Chen Ziyang was very happy to learn the origin of the insects in the picture, but suddenly, the smile on his face froze, because he found two problems.

Now it seems that after Yuan Tiangang hid the location of the treasure, he left a means of searching, that is, he put a few female insects in the treasure, and then borrowed the very keen sense of smell of the male insect of the sun and moon nose insect to find the location of the treasure. But in this case, he must find at least one male of the sun and moon nose worm.

However, according to Shangguan Kangning, the sun and moon nose worm has been extinct since the Song Dynasty. Not to mention trying to find a live male, even trying to find a specimen is unlikely.

The second question, if Yuan Tiangang really put one or several female insects of the sun and moon nose worms into the treasure to guide the location of the treasure, now that 1,000 years have passed, these insects may have died a long time ago, and even the ashes that have turned into ash do not exist, how can they emit a smell.

If these two problems cannot be solved, it will be even more difficult to find the treasure left by Yuan Tiangang, which is tantamount to talking on paper.

"Brother Shangguan, I want to ask, if you want to find a male worm of the sun and moon nose worm now, is it possible to find it?" Chen Ziyang asked a little apprehensively, although he felt that the question he asked was a bit stupid, but he had to ask.

Hearing Chen Ziyang's question, Shangguan Kangning frowned, and looked at Chen Ziyang with a very strange gaze, he didn't understand why the man in front of him was looking for this kind of insect that had been extinct for hundreds of years.

After thinking for a while, Shangguan Kangning slowly shook his head and said, "I can't say that there is no such possibility at all, I can only say that the possibility of finding this kind of insect is very small, at least, in the more than 20 years that I have been looking for strange insects, I have never seen or heard others talk about this kind of worm."

The number of insects is very small, and they are very demanding on the environment in which they grow, and only a few small areas of the environment can be suitable for the growth of this insect.

In addition, the gap between the male and female ratio of this insect is very large, and the population is easily disturbed and destroyed, so as long as this insect suffers from strong interference from the outside world, resulting in a decrease in the number of female insects, it is easy to fall into the crisis of population collapse.

Previously, this insect only grew in the border areas of Yunnan, and although the number was small, the population was very stable.

It is said that Miao people are good at Gu and are the best Gu people, but this is not wrong at all, the first to refine this insect into Gu is also the Miao people. Since then, there have been a few documents documenting the bug.

When the Miao people caught this kind of bug, they found that the population of this kind of bug was very unstable, so they were very careful when catching it, and they would not catch a large number of female worms at one time.

The Gu worms made of the sun and moon nose worms have been passed down for hundreds of years, and they are inseparable from the careful care of the Miao people. In these hundreds of years, the population of the sun-moon nose worm has not suffered extinction. But by the time of the Ming Dynasty, the situation was different. ”

Chen Ziyang remembered that Shangguan Kangning had said that since the Ming Dynasty, the insect of the sun and moon nose worm has disappeared, and it seems that the problem still appeared in the Ming Dynasty.

"In the Ming Dynasty, Dongchang was established, and as a spy agency, the people of Dongchang will naturally try their best to collect some means of tracking others. A eunuch from the East Factory accidentally learned about the characteristics of the Sun and Moon Nose Worm, so he used the Gu worm made from the Sun Moon Nose Worm as a means of tracking for them.

The people of the East Factory put the female worm into the stomach of the person to be tracked, and then released the male worm, and tracked it by smell, and because of this, the people of the East Factory had a very large demand for the Gu worms made of the Sun and Moon Nose Worms, so they began to frantically capture the protozoa and let the Miao people help them refine the Gu.

The number of females is already very scarce, and females are also the key to the continuation of the population, after the large-scale capture, the balance of the sun and moon worm population has been destroyed, and it is since then that there are fewer and fewer records of the sun and moon worm.

The Ming Dynasty has been five or six hundred years to say the least, and five or six hundred years, as an insect group that has been disrupted in the balance of the population, these times are enough time for them to become extinct. So I think it's impossible to find another sun-moon worm now. ”

Hearing this, Chen Ziyang's face showed a trace of disappointment. Although he had already guessed this result, after these words came out of Shangguan Kangning's mouth, his last trace of illusion was also dispelled.

Yang Lei, who was sitting on the side, did not have the strength to tease Shangguan Kangning before, but turned to a bitter face, and he was about to cry when he saw it, if he couldn't find the male insect, that is to say, there was a great possibility, and everyone was getting farther and farther away from Yuan Tiangang's treasure.

"Let me ask you two more questions, if the Gu worms made from female worms were placed in a closed environment before the Sun and Moon Nose Worms completely disappeared, until now, after such a long time, hundreds of years, thousands of years, would these Gu worms still emit a smell?

The second question is, if there is no male worm of the sun and moon nose worm, is there a way to capture the smell of the female worm, for example, through some scientific means, or some other methods that can be done now. ”

Now, Chen Ziyang wants to open it, some things just depend on fate, and the treasure map left by Yuan Tiangang is fate, if there is no way to find this treasure, it is his fate that has not arrived.

Even if there is no male worm to be found now, then there is a certain possibility that the female worm can be located in other ways. If it is the worst, it is a big deal to go on foot to find the treasure left by Yuan Tiangang, and now it is not yet the time to completely give up, all kinds of possibilities must be found, and all methods must be tried.

"Hmm......" Shangguan Kangning frowned, looked at Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei a few times, he had probably guessed what these two people were going to do. It seems that these two people should be looking for something or a location, and this thing or location should have placed the female Gu worm of the Sun and Moon Nose Worm a long time ago.

