Chapter 216: The Secret Room in the Gu Refining Pool
"How so, what are these? , why is there still a person in it? ”
Seeing the scene in front of him, Ren Tanxiao's stomach was also tumbling and almost didn't vomit, in fact, he couldn't vomit anything, because he had been on the run for the past few days, although he had food with him, he didn't eat much. When he turned around, he saw that Shen Mei was almost like himself, leaning against the wall and wanting to vomit but couldn't vomit.
Hearing Liu Ying say that there was a person inside, Ren Tanyu looked forward carefully, only to see that this was a big pool, there was a lot of water in the pool and bubbling outside, this is not even more bizarre is that there are a lot of green insects in this water and glowing green, so they can only see that most of the things in the pool are caused by this glowing bug.
Mixed with these bugs are the often said five poisons, centipedes, scorpions, snakes, spiders and toads! There seems to be a fire burning under this big pool, because these poisonous insects are tumbling in the steaming water, and of course there are not only these five poisonous insects, but also other unknown insects, which means that they have boiled these insects in one pot. The smell that Liu Ying smelled just now came from this pool of water.
No one would have thought that there was a ten-mile peach blossom above, and there was indeed a poisonous insect base below. This also corresponds to the saying: the extremes of things must be opposed! The opposite of what is often beautiful is the ugliest and darkest. And in the end, Liu Ying couldn't help but spit it out, but it was still a person in it.
In the bubbling water lay a man with these bugs crawling all over his body, face and head. And just now, Liu Ying saw a big scorpion throwing two big pincers and just crawling out of that person's mouth. There is also a large python with flower skin also jumping around on him. Very disgusting. Because it was a little far away, and the person's face was crawling with all kinds of small insects, and it was not very bright, they didn't see clearly who the medicine man was inside.
"That person can't be Fan Hu, right?" Liu Yingqiang asked in surprise as she held back her desire to continue vomiting.
"Not necessarily, let's go inside and have a look!" Ren Tanyu took a flashlight in his hand and shone it at Liu Ying, and then continued to move forward.
"No, I won't go, if you want to go, you can go first!" Liu Ying really couldn't get used to smelling this smell, so when she heard Ren Tanyu want him to go, her face was so frightened that her face was about to turn green.
"Coward! Alas! Ren Tanyu sighed, and continued to walk forward step by step with Shen Mei.
"Aren't you afraid?" Ren Tanyu looked back at Shen Mei, who was walking cautiously behind her, and asked with ulterior motives.
"Hey, what's there to be afraid of. I guess someone is refining Gu here, although I haven't seen it, but I've heard the old people in the village say it! Shen Mei said as if she didn't care.
"What are you talking about, Gu refining?!" Ren Tan was really shocked at this time, firstly, he was shocked by Shen Mei's expression when he mentioned refining Gu, and secondly, he was met by himself as soon as he came to Miaojiang, and he didn't know whether he should say that he was fated or lucky.
"yes, what's all the fuss about?" Shen Mei looked at Ren Tan in confusion.
"I thought, I thought ......"
"What do you think?" Shen Mei pressed forward step by step.
"I thought this was a burial chamber, didn't we just come in through the thief hole? How is this? Ren Tanyu couldn't figure it out at this time.
"It's nothing, it's all forced by the current government. The law clearly prohibits people from refining Gu privately, otherwise they will be imprisoned. Our family originally had to refine Gu to survive. Although this Gu worm is very harmful, it is still beneficial, at least it is of great use to us! That's why some people are willing to take risks to refine Gu here! Shen Mei thought for a moment and explained.
"Then they are too bold, according to you, not far ahead, there is your patriarch's fool's house! Hey, by the way, I think that the people who can be the patriarchs here should be all sages, why would you name the place where you live as the House of Fools? ”
"Hehe, then you are a layman, how do you know that they are not living under the instructions of the patriarch, since it is our patriarch, it must also be our Miao people, this Gu worm is too important to us Miao people! Well, the place where the patriarch lived was what you called "Fool's House", right? I'm sure you've heard the phrase "wise and foolish"! Hearing Ren Tan Yu ask such words, Shen Mei actually laughed, and laughed very happily, as if she had forgotten what this place was.
"What are you talking about and laughing at, hurry up and take a look at the front!" Although Liu Ying stood behind and didn't hear what they said clearly, seeing Shen Mei smiling so happily, she must have been picking up girls again. Suddenly, her heart felt like she had knocked over a vinegar bottle.
