"Huh? This seems to be a kind of Gu? What you showed me was a Gu book? Shangguan Qing stared at the picture for a while, then looked up and asked Xu Xiaoyuan.

The Gu Book is the name of this method of using pictures to record Gu, as the sister of the Gu Master, it is not surprising that Shangguan Qing can say the name of the Gu Book, but this makes Chen Ziyang and Xu Xiaoyuan see a glimmer of hope.

"Since you know that this is a Gu book, do you know what kind of Gu this kind is? What does it mean? ”

"This ...... I have to ask my brother to know this, although I have a certain understanding of Gu, and I have also helped my brother raise a lot of Gu, but this kind of thing is very old, and I don't know it at all. Shangguan Qing said with some embarrassment.

After seeing the expressions of disappointment on Chen Ziyang and Xu Xiaoyuan's faces, Shangguan Qing continued: "Don't be too disappointed, my brother has a Gu album, which is placed here, he has collected it over the years, and there are many types of Gu in it, I can compare this picture with the picture in the Gu album, maybe there will be the same." ”

Shangguan Qing's statement was immediately agreed by the two people, after all, a large group of people came here to find the origin of this Gu in the map, and it was best to have a Gu album for comparison.

"Follow me." After Shangguan Qing finished speaking, he led a few people to another house.

The moment the door was opened, Chen Ziyang looked at the things in the house and nodded. "That's right, that's right, that's what I imagined."

The room behind the door was not large, nor was it furnished, and all four walls were filled with various shelves, making the whole room even more cramped.

On these shelves, rows and rows of glass bottles, large and small, thick and thin, and of different shapes, are neatly arranged, and are filled with all kinds of creatures.

Vipers, scorpions, centipedes, spiders, toads, and a variety of other insects come in bottles, either individually or in groups, but all of them have one thing in common, they are all alive.

Some of the beetles in the glass bottles crawled around the walls of the bottles, densely packed, and looked very uncomfortable. At first glance, when they saw the scene in the room, the other people all gasped, this scene was really shocking, only Chen Ziyang was not surprised.

The creatures in these bottles should be all kinds of Gu worms, which is very similar to the furnishings in the Gu Master's house that he imagined before, but it is also expected, if there are no such things in the house, he will feel that he has come to the wrong place.

Just when Shangguan Qing led the five people into the room, a strange thing happened. The Gu worms in these glass bottles suddenly became agitated.

First, the Gu worms in the bottle closest to the door moved violently, and then like a wave, the restlessness instantly spread throughout the room, and all the Gu worms in the bottle fell into madness.

The toad kept jumping in the bottle, the centipede and the snake kept crawling in the bottle, and some other Gu worms were all restless, and even in some bottles with a lot of Gu worms, there were Gu worms biting each other.

Due to the violentious movement of the Gu worms in the bottles, some of the bottles shook, and the lid of the bottle and the body of the bottle kept colliding, making a burst of sound. As more and more bottles shook, even some of the wooden shelves vibrated with it.

"This ...... What's going on? Was there an earthquake? Looking at the image that appeared in front of him, Xu Xiaoyuan asked very incomprehensibly.

"No...... It's not an earthquake...... It seems like...... It seems that these Gu worms all want to break out of the bottle, what's wrong? I've been raising Gu for my brother for so many years and I've never seen this happen. Shangguan Qing stared at a pair of big eyes and said in surprise. Her eyes were almost bigger than her glasses due to her astonishment.

After a long while, Shangguan Qing reacted. "Like...... It seems that these Gu worms really want to get something from you, and it may be that what you are carrying attracts them. Exit first. ”

A few people, you look at me, I look at you, I can't think of what caused the mutation of these Gu worms, everyone had to quickly exit the door and stay away from this room.

After a long while, Shangguan Qing walked out of the room with a tired face, still holding a red sandalwood box in his hand.

"Those Gu worms have finally quieted down, this is really strange, have any of you ever been in contact with Gu before? Or maybe I've gotten something weird, maybe it's these things that attract Gu worms.

I have been raising Gu for so many years, and I know these Gu worms very well, and they are in that state just now, as if they have been hungry to the extreme, and suddenly they see food, and they feel an abnormal desire for something in you.

It's weird, it's really weird. There are nearly a hundred kinds of Gu worms raised in it, these Gu worms have completely different living habits from each other, and their requirements for food are also varied, I have never seen a thing that can attract so many kinds of Gu worms at the same time.

Now my curiosity has come up, Sister Xu, you must help me and help me find out what is it that makes these Gu worms so obsessed. ”

Even if Shangguan Qing didn't make this request, everyone would have wanted to do it for a long time, after all, everyone has curiosity, and they are all strange, and they have already put it into action.

In Shangguan Qing's efforts to appease those Gu worms, these five people took out all the belongings they were carrying, but the five of them didn't take out much together, these things were also very common, and it was impossible to hide any weird items.

Shangguan Qing looked at the things that everyone took out, and she was also puzzled. Several other people all touched their pockets, indicating that all the things had been taken out, and Yang Lei even turned out all his pockets, and even found out the melon seed skin that had been stored for an unknown number of years.

"Could it be...... It's not something that attracts these Gu worms, but one of you? Shangguan Qing suddenly thought of this and asked the five people again.

The five people moved their eyes back and forth between each other, but no one could think of any one person who had anything special, so the five of them looked at Shangguan Qing together and shook their heads at the same time.

"I don't understand these things either, but when I see my brother, I'll tell him what happened today, and he'll be very interested.

Sister Xu, I'm really embarrassed, look at me, I'm so excited that I forgot everything, let's get down to business first. After Shangguan Qing finished speaking, he put the red sandalwood box on the table.

