Volume 3 Miao Jiang Insect Medicine Chapter 23 Deception

As Kongtongzi said, this should be a big tomb, there are these things is not unusual, I folded my hands, bowed inside, and silently recited in my heart: Don't be surprised if you disturb the ancestors, and then we turned around a lot, and found no trace of the frog mother-in-law.

Finally, we found a mud jar in front of us, because there are very clear footprints here, I looked up and down for a long time, it is impossible to go to heaven and earth, could it be that the frog mother has entered this mud jar, looking at the jar the size of a bull's head in front of me and feeling a little ridiculous.

Kongtongzi pinched the black powder remaining on the mouth of the can, sniffed it under his nose, and said, "This is human blood!" ”

"Human blood?" I was a little puzzled.

"Well, it's human blood after frying, blood powder." After speaking, Kong Tongzi looked around again, and continued: "If I guessed correctly, all the medicine Gu placed here are placed. ”

Later, Kongtongzi opened several jars around him, and in addition to all kinds of shriveled insects, there were things like human hair and nails, and the smell was very unpleasant.

For human medicine, there are also many in Han land, just like blood residual carbon, but they are all disposable and even feces and urine, just like children's urine can remove evil heat, cold and heat, headache, cure long-term cough, and return to the lungs with the spleen qi; Then there are people who burn yellow into powder to cure vomiting blood, etc., but the human medicine here is human blood, and there may be eyeballs or heart and lungs, which are very evil.

Kongtongzi explained to us that the Miao people are even more convinced of the way of supplementing the form with form, which is inevitably a little cruel, just like eating people's hearts to replenish the heart, eating people's gall to cure Fulian, so in addition to Gu worms, there are also a lot of human medicines in the Miao land, just like the barn jar hanging above, the Miao family believes that the human soul can cure fright or soul disease.

After listening to Kongtongzi's explanation, Xia Ti said: "In other words, Granny Frog came here to collect human blood to treat her knife wounds and stop bleeding." ”

Kongtongzi nodded and said, "Well, human blood does have such an effect. ”

I probed Hua Bo's snort, and there was still a little weak breathing, so I asked Kong Tongzi if there was any medicine here that could cure Hua Bo.

Kongtongzi shook his head and said that Hua Bo's illness was not an ordinary illness.

We searched here again, but we didn't find the shadow of Granny Frog, and we didn't find anything unusual, so we waved at Xia Ti and Kongtongzi.

"It's poisonous here!" Suddenly, Xia Ti called out in a low voice.

I followed Xia Ti's point, and I saw some gray and black powder scattered indiscriminately on the stairs leading to the upstairs, which was "zombie Gu poison", this poison always makes people shudder, Da Zhuang was infected with this poison, and Qingyun even lost his life, but the Gu poison here was not evenly cast, and it was even said to be messy, obviously it was just cast by the frog mother-in-law, so it didn't make us hit, but exposed her haste.

We were twelve points cautious, bypassed the Gu poison, and went up to the second layer to find that this place had been sealed. The second floor is barely our place to stand, and the three layers inside and the three layers outside are tightly sealed with wooden planks all around.

However, since the frog mother-in-law has come up, she will not disappear out of thin air, there must be an entrance.

So, we searched carefully and struck each one with the sword in our hands

Sure enough, one of them made a different sound, and it was even clearer, and when the dagger was removed, a small hole was revealed, and the other side of the hole was completely black.

As a precaution against fraud, I didn't rush in, so I lit a fire and threw it through the hole, and the room was illuminated.

The others also followed, the torches illuminated the place, this is the main hall on the second floor, the scene in front of me is a little scary, the surrounding walls are full of dried corpses, densely packed with hundreds, these dried corpses have shrivelled bodies, a layer of oil oozing on the dark brown skin, it can be judged that these people should have been dead for many years.

These dried corpses included young men and women, as well as old men and children, but their deaths were surprisingly familiar, and their bodies stood straight, their eyes were staring and their mouths were long, and their expressions were extremely terrifying.

I saw Xia Ti staring at a dried corpse in a trance, so I asked her in a humble voice if she had made any new discoveries.

Xia Ti pointed to the neck of the dried corpse and said that he had a snake tattooed on his body, and I understood what she meant, which means that this person is from the snake clan.

I took a closer look, although it is difficult to identify, but I can still see that there is indeed a small snake tattooed on the neck of the dried corpse, I saw a few dried corpses, not only snakes, but also frogs and silkworms, indicating that the dried corpses here are all people of Sanzhai, Sanzhai restrains each other, doesn't it mean that they don't interact with each other? How could they die here without separating each other? Could it be that they are fighting each other?

