Chapter 18: The Hive

Qi Xuansu asked, "What is the meaning of the existence of the insect immortal?" ”

Wu Niang replied: "This is what I just said, Daomen suspects that there is a mother nest or insect nest behind the insect immortals, because these insect immortals also have the saying of 'soaring', and after the 'Yuan Infant Period', it is ascending." It is said that he ascended to a place called the spirit world, but after that, he had to start from scratch, even as a slave. ”

Yu Taiying said: "Start from scratch after ascending? Still slaves? So what's the point of ascension? This is no longer a fallacy, but a violation of human nature. Just for these people to regard wealth as their life, will they be willing? From the beginning, it looks like a saint. ”

"Bugs, there's no human nature, they are driven by instinct most of the time." Wu Niang said, "Of course, the ascension of the insect fairy is not a real ascension, and the Daomen suspects that the ascension spirit world is actually returning to the mother nest, and there is a bug similar to an ant queen in the mother nest, and the so-called slave and servant is controlled by the queen of insects." ”

"Where is the spiritual realm?" ”

Wu Niang said: "I don't know, according to the explanation of Westerners, it should be a subspace similar to hell, which we call a small world or a cave sky." However, hell is special in that it is attached to the small world that exists in the underworld, not to the human world, so it is difficult to find the entrance to these small worlds, and it is difficult for people in these small worlds to return to the human world. The good thing is that these small worlds will not 'land' like Kunlun Cave Heaven and will be less affected by the end of the law. ”

In fact, this is very easy to understand, in ancient times, when Kunlun Cave Heaven had not yet "landed", the fairy world in the world's imagination was Kunlun Cave Heaven, also known as "Earth Fairy World". To go to Kunlun Cave is to ascend to the Immortal, and to come back from the Kunlun Cave is to descend into the world. Therefore, in various ancient legends, immortals can always travel freely between the two worlds of immortals and mortals, and even have the meaning of people and gods living together. The fundamental reason is that Kunlun Cave Heaven is not an immortal realm, and the people inside have not ascended.

There was also a time when the Lingshan Cave Heaven was not broken, and the pseudo-ascension of the Witch Sect also went to the Lingshan Cave Heaven. Later, Qi Xuansu wanted to go to Lingshan Cave Heaven to find out, but he couldn't find the entrance, so he followed the pseudo-ascension of the ancient witch sect and smuggled into Lingshan Cave Heaven.

From this, it can be concluded that the Zerg's ascension to the spiritual realm is actually a kind of pseudo-ascension, and the so-called spiritual realm should be an existence similar to Kunlun Cave Heaven or Lingshan Cave Heaven, which Daomen calls "worm nest".

However, Daomen did not find the specific location of this worm hive cave, and the Zerg hazard had ended, and the first task of Daomen at that time was to revitalize the economy, seek development, and make the cake bigger, so he did not investigate the matter in depth.

Wu Niang sighed: "You were born in a good time, no wonder you are called a flower garden Taoist, living in a greenhouse, without wind and rain." At that time, it was really full of thorns, and it was difficult to move step by step, and the problem of insect immortals was the problem that broke out when opening up the South Seas and the South Continent. The two of you, one has been in charge of Nanyang for several years, and the other has been the chief of Nanyang, but you have never encountered this kind of problem, and you don't even know the inside story, didn't your predecessors help you solve it? Be ye grateful. ”

Yu Taiying made a lip shape and deliberately omitted the subject: "The kindness is not over." ”

Qi Xuansu said solemnly: "Don't talk nonsense. In particular, don't say anything that is not conducive to unity. ”

Yu Taiying shrunk her neck, but she didn't raise the bar with Qi Xuansu, which shows that she also knows what to say and what not to say. But human nature is like this, the more you can't say it, the more you can't help but want to say it.

Wu Niang looked at the two of them and sighed: "The gentleman's Ze will be beheaded in the fifth generation." ”

Qi Xuansu turned back to the topic and asked, "Whether it's a worm nest or an insect fairy, that's all for later, the first question now is, what to do with this slug?" ”

Wu Niang said: "What else can I do, no matter how big this insect grows, there is no intelligence at all, only some instincts, do you still expect to torture it?" Naturally, it was all burned. ”

Qi Xuansu could only take a step out of the way, and Wu Niang concocted the same method again, burning the slugs blocking the road into crystallization.

The slug really had no intelligence, and until it was burned to death, it did not make any resistance.

If the central palace is a main hall for prayers, sermons, and events, then the underground palace on the left is a side hall that undertakes other functions, and judging by the abandoned bookshelves, it should be a library for all kinds of doctrinal texts, but at this time it is empty.

Qi Xuansu was also very curious, what would Samuel's doctrinal scriptures be about, and how to kill people? How to hold a funeral? Of course, it should still be how to sacrifice to the gods, please the gods, and praise the gods.

There is also an altar built later, which is piled with the corpses of the Condor Guard, about thirty or so people. However, these corpses are different from the corpses on the middle altar, they are not skin and bones, but only white bones remain, but the clothes on their bodies are intact, as if the smooth white bones that have been corrupted for thousands of years are wrapped in relatively brand new clothes, indescribable contrast and weirdness.

