Chapter 15: The Hidden Gate
"That'...... Dare to ask your predecessors? He Qingyi asked cautiously, for fear that this person Gu would suddenly lose consciousness and go crazy and hurt Ji Qingyi.
"It's been seventy or eighty years, and I'm probably a hundred years old, old bones." Ren Gu sighed. Since coming to Shandong, he has been accustomed to a life of darkness and no sun and moon, and he doesn't know how many years have passed.
A cold feeling surged into Ji Qingyi's heart, such a vicious method, the people behind the scenes are probably not small. And to be able to touch something like Gu worms, this trip to the water is really muddy.
"Then how did the seniors know that this Tibetan Gate was extinct?" Ji Qingyi was a little puzzled, if it was really as he said, the Tibetan Gate was extinct, why did those human Gu in front of him still have traces of human breeding?
"I don't know how long it's been since I've seen someone from the Tibetan Gate appear. On the contrary, there are quite a few people from another sect. I'm old, I can't see what sect it is! The Gu man's hoarse sigh was filled with deep sadness, and Ji Qingyi and He Qingyi couldn't help but feel a little sad in their hearts.
"So, can you tell us a little bit about the Tibetan Gate or how you became like this?" Ji Qingyi asked. She thought that maybe the matter of the Tibetan sect had something to do with the sects that had emerged now.
As if trying his best to reminisce, the human Gu lowered his head and said slowly, "That was many years ago, about a hundred years. I was a five-year-old child, and I was born in the Nanban region to poor nomadic parents, and the Great Khan, called Nubichi, was the strongest king of our steppe. At that time, we had no communication with the Central Plains, and the Dongyi tribes in the northwest occasionally grabbed the food of the caravans, because our food was insufficient, and the Central Plains was like a fairyland in our eyes. ”
Ren Gu paced back and forth in place, he paused and said: "At that time, no one in our Nanban area had ever been to the Central Plains, but Nanban and Nanjiang were only separated by a river, and Nanjiang also belonged to the territory of the Central Plains, so our king invited some people to visit Nanjiang, and since then our disaster has begun......"
"Those people went for a long time, and we all thought they were no longer alive, and it took about four years to hear from them, and some people said that they had seen those people in the wasteland where they saw Xilinmana, and they were wearing the clothes of Miao Jiang, walking on the barren land of Xilinmana, and when the Great Khan knew about this, he sent some soldiers to check, and you may not believe it, I am the most powerful child in our steppe, and although I was young at that time, I could tear a sheep with my bare hands, So the Khan sent the soldiers with me. ”
"What a glorious thing it was, that my grandmother sold the cows of the family and gave me a garment, which was worth a lot of money at the time, and it was a garment that could only be worn by the prince and princess of the Great Khan, for which I knew that my aunt and my brothers and sisters would have to starve for a long time. Later, I followed the soldiers to Xilinmana, and I didn't see anything unusual along the way, but it was only later that I realized that the absence of anything unusual was the biggest difference at that time. ”
"At that time, it was the peak season of Xilinmana, and there were usually many Central Plains caravans coming from that wasteland, and they liked this season when there was no heavy wind and rain, so this season was also in the time when Xilinmana was in full swing. However, we didn't see anything at the time, and it was quiet like a lifeless cemetery. However, we didn't notice these at that time, and we were anxious to find those people who went to southern Xinjiang, ignoring the abnormality, which led us into the abyss. ”
The human Gu voice trembled suddenly, as if the terrifying scene was still vivid after so long, he shrank back in a little panic, as if he was hugging himself with his deformed arms to ask for warmth: "Those people came from southern Xinjiang, and they brought Gu worms. It's the Gu worm curled up and surging in my body right now, it's terrifying, it's terrifying. They made all the people who passed by Xilin Mana into Gu worms and sold them to southern Xinjiang. They were lost in money, and they were hooked by the beauty of the Central Plains. ”
"We found them in a cave, those people were wearing the clothes of the Central Plains, combing the hair ornaments that only the Central Plains have, they were stunned when they saw us, and then they welcomed us very warmly, and the food they brought out was something we had never eaten, and I still can't name them, do you know? These soulless people have put Gu in our food, those Gu and food have slipped into our stomachs, they have crawled into our veins, and they have made us into human Gu. , the human Gu is unconscious, and those soldiers have become puppet-like figures."
"Then you ......" Ji Qingyi interrupted Ren Gu's narration with a loud voice.
