su Hanlin asked quickly.

"Not really scared, but if I get too close to it, I'll die. I have this feeling. It's very dangerous to me."

Su Hanlin listened, looked at Blood Chilo's slender little frame, and still couldn't determine the threat level of that worm nest.

"Then inside its belly, besides the two kinds of worms you mentioned, what else is there — I mean living things?"

"There are also weird people with worm antennae growing on their heads, bulging eyes, and teeth in their mouths that have turned into worm-teeth." Blood Chilo said.

Although she was a fair distance from that extremely fragrant thing, who could blame her — she was Blood Chilo after all. She could still clearly sense the 'body fragrance' of all kinds of fragrant foods. "But those weird people aren't very fragrant, can only make do with eating them."

Blood Chilo offered her assessment.

At this point Su Hanlin didn't want to keep asking. He said directly to Blood Chilo: "Little Blood, wait a moment. I'm going out for a bit, I'll be back soon."

After saying that, he handed over the duty of watching Blood Chilo to another trusted aide of Su Huchen's, and sprinted out the door to find Su Huchen.

Damn it — ever since the worm nest gained its own consciousness, those worm-men whose combat power on the battlefield was also terrifyingly fearsome had reappeared.

Fatal — their Xiancheng was in for a terrible disaster this time.

Su Hanlin hurriedly found Su Huchen. Regardless of what he was doing, he blurted out this deadly danger straight away. After saying it, he didn't even wait to see Su Huchen's reaction, and immediately ran back again.

The moment he left, Su Huchen's direct superior Bao Junyi drifted in like a cloud.

The moment he entered, he stared at Su Huchen with a dark face.

"You only mentioned one thing earlier — the worm nest has gained its own consciousness."

Bao Junyi was the Director-General of the Xiancheng Inspection Bureau. His foundations ran deep, and within the sect he was a figure of real power.

Su Huchen was one of his subordinates, one of the four chief inspectors of the Xiancheng Patrol Office.

"Didn't you see it yourself? My subordinates just reported this matter to me." Su Huchen said, his head aching. "Old Bao, why is there such a troublesome insect nest in Xiancheng? Have you people been doing nothing for the past ten years?"

"I've only been transferred here for a little over two years. How the hell would I know?" Bao Junyi couldn't help but swear.

Who knows how deeply this wretched Xiancheng has been infiltrated.