Chapter 7: Corpse Moths

But many people understand that their only option now is to keep going, but it doesn't take long for many people to feel that their bodies are getting heavier and heavier, as if there is something on their backs.

Commander Wu buried his head in his shoulder, squinted and looked around, it was pitch black in front of him, and he didn't see anything, but they felt that there were many hands around him constantly dragging his body, trying to pull him to the side.

Liu Xiancheng and Liu Dashuai obviously felt that a pair of small hands held his wrists.

The little hands were pimpled, and the skin was dry and cracked, Liu Xiancheng and Liu Dashuai thought of the nuns who were sacrificed by the living fire.

So, the saber in Liu Dashuai's hand swung towards these evil spirits.

This action is just to scare them and make them let go of themselves.

But these yin spirits hugged Liu Xiancheng's thighs to the death, and dragged Liu Xiancheng and Liu Dashuai hard.

"Let it go, otherwise, I'll only let your souls fly away!" Commander Wu's eldest brother roared angrily at these evil spirits, holding the three-love bell in one hand and shaking it constantly.

The three clear bells kept ringing, but these things in the black mist didn't seem to be affected, and they still kept stretching out their hands to pull away the people around Commander Wu.

In desperation, Commander Wu's eldest brother could only swing the money sword again, this time it was not a joke, but he was really ready to get rid of one.

Kill the chickens and make an example of the monkeys, so that they will no longer pester Commander Wu and them.

At this moment, I suddenly heard a "poof" sound, and a lot of blood splashed everywhere, and a lot of blood splashed on Liu Xiancheng and Liu Dashuai's head.

"Don't lick the blood on your face with your tongue, otherwise the corpse will poison your body, and no one will be able to save you", Commander Wu's voice sounded, and he could only wash his face with liquor.

From the moment it was invented, it immediately became a "political @ governance liquid", and due to its characteristics of excitement and scarcity, wine was a luxury in ancient times, and the earliest wine was used as a "spiritual thing" and a "holy liquid" for ceremonies, celebrations, wars and other solemn scenes.

In ancient times, the rulers believed that "the major affairs of the country are enshrined in Rong" The war determines the life and death of a tribe or country, and the warriors who go out on the expedition should use wine to stimulate their fighting spirit before setting off.

The relationship between sake and national events can be seen from this, and in rituals, sake, as a "supernatural thing", is first offered to the heavens, gods, and ancestors.

Washing your face with liquor can not only drive away the corpse poison in the blood, but also prevent yin qi from entering the body, so those people have been following Wu Jun for a long time, and they also know that the blood on their faces can only be washed off with liquor.

Commander Wu took out a talisman and lit it, and the surrounding black fog immediately dispersed, and seeing that Yuan Dashuai was safe and sound, everyone's hanging hearts were put down.

They turned around, and as a result, it was pitch black behind them, and they couldn't see anything anymore, and they had come out.

In front of them was a huge bronze Fuso tree, and it seemed to be alive, with many leaves on it, and no one would believe that it was made of bronze unless they looked closely.

There is also a stone tablet next to the tree, and the stone tablet has this text on it.

In the great wilderness, there is the name of the mountain called the sin shake the bar, there is a buttress, the pillar is three hundred miles, its leaves are like mustard, there is a valley called Wenyuan Valley, there is a buttressant on the soup valley, one day to the party, one day to the side, all contained in the black, many trees, leaves such as mulberry, and there are trees, the tree elder is 2,000 zhang, the big more than 2,000 around. Trees are born in pairs with the same root, more dependent on each other, the highest in the world, Fusang has no branches and trees, up to the sky, winds and bends down, leads to three springs.

Could it be that this is the legendary Fusang Sacred Tree, Liu Dashuai saw this scene, the corners of his mouth kept twitching, he stretched out his hand to touch the tree, but he found that his hand was also trembling.

"Dashuai, this is the legendary Fuso Sacred Tree, the legend is that on the eastern sea, the Fuso Tree is composed of two large mulberry trees that support each other, and the sun goddess Xi and the great god are driven up from here for her son Jinwu (three-legged crow, the spirit of the sun)."

"It is also said that it is the connecting gate of the divine realm, the human world, and the underworld, but it is only when Dayi stands on it and shoots the sun and breaks it, and it is difficult to contact the three worlds of man and god."

In other words, the ancients believed that the Fuso Sacred Tree was the only passage to the Three Realms, and that the gods of heaven could descend to earth along the ladder built on top of the Fuso Sacred Tree, and that people could also go up to the heavenly realm and down to the underworld through the ladder.

"But the entrance to the tomb is in the trunk of this bronze god tree, but it costs a lot to get into the trunk," said Commander Wu, looking at the bronze god tree.

Because there are many silkworm eggs on the bronze god tree, silkworms reproduce with eggs, and the ordinary silkworm eggs look very much like fine-grained sesame seeds, about 1 mm wide and 0.5 mm thick.

A female moth can produce about 450~500 silkworm eggs, weighing about 1 gram, silkworm eggs are pale yellow or yellow when they are first laid, after 1~2 days to turn red bean color, and then after 3~4 days it becomes gray-green or purple, it will no longer change, called fixed color.

