"Ahh Uba suddenly exclaimed, and his face changed greatly: "Hurry away from the tree, this is the Bhaya tree." ”

Bhaya Tree? Everyone looked at each other blankly, they had never heard of this kind of tree name, but seeing that Uba looked so frightened, they all took a few steps back. Without waiting for anyone to ask, he heard Uba speak: "Wrong, the purpose of this arm Gu is not to raise Gu, but someone borrowed Gu worms to connect with the Bhaya tree and used the Gu to feed the sacrificial tree." "What will happen to you?" Zhuang Yu asked the questions in everyone's minds.

Uba didn't answer immediately, and stared at the tree for a while before answering the question: "The Bhaya tree, in our Buyi tribe, identifies it as the tree of soul sacrifice, and the Bhaya is the Meng Po, and the brown leaves are the transformation of the Meng Po soup. ”

It sounds ridiculous, but it's hard to understand the culture of ethnic minorities in depth. I thought that Wuba knew a lot of witchcraft, and he had such a strange name, he was from the Miao people, but after listening to what he said just now, he knew that he was from the Buyi tribe.

"So," Uba paused and then added, "there is a legend that the Bhaya tree is attached to the spirit of an ancient goddess, and this tree does not grow at will like other trees, but must bury the fruit from the top of the Bhaya tree that bears fruit every twenty years in the soil where the bones of the goddess are buried, and feed the saplings by sucking the corpse qi. ”

Zhou Tong glared at the tree when he heard this, "It means that there is an old witch buried under this tree?" Uba ignored him, but my mind turned to the incident of my grandmother raising snakes with corpse qi, there seemed to be some similarities between the two, but one raised a tree and the other raised a snake, and the thought turned around, and made a guess: "Then the Gu worms in this box actually survive on corpse qi, so they also accumulate corpse qi and transmit it to the roots of the tree to support this tree?" But why did its trunk turn into rotting wood? ”

Sheng Shiyao said: "That's not rotting wood, but the material of the tree itself, the roots at the bottom absorb the evil qi of Gu worms from the Gu box, penetrate into the heart of the tree, and then there are countless pores in the middle of the decaying wood, making the corpse qi penetrate to the top." Over the years, this tree will become a Gu tree, and Gu worms will be born in the countless pores of the tree's body, and the fruit that will bear at the top will be the most Gu among them. This is the true purpose of the Gu cultivator. ”

After listening to his analysis, imagine that if the bark of the tree was covered with countless deadly insects, it would be a very creepy thing. Sheng Shiyao turned his eyes to Wuba and asked, "You just heard about this, right?" Actually, you haven't seen the Bhaya tree. Although it was a question, but the tone was firm, Uba nodded in a daze: "That's right, I have only heard the old man describe the appearance of the Poya tree, and I have never seen it with my own eyes." "No wonder he didn't react until later and told us to get out of the way.

Now that we know that this is an evil tree, we can't let it go. The most important thing is that this road is the road we must pass, and we must pass through it when we come back, the spread of Gu Qi has been extremely fast, so that ten square meters of soil have been blackened, if it is expanded, it will merge with the rotten leaves in the mountains and forests to become miasma, then it will not be as easy as it is now when we return. Therefore, it must be eliminated as soon as possible.

Zhou Tong's proposal was to set a fire and burn the tree and the wooden box by the roots, so that no matter the evil tree or the Gu worm, they would all die. But Uba objected, saying that if the fire burned the outer wooden box, it was very likely that the Gu worms in the Gu altar in the wooden box would fly out one after another due to the high temperature, and the consequences would be unimaginable. It is true that the Gu worms in the wooden box are a big problem, and it is impossible to destroy them all immediately by setting fire, and the best way is to eradicate the source of the corpse.

Just as Zhuang Yu threatened me at the beginning, if I want the black and white snakes to die, I don't need to kill them, I just need to destroy the bones of the ancestors of the family on which they live. Here, since both the tree and the Gu worm live by corpse qi, then destroy the source of corpse qi. Then I moved the shovel, some distance away from the tree, and dug about two meters deep, and I really saw a pure black coffin, and the roots of the tree were drilled through the cracks in the coffin lid, making the tree and the coffin become conjoined.

In order not to break the roots of the Bhaya tree, we had to dig down another meter and cut off one side of the coffin board below the lid of the coffin. There is indeed a skeleton, but it is densely entangled by the roots of the Bhaya tree, like a honeycomb, and the roots and bones grow together.

It is equivalent to this is like a food chain, the corpse bones supply the corpse qi to the lowest roots of the tree, and then the bottom roots are fed to the upper layer, enter the Gu box to sacrifice Gu insects, and then the Gu condenses new nutrients to supply the growth of the entire tree. The question was, how to destroy the skeleton now, this problem was quickly solved, Zhuang Yu ordered Uba to return to the car to get a bottle of liquid, put on gloves and dump it on the skeleton, only to hear the snorting sound, and soon a chemical reaction occurred.

