Chapter 616: Looking for the Gu Master
"Gu?" After combining insects and Yunnan, Chen Ziyang came up with such an idea.
Gu art, corpse exorcism and head lowering are known as the three major witchcraft, and they have always been covered with a layer of mystery. Although there are many provinces where Gu art exists, Gu art is the most prosperous in Miaojiang, Yunnan, so Chen Ziyang naturally associated the picture of the insect with Gu.
"Yes, you are the same as I thought, this picture is very likely to be a kind of Gu." After saying this, Xu Xiaoyuan lowered her head again, and kept looking at other places on the map to see if there were any unnoticeable marks, but she found nothing.
So she took out a piece of paper and traced it according to the shape around the dots, in addition to depicting according to the pattern, Xu Xiaoyuan also perfected some details of the edge of the insect, and after a while, a lifelike beetle jumped on the paper.
"This bug should be a hint, but it still hasn't told us exactly where it is. Dao Gu of Elimination Yuan, do you know a lot about Gu? Chen Ziyang asked with a frown.
In the Maoshan Dao Technique, there is a special method for cracking the head lowering technique, which is divided into many individual categories, one of which is called Gu Descending, which is a combination of Gu Technique and Head Descending Technique. Therefore, Chen Ziyang still has some understanding of Gu arts, but he only understands it. Looking at the worm on the paper, he couldn't get any other information at all.
Since following Bai Shi Lao Dao to learn the arts, Chen Ziyang has never been in contact with Gu art at all, and the only time it has something to do with witchcraft is that Wang Lele fell into Xiao Na's ghost head, so he doesn't know anyone who knows Gu art.
"To be honest, I don't know much about Gu arts, but I know a person who has a deep study of Gu arts, or that person is a Gu master, he once told me about Gu art briefly, you come here."
Xu Xiaoyuan said as he compared the dot on the map and drew a circle on the beetle on the paper.
"If my guess is correct, this dot should not just mark our destination, that is, the location of the treasure, but also have a purpose, and this dot also fell on the body of this Gu worm, just like the pattern on the body of this bug.
The Gu master I know once said that there are very many types of Gu, there are more than a dozen kinds of big categories alone, and if you subdivide them, there are countless types, so even if you have comprehensive knowledge, there are Gu masters who you don't know, and there are Gu who you haven't seen before.
In order to distinguish these Gu, there is a way to record the information of Gu among people who specialize in raising Gu, and that is to use pictures, just like hieroglyphs.
Each kind of Gu has a picture representing this kind of Gu, in addition to roughly drawing the type of bone, these pictures also contain a lot of hidden information in it, for a Gu master who is familiar with this kind of drawing, even if he sees a picture of a Gu that he has never seen before, he can also know the approximate purpose of this Gu from the details in the picture. ”
After listening to Xu Xiaoyuan's words, Chen Ziyang saw hope. If it is really like what Dao Gu said, as long as you find this Gu master, you can know the origin of this Gu, which will be of great help to everyone to find the location of the treasure.
"Great, the Gu master you know will not read this kind of picture that records Gu, if he can understand it, he may be able to provide us with particularly important information. Would you like to give us a call first? Chen Ziyang asked a little anxiously.
Xu Xiaoyuan showed a somewhat embarrassed expression and said: "I have a good relationship with him, according to his own words, there are fewer and fewer people who know this way of recording Gu types, but he is one.
However, he behaves very strangely, and he is very obsessed with Gu, except for a very small amount of time, most of the time he spends most of his time in the sparsely populated primeval forest looking for some rare insects, in order to prepare Gu worms.
So this person doesn't even have a mobile phone, even if he has a mobile phone, it's useless, and the places he goes to have no mobile phone signal at all, and it's very difficult to find him. It can be said that he has basically detached himself from modern society. ”
Seeing the expression of disappointment on Chen Ziyang's face, Xu Xiaoyuan continued: "You don't have to be too disappointed, although I can't find him, I know where his home is."
