Chapter 357: The Mystery of the Amphibians
And the madman six sat next to him, just listened quietly, and didn't say a word, until his cousin finished speaking, he let out a long sigh and said: "Researcher Wang is right, there are indeed such records in the book, you may think that these are just legends, but according to my personal experience, I think that this kind of 'water of the underworld' is very likely to indeed exist." ”
Then, Madman Six recounted his experience.
Speaking of which, the first time Madman Six came into contact with the "water of the underworld" was because of a patient, and that was probably more than forty years ago.
At that time, he was not like now, specializing in treating rich people, let alone opening a pharmacy, because it was exactly ten years, it was impossible to do business, and at that time, once his military command experience was exposed, he was afraid that he would be sent to prison, so he was even more low-key in those ** years.
Fortunately, because he went to Shanghai when he was very young, and after he came back, he was engaged in secret work, and there were almost no people who really knew his identity, plus he later used his "meridian technique" to make his appearance change a lot, so no one here knew his true identity and experience, so he escaped a catastrophe.
However, because his identity is also unknown, no unit is willing to accept him, so Crazy Six has become a homeless person without a unit and a job, and can only make a living by treating people in private.
However, because of his ability to see people's meridians, he cured many incurable diseases, which made him famous, and more and more people came to him for treatment.
One day, a strange patient came.
This patient is a middle-aged man, about forty years old, he looks green, his cheeks are sunken, his face is sick, he looks very sick, he even has a hard time walking, he was carried by his wife, and when the middle-aged man and his wife talked about their illness, Crazy Six suddenly felt that the middle-aged man's illness was really weird.
It turned out that this middle-aged man was originally a hunter, but because he "cut the tail of capitalism" at that time, hunters were not allowed to go up the mountain to hunt without permission, so the middle-aged man changed his career to become a cleaner, doing some work such as cleaning the streets and taking out garbage in the county every day.
But because the food stamps given by the unit are limited, and the two sixteen or seventeen-year-old sons in the family are able to eat, so the rations are usually very tight, in order to improve the life of the family, this middle-aged man has to return to his old business, often on moonlit nights, sneaking into the mountains to hunt, get some prey to get some prey to get through the difficulties.
Hunting at night is very dangerous, unless an experienced old hunter, the average person will never dare to go into the mountains at night, and it is for this reason that this middle-aged man chooses to venture into the mountains at night to hunt, so as to avoid being discovered.
On a moonlit night seven or eight days ago, the middle-aged man secretly went into the mountains to hunt as usual.
Because it has just rained heavily during the day, the sky is clear, the moon is in the sky, the air is unusually fresh, walking in the mountains sprinkled with moonlight, the middle-aged man feels refreshed, and the grass and trees in the mountains are so familiar and friendly to him.
Especially when he saw that he had caught three hares in the beast trap, he was even more happy in his heart, and this time he was fully loaded.
Although the animal clamp is usually under the trap, most of the time it is empty, and this time the harvest is so big, it may be related to the heavy rain - it has been raining for so long, the animals can't come out to forage, they must be hungry, and as soon as the rain stops, they must all rush out to find something to eat, so it is easier to "take the bait".
Thinking of this, the middle-aged man's heart moved, because he was in a canyon deep in the mountains, and he also specially placed a few traps to catch wild deer, because he knew that wild deer often haunted there, so this heavy rain, will it also make wild deer get caught - like those three hares.
If you can catch a deer, not only can the venison be marinated and eaten for half a month, but the deer skin can also be bought for a large price.
The thought excited him, and he decided to go to the canyon to see what was going on.
Because he has been hunting in this mountain since he was a child, the middle-aged man knows this mountain well, and by the bright moonlight, he took a shortcut to the canyon deep in the mountain to check whether he had caught wild deer.
When he walked around a boulder and came to the place where the beast trap was arranged, he couldn't help but be a little disappointed, because the two beast traps didn't move, and it seemed that this time it was in vain.
The original enthusiasm and excitement disappeared without a trace, and he sat on the stone next to him, panting heavily, at this time, he felt sore, and he had no strength at all.
But when he looked more closely at the trap he had arranged, something seemed wrong.
He is an old hunter, experienced in hunting, when arranging the traps, they are carefully observed, deliberately placed in the places where the animals often haunt, but because of the heavy rain, he found that the traps have been soaked in the water, no wonder they can't catch wild deer, because with the habits of wild deer, they are very afraid of water, not chased, will never wade through a place, at most stand by the spring to drink water.
When the middle-aged man leaned over to take a closer look, he was not only taken aback, but also saw that the stream formed at the trap of the beast was very different from ordinary streams—the stream was rolling violently, as if it was boiling.
Is this a hot spring? But there was no spring water in the area, so why would a hot spring suddenly form after a heavy rain? The middle-aged man squatted curiously by the boiling spring and looked closely, and after looking at it for a while, he couldn't help but put his hand close to the "boiling" stream, but to his surprise, he didn't feel a little heat.
This kind of strange thing has never happened to a middle-aged man.
He simply put his hand all the way into the water - it was strange, the water was cold, and there was no heat at all.
Somehow, the middle-aged man felt dry at this time, and by the moonlight, seeing that the spring water was clear to the bottom, he couldn't help but hold the spring water in both hands and drink a few sips.
The water is delicious, with a faint sweetness.
