"Feeding Gu worms? Is this Shangguan Kangning crazy? No matter how you look at it, this thing doesn't look like it's feeding Gu worms. Chen Ziyang thought strangely in his heart.

The thing like the stone grinding disc in front of him is a torture instrument no matter how you look at it, otherwise, why would there be a skeleton that was pressed under the stone grinding disc and crushed to pieces?

Could it be that Shangguan Kangning meant that after using this kind of torture tool to kill people, he would then feed Gu worms with human flesh? But what's the point? This is simply taking off your pants and farting, if you do it too much, you can just kill people, why do you have to use this stone grinding disc.

Seeing Chen Ziyang's puzzled expression, Shangguan Kangning said very seriously: "If you raise this stone grinding disc by 20 centimeters and then support it with a horizontal wooden stick, you should understand what I mean." ”

After listening to Shangguan Kangning's words, Chen Ziyang looked up. This huge stone grinding disc has a hole in the center that runs through it, as if it could really be erected with a wooden stick. As long as the stick is thick enough, and then a wooden frame is used to support the ground and hold up the stick that passes through the stone grinding disc, it is indeed able to support the weight of the stone grinding disc.

"If it's more than 20 centimeters up...... Torture instruments? Feeding Gu worms? Yes! Chen Ziyang slowly sketched in his mind the picture of the stone grinding disc in front of him after it was erected.

There was a skeleton pressed under the stone grinding disc, and there were still large pieces of coagulated blood on the side of the stone grinding disc, if the stone grinding disc was raised with a wooden shelf according to Shangguan Kangning, then the distance between the stone grinding disc and the base below was almost enough to accommodate a person, so you think about it......

Chen Ziyang's eyes widened violently, a creepy feeling permeated his heart, and he felt a churning in his stomach. If the use of this stone grinding disc-like thing was really as he imagined, it would be too cruel.

Seeing Chen Ziyang's reaction, Shangguan Kangning knew that Chen Ziyang had understood what he meant, and said after revealing a very strange and passionate look:

"You're right, the use of this stone grinding disc is to tie a person to the cornerstone below, and then use the stone grinding disc to slowly rotate behind the person, and use the uneven small stone ballast around the stone grinding disc to rub the flesh and blood on the person's body little by little, and use it to feed the Gu worms.

The vast majority of Gu worms only like fresh flesh and blood, and only a small percentage like carrion. In the eyes of the previous Gu masters, only the flesh and blood torn from the bodies of the living were considered fresh.

However, too large pieces of meat cannot directly feed the Gu worms, only the meat puree is the most suitable. If the flesh is cut off from the human body and then chopped into minced flesh, it takes a short period of time, during which time the soul of the person who is attached to the flesh dissipates.

The reason why the early Gu art was classified as witchcraft was precisely for this reason. All Gu masters are actually a kind of sorcerers, they believe that only the flesh that contains the soul is spiritual, and only after feeding the Gu worms with such meat will the Gu worms be full of spirituality.

The flesh and blood of a soulless person is no different from carrion, and feeding Gu worms with such meat has little effect. So in order to ensure the freshness of the meat, they invented this method of feeding Gu worms.

Although this stone grinding disc is no different from a torture instrument, it is not actually a torture instrument, but the person who is crushed under the stone grinding disc will still suffer unimaginably great.

With the rotation of the stone grinding disc, the minced meat and blood were rubbed off the human body alive, and they were directly devoured by the Gu worms surrounding them, such human flesh was the freshest, but for the people who were torn off the flesh, it was too cruel. ”

When he said these words, Shangguan Kangning's eyes were filled with a strange light, as if what he said was not something very cruel, but a high-tech means that could change the future of mankind, which made Chen Ziyang feel a little incomprehensible.

Shangguan Kangning is obsessed with Gu insects, he can accept it, Shangguan Kangning can persist in coming to the uninhabited mountainous area for ten years in order to catch the ground green worms, he can also accept it, after all, everyone has something they are obsessed with, but this method of feeding Gu insects is unacceptable to Chen Ziyang.

But in Shangguan Kangning's eyes, this method seemed to be a matter of course, and even Chen Ziyang felt that if killing people was not illegal, maybe Shangguan Kangning would use this method to feed its Gu worms.

Then a few people checked around the area again, and Shangguan Kangning kept pointing to one strange vessel after another to introduce the use of those things to other people.

Without exception, all of these torture instruments that seemed to be very cruel in the eyes of outsiders were all used to cultivate Gu worms, and there were many utensils that even Shangguan Kangning didn't know what they were used for, and he couldn't say why.

Many bones were scattered around these vessels, and a large amount of blood that had coagulated into black lumps stuck to these vessels, and even in one place, Chen Ziyang accidentally found the skulls of a dozen people piled together.

There was a hole with a regular edge above these skulls, and it was clear that these people's brains should have been fed to those Gu worms as food.

This witch tribe is located in a very remote place, and it is very likely that it was a few hundred years ago, or even a thousand years ago, many methods of cultivating Gu worms are not passed on, and because it has been too long, many methods of cultivating Gu worms have been lost, and Shangguan Kangning cannot know them all.

The current Shangguan Kangning seemed to have discovered a paradise, lingering on all these utensils that fed Gu worms, and was reluctant to leave, completely forgetting that the purpose of a few people coming here was to find Yuan Tiangang's treasures, and he was now putting all his thoughts on these utensils, wanting to make a breakthrough from them, and see if he could learn any methods to cultivate his own Gu worms.

After staring at these utensils for a while, Chen Ziyang called a few other people to his side and whispered, "Don't you think there is something wrong with this place?" ”

"Something is wrong? Aren't you talking nonsense. The fact that you can smell the same kind of insects from a distance of dozens of kilometers, and that even a stone can drill a hole in it, was wrong from the beginning. Yang Lei glanced at Chen Ziyang and said hatefully.

