Through conversations, Cao Nan and I learned that Hu Lai debuted at the age of fourteen, and was first led into the door by a cousin, and later met a master for guidance, and gradually became popular and Taoist.

Six years ago, when he was eighteen years old, he successfully trapped a small insect and took the insect treasure.

Don't look at it as just a small insect treasure, this achievement is completely impressive.

There is a general characteristic of Dharma practice, the older you are, the higher the path is. The insect catcher is already excellent if he can get the insect treasure before the age of thirty. Hu came to eighteen to take the treasure, that is a genius.

Most insect chasers can only take treasure once in their lifetime, and they are generally over 40 years old, and only if they have accumulated enough experience and experience, the possibility of success will be relatively large.

This line is the same as most trades, it is a pyramid, and it can be taken once every two or three years, and you may not have seen what the insect treasure looks like in your life.

The number of eleven years was raised by the insect catchers on the top of the pyramids.

An ordinary insect catcher can take one in twenty years, which is not a delay.

I can't imagine that a person has been poor for 20 years, far away from his family, far away from the world, regardless of winter and summer, day and night, following the trail of big insects all over the world, eating wild fruits when he is hungry, drinking spring water when he is thirsty, and sleeping in the open air, just for a worm treasure with little hope.

It is precisely because the success rate is too low, resulting in the insect catcher is very out of the door, this line can be called few famous, after all, no matter how great the temptation is, if it is like the probability of buying a lottery ticket, it is a person who will retreat.

And it takes not only skill and experience to catch insects, but also luck is also very important. After all, chasing insects also depends on the temper of the object, and it is not easy to catch up with the bold.

As soon as the timid chased it, it jumped away, and the insect catcher couldn't catch up with the broken legs, and the bold couldn't catch up, and the old gods were not going to pee on you at all, and they could go wherever they wanted, and they wouldn't be driven at all.

I then asked the python if it was good to catch up, and Hu Lai shook his head: "I'm too bold to move." ”

I nodded slowly, as I could see from the last time in the peach grove, when the black dog came back and stabbed my grandfather's empty coffin. ㄣ

Thinking of this, I thought of the person who smashed the stone and was hit by me, Wei Xiaomin said that the person had a scar on his hand and was a local.

Could that person be in the same group as the insect catcher hiding in the shadows? The insect catcher hiding in the shadows drove the big insect to my grandfather's grave, and he must have wanted to borrow the brute force of the big insect to forcibly poke my grandfather's coffin open.

He didn't allow the big worm to be driven away by Hulai. So at the most critical time of Hulai deworming, a stone was smashed to destroy it.

The big worm was angry and opened my grandfather's coffin.

The exact information I had received in the past was that it didn't matter if it was a tomb robber or an evil spirit. I didn't dare to open my grandfather's coffin, and if I wanted to open it, there must be something special or dangerous inside.

But the big worm is different, that thing is a beast, and it doesn't understand that at all. The so-called brutal are afraid of the arrogant, the horizontal are afraid of not wanting to die, and the fearful of not wanting to die, which is probably the truth.

It's just a pity that Grandpa's coffin was opened but it was an empty coffin.

caused clouds to move in all directions, and the so-called contents of the coffin were completely a fake intelligence.

In this way, it can also be inferred that the python was also driven up the mountain, and the insect chaser in the dark seemed to be using the big insect to do something again.

It's best if you can catch him on this trip. If you can't catch it, when you return to your hometown, you must find out the guy who threw the stone and touch the melon.

After walking for a while, I saw a pond in front of me, and Hu said that he was separated from the big worm here yesterday.

I took a look, and the pond was at the bottom of a hill, about half a football field, and next to it was wooded and weedy, because the drought water mark had dropped a lot. A tidal flat is formed. There are a few lines of messy footprints on it, which look like they were stepped on by Hu Lai. No clues were found about pythons.

The last time the python entered Jinpen Township, it was floating in a relatively shallow place and forcibly breaking the ground, so a ravine was formed. But once it burrows into the deep river, nothing can be seen on the surface.