"Oh, let's go, didn't I ask her about the situation first?" Ren Tanyu turned his head and said loudly, and then he said to Shen Mei: "Okay, don't laugh." I see, what you mean is that great wisdom is foolish, that is to say, your patriarch thinks that he is a figure like a great wisdom and sage, that is, great wisdom has reached the peak, and the so-called extreme things must be transformed into foolishness, that's what it means! ”
"Well, I saw Liu Ying all day long and said that you were stupid, it seems that you are not stupid! That's it. So, so when you see our patriarch, be sure to say more compliments, and remember to say good things! Shen Mei said as a matter of course, through the burst of laughter just now, she seemed to be very relaxed at this moment.
"Then how did you refine this Gu, and what is the purpose of it?" Ren still doesn't know much about this problem.
"I don't know the specifics of this, but it is said that the essence of this Gu refining is to put these poisonous insects in hot water and let them kill each other, and those who can stay in the last place will fish them out. Then catch the pair and put it in a sealed jar, and then they will carry out the next round of killing, and the one left behind is the Gu King, and then they will feed it with the bones of the animal, and over time, they can give birth to a female Gu...... When you arrive, who do you see that person is? So saying, the two of them came to the side of the pool.
"No, I still can't see that person's face clearly!" Ren Tanyu carefully shone the flashlight on the man, but there were so many insects on the man's face that they covered the man's facial features.
"Forget it, anyway, it doesn't matter what we do, I don't think this person's body shape looks like Fan Hu's!" Shen Mei looked at the situation in the pool and said with a smile.
"How can that be, we can't die without help!" Ren Tan said puzzledly, "And just now you said that the poisonous insects will feed the bones of animals after fighting in this pool, why do you start feeding them while you are fighting, and they are also feeding people's corpses, this is also terrible, so what is the difference between this and ordinary harmful things?" ”
"I really don't know what to do with this, it's a bit counterintuitive, but it's not something we can manage!" Hearing this, Shen Mei smiled bitterly.
"No, this person is like this, how can you be so cold-blooded, let's save him!" Ren Tanyu said a little unwillingly.
"Save him? Your head wasn't crushed by the door, you see what he's like, how can he be saved again? Besides, I said that this person is not Fan Hu, why are you so persistent? Shen Mei was probably speechless about Ren Tanyu's idea.
"Xiao Ren, Xiao Ren, look at it, there seems to be someone over there!" Just when Ren Tanyu decided to go down to save that person, he didn't want Liu Ying to shout in the back.
So Ren Tanyu and Shen Mei looked back in the direction pointed by Liu Ying at the same time, and indeed saw a shadow floating on the wall in front of him on the left under the faint light, like a ghost. In fact, it looks like a ghost, but you can still see that it is a human figure.
"Let's go, let's take a look!" Originally, Shen Mei didn't want Ren Tanyu to go down to the pool to save the person who was already dead, but now she just took this opportunity to divert Ren Tanyu's attention.
"That's right, this shadow should be Fan Hu's, I look very much like Di Shuo!" Liu Ying didn't wait for Ren Tanyu to come, and they had already walked over in advance.
"Why is there a staircase here, and there is a secret room underneath!" Before Ren Tanyu could get closer, he heard Liu Ying exclaim.
"No, how can there be a secret room?" Shen Mei asked in surprise, and then she ran over as well.
It's just that they are very strange that although they can see a shadow all the time moving, they don't find any movement, and no one speaks, which also arouses Ren Tanyu to look at desire.
In fact, he also found out just now that the owner of the corpse in the pool didn't look like Fan Hu's, but Liu Ying was there just now, so he wanted to show it, if he really wanted to let him go down to retrieve the corpse, it was estimated that he would not be able to stand it. Just with Liu Ying's voice, he doesn't have to show it anymore.
When the three of them came to the top of the staircase, they realized that it was not a human at the bottom of the stairs, but a blindfolded donkey pulling and grinding there!
This is even more unexpected, you must know that the donkey pulling mill is an old antique old thing, and it has almost disappeared and become extinct in modern China. Liu Ying has never seen it before, so this time it aroused everyone's curiosity.
"Let's go down and have a look!" Liu Ying couldn't help it at first, she also wanted to see what was going on down there. In this way, the three of them slowly came to the last room in the basement with each other's support.
But just as they came down the stairs, the top of the stairs suddenly creaked and was covered by something, which frightened the two women. For a moment, they were a little confused, and they didn't understand what was going on.
"Xiao Ren, you go up and take a look, go and see, how is this covered, how can we get out!" Liu Ying's face was full of worry and a little anxious.
Seeing that this was not a solution, Ren Tan slowly walked down the stairs he had just walked to and touched the top of his flashlight, and he tried to push it up with his hands, but he couldn't push it at all, as if he had been welded by pig iron.
"No, I can't push it away!" Ren Tanyu said with a sad face.
"What then?" The two girls exclaimed at the same time. (To be continued......)