Chapter 18: Insect Corps V
We walked downhill, following a winding path through the low houses of the Celestial Wolf Clan. The stockade of the Sirius clan is built on a high slope, which is slightly similar to that of Ramlu, except that the stockade of the Sirius clan is much larger than that of the Nanla tribe, although the high slope is not as big as the hill behind the Nanla village, and it is only half a mile square, but almost all of the shacks built by the Sirius clan stand on the entire high slope.
Passing by the low houses, Nagu led me to the left side of their house, where there was a row of sparse trees, and by the time we cleared the bushes, a separate stone house had appeared near the top of the high slope.
From a distance, the stone house looks like it has come out of the high slope of the ground, very chic, in front of the house is a green meadow, even if it is still a little dark at this time, I can still see the fragrance of the green grass. Because of the woods, this place is like a village of the wolf clan, and the stone house on the top seems to be lonely.
We walked to the front of the house, and there were two people from the Celestial Wolf clan at the door, and when they saw us coming, the two of them hurriedly knelt down to Nagu and bowed, and said an obscure word in unison. Na Gu waved his hand at the two of them, turned his head to look at me, and said with a smile: "Friend Gu, this is my pharmacy, please." As he said this, he had entered the stone house, and I followed him and walked in.
As soon as I entered the stone house, I could smell the mixture of herbs. This stone house is also ingenious, the outside room is made of rough stones, the furnishings in the room are extremely simple, on the left side of the wall rests an irregular rough wooden table and a very incongruous armchair, the wooden table is piled up with two stacks of yellow and blackened animal skin scrolls, next to a half-edged oil lamp, there is nothing else on the desk, the stone house is also cleaned. At first glance, there is a faint appearance of a cave there, and there is also a fire lighting in the cave, and the smell of medicine comes from the cave. However, the cave in the depths of the stone house seemed to be quite far away from the stone house, and the lights were dim, so from my hurried glance, I could not see very clearly, and I could only faintly see bundles of dried herbs placed messily against the walls of the cave.
Nagu walked to the desk, rummaged through a stack of animal skin rolls for a moment, took out a scroll with a slightly broken edge, and said with a smile: "Friend Gu, please see, this is the codex left by my ancestors." ”
I was so excited that I put the wine gourd in my left hand on his desk and reached out to take the somewhat rough animal skin scroll.
I don't know what kind of animal fur this is, I just said that this kind of animal skin curl tentacles are very poor, and they have not been polished at all, not only are there colorful hairs sticking to the skin, but there is also a strong smell. In comparison, the parchment rolls used in the open scroll are much more delicate, that is, the sheepskin is soaked in lime water, the wool is removed, and the words can be written on it after the two sides of the sheepskin are finely polished, and the sheepskin is easier to carry after being thinned. However, both the parchment roll and the animal skin roll are extremely resistant to damage, and even if they are left for a hundred years, they will not rot.
As soon as the animal skin scroll was unfolded, I couldn't help but be stunned, but I saw that the scroll was written with dense and crooked strange words, and I couldn't read a word. And to my surprise, there was an extremely strange picture of a bug attached to the blank space at the bottom of the scroll.
I can't tell you what kind of bug it is, I just think it looks like a dry leaf worm.
At this time, the ancient man on the side said: "This codex was compiled by my grandfather, and it was written in our Manichaean language, and Gu Youren is afraid that he will not be able to understand it." As he spoke, he stretched out his finger and pointed to the first line of the animal skin scroll in my hand, and said, "What is written on it is: 'In the great wilderness, there is a mountain named Void, born from the sun and the moon. There are holes thousands of miles deep under the void, which are born from the earth and are born in the sun and the moon. It has three eyes and two wings, a fang-faced six-legged, a sawtooth ghost whisker, likes yin and eats people, is good at playing in the water and chasing beasts, and there will be wind and rain in and out of the mountain, its sound is like thunder, and its poison erodes gold. 'Hehe, this is what my grandfather wrote down based on the oral accounts of my ancestors of the Celestial Wolf Clan, and it is about the oldest of the dragons. ”
Listening to him translating into Manichaean, I nodded my head and said, "Is this bug painted below also a worm?"
The ancient said: "Yes. In tens of millions of years, the snake will also change, the ancient snake and the current snake are very different, and the insect picture you see now is the snake that disappeared decades ago. ”
It turned out that they were talking about the appearance of the dragon, and I couldn't help but look at the picture a few more times. Probably time can really change everything, the painting of this insect and the ancient snake that the ancient said is a little different, from the painting can not see that this insect has legs and feet, but also has no wings and sharp teeth, if it is not for its head and some insects, suddenly look at it, like a decayed branch, inconspicuous.
is such an inconspicuous insect, but it has caused everyone on the rivers and lakes to be fearful and turbulent. Ma Qianli, Jiang Shun and other heroes of the rivers and lakes, the insect disaster in Chenzhou City, to the fish-headed monster and the spirit snake in the Death Swamp, all have a close relationship with it, and it is also because of it, the powerful people of the various sects have tried their best to analyze its toxicity, and the Shaobai Dao people have been studying it for decades, which can be said to be racking their brains.
