Chapter 35: Corpse Cardamom
I didn't have classes in the afternoon, I plan to go back to study the specific situation of this breakthrough, it is only ten minutes away from the dormitory building to the parking lot, Chen Ling and I are also chatting while walking, what surprises me is that I didn't expect that it was just two hours for her and Yang Dali to feel better, what is this, is it: love comes too fast like a tornado......
Chen Ling said: "Your classmate is really interesting, but I feel stupid, if only I were the same as before." Her tone was a little sad at this point, and I saw her blinking, as if to suppress the tears in her eyes.
Seeing this, I didn't know what to say, just walked silently, and after a long time, she sighed deeply and said to herself: "Alas...... If he knew I was a zombie, would he be so enthusiastic about me? Actually, this is what I was trying to say, but I was embarrassed to say it, I can see that she also has feelings for Yang Dali, otherwise why are the two of them so speculative just now, but some things are so indescribable, if she really shows her identity, maybe what she gets is another attitude, which is also human nature, and anyone can understand it.
Back at the villa, Chen Ling entered the room alone, and when I saw him, I didn't ask much and turned around and walked into my room. She gave me back the black scroll before entering the room, and I knew what he meant, so I didn't delay, and when I got back to my room, I took out the black scroll and began to study it.
There are some special words on the scroll, which look like they should be from ancient times, and I took a lot of effort to translate them.
The content depicted in these words is very surprising to me, and it talks about a lot of things that seem very ethereal to me, especially a kind of fruit called corpse fragrant cardamom, which is introduced in it, the trunk of this fruit grows in the sea of corpse mountains and blood, and it is formed by the corpse gas formed after the decay of thousands of corpses by the surrounding trees, and the trees after sucking the corpse gas are called corpse incense ancient trees, and there is nothing peculiar on its surface, but this tree will emit a very peculiar fragrance, This scent can capture the soul and make people get lost in the illusion and end up being carried into a cliff or falling into deep water.
But there are also those who are determined to overcome the interference of illusions and go to the place where the trunk of the tree is, and pick the fruit of the tree. This fruit is the size of a longan, the whole body is jade white, and the same as the trunk, the fruit also has a special fragrance, but it is not as strong as on the trunk, so people call it corpse fragrant cardamom.
Legend has it that as long as you eat this corpse fragrant cardamom, you can get eternal lifespan and immortality, and it is also for this reason that it attracts people's desire, but no one has really found it for thousands of years, and only one legend about this corpse fragrant cardamom has been handed down.
The black scroll records that the period when people first discovered the ancient tree of corpse incense was actually the Qin Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, and this matter has to start from the Battle of Changping.
The Battle of Changping was a war between the Qin State and the Zhao State army in Changping, which is the northwest area of Gaoping City, Jincheng, Shanxi Province. The Zhao army was finally defeated, and the Qin state won the victory and occupied Changping, and a total of about 450,000 Zhao troops were beheaded and killed in this battle.
This battle is a strategic decisive battle between them. Due to the continuous war, the Qin State had serious consumption of grain and grass in the country, and the confrontation situation on the battlefield was unfavorable to it. King Zhao lost the first battle, seeing that it was unprofitable, so he asked for peace with Qin, but he was not played, and the young and vigorous King Zhao wanted to attack, but Lian Po insisted on not listening to King Zhao's orders, and Qin State abandoned the famous general Lian Po and replaced Lian Po with Zhao Kuo; Zhao Kuo followed King Zhao's intention to change Lian Po's defensive deployment and military regulations, changed the generals, and organized the attack. Seeing that there was an opportunity, the Qin State secretly changed the commander and famous general Bai Qi, and Bai Qi, in view of Zhao Kuo's weakness of eagerness to win, adopted the operational policy of feint defeat and retreat, lure the enemy from the position, and then divide and encircle, and annihilate it, and finally won the war.
The Battle of Changping was the last turning point in the history of the Warring States Period, and it was also a battle in Chinese history with heavy casualties.
It is precisely because of this battle that many mass graves have been formed, because most of the soldiers who died in the battle are unclaimed and can only be buried on the spot, so after the corpses decompose, they form a corpse home, and it is easy to raise high-level zombies in such a place with extremely heavy corpse gas, and there is also a great chance of giving birth to corpse incense ancient trees.