He has a younger sister who has been staying at home, and although his sister can't contact him, every time this person goes out, he will tell him where he is, and maybe we will find out where he is now. But I don't have his sister's phone either, so it seems that I only went once.
His home is in Guizhou, and Yunnan Province is also very close, we are not a detour, just go by once, if you really can't find his person, you can also go directly to Yunnan, so as not to delay too much time. ”
Hope is better than nothing, Chen Ziyang and Xu Xiaoyuan discussed for a while, the two of them set the itinerary, and all that was left was preparation.
may be to make up for the mistakes he made before, Wang Chuan acted very quickly this time, he used his connections, and really got a few guns for Chen Ziyang and others.
It is basically the same as when he set off to the Bohai Palace, Wang Chuan still got a few Uzi submachine guns and a few pistols, although the firepower of these guns is not as good as the firearms provided by Liu Cong who was used by Chen Ziyang and others before, but this time they used guns not to find someone to fight, and it is enough to have these firepower to defend themselves, and the Uzi submachine gun is relatively small in size, which is also easy to carry and hide, which is exactly what Chen Ziyang wants.
Jin Huang has also made great progress on his side, he has gotten a lot of magic weapons, in his words, although these things are not as good as the wine jar he used before, but they can barely make do with it, so that they will not be empty-handed and have no confidence.
In fact, Chen Ziyang didn't care if Jin Huang had a magic weapon in his hand, what he wanted to borrow most was Jin Huang's skills from the Maoshan Formation Master, as long as Jin Huang could accompany him, other problems would be trivial.
A few days later, the preparations of the five people were basically over, and the things that should be purchased had been completed, and the large bags and small bags were crowded into the trunk of the car, and several people drove the car towards Guizhou.
When he was on the road, Chen Ziyang kept learning about Gu, but the information he could find was very limited, and he could only understand it briefly.
There are two kinds of Gu, most of the Gu are insect Gu, and plant Gu only accounts for a small part.
The earliest predecessor of Gu art is actually a kind of insect control technique, using the insect itself, or the germs carried by the insect to achieve a certain purpose, and most of them are harmful to people, as for whether the person who first invented Gu art wanted to help people or wanted to harm others, it is unknown.
Those who have been hit by Gu magic must regularly take the antidote provided by the person who has fallen into Gu, otherwise, the Gu worms or Gu poison in the body of the person who has been hit by Gu will attack, and they will be in pain, and they are likely to be tortured to death. It is through this method that the person who is under the Gu controls the person who is under the Gu.
And this kind of thing is not something that everyone can raise, in the most orthodox Gu arts, only women can cultivate Gu worms, and men's physique is not suitable for doing this, but when Gu worms are cultivated, men can also play Gu on others.
The more powerful the Gu worm or Gu poison, the greater its counter-effect, like a double-edged sword, if it is not used well, it will even harm the person who raises Gu.
There are some extremely special Gu worms, which still need to be cultivated by the Gu cultivator with his own body, but the time cannot be too long, at most it will be two or three years, if the Gu cultivator does not put the Gu worm on the body of others at that time, he will be eaten by the Gu worm and die.
Gu poison is actually like poison, since it is poisonous, there will be an antidote, as long as the person who has been poisoned by Gu poison can get the antidote, it can be temporarily relieved, or completely rid of the Gu poison in the body.
And Gu worms are actually some insects that have special requirements for food, when this kind of Gu worms are put into the human body, because there is no delicious food, these Gu worms will bite people's internal organs and feed on them, so that the people who are under Gu suffer great pain.
The antidote to the Gu worm is actually the Gu worm's favorite food, when this antidote is eaten into the body of the Gu person, the Gu worm will give up biting the human body and go to eat their favorite food instead, so that the Gu person will be temporarily rescued, as long as the food is not eaten, the Gu worm will not bite the human body again.
However, these are only the most basic Gu techniques, and the advanced Gu techniques are not so simple, and they cannot be understood in a moment.
