Chapter Twenty-Four: The Gu of the Undead
"There's someone here! Fast! Come on~~" Everyone looked around in the valley, and suddenly heard a guard calling, only to see that his face was frightened, his body was frozen on the ground and he didn't dare to move, looking at the corner of a mountain col in front of him.
Vivi was still immersed in her parallel space, pulled back to reality by the exclamation, and ran with everyone to the place where the guards exclaimed.
About a thousand meters away from everyone in front of them was a huge crater, larger than the area of three or four football fields, as if it had been dug and trimmed manually, a huge pit in a square square. It's certainly nothing. The scene that made everyone's jaws drop was in this pit.
The pit was crowded with "people", if they could still be called people. They are all like old puppets, most of the clothes on their bodies are torn, their clothes are ragged, some are not even an inch, there are men and women, there are old and young, looking at the dress, there should be all kinds of people, some are ordinary people in cloth clothes, and some are well-dressed rich and noble families, and the most of them should be the dresses of officers and soldiers and guards.
Some of these people are even mutilated, but they are all writhing and eating each other. Stump flesh can be found everywhere. Wei Wei was about to vomit when she saw it, and the others were no better, covering their mouths and noses one after another, with a look of horror on their faces.
"Don't panic," said Hiroshi, "they're not real people, they're all undead, and besides, they can't see us. ”
"Why can't you see us?" Mrs. Xie asked.
"We are the living, we don't belong here, and they, the undead, can't see us at the moment, but after twelve hours, it won't be necessarily." Guangzhi replied.
"So we're going to find the treasure spot in twelve hours and get out as soon as possible?" General Miao asked.
"What if we can't solve the problem after twelve hours?" Vivi asked again.
Guangzhi looked at the scene in the pit and couldn't help sighing, "It's not easy to say that this poor monk is not good, if he is discovered by the undead in this place, it shouldn't be too wonderful!"
"The little girl has a question for the master," Mrs. Xie was very curious about these undead, "why can't these undead in the pit rest in peace, but are eating each other?" ”
Guangzhi replied, "Mrs. Xie is a master of Gu control? ”
"Don't dare to be!"
"Is there any similarity between the scene in this mass grave and the method of making Gu poisonous insects?"
Mrs. Xie suddenly realized, "Thank you for the master's advice, I see!" ”
"What does that mean?" Vivi asked anxiously.
"These undead are Gu worms," Mrs. Xie replied, "There are masters refining Gu here. ”
"It's incredible."
"Yes! I came from a self-made Gu family, such a large Gu refining dojo is really rare in my life, it is really unimaginable. Mrs. Xie was a little shocked.
"The world is so big, there are no wonders." Guangzhi said, "As long as you have enough ambition, what can't you do." The poor monk was guessing who the scene in the valley came from. ”
Emperor Hui was a little suspicious, and said in his heart: "Could this be done by my father?" What is the rationale for this? ”
"Let's go! Everyone followed the poor monk to find in this valley, and there are three treasure spots marked in the map, so we must hurry up. ”
"You see if this will work, Master Guangzhi, can we divide into three teams and act separately, which can greatly shorten the time." Xie Jing made a suggestion.
"Yes, the minister thinks so too, we each lead a team, follow the route indicated by the master, and act separately, with the signal cannon as an appointment, no matter what the result is, within twelve hours, everyone will still be here to combine." General Miao said.
"That's very good, the poor monk marked the treasure point in the map, and everyone can follow the route to find it."
It was decided in this way, with Emperor Hui and Wei Wei as a team, Master Guangzhi and General Miao as a team, and the rest as Xie Jing and Mrs. Xie's team, each leading their own men and horses to move in three routes.
Guangzhi immediately started to draw two other drawings by hand, marking the location of the route clearly, and assigned them to everyone.
Everyone received food and water and set out on the journey.
Wei Wei carefully studied the map given by Master Guangzhi, "Brother Jing, the place we are looking for is northeast, and there is a water source next to the treasure spot, so we can just follow this road to find a water source." ”
"Okay, as you say." As he spoke, Emperor Hui took out a miniature compass that he carried with him, set the direction, and the two of them galloped on horseback between the mountain roads with the guards.
