Chapter 5 Into the Forest
Looking at the centipede that had grown to more than 70 centimeters, especially the size of a grass snake, Zhang Lisheng's face changed, he calmed down, and recited the witch spell again, only to see that the centipede was already like an arm in the sound of 'hissing and hissing...', which was the image of the witch worm.
Refining ordinary insects into witch insects with spells and magic power can only be a means of 'witches'.
In Chinese mythology, the first god Pangu held a giant axe to divide the chaos into the heavens and the earth, and after being tired to death, the breath turned into spring breeze and clouds, the voice turned into thunder, the eyes condensed into the sun and the moon, the hair became stars, the torso turned into mountains, the blood became rivers, the muscles and veins became roads, the muscular plains, the bone pith became underground mineral deposits, and the skin and hair became grass and trees.
After Pangu, the goddess Hua Xu fished in the big lake, stepped on the footprints of the thunder god outside the sky to conceive, and gave birth to Fuxi and Nuwa brothers and sisters with human heads and snake bodies.
Nuwa made people out of soil, and intersected with her brother Fuxi to give birth to 'witches'.
Later, the water god and the fire spirit fought for the throne, and the joint work was invincible and the mountain could not be touched with the head, causing the pillar of heaven to collapse, the island of Kyushu to collapse, the sky to the northwest, the earth to the southeast, the flood and the spread of fire.
In order to save the people of Li, Nuwa traveled all over the world, traveled all over the mountains, borrowed the sun and divine fire, and refined 36,500 five-colored boulders with the five-colored soil of Tiantai Mountain to make up for the sky.
Nuwa used 36,500 pieces of stone to make up for the heavens, and then carried the god of Tiantai Mountain to support the four poles of heaven and earth, and finally resolved the disaster of the collapse of Kyushu Island, but it also dried up and turned into dust.
So she and Fuxi's heir 'Wu' replaced her mother to educate human beings, and it was the meaning of 'Wu' in ancient times to communicate with the gods, serve ghosts, fortune and evil, know good and evil, and rule the world and the people, the most powerful.
It was only later that the human race became self-reliant, and the three emperors Suiren, Shennong, and the Yellow Emperor, and the five emperors Taihao, Emperor Yan, Shaohao, Yao, and Shun were eight powerful kings who had the talent of the heavens and latitudes and the power of tearing the stars and the sun, and drove the Wumen to the land of Jiuli in the border wilderness, which made the Wudao slowly evolve into a unique culture in the land of barbarians in the history of China.
Therefore, it can be said that 'Wu' is the way to inherit the bloodline of the ancient gods and spirits in China, and it is by no means a small technique of chaotic power ghosts and gods in the hearts of the ignorant.
"It's done, it's done, it's become, I, I'm a 'witch'!
But, how can this be inexplicable!" Although he had a premonition after waking up from the hospital, Zhang Lisheng was still surprised when it came to the end.
It's a pity that he was only happy for a moment, he blurted out, "Daddy, Daddy, I've become, Ah, Ah...", subconsciously wanted to share the joy of success with Zhang Daowu, but suddenly thought that Daddy had died, and he was the only one left in the ancient mansion.
At this point, an inexplicable pathos grabbed the young man's heart and crushed it.
"Daddy, Daddy, Daddy..." Zhang Lisheng only felt as if he had fed countless poisonous insects with blood, and his whole body strength was taken away in an instant, and he was paralyzed to the ground, crying so bitterly that he couldn't control himself, and he fell asleep unconsciously.
When he woke up, it was already dark, and there was a knock on the door and an anxious shout: "Mountain worm, Zhang Lisheng, what's wrong with you, open the door, don't open the door soon?"
Zhang Lisheng stood up from the land in the courtyard in a trance, and did not forget to 'hiss, hiss, ...", drove his witch worm to hide in the dark, and shouted hoarsely: "Who is it, who is outside the door?"
"It's me Tao Lulu, open the door. The outsider replied aloud.
Zhang Lisheng staggered to the door, opened the heavy latches one by one, opened the door, and took advantage of the misty sunlight in the mountains all day long, looking at a girl of the same age as him, with dark skin and unusual facial features, and asked, "What are you doing?"
"I heard what Daddy said about your family, come and see you," the girl Tao Lulu whispered sympathetically, "You have nothing to do, why are you covered in mud?"
"It's okay, I fell in the yard, yesterday's things all relied on Uncle Hunt's help, thank you for your family. ”
"It's all folks, you're welcome," the pretty black girl Tao Lulu shook her head, held up a mud-yellow earthen kiln jar and said, "Here is my Eminem's stewed old ginseng hen soup, and I asked me to send it to you to replenish your body."
Are you still in school today?"
"It's not that I was hit by a car, so I don't have to make up for it.
I won't be in school for a few days, your father said that my Eminem is still alive, and I have to find her first. He said this, but Zhang Lisheng still took the kiln pot from the girl's hand gratefully.