Immediately realized that the liquid in the bottle in Zhuang Yu's hand was sulfuric acid, and the bones were calcified, which corroded immediately when it touched strong acid. After a while, the bones of the corpse were destroyed, and then a strange thing happened, the human hand that was originally erected there gradually blackened and withered, the open five fingers were also curled, and finally the outer layer of skin was shriveled, gradually falling off, Zhuang Yu's eyes quickly poured strong sulfuric acid on that hand, and soon corroded, this scene is really a little terrifying.

When the exposed hands were almost corroded, we noticed a puddle of black water oozing from the bottom of the chest, and a foul smell wafting from it. The conditioned reflex went to cover his nose, but he heard Wuba say: "The Gu worms are all dead, these are corpse odors, and they are not poisonous." Now you can set fire to the tree, and burn the wooden box with it. ”

Just do it, there are whole barrels of gasoline on the van, which is supposed to be used as a backup in case the car gasoline cannot be connected, and the reserves are relatively sufficient. Therefore, at this moment, I took some of it, poured it on the trunk of the tree and the wooden box, and pulled out the weeds ten meters away from the surrounding area, so that the fire would not spread to the trees next to it, and it would become arson.

The flames were thrown into the circle and ignited at once, and because the trunk was loose and perforated, it was easier to catch than a solid tree, and it was not long before the fire went straight into the sky, and only a crackling sound was heard. After the fire, no matter what the soul of the goddess or the evil tree of the goddess was, it turned to ashes, and after the wooden box was burned, the porcelain jar inside was cracked due to the high temperature, and no flying insects flew up, just a black mass, which was soon burned by the fire.

We waited until the fire was extinguished and there was not even a spark left. Although there is no danger, but there is a haze in the heart, this has not yet entered the depths of the 100,000 mountains, and we have encountered witches, which is equivalent to a warning, which means that there will be more dangers waiting for us inside. The more you go in, the more rugged the road becomes, from the original wide road to a narrow dirt road that is only large enough for one car, especially on the outer side there is no railing, and a careless car may overturn into the ravine.

Because the whole morning was consumed because of the matter of the Bhaya tree, the original plan to reach the mouth of the primeval jungle in the evening changed, and the mountains were not suitable for driving at night, so they could only find a place to perch before dark, and finally chose to stop in the col of the two mountains, and only need to climb over the mountain in front of them tomorrow morning to reach the first entrance to the jungle, and then they had to rely on their own feet to cross the mountains, because there was no road for cars to drive.

Due to the heavy humidity in the mountains and the low temperature at night, only a few people slept in tents outside, and most of them nested in the car, but in order to save fuel, the heating and air conditioning were not turned on. Sheng Shiyao didn't let Zhou Tong and Liuzi keep vigil anymore, and they all stayed in the car, I guess it was because I had to start trekking through mountains and rivers tomorrow, and I had to conserve my strength. The night was calm and peaceful, nothing happened, except for the occasional terrible night birdsong, which sounded a little cautious and terrifying, giving people a feeling, like the calm before a storm.

When I woke up in the morning, I found that my mind was a little swollen, probably because I was disturbed by the bird and didn't sleep well. But when I asked Zhou Tong, he said that he had never heard the sound of birds at night, so I was stunned and went to ask Liuzi, but I didn't hear it. Could it be that I have heard again? Or did they all sleep dead and didn't hear? Sheng Shiyao came back from outside, looked at me with a sleepy face, and asked what was the matter. I immediately told him about the terrible cry of birds at night, and I thought he was so sensitive that he could not have heard it.

But seeing that his dark eyes were calm, he suddenly reached out and touched my forehead, frowned, and said, "Why don't you say anything when you catch a cold?" Zhou Tong, you go and ask Jian Ning for a cold medicine. Zhou Tong immediately responded and walked towards Zhuang Yuche, I was a little ignorant and dazed, did I catch a cold? I don't seem to feel it. Soon Jian Ningyi followed, took a medical kit in his hand, first pressed it in my ear with a temperature measurer, swept the numbers displayed on it, and whispered: "38.5 degrees, a little hot." Just take a pill and drink plenty of hot water. ”

Where is the hot water? For the past two days, I have been drinking reserve mineral water on the road. However, this problem was quickly solved, and Zhou Tong and Liuzi set up a fire on the side of the road, found an iron basin to put on it, and quickly boiled the water. On the neutralized warm water, swallow the medicine, and when I set off again, due to the medicinal properties, I soon became sleepy again, and when I fell asleep with my eyes closed, I thought about smelling the bird's cry in the middle of the night, Sheng Shiyao didn't answer me.

I was woken up, and I opened my eyes in a daze, and found that I had slept until noon, and our convoy had stopped at the entrance to the jungle. Instead of lining up in a long row, try to stop between the trees. The rest of the people were allocating resources and equipment, Sheng Shiyao touched my forehead again, and said in a low voice: "The heat has subsided, do you have the strength to move around?" I nodded hurriedly, and this sleep was very heavy, and I made up for all the night's sleep.

After getting out of the car, he walked around, and he didn't feel anything uncomfortable, so he walked towards Zhou Tong. When I got closer, I saw him and Liuzi getting together to straighten out their baggage, and when they saw me coming, they handed me a light backpack.