Chapter 718: Swamp Dragon
Seeing their ugly faces, Old Man Mo said indifferently: "Where is this, old man, let me tell you, this is only the edge of the sealed hill, and when you walk into the wild forest of the sealed hill, it will be a hard dish." ”
After crossing into the lake, it can be seen that countless tidal flats extend from the lake, and these tidal flats are mostly the watershed beaches of the lake, and tall trees rise from the river beach, during which the green algae are abundant, and the water flows soup, spreading out a large water forest.
The people mentioned by the old man all live on the river beach, using the tall trees that have grown for thousands of years to build huge nests across the water, these giant nests are connected to each other, even the buildings are close to each other, and they are hidden among the tall shrubs, which is magnificent.
If you look closely, most of these wooden houses on the water are pierced into the river beach with wooden stakes, and then used wooden pillars to tie them into wooden row floors, and then use bamboo shrubs to weave them as prototype houses, with hemp ropes fixed on towering ancient trees everywhere, and the mud tile roofs are curved like straw hats.
"This place, can still live in people?"
Yue Guanchao they got off the canopy boat, and were taken into the village by the old man, the fence plank road was crooked, like a shrub fork connecting the courtyards everywhere, Yue Guanchao did not expect that on the swamp and tidal flats, the village could be built.
"There is very little open space in the canyon, and even if there is really open space, the villagers will not choose to build houses in the open space in order to hide people's eyes, but will choose to build houses on the water tidal flats, one is far away from the forest, you can isolate some wild beasts, and the other is that it is convenient to get water on the water surface, so you don't have to run too far."
When Mo Laohan spoke, he took them past the village, and they were able to see the real living conditions of these people.
It can only be said that it is indeed not optimistic!
There are many miasma in the wild forest, although this place is far away from the vicinity of Fengqiu, but there is still miasma spreading around, the river beach is slightly open, and the miasma is relatively fast, even so, these people are still described as weak, the body is rickety, as if they are tuberculosis ghosts, their faces are either sallow or pale, and some people even have body and skin lesions, their faces are full of poisonous sores and pimples, their hands and feet are numb and trembling, like terrifying ghosts, not human.
Although Yue Guanchao had already been told in advance by Old Man Mo about the tragic situation of the people when they came, seeing the appearance of these people on the spot, he still felt shocked, and people frowned.
"Now, you believe it."
Old Man Mo continued: "I want to cultivate Gu for the sake of these people, although they are not my family members and friends, but in the end they fled in together, seeing them die, I can't bear it in my heart, so I ask you for this secret recipe." ”
Wu Mifeng is proficient in Gu medicine medicine, walked to a child and picked up his arm to feel the pulse, and sure enough, he saw that the breath was weak, this pulse was caused by long-term poisoning and accumulation of toxins, he continued to touch the pulse of dozens of people, and saw that all the connections were very similar, and he knew that these people were not pretending, but real chronic poisoning.
"Brother Mo, I know, I'll prescribe a prescription for these villagers first, and then I'll offer the body cultivation Gu technique."
Wu Mifeng took out the prescription paper in his backpack, wrote a prescription with ink, and said as he wrote: "I know that you don't have contact with the outside world, these medicinal materials are already in the canyon, as long as the medicinal materials are slightly prepared and mixed according to the usage of Shengke, the toxicity can be neutralized and used for treatment." ”
After speaking, Wu Mifeng wrote down the Gu Technique of Body Cultivation and handed it over to the old man Mo cleanly, he was also afraid that Wu Mifeng would deliberately deceive him, so he carefully checked it for a long time, and used what he had learned to simply configure the prescription, and only after confirming that it was useful could he completely believe him.
Seeing that the prescription was genuine, the old man was finally satisfied, and said with a twinkling look in his eyes: "That's right, since you are so sincere, I will repay the favor old man, and I will take you on a trip, but the sun is about to set, and it is too dangerous to walk in the wild forest at night, and when the sun rises tomorrow, we will set off from the waterway immediately." ”
Yue Guanchao looked nearby, although there was still sunshine at the moment, it was already three or four o'clock in the afternoon, only four hours before the sun set, they definitely couldn't pass through the Fengqiu Yeshan into the river valley, just like this crazy old man said, the mountain road at night is dangerous, whether it is for safety considerations or other factors, it is the best policy to rest in the tribe for the time being.
"So, what about our people?"
When Yue Guanchao and the others left, they left the guards in the wooden building, and if they didn't go back now, they would have an explanation for the guards.
"Don't worry, old man, I'll send them over later, and we'll leave here tomorrow, okay?"
At the moment, there is only this way, and in the next two hours, Yue Guanchao followed the old man and sent those martial guards to this village, and when everyone gathered here, it was already dusk and approaching evening.
Under the leadership of Mo Laohan, Yue Guanchao and the others walked along the fence plank road and were led to an idle nest courtyard in the tribe.