Hearing Shangguan Kangning's previous explanation, Yang Lei felt very uncomfortable, what he had eaten before had not been completely digested, and now he was rebelling in the stomachs of several people, trying to run out of his mouth and regain his life.

"I'm not talking about those Gu worms, I'm talking about this village. The bones in this vicinity add up, if not a hundred, but dozens of people, have you ever wondered where these people who are used as food for Gu worms come from?

It's remote and inaccessible, so you can only get here on foot. Even now, it would take a lot of effort to get here, let alone hundreds of years ago, when transportation was inaccessible.

Nanzhao is just a small country in Yunnan, even after the unification of the six edicts, Nanzhao only occupies the Erhai region, and the area is not very large, there will not be many residents in the entire Nanzhao, and there are even fewer people who know how to refine Gu.

So I estimate that there will not be a lot of people in an isolated witch tribe like this, which Shangguan Kangning has also said before.

Along the way, there are many things I can't figure out. It's not far from the Erhai region, but it's not close, why is this witch tribe hiding here? It's so deep that even the place where they live is hidden underground.

After thinking about it, I only thought of one answer, that is, these people fled here after the fall of Nanzhao, just to avoid pursuit.

It may be that the Gu worms raised by this witch tribe played a great role in the war, so they were not tolerated by the enemy and were hunted down by hostile forces, so they had to hide here.

So the question goes back to the place I just said, how many people can escape from this tribe after they have escaped so far through mountains and rivers? There must be hostile forces searching for them and chasing them down along the way, and the old, weak, sick and disabled will definitely not be able to escape here, and only some young and middle-aged people may escape here after evading the pursuit.

After adding all these factors together, it can be guessed that there are no other people living here in this place except for the people of this witch tribe, so how can these people who died here explain it, where did this witch tribe come from to find the people who feed the Gu worms? ”

"My God, you don't mean to say that these people who died here are all from this witch tribe, are they so cruel to themselves? Use people from your own tribe to feed Gu worms? Yang Lei shouted in surprise.

"It's not that there is no such possibility, but this possibility is very small, as I said before, there will not be too many people in this witch Gu tribe, everyone is a Gu master, for this kind of tribe, every loss of a clansman is a very big loss, they should not use their own people to feed Gu worms, I thought of another possibility.

Ziyang, do you want to say that someone is feeding Gu worms to this witch tribe? This must have something to do with the treasure. Could it be that Yuan Tiangang has been providing food for these Gu worms? Xu Xiaoyuan's eyes widened and she said in surprise, even she was shocked by this idea.

"Yes, that's exactly what I had guessed. Why did Yuan Tiangang hide his treasure in this place? As far as Yuan Tiangang is concerned, there are not a thousand but eight hundred places that he can find that can be used as treasures, why do he choose such an inaccessible place.

Although we don't know what Yuan Tiangang is hiding here, there must be a lot of treasures that can be hidden by him so hard. What a time-consuming and laborious thing to ship so much stuff here.

So I think that Yuan Tiangang must have a reason to choose here, in addition to the fact that this is a witch tribe, there must be other reasons, and this reason is very likely to have something to do with what Yuan Tiangang is hiding here.

Anyway, I don't think something is right here, although we haven't seen any living Gu worms here until now, and we haven't found anything that can threaten our safety, but I think it must be not easy here, so we should be careful. ”

After saying these words, Chen Ziyang turned his gaze into the distance and looked at the large area of ruins. It should be the place where the people of the witch tribe lived before, and if there is any secret, maybe it will be hidden there.

It took a lot of effort for a few people to pull Shangguan Kangning away from the strange-shaped vessels. Shangguan Kangning was like a demon, and he was reluctant to follow other people to search for other places, and later it was under Xu Xiaoyuan's combination of soft and hard that he reluctantly integrated into the team again.

Because it is underground, there is no sunlight all year round, and there is a lot of moss growing on the ruined walls, and the outlines of these houses are blurred, and several people have been rummaging here for a long time, but they have not found anything of value.

"It's another busy job, you said so much at length just now, I thought Yuan Tiangang would hide a lot of amazing things here, but now it seems that there is not even a single hair here.

Eryang, I have decided, I will never come out with you to rob the tomb or find any treasure in the future, you kid is not destined to commit the Heavenly Evil Lone Star, but angered the god of decline and the poor god, the place you go to is not even rare for the poor god to come, it is a corner that even the poor god will forget. ”

After almost exploring this underground space, Yang Lei was disappointed. His current mood can no longer be described simply as a disappointment, he is simply depressed to the extreme, and he really wants to cry without tears.

"Something is wrong...... Chen Ziyang thought as he touched his nose.

Judging from the surrounding environment, there are no traces of excavation here, that is to say, the things that were hidden here by Yuan Tiangang back then should still be left here, but why is there not even a clue.

Whether it is the treasure map left by Yuan Tiangang, or the unique way of hiding the route of this treasure map, Chen Ziyang feels that this treasure is not simple, it is a treasure left by Yuan Tiangang with all his might, and it must be worth finding, but why did he find nothing.

Thinking about it, he thought of only one place that he hadn't carefully explored, and that was the nine pieces of armor standing at the entrance.

Those nine armors were incompatible with the environment here, and it could be seen at a glance that the armor was not a thing of the Wu Gu tribe at all, but should have been placed there by someone else, and the person who placed the armor could only be Yuan Tiangang! Could it be that the clue is in those nine pieces of armor?

Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang returned to the entrance of this underground space again, his gaze moving back and forth over the nine armors.

(End of chapter)