Chapter 9: The Living Corpse in the Valley
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At this time, there were guards outside the inner hall to report, "Your Majesty, General Miao ordered his subordinates to come and report the situation in the valley." ”
Emperor Hui said bluntly: "There are no outsiders here, but it doesn't hurt to say it." ”
The guard replied, "Your Majesty, General Miao found a strange thing in a grotto in the valley, there is a corpse of the guards in the grotto, which is not completely decomposed, but it is still ... Also..."
"What else?"
"That corpse still breathes, Your Majesty."
Everyone was amazed when they heard it.
Emperor Hui asked again and again, "Can General Miao be sure that he is a royal guard?" ”
The guard replied, "There is no doubt about it, and it will not be wrong for that 'man' to wear a waist badge unique to the guards." ”
"Let's go, I'll go to the valley with you!" Hui Di stood up.
When Wei Wei saw such a miraculous thing, how could she not join in the fun, and she was going to follow her, Emperor Hui saw it, and simply asked Xie Jing on the side to go with her.
The Yunyang Mountain is very extensive, and the grottoes discovered by General Miao are still some distance away from the palace. The road in the valley is rugged, not easy to drive, Hui Di and his party are riding fast horses, Wei Wei was held in the arms of Hui Di and rode a black horse, the BMW is tall and handsome, and the foot is not inferior to others.
When they arrived at the grotto, everyone saw that General Miao had found more than a dozen corpses in the same situation one after another.
"General Miao, are these corpses dead or alive?"
"Your Majesty, the flesh and skin of these corpses have rotted and even bone, they must have been dead for a long time, the clothes on their bodies are also damaged, and their swords, bows and arrows have been corroded by the dampness of this terrain. It's strange, it's obviously a pile of rotting corpses, but there are still ups and downs between the chest and abdomen, and there is breathing in the mouth and nose, what is the reason? ”
"Then General Yimiu, how long have these rotting corpses been dead?" Vivi asked.
"Hui Niangniang, the minister speculates that it will be at least five or six years."
"Still breathing after five or six years of death? Could it be that he just died, and was used with some drugs with strong acids similar to bone water? Vivi asked.
General Miao pointed to the corpse lying on the ground: "Let's take a closer look, the degree of decay of the corpse's clothes, shoes and boots, and then look at the growth of these stones and the surrounding plants under their lying bodies, let's just say that the corpse on the far right, the vines growing in this hole have wrapped his legs into it, and it will probably take a few years to grow into this arm-thick vine." ”
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Is there a heartbeat?" Vivi asked again.
"Nope."
"My heartbeat is gone, where is my breathing?" Wei Wei thought about it and said to General Miao, "Can you open the chest cavity of this corpse to take a look?" ”
General Miao can be regarded as having killed countless enemies on the battlefield for a long time, but he really can't do it with a knife against his own people, not to mention whether these corpses are dead or alive is still being studied.
Wei Wei looked at Emperor Hui, who was thinking on the side, and asked for his support with her eyes.
"Then follow the concubine's suggestion, conduct an autopsy, and be sure to figure out the reason."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
General Miao ordered his guards to cut the chest and abdomen of one of the corpses with knives, but in fact, the corpse had long been tattered, and the sharp knife could be cut open.
As the blade peak slid down, a piercing and sharp whistle suddenly sounded in everyone's ears, like the sound of metal colliding, and people couldn't help but cover their ears.
The guards then shouted, and everyone looked over and was shocked.
The abdomen of the corpse is coiled with a long worm-like creature, the colorful patterns on the body are very terrifying, there are tentacles, and there is a pair of long suction cups on the head, which is firmly sucked in the corpse, and the long worm parasitizes in the abdomen of the corpse, and the sound is actually its emanation.
"So this thing is doing the trick!"
Wei Wei just wanted to vomit when she saw it, and retreated again and again, "What is this strange thing?" ”
No one knew it.
