Chapter 2: Among the Things That Fell from Heaven
Just look at the narrow dirt road in front of you, not to mention the big animals, even if the two of them walk side by side, it is reluctant, and it is really sealed with mud. On both sides of the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info is a piece of gravel like a knife, if you are not careful to fall, it will make you flow a place of intestines.
Hua Jiuxi shuddered, not frightened, but frozen-a gust of evil wind blew up, reminding him that there might really be some monsters here.
He took out a wilting gourd from his waist, the wine in the gourd is made of the juice of hundreds of fairy grasses, and a sip can dispel evil and keep out the cold, brighten the heart and eyes, and enhance immunity. Raising his neck, his eyes looked at the blue sun, and he took three sips.
Rub your nose straight after drinking the spicy one.
Then there was a problem with the eyes.
I saw a big black dot speeding from the dry sky in the northwest, and the sound of "buzzing and buzzing" was like that of a machine called a helicopter. When the thing flew overhead, I could vaguely guess that it was a big bug. The body length of this insect is about a foot long. On its head it was a pair of antennae resembling that of a longhorn, four arms were fully armed, and its feet were like two large chimneys, spewing out a constant tongue of fire, by which it flew propelled into flight.
Immediately afterwards, a fog-like thing chased after it, and the frequencies of various wings vibrating were varied, which made Hua Jiuxi upset for a while. His kung fu was excellent, and he knew that this was a local flying demon.
"These demons don't look down on each other, and some of them have blood feuds with each other - how did they get together?"
When I was puzzled, I saw that the big insect was surrounded by a group of demons, and the suffocating darkness attacked, the insect was a six- or seven-point humanoid, but it was wearing a layer of heavy armor, and the enemies were hundreds or thousands. Seeing that they were surrounding each other to death, the demons threw all kinds of weapons at it, some of which were shaped like pythons, but those with three pairs of wings had to wrap around their arms; There are crow-like ones, holding a bird gun in their hands, aiming and shooting at its eyes; Some are spinning octopuses spraying ink on its stomach. Monsters of all colors, and so on.
From time to time, the big insect let out a whimpering and piercing sound, looking tired and abnormal, and its body was beaten to the point of fire.
Generally speaking, when encountering such idlers fighting, Hua Jiuxi never joins in the fun. But everyone has a curiosity, and there is nothing to hide around Hua Jiuxi. I could only stare at the sky, thinking that I knew all kinds of demons, but this beetle had never been seen before—not even in a book!
The beetle was beaten to the point that it was extinguished, and it staggered, and it fell headlong. Hua Jiuxi's body was agile, and he took two steps to dodge, just to see that the path was smashed out of a deep pit by the big worm, and the two pairs of feet smashed into the broken rock on the side of the road, and they smashed these magic stones with a hardness comparable to King Kong!
What the hell is this? Hua Jiuxi was even more curious, and hurriedly went in to observe.
Just look at this thing is more than three meters tall, and the blue shell is shiny. It's not so much a worm as a big man in a worm armor. The six limbs of the strange insect come from the chest, but this structure is the same as that of ordinary insects. Four arms, two large and two small, a stout pair with knives, swords, hooks, shields, and other weapons. The lower pair is more human-like and has five fingers.
The monster's chest and abdomen structure is also very complex, and the main thing that makes Hua Jiuxi curious is that it doesn't have anything like mouthparts. I don't know where it is the organ that feeds and eats.
I was fiddling with the big smoking toy, and the buzzing in my ears came again.
Hua Jiuxi was taken aback, the intention of the demons was obvious: to kill the strange insects with himself!
Although I know that this kind of goblin has a low IQ, it is still very rare to make enemies like this. Just watch the demons gradually form a circle from mid-air, there are bee-like, bird-like, bat-like, cloud-like, iron-pot-like, bowstring-pulling, torch-litting, and playing with all kinds of weapons.
"Soul Suppression - Instant Purification."
Hua Jiuxi took out a melon-shaped fruit from the box that was like white jade, and the pattern of the fruit was lines of Sanskrit letters. It emits a milky pale glow. Hua Jiuxi patted slowly, and there seemed to be a sound of a night bell.