After drinking the water, he saw that the moon was turning west, it was already the second half of the night, he did not dare to delay any longer, and immediately returned, and when he got home, it was already dawn.
After lying down in bed, he felt very tired, so he asked his wife to help him call in sick, did not go to work during the day, and slept until dusk.
When his wife called him up to eat, she couldn't help but exclaim, because she found that when her man's eyes opened, they were frighteningly red and would drip blood almost at any moment.
But the middle-aged man just felt that his eyes were a little swollen, but other than that, he didn't feel particularly uncomfortable, so he comforted his wife not to worry, this may be because he was too tired last night, just rest.
But the next thing that happened was even more bizarre.
When the middle-aged man sat at the table and smelled the fragrant rabbit meat, for some reason, he suddenly felt nauseous and had no appetite at all, while the two sons next to him devoured and ate very deliciously.
At this time, the middle-aged man felt that his stomach was a little rumbling, so he hurried to the thatched house in the courtyard for convenience, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart - was it because he had a cold stomach last night, so his appetite was not good.
The middle-aged man thought to himself, took off his pants, squatted on the pit and pulled it up.
He pulled out a kind of green water with a foul smell, but the strange thing is that the middle-aged man likes to smell this smell very much, and after smelling the smell of in the latrine, he suddenly has an appetite, especially when he sees the maggots in the pit, he actually has an urge to pick it up and eat it.
This shocked the middle-aged man himself, because his sanity was very clear, he knew that this feeling of his mind was too weird, and suddenly, an inexplicable fear surged in his heart.
But he forcibly didn't tell anyone, and forced himself to eat, but for some reason, when he put the fragrant food in his mouth, it was difficult to swallow every bite, and after a few bites, he couldn't hold back any longer, and vomited wow, and what came out was the foul-smelling green water.
For two whole days, it was like this, and in the end, he had to tell his wife what he had experienced that night, and told his strange feeling - he didn't want to eat, he wanted to vomit when he saw food, but he wanted to eat maggots in the pit, and he liked to smell the stench of feces.
Not only that, but what is even more strange is that every midnight, the middle-aged man will feel the itch of the asshole, when his wife holds a flashlight, when he checks his asshole, she is surprised to find that from the middle-aged man's asshole, drill out of the worm as thin as a needle and thread, this kind of worm is green all over, looking terrifying, and disgusting.
They went to the hospital and took medicine, but it had no effect at all, and they watched the middle-aged man lose weight day by day. In the end, the couple heard from others that Crazy Man Six had very high medical skills and specialized in treating some incurable diseases, so they found Crazy Six Six.
After listening to the couple's story, Madman Six was also surprised, although he had seen a lot of "strange diseases", but such a strange illness was the first time he had encountered it, and he had never even heard of this strange disease before.
What shocked Maniac Six even more was that he couldn't see the meridians of this middle-aged man, but the meridians of the middle-aged man's wife next to him, Maniac Six could see them clearly-what's going on?
Since the madman six was "electrified" by Inoue to open the eye of the sky, he can see everyone's meridians clearly, and it is the first time that the madman six has encountered a person who can't see the meridians like this.
And what is going on with this kind of weirdness?
The madman pondered for a moment, carefully recalling the middle-aged man's experience that night, and suddenly, he remembered something that Inoue said in the manuscript, and that incident seemed to be related to the middle-aged man's experience.
And that incident is the legend of "the water of the underworld" that my cousin just mentioned - however, as a medical doctor who graduated from a prestigious university in the United States, Inoue made a detailed analysis of this legend from a scientific point of view.
Inoue said that in the 19th century, Western anthropologists discovered that there was another kind of "amphibian man" living on the earth -- this kind of "amphibious man" was similar in size to human, but in terms of physique, it was very different from human.
The head of this "amphibian" is very similar to that of a frog, and the internal organs and physique are more like amphibians, which are very different from humans, but they have a brain as developed as humans, so anthropologists call them "amphibians".
This kind of "amphibian" likes to live underground, and their skin is green, in the nineteenth century, several British anthropologists, in a mountain plain in Africa, also found this "amphibian", and successfully captured one, but unfortunately, when the amphibian man was brought down the mountain, this "amphibian" died, anthropologists made this amphibian into a specimen, brought back to England for study, and this specimen has been preserved in the "Royal Society" of London, When Inoue was studying in the United States, he also went to London to study this kind of "amphibious".
Inoue was shocked when he saw the corpse of the "amphibious man", because this "amphibious man" looked like a mixture of a toad and a human, and it looked strange and terrifying.
Because Inoue has always been very interested in the meridians, he also deliberately studied the meridians of this "amphibious man".
Since only living creatures have meridians, and this specimen has been dead for so many years, there will be no meridians, but according to the physical characteristics of this specimen, Inoue guessed that the meridians of this "amphibious man" must be similar to that of frogs.
And the frog's meridians, in Inoue's opinion, are the most bizarre - the frog only has meridians when it is in the water, and when it is on land, its meridians will disappear completely, and Inoue has not been able to figure out the reason.
The anthropologists who discovered the "amphibian man" have a detailed record of the habits of this strange creature: this "amphibian man" is oviparous, and can only be conceived in a special kind of water, this water looks like boiling water, but it is at room temperature, and does not feel hot at all. Therefore, the composition of its water quality has become an eternal mystery.