"Your first question is not easy to answer. Because I only know a little about the Gu worm of the Sun and Moon Nose Insect, I don't know the characteristics of the insect, and I don't know the characteristics of this insect after it is refined into a Gu worm, so I can't answer this question.

However, there are indeed many Gu worms that can be stored in a specific environment for a long time without dying, even if there is no oxygen, no food, and no water, they can still survive.

Most of these bugs have entered a state similar to hibernation, and the most amazing thing is that when these bugs are awakened, they are still alive and can recover quickly, and there are many such examples.

I once saw a Gu worm, which was found in an ancient tomb, which was more than a thousand years old.

At that time, the excavators of the ancient tomb found a sealed jar, and when they opened the jar, they found something similar to a stone carving.

These stone-like things are carved into the shape of insects. The person who excavated such a thing thought that it was a stone carving left over from ancient times, so he didn't think much about it and put the jar aside.

But I didn't expect that after a while, these "stone carvings" cracked little by little. The crackling sound of the stone carvings cracking attracted the attention of others, and the excavators of the ancient tombs found worms breaking out of the rocks and biting several of them.

I heard about this from a person who was bitten, and he also brought me the Gu worm. That kind of Gu worm is like the sun and moon nose worm, it has long been extinct, and if it wasn't placed in a sealed jar, it probably wouldn't have survived until now. But fortunately, I knew how to detoxify, so I saved his life.

However, not all Gu worms are like this. Gu worms are different, and the characteristics of Gu worms are also different, I don't know if the Sun Moon Nose Worm has this characteristic after being refined into a Gu worm.

The original Gu worm is a kind of flying insect that turns into a kind of flying insect after the millet has been stored for a long time. This initial Gu worm should be non-venomous.

And the poisonous Gu worms that are used to harm people are artificially cultivated. The people who choose insects put hundreds of poisonous insects in a container, don't feed them, let them eat each other, and the one left in the end is the poisonous Gu, which is also the beginning of artificial Gu refining.

However, the Gu worms refined in this way are more than brave, but they are very difficult to control and tame. Therefore, most of the later Gu refining methods were cultivated with various secret methods after selecting suitable insects, so as to amplify the characteristics of insects.

Bugs can only be called bugs, but Gu worms can be called Gu worms, and the difference is here. The purpose of cultivating Gu worms is to infinitely amplify the characteristics of the insects and use them. Therefore, the cultured Gu worms, compared with the previous protozoa, their characteristics will be more obvious.

Take the sun and moon nose worm as an example, the female worm only emits a scent that attracts the male insect when mating. I estimate that when the female worm is refined into a Gu worm, it will always emit this smell from its body, otherwise, it will not be used by Dongchang as a means to track people.

If the vitality of the Sun and Moon Nose Worm is very tenacious, when they are refined into Gu worms, even if they do not eat for a long time, they may survive with their own tenacious vitality, but whether this is the case or not, I don't know.

If the Gu worms of the female worms can also enter a state of hibernation, they may really be able to survive for thousands of years, but it is difficult to say whether they will emit a smell during this time.

As for your second question, if there is any other way to identify and find the scent emanating from the female, I think the answer should be yes, but it is very difficult to do so. ”

"There is hope!" Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei's eyes lit up. They didn't expect Shangguan Kangning's answer to this question to be so positive, and it seems that Shangguan Kangning is very confident in this method.

"Since it was my sister Shangguan Qing who asked you to come here to find me, then you should know that I come here at this time of year just to find a rare bug.

I've been searching for ten years, and I've come here at this time of year, but in ten years combined, I've only found three times the carapace that this worm sheds on.

This insect is called ground blue, and it is a very rare beetle. The reason why I want to look for this insect is because this insect has an extremely keen sense of smell, but it is not as exaggerated as the sun and moon nose worm can feel a distance of hundreds of kilometers, but I estimate that there are dozens of kilometers.

Unlike the yin-yang-nose insect, which can only recognize the scent of its companions, this insect is very sensitive to the smell of other insects, especially some pheromones that can only be secreted by insects during mating.

The insects' favorite food during mating is other beetles that secrete large amounts of pheromones. The pheromones that are eaten will be converted into nutrients in the body of the ground blue for their reproductive offspring.

The sun and moon nose insects can smell the smell emitted by their companions from hundreds of kilometers away, which means that the sun and moon nose insects secrete a lot of pheromones, and the smell is very strong, but it is difficult for other insects to detect.

Such a large amount of pheromones is a rare delicacy for Di Qing, and they will definitely be interested in this smell, so as long as they find a Di Qing and refine it into a Gu, they should be able to discover the smell of the female insect of the Sun and Moon Nose Insect. ”

"This ......" Chen Ziyang didn't expect the alternative method that Shangguan Kangning said would be like this. Not to mention whether Diqing can feel the smell of the female insect of the Sun and Moon Nose Insect, it is already very difficult to catch a Diqing worm, Shangguan Kangning has been looking for ten years in a row but has not found it.

"Your method is equivalent to not saying, you haven't found it for so long, and now it's only been a few days, and it's very difficult to find this bug."

"Before you appeared, it was indeed very difficult to find this kind of bug, but now that you have appeared, this difficulty has been reduced a lot, as long as you are willing to help me, I am completely sure that I can capture a ground blue."

"Me?" Chen Ziyang frowned and thought for a while, and then he understood, it is estimated that what Shangguan Kangning said was that the root himself was able to make the Gu worm mutate.

"If I help you catch the ground blue, how sure are you that you will be able to catch the scent of the female?"

"The sun and moon nose worm has disappeared for hundreds of years, and I don't know much about the characteristics, but according to my understanding of the worm, I estimate that there is still a certainty of five or six points."

"This thing...... You can do it! ”

(End of chapter)