An Understated Dominance Novel (Dahlia & Dustin) by Marina Vittori updated 2025-26 - An Understated Dominance Chapter 1956

An Understated Dominance Chapter 1956 –A member of the Black Scorpion Squad hanging on a tree had just picked the first blood ginseng fruit and was about to pick the second one.

His arm began to tremble suddenly, as if something had stung him.

He looked down and found a red bug in the palm of his hand.

The bugs were about the size of ants and had sharp mouthparts. After biting through the skin, they quickly burrowed into the flesh.

The members of the Black Scorpion Squad were startled and quickly stretched out their hands to take pictures, but in the end, they were still half a second too late.

In the blink of an eye, red bugs burrowed into his arms, devouring flesh and blood while frantically laying eggs.

“Ah~!”

Severe pain hit him, and the member of the Black Scorpion Squad couldn’t help but scream and fall down from the tree.

The skin on his arms began to fester at a speed visible to the n*ked eye.

Among the rotten meat, there were countless small red insects swarming around, so densely packed that it made one’s scalp numb.

“Help me! Help me quickly!”

The Black Scorpion Squad member howled in pain and rolled on the ground.

His body quickly shriveled up, his skin became wrinkled, and his cheeks were sunken.

In just a few breaths, what was once a muscular man has become as skinny as a stick.

At first glance, it looked like a mummy.

“What’s the situation?!”

Seeing this scene, everyone couldn’t help but change their expressions.

No one expected that a person who was fine just now would be on the verge of death in the blink of an eye.

He looked so skinny, as if all the blood in his body had been drained.

“Look at his hands!”

One person pointed at the arm of the Black Scorpion Squad member with sharp eyes.

His entire arm was completely ulcerated, and bones could be seen in most places.

And between the bones and flesh, there were a lot of red bugs.

These red bugs reproduce at an incredible speed. Almost as soon as eggs are laid, new bugs will break out.

Moreover, every time the red bugs lay eggs, there are dozens or hundreds of them. The more flesh and blood they eat, the faster they lay eggs.

In a blink of an eye, half of the body of the Black Scorpion Squad member was already occupied by red bugs.

It looked terrible.

“Save me. Save me.”

The members of the Black Scorpion Squad slowly turned from howling to moaning.

He tried to reach out his hand for help, but as soon as he raised it halfway, his only remaining hand was also eaten by dense red bugs.

In less than two minutes, a living adult man had completely turned into a withered skeleton.

“Then…what are those bugs? Where did they come from?”

“Oh my god! A perfectly good person is being eaten like this?”

Seeing the horrific scene in front of them, everyone felt their scalps numb and their hearts trembling with fear.

They had no idea what was going on. They only witnessed the member of the Black Scorpion Squad fall from the tree abruptly, and then dense red bugs completely consumed his body.

“Ah~!”

Just when everyone was shocked and confused,.

Another member of the Black Scorpion Squad was hit and fell from the tree to the ground.

Similar to the person who was eaten before, this person was also shot in the arm and had unknown red bugs burrowed into his body.

With the second person, soon there will be the third person, the fourth person, the fifth person…

In an instant, all the little Black Scorpion members who had just climbed up the tree to pick fruits fell to the ground.

All of them were wailing in agony.

“Ah~! My hand! My hand!”

“There are bugs! There are bugs in my body!”

“Captain! Captain, please save me!”

“…”

The members of the Black Scorpion Squad screamed, screamed, begged for help, and rolled on the ground in pain.

Ordinary people simply couldn’t bear the pain of being devoured by thousands of insects.

“Quick! Cut off their arms!”

Garrett’s expression changed, and he quickly ordered his two cronies to step forward to support him.

At the rate at which those red bugs reproduce, those who were infected would be eaten into bones in less than two minutes.

He had no time to think about countermeasures in order to save the lives of his team members and prevent greater damage.

He had to cut off the arms of his team members to prevent the red bugs from spreading throughout their bodies.

Just as they said, Garrett and the others rushed forward as fast as they could with their knives in hand, cutting off the contaminated arms one by one.

After the severed arm was separated from the body, in just a few breaths, it was devoured by red bugs until only the bones were left.

Looking at the dense red bugs, Garrett and the others felt a sense of fear.

If it had been a few seconds later, the lives of all the team members would have been decided here.

“Medical soldiers! Bandage them quickly to stop the bleeding!”

Grace reacted quickly, and she immediately directed her subordinates to bandage the injured.

Although survival materials were scarce, medical supplies were abundant.

“Captain! How could this happen? Where do these weird poisonous insects come from?” the bald man said with a scared look on his face.

“It’s blood-ginseng fruit!”

Grace said with a serious face, “Everyone who has just come into contact with the blood ginseng fruit has been tricked. It can be concluded that there is something weird about these blood ginseng fruits!”

“Blood ginseng fruit?”

Garrett frowned slightly, walked to a team member, opened the bag containing blood ginseng fruit, and took a look. His face suddenly changed with fright, and he took a few steps back.

He saw that the previously crystal-clear blood ginseng fruit had broken into pieces at some point, and the red flesh was filled with tiny red insects swarming around.

The pulp of the blood ginseng fruit had surprisingly become a breeding ground for these red bugs!

“Quick! Throw away all the blood ginseng fruits!”

“It’s full of bugs! Don’t touch it with your hands!”

After reacting, Garrett hurriedly yelled and immediately commanded his two cronies to pick up the bag with the back of a knife and throw the blood ginseng fruit far away.

No one expected that there were so many weird poisonous insects hidden among these valuable blood ginseng fruits.

For a time, no one dared to step forward.

Especially the disciples of the Embersteel Order looked like they were going to survive the disaster.

Fortunately, they were one step behind just now and were not too anxious to pick the fruits; otherwise, their fate would be the same as the members of the Black Scorpion Squad.

It could range from a broken arm to a life-threatening injury!

After bandaging, the bleeding from the broken arm finally stopped.

But having their dominant hand cut off, for the members of the Black Scorpion Squad, was equivalent to losing too much.

Let alone treasure hunting, it would be difficult to make a living in the future.

Seeing his brother die and be injured, Garrett’s face became particularly ugly.

But now, it’s too late to regret it.