Chapter Eighty-Six: The Silkworm God
"Your people have seen the descendants of the Yan family, the monster that was killed by the gang of tomb robbers in front of you, and the man-eating monster legendary in the nearby village."
"They don't intermarry with outsiders, and over time, there is no one in ten, and even the descendants who survive are almost no longer human."
"And I heard my father say that the whole Yan family has been suffering from a kind of madness since I don't know when, they often tremble and can't help themselves, their brains are becoming more and more unclear, and they often don't know what to do, even the news that my father ordered someone to send to them, they sometimes can't understand it, and they will even kill the messenger sent by my family to deliver the letter, and eat ......"
"Later, our Bai family also had to keep a distance from the Yan family, and only occasionally sent people to take a look outside the valley, if there is news, it will only be placed in the previously agreed place, as for whether the descendants of the Yan family will pick it up, and whether they can understand it, I don't care."
This can explain why those elusive monsters fainted inexplicably in front of Hao Meng's tent, and were finally captured by Hao Meng and wiped out.
Hearing this, Wu Liang finally became a little interested, straightened up and answered: "In other words, those monsters are actually the products of inbreeding and ancestral meat reverse?" ”
"What anti-addiction?"
Bai Jingjing was puzzled.
"You just said that they eat people, and the ancestral meat revolt is a strange disease that can only be suffered from cannibalism, this is a curse imposed on them by the sky, even if they are not killed, it will not be long before they will eventually become extinct."
Wu Liang explained half-truthfully.
In fact, the scientific name of this disease in later generations is called "prions".
In the 20th century, the disease was raging among a cannibal tribe in Oceania, and it was then that people began to pay attention to this terrible disease, and studies showed that the only way for this "prion" to spread was cannibalism, hence the figurative name "ancestral meat reverse".
Judging from Bai Jingjing's description, it is very likely that the descendants of the Yan family have suffered from this disease.
In fact, it is not difficult to verify this disease, as long as you knock on the braincase of the descendants of the Yan family to see if their brain tissue has become a cavernous body.
It's just that now their bodies have been burned to ashes by Hao Meng's department, and they can no longer be verified.
"Until now, I still can't figure it out, your knowledge, eloquence, medical skills, and astuteness are rare in the world, sometimes I even think that you can see through people's hearts, a strange talent like you, even in this troubled world, it is easy to eat, why do you want to come to rob the tomb, don't you feel that you have wasted your talent?"
Bai Jingjing stared at Wu Liang's eyes for a long time with a pair of beautiful eyes, and finally shook her head very regretfully.
"The bird's nest knows the ambition of the bird."
Wu Liang smiled proudly, first filled Bai Jingjing with wine, and then filled it for himself, and then made a gesture of please, "You continue to say yours, don't get involved with me." ”
"Then there's what happened recently, you should know everything, so why should I say it again?"
Bai Jingjing said.
"No, there are some details that I haven't figured out, so I'd better ask instead."
Wu Liang leaned forward and said with interest, "I want to know who removed those tomb beasts outside the Valley of No Return before, and whose masterpieces are the two corpses buried in the ground instead of the tomb beasts?" ”
"The tomb beast was moved by our Bai family, and the two corpses are the credit of the Yan family, my father knew that after the Yan family captured the two people, he originally wanted to ask people to come over for interrogation first, but he didn't expect that when he saw the two people, they had only a head and bones left, and then when my father took people to remove the tomb beast, he buried the two corpses in it, so that the accomplices of the two people saw it, and they were afraid to enter the valley again."
Bai Jingjing said 1510, "As a result, even we didn't expect that soon after, two groups of tomb robbers came at once, one group of people was too strong to move, and the other group was a little less numerous, but it was very cunning and scoundrel, and it was even more difficult to deal with than that group of people!" ”
Speaking of this, Bai Jingjing looked at Wu Liang with a look of "it's you".
"Hey, hey, hey."
Wu Lianggan laughed twice, and then said, "There is another question, why do the people of the Yan family only arrest two people at a time?" ”
"My father said that this is a habit they have only developed in recent years, the Yan family has a limited number of people and does not have enough salt to make dried meat, so catching two people at a time can just eat it before it rots, and if you can't eat more, it will be wasted......"
Bai Jingjing explained.
"Can it be like this!?"
Wu's conscience was shocked.
Before this, he had thought of countless possibilities, but he never thought that it would be such a fresh and refined reason, that man-eating monsters should pay attention to thrift and sustainable development?
After relieving himself slightly, Wu Liang said again: "In this way, the evil suffered by the group of tomb robbers in front of me should not be the cause of the Yan family, and they are reluctant to waste 'food'. ”
"Yes, they caught people, and the plan was given by my father, and they were willing to persuade them for a long time."
Bai Jingjing did not excuse the Bai family, and said frankly.
“Emmm……”
Wu Liang nodded, and after pondering for a while, he said, "Last question, how did the descendants of the Yan family capture people without knowing it?" As far as I know, the grave robbers in front of me are very well guarded at night, and even I can't do it without alarming them, especially since my men are also monitoring the situation in the valley every night, and they have not found any clues. ”
"The Yan family, as a martial artist, already has some martial arts, and the past dynasties have practiced a kind of kung fu that can fly the eaves and walk the wall, that is, they can shuttle up and down in these valleys dozens of zhang high, and they can still walk on the ground."
Bai Jingjing glanced at Wu Liang and said as usual, "However, in addition to the accumulation of cultivation in this kind of kung fu, the key is to rely on a treasure to assist, so others can't learn it." ”
"What treasure?"
Wu Liang's eyes lit up.
"Have you ever heard of the silkworm god that went extinct a long time ago?"
Bai Jingjing did not answer the rhetorical question.
"Silkworm God? The silkworm god recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas"? ”
Wu Liang was stunned.
"The Classic of Mountains and Seas" says: The silkworm god is a beautiful girl, she lives in the wilderness of the north, where there are tall and branchless mulberry trees, the silkworm god half-kneels on the tree, puts on the horse skin will turn into silkworms, day and night spinning silk.
In addition, in ancient myths and stories, there is also an allusion to "silkworm god offering silk".
But that's a legendary god, how can there be extinction?
"My father said that the silkworm god recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is fake, the first king once found a human-shaped silkworm cocoon in an ancient tomb, the silk on the silkworm cocoon has the thickness of a little finger, the weight is very light but tough and firm, almost invulnerable, not afraid of water but afraid of fire, with a moment of burning can be burned."
"The first king also knew the record of the silkworm god in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and he was busy ordering people to peel off the cocoon and want to see the true face of the silkworm god."