The human Gu seemed to have eased up, and he came out of the shadows: "I don't know, maybe it's because I'm the youngest." Those soldiers lost their consciousness after becoming human Gu, like puppets, but I don't know why I can still talk to those people. I cursed them in the most vicious language of the Nanban, but their eyes shone as if they had seen gold. They fed me a lot of poisonous weeds, and after eating the poisonous weeds, I could feel that the Gu worms were more excited in my body, and they wanted to raise me into a different human Gu, at that time, they didn't know that human Gu was the most unrasable thing for the conscious, because the conscious human Gu would not be as obedient as a puppet, and the body functions would not stop growing. ”
"When you come in, you see a lot of people Gu regularly, right? Among them are my clansmen, and they are also their clansmen, and the clansmen who have been made into human Gu have all stopped growing, and only me, only I am still growing with age. It's just that my originally sturdy body has become more and more obscene, and they say that I am a rare Gu cultivation container in a hundred years, and I can make a fortune if I sell it. They consulted with me and said that I should make a deal with them, and they would sell me to the Gu collectors in southern Xinjiang, so that I could escape from the airport and the money would be divided with me fifty-fifty. ”
"I hated them to the bone, and I wanted to skin them and eat them alive, but then I thought of my grandmother and my younger siblings. I would not dare to see them when I became like this, and I could not repay my parents for their nurturing kindness, so I agreed to their request. ”
They sold me to a Gu Warlock practitioner in Southern Xinjiang and got a large sum of silver, and they only gave me a dagger when they left, it's really ridiculous, do they think that people who practice Gu are fools? Since they had taken in a conscious living Gu like me, there was a way to deal with it, and the warlock had locked me in a cage that was covered in poison and had a wall of fire on the outside. As long as it is an insect, they are afraid of fire, so at that time, the Gu worms in my body were extremely restless, and they were surging back and forth in my body. ”
"That poison is my food, and human Gu feeds on poison, and he doesn't drink water or eat food. I was afraid of the wall of fire in that circle, and every time I tried to get close to the wall of fire, my body would be in pain, and I couldn't move as if I had been pointed. But in the end, I came out. The wall of fire was only half a meter, but I felt like I had passed through the vicissitudes of life, and the fear and pain you couldn't understand. ”
"Then I went to them, and they were amazed to see me come out, I was their cash cow, and they were happy that I could come back. I took the money and put it in front of my mother's tent in the dead of night, and then quickly hid. At that time, the news of the death of me and the soldiers had reached the Great Khan, and the Nanban people had not yet performed a major ceremony with us. When my mother came out of the tent and saw the silver, she ran out crying and called my name affectionately. But I didn't dare to agree, I would not let my mother see me like this. ”
"The cry of the living Gu was also extremely ugly, and I suppressed my cry and ran out of the Southern Barbarian Realm. Later, I was sold by those men several times, and I was blind in my eyes when I escaped several times. Later, the sorcerers in southern Xinjiang were unwilling to take over their business, and one day they trapped us on the altar and tried to burn us. ”
"They were all dead, they were all burned, and the warlocks who burned them to death tried to take me for themselves, and I was saved by the warlocks who thought they were the original. He gave me food, food and not poison. Let me eat like a human, but he didn't think about helping me detoxify, the Living Gu can be detoxified before it is formed. He asked me if I would like to detoxify, and I shook my head and refused. ”
"You must think I'm stupid, but I think it's good, at least I can protect myself enough to get some money for my mother. That warlock was the person of the Tibetan Gate, and the Tibetan Gate was such a prominent sect at that time......"
"And then?" He Qingyun asked.
Ren Gu shook his head: "Later, I was taken to the Central Plains by a warlock, and I don't know how long later, the Tibetan Gate was targeted by the imperial court and wanted to take it for himself, the owner of the Tibetan Gate was killed, and the children of the Tibetan Gate were killed." The warlock is also dead......"
Ji Qingyi took a few steps forward and looked at the scratches left by the human Gu on the cave wall, and turned around and asked, "This cave wall is so fragile, why didn't the seniors dig a hole out?"
"Get out? Hahahahahahaha......ha It's a dreary and gloomy place, but it's also a good place to go! ”
Ji Qingyi squatted down and prepared to comfort him, but she wanted to stop talking, this kind of incident, she really saw it for the first time. "Senior, you ......"
"Quick...... There is a sound there...... Over there! Before she could finish her comforting words, she was interrupted by a rush of footsteps. She turned her head sharply, only to see the fire in the cave behind her, and someone was rushing this way.