Or Xie Jing pointed to the long worm and said, "This should be the Gu worm used in the Miao Xinjiang area of Xiangxi, these guards were tricked by someone when they were alive, and the Gu worm remained in the body after death, and the person who went down the Gu failed to take it back in time, so that the Gu worm mutated, so that their host would remain rotten for a long time." ”
"Xie Aiqing has a wide range of knowledge and deserves to be commended!" Emperor Hui said, "Then this Gu worm will harm people now?" ”
"Back to the emperor, this kind of Gu worm only recognizes one master for life, and once the host's body is destroyed, they will also reach the death stage."
"So even if their host body is dead, they still want to desperately protect the body of their host, so that these guards do not turn into dry bones."
"Yes."
Since they won't hurt anyone, everyone decided to ignore those Gu worms, and those rotting corpses are estimated to not last long, and they will also die with the complete autopsy of the corpses.
Emperor Hui ordered the guards to seal the stones outside the entrance of the grotto, use it as a tomb, and erect a monument to comfort the spirits of these guards in the sky.
Back in the palace, Wei Wei was still thinking about Gu worms. Why were these guards under the Gu, and were the injured emperors also poisoned?
Next, Emperor Hui and General Miao still looked around in the valley every day.
At noon three days later, I received an urgent report from the palace that there had been a century-old drought and locust plague in Shanxi and other places, and the people were starving and starving, and the local displaced people had launched a riot to disrupt the court, and asked the emperor to leave for the palace to discuss with the ministers how to deal with it.
Emperor Hui asked General Miao to leave a team of elite soldiers to continue to garrison Yunyang Mountain, and the rest of the men and horses immediately returned to the palace. Xie Jing took the initiative to ask the emperor to stay in Yunyang Mountain for a period of time. Wei Wei felt that Xie Jing should have become interested in those Gu worms.
Before leaving, Wei Wei looked for Xie Jing.
"Why does Master Xie know so much about that Gu worm?" Vivi asked directly.
Xie Jing replied: "Weichen has a concubine who is a person from Xiangxi, and the local women are good at making Gu release techniques, so Weichen also knows a little bit about it." ”
"What do you think is the purpose of this Gu man's Gu on these guards?"
"Don't hide it from Niangniang, after all, Wei Chen knows very little, since he saw the Gu worms that day, he immediately sent a letter to my concubine's room, let her hurry here to help the minister see where these Gu worms came from, maybe you can find some useful clues."
"Oh," Wei Wei pondered for a moment, "the parchment diagram that the emperor showed you last time, I have to find someone to decipher it after returning to the palace this time, this is very important." ”
"Niangniang, rest assured, this matter should be handled as soon as possible, I have asked people to find Monk Tianzhu."
"Master Xie is steady and thoughtful, no wonder the emperor will entrust you with the Soul Attracting Pill in the end." Vivi said bluntly.
Xie Jing didn't quite understand.
"Can Bachelor Xie make a "Hidden Picture of Yunyang River"?"
Xie Jing was even more puzzled and replied, "I have never made this painting." ”
"Then you have to get ready for this painting," Vivi said, "because I was summoned back by you with this painting, and I have traveled through five hundred years and started my previous life again." ”
Wei Wei was afraid that Xie Jing wouldn't understand, so she continued, "That is to say, I am now the second time to be Guo Guifei, and I am from five hundred years ago. ”
Xie Jing had an expression of disbelief at first, but then returned to normal, "In this way, Weichen will immediately draw this picture and hand it over to Niangniang." ”
Weiwei thought to herself that it was still a cultural person who was easy to communicate, simple and direct.
"In addition, five hundred years ago, you told me that after the emperor returned to the palace this time, he would be plotted and replaced by someone pretending to be replaced, and I was also sent to the cold palace after that. I'm coming back this time to stop this from happening again. I hope you can help me. ”
"The minister must do his best!" Xie Jing didn't want to take on such a heavy responsibility, so he immediately became ambitious and enthusiastic.
"Okay, when you're done with this Gu worm, you will leave for the palace immediately!"
"Yes, sis!"