Chapter 12: The Gu Keeper
I don't know when that corroded, deadly face was there, but I'm sure this guy was not a good man, because I saw him burrowing in the grass, staring straight at us, hostile, cold. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info this feeling is not good, we looked at it for a while, the strange man moved first, when his upper body was piled up from the grass, I noticed that he was wearing a placket blue shirt, the collar of the shirt was black, there was a curved red embroidery, from a distance it looked like the lacquer painting color scheme of the Chu State.
Looking at what he was wearing, I realized that the strange man was not a savage, but a man who lived in isolation in the mountains, like the villagers in "The Peach Blossom Spring".
But what I didn't expect was that he ran away without any movement, but I don't think he's the kind of beast that gives up hunting and leaves. I watched his strange figure disappear into the deep woods, and suddenly it occurred to me that he might be a messenger who was about to bring us a bloody storm.
My heart began to feel faintly uneasy, this feeling was like seeing a centipede in my bed, although it ran away, but you would feel that the bed was hairy and could no longer sleep.
The little Taoist priest had the same opinion, he said that with the strange man's dress, he looked like a barbarian. Now that we are here, he must regard us as foreign enemies, and if we do not leave soon, there may be unforeseen dangers. He urged us to get up and not stay in this unsheltered area.
In fact, I didn't know much about the name barbarian, but Bao Cai knew a lot, and he explained to me softly: "Childe, barbarians should be Miao people of our time!"
Hearing this, I suddenly realized and thought: No wonder I always feel special when I see what he is wearing, it turns out that he is a Miao person. Thinking about this, I suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly said: "Miao people! It's Miao people!"
Baocai was called by me, and looked at me inexplicably and said, "Yes, Miao people, what's wrong?"
I said, "Do you remember Liuhua and Tie Niu......?"
Baocai didn't know what I was going to say, and looked at me suspiciously.
I said, "Could that Miao people just now be the ancestors of Liuhua and Tie Niu?" I made a bold assumption, and there was a kind of excitement in my heart.
Baocai said: "There are many Miao people, which is so coincidental......"
In fact, I'm not very sure about this sudden answer, but according to the comparison between the location of our accident at that time and the location now, it should be about the same place, and Tie Niu said that they live in the mountains, and there are no sinicized seedlings, so the strange-faced Miao people just now may really be their ancestors. But there is one thing that cannot be explained, what we are going to now is the Chu tomb where the seven tomb robbers entered at that time, normally speaking, we should not run into the ancestors of Liuhua and Tie Niu, unless the two tombs are in the same area!
Thinking like this, I thought that this conclusion was too strange, and I didn't know why I would combine the Miao and Tie Niu ancestors just now, but I had such a strong premonition.
I was engrossed in thinking about it, and Baocai shook his hand in front of me, and said, "Childe, don't think about it...... Whoever they are, it doesn't matter to us, but ...... If we don't leave, it may be related. ”
I looked at Baocai with a worried look and thought to myself, after all, we were strangers to them. In addition, if my assumption is correct, then the Miao people just now must know about the existence of the Chu tomb. The reason why they live here may be to protect the ancestors they admire. It reminded me of the stone sculptures I saw in the stream, and I wondered: could they be made by the Miao people?
All the mysteries were churning in my heart, and the strange face was faintly floating in my mind at this moment, and I always felt panicked when I thought about it. It didn't take long for us to set out on our way through the woods. Now the sky has darkened and turned into a mysterious blue, and I don't dare to use the bicycle lights I brought from modern times, because if I arrive at the tomb of Chu, there is no light, and then I will really have to play with the blind man.
As he walked, the little Taoist priest was worried, and I asked him what was wrong, and he said that he didn't expect to meet barbarians in this place. I looked at him and seemed a little jealous, and hurriedly asked, "Is this barbarian very powerful?"
The little Taoist priest was surprised: "Brother Feng doesn't know about barbarians?"
I was a little embarrassed by his question, because in our time, the brothers and sisters of the Miao nationality are in the same big family as us, how can we say that they are not powerful, I once traveled to Miao Township, and I have a good impression of the Miao people.
Seeing that I didn't speak, the little Taoist priest asked me with a puzzled expression, "Brother Feng Liu, did you just see that person's face?"
I said yes, that face was so strange, and the little Taoist priest said, "Then you didn't pay attention to the back of his head?"
Baocai and I both shook our heads and asked what happened to the back of the strange-faced man's head, and the little Taoist priest said with a solemn face: "There are holes in it......"
"Kong?" I asked.
The little Taoist priest walked ahead on his own and gave us another terrifying answer, he said: "It shouldn't be said to be a hole, it should be said to be an insect eye!"
"Worm Eye!" Hearing this, Baocai and I exclaimed in unison.
The little Taoist priest stopped and turned around and said, "The great thing about the barbarians is the Gu worms they raise, this kind of thing is very evil, if that person came to us just now, it would be troublesome." ”
As soon as I heard about Gu worms, I only felt my scalp tingle, I always thought it was just a legend, but I didn't expect it to be true.
In fact, there are many folk sayings about Gu worms, but no matter which one is miraculous, for example, one of the most powerful golden silkworm Gu I have ever heard, its legend is to put twelve kinds of poisons in a closed vessel, let these poisons kill each other, and finally the strong devour other poisons, refine into a golden body, and become the king of Gu.
I heard that this poisonous Gu enters the stomach and eats people's internal organs, and if you want to get rid of it, it is not easy, because this thing is very evil, and it will not die when it is burned or flooded. This kind of perverted thing wants to enter the human body, and it is really impossible to survive or die. I shuddered at the thought of this, thinking that if that strange man really wanted to come to the door, it would be a dead end.
