Chapter 9: Poisonous Miasma
The scenery in front of them changed, and Qin Tian and the others landed in a deep cave.
"Where is this?" Qin Tian looked a little panicked, this didn't look like he was in Mount Tai at all.
"Shouldn't this be the ruins of the sky that divined before?"
The crazy old man looked at the deep and dark environment around him and guessed that this might be the Taishan Cangtian Ruins that he had learned about through tortoiseshell divination.
"That's not an option to stay here, let's move on."
Qin Tian clarified his thoughts, since it may be the Cangtian Ruins, maybe there will be clues left by his grandfather.
"Wait until I'll do the math first."
After that, the crazy old man took out an old copper coin from his bag, and regardless of Qin Tian's doubts, he threw it into the air at random.
The crazy old man threw six times in a row, three positive and three negative, and kept chanting what hexagram in his mouth.
"Three positives and three negatives, whether it is a hexagram or not, this is not a good sign."
"What negation?"
"Negative hexagram, that is, the tiger falls into a deep pit, and there is more than one luck." The crazy old man said with a sad look on his face, even he couldn't think of any way to get out of trouble.
"What then? You can't just stay here and die. Qin Tian also calmed down, although the crazy old man's fortune calculation was more auspicious, he had an intuition that his grandfather had also come and finally left this place.
"Let me do the math, maybe there's a chance to escape."
The crazy old man took out the tortoise shell again, grabbed a handful of agarwood and sprinkled it on it, and waited for the result of the tortoiseshell divination.
Suddenly, a faint golden line appeared on the tortoise shell, pointing straight ahead, and the crazy old man's eyes suddenly lit up when he saw this, and he said excitedly: "There is a way out, follow the direction of this golden thread, and we will be able to turn evil into good fortune." ”
After that, the crazy old man took the lead in walking forward, and Qin Tian followed behind him, after all, the crazy old man's divination and fortune-telling skills were indeed quite effective.
After walking for less than ten minutes, Qin Tian felt that the air was becoming more and more turbid, and his breathing began to become a little difficult.
"Do you ever feel that the further you go in, the harder it is to breathe?"
The crazy old man stopped, looked back at Qin Tian, whose face began to blush a little,
"No, are you hypoxic?"
Qin Tian shook his head, he won the championship in the sports run in college, it stands to reason that there will be no lack of oxygen, there must be something wrong with the air here.
"What the hell is that, I don't feel anything here, let me see what the hell there is?"
The mad old man took out the bottle of strange blood from his bag, dipped two drops and smeared it directly above his eyes, then blinked and opened it again, this time he finally saw something strange.
"It's a big miasma here, we're trapped in it." The crazy old man's expression became solemn at this time, these miasma were not a joke.
"Miasma?"
"It seems that this cave is very difficult to break into, the miasma mostly occurs in the land of the Five Elements of Fire, and the color of this miasma is dark red, maybe this leads straight to the magma."
"How is it possible, Mount Tai is not a volcanic landform, and it is impossible for magma to be born underneath it anyway." Qin Tian felt that the mad old man's words were not credible, and with his professional knowledge, he couldn't explain it at all.
"Let's not talk about this for now, how to escape from here is the top priority."
The crazy old man was helpless against this miasma, if Qin Tian hadn't reminded him, maybe he wouldn't know how to die when he died, this miasma would have been too vicious and vicious.
Qin Tian looked at the dim environment around him and remembered that his teacher had talked about miasma in his previous college days.
"Miasma is sometimes not a gas, but it can be caused by mosquitoes,...... When encountering miasma, it is best to carry realgar and atractylodes on the body to burn and smoke it to remove the miasma. ”
"I happen to have realgar and fire on me, and I may be able to successfully get rid of the miasma." Qin Tian tilted his head and said to the crazy old man.
"Let's try it then." The crazy old man urged Qin Tian, he was already feeling a little dizzy.
Qin Tian took out a small packet of realgar and lighter from his bag, wrapped realgar in paper, lit the lighter and burned it directly.
As the realgar emitted a rather pungent smell, the dark red miasma around them gradually dispersed, and Qin Tian and the others heard a sharp and terrifying cry coming from the miasma.
"I see, this miasma is really formed by these bugs,"
The crazy old man stepped forward and pinched the corpse of a strange insect on the ground, and turned back to Qin Tian with a sneer,
"This strange insect is called Poison Eye, it lives in dark and damp ruins all year round, and relies on the release of poisonous miasma to kill natural enemies, its poisonous miasma can make people die unconsciously, but it is quite insidious and vicious."
Qin Tian looked at the poisonous corpse carefully, his appearance was very hideous, with a pair of sharp teeth, and the rotting skin like suppuration made Qin Tian unconsciously goosebumps when he saw it.
The realgar burned out, there was still a faint smell of garlic in the air, the dark red miasma was gone, and the air did not have that turbid feeling.
The crazy old man sat on the ground without any image, and sighed with relief, if Qin Tian hadn't found out earlier, maybe he would have to explain here today.
"Boy, I owe you a favor this time, this poisonous eye is extremely rare, I haven't seen it twice in my life, I thought it was extinct, but I didn't expect to be pecked by an eagle when I got old."
Qin Tian smiled and didn't speak, he didn't know why he could sense the existence of the poisonous miasma, could it be because of the effect of the Hook Jade Stone Talisman?
The crazy old man sat on the ground and rested for a while, while Qin Tian stayed by the crazy old man's side and had nothing to do, and it was inconvenient for him to take out the jade talisman and the diary to read now.
"After that, I had to be careful step by step, I finally knew why I figured out whether it was a hexagram or not, and it was almost an accident in less than ten minutes, and I don't know what will happen next."
The crazy old man got up and took out a glass bottle from his bag, which contained two round black pills.
"What is this?" Qin Tian asked the crazy old man suspiciously, this pill looked strange.
"This is a good thing, if it weren't for this strange insect like Poison Eye, I wouldn't be willing to take it out."
The crazy old man raised the glass bottle in his hand and proudly showed off to Qin Tian.
"Taking one pill can ensure that you will not be poisoned for a period of time, even if the poison eye comes again, you will not be afraid of it, and the most precious function of this thing is to ensure that you are not corrupted."
"Humification?" Qin Tian was completely unfamiliar with this new term spoken by the crazy old man, but it didn't sound like a good word.
"We have been exploring in the ruins all year round, and what we are most afraid of is the rotten gas that may be filled in the ruins, I don't know how this kind of thing was born, but once it is stained, it is not a matter of weakness for a while, so this pill is so precious."
Although Qin Tian still couldn't understand it, after some explanation from the crazy old man, he could probably understand the rarity of this black pill.