Some of the people in the village began to have a strange disease, their skin was black, they were listless during the day, and they were unusually excited at night, and they would howl wildly at midnight, and this state would last for three days, until the last night they would bleed to death like a terrible death.

One day after that, a young man who had not been out of the house for several years suddenly came to the field and told the villagers who were working that he had a cure for that strange disease.

At that time, the villagers did not believe it, because almost everyone in Guli Village knew how to use medicine, and some minor pains and illnesses could be treated by themselves in most cases.

They felt that the Miao people themselves could not cure the disease, and it was even more impossible for him, a foreigner, to have a way.

But then the young man gave a black pill to a villager who had that strange disease in front of everyone, and the villager was cured the next day.

For a while, the people in the village were overjoyed and asked the young man about the recipe for making the pill.

Normally, the people in Guli Village help each other in their lives, and some prescriptions for treating diseases are common to everyone, and no one will have reservations about this kind of thing.

But this is not the case with the young man, and he makes it a condition to the villagers that they must go to him for a fee to buy pills.

Since there was no currency in circulation in Guli Village, they had to barter to find young people in exchange for pills, one pill and one stone of grain.

Since this had never happened in the village before, the villagers were very reluctant to do this kind of thing from young people, but they couldn't do it, after all, that strange disease would kill people in three days.

Later, the young man gradually became the "rich" of the village by selling medicine, and soon his family was piled up with endless food, and some villagers became poorer and poorer because of this exploitation.

In some families, several members of the family took turns to suffer from that strange disease, and gradually used all the surplus food at home to buy medicine, and in the winter, the family could only go hungry.

The young man did not have the kindness and generosity of the Guli villagers, and he would rather let the food accumulated at home rot than help the villagers who could not eat.

In this way, the life of the villagers of Guli Village is getting worse and worse day by day, but every once in a while, there are still people who will inexplicably get that strange disease.

Later, an old man in the village who was proficient in medicine began to study the pills of young people, trying to crack the recipe of the pills so that the villagers would no longer be oppressed by the young people, and later he was surprised to find that there was no useful medicine in the pill at all, it was only made of clay mixed with pot ash.

If the medicine is fake, why does it cure diseases?

Finally, the old man began to suspect that the people in the village were not suffering from a strange disease at all, but had been infected with Gu.

Since the disaster provoked by the Gu King a hundred years ago, the art of witchcraft has become a taboo in the Miaojiang region, and some Gu women who know the art of witchcraft have also been killed one after another, so no one will guess about witchcraft after the villagers fall ill.

In order to verify his conjecture, the old Miao doctor found a sick villager, punctured all five fingers of his left hand with a silver needle, and then asked him to insert his left hand into a pot of fresh raw meat, and then poured some Gu-inducing medicine on the raw meat.

After an hour, the faces of the sick villagers recovered little by little, but the fresh meat became black and smelled foul, and then the old man poured boiling water into the meat, and a large swarm of black insects came out of the meat.

This proves that these villagers are indeed in the Gu, and the person who is in the Gu is also self-evident.

The art of witchcraft, this is the most taboo thing for the Miao people, they will not leave a little affection for the people who use Gu, and the Gu women who appeared before will all tie them up without exception, and then burn them alive with fire.

So that night, all the villagers of Guli Village came to the young man's house, and after rushing into his house, the villagers saw that the husband and wife were raising Gu with a jar.

For these Miao people, the food that was deceived is not enough, but because of this incident, more than a dozen people died in the village, which is unforgivable in any way.

So the villagers were going to tie up the husband and wife and burn them at the stake, and the husband and wife smashed the Gu altar in front of everyone in a panic and released all the Gu worms in it.

Seeing this, the villagers hurriedly fled from the house, and in order to prevent these Gu worms from running out and harming people, they unanimously decided to set fire to the couple's house.

The fire burned all night, and puffs of foul-smelling black smoke rose from the dark blue flames, and the young man was burned to death on the spot, while his wife reappeared in the village a few days later.

At this time, the girl had been burned beyond recognition, and she was dressed in black linen, and she held a spherical container woven from black rattan in her hand.

The villagers knew what she was here for, and she wanted to avenge her husband, and as she silently recited some strange incantations, a large number of poisonous insects escaped from the container in her hand.

The villagers who were bitten by these poisonous insects turned black and fell to the ground on the spot, and then their skin and flesh began to fester, and the scene was very terrifying.

Several senior elders in the village quickly saw that what she was holding in her hand was the magic weapon used by the Gu King when he slaughtered the village a hundred years ago, the Ten Thousand Insect Nest.

Through this thing, you can freely manipulate the poisonous insects in nature, and if you use it as a container to raise Gu, it can have a miraculous effect of twice the result with half the effort.

The reason why the Gu King was so terrifying back then was mostly due to this nest of ten thousand insects.

Eventually, she massacred thirteen villagers in the village to avenge her husband, after which she left the village and lived in a cave outside Guli Village, where she became a Gu woman who was talked about.

And she is also the widow that Zhang Yulan's parents met later, she has not only been studying witchcraft over the years, but has even created terrifying Gu people.

But perhaps it was because she still had a trace of gratitude to the villagers of Guli Village, after all, she was once raised by these villagers, so she never harmed the villagers in the following years, and seemed to have become a hermit in the mountains.

After learning these news from the Guli villagers, Cao Xiaoyang was even more sure that only that Gu Po had the ability to artificially release those poisonous miasma, and she must have some contact with the holder of the seal.

So they quickly found the way to the cave under the guidance of the villagers.

Later, Cao Xiaoyang was surprised to find that this place was actually very close to the Worm Valley where he and Chi Xiaoyue had escaped before, and Gu Po's residence was also in a cave on a cliff, and in order to get there, they needed to start from the bottom of the valley and climb up a path carved out of the stone wall.

Because the road on this rock wall is too narrow, Cao Xiaoyang was very careful along the way, for fear that Gu Po would set some traps on this road, and if he accidentally fell down from here, he could only end up with broken bones.

But the strange thing is that Cao Xiaoyang and they climbed up very smoothly this way, almost without encountering any obstacles, and soon they came to the outside of Gu Po's cave.

The environment here is very good, a lot of green vines hang down from the top of the cave, forming a natural curtain for the cave, and there is a big spring next to the cave, and the spring water flows down the rock wall, forming a small waterfall.

Cao Xiaoyang and Bai Xiaoyan were about to enter the cave, when a little girl in red suddenly came out, this girl looked about twelve or thirteen years old, fair-skinned, pure and lovely.

"Come in, two of you. ”

Cao Xiaoyang was a little confused for a while, this girl seemed to have known that they would come over today, and then deliberately greeted them here.

Cao Xiaoyang wanted to ask him something, but at this time, Bai Xiaoyan stopped him with a fan and signaled him not to be in a hurry and wait and see.

Entering the cave, Cao Xiaoyang found that the layout was very exquisite, the stone floor in the cave seemed to have been deliberately polished, very gentle, some red curtains were hung on the walls of the cave around, some stone tables and stone chairs were placed at the entrance of the cave, and some melons and fruits and tea sets were placed on them, and the innermost part of the cave was separated by a large piece of red cloth, and there seemed to be a lot of space inside.

The little girl in red poured them a cup of tea and asked them to sit down for the time being.

"My mother-in-law has something to do, please wait here for a while. ”

With that, she turned around and walked into the cave, opened the red curtain, and walked in.