Chapter 16 Burning insect eggs with vigor and resoluteness
The snoring was faint, I sat in the house where the laborers lived, and kept looking towards the construction site, because there were soldiers patrolling, it was not easy for me to get the purple meat balls, and all the purple meat balls during the day were taken away by the superintendent.
I was afraid that the soldiers who were overseers would not dare to reveal the identity of the high priest, and the patrolling soldiers were getting farther and farther away, and this was a good time, so I took advantage of the cover of the night to run quickly to the construction site, and of course there were some in the soil that had not been dug up, and when the work was stopped, I found that one was too troublesome to dig up, and buried it with soil.
I went up to the construction site, dug out the purple ball, and got back into the house where I lived, all very quickly.
The purple ball of flesh looked very strange in the moonlight through the window, and I looked at the people on the bed again, and I gently picked up the knife on the side, and I was about to cut the ball.
I don't know what is inside without cutting the meat ball, as the blade slowly touches the meat ball, I feel the blade sink into the meat ball for a few minutes, the knife slowly cuts the meat ball, and a large puddle of snot-like things flow out of the meat ball, and I hit a hard thing with the knife downward, could it be that this thing has a core!
I took out the knife and began to use it to break open the meat ball, and as I slowly broke it, the hard thing inside was exposed, and I looked at it, and it almost didn't scare the meat ball in my hand.
What kind of nucleus is the one inside, it's obviously a curled corpse worm, the corpse worm has not yet formed, and the flesh color is not obvious to ordinary people This is a worm, no wonder those people have been poisoned by the corpse, it seems that the meat ball is an egg that gives nutrients to the corpse worm, and this thing must be eradicated quickly.
I threw the worm on the ground and trampled it to death, then I stuck my head out to look at the soldiers who were not on patrol, and began to run towards the city, and entered the palace to tell the high priest that it must be eradicated tonight.
At night, there were no soldiers guarding the city gates, only patrols, and the closed city gates could not stop me, so I stepped on the wall.
Soon I climbed over the walls and began to make my way towards the palace.
Seven steps all the way to the sky, quickly arrived at the palace, at this time the palace is still brightly lit, because there are many people in the medicine hall next to the priest's palace, and King Langya also has to deal with the affairs of the court.
I came to the door of the main hall and kicked open the door of the main hall, King Langya was dealing with the twists, he was frightened by my fierce attack, and then came back to his senses and asked, "Heavenly Priest, what are you doing today?" ”
"King Langya, please gather quickly, 100 people go to the construction site outside the city, I have already discovered the source of the corpse poison."
All this must be done quickly for me, if the corpse worm is delayed in hatching for a few days, this Langya City will face a disaster.
"Good"
As soon as King Langya heard that he had discovered the source of the corpse poison, he immediately put down the song, and then said to the eunuch next to him: "Hurry up and gather a hundred people to follow the high priest to eliminate the source of the corpse poison." ”
King Langya finished reporting here, and I hurried to the priest's palace again.
"Where did the priest go on this day, there are not enough medicinal herbs at all, but the patient still has to wait for the change of medicine." The high priest was in a hurry, and the maids next to him kept putting the medicinal herbs into a large wooden barrel, and there were more than twenty wooden barrels in the medicine hall.
"High priest, I already know the source of the corpse poison, so follow me out of the city."
I didn't have time to wait for the high priest to answer, and rushed into the house to pull her away.
The high priest was stunned and ran after me and said, "Why did you discover the source of the corpse poison?" ”
"Hmm," I nodded, "The source of the corpse poison is at the construction site outside the city, and there are corpse eggs under the construction site, and many workers take them home and eat them." ”
"Then did you tell Brother Wang?"
"Tell him to rest assured."
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At this time, a hundred soldiers with torches had already gathered outside the city, standing by the pit, and the light of the torches illuminated the outside of the city, and all the workers were woken up by the soldiers and came out of the house.
I came with the high priest.
"Dig for me, whatever you want to do with this land."
I ordered, and there were more eggs buried in the ground, and the soldiers took out the workers' shovels and began to jump into the pit to dig loudly.
Not long after they went down, someone found the eggs, and "all the people who found the purple balls were thrown behind them." ”
"Young man, are you?" The uncle who works with me lives here, he looked at me suspiciously and said.
"Heavenly Priest"
"Meet the Heavenly Priest, what the old man said during the day, don't take it seriously when you have a lot of adults, there are no corrupt officials"
The uncle and all the workers knelt down.
I walked up to the uncle and said, "I'll take it seriously, the national capital should be cleaned up." ”
The high priest suddenly said, "Heavenly priest, did you dig up all these eggs and burn them, and don't you leave one as a clue?" ”
"What do you mean by that? Didn't this place have insect eggs before! ”
As far as I know, the hatching period of corpse worm eggs is more than ten years.
The high priest shook his head, picked up a worm egg and said, "No, I do a sacrifice to eliminate demons every year, how can I not know that there are worm eggs in this land within a radius of hundreds of miles."
I suspect that someone deliberately put the worm eggs here, a year ago, a Taoist priest who chased the corpse came to beg me to help him, turn his corpse king into a demon corpse, and turn the corpse king into a demon corpse, how could I! I didn't say yes, and I remember the Taoist priest leaving angrily
said that he wanted to teach me a lesson, but I didn't take it to heart, it's not easy for this Taoist priest to sow this worm egg from under my eyes. ”
"What's that Taoist priest's name?" I asked
"Lame Old"
How can the lame old man be him, I was stunned when I heard the name, the lame old man is not an ordinary person, the later first immortal, people are very kind, most of the people in the circle have been helped by him, I have never heard of it, he has harmed anyone, I only know that after he became a first immortal, he lived in seclusion in Kunlun Mountain, isolated from the world.
The high priest said: "It seems that he left his hand, but the eggs he laid were still found in time, and there were some things that I refused when I was still young, and there were some decisiveness." ”
"Report to the two high priests, a thousand eggs have been dug up, and there are several more in the ground." A soldier ran over and reported.
"All burned" I took a torch and threw it on the pile of eggs, and then some soldiers poured oil and put wood on it, and soon the pile of insects ignited a fierce fire, and the eggs burned with a crackling sound.
Some of the ground was dug up, and he went down to look around, and when he was sure that there was nothing left, he jumped up into the pit and said to the high priest, "Go back to the palace and go to investigate the corrupt officials." ”
The high priest was a little suspicious and said: "You are not good like this, as soon as you become the high priest, you will rectify the government, and you will make the royal brother majestic!" ”
"Since we know that there are moths, why don't we get rid of them, why are we raising them? , Since you have the ability to do it, Langya Country is not your alone, it is the people of the world, I am also for the good of Langya Country, if someone looks at me unpleasantly, even if I come to kill, I must do things vigorously, Langya King must have a positive basis, but the timing is not good and no one helps him. ”
I said.