Hu Lai put the package down. He began to undress and take off his shoes, and said, "I'll see if it's gone." When he was done, he went straight into the water and dived under the pond.

I thought he would come up soon, but after a full ten minutes, the water was calm. He hasn't come up yet.

I was a little worried, so I asked Huang Mao: "I haven't come up for so long, will it be fine?" ”

"Don't worry, the insect chaser has been trekking through mountains and rivers all year round, and the kung fu of holding his breath is the ability to take care of the house. No accidents. The yellow hair was lying on a big stone next to him casually, and the old god was there.

"What did he do in the water?" Cao Nan also came over curiously and asked.

"Water is an extension of the earth's leylines, and under the land we live in, no matter what it is, mountains, grasslands, Gobi or deserts, there is a water system composed of underground rivers and gushing channels underground, just like the blood vessels on the human body, it is a big network, and the total amount of water is much more than the amount of water on the surface." Huang Mao said: "In fact, all water is connected, and the underground water system will occasionally emerge from the surface in the form of springs, forming ponds and lakes; The python forcibly breaks the ground is very difficult, so in most cases it follows the underground water network, and if it finds the flow direction of the water network, it can delineate its general direction and use it as a clue to track. ”

"Oh, I understand, Master Hu is going into the water to find the spring, and through the positioning of the spring, the underground water network is going." Cao Nan said. Hu Lai didn't agree to accept him as an apprentice just now, but he had already changed his name to master on his own.

Huang Mao nodded and said: "This is easy to say, but in practice, it is very testing the level of an insect catcher, if the big insect is below, it is okay to say, because every move of the big insect will cause changes in the spring, which is more obvious." But if the big insect has left, it will be complicated, and the flow direction of the water network should be considered comprehensively in combination with the topography of the mountains and rivers, and it is not something that can be clearly explained in a word. ”

That's all it takes. Hu Lai finally finished exploring, surfaced and swam to the shore, and Cao Nan ran over and pulled him up very diligently.

"What's going on?" Huang Mao sat up and asked.

"The water is going up the hill to the east, let's go." Hu Lai answered, and immediately got dressed and prepared to go on the road.

I was stunned when I heard this, doesn't the water flow from a high place to a low place, how can it still go up the mountain?!

At first glance, this statement subverts the appearance of the three views.

So I asked, "Will the water still go up the mountain?" ”

"I know this!" Cao Nan suddenly jumped out with a smile and said, "There is no air in the underground dark river, and the water can be pumped up, am I right, master?" ”

It dawned on me that I had been kidnapped by a mindset, and the underground underground rivers were all closed, thousands or even tens of kilometers away from the surface, and the air could not enter at all.

Just like a water pipe, as long as the inlet water is higher than the outlet, no matter how you walk in the middle, up and down, even the highest mountain can flow through.

The source of the leyline water system must be in a high place, and the outlet is generally the sea, which completely meets the conditions, and no one can say how it walks, how it goes around, and how it rises and falls in the middle.

"Stupid, huh?" Huang Mao glanced at me with disdain, turned his head to Cao Nan and said, "You are very talented, my brother is optimistic about you." ”

Cao Nan was suddenly happy, and rushed to carry the package for Hu Lai, as if he was an apprentice honoring his master. Then we set off, and Hu Lai asked us to remove the battery panels of all electronic products, even the batteries of the flashlight.

Then he took the compass in his hand and led us barefoot up the hill to the east.

He would stop to look at the compass every time he walked, and when he came across the softer soil, he would poke his foot into it to feel the moisture, and then move on. If you encounter a stream of waterholes. He would stop and observe carefully.

This walk is a full afternoon, we have penetrated into the northernmost part of the south field, and will soon enter the range of Jinpenling.

I don't know how Hu Lai obtained information to determine the direction of the underground waterway, bending left and right, going up and down the mountain. But looking at his face, he has always been quite relaxed, and obviously he is not wrong.

After that, I suddenly thought of a question, "What if this underground waterway forks, which one to chase?" ”

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