Chapter 279: Desert Adventure
This shocked the Feng Shui master - he found that several of the corpse worms had turned black and died! Ever since he brought back the corpses, he hadn't seen them turn black and die.
Although each corpse worm has a lifespan of about five or six years, in general, their death is very strange - they will disappear naturally, and this kind of black corpse will never appear.
In the pile of white, transparent corpses, several completely blackened, corpse corpses suddenly appeared, which looked very eye-catching. This also made the feng shui master both shocked and panicked - these corpse insects were his magic weapon against the blind man, how could such a strange death suddenly appear? If he dies one after another like this, he will die very quickly, and at that time, what will he do against the blind man? This is his lifeline.
The feng shui master didn't dare to wait any longer, and hurriedly put the corpse worm into a bottle, took it and went straight to Shanghai.
After a bumpy journey of several days and nights, he finally returned to his hometown of Shanghai, which he had been away from for a long time.
On the way, what he feared most happened: many corpse insects turned black and died in succession; And die very quickly. Although he kept cleaning up the dead corpse worms, it seemed to be useless, and by the time he arrived in Shanghai, most of the corpse worms had already died.
The feng shui master didn't have time to catch up with his family, so he hurried to meet a person, he felt that only this person might be able to save these corpse insects, this person was not someone else, but the monk in Huizhong.
Speaking of which, the reason why the feng shui master went to Tibet and got these corpse insects back was because of this wisdom. Huizhong, who is proficient in medical skills, also used these extremely positive corpse insects as a medicine primer to treat many incurable diseases, which made him famous in Shanghai and accumulated a huge fortune. In terms of knowledge of corpse worms, no one can surpass him.
When the feng shui master told Huizhong in detail about the ins and outs of the matter, Huizhong stared at the bottle, the blackened corpse insects, his brows were tightly locked, his head was slightly tilted, his eyes were squinted, he stroked the snow-white goatee under his chin with his hand, and he was speechless for a long time, his strict expression was mixed with some fear, as if he remembered something terrible.
The feng shui master sat next to him, and when he saw Huizhong's expression, his heart became even more uneasy.
After a long time, Huizhong sighed and said, "Alas, this kind of thing is so terrible, until now, it still often appears in my nightmares. Unexpectedly, you actually encountered it. ”
When Huizhong said this, the feng shui master was a little confused - could it be that Huizhong also experienced this situation? What the hell is going on?
Huizhong picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, calmed down his feelings, and then sighed deeply, and then talked about his terrible and strange experience in a slow tone.
This has been a matter of decades. At that time, Huizhong was still young, and he was relying on these corpse insects to cure diseases, and made a fortune in Shanghai, and within a few years, he married a beautiful young wife, ran a hospital, bought a mansion, and gave birth to a son.
But at this moment, an extremely strange accident happened.
It was late at night, and Huizhong had just finished socializing with a group of dignitaries outside, and when he returned home, it was already early in the morning. The servants, wives and children of the family have all fallen asleep.
For some reason, he couldn't fall asleep lying in bed tossing and turning, and he felt a little panicked in his heart, which he had never felt before.
As a doctor, no matter what kind of entertainment he attends, he doesn't drink alcohol. And usually, as soon as his head is touched on the pillow, he can fall asleep soundly, but that night, for some reason, he was upset and couldn't sleep.
So, Huizhong simply put on a piece of clothing and went to his room where he specialized in cultivating corpse insects.
The room was so secret that no one was allowed to enter it except him, not including his wife and children, let alone the servants. He also asked a German locksmith in Shanghai to design a combination lock for this room, and reinforced the doors and windows to make the room like a safe.
This is the core secret of his fortune, how can he not protect it? He came over almost every day to take a closer look at the bugs. And will work here for an hour or two to concoct bugs into medicine primers.
These corpse worms reproduce very slowly, so for Huizhong, each corpse worm is more precious than gold, so he also cherishes each one.
This sleepless night, he quietly came to this special room again to inspect these precious bugs.
The insects were contained in a transparent container on the table, and there was a special electric lamp, hanging directly above the glass container, and he turned on the electric light and leaned over to take a closer look at the strange corpse insects.
Huizhong's feelings for these corpses are subtle—they are cherished because they have brought him great wealth; It's also very scary, because when these corpse insects look at it up close, they are indeed very terrifying, and some of the corpse insects also have a strange head, and there are blurred facial features on it, which is both chilling and mysterious.
But human psychology is also quite delicate at times - the more scared you are, the more you can't help but look at it more, which may be out of curiosity.
But when he looked closely at the corpse worms in the container again in the middle of the night, he found something unusual, and when he looked closer, Huizhong couldn't help but be surprised—because there were several corpse worms, which had turned black all over their bodies, and seemed to have stiffened, could they be dead?