"Daddy said that he will go to find Eminem for you, the baby still has to go to a good place to study, and only when he goes to college can he get out of our mountain nest, you can take two days off or take classes well. ”
"Eminem, I have to find it myself, and I will go to the class in a few days. ”
"That's okay, you eat the chicken, sleep well, don't lie in the yard anymore, you'll get sick, I'll go to class." The girl nodded, feeling that there was nothing to say, and that it was already bright again, so she turned and left.
Zhang Lisheng waited until the girl's back disappeared on the village road, closed the wooden door stupidly, held the kiln pot on his chest and opened it, and a hot and rich fragrance rushed to his nose.
The practice of stewed ginseng chicken in Miao Wei is very simple, it is nothing more than the home-raised local chicken is hard poured with soju to empty the stomach and suffocate to death, and then the old ginseng in the mountains must be added to lard, water, and various ingredients to stew over low heat, but the taste is strange and attractive, and the most nourishing.
Zhang Lisheng didn't eat water and rice for most of the day, only ate two tea eggs, and bled and fed poisonous insects twice, he was already hungry, and when he smelled the fragrance from the kiln, where could he bear it.
Wiped his hands vigorously in the clean place of the school uniform, he grabbed the fat hen in the kiln pot with the heat, put it in his mouth and chewed it, only ate a few bites, and somehow suddenly thought of Tao Lulu's words just now, "Don't lie in the courtyard again, you will get sick", tears welled up and dripped into the kiln.
However, since Zhang Lisheng has become a 'witch', his temperament is naturally much stronger, and he soon no longer feels sorry for himself and gets rid of his sadness.
With salty tears, Zhang Lisheng finished eating a whole jar of ginseng chicken soup without any leftovers, feeling that his sluggish spirit was much better, and the mysterious magic power in his flesh and blood also naturally grew with the digestion of the nutritious food in his stomach.
After calming down his emotions, he walked into the ancient mansion and put down the kiln pot, took more than two hundred yuan of change that he had saved in his own residence in the side house, and took out a few changes of clothes.
Back in the yard, taking off his dirty school uniform, Zhang Lisheng put two buckets of well water in the ancient well, washed off the mud on his body with cold water and soap, changed into clean clothes, and planned to go to the county seat.
When he opened the latch and was about to go out, he suddenly thought that he had turned the centipede Qinghong into a witch worm, which should be nourished with him according to the ancient legend, so he hissed a few times, drove the green red out, and let it climb up his body along the trouser legs, hide it in his clothes, and hover between his waist and abdomen.
Although in order to prevent the flesh and blood from passing too much and dying, the centipede Qinghong that Zhang Lisheng fed is not a xenomorph, but an ordinary worm, and even if the ordinary poisonous insect is refined into a witch worm by the new witch, it does not have too great power.
But the witch insect leaned over, and from the pores of Zhang Lisheng's abdomen, a trace of witch power naturally seeped out to nourish the worm, and he himself suddenly felt a shock to his spirit, and his mood stretched a lot, and a feeling that everything was under control unconsciously grew.
This feeling is actually an illusory force, but like a drug, people will indulge in it once they are contaminated, Zhang Lisheng changed his mind at once, and felt that finding Eminem, who had been separated for more than ten years, must not be achieved overnight, and the most important thing for him should be to thoroughly understand the changes after becoming a witch.
Thinking of this, he walked out of the wooden door of the ancient mansion, closed the door, and walked thoughtfully outside the village.
Stepping on the shady stone road, many villagers who had just gone out to do things in the early morning met Zhang Lisheng with a blank expression, and they all sighed sympathetically and said: "Mountain insects... Ah, what a wicked man...", it's all in plain sight.
There are also early backpackers from the bustling city, or group travelers, who come out of the mountain people's farmhouses, breathe in the cool air of the mountain villages, and shout happily.
Seeing a plainly dressed young man from a mountain village passing by, some people actually regarded Zhang Lisheng as a scene and made various gestures to take pictures.
But whether it was the villagers or the travelers from outside the mountain village, Zhang Lisheng turned a blind eye, he walked out of the village quickly, came to the urban and rural roads, looked around and looked empty, and quietly turned into the jungle beside the road.
In the special historical period when the Red Revolution had just succeeded, when people were bold and the land was prolific, and when man triumphed over man, many mountain villages in western Sichuan burned mountains to make fields, turned mountains and forests into fields for cultivation, and drove large animals into the mountains, and Yuwo Village was no exception.
However, with the rise of environmental awareness more than ten years ago, returning farmland to forest has become one of the basic governance concepts of the western Sichuan government, and most of the mountain villages in the province have gradually returned to their old appearance.
When Zhang Lisheng entered the jungle, he felt that it was dark in front of him, and he groped for a few steps, his eyes gradually adapted to the darkness of the forest, and a barbaric world realm that was completely different from the civilized world realm appeared in front of him.
It's hard for those who haven't experienced it to imagine, but at a distance of more than ten meters, everything can change so completely, and this wonder may be the reason why those adventurous adventure type travelers who pursue excitement are happy to continue adventuring.