Chapter Eighty-Three: Activating Alien Missions
As soon as Wu saw the black snake drawn on the map, he reflexively glanced at his arm, and he was still a little afraid in his heart, if the black snake bit his neck without hesitation, I am afraid that at this time he would really sleep in the tomb with the white-haired zongzi as his companion. casually described the appearance of the black snake to the blind man again, so that the blind man could think about what kind of monster it was, and if he encountered it again in the future, he would have a countermeasure!
The blind man heard Wu Yi coldly mention the black snake with wings, and asked in surprise,
"Hey, Master Wu, you suddenly asked about that strange snake at this time, could it be ...... Could it be that there is a record of that strange snake on this map? ”
Wu Yi sighed and said,
"Hey, don't mention it, what kind of record is this! It's just a wordless book! Think about what that black snake is, and then I'll tell you what it's on this map! ”
The blind man was not verbose, but leaned on the back of the bench and fell into deep thought. Due to the need to find the tomb, the Xieling Lux are all proficient in history and ancient characters, and naturally they are familiar with some strange anecdotes, rare and exotic beasts, at this time the blind man thought about it for about half a cup of tea, and suddenly patted the arm of the chair and said,
"Hey, Master Wu, don't say it, the old man just thought about it, there is really a thing in history that is quite similar to that strange snake!"
According to the blind man, "Xunzi. "Persuasion" once mentioned a creature called the beetle snake, which is, "The beetle snake flies without feet, and it has wings", which may be the strange snake with two whiskers on the side, and this strange snake has also dabbled in several times in ancient poetry, Cao Cao said, "Although the turtle is long-lived, there is still a time." The beetle snake rides the fog and eventually turns into ash. The beetle snake mentioned in the song "Turtle Although Shou" that has been handed down to this day may also be about this strange snake.
It can be seen that such strange creatures really existed in ancient times! It's just that after the survival of the fittest by nature, this strange snake has almost become extinct in the outside world where we live. Under the tomb, the ecosystem is extremely simple, and by chance, there may be a few beetles that survived by luck, and they were met by the two of them.
As for the strange behavior of the army of dried corpses that Wu Yi saw in the end, it may also be because in the body of the dried corpse, there are beetle snakes, and the beetle snakes feel the breath of the outside world, so they control the corpses and swarm to the bottom of the cave entrance! Looking up, maybe he just wanted to see the night sky that he hadn't seen for thousands of years, not because he had any ill will towards the two of them.
Wu Yi listened to the blind man's explanation, and believed it in his heart, and then told the blind man about the things depicted on this map of ten thousand beasts, Wu Yi looked at this picture of ten thousand beasts a few times, and in the outermost part of these depicted animals, there were six circular encirclements outlined with gold threads, and these depicted animals were enclosed in it, like six golden ripples rippling outward.
When the blind man heard this, he was also quite surprised, frowned tightly, and said,
"The old man has only heard of the double dragon playing with pearls and the three dragons playing with pearls, all of which mean auspiciousness and peace, but he has never heard of the seven dragons playing with turtles, Master Wu, take a closer look, who will draw these strange little animals on the map?"
But there are indeed some strange creatures painted on it, where could Wu Yi be wrong? Wu Yi thought about it, but he had an idea, and suddenly said,
"You say, these animals ...... Could it be like a kind of code, well, yes, code, just like we will replace something with some simple graphics now, and the old thief doesn't want future generations to read the content on this map, so he uses these strange animals instead of words or mountains and rivers? ”
When the blind man heard this, his face immediately became happy, and he nodded and said,
"Hey, Master Wu, don't say it, your guess is really very likely! It's just that, if it's really as you said, the tomb owner replaced the terrain and mountains with animals, then this map, even if we keep it, I'm afraid it won't be of much use, this ancient code thousands of years ago, to put it to the point, there is no historical record at all, we want to decipher the mystery, a word, difficult! ”
But then the blind man chuckled again, took out the pieces of jade of different sizes from his pocket, and said,
"Fortunately, we still have these gadgets with written records, maybe, as long as we understand the text on them, it can also play some role in deciphering these codes!"
Wu Yi just wanted to say that with these few pieces of broken jade, I am afraid that it will not be of much use at all, but before he could speak, the cold voice of the system sounded in his mind.
"During the cooldown of the system task, the host activates the alien task to decipher the ancient code."
Then, a brand new list came to mind.
【Alien Mission】Deciphering ancient scripts
Goal: Obtain human skin map information
【Difficulty】One and a half stars
【Quest Rewards】Three Red Bone Closed Heart Pills, with a number of contribution points
Wu Yi was stunned for a moment, he was still speculating about what the system meant by the external task, but he didn't expect that at this time, between the conversation between himself and the blind man, he inadvertently received an external task.
It just so happened that I also wanted to decipher this strange map and see what information the thief was trying to hide, so this task was simply in vain! Wu Yi laughed twice, always feeling that he had picked up a bargain.
"Red Bone Closed Heart Pill! With this thing, even if you go to the grave again, you won't be afraid of cheating the corpse! ”
The blind man didn't know what Wu Yi was thinking, thinking that Wu Yi was making fun of what he said before, so he said seriously,
"Hey, Master Wu, it's not the old man who boasted about Haikou, just with these few big words, the old man can really find some doorways!"
Wu Yi nodded again and again on the side, saying that he could naturally trust you, and instructed the blind man that he must understand this strange map, maybe this map of ten thousand beasts represents a treasure cave, and we will send it when the time comes!
Then the two chatted for a while, and Wu saw that the blind man's face was full of exhaustion again, and he also knew that the blind man was injured and needed a good rest, and the blind man may not have slept well last night, so he got up and prepared to leave.
Wu Yi left his contact information and address to the blind man, and asked the blind man to contact him as soon as he had any text to decipher the breakthrough above, and he would immediately rush over, and after speaking, he rolled up the human skin map and left.