I just saw that those little demons with low mana were shrouded in light mist, and when they heard the bell, they had an allergic reaction, and they retreated in pain. A few other leaders remained, still circling and observing.
Hua Jiuxi breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that it was the right choice to put this "good pure fruit" in 53 Buddhist temples to listen to the scriptures and raise them.
A large beetle's carapace illuminated by the white light of the Pure Fruit revealed something like a charm. Hua Jiuxi looked at it and was also frightened.
This is the Demon Suppression Seal of the Queen Mother of the West, whoever is hit on it, the nearby ghosts, gods and monsters will attack this person at the same time, until death. What kind of trouble is this big worm causing it? Hua Jiuxi fell into deep thought.
"That...... Excuse me—"
Another fright, Hua Jiuxi's heart was a little fragile.
It was the voice of a young girl.
The chest cavity of the big beetle had already opened like two windows, and Hua Jiuxi saw the red and white heat spreading out. A fair, delicate hand grabbed it first, and then a long hair like a waterfall appeared. "It turns out that there are people in there ......" Hua Jiuxi immediately pulled him out, only to feel that the other party's hands were delicate and soft, and it turned out to be a girl.
The girl looked no more than eighteen or nineteen years old, with extremely white skin, and dressed in clothes similar to those of European explorers. Hua Jiuxi took a closer look and saw that her facial features were delicate and beautiful, a pair of pale eyes were looking at him, and her eyelashes were very long.
The girl was suddenly exposed, thinly dressed, and couldn't help curling up. Hua Jiuxi put the robe on her.
"Where is this, did I escape from the goddess's palace?" She said this in a kind of standard language of the demon world-witch language, and when you are not sure whether the other party is a human or an alien, it is safest to use this language.
Hua Jiuxi nodded somehow - he saw a beautiful person and that's it.
"Do you mean Shaoguangcheng? It's out of their precincts, but it's a deserted place. I don't think you can get out alone......"
The girl had joys and sorrows, and finally made a melancholy expression. Hua Jiuxi couldn't bear to look at it for a while: "In this way, where is your destination, I'll send you there!" ”
The girl was even more melancholy, "I have nowhere to go." ”
In fact, this courtyard is the only human structure you can see - the stronghold of the Cult is a hill shaped like an upside-down bowl. Up and down the mountain, there are caves that have been dug at some unknown time. The cave is warm in winter and cool in summer, and all kinds of facilities are available. There is no winter or summer in the residence of the Son of Worm, and everywhere is a piece of spring; It's not early or late in the day, it's always dusk. Amber sunlight enters from the valley, soaking the garden in a hazy atmosphere that has been carefully crafted for countless generations.
Listening to the palm-sized bees buzzing and flying, the insect Tianzi made a pot of tea by himself.
His room is a large cave carved out by hand, and there are stone tables, stone chairs, and stone benches in one place, which is very inconvenient for ordinary people to sit and lie down, but the insect Tianzi has used it for thirty or forty years since he was a child. The only thing that was still "modern" was a gramophone, which was given by Hua Jiuxi's students, and he honored his senior brother again. Worm Tianzi likes to listen to her dramas.
He put a "Double Down the Mountain", babbling and slapping his palms.
I expected that Hua Jiuxi would not be able to come back within ten days, and I might take my daughter-in-law with me when I came back. What kind of person would that be? People, to live there are some expectations.
Thinking like this, he was sleepy for a while, and the insect Tianzi leaned on the rattan bed and was about to sleep.
"Senior brother—I'm back."
The insect Tianzi got up hurriedly and said "oh", wondering when this kid learned the method of shrinking the ground, coming and going like the wind? That's not okay, when you go to Shaoguang City, you have to take care of him for a meal and drink, this is to set the person down as soon as you look at it?
When my heart went up and down, I went out to greet him personally.
In the distance, I saw two figures walking along the mountain road, and the one who followed Hua Jiuxi was a thin man.
When I looked at it again, the person behind me was actually a woman in a dress.