Fortunately, after the Battle of Changping, someone found the so-called corpse incense ancient tree in a mass grave, this person is Xu Fu, when the First Emperor sent him to Penglai Island to find the elixir, when passing by the battlefield of the Battle of Changping, Xu Fu found a place full of yin qi, out of curiosity he took a few entourages to explore there, but those entourages who went with him killed each other because they smelled a special fragrance, as the first emperor's personal envoy, of course, he walked at the back of the team, and thus escaped a catastrophe.
After learning that the place was dangerous, he was even more convinced that there was a treasure in it, and after hesitating, he decided to risk his life and rushed into the smoky and fragrant corpse house.
At first, he also inhaled the fragrance like the previous entourage and began to fall into the illusion, but because he had a very strong willpower, he actually broke through the obstacle of the illusion at the last moment and successfully entered the corpse home.
In it, he saw a huge ancient tree, and around the ancient tree was a corpse with white bones, and the strange thing was that the white bones were facing the ancient tree, as if these people were climbing from the ground in front of them in the direction of the ancient tree, and the scene was so spectacular that it was simply magnificent! There were countless bones on the ground, piled up layer after layer.
He climbed from these piles of bones to the side of the ancient tree, and at this time he was surprised to find that there were three snow-white fruits on the huge ancient book, and he knew that this should be the treasure he wanted, so without saying a word, he climbed up the trunk of the tree and picked the three fruits. The fruit is only the size of a longan, and it is a little cold to the touch, but you can smell the same strange fragrance as the trunk of the tree.
I don't know what drove him to eat one of them, but after the fruit was in his stomach, his body changed dramatically, and his originally somewhat old face actually regained his youth in just a few minutes, and his pale hair was also renewed.
He knew that this was the elixir that the emperor asked him to find, as long as he handed over the remaining fruit to the emperor, he would have the glory and wealth that he could not enjoy for a lifetime, but at the same time, he would also be ruled by this cruel emperor for a lifetime, once the emperor knew that he had also eaten the elixir, the consequences would be unimaginable, maybe it would be normal for the emperor to click on it one day, and after careful consideration, he decided to take the remaining two fruits and fly away.
At this time, a strange thing happened, not long after he picked the three fruits, the ancient tree quickly dried up and fell to the ground, and the white bones next to the ancient tree also turned into a pile of muscle powder, and then the earth trembled and soon formed a huge crack in the ground, he saw this scene and hurriedly ran wildly, until he ran out of the corpse heavy land before stopping to watch. At this moment, that place is no longer as yin as before, on the contrary, vigorous vitality is emanating from it, that is, in a few breaths, it has become a green mountain forest......
After he left there, he used some methods to make himself look old, and then returned to the east to Penglai, and never returned, and the First Emperor died in anticipation.
Before leaving, he made up a story and told a woodcutter who was chopping wood, and this is how the story of the corpse and cardamom has been passed down from generation to generation.
After reading this story, I first felt that it was so incredible, after all, I am also an advanced young man in the 21st century, and my understanding of life and death must be more than that of the ancients, and human life is just a few decades, and it is impossible to be extended or eternal because of the effect of foreign objects. In my opinion, these things don't really exist, it's just that human desires exceed their own lifespan, what is this? That's human nature, that's greed.
Wise people often say that they are content and happy, but there are a few people who can completely do it, people are a high-IQ animal, and it is precisely because of the existence of high IQ that the greed in the heart is born, just like those corrupt officials, obviously they have been greedy for a lot of money, and even those money have been spent endlessly, but he still has to be greedy, even if it is just a little bit to get his hands on it, think about it carefully, isn't this the truth?
Thinking about it this way, I also somewhat understand why Xu Fu in the story took the remaining two fruits away from home, on the one hand, because he didn't want Qin Shi Huang to get the elixir, on the other hand, his greed overcame reason, and he wanted to take the remaining two fruits for himself, so he went to Penglai to live happily in the name of asking for medicine.
I took out a cigarette, lit it and took two puffs, then said to myself, "The story of the corpse cardamom may seem ironic on the surface, but the truth it shows is beyond doubt, but if this thing really exists, the world will be in chaos." ”
As soon as she finished speaking, Qing'er appeared in front of me and said: "What the husband saw was indeed true, and the concubine also happened to hear the King of Equality when she entered the hidden capital, and it is said that the corpse fragrant cardamom not only appeared once, but appeared four times, and each time someone disappeared mysteriously like Xu Fu, and even no information about them could be found in the book of life and death." ”
I was also quite surprised to hear Qing'er's words, I didn't expect this thing to really exist, and it appeared so many times, so this news must be kept secret, if this information is leaked out, then Yin Xing will not be going to fry, no, not only Yin Xing may be a disaster for the whole world.