CHAPTER XVIII

"Deng Si'er, what are you doing?"

Zuo Idiot pushed the door in, and saw Deng Si'er already sitting at the table with a small key with a normal expression, fiddling with a small iron box, so he asked curiously.

Zuo Idiot recognized that the small iron box was the iron box that he personally found from the ruins after the fire in the Deng family.

Chu Jing took a closer look and saw that although the style of the iron box in Deng Si'er's hand was old, the carved pattern showed that this iron box was not ordinary.

Chu Jing's eyes darkened slightly, this iron box was obviously not something that a peasant family like Deng Si'er's adoptive father could have.

Don't?

"Deng Si'er, what is this iron box for? Why do you still have it with you? ”

Chu Jing secretly guessed in his heart, but his face was calm as usual.

After hearing this, Zuo Idiot suddenly raised his eyebrows, and quickly disappeared.

Chu Jing doesn't recognize this iron box?

Deng Si'er didn't look at Zuo Idiot and Chu Jing who were standing at the door, still fiddling with the small iron box in his hand, but he said puzzledly:

"Strange, why can't this box be opened? How could the keys be useless? ”

As soon as Deng Si'er's words fell, Zuo Idiot came over, picked up the small iron box from Deng Si'er's hand, flipped it over and observed, and played with his hand twice before handing the small iron box to Deng Si'er again.

"How? Is there a way? ”

Deng Si'er saw that Zuo Idiot was observing carefully, thinking that he could come up with something, so he stood up and looked at Zuo Idiot and asked.

Zuo Idiot shook his head, but said:

"I can't open it either. There may be a mechanism on the key to this iron box, and I can't think of a way to do it anytime soon. ”

Deng Si'er returned to the stool in disappointment, lay on the edge of the table, looked at the iron box in his hand, and said:

"Didn't you say that some treasure map might be on me? I think about it, but it can only be this box. My dad said there was only one thing wrapped in my quilt, but I had the key! Isn't this the key to the box? ”

When Zuo Idiot heard this, he glanced at Chu Jing beside him slightly, wanting to see how he would react.

"That's right!"

Deng Si'er exclaimed in surprise and jumped up, stretched out the small iron box in his hand in front of Chu Jing, opened his eyes and asked:

"You should know how to open it, right?"

Chu Jing was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what Deng Si'er meant.

He remembered what Zuo Idiot had said when he was outside. Deng Si'er already knew that he and Chu Jing were father and son.

Zuo Yi looked at Chu Jing's expression lightly, and also thought: If the person in front of him is really Chu Jing himself, if he personally put the treasure map in the iron box and put it in Deng Si'er's swaddling clothes, then Chu Jing must know how to open this small iron box.

Zuo Idiot thought so, of course Deng Si'er also felt so, so he asked Chu Jing.

Although Chu Jing was a little stunned after listening to Deng Si'er's inquiry, his expression did not appear flustered because of this, which made Zuo Idiot a little incomprehensible.

I saw Chu Jing nodding and saying:

"You're right, I put it, of course I know how to open this iron box, give it to me."

Chu Jing stretched out his hand to Deng Si'er as he spoke, and in the open palm, the severed finger was still obvious.

Deng Si'er looked at the wide palm that was missing a finger, looked at Zuo Zhi hesitantly, and saw that Zuo Idiot nodded to him, so he put the small iron box in Chu Jing's palm with confidence.

Zuo Idiot didn't expect Chu Jing to really know how to open the iron box, so why did he act like he didn't know this iron box before?

After Chu Jing took the iron box, he looked at it for a while like Zuo Idiot had done before, then nodded and said:

"That's right, it's the box."

"What is the origin of this iron box?"

Seeing that Chu Jing's movements seemed to confirm something, Zuo Idiot asked out loud.

Hearing this, Chu Jing turned his head and glanced at Zuo Idiot, and then stretched out the iron box in his hand in front of Zuo Idiot and Deng Si'er, before saying:

"You must not have heard of the 'Gu Worm Key', right?"

"What bug? What are you talking about? ”

Deng Si'er couldn't think of what the four words were, turned his head to look at Zuo Idiot, and asked in surprise.

I saw that the left idiot was also far away and said:

"'Gu worm key'? I haven't heard of it either. What is this? Could it be this box? ”

Unexpectedly, Zuo Idiot also looked puzzled, it seems that this Lord Divine Catcher doesn't know everything.

Chu Jing stretched out his other hand and pointed to the keyhole of the small iron box and explained:

"It's not about this iron box, it's about the 'Gu worm key', it's about the small hole in the lock key you see."

"Isn't this different from a normal keyhole? I don't see any difference, does it? ”

Deng Si'er leaned over and squinted his eyes to observe carefully, but he didn't find anything different from the ordinary keyhole.

Zuo Idiot picked up the candlestick on the shelf, lit it, leaned over to the keyhole of the iron box, and stared at it, but found nothing.

"This 'Gu worm key' can't be seen from the appearance alone. Its peculiarity lies in the fact that inside this lock keyhole, there is a kind of Gu worm that is fostered, and to open this iron box, not only the original key is needed, but also another one. ”

Chu Jing paused at this point, looked at Zuo Idiot and Deng Si'er and continued:

"Blood."

"Blood?"

Zuo Idiot frowned, why is this?

"Could it be that these insects are raised by human blood?"

Deng Si'er listened to Chu Jing's words and hurriedly took a step back, taking human blood to raise insects, what is this called?

"It's not what you think, this Gu worm doesn't need human blood to feed, but to open the lock and key, you need human blood and a key, both of which are indispensable."

Chu Jing looked at Deng Si'er's appearance, chuckled, and continued:

"Before this kind of Gu worm is stimulated, it always survives in a group with each other, closely connected, and it is the same as ordinary insects, but it is harder. But when stimulated, it disperses. ”

"I understand, this thing that stimulates Gu worms is human blood."

Hearing this, Zuo Idiot understood, and nodded.

"What are you talking about? I don't understand. ”

Deng Si'er saw that Zuo Idiot seemed to have understood, but he himself was still in the clouds, so he hurriedly asked.

"What he means is that the key and the keyhole can be combined, but because the Gu worms live in a group, the keyhole is blocked, so that your key cannot function, but with the stimulation of human blood, those Gu worms will disperse, and the keyhole will be unobstructed, as long as there is a matching key, it will no longer be difficult to open."

Zuo Idiot carefully explained to Deng Si'er.

Chu Jing looked at Zuo Idiot's explanation without any mistakes, and had to admire Zuo Idiot's comprehension ability.

"Then you can get some blood, can you just open it?"

Deng Si'er said after understanding.

Now that you know the method, what are you waiting for?

"Hey! What are you doing? Sizzle"

Chu Jing suddenly pulled out the dagger in Deng Si'er's waist, and gently slashed one of Deng Si'er's fingers, and Deng Si'er's fingers were bleeding.

"The dagger is good."

Chu Jing didn't care about Deng Si'er's angry expression, looked at the dagger and praised.

Seeing this, Zuo Idiot just took the iron box, pulled Deng Si'er's fingers again, dripped the blood that Deng Si'er shed out into the keyhole of the iron box, and said:

"I think, if he cut your finger, it must be that this kind of Gu worm only recognizes one person's blood, and besides, this person can only be you."

"Sooner said"

Deng Si'er put his finger in his mouth and sucked it twice, muttering.

Seeing that the wound was no longer bleeding, Deng Si'er took out the previous key and went to open the iron box.

"Huh? Only one bottle? What about treasure maps? ”