Chapter Forty-Nine: The Broken Compass
To tell the truth, I have always felt that although Lu Chuan has a perverse personality and is very selfish, it may just be a problem of lack of upbringing, maybe with the accumulation and precipitation of time, he will learn well and become an adult.
It's just that when he said this kind of thing now, it made me have an inexplicable urge to strangle him in my heart, just now, five minutes ago, if it wasn't for the bodyguard around him who pulled this kid away in time, maybe he would have been buried in the mouth and belly of the cockscomb snake, and escaped death, isn't he grateful at all?
I originally thought that Lu Chuan just lacked some upbringing, which led to a perverse personality, but now I have changed my opinion, some people, brought out of the mother's womb are selfish genes, and he doesn't understand what words of gratitude he says to him.
The chaos in the canyon has come to an end everywhere, anyway, it was Lu Chuan's bodyguard who was hired by Lu Chuan for money, and I didn't have the heart to save it, so I turned around and left.
Successfully left the canyon, the mountain fire swept into the sky, we could still see the billowing smoke from a long distance, the terrible screams in the canyon had stopped, the mountain wind blew, our faces were soaked with cold sweat, Ge Zhuang sat on the ground, and said that those grimace insects should have been burned to death, right?
I said yes, such a big fire, even if there are still a few left, it shouldn't be a concern. It's weird, aggressive, and full of bugs, but as long as it's not very numerous, we're not afraid.
Chen Yun counted the number of people, and then found us with a calm face, saying that there were only 9 people left in the team now. When going down the valley, the team had a total of 15 members, and the number of people would be reduced every time they advanced a section of the route, and the remaining few members of the scientific expedition team were also frightened, and they all sat down on the ground tremblingly, looking at the billowing smoke pillars rising in front of them, and their faces were sad.
Ge Zhuang saw that the atmosphere was too depressing, so he smiled and said that only those who can withstand the test are good comrades for revolution and life, and natural selection is the law of nature. Chen Yun said with a cold face that you are too capricious, right? Those are living human lives.
Ge Zhuang sneered, glanced at her with slanted eyes, and said nonchalantly, "Fat master, I'm just telling the truth, these people are all recruited by you, you guessed the Hades Palace, who should be the first person they want to sue?" Chen Yun's face was ugly, and when I saw this, I quickly pushed Ge Zhuang on his back, saying that you are talking in such a weird way, shut up.
Ge Zhuang looked at me and didn't squeak. In fact, I don't know what he thinks in his heart, compared to three years ago, Chen Yun's personality has indeed changed a lot, and I even doubt that she is still not the Chen Yun I knew before, although I can occasionally see a little shadow of the year, but more often, Chen Yun brings me the feeling of coldness and not easy to get along with.
"Don't talk about it, I counted the equipment just now, and most of it has been consumed, and the ammunition stock is not enough, so we must save some in the future!" The old bell came over with two duffel bags, threw the bags at my feet, and said that Mahler is a bastard, and before I found the tomb, there are so many monsters popping up in this ghost place, what was it just now, witchcraft?
Chen Yun shook his head and said no, theoretically speaking, witchcraft is just a kind of spiritual power, when a person's spirit is strong to a certain bottom, it can release brain waves to invade another person's mind, produce potential consciousness resonance, confuse brain function, and give wrong instructions, such as a good person, suddenly the whole body begins to rot, and the cause cannot be detected, but it can't be stopped, this is not an external force, but a person's potential consciousness is confused, and the body is given a big wrong instruction.
She paused and went on to explain, "So witchcraft is invisible, just a magnetic field acting on the spirit. ”
I said I don't want to hear you talk about so many theories, even if we know the principles of witchcraft, we can't guard against it, I just want to know what the monster that used to move in a human face was? Chen Yun said, that should be Gu!
What is Gu?
Gu is a kind of mysterious object that is artificially cultivated, applied by special methods, and carefully cultivated for many years, which can be large or small, generally manifested as animals, tiny organisms or germs, but there are also very few plants that are very weird.
The inheritance of Gu art has been withering day by day, and the existing Gu masters do not exist at all, and they are known as the three major witchcraft in Southeast Asia together with Xiangxi corpse expulsion technique and Nanyang head lowering technique. But that's just some kind of legend circulating in the five-cent-a-piece stall publications, and no one has seen it in reality.
Chen Yun sat down and continued, "In ancient times, witchcraft is not separated, whether it is witchcraft or Gu magic, there is the same ancestor, that is, the national teacher under the account of the god of war in southern Xinjiang, it is said that in the battle of the deer that year, the army of Chiyou retreated after defeat, and the combined army of the two emperors of Yan and Huang took advantage of the victory to pursue, and as a result, the national teacher under the account of Chiyou launched divine power in order to get rid of the chasing soldiers, attracting a vast fog, isolating thousands of miles, the Yanhuang alliance army fell into the fog and was difficult to escape, so it could only ask the Nine Heavens Xuannu to help, and the fog miasma was blown away with a strong wind, And the fog miasma that is blown away by the wind is also returned to the ground, and it will come back every rainy day, so the fog miasma in the southwest is such a source. ”
She said that witchcraft was originally called "fog", (fog is the traditional Chinese character for fog), and later Chinese characters evolved with the times, and the word "witch" was born, and Gu art is also the same as witchcraft, which was also born from fog, and was a means of fighting between ancient witches and gods.
Lu Chuan said in a weird manner, "Ah Yun, you have started telling stories again, how can there be any gods and ghosts, these are all superstitions, and they are not advocated at all." Chen Yun didn't speak, Ge Zhuang couldn't help but refute him, saying that you kid knows a fart, if there is no Gu technique, what did we see just now?
Lu Chuan shrugged his shoulders and said with a relaxed expression, "Ancient times, there are too many creatures born, how can you finish talking about it?" Maybe those ghost-face insects are just creatures left over from ancient times, and no one has come down to the canyon for thousands of years, forming an independent demeanor system, such as vampire flying foxes, cockscomb snakes, and that kind of ghost-face insects, which should be left over from ancient times. ”
Chen Yun wanted to end the dispute, so he said that no matter whether these are witchcraft or not, in short, if we encounter it, we must find a way to avoid it, and now we can only hope to find the tomb, otherwise we will only lose more if we search endlessly.
When she said this, I suddenly felt a movement in my pocket, and hurriedly asked Chen Yun to wait first, then lowered my head to rummage through the bag, and gently took out the compass of Feng Shui, only to find that the north-south pointer on it had been rotating irregularly.
The compass is also called Luo Geng, Westerners use it to sail, we Chinese found this thing is to measure feng shui, I only know the skin of feng shui, and I can't see any doorway, carry it with me just to facilitate directions, after going down the tomb, people go too far in the dark environment, will gradually lose their sense of direction, and having a compass will be much more convenient.
The compass was held in my hand at the moment, the north and south pointers were rolling in circles frantically, Ge Zhuang's eyes were round, and he came over and said Little pumpkin, is this thing broken? I'll just say that the things you buy for a few dollars are not useful, and you still don't believe me!