Chapter 37: Cannon (páo) 烙 (luò)
As soon as Jiang Li asked, the fat brother's desire to speak was immediately hooked, and he sat cross-legged on the ground directly, while Jiang Li and I sat opposite him. I naturally know what the fat brother wants to say, but Jiang Li is full of interest.
Then the fat brother began, incoherently, and told Jiang Li the mythical stories that Professor Chen described to us. How did Ying Long and Nulu meet, how did Nulu become a female demon, how Ying Long subdued Nulu, and then how Ying Long was in pain and went to Antarctica. Among them, the fat brother also added oil and vinegar, describing various fight scenes in detail, I don't know what he heard there, the white crane drying its wings, the tiger pounces on food, the rhinoceros looks at the moon, the monkey steals the peach, the two dragons play with the pearls, and the moon is fished in the sea.
Jiang Li's eyes lit up when he talked about it, and he kept asking about the details, but the fat brother couldn't answer, so he pulled me to explain to Jiang Li, and I had to help him fill in the missing places.
Later, Jiang Li asked: "Then Yinglong is sad, why did he go to Antarctica?" How did he get to Antarctica? Bringing the corpse with you without a female squire? ”
The fat brother and I were completely dumbfounded, who knows, and Professor Chen didn't talk about it.
The fat brother also explained: "Ying Long is a god, dragon, can fly and swim, go to the sky and enter the earth, isn't it easy to go to Antarctica?" And with the corpse of the female fish, he was afraid that the corpse of the female fish would rot, so he took it to Antarctica and frozen. ”
When I heard this, it was just nonsense, how could there be this paragraph? He began to clutch his stomach and laugh wildly.
Then Jiang Li asked again: "Didn't the female suck Ying Long's turbidity?" Why didn't he go back to heaven and continue to be an immortal? ”
At this time, the fat brother couldn't answer at all, complained that Jiang Li had a lot of questions, and finally threw a sentence: "Then who knows." And that ended his speech.
After listening to the story, Jiang Li instantly put away his smile, pointed to a pillar next to us and said, "That's Ying Long." ”
Our gaze moved in the direction of her finger.
It was the innermost of the three circles, and the pillar was firmly bound by chains, and it was a corpse with a humanoid upper body and snake bones below the waist. The proportions of the head are slightly larger, with two sharp horns growing on it, and the arms are outstretched, the mouth is wide open, and the expression is very painful. The part of the snake bone is very long, and the whole body is supported upright by the snake bone, with only a small section of the snake tail, which is laid flat on the ground. The height of the body is about three meters away, and it is very powerful.
I hurriedly asked, "Could it be that Ying Long is also one of the eighty-one brothers of Chiyou?" ”
Jiang Li nodded, and then told us another version of the story of Ying Long and Nulu.
Ying Long was originally a member of the same tribe as Chiyou, he was a very hard-working, unspoken hunter, and when the tribesmen stole Nuwa's elixir, he also became a member of the transformation monster.
The female is Ying Long's wife, when the clansmen consumed the pill, she did not eat it, but gave her own one to Ying Long. She thinks that if her man eats two elixirs, he will definitely become stronger, as long as the man is strong, he will also enjoy the happiness, it doesn't matter if he eats it or not.
And Ying Long, who took two pills, mutated faster and more obviously, and was more powerful and brutal than other mutants, and even left his loyal love for the female lu behind.
Chi You's mutation is different, not only has his combat power increased greatly in the mutation, but he also has an extra eye, which has a special ability, and he has become the new leader. Because of Ying Long's ferocity, he has also become the core general of Chiyou.
The emotionally lost female Lu was not only afraid of the mutation of the clan, but also ruined her beloved Ying Long because of her own fault, so she left the tribe like the Queen Mother of the West. But she is not as smart as the Queen Mother of the West, thinking about fighting fate, but like ordinary primitive people, she found a place to live, lived by herself, and faced the rest of her life alone.
Later, the war between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou affected the place where she lived, and she continued to travel west to avoid the war until she heard about the existence of the Western Queen Mother Kingdom.
The female queen wanted to find a comfortable place to live in the kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West. Unexpectedly, the Mother Kingdom of the West is also like its own tribe, and all people and animals exist in mutants. The disillusioned woman also accepted the test of the Queen Mother of the West, and became an extremely ugly monster, worshipping the Queen Mother of the West every day like other creatures.
The Queen Mother of the West's experiment was not successful, and instead of finding the medicine that would turn people back to their original state, she found another method of refining the elixir. So the Queen Mother of the West decided to help the Yellow Emperor and stop the killing of Chiyou's army, and Nulu also became the vanguard of the attack on Chiyou.
During the long war with Chiyou's army, Nulu met Ying Long. Ying Long didn't recognize the female lu, but the female lug knew Ying Long. When the two armies fought, she avoided everywhere, fearing that her husband would be hurt. And Ying Long had no scruples and went on a killing spree, until the female lu was killed by him, and the female lu's body was silently trampled by Ying Long's army, and Ying Long failed to recover his heart after all, and failed to recognize his wife.
Later, Chiyou was defeated, and Ying Long was captured and trapped here to death.
I asked Jiang Li suspiciously: "Then how did the Chiyou army get trapped here and not resist?" ”
Jiang Li pointed to Chi You's stone chair and said, "Take a closer look at that chair." ”
I gathered around the chair again and looked carefully for a long time before I found that a sapphire in the center of the back of the chair was not a gemstone, but a blue meteorite. This mineral can drive away evil beasts, and the transformed monsters of the Chiyou Army must also be affected by the ore, giving in and not daring to resist.
"But Chiyou is trapped, how can his eighty-one brothers succumb?" I still don't understand.
Jiang Li took out my scimitar and said, "You recite your incantation." ”
At first, I expressed my doubts, but as she said, I recited the Lengyan Sutra.
As soon as I thought so, the spell on the scimitar quickly intensified the radiation of the blue mineral. Not only is my scimitar exceptionally bright, but the blue ore on the back of Chiyou's chair is also exceptionally shiny. Even the tops of the eighty-one bronze pillars around them emitted a sky-high blue light.
Then I realized that the pillars were hollow, and that they all had the blue ore in them, but they were too tall for us to look down on the center from above. It seems that the Yellow Emperor discovered this ore, which can deter the mutants of the Chiyou tribe, in order to subdue Chiyou.
Jiang Li returned the scimitar to me, and then said: "It was the Yellow Emperor who used this ore to suppress the Chiyou army. Those mutated evil creatures, if they touch this ore, will be extremely painful and will be wiped out. ”
I suddenly thought of a cruel criminal law in ancient times, cannon branding, which was invented by King Yin Xuan after the Yellow Emperor. He took a pillar of copper, which was covered with oil, and then tied the man to it with an iron chain, and then through the hole left behind the pillar, he added charcoal fire, and the person tied to it was roasted by the heated pillar of copper, and the flesh melted and died, and his death must have been very tragic. This kind of criminal law is also one of the best torture in Chinese history, along with Ling Chi.
Those mutated tribesmen were tied to this pillar, and the blue ore that far surpassed the fire for them was added to it, which was not only a kind of torture and destruction for the body, but also for the spirit.
It turned out that the initiator of this cannon was not King Yin, as early as the Yellow Emperor period, he had already thought of this method. King Yin Xuan just copied the methods of his predecessors, copycat a kind of criminal law, and used it on the living people.
I couldn't help but tremble again, the tragic scenes of those Chiyou people before their deaths seemed to be vivid, and their painful screams seemed to echo in my ears.
Is human nature good?