This courtyard is the only rammed earth building in the swamp forest, about two meters above the water, the square courtyard wall is about 20 meters long, the square houses are built with domes, and the walls are attached to the walls on all sides, distributed in all directions of the courtyard, the houses are half a meter out of the eaves, and they make walking passages in the form of corridors with each other, and the yellow mud walls are built on the high platform with a high platform, and only the fence plank road is left on both sides, which looks completely different from the living tile houses in the tribe.
"Here, this is the Gu Min's stacking courtyard, you just have to stay here at night."
The old man took out the key, opened the courtyard doors on the left and right, and after entering the courtyard, he could see that there was a carriage-sized flower bed in the middle, and there was a cobblestone pile in it.
At present, the pebbles in this flower bed are large and small, as big as a basin, as small as an egg, and you can see the colorful natural color, the surface is either rough and mottled, or smooth and flat, and there is no clear standard.
With the law of the big one on the bottom and the small one on the top, it forms a shape similar to the dome pagoda, and the yellow mud straw acts as a mixed clay to hold it firmly together, and it can be seen that the spire of the tower is getting thinner and thinner, and there are fine velvet grass on the surface to reveal the gaps.
This kind of stacking platform is equivalent to a simplified version of the high media mother temple, and if there is an undecided idea, the witches can use the stone to continue divination.
"There are many mosquitoes in the swamp at night, if you want to rest well, you have to close the doors and windows tightly, no matter how bad it is, you have to pull up the veil tent, light the insect repellent incense, and don't come out at night if you hear any movement, and nothing else."
Song Siyuan listened to Old Man Mo's words, and asked curiously: "Uncle, you have something to say, what can happen here at night?" ”
Old Man Mo smiled slyly: "Wushen Canyon is originally an ominous place, this place is not far from the sealed hill, some dirty things are going to come out at night, and some things are inconvenient for the old man to say too clearly, you will understand after experiencing it yourself at night, and if you say anything, you will really attract that dirty thing." ”
The old man was crazy, and he spoke divinely, Song Siyuan carefully tasted the meaning of his words, most likely because there were some mountain spirits and wild monsters nearby, so he had to temporarily press his curiosity first.
In the evening, after blending into the night, the surrounding insects are really frequent, and there are flying insects hovering and flying low on the water surface all the time, and even pounce on people's faces, until the houses in the forest are lit with the fragrance of insect repellent, which drives out all the flying insects and scales, and the surroundings gradually quiets down.
Song Siyuan took advantage of this juncture to prop up all the gauze tents in the house and block the entrance tightly, so as to completely isolate the hidden danger of poisonous insects.
After eating and eating, everyone gradually rested, the lights of the houses were lit up, Yue Guanchao and the others stood in the house and looked into the distance, the dirty things in the swampy river beach began to gradually come from the dense forest to the front under the cover of night.
"What is this?"
Song Siyuan looked out of the window according to the binoculars, they stood on the high place of the rammed earth courtyard wall, and they could easily see countless python-like black loaches swimming in the swamp.
These loaches are larger than the dragon king catfish, as thick as a bucket, as long as a python, and their dark bodies glow with oil under the candlelight, and the dorsal and caudal fins are almost translucent, hiding their heads and tails in the mud of the river beach, sometimes floating on the surface of the river to splash, sometimes burrowing into the mud, leaving only eight whiskers to stir up the mud, wantonly preying on insects and fat fish in the water.
"Are these loaches also dragon king catfish?"
Song Siyuan looked nearby, and the loaches almost occupied the river beach, making people's scalps numb.
"It's not the dragon king catfish, it's the fallen dragon!"
Old man Mo didn't know when he was standing in the courtyard, and suddenly said out loud.
The crazy old man hesitated for a moment and explained: "In the mythology of the ancient witches, dragons, snakes, eels, loaches, and worms are all called dragons, but except for the real dragon, the rest are fallen dragons. ”
Fallen dragons, that is, evil dragons who have made mistakes, but all dragons are mostly gods of rivers, lakes and seas, or they are clouds and rain, guarding one side.
If the dragon makes a mistake, according to the severity of the mistake, it is first reduced to a naga snake, and then to an eel, if it is not enough to repay the sin, it is degraded to a loach and earthworm and the like, and the mud and filth are companions all day long.
Because of this, loaches and earthworms are also called the earth dragons that drink the Yellow Spring, which are the most filthy and lowly things in the soil of rivers and lakes, and are not tolerated by the aquarium.
The words of the old man made everyone curious about these earth dragons.
"These earth dragons are actually dragons who have been degraded to the nether?"
Lan Ruling became curious, urging the old man to continue.
"Girl, it's true, most of the beaches in this canyon have this kind of thing that is derogated by the witch god, which can not only protect the canyon for the witch god, but also atone for the sins on his body, this is not the biggest, the biggest loach, you can only see it tomorrow."
"There's a bigger one"
Yue Erpao became excited, and now the catfish was so big that it was all fine, and the earth dragon was even bigger than it, which made everyone curious.
Some people died, but not completely......