A type of dragon?

I stared at the white salamander-like monster that had been trampled to minced flesh, and I was amazed. No matter how you look at it, this thing is an amphibian aquatic life, and at most it is rarer. When he reached Shui Qing's eyes, he became a dragon.

Looking at my surprised eyes, Shui Qingyan smiled and said, "Why, do you think that dragons are all things that are high in ancient mythology?" Since it has appeared frequently in history and become the totem of China, it is not without a trace, perhaps the modern staghorn snake flying over the nine heavens of the dragon is fabricated, but I am sure that in ancient times there were indeed things similar to dragons, and even looked almost the same. This thing in front of you is a kind of dragon ......"

I'm most interested in these kinds of things, and topics like 'zombies, dragons' are one of the most mysterious corners of the ancient Oriental heritage in the eyes of the whole world. Seeing that Shui Qingyan was interested at the moment, he naturally wanted to listen, this old treasure eye has traveled all over the world all his life, and what he has seen and heard is far beyond my imagination, so he immediately signaled Shui Qingyan to continue.

Shui Qingyan nodded: "Judging from the history books, the initial form of the dragon came from the totems of the ancient tribes, and the current dragon form was formed by the totems of multiple tribes coming together. It is similar to the 'multi-legged dragon', 'pig-nosed dragon', and 'Ying dragon' in some remote areas. It can be said that they are all creatures that survived in ancient times. And it is said that the dragon has nine sons, and they have different forms. There are such rumors in ancient times, so there is naturally a basis. The thing in front of us is called a claw, which is a kind of the Nine Sons of the Ancient Dragon, but it is far from the divine power and power of the legend. However, in ancient times, it was raised by many Dan masters and used as a material for alchemy, and it was one of the four major Dan materials together with Gong (the big sarcoma on the gecko), Ziheche, and mercury. I saw a stone danding in a cemetery palace in Yunnan, which was stuffed with this kind of thing, which did not rot for a hundred years and exuded a strange fragrance, which was really magical.

You know that back then, I focused on refining the antidote pill, and I was particularly fascinated by the alchemy method in the ancient tomb. After returning from that tomb robbery, I began to collect information. Later, I learned that this thing can indeed prolong life, but after taking it, the body gradually ossified and lost consciousness. It would even affect the sanity, but it would be contrary to the effect of the autopsy pill, so I gave up. ”

I was amazed when I heard this, and said, "This monster is still effective?" Then you say it's a bug in the mire...... What does that mean? Could it be that this so-called dragon is actually a kind of parasite? ”

Shui Qingyan pondered for a moment, frowned, and said: "It's not true, I learned in some ancient Dan books that this dragon was born in the mountains and forests, and it was similar to an insect in the early stage. Most of them live in the bamboo forest, and in ancient times, it was popular to make musical instruments 'chi', and some people split the bamboo, and this strange insect came out of the hole from the inside.

The strange insect lives when it encounters people, and the people who drill into the mouth are unconscious, and they choose trees to eat. Finally, out of the corpse's belly, it was an arm-thick mantle. Because of the homonym of 'chi' and '螭', people call this thing 'chi-worm'.

The so-called 'all things are mutually reinforcing each other', there must be an antidote near the poison, and people have found that although the 'chime worm' is extremely fond of bamboo, it is afraid of the root of the bamboo, the mother bamboo whip, like a tiger. Anyone who is possessed by a worm is whipped with a bamboo whip, and the juice is fed to drive it away. These were unintentionally obtained when studying Dan Fang, but I didn't know that they came in handy today......"

I nodded, looked at the seemingly calm quagmire with strange eyes, and suddenly remembered the hard object I stepped on when I was deep in it, and said, "This quagmire is strange, the mountains are surrounded by vegetation, why is there a swamp?" That human-headed monster just now seems to have something to do with this quagmire...... Do you recognize the breed of that thing? ”

Shui Qingyan heard that his face was difficult, and he habitually twisted his beard, but he touched a puddle of muddy water, and quickly brushed it off, suddenly frowned, leaned into his nose and sniffed, and his face changed greatly: "This is ...... It's not mud ......"

