Chapter 1012 - 1012: Costly Walls

The iron child scratched frantically at his neck with both hands, his legs flailing wildly on the ground. His face turned from red to purple, veins bulging on his forehead, looking extremely terrifying.

Old Ha and the others quickly rushed over to help, but after several attempts, they still couldn't get the loach off the iron child's neck.

At this moment, a little girl quickly walked toward the metal bucket placed in the corner of the wall.

The bucket contained leftover lime from when they sprinkled white lines in the pit earlier.

The little girl grabbed a handful of lime, pushed away the people surrounding the iron child, and directly sprinkled the lime on them.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle!"

It sounded like vegetables hitting hot oil.

The worm coiled around the iron child's neck immediately started writhing, emitting a puff of blue smoke, with corrosive marks appearing in many places.

Old Ha and the others seized the opportunity, and without a moment's hesitation, pulled the worm off the iron child's neck.

By this time, the iron child had already fainted and was carried inside by the crowd.

"You're pretty capable." Xiao Feng praised.

The little girl snorted, "It's written in the textbooks that earthworms fear light, salt, water, and lime.

A good student who loves learning like me is...

Ah!"

Before she could finish speaking, Xiao Feng had grabbed her wrist and pulled her to the side.

The little girl didn't have time to get angry before she saw a fifty-centimeter-long earthworm fall where she had just been standing.

"It's actually an ambush?" The little girl cursed, "Is this something a human could..."

She originally wanted to curse something like: Is this something a human could do?

But thinking about it, the one ambushing her wasn't human in the first place, so how could she curse it?

The situation was similar to when Xiao Feng faced Gu Shi.

No matter how many vicious words he used, the opponent's non-human status made them entirely immune.

Xiao Feng took a step forward, shielding the little girl behind him, while the earthworm began self-severing, each segment about fifty centimeters long. Roughly counting, there were already more than thirty segments, and the process wasn't finished yet.

"Dump the lime over!" Xiao Feng ordered.

The Lone Wolf agreed, grabbed the bucket, walked to Fu Yongnan, and poured half of the lime onto his stomach.

In an instant, the earthworms retracted back into Fu Yongnan's abdomen, seemingly not surfacing again in the short term.

Xiao Feng commanded again, "Go to the kitchen, hook up the water hose, and bring out all the salt."

Everyone began to move quickly and efficiently.

"Let's go!" Xiao Feng pulled the little girl to the steps.

He lowered his head, gazing at the thirty-plus earthworms crawling on the ground, his brows furrowing tightly.

Although these earthworms seemed to only attack by choking people's necks, which wasn't fatal if they wrapped around other places, they still couldn't take it lightly.

The main difficulty was that even if these earthworms were severed in half, they couldn't be killed; the more they were killed, the more they increased. They needed to find a way to wipe them out completely.

Moreover, they had to prevent these earthworms from escaping the yard; otherwise, by tomorrow morning, there would likely be shocking national news!

The news headline would probably be: Astonishing! In a Jiangcheng City gated community, all residents died overnight, and the specific reason is still under investigation...

Xiao Feng didn't want to implicate so many innocent victims because of one decision.

"Boss, the hose is set up, and the salt is ready," Old Ha limped out to report.

Xiao Feng nodded, saying deeply, "First, use the hose to water Fu Yongnan's stomach, then start using salt to kill the earthworms. If they can't be killed, at least capture them all, don't let one escape."

This seemed to be the most feasible method for now. After all, they first needed to control the situation and stop the increase in numbers before they could deal with these thirty-odd worms.

For a moment, everyone turned on their phone flashlights, bent down, and began searching for earthworms on the ground.

Looking at the earthworm "main body" inside Fu Yongnan's stomach, which didn't dare show up after several attempts, Xiao Feng roughly understood why Fu Yongnan hadn't used this method earlier.

The reason was simple: it just wasn't strong enough to be used as a primary attack method; it could only serve as an auxiliary tactic.

Moreover, judging by how Fu Yongnan acted calm and composed despite seemingly being at the end of his rope right before the jack hit his head, he probably had many methods he hadn't had a chance to use.

Of course, now that Fu Yongnan was half-dead, analyzing these things didn't matter much anymore.

At this moment, Lv Ziming walked in from outside carrying a large basin. After placing it on the ground, he poured in two bags of salt, then used the hose to fill it halfway with water, calling out, "Throw the caught earthworms in here."

Half an hour later, over twenty earthworms had been caught, and the rest were still being searched for.

"Seems like someone's missing..." Xiao Feng mused, stroking his chin, "Where's Zheng Wei?"

The little girl and Xue Nuofu exchanged glances, both shaking their heads to show they didn't know.

Earlier, they were only focused on dealing with Fu Yongnan and then got busy with the earthworms, so for such a long time, no one had paid attention to where Zheng Wei had gone.

Just then, Di Junxiong appeared at the entrance, dressed in police uniform.

Upon seeing the courtyard filled with nails and people searching amidst them, he was stunned and asked, "Master, what are you guys doing?"

Before Xiao Feng could answer, the little girl replied in a dignified manner, "Little Bear, you've come at the wrong time. We didn't make dinner today, so you can't score a free meal."

"I'm not here for a meal," Di Junxiong replied, then seriously continued, "Zheng Wei is dead."

"Dead?" Xiao Feng's eyelids twitched in surprise, "How did he die?"

"The forensic doctor preliminarily determined he was poisoned. He died less than an hour ago, and the more specific cause of death will have to wait for further autopsy."

Xiao Feng glanced at Fu Yongnan lying by the wall and immediately understood that his purpose in coming to Jiangcheng was simply to kill Zheng Wei.

Coming here was likely just "on the way."

Perhaps Fu Yongnan never intended to engage in a direct confrontation with Xiao Feng, and arriving at this point was merely a series of coincidences.

Drawing back his thoughts, Xiao Feng said, "Since you're here, help me call a car over. The car should be filled with lime."

"Lime?" Di Junxiong asked puzzled.

Xiao Feng briefly recounted the events and pointed to the covered basin, "Those inside are the earthworms I mentioned. You can take them back for research.

If there are any significant discoveries, you might even earn some credit."

Di Junxiong nodded, followed Xiao Feng's instructions to arrange a car, and found people to take the earthworms away.

An hour later, the nails in the yard were cleaned up, and Fu Yongnan's body was wrapped in plastic wrap and then thrown into the lime truck.

Xiao Feng looked at the pits and holes on the wall and sighed heavily.

This might be the price for having gains and losses. The benefits of the mechanisms didn't need elaboration, but the drawbacks were also obvious... they ruined the wall.

"Let's go, see how the iron child is doing." Xiao Feng waved a hand, signaling everyone to go inside.