The road in the mountains is not easy to walk, and there are terrifying undead ghosts swaying on the road from time to time, although there is no one to see for the time being, but it is still terrifying.
After walking for about ten miles, everyone faintly heard the sound of the stream flowing.
The leading guards were overjoyed, "Your Majesty, there is a water source in front." ”
The crowd drove their horses forward, and a huge boulder with a height of 100 feet in front of them blocked the middle of the road, blocking the way forward.
"There's no road ahead." Wei Wei said, "What should I do?" ”
"I'll wait for my subordinates to go and check it out." The leading guard dismounted, took two of his men, and walked to the boulder.
"Report to the emperor, Niangniang, this boulder has blocked the road, and the war horse can't pass," the leading guard pulled into the gap between the boulder and the mountain, "However, this gap can pass through one person, and there is a mountain pool below that can reach the water source from here." ”
"Good! Then dismount them all. Emperor Hui was the first to dismount.
"Let's tie up our horses here and bring water utensils." Vivi also jumped off the horse.
Wei Wei followed everyone into the crack in the stone and walked slowly. The gap is extremely narrow, moss-filled, slippery and damp, and every step is extremely difficult, and if anyone is a little fatter, it is estimated that it will be difficult to pass.
In this way, we groped up and down in the cracks of the stones, and it took about half a pillar of incense to climb out of the cracks in the stones. Everyone's faces, hands, and clothes were rubbed with green moss, and there were some wet and slimy unknown objects.
It's another scene on the crack in the stone. A valley surrounded by mountains, where clear water flows from the top of the surrounding high mountains into a deep pool at the bottom of the valley. The valley is densely forested, and the sun is tightly blocked by the leaves, and it is a primeval forest, with many trees like a sea of green.
Emperor Hui ordered everyone to rest by the waterhole now. The area in this valley is not small, according to Master Guangzhi's mark, one of the treasure spots should be here, but if you want to know the specific location, you have to use your brain.
After a short rest, the people searched around the valley. All the places where there are entrances and exits are carefully surveyed.
"The master asked us to use the compass status after reaching the location, Brother Jing can try it." Weiwei said that this kind of search without a goal will not work.
Emperor Hui took out the compass and walked around the valley.
Along the way, the compass needle did not move at all, and Emperor Hui turned all the places in the valley without moving.
"What should I do?" Emperor Hui was puzzled, "This should be the place where Guangzhi said." ”
"We are walking in the northeast direction, and we don't touch the water source along the way, only here, if not here, where can it be, there is no road ahead." Vivi said.
"Your Majesty, it's true that this route is correct, or let's look for it carefully." The leading guards and their men continued to inspect the valley.
Wei Wei took the drawings and looked at them over and over, she couldn't help but feel irritated, they had been looking for this valley for several hours, and time was passing little by little.
The terrain in the valley is low, and the temperature is significantly warmer than outside.
Vivi walked to the waterhole to wash her sweaty face, and she noticed that the whole valley could prove that there had been a person to the boulder by the water, and there were six iron pillars buried deep in the stone, each of which was as thick as an adult elephant's elephant's foot, and I don't know how many years this iron pillar had been erected here, rusty. She squatted on the edge of the pool, fiddling with the water in the pool with her hands, thinking about it.
The water of the stream is clear, but the water of the pool is bottomless. Suddenly, some dark shadows floated from the bottom of the pool, and Wei Wei was so stunned that she sat on the ground in fright. Those black shadows were the undead in the valley, dragging their soaked bodies to climb up to the shore, slowly passing by Vivi's side, swaying into the stone crevices that Vivi had just squeezed into, and crawling out of the valley one by one.
Vivi covered her mouth and sat motionless on the ground, watching the whole scene. Emperor Hui also found out in time and quietly paced over.
"They're in the water." Vivi was terrified.
"I see," Emperor Hui pondered, "it seems that there is something wrong with the bottom of this pool." ”
Emperor Hui blew a long whistle and summoned the guards to come.
"Your Majesty, what do you command?"
"Whoever is better at holding his breath underwater, go to the bottom of this pool to see what is going on."