Not mud?!

Lin Fanyin and I were both stunned.

I subconsciously said, "What is not mud?" ”

Shui Qingyan sniffed again, frowned and shook his head: "This smell...... It's definitely not ordinary mud, but it has a great smell of death, so it's familiar...... Think of it this way. It's very similar to the 'corpse soup' I encountered in Tibet. I wonder if it's definitely not a good thing to let the insect give up the bamboo forest and invade it, so let's not go near it. ”

"What is corpse soup?" I almost blurted it out.

Shui Qingyan recalled: "It was in a secret place in Tibet, where we found many strange Buddha statues and stones...... What I remember the most is that there is a one-person-high black lotus porcelain basin in the secret landlord's room, and there is fire paint on it to seal the mouth of the basin.

We opened the basin and felt a strange smell, full of viscous dirt, and a translucent gelatinous substance floating on the surface. Our group did not understand the mystery, so we broke the lotus pot, leaving the sticky stuff inside, all of which were stumps and broken arms. Those of us who are discerning say that it is just the Bon way of dealing with pagans, boiling them into a broth and offering them in a basin, and their souls will be sucked by the Buddha.

And the quagmire we are in, this smell is exactly the same as the corpse soup, I think, that quagmire is not very clean. ”

I nodded again and again when I heard this, so it's better not to provoke such evil places.

Lin Fanyin bandaged the wounds on Dajin's body, and finally sat down, looking tired.

I was ashamed to see this, we are a group of big men, and in the end, it is Lin Fanyin, a weak little woman, that can be regarded as worthy of stepping on the dangerous situation, and she has never stopped after a toss, and it is the end of the strong crossbow at this time.

Daikin was unconscious, saying that we could not continue to move, and could only rest for a while.

I suddenly remembered the two Alimu who were separated from us, and when I inquired, I learned that not long after Lin Fanyin and I chased into the forest, a group of black and white fish floated downstream.

Originally, everyone was surprised, but they didn't know that these fish actually jumped on the shore to attack people, and because the people who were still looking for photographers were scattered, Dajin and Shui Qingyan fled in the direction of us in confusion, while Alimu and Yama were forced to run in the other direction.

Shui Qingyan comforted me and said: "On our trip, the two of them are the most powerful in terms of skills, and the two of them belong to the thousand-year-old ghost's life, which is a rare hard life." How could it be possible to endanger them with mere turtles, I'm afraid we ran far away in a panic, and they couldn't find them. I said earlier that we are going east, so let's go east, and we will meet soon. ”

I nodded, the skills of the two of them naturally need not be said, but now the top priority is to gather people, seeing that we are tossing at three o'clock in the afternoon, I am afraid that we will not be able to get off the tomb before dark, and from the forest is full of dangers, maybe we will encounter some monsters, we can only wait for Dajin to improve, so we quickly set off to find them, so as not to have any more moths.

Suddenly remembering what Shui Qingyan said just now, I wondered: "Turtle? Is it the strange fish that attacked us? ”

Shui Qingyan nodded yes, and said: "I have traveled south and north in my life, and my vision is not small, but I have never seen this kind of monster, and I just heard Lin Xiaomei say that it is called a mountain turtle...... It's really a long sight. ”

Lin Fanyin sat down beside me and said softly: "We also have similar fish in the river there, because their long shells on their backs are extremely hard, and they can go over mountains and mountains to find water in the dry season, so our people call it 'mountain turtle'." It's not as big as we see, and it won't attack people...... I don't know how the fish here are so ferocious. ”

Shui Qingyan said: "This is normal, you look at the surrounding area, it was originally a good place for feng shui with ten paths, but unfortunately it was blown up by that group of unpromising mountain breaking groups, and the mountain was damaged...... In my opinion, in the upper reaches of this river, there should be a place where corpses were hoarded in ancient times, and those turtles that crossed the mountain had eaten the flesh of dead people in order to be so ferocious and looking for people to bite. ”