After a two-day drive, the five arrived in Guizhou Province, and under the guidance of Xu Xiaoyuan, everyone found their destination with great effort.
Xu Xiaoyuan has only been here once, her memory is relatively vague, and this place is really a bit remote, so everyone looked for a long time before they found a private Chinese medicine clinic in a remote alley.
This clinic is a few very inconspicuous small houses connected together, the houses are very dilapidated, they are simply a row of dilapidated houses, or the kind of dilapidated houses that can receive a full subsidy at one time in the renovation of dilapidated houses.
Break! It's so broken! These houses are almost likely to collapse at any time, this is the first feeling that Chen Ziyang has after seeing these houses.
On the door frame of this house, there is a plaque that reads "Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic", the plaque is black on a white background, but the paint on it has fallen off very much, and the words are a little unclear, and even the part of the white paint that has fallen off is larger than the remaining area.
Several people walked into the clinic one after another. The furnishings in the room are also very simple, only a few tables, a few chairs, and a few rows of small medicine cabinets standing on the wall, there are many drawers on the medicine cabinet, on which are written various Chinese herbs, but the room is very clean.
A woman in a yellowish white coat was sitting on a chair, a very young woman, who looked to be only twenty-four or five years old, wearing a pair of round-framed short-sighted glasses, and a childish face.
"Shangguan Qing, do you still know me?" After entering the room, Xu Xiaoyuan asked the woman.
"Shangguan? This surname is very rare. Chen Ziyang thought. At this time, he was a little surprised in his heart, and what surprised him was not the surname of the woman in front of him, but that he judged from Xu Xiaoyuan's words that this woman was the person everyone was looking for.
Before coming here, Chen Ziyang had fantasized many times about what a Gu Master's sister would look like, and after thinking about it, only one picture appeared in his mind.
A scruffy hunchbacked old lady with a crutch in one hand and a skull in the other, and a small green snake in and out of the skull's eye sockets. The old lady's face was covered with pus, and when she opened her mouth to smile, she would show the few black and yellow teeth left in her mouth.
And now the woman sitting in front of Chen Ziyang formed a huge contrast with the sister of the Gu Master in his imaginary witch image.
"You...... You are...... Sister Xu! Oh my God, Sister Xu, it's really you, I'm afraid we haven't seen each other for several years. After Shangguan Qing recognized Xu Xiaoyuan, she said excitedly.
"Isn't it? I'm afraid it's been five or six years. How are you late......" The two women chatted happily, it seemed that the relationship between these two people was not ordinary before, and Shangguan Qing's attitude towards Xu Xiaoyuan was very enthusiastic.
"Old umbrella, I thought I was grinding enough, I didn't think that the Daoist aunt was grinding more than me, how could I talk endlessly, and I forgot about business." Yang Lei gritted his teeth and whispered in Umbrella Shishuai's ear.
The two women exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then Xu Xiaoyuan turned to the topic: "Shangguan Qing, let's talk about the old days later, I came here to do a very important thing, where is your brother now, do you know, I have something urgent to find him." ”
"Huh? Sister Xu, it's really unfortunate that you came, my brother just left a few days ago, if you had come three or five days earlier, you would have been able to see him. This time he went out and probably won't be back until the end of the year. ”
"Ahh What a pity! It's all my fault, I don't have your phone at all, otherwise I wouldn't have missed it. Xu Xiaoyuan bit her lip and said with some regret.
"By the way, if you have anything to do with him, see if I can help, and if I can't help, I'll tell you where my brother goes, and you go find him yourself."
But it's too far away, and the mountain road has to walk for more than half a month, so if you really have something urgent to find him, you can only do that. ”
Xu Xiaoyuan's eyes lit up, yes, this Shangguan Qing is the sister of the Gu Master, maybe he will also know something about the picture of that Gu worm. After glancing at Chen Ziyang, Xu Xiaoyuan took out the piece of paper with the insect pattern from his pocket and handed it to Shangguan Qing.