This person has extremely white skin, curly hair, and a bit of a high nose and deep eyes. Wearing pants that are not up to the knee, instead of the "two clothes" of ordinary women, his eyes are full of indescribable strangeness.
Worm Tianzi obviously didn't think she was good-looking.
Hua Jiuxi is different, since the first time he saw this girl, he had a feeling of "good-looking death" in his heart, the girl asked him for help, and he agreed before he could hear it.
The insect Tianzi settled down, sat down, and took a sip of tea.
"What does that mean? Didn't you go on a blind date in Shaoguang City? He asked.
"I picked it up on the road, and I look pitiful." Hua Jiuxi replied abruptly.
The girl obviously understood the conversation between the two, and her ears were tilted and her face was worried.
"It's strange, this year, the big girl can pick it up anywhere like a kitten and a puppy, or a Persian cat." The insect Tianzi sneered.
"Coincidentally, I don't write a book, I see that this girl was chased and killed by a group of monsters. I'm the only human person I can rely on, so I naturally have to help her. Hua Jiuxi should say.
"Huh? The Worm Tianzi frowned, "Hunted down...... Was he hunted down by the people of Shaoguang City? There was a lot of doubt in his tone.
"Senior brother means ......"
The Worm Tianzi put down the tea bowl and explained: "The people of Shaoguangcheng have taken the power of the Queen Mother of the West to kill dissidents with little effort. In the face of such a strong enemy, it is not easy to fight and flee - melon girl, can you understand me? ”
Seeing the old man on the other side ask herself, the brown-haired girl nodded and said, "Yes, I can understand." ”
Hua Jiuxi was surprised, the "witch language" they used to communicate before was a language invented by shamans in Eurasia at the beginning of human society. In addition to wizards, it can also communicate with other ghosts and gods.
Nowadays, there are obviously not many people in the world who can speak this language.
Later, I learned that the girl was of mixed Chinese and German descent, and her father was an orientalist. Of course, the "Orientalism" that the family studied clearly had nothing to do with archaeology and linguistics - it involved witchcraft and magic.
"Each of us four brothers and sisters was required to master an important language of the East. That's what I learned. The girl said to Hua Jiuxi in a very standard official dialect.
Hua Jiuxi suddenly had a feeling of being tricked.
The Worm Tianzi nodded and continued: "I won't ask you what you are doing to provoke those people, I will ask how you got out of the hole in the iron wall. ”
"The ......," the girl replied, looking around, "you are a wizard who studies black magic, and it seems to have something to do with insect witchcraft in Indochina." ”
There were unintelligible nouns in her mouth, and the insect Tianzi pretended to be calm and only nodded blindly.
"Do you know this?" The girl stepped forward slowly—he was still a little worried that the old oriental man with long nails would suddenly pounce on her or something.
The girl stretched out her small fist towards the insect Tianzi, and her five fingers were snow-white. One of the fingers had a ring on it, and the ornament on the ring was a cyan beetle.
The insect Tianzi couldn't sit still.
"It's ...... Green worm king immortal? His voice trembled.
When it was the girl's turn, she explained, "This was dug up by my father in Egypt when he was young, and with this ring he can control a mythical beetle." ”
The Worm Heaven suppressed his excitement and asked, "How did the beetle get it?" ”
"According to my father's interpretation of the inscription in the palace where the beetle came out of the land, this insect was already a grub when the earth was full of ferns, that is, in the days of the dinosaurs. For a long time, it devours all the plants it sees, accumulating energy in its body. Then it took an unknown number of years to emerge - it was not until the time of Ptolemy that it had just come out of the chrysalis. The girl said the call without breathing, as if she was often lecturing.
After listening to it, the insect Tianzi already knew that this was the "Green Insect King Immortal" mentioned in the ancestral master's suicide note. This thing is the result of the strange breath of heaven and earth - some say that it was created by the ancient gods. One can withstand thousands of troops, and with it, it is no wonder that it can fight its way out of the encirclement.
It turned out that the research of the Westerners was so powerful, and the insect Tianzi suddenly felt that it was time to go out for a walk.