Chapter 12: One of the Eight Treasures
Parasites, it's a very disgusting thing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
They burrow into the host's body to eat meat and drink blood, reproduce until the host dies, the whole process is terrifying, and most importantly, they will also make the host extremely abnormal, and even change the host's living habits, physical characteristics, and unpredictable morphological and behavioral mutations of the host.
Therefore, people generally hate these worms crawling in the body, and list them as the same dangerous and terrifying animals as snakes, spiders, scorpions, etc., but they must stay away from them.
But some parasites are not as fearful as they are commonly recognized. If used well, they are often advantageous and can even become famous "delicious" when handled properly.
And the "carp monster" in my mouth is such an edible "parasite", it can not only be eaten, but also comparable to the best ingredients of bear paws and deer ears, and is even listed as one of the "eight treasures of ghosts" by the Five Organs Temple.
After listening to my words, it was not surprising that Xian Hongye and Lin Shaosong expressed great shock and puzzlement,
Lin Dashao even said to me with twelve points of horror and contempt: "Even, the cake seller!" You actually say that parasites can eat! Are you Chinese nervous all right? How to eat such a disgusting big bug! Aren't you afraid of breeding in your belly? ”
In the face of Lin Shaosong's provocation, I replied very unhappily: "Get out!" Don't you French still eat snails? That thing is the same as snot, why don't you say it's disgusting? Laugh a hundred steps less in these fifty steps! To be able to eat is to be able to eat, in the language of fireworks, this is called 'heroes don't ask where they come from, they don't ask where they come from!' 'Do you understand?! ~”
My words made Lin Shaosong very unconvinced, maybe he felt that eating "snot" was higher than eating "parasites", anyway, he looked unwilling and wanted to continue to argue with me.
When the two of us were tense, Xian Hongye interrupted rudely: "Don't say anything!" Can you discuss something useful! Is it fun to fight with words? ”
In the face of the heroine's speech, Lin Shaosong and I were silent, and after each side glared at each other, we pulled the topic back to the discussion about the two "carp monsters" in front of us.
After looking at it for a while, Hyun Hongye pointed to these two things that looked like "turtles" and "rat women" and asked me, "You just said that these things can be eaten, it seems that you know them very well?" Tell me, what is this carp monster, why didn't you recognize it at first, and why can you eat it? ”
After thinking about it for a while, I told everyone: "Carp monster, carp monster, as the name suggests, is a monster in the carp's body, but I don't know why this pair of carp monsters are parasitic in the body of this black urn and the golden snake, of course, this will not change my basic judgment of this bug." ”
According to my knowledge, carp monsters and other parasites are very different, they often only parasitize male and female "pairs" in a host individual, once this pair of individuals enter the host's body, they will produce a "hormone" that stimulates the host's body to mutate, the host stimulated by hormones will secrete a "protein" for the carp, and the pair of male and female carp monsters will use this special protein to make a sac in the host as a "house", forming a lychee-like inclusion.
After that, the male and female carp will mate in the inclusions, mate, and reproduce, and as the process continues, the host will gradually die and die. When the host is completely dead, the carp will emerge from the sac and continue their disgusting breeding process.
Although the carp monster behaves disgustingly, it only parasitizes the body of freshwater fish, and this thing absorbs the "essence" of fish in the growth, and the taste of the meat is more delicious and juicy than the fish, and this thing is a rare medicinal material, which can detoxify, reduce inflammation and even anti-cancer, and its effect is comparable to ginseng, so this thing is called "water ginseng" and "turtle in fish" in the temple!
Hearing my words, the cat's and dog's index fingers moved, and their eyes trembled: "Wow! Isn't this thing worth a lot of money?! Delicious Pa......"
I nodded and continued to tell them, "Because of the conditions of this carp monster's parasitic life, the long ones are very small, and the big ones are even more difficult to find. ”
How precious it is, it is said that in the Song Dynasty, when the wind of the fish was the most prosperous, this thing was called "fish treasure", and it was regarded as a treasure that was as precious as a pearl.
Because of this preciousness, the carp monster is listed as one of the "Eight Treasures of Ghosts", and together with the "Pi Ling, Human Milk, Jin Zhuyi, Zihe Che, Tai Sui Meat, Soft Fragrant Jade, and Full Blood Leech" in the Five Organs Temple, it is called a weird and wonderful "dark" delicacy.
My words are very detailed, but also make Young Master Lin's face greener the more he listens, in his opinion, it seems that Chinese are eating garbage, such a strange "garbage" he can't even think of it, when I finished those words, Young Master Lin couldn't hold on at all, he immediately turned around and ran away, vomiting into the forest.
I looked at Lin Dashao's uncomfortable appearance, and I felt a burst of joy in my heart, and at the same time I didn't forget to remind: "Young master! Don't go too far, there's a king's roar in the woods! Beware of accidental injuries! ”
After sending Young Master Lin away, I turned around, looked at the Thai dogs and cats, and hurriedly dissuaded them: "And the two of you, don't fight this carp monster's idea, it's too weird, you may not be able to eat it!" ”
Hyun Momiji nodded, agreeing with my idea.
Actually, it's very simple, this carp monster obviously only grows on freshwater fish, how can it run into the body of the golden python? And this python has a "mutated" breath all over its body, from the incomprehensible golden scales to the "split-headed larvae" with a large body, and now it has found a "carp" that should not appear on it at all. All this is thinking that we are showing something abnormal.
I can't help but wonder if this carp monster is really the "aborigine" of "Sieve", does that mean that the ancients in Heilamber City have mastered some method to "transplant" the parasites that originally grew on fish to other species?!
If that's the case, it's terrifying.
Following this thought, I thought of the "human shells" that were hung on the walls of the "stalactite caves" in the secret passages. Each of them has such a clay pot in their bodies, does that mean....... Are they also some kind of container, and before or after death, the body is transplanted into this "carp monster", and then sucks their nourishment?
And that snake only happened to devour such a jar many years ago, so it had the next series of body mutations, and even the schizocephalic larvae in its own body became a very aggressive big worm!
It's a scary idea, but it seems like that's all it takes...... It is in line with the strange legends in the city of Nahelamber!
If the Helambers have mastered the power of mutating creatures in some way, then they can indeed compare to an army of 100,000!
Suddenly, it occurred to me why Old Nineteen was also staring at Black Lamber!