When the box was opened, a thick, somewhat strange pamphlet appeared in front of everyone's eyes. It's not the shape of the booklet, it's the paper on which the book is bound is very weird.

From the side of the book, you can see that some of these papers are new, some are old, some are yellow, some are black, and some are still a white paper. The whole book gives people the feeling that it is made of many pages from different ages nailed together, and it seems that this book should be collected by Shangguan Qing's brother from different places, and then put together.

Putting aside the pictures brought by Chen Ziyang and the others, Shangguan Qing turned the first page of the book, and then compared the patterns on the two pictures, and then she turned down page by page, trying to find the same page of Gu worm painting as the picture brought by Chen Ziyang and the others.

As Shangguan Qing flipped over, the five of them focused their eyes on this strange album at the same time, and they found that in addition to drawing various Gu insect pictures in the middle of the album, there were also annotations to these Gu worms in some blank places.

These annotations are varied, there are all kinds of things, some are written about the food that Gu worms like, some are written about the environment of Gu worm breeding, and some are written about the cultivation method of Gu worms, very few, and also recorded the usage of some Gu worms, but because Shangguan Qing turned a little fast, everyone didn't understand it too clearly.

On most of the pages, the annotations are not Chinese characters, but some characters that people can't understand at all, and there are many types of these characters, obviously these books are recorded by people of different races, and they are very old.

Chen Ziyang noticed that he could not read all the words on the old pages, and only some modern things on paper were described in Chinese characters.

It is estimated that these old papers were collected by Shangguan Qing's brother, and those things drawn on the white paper were copied and written down by him, the collection age of this Gu album is not short, it is estimated that Shangguan Qing's brother has spent a lot of effort for this booklet.

Although this Gu album looks relatively thick, it is due to the fact that the paper is relatively old and the gaps between each other are relatively large, and the Gu album actually does not have many pages, and there are about 200 kinds of Gu insect drawings recorded on it. After a while, Shangguan Qing flipped through the booklet from beginning to end.

"Sister Xu, I'm really sorry, I didn't see exactly the same picture of this Gu as yours in the Gu book, I don't think the picture of this Gu you brought was not recorded in this Gu book."

"Do you only have this Gu book here? Is there anything else? Xu Xiaoyuan asked with some reluctance.

"The Gu book is very rare, and this one was also collected by my brother for more than 20 years, and we only have this one at home."

"Sister Shangguan, could it be that you flipped it too fast just now and didn't see it clearly, or ...... Do you take a look at it again? Although Xu Xiaoyuan said so, she knew that what Shangguan Qing said was not wrong, none of the pictures in the Gu album were the same as those brought by everyone, and there were not even some similarities.

Because when Shangguan Qing flipped through the Gu book, none of the five people's eyes left this booklet, but if there was one that was somewhat similar to the Gu in the picture, everyone would have found it a long time ago.

"Okay." Shangguan Qing once again started to look at the Gu Book from the first page, this time she turned more slowly, every time she turned the page, she would raise her head, and only after seeing the five people shaking their heads at the same time, she would turn to the next page. And so, after about half an hour, all five of them shook their heads in disappointment.

After putting the Gu album back into the box, Shangguan Qing looked at the five people and said, "Don't be too disappointed, this Gu album is only less than 200 pages, and the types of Gu recorded are very few, as far as I know, my brother has been exposed to at least more than 500 kinds of Gu worms, if you find him, you may be able to get some hints."

Even if my brother hasn't seen this kind of Gu you draw, he may be able to help you analyze something from the shape of this Gu and the pictures on it.

After all, there are very few things like Gu albums, so the people who can draw Gu albums are all in the same vein, and the method of drawing is similar, through the shape of this insect and the patterns on its body, you should be able to get some clues. ”

Things went back to square one, everyone still had to look for Shangguan Qing's brother, although there was no clue here, but the hope in everyone's hearts had not completely disappeared, and there was still a chance.

"Well, how are we going to find your brother?"

"Every year at this time of year, my brother would come home and from here he would go out into a mountain range in search of a rare bug.

The bug is very rare, and is almost completely extinct, and only a small number exist in that mountain range. The bug only appears during this season of the year to mate.

The mating period of this insect is very short, only 7 to 10 days in a year, if you miss this time period, if you want to find it, you have to wait until the next year.

My brother has always wanted to find this bug, and then take it back to breed it, and raise this bug into a Gu worm, but he has never found it, only the carapace that the worm sheds from.

I've been to that place twice with him, and although .nt is not very far from here, it is very difficult to walk. I'll tell you where and how to go. ”

After listening to Shangguan Qing for a while, everyone figured out the route to go there, not because everyone's acceptance ability was poor, but because it was too difficult to go to that place.

According to Shangguan Qing, if you want to reach that mountain range, you need to drive for a day first, and then you have to transfer to an ox cart, and after two days of ox cart riding, you will reach a small village, from where there is no road, and even the ox cart can not continue to move forward, so you can only rely on two legs to walk slowly, over the mountains and mountains.

From here to that mountain range, the straight-line distance is only a few hundred kilometers, but this distance is very time-consuming, the last time Shangguan Qing went with her brother, it took more than half a month on the road.

Most of the way there involves climbing mountains, which are steep and dangerous. There are only a few sparsely populated and isolated villages on the road, so you must bring plenty of supplies, and it is best to bring some medical supplies, as you may be bitten by some poisonous insects on the way.

For the people who had trekked through the Qinling Mountains, this was equivalent to crossing the Qinling Mountains again, so they immediately began to prepare.