As expected, the passage on the right would also lead to an altar where the remaining Condor Guards were located, presumably in a different way to die.

There are three altars in total, like three plates.

The Condor Guard, which is divided into three batches, is like three dishes.

Three ways to die, just like three practices.

The so-called sacrifice is a gluttonous feast that belongs to the gods.

What is sacred about the gods in this regard? How is it different from people?

People eat whole grains, chickens, ducks, pigs, and fish, and gods eat incense, fire, willpower, and souls, flesh and blood, there is no difference.

It is no wonder that the Daomen want to deconstruct the gods and demand that they all be treated as human beings. Can such a god be able to do without deconstruction?

Qi Xuansu sighed: "There are already more than seventy people who have been confirmed to be killed, and I don't have much hope for the remaining thirty, but we still have to take a look." ”

Wu Niang and Yu Taiying had no objections, and returned to the fork in the road and went to the passage on the right.

However, to Qi Xuansu's surprise, after walking out of the passage on the right for twenty miles, there were no slugs blocking the road, and it was a smooth road.

Yu Taiying's face suddenly turned pale, and she couldn't help but hug her head: "I...... I think I've been here before. ”

Qi Xuansu's expression was awe-inspiring: "It seems that we didn't guess wrong, you really forgot something." ”

Yu Taiying said with difficulty: "That's right...... Chief Qi, you're right, I remember...... I remember ......"

According to the reason, it is not so easy for Taiying to find the lost memory, the key is that Qi Xuansu and Wu Niangdao broke the heavens, broke the truth and falsehood, and broke the hint left by Chuck Cheel, so that Taiying realized the gap in his memory.

When Taiying felt that it was no longer reasonable and had doubts, when she saw the scene she had seen again, she would "touch the scene" and loosen the seal.

To use an inappropriate analogy, when you don't suspect your partner, your partner doesn't think much about it when he comes back late. But once you are suspicious, you can't help but explore it carefully, and all kinds of details that you usually ignore will come to mind one by one.

The principle is the same. It was only a matter of time before those buried memories were found.

Qi Xuansu asked, "What do you remember?" ”

Wu Niang directly reached out and pressed on the back of Taiying's head: "The seal is loose?" The ancient gods can't come in their true bodies, and the incarnation of the gods is at most my level, since there are flaws, then I can help you. ”

With Wu Niang's movements, Yu Taiying's tightly frowning brows gradually loosened, and her face gradually returned to normal: "That's where I met Chuck Chel." ”

Qi Xuansu was not surprised, but felt that it was indeed the case.

"There was a chaotic battle here, and many of the Condor Guards were not dead, including the Condor Guards who left a bloody letter, and they were all here, fighting another group of people. ”

Qi Xuansu asked, "Who is it?" ”

"I don't know." She shook her head and said, "I was about to make a move when I saw this, and then Chuck Chell appeared out of thin air with that obsidian knife, and she stopped me and said to me: Today's sacrifice has failed, and it will inevitably attract the wrath of the gods." She told me to get out of here and made me forget what I had seen here. Then I forgot everything, went back to the earth, and told the others that the Condor was all missing. ”

Qi Xuansu asked, "Are you sure it's Chuck Chel?" ”

"The appearance of the old lady with tiger claws, carrying the power of the stars and the moon, is the same as the legendary Chuck Chel." Yu Taiying replied in the affirmative.

Qi Xuansu asked again, "Who is the 'Heavenly God' that Chuck Chell is talking about?" Is Kukulkan? Or It-Sumner? ”

"I don't know." Tan Taiying shook his head and said, "Chuck Chel didn't give me a chance to ask questions at all, and after saying these few words, he let me leave." ”

Qi Xuansu and Wu Niang glanced at each other and fell into silence.

"Let's go in and find out." Qi Xuansu took the initiative to break the silence.

Without slugs blocking the road, this road will naturally not be cramped, and there will be no crystallization burned by the flames, and it will be no different from the twenty-mile road ahead. Along the way, you can see a lot of traces of fighting, as if a group of people fought and retreated, and the other group pressed forward step by step, and finally went to the end of the hall together.

The palace on the right, which was supposed to serve as a quartering place for the faithful, was divided into many rooms, all of which were opened by this time, and an altar was also built.

However, there were no corpses on the altar, but corpses were everywhere around the altar.

The corpses on the first two altars were unscarred and had been drained of flesh. The corpses here are well-preserved, but they are full of sword wounds.

No wonder Chuck Chell said that the sacrifice had failed.

Among these corpses, in addition to the people of the Condor Guard, there are also some people of unknown origin.

Qi Xuansu squatted down to examine the corpses, there were no obvious signs on the corpses of these unidentified people, but the corpses of those Condor Guards all had the mark of the black sun on them.

Qi Xuansu asked, "Who are these people?" ”

Wu Niang said: "You can see it at a glance." ”

After that, Wu Niang stretched out her finger and swiped it, and a corpse that was not a Condor Guard was split in half.

There was no blood, only white silk.

There is a dish called pulling silk sweet potato, pick up a piece of sweet potato with chopsticks, and you can pull out the silk.

The filaments were like pulling threads, gluing to the corpse, and even if the corpse was split in half, there were still white threads between the two parts, and these filaments were dense and thin, and there was some kind of mucus remaining.