Chapter 85: Mermaid Paste (I)
Old Qiao's gaze suddenly became fierce, snatched the dagger from Liuzi's hand, and quickly stabbed it into Achen's palm. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
This series of actions happened so fast that it was too late for someone to react and want to stop it, and Old Joe's dagger had already pierced between Achen's two fingers.
Hearing a pop, a gray-white viscous substance overflowed from under Achen's palm, which looked like a brain, followed by the terrible screams of a child from below, almost piercing people's eardrums.
I was shocked, what Old Joe said was bloody, it turned out that he wanted to "kill" it!
Ah Li felt compassion: "Below, it can't be really a child, right?" ”
Liuzi said: "Don't be stupid, what child can live for more than 2,000 years?" It's a monster! ”
Lao Qiao pulled out the dagger, pressed Achen's palm, first pressed down, then up, and so on twice. Ah Chen's face turned white in pain, beads of sweat the size of beans flowed down his cheeks, his eyes were frighteningly red, the corners of his mouth were bitten by him, there was blood, his body trembled uncontrollably, I am afraid he couldn't hold it for even a minute.
I hurriedly said, "Why can't you pull it out?" ”
"Strange...... It shouldn't be......" Old Joe muttered to himself, pressing and pulling it out and trying again, but it still didn't work.
Liuzi was anxious, and pushed Lao Qiao away: "Lao Tzu is very strong, let me come!" The third master raised his hand and burst a chestnut on him: "You be honest for a while, don't make trouble!" Suddenly, he looked at Lao Qiao fiercely: "It's really not good, cut it......"
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and looked at the third master like a monster, saying that tiger poison does not eat children, how can he be ruthless?
Only Lao Qiao nodded understandingly, he already had this idea in his heart, and it was inconvenient for him to say it with his identity, so he could only wait for the third master to open his mouth and be the one who handed the knife.
I don't know why, my heart suddenly beats very fast, a craftsman, if he has no right hand, what is the difference between him and a waster? Moreover, Achen is still so young, and he is one of the eight errand runners, and he doesn't know what kind of secret he is carrying, if he quits the secret mission that I don't know because of this hand, then the truth will be buried forever?
I don't know if it was out of sympathy or personal selfishness, I suddenly stopped the third master like crazy: "Wait, is there really any other way?" He's your apprentice, how can you be so ruthless? ”
The third master stared at me firmly and said something he didn't understand: "Even if it's you, I will cut it." As he spoke, he shook off my hand, held Achen's arm with one hand, and raised the knife with the other.
"Don't!" I yelled.
At this moment, there was a "bang", and the dagger in the hand of the third master was hit by another dagger that flew from him, and the two daggers fell to the ground together.
Everyone looked at the cold bench that came over in shock, saw him stop in front of Achen, reached out and touched his chest, pulled off the sachet containing the lunar meteorite, and then pulled Achen's right hand, which was easily pulled away.
Achen breathed a big sigh of relief, his legs were weak, and he almost fell, and was held up from behind by the sixth son. The third master nodded to the cold bench in thanks, and helped Achen to the stone bridge to treat his wounds with the sixth son.
I saw that he had only flesh wounds on his palms, but not his muscles and bones, and that he was also being cared for, so I stayed behind and continued to investigate the lamp slave. Looking down from the mouth of the bowl, I saw a black mass, and the thing was injured and fell to the bottom, and I couldn't see it clearly. The junior brother and Ah Li added two more flashlights to the light, and they could barely make out the outline.
It was a mollusk about the thickness of an arm, and it should not have been completely dead, there was still a breath left, and the fleshy body was still writhing. The whole body, except for the head, is all black-brown soft armor, and there are circles of folds on the body, which are coiled underneath, and I can't see how long it is, but it doesn't feel too short, but looking at the volume, the longest will not exceed one meter.
The strangest thing is that its head, like a meteorological glass ball, has no facial features, and after being punctured by Lao Qiao, the brain pulp inside flows out, emitting a sour smell, which is very similar to the smell of vinegar bubble wick.
I really don't know how the lamp slave could raise such a monster?
I pinched my nose and asked Old Joe, "What is this?" ”
Old Qiao kept his head down and stared at the thing from beginning to end, until he heard me speak, he raised his head and looked very excited: "Xiao Qian, this time I made a lot of money!" If I'm not mistaken, this should be the real wick of the ever-bright lamp, a living sacrifice! Hey, I thought that my old Qiao had been traveling south and north for so many years, and I thought that I could only see this little guy in the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, but I didn't expect that there was still one here...... No, it's twenty-two! As he spoke, Lao Qiao looked behind him, and finally turned his head back, if it weren't for the fact that the mouth of the bowl was too small to support him, he would have been stuck in his head a long time ago.
The junior brother said: "Hmph, I knew that this lamp would not be so simple!" What wicks, you give a bit of clarity. ”
Lao Qiao took a deep breath and calmed down, but the muscles on both sides of his cheeks were still trembling with excitement: "According to legend, in the tomb of the first emperor, the three most valuable treasures are the mystery of the ancient corpse that does not decay for thousands of years, the second is countless gold, silver, jewelry and bronze products, and the third is the key technology of the eternal lamp - mermaid paste. It is recorded in the "Records of the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty" that "the first emperor ascended the throne at the beginning of his reign, wore the Lishan Mountain, and merged the world, and the world sent more than 700,000 people, wore three springs, and made coffins under copper, and the palace was full of strange artifacts and strange artifacts." Let the craftsman make a crossbow arrow, and shoot those who are close. With mercury as the rivers and seas, the machine is instilled, with astronomy and geography. With mermaid paste as a candle, the one who will not be extinguished will last for a long time. To put it simply, Qin Shi Huang just succeeded to the throne when he built a mausoleum for himself in Lishan, the underground palace passed through three layers of spring water, poured into a coffin with copper juice below, the treasures of civil and military officials were all filled with the palace, and the rivers, lakes and seas were made of mercury, and the power of machinery cycled back and forth, with astronomy and geography below, among them, the candle made of mermaid paste can be extinguished for a long time. This mermaid paste is extracted from the body of this little guy you see now. ”
The junior brother glanced down suspiciously: "You say, this is a mermaid?" ”
Lao Qiao swallowed and spit, and then said: "That's right, the ancients plucked off the eyes of young mermaids, and then filled the head with mercury and some special magnetization, and then sealed it in a glass container, waiting for it to fully corrode and dissolve, forming a solid-liquid mixed magnetization, which can be connected to the copper lamp bowl, and can refine the oil in the mermaid's body, providing a steady stream of energy for the wick, even if it encounters bad weather with wind and rain, it can keep the wind blowing and the rain not extinguished, which is really a great invention of mankind over the century!" ”
Ah Li asked, "Then why use a young mermaid?" And to gouge out the eye beads? ”