Gu, composed of the words "worm" and "vessel", is understood literally, that is, it is a poisonous insect born in a vessel. There is such a record in the "Compendium of Materia Medica 61 Insect Part IV" written by Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty: "Take a hundred insects into Weng, and after years of opening, there will be a worm that eats all the insects, which is called Gu." It is to the effect that the poisonous Gu used by witches in ancient times was produced. First of all, hundreds of poisonous insects were put into the same vessel, and after a period of time when the vessel was opened, the poisonous insects inside ate each other, and the only one left was the most poisonous and fierce poisonous insect among them, and this poisonous insect was called Gu.

Of course, if you take it broadly speaking, Gu doesn't necessarily mean only insects. Anything that is poisonous can become a Gu. There are also various types of Gu poison, such as snake Gu, golden silkworm Gu, toad Gu, and so on. People who are in the Gu will have different symptoms according to different poisonous Gus, and if they are not treated in time, they will definitely die.

These words were told to me by Liu Zhen after I sobered up.

I don't know how long I was in a coma, but I vaguely remember that night when I went to the bathroom to take a shower, I found that my left arm was red and swollen, and I was top-heavy, and I went back to bed and fell asleep in a daze. The next morning, I had a high fever and in several cases I was unconscious. Fortunately, Liu Zhen called me when I was still awake, and he told me that I would arrive in Kunming at noon today, and I told him the name of the hotel I was in, and I couldn't remember anything about the rest of the year.

When I opened my eyes, I found Liu Zhen and Bu Jin sitting on opposite sides of my bed.

When Liu Zhen saw me wake up, he hurriedly poured me a glass of water and said, "How is it, it's okay." ”

I shook my head, and now I didn't have the strength to sit up and drink water, but asked, "What time is it and how long have I been in a coma?" ”

Liu Zhen smiled: "It didn't take long, I came here at noon yesterday, and now it's the evening of the next day." ”

I let out a sigh of relief and said to myself, "It must be that bug to blame." ”

As soon as I said this, I saw Na Bu Jin pointing to his cloth bag and said to me, "You can't touch it." ”

I nodded, reassured, I was just curious last time, and now, even if others beat me to death, I don't want to touch Bu Jin's things. I got up and looked at my left arm and saw that it was still a little red, but the black-blue color of the artery had dissipated, and the swelling had disappeared and returned to normal. Looking at it again, I don't know who tied my wrist with gauze, and I could still see a trace of blood from the outside of the gauze, and I looked at Liu Zhen in puzzlement. Liu Zhen pointed at Bu Jin with his chin and said, "You have to thank Lu Xie and the others, she saved you." ”

I glanced at Bu Jin and didn't say anything, just nodded silently. On the surface, I can't say a word of thanks. Although I brought on myself to be attacked by that strange poisonous bug, if Bu Jin's cloth bag didn't have those terrible bugs, this series of things wouldn't have happened.

For the first time, I was wary of the simple Miao girl in front of me. Who is this girl? Although I know that she is the descendant of Ashuna, Ajuna herself has said that there is no blood relationship between her and Bu Jin. So, where are this girl's real parents? Is she an orphan? Why did she raise those horrible poisonous insects? And what about the ghost in the bathtub? Of course, what I care about the most is the jade plate around her neck, why does someone repeatedly mention her jade plate? I have too many questions, and I finally found that these questions are all caused by the Miao girl in front of me, and if I want to answer these questions, it is necessary to uncover the mystery of Long Bujin's life experience.

And Liu Zhen, who is sitting on the edge of my bed, is the only clue I have now. I told Bu Jin that I was okay and asked her to go back to her room. As soon as Bu Jin left, I asked Liu Zhen a series of questions.

After Liu Zhen heard this, he waved his hand again and again, telling me to stop quickly, then stood up, closed the curtains of the window, locked the door again, and then sat on the edge of my bed again.

Liu Zhen is not only smart, but also well-proportioned, he looks very thin, but in fact, his body is very strong, not like those nerds who are sick.

I thought he was going to start answering my questions, but unexpectedly, he asked me first, and said, "Tell me first, is that girl the one the teacher asked you to pick up in Yunnan?" ”

I was stunned by this question and said, "That's right, it's her, what's wrong?" ”

Liu Zhen said: "I can't talk about something wrong, but I always feel that this girl is mysterious." ”

"Well, I feel that too." The experience of the ghost is still vivid in my mind, and I asked, "But how do you say that?" ”

Liu Zhen lowered his voice and said to me, "That's because when I first came to this hotel, I saw that she had done a lot of weird things in your room. ”

I shuddered, and did some weird things in my room, could it be that she was dancing her ugly dance again? It's just that I was still in a coma at the time, and I didn't have any impression at all, so I went to ask Liu Zhen what the strange behavior he was referring to.