Seeing that I didn't speak, Na Gu looked at the animal skin scroll and then translated, what he said below was the poison of the snake, and what he said was basically no different from the poison that came from the Central Plains and me in the city of Chenzhou, it is nothing more than the domineering of the poison that has no cure so far. However, when he said that Gu poison made of poison can be fed to Gu worms, I still couldn't help but say: "Sir, there is no cure for poison after all, is it okay for Gu worms to eat Gu poison made of poison?"
Na Gu smiled and said: "Gu Youren only knows one thing but doesn't know the other, although the poison is spicy, most Gu insects can't eat its poison, but some special Gu insects are good at this bite, such as the flame worm, iron ring worm, five-color blood nematode, brain-eating worm, walking purple worm, etc., if these Gu worms can take the poison, not only will they be safe, but their own toxicity will be even more severe." Witchcraft is broad and profound, and if Gu poison is mutually restrained, there will always be one that is born together, hehe. ”
When Nagu said this, his face was already red. Although he boasted that witchcraft was weak, he could not hide his enthusiasm for witchcraft in his words, but he was afraid that in the eyes of wizards like Nagu, witchcraft was an existence comparable to that of the Central Plains Dan. I don't have any interest in witchcraft, and I have never heard of a few Gu worms he said, but his last sentence touched me a lot, I still remember that when the Chenzhou snake plague occurred, Su Qingyao once told me that such worms contained the poison of the ghost head grass in their bodies, and when he was in the Youyun Villa, Li Yanzong said that if he wanted to refine the antidote to the poison, he also needed the ghost head grass.
How can two poisons mixed together have the effect of both harming and healing. In the past, I thought nothing more than that, and I had always been deeply puzzled that Li Yanzong could refine the antidote to the poison, but later, as I came to the Western Regions for a long time, I had more and more contact with the strange flowers and plants in the Western Regions, and gradually I didn't think so anymore. Perhaps, as Nagu said, witchcraft is indeed a great way, and there are inevitably incomprehensible philosophies in it, and I am afraid this is also one of the reasons why witchcraft is difficult to cultivate, otherwise so many people in the Western Regions have learned witchcraft, but there are only a handful of famous ones. It's good to think about Nagu, he was originally a member of the Western Regions tribe, and there are classics in the clan to study witchcraft, maybe he can really become a powerful wizard in the future, and people such as Su Qingyao and Na Jiyang, who are obsessed with witchcraft, are just stepping into the threshold of witchcraft, and laymen like them want to become powerful wizards, but they don't know how many years it will take.
I couldn't help but think of myself, but I couldn't help but feel upset. Nagu continued to translate the Manichaean text on the animal skin scroll, and I didn't have the slightest intention to listen to it, he didn't know that my body could also resist the poison, but until now, even I couldn't figure out why, whether it was the blood in my body or the Kaitian Gong I cultivated, it was like a mess of hemp, and the idea of witchcraft being complicated together in my mind, the three things seemed to be mixed together at once, and the chaos gave me an unbearable headache. Now, my right arm has become like that again, if there are some Gu worms in the Western Regions that can resist the poison of the snake, then what am I now?
Gu worms?
I let out a long sigh. At this time, Nagu's translation also came to an end, rolled up the animal skin scroll, and said a little unsatisfied: "Although the poison is stubborn, but it is rumored that there are powerful people in the Western Regions who used the poison to refine the Flying Ascension Gu Medicine, so that many wizards are fascinated, and my ancestors were witch doctors for generations, and they are also convinced of this matter, and then I have this codex and passed it to me." ”
It's ascension again. I couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "Sir is so interested in poison, is it also for the path of ascension?"
The ancient man smiled, put the scroll back in its place, and said: "Actually, I don't hide it from my friends, I also believe in the statement of Ascension, I think that since the poison can be so valued by the ancients, and even spread to Ascension, there must be a mystery in it, but we don't have the wisdom of the ancient power, and we can't penetrate the essence of the poison, I inherited the position of the ancestral wizard, most of the reason is this." It's just ......" Speaking of this, Na Gu had a little helplessness on his face, and said: "It's just that now it's extinct and can no longer be seen." ”
If I hadn't seen the spirit snake in the Divine Dragon Cave with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed the Ascension statement, right?
I turned my head to look outside the stone house, it was already a little overcast outside, and I had rarely had the opportunity to talk to people for such a long time since I came to the Ramru clan, but I didn't expect to talk to Nagu for so long this time. I bowed to Nagu and said, "Sir, it's time to leave." ”
Nagu nodded, and was about to say something, but before he could speak, a piercing pain suddenly came from my right arm.
I was shocked to know that the injury to my right arm would occur at this time.
The pain seemed to have been scraped by thousands of small blades on my bones, covering my entire arm at once, and it came so suddenly that I couldn't help but stumble, and when I was half-kneeling, my right arm also slammed into the stone house.
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