Chapter 2: The Dark Hole
"Don't talk to any of you on the way, you will do whatever I want you to do." The little man chattered as he walked, his legs were short, but his pace was fast, and he walked in a hurry, and he didn't look back.
Ding Xiaocong subconsciously glanced at the middle-aged man, and beeped in his heart, did we speak? Looks like you're just nagging all the way, right?
Walking through the streets and alleys, circling among the chaotic houses like spider webs, when Ding Xiaocong was dizzy, his vision suddenly opened up, and he finally walked out.
Looking ahead, a small river meanders and flows, both sides of the river are full of rice paddies as far as the eye can see, and beyond, there are lush green hills, covered by clouds and mist, a tropical scene.
This small river is the Boundary River, and along the bank of the river there is a dirt road, and an army-green jeep patrols several soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition, and the dust is billowing behind the car.
"See? Now the situation is tense, if you are not a local, you can't get a pass at all, I took you over and took a big risk, 5000 yuan is definitely not expensive. "The little man is still chattering.
Looking at the military vehicle, Ding Xiaocong and the middle-aged man all frowned, is there something wrong over there?
The little man said no more, bowed his head and walked along the dirt road by the river.
When passing by the military vehicle, the soldiers in the car glanced at the three of them, did not see anything, and roared away.
Something is obviously wrong with the situation, Ding Xiaocong is starting to get nervous, shouldn't something happen?
His original plan was very simple, after entering the northern part of MD from here, he would immediately charter a car to rush to the border of the northern province of country T, pass through from there, and then go to the Orchid Temple where Zhou Tongti had cured his illness, and from there he launched a search. The Gu Lord is too mysterious and has no information, so he can only look for clues from the Ghost King.
When Chinese people mention the border, they always feel that it is an extremely distant concept, in fact, this is because Huaxia is too big, and the concept of going to other countries in these small Southeast Asian countries is similar to that of our province, if the infrastructure is good, it will be there in a few hours.
Far and farther away from his hometown, Ding Xiaocong has never gone out so far alone, and it is the first time to go abroad, and in this way, thinking of this, his mood is low.
What is the old flower doing? Rue should have reported to the school, right? Jiang Baina? How's mom and dad's health......
The young man is homesick......
There are two ways for people in the world to live, one is to rush people, the other is to drive people away, either people are in a hurry or things are to drive people, from the first day you step into the society, don't think about idleness.
Thinking crankily all the way, I unconsciously walked into a small border village.
This is a village of mixed ethnic groups, but dozens of families, living near the water, there is a huge banyan tree in the village, growing by the small river, the canopy covers the sky, covering the whole village, bringing a rare coolness to this hot place.
People in the tropics are more lazy, which is related to the climate, the time is in the afternoon, it is the most sleepy time of the day, there are almost no people in the village, even the dogs are lazy lying in the shade of the trees to sleep, people walk over they will move their ears, even blink their eyelids.
The little man led Ding Xiaocong and the middle-aged man into the middle of the village and came under the huge banyan tree.
There is a dilapidated log cabin under the banyan tree, and a line is written crookedly in a black pen on the door: Longzhu Grocery Store.
The little man stepped forward and unlocked the door, pushed open the dilapidated wooden door, and tilted his head at the two, "Come in." ”
There are only two entrances to the wooden house, and there is a small grocery store at the entrance, and the shelves are sparsely arranged with instant noodles, spices, tobacco and alcohol, and it is obvious that business is not good. Walking through the grocery store, inside was a dark room with a musty smell and a very bad smell.
Since this house was built next to the big banyan tree, the inside was close to the trunk, and there was no place to open the window, and the sun was not seen inside all the year round, and the smell could be imagined.
There is no one else in this house, it seems that the little man's name is Long Press, and I don't know which nationality it is.
There were several coarse porcelain jars in the deepest corners, and the dragon pressed over and moved the jars away one by one, making a difficult gasping sound. When he walked, he seemed to be very strong, but when he bent over, his body seemed weak, and he seemed to have been severely traumatized, leaving the root of the disease.
A jar was moved to the front, Ding Xiaocong looked down, his eyesight was excellent, and he could see a large centipede with a foot long in the jar, alarmed, crawling in it, and the bottom of the altar "rustling" sounded.
Except for the big centipede, the bottom of the altar was covered with insect shells, all of which were dry and hard, and it was estimated that they were eaten by this big centipede.
This is Gu!
Ding Xiaocong was taken aback and blurted out in surprise, and at this moment, the middle-aged man raised his hand to stop him. Turning his head to look over, the middle-aged man who had been not squinting cast a stop look, and then returned to indifference.
"Who is he?" Ding Xiaocong's heart moved, but now is obviously not the time to ask these questions.
"What's wrong with Gu?" Hearing Ding Xiaocong's exclamation, Long Zhu turned his head, inexplicably, "We all raise this here, as long as we raise it well, no rats, snakes and insects in the house dare to enter, you foreigners, make a fuss." ”
Ding Xiaocong heard that it was cold, and he kept this thing as a pet, and sure enough, when he arrived at the base camp of evil spells, everyone played with this.
Gu art is actually divided into two categories, one was brought to Southeast Asia by the evil witches who moved to Xiangjun during the Qin and Han dynasties, and this part is called "witch Gu". There is another type that has been handed down by the cave family of the ancient Chu Kingdom, which is mainly inherited by the Miao people, so it is called Miao Gu.
This kind of Gu raising method of devouring each other by hundreds of insects is a typical Miao Gu, which is mainly spread in the southwest of China, and it was indeed raised by every household in the past, but now it is rare.
In the early years, when the Miao family went to other people's homes as guests, the host would sprinkle a piece of quicklime at the door of the house and let the guests step over, the function was to prevent guests with bad intentions from bringing Gu into their homes. No matter what kind of seedling Gu they are, they are very afraid of quicklime, and both sides know this.
There are also some who do not sprinkle lime, but toast a few large bowls of wine at the gate, in fact, the effect is the same, Miao Gu is also very sensitive to alcohol, the owner is drunk, and Gu will also show its form.
Long Pressure is probably because he lives alone, or he is doing unsightly things, so he raises a lot of Gu, there are seven altars, and it took half a day to move it, revealing the deepest wooden wall.
There was a stronger musty smell on the board, and the dragon pressed over to find some mechanism, and removed a piece, revealing a swarthy hole behind the wall, which only allowed one person to pass through, and it was the hollow of the big banyan tree.
"Go in, get to the end, and climb down the tree, and you'll be on the other side." Long Jian clapped his hands, tilted his head into the hollow of the tree, and motioned for them to enter.