Chapter 524 Big Monster
Ranran has always wanted to understand the connection between the "city people", that is, monsters, and scene before my eyes made everything clear.
She originally only thought that outsiders might mean valuable "goods" to these monsters, and that the "goods" could allow them to get their favorite gems, so they treated outsiders with such a fanatical attitude.
But she didn't figure out how this exchange took place, and she couldn't smoothly connect the monsters, gems, and outsiders.
Now everything is clear.
Monsters naturally produce gems when they eat, so outsiders are both food and gems.
The two completely different attitudes of "city people" also make sense.
The "people" on the street are rich and do not need to worry about food, so they naturally disdain to communicate with outsiders who are just food to them. The reason why they go out to party at night, in addition to creating a lively and prosperous scene to attract outsiders into the city, is probably more for the purpose of better producing the larvae in their bodies under the sun at six o'clock the next day.
This is a very disgusting speculation, but Ranran can't help but think so.
After all, where else could the countless larvae come from?
After all, those tall and magnificent houses were of no practical use to them. Apart from satisfying their vanity as "humans" at night, the only function of the houses was to store food.
But the "people" in the square are different. Their economic conditions are far worse than the former, and they look listless, probably because they haven't eaten for a long time.
For them, outsiders not only mean a good meal, but also many gems. Gems are wealth, and wealth can bring them many other things.
Like food, even if they don't like it.
Ran Ran speculated that these monsters not only feed on humans, but also other meats.
Because she remembered very clearly the monster she had killed... there was blood on its fangs.
That couldn't be human blood, it could only be from some other animal.
the reason is simple.
In fact, she was thinking about this when she was in the square just now. The insect she killed was so big, and the name given by the abyss was just an immature larvae. So what would be considered a mature larvae?
Only those that successfully lodge in the human body and have the ability to produce larvae are called mature larvae.
When in the larvae stage, they look for hosts and burrow into the human body, just like the girl with a knife she just met. She almost succeeded in being possessed.
After the larvae successfully lodge in the human body, they will develop into mature larvae through sufficient light and food, and breed new larvae, thus starting a new round of reproduction.
One thing worth noting is that the larvae can only carry out the above cycle of reproduction if they successfully find a host, but what if they cannot find a host when they are born?
Then they can only survive in this form until they meet humans and then drill into their bodies to live.
Therefore, when they encounter humans in insect form, their strongest intention is definitely not to harm humans, but to host them.
The insect that Ranran encountered had such a big mouth. If it really intended to attack him, it would never have just pounced on him. It would have been a pity not to use such a huge and bloody mouth to attack.
The larvae that Ranran and Anzi encountered were not so much immature larvae as they were larvae that had failed to evolve.
But these offspring that failed to evolve also have to survive, and there are only two paths waiting for them.
One is to starve to death due to lack of nutrients; the other is to grow sharp teeth, like what Ranran and Anzi encountered, and survive by preying on other animals in the form of larvae until they meet a human host.
After figuring out all this, what frightened Ranran the most was the guess in her mind...about the reproduction frequency of larvae, offspring, and then back to larvae.
The most likely scenario is that it repeats itself every day. The all-night carnival in the Jewel Flower City is going on every night, attracting outsiders every day, but Ranran and Anzi didn't notice anything unusual from the tourists.
Except for the old woman who already lived in the city, no one reminded her that this was unsafe and not a place to live for a long time.
This means to some extent...the abnormality of this beautiful and prosperous city has never been leaked.
All those who enter this city like moths, attracted by the light, fragrance and liveliness...either become food that night; or survive with untold hardships, but cannot escape the fate of being infested by the surging larvae at six o'clock, and eventually become one of these monsters.
In a human sense, they are all dead.
So naturally no news would leak out.
Ranran sorted out the negative emotions caused by thinking about these things and continued to walk inside.
Bug, bug, the answer is actually right on the surface of the riddle.
Since these little monsters are called larvae, there must be a big monster that first produced these worms, maybe it's called the queen.
What Ranran has to do now is to find the big monster.
As the saying goes, to catch a thief, you must first catch the leader. It would be even better if there was a parent-child relationship between the big monsters and the small monsters.
Ranran walked into the villa for a while, without even going around, and saw a huge room. She thought that should be her destination.
There was nothing in the room except a pure floor made entirely of gemstones and a bed with a person lying on the bed with a paralyzed face.
In fact, that can no longer be called a person.
His entire body was a pool of flesh-colored, sticky, foul-smelling liquid that flowed from the big bed to the ground and spread, almost covering the entire room.
Ranran couldn't see where his hands and feet were, but if she looked closely, she could horrifyingly discover many human limbs and heads that had rotted beyond recognition in the pool of liquid, with countless white maggots clinging to them and wriggling.
Ran Ran frowned tightly. There were not many things that could make her feel disgusted now. Unfortunately, the pool of liquid in front of her happened to be one of them.
Ranran's gaze shifted to the gems all over the ground, and he vaguely felt that the pool of liquid was eating.
There was shock in her eyes.
It turns out that when a person parasitized by the queen worm eats, they directly attract the "food" to their body, and then the "food" is dissolved and automatically turned into nutrients.
The reason why Ranran could recognize that the person parasitized by the queen insect was a human was because the outline of the pool of liquid lying on the pillow could be vaguely seen as a human head, but the facial features were blurred, as if the person had been corroded by himself.
As endless larvae were discharged from his body, the pool of liquid was shrinking visibly. Ranran felt that if he had come earlier, he would probably be able to see him filling the room.
Suddenly, the part of the head lying on the bed opened its eyes, obviously it discovered Ranran's existence.
Ranran didn't know where exactly he was making the sound, but the pool of liquid-like substance did make a low roar.
There was no time for Ran Ran to think about this trivial issue, because after the pool of liquid roared, originally only a small number of larvae surrounded Ran Ran and chased her, but now all the larvae began to chase her!
Not only were the larvae freshly hatched from the giant monster's body chasing her, but even the larvae that had already run out turned around and chased her.
Immediately, wherever Ranran was, the larvae were piled up in such dense numbers that it looked like rising water.
