Chapter 454: Volume 3: Ancient Realm Lakeland
These insects are the size of a little finger and look somewhat similar to the shells of cicadas (know). I don't know if you've ever seen a cicada change its shell? Cicadas are incomplete metamorphoses, consisting of eggs and larvae, which have undergone several molts and become adults without going through the pupal period. The shell of the cicada is yellow and transparent, because it has no internal organs at all, just a shell. And these insects in front of me are like the shells of cicadas, withered and yellow.
It stands to reason that these insects are obviously dead and lifeless insects at first glance, because they are all shriveled like bran. However, these insects, which looked like they were supposed to be lifeless, were burrowing out of the dirt, making buzzing sounds.
Curious, I squatted down and shone a bug under my feet with a flashlight, and when I looked closely, I was immediately startled, because I recognized this bug, they turned out to be pubic lice!
The so-called pubic lice is said to be an immortal insect, an insect that runs out of the underworld, immortal and indestructible, and is very evil. Of course, the reason why pubic lice are called insects that run out of the underworld is that this kind of thing eats the same as the yin spirits, and does not eat fireworks in the world, but only incense and candles. It is rumored that this insect is extremely negative, and anyone who is bitten by it will die without cure.
I have heard a story about a man in the village who happened to sit under an old tree in the evening to rest. Suddenly, he felt a lice on his body, wrapped it in a piece of paper, stuffed it into a hole in the tree, and left.
Two or three years later, he passed through that place again. Suddenly remembering the lice in the hollow of the tree, he went to the bottom of the tree and saw that the paper bag was still intact inside. When I took out the paper bag and opened it, I saw that the lice had dried up like bran. He put it in his hand again and looked at it carefully. After a while, the palms of the hands felt very itchy, but the belly of the lice gradually bulged. He quickly threw away the lice and went home. When he got home, he was dizzy, collapsed, listless, and lost his soul. That night, the man died, his body shriveled up like a mummy, and it didn't look like a man who had just died, and this strange thing frightened the whole village.
The next day, there happened to be a passing Mr. Yin and Yang passing by this village, and after hearing about it, he came to the dead man's house, and when he saw it, he told everyone that this man had been bitten to death by pubic lice, and the reason why he was so dead was because his spirit and spirit were all sucked away by the pubic lice.
I don't know if this story is true or not, but it is said that pubic lice do not eat fireworks in the world, but only eat incense and candles burned by others, so it is also somewhat logical to say that it will suck people's spirit.
Now, when I saw that these insects in front of me were all rumored terrifying pubic lice that made people talk about tigers, I was so frightened that I retreated again and again. I never dreamed that I would come across something like this, which only exists in legends, and it seems that these pubic lice are hidden in the clay statue of the river god.
As I stepped back, there were already a lot of pubic lice crawling out of the dirt, and then they actually bounced at me, and their movements were like crickets, and they jumped up and bounced out of a meter or two, extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen of them jumped in front of my toes, and there were more dense pubic lice that pounced on me......
Seeing this, I was really scared out, so many pubic lice, if I was bitten by one of them, would I still be able to live? How dare I hesitate at the moment, and immediately turn around and run away from the exit.
Fortunately, my speed was still a little faster than the worm, and when I passed the three coffins placed at the entrance of the cave, I thought that the hole we had fallen from the ground was more than three meters high, and I could not climb it with my bare hands, so I carried a coffin lid, came to the hole where we had collapsed before, and leaned the coffin lid against the stone wall, so that I climbed out of the stone cave and returned to the ground.
As soon as my front feet were back on the ground, the pubic lice swarmed in, but when they saw me coming up, they fortunately did not climb up the stone wall, lingered for a moment under the hole, and then turned back. Maybe they were afraid of the sun outside, because the sun was already shining outside, and the sun was shining through the tattered roofs.
I was relieved to see them all retreat into the depths of the cave, for I was lucky to be fast this time, and if I had slowed down, I would have died in it.
As soon as the nervous spirit relaxed, I sat down on the ground and gasped for breath.
At this time, it was almost nine o'clock in the morning, and the dilapidated temple was still so desolate, deserted, and few people usually came. The world is looking for the River Temple, but who would know that the real River Temple is underneath this broken temple?
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly. Except for the people of the River Clan, I am probably the only one who knows this secret now, of course, I will not tell this secret to anyone, since this is the place where the real river god is, I naturally can't let outsiders disturb its tranquility.
After sitting in the ruined temple and resting for a while, I remembered the scroll I had brought up from below. When I was about to open it to look at it, I had an accident, so I still don't know if this ancient scroll taken from the palm of the clay statue is a map of the river or a map of the ancient lake.
Now that the danger had been resolved, and there were no outsiders here, I could no longer suppress my curiosity and quickly opened the scroll......
When the scroll was opened, I was stunned, and saw that half of the scroll was a geographical map, but I could not see anything, because it was a vast ocean.
Yes, it's all water, and it's not like a river, it's not like a river, it's a vast ocean. How can I not be surprised when I see this, if this is a river map, it should be a map of the Yellow River, not the sea. But if it is a map of Gujing Lake, it should be a geographical map of mountains and rivers, and it cannot be a sea. The ocean in this scroll does not have any mountains or coasts, it is just an ocean, which means that this picture does not show anything at all.
The other half of the scroll is not a picture, but a dense collection of words.
These words are very unfamiliar, and in reality, I should not have seen such words. I thought to myself, are these words scripted?
The so-called underworld is a kind of writing written for the dead, because the living and ghosts cannot communicate, so the ancestors created this kind of writing used to communicate with ghosts, the underworld.
I'd seen it before, and I knew a little bit about it, so I took a closer look. However, after reading it for a long time, I found that it was not a script, because I didn't even know a word in it. In the end, I had to sigh helplessly, holding the scroll and being stunned to know what was written in it.
Now I was really dumbfounded, and after a long time, I couldn't even tell whether this scroll was a river map, an ancient lake map, or neither.
I feel a little helpless and a little distressed, and I don't know what to do?
When I sat on the ground with the scroll in my hand and looked at it a few times to no avail, then I suddenly remembered that I also had two other volumes of the map of the Ancient Realm Lake on my body, as long as I took it out and combined it with this ancient scroll, if it was a complete map, wouldn't it prove that it was the map of the Ancient Realm Lake?
Thinking of this, I began to get excited again, so I quickly took out the other two volumes of the Gujing Lake map, and then spread them out on the ground one by one, and the three maps were opened and closed together, and then I jumped up excitedly, because these three maps actually combined a complete map of mountains and rivers!
Seeing this scene, I don't understand, this ancient scroll taken out of the hand of the river god mud statue is the last ancient map of the ancient realm lake I am looking for!
At this time, I was extremely excited and excited. The map of Gujing Lake, which I have been looking for for a long time, has finally been found by me, can I not be excited, can I not be excited? As long as I go to the Ancient Realm Lake as shown on the map, maybe I can change the fate of my "evil star", and from now on, I can enjoy a complete fate like a normal person.
I couldn't help but laugh out loud when I thought about my ideals.
I eased my excitement, and then I began to carefully look at the complete map in front of me, wanting to see where the ancient realm lake that I was thinking about day and night was!
I moved my gaze to the map, and slowly, my brow couldn't help but furrow, because after the three maps were pieced together, this so-called ancient land lake turned out to be in the middle of a vast ocean.
Yes, the first two volumes of the map I got before, showing the mountains and rivers, individually, were inland. However, after piecing together with the third volume of maps, it was discovered that the so-called Gujing Lake was originally an island beyond the vast ocean. The mountains and rivers in the first two volumes of the map are the mountains and rivers of an island.