The outer layer of the silkworm egg is a hard egg shell, and the inside is the yolk and serous membrane, and the embryo in the fertilized egg continuously ingests nutrients during the development process, and gradually develops into an ant silkworm, which crawls out of the egg shell, and the egg shell becomes white or light yellow after the egg shell is empty.

But each of the silkworm eggs here is the size of a human fist, and there are even quite a few cocoons and silkworm moths hanging upside down on the bronze sacred tree.

The silkworm moths are shaped like butterflies and covered in white scales, but they have lost their ability to fly due to the small size of their two pairs of wings.

The head of the silkworm moth is small ball-shaped, with bulging compound eyes and antennae; thorax with a pair of thoracoped feet and two pairs of wings; There is no gastropod in the abdomen, and the terminal somites have evolved into exophytes@colonial.

Some of these silkworm moths are large and some are small, and usually the female moth is large and crawls slowly; Male moths are small and crawl quickly, but their wings vibrate quickly and can fly in search of food.

The eggs laid by the silkworm moth → hatch the silkworm→ pupate → moth, and will complete the cycle of a new generation, which is the life history of the silkworm.

"Dashuai, I have a bold guess that these silkworm moths can survive here, not by eating the leaves of the Fusang Sacred Tree, because this Fuso tree is cast in bronze, these silkworm moths are alive, and if they want to live, they can only live by eating people."

"When we came here, didn't we find that there were a large number of nuns here? Maybe the nuns were used to raise these silkworm moths, so the silkworm moths did not die, but went into a dormant state after they were fed."

Although Liu Xiancheng and Liu Dashuai sound reasonable, he also can't understand how these silkworm moths are a little bigger, how can they live by eating people, and there are so many silkworm moths here, I don't know how many people have to eat to live.

"Dashuai, these silkworm moths don't have to eat every day, maybe they only need to eat once in ten or a hundred years, and then they hang upside down here and enter a dormant state, these are not silkworm moths at all, but corpse moths, which live by eating people's corpses."

"So they were kept here, the purpose is not to let people go into the trunk of the tree and find the tomb below, so Yuan Dashuai has never found here, maybe he has not been here at all, but when he was digging a secret passage, he happened to dig here."

"Then what should we do", Liu Dashuai also knew how to face these corpse moths.

"You can only use blood, these corpse moths are very sensitive to blood, as long as there is fresh blood, they can be completely awakened", Commander Wu looked at the sleeping corpse moths, presumably only with the blood of living people can these corpse moths be lured away.

"But the first thing to solve is the problem of yang energy on one's body, these corpse moths belong to yin, and they are very sensitive to the yang energy on people," Commander Wu looked at the yin soil on the ground, and directly grabbed the soil on the ground and rubbed it on himself, so as to cover up the yang energy on his body.

"Dashuai, move the black dog over, the black dog has a heavy yang energy, make a bleeding hole on the black dog's body, these corpse moths smell fresh blood, they will naturally wake up, and then all of them will pounce towards the black dog, we have limited time, when these corpse moths leave, hurry to the tree hole, go below", Commander Wu has already thought of how to lure these corpse moths away.

It is said that the dog is the most yang thing to overcome ghosts, and some people say that the eyes of animals are born with yin and yang, cats are yin, dogs are yang, and the yang of the dog itself is heavier than that of people, so there is a saying that the black dog's blood is used to draw talismans earlier.

Among this group of people, only Liu Dashuai has the heaviest murderous and yang energy, if all these corpse moths open their eyes, the first person to deal with is Liu Xiancheng and Liu Dashuai, so only a black dog with yang energy heavier than Liu Dashuai can lure these corpse moths away.

Soon someone moved over a black dog, and then Liu Dashuai shot the black dog in the thigh and directly let the black dog go.

Commander Wu also took out a lot of black dog blood and sprinkled it completely on the bodies of those corpse moths, and then they all lay on the ground and buried their bodies in the yin soil.

The yin energy of the yin earth was able to cover the yang energy on their bodies, and Liu Dashuai also put on the clothes taken out of the coffin.

The whole hall was filled with a pungent smell of blood, and soon all the stone moths opened their eyes, and then they all scrambled towards the black dog.

These corpse moths have not eaten for a long time, so their eyes are blood-red, and they soon can't wait to pounce on the black dog, and then those corpse moths all fall on the black dog, dense, so that people can't know how many corpse moths there are on this black dog.

In just one minute, all the flesh on the black dog's body was gnawed by the corpse moth, and there were only some bones left on the ground, and there was still a lot of blood on the bones.

"Let's go, hurry up to the tree hole, a black dog is difficult to satisfy the appetite of these corpse moths, if we don't leave, we will become the food of these corpse moths, if we don't want to die, we must act very fast", Commander Wu finished speaking, he had already climbed up the bronze god tree, and sure enough, he found a passage down in the tree hole.

He quickly took out the rope and tied it to the branch, and then pulled the rope with one hand and slid down the hole.

When he reached the ground, it was pitch black ahead, and Commander Wu took out a flashlight and shone it into the pitch-black air.

A hundred meters in front of them, there was a stone gate of the underground palace, and on the stone walls on both sides, there were oil lamps illuminated, and soon these oil lamps were lit, and Commander Wu saw everything in front of him clearly.

Their feet were full of piled bones, and there were many corpses, but most of them were blackened, and even the ground was still loose from the decomposing bones, and people could hear the sound of bones being trampled on them.