Liu Zhen said that before he entered my room, he found that the door was hidden, and he was not sure whether it was me or Bu Jin in the room at first, so he first carefully looked at the situation in the house. It didn't matter what I saw, but I found that Bu Jin was squatting beside me, muttering something in his mouth. Liu Zhen felt strange, so he knocked on the door, and Bu Jin ignored it, still squatting beside my bed. So, Liu Zhen pushed the door and walked in, and this time I found that Bu Jin was holding an unnamed bug and stuffing it into my nose.

"What?" I was shocked, and subconsciously touched my nose, and said that stuffing worms into my nose was not terrifying, but it was disgusting, and I hurriedly asked, "Why did she do that?" ”

Liu Zhen replied: "Where do I know what is going on, I just wanted to step forward to stop it, the girl turned around sharply and stared at me deadly, I don't know what to do, but at that moment, I found that I couldn't even move." Immediately afterward, I noticed that your left arm was swollen and unsightly, and you looked horrible at the time. The blood vessels all over your body are clearly visible, and they are all dark blue, and from a distance, it looks like you are surrounded by countless small snakes. At this point, I suddenly realized that the girl was actually saving you, because after she stuffed the worm into your nose, your furrowed eyebrows were stretched out, as if to relieve the pain. Liu Zhen lit a cigarette and continued: "Immediately after, she used a knife to cut the artery of your left wrist, but the strange thing is that there was no bleeding, it seemed that the blood vessels of the whole arm were empty, and then, she took out a strange bug out of nowhere, which looked a bit like a 'money string', but it was much smaller." She shoves the bug into the wound on your wrist, bandages you briefly, and then sits still. ”

I listened to Liu Zhen's words, and told him about the bizarre things I had encountered since the day I met Bu Jin. After I finished speaking, I found that Liu Zhen's face was all over again, and he said to me: "Could it be that in today's society, there will still be Gu magic?" ”

Naturally, I have heard of witchcraft, but it is mostly from novels, and now, I am sitting in front of a doctor of history, in history, there have been many major cases related to witchcraft, so their historians have more or less learned about this knowledge. So, Liu Zhen briefly introduced me to Gu art.

But to be honest, after he finished speaking, I wasn't too surprised, because I had already subconsciously admitted that Bu Jin was a witch before.

I leaned on the head of the bed, and after listening to Liu Zhen's speech, I didn't pay much attention to it, so I said, "Okay, I've already told you about that girl, now you can answer my question quickly." With that, I re-asked the question I had just asked.

Liu Zhen shook his head with a wry smile and said, "My God, you don't think I know everything, I'll tell you the truth, I can't answer any of the questions you just asked, I can only tell you what I know." ”

"Then hurry up." I urged.

Liu Zhen pondered for a while and said, "Then let's talk about the teacher first." After the teacher disappeared, your cousin once called me and asked about the teacher's condition. At that time, I lied that I did not know the whereabouts of Mr. Lu Dao, but in fact, the teacher had looked for me the night before he disappeared. ”

"Did you leave Inner Mongolia at that time?" I asked.

Liu Zhen nodded and continued: "The day after the teacher received the letter, I received a call from him, asking me to rush back to Liaoning, saying that there was something more important waiting for me to do. ”

"Do you know that letter?" I asked.

Liu Zhen agreed, took out a letter from his pocket, and said to me: "This is the letter, he personally gave it to me the night before the teacher disappeared. Liu Zhen opened the letter and said to me, "The teacher told me some things. You always thought that you were going to pick up the descendants of the teacher's life-saving benefactor. ”

"Don't mention any descendants, that's completely lying to me, I went to see that Ashina, who has never married, where will there be any descendants." As I spoke, I thought to myself, it was at that time that I became suspicious of my trip to Yunnan.

Liu Zhen shook his head and said to me: "The teacher didn't lie to you, that Ajuna did save the teacher's life, but it was not that she encountered some mountain robbers, but she met a series of strange events. ”

"What's the matter?"