Thinking like this, I quickened my pace, and the little Taoist priest said that the strange face man might be a Gu breeder who dedicated his body to the Gu worm. When I heard him say this, I made up the picture in my head, and suddenly I thought of a report that Lao Ji once forced me to say during dinner, that there is a kind of African human-loving tumor fly maggot, which is said to like to build a nest on women's unclean underwear, so as to parasitize on people's chests, forming a nest similar to a lotus canopy, if the back of the strange man's head just now is the same, then for a person like me who is dense phobia, it will have to self-destruct.
At this time, the sky was already dark, because we saw the hostile Miao people in the forest, we didn't want to make a fire, but it was really difficult to recognize the way, there was no way, I took out a lighter from the jacket, this is Lao Yu's baby, when the little Taoist priest saw this thing, he kept asking me what I was, how could I make a fire? I lied to him and said that it was an earlier baby, called Tinder, and he believed it.
We were careful with every step we took, and we didn't dare to set up camp here, and to be honest, the closer we got to the tomb, the stronger the apprehension became. However, walking in the forest at night is not as comfortable as it is on TV and in the movies, the three of us plan to rest for a while, there is still water in the little Taoist priest's bamboo jar, we share it, he picked up some wild fruits for us, to be honest, when I saw that thing, my mouth was pantothenic, and I really didn't have any appetite.
At this time, some bird on the tree croaked a few times, fluttered its wings and flew away, leaving a hollow echo. Our three hearts can no longer withstand a little wind and rain, and when it is determined that it is just a bird flying away, we breathe a sigh of relief and let down our vigilance.
Bao Cai said that he was going to pee in the wild, and I joked to him to be careful not to get caught by some dirty things, and he listened to him, and he had to walk behind the tree we leaned on.
There was a lot of commotion, and I turned around and cursed, and I saw a shadowy shadow floating behind a tree in front of me, and then something suddenly shook on my left, and I heard a "whoosh" in the bushes.
The atmosphere froze instantly, and I glanced at the little Taoist, who suppressed his voice and said to me, "We're in trouble......"
I nodded, and got up slowly, and at this time the treasure behind the tree asked me what I was doing, how did I know about it, and he didn't have any taboos in his voice, and when he returned to our place, and we faced him with an extremely serious expression, he realized that something was wrong, and asked us tremblingly, "Is this ...... What's going on?"
I said, "There is a situation, prepare a knife ......"
He was already stunned at this time, so the knife was drawn quickly, without any thought at all, and I took out my gun to be on the safe side, and the little Taoist priest used his peachwood sword, and the three of us took our respective positions, ready for something uncertain to appear in the dark.
It's just that the enemy is in the dark, and we are in the light, and if it's a wild beast, then we'll run into someone's territory and prepare a sumptuous dinner. If it's the Miao people who come, then it's better to give it to the beasts......
Just as we were thinking, there were more and more swishing sounds in the darkness, and then dark shadows appeared in front of us. I thought to myself: I really don't want something, what do you want!
By the faint light of the fire, we saw something behind the tree, it was the Miao people! They were dressed in navy blue clothes, their faces were pale and waxy, and the most uncomfortable thing was that their shoulders were drooping, and their heads were very large, and they looked like strange stone statues. And one of them is very special, it is a woman, she is wearing a purple and black robe, embroidered with gorgeous patterns, looking like a noble goddess. However, her hairstyle is very strange, and she wears a complex high bun on her head, and she wears a variety of headdresses such as silver flowers and silver hairpins. Looking at her dress and cold face, I think this woman must have a very high status among this group of Miao people, because there is a very beautiful elk beside her.
Looking at these Miao people up close, my mind was confused, only a word from the little Taoist priest made my thoughts clear, he suppressed his voice and reminded me: "This woman should be a witch!"
Speaking of witches, I can't help but connect her with the Chu Tomb. Because in the Chuwu culture, there are two things that are supreme and are called coexisting, and they are: witches and antlers. In the eyes of the Chu people, the antlers can reach the heavens and the earth, and they are the right-hand men of the wizards, so the appearance of this witch and the elk has confirmed a speculation - these people are indeed the ancestors of the Iron Bull, and they are here to guard the tombs of their ancestors. It is not known who that ancestor was...... And those statue stone carvings, as the little Taoist priest said, is a kind of worship, there is a witch among them, there must be that kind of idea of attracting souls to ascend to heaven, so the statue stone sculptures are the same as most of the tomb beasts that have been excavated in the Chu tomb, all to protect the dead tomb owner.
I speculated that at this time, the shrine maiden said something to the strange-faced man beside her that we did not understand, and I saw that her eyes were fierce, and I couldn't help but clench the gun in her hand, thinking that if the situation was critical, I would fight with them.
But things were worse than I thought, and as soon as the shrine maiden finished speaking, the strange-faced people suddenly turned around. At this moment, I heard a gurgling sound, followed by a strange smell coming from them.
I smelled the smell and felt sick, when Bao Cai suddenly exclaimed, "Oh, I'll go...... The man's head...... Head!" He was so frightened that he was incoherent, and my eyes were on the six Miao people standing next to the witch in a row, and I only saw that there were dense insect eyes under their scalps, and there were many slightly flattened, crimson insects growing in the flesh holes, and the feeling was hairy, like a beehive picture taken at close range in the "insect world" on TV.
I could see that goosebumps were standing up, and Bao Cai was already retching on the side, but before we could think about it, the little Taoist priest yelled at us: "Retreat, they can manipulate Gu worms!"
When I heard this, I shuddered, but before we could retreat, the worm had already flown out of the hole in my brain. This is the first time I know that Gu worms can fly!
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