Huizhong hurriedly picked up a long clip, carefully took out the blackened corpse insects, and then put them on the table, sure enough, these corpse insects were really dead!
This was a bolt from the blue for the feng shui master, who sat on the ground for several minutes without relieving himself, and his head was buzzing all the time.
Could it be that these bugs will also get the plague? Will you get sick and die? According to his profound medical attainments, he felt that this was simply impossible—because the corpse insect is an extreme yang thing, and it is an extreme yang thing that is bred from a human corpse, and this extreme yang thing has the most tenacious vitality and is invulnerable to all diseases, even if it ends its life, it will die without illness like a monk sitting down.
Huizhong still clearly remembers that when he was young, he read a medical book - that medical book was written by one of Xuanzang's apprentices, of course, this Xuanzang is the prototype of Tang Seng in "Journey to the West" - once mentioned such an incident:
When Master Xuanzang traveled to the west, he went through a lot of hardships, and when he crossed the desert alone, he encountered an unbelievable strange thing.
It is written in the book as follows:
In the endless desert with only yellow sand, there are no clear road signs, so it is easy to get lost, and Xuanzang can probably only follow the bones of camels and people.
In the hinterland of the desert, Master Xuanzang saw a dried corpse on the ground.
In fact, if it was just an ordinary dried corpse, Xuanzang would not be particularly surprised, after all, it was in a desert area, hot and dry, and people's corpses were easy to weathered into dried corpses, and he had already seen several dried corpses before.
But when Xuanzang looked at the dried corpse carefully, he couldn't help but be deeply shocked - the brain of the dried corpse turned out to be a piece of ashes, obviously burned by fire, but the strange thing is that the rest of the corpse, including the face, has no traces of this kind of burning at all.
What a strange death this man had! How is it that just the brain is burned to ashes?
But what's even more strange is that on his shriveled corpse, there are clumps of maggots, generally speaking, if there are so many maggots, there should be a lot of flies around, but the strange thing is that there are not a single fly nearby!
Also, looking at the condition of this dried corpse, it has completely dried out, and it is not a fresh corpse at all, why are there so many maggots?
For this kind of unexplained phenomenon, Xuanzang couldn't help but be curious.
As a pious monk, he often overspent some dead widows and widows, because these old people have no children, no daughters, no relatives and no reason, so when the corpses are found, they are often dead for a long time, and the corpses have rotted and maggots, so Xuanzang will endure the huge smell before the excess, and clean up the corpses of these old people with extreme patience.
Therefore, Xuanzang's tolerance for maggots is much stronger than that of ordinary people, and driven by curiosity, he couldn't help but squat down and began to carefully observe the maggots on these corpses.
Looking at it so seriously, Xuanzang was even more surprised, these bugs didn't seem to be ordinary maggots - they were much more slender than ordinary maggots, and they also had an obvious head, and what was even more terrifying was that there were several particularly large corpse insects, and there were obvious facial features on the head, just like a shrunken human head.
As a senior monk, Xuanzang firmly believes that everything in the world must be karma, and these insects with human faces are also the result of the law of cause and effect? It's the rarest thing in the world.
He couldn't figure it out for a while, so he took out a crockpot from the package in the back, and then gently put these insects into the crockpot, he wanted to take these weird insects and ask the Western monks for advice in person, to see what kind of species this weird bug is.
When he got out of the desert and arrived in a small country in the Western Regions, he unexpectedly encountered a strange thing in the court there - a famous local sorcerer, who was instructed by someone to raise the most powerful Gu worm and wanted to kill the king.
The terrible thing is that this kind of Gu insect can't die by fire, can't drown in water, can't die with a knife, can't die when crushed, sometimes when chopped with a knife, they will be like earthworms, and when they are chopped open, they will turn into two.
The king was so frightened that he had hundreds of people take turns guarding him day and night to prevent these Gu worms from coming and biting him. These Gu worms are only the size of a finger, but they crawl extremely fast, and if they are not careful, they will drill through layers of "human walls" and crawl towards the king.
Therefore, these guards who guarded the king, all with brooms in their hands, did not dare to blink their eyes to look at the ground, and as soon as they saw insects, they would sweep out. If they react a little slowly, they will be bitten by this Gu worm, and once they are bitten, they will have a sharp pain like ten thousand arrows piercing their hearts, and after half an hour, they will turn black and die.
So, whether it was the king or the guards, under this irrevocable threat of death, the spirit was almost about to collapse. They invited many eminent monks from their country, but these eminent monks were helpless against these Gu worms, and several eminent monks were also bitten to death.
And Xuanzang's arrival made things take an unexpected turn.