Look at the main hall on the first place there is a skeleton sitting on the Taishi chair, from the size of the skeleton this person is very short, it is very likely that there is a woman, the ribs of the skeleton are inserted in a dagger, in her arms holding a copper bowl, the bowl is empty, there is a bronze lid on the table next to it, I tried to cover the lid on the bowl, sure enough, the cover is tight, don't look at this is just an inconspicuous small copper bowl, the production is extremely exquisite, even in the Han land can not find such a meticulous process.

Kongtongzi pointed to the wall behind him and said, "It seems that there are still words engraved on it." ”

Xia Ti shone it with a torch, and indeed behind this skeleton was a wooden wall that resembled a screen, and I immediately wiped the dust off it, revealing a distinctive plank, made of a single piece of mahogany, and indeed engraved with many words.

The wood of the mahogany is extremely hard, and although it has been worn out over the years, you can still make out the contents on it if you look closely, and these characters are all Chinese characters, which actually records a shocking secret.

The person who carved this text is this skeleton, she is the witch doctor of the frog clan, or the witch doctor of the whole Sanzhai, it turns out that there were witch doctors in the upper, middle and lower Sanzhai, because Sanzhai does not intermarry, and rarely interacts, but the witch doctor can walk freely between the three villages, and naturally becomes the matchmaker between the three villages, with a high status, and is deeply loved by the clansmen.

But it happened in the first year of Yongshou, that is, more than 30 years ago, a middle-aged Taoist priest came to the village, claiming to be the Venerable of the Fang Immortal Sect, and he held this copper bowl with a lid in his hand, saying that it contained a golden beetle holy worm, this insect was raised by the immortal family, and he went through a lot of hardships from the gate of heaven and earth under the Kunlun abyss, this insect is not

Fear of severe cold, not afraid of water and fire, can live forever, if the poisoned person takes this worm, this worm can swallow the poison in the person, to achieve the effect of detoxification and disease, but this worm can also devour the soul of the person, so the worm must be drawn out within two hours, otherwise the person who swallows the worm will be like the walking dead to be controlled, but this worm is the only one in the five elements of the gold, so it will be included in this covered copper bowl, this thing does not need to be said, that is this beetle.

The witch doctor has raised Gu worms since he was a child, and when he heard that there was such a strange thing in the world, he was naturally moved, so he found three poisoned clansmen from the upper, middle and lower three villages, one of them was bitten by a poisonous snake and injured his leg, the whole leg was blue-black, and his life was about to be guaranteed, Fang Xianjiao This Venerable, that is, this Taoist priest opened the copper bowl, and the golden scarab in the bowl bounced out with a golden light, and flew straight into the patient's mouth, and the result was as he said, less than a stick of incense, the person's entire leg returned to normal, and the blood flowing out of the wound turned from black to red. The snake venom is completely gone.

In the end, the Taoist priest used the corpse wax prepared in advance to lure the beetle out, put it back into the copper bowl, and then tried the other two clansmen, the result was similar, the poison in them was lifted one by one, all this really happened in front of his eyes, to the surprise and joy of the witch doctor.

The Taoist priest said that he was willing to exchange this treasure insect for a kind of Gu medicine for a witch doctor, called "Bai Gu Tong Brain Pill", this medicine is made of a hundred kinds of Gu worms as the name suggests, and it is a unique ancient recipe passed down from ancient times by the ancestors. Those who take this "Bai Gu Tong Brain Pill" can see six ways and hear all directions, strengthen their physique, and their skills will increase more than ten times, but they need to take the antidote regularly, otherwise every fifteen full moon nights, hundreds of insects will eat the brain, headache and death, and it will become more and more serious, until the person will die of pain.

The Taoist priest only said that he wanted to use this medicine to help him achieve positive results as soon as possible, and the witch doctor refused to agree at first, and then thought about the insects and snakes in the seedlings, the people were bitten and poisoned from time to time, and many people died because they failed to treat it in time.

In fact, it was the witch doctor who was greedy, so he agreed, passed the Hundred Gu Tong Brain Pill and the antidote to the Taoist priest, and exchanged it for the scarab. But just a few days after the Taoist priest left, the three clansmen who were detoxified by the scarab became walking corpses who could only kill people, and soon many people in Sanzhai became the living dead who killed people like this.

All of a sudden, the clansmen were panicked, saying that it was the witch doctor who brought the man-eating demon, and the clansmen between the three villages no longer trusted each other, and they all thought that the other party brought the demons, and in desperation, the patriarch of the three clans decided to lead all the living clansmen to take refuge in the sacred tree.

The witch doctor regretted it, and had no face to see the clansmen again, so she stayed alone, she held the belief that she would die, plundered and killed several living dead, and after repeatedly studying their bodies, she found that she was in the hands of the immortal Taoist priest, because this scarab is extremely felive, and every time it is drawn out, it will lay an egg in the host's body, if the scarab flies back into the person's body, it will eat the egg, if it does not fly back, the egg will break out after seven days, and become an adult, until it completely devours the spirit of the person, Eventually turn it into a murderous puppet.