"The teacher didn't tell me about the specific things, I could see that he seemed to be in a hurry that night, and when he talked to me, he always said 'time is running out' from time to time, so he didn't explain some specific events to me." Liu Zhen took out a cigarette, lit it, and continued: "I think you also know that the teacher came to Yunnan thirty years ago. ”

I nodded and said, "I wasn't born yet, but I heard my mom talk about it, and that trip was a turning point in my father's academic career." ”

"Yes, but have you ever wondered what made the teacher from a serious historian to an avid metaphysical enthusiast?" Liu Zhen asked.

"This ...... I really haven't thought about it, did my father tell you? "What I don't like the most is a guessing game, and the thing I hate the most is that others sell lawsuits in front of me, so I don't have Liu Zhen's inquisitive spirit of inquiry. Another thing is that when my father changed his research direction, I was still too young and basically had no memory, and when I was sensible, I knew that my father was a non-mainstream historian, so I didn't ask him about changing his research direction. What's more, since he was almost banned by the academic community, my father has always been secretive about his experience thirty years ago.

Liu Zhen said: "The teacher didn't tell me, but he said something very strange to me that night. He said, 'The matter of witches and monsters has always been a secret of a few people', at that time, because the teacher had other things to say, I didn't think about it carefully, but now that I think about it, I think that the teacher must have met some rather strange and bizarre things in Yunnan, which was enough to subvert his previous view of the world, so he will be fanatically obsessed with metaphysics from then on. ”

Something that can subvert the world's view of the world? So what should it be? I thought of the ghost that night in the bathtub that was revealed by Bu Jin's smoke, although I later heard the waiter say that there was indeed a person dead in the bathtub in the room, but I still don't really believe that the strange shadow is a ghost. Although I can't explain the formation of the shadow, I can only find it strange at best, but it is not enough to subvert my view of the world.

Liu Zhen took a puff of his cigarette and continued: "Do you remember that Wang Chengbao?" In fact, that person was one of the scholars who came to Yunnan with his teacher 30 years ago. At that time, the inspection team was completely composed of private people, almost all of the teacher's former classmates, a total of five people when they went, but when they came back, only the teacher himself was left. ”

"What?" I couldn't believe my ears, thought about that Wang Chengbao, and asked, "Could it be that the remaining four people are dead?" ”

Liu Zhen stretched out three fingers and said, "Of the five people, three died, one of them was Wang Chengbao, and the teacher and the other survived with the help of Ashina." But only the teacher returned to Liaoning alone, and the other stayed in Yunnan. ”

"Who's that guy who stayed?" I asked.

Liu Zhen took out a photo from his pocket and said, "The person who left behind is surnamed Duan, his name is Duan Yuwen, and the letter your father received was actually sent by this person, not by Ajuna herself. This picture was given to me by the teacher, and he said let's find this person, and he will find a way to get us out of danger. ”

I took the photo and looked at it, and immediately gasped, although the person in the photo is relatively young, but the facial features, I can still recognize it at a glance, the person in this photo is not the black car driver who took me to Wenshan, Master Duan.

Liu Zhen saw the strangeness of my expression and asked, "What?" Have you seen him? ”

"It's fucking weird." I looked at the photo and said to myself, and then I told Liu Zhen about that Duan Yuwen.

After hearing this, Liu Zhen frowned, seemed to be very puzzled, and said: "Since that Duan Yuwen is a former colleague of the teacher, why didn't he tell you directly, and lied that he was just a person who answered?" ”

"The ghost knows what their old men are thinking about in their heads." I said angrily.

Liu Zhen thought for a while and said, "I think, he must have his own reasons for not telling you things, I listen to the teacher's tone, he trusts this Duan Yuwen very much." ”

"Trust?" I said disdainfully: "It's been thirty years, people's hearts will change, who knows if he still believes it or not." ”

Liu Zhen nodded and said, "What you said also makes sense, but, anyway, this Yuwen is the only clue we have now, and the letter that asked you to go to Yunnan was also written by him, and we can only go to him if we want to solve these mysteries." ”

"What about the letter? Take it for me to see. I said.

Liu Zhen handed me the letter, I opened the envelope, pulled out the letter inside, and just read the first sentence, my head exploded, I couldn't believe my eyes. Just look at the first sentence of the letter: "Perrin is dead, send a descendant." ”

Perrin, the full name of this name should be Van Perling, is my brother who mysteriously disappeared more than ten years ago.